Commodore Clifford wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
Spent some decent time at Origins and Gencon... For a young pup at 50.
Commodore Clifford wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
We don't have one within 2 hours of me, but Half Price Books is a
favorite when we go to Indy...
To which Commodore Clifford replies...
I feel fortunate that we have a friendly local game store that has
regular gaming nights... alas, I don't attend much... been years... but knowing that I could is a great feeling.
Commodore Clifford wrote to Bikerbob <=-
I'm more a GURPS fan myself. Same set of rules, any genre you want,
with as much/or as little realism as you like.
Arelor wrote to Commodore Clifford <=-
Re: Re: Tabletop war and roleplaying games
By: Commodore Clifford to Bikerbob on Tue May 09 2023 08:35 am
I'm more a GURPS fan myself. Same set of rules, any genre you want, with
as much/or as little realism as you like.
I have never played GURPS myself. It looks like a wet dream for Game Masters that love to overprepare.
GUPRS feels like the Gentoo of RPGs in that they don't give you a
system which is ready to go out of the box: they give you a massive set
of tools, and you combine modules from here and there to make what you need.
It is the sort of thing I would pick if I had comitted players, just
like Rolemaster. If you have players who want to play a month long mini-campaign and then want to try another system, you cannot really
bet on one that takes too long to prepare.
Commodore Clifford wrote to Darklord <=-
There's just nothing like being in a whole convention hall of people playing games like this (and some of these guys go all out) with like minded people you've never met.
SirRonmit wrote to all <=-
For me : I did get into D&D back in the mid 80s.
But then I came across Star Frontiers, Top Secret & Top Secret S.I.,
and TWILIGHT:2000 (then they came out with the PC version).
hollowone wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
AD&D 2e was the first "fantasy" RPG I played, and I have
some books in the pod (had some MAJOR floor reworking, so had
to box up almost everything from the house - haven't pulled
them back in yet) that I wouldn't mind getting rid of...
Oh... I'm pretty sure shipping to Poland would not be an option...
If it was,I'm curious what you have!
Commodore Clifford wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
Spent some decent time at Origins and Gencon... For a young pup
at 50.
Been to Gencon twice... Usually falls at the beginning of school, so
I can't take off and go. :-(
Son and daughter in law live just outside Indy, so we stayed with
them when we went. :-)
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Commodore Clifford wrote to Bikerbob <=-
I'm more a GURPS fan myself. Same set of rules, any genre you
want, with as much/or as little realism as you like.
SJGames fan here, but never tried GURPS...
SirRonmit wrote to all <=-
For me : I did get into D&D back in the mid 80s.
But then I came across Star Frontiers, Top Secret & Top Secret
S.I., and TWILIGHT:2000 (then they came out with the PC version).
Top Secret was my first RPG to play! Bought into Twilight:2000 but
we only played a few sessions...
The Star Wars FFG rules were converted to Genisys for that same
effect. Haven't used it for anything but Star Wars, but the
concept is sound!
Commodore Clifford wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
On 17 Jul 23 23:24:00 Jimmy Anderson wrote...
Yeah, the timing isn't always good. And having somewhere to stay is
nice. Though I've found sometimes you can get good deals. The one
year I stayed at a place by the airport (even though that meant overshooting Indy since I'm from Ohio) and that was the year they had
the shuttle, so not having to drive was amazing... that LaQuinta was a great deal. I think that suite was bigger than my actual apartment at
the time and with the discount I got from working at Walmart back then,
I was paying about $95 a night.
The best year though was the year I won the hotel lottery and got a
room booked in the hotel right across the street (just had to use the skywalk).
Commodore Clifford wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
On 17 Jul 23 23:30:00 Jimmy Anderson wrote...
Commodore Clifford wrote to Bikerbob <=-
I'm more a GURPS fan myself. Same set of rules, any genre you
want, with as much/or as little realism as you like.
SJGames fan here, but never tried GURPS...
To which Commodore Clifford replies...
If you're interested, they do offer "Gurps Lite" which is a free
version of the rules that will get you the basics of the system.
Arelor wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
Re: Re: Tabletop war and roleplaying games
By: Jimmy Anderson to Arelor on Mon Jul 17 2023 11:33 pm
The Star Wars FFG rules were converted to Genisys for that same
effect. Haven't used it for anything but Star Wars, but the
concept is sound!
The only Star Wars RPG I am pseudo-familiar with is the one from West
End Games, and only because it uses the D6 engine (which I have played
a couple of times).
Which sort of system is the Star Wars one from FFG?
"Narrative dice" - where you have symbols instead of numbers. You roll
PC's or NPC's, etc.
"Narrative dice" - where you have symbols instead of numbers. You roll PC's or NPC's, etc.
I only know one good narrative roll.. the initiative roll :)
It sets the narration beyond any words one can imagine!
I only know one good narrative roll.. the initiative roll :)
It sets the narration beyond any words one can imagine!
FOr the record, there are some good storytellin/narrative games out
there. YOu just have to fish for them. I don't find them to work as RPGs but they scrath the same itch.
I only know one good narrative roll.. the initiative roll :)
It sets the narration beyond any words one can imagine!
I thought the real narrative roll was the save-or-die roll, muahahahahaha
Some liked it.. some wanted to roll anyway...
Your narrative is way to cruel, mister :) I like cliffhangers that smell lik
And now you know why I am the guy whose reputation as a Dungeon Master
is THat Dungeon Master who laughts like a Hyena
And now you know why I am the guy whose reputation as a Dungeon Maste is THat Dungeon Master who laughts like a Hyena
Heheh.. and yeah, I used to be like that in the past as well.. now as my books are just getting dust and are occasionally browsed, I miss the
time I was actively running the games.
Lots of fun that I hope will eventually come back one day.
-h1
Is it a time thing or a people thing? With Foundry VTT you can play
with your friends anytime all over the world.
Kind of both. I tried VTT but it ended up preparing tables and mostly
for board games or card games than anything else. I played MtG with my
son and then tried to convince him to play Battletech too.
It worked for a while, but still he's different generation, can't blame him not to play games with his dad :>
My own gen... let's say I'm one of few who's left interested in it. I
have a project to revive it among my group of friends from home town and use VTT or something similar to play.. but we just can't sync up for the last 2 years.
On potentially reaching out to strangers to join/play/run game... I
don't trust I can prioritize that nor I have much time to develop new relations today..
All above combined creates mostly a limitation in my head, perhaps...
but still I mostly keep the books and read them occasionally.
I found ChatGPT close to a game session as well.. not exactly that you
can do RPG with the bot, but I had few conversations that my questions were indeed like if I was playing an investigation kind of game... it
was cool.
-h1
Voice.clawfest.com
Once I can afford it I will be buying a license for Foundry VTT and setting up a server for it. Then we have the nice visual maping for the battles if nothing else.
Let me know what you think.
Voice.clawfest.com
Sounds cool. I checked your website and I finally need to visit your
board this week. I can't join voice as I'm most likely geo blocked
I'm connecting from Poland where I live. It's CET (GMT+1) as a timezone. What's your timezone and typical time you're active over there?
I'm huge sentimentalist for ODD and up to 2nd Edition. If I want to keep it complicated like 3E, I use Skills and Powers. If this is all about dungeon crawling and rolling, then nothing else than ODD is required.
I never got into 5e. I have a number of 3e books on my shelf, purchased already in time I had no chance to play. I heard 5e brings back
oldschool vibes but still designed to attract new generation.
Regardless ..
.. if we can only match somehow in timezones or there is heads-up that makes it easier to plan, happy to try.
-h1
Strange it should be blocking anyone. we get people from all over the world connecting. It is not a website. You need the teamspeak client (Which is free) to connect to it. Teamspeak.com
I'm Central US I believe thats -5 GMT. I try to be on most days and am
on arond 5 - 6 PM till I go to bed around 10PM and on weekends most of
the time. 9 AM - 2 AM ish
Well I have 2 kids and I'm still going to try to get them to play it. Even st our group. The app makes it like texting but you can share pictures and w group. It would be nice to not have to GM/DM all the time. All are welco ince I haven't played since I was 12. I need to know the new rules.
Well I have 2 kids and I'm still going to try to get them to play it. st our group. The app makes it like texting but you can share pictures w group. It would be nice to not have to GM/DM all the time. All are ince I haven't played since I was 12. I need to know the new rules.
I am not a super fan of playing these things online. If I am gonna go through a web interface I'd rather play a multiplayer videogame instead
or a dedicated board game application (ie. an actual Terraforming Mars server, for example).
That said, you don't need much in technical means to play an RPG online.
A vioce chat with a dice bot works fine. Last time I played Polaris
online I used Mumble with a custom bot for rolling dice and a wiki for players to keep track of names and events. We had a blast.
I don't like most virtual tabletop providers because they work like
silos. THey drag you in and then apply vendor lock-in on your stuff.
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