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there is no reason to make your players do the boring paperwork route
Of course not, that's what their lieutenant/sergeant/handler is for, and that guy's an NPC so I'm playing him. The player's job at that point should be to not piss off the guy who's doing the paperwork by making his job harder.
 
Yes. His DM advice makes him sound like a killer DM.

Iirc he had a Channel Awesome campaign called Death Clock, and it fell apart almost immediately. I don't know how as I never watched it.


Edit: Outside of KF, I saw some complaints about rules and lore problems. His Legends of the Five Rings story about "they duel, that's what they do" and him having to know to refuse a gift 5 times or whatever. Supposedly that is all completely wrong. I'd personally blame the DM in that story, but some people got really mad at him for it.
Yeah he summarized some shit wrong, got a couple rules wrong here and there, but you can't reasonably expect anyone who played 20 different systems over the course of just a few years to accurately remember every single detail down to lore especially when he's making snarky videos about it a decade later(which is another thing, 95% of his TTRPG experience is from like 1997-2007 so when he was still a kid, in college, and before he started making videos... of course it came to an end because he pissed everyone off but you get the point).
 
Yeah he summarized some shit wrong, got a couple rules wrong here and there, but you can't reasonably expect anyone who played 20 different systems over the course of just a few years to accurately remember every single detail down to lore especially when he's making snarky videos about it a decade later(which is another thing, 95% of his TTRPG experience is from like 1997-2007 so when he was still a kid, in college, and before he started making videos... of course it came to an end because he pissed everyone off but you get the point).
If the guy is making an actual video on the subject and not just having an off the cuff conversation then I would expect him to at least attempt to refresh his memory first.
 
If the guy is making an actual video on the subject and not just having an off the cuff conversation then I would expect him to at least attempt to refresh his memory first.
You expect too much from the genre of "turn on camera and spew shit off the top of someone's head from a decade ago" since that's all his counter monkey shit ever was.
 
You expect too much from the genre of "turn on camera and spew shit off the top of someone's head from a decade ago" since that's all his counter monkey shit ever was.
Yeah, which is the reason I try not to watch that genre.
 
Tried to sabotage and ruin an entire larp for at least a dozen other people because he could not be bothered to talk with them about what the setting was like.
Having played in the V:Requiem world game, I do sorta sympathize with him on that one. If you had to deal with the likes of the world Storyteller and the absolute kill zones they nurtured at a lot of venues, you'd want to Drink Their Milkshake too.
 
Yeah, which is the reason I try not to watch that genre.
Sure, I wasn't saying his videos weren't shit. They absolutely are shit, but not just because he got something wrong about l5r that he likely played all of one session before getting the boot. Even if he got every detail about the games he mentioned correct, he's still "that guy" nobody likes.
 
Does anyone have any experience with Traveler, especially with making custom races? My players and I recently did a Stellaris game to serve as the setting for a Traveler game, and I know literally nothing about running it or how to make the player empires into playable races, so I'd appreciate any wisdom.
 
RPG scenario Bucket List item#2
CoC, zombie apoc scenario, 1975. Players are military, police, medical personnel at a rural checkpoint/evac center. Re-supply hasn't come for over 2 weeks. Neither has the trucks supposed to take uninfected civilians out of the area. Contact is lost with the chain of command. Food has to be rationed strictly. The beds in the medical tent are perpetually full and the remaining medical personnel are even more understaffed than the rest of the facility. The quarantine area is on edge worse than usual and everyone is paranoid for signs of infection. Fights are daily. Disposal pyres run non stop. Ammunition is critically low. Zed hordes are hitting the perimeter almost every night and don't seem to be getting any smaller in size.
Do you hold the line? Try to keep the civvies calm before they riot? Sure, you've got guns, you've got enough bullets to take some of them, but you know you haven't got enough to put down everyone, and you're working like hell to keep that knowledge from the normies.
Do you plot to take what you can and split? You've got the vehicles, you've got a little bit of fuel left, but where will you go? You MIGHT make it somewhjere more fortified, but you're not sure whether it's overrun or not. Better be slick about it too, because once the civvies find out, you'll have a full blown riot where you'll be the target.
You're in trouble....
 
I've heard of FASERIP. Not as much as DnD, PF, or CoC, but I thought it's pretty well know. I don't know what the proper name of it was, but people call it FASERIP because that's what you write for your attributes.

However, me having heard of it and people talking about it might only be because Spoony made an episode about it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4RZL-jtQPWo:97He says it's Marvel Super Heroes. Which is what I assume MSHRPG means.

As I've learned, lots of people who don't play RPGs would cite Spoony videos as gospel, so the praise for FASERIP/MSH might be overblown.

As an aside. I know Kiwis don't like him, and RPG people that don't like him do point out rules he gets wrong, or stories that contradict tellings on his blog. But a lot of the early stuff is fun to listen to. It's when he gets a set and gets into his angry grognard era that he falls off.
It's a fine system for super hero games. I'd certainly play it over HERO. Not as good as newer games like Mutants and Masterminds to get new players into RPG's that are a fan of the superhero Genre. At times it felt like it was made by people who didn't care about comics but tried. One thing about it personally, you'll have to be a fan of 80's games and how games were made/played in the 80's. Not the new OSR stuff where people think the games were made in the 80's but never played back than.

Does anyone have any experience with Traveler, especially with making custom races? My players and I recently did a Stellaris game to serve as the setting for a Traveler game, and I know literally nothing about running it or how to make the player empires into playable races, so I'd appreciate any wisdom.
Flynn’s Guide to Alien Creation is a good book to pick up from Mongoose. Fifth Edition has a whole chapter on it with human and non human genetics. There's also the rules agnostic Alien Creation Guide. Use Chapters 1-2 for races. Use the rest if you're ever doing a d20 game. Ennead Games has lifeform maker 1 and 2. Alien Species Toolkit from Eduardo Camps Moll may also help.
 
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Having played in the V:Requiem world game, I do sorta sympathize with him on that one. If you had to deal with the likes of the world Storyteller and the absolute kill zones they nurtured at a lot of venues, you'd want to Drink Their Milkshake too.
Nah, I do get it; LARPing is what fucking ruined WoD due to them being overly favored in 5e. But he really wasn't smart enough to ask questions about what the Kindred are like in the city? And then ignore the ST's hint about there being no Carthians?
 
(For real: the second time your players pulled this Call Azathoth crap you should DM them something like an Ace Attorney or Kafka's Trial campaign where they're try to not lose all SAN in court while being unironically sued by Azathoth. /tg/ storytime material)
If you ever played CoC you know almost every campaign ended with the end of the world, and Azathoth was very often the cause.

(I'll also note I had never considered the "cast random spell" upon going completely insane event would result in someone casting the "destroy the entire world spell immediately" that Call Azathoth was and even offered him a takeback on that. And he decided fuck it, I'm gonna do it.)
 
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Nah, I do get it; LARPing is what fucking ruined WoD due to them being overly favored in 5e. But he really wasn't smart enough to ask questions about what the Kindred are like in the city? And then ignore the ST's hint about there being no Carthians?
We dropped out of the LARP long before they got it in their heads that the Requiem universe wasn't doing as gangbusters as Masquerade, continued using our vamps in completely closed tabletop instead. Spoony did have some skin in his shit experience, but at the same time he really was a newbie to the setting and should have had the info volunteereed better.

And wait, Azathoth suing someone? The Deamonic Sultan has an INT of 0, he's literally a Blind Idiot. It'd be like getting sued by a GoAnimate kid that had world destroying powers.

Hmmmm....
 
No one's talkin' 'bout FUDGE, durn. Had a simple solution to the "roll 1d20+modifiers" insanity with "roll 1d4, 1 is -1, 2/3 is 0, 4 is +1, add this roll to your attribute or skill, compare the number to whatever you're rollin' against".
Fudge/Fates is an odd system. Not least of which because it has two names that are used interchangably. Maybe there's a difference, but I don't know it.

Talked about this in the past, but to repeat. I never understood the system. It was one of those games that come highly recommend for a mech sim, but when I read it, not only did I find no mech rules, the rules it did have make no sense. Like how there's no hp, only stress. But stress isn't hp? I don't know.

People try to talk about it, and I completely fail to comprehend it. Must be what it's like long time d20 players when I try to explain Savage Worlds.


Since I'm posting. The liminal horror one shot fell through. At least this time I got reasonable excuses. One is moving house, one is working, etc.
 
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