Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

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SteelPlatedHeart dijo:
Legend of Avantris just ended their kickstarter for a full space setting/races/classes/ect for D&D at over $16 mil.
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I forgot to mention it the last time this came up, but I am offended by their "Star Shiba" ripoff of Star Fox.

Also, wow, there is a lot of junk in their store. These people are masters at draining the consoomers of every last dollar. My favorite is the soy based candles.

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Light this shit up during a sesh, fill your lungs up with aerosolized soy as you roll dem bones to see how effective your fake ID is at tricking the guard at the bathhouse's entrance into thinking you're not underage (it's a fakeout for the players - boys are especially welcome at the White Swallow). This $52 set of cheap resin dice has clowns on it, a fitting choice for any fan of their products!
 
SteelPlatedHeart dijo:
Legend of Avantris just ended their kickstarter for a full space setting/races/classes/ect for D&D at over $16 mil.
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I took a look at the trailers and the little sneak peek / playtest and I knew from the advertising, but there's something so retarded and disgusting about literally just reskinning 5e classes. I guess the unique subclasses make it kind of original? But if you're pitching your sci-fi game as "here's this sci-fi version of this fantasy class", it just shows you're incapable of doing anything other than reskinning and playing the same DnD game over and over again.

To give the podcasters their due, they actually did a better job selling this than Paizo did Starfinder, and their campaign fits a niche in the market.

1. They are totally shameless about the vibes of the game being vague vaporwave, 80s/90s sci-fi anime, and Tumblr mecha centric. They have no compunctions about skipping gearhead/engineering porn stuff or serious galactic economics and politics to say "shit's magic and everyone is popstars and bounty hunters and pro athletes and criminals". So instead of classes being boring shit like "A wizard who's also a software designer" it's "hackerman nigga that manifests batshit crazy data spells". The sci-fi monks absorb The Power Cosmic universe energy to do crazy energy blasts and Rider Kicks.

2. Starship combat is almost exactly the SF1e rules, but with the genius decision of balancing it around everyone having their own personal star fighter to do Star Wars / Star Fox dogfights instead of Starfinder's Star Trek style ship combat where 2 or 3 people make the important checks every turn and the other half of the party can do like 1 or 2 things before becoming mostly useless.

3. The playable alien species are not original, but they're aesthetically appealing (instead of being weird shit like crystal snails or heckin valid lesbian sea anemones) and they are actually differentiated by useful mechanical abilities unique to their race instead of "+2 +2 -2 stats, darkvision, +2 to Perform (twerking) checks".
 
Tom Bombodildo dijo:
3. The playable alien species are not original, but they're aesthetically appealing (instead of being weird shit like crystal snails or heckin valid lesbian sea anemones) and they are actually differentiated by useful mechanical abilities unique to their race instead of "+2 +2 -2 stats, darkvision, +2 to Perform (twerking) checks".
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The amount of playable species is pretty cool. They mentioned a “care bear” type species and all I could think of is “someone could D&D Andrew Dobson.
 
Tom Bombodildo dijo:
1. They are totally shameless about the vibes of the game being vague vaporwave, 80s/90s sci-fi anime, and Tumblr mecha centric. They have no compunctions about skipping gearhead/engineering porn stuff or serious galactic economics and politics to say "shit's magic and everyone is popstars and bounty hunters and pro athletes and criminals".
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That's a very dangerous game to play. Because why you can say "economics & logistic don't matter" and be right about it, it also makes it very hard to set up useful tension. You can't rob a bank if money doesn't exist. Hell, you can't even really have an upper and lower class.

But at least they're up front about it.
 
Well, my 2-year old 5.0e campaign just ended in a TPK. May be the most stupid TPK that not only have I ever DM'd, or been involved in, but may be the dumbest way to piss a campaign down the toilet that I've ever come across. I'll have to keep it vague because of the microscopic possibility that they might read this, so details have been changed a bit.

Two PCs decided that they wanted to fight a duel literally standing on top of a huge device that they needed to win the campaign and thwart the BBEG - basically a giant piece of ancient magical machinery powered by what is essentially an antimatter reactor using portals to the positive and negative energy planes to mutually annihilate matter and generate an insane amount of reality-warping magical power. One of the duelists is losing and decides to turn invisible and flee into the machine. The other participant decides to cast a spell that ripped the artefact in half in an attempt to flush him out.

Even though they know they need this thing to literally save the universe.

Even though they know how this thing works and the consequences of fucking with it.

By this time I'm tired of the party's PVP bullshit derailing the campaign, there's been no plot for the last 3 sessions because the party are all plotting against each other. The previous session one of them tried to get the others eaten by a purple worm on purpose, coming close to a TPK because said worm was a serious threat to them even if they were working as a team. I roll a saving throw for the artefact to see if it survives this act of intergalactic idiocy.

Comes up a 2.

Fuck it. Kaboom. They are annihilated by a mile-wide ball of plasma a hundred times hotter than the sun. I explain to them that in their absence (and in the absence of the artefact) the BBEG conquers all of reality, killing all the Gods and Demon Lords, extinguishing all life in the multiverse in the process. This ensconces him as the undisputed God-Emperor of all of reality. He then rebuilds all of reality in his own image, turning it into an eternal, inescapable realm of torment and suffering from which there is no escape, no end, and no hope. Good job, retards.

I'm done with D&D. 5.0e was barely tolerable but I'm not touching 5.5 or any of WotC's bullshit any more. Next campaign will be Pathfinder. It's just as lame and gay as D&D but at least it's a better system, and Paizo don't keep ripping bits of their own system out and selling them back to you.

Fuck.
 
Since the last time I asked for people's experiences went quite well, I wanted to ask another one.
Anyone work in or used to work in their FLGS? How was your experience and would you recommend the store you worked in?
 
Spunt dijo:
I'm done with D&D. 5.0e was barely tolerable but I'm not touching 5.5 or any of WotC's bullshit any more. Next campaign will be Pathfinder. It's just as lame and gay as D&D but at least it's a better system, and Paizo don't keep ripping bits of their own system out and selling them back to you.
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You're the DM. You are the one who decides what the dice rolls mean.
 
I did actually donate to the kickstarter and get the three books. And I will absolutely create a Dobson character once I get them lol.
 
Spunt dijo:
Next campaign will be Pathfinder. It's just as lame and gay as D&D but at least it's a better system
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In what world is it a better system?
This is like saying shooting heroin is fucking your life too much so you're going to be smoking it instead.

Scream Aim Fire dijo:
Any thoughts?
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Yes. Please post a summary of the content of the videos and why they are worth taking the time to watch instead of just youtube links expecting us all to waste two hours listening to the blathering of retarded influencers as you did.
 
Scream Aim Fire dijo:
Probably an awkward time to post this, but; some videos covering the new Ravenloft: Horrors Within book:
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I'm not about to watch it but every single setting guide and campaign module for 5e has been varying degrees of bad so this one will probably also be.

How about you watch it, summarize it, give your thoughts, and then ask us since that would be an actual conversation.
 
Manly_Brony dijo:
That maybe a bit much IMHO. I'd go with a couple of Tsar Bombas. The game rarely brings up the fact that Mythos cults probably fight each other all the time behind humanity's back because even insane people and inhuman monsters don't want a scenario like this.
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I actually contemplated this and had the initial impact limited to Egypt and some surrounding countries. Also the appearance of Azathoth basically opened the gateway and allowed the other Elders to enter our reality. I offered the players the opportunity to play in this doomed world where humans suffered and had to fight for their pitiful existence against a dominant force of eldritch evil.

Guess what their response was to this offer? If you guessed "go fuck yourself" you would be correct.
 
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