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

[The Mighty Bundus]

If you're too retarded to understand that d20 and d100 are the same thing then you should just stop playing tabletop.

But how is it the same thing if number get bigger.

 

[anti SJW]

This Sunday, my old group will be able to get together. Been over a year. I think I'll be running Shadowdark. Will be a one shot.

 

[AnOminous]

>too poor to afford an actual d100

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I had one of those. It's ridiculously biased and there's no way to make it so it isn't.

The D20 exists because Gary (PBUH) wanted straight percentile without having to fuck with the Bell curve that is inherent in 2d6.

I think he just liked having dice for all the Platonic solids.

Also to get back to the general topic, d100 and d20 are also correlated with different philosophies. Most games played with d100 are skill tree based, while most d20 are class-based. You could play RuneQuest with a d20 but it would not make it a d20 game, it would just break the percentile system. You could play D&D with d100 and you wouldn't really add anything to the game.

Just having a natural 20 be a crit every time means something that you may prefer to be a lot rarer now just has a straight 5% chance of happening. Either that or you need another roll if you don't want that. A lot of things, I'd prefer to resolve in a single roll.

 

[Gorilla Milk]

The earliest RPGs were run like this, as were the wargames that immediately preceded them. You need to have a lot of trust in your co-DMs to make it work, good on you for pulling it off.

Yeah, the nice thing about discord (yeah, yeah I know) is that players play from all over, we've got a Serbian player, a Brazilian player, a French GM, ect. I don't GM, but I do play and I enjoy it.

 

[demicolon]

d100 is the start of an autistic spiral that leads to d1000.

My brother in neurodivergence, I've survived systems that used 1d1000000, not impressed!

 

[ColonelCadaver]

I've survived systems that used 1d1000000

Did any character on your table get to be the Freak of Nature?

 

[demicolon]

Did any character on your table get to be the Freak of Nature?

We played FATAL, all of us were.

 

[AnOminous]

My brother in neurodivergence, I've survived systems that used 1d1000000, not impressed!

A lot easier now that you can just use an RNG to do that.

 

[demicolon]

A lot easier now that you can just use an RNG to do that.

Really not that big of a talent to whip up a CMD line rng for that in 5 minutes if you knew basic C back then. Hell, the authors supplied one themselves and it was as amateurish as you think.

 

[AnOminous]

Really not that big of a talent to whip up a CMD line rng for that in 5 minutes if you knew basic C back then. Hell, the authors supplied one themselves and it was as amateurish as you think.

Even way back when on the Apple ][ I wrote a character generator in BASIC for generating throwaway NPCs or just the basic stats of a PC. Not a huge accomplishment even then but it was fun.

 

[The Bogwater Flows On]

Also to get back to the general topic, d100 and d20 are also correlated with different philosophies. Most games played with d100 are skill tree based, while most d20 are class-based. You could play RuneQuest with a d20 but it would not make it a d20 game, it would just break the percentile system. You could play D&D with d100 and you wouldn't really add anything to the game.

Damn you! When I was done celebrating family birthdays and murica birthdays, I was going to make a post similar to this, going over how it's not really the dice it's the game philosophy and how my distaste for D20 comes purely from a handful of bad experiences. Honestly, it's also not really strong distaste, I would play a D20 game if someone else ran it, no problem, I just don't have the mind that goes "me like this system enough to run". (As I type this, I'm sure there's a D20 system literally designed for me out there, I just haven't seen it yet LOL)

I do like fucking with people who ONLY PLAY D20 games (mainly DND but only Pathfinder people are equally or more obnoxious), but if you lock into only playing one dice system, I think you are genuinely missing out.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Damn you! When I was done celebrating family birthdays and murica birthdays, I was going to make a post similar to this, going over how it's not really the dice it's the game philosophy and how my distaste for D20 comes purely from a handful of bad experiences. Honestly, it's also not really strong distaste, I would play a D20 game if someone else ran it, no problem, I just don't have the mind that goes "me like this system enough to run". (As I type this, I'm sure there's a D20 system literally designed for me out there, I just haven't seen it yet LOL)

I do like fucking with people who ONLY PLAY D20 games (mainly DND but only Pathfinder people are equally or more obnoxious), but if you lock into only playing one dice system, I think you are genuinely missing out.

The biggest issue with d20 is the OpenSRD which flooded the market with terrible dogshit games in the nineties and the endless attempts to cludge 5e into a working system. Were it not for that I think that d20's reputation wouldn't be as in the gutter as it is.

 

[Tactical Wizard]

Where the fuck is the D20’s reputation in the gutter besides you speds in this thread? It’s a fucking die that’s broadly in use across the entire RPG industry?

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

Sorry for taking a while to reply; had some issues on my end.

So are there no powers checks and whatnot in 5e Ravenloft?

Yeah, modern DND/5.5E is unbalanced; as time goes on, the writers behind it are slowly forgoing balance in favor of "anything goes" bullcrap, probably because balance in general is something the woke tend to hate. Unless I'm mis-reading something, I think Reanimator gets an at-will revival spell at level 3; can't 100% confirm just yet, I don't have the book just yet, have to rely on some YouTuber for the review for right now. Again, I'm pretty sure the Lupin are legit the only semi-balanced thing in this book (mostly due to being a remixed Leonin), and even then their Howl ability is decently strong.

I saw the concept art and combat wheelchair bullshit. I refused to delve any further than that.

Believe me, you're not missing much; 5.5E is basically just "older content, made faggy and unbalanced". Which is shit, honestly; they do have some solid ideas (allowing for Tieflings to look like proper monsters, etc.), but it's been buried under literal mountains of faggotry. Hell, only reason why I even play 5E is because it's what one of my local DMs uses for some of his games; planning on a Curse of Strahd game, actually.

I guess I'll pour one out for my old 2e dead Wizard and Bard. Technically my fighter is still alive. I just kinda revamped him for 3.5.
Dude was all in on the greatsword & full plate. No I had never seen berserk. Excalibur was the inspiration.

My inspirations usually tend to be either myths or really old video games, as autistic as it is. Been planning on finishing the list of the Knights of the Round Table with the Lupin - Sirs Marrok and Melion, obviously - but with how shit this Ravenloft 5.5E book is, I'll have to look elsewhere.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

planning on a Curse of Strahd game, actually.

The 5e Curse of Strahd module is absolute garbage, btw. Every 5e module is but CoS gets it especially bad since there are large swathes of the campaign outline where it basically just throws its hands up and goes "Do whatever, lol. Figure it out, DM." and then leaves you swinging in the breeze.

 

[Flipendo]

The 5e Curse of Strahd module is absolute garbage, btw. Every 5e module is but CoS gets it especially bad since there are large swathes of the campaign outline where it basically just throws its hands up and goes "Do whatever, lol. Figure it out, DM." and then leaves you swinging in the breeze.

What if I like swinging in the breeze?

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

What if I like swinging in the breeze?

There's a lock for every key I suppose.

 

[ColonelCadaver]

Where the fuck is the D20’s reputation in the gutter besides you speds in this thread?

At hasbro's office, i guess? They've explicitly designed their 5e mini-rpg to keep numbers from going too high.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

At hasbro's office, i guess? They've explicitly designed their 5e mini-rpg to keep numbers from going too high

30. That is the specific number that serves as 5e's ceiling unless you have a serious power gamer in the group.

 

[AnOminous]

What if I like swinging in the breeze?

If I'm actually paying for a prepackaged module, it very well may be it was because I wanted to get right to the game without much preparation of my own. Basically "lmao just do our job that you paid us to do yourself."