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This is bullshit, I was lied to.
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You know what else is not cute? Cats.
cats are stupid
dogs.
Wait, there's an Avengers movie coming out? Spoiler that shit, bitch!
Dogs are second worst next to geese which are the worst form of life that doesn't have a political career.
I hope I'm not coming off like that. Personally, I like both styles of games (deep story vs. dungeon crawl). I just think certain systems lend themselves better to one kind than the other.
I just finished an 8-month long Pathfinder campaign. The last two sessions each featured 1-hour blocks of doing math because there were so many bonuses and shit to account for. Some were situation so we had to create different bonuses depending on the situation. Then my party killed an Ancient Black Dragon five levels above them in five rounds. That's thirty seconds.
Honestly, I'm not sure D&D is even the best system for dungeon crawls because of how long combat lasts. A single encounter is going to take an hour. That's boring, in my experience. I'm holding out some hope for DCC RPG due to how stripped down it is.
I just started running BW. The differences are enormous. First of all, the pulp feel is gone. My players made the closest approximation to a person I've seen in game. One is a barkeep, another a bastard lord, and the third, an elf champion participating in the local tournament. It was nearly six hours of continuous roleplaying, which is something I've never had happen in a game. I'm really out of my element as I can't plan for this shit. I have a very loose framework (some names, some stats, a few ideas in the background) that I throw at my players when it makes sense.
When I was a kid it was easy to spot the special effects in the toy commercials. I would get excited but I was also "No way will my He-Man toy shoot real energy blasts like that!"
If I was a kid watching that today? I'd be pissed when my iron man outfit doesn't fly. Because it looks so real on the commercial!
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IP-only runes with IP boosts.
XP boosts.
There's maybe an argument to be made that without level 30 stat boosts at level 1, killing players is slower and so new players have more time to learn before getting gibbed, but mostly, it's just the need for a successful business strategy.
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That's a real thing too:
It's true. At low levels it's not so noticeable, but pretty much anything over 10th level is the worst. Overall, the system suffers from the fact that very few of the rolls feel exciting to me. This, coupled with the fact that many DMs make you roll dice unnecessarily makes for a very frustrating experience in my opinion.
No.
*looks at paws for a moment before writing something on a list*
What you're describing is LARPing. You want to LARP.
They just come packaged with narcissistic personality disorder, sociopathy and hairballs.
It never fails.
Terrier get off the internet
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It was a 3 player game (pretty small) and all of us have played it before (as well as many other 18xx games). For a game as deep and complex as this one, an experts-only game is a really different experience than when you have new people in.
Still took about 5 and a half hours to finish though. The absurd length really is the one downside of these games. These days, I don't really have the patience to sit through anything longer than 2 hours unless it is really top notch. Pretty much 18xx and the old Avalon Hill version of Dune are the only marathon games I'll tolerate.
1870 in particular is good times because the board layout and companies are so well balanced. (note: in this game you use your starting money to start up railroad companies from which you get income and fiddle with their stock value, you can end up owning several companies simultaneously during the game) All the other 18xx games (especially the one in Canada, 1856) have some companies that start out in way better positions than others. If you aren't aware of the imbalances and play accordingly (eg: gang up on the guy who got the good one) the game tends to not work well. 1870 on the other hand has 10 companies and you could win the game with any of those 10 being your starting position. All of them have caveats (eg: only start the Misouri Pacific if you also have the Mississippi Bridge company) but every one is a valid option given some not-impossible set ot circumstances. This means people don't get screwed at the start by picking a "trap" option (though you can easily screw yourself by making bad plays in other ways of course).
In the game last night about halfway through I was ready to surrender and call the game there (remember: we were already a good 3 hours in at that point ) as it seemed one player was pretty much unassailably far ahead. But with some tricky maneuvering the other player and I managed to cause some real chaos and shake things up and I managed to come out on top of the resulting mess. By the end I ended up winning by a pretty good margin (I had just over 10K at the end and 2nd place had about 8.7K).
he was... i believe almost two at the time
Cats and kids are both awful.
Kids are worse than cats.
But cats are still p bad.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
*Squeels in excitement*
Yeah. It's just like Doom but with an auto-co op monster thing like Raveloft, albeit more card-based for enemy actions (for the better IMO -- I found Raveloft pretty flat).
Doom is good times. I need to come back to it soon.
Replace hair balls with vomit and you have little kids described too!
getting angry that you're not receiving presents on someone else's birthday, making a scene in a crowded restaurant, then vomiting all over the place is the kind of thing a drunk asshole would do
that he's only two doesn't excuse it
Was he drunk? That would be awesome.
I blame the supermarket for sending me one sweet potato that was the size of a melon, instead of a bag of normal-sized sweet potatoes.
Someday people will emerge from vats fully physically mature, and the world will be much better off for it.
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