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MrMonroe
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First of all
yeah, that's right. It's a six-player game and when you get knocked out as an Empire you start playing as the Terrorists. You make all your money from securing oil supplies.
Also it came with this thing:
You guys want I should do a play by post of this sometime?
but I guess people also play DnD or whatever. In case you missed it from the last thread, there's this thing called a "System Resource Document" that basically means a document that has all the rules of any given system in one tidy place. People sometimes make them as websites.
Here is one for Pathfinder, which is a pretty awesomely updated version of 3.5 for anyone who grew up on 3.5 and is a total snob about hating on 4e. (It's me) There's a bunch of new classes with cool names like Inquisitor or Cavalier or Alchemist. Also there's a site that helps you run a Pathfinder game with a d20 modern ruleset, if you're into that kind of thing.
Check out this new hotness as well: There's a free SRD for Mutants and Masterminds. You know, that game everyone is always raving about where you basically get to design whatever kind of superhero or supervillain you want and then go around town saving people or ransoming cities for ten million dollars. Hahaha! Hahahahah! HAHAHAHA-ahem. Excuse me.
Let's talk about modelling our darkest fantasies of lust and violence by rolling a big pile of d6's on top of a stained dry-erase mat.
GRAAAOOWWWRRRR
SHIT YEAH
yeah, that's right. It's a six-player game and when you get knocked out as an Empire you start playing as the Terrorists. You make all your money from securing oil supplies.
Also it came with this thing:
You guys want I should do a play by post of this sometime?
but I guess people also play DnD or whatever. In case you missed it from the last thread, there's this thing called a "System Resource Document" that basically means a document that has all the rules of any given system in one tidy place. People sometimes make them as websites.
Here is one for Pathfinder, which is a pretty awesomely updated version of 3.5 for anyone who grew up on 3.5 and is a total snob about hating on 4e. (It's me) There's a bunch of new classes with cool names like Inquisitor or Cavalier or Alchemist. Also there's a site that helps you run a Pathfinder game with a d20 modern ruleset, if you're into that kind of thing.
Check out this new hotness as well: There's a free SRD for Mutants and Masterminds. You know, that game everyone is always raving about where you basically get to design whatever kind of superhero or supervillain you want and then go around town saving people or ransoming cities for ten million dollars. Hahaha! Hahahahah! HAHAHAHA-ahem. Excuse me.
Let's talk about modelling our darkest fantasies of lust and violence by rolling a big pile of d6's on top of a stained dry-erase mat.
GRAAAOOWWWRRRR
SHIT YEAH
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Pathfinder drools.
Also your face.
Also also I actually kinda wanna try pathfinder.
All I've ever played is D&D but I love reading new ones.
like the lvl 5 character who can walk into a capital city, declare that he is the real king, tap a bluff check and 3 days later there is a massive riot to depose the ruler and put him n the throne
Things like that at least keep the DM on their toes
Otherwise they'd get lazy
except the adventures are apparently very well written. I guess that does interest me, but i don't want to actually play it.
Star Wars Sagas.
like 12 4E books.
Fuck man.
Except with FATE, and unlike D20, it actually works more often than not.
edit fuck
the adventure paths are all super duper awesome, but the earlier ones will bend you over and fuck you raw
Luckily i was pretty good at breaking the mechanics of the game making some kind of superman thus negating challenge in combat.
the ridiculous thing is that in pathfinder society(the official thing like living greyhawk) the character is entirely legal
it sucks ass in combat but ahahah, who the fuck cares
I have a few from paizo.
That sure is an... interesting interpretation of the rules
what do you mean by this?
I don't really know what Pathfinder Society or Living Greyhawk is so I'm sorry if thinking rules are batshit insane is some kind of unmentionable slight
I wasn't being glib, I seriously didn't know what you meant
but, PFS is the "official" thing
it's run by paizo themselves, and you make a character and level it through officially sanctioned mods and get items and stuff via certifications
it's not like a home run thing, there is a clearly defined set of rules on what is allowed/not allowed
Officially batshit
that is, hands-down, my favorite P&P game ever, but almost nobody anywhere plays it. i used to run campaigns with some friends, but they all sorta went their seperate ways (prison, college, wherever jerks go when you stop hanging with them)
it's super cool though and i really dig it
It was incredibly fun! World conquering game where everything is just based on the number of troops you have, no need for dice rolls (well, one die roll per turn, but it's not very important). Each player chooses a stereotypical fantasy race with their own special ability, and take turns conquering territories. Then, when that race has spread itself too thin, you say it "goes into decline", and keep all those territories you conquered, but enter the board with a fresh supply of a new race's armies with a different special ability, but you still get victory points for the declining race's territories.
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Also, I have never played pathfinder.
Like DBA or warhammer ancients or Fields of Glory.
I can attest to Jade Regent being pretty neat.
He currently plays a "warforged" Hybrid Fighter|Battlemind. I use the quotes because he's actually an intelligent docent that is docked into a "forge drone" and uses it as a body. He plays the character basically like an artificial intelligence, relying on what his programming has to say about things before making decisions. He's decided that he doesn't really feel like the character is what he wanted it to be, and isn't sure if he's all that interested in exploring the idea of a machine learning how to feel things.
So he wants to change to a Genasi hybrid cavalier|wizard.
I am utterly convinced that all that happened was he found a new shiny and wants to try out something new. I convinced him to let it wait a few weeks, because we're getting ready to swap some characters around when the current DM goes back to playing her paladin and my warlord dies so that I can DM. That will heavily alter the make-up of the party, so hopefully he'll find the new dynamic to his liking.
I love this
just like real life
Board games: it's pretty much like buying a gift for yourself.
is this from a game? Because I would buy it. I would buy it very much.
This is basically my sentiment. Although I am curiously combing over the articles that Mearls and Cook have written over the past several months, trying to see if I can pick out anything obvious.
I have a feeling they're going to go back toward meta-classes (what class has become with Essentials and sub-classes). Warrior, Arcanist, and so on. I think you could set up between 6-10 class groups, and fit all of the current class/sub-classes into them.
no, the artist did an advent calendar with a different 4e-style monster each day (sadly, not all of them are Bowie). it's part of the "D&D For Kids" series on his blog.
My cousin's been running games of it for a friend of his recovering from cancer, and its a lot of fun to basically take D&D and merge it with Arthurian legend. A word of warning: don't end up in Avalon unless you want to end up with some bastard children as a result (I still can't get a male heir, failing those childbirth rolls every year)