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  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote:
    chiasaur11 wrote:
    I think the important thing here, the bit we can all agree on, is that Elves suck and shouldn't be in anything.

    Especially the Dallas RPG. Don't know what they were thinking there.

    Elves are okay in Eberron.

    Elves in Dark Sun are desert running scavengers. I think that's a pretty cool take on the race.

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    I've been trying to run a D&D game for nearly two years now

    this summer was going to be THE TIME to get a game together
    I bought all the Gamma World stuff, was gonna get everything ready

    ...but then a person cancelled, same person who cancelled the first time I was getting Keep on the Shadowfell together, and then I went on vacation, and then the same person is going to France for a year for school

    ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Huntera wrote:
    Zonugal wrote:
    chiasaur11 wrote:
    I think the important thing here, the bit we can all agree on, is that Elves suck and shouldn't be in anything.

    Especially the Dallas RPG. Don't know what they were thinking there.

    Elves are okay in Eberron.

    Elves in Dark Sun are desert running scavengers. I think that's a pretty cool take on the race.

    In my campaign setting for DnD Elves are elitist, high mages who look down upon all the other races for being so primitive.

    That is to be said my campaign is super magitek and burrows heavily from sources like Avatar, Chronicles of Riddick and Warhammer 40k (with the Elves acting in the same position as the Eldar).

    Zonugal on
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  • YukiraYukira Registered User regular
    I really want to play a pen and paper game with people that can have fun doing it and don't try to be invincible little power houses.

  • Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    I've been trying to run a D&D game for nearly two years now

    this summer was going to be THE TIME to get a game together
    I bought all the Gamma World stuff, was gonna get everything ready

    ...but then a person cancelled, same person who cancelled the first time I was getting Keep on the Shadowfell together, and then I went on vacation, and then the same person is going to France for a year for school

    ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    what did you have to buy

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    I've been trying to run a D&D game for nearly two years now

    this summer was going to be THE TIME to get a game together
    I bought all the Gamma World stuff, was gonna get everything ready

    ...but then a person cancelled, same person who cancelled the first time I was getting Keep on the Shadowfell together, and then I went on vacation, and then the same person is going to France for a year for school

    ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    what did you have to buy

    I only had to buy the core set (corset?)

    but I bought the two expansions because I was really excited and it added so much stuff
    I'm still gonna be able to use it, there's tons of tabletop gamers at the college I'm going to
    still, I wanted to run a game with my friends :C

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Dubh wrote:
    Necromancers are one of those things I always hear about

    but never actually see in a player party

    so disappointing

    was ityou that said they were goign to be doing an online pathfinder game? because i will make a evil half orc necromancer. Who will probably die, because, well evil.

  • Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    I am seriously considering running a thing guys

    I have nothing to do for a while it would be perfect


    would anyone here be interested

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    play by post, sure

  • Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    I promise it wouldn't be one of those things I start and never finish like my summer classes or this watercolor painting or cleaning out my closet or taking care of my beta fish named goggles

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I played Call of Cthulhu with my two buddies the other night.

    I was young hotshot detective Barnaby Jones along with my grizzled old partner detective Scott Wilson. We were the loose cannons of the Tulsa Police Department circa 1978. In addition to our maverick status, we tended to take the more "oddball" cases. We got the call to drive down to Norman, one of the handful of college towns in Oklahoma.

    We arrive at the campus and are taken to the crime scene, the victim, the resident professor of Native American History, had been dismembered and drained of all blood. Shockingly, no blood was found on scene. The only two clues we had were two odd stains in the room: one on the roof, near one of those easily moved ceiling tiles and another splattered against the wall. After a few rounds of questioning witnesses we learn that the Professor was something of a recluse and that a large man with braided hair was seen fleeing the campus the night of the murder. Finally, we get a call from forensics, the mysterious stains match with only one substance: chlorophyll.

    Puzzled by this development, we drive down to the Professor's house near campus. We pull up to the neighbor in the Professor's front lawn, yelling that someone was inside the house. We go in, guns out. After clearing the hallway, we hear a racket coming from inside the kitchen. I take point and charge in. Inside, I see a large well-built Native American man matching the rough description of our suspect. I tell him to freeze, he turns around and bolts out the back door. My partner tries to catch up, but he is too old for this bullshit. I take the shot. It hits dead center in his back. He doesn't even break his stride. Two more. Same thing. No stopping, no blood.

    Sufficiently freaked out and in no shape to talk to people, I let my partner go talk to the neighbor as I explore the house. It's covered in old dusty books and very fancy liquor. During my investigation I hear a noise coming from inside the garage. I draw my pistol and open the door, not quite ready for what's inside. Something that roughly resembled a human being was crawling and writhing on the garage floor. It's taught brown leathery skin cracked as it turned to face me, and long-since withered lungs emitted only a hollow groan. It latched onto my ankle as I shot it in the head. Across its now shattered skull, fresh green plant growth emerged and sealed it mere seconds after I fired. As it began to pull itself higher I took another shot, this time hitting it in its heart. It gasps and its grip loosens. Slowly it falls to pieces on top of me, transforming for a horrid leathery mummy to a pile of dried leaves.

    TO BE CONTINUED

    On a meta note, our GM knew that we were getting bored with the investigation bit so the story gets much much crazier as it goes on

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    What kind of thing?

    Because if it's a thing i like, yes.

    If not, then maybe.

  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    Gamma World? Absolutely.

  • Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    play by post, sure

    nah iirc

    I don't trust my ability to update a thread regularly/write lots of long and good posts

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  • Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    Melding wrote:
    What kind of thing?

    Because if it's a thing i like, yes.

    If not, then maybe.

    beta planet

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Yukira wrote:
    I really want to play a pen and paper game with people that can have fun doing it and don't try to be invincible little power houses.

    That is a dilemma. As somebody who has studied character optimization and theoretical game-theory for DnD 3.5 I can say that I hate powerful characters.

    They are just so boring to play.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    play by post, sure

    nah iirc

    I don't trust my ability to update a thread regularly/write lots of long and good posts

    :|

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Also, things liek this are why eberron is cool

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    I just like this picture
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    and the old core books had awesome arts.

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  • YukiraYukira Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote:
    Yukira wrote:
    I really want to play a pen and paper game with people that can have fun doing it and don't try to be invincible little power houses.

    That is a dilemma. As somebody who has studied character optimization and theoretical game-theory for DnD 3.5 I can say that I hate powerful characters.

    They are just so boring to play.

    The best time I did have was, however, when I played a 3.5 warforged and my friend played a Minotaur. Most of our solutions to things were to chuck heavy objects at them. We took out a camp of drakonids by launching trees at them.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I love Eberron so much

    I want to play a Warforged of Arabia

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Melding wrote:
    What kind of thing?

    Because if it's a thing i like, yes.

    If not, then maybe.

    beta planet

    Hm i'm more of an Alpha Habitable Sphere person myself.

  • Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    melding where is the bug troll picture thing from the old core books

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I just want a Gamma World DnD setting, the board game is cool, but a setting would be cooler.

  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    ... it is a setting.

    Steam PSN: DerWaffleMous Origin: DerWaffleMous Bnet: DerWaffle#1682
  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Tonkka wrote:
    Deathwatch

    More like Can't-be-used-in-40k-anymore-watch

    I am shamed for having wrote that

    Really? That's actually kind of bad news I thought they were a neat idea.

    They'll probably be back.

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    More reason why Eberron is cool

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    also while i originally disliked them, Devas have really fucking grown on me.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    they even suggested in Legion of Gold that your gamma world characters could end up in a land of steel and magic because of shenanigans
    sooo

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    ... it is a setting.

    Oh...well I've been out of the loop for awhile.

    I fucking love Eberron though. I played a cool Warforged Samurai/Kensai once that had swords that flipped out of his arms. I really want to give Dark Sun a whirl

  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Blankzilla wrote:
    I played Call of Cthulhu with my two buddies the other night.

    I was young hotshot detective Barnaby Jones along with my grizzled old partner detective Scott Wilson. We were the loose cannons of the Tulsa Police Department circa 1978. In addition to our maverick status, we tended to take the more "oddball" cases. We got the call to drive down to Norman, one of the handful of college towns in Oklahoma.

    We arrive at the campus and are taken to the crime scene, the victim, the resident professor of Native American History, had been dismembered and drained of all blood. Shockingly, no blood was found on scene. The only two clues we had were two odd stains in the room: one on the roof, near one of those easily moved ceiling tiles and another splattered against the wall. After a few rounds of questioning witnesses we learn that the Professor was something of a recluse and that a large man with braided hair was seen fleeing the campus the night of the murder. Finally, we get a call from forensics, the mysterious stains match with only one substance: chlorophyll.

    Puzzled by this development, we drive down to the Professor's house near campus. We pull up to the neighbor in the Professor's front lawn, yelling that someone was inside the house. We go in, guns out. After clearing the hallway, we hear a racket coming from inside the kitchen. I take point and charge in. Inside, I see a large well-built Native American man matching the rough description of our suspect. I tell him to freeze, he turns around and bolts out the back door. My partner tries to catch up, but he is too old for this bullshit. I take the shot. It hits dead center in his back. He doesn't even break his stride. Two more. Same thing. No stopping, no blood.

    Sufficiently freaked out and in no shape to talk to people, I let my partner go talk to the neighbor as I explore the house. It's covered in old dusty books and very fancy liquor. During my investigation I hear a noise coming from inside the garage. I draw my pistol and open the door, not quite ready for what's inside. Something that roughly resembled a human being was crawling and writhing on the garage floor. It's taught brown leathery skin cracked as it turned to face me, and long-since withered lungs emitted only a hollow groan. It latched onto my ankle as I shot it in the head. Across its now shattered skull, fresh green plant growth emerged and sealed it mere seconds after I fired. As it began to pull itself higher I took another shot, this time hitting it in its heart. It gasps and its grip loosens. Slowly it falls to pieces on top of me, transforming for a horrid leathery mummy to a pile of dried leaves.

    TO BE CONTINUED

    On a meta note, our GM knew that we were getting bored with the investigation bit so the story gets much much crazier as it goes on

    this is awesome.

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    melding where is the bug troll picture thing from the old core books

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    This is the troll from the first edition ADnD book, only oldest troll i have.

  • YukiraYukira Registered User regular
    I would like play D&D where the story line isn't a blatant anime rip off.

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Melding wrote:
    Dubh wrote:
    Necromancers are one of those things I always hear about

    but never actually see in a player party

    so disappointing

    was ityou that said they were goign to be doing an online pathfinder game? because i will make a evil half orc necromancer. Who will probably die, because, well evil.

    I'll get a recruitment thing set-up, I guess

    Tonkka was hells of interested

    Whippy mentioned wanting to play, but she didn't respond to my offer (booooo)

    and there's a few gloss people that are fairly interested

    I might not want to run a game until I can get my feminine voice on

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    they even suggested in Legion of Gold that your gamma world characters could end up in a land of steel and magic because of shenanigans
    sooo

    Oh man I would love to do a campaign like this, war ravaged world in the future, then BAM time portal, now you have gun in classic DnD, but they have magic.

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Yukira wrote:
    I would like play D&D where the story line isn't a blatant anime rip off.

    I ran a D20 Modern campaign where it was a blatant rip off of The Dresden Files.

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Dubh wrote:
    Melding wrote:
    Dubh wrote:
    Necromancers are one of those things I always hear about

    but never actually see in a player party

    so disappointing

    was ityou that said they were goign to be doing an online pathfinder game? because i will make a evil half orc necromancer. Who will probably die, because, well evil.

    I'll get a recruitment thing set-up, I guess

    Tonkka was hells of interested

    Whippy mentioned wanting to play, but she didn't respond to my offer (booooo)

    and there's a few gloss people that are fairly interested

    I might not want to run a game until I can get my feminine voice on

    I would play.

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Melding wrote:
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    Dire Toad

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Bucketman wrote:
    Antimatter wrote:
    they even suggested in Legion of Gold that your gamma world characters could end up in a land of steel and magic because of shenanigans
    sooo

    Oh man I would love to do a campaign like this, war ravaged world in the future, then BAM time portal, now you have gun in classic DnD, but they have magic.

    personally I'd love to fuck with my players and do the opposite

    "lessee, yeah, you're in the standard points of light setting, evil wizard is summoning monsters to destroy a town, blah blah blah"
    "wait, is that a teleporting lemur?"
    "oh shit what the fuck! land squid?"

    "...is that a motherfucking robot?"

    "okay, yeah, you just got sucked in a portal. time to reroll your characters >:3"

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Dubh wrote:
    Melding wrote:
    Dubh wrote:
    Necromancers are one of those things I always hear about

    but never actually see in a player party

    so disappointing

    was ityou that said they were goign to be doing an online pathfinder game? because i will make a evil half orc necromancer. Who will probably die, because, well evil.

    I'll get a recruitment thing set-up, I guess

    Tonkka was hells of interested

    Whippy mentioned wanting to play, but she didn't respond to my offer (booooo)

    and there's a few gloss people that are fairly interested

    I might not want to run a game until I can get my feminine voice on

    Well, keep me informed, and you will have your necromancer in a player party. but i might just die because, necromancers are soo out of my normal, half elf cleric/bard elf wizard paradigm.

  • ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    I've never really played a PnP RPG although it always seemed so fun. My friends tried to do DnD once but they weren't actually nerdy enough I guess, since their method of playing was go into a room, use the next door.

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