It looks like my regular 5e game is about to fall apart My friend that brought me into the group has been frustrated and wants to quit, so he emailed everyone today and told us that he's busy indefinitely and to retire his character. Total bummer.
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Dyshow am I even using this gunRegistered Userregular
I've actually been playing D&D for the first time with a group my girlfriend found.
Since then we've had the DM drop out on us with her taking up the role, and she's been going way over the top with it in the best way. Apparently, there are like 4 or 5 more quests we didn't manage to stumble into in the town we just went through.
It is loooaaaads of fun and I really wish I'd gotten into it ages ago.
HawkstoneDon't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. Somewhere outside of BarstowRegistered Userregular
My group dissolved about a year and a half ago due to one couple moving away and another party having his depression get the best of him. I miss it sooo much, but I cant really find anyone in my area who plays. I have literally zero hobby friends now and it bums me out to no end.
So bad news, my real-life gaming group has been on hiatus for so long the GM got burned out on running Star Wars for us so the Age of Rebellion campaign that never materialized is now indefinitely on hold.
Good news is that we're going to be starting a 5e D&D campaign, since the GM already had an established setting for it and has been running a game set in it with another group of friends for a month or two.
So we're going to be playing in the same setting as the other party, and I don't think we're the evil party trying to thwart them?
I showed up late so everyone already had their backstories kind of figured out so I figured mine out to go along with them. We're all some sort of chosen one.
Yeah, roll20 is pretty cool. We use it for our maps and dice rolling for our games. Their roll parser is a little more limited than I would like, but it gets the job done.
Also I've never had to deal with it because I haven't DMed any of our games, but apparently getting the roll20 grid to line up with any existing gridlines on an image you import is a colossal pain in the ass.
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HawkstoneDon't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. Somewhere outside of BarstowRegistered Userregular
Our group tried roll 20 when our DM moved away...it was super easy and really good for players but for him as a GM it seemed super labor intensive and he really struggled. If even I find somebody confident in its use I would definitely be all aboard giving it another crack as a player.
Inside of a dog...it's too dark to read.
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Erin The RedThe Name's Erin! Woman, Podcaster, Dungeon Master, IT nerd, Parent, Trans. AMABaton Rouge, LARegistered Userregular
Roll20 has a hidden thing in it called align to grid that lets you highlight a 3*3 area on your image and it auto adjusts the scale to fit the on screen grid
You can do lots of fun stuff with roll20 with a bit of work. GM layer lets you hide trapdoors etc and make notes on things and then if you are a sub there is dynamic lighting that can do some cool atmospheric stuff
i am trying to learn to DM now! i am learning by listening to adventure zone and getting tips from @As7 and looking at what some other folks have written
but i have decided that first i need to get all my stupid adult responsibilities out of the way so i can focus and not feel guilt when i try
I managed to argue for the wet nurse position by saying that because I cannot lie I can definitely lactate, I have a license in male lactation, I will literally breastfeed ANYTHING, and I forget what the last one was.
Also I got the position for Dictator by arguing that I have a very contagious disease but I also have the cure for it, so
Are those shelves bending under the weight or are my eyes playing tricks on me?
Very much bending under the weight. This is why I keep my biggest hardcovers on this particular shelf, because it can bear more load than my cheap-o Wal-mart shelves.
Edit: For the record, these are the parts of my collection my friends hate to move. It's part of why I'm hiring a professional moving company in the future.
I can attest to the fact that RPG books are heavy. Really, really heavy. When I moved, outside of one large box with way too many CCG cards, my small RPG book boxes were by far the heaviest. I've also had cheap shelves not handle the weight well.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
edited March 2016
When I went to GenCon in 2003, I made the very stupid mistake of bringing all my 3rd edition core books with me in case I needed them. I almost died of heat exhaustion at times.
When I went in 2014 I brought a laptop with a ton of PDFs on it. That's also why I am so sad that the Star Wars RPGs aren't in PDF form, because they are ALL hardback and ALL heavy.
JacobkoshGamble a stamp.I can show you how to be a real man!Moderatormod
I posted this in another thread, but I've been watching a lot of Person of Interest and it occurred to me today that it would make a really good modern action RPG setting. It's a team of heroes with diverse skills solving a new problem every week. In the show, they work in New York because they're only tapped into the New York feed, so what if the machine has other agents in other cities?
And then I was thinking that a good system to run that would be New World of Darkness (or, as it's called now, Chronicles of Darkness).
And then it hit me that this could be a Demon: the Descent game.
cuz I've ordered 2 new board games and our collection is bursting at the seams and I wuvs it
Cool! What games?
Mafia de Cuba and Coup: Rebellion G54
pretty excited for more quick games like that as warm-ups prior to the big events on game nights
also we are planning a PAX getaway in Western Australia this year so I fully intend to coerce others into multiple games of 2 Rooms and a Boom, since we only got to play that a few times at PAX last year
FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
I've got a copy of Dead of Winter still in its shrinkwrap because we haven't played games with friends since baby was born, and I'm still kicking myself for missing out on a sale price on Mage Knight that was almost 40% off in January. I saw it sell slowly during the week and thought I could wait until the weekend but the last handful of copies all went in the space of a few hours. Damned fool me.
That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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VivixenneRemember your training, and we'll get through this just fine.Registered Userregular
I enjoy Dead of Winter, it's definitely worth playing! You've got a fair amount of downtime in between turns iirc, but not overmuch since it IS a (mostly) co-operative game - maybe that's helpful?
I wish it was easier for us to schedule gaming evenings
but with the kids' bedtimes being weird and Rachel and I just being exhausted in the evenings (I typically don't get home till around 7:30 PM, and then after putting kids to bed we have to do chores and such)
we typically wouldn't get to start on a game till around 9-10 PM, which is... pretty difficult for a in-depth game.
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JacobkoshGamble a stamp.I can show you how to be a real man!Moderatormod
edited March 2016
I just found this cover I made years and years ago for an adventure log I'd written for the 4E Eberron mystery game that forumer MrAnthropy and I met in. I wish I had made more of these.
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HawkstoneDon't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. Somewhere outside of BarstowRegistered Userregular
I just found this cover I made years and years ago for an adventure log I'd written for the 4E Eberron mystery game that forumer MrAnthropy and I met in. I wish I had made more of these.
I really, reaaaaalllly liked the Eberron setting...unfortunately none of my groups ever liked it even a little bit.
Inside of a dog...it's too dark to read.
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JacobkoshGamble a stamp.I can show you how to be a real man!Moderatormod
I just found this cover I made years and years ago for an adventure log I'd written for the 4E Eberron mystery game that forumer MrAnthropy and I met in. I wish I had made more of these.
I really, reaaaaalllly liked the Eberron setting...unfortunately none of my groups ever liked it even a little bit.
Get cooler friends! Eberron is too great not to play in at least once.
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HawkstoneDon't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. Somewhere outside of BarstowRegistered Userregular
I just found this cover I made years and years ago for an adventure log I'd written for the 4E Eberron mystery game that forumer MrAnthropy and I met in. I wish I had made more of these.
I really, reaaaaalllly liked the Eberron setting...unfortunately none of my groups ever liked it even a little bit.
Get cooler friends! Eberron is too great not to play in at least once.
I don't even have gaming friends now...they all moved away sadly. If I find more...it will be an interview question.
Inside of a dog...it's too dark to read.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
I love everything about Eberron.. except the engine. And that's not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.
So today was a painful day for my wallet, all aimed squarely at Fantasy flight. I managed to stop myself from buying ALL THE THINGS, but I did pick up:
Warhammer 40k: Conquest - What Lurks Below war pack
Star Wars Force & Destiny - Nexus of Power
Star Wars X-wing - Ghost expansion pack
Last week two packs dropped for Star Wars LCG and Netrunner.
This week, I passed on getting the X-wing Punshing One, Inquisitor's TIE, and Mist Hunter - those will be coming soon.
Next week, Special Modifications for Edge of the Empire comes out.
FaranguI am a beardy manWith a beardy planRegistered Userregular
edited March 2016
I need gaming friends that I don't have to lead kicking and screaming into new things. No, I don't want to play Catan. No, I don't want to do more D&D.
Any of you folks in the chicagoland area? I'll make the fanciest campaign just for you. You'd be doing me a favor.
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Since then we've had the DM drop out on us with her taking up the role, and she's been going way over the top with it in the best way. Apparently, there are like 4 or 5 more quests we didn't manage to stumble into in the town we just went through.
It is loooaaaads of fun and I really wish I'd gotten into it ages ago.
Good news is that we're going to be starting a 5e D&D campaign, since the GM already had an established setting for it and has been running a game set in it with another group of friends for a month or two.
So we're going to be playing in the same setting as the other party, and I don't think we're the evil party trying to thwart them?
I showed up late so everyone already had their backstories kind of figured out so I figured mine out to go along with them. We're all some sort of chosen one.
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http://orokos.com/roll/?action=dicehelp
Also I've never had to deal with it because I haven't DMed any of our games, but apparently getting the roll20 grid to line up with any existing gridlines on an image you import is a colossal pain in the ass.
You can do lots of fun stuff with roll20 with a bit of work. GM layer lets you hide trapdoors etc and make notes on things and then if you are a sub there is dynamic lighting that can do some cool atmospheric stuff
but i have decided that first i need to get all my stupid adult responsibilities out of the way so i can focus and not feel guilt when i try
that game is pretty dang great
I managed to argue for the wet nurse position by saying that because I cannot lie I can definitely lactate, I have a license in male lactation, I will literally breastfeed ANYTHING, and I forget what the last one was.
Also I got the position for Dictator by arguing that I have a very contagious disease but I also have the cure for it, so
thanks for alerting me to its existence
Very much bending under the weight. This is why I keep my biggest hardcovers on this particular shelf, because it can bear more load than my cheap-o Wal-mart shelves.
Edit: For the record, these are the parts of my collection my friends hate to move. It's part of why I'm hiring a professional moving company in the future.
When I went in 2014 I brought a laptop with a ton of PDFs on it.
And then I was thinking that a good system to run that would be New World of Darkness (or, as it's called now, Chronicles of Darkness).
And then it hit me that this could be a Demon: the Descent game.
cuz I've ordered 2 new board games and our collection is bursting at the seams and I wuvs it
Cool! What games?
Mafia de Cuba and Coup: Rebellion G54
pretty excited for more quick games like that as warm-ups prior to the big events on game nights
also we are planning a PAX getaway in Western Australia this year so I fully intend to coerce others into multiple games of 2 Rooms and a Boom, since we only got to play that a few times at PAX last year
we will need to finish that soooooon
but with the kids' bedtimes being weird and Rachel and I just being exhausted in the evenings (I typically don't get home till around 7:30 PM, and then after putting kids to bed we have to do chores and such)
we typically wouldn't get to start on a game till around 9-10 PM, which is... pretty difficult for a in-depth game.
I really, reaaaaalllly liked the Eberron setting...unfortunately none of my groups ever liked it even a little bit.
Get cooler friends! Eberron is too great not to play in at least once.
I don't even have gaming friends now...they all moved away sadly. If I find more...it will be an interview question.
So today was a painful day for my wallet, all aimed squarely at Fantasy flight. I managed to stop myself from buying ALL THE THINGS, but I did pick up:
Warhammer 40k: Conquest - What Lurks Below war pack
Star Wars Force & Destiny - Nexus of Power
Star Wars X-wing - Ghost expansion pack
Last week two packs dropped for Star Wars LCG and Netrunner.
This week, I passed on getting the X-wing Punshing One, Inquisitor's TIE, and Mist Hunter - those will be coming soon.
Next week, Special Modifications for Edge of the Empire comes out.
Damnit, Fantasy Flight! STOP IT!
(I don't have a problem...)
Spoiler Alert: It didn't work.
Any of you folks in the chicagoland area? I'll make the fanciest campaign just for you. You'd be doing me a favor.
Chicago Megagame group
Watch me struggle to learn streaming! Point and laugh!