crimsonfire Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 That sounds all kinds of cool. I was always envious of crim's frosted glass chess set which he never used. He'd never play chess with me Yes kind of was a pity that set never got used. It was my mams so I was always afraid of fucking it up. She would try to play chess with me sometimes without even knowing the rules. She would get pissy when I did the 2-up 1-across thing with a knight (the knights standard fucking move) and would regularly move pawns straight ahead to take other pieces. Needless to say I got sick of it quickly. Was a nice board though. I'm sure they're easily findable. She got it off someone for christmas we saw it in fucking Tescos the very next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Unearthed Arcana had some, and FantasyCraft is a modular d20 game that has alternate crafting rules. Both are easily obtainable as PDFs. FantasyCraft's rules any good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spycer Posted September 1, 2009 Author Share Posted September 1, 2009 FantasyCraft's rules any good? Haven't read them all the way through, but most of my local DMs swear by them. I'd say its worth a download, just to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Cool, I'll have to check it out. I'm curious for a game I'm running, and for a game I'm in: I've got a character that just learned Fabricate, but the DM's uncomfortable about me applying it to crafting nonmagical items so money can be made while I'm stuck in town. Then again, I think I kind of make him a bit nervous when I'm playing a spellcaster anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spycer Posted September 22, 2009 Author Share Posted September 22, 2009 Starting a new FantasyCraft game in the next couple weeks. Will let you know how it goes. I started reading the book in prep for the game, and they have made some interesting changes. Also, trees are a standard race. No level adjustment, as they have done away with such completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 This game looks sweet. Had a java game of this on my old phone. Its kind of like Heroquest where you play in tiled corridors and rooms. Looks like a good bridge between full tabletop gaming and strategy games like Risk (which is also great). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Hulk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spycer Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 My best friend actually has the game, and its awesome. Also, the models for the game are 40k legal size, so you can paint and play them in the regular game, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jumbie Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 The Boston Herald is apparently trying to blame D&D and LARPing for the recent school shooting in Alabama. Bishop, now a University of Alabama professor, and her husband James Anderson [pictured below] met and fell in love in a Dungeons & Dragons club while biology students at Northeastern University in the early 1980s, and were heavily into the fantasy role-playing board game, a source told the Herald. "They even acted this crap out," the source said. When questioned about it yesterday, Anderson, 45, a research scientist in Huntsville, Ala., dismissed the egghead escape as "a passing interest. It was a social thing more than anything else. It's not the crazy group people think they are." . . . The popular fantasy role-playing game has a long history of controversy, with objections raised to its demonic and violent elements. Some experts have cited the D&D backgrounds of people who were later involved in violent crimes, while others say it just a game. A federal appeals court recently upheld a prison ban on the game in Wisconsin, where prison officials reportedly testified they were afraid the game could promote "hostility, violence and escape behavior." io9 reports on it here: http://io9.com/5473500/did-dungeons--drago...ps-murder-spree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Jackasses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lipala Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 I'm trying to help my DM fix the balance issues in our game. There are 3 of our 7 players causing the problem. The problems being 1, the Dragonkin "Beast of Legend" didn't count his 7 HD into his ECL and so his ECL is 7 higher than he said. 2. Two of the players are playing a race from a third party publisher which has an ECL out of line with its power level AND they forgot to factor in their HD. making them 2 levels higher than they said and more because of the race. 3. The two playing the weird race are playing Gestalt characters from Unearthed Arcana which is a variant only supposed to be used if the whole party is Gestalt and creates characters that do not scale with standard classes. What would you guys do to fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Ugh. Fucking 3rd party publishers. So overpowered. And Gestalt characters? Really? Are they open to working with the DM to fix their characters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 I'm also curious how long this has been going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lipala Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 They've responded to any attempt to work with them to fix their characters with calls of "witch hunt" and threatening to leave the game. They've been with us in our monthly game since the spring. The Dragonkin is the DMs brother and will btich and moan but not quit. They were making witch hunt claims over me trying to figure out why the game was unbalanced and realizing it was ECL and letting the GM know what the actual Average ECL was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 They're threatening to leave? Is this an undesirable outcome? If not, it sounds like the problem may solve itself. How experienced is the DM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lipala Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 He's been DMing since highschool and he's in his late 40s. However he's always been kind of rubbish at the numbers side of the game. The players are great in session. Its outside that there's an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Is anyone else having a problem with this in your group? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lipala Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 (edited) The power level difference? yes. The GM has to fudge 75% of rolls to not kill weaker party members and some still die every 2-3 sessions. Edited December 21, 2011 by Lipala Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lipala Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 So, the player I wasn't sure of? ECL 19. So that means our party is ECL 14 x2(not really) ECL 19, ECL 13 x3 and ECL 12.... Average Party level? 14. Even if you factor in the brokenness of the ECL 14 characters as actually being ECL 16. But then that means 3 people are 2-5 levels above what the rest of the party can handle >.< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lipala Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Sorry, Math fail. he's ECL 21. 7 HD + 2 Level Adjustment + Template with +2 Level Adjustment + 10 levels of Barbarian = 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 What edition, out of curiosity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genroh Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 (edited) I got into table top gaming this year with Warhammer 40k and Warmachine/Hordes thanks to these guys. RPGs I've been delving into are Iron Kingdoms and Warhammer 40k universe inspired Deathwatch and Black Crusade (FOR CHAOS!). Really been enjoying it and I've almost got a 1000 point Chaos army ready for play (need paint and a few more units). Edited December 21, 2011 by Genroh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 I was once a WH40k nerd myself. I haven't touched my models in years though. Part of me wants to blow the dust off them and finish off a shitload of them that are half-done/unpainted but adulthood kind of got in the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 I really wanted to get into WH40K. II would snag issues of White Dwarf and create these hypothetical armies and imagine what colors I'd paint them and shit. It looked like so much fun. But I never had the money. And once I did, it was not on my list of things I wanted to buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lipala Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 What edition, out of curiosity? 3.5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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