Jonny
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Post by Jonny on Sept 21, 2015 7:59:59 GMT
Paranoia is the most fun you can have while still staying absolutely loyal to Friend Computer! I've only ever played it for hilarious one-shots, but would someday like to try a long-term campaign dealing with it as a really sinister dystopia where plots and treasons are slow burn and significant.
I do enjoy the Warhammer universe, although I've always been much more of a fan of the old Warhammer Fantasy universe than the 40K one, just because once you reach that sort of scale I find it harder to be connected with the really good bits of a setting. I just like that they've successfully managed to make a setting where the weird metaphysical rules have led to a situation where the oppressive fascist witch-burners are the closest there is to genuine good guys and He Who Fights Monsters categorically will eventually become corrupted and need to be put down. And then they successfully marketed that setting to children!
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Post by Jonny on Sept 15, 2015 8:54:07 GMT
I was also looking at the Pathfinder Barbarian rules recently, and it struck me just how much their combat is tied to their rage (you're never really going to have a combat where you willingly don't rage). I had an idea that I really like of a really unassuming character (halfling, maybe) that just has serious anger issues, but who blanks out and doesn't remember their rages at all, so has no idea that they're a barbarian. They probably think they're a Bard. Obviously, without the Perform class skill, no-one's going to like listening to them play - which is just the sort of philistine criticism that makes them angry...
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Post by Jonny on Sept 15, 2015 8:32:06 GMT
Although by that point podcasts may be extinct in which case I'll edit the episodes just for me The year is The Future. A blasted, post-apocalyptic wasteland. Alex is huddled in the corner of a corrugated iron hut, surrounded by bloodstained and bullet-holed pathfinder books. The other side of the GM screen is James' bleached skeleton, moustache and hair still inexplicably intact. There is no sound other than the periodic clatter of a twenty-sided dice. Finally, the silence is broken as Alex cries out "Level 20!" in exhalation. He leans his starved frame over the the computer and mic that have been faithfully recording all this time. He cleans up the background noise, sets it playing, and lies down. A smile plays across his lips, as the words echo, looped across the end of humanity. "Level 20!"... "Level 20!"... "Level 20!"... ...Sorry, that one got away from me
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Jonny
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Post by Jonny on Sept 11, 2015 8:05:04 GMT
I really like games which have a mechanical, quantifiable "attractiveness" stat (charisma or certain edges) and then just abusing that fact. My favourite example so far (not my own character, I must admit) is in a game of 50 Fathoms (magical pirate setting for Savage Worlds), one of the other players is playing a Scurillion, a playable race which is basically a giant sentient crab. This player, however (let's call him Martin, because that's his name), realised that even though Scurillions had no real physical parallels to anything that a humanoid might find sexy, there was no mechanical reason he couldn't take the "Attractive" and "Very Attractive" edges.
So now he's playing an inexplicably sexy crab. No-one knows why this giant crab is so damn hot, but she is. Maybe something to do with the iridescent sheen of her shell? The luscious curve of her eyestalks? It's a mystery!
I also love any game where I can play something just super against-type: half-orc bard, gnome barbarian, anything where it would be unreasonably hard to find character art for it.
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Post by Jonny on Sept 10, 2015 9:13:05 GMT
Also remember that the episodes are only an hour long - in my experience, levelling up is generally to be expected once every three sessions or so to begin with, and less frequently as time goes on. Given that a "normal" game session is usually 3-4 hours, hitting level 2 around the 12 episode mark makes complete sense to me.
It feels a bit longer, because we only get an hour a week, so to us it's been twelve weeks between levels 1 and 2, but it makes sense given it's been just shy of 12 hours or actual game time (AKA about 3 sessions)
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Jonny
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Post by Jonny on Sept 10, 2015 9:01:49 GMT
Holy balls that's a big sword!
Hello everyone, I'm Jonny, and I have my reasons for being here. He said mysteriously
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Post by Jonny on Sept 10, 2015 8:55:56 GMT
I lovelovelove the Deadlands RPG universe - it's literally everything I love boiled down into a single setting. It's got spaghetti western, southern gothic, horror, steampunk, (nasty) magic and some damn fine monsters. And I do love me a good monster.
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Post by Jonny on Sept 10, 2015 8:51:51 GMT
I rather suspect Bryn will soon be taking a couple of levels in the Smouldering Meaty Chunks prestige class...
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Post by Jonny on Sept 10, 2015 8:46:47 GMT
At least you guys got to use that kickass big boom sound effect. That was fun!
Also, I enjoyed how swoony Sasha got over a big jump. Just goes to show the best way to woo someone is to impressively evade them with sick backflips!
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