I'd like to try a little experiment with all of you. How many of us are there?
Whether you are a «lurker» or an active member (old and new) give us a hand shake be «signing» this tread.
Currently running 3 campaigns:
- Rise of the Kinori - Future/Apocalypse D20
- Children of Esperendia - Star Wars Saga Edition
- The Fall of Arkinor - D&D 4E
Favorite Board Games:
- Puerto Rico
- Twilight Imperium 3E
- BlackBeard (both editions)
- Cosmic Encounter !
Favorite miniature games:
- WarHammer 40K : Necron, Space Marines army
What I hate most about the gaming industry these days:
- Any game based on «boosters»
Hero Games / Champions 2nd Edition thru 5th
Dungeons and Dragons
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st to 2nd
D20 2.0
Modern D20
Palladium Fantasy TMNT and Rifts
Shadowrun 1st thru 2nd Editions
Games Working on or Running
Blood and Shadows a Modern D20 supplement Shadowrun style game (rules in playtesting)
Board Games
Talisman
Heroquest
Risk
Card Games
Muchkin
Weed
Minature Games
Warhammer 40k Imperial Guard
Warhammer Fantasy Chaos
Game Hates
When a Manufacturer changes the rules / Game Mechanics so much that its not the same game as before but keeps the same title and just calls it the newest edition, Mainly when they say the previous 5+ years of products you've bought don't work no more, with the new and improved version of the game.
Currently playing in one campaign:
- LFR - D&D 4E
Currently building one campaign, which I hope to soon run:
- The Land of Nod: A Sci-Fi Campaign Setting Using a Modified Version of the Star Wars Saga Ruleset
Favorite Board Games:
- Risk
Favorite miniature games:
- RPG games that use miniatures (D&D 4e, Star Wars Saga, etc).
What I hate most about the gaming industry these days:
- People that think its ok to empirically insult your system of preference, because it is not theirs.
Currently running 1 campaign:
Currently building 1 campaign:
Favorite Board Games:
Favorite miniature games:
What I hate most about the gaming industry these days:
Soon to be running a tweaked 4e for a Modern Fantasy, and soon a Force Deleted and Starship deleted Saga, for a Modern d20 campaign. Also running a 4e Paragon Level Campaign.
Wargames owned:
Warhammer 40k: Armies, Imperial Guard, Necrons and Tau
Warhammer Fantasy: will soon own Lizardmen
Other tabletop games
Dark heresy
Hunter,
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying
Favorite Boardgame: If I had to pick one.. Risk, or Star Wars Risk.. I like em both alot.
What I hate about the gaming industry these days:
Japan. They need to actually come out of their insular tradition clinging shell already. No more pretty boy heroes. No more random encounters, advance your damn control schemes NOW already. and actually *gasp* do something with character development.
Abominal and obscene acts of all kinds, across time & space.
"Perversion of the laws of god & man, on demand"
" 'Body' Armor for tracked vehicles is not evil, those bodies were dead when I found them"
Currently Playing: D&D 3.5
Currently Designing: Phoenix v1 (any minute now!)
I have run AD&D, AD&D 2e, D&D 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0. Plus D20 Modern in a variety of scenarios from basic modern, super heroes, future and mutants.
I have run Rifts, Ninjas and Superspies and TMNT: After the Bomb
I have run Marvel Super Heroes, the 1980's game and still love the sheer simplicity of it.
I have played in most of those plus Shadowrun 2e and 4e, Cyberpunk (longest living character was a coward who hid in the john at the start of every combat) and Mechwarrior. I have played a variety of World of Darkness games, but like Werewolf and Mage the best.
I love discussions but hate "yes it is, no it isn't" arguments. I will only go around that mulberry bush once with any given person.
I am currently ginning up my D&D game world for a Pathfinder (Beta) game that will hopefully start in a week or two. My modern game is literally stuck with the players too scared to go forward. It's not my fault that they got locked in the basement of a mortuary with the only exit being a gateway to hell... OK, it is my fault.
Currently Playing: nothing!
Currently Designing: nothing!
Favorite Board Game: Heroscape
Favorite Tabletop games: D&D 3.5, True20, Mutants and Masterminds, Scion, Warhammer 40k (Orks and Tau)
Favorite Gaming Books: anything WW, they're just so much fun to read
What I hate most about gaming these days: the fact that I have no group to game with, following the messy breakup of my best friend and our former DM over a year ago (he was a jurk, sure, but he was our only DM)
Personal savior of the d20 modern forum
go between for the d20 modern forums and CM
Heroes Fanboy as well
runner of last year's uncon contest and will also be doing the same thing again this year.
Currently running 0 campaigns:
College is a *****. But once I get out of school for the summer my hometown group will be getting back into all sorts of gaming. Including a 4e D&D game, a 3e OA game, L5R, d20 Modern, and some Call of Cthulhu.
Favorite Board Games:
Arkham Horror, AFMBE, Munchkin (technically a card game), and good old Battlemasters.
Favorite miniature games:
L5R Clan War (plays almost exactly the same as WHFB!), was into Warhammer Fantasy and 40k but its too expensive, and I'm dropping GW games since they announced ANOTHER price hike for their already vastly overpriced minis. And, Heavy Gear!
What I hate most about the gaming industry these days:
Corporate greed. Its killing the hobby.
Also "system elitism." I remember back before the d20 system came out it was a mark of the true gamer to play or have at least tried a multitude of games and systems, these days everyone hides in their single-system camps and shuns the plethora of great games around them. I'm not blaming the d20 System or WotC for this, it just seems to have both come around the same time.
hoping to reboot my d20 gaming in near future
looking at horror genre for start-up, possibly a shadow hunter-isque
Currently running a mere campaign: (but playing in a whopping 7)
-The City of Iron Angels, a straight D&D 3.5 campaign heavy on fey and demons, with some inspiration from Jim Butcher novels
-Currently playing four D&D 3.5, two D&D 3p, and one d20apocolypse campaigns.
Favorite Board/Card Games:
-RISK
-Attack!
-Settlers of Catan
-Monopoly
-War on Terror
-(Failure to say) Mao
Favorite miniature games:
-Warhammer 40k, Imperial Guard army heavy on tanks
What I hate most about the gaming industry these days:
-Games that favour graphics and physics but compensate by lessoning strategy, game length, and plot. (Not that these things are mutually exclusive, but...)
-Games that are purely designed to be addictive but that after playing for hours and hours you wonder why you did, or games that involve needlessly time-consuming boring aspects.
-Games with monthly fees.
Long time lurker, recent poster.
DBay
-(Failure to say) Mao
*hands you a card* talking..
Currently PLANNING 1 classic D&D campaign.
Favorite Board Games:
Settlers of Catan
Monopoly
Favorite miniature games:
None
What I hate most about the gaming industry these days:
The tabletop gaming industry? That D&D gets more love than Modern. Boo.
Currently running 0 campaigns(2 on hold due to real life taking priority):
Starwars Saga Edition Clone Wars campaign
D20 Modern/Future Superhero campaign
Have run in the past:
Dungeons and Dragons(Basic, AD&D, 2nd ed, 3.x and 4th), Star Frontiers, Chaosium's ElfQuest, Alternity, MechWarrior, Starwars(d6, RCR, and Saga), D20 Modern(Past and Future too)
Favorite Board Games:
Axis & Allies
Broadsides & Boarding Parties
Favorite miniature games:
I only use minis as RPG aides... unless you count Classic BattleTech as a minis game.
What I hate most about the gaming industry these days:
The business model that depends on re-writing the game mechanics of a system every 5 years.
Some of the predominant users of this board have not signed yet...;)
Alright, alright...i'm here
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Turn ons: Long walks on the be-...
If you were going to finish that sentence with beaver dam then I've got a wedding date planned. :P
Turn ons: Long walks on the be-...nevermind.
If you were going to finish that sentence with beaver dam then I've got a wedding date planned. :P
thats all i have to say about that...If you were going to finish that sentence with beaver dam then I've got a wedding date planned. :P
that would have to be one helluva big beaver to make a dam big enough to take a long walk on.Currently working on a d20 revision (codenamed d20a). I like D&D, Warhammer, GURPS, TORG (anyone even remember that anymore?), and tic-tac-toe.
Could just be a lot of beavers... those little fellas can work together too, you know!
What's I'd really like is a Big Book of House Rules that I could just leaf through and say "Hey look, a whole different way to do spell-casting. Cool." Basically, a big-ass, expanded Unearthed Arcana. That'd be fun.
k, I'm here.
Currently working on a d20 revision (codenamed d20a). I like D&D, Warhammer, GURPS, TORG (anyone even remember that anymore?), and tic-tac-toe.
d20a... Have you looked at True20 by Green Ronin?
http://true20.com/
d20a... Have you looked at True20 by Green Ronin?
http://true20.com/
I've seen the quickstart rules preview that's been put around, and while it is interesting stuff, it's not really the direction I want to go. Maybe the full book has stuff that would interest me, but I don't have the $ to spend.
Also "system elitism." I remember back before the d20 system came out it was a mark of the true gamer to play or have at least tried a multitude of games and systems, these days everyone hides in their single-system camps and shuns the plethora of great games around them. I'm not blaming the d20 System or WotC for this, it just seems to have both come around the same time.
I couldn't agree more.
No one system can do everything, so that's why I branched out.
I remember back before the d20 system came out it was a mark of the true gamer to play or have at least tried a multitude of games and systems
Isnt that the reason so many of us can put Toon & Paranoia on their resume?
Nothing like mixing Toon into our LEG Pheonix Command group.... slide rules meet pie in face
Paranoia
All the WizOs need to be replaced with Friend Computer.
I play mostly d20. I used to plat Hero System, but that group died. I used to play old style White Wolf, but I graduated high school seven years ago. I played AD&D once, but realized that 3rd edition really was an improvement and moved on.
I've played a miniatures game once. It didn't go too well. I like RPGs too much. Instead, I play small unit tactics with my fellow players and ruin my GMs carefully planned plot with explosives, ATVs, and water tanks.
I play in a D&D v.3.5 Age of Worms game, a D&D 4e FR game, and a d20 Modern game where the GM doesn't fully grasp that we don't need to take camels into the desert when we have ATVs, with water tanks, and explosives.
My favorite board game is Catan. Playing a three player game of settlers with the 6-player expansion and expanded victory point options is lots of fun. I also play RISK.
I tend to borrow rules when I'm playing. If I need vehicle combat rules for my Eberron game, I could use the janky rules from Arms and Equipment Guide and Stormwrack, or I could just grab Cyber-Dave's perfected vehicle combat rules. If I need rules for thirst in a desert, I'll grab Sandstorm, even if I'm playing d20 Modern or even 4e.
I prefer the d20 system, no because it's the best, but because all my friends that I play with know it. I'll use the GURPS splat books for setting, or the Serenity RPG for fluff, but I'll use the same old d20 system because my players know it, and so do I.
My preferred party role is logistics.
I understand the Wealth System.
I lurk, and I can create fun characters.
Hello, i'm nobodez_here. I used to be just nobodez, but Gleemax killed me.
I remember that day. A lot of good accounts were lost
.I remember that day. A lot of good accounts were lost
we lost a lot mroe good names even before gleemax....remember that...never forget.....
Mostly a lurker these days
Campaigns Running:
- Far Side of the Nebula - Star Wars RCR
- Curse of the Crimson Throne - Pathfinder Beta
Campaigns in Development:
- Emerald City Guard - Mutants and Masterminds
- Dark Matters - Homebrew d20 Modern
Favorite Board Games:
- Twilight Imperium
- Marvel Heroes
- Arkham Horror
Favorite video games:
- Psychonauts
- Fallout 3
What I hate most about the gaming industry these days:
- Having entire companies tell me I'm wrong for liking a different game.
I don't have an RPG group since I moved to CO this year, but games I have run in the past have been D&D (basic, expert, AD&D, 2nd ed., 3.5) Gamma World (old school 1st ed.), Battletech and, most recently, D20 Modern and Future.
I don't do boardgames.
What I hate most about the gaming industry today: Pen & paper games have not, nor ever will be, a huge money-maker and they should stop treating D&D like the cash cow it can't be. Stop dumbing down my favorite game!
I've played 3.0 DnD, ran a brief but immensely entertaining d20 Star Wars game and after eagerly snatching up d20 Modern when it hit the shelves I've used it as a base for three or four campaigns. I haven't played anything for a long time (probs 4 or 5 years now) but I've never stopped writing and designing settings, it's the only use I have left for my books when I haven't got players or a group to game with!
My latest idea that I want to develop, d20 Action Journalism! Getting down and dirty in the thick of the world's stories, dodging bullets and explosions and making attack rolls to snap those crucial front-page shots! Lots of diplomacy and fast-talking bluffs, and a different emphasis in combat encounters where the PC is the spectator and must get in the firing line to capture the story.
Miaow miaow, I've been a member of these boards since I started playing DnD about 8 years ago, but you can probably count my posts on your fingers. Yeah I'm pretty much a lurker.
I've played 3.0 DnD, ran a brief but immensely entertaining d20 Star Wars game and after eagerly snatching up d20 Modern when it hit the shelves I've used it as a base for three or four campaigns. I haven't played anything for a long time (probs 4 or 5 years now) but I've never stopped writing and designing settings, it's the only use I have left for my books when I haven't got players or a group to game with!
My latest idea that I want to develop, d20 Action Journalism! Getting down and dirty in the thick of the world's stories, dodging bullets and explosions and making attack rolls to snap those crucial front-page shots! Lots of diplomacy and fast-talking bluffs, and a different emphasis in combat encounters where the PC is the spectator and must get in the firing line to capture the story.
You know, that actually sounds really neat...
You know, that actually sounds really neat...
Thanks dude! I was on my way to work last week, and had just finished reading a TV correspondent's autobiography, and in the words of Ray from Ghostbusters, it just popped in there!
I reckon it would be super cool if I could come up with some alternate rules for taking photos, and modify the experience. Rather like the the Star Law setting from Broken McFuture, I was thinking of halving the XP you receive from fighting and stuff, and giving a significant XP bonus for getting the 'scoop'. You'd get more XP for taking better or more intense photos, like weaving through a firefight between rival militias to take action shots of the shooting, or staking out a secret meet between a corrupt politician and an influential gangster. You'd get Wealth bonuses from selling your photos to publications.
Its all just ideas for now though, and they never seem to turn out quite as neat when I try to execute them. I think I'm going to get right into this one though, I'll try and post some of it when I get cracking on it.
Who knows, maybe I'll even find some players for this one!
-Nothing.
Currently Homebrewing
-4e Modern
-4e Macho Women With Guns.
-Cinematic Unisystem Anime
-Cinematic Unisystem Star Trek
-Star Trek Saga Edition-4e Blend
Games (O)wned/(P)layed/(R)un
-AD&D (O/P/R)
-D&D 3.0 and 3.5 (O/P/R)
-Modern (O/P/R)
-SWSE (O)
-Rifts (O/P/R)
-Nightbane (O/P/R)
-Palladium Fantasy (O/P/R)
-Robotech (O/P/R)
-BtVS/Angel (O/P/R)
-Wolrd of Darkness/Vampire (O/P/R)
-BESM d20 (O/P/R)
-Mechwarrior RPG (O/P/R)
The Briliant Gameologists crowd is working on a revision they call the "Rebalance." It doesn't follow game-design principles that appeal to me, but they are putting a lot of interesting work into it. I also suspect it will be no more balanced or spug-proof than 3.5e, but that's just my opinion.
What's I'd really like is a Big Book of House Rules that I could just leaf through and say "Hey look, a whole different way to do spell-casting. Cool." Basically, a big-ass, expanded Unearthed Arcana. That'd be fun.
If you're looking for a different way to do spellcasting, I'd like to suggest BESM d20 Advanced Magic. Uses skill checks to cast the spells.
Thanks dude! I was on my way to work last week, and had just finished reading a TV correspondent's autobiography, and in the words of Ray from Ghostbusters, it just popped in there!
I reckon it would be super cool if I could come up with some alternate rules for taking photos, and modify the experience. Rather like the the Star Law setting from Broken McFuture, I was thinking of halving the XP you receive from fighting and stuff, and giving a significant XP bonus for getting the 'scoop'. You'd get more XP for taking better or more intense photos, like weaving through a firefight between rival militias to take action shots of the shooting, or staking out a secret meet between a corrupt politician and an influential gangster. You'd get Wealth bonuses from selling your photos to publications.
Its all just ideas for now though, and they never seem to turn out quite as neat when I try to execute them. I think I'm going to get right into this one though, I'll try and post some of it when I get cracking on it.
Who knows, maybe I'll even find some players for this one!
I'm floored... That's so cool I have to try one game with that idea.
Currently running:
- D&D 3.5E – Cormyr/Shadowdale/Anauroch trilogy
- D&D 3.5E – Castle Ravenloft
- D20 Modern – Organized Crime War (adapted Top Secret/SI campaign)
- D20 Modern – Alpha Knights (Sci Fi adventure)
- D20 Modern – Wendigo Hunt (adapted Chill campaign)
Currently playing in:
- D&D 3.5E – Undermountain
- D&D 3.5E – Barrow of the Forgotten King
- D&D 3.5E – Against The Giants
- D&D 3.5E – NWN2 inspired adventure
- D20 Modern – Mass Effect inspired adventure
- Sidewinder: Recoiled – Johnstone County War
Games I Own/Have Played (besides D&D 3.5E and D20 Modern, since those two are obvious ;)):
- OD&D
- AD&D 1E & 2E
- Boot Hill
- Gangbusters
- Top Secret S/I
- Chill (Pacesetter edition and Mayfair edition)
- Champions/Hero System
- Blood of Heroes
- Paranoia
- Alternity
- Star Frontiers
- BattleTech/MechWarrior
Favorite Board Game: None really, though I did enjoy playing Monsters Menace America last month.
Favorite Card Games:
- Bang!
- Mille Bournes
Bit of trivia: My oldest character that I still use on a semi-regular basis was created 24 years ago.
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I'm gonna have to reminisce with my old gang this weekend
Eldermount – which is a very loose translation of my last name.
Currently running:
- D&D 3.5E – Cormyr/Shadowdale/Anauroch trilogy
- D&D 3.5E – Castle Ravenloft
- D20 Modern – Organized Crime War (adapted Top Secret/SI campaign)
- D20 Modern – Alpha Knights (Sci Fi adventure)
- D20 Modern – Wendigo Hunt (adapted Chill campaign)
Currently playing in:
- D&D 3.5E – Undermountain
- D&D 3.5E – Barrow of the Forgotten King
- D&D 3.5E – Against The Giants
- D&D 3.5E – NWN2 inspired adventure
- D20 Modern – Mass Effect inspired adventure
- Sidewinder: Recoiled – Johnstone County War
Games I Own/Have Played (besides D&D 3.5E and D20 Modern, since those two are obvious ;)):
- OD&D
- AD&D 1E & 2E
- Boot Hill
- Gangbusters
- Top Secret S/I
- Chill (Pacesetter edition and Mayfair edition)
- Champions/Hero System
- Blood of Heroes
- Paranoia
- Alternity
- Star Frontiers
- BattleTech/MechWarrior
Favorite Board Game: None really, though I did enjoy playing Monsters Menace America last month.
Favorite Card Games:
- Bang!
- Mille Bournes
Bit of trivia: My oldest character that I still use on a semi-regular basis was created 24 years ago.
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Star Frontiers was always my favorite among the TSR products. Some guys are working on a revamped version of the game called Frontier Space :
http://dorkswithdice.com/frontierspace/intro