Lurker > shadowsword87

No! I will spite you father figure, and forge my own path full of friends and games!

Except, you can easily just go over to an island over there a few miles and meet some people.
You live in a major city and have access to the internet, it's not impossible in the slightest. You just need to actually go and contact people.

God, something has gone horribly if I'm lecturing someone on going out and meeting people.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But if you're talking about me mentioning the idea of a forum-based game, I DID say I was thinking about the idea, not that I was actually planning to or really wanted to. If anything, I thought I was pretty clear about the unlikelihood of it ever happening.

Oh I know, it's just that over the years I've realized I don't really like masturbation-RPG stuff, where people sit and think about playing RPGs rather than actually playing them.

Ugh PO, this is why you don't play enough games, you have ideas and not do anything with them.

Not sure if you guys would be interested, but there is a reddit post about the economics of bread, cows, and chickens, and hard into the paint.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/6p8vea/5e_the_price_of_bread_a_series_about_economics_in/

ParanoidObsessive posted...

If you did, you'd have to run them as a freeform forum game where we post in turns, because I don't see it happening any other way.

If the stars align and we're in the same city or whatever, I'm sure I can figure something out. That is, if you ever decide to leave your house, which I'm not sure that happens :P

ParanoidObsessive posted...

That being said, I was actually thinking about potentially offering to maybe run a freeform forum game just yesterday (I had a ton of free time to think about inane stuff while changing a flat tire), but I know you sort of sounded disgusted the last time the idea even came up in passing. And I have no idea what I'd even run anyway. Or if I'd even realistically have enough time to run it at this point (ie, the same reason I stopped running Mafia games forever ago).

Eh, I'll give it a try, but it will need to be a setting that I know or I'm interested in (or a setting we all build together, which I'm always up for). My time for typing has gotten more and more limited recently though, so I will have nothing to say over the weekend, and then I will give my short-but-sweet posts like normal.
Also no matter the setting, I do want some creative control over the world, maybe a city or two so I can make weird stuff happen there.

Eh, modules are great for oneshots, I should run a few for you PO, you can see that they are pretty damn good for what they do.
You might just be used to DnD and WoD ones which are notoriously awful.

Some Delta Green stuff is always great.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Which version of the system? There were some relatively significant changes between editions.

And are you just making one for the hell of it, or were you think of running/playing a game of it?

Mongoose, the 2d6 version.

We were planning on making a oneshot, but then character generation took the entire time, and we put it off.

Oh yeah, I built a character in Traveller yesterday. It was pretty damn fun, I could see myself just doing that while I'm break at work or something.

Muffinz0rz posted...

Is it really that complex? I was under the impression it was just, "I want to hack this" and the DM says "here are your odds" and then you say yes or no and if you say yes then a number is rolled and the number determines success or failure.

So the game I'm running, Eclipse Phase, brute force hacking takes 10 minutes, which can be reduced by a positive trait by 40%, and for every action you can get somewhere around 4 mental actions (depending on equipment), which is 6 seconds each. So that is around 3 actions in order to make a hacking check.
Once you make the hacking check, you can determine your status in the system, which gives you modifiers as well as different options inside of the system.
I can get more detailed if you would like.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

To continually reemphasize my usual accusation that a lot of your perceptions are colored by playing in s***ty groups, I've never actually had a 20 minute argument or complaint about how the rules work in any game I've ever played.

If anything, I think I've played with precisely one rules lawyer-y type player out of every group I've ever been in.

Eh, it was an exaggeration, like at most there's like 5 minutes of someone explaining to me how grappling or hacking works or whatever, and me not figuring it out.

Muffinz0rz posted...

Since you seem to know a lot about DnD, can you answer this:

Are the Community episodes (S02 E14 and S05 E10) where they play DnD accurate depictions of what a typical game is like? Ignoring the fact that they're condensed into 22 minutes, of course.

No because there's not 20 minutes of bitching about rules.
In theory, yes that's how it can work, but it's entirely dependent on the group of people who run it

Lightning Bolt posted...

Mario_VS_DK posted...

In one game I play, those fights aren't too frequent, but they normally last around 2 to 3 hours... :/

What on earth? What takes you so long? o.O

That's normal for more intense games of 4e