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Post by ericfromnj on Jun 19, 2018 8:28:20 GMT -8
I am just worried at this point. Is everything ok??
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Post by ericfromnj on Jun 5, 2018 15:02:57 GMT -8
I GM mostly so this is tough.
I would have to say Bladehelm who was an asgardian in the old FASERIP Marvel Superhero System.
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Post by ericfromnj on May 29, 2018 17:57:48 GMT -8
West Marshes inspired me to do one in basic dnd.
I have to agree with the whole flesh stuff out as they get close. I also used the five room dungeon design as much as possible.
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Post by ericfromnj on May 29, 2018 6:59:51 GMT -8
Infinite Blade Academy.
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Post by ericfromnj on May 21, 2018 6:12:43 GMT -8
Imagine my surprise when my old friend Ali FaceTimes me on messenger and then there is Stork making fun of me!
In all seriousness is was a pleasure to briefly meet the Boggards even if it was remotely.
And Phillipsburg totally counts as part of NJ. We put the Garden in the Garden State.
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Post by ericfromnj on May 17, 2018 7:01:56 GMT -8
Can anyone recommend a good AP for this?
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HJRP 21-18
May 10, 2018 18:08:28 GMT -8
via mobile
Post by ericfromnj on May 10, 2018 18:08:28 GMT -8
What was the name of the Viking rpg?
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HJRP 21-18
May 10, 2018 16:03:10 GMT -8
via mobile
Post by ericfromnj on May 10, 2018 16:03:10 GMT -8
Oddly enough taint for me was never the gooch
Taint was shorthand for vd.
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Post by ericfromnj on May 10, 2018 3:26:05 GMT -8
OK so this is a post that will maybe make people angry. Ben from Texas put the game back on track by asking a “meta-gaming” question is a hero. You are a hero sir and a genius, for three reasons: there is meta and there is meta, there is the game then there is the game, and there is the sandbox and then there is the sandbox. There is meta and there is meta. Ben got a lot of stick for meta-gaming. First, please let’s not get bent out of shape about meta-gaming. Depending on your definition nearly 20% of what goes on in a regular Happy Jacks AP could be called meta-gaming. Not to get bogged down in definitions but what Ben did was push the game forward with a direct question. Thespians like to navel gaze until spontaneously something happens because their characters stopped pointlessly arguing. But if you have players who like to get things done, players who like to kick the can down the road, nothing can be more boring than one player holding everyone back because they are “doing what their character would do,” which is fine unless their character is a douche (I think I have a rant somewhere else about thespians, see that for the full press). It sounds, because in the letter said these players got into chases there was lots of action, that the players had a great time. The players ran through the plot as opposed to argue. if that is the case, then Ben read his players right and asked the correct question. The player could answer one way or another. He answered correctly then boom! Action! My hat is off to the player as well. There is the game then there is the game. Hey, we are going to do this game and four players are in and one player is out. GMs have options, Ben took the direct route. If the game is the heist, and one player is a hold out, the game is still about the heist for the other four players. A GM can try to manipulate the situation, like Stu suggested by upping the ante: the situation (the heist) can affect the character’s loved ones or property. If doing what Ben did is railroad, then so is what Stu said, only in the guise of in-game manipulation. At its root it is the same thing really. Which way would you want to go, “What is the most interesting choice?” or “The bad guy kidnapped your sister. Now do you want to go?” I prefer Ben’s solution. My assumption is that if the player decided to not to go the heist route, there would be no specific in-game consequences. There would just be other things that happen. But if you go Stu’s route of upping the ante, there are. There is the sandbox and there is the sandbox. I love open sand boxes I like playing in them and GMing them. Making characters with interesting goals and self-motivation is totally fun and a lot of what I hear on Happy Jack’s APs. There is also a sandbox game where there is a task, a central task that the game is built around. In these games there is a beginning point and maybe a vague endpoint or multiple endpoints and how the players get from the beginning point to some kind of end point is the journey/game. I have run many of these types of games and it sounds like ben set up his players to know the exact type of game they were going to do. I think Kimi assumes that in a sandbox whatever the players do is great. If the players know that the game is about a heist. I, as a GM, don’t assume that whatever the player does is great. If I st up a heist game and I have three players who want to do a heist and Player A wants to enter a hotdog eating contest. If Player A is a thespian, and if he sticks to his guns because his character is "really into hotdogs," then Player A is a dick. Ben’s player is not a dick and Ben is a hero for getting straight to the point. So Ben, you did great. If it happens again do not hesitate to do it again. You are right. It is not a cry for help or a pitiful wimp out. It is a shining example of being a great DM. Grrrr. I am so angry. Oh wait I am not twelve. Never mind. I don’t see Ben as a great GM. He handled a situation. Everyone ended up having fun. But really it was one way to handle the situation out of many. Yet he felt tainted by it. Ben, I wouldn’t feel tainted.
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Post by ericfromnj on May 5, 2018 10:47:53 GMT -8
Didn’t see the video yet because I am at work but Thanos was really interesting.
Watching the movie I almost felt he was the protagonist of the story.
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Post by ericfromnj on May 4, 2018 12:19:10 GMT -8
I love In a Backyard Far Away because that was me at the age of six.
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Post by ericfromnj on May 4, 2018 9:30:15 GMT -8
So the Buffalo Bisons Minor league baseball team are doing their Star Wars day promoting the new Solo movie. They have special Han Solo shirts of the Millennium Falcon fighting TIE fighters in front of the second Death Star.
Only it wasn’t Han flying the Falcon in that battle it was Lando. Why does this bother me so much???
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Post by ericfromnj on May 2, 2018 4:24:53 GMT -8
My question would be what system does languages well enough that if you set up different languages that were not just based on race that you could engage the players with it?
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Post by ericfromnj on Apr 27, 2018 13:12:43 GMT -8
An update. An evil cult has been trying to take over my mage order. When I sent a letter to try to warn the head of my order what is happening, I was declared rogue and kicked out of the order. Being declared rogue is punishable by death. They also never bothered to warn me that they were doing this and told the policing order of mages, the Order of the Stone, that I was highly dangerous.
Sigh.
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Post by ericfromnj on Apr 25, 2018 18:16:37 GMT -8
Hey all. I am running a LARP event in Hamburg, PA from July 13th to July 15th.
It would be fun to see some of the Philadelphia/New York Happy jacks crew there.
Just a thought. I know people here are of the table top variety but figured I would put it out there.
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