Hajjhowe

- Noir is tricky, but I'd say you just need to really think out the mystery. Much heavy RP and Charisma based gameplay seems a must. Getting players to make sure they bump Investigation/perception/insight, NPC's who are good at lying. Mechanically it's pretty straight forward to just change arrows for bullets for any sort of combat as well. - Having each party member as leader of a different gang which they can sort of 'draft' their NPC minions is fun, but if you are going to do the more sane thing and have them together I'd say the key is theming opposing gangs well. You could maybe have control of 'territories' based on wiping out/chasing away opposing gangs, maybe get passive gold or items. Of course an overarching villain against all gangs (A police force/government) that unites them can also be a fun finish to that game. - Bounty boards and or just have the party as a part of a guild. Have them get contracts and basically run each game as one shots hunting down different targets to either capture/kill. Give the party a cache of different equipment at their based maybe for whatever the job entails. - Smuggling seems really NPCish to me, but as a player it'd have to requires planning out the cons, deception/stealth checks, some sort of customs officers with good perceptions if not magic to challenge the party as they try to smuggles in weapons/animals/drugs. - Build out a dungeon with whatever the party is after, give them a very basic idea of it, have them run their own session without you there to plan. After that, run the game. I'd absolutely be down to at least try whatever this is. Mixing wrestling and RPG's seems right down my alley.

I honestly don't think I ever really cared. There were games where I wanted to do everything just to see it but I never got any real excitement or endorphins or whatever from getting little notifications or trophies. That said I can 100% see why people would like that sort of thing and have had more then a few friends who enjoy it for a variety of reasons.

Did she model the hat over her party members dead bodies?

Throwing in a Shield or maybe giving him some Meta Magic or something could make him pretty tricky. Quickening spells would buff his defense while letting him cause some damage as well. Also I'm always a big fan of minions.

Yeah I think a PC death can be used to create storylines for sure. If they want to come back there are a ton of fun stories you can run, let that person try out another character and maybe they'll like them so much that they will choose to not even rez the original by the end. I've never been in a campaign long enough to actually die as a PC but I've killed a couple as a DM. I find it's almost always newer players to eat it or if it's a one shot where players will be far more reckless. I think PC death helps add stakes though and there's just so much you can do off that, especially if the PC had a connection to a diety or a Warlock pact or anything like that.

The making Demon Lords fight to decide a last boss type is probably my favorite part of OOTA. I've wanted to actually start a campaign like that with the players each getting one, playing them as they see fit and then going from there. Doesn't need to just be done with Demon Lords of course but yeah. How did your beholder fight end up going @Ruki Returns

I've played a handful of DND games via text on discord actually. They were interesting. In some ways a lot easier to manage with copy and pasting stuff although there seems to be more to whatever this is. Either way I'm interested.

Yeah I am also working at that time. Good luck though!

I've been running a sort of modified Super Hero RPG game based loosly on the mechanics of Monster of the Week that's been fun. The basics are as follows. Then I add little tweaks based on what sort of special powers ect. that characters or NPC's have. It's been pretty breezy to run and gets through combat at a nice pace (Which is good). I still might refine some thing, maybe give different levels to pass/fail depending on what the action is but that's the bare bones of it and I generally give people an action and movement unless they have some sort of special ability that makes sense for them to have more actions. Also if anyone is running games and needs players I have like no social life and am always down to play.

Going live with some Witcher 3!

I played a session last night with @Toe & @thepunkrockicon and I think I may have literally rolled like 7 1's. It was quite impressive. I'm not exactly the luckiest roller to begin with by my god was I on streak once like every combat started. I don't think I hit a single attack while raging lol. Still a good time was had by all! I'm glad my Gnoll Barbarian turned out as well as I imagined it in my head beforehand. Still happy to take on anyone else interested as well

Yeah I recall playing as level 1's when our DM ran Princes of the Apocalypse and we almost certainly should have been TPK'd multiple times. WOTC or whoever really have weird scaling when you look at the CR they give things than what they actually put in their adventures Like I've read over quite a few and just think this would kill most parties with even just one or two bad rolls. I usually over correct too much the other way but yeah. In completely selfish news the DND session went quite well and I'd still be happy for anyone else to join in for whenever we run another game!

https://discord.gg/pyQKb4 My bad. I'm not what you'd call 'traditionally smart'. But yes, link above!

I'll make a 'Last Call' since I've tentatively scheduled the game for next week on Wednesday. Even if you can't make that game feel free to jump into the discord and maybe if it goes well we will play games in the future. https://discord.gg/pyQKb4

Slime climb is a sick creature unfit for this world. I best it once ever and than another time got right to the end and in my excitement got booped off by a wrecking Ball. I've won over when another guy and me both got smacked off in the spinning game and he happened to hit first. A true testament to skill that one.

Don't let Toe down people. The man just wants to escape being the forever DM.

If anybody is interested I would be happy to DM and/or play some DND online with people looking for people to play with. I'm not particularly adept with Roll20 or any software like that but I am fine with theater of the mind/sending maps over messenger or letting someone more competent run that part of a game. With Discord or other messenger programs it shouldn't be too complicated outside of scheduling which is the bane of all TTRPG anyways Anyways if anybody is interested they can message me on the board and we can try to figure something out.

It's a thing! I've found myself with a bit more money and a lot more time alone to play video games and with the ability of Twitch to basically record stuff for me, I've decided to make some little videos for fun. Don't expect much in the way of production values but I'd appreciate the feedback/support/encouragement that maybe someone else wants to watch. I'll just say in advance I apologize if this is advertising or something but I have no idea if these even make any money and highly doubt they will. Also don't have the strictest of Twitch schedules for live stuff but I'll probably look into maybe planning out a bit if people like it. Again though any mods or whatever let me know if it's not cool posting something like this here because I am pretty unaware of the rules on this stuff... This is my 'Cleanest' video so far as the older ones I for some reason decided to leave the group chat on screen and didn't cut them down into smaller parts so they are kind of marathon watches. I'll likely alternate between various games because I am easily bored but yeah. Also if anybody that isn't incompetent with photo editing like me wants to help me out it'd be much appreciated for like the little preview cards. As fun as looking at me use MS Paint is I know there's plenty of talented people in the community who can do better work. Twitch Channel - https://www.twitch.tv/hajjhowe YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsE80tmL8_97i6rqHDNBrgw

What level are these guys? That blood door seems brutal but I toss a lot of softballs as a DM. I do like the idea of digging up the graves for rewards though and I'll always have a soft spot for cult shenanigans. In other news I am planning to finally meet my regular group outside somewhere this week and I'm going to be running an Alien themed one shot for them which I hope will be fun. I've never really strayed too far from the sword & sorcery stuff except when I did another one shot around Halloween with a WW2 meets Call of Cthulhu type scenario. I've sort of made a hybrid D&D system for the games that I am trying to work out that makes it a little more interesting. Mainly they keep a lot of high(ish) skills like a higher level PC but I keep their health low because I find the sense of danger makes it a lot more exciting for them and is probably a bit more "realistic" for a world with guns. If anyone wants to take a look at my stuff I'm sure some of the vets in here can let me know if they think I'll have crazy unbalanced issues

Probably an obvious answer I am missing but is there a pre-game editor for FM somewhere that I'm just missing?

Wrestlemania 2000 (N64) Madden 99 (N64) NHL 1997 (Sega) Kirby's Adventure (NES) Super Mario Brothers (Atari) The 3 wrestling games were almost certainly the ones I played the most. My friend and I would create entire 'leagues' and run simulated matches with them. Madden pretty much got me interested in football and was the first game I owned of that genre. NHL was the same idea as Madden and a game I also played a ton of. Kirby was one of my favorite games and probably the first game I beat without using a game genie so it holds a special place to me (Even if in retrospect it was incredibly easy). Finally I don't remember the name but I definitely had some sort of Mario Brothers knock off game that was strictly the enemies spawning from pipes part for Atari and that is probably my earliest video game memory.

I love doing both. World building is one of my favorite things to do and I enjoy creating the various places, factions and history of a world as a DM. Also I'm easily bored so getting to essentially "play" as basically as many characters as I want is a lot of fun for me. That said it is nice to be a PC and get to really develop a character more than you really will as a DM. Also not having to really prep a whole lot of stuff as a PC doesn't hurt. I'd say I probably prefer to DM than to play, but at this point I'd be happy to get to do either I've been thinking of doing an online game with voice chat or whatever here on the board but have no idea where to post such an idea, who would be interested and with time zones and such I have no idea how it'd even be organized. Still even a one shot would be fun if anyone here is interested.

I'd think some type of Skype/Discord combo would be the best way about playing online in a group. If Roll 20 is free and not too complicated to use that'd also be a good option. But voice chat seems like the best way to build flow in gameplay. I'd also be interested in playing either as a player of DM, but I'm pretty much only familiar with 5e

Brett Favre went from losing in OT in the NFC title game to ending his starting streak, career and being pretty awful after arguably the most efficient season of his career the year before.