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Post by Daleks (@darkalex45) on Jan 28, 2018 10:48:36 GMT
I've always wanted to play some D&D, but I never got around to it. After watching Critical Role start their second campaign (https://youtu.be/byva0hOj8CU), I've gotten an urge to play it.
So, is anyone here interested in playing some D&D again or wants to try it out for the first time ever? I'm a newbie so any newcomers wouldn't be the only ones lul.
roll20 can be used because the real life alternative of meeting up would be very difficult of course.
Oh and I really recommend that video I linked, I loved it.
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Post by AbeCede on Jan 28, 2018 13:20:19 GMT
I was a long-time roll20 gamemaster for a german speaking pathfinder campaign. It was really great. But I won't do it in English, because I don't feel enough "at home" with the language to do a good session. Right now, I'm looking at "Splittermond", a fantasy rpg made by some authors of "Das schwarze Auge" ("The Dark Eye") and getting accustomed to the rules.
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Post by Daleks (@darkalex45) on Jan 28, 2018 14:10:22 GMT
I was a long-time roll20 gamemaster for a german speaking pathfinder campaign. It was really great. But I won't do it in English, because I don't feel enough "at home" with the language to do a good session. Right now, I'm looking at "Splittermond", a fantasy rpg made by some authors of "Das schwarze Auge" ("The Dark Eye") and getting accustomed to the rules. Yeah the language thing is really important and its unfortunate that its hindering you. I would feel the same. Splittermond looks interesting, first time seeing it. |
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Post by endersai on Feb 5, 2018 21:32:04 GMT
FFG Genesys is where it's at. d20 based games like D&D are the past.
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Post by AbeCede on Feb 5, 2018 23:02:02 GMT
I also dislike D20, that's why I'm looking at Splittermond. 2d10 - way better in terms of probabilities. Is there a free SRD for Genesys somewhere? Homepage presents it as some kind of story-driven GURPS system that wants to fit any genre.
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Post by endersai on Feb 7, 2018 5:31:14 GMT
I also dislike D20, that's why I'm looking at Splittermond. 2d10 - way better in terms of probabilities. Is there a free SRD for Genesys somewhere? Homepage presents it as some kind of story-driven GURPS system that wants to fit any genre. Have you played the Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars system? It's that. Basically the narrative dice eliminate a binary axis of resolution that d20 offers, and creates a fail forward momentum. The dice, which are custom dice, have symbols that include success, failure, advantage, threat, triumph, despair. You can succeed at a task with a despair; fail with advantage, and so on. Probably worth watching a live play game of it... |
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Post by Ait on Feb 23, 2018 0:11:41 GMT
Yo! I'm an active D&D player. Got a group on roll20. I'm participating in three campaigns (one large - more important - and two small - less important), and I think the group has four ongoing campaigns and two on hold. Almost all of us are Norwegians, but we have one canadian - who has a leave atm - and one danish guy that's not in one of my campaigns. For me, speaking in English - even though we're still only Norwegians in a session - is more of a opportunity than a set-back. Sure, we fuck up words; pretty often indeed. But, through the two years that I've participated, all of us has gotten so much better at the language. There's far more characters and character voices that we dare to do because in our own language it just feels awkward or weird to do. Who the hell speaks like a drunk Dragonborn in real life or a 90 year old manservant that's called Manfred who's alter ego is "Fredman, Scourge of the Night"? ( Fredman, Scourge of the Night theme song ) English is, for us, a perfect language to roleplay in and I bet German also is a good roleplaying language. Just don't let a language barrier stop you from trying!  Now, if anyone wants to DM, then I'm totally down for that campaign. I probably won't stay for that long, seeing that I already have enough ongoing campaigns, but if Daleks want to try it out I'll be his wingman. 2d10 you say, AbeCede : Does that mean you score a crit and fumble on both dice? I guess Splittermond has different mechanics, but it would be really cool to try out in D&D. You would have to make a whole new crit and fumble table which is for when you roll only one of the dice as a crit or a fumble. I reckon that both a crit and a fumble in the same roll would equal a regular roll, 2d10 = 11 + modifiers. It would be frustrating as a monk, for example, if you play it in real life though, but over roll20 it would be fine. |
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Post by Ait on Feb 23, 2018 0:32:23 GMT
We play Commoners in our newest campaign. Basically level -5. I'm a Human Male Carpenter. Another in the group is a shit farmer who shovel and turn shit all day. His name is Todrick de Ordure.
In our first session something stole some things from each of us. There were trails leading into the woods. Two of us were led to a cavern, the other two to a cabin. A voice started to speak in our heads "Solve these riddles and be free of this place". Obviously none of us were good at riddles. So, weird stuff started to happen: Suddenly we were shining knights fighting a dragon. After defeating it we went through three phases of waking up - but of course we actually didn't wake up. Then, on the fourth wake-up, we seemed to actually be awake in true physical form. So we went into our village again. There we found copies of ourselves, but with different professions, personalities and traits. All of the village was turned upside down; almost like it was our mirrored world; another dimension. Our very angry Human Farmer, Gotrek, who HATES taxes and tax collectors of course beat up his tax-collecting mirrored self. He also beat up my mirrored character as he had the same persona as Gotrek: Two goddamn piss angry farmers barking at each other.
We're in Limbo.
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Post by AbeCede on Feb 23, 2018 7:16:31 GMT
2d10 you say, AbeCede : Does that mean you score a crit and fumble on both dice? Crit and fumble are made a bit differently. When you roll against a target number (e.g. 15), you'll have better results the higher you roll, and fail more the lower your roll. For each 3 points difference to the target number you'll get a so-called success- or fail-step (3 steps maximum). 1-1, 1-2 and 2-1 are always catastrophic failures. There are other ways to roll as well, like a risky roll, where you use 4d10, and you take the highest 2 numbers as a result. BUT if there are any two dice in your result having 1-1 or 1-2, then it's an automatic catastrophic failure. Splittermond itself can be downloaded for free with all the rules in German. Maybe there are already translations. idk. |
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