Tabletop games: let's play them.
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Posted on: 2010-10-13 01:19 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Well my wife and I run a gaming group here in Thoreau, NM, which is between Gallup and Grants.
We are all currently playing: D&D 4.0, Rolemaster and Dresden Files.
Could be interesting.
Central PA here. We mainly rotate between Pathfinder/D&D 3.5 and Shadowrun. We just started Rogue Trader, and we're looking into DC Mutants & Masterminds.
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.
I've had pretty good luck using local MeetUp groups to find people to play with. Maybe fork over the $10 or w/e and start a MeetUp group for CoX boardgamers.
Most of my games are online these days, and the one I'm running is full up on players at the moment. I wouldn't mind joining a new online game of Exalted, Eclipse Phase, or Shadowrun 4e though.
Having Vengeance and Fallout slotted for recharge means never having to say you're sorry.
Well, I'm broke, but it would be interesting to have one great big Meetup group for all CoX players to use to coordinate gaming. I know I'd join.
By the way, here's the Big List of my RPGs:
Blood & Honor (a realistic RPG of Tragic Samurai by John Wick, nothing like L5R)
7th Sea (the 17th century RPG, seafaring is strictly optional, also by John Wick)
Tri-Stat dX (a universal roleplaying system that allows infinite crossover opportunities)
Four Colors (if you liked the old Marvel Heroes RPG, this is pretty much a retro-clone of it)
Genius: The Transgression (fanmade WoD splat, be a mad scientist!)
Normality (AKA House of Leaves the RPG)
Stickguy RPG (for first-grade artists with first-class imaginations)
Heroes Unlimited (because who doesn't like Palladium?
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Mutant City Blues (Law & Order with low-level superpowers)
Paranoia (formerly Paranoia XP, MS demanded the XP be removed)
Ars Magica (a historical game of magi and the people that work with them in Mythic Europe)
Don't Rest Your Head (The Phantom Tollbooth redone by Tim Burton and Frank Miller)
Pokethulhu (based on the hit children's show about young cultists and the unearthly monsters they train)
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I already have 2 Pathfinder games a week. I don't know that I could fit in another. I do run one, so if you are in the Denver area, you might be able to fit in.
Too many alts to list.
See, the way I figure it, there's no mathematical way for this to fail.
There are over five-thousand people on the boards right now. Assuming even a few of them live in the same general area, that's a gaming group right there, no muss, no fuss. I only need .1% of the people currently online, out of the entire CoX community, to live somewhere in the East Valley (or even the West Valley if they don't mind a bit of a drive). Just five people, and that's a healthy gaming group.
If we made a Meetup group, we could even bill ourselves as a group meant for people of all regions to get together and game, and then we'll have even more people to draw from for gaming.
There's no way this plan won't work if we give it our best shot!
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Google has this program that basically tracks such information online. If you want, I can compile peoples' answers into a master list. We can even have it stickied.
Thoughts?
Well, it would be great for this thread to be stickied!
We could use it as a way to hook up for tabletop gaming. It'd be like a thread for trading identification codes for some sort of hypothetical electronic device, but way better, because it's LIVE interaction!
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I would love to find a regular gaming group but the last two I located in my area, turned out I was almost twice their average age.
Was kinda awkward.
-k
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Oh, well, that's another thing. Since we all know each other kinda, age won't be a factor!
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Originally Posted by NinjaPirate
I would love to find a regular gaming group but the last two I located in my area, turned out I was almost twice their average age.
Was kinda awkward. -k |
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I kinda have the opposite right now. I'm 25 and playing D&D in a group where the average age is a good deal higher than that and tops out in the fifties.
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Originally Posted by NinjaPirate
I would love to find a regular gaming group but the last two I located in my area, turned out I was almost twice their average age.
Was kinda awkward. -k |
Having Vengeance and Fallout slotted for recharge means never having to say you're sorry.
I've been drifting farther away from videogames lately and more back to the table. Currently I play a lot of Heroscape, Magic, Monsterpocalypse, and WoW minis and stuff like Caylus, Puerto Rico, Carcassone, etc with bigger groups. I'd kind of like to find a game like Descent that's purely co-op and generally a shorter runtime.
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is friggin' addictive. And Risk-level divisive. A guy I've known for about fifteen years and lived with for three years got really close to punching me when I stole control of a road he'd been working on for the entire game.
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Originally Posted by LunarKnight
Carcassone
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I used to play a lot of CCGs. Hell, even after getting rid of 12,000 or so Versus cards, I still have a ton of Doomtown, Raw Deal, the DBZ card game, and a few others that I'm sending off to Noble Knight as soon as I can get them sorted.|
Originally Posted by LunarKnight
I've been drifting farther away from videogames lately and more back to the table. Currently I play a lot of Heroscape, Magic, Monsterpocalypse, and WoW minis and stuff like Caylus, Puerto Rico, Carcassone, etc with bigger groups. I'd kind of like to find a game like Descent that's purely co-op and generally a shorter runtime.
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I'm still on the fence about mini's though. Lost interest in Heroclix though I still have a lot. Sitting on a sizable 40K army I acquired in the last year, but only half of it is together. Started Monsterpocalypse, but I didn't want to spend a lot on it. But of course, even after my friend and I sunk about $100 into boosters and starters, we never got a single Cthul monster, which was the main !@##$$%&%^$@#@% faction I wanted to play.
So! Back to the tabletop RPGs for me.
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.
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Heroclix has always been a bad game propped up by a great license. I can't do unpainted minis, because by the time they're ready for play, most people have lost the excitement of learning the game.|
Originally Posted by Agonus
I'm still on the fence about mini's though. Lost interest in Heroclix though I still have a lot. Sitting on a sizable 40K army I acquired in the last year, but only half of it is together. Started Monsterpocalypse, but I didn't want to spend a lot on it. But of course, even after my friend and I sunk about $100 into boosters and starters, we never got a single Cthul monster, which was the main !@##$$%&%^$@#@% faction I wanted to play.
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Heroscape is an absolutely fantastic game for getting into minis. It has EVERYTHING you could want (storyline is fluff/excuse for the concept): Ninjas, Robots, Zombies, Revolutionary Soldiers, Spartans, Elves, Orcs, Vampires, etc, etc etc. It's also wonderfully not blind purchase and they regularly reprint old packs, so you just have to find what you want and buy it. Terrain is made of these amazing interlocking/stacking 3D hex tiles, making setting up the map something like legos. Unfortunately, it was recently moved to WotC, who have rebranded it with reused DnD minis of far lesser quality, so the new stuff isn't quite up to the standards of the old; there's so much old stuff though that by the time you NEED the DnD stuff you've probably already got more than you need.
If you want to give Monsterpocalypse another try, they just recently released (or will in the next month) a new 2 player starter that comes with 2 monsters and 15 units per monster of that monster's faction. It's a nice "army in a box" system that probably works out a lot better for most people. I will say its a TERRIBLE game to buy 1 booster at a time. You're much, much better off buying singles online if you want a specific monster, or buying a sealed case if you want the whole batch. The random monster boosters just aren't worth it at all.
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Moderately similar situation for me. I play with a group of boardgamers (general boardgames not RPGs) who are all quite a bit older than me.
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Originally Posted by Kelenar
I kinda have the opposite right now. I'm 25 and playing D&D in a group where the average age is a good deal higher than that and tops out in the fifties.
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I live in San Diego and have no regular games any more, because my car insurance is gone and I can't legally drive.
However, I *AM* writing and almost finished with the bulk of my "World of Zekira" rpg which is badly in need of actual playtesting. I've been writing the darn thing for over 20 years now, the game system itself is done, the basics of character creation and combat, etc those are all done. Details on the world and animals, not fully done. ... If anyone's interested I can slap my current files into a pdf zip and let you look em over. It's not meant for "immature" players, nor "inexperienced" ones, because of some of the subject matter.
Also, it was created when I was around 15. I am a girl. I loved horses. No it's not Barbie lol but it's more geared toward female players (that's my guess anyway). System and world are flexible enough that you could have a variety of genres for play style: horror, political intrigue, exploration, comedy, superhero, furry, pretty much anything's up except 'cyborg' stuff because the characters would lose any powers they've got with implanted stuff. 
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I doubt I'd be much use as a serious playtester on any game that's less than 75% done, but I could always run it through my patented "Is it in any way similar to FATAL" test. I check to see if it is in any way similar to FATAL, and then if any of it is, I will alert you of it immediately so that you can rectify the problem. Some general tips to pass the test the first time:|
Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
I live in San Diego and have no regular games any more, because my car insurance is gone and I can't legally drive.
However, I *AM* writing and almost finished with the bulk of my "World of Zekira" rpg which is badly in need of actual playtesting. I've been writing the darn thing for over 20 years now, the game system itself is done, the basics of character creation and combat, etc those are all done. Details on the world and animals, not fully done. ... If anyone's interested I can slap my current files into a pdf zip and let you look em over. It's not meant for "immature" players, nor "inexperienced" ones, because of some of the subject matter. Also, it was created when I was around 15. I am a girl. I loved horses. No it's not Barbie lol but it's more geared toward female players (that's my guess anyway). System and world are flexible enough that you could have a variety of genres for play style: horror, political intrigue, exploration, comedy, superhero, furry, pretty much anything's up except 'cyborg' stuff because the characters would lose any powers they've got with implanted stuff. |
-Do not calculate ANY stats for ANY bodily orifice.
-No racist magical items.
-Nothing even REMOTELY similar to the Jar of J****** *** (it's that bad).
-Rolling d10000000 ever: BAD IDEA
-Keep the number of stats manageable (like ten or less).
-Make chargen rolls not stupid (5d100/5-1 is no good, especially not for 24 different stats).
-Wacky magical failure effects should be stolen from the Wild Magic tables, not the Book of Erotic Fantasy crossed with Black Tokyo (do not look Black Tokyo up, trust me on that one) and an Excel spreadsheet.
-Leave the critical hit tables to Rolemaster, or at least cheat off them.
Since you're female, I assume you'll avoid most of the horrors Byron Hall inflicted on womankind with his PDF of infinite badness.
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lol
Well there are 12 stats, but they're organized sensibly. (Physical and Social.) Chargen rolls ARE kind of stupid, I will admit, but I did a LOT of work to get them to be where I want em. The fact that there are 6 'breeding levels' gives your character the potential to either be 'normal' or 'insanely amazing', so...
... Orifice. lol. There's no magic, but it might as well be, they've got psionics. So the side effects are ... well, less thrilling than anything you'd find by rolling on the "Grimiore of Questionable Spells"...
I actually suggest creating the character's 'to hit' matrix by yourself because I was too lazy to make one Plus knowing the math is either right there in front of you with a calculator (halves, -30s etc) or pretty easily eyeballed, I didn't bother with it. Too many charts. I've got plenty of charts, plenty of my own darn artwork (I am so sick of my own artwork...) and MORE than plenty of my own characters created over the last 20+ years... ugh. So. Many.
Heck here's the bulk of it (mostly social info, but some raw character generation info)
http://www.droppin-the-fork.com/zeki...zekira/woz.htm
Plus a character generator that actually uses all my hard-earned math to create randoms...
http://www.droppin-the-fork.com/zeki...oz-random2.htm
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Here's my basic rule of thumb for chargen:|
Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
lol
Well there are 12 stats, but they're organized sensibly. (Physical and Social.) Chargen rolls ARE kind of stupid, I will admit, but I did a LOT of work to get them to be where I want em. The fact that there are 6 'breeding levels' gives your character the potential to either be 'normal' or 'insanely amazing', so... ... Orifice. lol. There's no magic, but it might as well be, they've got psionics. So the side effects are ... well, less thrilling than anything you'd find by rolling on the "Grimiore of Questionable Spells"... I actually suggest creating the character's 'to hit' matrix by yourself because I was too lazy to make one Plus knowing the math is either right there in front of you with a calculator (halves, -30s etc) or pretty easily eyeballed, I didn't bother with it. Too many charts. I've got plenty of charts, plenty of my own darn artwork (I am so sick of my own artwork...) and MORE than plenty of my own characters created over the last 20+ years... ugh. So. Many. Heck here's the bulk of it (mostly social info, but some raw character generation info) http://www.droppin-the-fork.com/zeki...zekira/woz.htm Plus a character generator that actually uses all my hard-earned math to create randoms... http://www.droppin-the-fork.com/zeki...oz-random2.htm |
If it takes over an hour without using a web utility, you're either playing Palladium or you're playing a bad game (and the line between the two is fairly blurry). Or you're pulling from a lot of sourcebooks at once, like, so many that you'd pretty much HAVE to be playing D&D for there to be that many books to begin with.
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How is the Dresden Files game?
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Originally Posted by UltraTroll
Well my wife and I run a gaming group here in Thoreau, NM, which is between Gallup and Grants.
We are all currently playing: D&D 4.0, Rolemaster and Dresden Files. |
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But it's one of my favorite comedy books! ... wait, what do you mean, it's not supposed to be funny. People are intended to actually play it? O-oh... oh my god...|
Originally Posted by Manofmanychars
do not look Black Tokyo up, trust me on that one
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Originally Posted by Manofmanychars
If it takes over an hour without using a web utility, you're either playing Palladium or you're playing a bad game (and the line between the two is fairly blurry). Or you're pulling from a lot of sourcebooks at once, like, so many that you'd pretty much HAVE to be playing D&D for there to be that many books to begin with.
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I never considered backstory to be part of actual chargen, that's more like preliminary development.
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Originally Posted by Kelenar
But it's one of my favorite comedy books! ... wait, what do you mean, it's not supposed to be funny. People are intended to actually play it? O-oh... oh my god...
Hell, most systems I play have chargens that can over an hour, easily. Exalted just because there are several dozen books containing options for some characters, let alone another fifty or so just of fluff stuff that might apply. Exalted and Changeling just because you have to put a good bit of thought into the character's backstory. Shadowrun... well, in Shadowrun, I just end up spending two hours picking out all the neat implants I want my character to have, then another hour picking the ones I can live without since I don't have enough points. |
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Hey, everyone! Are any of you guys sick of having trouble finding players with which to share tabletop games? Me, too.
So, here's an elegant solution: We all love tabletop games, give or take, so let's play them with each other! Seriously, there's a ton of us here, it shouldn't be hard to find sufficient numbers in various regions for us to go to our local game store and play games regularly. It should be fairly easy to organize and execute, and the only info we need share is what city we live in (which many of us do already). Heck, us CoXers are close-knit enough already that we probably should have thought of this years ago.
I'm in Mesa, AZ, and I like to play at Gamers' Inn, at Stapley and Southern. I've got a ton of different RPGs and other tabletop games we can play, and I enjoy learning new games, too. Saturday is what I'd like since we could play pretty much all day and even into the night since there's no worries about work or school.
How about you guys? Just let us know your city of residence and how you like to play, and before you know it, you'll be up to your armpits in players! Never again will you buy a new RPG book only to realize with despair that you have nobody to play it with!
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