Worthless Bumsi don't think unisystem (at least classic) does any better at balancing builds with point buy than gurps does, tho
but at least i don't feel locked into one of two attributes for no fucking reason other than "everything is brains!"
1d10 is balls, but afmbe does say you can just do 2d6-2 and floor it at 1 which works pretty well
When your GF asks what happened at D&D 🤷♂️ #dnd #ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons #dungeonmaster
if i knew the laundry had occult shit in it i would prolly have started earlier
also they have an alphabetical skill list which i feel that SOME RPGS HAVE FORGOTTEN IS VERY FUCKING USEFUL
me: "why did i stop playing my first twilight 2000 campaign?"
me: *checks to see that operation reset still isn't out yet*
delta green: the conspiracy
the laundry: management turf wars
i do like the warrant card in the laundry, gives you a light touch to be like "IGNORE ME. IGNORE THE MESS I'VE MADE. GO ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS" without the men in black look in the flash deal xD
it does very much feel like delta green spirals you very quickly down the path of "and that's when i decided to torch the place"
in fairness, torching places is (my) personal go-to >.>
the laundry is also way more open to magic and enchantment and pcs doing occult things themselves, which is nice
dg is much more hamfisted in its: "oh that was a mistake"
part of it i think is the setting as well
if you play american delta green you are almost certainly armed with guns, and things can run out of control fast
in the laundry you're more or less in the uk/europe and even having a 50%> in firearms gets you an issued gun, but it's kept in the armory when you're off duty
how are you gonna spiral when you can't just shoot the guy causing you a paperwork nightmare? inconceivable
it's fun to mix in one (1) american tho
sometimes you need a release valve
i wonder if there are physical, electronic dice that can verbalize the roll results
i can't believe there aren't even good (read: satisfying, sfx, vibration, etc) dice roller apps on mobile
worlds without number is becoming like gurps where people just recommend it for any fucking thing
tbh all the without number games. cult ass following
"anthropomorphic fallout"
we call that mutant year zero
🎵vibranium fever has gone and got me down🎶
🎵vibranium fever it's spreadin' all around🎶
I feel like crossed isn't zombies tho
Also if they do this to one another... don't they just solve the problem
delta green slipcover for handler and agent books finally back in stock. yoink
Gfdi I picked the cheapest flat rate shipping but delta green is still coming by fedex
sometimes you spend all your time fighting a whole army
sometimes you spend all your time trying to bribe an official
revisiting the good alternate history: my delta green resident evil campaign
i had it in my head that my dnd 5e campaign was the first ttrpg i ever played
that's not actually true because time and memory are lies
it's actually my fallout 2d20 campaign that's almost 3 years old now? lol
i know, i know - i'm behind on dragonbane and forbidden lands
sue me xD
increasingly convinced a lot of refs literally gatekeep the hobby by running systems they don't want to like, badly, thus ruining the experience for new players so they can say "see! this game sucks!"
you: "if the zombo apombo happens right now i don't have enough ammo"
me: "if the zombo apombo happens right now i don't have enough pads of paper to play the rpgs i want"
obviously i need to lay in a stock of those good white erasers
lol also remembered that i got the fallout 2d20 starter set by accident
i had actually ordered fallout wasteland to play with my minis but modiphius sent it by accident so i was like "whatever i don't wanna send it back i'll just pay for it"
my intro to ttrpgs was an accident lol
Guys there was this weird knock on my door then a note was slipped under it inviting me to some opera what should I do
💌🎭💚
there is actually a loose single sheet marketing flyer for other dg materials for sale but it shoulda been an opera invitation xD
i wonder if someone has actually tried to reproduce these with the loose leaf 3-hole punched lined paper in all the matching colorsand font types and scribbles
realizing if i keep multiverse hopping in this weird delta green/dc/marvel campaign i'm gonna need to start tracking worlds, prolly with a numbering system...
home scene: cure cancer
9 days is honestly the fastest drivethrurpg has ever printed and shipped a print on demand product to me before o_O
note: this was a cyberpunk red supplement, not a rando indie product
not sure if that matters, but i've ordered other cpr pod before and it still took weeks like all the other pods
maybe dtr tightened some things up?
"One con I know has had issues due to covid flushing out con experience from the universities and that broke a link to important feeder events for the con. In terms of staff as much as participants. However that is being gradually rebuilt."
it's almost like covid is still around and 99% of people take no precautions
holy shit
https://np.reddit.com/r/traveller/comments/1rt3x1c/31_of_39_years_of_the_traveller_mailing_list/
"UPDATE: The 2006-2014 gap has been filled: the TML archive now covers 39 continuous years"
https://np.reddit.com/r/traveller/comments/1ru26n8/update_the_20062014_gap_has_been_filled_the_tml/
i just wanna point out that almost all the generic advice you see online, especially on places like /r/rpg, are in fact fucking terrible
1) produce terrible players/refs
2) complain about terrible players/refs
3) ???
4) profit
you're already an ouroboros of horseshit between reddit and youtube, in the chaos of people pretending they play rpgs
i never thought i would disdain a place more than /r/gamedev in terms of where it's obvious 99%+ of posters there do not fucking do the things they say they do, but /r/rpg SOMEHOW is worse
actively fucking worse
people complain all the time that /r/rpghorrorstories is the place people go to write fiction, but i think /r/rpg has them beat, hands down
it's literally like learning about women by browsing some manosphere hive
the ai fuckery has not helped, obviously, and i have not browsed /r/gamedev in years. maybe it's even worse now
there are so many people in /r/rpg who brag about playing this and that and then you browse their comment history AND IT'S CLEAR THEY LITERALLY DO NOT KNOW THE BASIC RULES OF THE GAMES THEY SAY THEY RUN
they are just getting some rules ai slop from google search and then copypastaing into the ether
my brother in christ you cannot even get ai to correctly summarize basic rules of dnd 5e and that's the most goddamn played rpg of all time
ai just expedites the "wrong answer on reddit" -> "repeat wrong answer on reddit" -> "reinforced wrong answer on reddit!" pipeline
you're in a thread full of people saying that any ref who ignores any rule is a red flag lmao
a lot of these are about rando online games so i dunno, i don't really do that
i suppose if mmo pickup groups are any indication that's a crapshoot, tho
of course the space racist survives
"He tries a superhero landing from 22 feet up. Fails. Rolls perform to pretend it didn't hurt. Fails that too."
sounds right
i know it's all math rocks but there is a universal law to ttrpgs that if you try to look cool you will fail and if you bumblefuck around you will look cooler than you could have ever imagined
i'd rather fight a wookie than a krogan tho
i'm more organized with my rpg notes than my real life appointment notes
priorities
Kale @worthlessbums woof, that's a lot