Talk about any games you play outside of ASWOT or outside of RPOL.

Note: No Adult rated games or ads may be posted anywhere on ASWoT.  Mature rated games may be posted, however, as long as the ad shows the Mature rating as part of the description.
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:52, Thu 30 Apr 2009.

Come join my DnD3.5 Game!
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The Guild of the Bronze Hand is a fairly new guild, focused on retrieving items from deep in dungeons and the like, players would start out at levels 2-4 depending on their backstory, and roleplaying ability; when creating a character sheet, create it at level 3, and adjustments will be made by the GM later on. The story is yet to be completely set in stone, and the players will most likely encounter many different game types, ranging from dungeon crawling, to arenas, to diplomatic events, to everything inbetween and then some. The GM is relatively docile, however, wits are a must. additionally, players should be able to post atleast once a day, but posting more is encouraged. The game world is set in a fantasy land, without a name, and is generally sourcebooks only; being able to reference SRD is a must, all types of players are welcomed, from brand new players to advanced, more experienced players.

as long as you read the rules, you will most likely get accepted

I just joined this game (first player!):

link to another game

If anyone is looking for something a little different, this may fit the bill.  The GM is new to me, but so far as the character creation process has gone, he has been great to work with.

EDIT: Sorry... that might have been a bit too enigmatic, with no description here at all. It is a freeform fantasy based in a setting something like 18th century London.  It includes elements like magic, demons and dragons, but these are used in moderation, and the focus is on character development/role play.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:26, Fri 22 May 2009.

http://armorgames.com/play/3869/the-budget-invasion

wickedly adicting game

I want to post my game! its called ASWOT. =P

fun time waste.

this link gives me credit if you play...
http://www.battle-penguin.net/creation.php?id=8925



this one doesn't
http://www.battle-pingouin.net

http://feonir.mybrute.com/cellule

Not exactly a game, but then again.... Something i've been working on with help. If people like fanfiction stories written by other fans, maybe some of you would like this story, some wont. But oh well.

Title: Dawnless Earth: The Last Sunrise
Rating: Mature (for strong blood/gore)
Characters: Two OCs, most of the Stargate Atlantis characters, a few Terminators of various models
Character pairings: Sheppard/Teyla (married), Sheppard/OC (onesided love).
Summary: The Atlantis team runs into trouble when a woman from the near future is found in the city, Her being there poses a threat to Ataltnsi itself when the team come face to face with a foe they never knew they would face. The Terminators.

reviews are welcomed at the story location. You need not be a registered member of fanfiction.net to leave a review at this story. This story is the prelude fic that happens before the main three books.

Has anyone here played Agricola yet?

What is Agricola?

Its a new table top village building game.

I have heard it's amazing but do not have enough gamers here to go out and buy it.

Go check out the review at Board Games with Scott.

I think I could get my wife to play it. You might try it on non gamers.

OH!  I'm a non-gamer.

*Enters the dungeon-esque gamming lounge below the lounge*

I've been playing a few of these.

http://www.towerdefence.net/ (Some games may be mature)

I'd recommend Bloons 3.

*The internet and the few FBI agents who can still breath burst in from the door Raz just came in.*

Man, they just won't give up.

*Raz ducks into a airshaft, the internet and FBI follow.*

A game of mine trhat I poked Shatman back at ;)

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Currently the times of internatinoal friendships have been strung tight, anything can break the slender threads that have been setup between America and the Wind Dynasty of China due to unforseen events surrounding the trip of China's Princess, who was to go to America to visit friends, and thus she disappeared when on a cruise in the Bahamas. Her friends, a group of men and women, hellbent on finding the lost Princess and her friend have pooled their resources together and made a small fleet of watercraft, to search the route the unfortuenate cruise had taken. None of those, the friends to the missing Princess, know of the ad printed in the paper, and have thus begun the twenty second week of searching.

Elseware across the globe in China, and America, the ad appeared in June, the Princess had been missing for exactly twenty two weeks. Nobody knows where she is or if she is even alive. Many people have followed the ad and joined the staff at the Ilse complex and labs of Doctor Joshua Banks, an alias of Dr Martin Melbeck, the most insane mastermind ever to walk the earth. Doctor Melbeck has discovered the gentics required to combine human and animal DNA together into new forms.

Needed:

Dr Melbeck               Gentic scientist given a life term for insanity
Tirilgal Melbeck        Daughter of Martin Melbeck (taken)
Prof Julio Shmoot     German marine biologist on loan from Heartfordshire England
Nameless                 Head of Ilse Security Force
Nameless                 Head of Veterinary medicine
Nameless                 Captain of the S&R Yacht Vanguard
Nameless                 Captain of the S&R Yacht Wormwood
Nameless                 Captain of the S&R Yacht Coralskipper
Nameless                 Captain of the S&R Yacht Lady Luna

Various lab rats assistants and crew men for the ships and the Ilse of Dr Melbeck

Game rating: Mature
Game System: Guided Freeform
Game link: link to "the Ilse of Doctor Melbeck"

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We are currently seeking captains and crewmen for the S&R fleet seeking the missing princess. We are also looking for players to play the badguys as well, (the bad guys being corrupt paid staff members iof the Ilse as well as Dr Melbeck himself.)

I think it might be time to re-download Hoverracer!

Check out my blog if you're done wasting time (and want to waste it in a different way).

http://jstainer.squarespace.com/

World of Warcraft, anyone? :D

http://media.worldofwarcraft.c...intro&rating=wow

No thanks, I'd rather stick with the tried and true PBP rpol thankyouverymuchly

World of Warcrafts really fun though.

Well, right now I'm having another go at Oblivion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXWYWfFqlSw

What exactly IS... Oblivion?

Oblivion (also known as Elder Scrolls 4) is a fantasy RPG where you can follow the main plotline or try the ton of sidequests offered.  Your character is highly customizable with several races, signs, and classes.  There is also a custom class feature.  I'm playing the game on PC but its also for Xbox 360.

I see.

Anyhow for me I perfer th good old fashioned Roller Coaster Tycoon games, (1 & 2 + both expandsion packs for each) They are good ways to pass the time when no net

I actually liked 3 better than 2.(I never played 1)  There was so much more you could do even though I thought the general difficulty for  maintaining a theme park went down.

RCT 3 is actually harder because it is all 3D and you xan walk around in the park and such. It gives a resaonable lack of theme park management and such mostly because many of the people going to thep ark and leave wait for the rest of their party to come out. That and duplicates of your made characters come in by the dozen. >.<

one and two are better because you run a park and not have to really care of people waiting for their party to get to gether to leave.

I actually though that added depth.  If you build a large pool though half the park goes over to it usually.

I liked the addition of fireworks, pools, and the ability to ride in a coaster yourself.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:17, Thu 30 July 2009.

I thought in 3 the fireworks were needed, the fact that the people you created as yourself or a family or friend kept coming to thep ark when they were already there and you'd have a dozen or so of your own clones wandering around made me start thinking that just maybe the main game for 3 would be fine, the two expansions not so much.

Where else can you get motion sickness and not be moving, one guy made the most sickening rollercoaster on 3 he got sick himself.

Though riding Goliath might be fun...

However the best tycoon game in my opinion is the original Zoo Tycoon with both expansions.

Never played it. My I'm waiting for Disney Tycoon. I've always wanted to play around and make my own Magic Kingdom or Epcot, or my own Monorail lines

That sounds fun.  Can you design rides or is it a drag and drop system?

I have no idea, never played it before, and want such a game to be made, there is a man on youtube that made the Magic kingdom in RCT 3 though. And that got me to thinking that Disney should join in the RCT franchise too

I thought Six Flags said they only wanted their rides in the game.

They did, and that was for RCT two, six flags is OK, but Ceder Point in Ohio is better, and Magic Kingdom is more fun too. Disney however is possibly going to make thier own version of RCT maybe something liek Disney Tycoon or something.

Just wondering if anyone here knows what IWTBTG is?

Never heard of it

I Want To Bite The Geode

It sounds like a geologist's training game, something to help learn the sciences. *shrug*

Reminds me of Indiana Jones....

Indiana Jones plays games about biting rocks? That's kinda weird...

No the fact that you mentioned taking things

Taking things? When the heck did I say that? I just talked about him biting geodes on a game.

Oh... maybe I need to wake up

http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/

I wanna be the guy is probably the hardest game ever but it is beatable.

I get it now, you want to be the CEO, but didn't you know that once your company goes red and dead the CEO becomes DOA

Try the demo its addicting.

I did, that is why I mentioned the CEo becoming DOA

Does anyone own Dawn of War 2?
I just got if for half price off steam and was wondering if anyone wanted to play?

Never played it before, the only online games I've polayed are Halo, RF Online, and Last Chaos, haven't p[layed LC is a long time though

Well, if your interested in combat intensive RTS games you would like it.

Med shows always have that catch. Scrubs goes into the mind of J.D. and others, M*A*S*H is during a war, and others are just dramatic. Well, what if your hospital was full of movie monsters? What if your Psychologist was Cthulu? What if your kid's doctor was Frankenstein? What if the chief of Medicine, was Dracula? And what if this was a sitcom you were watching about the worlds best hospital?

Time for you to make the story. This is a comdedy game where anything can happen, and you can expect just about anyone, or anything, to be treating you.

And what could be worse? The Hospital Director is Death. How could that be bad?


It's a mature-rated game, where I play Imhotep the First, the doctor, scholar, and architect that inspired the first The Mummy. We've got Cthulhu, Wolfman, Death, a human, and the janitor on staff. We haven't started yet, so now would be a good time to join.

link to another game

You could do something like that here informally if you put it under suggestions.

You could do just about anything here if you get it approved by Yoss.

Yeah, that's a given.  The problem is getting it approved.

Is anyone looking forward to Starcraft 2?

I think I'll probably get it if some of the folks I work with also do.  I'm not interested in playing it by myself.

I'm getting it as far as I know.

Zerg rush FTW!

I was watching a Berkeley course on Starcraft strategy last night for a few minutes.  Way too funny.  But it was an ACTUAL course.

Starcraft 2 1v1 battle reports are on the official website if anyone wants to see them.

Nah, I prefer waiting on Diablo 3 than starcraft..

Diablo 3 is gonna be so completely epic I'm going to buy a new computer just to play it.

Hell yeah. im just waiting for diablo 3 specs to pop out to buy a new desktop.

That's the way to go.

unless I get tempted to go get one now, for starcraft 2 specs was just released. O.O

Yo, anybody play BF2?

BF2?

Battlefield 2.

Oh, and there's gonna be a new TF2 (Team Fortress 2) update soon.

It seems that I have become addicted to DDO

D&D Online.

If you play, I tend to spend my time on the Thelanis(sp?) server.

WOOHOO! Soldier/Demoman update is LIVE!

WOOHOO! Soldier/Demo update is almost ready for public consumption!

Can't wait for FFXIII to come out... It looks amazing.

The Soldier/Demo update is out!

yay, Gunboats!

What soldier/demo update?

www.teamfortress.com GO THERE

miniclips.com

Fun stuff :)

I found this crazy addicting game if you're a fan of Magic: the Gathering. It's a close rip-off, but still really good.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/zanzarino/elements

Another really good time waster game:

http://www.kingdomofloathing.com

It's hilarious! :D

is there anywhere here that we can post a link to another game on this site?

EDIT: Also, for the riddle people: http://deathball.net/notpron/
This message was last edited by the player at 21:17, Tue 12 Jan 2010.

I think that would be here. If I'm mistake, go ahead and shoot me.

ok, cool. I'll put the link up sometime soon.

Sounds awesome. I hope soon is sooner than later. What's it about?

Unholy magic.

It's less satanic, more just not holy.

Like what about it? Just detailing it?

do you want the intro?

Why don't ya just put up the link?

link to another game

Looks interesting.

http://www.ddo.com/

I am mainly on the Thelanis Server.

send me a PM here if you join up.

Batman: Testament of Will:

The Batman, The Dark Knight, The Caped Crusader.  This man, this hero, has captured imaginations for generations not because of his great powers but because of his incredible will and refusal to give up.

Evil doers in Gotham think they've finally figured out a way to get to the face behind the Dark Knight. Will they succeed? Or can Batman and the rest of Gotham's vigilantes thwart their plans before the city is propelled into an uncontrollable state of mayhem?

If he survives this plot, what plot will Batman have to thwart next?

This game is our own story with influence from everything Batman.
This game is rated Mature

This game is an original Batman Game. It takes place midway through Batman's career leaving for plenty of room for Canon characters. Feel free to mix up canons as much as you like. Want to make Deathstroke a good guy? Want it so Barbara Gordon was never paralyzed? Go for it. Non-cannon characters are absolutely welcomed as well. See an NPC you'd like to play? Feel free to ask.

link to another game

http://warnet.inditel.ee/

miss me, you will find me here or on DDO. If you join either, rmail me and I will make contact with you in the other game.

Valve added an additional 15 seconds to the end of Portal (and a new achievement) -- I always thought GlaDOS was lying, just patter to fill the time, but she was telling the truth!

Portal 2 comes out near the end of the year.

I must play Portal again.

The cake is a lie.

I remember finding the cake.

The cake is not a lie?

The cake is hidden behind a wall near to the plumbing.

Don't listen, the cake is a lie. We should all eat pie.

No.... it is really there.

StarCraft 2 is really kind of fun, although I don't know if I'll buy it.  I don't want to buy three games just to get each race's story and no LAN support?  Yuck.  We don't need lag if we get an awesome group of 4-8 people all sitting around playing each other.

I play torn, not as much as I did a year ago, but I'm still active.

http://www.torncity.com/

So, Yoss closed his Games of Glory?  Sad.  But probably even more sad that I didn't notice until now.  I guess that's what being gone for 19 months does to someone.

What's Torn?

Let's see, on RPoL I'm playing in a Shadowrun game (magic and high tech cyberware, set in the near future), a Wild West Game (no magic, no tech, set in the recent past), a DnD game (magic and no tech at all, set in the far past quasi-medieval times), and a Star Wars game (quasi-magic, medium tech, far future).

Torn looks a bit like the (fill in the blank)Wars that plague StalkBook.

so Board Games...has anyone played:
Dominion, Munchkin, Shadows over Camelot, Ticket to Ride, or Aquaretto?

These are a few of the games I play with some coworkers every other week and I LOVE them!!!

I have Munchkinthulu.

I love Munchkin, never heard of the rest.  On another topic...

This is an advertisement for The Batman Game: link to another game It's located in the Arena, Strategy, Super Hero categories and it is requesting players.

I was visiting my grandparents and found this game from 1966.  Who wants to play The Batman Game?  I'm looking for 1-3 other people, because I'd like to play too.

Sounds good, I just RTJ'd.

Awesome.  By the way, a third person has joined.  If anyone else here wants to join and make it four...

What if you knew how the world would end? What if you knew how an entire race of people would be destroyed? And what if you had the chance to stop it?

The year is 1305 and the world has been turned upside down. Until half a century ago everyone was quite content to go about their normal lives, herding cattle, planting crops, carrying sword or spear into battle for their sovereign, or whatever the case may be... but now, all that has changed. Since the fall of the sinister Circle of Ardreas the nations of the world have come to realize their true history, a history of tragedy. And it has frightened them.

Now the nations of this medieval world have ceased their fighting and are striving to learn, to unlock the mysteries of their ancestors, and to bring about prosperity. And part of their work is the Bacon Science Firm, which has begun work on a secret project that, if successful, would open a window into history like none that has been seen before...

Meanwhile two thousand years in the past, another society seeks answers too. The Ardrean Imperium stands on the threshold of something big, and the people can't help but feel something ominous is coming...

<This game is rated as Mature, but Not Adult>

link to another game

Looks pretty cool but difficult for the cast to maintain a 12th Century character.

Dragon, do you have any more spots?

Two things:

Bumping for the new guy.

2. I am starting a game called 'Get Blind Jack'. It is a western. I have no idea what engine I will use (Probably Fate 2.0, which is free). It is a work in progress making the game. It will be humourous, intense, serious (this is the internet), and violent at times. Everyone in the game will have to get Jack for their own personal reason. That is as far as it goes.

link to another game

Not at the moment. The above game idea never took off, sadly, so I'm just wasting time here and in my warcraft RP, and of course WoW itself. :p

That is too bad. Most of my games go to 1000-2000 then the players stop.

What ever happened to playing chess?

I play chess against Deep Blue2 (it is a chess program that is the program used for Deep Blue properly coded). IBM sucks at making clean codes.

The other day I bought Overlord, Overlord: Raising Hell, and Overlord 2 all for $4.50 off Steam.

I really do like Lord of the Rings Online.

All online games cause me to get obsessive, so i tend to stay away from them as best I can. Too much of anything is bad.

Have a new 'droid phone.  Does anybody know of a good game?

I've recently been playing Starcraft 2 almost exclusively for my videogame fix but then I bought Civilization 5 and now I can't seem to get off my computer.

Not a game, but I put Princess Bride quotes on there, and whenever my wife asks me to do something, I push the button that says, "As you wish."  I did the same with Schwarzeneggar quotes like "I'll be back."

The navigation program is pretty good...better than our car system.

I've decided to finally buy Dragon Age Origins. Any suggestions on what to become?

Mage.  Be a mage.  No matter what Bioware game you play, be the "mage" character.

Oh and if you're thinking of playing DA II.  Do yourself a favor and don't.  Same with Fallout: New Vegas.

But I liked Dragon Age II. :(

Has anyone played or seen Terraria?  I bought it last week and it's amazing!

E3 2011 just occurred.  I thought Nintendo had the best presentation by far.  The Wii U (besides it's terrible name) appears excellent for moving Nintendo further.  It tops both the 360 and PS3 in terms of hardware capabilities all around.  Nintendo is getting a lot of third party support for the first time since Gamecube.  The controller seems to include the innovation of the Wii with a more traditional setup for less gimmicky games.

I just hope the online capacity which was not discussed much is greater than the Wiis.  One of the downsides to the Wii was that communication online was hard to accomplish and the first party servers were laggy once reached.  In any case the new system shows Nintendo is not going to be lazy with their hefty lead in the console wars.

Anybody else want Skyrim really badly.

 @ FourLegged --> Have a new 'droid phone.  Does anybody know of a good game?

I've got the other one (Apple's) and I can't speak higher about Dungeon Defender, pretty sure there's an iPhone version.
Also just got Pocket RPG, also quite fun.

Do folks know about http://godvillegame.com/ -- ,a so-called 'zero play' game?  It's kinda hilarious...
Has iPhone app too, I check it occasionally.

I bought Mass Effect 2 for PS3 -- haven't played a game like that for awhile.  Pretty dang impressive.
(I've also got Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Fallout 3, Mirror's Edge, and Uncharted 2 -- all pretty neat in their own ways.)

Coming this November I will no longer need a social life :3

They're saying it will have 300+ hours of gameplay content. :O

Can you clue me in to the game title due in Nov?

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by Bathsheba.

Oh.  Another game where jumping around builds your jumping skill?

I enjoy trampolines for jump skill developing jumping activities.

I think it's the closest RPG in years to capturing what the optimal RPG should be.

Pretty sure that *no videogame RPG* really meets the requirements defining an RPG in a face-to-face scenario.  Not sure why they are so off-the-mark?

Basically most computer RPG's are -- you have a person that is a bunch of stats, and you can gain abilities & stuff by killing tons of stuff.  Sometimes the mass killings are wrapped inside a 'quest'.

But the idea that you actually 'play a role' in one of those RPG's?  I'm still looking...

There are plenty of single player RPGs where you play a main character in a large and intricate plot.  For an example just look at about any Bioware game from the past decade.

I think the issue is that you lack the sense of free will in a computer game compared to tabletop which is one of the main weaknesses to videogames.

Maybe..?

I've been playing a Bioware game more than I've err played one, and it's fun -- but I hesitate to call it an RPG -- even though that's what it's classified as.

Why do you hesitate to call it an RPG?

no real roles to play, it's more like 'follow the pregen char 'groove' and choose items/skills from a limited set we offer'.
It's more like - level up, skill up, acquire weapons, and mass killing for more of the same.

What game are you playing?  Bioware games generally allow you to play the role of a predetermined archetype but are flexible in terms of personality and morals.  I mean, I've seen many D&D campaigns with less roleplaying than Bioware games.

Mass Effect 2, and it DOES allow what you describe.  You can be Paragon or Rebel, or a mix.  And I also have played in 'rpg's where we were just moving minis around on a table and going 'whack whack' with weapons.  Hated those!

BTW, any iPhone / iPad junkies, you probably already know about this -- but this is the uber-meta for app gaming:   http://appshopper.com/
I check that site so often, and I love it.
Also dloaded "Tiny Heroes" which is good fun, but *challenging*!
Gives me a headache!  Also trying out 'TacWarrior'.

I'm stunned by the (good) games I can get for free on Appstore/iPhone.

I'm happy to share my list of recommended iPhone games w/anyone.  Just PM?

Bioware's MMO is coming out soon.  Is anybody planning on getting it?

I signed up for Glitch(.com) based on a recommendation/comment on this board.  Very pretty MMO browser game, but not sure I'm the right audience.

re: Glitch -- meh.

Still hunting for fun browser-based gaming.

I did play Dragon Age Journeys, but hit the end.  Dragon Age Legends, a supposed 'social improvement' (on Facebook), I found to be much worse.

4th WoW expansion got announced yesterday.  The Mists of Pandaria.  Any thoughts?

I don't play., nor will I play at this point.

Why not?

I bought Skyrim for PS3.  Elder Scrolls V.

What can I say about this game?  How about -- man, I hadn't thought I would get a game where I would be concerned about how many hours I'd play a videogame.

But *SKYRIM IS AWESOME*.

Damn, this game is awesome.  Anyone agree?

I never buy games 'new' and in the middle of their hype, but I bought this game for $60 and the book for $25 (bundle was $10 off) and I don't regret it.

I'm stunned at how good this game is.

All we need is multiplayer of the same 'ultra huge' kinda game.

It is indeed awesome.  Huge improvements over Oblivion in the magic system and dungeon design.

re: Skyrim -- and no skill gains for jumping!

(Jioan -- are you playing?  Char details?
I've got a sneaky thief who casts spells.
My first char was a 100% mage, but I wanted to swing a sword.

Tempted to play someone like a RedGuard Berserker Dual Wielder,
but hard to go back & restart everything...)

My first character has probably one of the least optimal builds.  I couldn't decide what I wanted to do so I have skills in almost all of the skill trees.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:33, Mon 19 Dec 2011.

I have skills in most trees too, but smithing is dull, and I don't use 2-h.  Spells are key though -- is anyone *really* playing a fighter w/o a single spell?  That'd be dull...

So what's your char?  Any info/descr?

The melee based character I'm using right now only uses the most basic restoration spell.

Cool -- and any technique or weaponry?

I like the Heavy Armor trick that makes your hands-free do melee damage, but it takes forever to get.

No real 'monk' class in the game, but thats' ok ... I don't care.  HA

The funny part of Skyrim is that most folks are probably picking locks, sneaking, etc -- even paladins?  HA

Saw a bunch of gamer friends days before New Years Eve.
Everyone is hooked on Skyrim!  All of us were using different tactics & races, which was pretty cool.

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One of the guys made 30-40 iron daggers every session until he had 100 SMITHING in 3-4 days.  He said, "All I do is sneak up behind people and backstab them with my Daedric dagger which does 15x damage."
It's not a bad method, I guess, but it's hard to imagine myself making 3-400 iron daggers to level up the Smithing...?

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Anyone here done that?

I haven't ground it THAT much...

Plus sneaking + backstabbing is harder then it sounds.

So Dawn Guard is awesome!

I'm quite excited for Hex TCG.  Alpha testing starts next week.

Terraria 1.2 just came out, added lots of cool [stuff] and improved the (already great) sprites tremendously.

(GM edit for profanity)
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What's terraria?

Hey Birdie, here's the thread you wanted to find. (bump)

Yay! Here's the link to my warriors game. :)

link to another game

Glad to be of service.

In reply to PrettyBirdie (msg # 164):

Pretty spiffy looking.

Thank you. :D

Have you been playing it long?

I remember a great site for Rp-ing called ChooseYourStory.com that's actually primarily for Choose Your Own Adventure Games, but still. I think a dedicated RP section counts.

In reply to FourLegged (msg # 168):

Since... late August.

In reply to PrettyBirdie (msg # 170):

You are the GM there?

Yep.

Any interesting stories about your players?  Juicy gossip?

I have been invited to play in the HexTCG Alpha Testing.

Anyone ever play Portal (interactive novel)?

I heard it was quite fun, but no.

As you well know, I've just been playing portal, not the interactive novel of course, but it was quite fun to play them.  Now I have to play Half-life...

Anybody play Theogenesis on RPol back when was it LuLu? 2011?

I'll take that as a no ...  :s

Pro'lly not, What about Zork?

I haven't played much on rpol other than ASWOT since my big departure back before 2010.

of course I've played Zork, I've played every text game as you well know L'

I play 15 different games on RPOL

Madness.  And I am completely sure that you play them well.

I'm a bit sad the rpol auto-deletes older games.  Storage is soooo inexpensive.

I had 1001 Games of Glory that I started with Doulos to play games like Chess, Checkers, Monopoly, and so on.  But since I was gone a few years, it vanished.

1001???  That's just madness!!!

Max I have eight games, and that's including ASWOT

not to mention I hardly play three of them

10 games for me, including ASWoT, and I'm starting to get better at managing them, yay

APEX 2014 is happening right now if anyone is interested!

http://www.twitch.tv/teamsp00ky
http://www.twitch.tv/8wayrun

Kingdoms of Amalur is $5.99 on steam this weekend!  Considering I read a ton of R.A. Salvatore when younger I can't say no to a game he wrote at this price.

What is the setting for this game?  Do your players play themselves?  Or do they create characters?

create characters. you basically make up a character that for all intents and purposes is a hacker; they can have whatever life you want based off that. then they get the message mentioned in the intro, your character for whatever reason goes to the address (most likely curiosity) and the game starts from there

I will send off a RTJ this evening.

I must caution you, while I have been known to flake out on games in the past and I haven't been part of an active RPoL game, (aside from here,) in a few years, I shall do my best to stay present in your game.

Dante, you're having people make the "adult game" statement in their RTJ, but it looks like your game is technically mature and not adult.  Did you mean to check the adult box?

Speaking purely from a position of ignorance, what is the difference between the Mature and Adult?

EDIT: I just looked it up in main site.  Let me see if I have this right.

To compare it to the MMPA
Mature is like a strong PG-13 or R
Adult is like NC-17 or X
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As I understand it, yes.

Yeah it is mature technically I just put it in there because I wasn't sure of the rules. Guess I can take it out now though lol

I started a D&D 3rd edition game, Rappan Athuk.  It's the Dungeon of Graves!  Ooh, spooky. link to another game

Create a 3rd level character.  Use any WotC 3.5 book.  If I don't have a book, you may have to scan whatever you're using and send it to me (or cut/paste from your downloaded pdf).

When you die, you can make another character of the same average party level, and that character must either have a different feat somewhere, or have a different class somewhere.  Everything you own goes poof when you die (even if it was ghosttouch).

Make sure you use all errata for whatever you're doing, or I will kill you in game. :p  If I see any sort of Pun-Pun tricks like loops that could be continued forever if you wanted, or something that could obviously be horrendously abused, I'll just politely ask you to leave the game, so don't do that.  Pun-Pun is theoretical optimization and should never actually be played in a game.  You can't cast spells above your character level -- I don't care what feats or abilities you have.

You cannot have an evil alignment.

I expect people to post roughly every day.

In your RTJ, include the word "onomatopoeia" so I know you know how to read.  If you include an example of United States (American) onomatopoeia and tell me what it means then you can create a 4th level character instead of 3rd because I'll know that you know how to look things up (or that you have a nice vocabulary, either way).

Bart, I like your GM name.

Just got an Xbox, and it doesn't like me

I know this is belated, but I recently beat Dark Souls and it was amazing!

Anyone who loves strategy games or history should check out Crusader Kings 2.  It's an amazing game and the recent Horse Lord expansion late you play as nomads from the Steppe!

I am about to join a local RPG Meetup for the first time.  Does anyone have suggestions?  Newbie protocols?

Do you remember what it was?
I know that roleplaying is roleplaying, but when people are first meeting you, they often have trouble differentiating "you" from "your character".  So play a super easy-going incredibly-helpful character, or whatever persona you want to present.  Other than that, I've had a good time at every similar meetup that I've gone to.  People tend to like being bribed with food, so bring some snacks to share.  Your mileage may vary. :)

Ok, on a completely different tact... I just started in a DnD 5th edition game and we're starting at 5th level.  Among other things, my character has a pair of magical winged shoes.  Someone made a joke about them actually being wingtip shoes, so I did some quick Google searches today for some images and mashed them up.  This is now the canonical image of my character:


Oh, he wears the kilt because apparently humans have a problem with being too easily able to see how manly a person is and apparently your average loincloth doesn't conceal much when walking and doesn't conceal anything when running.  A Kilt allows about the same desirable breeze, and since it conceals slightly better than a loincloth it's more socially acceptable.

^^^See this is what your profile pic should be, I love me a sexy orc

In reply to FourLegged (msg # 201):

How was your meetup, FourLegged?

I don't look like that, though.  That half-orc only has a six-pack, not an eight-pack, and I don't need braces so badly. ;)  Of course my eyes don't glow and as a 36-year-old I dye my hair, but... my current profile image may be closer to me.

Shhhhhh in my head your a sexy Orc now...

If anyone is looking to connect with me on the XBox network, my handle there is Zaboem. I do not have a gold account, so keep that in mind when sending invites.

On an unrelated topic, I have began a week long exercise in interactive storytelling. On a Facebook page, I will posting a series of artwork pieces and within the captions, I will weave a story. When I write, "I will", I hope that I mean "we will" because I am encouraging the audience to participate and help guide the story by posting to the page.

On a Facebook page which I admin, I showcase various fictional characters, stories, and images which exist in the public domain. I call this page, Superheroes of the Public Domain. When the page was still new, I tried spinning a month-long original yarn about two villains in the public domain, Fantimos and Fu Manchu, in a conflict over who would control the underworld of a fictional city. That story bombed terribly with no interaction from the audience and no shares being made the entire time.

This is a couple of years later now, and the audience of the page is several times larger, so I am going to give this another shot. The story this time is named the Wonderland-Oz War. It takes place shortly after the events of the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz novel and the subsequent claiming of the Oz throne by Queen Ozma. A spy from Wonderland learns about the political chaos in Oz and how three of its most powerful residents are dead or missing (the wizard and the two evil witches). A full invasion from Wonderland across an imaginary border into Oz will result.

Instead of devoting an entire month to this story, I intend to stretch it out for only a week this time.

So, that half-orc I linked to?  I'm pretty sure he's about to die.  I think the DM set up a "you all have to run, because you're fugitives from the law, and you're facing overwhelming odds" situation, but he neglected to tell us that there was a window in the "back of the tavern secret meeting room".  (Why would we have a secret meeting in a room that someone could so easily eavesdrop at?)  So my character charged up into the thick of things when we were attacked, instead of going straight out the window.  Plus I just rolled two crit fails on attacks and under the DM's house rules the character lost his two main weapons.  All he has are some daggers now.  FML. ;)

On the good side, I see chaos magic is PHB standard now and I'm jonesing to play that as my next character... never mind.  I just went and looked that up and apparently you only get to roll on the wild magic table 1/20 of the time.  Bleah.

Have your Orc fart in the room, nothing clears out a room like an Orc fart. Can flatulence be a weapon?

That's a good idea. :)

In reply to Bart (msg # 208):

That is why I try to use visual references whenever I can. Even as a player, I try to slide in portraits, maps, and miscellaneous illustrations.

Well, the Wonderland-Oz War bombed as badly as the previous story arc from two years ago. Hundreds of views = two shares (both of which were done by me), zero likes, and zero comments. When people won't care enough to gripe, a story is truly failing. I have discontinued that.

In other news, the game of Doctor Who RPG that I prepped for my home group last has been postponed indefinitely. Our regular GM decided that he wasn't burnt out and wanted to run Shadowrun again after all. If I ever do run that Doctor Who adventure, I am going to try recording the session and releasing it as a special episode of my podcast. It looks like my long running game of Paleomythic on Playbyweb is coming to a close, so the campaign which I'm running here on RPOL is probably the only place anywhere online that this game is being played. The game of Rifts RPG that I've been running at Tank 9, "Dude, Do You Even Rift?!" has finally sputtered out after two or three years. There is some talk of maybe replacing it with a campaign of Breachworld RPG, but I don't think we have the players for it. My other two games on Playbyweb are puttering along (Beyond the Supernatural RPG and an experiment in playing Shadowrun using Open D6).

As a player, the Ghostbusters RPG game in which I have been playing for four or five years is still going strong, and I am very pleased about that. That is basically the only game I would miss if it died.

If I am ever canonized, I will no doubt be remembered as the patron saint of obscure roleplaying games.

So, I've started writing a story, got about 5,000 words in and I'm not sure how I'm going.  I'm not sure whether I've been able to do justice to the different characters.  Maybe I should pare it back?  Anyone feel like editing or otherwise critiquing it?

For what it's worth I thought the wonderland Vs. Oz game was an excellent idea!

In reply to Bart (msg # 213):

Yes but no, I am still editing a novel for a friend. I really need to finish this before I take on anything else.

A friend posted an extremely extensive article on his RPG website. Here is a blurb about it that I wrote for Facebook.

The Anthropology of Elves Return!

A few years ago, the cultures section of Prysus dot com was removed. It's back now, and it's bigger and better than ever. This is a very indepth look at the societies of different races in the world of Palladium Fantasy RPG. Elves and Dwarves and Gnomes and Ogres and Trolls and Changelings and Dragons -- oh my! We're talking about forty pages of materials including new duels, names, and a dragon's hoard of fluff.

http://prysus.com/pf_cultures.htm
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My thoughts on the first few races:

• Humans = humans.
• Elves = 1900's World War I-era Germans, from their sense of honor to how they create new words by smashing together longer words. Verrücktenirrendiewörterzusammenmaischen.
• Dwarves = Modern-day Norwegians with their Viking heritage, and how they recreated Bokmål after they regained their independence from Danmark.  It takes a village.
• Gnomes = Stoners who are always upset with Republicans who're hashing their vibe, man. And everyone else in the world is like a Republican or something.  Dude, we're going to call our child Sunshine Daisy and he can pick a new name for himself when he gets older.  Make love not war!

And I have to head off to bed, but it was a fun read.

I've finally begun my trek through the best Megami Tensei games.  So far I've completed:

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
Persona 4
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Devil Survivor Overclocked


I've still got a ways to go.

I've started preparing to run a campaign in an Ancient Roman variant of Call of Cthulhu.

- I'm putting the campaign outline together as a basic conditional operation (if then else) with realistic short term goals underpinned by a more ambitious long term story arc

- This'll be a paper and dice game, (may go online if I can get a feel for the whole GM thing.) We'll be meeting in person and/or via Skype weekly

- I plan to use the first meet to create characters and establish a rapport within the group

- There will be three regular players and one part timer.  All with mixed backgrounds; a chatty rules lawyer, a novice, (lawyer's wife,) someone who is normally a GM with little playing experience, and the part timer last played thirty years ago.  What they have in common, aside from having known me for longer than I've been posting on this board, is that they have neither played Call of Cthulhu nor read the works of HP Lovecraft


Any advice?

I've never played nor read CoC so I can't really comment. Sorry.

same

To be honest after binge watching a ton of Yugioh over the last week, I really want to start a Dawn of the Duel RP. Been thinking of what mechanics I should use...

mtg > yugioh

just kidding that's a subjective opinion, if an educated one ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Yeah, but since Mark Rosewater can't make his mind up for his sets it's hard to buy in to most new products. Dominaria is pretty kickass though. That and the toxicity of the MTG community isn't very attractive, and that's saying alot being an avant player of yugioh.

That aside, I was thinking a simple RPG mechanic while keeping it mostly freeform.

sounds good to me, freeform is always most fun imho

I think most the toxicity from any card game are it's 5 year old players :P or edgy teen loners :P

online it's better... well, for the most part, it is the internet :P

Then again i guess that's counterintuitive because most people would be more polite to your face, in my experience people online suck a lot less than irl loozers

then again imma total beta autist so wtf cares bout my opinion on sociology (im more of a psychology guy anyway)

Btw it's not maros falt, it might be partially, but making expansions is a team effort i guess.


I have a deep interest in mtg lore, much more than yugioh, but i do think yugioh would be more interesting to rp (the lore preferences thing is likely because i cant remember japanese names at all, kamigawa would have pissed me off lel)

I was far more into MTG lore when it wasn't about the superfriends and was instead about the planes that a planeswalker visited. I'm pretty sure there's a few MTG planes converted to D&D settings, if that's at all something you're interested in.

i'm not too surprised, wotc shares a lot of aspects between their own games, many mtg creature types come from earlier dnd creations :P

im sure it doesnt end there either.

Sorta related to this thread:

One of our former Timewasters, (DoctorVernor,) is trying to waste time professionally over on Twitch.tv

His handle there is TheRealZagaroth and he is playing Final Fantasy XV, Guild Wars and Octopath

Like most wannna be cult leaders, he is looking for followers.  Thank you

https://www.twitch.tv/therealzagaroth

I am playing in my first Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition game. I am liking the group, DM, and story but still like 3.5 the best.

I've not played 3.5, but I wish I had tried it back when I could learn stuff more quickly.

Really like DND, and think 5e is damn good, but I actually have plenty of gripes with it.

Does the cultish fellow play Guild Wars 1 or 2? I've been playing the latter for some months now, and it's some of the most fun I've ever had with gaming.

Unless we count Wizard101 back when I was a wee lad, it's probably also my first MMORPG

I'm running a Torg: Eternity campaign here.

Oh yeah, I love that system!

My favorite part is when that really old Goblin named Torg lives forever

just kidding i never played it ;-P

I'm currently playing "another" Call of Cthulhu game by Gaffer link to another game
It is not the first CoC game by that GM that I'm playing as he likes having one-shot adventures that get completed in few months, then he starts again with a new game. This way I played several adventures in different locations and times.
A very nice experience! I definitely recommend it, if you like the genre.