Billbailey96

Oddly enough gaming is my hobby/ passion. I play board games, have a steam library that I really need to go through, collect TTRPGS (currently at 100+ systems), collect and build various tabletop wargames (including Warhammer and its spin offs). Games make me happy.

Reply to your reply which completely misses the point of both comments.

Did yall hear about the guy who got upset about not having toast with breakfast? I guess he was Lack-Toast-Intolerant.

So I ran an interesting system yesterday called Wildsea. The engine itself is an adaptation of Forged in the Dark with some interesting additions. The biggest plus I can give this game however is its setting. In the world of Wildsea, the entire surface of the planet is covered in a world-spanning forest. This new sea of vegetation is navigated using chainsaw driven vessels to pull the ship through the rustling waves all the while the crew has to contend with unpredictable weather, mutated wild life and other older threats that might be thrown upward into the canopy. Its a very narrative heavy game with some tweaks needed for its rolling mechanics. But other than that, its a solid recommendation.

WoW has this problem all over where you do the heavy lifting in game and then the NPCs take the credit in the cutscenes.

Fair enough, I have trouble recognizing it when people say it out loud.

Not the point of this thread, but with Bill Murray, Dan Akroid, Harold Ramis, Sigorny Weaver and Rick Morranis and some of the best special effects of the 1980's you think Ghost Busters is boring? Well to each their own.

I have had fun with my Lvl 28 Beam rifle/ Devices red-side blaster. Though I will admit it does get a little samey after a while.

I think another reason why rapid leveling has become a thing is that its become a part of the Skinner box that a lot of MMO's especially WoW have become. Leveling has become the reward you get for pulling the lever. Once you run out of leveling "treats" you start looking for some other reward and that means grinding end game content which leads to more purchases in the in-game shop or more time subscribed to the game. That's one reason I can't get back into WoW, I missed all the content at time of release but now the focus is getting me to the new zones and it leaves me very cold. "You missed it at launch, too bad, now please grind our new stuff please."

Say the impossible happens and someone decides to purchase the rights to make a single player City of Heroes RPG (or maybe some other style of game). Who would you want to be the developer? What style of game would you want it to be? What are some features you would want to see in it?

Singular, though if the fancy takes you, group works too

So way back in the day ('06 maybe?) 10 year old me tried to make a controller (illusion control and I forget the secondary). Well the problem is 10 year old me did not have friends who played CoH so I never got far. Fast-forward almost 20 years later and I still don't have friends who play CoH, but I now have more patience to play a controller (barely). Does anyone know of a good solo controller build?

I want to reach out the community and see what in your opinion is the coolest enemy in the game. It can be their design, concept, abilities, or something else entirely.

Any enemy that has a chance of resurrecting after they die. The Feakshow are a good example of this.

So I have a broader question related to this topic: Is balance fun?

Why are ouroboroses so had to deal with? They are so full of themselves Edit: checked the spelling

Sky raider porters and Tsoo Sorcerers, basically anyone who can teleport away and make fighting them turn into an annoying scavenger hunt. Especially on kill 'em all missions.

I posted a thread in Off topic to discuss various RPG

Here is a thread I started a few weeks ago talking about Super Hero RPGS if anyone is interested

Call of Cthulhu is interesting, like any horror game I think it needs the right GM and the right players to really work since Horror requires a certain atmosphere to really work. As for GURPS I actually have 3ed, I picked it up years ago at a used book store and it was the book that spawned my hoard. Its interesting but GURPS tries to be to many things to too many people. The best games I've collected over the years benefit from a tighter thematic focus instead of a kitchen sink "Generic RPG" approach. I also have a copy of Paranoia (the second most recent edition) hiding in a box in my storage unit.

If there is anybody who is interested in the history of RPGs I have three books to recommend. The first is "Playing at the World" by Jon Peterson. The 1st edition is massive but definitely a treasure trove on the origins of RPGs from wargames to DnD and onward. The second is "Designers and Dragons" by Shannon Appelcline. This one is a multi-volume work that looks at RPGs from the perspective of the various designers and publishers decade by decade. Its very good at tracking the trends of the medium as new mechanics and ideas popped up and spread through the industry. The final is "Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground" by Stu Horvath. This one is also a decade by decade book but more focused on the games themselves. Definetly a good book to have if your a collector and interested in an encyclopedia of sorts for your collection.

So to make this about more than showcasing my TTRPG addiction I wanted to talk about some of the games I have played and what I liked about them (I invite others to do the same of course.) So right now a game I am really enjoying is Blades in the Dark. The game takes heavy inspiration from things like Peaky Blinders, the old Thief Games from the 90's, and the more modern Dishonored series. The idea is that your a band of scoundrels running a gang in a supernaturally haunted electro/steam-punk city. A fun mechanic that the game introduces is the fact that the gang itself has a character sheet giving you abilities based on what time of gang you want to run (are you a cult, smugglers, or a band of sneak thieves?). This not only gives the GM a good indication of what kind of game you want to run, but also grounds the game in an organic story of your gang's rise to power. On the player facing side the mechanics are simple; you take a skill and roll a dice for each point you have in that skill, 4's and 5's are partial successes and 6's are full successes with 3's and lower being failures. The GM side is a little more complicated as there is a series of levers you have to manipulate to determine the roll's effect of the fiction as you determine things like effect and potency. Beyond the mechanics, the real star of the show is the setting of Duskvol, a city stuck in a world were the sun barely rises above the horizon every day. In this world death doesn't work like it should, meaning if a body isn't cremated shortly after death, the spirit of the deceased will haunt the place they died (not a good thing for the assassins hired to kill the guy in the first place). So the underworld is both a criminal and literal presence in day to day life throughout Duskvol. If you like crime storys and gothic settings, Blades in the Dark is a must have.

My collection so far (without supplements): 7th Sea PDF Actung! Cthullu Print Adventures in the Household (5e) Print Aether Nexus Print Alien RPG Print Apocalypse World PDF Band of Blades Print Beat the Boss PDF Black Powder and Brimstone Print Bladerunner RPG Print Blades in the Dark Print Bloodpunk (5e) PDF Bluebeard's Bride PDF Brancolia (5e) Print Break! Print Brindlewood Bay PDF Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants PDF Call of Cuthullu 7th Edition Print City of Mist PDF Colostle: Solo RPG Print Comrades: A Revolutionary RPG PDF Coriolis: The Great Dark Print Cryptomancer PDF Cyberpunk Red Print Cypher System Print Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankinstein PDF Dark Heresy 1st Edition PDF Dark Heresy 2nd Edition PDF Deadlands: Noir PDF Deadlands: The Weird West Print Deathmatch Island Print Delta Green 2nd Edition Print Delta Green: The Conspiracy PDF DIE RPG Print Dungeon Crawl Classic Print Dungeon World Print Dungeons and Dragons 5.5e Print Dungeons and Dragons 5e Print Ex Novo PDF Fabula Ultima Print Fallout PDF Fate Print Flying Circus PDF Forbidden Lands Print Fragged Aeternum PDF Fragged Empire PDF Fragged Seas PDF Free From the Yoke PDF GURPS 4e Print Heart: The City Beneath Print Historica Arcanum (5e) Print Household Print Imperium Maladictum Print Inevitable: An Authurian Western RPG Print Into the Odd-Remastered PDF Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy PDF Iron Kingdoms Requiem (5e) Print Ironsworn PDF Ironsworn: Starforged Print Ironsworn: Sundered Isles Print Lancer Print Legacy: Generation Ship PDF Legacy: Godsend PDF Legacy: Life Amoung the Ruins Print Legacy: Primal Pathways PDF Legacy: Rhaposdy of Blood PDF Legacy: Worldfall PDF Lex Arcana PDF Masks: A New Generation Print Memento Mori PDF Microscope PDF Mutant City Blues 2nd Edition PDF Mutant Year Zero PDF Necessary Evil: Invasion (Revised) PDF Never Going Home Print New Edo PDF Nibaru PDF Numenra Print Only War PDF Our Brillant Ruin Print Pathfinder 2nd Edition Print Penumbra City Print Pugmire (5e) PDF Rapscalion PDF Red Markets PDF Revolt! Print Rifts Print Rouge Trader 1st Edition Print Ruins of Symbaroum (5e) PDF Savage Worlds Print Scum and Villany Print Shadow of the Demon Lord PDF Shadowrun 1e Reprint Print Shiver PDF Shiver: Gothic PDF Sigmata: This Signal Kills Fascists PDF Soulbound Print Spire: The City Must Fall Print Stoneburner Print Streets of Peril Print Swyvers Print Symbaroum Print Tales from the Loop Print Tales of the Valiant RPG Print The Electric State RPG Print The Last Caravan Print They Came From The Sea! PDF Things From the Flood Print Through the Breach RPG PDF Tiny RPGs (Several) PDFs Torg Eternity PDF Triangle Agency Print Unbound Print Uprising: The Dystopian Universe RPG PDF Vaesen Print Victoriana PDF Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition Print Wicked Ones PDF Wild Sea Print Winterhorn PDF Zweihander PDF

I am a big fan of tabletop RPGs from DnD 1ed to today's latest batch of indies. I have 121 different systems (not counting supplements) in my collection by last count. So I just wanted to make a thread to discuss our favorite RPGS.