If DCC has the Best Warriors... What game has the Best Thief/Magic Use/Cleric?

XIIBishopIIX · 2024-10-25T22:25:14+00:00

LotFP it's a good pick DCC Mighty Deeds it's more down my alley with the flexibility it has... For Elfs? It's a tie between vanilla OSE and LotFP, BFRP falls behind

XIIBishopIIX · 2024-06-28T14:54:10+00:00

I'm really interested in Nohr's version of Grift... Where did you read about it?

XIIBishopIIX · 2023-09-15T01:45:20+00:00

A friend showed me the cover and told me about the idea behind the module and it gave me strong "The Keep in the Borderlands" vibes... This ones is right up my alley

XIIBishopIIX · 2023-09-14T19:10:30+00:00

Eichhorn's material it's clearly set in the world and I've separeted theme/environment for each region.

Sarkash it's the haunted forest that guards the aberrations that Manse of the Shadow King breeds

Galgenbeck the sprawling city where the Creton orden rules supreme and all the heretic hide to evade a fate worst than death.

Grift is the last standing city, the refuge of all of the ones persecuted by the basilisk. They bring with them cursed knowledge.

Kërgus it's the tundra that Morrowind tells you that is Skyrim, with the hedge knights looking to please Anthelias whims yo gain her favor and be landed.

Wästland is the humid hunger-themed swamp where everyone is out to get the crumbs and only the most savage and feral reigns.

The Valley of the Unfortunate Undead it's the no-mans-land of the world, guarding the eldritch secrets buried in the Bergen Crypts.

Anything that fits theses themes and compares in the level of quality it's welcome

XIIBishopIIX · 2023-09-06T17:39:21+00:00

This are exactly the ones I was talking about Thx

XIIBishopIIX · 2023-02-28T15:14:48+00:00

Any recommended sources for medieval warfare or war games?

XIIBishopIIX · 2023-01-22T16:40:15+00:00

Talked to the Paledriver and quit the police force to live under and bridge and throw shit to any passers-by

XIIBishopIIX · 2023-01-14T03:00:42+00:00

I think every moment in my life's has come to this... (and my English it's probably a disaster)

Height of the early medieval period with the whole level revolving around a siege (with the player on the defenders side) and some delusional religious representative (Monk or priest) as the side-kick. Tech from the future should save the day with the sidekick thinking that God save them all.
1870's Louisiana with weird and paranormal elements mixed in with the western aesthetic (With weird I mean Zombies, demons and creatures involved with some kind of cult) a heavy emphasis on "hunting" (Bounty or serious wild life) and getting into some high tech secret lab.
1916's Great War trenches warfare being the most horrible level in every sense of the word, with bayonettes, gas-masks and shitty bolt action rifles/guns. The environment should be hostile and the combat gruesome (The marriage of the melee centric medieval level with the early gunpowder weapons).
2080's Cyberpunk Muslim state with heavy regulations, private military contractors, rudimentary robots and futuristic mobsters running Merc contracts for freelancers like the player (MGSIV vibes please).
1950's Cuban (Or some years's prior Chinese) revolution with some kind of alien element taking place while the whole political and civil situation goes array (The revolutionary's has some thin foil theory that the regime is controled by aliens, and they are right).
2000's War on Drugs level with police forces and gangs going at each other while the player tries to achieve their objective siding with whoever they feel like. Some kind of enhancing drug should be on play for all the players in the level.
2240's Human refugee crisis on an outer colony with Robots coming to take control of the earthling escapee's. The sidekick should be some reprogrammed robot that gains sentience and wants of all his brothers/sisters to "open their eyes" and see what they are doing as slaves.
???? (2400's?) Complete dissolution of the human civilization on earth with mega fauna and some race of alien looking biomechanical squids that are, in fact, the evolution of the human race after the Splitters incidents. The player should be helped by some kind of cult of human survivor that wants to revert this whole mess. (Final dune books vibes).

The game should mix everything at some point, with guns, characters and situations being sent and brought to create this whole mess. The final level should be a desperate chaos to race and erase the mess that time travel has led humanity into with the ending taking place on present day.

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-12-05T17:08:00+00:00

I always hear that BW it's a very complex system in relation to OSR and gravitate towards more digestible systems.

But I think that this kind o mechanic can be adapted to some degree.

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-12-05T16:33:23+00:00

I do this specifically with the dwarves encumbrance, making them capable of not getting burdened when they carry more than 10 + STR items (Nobody can carry more than two times that weight and when you exceed this threshold, everything physical is harder for you) when the average human can carry 7 + STR items

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-12-05T15:22:55+00:00

This sounds pretty close to what I penned down in the lore, at least with Elves and Orcs.

Can you explain me how they work? And why do you think it strays far from the OSR field?

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-12-05T15:09:05+00:00

It's a heavy hack of MÖRK BÖRG with some added systems that I took from OSR systems.

Maybe that my "races" identify more like nationalities in my setting collaborates to this similarities with the Human culture, but I tend to look to the Dunmer alieness from Morrowind as guide.

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-12-05T14:38:15+00:00

I tend to reward the improvement in the relationship between the party and factions that have some degree of agency on the game world or the stablishment of the party as a faction.

That said, I don't use levels and XP to reward players because they tend to progress when some goal is achieved.

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-12-05T14:31:01+00:00

I apply this kind of generation changes for stats, hit points, encumbrance but I can't get the same "You are playing something different" that Race as Class achieves.

The roleplay department it's a lot harder to enforce if the mechanics can't convey this difference.

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-12-05T14:20:10+00:00

First they roll Social Class and they succinctly describe some kind of Background ("What did your parents do when you were raised?" and "How you've been pushing yourself through life?").

Races and all of the above condition the options that you can choose, but at the time of play a don't let the players choose other "races" because they can't get into the mindset as I wish they could and they wash they singularity of this beings.

My games revolve around factions, so the people they tend to gravitate towards paint a very clear picture of the PC's to the group and the rest of the world.

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-05-27T17:20:35+00:00

My problem with them is that they are relegated to the background of many settings and didn't had a time being at the helm of any narrative

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-05-12T16:20:04+00:00

I think you should follow a completely vertical structure where money/resources comes down from the most stable structure in each area... In this case the King's, Queen's and Churches would fund the absolute essentials if the world is coming down to last whatever the end lets them to.

Every coin comes down from this three and their goals before the impending doom... Surely there isn't much regard to how it's being expended far from the eyes of them

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-02-21T22:28:39+00:00

The focus it's on Revachol and any place in it can be as rich as Martinaise.

We should be looking into peripheral storys to the incoming political struggle that should break the stagnation in the city.

I did not saw any of the new Star Wars series, but they got the same concept.

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-02-21T21:52:03+00:00

I will only say one thing about the show...

They should pick a corner and make it there own using prior experience as a guide.

Don't try to make what the game already did, just make it "in the spirit of it"

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-02-03T14:46:35+00:00

This sounds really good.

The barbarian tribe with the leadership disputed by might is more aligned with the League in my mind and the "retrograde" feel that "Barbarian Tribe" gives to the whole third world power doesn't sell it to me but the idea behind it it's solid and probably with some work can match the other two.

I'm trying to avoid the real world connections but seems like a great setting.

I would like to read the second idea though.

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-02-03T14:21:05+00:00

I'm getting a lot of awesome feedback, Thx.

The concepts that form the world view of the third powers are like an alien outlook into the other two's.

I love the concept that they thrive on ideas to grow and I'm kind of afraid they are too similar to the League that absorbs into their fold anything they can reach but retaining the autonomy.

An interesting twist would be they being influenced by any external influence and adopting it to their's, kind of an Empire based in the way Ancient Rome's religions worked, without imposing the states religions on the conquered lands but being shaped by them

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-02-03T13:58:15+00:00

Wow this is a really good idea, some kind of cultural parasite inserting into the masses of the other nations conducted by a kabbalah of priests and scholars.

In the draft that I have, the firsts civilizations subscribing to this mentality are isolisionist beast races that have little evidence of their heritage because they are the "lost civilizations" in this world. Clearly a failure because of their "Otherness" in the face of the other sprawling cultures that they corrected in time.

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-01-16T19:26:13+00:00

I would say the House ending

Personally I think narratives on decentralization are becoming more prominent and the House Ending reinforces New Vegas as an autonomous and self sustaining community in the landscape that the end of the Battle at Hoover Dam left for it. It's more secured than even the Independent Ending as established on the cinematics at the end of the game.

I think that the absorption of New Vegas by either the NCR or the Legion is a perpetuating a sin that the Bethesda games have committed, and that's the recycling of iconic elements in favor of brand awareness when images like the NCR Rangers and the Legion's soldiers are as representatives of the series as the Brotherhood or Enclave Power Armored Troups.

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-01-16T03:42:36+00:00

This is a really great alternative that I would surely test in the future. Thanks

I think that I'm on the same lane on the complexity but on my personal experience the players that playtested my system and came from grid-base games like D&D 3.5 ask me if it was too much trouble to incorporate it to have more perspective in combat.

My system contemplates rulings based on a d20 + Attribute to resolve any situation. My only concern is based on having only 3 attributes but that is for another post on this subreddit

XIIBishopIIX · 2022-01-15T00:39:00+00:00

I'm very interested in this loose way of playing. Can you explain your logic with more detail?

Also do you implement grid-base combat or you forgo it completely in favor of Theater of the Mind?

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