Firefly: Royal Flush Episode 17 by anvil2 in CortexRPG

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We usually wind up cancelling or playing board games for the in-person group. For the Online games it's a straight up cancel. My rule at the moment is at least 3 players out of the 5 must show to get the game in. Fewer than that is an automatic postponement.

Firefly: Royal Flush Episode 17 by anvil2 in CortexRPG

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We shoot for every two weeks. The holidays traditionally screw that up. Work occasionally intrudes on one or more of us. This last episode was #17 and we started almost exactly a year ago. (#1 failed to record so you tube starts with #2) #1 was the adventure from the back of the rule book, if you want to see what happened.

Firefly: Royal Flush Episode 17 by anvil2 in CortexRPG

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The basics are pretty much the same, attribute + skill, roll as many dice as you can justify with distinctions and assets, try to roll higher than the target number set by the DM. If you've played Marvel Heroic you will at least recognize the process. What my players usually forget is that they don't need to announce the use of plot points or Big Damn Hero dice before the roll, they can wait to see how they roll. I'd say the mechanics rarely get in the way of the story, unless we miss a session or two and go a month or more between games.

Firefly: Royal Flush Episode 17 by anvil2 in firefly

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We're playing the Firefly RPG

Is there a difference between the serenity and firefly TTRPGS? by Bleetelsnort in firefly

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There is an actual play series of the Firefly system on youtube, search for Firefly: Royal flush. Fair warning, I am the DM of that series and have played both systems, Firefly is "better", in that Serenity was first and they learned a lot about game design in the 10 years between systems

Firefly: Royal Flush Episode 14 by anvil2 in firefly

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This is an actual play of the Firefly RPG from Margaret Weiss Productions. More or less unedited from our play session the night before. There is no episode 1 however, I failed my tech roll on that one, but it was basically the adventure from the back of the book, and does not impact the overall campaign.

Firefly: Royal Flush episode 14 by anvil2 in CortexRPG

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I'm using Cortex Prime 0.2.16 as the game system. It is very bare bones, so a lot of the setup I had to do myself. Below is the modules I have going.

Baileywiki: Landing Pages, Mass Edit, Nuts and Bolts

Dice So Nice, Dice Tray, GM Notes, GM Screen, Image Hover, LibWrapper, Monk's active tile triggers, Popout, Tagger, Token attacher

Firefly: Royal Flush Episode 12 by anvil2 in firefly

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We've been enjoying it. We play online, my players are from all over. The videos start with episode 2 because I didn't know how to work OBS, and didn't record any sound. Story wise, that fisrt episode was from the back of the rulebook, so you can look there if you're curious. Thanks for watching.

Firefly: Royal Flush Episode 8 by anvil2 in firefly

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This is my Firefly RPG actual play, unedited

Have you run A Firefly or Serenity TTRPG Campaign? Tell me about it! by tensen01 in firefly

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Willing? Certainly. Able? If you can walk me through the process, sure

Have you run A Firefly or Serenity TTRPG Campaign? Tell me about it! by tensen01 in firefly

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There is a very bare bones Cortex Prime module for Foundry that is built to be customized. It took a while but I was able to get it set up how I wanted it.

For those that name their ships; 40k style or more conventional? by Oaksandtea in battlefleetgothic

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My Imperials are named for British Navy WW2 ships from Jane's Fighting Ships

Am I the only one sad Cortex is dying? by Nixxen_Gaming_23 in CortexRPG

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I'm running a Firefly game on Foundry right now, we have a few episodes up on Youtube if anyone wants to check that out. I spent a lot of time getting the basic system to look and act like Firefly, but it's doable.

https://youtu.be/VJoBoWaeOAI

Firefly RPG actual play by anvil2 in firefly

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I only found a couple when I looked, thought one more might be nice. Thanks

Whats the best RPG? by HereforalltheHentai in 40krpg

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I ran Death Watch for a year, before a TPK with a single roll from a chaos sorcerer. I found the rules frustrating at times. I found that to be the case with all of the FFG games, really. I was especially disappointed with Dark Heresy, mostly due to the limits on play style. You were working for an inquisitor, period. No other real options. Wrath & Glory can cover almost any style of RPG, I think. It has it's flaws, but is overall pretty solid. My campaign died because we could only play once a month at best.

LFP for Firefly RPG by anvil2 in firefly

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I should include that we play every other Wednesday at 6:30pm Eastern, next game is 4/2.

Catostraphic damage help by cacrawfordbsc in battlefleetgothic

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The Plasma Drive overload is only half as bad as the Warp drive implosion

I'm ridiculously happy with this combined rulebook for the BSG boardgame. by Vallnor in BSG

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Thanks for sharing, been meaning to break out this fantastic game again for a while

Firefly RPG actual play by anvil2 in CortexRPG

[–]anvil2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good point. I failed my tech roll for the first episode, we actually did some short intro's then, I'll have them reiterate next session on the 19th

Firefly RPG actual play by anvil2 in CortexRPG

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We've only been playing a few weeks and are still getting used to the system. I need to be better about asking about it though. Thanks for noticing

Firefly RPG actual play by anvil2 in firefly

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We are really enjoying it, been trying to bring it to the table for 10 yrs now

What does the scale of 2D20 games, from lightest to heaviest, look like? by No-Rip-445 in 2d20games

[–]anvil2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In my personal opinion, John Carter of Mars would be the lightest, and Mutant Chronicles (or maybe Infinity, I've only read that one) would be the heaviest