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Other Games / Dark Heresy (And other Warhammer 40,000 RPGs)
« on: February 07, 2013, 01:02:23 am »
Anybody have experince with this game?
I recently got the Inquistor's handbook in the mail (I already got the core rulebook a while ago) and I wanted to run a game with my friends, so I'm wondering if anyone has experince(as a GM or player), and would be able to provide tips/advice. Especially on the investagative and properly cementing GRIMDARKness in the mind of the playes.
Stories would also be appreiceated.

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Other Games / Multiplayer Civilization
« on: July 23, 2012, 09:05:34 pm »
Hello fellow bay 12ers, recently I've been playing a lot of Civ2.
I've been trying to get my friends to play with me multiplayer, but they are more the twitchy FPS types.
So, I thought I would turn to YOU guys.
Would anyone be interested in Civ2 multiplayer?
Obviously this would take a while, but I think it would be fun.


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Other Games / Fantasy Building games
« on: July 06, 2012, 10:30:07 pm »
Dwarf Fortress, Towns, Goblin camp, and Gnomoria.

You know them, the ones where you start with 7 odd guys and build a fortress/camp/town/whatever.

Most of them are very similar, ranging from the most complex game ever, to pretty casual.

These are the games I could think of off the top of my head.

What other games do you guys know that are like this?

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Play With Your Buddies / Infra Arcana - Descent into madness
« on: June 22, 2012, 11:55:58 pm »
I am doctor Numan.

Tonight I have decided to begin my descent into the catacombs.
A man of healing, I was first interested in the shining Trapezohedron when a colleague of mine was found dead.

Jacob had been acting strange for weeks, and his disappearance went unnoticed for a week.
A friend discovered Jacob in his study room.
The study had been ransacked, and most of Jacob's papers taken.
After a through investigation by the police, I visited Jacob's house.
There I discovered in a ruined desk the words,
"The Cult of Starry Wisdom sees all through the shining Trapezohedron"

After years of discreet investigation I have tracked down the source of the Cult.
A rundown church stands beneath dead trees in the distance.
The broken cobble path before me twists and turns before me.
I tighten the grip on my Dagger, and touch my holster.



I tenderly step across the protruding stones and snagging vines, crushing small ferns beneath my feet.
The sound of barking echoed through the otherwise quiet night.
Drawing my dagger I continued down the path, coming closer to the crazed noise.
I came upon a sight that few men see, two wolves of black fur and barred teeth.



Near them sat a fellow of such a grim face that death must have had little difference on his mood.
Half eaten, half rotten, his clothes a drab gray, the man had been dragged from the ground by the cunning wolves.



A short, yet bloody, battle soon followed.
With nary a scratch, but the blood on my dagger and boot, I trekked on through the graveyard.
Through the cold night I strode, a hand on my holster, and an eye on the bushes.



A cold wind sweeps through the pews, and smoke from the braziers chokes the air.
The church had been used recently, the slowly dieing fires prove that.
I spot some stairs, the entrance to the catacombs.
Something else draws me however, and I continue into the dark church.



The soft murmuring of the wind over this house of god sent a shiver down my spine.
As I turned back to the stairs, I thought I heard a whisper coming from the altar, but I am sure it was just the wind.

It was just the wind.

Just the wind.

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Here is an article I stumbled upon.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wiles.php

Dwarf Fortress is this in a virtual form.
I mean, right now DF isn't a perfect simulator of life, but these concepts can be very easily applied to DF, and I'm sure even more so as the AI intelligence becomes more realistic.
Tantrum spirals? That's the Behavioral Sink.

Just wanted to bring this up, please discuss.

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DF Adventure Mode Discussion / Infinte Tower of Falling
« on: June 07, 2012, 11:56:45 pm »
I was trying to get into the catacombs under a human capital.
When I entered the building, I greeted the Feathered Zebra god, and went down the stairs.
Eventually, I reached the bottom, but I was not in the catacombs.
I knew that an entrance to the catacombs was supposed to be here, because I had sent other adventurers to glory and death at the hands of goblins.
The only way down that I could see was through hole.
Being kinda confused, I decided to jump into the hole.
What happened BLEW MY MIND.
I jumped into the hole, and landed on an upper floor.
WHAT!?
I checked, because I went down the stairs again, and found the pit I had jumped into, and jumped into it again.
Suffice to say I was unable to try it a third time, what with breaking reality being rather deadly to a mortal.
THIS GAME IS BREAKING PHYSICS NOW!

Does anybody know what might have caused this?

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / EMPOREX - The Founding of an Empire
« on: May 27, 2012, 09:51:13 pm »
Rules please read
http://www.angelfire.com/games2/warpspawn/Emporex.html



"Welcome my Lord. Welcome to your fief.
In ancient times before memory or records, rulers sent four star ships, lost technology that can launch any where in the galaxy.
With these ships, the rulers launched to 1000 different star systems with planets.
As we know now, only 24 planets were successfully colonized, and only 4 planets gained any significant prosperity.
These colonies were lost to time when several countries on earth launched nuclear weapons, destroying the means to make, and communicate with the star ships.
This was over thirty millennium ago. In that time Earth's environment recovered, and the survivors rallied to the first emperor.
Now, the fourteen thousandth, six hundred, and thirty second emperor has discovered the ancient lab in which the star ships were developed.
While most of the lab and its ancient technology was unsalvageable, there was working equipment. Among this lost technology was a visual communicator.
After years of hard work, our scientists and engineers were able to restore it's function.
What they found surprised even the infallible emperor, other humans, on different planets.
Contact was made with four planets, the most wealthy and prosperous planets, which were able to preserve their ancient's technology.
These planets were -

Lortran


Gurati


Kadesh


Nitrix


- these planets were heavily populated and rich in resources.
The emperor, knowing that these planets most be brought into the empire, began a project to bring leaders and nobles from earth onto these new planets.
Finally, after collaboration with scientists on both earth and the other worlds unlocked the secrets of star ships, unfortunately the new star ship were more limited.
These star ships were dubbed Jump Ships.



Constructing a fleet of 6 jump ships, and sending two to each of the four planets, the emporer ordered YOU, servant of the empire, to take control of these home worlds, and unite the far flung worlds under one rule!"


If you want to play, please post this:

Nobles list
Leader (you)
Mentat
Other leader (son/daughter/adviser etc.)

Planet list:
Home planet JS(jumpships) NA(nuclear arsenals): Armies(on planets):

Solats:(everyone starts with 0)

Allies:(no one starts with allies)

This will be a first come first serve.
When four people have joined we will start.

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Creative Projects / Roguelike: The Wargame
« on: May 13, 2012, 10:58:11 pm »
Hello Bay12ers:

For this discussion you must enjoy tabletop War games (Warhammer and the like)  and Roguelikes (Dwarf fortress adventure mode, Nethack etc). If you don't then you won't have anything to add.

Basically, I want to create a game (or the rule set for a game) that is a table top miniature wargame, but with a healthy dose of screw you roguelike brutality. This rule set would be adaptable to any setting, be it science fiction or stone age. It would also be built around simple materials, that could be easily translated to a computer, and thus a forum.

Why I am posting this here is because I want to see if anybody would be interested in this.
The reason I put this in this section of the forum is because its a "creative project" and I wanted to see if other people are interested in this project of creativity.

Kthxbye

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Play With Your Buddies / Tropico - Island Hopping edition
« on: April 08, 2012, 01:13:32 am »
Hola, mi Tropicans!
You have squirmed under the boot of nature for far to long!
A leader shall rise to lead you mongrels to a grand future!
So, the person to lead you into manifest destiny?
El presidente!
Who is El presidente?
You decide!
Please, vote for a traits for our alucinante presidente, a rise to power, flaws and background
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source:http://www.strategyplanet.com/tropico/gameguide/gameguide2-1.shtml

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Roll To Dodge / Roll to Fight Cross over version!
« on: April 06, 2012, 03:25:45 pm »
Basically, this RTD is a "who would win" sceniaro type thing. Who would win, minecraft guy or Urist, Stalin or Abrham lincoln, Spartans or Aliens?
The first person to post a match up and have atleast 2 other people say that would be cool starts a round.
In every round the two aformentioned parties are battling in a pocket dimension, where they can only get out by killing the other.
The first action posted for each is used, and standard RTD rolls are made for the outcome.
Simply enough?
Ok, lets go.

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DF Adventure Mode Discussion / Stories of Glory
« on: April 05, 2012, 10:24:49 pm »
Hello all adventurers! Welcome to this thread, have a seat.
Listen or tell a story of your expeirince(s) during your journeys.
Why myself jus' finished an adventure, tracking Tob the Lizard demon, and some One eyed brute.
Well, ye might ask, did you come to this quest? Well, my journey started in the frozen south, in a tiny hamlet.
I had traveled from the evil lands even farther south, which are nothing but frozen wastelands and evil trogs!
Indeed, the battles I had as a pup, but that is a diffrent tale. ANYHOW, That was I, sitting in the middle o' the snow, with nothin' ta my name but a spear and a lil' knife. Well, as ya mighta gathered I was none to happy to sit in the snow and freeze to death!
So, I walked into the nearest tiny house, which was packed wit' bodys, and all a clamourin'! Many were simple farmers, but one fellah' worked with stone, and respectin' tha I chat'd 'im up. 'E told me about the surronden area and tha' was were I learned o' the beast o' legend, the one eye'd brute! O' course, he failed ta mention Tob, the lizard demon. Toward's the end o' the conversation he said somthin' about a trog causin' trouble down in an ice cave. Well, if you thought I woldn't take a trip back 'ome to kill an ol' trog, 'ell, you don't know me! (and you just met me and don't know me but tha' not the point) So, I packed up me spear and 'eaded down south... again... Well, it was 'ather uneventful trip, but I 'ad a little boar on the way. Once I 'ad found the bugger and descend in ta the cave I came upon the bastard. With me well honed skill and strength I through the spear straight into 'is leg, and 'e felled down and flopped like a fish! Atleast I 'eard fish flop, I only seen one once, and it ate my grand ma'... But I digress, once I 'ad killed ma mark and headed back to the lil' 'amlet. So, wanderin' about I came upon another tiny house, crammed full a' people shoutin' and fightin' and laughin', 'cause tha's the only thing ya can do in a winter time. So, comin' in for some jollies I found a nice 'nough lookin' fella, but he was creepily atachted to 'is whip, and was clad in lotsa leather, which is fairly suspect. So, I bragge'd about the nice 'ole I 'ad made in the trogs face! He seem'd ta respect tha' and we hit it off. So, we chatted for a while, and this was the first time I had heard of ol' Tob up in Rosecage, the capital. Now, this intrigued me, bein' a LIZARD DEMON, sittin' in the captial city and all, so I decided to kill him! Why ye might wonder? Well, me and ma' folks are know far huntin' down the demons and killin' 'em. Sa' I said, "Les' go and beat up the bugger!" And the leather man said tha' was a bad idea, but he liked somthin' about my spunk, so 'ead follow me to glory and death! Well, we started headin' north, and neither' o' us bein' familiar with the area we stubled into a lair, on the way to a city we thought was Rosecage. Well, deciding tha' we might aswell go down and rid the townsfolks a' some monstars. So, we 'eaded down a lil' slope inta' a lil' cave and ya coulda never guessed what waited us there. A lil' girl! I 'ave know idea why she was there, but she was ravid and stark naked! Twas' a sad sight indeed... So I decided to end her misery, went down without a noise, really quite sad... With heavy harts we 'eaded inta the big city. Or atleast I thought we did. When I got ta the town, lo, me companion was nowhere! I didn't know if 'ed buggered off or frozen or gotten a lil' giddy and tried to whip a boar! Well, then I was on my lonesome. So, I 'eaded inta town, and seein' as it was a little late I crashed with a buncha drunkards. So, in the mornin', I talked to quite a chatty fellow. He congrutaled me on killin' the little girl, which was very odd, and told me that Rose cage was just a little ways up. So, upon learnin' that Rosecage was a hop, skip, and a jump to the north east I headed out, but before that I the chatty man told me about a' blessed hill or somethin', which I noted as me next adventure.
Leavin' the town I 'eaded towards Rosecage, and in not 'alf a day I found it! A nice fort wit' stone walls and guards with smashin' things! I walked right through the main gate and found to strappin' lads with a mace and a hamma! Knowin' the Tob was probably kickin' it in the main goverment buildin', I headed that way, but then I saw something odd on the ground. It was titled, "Order Cross", and, upon the fact tha' I 'ad learned about the written language from an old hag, I read it. I 'ad to wipe me eyes out with snow. It was a long diary about Tob's self loathing, and was quite cruel. It was also 149 pages, and the writing would embarass Ms.Meyer... Well, after reading that I 'ad to kill the bastard! Well, not ten steps away lied something worse then the Order Cross, It Most Have Been Deformity, written by Ugou, the one eyed brute, for Ugou, the one eyed brute. IT WAS EVEN LONGER.
I think ma eyes bleed a lil' at the end. THAN ANOTHER BOOK BY LOB, A SELF HATING ESSAY! These were the most effiminate demons I've ever heard of! Lob, the angsty 1000 something, and Ugou, the One eyed beuty! They made me throw my lunch, or would 'ave if I 'ad 'ad some lunch. Filled with rage at the literature abomination I had just read I rushed up a nearby tower, looking for Lob or the brute! That was when I found the mother load. A room fulla armor and weapons! I nearly wept fa joy!
Soon, I was armored in octupos leather armor, some gloves, a cape and was wielding the finest of iron battleaxes, with a complmientary iron buckler. I was ready.

I entered a room with 4 statues an' stairs down. One the brute of rain, one of brown recluses, one of a demon of waxy opal, and one of a human.
Shiverin', I crossed the room and descend the stairs.


Truly what I saw was awesome. Crimson hair growing in between it's thick, glossy, green scales. It's emmense form moved with an unnatural rthym, waving, hyponitizing. Dust softly drifted from its form, glistening with an unnatural light. In it's immense claw was Choose, the lizard fiend. The thing before me was 'naught but a god, a diety. Lob, The demon lizard fiend, THE ONE TRUE GOD.

"Behold mortal. I am Tob, I know why you have come."
"What are ya'?"
"I...Am...A...Master."

That was it. I prepared ma' weapon and called my companions, to fight a diety, to kill a god. My heart sat in my throat like a heavy weight.

I swung my axe.

Then they turned. More loyal to their god then me, they turned.

In a booming voice, Tob spoke these words.

"I am Tob!"
"Slayer of Mistwhip, who sought my praise, only to be rejected with death!"
"Strangler of Splashedtempest, druid of the Sweetness of Routs, whose fragile bones shattered before the might of my contempt!"
"PREPARE TO DIE!"

A hot stream of dust ripped into the brainwashed slaves and my alike, as I parryied shots from both.
I threw myself behind a pillar, trying to saves ma hide.
Blows, from the frozen mist, came like rain.
It was over in seconds.

So, that is how I came to be in this place, surronded by the dead. So, tell me, how did you die adventurer? Don't be shy."


Piware Remofewothana Pelese Ade
AKA Decievere, conqueror, writer of sappy romance
Achievements
Decived The nation of Sacks into thinking he was Lob
Led dozens of attacks on elves and goblins
Became master of the nation of Sacks
Tamed cougars, one humped camels, and everything inbetween
Wrote novels like, Fact or Fiction, Choose the Lizard Fiend, and The  Art of the Princess
Killed Struga Talkcontain

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Hello, fellow people of the internet. Today we shall begin a journey, a journey like a couple before it, but fairly few. Today we begin constructing a new RPG. I have laid down the bare bones of this new RPG, and I name it Mediocre Role playing Game. Anything in this rpg is subject to change. Basiclly, you write a post offering advice, opinions, addations, or edits to the Rpg. I shall any suggestions or edits or addations to the rpg every couple posts and release a new "version". That's it. And without I introduce, without items, towns, or anything that really needs to be added before it can be even considered a Mediocre RPG, version 0.1.

Version 0.1
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(Not a very serious rpg mind you)

Changes
Nothing... YET.

HALL OF BUGS
this is an area for anybody that finds a way to horribly break the game. Simple post the "bug" and I shall record it here.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Dead simple RPG
« on: December 14, 2011, 09:20:03 pm »
Hello all. For those that have no idea what this is, go hither.
http://thegamesshed.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/dead-simple-rpg-rules/
Look at the core rules and supplement 1 to 5, I'm planning on using those rules.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ok, everybody got that?
Now that were on the same page, let me lay out my idea for you. Although I don't have a structured campaign/dungeon/anything-of-that-sort, so this is mainly to see how many people respond, and whether it is worth the effort. I'm thinking between 6 and 4 players, depending on the response. See you all soon.

Player list
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Waiting list
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Charcter sheet
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Deep theological questions
« on: November 12, 2011, 03:37:59 pm »
So, we humans are a generally religous bunch, especially about a few thousands years ago. Now imagine a world where the tech level is around the dark age, except pelythesiom is still strong and going. Now imagine that instead of all those fairy tales being fairy tales, they were real, with consquences, which we have witnessed in this game. Even though the gods don't do much, they are still part of the world, and almost every dwarf, human, or elf worships something. They come in all shapes and sizes, and I don't think that a athiesom movement is happening anytime soon. So why isn't this a bigger part of the game? Why don't we see dwarves praying, crying out to their gods, holding festivals, building temples? We, the players, are certainly gods. Oh no, it might not come right out and say it, but we're omnipresent overlords, and nearly every fortress has a patron deity. "But that deity is nothing like me!" Sure the description of a cave dwarf thing that likes trees might not sound like you or your play style, but who knows how the dwarves interpet your orders from above.


Thoughts?

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DF Community Games & Stories / Super hero
« on: June 20, 2011, 01:28:20 am »
Meet Sidaya Mothidaeci. She's got Superhuman strength and agility, beautiful sea green eyes, perfect curly blonde hair, a tight leather suit, a signature weapon (a *Silver whip*), and some butts to kick. The makings of a superhero right there. She just got her first two kills, bandits, one named Blunttreasures(Who she Ironically stripped for clothing). Basically, I'll be posting her story hear as she goes about whipping bad guys to death. Prepare, for Wonder Gal!

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