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[BadLemonsXI]

Wargames is the term.

Cool thanks. Huh the only problem I could see with playing Wargames is the money you have to spend buying the stuff for them. tho the guys there told me of what to do to find and buy the stuff for cheaper, second hand etc. etc.

[Fniff]

It's the nerd version of a drug addiction, really.

[AlleeCat]

It's the nerd version of a drug addiction, really.

So is collecting retro games. I must spend about half of each paycheck at my local game store.

[Gentlefish]

It's the nerd version of a drug addiction, really.

So is collecting retro games. I must spend about half of each paycheck at my local game store.

I know what you mean. I ate less for a paycheck just because I found Azure Dreams at the local game store and just had to have it.

Of course I haven't played it yet.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Ptw and may contribute

[Heron TSG]

If you ask me, there's too much 4e stuff that crept back in for me to touch it with an 11-foot pole.

What about a 12 foot pole? One of my favorite items from the Magic Item Compendium. The meta-joke is worth the extra cash to buy it.

As well as [5th edition] adding "Holy damage" allowing for future divine offensive spells.

Divine damage was already a thing in 3.5, like in Flame Strike. In fact, there were hundreds of offensive divine spells, depending on what you mean by divine. (In 3.5 that means 'castable by clerics and other divine casters', though if you mean 'deals divine damage' that's only a few dozen.)

[penguinofhonor]

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[timferius]

Oh excellent. Lately my favourite Pathfinder class has been DM. heh. I haven't played as a PC in ages, and  have only DM'd a handful of games, but I think I'm getting ok at it. We've been playing the campaign for about a year now, but we meet rather infrequently online due to conflicting schedules, trying to ramp it up a bit though. I'm hoping to get to a comfort level where I can comfortably DM for strangers, but currently my social anxieties around being judged plus my inexperience prevent that.

[TheWetSheep]

Wargames is the term.

More specifically, miniatures wargames. Wargames usually refers to games like Advanced Squad Leader and Virgin Queen. These are more like a typical boardgame, but are usually very in-depth and heavy simulations of combat.

Mafia sounds fun if complicated IRL. On the Internet it's a shouting match thanks that beautiful feature of the Internet where no one backs down over anything, ever.

It's a good way to learn interrogation technique, though. For IRL, The Resistance is the best social deduction game I've played. It can get crazy intense.

[timferius]

I've played The Resistance, and Avalon. I am terrible at lying AND at convincing others I'm telling the truth when I am..

[AlleeCat]

I like playing bards in tabletop games because I'm good at making up convincing/rediculous lies, but I'm not very good at actually lying. Hence where a character's bluff skill would come in.

[Kadzar]

I played Zombicide today. There's something very satisfying about being able to mow down hordes of zombies while still being very vulnerable to them. Of course, that's usually when you get up in levels; when you're in blue, you're often hoping you can just manage to kill one zombie with your frying pan. Then you get up to orange or even red, and you're hoping you can get a lot of zombies in a single zone so you can lay waste to them with your dual-wielded chainsaws. Or maybe you have movement abilities, so you're hopping around the map doing hit-and-runs with an assault rifle.

One thing I like about Zombicide is that you can't plan your build. You have to deal with the (equipment) cards you're drawn and usually base your level-up choices on that. I do sometimes wish I could transplant at least a little bit of Zombicide into D&D; I feel like it's pretty much mastered the concept of class-based design.

[uber pye]

has anyone ever played Exalted?

you should, it is the best awsome game!

Spoiler: In games i have played: (click to show/hide)

We forged several holidays

Usurped a kingdom by killing the local prince while in the form of the prince's cat

beat up the aspect of a god's anger, forged him into a sword, and gave said sword to the god

beat a master of plans by making it up as we went

accidentally brainwashing people

kill a man with a stop sign by accident

stop a zombie horde, and then take a road trip to the Hollywood stand-in in order to expose a world wide conspiracy by becoming famous

one character regularly cured people of cancer and other terminal diseases by punching the bad out

we had characters use John Wayne the Martial art Style(its core)

suplex a dragon

and the list goes on...

[Neonivek]

Which dragon? There are a ton of different types of dragons...

Ranging from "Really? You are proud of suplexing that?"

To "How the heck did you manage that?"

[timferius]

I've almost played Exalted several times. Made characters, but the games never really happened.