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    What do people play more of nowadays?

    Enjoyed WoD when I was playing but as far as what I'm most interested in playing it'd have to be Cyberpunk and Traveller. With preference to the Traveller because it's been too bloody long since I last played it.
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    This Thread is For Awesome People Only

    I'm also from New Zealand and not only am I originally from the Wellington Region (which confers mighty awesomeness in and of itself) I'm also currently in Hamilton which is just a smidge more eastward than Wellington and therefore fractionally further into the future than Scurvy_Platypus (I get...
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    Games You Have But Have Never played

    GURPS and a selection of GURPS stuff (Cyberpunk, Traveller and others) Serenity Technically, I could almost add "Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0" to that list as what I run is so modified by house rules and alternative rules, including a modified form of FNFF2013, that it's barely recognisable any more...
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    The Ultimate DM Screen and carry all

    At the moment, my "combination GM screen and hold-all" consists of "my open laptop sitting beside my open briefcase". Between them they hold nearly everything (also have a laptop bag filled with additional source books) as well as block the players' view of what I've got open in front of me...
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    This Thread is For Awesome People Only

    Thankfully, I am not burdened with humility and thus can participate in this thread...
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    Interesting criticism I found about us "RPG guys".

    I'm old enough to remember it having a rather less "PC" name...
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    Crashing the game: When the DM doesn't expect resistance

    IMO, this is so right that it should be the opening chapter of the RPGers' Bible. Not being able to tell if the opponents are useless minions trained at the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy or Elite Supersoldiers with laser designated targeting is not unique to D&D, pretty much every...
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    Interesting criticism I found about us "RPG guys".

    We see it a lot "here" because this is where we are. We don't see as much elsewhere as we don't spend the same amount of time there. If we were in other groups/hobbies a lot, we'd see it a lot there as well. I've seen a lot of it in lots of different areas and I would not say RPGers are any...
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    Interesting criticism I found about us "RPG guys".

    With real freakin' flames...
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    Crashing the game: When the DM doesn't expect resistance

    Fantastic. Classic stuff. I've had a few of my carefully worked out contingency plans go right out the window with players surprisingly going along with the NPCs without argument so I've got an idea of how your DM must have felt.
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    Crashing the game: When the DM doesn't expect resistance

    My players surrendered in Saturday's game. Mind you they were facing police armed with shotguns and SMGs - either of which would go through the PCs' armour like a hot knife through butter - and none of the characters had any especial need to fear a confrontation with the police. From their...
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    Quest for the "perfect" all-in-one game

    I've heard great things about both GURPS and Hero as far as "create any character, play any genre" goes but sadly have played neither and would not be comfortable GMing either without having a grounding in what it's like to play the game. I'm confused by the OP as to me, "all-in-one game" means...
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    Interesting criticism I found about us "RPG guys".

    But... but... Chandler and Ross are just meant to be, OK? :devil: People in general can get hung up with their interests and take criticism as a personal attack, it's not a phenomenon limited to "RPG guys" or internet users - as has been well demonstrated by the plethora of other examples...
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    Not exactly Cyberpunk 2020

    Well, it's been a packed few days for the characters. They've arrived in a strange town, met their boss, been introduced ta netrunner who is just a disembodied distorted voice on the other end of the phone and a female fixer whose wife is also concurrently married to another man (who is, in...
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    I Have the Best Players in the World

    Mine are definitely "right up there". In the current game, they've just moved to a strange town to work as specialised couriers. Spent the first couple of days settling in, third day they had a lengthy job that paid quite good money so they went shopping, bought more weapons, had a good night...
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    Some idle gossip for a shallow nobleman to drop

    Noble: And I understand that the Duchess of Amsgrad is only having a soiree to snub the Baroness of Feldgarten who did not invite her to the Feldgarten Annual Ball. Noble 2: Is that so? Won't you have a drink - wine? Port? ... Saucer of milk? Noble: If reincarnation is true, I think I shall...
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    Some idle gossip for a shallow nobleman to drop

    Cool as, MP, hope it's a great game and the players enjoy the ball.
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    What materials must a Player have/bring with them at a game session?

    I keep the character sheets with the rest of my gaming data, I have a case filled with cheap mechanical pencils (a couple of bucks for a 4-pack) and erasers, and I have two spare sets of dice in case the players don't own any or forget theirs. I also provide small spiral bound notebooks so the...
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    "Can my spouse play for an evening?"

    Hehe. It does sound sinister, I know. But in this case the GM was female and her husband was one of the other players. Damn straight!
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    Can you make use of a systemless NPC book filled with colorful characters?

    Illustrations would necessarily be very genre-specific but they are a great idea. For illustrations of characters, I use Heromachine 2.5 - OK, so all the characters are in the same basic pose and the men are all built like Corporal Carrot while the women (to bowdlerise one of the players in my...
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