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  1. Psion

    Besides D&D, what are you playing?

    Running: Masks: a New Generation Mutants & Masterminds Scum & Villainy (2 different campaigns, though one will wrap up soon)
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    Why Worldbuilding is Bad

    Imagine my surprise and wandered by the site and saw a green flag indicating a thread I had posted in decades (okay, A decade) ago. *Sips whiskey and reminisces about the good ol' days.*
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    Superheroes are a hot commodity -- why aren't superhero RPG's?

    Similarly, I think that the needs of the genre are very broad. Some of my players are not really fans of the Avengers or JLA, but really dig street-level stuff like Punisher or Daredevil. Though you may see the supers genre as a single genre, it's actually somewhat diverse.
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    Superheroes are a hot commodity -- why aren't superhero RPG's?

    Mutants & Masterminds, while not perfect, is relatively good and relatively popular. It is very "gameable", so it requires some combination of a strong GM hand and play group that is willing to play to what's fun and genre appropriate over power-builds. I think it's also important to consider...
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    Easter eggs in gaming

    Emerald City for Mutants & Materminds is loaded with references to comics, sf, and MST3k.
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    Champions Fourth Edition Returns In PDF Form

    Mutants & Masterminds 3rd edition (also had a DC version called DC Adventures, same rules set) ICONS Assembled Edition Hero 6th Edition / Champions Complete SUPERS! revised edition Marvel Heroic Roleplaying (based on Cortex). Relatively recent, but the license was not renewed. A few Fate...
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    Champions Fourth Edition Returns In PDF Form

    Some of the setting/resource book stuff is gold, useful for any supers game.
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    What Value Does The Game Bring?

    - A "contract" or expectations about the way the narrative will proceed. -- Related to this, the rules themselves produce a particular narrative flow. Different games produce different results. Cthulhu is different from Fate is different from Pathfinder. - Pure "gamism", and the joy of the...
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    Pathfinder 1E Looking for ideas - the "Mad Architect"

    As is often the case when I start planning out adventures, I am finding that planning too far in advance turns out to be a waste. I was planning on having the players explore a ruined temple on their way to other cities for other reasons. I pictured a temple that fell during the Godswar...
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    Maryland Pathfinder Group

    Whereabouts in MD? I run a game in Southern MD. (Odds against you being near here if you didn't say, but just saying, you might want to specify.)
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    So... Traveller... tell me about the cool things you've done with it

    I ran and played in lots of fun games. Saved an Imperial Cousin from the Zhodani on an interdicted world with my Marine Colonel. Performed black ops in the disputed solamani zone. Played a scuzzy merchant who bent the rules in The Traveller Adventure Chased the legends of sky pirates...
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    Sean's Picks of the Week (0321-0325) Transhuman FATE, Savage Thule, 5e Amethyst, and More!

    Transhumanity's Fate looks all kinds of awesome.
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    Pathfinder 1E Mythic Adventures. Huh?

    It's more just a big pile of extra cool powers, which nonetheless I found more interesting that such a quip might suggest. It acknowledges that the approach of extending the game by more levels (and all that entails) ad infinitum sort of never worked, so adds a second advancement track that...
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    Pathfinder 1E What Made You Switch To Pathfinder?

    I was already a highly sympathetic customer of Paizo and saw them as the torchbearer of all that was good about d20 by the time they announced their intent to make a d20 follow-on system. At the same time, though I loved 3e and was highly invested in it, I acknowledged that it could use a...
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    Should NPCs Have to Follow the Same Rules as PCs?

    Holy thread necromancy, Batman!
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    Master Game Schedule

    Thread titles say Rel is running 13th age Saturday at 2. This thread says it's Friday at 2. I'm trusting the former is accurate?
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    Death Penalties

    Short story: I find that there is some justification in making the character death significant to the player, but in actuality, I find that mechanical reinforcement of the same is seldom necessary and almost never worth any additional effort. These days, no matter the game, all characters in my...
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    Pathfinder 1E Post here if you're a PATHFINDER RPG fan!

    It's a little gonzo, but I'm vaguely intrigued by Mythic Advetures. I think that in the "charop" type of environment, it might be over the top, but if you play a moody epic high fantasy, it has the potential to be very cool. I'm considering playing or running Wrath of the Righteous to take it...
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    Pathfinder 1E Post here if you're a PATHFINDER RPG fan!

    Yo. Which is to say, "I am".
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