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A friend of mine is looking for a relatively rules light game that works for a super heroes game. Basically he wants to run a super hero game with relatively little prep time, and I was thinking to look for something that was lighter on the rules side then say mutants and masterminds to help bring down the prep required. Anyone have any ideas? Here is the link to a game I wrote last year. It's something I came up with in my free time and my players really seemed to have a hoot playing it. If you end up using it just let me know how everything turned out.
What I'd like to know is ... Why did Nasa make the announcement? Nasa is suppose to look beyond earth... NASA has an entire Earth Science division that does atmospheric, biospheric, and airborne science. () All those hi-tech satellites can't be looking at space all the time so why not turn them around and learn something that can greatly benefit people right now.
I believe you're thinking of the Whirling Frenzy variant, from the 3.5 Arcana Unearthed supplement. It also gave you +2 AC instead of -2, and allowed an extra attack on a full attack, with all attacks at -2. It was a decent variant, but not an official one for Pathfinder yet. Huh, I had forgotten about that, but I know it's not that one I'm thinking of. Maybe I saw it in a 3rd party supplement somewhere. In any case "Nothing to see here folks, just a guy whose delusional" :-)
So I'm convinced that I saw a new feat or ability in the APG that lets a barbarian increase their dexterity when they rage instead of their strength. Is there really something like this or am I just going crazy?
Thank you much :-)
I'm the event organizer for our local con and we're getting things ready for our event this January. I'd like to have Society games at our con and was wondering if there is anyone like a regional Society coordinator in New England or someone I could contact about getting a bunch of Society games at our con. Any info that folk could pass on would be wonderful.
The half-orc lovers don't need the constant emotional support and ego inflation that the elfy folk do. Elves are so emo, ;-)
Don't forget Microlite20.
I like Adventure Squad. I'm using it to run a game for N00b players at a con this winter. I'm also a fan of Explosions & Escapes.
HA!!! Love it. I should do that to my physics students when they have late work.
Wha...??? I need more of those players! HA! A friend of mine is a professional comedian out in LA and there are at least two female porn stars that are in his group. I think the GM has a blog called "Playing D&D With Pornstars" that you can search for.
This is a primer that someone on the WotC eberron boards sent to me a while back. http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmykdmndl2m/Jaytic d'Cannith's Eberron Primer.doc It's nice and organized and easy to add and subtract material to. This is one that my wife used for a con game she ran last year. It's basically the intro chapter from the Eberron book. I think most of it can be found online somehwere at the WotC site.
i havn't played it yet, but I did create some Risus Shadowrun rules so I could easily throw together a game for a con if I needed to. http://www.mediafire.com/file/0xnzqn4mzzz/Risus-Shadowrun2.doc
Oh yeah. I forgot about venders. Figure out if you want to charge them for space. Make sure you have space for them if you're going to have them. Make sure to put something together that you can either give or send to them for information. This should include dates and times of the event and some place for them to tell you how much room they are going to need for their warez. Some venders may only need a half table. Some may need two or three depending on what they are selling.
My wife and I are gearing up to run our second small Con here in central Maine. There are really only 3 people who plan the thing: My wife, myself, and a friend of ours. If we had more than that and we know nothing would really get done. Try to line up a good graphic designer do do your website and promotional materials. Fortunately my wife is a professional graphic designer and marketer so we have that covered. For your first con keep things small at first and consider the focus of your con (I will assume that you want to run an RPG/game con). Keep this focus in mind during all your planning. It is easy to loose sight of this. The first thing to do is figure out how long you want the con to be. I would recomend no more than one or two days to start. Preferably over a weekend with a holiday attached. We do ours over Martin Luther King weekend that way people who travel have that Monday to get home and rest (and give the planners & volunteers a day to recouperate as well). Once you've figured out how long it's going to be then you have to find a venue. A school would work, as was mentioned above, but you will prabably only be able to get part of it and probably not for multiple days unless you or someone you know is on staff. You can also look at event centers, convention centers as well as town or city recreation centers. We do ours at a local hotel that has a small convention center. They do lots of wedding receptions and are used to large amounts of people. They also give people attending the Con a small discount on any rooms they get for the weekend. You will have to check on the Venue's policy about food and beverage. Some places will let you have booze, others won't. Some might requre that they be the only ones to sell food as part of the contract. Getting a venue may also require some upfront payment so be prepared for this. Fortunately we have a good relationship with our venue so they let us pay for the use of the place afterwards with the money we made from the con. If you want to have movies or classes make sure there are spaces available for this and think about how you will get any audio/video equipment. We have some friends that work in the AV department of the local university that we utilize on this end of things. Also see what their capacity is for tables and people. You'll need to figure out how you want the game room organized to keep things simple and straight forward. Do they have round tables or square tables? Our venue has both so we have round tables around the perimeter of the game room for RPG's and bord games. We have two large suare tables in the middle for the wargames and miniautures. We put the minies guys right in the middle in front of the entrance to give anyone that enters something to look at imediately as they get into the room. Once you have a venue and a schedule you will need to get materials out to the public so they know it will be happening. You will need a website that will need to be updated regularly and you will need fliers and posters designed and printed and put up. We found a great site called Warhorn.net that is an event manager for cons and will help you set up online registration and payment. Now you NEED to advertise for GM's. A game con is nothing without them. I would sudjest creating an online form linked from your website so that will let people submit events that you can then schedule. You'll have to decide when you want to open up registration to the public and how much you want to charge You'll also have to figure out any programing you want to have. Last year we had members of the SCA do some demonstrations through out the day as well as some live steel combat groups. We also had some Vode from the Mandalorian Mercs trotting around in costume (we had a great picture of a 12 year-old fleecing one of the mercs at poker). That's all I got for you. If you have questions my wife will prabably be better able to field them since the thing really is her show. You can reach her at: info@snowconmaine.com You may also want to contact some of the hosts at the Fear the Boot podcast (www.feartheboot.com). They also do a small local con and might have some good ideas for you.
Is your wife sticking with historical Earth (with appropriate steampunk tweaks) for her games, or is she cooking something original up? She's staying with historical earth for this one. There isn't much in the way of steampunk costuming this way and part of her doing this is to encourage others to give it a try.
Thanks Jean. I'll have to check it out when I'm home and don't have the internet filters making my life difficult. My wife and I would love to go to Steamcon. Alas, the trip from Maine to Seattle is a long and expensive one and my inlaws wouldn't take our boy for that long. Though my wife is running a small gaming con this winter (our second) and has planned a Steampunk Luncheon for that Saturday.
Hmmmm..... I think that option 1 might be the best for me. It essentially keeps the text of the players guide intact without having to justify any changes to my players.
So I'm thinking about running Legacy of Fire and wanted to do it with the new PFRPG. In the new rules a characters favored class gives the character either +1 HP per level or +1 skill rank per level. My first question is: Does this apply at 1st level as well? My second question is: If every character gets this what is one to do with the "Finding Halleen" campaign trait from the Legacy of Fire players guide where the PC's first class is their character class and they get +1 HP/level and +1 skill rank per level?
Both Magick and Faeries come with some short campaign settings - about 3 or 4 in each. Very cool. Thanks for the info. And thanks for the offer of helping out. I'll have to check those out.
...and my own Tales of Zobeck. Thanks Mr. Baur, this looks really interesting. I may just have to pick it up :)
Thanks Fray. I'll take a look at those games. I was hoping someone had something for free online that they had already developed, or at least enough world info of another game out there that I wouldn't have to buy anything.
Hey everyone. I just bought the Steampunk OGL book as a gift for my wife, but there isn't much for setting. I was wondering if anyone knows of any resources for a Steampunk world to set a game in that wouldn't involve buying a completely new RPG or writing ALL my own material from scratch.
Sweet! That would be great chummer. Just the kind of thing to get my SR juices flowing again.
I'll just have it be a normal boar hunt since I don't want them to have the feeling that everything in and in the immediate vicinity of Sandpoint is totally screwed up. Otherwise they'll have the feeling of, why in Any of the Gods forsaken name would you want to live here! You definately have a point there. I guess my perception of a challenge has been skewed a bit by only being able to play about once a month or so. Becuase of that I've been trying to keep things fast paced and "different" to keep my players excited about what will happen next.
While getting my materials ready to (hopefully) run Burnt Offerings I've been thinking about what to do with the Boar hunt the PC's take with Aldern. I was planning on not having them do the catacombs of wrath, but I still wanted to use the sinspawn. So I thought that during the hunt Aldern and his horse would fall down an old shaft to a mine. While the pc's are trying to figure out how to get him out he's going to be snached by two sinspawn from the runewell who have made their way out and made the old mine their lair. So it's a small dungeon crawl against two sinspawn and the makeshift traps they have set up (want to give the rogue something to do). I was wondering what others have done with the boar hunt and how involved they made it for the PC's, and if anyone has any ideas on how to help flesh out the sinspawn lair a bit.
So what happens with Iesha's Revenant if the PC's set her free and she's able to hunt down Aldern? I figure that she ends up clearing the path as it were allowing the PC's to by-pass any haunts and encounters on the way if they follow her straight down. But, she'll be so fatigued by the ordeal that Aldern wil be able to strike her down when she enters so that the PC's still have their big fight waiting for them.
In getting my material ready to run Rise of the Runelords I'm making the decision about what books to allow players to use to make their characters. I always allow the basic 3, and normally I allow the PHB2. However, the feel of the PHB2 doesn't seem to fit the RoRL world well so I so I starting thinking and it seems that the ToB might have the fit I'm looking for. Especially with some of the suggestions of making Tsuto a swordsage already on the boards. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about how the various fighting styles would fit into the world. Perhaps they are the modern incarnation of the ancient magic of lost Thasilion? I was thinking that Stone dragon may have been the fighting style of the giants employed by Karzoug. Iron heart seems like it would fit the dwarves of janderhoff. I'd appreciate everyone's ideas on this, any any work that people have already done would be greatly appreciated. Thanks chummers. -ShadowPavement
Things are always better when pint-size evil has a sense of humor ;-)
Glad to hear that your lady is ok after that. Maine is always a nice place to live if you're looking for a new place to settle down. Portland even has something of an active night life and culture :-)
I guess I'd like to see affiliation work kind of like the Dragonmarked houses from Eberron and the use of Favored in House feat. You spend a feat to gain the benefits of your affiliated organization and you can make a level check to get access to certain amounts of "stuff" depending on what the flavor of the affiliation is. Perhaps a whole chain of "affiliation feats" would be kind of cool, each gaining you access to niftier stuff. (is niftier even a word???)
Got Mine!!! *Rock'n Air Guitar*
My mouse is wearing out from hitting the send and recieve butten on my e-mail:) I feel your pain man. My wife is laughing becuase every other time she looks over at me on the computer I'm either back checking my e-mail or here on the website hoping for some news about pathfinder. *twitch twitch*...need...e-mail.......*twitch twitch*
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/dx20010401a At least we knew that one was an April Fools gag
I found this through the Star Wars: Saga site
not sure what "the minatures page" is. Anyone have any intel on them? Is this even a credible listing?
Can't... Hold... On... Much... LONGER!!! "And that's why he's called Cliff Hanger!" Tell me about it. I've been checking my e-mail at least once every hour all day waiting to see if the Holy E-mail has been sent out yet. Even got me checking in the middle of the night since I'm up at odd hours to take care of our newborn. Damn you Paizo for making wicked cool products, damn you to the Demonweb Pit :-P
*Mr. Kool-Aid busts through the wall* OH YEAH!!!!! Totally need one of those goblin plushies for my class room. My students already think I'm "different" this will just be icing on the cake. Besides if its on my desk I can tell them that the goblin with eat their fingers if they don't do their work on time. Hee hee.
Groovy, Thanks chummer
I was wondering when the Module PDF's were going to be available for non subscribers to download.
Thanks chummers. LOL fortunately I had a few minutes before heading for bed and found the Blog info about 2 minutes after posting :P
Apparently these two great adventures take place in the pathfinder universe. Does anyone have any ideas of the deities that will be included in this new world?
...when all phones, cel and otherwise are turned off to minimize interruptions. (My group is downright religious about this, barring emergency calls. "It's Sunday! Gaming! Buh-bye!!") *Sigh* I wish I had your group. I havn't gamed in over a month becaues just enough people couldn't make it to each session.
I guess this makes me happy that my players are lazy and don't bother to read the setting books. I can't even get my girlfriend, who loves gaming, to even read the PHB to find out what the heck her monk can do half the time. Good for setting knowledge not getting out. Bad for any hope that my players may ever use in game tactics. Ah well.
Yay. Now I'm on the list too :-)
Don't forget there is the option to have Gestalt characters from the Unearthed Arcana book. It allows you to be two classes simultaneously. So you'd be a 1st level Fighter-Rogue with all the abilities of both classes and the best attack rating and saves from either of the two classes. And when you hit 2nd level both your Fighter and Rogue abilities would go up. It's specifically designed for groups that have very few players and who still want flexability. Check it out.
I havn't gotten mine either. Yay Maine. Though I did change my subscrition address to my home and not the school where I work so I can just get it when it arives instead of treking all the way out of town several days in a row to see if it's there yet. Arrrrggggg......last thing I want to see over summer break is work *shudder* Though from what I've read here I'll plan on having Marzena give the PC's the journal entries that are presented in the 3 FoE, instead of running through the giant dungeon crawl, which I don't care for as much. The journals will prabably be encoded so they still have to do to the Free City to get them deciphered.
I would like to start this humble thread where we can let Mr. Mona know how much we apreciate the hard work that he puts into what he does, regardless of the flack that he has gotten lately because of the AOW Overload and the 3FoE adventure We can't expect Mr. Mona to be more or less human than the rest of us. (Though I am inclined to think that he is more human than most of us since he has the "game designer" and "editor" templates and is of the "Super Awsome!!!" subtype.) |