Conjoint Gaming [Game On]
CG Gaming Section => General Gaming Talk => Topic started by: Coreybush11 on November 24, 2012, 11:20:23 PM
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For everything board game, Dungeons and Dragons, or any other tabletop games there are out there!
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I made this, because I want to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons with friends soon. I have wanted to play the game for a long time, but never knew how to. Then, the Internet happened and I remembered that longing a few weeks ago.
I feel making that board is a pretty big accomplishment, especially since I have a bunch of AP World History and Latin homework that I have neglected for this whole week.
I took a regular poster board, and made grid lines all across it. They are all about 1x1 inch.
Then, I took an almost clear garbage bag and taped it on. Now, it works just like a dry erase board.
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If you are going to play DnD 3rd\3.5 or 4th/4.5 irl, i recommend getting a washable play mat. They are generally $15-20 you can use a sharpie to draw your dungeon and then wash it away with just a rag and some water, as long as you don't use permanent marker/sharpie or leave it on there for over a day, it can last years. Me and my group still use our original mat and we have had it since 3.5 came out.
Edit: Also if my memory serves, medium sized bases are a little more than an inch (1.5inch?) and Larges are X4 that. When i get home ill measure my homemade/edited Necromancer/snaketounge cultist.
Edit2: I wish we had a P&P(pen and paper) rpg board.
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washable play mat
is that not the function of what I made? or is it just a dry erase board that looks fancy?
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washable play mat
is that not the function of what I made? or is it just a dry erase board that looks fancy?
It's the same thing, although the mat is probably a lot sturdier.
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washable play mat
is that not the function of what I made? or is it just a dry erase board that looks fancy?
It's the same thing, although the mat is probably a lot sturdier.
The mat isnt dry erase, and it tends to last longer then homemade stuff. Though if your careful homemade stuff can last just as long.
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If you like 3.5, check out Pathfinder. IMO it is much more fun to play as they cleaned up a lot of messy rules and over-complications. Plus it is compatible with lots of stuff from 3.5 so you can use the supplementary books from there not just the Pathfinder stuff.
Pathfinder does have a kind of stupid "combat maneuver" system which is still abit over complicated, that we just replace with opposed attack rolls.
Never liked anything I saw in 4th edition, I usually play 3.5, Pathfinder, or D20 modern with all its variations.
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If you like 3.5, check out Pathfinder. IMO it is much more fun to play as they cleaned up a lot of messy rules and over-complications. Plus it is compatible with lots of stuff from 3.5 so you can use the supplementary books from there not just the Pathfinder stuff.
Pathfinder does have a kind of stupid "combat maneuver" system which is still abit over complicated, that we just replace with opposed attack rolls.
Never liked anything I saw in 4th edition, I usually play 3.5, Pathfinder, or D20 modern with all its variations.
4.0 Is basicly w.o.w table top. Also pro tip: if you have access to teleport make sure you arnt under a dead horse, it counts for teleports weight limit.
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I personally play a lot of Gurps (4th edition, 3rd edition is terrible), Exalted, and Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader. I've been looking into CoC d20 and pathfinder as well.
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I personally play a lot of Gurps (4th edition, 3rd edition is terrible), Exalted, and Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader. I've been looking into CoC d20 and pathfinder as well.
I have been thinking of getting Exalted, but i always hear that you are rolling 20x as many dice as old world of darkness and 10x as many as Scion. Is that true? Also my Hunter: The reckoning and Clan Book: Malkavian, advertised it as a prequel to owod is it still a prequel or did they through that out the window during production?
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What I used to do, way back in the day, was use graph paper. Then graduated to a dry erase board, laid flat on the table.
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I personally play a lot of Gurps (4th edition, 3rd edition is terrible), Exalted, and Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader. I've been looking into CoC d20 and pathfinder as well.
I have been thinking of getting Exalted, but i always hear that you are rolling 20x as many dice as old world of darkness and 10x as many as Scion. Is that true? Also my Hunter: The reckoning and Clan Book: Malkavian, advertised it as a prequel to owod is it still a prequel or did they through that out the window during production?
For core rules?
yep, by the time your exalt is level 10 you'll be bringing buckets of d6's to the table. That's why most people (and by that I mean literally almost all) use heavy modifications of the rules, or at the very least use digital dice rollers.
I don't know about your other question.
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You guys jealous? Don't be. I can send these to you if you want ;D.
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I just use a gridded dry erase board......but I do have quite a few warhammer scene pieces and other such poppycock that I would love to use some time.
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You guys jealous? Don't be. I can send these to you if you want ;D.
I might be missing one or two but pretty much got all thems. My friend whose house we play at has pretty much all the books for 3.5, Pathfinder, and D20 so we have them all in pdf as well.
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I have been trying to make a map for a world to have a campaign in, like this.
It's so hard to make a world look believable like this.
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The problem with planning so far as to make a fancy map is that inevitably the players will wish to venture somewhere off the map and then you wasted time haha, unless you railroad them or "DM says no" usually we use sketched out maps or try and contain the whole game world on one map so theres no leaving it haha
Until they find a way into another plane of course...
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The problem with planning so far as to make a fancy map is that inevitably the players will wish to venture somewhere off the map and then you wasted time haha, unless you railroad them or "DM says no"
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Add to it :D
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I like this one better than that other one, something about snow gives me the
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*SHIVERS*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXDo4dL7SU
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All of you suck, using pdfs. PFF. I just finnished my 3.5 collection by picking up Oriental Adventures/l5r, and the are physical copys.
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All of us prefer not the spend hundreds of dollars on these books cause we have better things to buy. I have a friend who owns all the books anyways so I could just borrow them, PDF's are MUCH easier to find what you are looking for because of the SEARCH function, so with indexes there is much less time wasted trying to figure out which of the 30 books you need at the time when they are PDF's.
FGT. parrot
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But really can someone describe combat to me? I can't figure it out from the rule book.
I need an example of combat and I can't find any videos on youtube about it, or I'm just searching the wrong thing.
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..........are you trolling us?
or are you serious?
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..........are you trolling us?
or are you serious?
I'm completely serious
I haven't played a game yet, I just like making the maps
and I just can't understand the combat system from the handbook
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Everyone, monsters and players alike roll an initiative roll to determine who goes first in turns (each round is approx. 6 seconds essentially) unless someone is ambushing someone else in which case there are rules for a "surprise round" but normally each round each character can use a move action and a standard action and any number of free actions, but you dont have to do all those things, you can also "hold your turn" and use your turn later in the round. you move based on movement speed (most characters have a base of 30ft. per turn), then make attack rolls to see if you beat the AC of whatever is being attacked, if so then roll damage, then continue, if not then it is a miss. Rolling a 1 could result in crictical failure, and a 20 (or sometimes more than just on 20) is a crictical hit. At higher levels it is possible to attack multiple times (when attack reaches +6, you have a +6 first attack then a +1 second attack for example) and there are things like grappling and whatnot which is a pain in the butt. After every character/monster/whatever has taken their turn, that round is over and a new round begins. rinse and repeat until the monsters are dead, or the party is dead (in which case players will be pissed haha)
This is a bit vague and generalized because we play 3.5 or D20 or Pathfinder and sometimes mix and match some of the rules to have a more enjoyable system to play in.
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Everyone, monsters and players alike roll an initiative roll to determine who goes first in turns (each round is approx. 6 seconds essentially) unless someone is ambushing someone else in which case there are rules for a "surprise round" but normally each round each character can use a move action and a standard action and any number of free actions, but you dont have to do all those things, you can also "hold your turn" and use your turn later in the round. you move based on movement speed (most characters have a base of 30ft. per turn), then make attack rolls to see if you beat the AC of whatever is being attacked, if so then roll damage, then continue, if not then it is a miss. Rolling a 1 could result in crictical failure, and a 20 (or sometimes more than just on 20) is a crictical hit. At higher levels it is possible to attack multiple times (when attack reaches +6, you have a +6 first attack then a +1 second attack for example) and there are things like grappling and whatnot which is a pain in the butt. After every character/monster/whatever has taken their turn, that round is over and a new round begins. rinse and repeat until the monsters are dead, or the party is dead (in which case players will be pissed haha)
This is a bit vague and generalized because we play 3.5 or D20 or Pathfinder and sometimes mix and match some of the rules to have a more enjoyable system to play in.
Ok, it makes more sense when it's all together like that
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There's a lot of free form to it as well, the rules are guidelines to how to play it and keep things even and fair, but you can always add flair and its fun to spice things up and not just be all bland about statistics, like instead of "you hit the guy and he takes damage" describing what happens can make a more interesting experience.
I don't DM myself as I am not much of a writer, but I have a group of friends I've gamed with the last 2 or 3 years about once a week in amongst drinking beer and shooting the shit haha.
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There's a lot of free form to it as well, the rules are guidelines to how to play it and keep things even and fair, but you can always add flair and its fun to spice things up and not just be all bland about statistics, like instead of "you hit the guy and he takes damage" describing what happens can make a more interesting experience. I don't DM myself as I am not much of a writer, but I have a group of friends I've gamed with the last 2 or 3 years about once a week in amongst drinking beer and shooting the shit haha.
Heh, I just wish I could get my friends to be enthusiastic about something like this.
I live in the middle of buttfuck-nowhere Kentucky, in the top scoring school in our area. Our school is separated into weird demographics, that really don't line up with what the normal high school cliques.
There is literally NOTHING, NOTHING to do here except go to the mall and then go to major corporation stores in it, no real somewhat "local" game shop. There used to be a store called the Treasure Chest, that probably would have had stuff for Dungeons and Dragons, but all I really remember is that they had these huge prices on their Star Wars toys so I could never get any of them. The store moved somewhere else, or just closed, I don't know.
But anyway, my friends are all apart of that top academic tier, and don't really have any hobbies besides studying and then occasional video games. I have a couple friends who were going to play a DnD game, however, not of that group, but nothing more has been said about when a game will be.
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But really can someone describe combat to me? I can't figure it out from the rule book.
I need an example of combat and I can't find any videos on youtube about it, or I'm just searching the wrong thing.
well, the first step of combat is to roll initiative - check that out in your books. Once that's done, it shows the order in witch players and enemies attack. Then, each PC (player character) and NPC (non player character) chooses an action and an attack (or just one of those. some actions may take both.) then, you roll for damage. You then cycle through turns.
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Already been covered there Prince if you had read all the posts :P
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Corey I recommended banning all books you don't have or don't know. It can get chaotic no matter what system. I'm not talking clunky rules I'm talking OP stuff. I broke 4th on my first campaign without trying to. Also a great example of OP is Pun Pun, Google that kobolt and cry.
I also recommend banning the nine swords and Serpent kingdoms, things get stupid OP in them.
Are you rolling stats, point buy or?
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Corey I recommended banning all books you don't have or don't know. It can get chaotic no matter what system. I'm not talking clunky rules I'm talking OP stuff. I broke 4th on my first campaign without trying to. Also a great example of OP is Pun Pun, Google that kobolt and cry.
I also recommend banning the nine swords and Serpent kingdoms, things get stupid OP in them.
Are you rolling stats, point buy or?
Well I'm not the DM for this first game, my friend is, so I don't know if he is doing those things that you are talking about.
But we could roll or buy, didn't matter.
All I know about the campaign is that he is starting us all out in separate jail cells, and have to do some challenge related to our class to get out. I honestly don't know how he is going to make it make any sense from that, but whatever.
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Ah the classic prison buddies plot. 4th or 3.0?
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4th edition, he said it gave him more power as DM, even though I couldn't see it after I read both of the version's books
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He might be implying mid-endgame stuff. Dms become moot at that point, and players can take complete control. Some times even beginning levels for 3.5.
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Already been covered there Prince if you had read all the posts :P
posted this around 30 mins after I wrote it :P
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If anyone ever wants to start an online group we could find a program to do it. It would be awesome. I'm not super experienced, but have been looking for a game for a while.
A lot of my friends at school play in a group weekly after school, but there are too many people so I'm waiting in line to get in on that.
Seriously though, we should start a CG group. It'd be awesome. Scheduling it all is hard though. I think Napolean BonaPARTY tried doing this forever ago, sadly it didn't work out. This thread really makes me wanna do some tabletops D;
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If anyone ever wants to start an online group we could find a program to do it. It would be awesome. I'm not super experienced, but have been looking for a game for a while.
A lot of my friends at school play in a group weekly after school, but there are too many people so I'm waiting in line to get in on that.
Seriously though, we should start a CG group. It'd be awesome. Scheduling it all is hard though. I think Napolean BonaPARTY tried doing this forever ago, sadly it didn't work out. This thread really makes me wanna do some tabletops D;
Someone should do this, find a program/site and get people interested to join and learn how to use the program, we can have meeting date for it or just messages, like the Mafia game.
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I found an extremely simplified version of DnD, using a d6, and as dante put it "Dungeons and dragons for retards"
website - http://d20knights.com/
the pdf file - http://d20knights.com/uploads/D6_Dungeon.pdf
The basis of this version was that the DM could make up any rules not on the 2 page rule list, and be able to play the game on the fly.
You probably couldn't call it DnD really, more just a homebrew RPG.
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