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Fourier

Posted this in the tabletop forum, but it was suggested some here might be interested:

Anybody interested in an online play-by-post game of some tabletop RPG. I've been finding Roll20 difficult to schedule as most players are in different time zones and so would prefer an Irish crowd.

No experience required and it'd be relaxed enough in pace.

Games I'd be interested in running:

1st Edition D&D, but with one of the modern adventures (award winning ones published in the last few years).

Cyberpunk 2020 Blade Runner-ish, also going to be made into a game by the lads who made the Witcher games

Rippers Resurrected High action Victorian horror, like a lighter Penny Dreadful

All of these have very cheap pdf options.

EDIT: Another possibility is Vampire: The Masquerade.

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OldGoat

Room for a daywalker (and probably even less online time with the onset of the Pistmass season)?
If the above caveats are acceptable...

Fourier

Spells:
Clerical and Magic user spells have a much wider variety of effects in DCC. Basically when casting a spell you roll:
d20 + Level + Personality/Intelligence.

Personality for Clerics and Intelligence for Wizards. Spells can be used as much as you want unless you lose them (see the following).

The spell works differently depending on the value of the roll, each spell gets a huge table of outcomes. Generally very low rolls tend to cause the spell to be lost for the day, low cause it to fail but not be lost and then there are about eight different types of success depending on how high you roll.

For example 16-17 on fireball gives you one that can fire 100' and do 3d6 damage, but rolling 32-33 travels 500' and does 14d6 and allows the fireball to erupt from the heavens rather than the caster's hands.

Rolling a 1 might cause "Deity Disapproval" for Clerics and "Corruption" for Wizards.

Crits give you not only the 20 from the roll, but doubles the level bonus:
20 + 2*Level + Personality/Intelligence

Other classes can cast spells if they find a scroll, but because they're untrained in it they only get to roll a d10, not a d20

Deity Disapproval and Corruption:
Basically Clerics roll on a table and their god will give them some quest based on the result.

Wizards however undergo some mutation due to Corruption, these range from minor (grow pustules, one leg grows a few inches) to extreme (mutate into having a beak orifice, start rotting to death). Luck can be used to stop Corruption.

Spellburn:
Wizards can temporarily burn their stats to add to spell rolls. So you might drop your Strength from 17 to 13 and your Agility from 11 to 8, a loss of seven stat points, giving +7 to the next roll. The points will heal back at a rate of one per day.

Patrons:
Wizards can reach out to Eldritch entities called Patrons, who give access to unique spells and can send aide in dire situations. The downside is that they become an additional source of Corruption that stacks with the usual one. They also have special effects when you spellburn.

For example if you have Bobugbubilz as your Patron and roll a 1, then you get a usual corruption and one of six possible extra ones from Bobugbubilz (that get worse each time they're rolled).

Learning Spells:
When you learn a spell I roll on a table that determines what variant of it you have, so people don't have exactly the same fireball for example

Fourier

Basically very like 5E, but with 1E's classes and some cool modification to magic. I'll mostly talk about the highlights for the Funnel here where you are level 0.

I'll make a post tomorrow about the classes and the new rules (mainly magic) that apply from Level 1 onward. This is so you can see what class you might want your level 0 guy to become.

Occupation:
All PCs come from some Medieval background job, this mainly affects your skills and gives you one weapon you are trained in.

Trained vs Untrained:
Basically like Proficiency in 5E in concept. However rather than getting a bonus, being trained in a skill means you get to use a d20 for the roll, otherwise it's a d10. Skills checks are just the old:
d10/d20 + Ability Mod vs Target. 10 is the default target.

There is no formal list of skills, it's more "logical". So if your occupation is farmer you are considered trained on a roll to identify a seed.

At Level 0 your Occupation gives you one weapon you are trained in.

Luck:
There is a new stat called luck replacing wisdom (other stats are the same, just new names, e.g. Charisma is Personality).
Based on your birth sign your luck gives you an additional bonus to something. Could be a roll type (to hit, damage), could be your AC, etc

You can also permanently burn your luck to gain bonuses to rolls. The bonus to the roll is equal to the amount lost, e.g. a character with Luck 12 reduces it to 8, gaining +4 to next roll.

There are also Luck checks for if something is purely down to raw luck with no skill or ability playing into it.

Saving Throws:
There are three Saving Throws now:
Will, Reflex, Fortitude

Will resists mental assault and effects
Reflex is dodging stuff
Fortitude resists physical effect

Fumble/Crits:
Gotten respectively from a 1 or a 20. You roll on the critical or fumble tables which tend to have extreme effects. Different classes have different Crit tables, Warriors and Dwarfs have several depending on level.

Monsters and NPCs also can get crits and these lead to gruesome scars on the PCs that take a long time to heal with penalties.

The App:
DCC has the best app of any RPG: "Crawler's Companion".

You'll need four Level 0 guys for the Funnel.

Just go to Tools, then Generators up top and 0-level character. Generated immediately and then copy/share will add it to the clipboard and you can post it here.

Rest of the app contains all the rules, e.g. Tools->Reference has all the class special abilities. The Spells tab will make more sense after my post tomorrow. Criticals has the complete list of Crit tables (pick table and roll value), same for Fumbles.

Fourier

sKeith wrote: »

fourion prime 4.0

is it the forth installment?

did i miss one?

lemme in...

Lol, I misspelled "forthcoming" as "forth coming".

I'll post a little summary of the rules soon, if ye've played D&D before there is very little to learn.

Necro

sKeith wrote: »

fourion prime 4.0

is it the forth installment?

did i miss one?

lemme in...

Currently playing Monster of the Week, Dungeon Crawl Classics to follow that

sKeith

fourion prime 4.0

is it the forth installment?

did i miss one?

lemme in...

Necro

Fourier wrote: »

I'm looking toward a forth coming fantasy mini-campaign back in our old Fantasy World of Fourion Prime. The rule system will be Dungeon Crawl Classics, similar to D&D.

However DCC has the concept of a Funnel, where you get a bunch of Level 0 characters and take them through a slaughter fest. The guy who survives and makes it to Level 1 will be your character for the mini-campaign.

Of course you can just make a Level 1 character directly for the campaign, but anybody who would prefer the Funnel, just let me know. I'd run it soon enough, with the campaign a week or so after when Monster of the Week finishes.

Funnel for me please

I'm plotting my army of dwarves as I speak :pac:

Evade

That sounds a little like the game I'm running now except my players are all at least level 10 and fumbling through Tomb of Horrors The survivors will have to fight a Tarrasque but they don't know that yet.

Fourier

I'm looking toward a forthcoming fantasy mini-campaign back in our old Fantasy World of Fourion Prime. The rule system will be Dungeon Crawl Classics, similar to D&D.

However DCC has the concept of a Funnel, where you get a bunch of Level 0 characters and take them through a slaughter fest. The guy who survives and makes it to Level 1 will be your character for the mini-campaign.

Of course you can just make a Level 1 character directly for the campaign, but anybody who would prefer the Funnel, just let me know. I'd run it soon enough, with the campaign a week or so after when Monster of the Week finishes.

Nebelwerfer

Sorry! Will try and catch up shortly

Fourier

Two players busy, will reschedule

Fourier

Off for the night

Necro

Ha, I'm available tonight but likely will be busy Wednesday. Working so at the PC just depends how busy it is

Evade

I won't be around this evening but should be here Wednesday.

Fourier

Monster of the week today at 19.00

General schedule will be Monday and Wednesday at 19.00

Fourier

Off for the night

Fourier

Next Monster of the Week is Thursday, hoping for 19.00

Fourier

Off for the night

Fourier

Up:
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=108789828

Nebelwerfer

"The name is Bubby Beelze, but you can call me 'Bub'".

"Dont call me Bub in a derogative manner though, as I might punch you in the throat. I'll apologize, and maybe even weep a little... not crying though, just something stuck in my eye.... DONT LOOK AT ME!!!".

Trying out character flavaahs! TTY'allL!

Fourier

Banjo wrote: »

Can I ask what country this will be set in and if it's present day? Need to see a man about a motor.

Stephen King-esque nowheresville America, in the Pacific NorthWest.

Banjo

Necro wrote: »

Ha, it's just letters and how they sound in our house at the moment, my guy is already great with numbers so hopefully won't be hugely difficult when they start the maths:)

Yeah, I've got blending to do to, but I can use the letter cards and tricky words as cover while I type.
"Ten-tah-kleh?"
"You said it wrong and now your whole party is trapped in a negative energy realm!"
Maths at that stage is mostly colouring in.

Having fierce trouble convincing the elder two that tables are to be memorised to speed up the more interesting stuff down the line, no amount of going to smyths with limited cash and figuring out how to maximise it with feats of addition and subtraction is getting the message across. And my house is full of ****ing lol-surprises!

Necro

Banjo wrote: »

Darren Dedicoat, present and correct.
May be in the middle of homework and dinner when this kicks off, but as long as no one minds me accidentally posting the 4 Plus tables as my contribution if I get confused, we'll be all good.

Ha, it's just letters and how they sound in our house at the moment, my guy is already great with numbers so hopefully won't be hugely difficult when they start the maths:)

Banjo

Darren Dedicoat, present and correct.
May be in the middle of homework and dinner when this kicks off, but as long as no one minds me accidentally posting the 4 Plus tables as my contribution if I get confused, we'll be all good.

Can I ask what country this will be set in and if it's present day? Need to see a man about a motor.

Necro

Fourier wrote: »

Anybody yet to send the rest of the character details, just send me a name for the opening post. If you want a pregen that's no problem.

Cron Minus reporting for duty

I'll try and get a few posts in on my lunch today, working evening shift but don't worry about me, I'll catch up anyways so keep going

Fourier

Anybody yet to send the rest of the character details, just send me a name for the opening post. If you want a pregen that's no problem.

Fourier

Monster of the Week starts next Monday December 3rd at 19.00

Necro

I apologise for my use of the phrase 'horsesh1t.'

I still fail to see any issue at all. But I guess we're leaving it there so that's grand.

Baggly

Mod

Ok gents. I'm pausing this discussion regarding oversight of GMs.

Necro, please choose your words much much more carefully

Banjo

Pter wrote: »

With regards to me modding and playing, you have raised this before and I'll give you the same answer pawwed gave you. Forum modding and playing haven't conflicted in the past. The forum has been fine while sully and I both modded and played. The crisis in abuse of power you seem to be worrying about doesn't exist, and if you don't take my word for it, there is plenty of feedback throughout ww to back this up.

Read everything you posted about GMs since yesterday afternoon. Then read the paragraph above back to yourself. When you get the joke, lets all laugh together and move forward.

What if, Pter? WHAT IF?????