Any other D&D / TRPG peeps out there?

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I really enjoyed the novels I read, but now I can't remember where I even left off, but then I haven't really put a ton of effort into figuring that out and than tracking down more. My brother has some he had given to him but they don't seem to be quite the same series I was reading, probably tied in somehow...but I haven't read those. Last thing I read was the Game of Thrones books.

I might have let out my happy noises at reading you ran Dragon Age games ( I f*****g love that series... even if Inquisition makes me wanna slam my head into a desk) I know nothing about the others but they all sound really cool, like are they fantasy based or sci-fi or blended? And I get the GM thing, the last GM I had made things weird / tried to hit on me (I think, it seemed like it), and I've finally found a new group. Fingers crossed it doesn't get weird. And I'd love to GM, I'm not sure which game I'd wanna run. It's a toss up between the Vampire Masquerade universe, D&D, Firefly/Serenity, or Cyberpunk.


I tried to read Game of Thrones... it took me a year and a half to finish the first one....I haven't tried to read the others yet. I've been trying to read the Dragonriders of Pern series again, I really like those.



Damn, that sucks I'm sorry. There's a website called Meetup. You can always try and search for D&D groups on there for your area. And I love druids and nature = a lot better than people most of the time.

Love D&D (currently playing 5e) & have played a lot of other tabletop pen & paper games, including playtesting with a group of indie game designers that I met from Meetup. Loved me some Warhammer once upon a time too. Did a fair amount of painting and rewrote the 8th ed. fantasy rulebook. Some of my best early memories are playing AD&D at school. I still have my first polyhedral dice set from when I was 10 (except the d4 that I lost).

Please. I'll go first (files are in my public Dropbox .. sorry the lighting is not better):

High Elf Captain: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8b7xtxwytad1n ... n.jpg?dl=0
High Elf Spearman: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c9yszwjq3c2ld ... n.jpg?dl=0
High Elf Bolt Thrower: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d7oqcct4fzin5 ... r.jpg?dl=0
Zombies: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q1ecjclnlx78r ... s.jpg?dl=0

You want to see a real heavy book, you should see Pathfinder =)

http://www.jimzub.com/pathfinder-vol-1- ... -may-15th/

Fourth picture down is a pretty good comparison of the Core Rulebook, that thing is massive.



Shadowrun B)

I really miss that game sometimes, but I don't think I'd be able to run it very well myself. The atmosphere is the best part, and I wouldn't be able to do it justice at all.

pretty cool, I really like the zombies.... and yeah here's mine the lighting isn't quite the best either, some of the details are kind of hard to see:




and then these are some earlier minatures I started out on. I also have a couple trolls...but I don't currently have pictures of those, but anyways:

Yeah the dryad minatures are for Warhammer age of Sigmar...and there is also 40k from which I understand is more kind of sci fi, yet has orks lol.

That said I have never played either type of warhammer..I did get a book with some of the story behind the dryads and some rules and such for using them to play but so far I've only painted them. My boyfriend knows a lot more about it and how its played, but he has mostly just painted as well though much longer than I have.

Those look really good & are shot pretty well. How long have you been painting?

I'd say around 2 years somewhat off and on, I started with the Reaper minatures because they're cheaper than the Warhammer ones, and at the time I had never painted minatures before at the time so wanted to see if how I did with that before spending the money on those. The Warhammer minatures are certainly better quality, the material is much easier to paint actually, but certainly more of an investment.

I have such a love-hate relationship with Inquisition. It has what may be the best story BioWare has ever written...but it's buried beneath a mountain of fluff and fetch quests. To say nothing of ruining mages, making the gameplay nearly intolerable, and of course fifty varieties of buzzcuts and nothing else for hair. And even though Alix Wilton Regan is easily my favorite voice actress (I've loved her ever since playing Deponia), I never connected with the Inquisitor the same way I did Shepard. Still, I'm willing to forgive most of its flaws now that BioWare has shown me what a truly bad game from them looks like. Rest in peace, Mass Effect.

I only ran a one-shot of Dragon Age, and unfortunately it was last minute so I wasn't nearly as familiar with the system as I'd like to be. Still, I like that there are consequences for failing spellcasting (woo, maleficarum! :p )--though if I run a Dragon Age campaign in the future, I might use the rules for The Dark Eye.

Numenera is one of the most fascinating roleplaying settings I've come across: strictly speaking it's post-apocalyptic, but presented in such a way that it looks very high fantasy--only all the magic is actually advanced technology and the dragons may actually be advanced robots or genetically engineered creatures or what not. Coriolis is what I'm preparing to run right now, and it's pretty classic space opera in the vein of Firefly--but replace Western or Chinese influences with Middle Eastern. The publisher describes it as "Arabian Nights in space." I'm adding kung fu rules so I can give it a sort of wuxia flavor. Tales from the Loop is a really interesting one and I wish I could find players for it: it's based on Simon Stålenhag's paintings, and it's set in the 1980s but with giant robots and other technological mysteries. The players play as kids in the 10-15 range who have to solve these mysteries. It's definitely in the "childhood nostalgia" genre, but I'm not sure I could sell my players on playing as kids...Tianxia is a rule expansion for Fate Core (a setting-agnostic rule set) set in a sort of mythic Medieval China filtered through the lens of wuxia and Hong Kong cinema. I've tried several times to convince my players, but they always protest they don't know enough about China--so I finally sold them by transplanting it to a space opera setting, namely Coriolis.

Speaking of RPGs that look like they're for kids but totally aren't, Cairn is a really interesting indie RPG. At first glance, you play as uplifted woodland creatures. On closer inspection, this is a world where the gods got so fed up with humans that they dropped a moon on them and uplifted animals to take their place. So yeah, that got dark quickly. It also includes such child-friendly notes as mentioning that cannibalism is "frowned upon" but rats do it anyway.

@Zaarin Cairn sounds awesome.

Speaking of indie games and wuxia, has anyone played this one?

http://danielbayn.com/wushu/

It's pretty rules-light, but they're smart rules and it's all about enabling the crazy. Really, really fun if you have a DM that "gets it".

Cairn is on the long list of games that sound fun but I can't find a group for.

Wushu looks interesting, though for a rules-light wuxia game I think I'd go with Tianxia (which isn't free, but it's cheap--about $10, or less on sale). I was really keen on trying Qin: Warring States, but the rights reverted to the original French publisher and now it's out of print in English. Nice thing about Tianxia is that the rules are set up to support both over-the-top wuxia-style kung fu and more grounded traditional kung fu drama. Also it's weapon-agnostic, which is to say that it doesn't care if you're wielding your fists or a jian or a meteor hammer or whatever: all that matters is your skill. Reduces the work for the gamemaster, plus it means even a power gamer (don't have any in my group, but they can be a problem in a narrative game...) has no reason to favor one weapon over another for stat purposes.

I adore D&D 3.0e/3.5e as well as Pathfinder, though I haven't had a group to play with in some time sadly.

We just finished the 2nd Ed. campaign I was running, and I'm already having withdrawals

I'm really itching to run a B/X megadungeon again, though.

D&D is always something I was interested in, but it just never quite came together when I was younger. I had friends who I let know I was interested, but for some reason it just didn't coalesce into actually playing. I would love to try someday though! I've watched a few streams of people playing (as well as HarmonQuest which is freaking awesome) and it just seems like so much fun. Maybe one day it'll happen, who knows!

I'm a massive tabletop fan. Started with DnD 3rd Ed and graduated to things like White Wolf and Shadowrun later.

Sometimes I kind of wish we could've gotten into it when we were much younger, but I suppose we had enough other geeky things to keep us occupied back then, especially LARPing. I had a couple Fighting Fantasy books around middle school, but IIRC I didn't get to play an actual tabletop game until the summer before 9th grade. I finally got to play AD&D 2nd Edition not long afterwards, which was right before 3rd Edition would come and steal everyone away from it