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JJLiautaud said:
I'd kill for a battletech RPG game, it would be so cool, so cool.
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Mechwarrior 2e is your best bet.

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3e introduced weirdly complicated character generation mechanics that for whatever reason were carried into Battletech: A Time of War. Which is technically MW 4E and was released much more recently. Avoid both of those. Stick with 2E. The advantage of Mechwarrior 2e is it's broad compatibility with Battletech as a war game. It was really only meant as an RPG expansion for the wargame. You can take your RPG character and just play Battletech with them. AToW was just needlessly complex for the sake of the five autists who want more crunch


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You also have Mechwarrior Destiny. Which is a completely original system that is nothing like Mechwarrior 1 through AToW. It's meant to be way more simplistic and "cinematic" but it goes too far in the opposite direction of Mechwarrior. So A lot of people who like Destiny will use it for the RPG stuff and regular Battletech or Alpha Strike for Mech combat. It's okay if you're not fussed about your character actually crossing over into the Battletech war game.

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There's even a fan made supplement that creates a "more cinematic and fastpaced" mech wargame using Destiny as a base called Battletech Destiny. It's all just really convoluted though. Requiring you to posses the rule books for 4 different games (which are referenced constantly) as opposed to just making their own ruleset.

2E just used BT rules and was fine. Every BT supplement for classic Battletech works just fine for it. There's also a fan made Battletech supplement for Savage World but I've no idea if that's any good. It seems okay to me. You can find PDFs of second edition really easily and I think DTRPG even does print on demand for it.
 
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@Steinercard 2e is completely fucked based solely on the fact that you have one attribute that you use for pretty much everything: reflex. It is absurdly easy to make hilariously broken characters. 3E just uses a life path system, similar to cyberpunk 2020. I believe it was lifted from the old Star Trek RPG that FASA produced.
 
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Ghostse said:
Just because I wanted to share and didn't know where else:

Arby's is releasing a set of 7 polyhedral dice.
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Arby's Is Tossing a New Set of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Dice Our Way

Due to popular demand, Arby's has brought back their unique and beloved Dungeons & Dragons dice for a limited time only.
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I guess technically a second batch, the first ones sold out.
I'm not sure how successful the market overlap here is, but at $12 a pop its not losing them any money.
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I'm gonna try and get a set of these when they go on sale tomorrow, 11 AM Eastern (store page got updated with the time). Nothing would be more satisfying and hilarious than to call out in excitement, "Oh hell yeah, natural Arby's!"
 
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Reticulan Joe said:
@The Ugly One How is ACKS? I've been wanting to do some OSR next time my turn to DM comes around, and I'm particularly intrigued by the Heroic Fantasy Handbook which seems(?) to turn most spellcasting into ritual casting, which is definitely the kind of REH flavor I think would be fun.
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I like it quite a bit. Having thorough rules for economics and hiring mercenaries added a lot more to the game than I expected.
 
Snekposter said:
The fact you're surrounded by RPG and BT loving spastics seems to have gone directly over your head, though. As did my joke.
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Enough pussy footing around who wants to play a BattleTech TTRPG I'm very obviously down but as someone who only recently started to get into the series through mechwarrior 5 we will need a tribute a volunteer to GM.
 
Welp, no dice on getting the Arby's dice, pun very much intended. Either they only had like three sets for purchase or bots and scalpers snatched literally every set up within seconds of going live, if their Twitter replies are any indication. Not a single person confirming they were able to buy a set, the best they could do being to get to checkout and then be told it was already sold out.

But hey, you could always go to eBay and pick up a set for $100+. Thanks but no thanks, I'm not paying ten times markup for a set of novelty fast food dice. For that kind of money I could get some nice metal or gemstone dice instead, or a whole pile of regular dice. My dream of rolling a natural Arby's will have to remain a dream.

They should honestly announce that they're going to start mass producing these just to fuck with scalpers, since there's clearly a demand for these goofy things. But that won't happen, I'm sure.
 
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King Dead said:
Welp, no dice on getting the Arby's dice, pun very much intended. Either they only had like three sets for purchase or bots and scalpers snatched literally every set up within seconds of going live, if their Twitter replies are any indication. Not a single person confirming they were able to buy a set, the best they could do being to get to checkout and then be told it was already sold out.

But hey, you could always go to eBay and pick up a set for $100+. Thanks but no thanks, I'm not paying ten times markup for a set of novelty fast food dice. For that kind of money I could get some nice metal or gemstone dice instead, or a whole pile of regular dice. My dream of rolling a natural Arby's will have to remain a dream.

They should honestly announce that they're going to start mass producing these just to fuck with scalpers, since there's clearly a demand for these goofy things. But that won't happen, I'm sure.
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Ironic chain restaurant dice sets... Is this what we've been reduced to, lads?

I'd buy a set in two seconds if I could get them locally, if they actually sold them at their stores they'd probably see more business than they've encountered in years
 
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Ghostse said:
Werewolves are the bitches of Injuns and Niggers.
Lol.
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At this point, I just want the damn book to be out already. We know it's going to be shit, Achilli; just release the damn thing and let everyone laugh at it, already.

Also, what's with the community always trying to act as if their "games" are the deep and masterful pieces of storytelling? Seriously, it's always" our stories are so great and have tons of subtle story abilities that show how great our views are!!!1!" when in reality it's more along the lines of, "no, your games are a wokeshit revenge fantasy made by a psychotic manchild." It's utterly ridiculous.

Top hats and puzzle pieces to the far right.
 
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Scream Aim Fire said:
Sorry to interrupt, but some more info about Werewolf the Apocalypse 5th just dropped:

Reddit - Dive into anything

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Read it and weep, gents.
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From a very brief Reddit skim I bring this

Thank goodness they used illustrations instead of LARPers this time.

Was worried that would look less like the savage warriors of Gaia and more like the attendes of FurryCon 2023.
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The one thing that I was worried the game was going to do was shy away from the thing that I think is vital to what Werewolf is; how fucked up the world is and how fucked up people make it worse.
We're living at a time when a beer company does a YouTube only thing with a trans influencer and millions of people lose their minds and shoot up cases of beer. We're living at a time when Kanye is like "Hitler wasn't all bad!". We're living at a time when we have to wonder how many legit Nazis are in our families.
And these people love, love, love to attack products and play the victim. I remember skinheads getting offended to Idris Elba was playing Heimdall in Thor. I had some dude get all in my shit after I invited him to an Apocalypse game I was running and he didn't like I was making a coal fired power plant evil.
I was afraid that they would have shied away from some of these more hot button issues so as not to alienate some of their shittier fans. On page 13, under Mature Content Warning I no longer have those issues.
Also the art is great and I love the layout of this book so far. It's so clean.
Does anyone's eyes feel a bit fatigued after reading the CofD books? I think it's the color tinged pages.
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Hikaru86 said:
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It's joke right? Right?! IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!
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^Practically my reaction when I saw this shit.

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From a very brief Reddit skim I bring this


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I mean, I know I'm beating a dead horse, but... seriously, the Reddit comments of this shit is proof of why these freaks ruin everything they get their grubby little hands on. Seriously, the victimhood obsession and the constant screeching of "NAZIIIIIIIISSSS!!!1!" is beyond stupid, and all it does it make them look like children that have never been told no... which was probably the case.

Hilarious how the fags are wining about how the people that don't like W5's shit are people who "attack products and play the victim"; seriously, pot calling the kettle black, much? These freaks have such a victimhood complex that it's absurd.

It's like a certain author once said: "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made".

Fucking hell, way to make Pentex look like the good guys in W5, you sick fucks...
 
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ComStar said:
ToH 3.5 has one of my favorite traps though, a broken Staff Of The Magi in an antimagic room. I think it was our rogue who took the pieces outside of the antimagic field and destroyed half the hall of pillars in a cataclysmic explosion. he blew his reflex save and took 400 damage.
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Just thought i'd add to this with my favorite trap from Return to the Tomb Of Horrors. It's very simple and can be very nasty

The premise is as follows: The party must get a mcguffin guarded by a brine dragon. The location of the dragon's lair makes draining it impractical, so the party have to swim in very cold water* to reach the mcguffin.

On the way to the dragon's lair, the party come across a cavern made of salt, save for one iron wall, badly corroded and covered in runes.

These runes, when read, release a powerful dispelling magic that should cancel out all ongoing spells and perhaps suppress magical items for a time. This leads to the party being flash frozen and drowning, and the GM being forced to read up on seldom-used shit like hypothermia and the swimming/drowning rules.

But why would the party read the runes, considering the many traps they've faced so far?

Because Acererak has been leaving clues in the form of vague poems and outright instructions on how to proceed, and none of them have been trapped. This can definitely lull unwary players into assuming it's safe to read what they think is another halfassed poem.

*brine can reach around -21 °C (-6 °F) before it freezes, and it is described here as being very very cold
 
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