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Anyone in here has played Turnip28? Heard about it not too long ago and it seems really fun and somewhat cheap to get into.
Basically, it is a wargame akin to 40k but set 1000 years after the Napoleonic wars, but despite this technology hasn't advanced, mostly thanks to some weird vegetable god coming out of nowhere and destroying the world's vegetation except for grass, tubbers and mushrooms.
The game has some official models but the creator encourages players to use whatever and convert other figures into their own unique thing.
I haven't been able to play it, but from what i've seen it seems really fun since ranged combat is really inaccurate, so you can't rely on gunpowder units and have to use melee guys and plant-like gremlins
 
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King Dead said:
They definitely do seem interested, at least the oldest so far, though I don't know how much of that is due to the figures and math rocks. I do want to be sure that we can still do more adult-themed campaigns without having to worry about toning it down. Perhaps we might run a simpler campaign for the kids for an hour or so, then swap to our main campaign afterward. Best of both worlds, I'd imagine.

But that's years off at least, so it doesn't need to be planned out right away.
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Just be happy they're at least old enough and isn't like me where your retarded friend who promised, promised, that he had the day off and you even rescheduled around him has brought his infant/toddler with him because lol he deprioritises your shit and now you've got a kid that is actually chewing on dice and you've got a youtube video on how to perform the Heimlich playing in the background.

I can't wait until my kids are old enough to play but will probably just say this shit is gay, knock all my minis over, kick sand in my face, and leave.
 
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Ghostse said:
Kids playing with other kids is a whole different beast also. They don't understand the rules, but none of them do and can work out their own child interpretations of them.
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My social circle, such as it was, was mainly child prodigy type nerds, so none of us started out understanding the rules, but it didn't take long for rules lawyering and exploit tactics to take hold. We also went on to things like the original Steve Jackson Illuminati card game, and had the rule that allowed cheating so long as you didn't get caught. My favorite cheating method was literally just lying about the rules. Nobody would take a piss during the game since they knew everyone would just conspire against them while they were gone.
 
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Irish Turtle said:
Is vampire the masquerade any fun I have only played 5e dnd and im looking for new rpgs to try out
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That's a very broad question. What do you mean by it? The system? The setting? Or just the game generally? Because good players can make most systems fun, and bad players, not.
 
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Irish Turtle said:
Why not both the system and the setting are they both good
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Irish Turtle said:
im going to use my existing friendgroup to play
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The system is what I would call sufficient, just good enough to accomplish the aims. It isn't some mind-blowing work of design, it simply allows for enough creative freedom to allow the story-telling (hence the name) to go through with minimal friction. As for the setting, very dark and gothic, which lots of people like, it is supposed to be an elaborate metaphor for boomers keeping their progeny down but very quickly people realized that vampire politicking is fun so that is what it mostly really is about. I really enjoy it, but if you are running the game my recommendation is to just roll with whatever stupid ideas the players involve themselves in, this is not to say let them off, if they fuck up or are stupid, punish them harshly according the rules of the world. Last session of the VtM game I ran last year ended with half the party dying at the hands of the other half due to a miscalculated bargain made with the antagonists by one of the players and the killers realizing they had to quickly reverse course to maintain their standing. The lesson being that you need to establish genuine threat to create that backstabbing/politicking or otherwise the players WONT desperately claw their way out of a bad situation.
 
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Irish Turtle said:
Is vampire the masquerade any fun
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Going with what @LovisXVI says, from people I've known who've played it....

VtM/WoD attracts some of the most obnoxius, retarded players. VtM has an adjacent LARP and... while I understood you could play and be elbow deep in all the """"""curvy"""""" BDP gothwannabe 20-something cutting-scarred poontang you could ask for, it was far far too gay for me to try to get involved in and compete with the other losers for the one moderately attractive goth girl. Anyway what I'm saying is these sort of types bleed into the VtM space. And you also get bleed in from Werewolf:The Apocalypse, and I have never met a normal W:TA player.
The local W:TA scene and the people who played it are to this day a good portion why I refuse to play any system with a "crippling injury"/"permanent injury" mechanic because very clearly chopping limbs/getting them chopped off and massive scaring and other such gore was the primary draw for the guys playing it.
Now I understand this isn't everyone who plays WoD but this was also the general timbre of another W:TA group and a third group playing some other system which might have been some homebrew; I don't know, I didn't ask, I just got what I overheard during my one-shot/while packing up after and opted not to return to that LGS (that wasn't the sole reason, but the fact those mutants were there made the decision to fish for players elsewhere easier).

So its one of those "I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot but I never want to collect another fucking nickle that way ever again" sort of scenario.


That said, if they play and pretty much never talk about it unless prompted, sort of like CoC there are lots of guys who talk about really good sessions or campaigns for years after they played them so its very clearly possible to have a good time and not be spanking it to Faces of Death. And if you are bringing your own players from other systems, it seems likely you'll avoid having any gore freaks.

But it also sort of seemed to be the sort of thing you played in highschool/college and then grew out of if you were well adjusted.

But , I'm again going to point out my experience is extremely regional and sample size tiny.
 
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Snekposter said:
Are we talking just Vampire or World of Darkness as a whole? Because the fans of Werewolf make the vampire lovers look like morally upstanding citizens who faithfully attend church every Sunday.
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I am talking about any tabletop rpg so dnd vampire the masquerade and warhammer tabletop rpg all count
 
Irish Turtle said:
I am talking about any tabletop rpg so dnd vampire the masquerade and warhammer tabletop rpg all count
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I think the question is more "Are we counting all WOD as one thing, or individual products?" because all WOD players seem maladjusted. V:TM are usually more readily losers & dweebs, but more in an utter cringe sense. W:TA are gore & snuff enthusiasts but seem to have been shamed by society into keeping that stuff hidden in polite company.

PbtA is probably in the running.
I'm not sure if we should/can count FATAL because that's more of a meme, i've never seen a physical copy let alone known anyone who's played it.


Snekposter said:
Then Werewolf is one for sure. @Scream Aim Fire has talked about the furry vore cannibals it was his immense displeasure to share a campaign with.

Read, weep, and vomit.
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The least abnormal & vore-fetishist Werewolf players & campaign.
 
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Has anyone played any of the fan WoTD games like genius princess or the other one?
 
Irish Turtle said:
Is vampire the masquerade any fun I have only played 5e dnd and im looking for new rpgs to try out
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It's a good game if you like to play around with scheming and politicking, or. While I personally detest Vampire 5e due to the lore shifts, it is a smoother game than its predecessor in that regard. Requiem has a similar issue, but is mechanically smoother too. I'd most recommend V20 though.

And honestly? I don't consider VtM to be the worst lot in the World of Darkness. That title goes to either Mage or Werewolf depending on your focus on what makes a shitty player. Mage players, particularly in Accension, are ruleslawyering insufferable assholes, since that's what the system attracts. Werewolves have the same issue as Vamps, but they actually are worse. Like we're talking full on gooners and even zoophiles.
Irish Turtle said:
I am talking about any tabletop rpg so dnd vampire the masquerade and warhammer tabletop rpg all count
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Haha, I'd probably rate DnD 5e as one of the worst of the mainstream systems honestly. That's mostly because most players aren't like you; willing to actually experiment and try other systems. They refuse to try new systems, and prefer to shittily homebrew a concept when there's other games that do exactly what they want but better. Or they just reinvent a mechanic. I've also seen them get real fucking pushy with DMs, since a common thing I see are them demanding DMs run games they themselves cooked up. Actual goddamn nightmare.

Coyote and Crow has some of the most virulently racist people since they massively fucking hate white people, and people do actually play that one.

FATAL and Venger fans are as a whole degens and should not be trusted. But they barely fill a single large conference room, so you ain't gonna run into those.
 
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