Mörk Borg is fun. People forget that it's a party game. It's meant to be played after you've had a couple of beers.
It is very fun, especially if you have a bunch of players who are free wheeling types in need of minimal guidance. Systems like the UWP make interacting with the world a smooth operation.
Pathfinder players, well Grogs at this point, are the worst rules lawyers I've ever GMed for.
I am partial to Worlds Without Number. It's got a free edition and Kevin Crawford is a reliable and professional chap so I like his games out of principle.
I shill Knave. It's written by a YouTuber (I think the same one that made MazeRats?) since it's very simple while allowing for character customization. Don't know how it would handle a full campaign.
MazeRats is the expanded edition of Knave written by Ben Milton, I believe. So it’s more like a second edition.
Other way around but also not quite.
Yes but no. the primary issue with fetish games is you have to sit in the same room with people who have your disturbing fetish and it gets you thinking "Wait, these people are fat obnoxious losers. Is that me? Is that my fate?"
Right, that's why ERP sounds horribly awkward. I was talking in a more mild sense. The furry who always plays Tabaxi, the guy with a deviant art page of sonic transformation art playing druid.. I know "magical realm" is a thing in TTRPGs as a negative example. Hell, some people get weirded out when a male player has a female PC (or vise versa), though that personally never bothered me.
Like he said, V:tM LARP. It ticks all of the boxes for the weirdo theater girls, girls who want to cosplay, the weird monster kink stuff, and so on. Any normal chick would just go to a bar.
Yes, V:tM LARP becasue that's the only one that attracts any quantity of
No.
Standard CoC is very much Lovecraft story in tone - At the Mountains of Madness, Dreams in the Witch House, all that good stuff. Pulp is more inspired by Doc Savage, Tarzan, Flash Gordon (only not Sci-Fi). That sort of Pulp novel era that overlapped with Lovecraft's writing but which Lovecraft himself took a different path from.
You're retarded if you think that having fun with your friends is cope.
He said cop-out not cope. Cope is a dismissal or attempt to contort reality. A cop-out is when you give up.
It's a total cop-out when you use interacting with people you like to defend a subpar product. Doesn't matter if you play a poorly designed TTRPG, play a crappy vidya game, watch a bad movie, or sit through a stand up act that's bombing to shit and back. Friends can and will make any of these experiences fun, but all cases are still objectively bad.
I don't think running images through a few filters, color correcting them to eye searing colors, and making shit genuinely unreadable by having the text veer off on a 90 degree angle since you care more about the art on the book than the spreads on a few pages is passion. And honestly I see people call it a metal album, but it's more like a half-assed punk magazine tbh.
My friends and I got together to do a group reading of The Eye of Argon, and did so twice. That means it’s a work of art beyond reproach.
Having fun with friends while engaging with a bad entertainment product, doesn't make that entertainment product "good". You can watch a shitty movie with friends and have fun riffing on it, but it'll still be a shitty movie.
Oh, is that what Masks is? I began to read it, saw it was a narrative style game (of which there are a lot with superhero systems) and just tossed it because I wasn't interested in a narrative style game. I've never (knowingly) read any PbtA stuff before, so I guess that Influence thing is what I should know to avoid.
See, this pisses me off. I will never get groups who design and write up characters and then make fun of someone for playing anything that isn't "literally me but capable of fighting monsters" or "literally me but can cast spells".
And yet, some will scoff at those too as player insert power fantasies or some shit.
It's the only pbta game I know that has it.
