Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[Overly Serious]

Rate my ACKs campaign map. I've used it for a few sessions now one with a dedicated group and another with a one shot. The dotted lines for the roads are kinda jank, planning on fixing that soon.
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Delightfully old school. Takes me back to BECMI boxed sets and all their fun. Nice touch that all the hexes are numbered. Very helpful. I'd take your map over one of the illegible garish things everybody seems to love these days.

 

[Judge Dredd]

What was Forgotten Realms about/what was it's sales pitch?

I don't know if I ever asked it here, but I always see online that Forgotten Realms was a cool, unique setting, until 5e made it the default and now it's just generic medieval fantasy. Thing is, I don't really know how it was different. People will say Baulders Gate, Drizzt, Faerun, Sword Coast, Undermountain, and Waterdeep, but those are just the names of locations, characters, or games.


Unrelated. My YouTube is full of videos about Draw Steel. Not watched any of them, but I assume they're the RPG flavour of the month.

 

[The Ugly One]

What was Forgotten Realms about/what was it's sales pitch?

It's a fleshed-out fantasy setting with interesting locations, compelling characters, and a solid history, making it easy to write adventures and create hooks. Plus there are tons of companion paperbacks to go deeper if you want. The big contrast was World of Greyhawk, which is an extremely spartan setting with little more than a nice map, paragraph descriptions of countries, and a few other things. Personally, the latter is all I ever wanted out of a setting.

For example, you brought up Undermountain, which sits below Waterdeep. Ruins of Undermountain I & II is a fairly massive set of goodies, including a campaign book that goes into the history and characters, and of course, loads of adventure material. The biggest thing published for Greyhawk during the Gygax years, by contrast, was probably Temple of Elemental Evil, which provides you little more than a couple pages of intro, then page after page of keyed floors. As a location, Waterdeep simply has far more material for you to work with than Verbobonc, the location of the Temple.

It's like that with pretty much every location. If you want to run an adventure in the Underdark, there's virtually unlimited lore, books, maps, and other stuff. The Lands of Deepearth in 1e is a few pages in an expansion, and precious little else.

 

[Adamska]

My counter offer is that the reason they kept spamming Faerun and neglecting Oerth is entirely due to rights issues. Faerun is choked to death with NPCs who can't be fucked to handle the problems they commission you for specifically because if Wizards didn't shit out a book every year or so, the royalties went to the author and he could take his ball and go home. Contrast to Oerth, which they always had the rights to when they made the purchase; they didn't need to worry about losing that.

I am genuinely of the belief that that is the main reason the setting is that overdone and allegedly loved; they just spammed it at you to shit and back to keep the rights, and that bred familiarity. It also helped that the people who bought setting books were DMs, and guess how useful it is to run a module if you just started out?

Though this is coming from someone who almost never uses a setting when running DnD.

 

[The Ugly One]

My counter offer is that the reason they kept spamming Faerun and neglecting Oerth is entirely due to rights issues. Faerun is choked to death with NPCs who can't be fucked to handle the problems they commission you for specifically because if Wizards didn't shit out a book every year or so, the royalties went to the author and he could take his ball and go home. Contrast to Oerth, which they always had the rights to when they made the purchase; they didn't need to worry about losing that.

Faerun was more interesting than Oerth from the first boxed set. All the stuff I mentioned was early, too, Undermountain was 34 years ago. It's gotten much more bloated since then.

 

[Judge Dredd]

It's a fleshed-out fantasy setting with interesting locations, compelling characters, and a solid history, making it easy to write adventures and create hooks. Plus there are tons of companion paperbacks to go deeper if you want. The big contrast was World of Greyhawk, which is an extremely spartan setting with little more than a nice map, paragraph descriptions of countries, and a few other things. Personally, the latter is all I ever wanted out of a setting.

That's why I like Points of Light/Nentear Veil/Nerath (which I only about from kiwis). It's also why I find it odd that fans try to desperately find more Nerath lore.

The whole appeal of the setting (to me) is that it's so bare bones. It might have been that way by accident (though given how forward thinking 4e was in hindsight, I choose to believe it was deliberate), but the fact you can get all the whole setting for a dozen pages of a single book is great. Yes, I simp Eberron for it's abundance of gameable material, but I also love being able to plot things down without having to worry if I'm stepping on the toes of other lore.

Oerth

Oerth

What's Oerth? I'm guessing a forgetten realms location.

 

[Corn Flakes]

What's Oerth? I'm guessing a forgetten realms location.

It's the world Greyhawk is set in.

 

[Red Dragon]

Yes, I simp Eberron for it's abundance of gameable material,

Eberron is so good, it has the perfect balance of 'lots of lore'/'do your thing'.

Mystara is also a great setting, and almost all of the setting books are fine (except the pseudo-natives one, we don't talk about that weird shit). Lots of adventure ideas pop up simply by reading them.

 

[That Guy Who Likes The Chili]

What was Forgotten Realms about/what was it's sales pitch?

I don't know if I ever asked it here, but I always see online that Forgotten Realms was a cool, unique setting, until 5e made it the default and now it's just generic medieval fantasy. Thing is, I don't really know how it was different. People will say Baulders Gate, Drizzt, Faerun, Sword Coast, Undermountain, and Waterdeep, but those are just the names of locations, characters, or games.


Unrelated. My YouTube is full of videos about Draw Steel. Not watched any of them, but I assume they're the RPG flavour of the month.

I'd genuinely recommend downloading/thumbing through the original Forgotten Realms Campaign setting as well as the 2e one. It had a really nice fleshed out lived in world right from the get-go.
Modern Forgotten Realms is anything but "generic" medieval fantasy, its like this high magic hodge-podge of World of Warcraft video game slop, Magic the Gathering and Harry Potter.

 

[Anonitolia]

a new games store just popped up nearby

advertising itself as a game store

Will report back with results.

this report’s pretty late, since I got busy, but it was strictly for TCG games. Lorcana, Digimon, Pokemon, and Magic mostly.

If I factor out TCG-only stores, FUNKO dispensaries, and stores that only offer 5e, the nearest LGS in my state becomes a 5-hour one-way drive


I guess I’ve got to resort to online games if I want to do this. Do any platforms for those still exist that aren’t Discord or Roll20?

 

[Overly Serious]

this report’s pretty late, since I got busy, but it was strictly for TCG games. Lorcana, Digimon, Pokemon, and Magic mostly.

If I factor out TCG-only stores, FUNKO dispensaries, and stores that only offer 5e, the nearest LGS in my state becomes a 5-hour one-way drive
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I guess I’ve got to resort to online games if I want to do this. Do any platforms for those still exist that aren’t Discord or Roll20?

There are better Virtual Table Tops than Roll20 (all of them?) but I think most online communities are all managed via Discord. If you're co-ordinating with your own friends and just need tools to do it online there are options. If you're looking online for pre-existing groups / players, they're just going to throw Discord invites at you until you barf. Unless anybody knows better.

I think the best thing to do whether IRL or otherwise is if you find a group of people you get on with, introduce RPGs to that group. But sadly it's not always an option. If it wasn't such PL'ing I'd probably start an online group for Kiwis.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

Do any platforms for those still exist that aren’t Discord or Roll20?

https://www.owlbear.rodeo/

https://foundryvtt.com/

you'll have to find your own players. I'm sure there are LFG groups on Reddit and Facebook, and who knows? Some replies might not be from trannies.

 

[Blarmed&Dangerous]

If it wasn't such PL'ing I'd probably start an online group for Kiwis.

This fucking sucks, btw. I've mentioned this before, but the proliferation of life-ruining trannies really limits the cultural growth and development of KF.

I was involved in old forum culture, and before it got taken over and destroyed by trannies (notice a pattern?) we had IRL meetups, boardgame nights (over Mumble and Vassal, pre-Discord/Tabletop Simulator), a gaming clan that was, while not dominant, at least notable in every major game and many minor ones, fuck - we ran at least one annual charity. At least one (very stupid) person got a tattoo of one of our injokes (if it could be even called that).

And we now can't do even a fraction of that because, at best, trannies will start caterwauling until whatever we're doing gets banned/stopped/shut down - just because we're kiwis - and worst case, go after anyone involved's job, family, etc..

It's fucking bullshit

who knows? Some might not be trannies.

My experience is that the are real long fucking odds

 

[Overly Serious]

This fucking sucks, btw. I've mentioned this before, but the proliferation of life-ruining trannies really limits the cultural growth and development of KF.

It is tempting to do something with the Farmers I know and trust. I'm not a big fan of living my life in fear and they'd be PL'ing as much as me.

I don't think I've ever said anything I'm ashamed of on these forums, either. I'm not even racist.

 

[AnOminous]

If you're looking online for pre-existing groups / players, they're just going to throw Discord invites at you until you barf. Unless anybody knows better.

Just being on Discord is a hard ban from me.

 

[Blarmed&Dangerous]

I'm not even racist.

Well, nobody's perfect I guess.

My biggest problem and my biggest threat are one and the same: autistic men with pornography addictions pretending to be women, and the legions of their defenders. I have gotten away with some extremely edgy things amongst the local zoomies when it comes to race, etc., but you cannot come anywhere near saying a single unkind word against the Ascended Perverts.

 

[Overly Serious]

Well, nobody's perfect I guess.

My biggest problem and my biggest threat are one and the same: autistic men with pornography addictions pretending to be women, and the legions of their defenders. I have gotten away with some extremely edgy things amongst the local zoomies when it comes to race, etc., but you cannot come anywhere near saying a single unkind word against the Ascended Perverts.

Oh yeah, they'll get you blacklisted from many communities. Which is why I like the idea of the poster further up talking about setting up their own community.

Things are changing. I wonder if we're at the point you could set up a no-trans community. Probably still safest to build onto the side of something that is already that but food for thought.

There are equivalent technologies to Discord. I know there's Matrix and there's also some other things. I wonder what would happen if someone posted a general group here on the Farms for took a Null like Benevolent Dictator approach to gatekeeping it until it got established. Not some extremist thing nor a haven for people who just want to be edgy and offensive. Just a community / directory for people who wanted to do RPGs without bringing in ideology to everything.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I was involved in old forum culture, and before it got taken over and destroyed by trannies (notice a pattern?)

Same. But for me, it was feminists, enshitification, and power tripping mods that destroyed everything before trannies did.

Feminists because of what you accuse trannies of doing. Screaming and throwing a fit whenever there are a group people that wasn't about feminism. Men only or male majority spaces had to be destroyed. One by one companies bent the knee.

Enshitification, though it wasn't called that. X-fire, skype, MSN, all the old chat programs went this way. A modern version would be Discord being more and more focused on photo ID nonsense.

But power tripping mods was the big killer.

Power level. I used to hang out with a bunch of people who were popular in their field. I didn't fanboy over them. I think that's why they liked having me around. I was kicked out of that group when one of them lost a game of 7 days to die and blamed me for it.

Power level 2. I was a member of a fan forum. When a rival fan forum collapsed due to drama, the admin thought it would be a great idea to absorb the staff of that forum to help his grow. I said this was a bad idea and was ignored. The same clique that sunk the rival site started causing the same problems on this one. I could entertain you with stories of cringe. A favourite was when they tried to sabotage discussion of My Little Pony, which had just started airing, only to mass adopt it after it hit 4chan and Tumblr and went mainstream, then that same clique was attacking the thread for not being fanboy enough. The forum wasn't even about MLP, it was just a single off topic thread.

I was banned eventually. That fan forum was a ghost town when I checked on it a few years later. Got a lot of former members contact me after the fact. I wonder what happened to them.

 

[Fuck Bankers]

Do you guys ban anyone with a liberal arts or psychology degree from your table?

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

I guess I’ve got to resort to online games if I want to do this. Do any platforms for those still exist that aren’t Discord or Roll20?

When it comes to actually playing, there's Fantasy Grounds, FoundryVTT, and even Tabletop Simulator. Problem comes with finding good players. Sadly the only places I know of are Dicksword, and by know I mean I know they exist such as Dice Scum's discord (which might not be too bad given two of the three owners are users here). You could try asking a place like "therpgsite" or some other obscure "neutral" at best site but unfortunately the larger (online at least) TTRPG sphere is pozzed to hell and back with problem people everywhere. Best stick to finding people who just want to play games and nothing else in real life, which is naturally always going to be the best way.

PL'ing

Not familiar with the term, what's it mean? Context clues makes me think it involves trannies trying to get something shutdown, which sadly is why a lot of non-normie/non-pozzed places don't pop up, or if they do they don't last without compromises.

we ran at least one annual charity.

I've seen bad actors go after charities simply for taking donations from "the evil incel chuds" and whatnot. They're totally the good guys btw.

Do you guys ban anyone with a liberal arts

Friend of mine has one, he's surprisingly not at all terrible to hang out with or else I wouldn't. The people you don't want at your table are usually easy to spot. Don't know about psychology people but the idea always rubbed me the wrong way.