Author Topic: Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games - GETTING A GROUP TOGETHER (Read 4080 times)

childofdarkness016 · March 09, 2014, 01:09:12 PM

Can we do Pathfinder? I like it better than D+D. Plus, I can use my character sheet for my other game.

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Lugnut · March 09, 2014, 01:11:58 PM

roll for shoes: http://story-games.com/forums/discussion/11348/microdungeons-i-roll-to-see-if-i-have-shoes-on/p1

read those rules - it'll take you 30 minutes TOPS absolute loving TOPS if you have never played a game before
average people probably get the gist of it in like 10 minutes
experienced tabletop players can get it down in sub 5 minutes

if you all are interested, i can run a game with that system over skype either tonight (not likely) or tuesday (more likely) just to give you a feel for how tabletop games run. it's not a perfect idea - but the game system is free, D&D isn't

i'll need some serious selling if i were to run a game with D&D - 1: i have only 4e rulebooks and 2: people like night fox who've never played before have NO rulebooks.
would microlite work for the more experienced players? it's a bit of a midpoint - it's free, it's downloadable, the core rules are printed entirely on a 8.5x11 sheet of paper (so it's easy/simple), and everything else is just supplementary material (it still has a nice hunk of fleshed out material).
it might just be me but i think their site is being ddosed or something. i'll find another link if people say it isn't working

Lugnut · March 09, 2014, 01:20:15 PM

oh, and I have a honorary lifetime subscription to roll20.com for finding a security vulnerability - this means that any campaigns ran through that that i am a part of can utilize the advanced features like dynamic lighting... and all the other stuff, i don't remember what it was

masterockets · March 09, 2014, 01:38:09 PM

Sounds like fun, I'd like to join too

ZombiLoin · March 09, 2014, 01:40:28 PM

I have an idea for a game world but I have yet to put it in writing.

ZombiLoin · March 09, 2014, 03:00:52 PM

OFFICIAL BLOCKLAND PARTY (sure I guess?)
List of players:
Lugnut (DMing)
Night Fox
ZombiLoin

List of possible players:
Masterrockets
Paradon
Biohazard
Childofdarkness
Kingdaro
Cassord
Flatflyer
Wilsonhigsbury
AnvilsMew

What we're probably going to be playing: Microlite or Roll for Shoes

Buu · March 09, 2014, 03:08:05 PM

Best game we ever played irl.

Lugnut · March 09, 2014, 03:15:16 PM

I explicitly said we probably wouldn't be using d&d, I also explicitly said I cannot run pathfinder.

I never got used to the vast amount of monsters and forming encounters never was my strong suit. Microlite has fewer monsters and an easy way to make more that I can comprehend. I'm only gonna run a game I'm confident in.

Cassord� · March 09, 2014, 03:30:01 PM

Quote from: ZombiLoin on March 09, 2014, 03:00:52 PM

OFFICIAL BLOCKLAND PARTY (sure I guess?)
List of players:
Lugnut (DMing)
Night Fox
ZombiLoin

List of possible players:
Masterrockets
Paradon
Biohazard
Childofdarkness
Kingdaro

What we're probably going to be playing: DnD 4e or Pathfinder

why am i not on this list

Flatflyer · March 09, 2014, 03:31:50 PM

I guess I can join
I'll have no idea what's going on but I guess I'll join if you guys let me.

ZombiLoin · March 09, 2014, 03:36:01 PM

Quote from: Lugnut on March 09, 2014, 03:15:16 PM

I explicitly said we probably wouldn't be using d&d, I also explicitly said I cannot run pathfinder.

I never got used to the vast amount of monsters and forming encounters never was my strong suit. Microlite has fewer monsters and an easy way to make more that I can comprehend. I'm only gonna run a game I'm confident in.

Ok.

Or we could go old-school and rock Basic DnD.

childofdarkness016 · March 09, 2014, 09:28:19 PM

i don't have rule books or anything so

What're we going to do first?

Wilsonhigsbury · March 09, 2014, 09:52:35 PM

I would like to join but I have some questions, will we be using any sites to play one of these games on and when will we be doing this?

Night Fox · March 09, 2014, 09:59:23 PM

Quote from: childofdarkness016 on March 09, 2014, 09:28:19 PM

What're we going to do first?

certainly step 1 is to add each other on whatever we're gonna use. imo skype is a better choice than steam in general, as well as the fact that it's free (no need to buy a game)
my skype name is somebody.dead
and just in case, my steam is foxscotch

I already added lug. and I think it would be easiest to get the group chat together on skype (or steam) and decide all the details there

Lugnut · March 09, 2014, 10:18:49 PM

everyone add lugnut1206

if you already have me added (I'm named Lugnut currently) send me a message saying so

i intend to use roll20 for dice rolling even if for no other reason because i have literally seen the underlying technology - that stuff is cryptographically secure as best as I can tell.

i intend to run roll for shoes for the first session with the new guys so i can get a feel for everyones playstyle - this is very important
if we go into a higher level more complicated system like microlite, that's perfectly fine by me

i have an idea for a campaign for d&d... it isn't thoroughly fleshed out, and it's apparent that people having d&d rulebooks is sparse at best, so we might not do that. I can run it in microlite though.