Everyone has something they like despite it being bad or dumb. For me it's the Forgotten Realms. I know it's really stupid. But I don't care, I love it anyway. Hell, the stupidness just adds to the fun.
Except for 4e FR and anything involving Elminster though. Fuck that shit.
Tabletop gaming guilty pleasures: what are yours?
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Ancient History
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Well, I had Shadowrun. That's turned into the thing where you see an ex-girlfriend on the street, and she's with somebody, and then she turns and you see she's got a black eye that the make-up doesn't quite hide and is missing a tooth.
So.
I maintain a certain fondness for Call of Cthulhu, in its variations and differen incarnations. As silly as it is. As terrible as the books are. As much of a complete fucking mess it is. As horrible as Chaosium is and always with. It's the Mythos. And there's nothing else that quite scratches that itch.
So.
I maintain a certain fondness for Call of Cthulhu, in its variations and differen incarnations. As silly as it is. As terrible as the books are. As much of a complete fucking mess it is. As horrible as Chaosium is and always with. It's the Mythos. And there's nothing else that quite scratches that itch.
Feng Shui. The older I get the more I realise that what I enjoyed about it was the MTP aspects, not it being a good game. I adore Robin Laws but that game really shows its age and also reminds me of my own.
And I have exactly the same response to Legend of the Five Rings that Ancient History has to Shadowrun. I adored it back in the old days, but since then it's gone its way and I've gone mine. I might do a comparative OSSR of the various editions since I own them all, but that will have to wait until I have time and energy.
And I have exactly the same response to Legend of the Five Rings that Ancient History has to Shadowrun. I adored it back in the old days, but since then it's gone its way and I've gone mine. I might do a comparative OSSR of the various editions since I own them all, but that will have to wait until I have time and energy.
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Playing a drow necromancer repeatedly. I don't even like D&D drow/their culture/Drizzt that much, I just think the drow aesthetic looks cool.
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Heaven's Thunder Hammer
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Agreed. Some of my best gaming experiences as a player and a GM have been with Exalted, moreso than any other game. But somehow, after a while I felt like an abused spouse that keeps going back home to get beat up again.Longes wrote:Exalted.
The system is a horrible piece of shit that breaks if you look at it funny, and the setting is a patchwork of strange stuff with elder problem on steroids. But I'm still in an Exalted campaign, and the powers it gives to certain splats are interesting.
The feel of the game when you're not hitting hte parts of the system that don't work is AWESOME. The setting, the powers, the plot the story, it's alive in a very neat way that I've not had with other settings and games. Yet... eventually it just kind of broke.
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Lago PARANOIA
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Before the 4E D&D devs completely pissed me off with their errata policy and Essentials conversion, I unironically enjoyed playing and running 4E D&D. It felt a lot like playing an 8/16-bit RPG on tabletop. I'm sufficiently over my RAGE by now that I could consider cracking open the books again, but no one gives a shit about that edition anymore outside of certain boards.
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In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Spelljammer.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
Planescape. I know a lot of it is shitty and poorly thought out, but even now, I'm running a Planescape campaign.
Keys to the Contract: A crossover between Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Kingdom Hearts.
RadiantPhoenix wrote:The D&D wizard is a work of fiction that has a completely unrealistic expectation of "uses a book".TheFlatline wrote:Legolas/Robin Hood are myths that have completely unrealistic expectation of "uses a bow".
hyzmarca wrote:Well, Mario Mario comes from a blue collar background. He was a carpenter first, working at a construction site. Then a plumber. Then a demolitionist. Also, I'm not sure how strict Mushroom Kingdom's medical licensing requirements are. I don't think his MD is valid in New York.
I would say that playing goblins that use dark magic and have some sort of spider theme is a guilty pleasure after realising the other day that I've done it enough that other people confuse my characters (a spider-warlock goblin and a goblin were-spider), but I totally don't feel guilty about it in the slightest.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Dragonmech.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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RIFTS RIFTS RIFTS RIFTS RIFTS, Kevin Long's designs are like a library of 70's-80's anime mecha lineart and Eric Wujcik was a scholar of design.
Cyborgs, Juicers, Crazies, Mystic Knights, Ley Line Walkers, Dragons, Glitterboys are all cool archtypes with distinct looks. All of my "I'm gonna write a tabletalk RPG" projects end up as "I'm gonna make RIFTS playable!", then I fill up a notebook with little sketches.
Cyborgs, Juicers, Crazies, Mystic Knights, Ley Line Walkers, Dragons, Glitterboys are all cool archtypes with distinct looks. All of my "I'm gonna write a tabletalk RPG" projects end up as "I'm gonna make RIFTS playable!", then I fill up a notebook with little sketches.
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Well, that's why I didn't actually say it was a guilty pleasure.
For an actual guilty pleasure- World of Darkness. It was the game that was my first long term gaming experience, playing it for several years in a steady group. Sure things broke up once or twice, but the group came back together to play again. Characters would change, but it was one world for a very, very long time. We specifically played Werewolf, but we would do occasional crossover one shots that were the source of some great memories (Lucifer walks into a church and says "right, I own you fuckers now.")
For an actual guilty pleasure- World of Darkness. It was the game that was my first long term gaming experience, playing it for several years in a steady group. Sure things broke up once or twice, but the group came back together to play again. Characters would change, but it was one world for a very, very long time. We specifically played Werewolf, but we would do occasional crossover one shots that were the source of some great memories (Lucifer walks into a church and says "right, I own you fuckers now.")
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Yeah, definitely Rifts. I feel more guilty and ashamed about liking Rifts than I do about liking '90s wrestling. Kevin Siembieda is such a fucking tool and it projects through the books as you read them. The system is not so much a system as a big series of numbers vomited onto paper with excessive use of exclamation marks in "rules text". The setting is actually a bit of a mess.
But then again, you get juicers, and tattoo'd warriors, and mind bleeders. And because of "fuck balance", you can just play the thing you want at level one - a demon summoner, mecha pilot or dragon. Also, the enthusiasm of the writer tends to show through. They will go on rants (particularly Kevin S. in this case) about how awesome they think something is in a really unprofessional-looking way, but it's kind of nice to see that.
But then again, you get juicers, and tattoo'd warriors, and mind bleeders. And because of "fuck balance", you can just play the thing you want at level one - a demon summoner, mecha pilot or dragon. Also, the enthusiasm of the writer tends to show through. They will go on rants (particularly Kevin S. in this case) about how awesome they think something is in a really unprofessional-looking way, but it's kind of nice to see that.
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Hackmaster with all its tables and unnecessarily complex glory.
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RIFTS.
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Sakuya Izayoi
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Roll20 is full of people playing 4th editionLago PARANOIA wrote:Before the 4E D&D devs completely pissed me off with their errata policy and Essentials conversion, I unironically enjoyed playing and running 4E D&D. It felt a lot like playing an 8/16-bit RPG on tabletop. I'm sufficiently over my RAGE by now that I could consider cracking open the books again, but no one gives a shit about that edition anymore outside of certain boards.