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"OSR Taliban"

Started by RPGPundit, June 15, 2014, 09:18:02 PM

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Gronan of Simmerya

#405
June 23, 2014, 12:09:22 AM
Quote from: GnomeWorks;759727That's... kinda funny.

You can't really argue that the social encounter systems in D&D - pick an edition - hold a candle to the amount of mechanics that exist for combat.

No, but thank you for playing.  In OD&D the section on Charisma, its effects on NPCs, and how it can be modified by PCs, is considerably longer than the combat rules.

Welcome to "knowing what the fuck you're talking about."
You should go to GaryCon.  Period.

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Marleycat

#406
June 23, 2014, 12:42:55 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat;760369You're right which is exactly why it's an issue in my OD&D games.

In my OD&D, your cleric prays for his new spells and makes as WIS saving throw. If successful, your cleric is successful in getting the spells desired. On a natural 20, you may even get an additional 1st level spell favored by the god as a freebie.

If you fail the save, you still get spells, but now they are random off a list I have for each god in my campaign (I have 3 main gods for PCs). The spells are the god's favorites and reflect his domain.

If you botch the save, your prayers went wrong. Perhaps you mumbled, didn't show enough respect, forgot some bit of temple lore about today or whatever esle, but your god is peeved. This can manifest for anything to being denied your highest level spell to just knowing that your god is peeved and this daxy better not end without some kind of notable atonement.

And that's just the morning spells. I believe in a very Greek-god relationship with mortals for clerics, so its not unusual for clerics to get prophetic dreams or be faced with signs from their god that may divert them from their goals to please the god instead.

That's fun. I'm swiping it.
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Kaiu Keiichi

#407
June 24, 2014, 01:52:25 AM
Quote from: Simlasa;758440I guess that cuts out Runequest 2e then... which I'd always thought of as an OSR game... and will readily play in the style I consider 'old school'.
Whatever.

Speaking as a Chaosium RQ grognard myself, tell them that we over here in RQ land mock D&D narrative based hit points and AC, and if they want real hard core, bust open the old Pavis boxed set and watch their PCs be eaten by Broo and Rubble Runners ;) We don't need their high faluting, GM-narrativist poo.

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Exploderwizard

#408
June 24, 2014, 11:38:47 AM
Quote from: Kaiu Keiichi;760883Chaosium RQ - as hardcore sandbox as anyone else!

It would probably get more of the respect for being hardcore old school without Howard the duck as a playable race. :D
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Omega

#409
June 24, 2014, 11:40:49 AM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;761011It would probably get more of the respect for being hardcore old school without Howard the duck as a playable race. :D

Those were some damn mean ducks!

Simlasa

#410
June 24, 2014, 02:41:42 PM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;761011It would probably get more of the respect for being hardcore old school without Howard the duck as a playable race. :D
Strangely I never had a problem with the ducks... they're a bit weird/scary because they're cursed and probably bad luck to be around. If I were really bothered by them though I'd just change them to toads or something less 'jokey'.
I had more difficulty with the elves being hermaphroditic plants.

Brander

#411
June 24, 2014, 05:18:11 PM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;761011It would probably get more of the respect for being hardcore old school without Howard the duck as a playable race. :D

The ducks are about the only thing I really like about Glorantha.  And to date no GM I've played with in that setting would let me play one.*



*I can forgive a setting I don't like for a good GM.
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Fiasco

#412
June 24, 2014, 05:21:08 PM
Quote from: Simlasa;761084Strangely I never had a problem with the ducks... they're a bit weird/scary because they're cursed and probably bad luck to be around. If I were really bothered by them though I'd just change them to toads or something less 'jokey'.
I had more difficulty with the elves being hermaphroditic plants.

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LibraryLass

#413
June 24, 2014, 09:49:46 PM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;761011It would probably get more of the respect for being hardcore old school without Howard the duck as a playable race. :D

Well, when you put it that way, yeah.

But Uncle Scrooge is hella old school.
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Phillip

#414
June 25, 2014, 07:52:42 PM
I can't really understand the anti-duck fixation coming from dudes who play hobbits (or even sillier things).
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robiswrong

#415
June 25, 2014, 07:58:35 PM
Quote from: Phillip;761416I can't really understand the anti-duck fixation coming from dudes who play hobbits (or even sillier things).

There were no ducks in LotR.

Emperor Norton

#416
June 25, 2014, 08:08:10 PM
If you don't like Sergeant Joe, you are wrong.

Kyle Aaron

#417
June 26, 2014, 12:57:54 AM
Quote from: Phillip;761416I can't really understand the anti-duck fixation coming from dudes who play hobbits (or even sillier things).
I don't play hobbits, either. I once played a half-elf but only for the bonuses.
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Marleycat

#418
June 26, 2014, 02:34:12 AM
Quote from: Kyle Aaron;761500I don't play hobbits, either. I once played a half-elf but only for the bonuses.

I'm voiding you're membership card immediately!!
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Kyle Aaron

#419
June 26, 2014, 03:57:36 AM
Membership of what?
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