Playing Pathfinder because everybody else wanted to, sigh.  Fortunately the referee knows the rules really well and lets me just say what I want to do.

And the whole "interesting maneuvers for fighters" has turned out to be utter bullshit.  Everybody with a melee weapon has one optimum attack they spam every time.  Whether I say "HASSAN CHOP" or "HASSAN POWER ATTACK" is fucking irrelevant.

I always suspected this was the case, but it's nice to have confirmation.

HASSAN CHOP would be an awesome feat.

I played a Paladin in the last Pathfinder campaign, and in the DW campaign before that.  I didn't want to be "talky man" again, so I made a straight vanilla fighter with high strength and a two handed sword, and I named him "Hassan."  The fighter, not the sword.

GMing: Base Raiders, Homebrew system running B4 The Lost City.
GMing next week: Dungeon Crawl Classics

Playing: AD&D 2e
Playing next week: Heroes Unlimited

Quote from: Voros;964723HASSAN CHOP would be an awesome feat.

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Quote from: Dumarest;964664I'll probably be printing out and ripping off a number of your Really Bad Eggs posts for reference in binder.

You cannot rip off what is freely given. I hope you find some of it useful.

Quote from: Dumarest;964664We're going to be rolling up characters soon. A couple of players have ideas for their personalities and goals already. Our sole female player wants to be a Cyrano de Bergerac-ish wastrel poet gallant ladies' man. I said go for it.

Can't wait to hear more.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;964725I played a Paladin in the last Pathfinder campaign, and in the DW campaign before that.  I didn't want to be "talky man" again, so I made a straight vanilla fighter with high strength and a two handed sword, and I named him "Hassan."  The fighter, not the sword.

You should name the sword "Cid", then. Just so you could say "Hasan chops with El Cid"!

And yes, PF doesn't deliver on the interesting manoeuvres promise, unlike DCC and the like, I'm sorry you had to play it;).

D&D 5E, set in Greyhawk (mainly because I got the Living Greyhawk Gazeteer for half-off at a sinking brick 'n mortar game store just before it went under), with the Redhurst Academy of Magic (from the 3.0 E sourcebook of the same name) serving the same purpose as Miskatonic University in my old Call of Cthulhu games: adventure hooks, background exposition, and expedition funding,

Quote from: Black Vulmea;964778You cannot rip off what is freely given. I hope you find some of it useful.


Can't wait to hear more.

I was hoping to start this long weekend but I and they all have various plans already in place. I'm shooting for next weekend. If it happens as planned, I will see about posting a summary or something.

Quote from: AsenRG;964842You should name the sword "Cid", then. Just so you could say "Hasan chops with El Cid"!

And yes, PF doesn't deliver on the interesting manoeuvres promise, unlike DCC and the like, I'm sorry you had to play it;).

I've always thought the whole "interesting maneuvers" thing was bullshit anyway.  I love playing a fighter in OD&D.  Tactics are in the mind, not the rules.

I don't mind PF as long as I don't have to buy the whore.  And it's silly fun yelling "HASSAN CHOP" every time I roll the dice.

Quote from: Vile Jester;963413Bouncing between video game design and tabletop campaign planning like a maniac. Really doing my head in.

D&D 5e stole my PnP soul when it was in playtesting. Quickly decided it was now my favorite system. But I still have yet to actually play with it. Proves hard to get these things together in a way that'll work for group roleplay dynamics when I only have two friends and am married to one.

Also have put a lot of time into sketching out Demon: The Descent and Numenera campaigns. Have a narrative for the latter that really tickles my fancy, but I still have to get over how distractingly gamey I think cyphers are. How is everything single-use? How does that happen! I understand the mechanical reason, it's beautiful and I agree with it wholeheartedly, but from an in-universe standpoint how the fuck...

Hi! I'm a big fan of the Cypher System and was hoping to help. Cyphers, in-setting, are one use because they're kitbashed/modified from poorly understood tech. Anything with consistent uses becomes an artifact. You can also "find" a cypher by the assumption your character knows how to fiddle with a thing to get a useful item. An example would be defeating a robot and then ripping out its parts and jury-rigging pieces into something useful. This jury-rigging is mechanically represented either by a quick roll on the chart, perhaps resulting in a shield and detonation cyphers. This means you "found" a shield cypher by fiddling with its battle-shield array and modified a battery into detonation cypher. If you as a GM wanted, you could have one of the robot's arm-blades become a laser-sword artifact. A player could also spend a couple XP to say they tear out the robot's IFF and use it to waltz past the other sentries, masking their movements for the rest of the time in the protected complex. The IFF breaks after they leave so if they return, the robots will notice them again.

Anyway, I hope that helped and I'm always up to chat Cypher!

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;964912And it's silly fun yelling "HASSAN CHOP" every time I roll the dice.

How many of the gamers around the table actually understand the reference?

Quote from: Dumarest;964851. . . I will see about posting a summary or something.

Looking forward to it - hope it all comes together.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;964922How many of the gamers around the table actually understand the reference?

In my group, all of them, but the youngest is well into his 40s.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;964923Looking forward to it - hope it all comes together.

Me too. But don't get your expectations up; I'm not the scholar you are so my setting will probably be more of a melange of popular misconceptions of Renaissance France, like "Best of the Beach Boys" to your "Pet Sounds." But then again Dumas got his chronology wrong all through The Three Musketeers...