Lets Talk Pen & Paper RPGs (All systems welcome!)

xRECKONERx · Post Post #17 (isolation #0) » Sun Oct 26, 2014 7:10 am

Okay so I've tried running Pathfinder & 3.5 before and it just felt way too expansive, like there was always some little rule tucked away in some corner somewhere that could upend your plans because you skimmed that paragraph instead of read it closely ten times over. I want a more streamlined, simplified (but still with plenty of choices/options) system. Does 5e fit the bill?

xRECKONERx · Post Post #112 (isolation #1) » Tue Jan 27, 2015 6:02 am

I would totally do this btw, I've never played a full campaign and I don't understand how it works that well

xRECKONERx · Post Post #536 (isolation #2) » Sun Dec 06, 2015 7:07 pm

Anyone have some good resources for a Shadowrun crash course? Will playing the PC games help? We're about to start a campaign and I want to get more familiar with the system

xRECKONERx · Post Post #545 (isolation #3) » Tue Dec 08, 2015 11:29 am

In post 537, Claus wrote:Do you want to get familiar with the rules system, or with the world? The games are good for the world, but terrible for the system. I played shadowrun quite a bit, so I'd love to help, but I dont know any resources to be frank. Just shoot questions, I guess

I guess when I dove headfirst into Pathfinder character creation, it was pretty simply laid out and easy to follow. This one is just like "Priority" then I read it and it's like METATYPE AND ALSO HERE'S A BUNCHA NUMBERS AND TERMS YOU DON'T GET! It's so dense.

xRECKONERx · Post Post #548 (isolation #4) » Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:02 pm

What is "Resonance"?

xRECKONERx · Post Post #570 (isolation #5) » Mon Dec 21, 2015 12:19 pm

WE DID CHARACTER CREATION FOR SHADOWRUN

HOLY FUCK I AM *IN LOVE* WITH THIS SYSTEM

xRECKONERx · Post Post #573 (isolation #6) » Tue Dec 22, 2015 5:14 am

My character is Harland, a 24 year old ork (so basically middle-aged). Backstory is that he was doing freelance work for the Lone Star security firm for years. Work got more dangerous, ended up with him raiding a Novacoke den to extract a wageslave who had gone AWOL. During the raid, his security team went off the rails and a firefight broke out, resulting in several children dying. A tweaked out junkie cranked out on Novacoke came charging at Harland with a katana and took off his arm. His team got him out of there, and he woke up in the hospital. His supervisor didn't want to see such a "young" guy like that, so he paid the bills, got him a shiny new arm (complete with shotgun), and helped him get setup in Seattle, far away from the horrors of working for Lone Star. Harland used his talent for tracking people down to open up shop as a private investigator, and has been working in Seattle for five years now.

xRECKONERx · Post Post #575 (isolation #7) » Tue Dec 22, 2015 4:03 pm

No, he's an Ork so he is SINless. Literally my highest cost gear/item was a max quality fake SIN. He never worked for the organization directly, just did the "dark" jobs for them.

I also bought gas masks, because of course my party won't and that'll give me a great "ya bunch of fuckin' morons" moment.

xRECKONERx · Post Post #576 (isolation #8) » Tue Dec 22, 2015 4:06 pm

Our party so far is:

Reck: Private Eye ex-security guy
UT: Big beefy chick whose mother was a stripper and hates all men (literally took points to make it so her "thing" is jumping off high places & crushing people)
Nuwen: Decker cat burglar
Esurio: Some kind of spellslinger
Pie: not sure