can you children please stick to the toppic of custom rpg's (eventhough hitting people with foam covered bats is fun) and stop with all the chit-chat

 

 

 

 

(besides get some decent weapons like me: 4x sting scale LOTR swords, 1x axe, 1x dagger., all real!)

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Well you know this seems to be the way topics that have lost their interestingness fall further on the pages. (Atleast what I have seen on the threads pages. expl. a topic about Teagan ended up being about What is the next place you will travel thread.)

In my opinnion all games are custom games since there will most likely be atleast one house rule in each game. One "custom" game I have played is Inquisitor wich is nice to play, but requires a small background knowledge about 40k universe.

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"Everything is run by women, hence making us men just playtoys and slaves. Dont even think of arquing with them since they can make your life a living hell. In the end there will be no need for us men since women can do it by themselves."
- Me, just before I got twacked with an aluminium pipe.

Inquisitor is fun, like most GW speialist games, although this one isn't so specialist to me, almost all of my gaming club (except the very newbies) play it.

Im trying to make a character that is fair and balanced while being totally advanced bionics and haveing four arms. The four arms have strengths of 85 for the upper arms and 80 for the lower ones, meaning a combined strength of 335, doubled with the servitor harness to 670. And people thik he's unbalanced.......

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A Good Deed is its own reward.
That, and getting to go to heaven.

Ah forget it thad. you cant help but make uber dudes (e.g. that dude who plays with his dude... whats his name? oh yeah uberman) i mean i have my spirit dude! he auto learns any ability used against him but in wyrd type mode, thing. and who can't be harmed via normal weapons cause hes dead.

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Then how do you kill him? and anyway, your party (with uber spirit) cannot help but trmble at the hands of my uber party! You have, the Robot guy ("wall? what wall"), a navigator turned Chaos psyker (with around 160 Wp), a demon possing an alein (lots of claws, all daemonic weapons) and the other guy (a very good gunslinger).

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A Good Deed is its own reward.
That, and getting to go to heaven.

so! i have the spirit (i can walk through the wall!), mr.tree (it's a mrtree to me how he does it), and a 6inch high little mech. dude inside hi robo suit (he's 6 inches high!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

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Zero_Stars.:

can you children please stick to the toppic of custom rpg's (eventhough hitting people with foam covered bats is fun) and stop with all the chit-chat

I was once like you, my child... Fearing of minor spam and silliness.  Fear not... Evitably the conversations return to the original topic.

Zero_Stars.:

(besides get some decent weapons like me: 4x sting scale LOTR swords, 1x axe, 1x dagger., all real!)

My husband has a dagger and a switch-blade... and I can't afford real swords.

Nocharim makes a good point that most RPGs are custom (unless you are following a pre-set campaign setting... Why you'd waste time to get a book that tells you what story to run is beyond me)

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"The deific powers I emit will surely burn your retinas!!!"

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A book makes it a lot easier for first time DMs or for the plain lazy. I think a RPG is custom if any of the rules are altered, but this thread is for ones with complete custom set of rules, or a adaption of an existing set rules for a totally different setting.

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A Good Deed is its own reward.
That, and getting to go to heaven.

Kinda like my campaign... I have my own brand of dragons which come in three flavors: Good, Evil & Neutral.  The color of their scales is more or less the equivalent of hair/eye color and has nothing to do with elemental alignment.  Plus, the entire world is of my making.

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"The deific powers I emit will surely burn your retinas!!!"

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seems interesting... I may have to steal your idea.

(worthy praise)

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A Good Deed is its own reward.
That, and getting to go to heaven.

I think RPG games work best when they use their rules as 'guidelines' that provide a balanced framework and help with judgement calls. I don't mind if DMs tweak a little (or a lot) so long as the changes are consistent. I've been in some very frustrating games where the laws of physics seem to take a holiday for the DM but never for the players (my ranger nearly bled to death by waking up). There are basic gaming mechanics you shouldn't tweak with. For everything else, be mindful of the balance.

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Nihil est ab omni partum beatum.
(Nothing is an unmixed blessing)

Morrigan:

my ranger nearly bled to death by waking up

And how, pray tell, did this occur?

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I swear, now you're just doing it to piss me off.

Anemic with a nosebleed?

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EPSC: She's crazy, lazy and oh-so-lovable!


"The deific powers I emit will surely burn your retinas!!!"

EPSC's World of Art!
GHE Art Department

Short answer: My ranger got savaged by a wolf.

Long answer: The party was out in the wilderness without a cleric when we were attacked by a pack of wolves. My character took a lot of damage and dropped into negatives. I rolled stabilisation checks and finally stabilised on -4 hp. No more bleeding at that point though I was still badly hurt. The other PCs dressed my wounds and made me as comfortable as possible while they rested up themselves.

There is a rule that a PC has a 10% chance of waking every hour while in negative hit points. You are still pasted but now you are conscious. So, the night passed and I rolled a few checks, finally waking. All well and good. My character opened her eyes. That is all I did. The DM then called for a stabilisation check because I had moved.

I failed the check and started bleeding again. I rolled more stabilisation checks and luckily stopped at -7. I had to keep rolling to wake up and when I did I promptly started bleeding. Prior to this, the rest of the party informed the DM they were all sitting around my character's body with healing kits open and their hands literally holding bandages to my wounds. My ranger bled to -9 while I frantically made checks and the other players rolled Heal skill.

I stabilised on -9. With a night of rest I regained 3 hp (my level at the time). We repeated this excruciating procedure until I regained enough hit points to reach 0, about four days from uncertain memory as every time I woke, I started bleeding again.

We actually got the PHB out and showed the DM the rules for injured PCs but as he did not agree with the written rules, he insisted on doing it his way. This is why I say you need balance in tweaking the game mechanics. A little tailoring is fine but when you have a table of six players objecting to your rulings you should rethink your call.

The hilarious this is my 3rd level ranger survived with nary a scratch after being washed along an underground river and down a 300' waterfall.

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Nihil est ab omni partum beatum.
(Nothing is an unmixed blessing)

And what makes you think the books rules are balanced? A fighter got beaten up by a housecat (the little furry things you keep as pets) because he was saround 3 hp and then decided to hit a cat and missed. Well the cat aggroed and critical hitted him death. Thats so called balancing.

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"Everything is run by women, hence making us men just playtoys and slaves. Dont even think of arquing with them since they can make your life a living hell. In the end there will be no need for us men since women can do it by themselves."
- Me, just before I got twacked with an aluminium pipe.