Question. Have you ever had to made a card game on the fly?
In DnD, no. It sounds like a fun concept, but I haven't.
I’m running a campaign and decided while we wait for the last player, I’ll let my players play a card game. Turns out I just reinvented magic the gathering, but in dnd and simpler.
Question. Have you ever had to made a card game on the fly?
Not... a card game, per se. But I used a normal deck of cards as Tarot cards. I'd written down what each card represented, and had players draw these "Tarot" cards.
What they drew, I noted, and made the influence of the card happen eventually in the game, centered around that character.
So if they drew a tarot card that represented "The death of a close friend" - they'd eventually meet an old friend from their past, and witness them die.
Yes, once, a few years ago. We used dice to adjudicate things, and it only actually lasted a brief while, but yeah. Can’t remember what the heck we did or how it worked no to be honest with you, but it did happen.
Yes, once, a few years ago. We used dice to adjudicate things, and it only actually lasted a brief while, but yeah. Can’t remember what the heck we did or how it worked no to be honest with you, but it did happen.
Hi Sposta!
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— δ cyησ • τηε crσc mαsτεr • hε/hιm δ — “sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ, ɪ ᴛᴇʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ, ɪɴ ᴀɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ ᴜs.” ——————| EXTENDED SIG |—————— Φ • happily married to • ☁️ℝ𝔼𝔻ℙ𝔼𝕃𝕋☁️ • As vast as the sun, stars, and the sky itself, so is my promise to you • Φ
Question. Have you ever had to made a card game on the fly?
Yes, it was really difficult because I’m horrible at card games that aren’t Uno or Go Fish, so I just.. made up really stupid rules that involve card tricks. I think I was like 15 at the time?? I can probably do much better now, but I’ve seen Redpelt make up some really creative stuff on the fly. Entire card game systems and a whole unique number cipher (I can’t even finish writing my HB world’s timeline down completely)
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— δ cyησ • τηε crσc mαsτεr • hε/hιm δ — “sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ, ɪ ᴛᴇʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ, ɪɴ ᴀɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ ᴜs.” ——————| EXTENDED SIG |—————— Φ • happily married to • ☁️ℝ𝔼𝔻ℙ𝔼𝕃𝕋☁️ • As vast as the sun, stars, and the sky itself, so is my promise to you • Φ
Yeah, I invented a card game for D&D once. I don't remember exactly what it was, but we used real cards. Didn't work well. I've invented other minigames for D&D too, like a Quiditch minigame for my short-lived hogwarts game.
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Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
The stories. And the friendships. And the magic. And.... *proceeds to list 500 things about DND*
Anyway, DND changed my life, for the better of course, and because of it I have the confidence to do things like get up on a stage and talk in a British accent.
Question of the Day: Do you make a full world map for the settings of your campaigns?
I try. I am one those people who start with a huge part of the world (cosmology, species, main deities, world history, ETC), so a world map is often essential for me to make early on, since terrain informs things such as history (the blood sea of Istar, for instance), and politics.
So we just put anything on here so long as it’s not the OGL 2.0? Gotcha.
…
Anyone here read JoJo?
Yes and No. Yes to your first question, no to the second.
But for sure, just anything goes here other than said OGL.
While I've not even heard of JoJo, I admit, my reading is primarily fantasy (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Dragonlance, Death Gate Cycle, Darksword Trilogy, along with other books).
It's interesting, I love Scifi movies - but I hate reading scifi books. I think because books sometimes try to get too technical on how things work... "The warp drive works, due to the max fluxinator, connecting to the hyper fusion which allows it to snap and collapse, creating an ion flux of energy, which allows the ship to then bend space and time." That techno mumbo jumbo always kills me in a boot.
And it could be because I've been doing IT for a living for like....... over 40 years. So I don't enjoy it. lol
QOTD: What is an idea for a campaign you've had for a long time but will probably never get to run.
I think, the most difficult campaign ideas I've had are murder mystery ideas. Because the use of magic can really unfold things pretty quickly.
Also romances in a campaign are typically difficult. But you find them all the time in movies, books, etc., frequently it's lacking in D&D campaigns. My current main one has a strong one going, and my off week one has a "dating game" thing going on - so I've finally managed to find a way to tell those stories.
So we just put anything on here so long as it’s not the OGL 2.0? Gotcha.
…
Anyone here read JoJo?
Yes and No. Yes to your first question, no to the second.
But for sure, just anything goes here other than said OGL.
While I've not even heard of JoJo, I admit, my reading is primarily fantasy (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Dragonlance, Death Gate Cycle, Darksword Trilogy, along with other books).
It's interesting, I love Scifi movies - but I hate reading scifi books. I think because books sometimes try to get too technical on how things work... "The warp drive works, due to the max fluxinator, connecting to the hyper fusion which allows it to snap and collapse, creating an ion flux of energy, which allows the ship to then bend space and time." That techno mumbo jumbo always kills me in a boot.
And it could be because I've been doing IT for a living for like....... over 40 years. So I don't enjoy it. lol
I always enjoyed the technical aspect of that stuff, but it’s probably because I’m a foolish youth. I love sci-fi books, but my main problem is that they make the world too large and it doesn’t make sense. Like Dune. When they introduced the idea of gholas and sandtrout and the thinking machines, I was out. There never should have been any books after the first Dune.
I always enjoyed the technical aspect of that stuff, but it’s probably because I’m a foolish youth. I love sci-fi books, but my main problem is that they make the world too large and it doesn’t make sense. Like Dune. When they introduced the idea of gholas and sandtrout and the thinking machines, I was out. There never should have been any books after the first Dune.
Have you gone out to see the Dune movies? (I've not, wife has medical issues, so we pretty much wait for everything to come to streaming...)
I always enjoyed the technical aspect of that stuff, but it’s probably because I’m a foolish youth. I love sci-fi books, but my main problem is that they make the world too large and it doesn’t make sense. Like Dune. When they introduced the idea of gholas and sandtrout and the thinking machines, I was out. There never should have been any books after the first Dune.
Have you gone out to see the Dune movies? (I've not, wife has medical issues, so we pretty much wait for everything to come to streaming...)
Not yet, I’d been planning to not long ago but problems arose at the local cinema and at that point a few things began snowballing so I haven’t had a change to.
Also romances in a campaign are typically difficult. But you find them all the time in movies, books, etc., frequently it's lacking in D&D campaigns. My current main one has a strong one going, and my off week one has a "dating game" thing going on - so I've finally managed to find a way to tell those stories.
I had one of the vampires in CoS try to seduce the paladin in one of my live games.
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"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
I have a time traveling dinosaur campaign concept that involves hopping back and forth in time that I’d like to run but I doubt I ever will. I posted an embarrassing amount about it awhile back.
There is a sorrow themed campaign idea bouncing around in my head that involves monsters based off the five stages of grief.
And I would like to run a game that is pretty much a Huckleberry Finn style riverboat adventure set on the river Styx.
I don’t have the time to run a campaign unfortunately.
Alright so about the Campaign question, this is a campaign i have wanted to run not in D&D, but mutants and Masterminds. Of course nobody here knows how to play so unless they had enough time to learn AND found the idea interesting it would never happen.
so, Greek Myths are real. We didn’t think they were but then Typhon escaped Mt. Etna and a very select group of people saw Zeus and a few other Olympians putting him back in his prison before he could regain his full power. Those people founded an organization called the Anomalous Theory of Hellene Environmental Neglect Analysis Institute (ATHENA institute) studying how the newly discovered Greek mythological creatures remained shrouded from modern day humans for all this time, studying them and learning of their capabilities. The party could be workers from the Institute that have started practicing the recently discovered magic, superhuman descendants of Greek heroes, or even possibly demigods themselves (as well as other options, they just need some form of power, even if it isn’t magical, your power could also just be knowledge and money) and they need to document and learn the truth behind these wonderful myths, avoiding monsters along the way and possibly even meeting the gods themselves.
so yeah, Percy Jackson crosses with SCP foundation.
Not for DnD. When I was younger I made tons of Pokémon style card games because I loved Pokemon so much.
Always two maybe three
I’m running a campaign and decided while we wait for the last player, I’ll let my players play a card game. Turns out I just reinvented magic the gathering, but in dnd and simpler.
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig
Not... a card game, per se. But I used a normal deck of cards as Tarot cards. I'd written down what each card represented, and had players draw these "Tarot" cards.
What they drew, I noted, and made the influence of the card happen eventually in the game, centered around that character.
So if they drew a tarot card that represented "The death of a close friend" - they'd eventually meet an old friend from their past, and witness them die.
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
Yes, once, a few years ago. We used dice to adjudicate things, and it only actually lasted a brief while, but yeah. Can’t remember what the heck we did or how it worked no to be honest with you, but it did happen.
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Hi Sposta!
— δ cyησ • τηε crσc mαsτεr • hε/hιm δ —
“sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ, ɪ ᴛᴇʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ, ɪɴ ᴀɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ ᴜs.”
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • happily married to • ☁️ℝ𝔼𝔻ℙ𝔼𝕃𝕋☁️ • As vast as the sun, stars, and the sky itself, so is my promise to you • Φ
Yes, it was really difficult because I’m horrible at card games that aren’t Uno or Go Fish, so I just.. made up really stupid rules that involve card tricks. I think I was like 15 at the time?? I can probably do much better now, but I’ve seen Redpelt make up some really creative stuff on the fly. Entire card game systems and a whole unique number cipher (I can’t even finish writing my HB world’s timeline down completely)
— δ cyησ • τηε crσc mαsτεr • hε/hιm δ —
“sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ, ɪ ᴛᴇʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ, ɪɴ ᴀɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ ᴜs.”
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • happily married to • ☁️ℝ𝔼𝔻ℙ𝔼𝕃𝕋☁️ • As vast as the sun, stars, and the sky itself, so is my promise to you • Φ
Yeah, I invented a card game for D&D once. I don't remember exactly what it was, but we used real cards. Didn't work well. I've invented other minigames for D&D too, like a Quiditch minigame for my short-lived hogwarts game.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
The stories. And the friendships. And the magic. And.... *proceeds to list 500 things about DND*
Anyway, DND changed my life, for the better of course, and because of it I have the confidence to do things like get up on a stage and talk in a British accent.
I try. I am one those people who start with a huge part of the world (cosmology, species, main deities, world history, ETC), so a world map is often essential for me to make early on, since terrain informs things such as history (the blood sea of Istar, for instance), and politics.
No. Never. If I did, it would probably either suck or copy cat a game that already exists. simple as that.
QOTD: What is an idea for a campaign you've had for a long time but will probably never get to run.
I used to think all of my campaign ideas would never get played, but then I joined the PBP forum, so now I can do most of them.
Also, if you couldn't tell this my desperate attempt to get us out of the lull we've been in around here.
Hi, I'm Raccoon_Master, The Rocket Raccoon/Trashcan Tactician (as appointed by Drummer). Pronouns They/Them/Theirs.
My Characters: Brormin the Crusher; Discovery the Keeper; Thea the Scoundrel; Jorvir the Weaver; Threlan, the Speaker; Zolya the Inspired; Penley the Devourer;
DMing: Dark God's Dread; Raccoon's Strixhaven, Dungeon of The Dead Mage
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So we just put anything on here so long as it’s not the OGL 2.0? Gotcha.
…
Anyone here read JoJo?
hey.
i liked that box.
put me back.
Yes and No.
Yes to your first question, no to the second.
But for sure, just anything goes here other than said OGL.
While I've not even heard of JoJo, I admit, my reading is primarily fantasy (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Dragonlance, Death Gate Cycle, Darksword Trilogy, along with other books).
It's interesting, I love Scifi movies - but I hate reading scifi books. I think because books sometimes try to get too technical on how things work... "The warp drive works, due to the max fluxinator, connecting to the hyper fusion which allows it to snap and collapse, creating an ion flux of energy, which allows the ship to then bend space and time." That techno mumbo jumbo always kills me in a boot.
And it could be because I've been doing IT for a living for like....... over 40 years. So I don't enjoy it. lol
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
I think, the most difficult campaign ideas I've had are murder mystery ideas. Because the use of magic can really unfold things pretty quickly.
Also romances in a campaign are typically difficult. But you find them all the time in movies, books, etc., frequently it's lacking in D&D campaigns. My current main one has a strong one going, and my off week one has a "dating game" thing going on - so I've finally managed to find a way to tell those stories.
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
I always enjoyed the technical aspect of that stuff, but it’s probably because I’m a foolish youth. I love sci-fi books, but my main problem is that they make the world too large and it doesn’t make sense. Like Dune. When they introduced the idea of gholas and sandtrout and the thinking machines, I was out. There never should have been any books after the first Dune.
hey.
i liked that box.
put me back.
Have you gone out to see the Dune movies? (I've not, wife has medical issues, so we pretty much wait for everything to come to streaming...)
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
Not yet, I’d been planning to not long ago but problems arose at the local cinema and at that point a few things began snowballing so I haven’t had a change to.
hey.
i liked that box.
put me back.
Against the Giants. G1 G2 G3
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
I had one of the vampires in CoS try to seduce the paladin in one of my live games.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
For the campaign QotD:
I have a time traveling dinosaur campaign concept that involves hopping back and forth in time that I’d like to run but I doubt I ever will. I posted an embarrassing amount about it awhile back.
There is a sorrow themed campaign idea bouncing around in my head that involves monsters based off the five stages of grief.
And I would like to run a game that is pretty much a Huckleberry Finn style riverboat adventure set on the river Styx.
I don’t have the time to run a campaign unfortunately.
Always two maybe three
If you ever get a chance on that last one, I’d be thrilled to play. It sounds like a blast.
This is what happens when you let a nothic onto the forums. Longtime mapmaker and forever GM.
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Alright so about the Campaign question, this is a campaign i have wanted to run not in D&D, but mutants and Masterminds. Of course nobody here knows how to play so unless they had enough time to learn AND found the idea interesting it would never happen.
so, Greek Myths are real. We didn’t think they were but then Typhon escaped Mt. Etna and a very select group of people saw Zeus and a few other Olympians putting him back in his prison before he could regain his full power. Those people founded an organization called the Anomalous Theory of Hellene Environmental Neglect Analysis Institute (ATHENA institute) studying how the newly discovered Greek mythological creatures remained shrouded from modern day humans for all this time, studying them and learning of their capabilities. The party could be workers from the Institute that have started practicing the recently discovered magic, superhuman descendants of Greek heroes, or even possibly demigods themselves (as well as other options, they just need some form of power, even if it isn’t magical, your power could also just be knowledge and money) and they need to document and learn the truth behind these wonderful myths, avoiding monsters along the way and possibly even meeting the gods themselves.
so yeah, Percy Jackson crosses with SCP foundation.
Here's one that everyone can partake in. I am sure we've asked this before - but we got new people, and some people have changed theirs...
So...
What's the story with the avatar you use on the forum? Why do you use it? Tell us whatever you want to about it!
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up