Message from @Beemann
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It's a good bit of social recreation for about 2h, and it can be good for writing exercises too if you're into that sort of thing
Introduced an absolute newbie to ADnD 2nd and she's been doing fine (mostly because the player never needs to touch most of the rules)
Quick question. What's PnP mean? I tried looking it up and Urban Dictionary is giving me the gay orgy definition
Pen and Paper
Very different
I'm afraid to ask, but the gay orgy definition?
Apparently PnP also means Party n Play
Which is not inaccurate to our current topic I suppose
Aside from the fact that it apparently refers to a gay orgy?
Right. That
The infrastructural requirements of an online DnD campaign are the ability to save/store text files, people to play with and some method of verified rolling really
Super good when they use totally innocious sounding phrases to refer to shit like that.
So like, unstoppable shitlordery really
Of those three, the second is the hardest to aquire.
By far.
Yeah getting people's schedules lined up for 2h weekly or biweekly is a pain
I think the biggest hurdle I have to overcome is finding a world I can get into. DnD is by far the most renowned but just kind of tired of the whole Anglo Mythology aspect of it
There's plenty
Pick your poison. There's sci fi, cyberpunk, cyberpunk fantasy, Japanese fantasy, western fantasy, noir fantasy, modern fantasy and a multitude of historical games, off the top of my head
And by western fantasy I mean Old West with supernatural elements
Western Fantasy sounds pretty cool
Then there is stuff like Weird scifi/fantasy mashup.
Deadlands my dude. Just make sure you look at Reloaded and not OG unless you like lots of math and extra rolling
Where the magic is all technology that the characters don't understand.
There's also a fair amount of scifi horror as it's own subgenre apparently.
GURPS and Savage Worlds are generalist systems overall- you can do whatever you like with em
Check out Snakes & Saloons, it's DnD5e conversion.
>D20 conversions
I've never understood the draw of these
I don't know if it's because I got started with World of Darkness, but I've always been especially uninterested in actual DnD.
Oddly, that same distaste doesn't apply to Pathfinder.
Maybe I'm just a hipster.
Pathfinder is basically 3.5 with newer shit
I've not been a huge fan of 3.x in some time
Basically since I started looking into other systems
Just read up on Deadlands. That sounds really cool
It's pretty neat yeah. The artwork is 👌 as well
It's funny actually, in the two PnPs I like most, Shadowrun and Deadlands, the South does indeed rise again
Few things are cooler than a Cowboy
Shadowrun is a weird game to me. I love the setting, but I've never had an easy time coming up with a character concept for that game.
Really? I come up with so many that more than half become NPCs