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Post by Lucky Stars on Jun 27, 2013 14:31:48 GMT -8
Hello, I'm Lucky, and I've been around from the very beginning of this system. I helped playtest the system way back in its first inception. I also joined Four Ride Forth and The Lost Destiny respectively. I enjoy playing in pretty much every colorful horse RPG I can.
I'm late signing up here because I'm pretty lazy as of late.
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Post by 1198 on Jul 8, 2013 5:54:38 GMT -8
Hello!
I'm known on in the internet as 1198, and I'm as new as can be in the world of tabletop gaming.
Heard about this site from the Bronyshow Tabletop Special #6, and I'm pretty keen on joining one of these games. There seem to only be a couple games going on, and all of them have already started. Anyone have any advice on where I should get started?
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Post by Equestrian Wyvern on Jul 8, 2013 6:12:57 GMT -8
Hello! I'm known on in the internet as 1198, and I'm as new as can be in the world of tabletop gaming. Heard about this site from the Bronyshow Tabletop Special #6, and I'm pretty keen on joining one of these games. There seem to only be a couple games going on, and all of them have already started. Anyone have any advice on where I should get started? Best way to just hop in and learn the game would probably be Friday Night Dice which is a weekly game with different players every week. The Player Character Discussion is a great source of basic advice on making characters that are both your own creation and play well, and you can ask any questions you have there as well. |
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Post by octavia on Jul 9, 2013 19:51:21 GMT -8
Hello, Im Octavia. I am a good friend of Warp's, and I've been meaning to sign up for this forum for a while now, but I just now got around to it after meeting JABF and Rodger at Everfree. I know how to make characters in this system, but that is about it. I've never played a Savage Worlds game before.
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Post by JustABlankFlank on Jul 10, 2013 17:53:29 GMT -8
Hello, Im Octavia. I am a good friend of Warp's, and I've been meaning to sign up for this forum for a while now, but I just now got around to it after meeting JABF and Rodger at Everfree. I know how to make characters in this system, but that is about it. I've never played a Savage Worlds game before. Tavi! Sign up for Friday Night Dice, I'm running a game this Friday. |
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Post by octavia on Jul 10, 2013 19:33:46 GMT -8
Probably not this week, but maybe next week! I need to make a character first.
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erris
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"You chose option A. Wrong! The actual answer was option 27.4, with ginger ice cream and bacon bread
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Post by erris on Aug 7, 2013 9:42:43 GMT -8
Sorry, should have introduced myself when I first came here. My name is Erris, but my main online alias is Cupcakesyumy (e.g. this guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=25rTKQ3NChw) or as it's become, CC. My RPG experience is very little, unless you count outside roleplaying. I've rp'd on pony sites, bleach sites, Naruto sites, Mass effect and much much more, but until last month I'd never considered RPing before. Then, my best friend's boyfriend invited me to a game, and we're still setting that up. Hoewver, that's not what really matters. I'm in Moment of Glory (if that's still going on) and for the Friday randoms, I'm doing one of my usual two ponysonas - Quadrille Legato, Jazz singer extraordinaire (I know, a PMV maker who likes to sing. What are the odds (around 10 to 1, I actually calculated)) |
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Post by citricacid on Aug 7, 2013 16:12:17 GMT -8
Hi everyone, I'm CitricAcid. I got into tabletop gaming when I bugged a friend of mine a few years ago to start one with me and some friends. That game turned into an epic 1.75 year long campaign that was great fun. I moved away from those friends not too long ago, and I recently started trying to get back into doing some tabletop gaming. As it turns out, the only people I managed to find who were interested in playing were bronies, so I figured why not run an MLP campaign? This Saturday is our first session--which will likely consist mostly of character creation--and I'll be using SW:MLP for it. I look forward to discussing our shenanigans here.
I'm really only drawn to in-person tabletop RPGs. My attention span for reading is kind of short, so Forum, IRC, or otherwise text based RPGs would exhaust me. Plus I like the fellowship and think-on-your-feet aspects of playing in-person.
Besides tabletop gaming, I like to write music, and I'm casually trying to pursue film music as a career. (Only casually, because I have a regular job that actually pays the bills.) If this campaign of mine turns into something special and my players are interested in stretching their vocal chords, I might try writing a song for it. That'll be a ways down the line, though.
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Concerned Reader
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I come from the dark side of tomorrow to meet you on the flipside of today.
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Post by Concerned Reader on Aug 10, 2013 8:58:52 GMT -8
Yo waddup, I'm Concerned Reader, but these forums wouldn't let me use a space in the name. I'm a bit of a writer, and have had a hand in helping out with the formation of a couple games. I even tried to run one once, but just couldn't find the time or energy to keep it going.
I've played in SWmlp, 4e, freeform, and also Eclipse Phase. Unfortunately due to my work and school schedule, I probably won't be able to play in many games, but if I can find the time I always love chatting about character and story junk.
Also, Hi Warp! And anyone else I might know from other forums!
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Post by Toboe LoneWolf on Aug 10, 2013 16:17:29 GMT -8
OMG CitricAcid it's a person who plays SW:MLP in real life All your stories, let me hear them  Also, looking forward to finding out what shenanigans you've put in Please Take Care, ConcernedReader. ;D EDIT: wait a tic I can read nope |
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Post by SandyShores on Aug 14, 2013 17:46:25 GMT -8
Hey y'all, names Amanda or you can call me Sandy Shores (my OC pony name). I'm really excited to start a tabletop game like this. This is my very first table top rpg, I have done literal rps for two years now. I am an artist, college students and love pirates. Yes pirates : ) I cannot wait to start meeting you awesome people and hope to start doing some campaigns with people.
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Post by Rodger Phillips Marsh on Aug 14, 2013 18:23:52 GMT -8
Hey y'all, names Amanda or you can call me Sunny Shores (my OC pony name). I'm really excited to start a tabletop game like this. This is my very first table top rpg, I have done literal rps for two years now. I am an artist, college students and love pirates. Yes pirates : ) I cannot wait to start meeting you awesome people and hope to start doing some campaigns with people. Hey, pirates are awesome! Especially air pirates, those are the best kind  If you'd like to jump right in, I might suggest trying out a session of Friday Night Dice as I will be GMing this week and there is plenty of room for new players such as yourself. Otherwise, glad to have you on board! |
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Post by devilkitty on Aug 20, 2013 4:57:32 GMT -8
Like ponies; still haven't figured out quite why. Like RPGs. Which ones? - Started on White Box D&D -- with Greyhawk -- in 1978. Still have a soft spot for the game, and I still have some of those original dice.
- AD&D. With caveats:
<rant> Anything after the original AD&D didn't happen as far as I'm concerned (with the exception of the Al-Qadim setting, as I've always been a fan of the genre). I watched it devolve into one of the "skill-for-everything" systems that annoyed the screaming blue hell out of me in in other games; I put the books away for a while when I started to have too much trouble finding players who liked it "old-school". I made an honest try at playing in a 3.5 pony-D&D game, and it was an excruciating exercise in rules-lawyering, over-powered abilities, and what I charitably term "statsturbation" -- don't get me started on HP and damage inflation. The game has generally been tweaked to appeal to the MMO crowd as far as I can tell, and combats (that could have been resolved handily under the old rules -- leaving more time for the "RP" part of "RPG" -- took an hour and a half each.</rant> - Call of Cthulhu, original version, with Gaslight and Dreamlands supplements (not "d20"). I have some thoughts on a Lovecraftian pony campaign...
- The Dying Earth RPG.
- Empire of the Petal Throne (with tweaks to make it closer to Barker's conception of Tekumel and remove some of the annoying changes Gygax insisted on so it would "play in Peoria").
- Original Vampire (including Dark Ages) and Werewolf (both White Wolf).
- I've played a gaggle of other systems including, but not limited to: DragonQuest (SPI, not video-game series); Gamma World; Chivalry and Sorcery; The Fantasy Trip; The Morrow Project; Star Trek RPG (FASA); Traveller; GURPS (the all-purpose system that does none of them really well); usw.
- I suppose now I can add SW to the list, and I like that this particular system pretty much stays out of the way: a welcome change in the current tabletop gaming climate.
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Post by Rodger Phillips Marsh on Aug 20, 2013 9:22:52 GMT -8
Glad to have an RPG veteran here! I am honestly always interested to see what people with big backgrounds in RPGs think of SW:MLP. I tend to agree with you about D&D, and it's part of the reason I originally picked Savage Worlds for a MLP RPG. Call of Cthulhu, however: I have to say that I much prefer the d20 version, oddly enough, because the Chaosium BRP system makes me want to pull my head off (I have a special hatred for percentile-based systems). Vampire (as well as the oWoD Hunter and Wraith) is another system I have experience with, and I actually like the settings but hate the wonky system that oWoD uses.
Anyway, glad to have you here! We're always looking for new GMs if you're interested, otherwise we have at least one game recruiting at the moment and continue to run weekly one-shots: not the best format in my opinion, but usually a good crash-course for new players.
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Post by devilkitty on Aug 20, 2013 10:00:05 GMT -8
Glad to have an RPG veteran here! I am honestly always interested to see what people with big backgrounds in RPGs think of SW:MLP. I tend to agree with you about D&D, and it's part of the reason I originally picked Savage Worlds for a MLP RPG. I decided to play in CitricAcid's game on a whim when he posted on a board I administer to gauge interest. I don't have enough sessions under my belt in the system and setting to make "definitive" pronouncements, but it seems to be relatively well-balanced (though there a few adjustments I might make if I run anything myself). Call of Cthulhu, however: I have to say that I much prefer the d20 version, oddly enough, because the Chaosium BRP system makes me want to pull my head off (I have a special hatred for percentile-based systems). Vampire (as well as the oWoD Hunter and Wraith) is another system I have experience with, and I actually like the settings but hate the wonky system that oWoD uses. A "d20" system is still a percentile system, just in 5% increments rather than 1%. The advantage of a percentile system in a game like CoC (or indeed, any horror game) is in excitement for both DM and players -- "close calls" feel even closer to both sides. Consider: The intrepid Oswald von Katzenberg is confronted with a nameless horror conjured into the old Packard plant in Detroit. He has a 50% chance to lose X sanity points, so we can roll a d20 looking for something over 10, or percentile dice looking for a result of 51 or greater. Iacta alea est, and the result is one increment higher than needed... The d20 roll is 11. Saved! Likewise, the d% roll is 51. Saved again, though it feels much more skin-of-the-teeth. It's a matter of scale expansion. Just my 2/12.5 bit, but I like it. Anyway, glad to have you here! We're always looking for new GMs if you're interested, otherwise we have at least one game recruiting at the moment and continue to run weekly one-shots: not the best format in my opinion, but usually a good crash-course for new players. I will take that under advisement; as I said, I have an idea for a pony-HPL game bouncing around that I think shows some promise. Equestria can't be that idyllic; there must be some nameless evil afoot below the shiny, happy surface... |
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If you'd like to jump right in, I might suggest trying out a session of