Mazer Rackham Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 (edited) We did have the concept of the RPG (Night) Club which was a Club dedicated to the fabrication of 40k based RPG games. We could set up a Club, Leave it set to Open, and then throw build ideas into it. I personally want to try and execute some kind of very easy to pick up SM Scout game which could be used a prelude for the (any game really) Armageddon RP, very similar to the 'scaled-back' ideas Tro is running. That way everyone could do their 'interpretations' in their own thread. I could leave all the options on the table for blogs or stuff like that if they wanted them. TBH, I think this is possibly the better support of the PBP forum as suggested during the re-structure. I'll build it....maybe they will come? EDIT: I've started the setup of the aforementioned group/club and it's pending the green light. If successful I'll begin setting the topics up. My plans for the 'Decimus' Entry-level RP System or (DERPS, you know, like GURPS, but with more Dakka) are beginning to shape up.. Edited August 17 by Mazer Rackham Dear God, my spelling. Xin Ceithan and Necronaut 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6128340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Lads, if you want to start developing your RP Rulesets etc, the RPG (Night) Club is now up and running (Many thanks to whoever approved it). Trokair, Xin Ceithan and Black Cohort 2 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6128403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Alright, Only War buffs - how well does the game scale for small groups without Comrades? I was thinking about a three-man team on a short, sharp railroad, but they would likely have to be Stormtroopers since ablative wounds aren't available. How feasible is it? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6128965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Cohort Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 I think a big thing companions add to only War is helping establish the vibe. Being a guardsman is dangerous, the companion system lets casualty rates be high without ever killing PCs. Mazer Rackham 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6129003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Probably have to mandate at least one Stormie or Commisar, and two other Player Grunts with Comrades to try and keep it tight, for a total of five. I can see that working out very well, actually. Would be interesting to see how different Archetypes would handle the...problems...I planned. Black Cohort 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6129097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Cohort Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 Another potentially interesting idea could be using something like the Badab War as a setting for a game, Deathwatch would be the obvious choice, but only war against Astral Claws supported Tyrant's Legion or Rogue Trader based naval campaigns could be super cool. Xin Ceithan and Mazer Rackham 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6129105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 (edited) We did actually try that a few years ago with Beneath A Hateful Sky, with a couple of Astral Claws, an Executioner and a Lamenter. Our valiant crew all chose Secessionists, even though given the choice of the heroic Loyalists...one of the current crop of Black Crusaders in Blackest Heart is a product of that work we did back then, along with a loony marine toting an autocannon and a Tyrant's Legion minion. Both make a cameo in the first part of the BC game. We were going to do it as a BC Game, but I thought that was inappropriate given the Astral Claws were not, officially, Chaos Worshippers, and it resulted in being a hybrid of both systems. A second (non PvP) campaign was planned for the Loyalists, but we never had any takers for that side of it. Edited August 22 by Mazer Rackham Xin Ceithan and Black Cohort 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6129107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Cohort Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 reading about the Minotaurs in IA vol 12 has me thinking of a new idea, an Ordo Astartes acolyte group investigating 21st founding chapters a few decades after that founding. Trokair, Mazer Rackham, Necronaut and 1 other 3 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6129427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 That would be an exceptionally dangerous undertaking! Trokair, Xin Ceithan and Black Cohort 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6129525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 (edited) @Lysimachus Hey man, could you open a Files section of the Club? I've built some glorious gubbins and want to start a library for folks to just be able to go and get a datasheet. Beats doing Downloads. Ta. Edited August 28 by Mazer Rackham Machine God, Lysimachus and Black Cohort 1 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6130049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysimachus Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Great idea, will do it now! Mazer Rackham 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6130076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 (edited) Appreciated - I've dumped a tester in there. Edited August 28 by Mazer Rackham Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6130090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Cohort Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Download worked fine for me. Mazer Rackham 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6130093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 (edited) Superb, cheers. I've started uploading my rubbish. Edited August 28 by Mazer Rackham Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6130094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 My search-fu is derp today - does anyone have/can anyone find the link to the Big PBP FAQ we tried to compile a while ago? After seeing some back and forth in a couple of the games, it might be an idea to resurrect that chestnut so we can have a go-to repository for queries. Machine God 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6137119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machine God Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 Gremlins Mazer Rackham 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6137123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trokair Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 This one: https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/368649-the-pbp-big-faq-thread-wip/ ? Mazer Rackham 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6137127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 Top banana, Tro - that's the one. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6137128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted October 20 Share Posted October 20 (edited) @FabiusV4lcoran Thought I'd bring this up here - since it's more appropriate than cluttering elsewhere - if you were interested in having a look at what we were doing for the Drukhari game, feel free to peruse the appropriate thread which hasn't been ported across to my knowledge, so you may not have scoped it. As @Xin Ceithan pointed out elsewhere, it didn't really get a chance to build up steam (a lot was happening with other games, and our GM's are sadly few): As @Trokair recommended, have a damn good root around in the Nook, as you'll get a feeling for how we do things game-wise here (sometimes it even goes right) and let us know in your LFG post what resources you've got access to, experience with PBP or RPG in general, just to let us support you properly in your experience here (I notice you've had a crack at Dark Heresy, so I am most intrigued good fellow...) Tro was also correct in advising that we do have a Deathwatch game opening up in a couple of weeks, but we're pretty locked tight. I always leave myself a back door there, so the price of admission if you're interested will be a really good character idea or background. For the Campaign (House) Rules, if you want to see what you might be getting into, they're here: Edited October 21 by Mazer Rackham FabiusV4lcoran and Black Cohort 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6137685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabiusV4lcoran Posted October 21 Share Posted October 21 @Mazer Rackham Awesome, thanks for the nudge! I'm gonna dig around. I'm unfamiliar with Deathwatch; looks like I should dig into that a bit more. Mazer Rackham 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6137688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aknoby Posted December 10 Share Posted December 10 Hey so I'm new here,where I look for open RPs? Please help! Black Cohort, Lysimachus, Trokair and 1 other 4 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6146452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysimachus Posted December 10 Share Posted December 10 Welcome @Aknoby! There are a couple of games midway through playing at the moment, which might not be the easiest to join. But I think @Mazer Rackham might have had a couple of people drop out of his Armageddon setting game, and we are just starting that one, so that might be worth asking about? I can see you're new to the B+C, are you familiar with the FFG 40k games? (No problem if not, but obviously it does help!) Aknoby and Mazer Rackham 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6146462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Rackham Posted December 11 Share Posted December 11 Hail, and welcome to the Nook! Unfortunately at the moment we don't have a singular thread with game statuses. Might be an idea for us to create one...maybe a Post per GM who is running games, with a list of the games in progress, etc? What do folks think? For the moment, it will simply be a case of trawling the topics tab, and looking for the Out Of Character Threads, where we generally do recruitment for the game, and go over the game premise and rules. Regrettably, I don't have any games open to new Players ATM, but sometimes slots do open up when certain plot-points or parts of the game are closed/opened in others. Aknoby 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6146463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Cohort Posted December 11 Share Posted December 11 2 hours ago, Aknoby said: Hey so I'm new here,where I look for open RPs? Please help! Welcome. At some point in the relatively near future (so months not years), after the current "mission" in Time of Reaving (a "deathwatch" HH game) is done that will probably get paused while I run an arc of a new Rogue Trader campaign set in "current" 40k, though with my take on how it should look, not the dumb GW version of recent events. Aknoby and Mazer Rackham 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6146472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabiusV4lcoran Posted December 11 Share Posted December 11 20 hours ago, Black Cohort said: Welcome. At some point in the relatively near future (so months not years), after the current "mission" in Time of Reaving (a "deathwatch" HH game) is done that will probably get paused while I run an arc of a new Rogue Trader campaign set in "current" 40k, though with my take on how it should look, not the dumb GW version of recent events. I'd like to express interest on the Rogue Trader thing when you do decide to do that. Rogue Trader strikes me as a particularly fun game given the gray area they occupy. Black Cohort, Mazer Rackham and Trokair 1 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/386463-side-table-talk-general-discussion-and-ideas-thread/page/2/#findComment-6146627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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