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I'm shilling - God forbid - on my first post.

I've been building a fresh system for the last several months. It's been playtested and overhauled multiple times but it's close to a concrete foundation and I'd love to get perspectives from more people.

The setting is an alien-heavy sci-fi/magic mashup.

There are only three core stats and all of them triple as character competence, health pools, and resources for making big plays.

Your character has a deck of cards with his/her combat abilities and a deck of cards used for resolving non-combat challenges.

Combat has you drawing from your deck and playing abilities from your hand.

Movement is unbelievably simple: Your character occupies one of four "spheres" that may also be occupied by allies / enemies. You can move between spheres to set up abilities and heal your stats.
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I'd be happy to set up a RAAAAH HUMANITY session, thinking this crowd might enjoy that rather than playing new species.

The only catch is that Tabletop Simulator is just about the only digital place it works particularly well - but everyone who's played so far has had fun!
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Ryles wrote: December 18th, 2023, 04:53
Your character has a deck of cards with his/her combat abilities and a deck of cards used for resolving non-combat challenges.

Combat has you drawing from your deck and playing abilities from your hand.
Haha, I'm pretty sure I've seen you post on /tg/ about your system. Does it actually feel like an RPG or more like, well, a card game?
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Shilling on his first post. This guy operates on another level.
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WhiteShark wrote: December 18th, 2023, 05:12
Haha, I'm pretty sure I've seen you post on /tg/ about your system. Does it actually feel like an RPG or more like, well, a card game?
Doesn't surprise me! It's still got that collaborative open-ended storytelling outside of combat. Inside of combat, there are cards you can play to improv something the way you'd ask "can I give him testicular torsion with mage hand?" in order to attempt something slick / cockamamie. In the last playtest I ran a murder mystery for the group to run the skill check system through the wringer.
Wretch wrote: December 18th, 2023, 05:36
Shilling on his first post. This guy operates on another level.
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Are you trying to make something like Etherlords?

I can't exactly tell how is this going to work?

And people are going to abuse deck-building mechanics. Are you ready for this?
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Never heard of it. I've had a lot of people draw comparisons to Gloomwood when they hear the concept but that's a **** far cry from this.
The_Mask wrote: December 19th, 2023, 01:04
I can't exactly tell how is this going to work?
There's no short answer to that question, but I invite you to find out!
The_Mask wrote: December 19th, 2023, 01:04
And people are going to abuse deck-building mechanics. Are you ready for this?
God I hope they abuse the hell out of it. I'm accounting for absurdity with deck limits and limiting designations i.e. you can only have X of Y type of card - that sort of thing.
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I would gladly play but I don’t have tabletop simulator.
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I have a medieval-fantasy setting that I've been using since 2017 (2 long campaigns played with codexers back then) and I'm going to start a CYOA/text adventure with stats on it and drop it at "HQ Plays", see how much interest it generates here. Eventually might springboard this into p&p RPG adventures/campaign.
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This sounds really sad. Make friends irl lmao
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Goth-Girl-Supremacy wrote: December 23rd, 2023, 14:40
This sounds really sad. Make friends irl lmao
My irl friends are not into RPGs, or even videogames in general.
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Irenaeus wrote: December 23rd, 2023, 14:34
I have a medieval-fantasy setting that I've been using since 2017 (2 long campaigns played with codexers back then) and I'm going to start a CYOA/text adventure with stats on it and drop it at "HQ Plays", see how much interest it generates here. Eventually might springboard this into p&p RPG adventures/campaign.
Let me know when you do that I would be interested playing.
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Goth-Girl-Supremacy wrote: December 23rd, 2023, 14:40
This sounds really sad. Make friends irl lmao
have an irl gf first lol
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Goth-Girl-Supremacy wrote: December 23rd, 2023, 14:40
This sounds really sad. Make friends irl lmao
Why?
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Is this thing ever gonna happen?
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SiMtRy wrote: September 10th, 2024, 08:10
Is this thing ever gonna happen?
I suspect there's enough people interested that if someone wanted to organize/DM it, it would happen.
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Boy, it sure would be nice to have a dice roller for this.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: September 10th, 2024, 08:14
SiMtRy wrote: September 10th, 2024, 08:10
Is this thing ever gonna happen?
I suspect there's enough people interested that if someone wanted to organize/DM it, it would happen.
I would do it if nobody cares whether I'm very good at it :scratch:
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LemonDemonGirl wrote: October 4th, 2024, 12:22
I'll play D&D, Pathfinder and/or VtM under ONE condition: people accept my Homebrews.
Any GM with any experience whatsoever is more likely to kill themselves than to accept homebrewing without review. :toot:
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The only PNP games I’m interested in is WOD and possibly Pathfinder.
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Which console is the pnp?
I'm just stating the facts.
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Vergil wrote: October 4th, 2024, 14:12
Which console is the pnp?
Must be a Nintendo, since Nintendo fanboys talk about how much they love to PNP all the time.
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Would be nice to play Cyberpunk 2020.
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Faceless_Sentinel wrote: October 4th, 2024, 14:33
Would be nice to play Cyberpunk 2020.
I've played some Cyberpunk RED, although we thematically/narratively played in Cyberpunk 2080, which I think is a solid idea. RED is a serviceable system, but I'd say that 2020 seems generally better. It was fun, but the GM wasn't great, so I ended up leaving the game, which was a bit of a pity, because the party itself was mostly great and the character I was playing was likely one of my absolute favorite ones.

But I'd really like them to update Cyberpunk 2020 instead of re-inventing and re-imagining the wheel as lame and gay, and put that in with the 2077 CRPG setting as it was. I think that'd be a real winner.
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LemonDemonGirl wrote: October 4th, 2024, 12:22
I'll play D&D, Pathfinder and/or VtM under ONE condition: people accept my Homebrews.
I'd rather **** in my hands and clap.
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pnp is gay
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I had bought Fantasy Grounds (now classic) years ago, but I see they have a new version out. Anyone toyed with the new software?

The way the licensing worked in the old version was that if one person had the full license, then the players could play the game with free clients.

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Especially when you push the button and get us all killed.
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it was either that or keep playing that campaign until 2030
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Xenich wrote: October 4th, 2024, 21:36
I had bought Fantasy Grounds (now classic) years ago, but I see they have a new version out. Anyone toyed with the new software?

The way the licensing worked in the old version was that if one person had the full license, then the players could play the game with free clients.

There's an app called Fight Club if you're ok with using your phone.

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