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I have been finally converting the D&D sessions I run with scummers into a format that is coherent.

Here is where I've been uploading them. I have session 1 and part of session 2 uploaded.

Enjoy! More will come. (hopefully)

Starting my first session GM'ing War for the Crown tonight. Much excite, many nerves, wow.

How successful have play by post DnD/Pathfinder games been here?

they have mostly gone very poorly

maybe you should all skype DnD. Every single time I see DnD at the card shop at least 1 person is a laptop that they set on the table to skype into the session.

I don't know about post-by-post games, but I've been regularly playing D&D with people I found on the site for years now.

Is it skype D&D?

We play on roll20

Is it a bunch of people who are no longer really active on site. Cause I never see people talk about D&D around here

I run a scummer D&D group using discord and roll20

Pops, once new DMs get their group, they take their game off-site onto Discord or an app like roll20 and that's that.

They should do it somewhere where I can watch instead

I was running Rise of the Runelords (Paizos first Pathfinder AP, anniversary edition) and was getting a bit bored with it after the manor arc. Also also a player had a baby. Also also also I remembered a certain villain that was going to 100% for sure TPK them to hell was coming up.

So with all that in mind, I proposed and they agreed to a change of scenery. It'd been about two months since the last session (because new baby), so to start the session off I decided to introduce them to a couple deities.

One, Falayna, a party member who multi-classed had already met; the other, however, was an adaptation between classic lore Loki (not Marvel Loki) and a deity Native Americans referred to as Coyote. Basically a pure trickster deity, which tbf Pathfinder doesn't really have.

To cut to the chase, I had them go from eventually stopping a Runelord from doing THE THING (no spoilers) to a sort-of fabric of time on the line planescape-slash-multiverse kind of campaign. Only 2/3 members could make it, but from what I could tell via their reactions I pulled it off okay. There were no eyerolls or bored faces! Victory!

one day when I win the lottery one of the things I will do is higher a DM and 4 professional players to teach me DnD obviating my need to have friendships
also if I'm rich enough I can make all of them cosplay

Yeah, we ran through that ROTRL campaign as well and found it similarly dull. I don't quite understand why it's a classic, tbh.

I deliberately avoid playing in games that are premade adventure paths. I almost never enjoy them.

To be fair, I've enjoyed a lot of them. I just... don't see what made Rise such a paizo classic.

The only thing about Rise that I'm not a huge fan of is that nearly every story hook is a note or a letter. This wasn't my first run through and, with only three players, they were going to get absolutely obliterated at the clocktower. Without a doubt.

It's a classic in the sense that, if ran as is RAW (meaning no extra loot, towns don't have everything the players want to buy, etc) it's a very refreshing challenge (keep in mind that this is immediately after 4e had come out and the community as a whole was pretty done with the endless splatbooks that were 3.5) and the story itself isn't all that bad.

Very fond of the new Vampire 5E update. It's a great update to the classic system. Blood works much more organically, they've cut down on the number of rolls, and combat is now freed of the D&D detrius that used to drag it down. Just a great system overall.

Anyone else here playing it?

What are the things people like about 5e?

It just seems like kid gloved D&D to me.

Not trying to start an editions war. I'm legitimately curious.

Um, in what universe? D&D is a combat-centric system focused on high magic settings with adventures, epic weapons, evil villains, etc.. Vampire is focused on the modern day, and is an exploration of horror, psychological degredation, politics, and a corrupt system built around lies and deception, which inevitably pulls you in and forces you to make compromises after compromise, until you begin compromising your values yourself, in pursuit of power.

If anything the thing I usually here is that D&D is the game for children. Which is a bit reductionist, but it's hard to argue anything other than that the themes of D&D are usually simpler, less subtle, and more "children's cartoon values". More roll-playing than role-playing, if you will. I certainly wouldn't call vampire "kid-gloved" given that it's one of the games I most often need a content warning for. It wouldn't be out of the scope of a typical game for a parent to kill their child in a fit of rage (with the parent as one of the PCs), or for someone forced to watch their best friend of a decade die, or turn them into a vampire and watch them slowly turn against you over the decades (because no relationship is going to survive an eternity with plotting, scheming monsters).

My sincerest apologies.

Idk why but I automatically assumed 5e D&D and that this Vampire thing was like a supplement or whatever. Question still stands about D&D 5e.

Thank you for the very clear explanation though! That game sounds like loads of fun.

You're talking Vampire: The Masquerade right? And not some DND vampire centric supplement?

In post 822, T-Bone wrote:You're talking Vampire: The Masquerade right? And not some DND vampire centric supplement?

Yes. Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition was released recently, and it's commonly called Vampire 5e or V5

In post 822, T-Bone wrote:You're talking Vampire: The Masquerade right? And not some DND vampire centric supplement?

Yes. Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition was released recently, and it's commonly called Vampire 5e or V5