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The mentions in that Tippett made me decide to do this, this is a general discussion thread on anything I guess, but mainly RPGs.

I'm a big fan of RPGs. Playing Torchlight 2 right at this second, good little RPG basically an official sequel to diablo 2 (better than Diablo 3 imho). I played Baldur's Gate serious 3 times, Icewind Dale 1 and 2, Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, and Planescape Torment. Fallout 1 & 2.



Don't know if you guys are familiar with this. cmndstab Allefgib Malifice

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity

The kickstarter has already ended, raised 4 million. The proposed game is being made by Obsidian Entertainment, who used to be Black Isle Studios, who made Icewind Dales, Fallouts, Planescape Torment. It is a couple years off but there is some interest there as it will be a party based isometric game.

Anyway, what kind of games if any does anyone here play? Perhaps we could get an Adelaide board multiplayer thing going to pass the time while the footy isn't on and we're getting raped by the AFL. (Other team supporters welcome as well).
 

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You know, I just sent that link in a message to Allefgib and cmndstab ;)

I backed it for $20, being poor as I am

Aside from being world famous in EVE Online which I scarcely play anymore, I've lately been running through Borderlands 2 with friends, have Torchlight 2 which a friend and former colleague worked on but I've not played much yet because Borderlands 2 won the coin toss on what to play first ;), drop in and out of World of Tanks as I can afford premium, and hunt for good RTS games to play.
 
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Love Fallout. Immense.
Playing FF14 at the moment, though, I'm going to have some serious withdrawls over the holidays when it's shut down in a week for the implementation of 2.0
DayZ is pretty good too, waiting on the stand-alone game to be released though. Very good game for a laugh when playing with mates.
 
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity

The kickstarter has already ended, raised 4 million. The proposed game is being made by Obsidian Entertainment, who used to be Black Isle Studios, who made Icewind Dales, Fallouts, Planescape Torment. It is a couple years off but there is some interest there as it will be a party based isometric game.
Looks good bro. Ill be watching with intrest.

Anyway, what kind of games if any does anyone here play?
Still waiting for the BG remake. Damn that game was good.

Also pen and paper RPG's (To which my current avatar might be a solid clue).

Perhaps we could get an Adelaide board multiplayer thing going to pass the time while the footy isn't on and we're getting raped by the AFL. (Other team supporters welcome as well).
PC BG comes out in December. Im in.
 

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Hey boys - thanks for a cool topic.

I play BG2: SOA and ToB when I did my knee. So I wasn't doing much and managed to really immerse myself in it. No shit, the first few fights with dragons was some of the most fun gaming I've ever had.

Dragon Age Origins - loved it but still wasn't quite there.. the expansion was fun but easy mode with an Arcane Warrior specced right.
Dragon Age 2 - disgraceful slut of a game.

Currently been playing The Old Republic on and off. Yeah I'm a Bioware boi. Even married a girl from Edmonton :p Just don't ahve the time to sink into ToR like I would like - and whilst I enjoy MMO's, I've always preferred the single player tactical style the old infinity engine way.

On a slightly side note also starting up a PBP (play by post) tabletop RPG campaign in Pathfinder. Never done it before.. by my sister in law vising from Canada was super keen for it as a way for us to be in touch more as a family. Using www.obsidianportal.com and so much of game mechanics have me drooling for the old days again ;)
 

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Just remembered...

my tag name, allefgib, came from a Gnome Mage/Cleric I played in Baldur's Gate! I was struggling for a name and just went crazy on backwards works (for obvious reasons if you know Baldurs Gate) and came up with Allefgib!
 

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KOTOR 2 is the only Black Isle/Obsidian game I've ever actually played, I wasn't all that big on RPGs when I was younger. Never even played a pen and paper game.
 
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(is it multiplayer though??)
Most certainly is.

The last one was as well, but you had to serial cable it and LAN. Was a bitch to get up and running.

The new one is apparently much smoother to link (fingers crossed).

Check out obsidianportal.com Malifice.. looks pretty cool for running a tabletop rpg (even for online)
Youre a year too late. I prefer the face to face of pen and paper though. If Im using a computer, I might as well just play a computer game.

my tag name, allefgib, came from a Gnome Mage/Cleric I played in Baldur's Gate! I was struggling for a name and just went crazy on backwards works (for obvious reasons if you know Baldurs Gate) and came up with Allefgib!
Where do you think I got mine from?

;)
 

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http://paizo.com/people/Malifice/posts - you?

Doing it PBP coz family is in Canada mate.
Indeed it is.

Dont post there much though. Real touchy on those forums. Got warned in a thread about me removing Paladin powers from a Paladin in my party for murdering a defenceless Kobold (which got locked).

Playing again this wednesday. Age of Worms/ Pathfinder campaign.
 

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Man I am so pumped for BG: EE! I never played BG 1 (only BG 2) so my iPad will be getting a workout.

I'm currently playing Star Trek Online. Love it.
 

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you boys need to get into racing sims IMO :thumbsu:

i'm a class A oval racer in iRacing. get to race with a lot of the V8 supercar drivers, and occasionally some indycar drivers

good fun.
 

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So does anyone here play tabletop miniature games?

I've just, after frequent nagging from some overseas friends, purchased my first bits for a Warhammer 40k army, which is long overdue for me.

Now that I've done that, this has come out on KS as well http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2037958218/beyond-the-gates-of-antares which is tempting
Man I have bought and sold more Warhammer armies than I can count.

Had a 10,000 point Crimson Fist Space marine chapter most recently. I intentionally bought all the old 'beakie' Marines (back in the days of Rogue Trader) for an old school look.

Its a fun game. Expensive as **** though.

What army did you go with?
 

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I've picked Eldar, I like aspects of the story, the gameplay and the art.

Got a Canadian friend and his gf starting a CSM and Tyranid army respectively at the same time, plus another Canadian I know with a really well made Nightlord army who paints to keep his sanity. Local friends, not so much... I can't even get them to play a simple tabletop card game, even got one a Killer Bunnies game as part of an amusing mixed bag wedding present.
 

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Growing up, loved the games Pool Of Radiance and Bard's Tale 2 on the C64. Wasted hours and hours on them, amazing fun.

Played some pen and paper D&D at school. Dumb parents forced me to give it up as it was "evil" because A Current Affair said so (yeah, no contact with them now).
 

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Awesome!

Not much devil worship in DnD. A lot of looting however :)
I remember my Elven archer going to our wounded wizard after a fight and opening his backpack... that was how I found out about the "Wizard Lock" spell... I had one hit point... and our thief came up and *STAB* gone. He joked to the DM that he'd stab me, so I remember the DM making him roll to hit, when i was a practically unconscious target with an AC of 6 or something. Was not impressed.

Fun times, fun times.
 

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I remember my Elven archer going to our wounded wizard after a fight and opening his backpack... that was how I found out about the "Wizard Lock" spell... I had one hit point... and our thief came up and *STAB* gone. He joked to the DM that he'd stab me, so I remember the DM making him roll to hit, when i was a practically unconscious target with an AC of 6 or something. Was not impressed.

Fun times, fun times.
Memories.

I played in an evil party for a campaign that ran weekends for over 4 years. The conflict between the Mage and the (Anti)Paladin was epic. We also alternated with a Sci Fi RPG as well. The plotting and scheming was some of the best stuff.

Some classics from various campaigns in that group:
  • My Warrior-Mage getting turned into a Plow Horse by a stab in the back from the Chaos Lord in a tavern brawl. Said Chaos Lord being murdered by his conspirators and the whole thing covered up with an outrageous story of a carnivorous Plow Horse that ran into the Bar... and ate me.
  • Hunting a Psionic Dragon in Spacemaster with portable PML missile launchers equipped with Mark 5 Nuclear warheads.... in a jungle (yes, that did not end well)
  • A Jedi character in a Star Wars campaign hocking his lightsaber to pay a Sabbacc debt. Being beaten at the game of Sabbacc by an Assasin droid immune to the Jedi Mind trick.
  • Hunting a cybernetic bear throught the sewers of Seattle with a minigun in a Shadowrun campaign
  • A pit trap that resulted in the deaths of 4 PC's... After we discovered it (one character was pushed in, the other was killed climbing back up after looting the first, and the other two subsequently killed one another fighting over the loot of the first two)
  • In a Car Wars campaign, discovering a corpse (recently killed by a fellow PC) buried in the snow, shot three times in the head, stabbed and with a plank of wood jammed in his belly. The offending PC claimed it was clearly 'suicide'.
  • Various other plots and schemes too funny to mention.
 

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  • A pit trap that resulted in the deaths of 4 PC's... After we discovered it (one character was pushed in, the other was killed climbing back up after looting the first, and the other two subsequently killed one another fighting over the loot of the first two)
Ah, that's classic. Even reading it I wondered how the **** did it kill 4 guys???

Played Paranoia once, one character sat at the back of a transport on the way to the mission... tried out the wrong button on his plasma-thrower... whoops, wiped out the entire party, start again.
 

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Also, if you like the kind of thing, I recommend ADOM, free download on the web.

Skyrim was fun too, but not free.
 

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Ah, that's classic. Even reading it I wondered how the **** did it kill 4 guys???
It was a Rolemaster campaign. Party comprised of a Warlock, Thief, Necromancer and Mentalist; levels from 5th to 13th. All thoroughly evil. We were exploring a ziggurat located on the fork of a river. It was our 5th expedition to the same ruins, and the levels had been getting progressively more deadly as we delved deeper. Also, we were all a bit wary of one another after earlier in the night all locating powerful artifacts each (I had a mirror I could attune anywhere and see and reach through, the Thief scored a ridiculously powerful Bow etc). It wasn't a question of 'if' the betrayal was going to happen, more a question of when.

The Thief initially found the trap (80' deep spiked pit). Sadly the Warlock (me) fell down the pit trying to explore the bottom of it (bad roll). I copped a spike in each kidney (death in 6 rounds). The Thief then climbed down ostensibly to check out my injuries and 'heal' me (i.e. finish me off loot me of the mirror). He subsequently propped me up and used his ventriloquism and mime skills to have 'me' call back to the other PC's that I was safe as I bled to death while unconscious.

Not that the other PC's fell for it.

A mexican standoff then occurred with the Necromancer and the Mentalist at the top of the pit attempting to convince the Thief to climb back up, and the thief refusing because he now had two of the artifacts and knew he was a dead man once he got back to the top. Eventually after many assurances, he was convinced to climb back up. Needless to say, at the half way point of the climb, the Mentalist betrayed him and started pouring oil down the sides of the pit. The thief actually managed to fluke the climb check and was able to grimly hold on to the oily sides of the pit for dear life begging for mercy. Then the Necromancer... set the oil on fire.

Two down, two to follow.

The Necromancer then sent one of his undead minions down the pit to recover both the magical Bow and the Mirror. After recovering the items, the surviving conspiring PC's were splitting the loot at the surface, when the Mentalist attempted to dominate the Necromancer (failing) resulting in the Necromancer kicking the Mentallist down the pit.

Now with all four artifacts in his possession, the Necromancer started to head back to Town. Unbeknownst to the Necromancer, the Thief had earlier sabotaged the rope over the pit (cutting it halfway through) as a contingency plan for the return journey, knowing full well he could climb without it, and the rest of us spell-casters would struggle.

Thus, half way across the rope over the pit, the rope gave way and the Necromancer plunged to his death, a spike through the neck for his troubles.

One of the more entertaining TPK's ive been involved in!

Played Paranoia once, one character sat at the back of a transport on the way to the mission... tried out the wrong button on his plasma-thrower... whoops, wiped out the entire party, start again.
Paranoia was a great game.

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It was a Rolemaster campaign. Party comprised of a Warlock, Thief, Necromancer and Mentalist; levels from 5th to 13th. All thoroughly evil. We were exploring a ziggurat located on the fork of a river. It was our 5th expedition to the same ruins, and the levels had been getting progressively more deadly as we delved deeper. Also, we were all a bit wary of one another after earlier in the night all locating powerful artifacts each (I had a mirror I could attune anywhere and see and reach through, the Thief scored a ridiculously powerful Bow etc). It wasn't a question of 'if' the betrayal was going to happen, more a question of when.

The Thief initially found the trap (80' deep spiked pit). Sadly the Warlock (me) fell down the pit trying to explore the bottom of it (bad roll). I copped a spike in each kidney (death in 6 rounds). The Thief then climbed down ostensibly to check out my injuries and 'heal' me (i.e. finish me off loot me of the mirror). He subsequently propped me up and used his ventriloquism and mime skills to have 'me' call back to the other PC's that I was safe as I bled to death while unconscious.

Not that the other PC's fell for it.

A mexican standoff then occurred with the Necromancer and the Mentalist at the top of the pit attempting to convince the Thief to climb back up, and the thief refusing because he now had two of the artifacts and knew he was a dead man once he got back to the top. Eventually after many assurances, he was convinced to climb back up. Needless to say, at the half way point of the climb, the Mentalist betrayed him and started pouring oil down the sides of the pit. The thief actually managed to fluke the climb check and was able to grimly hold on to the oily sides of the pit for dear life begging for mercy. Then the Necromancer... set the oil on fire.

Two down, two to follow.

The Necromancer then sent one of his undead minions down the pit to recover both the magical Bow and the Mirror. After recovering the items, the surviving conspiring PC's were splitting the loot at the surface, when the Mentalist attempted to dominate the Necromancer (failing) resulting in the Necromancer kicking the Mentallist down the pit.

Now with all four artifacts in his possession, the Necromancer started to head back to Town. Unbeknownst to the Necromancer, the Thief had earlier sabotaged the rope over the pit (cutting it halfway through) as a contingency plan for the return journey, knowing full well he could climb without it, and the rest of us spell-casters would struggle.

Thus, half way across the rope over the pit, the rope gave way and the Necromancer plunged to his death, a spike through the neck for his troubles.

One of the more entertaining TPK's ive been involved in!
That is ******* hilarious. And the Necromancer set the oil on fire, you evil bunch of arse clowns. My only question is why you tried to climb down first???
 
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