Apparently, my RPGs have gone woo.

[Fnord]

How do you manage all the precursor required elements? Or are you just toning down the individualness of the precursor?

I have this bearded, balding NPC ex-magician show up at the mercenary's guild hall every now and then to entertain the troops and make pronouncements that all those precursor legends are pure woo.

He keeps a pet monkey on a chain. Her name is "Sylvia" ...

 

[Ravenwood]

Some of 'em are. You pay extra for those. Me, I have knucklebone dice, Grimstooth dice, skull pip dice, crystal-non-caltrop D4s, and a handful of round D6s that, by their nature, break Warhammer 40K. (Look up the rules for determining if a die is tilted)
I love my Crystal Dice. Nice and readable.

http://dicepool.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=106_188&osCsid=5bb73bbb489aaef09d814696fa3a69a5

Heh! I thought I was the only psycho who liked to pull that trick in 40K....It really makes the other guy go "HEY!" (esp. if you play IG & are rolling 30 of them at a time...)

 

[ThatSoundAgain]

Heh! I thought I was the only psycho who liked to pull that trick in 40K....It really makes the other guy go "HEY!" (esp. if you play IG & are rolling 30 of them at a time...)

For those of us who don't have the rulebook handy, what's the gist of the tilted die rule?

ETA: Goodbye geek cred

 

[e-sabbath]

If you put one die on top of another die, and it falls off, the die is tilted and must be re-rolled. These dice are spherical (weight inside in a cubical space). Placing any die on top of a round die will result in the top die falling off. Round dice result in a permanently tilted condition and theoretically enter an infinite loop.

This is how one signifies that one is really sick of Space Wolves.

For the Greater Good!

 

[ponderingturtle]

I have this bearded, balding NPC ex-magician show up at the mercenary's guild hall every now and then to entertain the troops and make pronouncements that all those precursor legends are pure woo.

Ah so the humans not on earth is all just a made up story then. The first emipire pure fiction.

 

[ImaginalDisc]

I play RPGs with some friends and they all seem to really believe that their dice pick them. I kept rolling low numbers and someone told me to pick another die, and when I said that wouldn't help me any everyone pointed out that it really does because the die has to pick you. So apparently some like you and some don't. Everyone uses the same die for every game because they believe it likes them. I was told to pick a few and roll them to see what happens-if you get one that seems to land on high numbers mostly, it likes you. I thought they were joking at first but they are serious.

Has anyone else came across this belief?

My friends are convinced that I consistently roll better than average. The fact that my character doesn't try anything without being reasonably certain of success (I.E. When he has a bunch of dice) has no bearing on it, of course.

 

[Fnord]

Ah so the humans not on earth is all just a made up story then. The first emipire pure fiction.

Heh-heh ... and that's exactly what want my players to believe...



Have you ever played "Paranoia"? Fear and ignorance ... ignorance and fear ... Welcome to my Traveller universe!

 

[ThatSoundAgain]

If you put one die on top of another die, and it falls off, the die is tilted and must be re-rolled. These dice are spherical (weight inside in a cubical space). Placing any die on top of a round die will result in the top die falling off. Round dice result in a permanently tilted condition and theoretically enter an infinite loop.

Thanks for the explanation, though I can only see the infinite loop if the rules actually require you to place a die on top of another. Let's see, it's been *checks watch* on the order of a decade since I've been near a game of 40K. OK, I simply don't remember that kind of mechanism, or much else.

This is how one signifies that one is really sick of Space Wolves.

Oh, oh, some of it is coming back! Space Wolves are the ones who, on top of that really cool post-apocalyptic Roman Empire / gothic thing that they all have going, have a cute shamanism shtick tacked on, right?

Who ever would find that combination annoying?