Fugazi
Gay Marine
Minor Threat
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Post by Fugazi on Mar 1, 2024 15:14:34 GMT -5
We're only occasional, maybe once a year, but pretty hardcore on the RPG front. I play with my brother and his mates, which includes 2 actors, 2 former GW employees, and the entire group except me do a pretty intense LARP game too. I was slightly intimidated on the first session, when one of the players showed up with a 40+ page hand-written dream journal for his character, as merely one part of his extensive back-story... We have 2 games on the go at the 'moment' - a very long-running Call Of Cthulhu game set in Victorian Britain, and we're also playing a homebrew 40K RPG using the same old Call Of Cthulhu rule set. Technically we've also got a Vampire: The Masquerade game in progress, but we've not played that for probably half a dozen years now... That sounds really cool. Have you ever tried any of the Rogue Trader or Dark Heresy systems? Or have you always used your CoC homebrew?
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Post by crispy78 on Mar 1, 2024 16:27:48 GMT -5
No, we've not tried them. Just the homebrew one of the ex-GW lads has improvised. He's done a cracking job. The campaign has us playing the retinue of an ordo xenos inquisitor, and the overall story has us attempting to stop an incursion of a tendril of a tyranid hive fleet. We've had run-ins with a genestealer cult, an awakening necron tomb, an incapacitated Tyranid hive ship locked in combat with an Eldar craft world, and probably more that I've forgotten...
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Post by easye on Mar 4, 2024 9:53:42 GMT -5
The Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader RPGs are a very crunchy experience. At least when I have played them.
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Post by Nick Papageorgio (Gaaargh) on Mar 11, 2024 14:43:30 GMT -5
RPGs are what lead me to GW. A friend I met through RPGs (the group mostly D&D, his sub-group V:TM) sold a handful of MTG cards and bought Necromunda & WFB 4th ed. I played for a few years in highschool. Went away for university and stopped for that while. Then I moved back to my home town, picked up comic books & GW games again.
About 15 years ago I took a 14 year hiatus from GW games. But I'm back now.
I still gamed, but more big board games - Rebellion, Arkham Horror, that ilk.
During the pandemic I start playing a few RPGs with friends via skype. These were guys I played with in the 90s. We had a weekly game. A few of the guys were inspired by Critical Role, and wanted to be the next big podcast. During a few week gap in our gaming I grabbed a copy of Four Against Darkness to keep myself amused.
I 3D printed a party, and painted them. That lead to new YouTube recommendations, and Eons of Battle, which introduced me to Kill Team. Last spring I picked up Kill Team Gallowfall, and having been playing a semi-weekly game with a group of guys that had not stopped playing, but went to home games around the same time I stopped going to the FLGS. A few years ago they transitioned to skirmish games; MCP, Shatterpoint, Moonstone, & I got them to get into Kill Team. I grabbed the Ewok boxes for Shatterpoint, and Moonstone goblins.
I console game a little. Also during the pandemic a friend was playing a lot of Fortnight with his tween, and wanted someone else to chat with, so I picked it up, and play with them, and their extended family from time to time.
The RPG is going strong. We alternate games, one week being a podcasted recording campaign with different systems & GMs (we're on our 4th now, and this season using Savage Worlds), and the other being a long running D&D campaign that isn't recorded.
I have 3 fully painted kill teams, two more fully assembled, another one on sprue, and bits to convert some of my spare, old guardsmen into another. I have a full board worth of terrain painted, and bits for more. I've also been building parts of a new 40K army (@killteamgaaargh on IG).
I have most of my old GW stuff - an epic tyranid force, Praetorians & Valhallan's for 40K, a Word Bearer daemon-bomb army, Scavvies for Necromunda, and lots of orcs & goblins.
I also lost a lot of painted Orc & Goblins plastics to mice that got into boxes in my garage.
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