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- Fri Sep 06, 2019 1:01 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 15 (2019) - Pimp Your Games Thread [VOTING!]
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22678
Re: Hyphen-Con 15 (2019) - Pimp Your Games Thread
I’d like to run Sacred Pharma, an Unknown Armies 3rd edition scenario about a cabal of queer body modifying occultists taking on the corrupt medical establishment of Philadelphia. Pregens include: Genesis Daniels: Diabetic programmer who is juicing her insulin to produce more efficient output. Hye S...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 7:57 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 14 (2018) - Pimp Your Games Thread [Voting!]
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25044
Re: Hyphen-Con 14 (2018) - Pimp Your Games Thread
Forests of Night "Captain's Log, Stardate 6147.3. On our third week of star mapping the Enterprise detected a new supernova, only about twenty years old, on long range sensors. I’ve ordered us into a distant orbit around the neutron star it created and fired off several probes to measure the si...
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 6:56 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Russian accent tips
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6857
- Tue May 29, 2018 11:56 am
- Forum: Gamers Wanted
- Topic: [5e] I’ve been DMing an open table/West Marches style game
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7624
[5e] I’ve been DMing an open table/West Marches style game
Hi. I know there is almost no activity here anymore, but I know lots of folks that frequented these boards. I wanted to invite folks to play in a 5e game I’m running. We have a facebook group: The Inquisition of Ioun, a D&D campaign. I run one session a week for 6 players at either At Ease Games...
- Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:40 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphencon 2017::13th Annual
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18276
Re: Hyphencon 2017::13th Annual
I think we have had wee little folk before.
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 9:37 am
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphencon 2017::13th Annual - Pimp Your Games Thread! VOTE
- Replies: 19
- Views: 24326
Re: Hyphencon 2017::13th Annual - Pimp Your Games Thread!
Note: I am willing to run either Changeling or Star Trek, not both Pitch #2 A World with a Bluer Sun, for Star Trek adventures "Captain's log, Stardate 2712.4 the Anubis left starbase 10 three days ago to begin our star mapping mission near the Romulan neutral zone, when we received a faint dis...
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:38 am
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphencon 2017::13th Annual - Pimp Your Games Thread! VOTE
- Replies: 19
- Views: 24326
Re: Hyphencon 2017::13th Annual - Pimp Your Games Thread!
Pitch #1 “Yours to Keep” for Changeling 20th anniversary edition follows a small-town motley as they investigate the disappearance of a recently-awakened changeling visiting their community. They’ll have to locate the missing boy, safely retrieve him from the hands of his captors, and make their way...
- Mon Dec 05, 2016 6:05 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12703
Re: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
Name: Mao Neko, anthropomorphic cat person Abilities skills: Cat-Speaker 4: You can communicate verbally or telepathically with nearby cats. It’s not a very profound mind-to-mind connection but it is there. Cat-Speaker also functions as a generic Skill at doing cat-like stuff—hunting, fishing, athle...
- Mon Dec 05, 2016 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12703
Re: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
“The Meaning of a Skill Discovery Part of the reason that we know that Cooking Skill can’t psychically blow up the world is that the Skill has a plain, common-sense meaning. Not every Skill does. And even a Skill like Cooking has a meaning that evolves over time—if two cooks have this Skill, one may...
- Sun Dec 04, 2016 7:15 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12703
Re: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
Name: Sober Sable, Vampire Ace Athlete Abilities Skills: Cheerful Nice Guy 1: This is your social skill. Horrible Judge of Character -1: You tend to see the best in people, monsters, and cosmic horrors from Outside. MVP 2: You are the top footballer, dodgeballer, and blernsball player at the School....
- Sun Dec 04, 2016 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12703
Re: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
“You’re a mysterious bishounen. You’ve always been a mysterious bishounen. You used to wear a domino mask when rescuing people in the fields at age 8. By age 12 you were surrounded by fangirls and minions. Now you’re widely known as the greatest super-idol at the School—maybe even in the whole Villa...
- Sun Dec 04, 2016 3:20 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12703
Re: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
Once there was darkness, a tabula rasa across which drifted stars in uncertain constellations. The intelligences that lived in that expanse of potentiality observed those stars with a dreamy languor, the same way we would now watch clouds and point out clouds that resemble this or that without actua...
- Fri Dec 02, 2016 7:58 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12703
Re: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
And let’s start by imagining you as a pretty ordinary kind of person. Just an ordinary kid, living on an ordinary street. If you’re usually older than a kid, well, bear with me. Get younger? Or at least imagine yourself a little younger than you actually are. Just an ordinary kid, in a kind of moder...
- Fri Dec 02, 2016 7:02 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12703
Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine One Shot
Sometime after the world drowned I found myself on one of the boats that go to Town. I didn’t know yet that the world had fallen. Being and nothingness were swallowed, both of them, by the tidal wave of the Outside, but I hadn’t noticed yet, because I’d been living in one of the places that got cov...
- Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:19 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2015::Eleven Years of Hyphen-it!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 30213
Re: Hyphen-Con 2015::Eleven Years of Hyphen-it!
did i miss year 12?
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 6:36 pm
- Forum: Gamers Wanted
- Topic: Player looking for a mid week group San Diego area
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11516
Re: Player looking for a mid week group San Diego area
Whelp thanks to all those who viewed my post. I guess my posting that I'm not a 'heavy' rper turned everyone away from contacting me to see I'd make a good addition to their current group. Actually it probably speaks more to the fact that this forum is not as heavily trafficked as it used to be. Wh...
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:16 am
- Forum: Other Games
- Topic: Anyone playing Destiny on the PSN?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 24023
Anyone playing Destiny on the PSN?
I just started playing it, its supposed to be a rpg shooter with MMO elements although its debatable. Anyway, I've got a 17th level warlock and my roommate is trying to simulataneously level a Titan, and a Hunter at the same time. I'm on there as oneiromorph.
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 10:58 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2014::10 Year Anniversary Edition!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 46824
Re: Hyphen-Con 2014::10 Year Anniversary Edition!
Thanks Andy and Kore for hosting again!
- Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:10 am
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
- Replies: 51
- Views: 390149
- Fri Oct 31, 2014 5:27 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
- Replies: 51
- Views: 390149
Re: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
Geez. Four way tie, huh? That sucks. I guess we'll all just have to prepare our games then.
- Sat Oct 25, 2014 5:15 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
- Replies: 51
- Views: 390149
Re: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
I obviously vote Dr. Who
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 4:57 am
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
- Replies: 51
- Views: 390149
Re: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
Hey, I just wanted to let you all know that I might not be able to make the Hyph this year. I've had a family emergency come up and I might be out of state when HyphenCon happens. Since I'm supposed to be running a game you might want to pick an alternate game for my slot just in case. Sorry, Morga...
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:52 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
- Replies: 51
- Views: 390149
Re: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
Yay! Atomic Robo! I've been waiting to play that. Too bad about Dr. Who.
- Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:11 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
- Replies: 51
- Views: 390149
Re: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game!
Ok I just edited my entry to the Four Doctors OR Tales of the Jade Remora.
- Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:18 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2014::10 Year Anniversary Edition!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 46824
Re: Hyphen-Con 2014::10 Year Anniversary Edition!
I decided to offer Doctor Who or a homebrewed BECMI clone. I'm sure people will go for the Doctor Who game, although the BECMI clone I can run in my sleep. I'm so sick of zombies. EDIT I'd appreciate the carbonated fruit juice since I'm a light weight. As usual, I'll bring an apple pie, and either a...
- Wed Oct 08, 2014 7:51 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
- Replies: 51
- Views: 390149
Re: Hyphen-Con 2014::Pimp Your Game!
The Four Doctors... Discovering that the entire universe has inexplicably been destroyed somewhere between December 24th 1944 and January 1st 1945, a few incarnations of a certain eponymous time lord all arrive suddenly and unexpectedly in the German town of Dresden on the eve of a Christmas celebr...
- Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:37 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2014::10 Year Anniversary Edition!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 46824
Re: Hyphen-Con 2014::10 Year Anniversary Edition!
I'm thinking maybe I should run, or try to run, the first Hyphen-Con game I ever ran, years ago -- Buckaroo Banzai -- but using Atomic Robo, because GOD FORBID I RUN SOMETHING OTHER THAN ATOMIC ROBO. Y'know, to mark this momentous anniversary. Well I suppose I should offer to run Senior Citizen Sla...
- Sat Jan 11, 2014 10:00 pm
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Opinions on my B/X hack wanted. Pretty please?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18987
Opinions on my B/X hack wanted. Pretty please?
So I've been tinkering with this B/X hack, on and off for the last few months basically ever since I got sick of play testing D&D Next and I wanted get some second opinions on it. So what I've got so far is up on obsidian portal: https://skullisland.obsidianportal.com/ So the major changes are: ...
- Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:26 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyph 2013 Turnout & Vote Thread
- Replies: 13
- Views: 29917
Re: Hyph 2013 Turnout & Vote Thread
Probably won't see you guys this weekend. I broke my ankle two weeks ago and still can't get around very well even with crutches.
- Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:11 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyph 2013 Turnout & Vote Thread
- Replies: 13
- Views: 29917
Re: Hyph 2013 Turnout & Vote Thread
While I can do the 19th, the 20th is a very important Comic-con meeting for me which I can't miss, its also the Volunteer Picnic so if anyone wants to volunteer at the 2014 Comic-Con that's an important day to become a volunteer for Comic-Con 2014. I wish we had done the Hyph before summer. Anyway, ...
- Tue Sep 10, 2013 5:54 pm
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2013:: Pimp Your Game! [Now With Voting!]
- Replies: 31
- Views: 101303
Re: Hyphen-Con 2013:: Pimp Your Game!
Final Exam (for Dark Heresy 2nd edition Beta) 1-shot for up to six players. In the year of His glory 5473.812.M41, you have accompanied the Inquisitor Dragur Gan into the Jericho Reach with elements of the Achilus Crusade to hunt heretics and xenos on the worlds brought back into the Emperor's Light...
- Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:18 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Howdy folks, I'm going to be in SD for the next 4-5 weeks.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10459
Howdy folks, I'm going to be in SD for the next 4-5 weeks.
Least on week days, and I was wondering if you guys were still gaming.
- Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:44 am
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2013: It's Comin' Right For Us [Now in November!]
- Replies: 30
- Views: 93641
Re: Hyphen-Con 2013: It's Comin' Right For Us [Like in Octo
So when is the pimp your game thread going up? I just got 13th Age last week so that means I have 1.5 months to come up with a scenario for Hyphen Con!
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:39 am
- Forum: HyphenCon
- Topic: Hyphen-Con 2013: It's Comin' Right For Us [Now in November!]
- Replies: 30
- Views: 93641
Re: Hyphen-Con 2013: It's Comin' Right For Us [Like in Octo
October is so far away. Here's hoping for the 10th avenue venue (its too cool for school).
- Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:21 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Trinity - Aeon
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22864
Re: Trinity - Aeon
I am also going to be out of town on Thursday.
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:12 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Nobilis - A game of Powers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14639
Re: Nobilis - A game of Powers
Sorry to let you all down. I went to Mexicali with my fiancee to get her meds refilled, she ended up getting a minor surgical procedure and it took over 2 hours to get back to the states.
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:54 pm
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Free RPG Day 6/12/2012
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10367
Free RPG Day 6/12/2012
What stores are participating in the San Diego area? It looks like just At Ease Games in Poway.
http://www.freerpgday.com
http://www.freerpgday.com
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Marvel HR character gen
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9045
Re: Marvel HR character gen
Oh and I saw this big index of fan made characters using Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
http://exploring-infinity.com/marvel-he ... ile-index/
http://exploring-infinity.com/marvel-he ... ile-index/
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:07 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Marvel HR character gen
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9045
Re: Marvel HR character gen
I don't know much about the system, but this looks pretty cool. Did you run into any trouble re-creating powers from M&M? Doctor Zombie originally had a mystic blast, zombie minions, clairvoyance, and a gateway power. He also a had a chimpazee sidekick (who carried his mummified head around in ...
- Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Nobilis - A game of Powers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14639
Re: Nobilis - A game of Powers
Twist, the Baron of Balloons The Estate of Balloons governs inflatable flexible bag filled with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, or air. Balloons drift uncontrolled and cannot be self propelled in order to be included under Duke Twist's purview. Attributes: Aspect 0: Of Mortal...
- Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:51 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Nobilis - A game of Powers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14639
Demonic Noble
Zagreus, Pawn of Paperwork. The Estate of Paperwork: Includes routine and banal record keeping, with limited influence over paper, and finding information. Attributes: Aspect 3: Inhuman with 5 AMPs Domain 0: Pawn with 5 DMPs Realm 0: Citizen with 5 RMPs Spirit 2: Incandescent Flame with 5 SMP Gifts:...
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:16 pm
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: Just built a 9th level 4e PC for Lair Assault, critiques?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 16766
Just built a 9th level 4e PC for Lair Assault, critiques?
====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&D Character Builder ====== Sardath the Mad, level 9 Shade, Warlock (Binder) Pact: Star Pact (Binder) Patron's Guidance Option: Perception Patron's Guidance Option: Stealth Cultist (+2 to Stealth) Theme: Vile Scholar FINAL ABILITY SCORES STR 8, CON 12, ...
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:42 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Nobilis - A game of Powers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14639
Re: Nobilis - A game of Powers
There is a secret world where instead of humans, the people are colorful balloons. They can twist themselves up into animal or human shapes but doing so reduces their life expectancy. They can also cluster together in the sky to create big cities. Sometimes balloons fall out of the balloon-people wo...
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:56 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Nobilis - A game of Powers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14639
Re: Nobilis - A game of Powers
Trigapomp, Viscount of Birds and Famine An androgynous winged beauty who wears a blindfold over its unsettling eyes to hide its former nature as an Excurcian-shard of Strategist Lexiarchos Caducine. The last time your Imperator defeated Caducine, he stole you away from the Strategist, baptized and s...
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:49 am
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Nobilis - A game of Powers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14639
Re: Nobilis - A game of Powers 2nd edition Pre gen
Meleager Mockraven, Baron of Mists and Regret Baron Mockraven cares little for affairs of state, and for anyone else even less. He is consistently late and never keeps appointments. Most Nobles believe that the Estates of Mists and Regret would be better served by anyone at all, and they expect to s...
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:20 am
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Marvel HR character gen
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9045
Marvel HR character gen
Ok so last night for kicks I threw together a character based on my old Mutants & Masterminds PC Doctor Zombie. Name: Zombie Master Affiliations: Solo d6, Buddy d10, Team d8 Distinctions: Cackling Necromancer, Ex-Super Villain, Master of Zombie Island (d4 or d8) Power Sets: Iron Scrolls of the D...
- Sun Jun 03, 2012 7:58 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Trinity - Aeon
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22864
Re: Trinity - Aeon
I wanted to post my suspicions about the mission: Special Agent Arctor is worried that one of the lost submarines might be a Chinese research sub doing illegal experiments related to Aberrant science and I'm worried that recovering it might expose the Psi associates to a classified secret project th...
- Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:24 am
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: D&D Next Playtest
- Replies: 21
- Views: 41898
Re: D&D Next Playtest
Got off work early today. What should I bring to the playtest (besides dice obviously)? Is there any part of the document I should print out?
- Thu May 31, 2012 2:03 pm
- Forum: RPG Discussion
- Topic: D&D Next Playtest
- Replies: 21
- Views: 41898
Re: D&D Next Playtest
That works better for me since I might have work until 2 pm this Saturday. I asked for it off but... if I do have to work it'll only be an 8 hour shift
- Mon May 28, 2012 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Champions
- Topic: Trinity - Aeon
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22864
Re: Trinity - Aeon
Concept: Proteus Special Agent Name: Holden Arctor Nature: Survivor Allegiance: Aeon Trinity http://img.rivithead.com/products/jackets/short-tai-d-ring-jacket.jpg WILLPOWER 4 PSI 1 STRENGTH 2 brawl 2 DEXTERITY 3 athletics 1, specialized in Dodge 2 drive 1 firearms 2 stealth 1, specialized in Trail 1...