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AsmodeusXI
United States15536 Posts
On September 26 2013 00:57 jcarlsoniv wrote: Casual Gladiating? (only those who keep up with Rollplay would get it) Is that show actually good? I could see it being funny but I've never watched it. Probably should considering we're kinda going to do the same thing.  | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
On September 26 2013 01:00 AsmodeusXI wrote: Is that show actually good? I could see it being funny but I've never watched it. Probably should considering we're kinda going to do the same thing. I tune in sometimes when its on and i usually get a laugh. The highlights are always funny. It's really popular too and other people are starting other shows. No one has had an idea as awesome as this tho. | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On September 26 2013 00:56 AsmodeusXI wrote: SOCIAL COMBAT ONLY. Have I mentioned Exalted is an insane format? Edit: I bought the Ultimate Gods Pack but haven't played Smite yet wat do Pick Loki. Stabby god best god. | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On September 26 2013 01:00 AsmodeusXI wrote: Is that show actually good? I could see it being funny but I've never watched it. Probably should considering we're kinda going to do the same thing. If you really want to get the real flavor, you have to watch all of it. They were so bad at RPing early on, but they've gotten really good. It's incredibly entertaining, and Incontrol is hilarious. | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
On September 26 2013 01:39 jcarlsoniv wrote: If you really want to get the real flavor, you have to watch all of it. They were so bad at RPing early on, but they've gotten really good. It's incredibly entertaining, and Incontrol is hilarious. heh yeah i felt really bad for neal (the dm) those first weeks but his patience paid off! | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On September 26 2013 01:44 ComaDose wrote: heh yeah i felt really bad for neal (the dm) those first weeks but his patience paid off! Neal is an incredible DM. I know that all those guys frequent TL, so it would be fairly funny if any of them watched our little game =P I also know that StorrZerg plays mafia with Neal and Ryan, which I'm super jelly of. | ||
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TheHumanSensation
Canada1210 Posts
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On September 26 2013 15:09 TheHumanSensation wrote: I'm a pretty infrequent poster here, but I'm interested in Exalted and have played a few times and DM an irl campaign for it as well. I see you've hit your player cap for now, but I'll probably try and stick around this thread and can answer questions about the system at least! Would you have any suggestions on how to adapt a set of League abilities/passive into the play style of Exalted? I don't really know how the combat flows. | ||
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TheHumanSensation
Canada1210 Posts
On September 26 2013 22:35 jcarlsoniv wrote: Would you have any suggestions on how to adapt a set of League abilities/passive into the play style of Exalted? I don't really know how the combat flows. It'll be a challenge, let me try and describe the combat flow a bit before I give specific ability ideas. Exalted doesn't use turn-order like most tabletop RPGs, it uses a tick-system, meaning that every action has a speed value attached to it that determines how many ticks pass before you can act again (standard actions are 5 or 6 ticks, minimum speed is 3). For some things, this is nice, because you can have decidedly speedier characters than you're able to have in most other tabletops, for example. It can also be a lot to keep track of, and since Exalted uses a lot of d10's instead of a singular d20, a good amount of combat time is spent figuring out who's turn it is, figuring out how many dice to roll, or counting the results of a roll. It's a slow system in practice, is the general critique of it. There's also a lot of options built into the system rather than coming up as character abilities, which might be awkward for you to deal with. For example, many other tabletops give melee characters more attacks per turn when they level up (example, d&d), but in Exalted every character has the option to do a flurry of actions at once, sacrificing accuracy on all of them but being able to do a large number of attacks or abilities or other options. There's not really an analogy to draw between this and League that I'm seeing. If you're familiar with d&d normal stuff, power attack is also an option for all characters by default, and taking-10/20 is replaced with a separate "aim" action that all characters would have equal access to. Aside from those main issues, I think Exalted has lots of ways to match League's systems. You don't level up in Exalted, you just gain experience points that you buy specific upgrades (stats and such) with, like money. This is easily worked to suit the individual campaign's needs, and you can just assign specific stat upgrades at arbitrary points in the game to represent leveling up and the like if you feel it's important to the vibe of League. League's power often comes from items, which are handled differently in Exalted because most campaigns don't keep track of money very much, but rare and powerful artifacts are still a thing. League items tend to be just stat sticks though, so that's not really a problem. Most of exalted's power comes from charms, which are learned character abilities. Some are just stat buffs, some are full on active abilities, some as pretty passive, lots of variety in them. Exalted power growth tends to be more along the lines of "Now I can do this completely new thing" as opposed to "Now I'm marginally better at this", though. You could probably make up charms for each character, which is what I'd recommend if you want to go with a 4-active+passive system. There's no shortage of existing ones, but they're catered to the Exalted flavour of things, and you'd probably run into balance issues / be running all over the books and charm trees. I could help you with balancing these, if you're worried about custom charms etc, I end up homebrewing a lot of stuff. League abilities tend to get stronger with each rank, but not necessarily with any extra effects, so gaining additional charms are you rank up abilities isn't necessarily the best route. Depends how strictly League-feeling you want to go with this, really. Exalted has a lot more options and character freedom than most other tabletop RPGs, which can either help or hinder you here, but it's easily groundable, for the most part. Giving an example build (which I think is more what you were looking for) won't really help without an understanding of the mechanics, so I guess all I really did here was dilly-dally around the point. I'll try again tomorrow. tl;dr depends how full-league you want to go, can work. | ||
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Lysteria
France2280 Posts
But I think it's still possible to use Exalted with some modifications on those points. The worst part, in my opinion, and you can't do a lot about it, is the slow pace of Exalted. I mainly used it for games where fights themselves were short - 10 sec as a big maximum - and while this is actually awesome for a League game (to emulate cooldown), fights can take an eternity. The all at once actions are an awesome tool but will need a little bit of work onto it I guess yeah. Just thinking of a Veigar-like character that can blow every skills in a short span... Whatever happens in the end, if you guys really want to go full-league as HumanSensation asked, you'll have to either create your own rules - and play in 1 year - or modify some from another game, and I think Exalted is a good option to do that. | ||
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Slusher
United States19143 Posts
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
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AsmodeusXI
United States15536 Posts
On October 02 2013 10:55 Dark_Chill wrote: When you guys start this, are you going to stream it? Don't really have the time +regular schedule to do this, but I'd love to watch every now and then, and learn some of the TL personalities/faces. Absolutely. At least Soniv and I will, then whoever else wants. Not that you really NEED multiple streamers, it just depends on whose pretty face you like the most. | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
On October 02 2013 11:03 AsmodeusXI wrote: Absolutely. At least Soniv and I will, then whoever else wants. Not that you really NEED multiple streamers, it just depends on whose pretty face you like the most. You should make it a video Skype call imo and have one person host it. Less complicated that way. | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On October 02 2013 11:11 WaveofShadow wrote: You should make it a video Skype call imo and have one person host it. Less complicated that way. Multiple cams require Skype Pro, which I'm too cheap to shell out for. | ||
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GTPGlitch
5061 Posts
Excited to see how this goes ^^ | ||
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AsmodeusXI
United States15536 Posts
On October 02 2013 11:22 Requizen wrote: Multiple cams require Skype Pro, which I'm too cheap to shell out for. Roll20 does give a video chat for free. | ||
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AsmodeusXI
United States15536 Posts
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
what about character sheets? we should all use the same one yeah? | ||
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GhandiEAGLE
United States20754 Posts
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