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Cubicles and bosses; Do you play it?
Topic Started: Oct 27 2011, 05:27 PM (530 Views)
Bloodrage

Cubicles and bosses, it's a fantasy setting where only humans exist. and they do jobs like accountant, barmaid, house wife, priest, dean. You can go out to a bar and stuff.
it's really awesome just let your imagination fly and enjoy it.
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Frosty
Oct 27 2011, 06:22 PM
Dhampir Dan
Oct 27 2011, 06:09 PM
Bloodrage
Oct 27 2011, 05:55 PM
Verona
Oct 27 2011, 05:53 PM
Dhampir Dan
Oct 27 2011, 05:38 PM
I've never played Cubicles and Bosses, but a couple of my friends convinced me to play 5th Ocean once. It's a game where you all pretend to be rich human yacht owners, sailing around the world, stopping in shady ports for gambling, avoiding Somalian pirates, and outsmarting the IRS.

Apparently the rulebook is out of print now, but I like sailing and it was fun, I'd definitely try it again if I was given the opportunity.
That does sound like a lot of fun!

(ooc, I'd play the shit out of that.)
(Me too)
5th Ocean SUCKS ASS it have a bad implementation, bad gaming mode, stupid rolls like hey your character doesn't know how to use a yatch WAIT WHAT?! DID I JUST BUYED A FUCKING YATCH AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE IT?! roll a 1d100 for failure!
(seriously, if 5th Ocean was an actual system, I'd play it until the rulebook fell apart)

I don't know too much about the mechanics of 5th Ocean, I just mentioned to a couple of guys from college how much I like sailing with my dad, and they told me they were playing a game of it and that I should join in. I played along, mostly drawing from my childhood adventure stories of yacht owners, and they told me what dice to roll for which actions.

We had fun with it, although they mentioned a lot of house rules were needed.
Huh, that 5th Ocean thing sounds like you're playing modern pirates. It's a roleplaying game right? I'm quite out of the loop since I haven't been able to play any rpgs since before I went to bootcamp.
So, anyone have any rpgs I should try out?

Speaking of which, has anyone played the Helsaga games? Used to play it as a kid, if you can ignore the HURR ELVES R BEST stuff crammed into it it's a pretty cool game about playing as Norse heroes trying to stop Ragnarok.
Acceptable. It's fair better than "Fortress of Dorfs" which is bassicly IMA DORFINTONG MAC DORFINISH BEING DORFISH.
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Dhampir Dan
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Frosty
 
Huh, that 5th Ocean thing sounds like you're playing modern pirates. It's a roleplaying game right? I'm quite out of the loop since I haven't been able to play any rpgs since before I went to bootcamp.
So, anyone have any rpgs I should try out?


I guess it's kind of like a modern pirate game, but there's a lot less stealing from people and a lot more awesome parties on my yacht. I was playing an up-and-coming new money Hollywood actor, who was trying to make his way into an exclusive old money east coast yacht club. He also enjoyed yacht races and so the guys helped me build him the fastest yacht around. By the end of the session I was attempting to woo a young countess from Europe and had outran three different coast guards.

I'm sad I can't seem to find a copy of the rulebook anywhere.

As for other roleplaying games, I play a bit of Trailseeker, which is a fairly realistic historical game, and is based on the older Dukes & Drakes line of roleplaying games.
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Bloodrage

Also, did some one ever play lichaning?
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Verona
Oct 27 2011, 05:37 PM
Bloodrage
Oct 27 2011, 05:32 PM
They have a racist thingy with diferent human colors.
Are you serious? I lol'd. I guess that's kind of a social statement, though, huh? It's like, if there were only one race, people would still find a reason to hate each other, even if it was over something stupid like skin pigmentation.
Speaking as a former human, I think you shouldn't judge them too harshly. It's kind of like instinct. You know how dragons, or even half dragons, have an instinct to horde? It's sort of like that.

Discrimination and categorization are the core foundations of how the human mind is built, and there is more to it than just "us and them" mindsets. Think about that a bit and you'll realize it explains a lot. Think about humanity more as a wolf pack, or a series of them, than anything else. That's a bit how the mind works as a human, and they even have their origins as nomadic pack hunting predators. Being able to descriminate often kept them alive, and you can't fight evolution that easily.

..Listen to me. I'm already talking like I was never human.
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Suntouched

Being human, I can tell you that they're afraid of anything remotely different from them. They don't usually start crap with the other races unless they feel they have an edge though.
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..Listen to me. I'm already talking like I was never human.


No, don't think about it like that. I think it's just like, I dunno, stockholm syndrome or something. It's a survival mechanism. Your whole life just got Bel Air'd, so really, there's only a few things that you can do. You can either resist continually, or you can try to accept. Resisting forever won't do much good, and acceptance is easier if you just... slide into it completely.

It's not necessarially a bad thing, from my understanding. I think. I mean, I don't know how your brain might have changed when you changed (and I know jack all about how other races are built) and school only does human psychology (which I guess is kinda racist when you think about it) but it's one of my favorite subjects. This is just a coping mechanism to help you adjust into your new life, so don't stress it.
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Well, the Mythos effect does mess with the head somehow, but I still have my whole past life.

I'm still not sure where the old me and new me begins and ends.
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I'd say where you want them to. You're the person, and the individual, so you are who you are, right? What you are isn't as important as who you are to you, so just go with that.

Which is a total cop-out answer, and like all cop-out answers it doesn't help in the slightest, but it's the best I've got.
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It's the thought that counts..

But seriously. I'm getting help for it. Don't worry about me too much.
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Suntouched

I still don't understand how those crazy fuckers got their hands on that kind of material. Are the people in charge of that school retarded or something? Some people have a twisted idea of fun. I'd have loved to see them get some smiting.
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