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One of our nieces, the local one, is interested in getting an online game going with me and the older of the two nieces in Seattle. We've been having trouble organizing, though.
The niece who wants to play is inspired by various game podcasts and focused on fantasy games played with D&D rules. This is not my forte, so she and I talked a bit about genres and settings and rules. I prefer talky games over combat heavy games or puzzle heavy games. I also strongly prefer percentile dice with a sort of Frankenstein's monster set of rules, bits looted from the corpses of other games.
(I like designing characters and settings and such in GURPS, just to check the point balance, and then running either percentile, dice lite, or altogether diceless. I also love that this approach makes certain types of rules lawyers feel ill.)
Right now, we're trying to put together a Call of Cthulhu character for her. Scott and I own the 5th edition rules, but I'm eying pdfs of the 7th on DriveThruRPG because I think the girls might want copies of the rules. I'm not sure what rule changes there are between versions, though, and I'm going to tweak character creation. At this point, we've agreed that doing stats with a point buy system makes more sense to us. I still haven't put together what I want to do for the stats that are 2d6 and 1d10. Possibly just a roll for that last.
The niece in Seattle says she'll have time to talk tonight at 8 p.m. (our time, not hers). I don't know if she'll want to play Call of Cthulhu or if she'll prefer a different era than the one the first niece wants (1930s, noir detective meets cosmic horrors. Minus Lovecraft's racism, sexism, etc.). The local niece considers the risk of character death/insanity to be a bonus, but that style of game doesn't work for everybody.
It does, though, have the advantage that we could do one scenario and stop if anybody at all isn't enthusiastic. It would give us a chance to get a feel for each other's styles.
Anybody know the differences between 5th edition Call of Cthulhu and 7th edition? Particularly with an eye toward me throwing out most things that aren't character creation.
The niece who wants to play is inspired by various game podcasts and focused on fantasy games played with D&D rules. This is not my forte, so she and I talked a bit about genres and settings and rules. I prefer talky games over combat heavy games or puzzle heavy games. I also strongly prefer percentile dice with a sort of Frankenstein's monster set of rules, bits looted from the corpses of other games.
(I like designing characters and settings and such in GURPS, just to check the point balance, and then running either percentile, dice lite, or altogether diceless. I also love that this approach makes certain types of rules lawyers feel ill.)
Right now, we're trying to put together a Call of Cthulhu character for her. Scott and I own the 5th edition rules, but I'm eying pdfs of the 7th on DriveThruRPG because I think the girls might want copies of the rules. I'm not sure what rule changes there are between versions, though, and I'm going to tweak character creation. At this point, we've agreed that doing stats with a point buy system makes more sense to us. I still haven't put together what I want to do for the stats that are 2d6 and 1d10. Possibly just a roll for that last.
The niece in Seattle says she'll have time to talk tonight at 8 p.m. (our time, not hers). I don't know if she'll want to play Call of Cthulhu or if she'll prefer a different era than the one the first niece wants (1930s, noir detective meets cosmic horrors. Minus Lovecraft's racism, sexism, etc.). The local niece considers the risk of character death/insanity to be a bonus, but that style of game doesn't work for everybody.
It does, though, have the advantage that we could do one scenario and stop if anybody at all isn't enthusiastic. It would give us a chance to get a feel for each other's styles.
Anybody know the differences between 5th edition Call of Cthulhu and 7th edition? Particularly with an eye toward me throwing out most things that aren't character creation.