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By popular request, it is time for a good old fashioned Paranormal Mafia!

Been a while since I ran one of these (ignoring the Bastard game), so no changes to the rules since last time.

Min 9 players by preference, although I can lower that if needed. Probably don't need to specify a max given current turnout numbers.

Signups will go through most of Tues 1/3. I'll close them that evening (pacific time) and get working on the role PMs. Game will start Wednesday morning.

Players

• webadict
• FallacyofUrist
• ToonyMan
• notquitethere - Doppelganger Medium
• Maximum Spin
• Knightwing64 - Human Medium
• Vector - Doppelganger Agent
• Jim Groovester
• hector13
• TricMagic - Human Observant Guard
• EuchreJack

Backups:



For those of you not used to Paranormal, I suggest you read some of the old games to get a feel for it. And you can read through the rules discussion thread as well, which should answer a lot of questions on how it goes.

You are roused from your beds by a pounding on your doors and shouted voices "COME OUT! COME OUT! His lordship demands that the heads of all prominent families attend him at once!"

You hurriedly get dressed and head towards the Count's manor. His seneschal greets you at the door and ushers you in to the great hall. Once everyone has assembled, the Count rises and addresses you. "The time has come. Dark portents arrive in the heavens. A cold wind blows from the South. The Red Tree weeps blood. Dark times have come, and it is up to you to save us."

"There are those of us in this town who are descended from heroes. Strong bloodlines that stood up to evil in ages past. And these bloodlines have the power locked inside them to figure who and what is visiting this horror upon us." He picks up a scroll from the table before him. "I call before me the following names...


Players:

• webadict Dark Magus
• Vector Town Warlock
• TricMagic Town Knight
• ToonyMan Town Wizard
• BluarianKnight Town Dreamwalker -> 3rd party Demon
• Luckyowl Town Priest
• Persus13 Town Coven Witch
• 4maskwolf Magus Convert Ghoul
• Toaster Town Seer
• Caz Town Dreamwalker
• Jim Groovester 3rd party Devil
• IcyTea31 Town Sexton
• notquitethere Town Coven Witch

Replacement List:
    heydude6
   

Persus13 replaced in for Secretdorf.
Caz replaced in for juicebox

After a rather long hiatus for this game type, it's time for another Supernatual Mafia! I'm looking for a minimum of 9 players for this, but we can easily take more than that.

In order to make this a bit more new player friendly I will not be adding any new roles or changing any of the existing roles this time. So you can read over the previous games to learn what might be out there and what they can do.

Previous games:
Supernatural 1
Supernatural 2
Supernatural 3
Supernatural 4
Supernatural 5
Supernatural 6
Supernatural 7
Supernatural 8
Supernatural 9
Supernatural RP
Supernatural Semi-Bastard

Ok, let's get some life into this sub-forum again! Time for some good old fashioned Paranormal Mafia!

I made a few tweaks to the rules and roles, which you can check out in the post below this one. Biggest is that we're not doing Extensions any more.

Min 9 players by preference, although I can lower that if needed. Probably don't need to specify a max given the low turnout in games lately.

Clearly things are slow right now, so I'll leave the game in sign-ups until we can get enough people. I think we need 6 or 7 to really do anything.

Players

• webadict
• TricMagic
• Caz
• Luckyowl
• roseheart
• 4maskwolf - Human Telepath
• juicebox - Doppelganger Telepath
• Persus13

Backups:



For those of you not used to Paranormal, I suggest you read some of the old games to get a feel for it. And you can read through the rules discussion thread as well, which should answer a lot of questions on how it goes.

Feeling like doing a new LP and I'm in a medieval mood so I'm going to do Battle Brothers

It's a turn based tactical RPG where we are a mercenary company in a low fantasy world. There are undead and orcs and whatnot, but magic is rare and we don't walk around with wizards and clerics casting spells or anything. What we have is a bunch of guys with swords and spears trying to earn a living in a harsh world. And, more often than not, dying in the process. But as long as we have a few warriors left the Company can go on and try to rebuild.

I should note that I am not good at this game yet, and my longest lived company survived about 40 days. So...it's more about the story along the way than the inevitable grave we're going to end up in. But that's ok, losing is fun!

My plan for this LP is to mostly run it myself with some reader input. You can claim soldiers, help with the general direction of the group, and can give input on various decisions the game has us make as we wander around doing missions to make money.

I will be playing on Veteran Combat & Economy, with High starting funds and Ironman mode enabled. I do have the Battle Sisters mod installed so we can have female soldiers (though the game does not recognize them as such) should anyone want one.

To start, you can help me Name the Company and choose a Banner for it.


There is also a Black crow on a gray background that isn't in that list. There may be one or two others that I couldn't find images of, but that's most of the options.

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The Last Loyalists Mercenary Company

Day: 24
Renown: Reliable
Honor: Neutral (Acting Honorably)

Heard about this today and thought people might be interested.

It's a fully reverse engineered source code set for the original Diablo.

https://github.com/galaxyhaxz/devilution

Requires the original game assets to actually run, much like Open XCOM, but it provides people a way to actually update and mod the game much more easily.

I'm interested to see how this shakes out and what comes of it. I always enjoyed the original Diablo more than the sequels, so it'd be great to see  a more modern version of it.

Rather surprised this game hasn't gotten a thread here yet.

Slay the Spire is a Rogue-like Deck-Building card game currently in early access.

You make your way up a monster infested tower level by level, fighting a boss monster every Act (3 total). So, rather light on story. But it makes up for it in mechanical fun and each run takes only an hour or two to finish. And, like many rogue-likes, it is the particulars of the run that make it interesting and replayable.

This is very much a Deck-Builder in a pc game. For those that are not aware of the board game mechanic, a deck-builder is a mechanic where you start with a small set of core cards and then modify that deck as you play, adding and removing cards to try and build an effective set of cards to use. In Slay the Spire there are two characters, the Ironclad and the Silent. Each has their own unique set of cards to play with (both starting decks and the cards they can add during play). There is a third class planned, but no information about them is available yet that I have seen.

In addition to the decks, there are also Relics that you pick up that will alter how the game works for. Some of these are minor, others can completely alter your strategy. Each class starts with a Relic that helps define how the character plays. The Ironclad has one which heals him for a small amount after every fight while the Silent has one which gives her more cards in hand at the start of every battle.

The game works by having each 'floor' of the spire be an encounter. These can be Combats, Events (which generally give you choices to make that effect your health or deck), Shops, Chests, and Camps (where you can heal or upgrade cards in your deck). Each acts also has several paths you can take up the spire. Some will meet up or branch off, others might be a narrow line all the way up to the boss. But picking what path to take (and what combination of combats, events, camps, etc you encounter) is a very important part of the game.

In a combat, you have only a few basic stats and your deck to work with. You have your health, your mana, and your cards. Mana is what lets you play cards, with each card having a cost from 0-3. By default you have 3 mana to use each round. You then draw a hand of cards (5 by default), play the cards you can/want, then discard the remaining. Repete the cycle each round as you fight the monster(s). When you can't draw any new cards your discard is shuffled into a new draw deck and things continue until you or the monsters are dead.

At the end of most fights, and often from events/shops/chests, you will be given a choice of cards to add to your deck. This is about half the strategy in the game, since what you have in your deck and how well things work together is critical to succeeding. Sometimes the best choice is not to add a card at all, since the more cards in your deck the less likely it is you'll get the ones you want when you need them.

Overall, I've been having a blast with it! Makes a great short session game and even unfinished as it is I've gotten 60+ hours out of it.

Sheesh, didn't realized I'd played that much.

You are roused from your beds by a cry shouted outside. "MURDER! MURDER MOST FOUL! THE COUNCIL HAS BEEN SLAIN!"

The news draws a large crowd to the center of town where the aged High Priest stands before the great Temple of Light. "A great crisis has befallen our town, a crisis that was warned of in prophecy long ago. We were unable to prevent it, but at least our forefathers gave us the tools to save ourselves from this horror."

"There are those of us in this town who are descended from heroes. Strong bloodlines that stood up to evil in ages past. And these bloodlines have the power locked inside them to figure who and what is visiting this horror upon us." He pulls out a scroll. "I call before me the following names...


Players:

• hector13 - Town Dreamwalker
• TheDarkStar - Cult Fortune Teller
• Teneb - Town Sage
• Reverie - Cult Wizard
• AbstractTraitorHero - Town Templar
• Shakerag - Ghoul
• Tiruin - Town Sorcerer
• BlackHeartKabal - Devil
• juicebox - Town Witch

Replacement List:
    Persus13




Sorry about the long delay, folks. But it is time for another Supernatual Mafia! I'm looking for a minimum of 9 players for this, but we can easily take more than that.

In order to make this a bit more new player friendly I will not be adding any new roles or changing any of the existing roles this time. So you can read over the previous games to learn what might be out there and what they can do.

Previous games:
Supernatural 1
Supernatural 2
Supernatural 3
Supernatural 4
Supernatural 5
Supernatural 6
Supernatural 7
Supernatural 8
Supernatural RP
Supernatural Semi-Bastard