The first Apocalypse: EQ board game

[EZ_Quarternotedragon]

www.eqrpg.com/

Let's hope this isn't a repost.

[EZ_Tabbran]

Tabletop, not board game :P

And the Keith Parkinson art rocks the house this time ;)

[Brelkor]

No lag? No linkdeath? No buggy pathing? No camping? No waiting for a group(beond tardy players)? It just wouldn't be the same /sigh

GM: You aproach the camp site of the NPC
Player 1: Is he spawned?
GM: No.
Player 1: Ok we wait until he spawns.
GM: You notice a guy wearing leather straps and spoting various tatoos sitting on a rock across the clearing from you.
Player 2: Does he con friendly or aggressivly?
GM: Indiferent.
Player 1: We ask him what his name is.
GM (as the npc): I am Steelfists Hunkychunk, been camping this here bandit guy for two days.
Player 1: You mean its already camped????
Player 2: This suxors
Player 3: Lets kick his ass!
Player 1: He's probly on good faction though Brelkor the Blackhammer The Masta Back Stabba, retired rogue

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[EZ_Ubernome]

Finally I can smack people that say "d00d sow plz" or "i want ph4t l3wtz!!" in the head...

[Glip the Gnome]

That was a cool video, hadn't seen that before. Was wondering when they were going to announce this. Glip the Gnome
Best Smelling Admin: The Safehouse
Overlord of Doom: The Scurvy Dog Buffet
Where are my pants?

[EZ_Quarternotedragon]

Damn you insider Glip!

*rolls the dice and get's train*

[Dargesh]

But still, even a tabletop game is just plain wrong.
Although, it might be fun to actually flesh out some of the storylines that EQ has.

[EZ_Nasbin]

Haha, funny how they zoom in on Firiona Vie's chest. "non-Euclidean Geometry is any geometry that is different from Euclidean Geometry. "

[EZ_Sylvya Sylvernote]

Yeah, the juxtaposition of Firiona Vie and the phrase "in your hands" is absolutely priceless, there.

[EZ_Iscin]

That add makes me crash to desktop.

This is how I know it's really from Sony.

-Iscin

[EZ_Elegance]

no the funny part is that to make it table top playable they have to through out every part of eq and make it make sense.


I mean can you imagine a hell lvl in a table top rpg? please.

[EZ_Kehvrynne]

So White Wolf can publish an entirely new game line, but they can't release the *$^#%! Book of Glamour on time?!

/pouts Kehvrynne Quickblade, Professional Damsel of Distress
No matter how subtle the wizard, a dirk between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

[notwen]

Best part of all: no lame competing for content.

[EZ_pulid]

this will definitely be fun. I just hope we don't have to call 40 friends over to raid trakanon though.l

[EZ_Matheren]

*sigh* the sad part is, this might be the damn game to get my whole group BACK to actually gaming. even d&d 3e can only bring back two of them :/


Math

[ShadowCross]

I don't see what justifies all the ranting and bitching in here.

d20 rules.
Norrath as a world is cool.

Sure, this is "just" another setting for the d20 system, but it's a world I love and that many know. I don't why this should be bad? Guys, Verant/Sony can't screw this up, they are/should only be providing the background and storyline. And THAT is something I am really looking forward to.

Hell levels? Nonsense.. there won't be hell levels, it's a P&P now.

I am absolutely going to buy this.


Quote: But be warned! Played offline, the world of Norrath becomes an even more dangerous place. No longer will there be hundreds of heroes all striking out against evil by battling the ice dragon Lady Vox or delving deep in the bowels of Lower Guk to confront the undead frogloks. Now it is only you and your comrades who stand before such evil might.

Haha, I love this.
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[EZ_Kintire]

Someone must do a program that inserts the character class data into Neverwinter nights....

[ShadowCross]

OMG... NWN & EQRPG combined would rule!

*gasp* You're in MY world now! *evillaughter*

[EZ_Kintire]

eeepp....

err, I mean Yes!

So, are you going to be GMing any NWN online? Or anyone else for that matter...

[EZ_mongo mfh]

Does this mean that we get a saving throw against nerfs now? Mongo
Red-Eyed Barbarian Assassin
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knife goes in, guts come out

[EZ_thal0012]

If anyone can bring Norrath alive its Whitewolf. I'd love to be the storyteller though. Ok the monsters not up, you have just enough time to go get me a 6 pack and some taco bell before it spawns. As for actually buying this game no thanks, for sword and scorcery I still like good old fashioned D&D. I play Whitewolf but specifically for their twisted real world modern setting and the interesting ways they fit their stories and npc into real world events, locations and history.

[DarthEnder]

Whats funniest about that comment SX is that if Vox didn't banish people over level 52 then one gaming group of around 4 people COULD kill her.

I don't see why it even needs to be its own game. They should have just released Norrath as a world setting for D&D 3rd, just like they did for Diablo.

[EZ_Tabbran]

It is a world setting, granted, there will be unique rules, but it's basically D&D in the world of Norrath.

You see, Swords & Sorcery Studios is a division of White Wolf that handles and releases their d20 products. White Wolf itself releases the "Storyteller" series of games (World of Darkness, Aberrent, Exalted).

[Koru]

I could neither play nor GM that setting. I'd end up playing it exactly like EQ really is just for evil fun. Come on, you all know you want to do that... don't tell me you haven't thought about playing a pen and paper campaign as an MMOG complete with training, idiots, corrupt/incompetent guides/GMs, uberguilds farming zones, calendars for rare spawns and so forth.

[EZ_Sarai of Grove]

How the heck am I supposed to get 40 people together so we can do a NToV raid? We'd need like a convention hall, and the sheer amount of dice rolling... it'd take all night just to resolve one battle.

It would be cool to be able to hang out, maybe go grab a pizza while we wait for our corpses to be recovered.

[ShadowCross]

Some things I am really curious about how they implement it into d20 (or if they implement it at all):

- 60 levels
- Combat (hitting for up to 90 at level 60, having thousands of HP etc ..)
- dragon AE's
- slows (not just the reversed haste spell, but different kinds of slows)
- Mana & Mana regeneration
- sneak & hide


And Kintire, I am pretty sure there will be a bunch of people here that will GM NWN. I am one for sure.

[EZ_Kintire]

I suspect that the levels and combat system will be d20 style. I don't know much about dragons in EQ, but standered dragons do have AE breath. Sneak and Hide are sortof in there anyway, but they are not rogue specific of course.

I'm most interested in how they will do magic.

[ShadowCross]

Well, I guess I wasn't clear enough what I meant.

I am mostly curious about how close to either the d20 system as used in D&D 3rd or the Everquest system they'll stay.

Will it be "just" another world for D&D 3rd, or will it be as different as either StarWars or Wheel of Time?

Both SW and WoT are d20 system too, but there are many noticable differences in game mechanics when compared to D&D 3rd.

[Gnmish Gearbinder]

My belief, based upon the fact that a both Player's Handbook and DMG is being released for it, is that it will have it's own unique rule-sets and game mechanics.

To be honest, I've already done my own version of EQ in D&D 3rd edition rules. Used the same rules and just jacked the world, zones, and races. I personally can't wait to have them flesh out additional rules and race/classes for me. Hell, lets not forget the background info I love so much.

Hmmm, Freeport is their first city book. That should be very interesting based upon the way White Wolf writes source material. It's bound to make the whole online version of the game more intersting as well as now many people will have access to information to back up what they see in the game.

<drool>

I can't wait. Gnmish Gearbinder
Gnomish Rogue of Bristlebane - Ring Warden - Sullon Zek

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[EZ_LordMaxwell]

Most differences are in both Star Wars and WoT, and I think it's things that Jonathan Tweet is still kicking himself for not including in the basic books. (Like increased defense with level, simple, elegant and it works.)

Most of the changes are just cosmetic, and some are nonsensical. (Why is Jedi Counselor a separate CLASS from Jedi Knight? By all logic it should be a prestige class.)

And they worked the Force system beatufully into the D20 system, it's more flexible than it first appears. Off course Wizards themselves have more leeway than others doing d20 worlds.

[EZ_Kintire]

WoT?

[EZ_Kalaz]

Quote: My belief, based upon the fact that a both Player's Handbook and DMG is being released for it, is that it will have it's own unique rule-sets and game mechanics.
Exactly. They're not releasing it under the d20 license, but under the OGL license. That means they can use their own rules for character creation and advancement, and could theoretically take it all the way up to level 60.

There are some slight differences in what they can and cannot do deondent on which license they use, but that's the big one.

Overall, the game doesn't fill me with a whole lot of desire to play it, but I think the background could be fascinating to read. Many people have become slightly jaded about the RP aspect of EQ, there's still a lot of very interesting stories in there.

Plus it gives us the opportunity to finish all those quests Verant never did. --

[ShadowCross]

Kintire: WoT = Wheel of Time

[EZ_Kintire]

Oh........


I didn't really need to know that

[EZ_Pearll]

GM: Ahstabzjoo, you have entered the zone to the north. You are by yourself in a dark room. The pungent stench of gnoll droppings fills the air.

Tanx: Where are the Fritos?

GM: They're right next to you.

Ahstabzjoo: I cast a spell.

Tanx: Where's the ale?

GM: It's in the fridge, duh!

Ahstabzjoo: I wanna cast a spell.

Tanx: Can I have an ale?

GM: Yes, you can have an ale!

Ahstabzjoo: I can cast any of these on the list, right?

GM: n00b... you're a rogue

Ahstabzjoo: $&#@

GM: The use of fowl language is against the PnP. Consider this a warning.

Ahstabzjoo: STFU!

GM: You have gone linkdead.

Ahstabzjoo: I log back in. *gets ready to roll the dice*

GM: You have been suspended for one week.

Tanx: Does this mean that his camp is open?


Boredom, it's a wonderful thing.

[Caowyth]

Heh. At least they'll have a new term for Monty Haul campaigns.

Stormhammer! =)

Cao

[EZ_Kintire]

On the upside, the GM is a little more accessible....

[Caowyth]

Is the GM manual a pamphlet that says 'The players are lieing to you, and you can't do anything to help them'? =)

[EZ_Nenneth]

Sorry, completely offtopic:

Sarai of Grove - are you the same Sarai that played on Test pre-wipe? ("of Grove" kinda suggests it )

/wave

[Kambic]

If theres any girls there I wanna DO THEM

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