MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

anybody else got their dudes in?

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I never let myself get too upset and hit alt+F4 before that happens these days, but I was pretty wild as a teen when a game would upset me. I never did anything like break a controller because, well, how are you going to play without one? Then again, I look silly saying that when I say that I destroyed a game once.

Hoshigami on the original Playstation, one of the most ridiculously hard strategy RPGs I've ever played, infuriated me so much this one time that I opened my Playstation, ripped the disk out and proceeded to set the disc on fire before I chopped it up into dozens of pieces using a pair of scissors. Following this, I put it in the microwave, set the timer for thirty seconds, and let it spark and fry further.

That was over ten years ago now, but man... fuck Hoshigami.

this is fucking amazing

Page 31 actually says both things, but it also says the "+1 to two stats" is an optional rule whereas "+1 to all stats" is the default rule. Apparently the DM is giving us the option of the rule or the optional rule which is nice.

Humans have the choice of either +1 to all stats, or +1 to two stats of your choice, an extra skill proficiency, and a feat. The second option is generally considered the superior one.

It is far less superior when using point buy, it would seem (knowing the and understanding breakpoints, anyway). If you were actually rolling stats it would be more of a crapshoot, I'd think. Then again I am not quite sure how important +1 Proficiency and +1 Feat is.

I'm probably going to play a Dragonborn Paladin, a Dragonborn Sorcerer, or a Wood Elf Druid depending on what races and classes other people wind up deciding on. The middle one is out if Ratty goes for Sorcerer rather than Mage.

Howevs: CyberDagger, do you anticipate our lack of a dedicated rogue might be problematic in the campaign you have planned? Because it wouldn't put me out too much to jink in that direction. (I haven't really familiarized myself with 5E yet, so I don't know to what degree "not having a rogue" means "you will walk stupidly into and trigger every trap" and "you will need to loudly bash down or be actually repelled by every locked door". In previous editions it was rather a lot. But if there isn't gonna be a lot of dungeon crawling and skullduggery, then who cares.)

Thanks for letting me in, CyberDagger! I will see what other people are making and make something that's not that!

What do we have so far, guys? What have you all picked out racially/classially?

Here's what I've got so far:

Pianotm: Bard
Liberty: Monk? (Ninja was an actual class in 3.X)
Ratty: Dwarf Wizard or Dwarf Sorcerer
Seiromems: Human Fighter
Ziegfried MacBac: Half-Elf Cleric

So it seems like race wise we have one dwarf (my favorite race) and four unknowns.

Random observation: Humans get +1 to EVERY stat now? Wow, humans are way more viable. I guess some people still find being a human "boring" but I've never had that problem.

Edit: I "rolled up" (I used the point buy obviously) the bare bones of three different characters to choose from based on what other people wind up deciding.

It is really not that popular I would say. Probably less than 10% of games made in RPG Maker are 'horror'.

Although it can be difficult to classify: horror is a word often used both as a 'genre genre' (as in science fiction, fantasy, etc) and as a 'gameplay' genre (ie RPG, action etc).

Anyway, my answer amounts to what Sated said: ease of use. RPG Maker is the best tool currently available (that I know of) to someone with my limited skillset to make a horror video game.