A bit of set up: I tried to break into tabletop rpgs for years, I have been interested since I gotten the Denver books for Shadowrun from Goodwill thinking they were PC games, I was honestly a bit disappointed but like reading the setting and wanted to find more. For years I picked up other books, things from Hunter The reckoning and Don't rest your head to Attack Of the Humans and Soap, and trying to find a group in the middle of rural Texas kind of made playing really, really hard to pull off.
So I decided to try my luck online, I found the most "popular" site called RPGnet. And honestly it was a massive mistake.
Well, I did try other places like Reddit and Discord but it all felt like they were just RPGnet run offs, the same mentality and the same kind of people.
I often feel like an outsider when it comes to rpgs because of three things, I love animation, not just anime but Disney (both movie and tv), Warner Brothers, Fletcher, Chuck Jones, Fritz, Hanna Barbara, and so much more, and I have this habit of wanting to play something like them, to ignore "realism" for something cool, something powerful and dynamic which flows into issue two, I'm a furry, I would love to play a furry race when I can, and no I do not want to hump everything in game or out, I just want to have fun, thing three is I don't like typical high fantasy settings.
I'm kind of rambling but I am very tired of hiding who I am, I don't like politics and just want to enjoy games as games. I was banned from RPGnet because I was looking for tips to run a Lion King game session, as in the first two animated movies, no sex, no gore, just a silly adventure within a Disney Property. What I got instead? How can we make this realistic and dark? They ignored what I wanted and started in with magic that made animals talk, and how breeding would happen, and a very brutal system, and when I chimed in to remind them I just wanted a sweet and simple system to run it, I could live without explaining anything. That caused a nasty back and forth before I was banned for call them a bunch of banana brained fuck farts, actually I don't remember what I called them because this was a long time ago but I think is close.
On a side note something I find very odd is I keep finding RPG horror stories about a player or DM wanting to have sex in game to various degrees, which I can understand can be uncomfortable to many people and a lot of people have not wanting to hear porn fantasies, but I find it weird that I don't want to hear about child murder in vivid details, but told to "grow up" and "this is an adult game for adults" and "if you don't like it, leave!"
I often find those kinds of players will flip out and go right to R/horrorstories if anyone attempts flirting with an npc, and not even roleplay it but go, "I flirt with the bar wench to hear some rumors" will cause topics like "furry tried to hire a hooker!", "Bard wanted an orgy!", and "Anime weeb DM okays waifu porn!"
Sorry to ramble, I just had to get that off of my chest, and wonder if anyone else had the same kind of experiences in these groups.
"Bunch of bannana brained fuck tarts," sounds apt.
Non-violent stuff is usually more in the domains of a storytelling game than the traditional rpgs. The genre overlaps a lot, but usually RPG tend to emphasize their wargaming roots and usually don't do non-violence well. I guess you can do it depending on the system and how much supplements available to you to conceive that type of game; a campaign with just exploration or base management in Pathfinder, for example. Although I recommend buying a system specifically made for non-violence is better. Something like Golden Sky might be close to what you want (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/118784/Golden-Sky-Stories?src=also_purchased).
You living in rural texas, into furry, and no others players to play with non-digitally, I dunno how to solve that. If you're still young you could try making a club at school or something, or taking the time to go to the closest LGS (even if its like 1-2 hour drive/commute) for some head hunting and networking.
I do recommend broadening your genre starting out though, because honestly what you want to run is pretty niche for other people to go into straight away.
Welcome. Things are a little rough and tumble here but I think it's a lot healthier than a lot of other RPG sites where you basically can feel an axe hanging over your neck if you dare to express an un-PC opinion. Fuck that.
Lion King themed RPG sounds like a fun idea.
Quote from: David Johansen on June 26, 2021, 12:20:55 AM
"Bunch of banana brained fuck farts," sounds apt.
Congratulations, OP; that was the password for this place!!!
Welcome aboard!!!
My tastes in games are far different from yours, but you can probably find a fit here.
Welcome to the site.
As for playing an animal themed RPG. There are a few that can do this to some degree or another. One of the oldest is of course Bunnies & Burrows. which later was re-released for gurps.
In the indie side there are ones lime Tales from the Woods and Praire Dogs Life.
Then there are the ones that bridge the gap between animals and beast folk. The more traditional style as shown in shows like Rescuers, Capitol Critters, and so on. BESM put out an expansion, Big Ears, Small Mouse, for playing these sorts of critters and that sort of cobbled together setting. And a few others like Mouse Guard and so on.
Next step up from that and you have fully anthropomorphic settins. The most notable is the original Albedo RPG based on the comic of the same name. A relatively hard sci-fi setting. On the fantasy side there are ones like Ironclaw and such. And in between that Furry Pirates which is a rather well done historically accurate age of sail RPG done with Disney Robin Hood style animal people.
And up from there you have the fantasy races that populate many RPGs going all the way back to D&D and then Metamorphosis Alpha and especially Gamma World. Or obscure ones like Justifiers.
Then theres the oddball ones for playing cartoon characters. Toon from SJG is a prime example, BESMouse being another.
Really depends on what you want to play and some systems can handle this stuff alot better than others.
Hi and welcome to the boards! My daughter enjoys the same things you do (minus the actually being a furry part), but she and her friends mostly freeform roleplay them. Basically, they each say what they're doing and and if there are disagreements about how something resolves they discuss them until they do agree. I prefer actual game systems but they like it their way and that's great. I can't give much advice about actual systems except to say that I've heard good things about Mouse Guard. Not sure that's what you're looking for though, since I've read the books and they're far from nonviolent. Oh, and Toon is wonderful for Bug Bunny type slapstick cartoon comedy - I've played it maybe a dozen time. Honestly your best bet is to find some like minded folk who have been playing RPGs the way you want and play along with them. Hopefully you can find some here.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PMI'm a furry
Why do furries always insist on making this known? If somebody is into BDSM, I will find out if I break into their basement.
If somebody is a furry, this is the first (or in this case second) thing they tell you.
And I generally like playing monsters whenever given the opportunity (anthropomorphic or otherwise).
If you maybe didn't make your kink the front and center of your identity, there would be less mocking overall (in my opinion).
Sans that, I also like animation. Welcome.
I hate anime. The art style I mean, the look of it. Other than like 5 minutes of dragonballZ or airbender the only other anime i've actually analyzed was on vhs back in the 90's and was the wierdest most disjointed crap you could imagine and featured no shit alien worm tentacle sex with exploding orgasms that kill the subject and recalling now it is ultra creepy because all those girls sounded just like pikachu. same facial expressions to.
I hate anime.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
A bit of set up: I tried to break into tabletop rpgs for years, I have been interested since I gotten the Denver books for Shadowrun from Goodwill thinking they were PC games, I was honestly a bit disappointed but like reading the setting and wanted to find more. For years I picked up other books, things from Hunter The reckoning and Don't rest your head to Attack Of the Humans and Soap, and trying to find a group in the middle of rural Texas kind of made playing really, really hard to pull off.
So I decided to try my luck online, I found the most "popular" site called RPGnet. And honestly it was a massive mistake.
Well, I did try other places like Reddit and Discord but it all felt like they were just RPGnet run offs, the same mentality and the same kind of people.
I often feel like an outsider when it comes to rpgs because of three things, I love animation, not just anime but Disney (both movie and tv), Warner Brothers, Fletcher, Chuck Jones, Fritz, Hanna Barbara, and so much more, and I have this habit of wanting to play something like them, to ignore "realism" for something cool, something powerful and dynamic which flows into issue two, I'm a furry, I would love to play a furry race when I can, and no I do not want to hump everything in game or out, I just want to have fun, thing three is I don't like typical high fantasy settings.
I'm kind of rambling but I am very tired of hiding who I am, I don't like politics and just want to enjoy games as games. I was banned from RPGnet because I was looking for tips to run a Lion King game session, as in the first two animated movies, no sex, no gore, just a silly adventure within a Disney Property. What I got instead? How can we make this realistic and dark? They ignored what I wanted and started in with magic that made animals talk, and how breeding would happen, and a very brutal system, and when I chimed in to remind them I just wanted a sweet and simple system to run it, I could live without explaining anything. That caused a nasty back and forth before I was banned for call them a bunch of banana brained fuck farts, actually I don't remember what I called them because this was a long time ago but I think is close.
On a side note something I find very odd is I keep finding RPG horror stories about a player or DM wanting to have sex in game to various degrees, which I can understand can be uncomfortable to many people and a lot of people have not wanting to hear porn fantasies, but I find it weird that I don't want to hear about child murder in vivid details, but told to "grow up" and "this is an adult game for adults" and "if you don't like it, leave!"
I often find those kinds of players will flip out and go right to R/horrorstories if anyone attempts flirting with an npc, and not even roleplay it but go, "I flirt with the bar wench to hear some rumors" will cause topics like "furry tried to hire a hooker!", "Bard wanted an orgy!", and "Anime weeb DM okays waifu porn!"
Sorry to ramble, I just had to get that off of my chest, and wonder if anyone else had the same kind of experiences in these groups.
Welcome to the Mos Eisley Cantina of gaming forums!
As far as game systems go that could handle what you want to play, I'll suggest an older game called Teenagers From Outer Space which is a light "beer and pretzels" anime comedy game published by R. Talsorian Games. It is versatile and robust enough to be able to handle what you are looking for.
Quote from: Slipshot762 on June 26, 2021, 06:23:44 AM
I hate anime. The art style I mean, the look of it. Other than like 5 minutes of dragonballZ or airbender the only other anime i've actually analyzed was on vhs back in the 90's and was the wierdest most disjointed crap you could imagine and featured no shit alien worm tentacle sex with exploding orgasms that kill the subject and recalling now it is ultra creepy because all those girls sounded just like pikachu. same facial expressions to.
I hate anime.
Basing your views on Anime from watching Urutskidoji: Legend of the overfiend would be like basing your view of RPGs from trying to play F.A.T.A.L
Maybe you should have tried something like Osamu Tekuza (the Walt Disney of Japan) or why not Hayao Miyazaki instead. The latter ones "Spirited Away" even got an Oscar for best Animated feature in 2002-
Once you post your ideas on the internets, expect them to get stapled, folded, mutilated and otherwise bent all out of recognition.
Welcome to the board. I hope you find people interested in what you're after, RPG wise.
Quote from: Slipshot762 on June 26, 2021, 06:23:44 AM
I hate anime. The art style I mean, the look of it. Other than like 5 minutes of dragonballZ or airbender the only other anime i've actually analyzed was on vhs back in the 90's and was the wierdest most disjointed crap you could imagine and featured no shit alien worm tentacle sex with exploding orgasms that kill the subject and recalling now it is ultra creepy because all those girls sounded just like pikachu. same facial expressions to.
I hate anime.
Your tastes are your tastes, of course; can't criticize that. But your reasoning here is the single dumbest thing I've read on this forum. Anime includes an immense breadth of styles and you're judging the whole thing based on a few minutes of garbage? Also, way to make the new guy feel welcome on the forum.
Meh be welcome and all sure, but I hate anime. The art style just doesn't do it for me and works against the possibility of my acceptance of it.
Quote from: Slipshot762 on June 26, 2021, 11:20:20 AM
Meh be welcome and all sure, but I hate anime. The art style just doesn't do it for me and works against the possibility of my acceptance of it.
Do you mean animation in general? Some people just find 2D unsettling. There are plenty of things to dislike and hate in anime, which I get, but im confused about the general all rounded hatred when you say you barely watched any of it.
Its like saying you hate fruits but said you only ever tasted half a burnt orange.
Quote from: Shrieking Banshee on June 26, 2021, 03:45:52 AM
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PMI'm a furry
Why do furries always insist on making this known? If somebody is into BDSM, I will find out if I break into their basement.
If somebody is a furry, this is the first (or in this case second) thing they tell you.
And I generally like playing monsters whenever given the opportunity (anthropomorphic or otherwise).
If you maybe didn't make your kink the front and center of your identity, there would be less mocking overall (in my opinion).
Sans that, I also like animation. Welcome.
I have to agree on this. Its like waving a flag to call out all the loons in the audience. Especially now with some rather violent hate groups and sociopaths out there.
Quote from: Slipshot762 on June 26, 2021, 06:23:44 AM
I hate anime. The art style I mean, the look of it. Other than like 5 minutes of dragonballZ or airbender the only other anime i've actually analyzed was on vhs back in the 90's and was the wierdest most disjointed crap you could imagine and featured no shit alien worm tentacle sex with exploding orgasms that kill the subject and recalling now it is ultra creepy because all those girls sounded just like pikachu. same facial expressions to.
I hate anime.
You havent watched enough anime. And more to the point... you have been watching anime... and just didnt know it.
Way back a fair chunk of US animation was actually done in Japan, China, and Korea even. G.I. Joe, Transformers and Dungeons & Dragons are 3 that stand out. France and a few other countries do as well. Ulysse 2020, Galaxy Rangers, Bionic 6 and so on all are additional shows outsourced one way or another. Pretty sure even Thundercats was.
The styles and stories vary so wildly that some of the stuff is not even recognizable. And the more violent stuff is only a portion of whats out there. The ultra-violent stuff a fraction of that. Its just that in the 90s the violent and extreme violent ones seemed all anyone was interested in importing to the US. Some rare few I liked. Most didnt. Especially the over the top ones.
Honestly I find few of the newer anime to be up to the standards of the stuff from the pre-2000s in both writing and art quality more oft than not. And an increasing reliance on CG that detracts.
Its alot like US animation. Theres some styles I like. And some I really dont. The new "cal arts" style as they call it for example 90% of the time just isnt my thing.
Bemusingly we have gotten so far 2 D&D anime that most arent even aware are based on D&D. Record of Lodoss War being based on a groups BX roleplay logs that got popular and turned into a series of novels. Then theres the weird one, Overlord which was inspired by the writers 3e D&D group and draws heavily from.
Quote from: Omega on June 26, 2021, 12:52:44 PMThen theres the weird one, Overlord which was inspired by the writers 3e D&D group and draws heavily from.
Man I would hate to be at that game:
DM: 'And so the fucking awesome overlord wipes the floor with you fuckwits, and brings you back'
Player: 'Uh...I try to attack him?'
DM: 'The solution was to praise him for being awesome, he instant kills you again'
Overlord is isekai wank
Quote from: Shrieking Banshee on June 26, 2021, 12:55:09 PM
Quote from: Omega on June 26, 2021, 12:52:44 PMThen theres the weird one, Overlord which was inspired by the writers 3e D&D group and draws heavily from.
Man I would hate to be at that game:
DM: 'And so the fucking awesome overlord wipes the floor with you fuckwits, and brings you back'
Player: 'Uh...I try to attack him?'
DM: 'The solution was to praise him for being awesome, he instant kills you again'
Overlord is isekai wank
Its more one of those "what if" sort of shows. In this case something like "What if fully leveled 3e characters were dropped into a BX setting?". Starts out fun, but starts going downhilll by season 2 and then really downhill in 3. I liked the original lightnovels better really. Even if they are alot more brutal.
And half the fun of D&D is being able to go back and massacre those low level monsters and bandits who used to give you so much trouble. heh-heh.
Quote from: Omega on June 26, 2021, 01:00:58 PMIts more one of those "what if" sort of shows.
It really isn't. Its a dime a dozen reincarnation power fantasy shows that are flooding the market after the success of Sword Art Online (well thats the earliest big one I remember). It cuts away from the self-insert every once in a while, but the focus is very largely on self glorification.
This is heavily to do with the dead-end, suffocating work and school culture in Japan which leads so many of its men developing misanthropic tendencies, and their escapist fantasies gaining a very angry, domineering, and carnal (in the sense of self-satisfaction) angle.
These light novels are so multidudanous that they need rediculous titles to stand out (and be largely identical anyway) with stuff like 'I was hit by a truck and reincarnated as a talking lamp!?!?!'
....And how the heck is this discussion in a introductory thread?
Quote from: Shrieking Banshee on June 26, 2021, 01:26:55 PM
....And how the heck is this discussion in a introductory thread?
Because this is theRPGsite and its what we do. heh-heh.
I think Jeffs suggestion of Teenagers from Outer Space probably is a good one too for possible RPGs with the right framework for what the OP wants.
I think I'm going to third the suggestion for TFOS. If you're looking for something silly and lighthearted you could do a lot worse.
You could get banned for almost anything on that site.
Personally I like old Disney movies. I wouldn't mind playing a game in the Pinocchio world, set in an old Italian-style fairytale town, with Honest John Foulfellow as either a crooked PC or a plain villain 😀
Quote from: Slipshot762 on June 26, 2021, 06:23:44 AM
I hate anime. The art style I mean, the look of it. Other than like 5 minutes of dragonballZ or airbender the only other anime i've actually analyzed was on vhs back in the 90's and was the wierdest most disjointed crap you could imagine and featured no shit alien worm tentacle sex with exploding orgasms that kill the subject and recalling now it is ultra creepy because all those girls sounded just like pikachu. same facial expressions to.
I hate anime.
I'm almost in the same boat. Almost. I think Japanese animation and comics are generally highly overrated. I'm sure there are some good things out there, but I know many people fall for it because of the cutesy drawings.
If you hate anime, try mangas then, the whole american comic market is doing it in favor of american comics. But that topic aside(which really should be its own topic in the Media section), to each their own when it comes to things we like, with caveats ofc.
Welcome to the forums, the posters here are generally more 'sober'' than the rpgnet crowd. At least you wont get banned for expressing an unpopular opinion. Theres a lot of possible rpgs you could play, im just gonna recommend Root, its a boardgame, a computer game and a tabletop rpg, it seems to be quite new too.
Happy posting:)
Agree with Teenagers from Outer Space mentioned above. I played a little back in the day, and it was well done and fun. Basically high school where some students have various unusual origins and abilities, with mechanics tailored to that experience: "Looks" and "Cool" were two of the attributes. You can recreate a lot of the high-school anime with this game.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
and Soap,
Now there's one from wayback.
Fun fact: It was developed on rpg.net, and I have a minor credit.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
I did try other places like Reddit and Discord but it all felt like they were just RPGnet run offs, the same mentality and the same kind of people.
Not yet, but they're
rapidly getting there.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
I often feel like an outsider when it comes to rpgs because of three things, I love animation, not just anime but Disney (both movie and tv), Warner Brothers, Fletcher, Chuck Jones, Fritz, Hanna Barbara, and so much more, and I have this habit of wanting to play something like them, to ignore "realism" for something cool, something powerful and dynamic which flows into issue two, I'm a furry, I would love to play a furry race when I can, and no I do not want to hump everything in game or out, I just want to have fun, thing three is I don't like typical high fantasy settings.
Plenty of RPG gamers have similar interests, they're just victims of gatekeeping like you are.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
I was banned from RPGnet because I was looking for tips to run a Lion King game session, as in the first two animated movies, no sex, no gore, just a silly adventure within a Disney Property. What I got instead? How can we make this realistic and dark? They ignored what I wanted and started in with magic that made animals talk, and how breeding would happen, and a very brutal system, and when I chimed in to remind them I just wanted a sweet and simple system to run it, I could live without explaining anything. That caused a nasty back and forth before I was banned for call them a bunch of banana brained fuck farts, actually I don't remember what I called them because this was a long time ago but I think is close.
Exactly how long ago was this? Because I couldn't find anything, and the current culture there would never have allowed this to happen.
Another endorsement for Teenagers From Outer Space. Lighthearted comedic, not as manaical as Toon nor as bleak as Paranoia.
Greetings!
Welcome to the website here!
There's nothing wrong with enjoying playing silly, fun games.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Toon and especially Big Ears Small Mouse are the other two that can do those sorts of more toony settings well. BESM in particular as it is more a toolbox sort of system and theres a fair emphasis on interaction if one so desires.
Both are harder to find now though.
You can play online at Roll20.net - the weirdo quotient is fairly low. I recall there's a Furry (non-pervert) game called Ironclaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironclaw but it's not a much played game. Still you can easily play a Tabaxi (cat person) in a Roll20 5e D&D campaign.
I wouldnt suggest Ironclaw. Its system of dice pools and overall rules are not new-user friendly.
Quote from: Mishihari on June 26, 2021, 03:41:58 AM
Hi and welcome to the boards! My daughter enjoys the same things you do (minus the actually being a furry part), but she and her friends mostly freeform roleplay them. Basically, they each say what they're doing and and if there are disagreements about how something resolves they discuss them until they do agree.
They're playing pretend. You have to be careful though, once mechanics get into the mix, that could easily turn into Storygaming or even worse, LARPing. :D
Quote from: Anon Adderlan on June 26, 2021, 06:34:11 PM
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
and Soap,
Now there's one from wayback.
Fun fact: It was developed on rpg.net, and I have a minor credit.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
I did try other places like Reddit and Discord but it all felt like they were just RPGnet run offs, the same mentality and the same kind of people.
Not yet, but they're rapidly getting there.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
I often feel like an outsider when it comes to rpgs because of three things, I love animation, not just anime but Disney (both movie and tv), Warner Brothers, Fletcher, Chuck Jones, Fritz, Hanna Barbara, and so much more, and I have this habit of wanting to play something like them, to ignore "realism" for something cool, something powerful and dynamic which flows into issue two, I'm a furry, I would love to play a furry race when I can, and no I do not want to hump everything in game or out, I just want to have fun, thing three is I don't like typical high fantasy settings.
Plenty of RPG gamers have similar interests, they're just victims of gatekeeping like you are.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
I was banned from RPGnet because I was looking for tips to run a Lion King game session, as in the first two animated movies, no sex, no gore, just a silly adventure within a Disney Property. What I got instead? How can we make this realistic and dark? They ignored what I wanted and started in with magic that made animals talk, and how breeding would happen, and a very brutal system, and when I chimed in to remind them I just wanted a sweet and simple system to run it, I could live without explaining anything. That caused a nasty back and forth before I was banned for call them a bunch of banana brained fuck farts, actually I don't remember what I called them because this was a long time ago but I think is close.
Exactly how long ago was this? Because I couldn't find anything, and the current culture there would never have allowed this to happen.
Didn't sound legit either, to be honest, unless it was years ago. Plus, the group that would have allowed that wouldn't have handed out a permaban for banana-brained fuck farts. I'm getting a "fishing for quotes" vibe.
Quote from: Trond on June 26, 2021, 03:53:19 PM
You could get banned for almost anything on that site.
Or for the opposite of everything. Being banned on RPG.net is not even more the badge of honor that it once was.
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Personally I like old Disney movies. I wouldn't mind playing a game in the Pinocchio world, set in an old Italian-style fairytale town
The just released "Luca" by Pixar will give you a lot of ideas. One of the inspirations, BTW, are Myiazaki classic movies. It is not by chance that the small town on the Riviera is named "Portorosso" :D
To the OP: you could also consider the various My Little Pony RPGs. There is an official one and some home made (including one based on Pathfinder). Even if you are not interested in MLP, the various rulesets can be of inspiration for other settings involving talking animals.
Quote from: crkrueger on June 27, 2021, 06:47:05 AM
Quote from: Anon Adderlan on June 26, 2021, 06:34:11 PM
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
and Soap,
Now there's one from wayback.
Fun fact: It was developed on rpg.net, and I have a minor credit.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
I did try other places like Reddit and Discord but it all felt like they were just RPGnet run offs, the same mentality and the same kind of people.
Not yet, but they're rapidly getting there.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
I often feel like an outsider when it comes to rpgs because of three things, I love animation, not just anime but Disney (both movie and tv), Warner Brothers, Fletcher, Chuck Jones, Fritz, Hanna Barbara, and so much more, and I have this habit of wanting to play something like them, to ignore "realism" for something cool, something powerful and dynamic which flows into issue two, I'm a furry, I would love to play a furry race when I can, and no I do not want to hump everything in game or out, I just want to have fun, thing three is I don't like typical high fantasy settings.
Plenty of RPG gamers have similar interests, they're just victims of gatekeeping like you are.
Quote from: shatterrenamon on June 25, 2021, 11:05:40 PM
I was banned from RPGnet because I was looking for tips to run a Lion King game session, as in the first two animated movies, no sex, no gore, just a silly adventure within a Disney Property. What I got instead? How can we make this realistic and dark? They ignored what I wanted and started in with magic that made animals talk, and how breeding would happen, and a very brutal system, and when I chimed in to remind them I just wanted a sweet and simple system to run it, I could live without explaining anything. That caused a nasty back and forth before I was banned for call them a bunch of banana brained fuck farts, actually I don't remember what I called them because this was a long time ago but I think is close.
Exactly how long ago was this? Because I couldn't find anything, and the current culture there would never have allowed this to happen.
Didn't sound legit either, to be honest, unless it was years ago. Plus, the group that would have allowed that wouldn't have handed out a permaban for banana-brained fuck farts. I'm getting a "fishing for quotes" vibe.
I notice that the OP only has 1 post so far, and hasn't responded to any posts in this thread.
Quote from: Jame Rowe on June 27, 2021, 01:45:49 PMI notice that the OP only has 1 post so far, and hasn't responded to any posts in this thread.
Dude did the near impossible: he made up an RPG.net ban no one believed.
Quote from: ThatChrisGuy on June 27, 2021, 03:39:03 PM
Quote from: Jame Rowe on June 27, 2021, 01:45:49 PMI notice that the OP only has 1 post so far, and hasn't responded to any posts in this thread.
Dude did the near impossible: he made up an RPG.net ban no one believed.
Or tried to pull a troll that nobody cared about.
So a furry showed up and the people talked/suggested some games and didn't attack him?
Oh fuck...there goes theRPGsite's reputation! ;D
Welcome aboard you furry anime weirdo!
You'll never get banned from here for calling anybody a bunch of banana brained fuck farts which is pure awesome.
So you're looking for a light, non-violent RPG experience.
You should look at a game called TOON. It was specifically for playing cartoons, like Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner. Zany, exploding carrots, etc. It was very fun and popular back in the day.
It would be challenging to find a group interested in playing Lion King almost anywhere...except at a regional or national convention OR online. If going for an online crowd, you probably should go directly to Furry RPG forums because they're your direct apples-to-fursuits fandom for what you want to play.
As for getting banned on RPG.net, consider it a badge of honor.
As for sexuality (of any sort) at the game table, there's a exploding can of worms. Everything regarding that topic depends entirely on your table of players. What is cool at one table causes a Twatter crisis at another table.
My best advice? Know your players by talking about stuff upfront. As the GM, you can always say "here's what is (and is not) happening in my games" so players know what to expect before joining the game.
I had no idea what a furry was until I started playing Werewolf: The Apocalypse back in the day (late 90's I believe). I asked a friend of mine, "why is it all the other fans of this game are kinda weird and make me feel really uncomfortable?". Back then you met these folks in person rather than online...the internet was only just beginning to really take off. He was the one who explained the furry subculture to me and said that Werewolf, being basically "furry Power Rangers" was a game that attracted that kind of crowd. We went back to playing D6 Star Wars instead.
Quote from: Trond on June 26, 2021, 03:53:19 PM
You could get banned for almost anything on that site.
Personally I like old Disney movies. I wouldn't mind playing a game in the Pinocchio world, set in an old Italian-style fairytale town, with Honest John Foulfellow as either a crooked PC or a plain villain 😀
I got you covered. This is set in "not-Switzerland", rather than Italy, but still has a bit of that fairy-tale town vibe. You could do Pinocchio here, as well as more conventional adventures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv6VYpXw4PU
Quote from: David Johansen on June 26, 2021, 12:20:55 AM
"Bunch of bannana brained fuck tarts," sounds apt.
That is one toaster pastry you can keep to yourself.
Quote from: SavageSchemer on June 28, 2021, 11:21:08 AMHe was the one who explained the furry subculture to me and said that Werewolf, being basically "furry Power Rangers" was a game that attracted that kind of crowd.
Furry Power Rangers!!! Love that! I don't remember meeting any weird Werewolf players back then...or maybe they just seemed normal in comparison to the Vampire players.
Quote from: SavageSchemer on June 28, 2021, 11:21:08 AM
I had no idea what a furry was until I started playing Werewolf: The Apocalypse back in the day (late 90's I believe). I asked a friend of mine, "why is it all the other fans of this game are kinda weird and make me feel really uncomfortable?". Back then you met these folks in person rather than online...the internet was only just beginning to really take off. He was the one who explained the furry subculture to me and said that Werewolf, being basically "furry Power Rangers" was a game that attracted that kind of crowd. We went back to playing D6 Star Wars instead.
Actually Werewolf was relatively obscure in the furry fandom circles.
Albedo and later Dragon Storm were the most popular due to Steve and Susan respectively promoting their games all over and being pretty friendly to the furry fans as both were more or less outsiders. Indie comics for Steve and CCG-RPG for Susan.
I'll be honest, the only thing I know about Ironclaw was that it had a surprisingly intelligent mechanic for rolling HP after first level (instead of the straight hit dice, it used a 1d4 or 1d6+ mechanic that gave more HP on average but didn't exceed the maximums for that class).
So RPGnet is full of violence fetishists now who dunk on people who want to play light hearted fun? Glad I don't use it then.
I totally get you. Sometimes people just want light hearted fun. Perhaps my favorite anecdote from this forum is one the where a party defeated a horde of killer Christmas trees by singing Christmas carols at them.
Quote from: Omega on June 30, 2021, 04:01:07 AM
Quote from: SavageSchemer on June 28, 2021, 11:21:08 AM
I had no idea what a furry was until I started playing Werewolf: The Apocalypse back in the day (late 90's I believe). I asked a friend of mine, "why is it all the other fans of this game are kinda weird and make me feel really uncomfortable?". Back then you met these folks in person rather than online...the internet was only just beginning to really take off. He was the one who explained the furry subculture to me and said that Werewolf, being basically "furry Power Rangers" was a game that attracted that kind of crowd. We went back to playing D6 Star Wars instead.
Actually Werewolf was relatively obscure in the furry fandom circles.
Albedo and later Dragon Storm were the most popular due to Steve and Susan respectively promoting their games all over and being pretty friendly to the furry fans as both were more or less outsiders. Indie comics for Steve and CCG-RPG for Susan.
Steve Gallacci got over the furry fandom real quick, though. It didn't take long before he wanted Erma Felna EDF or Albedo Anthropomorphics completely distanced from furry fandom.
Quote from: jeff37923 on June 30, 2021, 02:38:44 PM
Quote from: Omega on June 30, 2021, 04:01:07 AM
Quote from: SavageSchemer on June 28, 2021, 11:21:08 AM
I had no idea what a furry was until I started playing Werewolf: The Apocalypse back in the day (late 90's I believe). I asked a friend of mine, "why is it all the other fans of this game are kinda weird and make me feel really uncomfortable?". Back then you met these folks in person rather than online...the internet was only just beginning to really take off. He was the one who explained the furry subculture to me and said that Werewolf, being basically "furry Power Rangers" was a game that attracted that kind of crowd. We went back to playing D6 Star Wars instead.
Actually Werewolf was relatively obscure in the furry fandom circles.
Albedo and later Dragon Storm were the most popular due to Steve and Susan respectively promoting their games all over and being pretty friendly to the furry fans as both were more or less outsiders. Indie comics for Steve and CCG-RPG for Susan.
Steve Gallacci got over the furry fandom real quick, though. It didn't take long before he wanted Erma Felna EDF or Albedo Anthropomorphics completely distanced from furry fandom.
I'm not surprised. Furry fandom is chock full of weird fetish porn that wouldn't be out of place in body horror fiction.
Quote from: Omega on June 30, 2021, 04:01:07 AM
Actually Werewolf was relatively obscure in the furry fandom circles.
Albedo and later Dragon Storm were the most popular due to Steve and Susan respectively promoting their games all over and being pretty friendly to the furry fans as both were more or less outsiders. Indie comics for Steve and CCG-RPG for Susan.
Completely fair. I should have said, too, for the record I don't think that is representative of all Werewolf fans / players. I think it's just a particular subculture I somehow managed to stumble into back in the day.
Quote from: SavageSchemer on June 28, 2021, 11:21:08 AM
I had no idea what a furry was until I started playing Werewolf: The Apocalypse back in the day (late 90's I believe). I asked a friend of mine, "why is it all the other fans of this game are kinda weird and make me feel really uncomfortable?". Back then you met these folks in person rather than online...the internet was only just beginning to really take off. He was the one who explained the furry subculture to me and said that Werewolf, being basically "furry Power Rangers" was a game that attracted that kind of crowd. We went back to playing D6 Star Wars instead.
Vannilla-just-the-core-book Werewolf isn't a furry game. All the Garou are too busy fighting horrible monsters to suck each others dicks.
Put another way:
(https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/d45f3e78-4b4b-4c4b-8e5e-48d878cd28c0/d1trb3k-dfc81620-4832-4049-bdc3-0f6105fe2c8f.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2Q0NWYzZTc4LTRiNGItNGM0Yi04ZTVlLTQ4ZDg3OGNkMjhjMFwvZDF0cmIzay1kZmM4MTYyMC00ODMyLTQwNDktYmRjMy0wZjYxMDVmZTJjOGYuanBnIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.00Sgy4k9gYjKUZWhFnZkFEqv8F3iDRieoLv2mY2d6mE)
(as I understand it, Anthros are anything between the two extremes, and with more clothing)
Quote from: jeff37923 on June 30, 2021, 02:38:44 PM
Quote from: Omega on June 30, 2021, 04:01:07 AM
Quote from: SavageSchemer on June 28, 2021, 11:21:08 AM
I had no idea what a furry was until I started playing Werewolf: The Apocalypse back in the day (late 90's I believe). I asked a friend of mine, "why is it all the other fans of this game are kinda weird and make me feel really uncomfortable?". Back then you met these folks in person rather than online...the internet was only just beginning to really take off. He was the one who explained the furry subculture to me and said that Werewolf, being basically "furry Power Rangers" was a game that attracted that kind of crowd. We went back to playing D6 Star Wars instead.
Actually Werewolf was relatively obscure in the furry fandom circles.
Albedo and later Dragon Storm were the most popular due to Steve and Susan respectively promoting their games all over and being pretty friendly to the furry fans as both were more or less outsiders. Indie comics for Steve and CCG-RPG for Susan.
Steve Gallacci got over the furry fandom real quick, though. It didn't take long before he wanted Erma Felna EDF or Albedo Anthropomorphics completely distanced from furry fandom.
He didnt distance himself from the furry fandom. He distanced himself from
everything. His wife died and it hit him pretty hard.
As someone who, as I mentioned in other threads, had no clue about who "furries" were until some American relatives explained the concept to me (no furrydom here in Italy) I'm often confused.
Does the use of "furry" animals in, for example, comics always implies a call out to the furry culture? Because two examples where comic book authors choose to use cute animals to tell "heavy" stories ("Maus" by Art Spiegelman being the most famous, with "Cat Shit One" by Motofumi Kobayashi being the other) for sure aren't.
Quote from: Reckall on July 01, 2021, 03:50:34 PM
As someone who, as I mentioned in other threads, had no clue about who "furries" were until some American relatives explained the concept to me (no furrydom here in Italy) I'm often confused.
Does the use of "furry" animals in, for example, comics always implies a call out to the furry culture? Because two examples where comic book authors choose to use cute animals to tell "heavy" stories ("Maus" by Art Spiegelman being the most famous, with "Cat Shit One" by Motofumi Kobayashi being the other) for sure aren't.
Honestly and seriously, I've heard lots of people use lots of terms interchangeably. Outside and inside the fandom.
These are generalizations, but:
Yiffy is porn. Straight, gay, it's humanoid animals boffing each other.
Anthro is humanoid animals living their lives, and (generally) not having sex.
Both are types of furries.
And just like not everyone who enjoys Maus would identify themselves as a furry, not everyone who's into anthro stuff likes the yiffy stuff too.
EDIT: personally, I don't get furries. Like, I enjoy watching Ducktales with my kids, and I can chuckle at Peppa Pig some times, but... I don't get it. Disney sure did a number on some folks I guess.
Here's a Furry Game https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/246634/ALBEDO--First-Edition?manufacturers_id=7089
I remembered Kitsune Press from The Lucanii Drift, a very good Starships & Spacemen 2e product with a bit of a furry vibe to the art.
Since it's not my cup of tea I never bought it and now I can't be sure IIRC (and not gonna spend time confirming one way or the other) But wasn't there a furry game called noir or something like that?