Gaming "Homebrewing"

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May 14, 2025 5:19 pm
runekyndig says:
My friend and I had a meta game with X-com enemy unknown. If you oped'in one of my soldiers would have your name. Then I would post battle reports on Facebook, where Brian did 3 headshot and Peter died a horrible death by alien attack
This reminds me of my first time playing Tom Clancey's Rainbow Six. My brother and I were playing a co-op game and were running towards the enemy. I'm blowing through ammo like crazy and my brother stops and says, "Why am I getting hit and you aren't?" I replied, "I dunno. I'm trying to figure out why this guy in front of me won't fall!" and kept shooting. Then he punched me in the shoulder and said, "You're shooting me in the back, idiot!"
May 14, 2025 6:14 pm
Someone should do a GP themed playthrough in some game. Name units after users who opt-in and report on the results here so we all can appreciate the pain and our alter egos being silly. :P
May 20, 2025 5:48 pm
Rabitrick says:
So when I play games like Elder Scrolls, Fallout or any other open world rpg I tend to create my own "homebrew rules".
Like when I'm playing Skyrim for example, I make it a point that I can only carry a certain number of weaponry on me. Mainly one bow, one primary weapon, and possibly two side weapons. It irks me to run around with 6 "Enchanted Warhammers of Cosmic Ass-Bleeding" or even 4,000 potions or tomes on me. I like to make it as realistic as possible. I'll even make it a point to find an inn when I reach a settlement or city and purchase a room to rest. Even if the game doesn't feature a fatigue mechanism, I will often put that into the game myself.

Does anyone else get this? Does anyone else here do this?

If so, what are some "homebrews" you make up for your favourite video games?
Yes! I like to run games that are a rational as possible. Whist at the same time not overly burdened with pointless detail.

My homebrew version of WFRP is called 'WFRP Fragile Alliances' and consists of homebrew rules and a rationalised setting.
Last edited May 20, 2025 6:29 pm
May 27, 2025 1:48 pm
This is the kind of Skyrim, etc al (crpg mainly) games I would like to run, though ones rarely rewarded. I like the ones that force you to run more like it. I wish mmorpg players could be shock startled into seeing something like that, at times. Just a flashmob of common civility of rationality. That it isn't all about "jamming" the pack.

Then again, some kind of OSR type of play would be interesting as long as it was cultivated, too. Different, but not the same. Get murdered by a housecat to start an mmorpg campaign or and Elder Scrolls game unless you had a raid level of companions with you seems delightful. Maybe the next release. A Pleb Gamer can dream. The XCom idea is hilarious. Dice statistics like that, and an answer like "sorry, bugs" is just classic.

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