/tg/ - Traditional Games

You know the drill, post games that pertain to the board's interests, the lore surrounding them, and ones that are fun to play together using online multiplayer.

Oh, and before you ask, your average Tacticool Shooter game can easily be reflavored to handle a Cuphead campaign. Personally, I'd go with Savage Worlds and limit dice explosions based on EXP gain, and use the Superhero supplement to add some cartoon logic into the mix, though I'm sure others have different suggestions.

I have a conundrum and I'm not clever enough to think of a solution. I like the idea of deities bestowing boons and abilities on their followers, but I also like the idea that maybe not all religions are valid, especially if their teachings and histories don't match up. What's a good worldbuilding way to handle multiple, contradictory deities existing and aiding clerics? I've toyed with the ideas that a.) it's the same set of deities wearing different disguises for each separate religion, and b.) there are no deities, it's the cleric's willpower that they attribute to deities. I feel like these two avenues are lacking. If there's anyone still here, what are your suggestions?

How would you do an Alex Jones character in Call of Cthulhu?

What would you do to adapt him to the 1920s? Delta Green?

Well, 2 nights ago a member of my D&D group got kicked out after several years of playing with us. Why? Because he thought it was a bad idea to defund the police, and had the nerve to express that. Now, this group started as a couple friends in college, then grew later as we sort of glommed on others from various social groups. I'm sure one of the "geek social fallacies" was at work in full force here. But things worked out for a while. Yeah we knew some people disagreed politically, but we lived with it. Until things with trump got worse and worse and suddenly that guy became That Guy and before long I'm getting dragged into a separate Facebook group where everyone has decided to kick him out. Now there were other reasons including in-game behavior so maybe this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Either way, the guy was a bit upset but composed when he was confronted in a group chat about this and then was promptly given the boot. They brought his gaming possessions to his apartment and left them there. Then he was banned from everything.

I talked to him later and explained why revealing your power level is a bad idea. I think he understood, but it's too late now.

Now for my first question: am I as justified in being angry over this as I am? I feel this sort of pit in me, that our long-time group lost a member over this. Things are getting worse. I'll hang out with literal left-wing commie ACAB weirdos and enjoy talking to them. Do I think their opinions are retarded? Yeah, but as long as they aren't "GTFO of my house" they are sometimes fun to engage with. Or at least listen to. I think it's stupid to throw someone over politics. But perhaps I am too tolerant.

And for my second question: should I retaliate, or leave as well? I run our current campaign which is quite high level. I have plans for the ending to be potentially quite deadly. I could make it so, and it would not be a "bad" ending necessarily. Then if I wanted to I could simply pack my things and leave and never come back. The kicked player is interested in OSR. I am also interested in OSR. We could form an OSR group together. I like the others but their intolerance (maybe of intolerance itself, but still) disturbs me.

bad idea or good idea?

getting more players in on this seems like good meme magic and i could iron out any mechanical problems then put it through proper playtesting

it'd make the jews mad if this game somehow became massive overnight

>want to run a game

Okay, world building seems cool. I'll do that.

>what about theology

>what about politics

>what about economy

>what about guilds

Holy fuck this is overwhelming! I'll just run a campaign setting instead.

Forgotten Realms seems cool.

>holy fuck this is a lot to remember

>where is Waterdeep again

>ummm was it mystra or midnight

>is it Zhentil or Zhentarim

How the fuck do people run games successfully without constantly fucking things up? Maybe I am just too retarded. It seems like you need to be an epic level wizard to even approach it, yet I know literal autistic spergs who can do it like it's the easiest thing in the world. They're not good at it by any means, but they can make it happen without getting impossibly trapped in the minutiae.

https://twitter.com/Alexhandr4/status/1282518725741223937?s=20

Dungeon World creator Sage LaTorra is another game designer telling the same old lies and he gets blown out with facts.

The last thread's in autosage and these are a tradition at this point, so here's the new one. Feel free to add any drow related smut, as long as it's not something that belongs in /chaos/, because dicks do not belong on women.

Post Warhammer 40k head cannon you have to explain away gw fuckups or for yourself.

Here are mine.

#1 The pipe that goes from an eldars arm into their shuriken Catapult/pistol/whatever is connected to the power generator on the eldars back. This gives the gun enough power to fire full auto and connects it to the suit and eldars nervous system for faster reactions. If you pull it out the gun is Semi-automatic.

#2 It looks as if the Tau Fire warrior cant fit in the crisis suit, but the can, as he drives it by the back flipping up, him climbing in forward, laying forward looking through chest Slit + Computer HUD hologram + he sees what the crisis suit head sees, because the suit plugs into his brain through the back of his head. So he doesn’t have to control much stuff with hands he does it with his brain.

Like in district 9.

#3 Bolter shots aren’t Coke cans they’re 75.Cal, I mean that’s true that’s not head cannon.

#4 Eldar scatter lasers are just lots of barrelled lasers, so they can all shoot at once like a shotgun, or all shoot one by one for really high rpm.

#5 Ynnead is slaanesh and it’s a big trick to get eldar to Jihaad themselves. Hence why visarch hides his face, he’s all slaanesh mutated and looks like that new Slaanesh Deamon prince.

#6 Eldar accidently made Slaanesh, Old ones accidently made Tzeenach

#7 Old ones looked like lizardmen and Lord mazdamundi. Hence the appearence of Tzeenach.

How do you handle the disproportionality between 'greater' beings in terms of classes?

Obviously, they aren't meant to be played per se, but they often have higher level creatures which advancement listed as 'By character class' and the like, which doesn't jive well.

Example: A cloud giant is a 17 HD monster described as potentially entering the cleric class... But what fucking good are half the cleric spells in the context of a 17 HD creature? Whats the value of a +1 to-hit (bless) or 1d8+1 hit points (CLW)?

I know there are a few examples of ways to handle it (for example, specific prestige classes, as was done with the dragons in Draconomicon to some degree), but I'm curious to hear how others handle these scenarios.

We had a thread for fantasy & science fiction books once before, and now we do again.

To get this ball rolling, I greatly enjoyed the Chronicles of the Black Company, specifically the parts set in the Empire / featuring Croaker as the protagonist. Not as much a fan of the later ones; they felt like they veered away from military fantasy. Any similar books or series out there?

Also, proprs to Brandon Sanderson for creating a fantasy world (Roshar) that feels new and unique while actually being well-crafted, logical, and coherent, not just a bunch of random shit cooked up to be different.

A glorious and inspiring post at:

https://harbingergames.blogspot.com/2020/04/if-your-torches-burn-for-only-one-hour.html

talked about how a DM can prepare a glorious AD&D campaign that will really engage any player who cares about logistics or military science.

Quote:

> So if you enforce encumbrance, food, time, distance, etc. rules the characters have to be prepared and the players have to plan. This is a perfect excuse to make them interact with the world you’re building and toss in tons of details they will get no other way.

> The players will need to find sources for food and equipment, like torches or oil. This makes everyone think - where does the oil or resin come from? Can I get more/a better price if I go to the source? Are there limits? What food is available? In what season? How much? Where? etc.

> In the end the increased demand opened up trade and diplomacy between Seaward and Banath for the first time in a generation, all because the party was feeding 25 people and 20 horses in a remote area for a year as well as stocking up a mountain hidey-hole for future expeditions.

>I'd also like to note that the party did fun stuff like replacing or repairing a number of strategic doors and putting locks on them; hiding huge stashes of food, water, torches, lamp oil, candles, rope, spikes, etc. in several places; and conducting regular patrols in the upper levels. they effectively added treasure and random encounters to my dungeon.

> The party also hired factors (merchants that buy and sell for you) in 5 towns and cities, bought an inn within Esber as a base and storehouse; met with the local Baron and Bishop to smooth things over with them, and; gave generously to the poor affected by the lack of food.

> They also then had to use the mule train to get the loot from the Briars and the Mountain down to Esber, then sell everything off (takingPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

A grognard from that other place made a forum for Play By Post, to a resounding silence.

I thought I'd shill it here, in the interests of promoting PBP, my preferred medium these days.

Who knows, maybe it'll pick up again, now we're all in lockdown.

https://sites.google.com/site/fatal2esrd/

Fatal the 2nd edition. The new project to make FATAL into a playable game...kind-of...maybe...