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>>424146

>>424147

>>424150

Can we have Los TIburon in the corner in celebration ?

>>424160

We need an image first.

How you run it, anon?

How do you work out the stands? Seeing how there's such a wide array of abilities in the original work, it seems pretty hard to work out new ones that will be consistently useful without being too OP or recycling old stands. I assume they all have a generic fighting ability on top of their specials?

>AMA

Yeah when will you fuck off back to where you belong?

>d20

>homebrew

>no shared document

>not using M&M

Fuck off.

>>423802

>Be me. Be OP. Fuck off newfag retard.

>>424003

Now you're just babbling.

>>424036

You're not really dumb enough to think that works.

>>423609

Have an NPC, allied or opposed, in a similar position and using said options. Either he'll notice they're worthwhile, or you'll notice they're really not.

>>419414

Oh shit, the wall of text.

Best formula I've ever had for my campaigns.

1. Railroad an intro, based on an element you want to exploit, a genre you want to use, an enemy they want to defeat, a catastrophe they need to prevent.

2. At the end of the intro, have hints on how PCs can achieve the goal. Path they can choose but don't need to. Make the railroad a road system, if you will, with possibilities to go off road.

3. Have generic enemies ready (wolves, highwaymen, undead, insects, cultists...) you can easily flavor and send their way.

4. Watch them go and provide the input they need. Once in a while, introduce new elements. Watch what stick kn what they find and how the theorize and use that. Distract them with sidequests and obstacles.

Other tricks:

> Don't plan too much in advance.

Whole cities of Shroedinger. It is okay if a town has and has not a mages' guild until the knfo is relevant.

> Go 3Ys deep.

Both for lore deepness and sidequest potential, when choosing an element for your bg, ask yourself why that is. Do the same with the reason and the reason's reason. It provides depth, solidity and encourage creativity.

> Use anything and everything players give you.

Family ties are not kidnap material until other PCs met them and grew attached to them. If PCs have grudges, turns out the target of that grudge is an element of your plot. And if they like or like to hate an NPC, re-use it.

Small town flgs is starting a warhammer 40k league with all newbies. I am also new to the game. Whats an easy team I can build to cheese out the most wins with as little work? The biggest roadblock is the dickhead store owner who has to spike every event in his own store to avoid giving out as many prizes. It's like a pokemon gym with a bald spic for a leader. He plays dark eldar with a bunch of planes.

>>423532

>Still waiting for someone to drop Home of the Brave.

halfchan's /tg/ share thread has every cyberpunk book and even more fan made stuff. Just read the OP's pdf and follow the instructions.

>>423873

Considering the levels of insanity and degeneracy of Night City, I'd say very likely, but still something you don't see everyday. Fuck, even nowadays, depending on how big your city is and where you go, you can see people cosplaying on casual days. Considering biosculpting in the future is both very cheap and common, and that people kind of expect to die two weeks from now (average life expectance in Night City was 40 years old, IIRC), I would rule Naruto runners with implanted headbands to be relatively common.

>>423966

You make a good point. Style over substance. For that reason alone you can justify the existence of each martial art in the game, however I still maintain that the bonuses need a reworking.

I'll focus on Tae Kwon Do and Muay Thai specifically.

My example was bad because looking at it again, TKD is the obvious better choice. Each art gives you punch, kick and block. TKD however gives you sweep and dodge, and the art only costs 3 points. MT gives you grapple but costs 4 points.

In reality, TKD should give you punch (but a low bonus), kick, sweep and dodge. I've seen TKD fights and they rarely block, and never have to worry about low kicks.

MT should give you punch, kick, sweep, block and grapple. It should also allow you to "punch" and "kick" in grabbing range to simulate knees/elbows. It should also take away that grapple bonus if the fight ever goes to the ground.

TKD should also give the higher kick bonus, but be more difficult to learn, and have some unique kicks. E.g. the wheel kick (high damage but leaves you open). Or the stepping back-kick (high damage, can be made from casting range).

MT should give lower bonuses to punching than boxing, and lower bonuses to kick than TKD, but be easier to learn, to reflect the fact that they focus on power.

But this is just my autism talking. Thanks for the book, looks good.

>>421836

>Why do most combat spells take only one standard action to cast? Why don't they need to be drawn and held like weapons first?

Because WoW edition is... simplified.

AD&D2 got lots of combat spells that work in ways very different from "fireball of a different shape and color".

Also, many spells create either semi-autonomous attack constructs that can be commanded or temporary weapons that need to be wielded or thrown.

>>422034

>implying that's not the case in 3E

Spiritual Weapon and Flame Blade are still things.

>>421841

It was only 1 spell per day if you were level 1.

>>423953

Yeah, but that single spell might be the primitive tactical nuke sleep, which more than makes up for it.

>>413039

the descent on the second line makes it mearimenashi and white can't atari the stones due to damezumari

>>413089

That's the same answer I got, can you explain the Japanese terms though

https://explorebaduk.com/2019/04/19/how-go-inside-chinese-prison-makes-a-difference/

>>413039

I hear she's to play ke jie?

Sumire and ichiriki played an ai

Anyone got links to a recording of the live streams?

>>397935

This is the only way really. I had to learn how to GM, then the players came to me.

Alcohol is the only friend you need.

Just get drunk, play by yourself, and use some dice to simulate everything. Sloppily write down your adventures and drink more. Session ends when you pass out.

>>423525

Considering how quite few of those already exist, let me ask you first if you've actually played any of them or if you just think it's a neat idea but can't even be bothered to read through a single book?

No really, this is an honest question.

>>423525

The Theros block in MTG, sepcifically the sets Theros and Born of the Gods had some autopilot decks like "challenge the hydra" and "challenge the minotaur horde." Each one flipped a card each turn, then played a certain number of other cards from the deck or did other actions depending on what it flipped.

Just ask some of your coworkers to play, dude. You can have a fun TTRPG session with literally one other person.

>>423505

Shriek: https://youtu.be/PaTc81-ZmDw?t=59s

Disappointment: https://youtu.be/ihskUz0obzY?t=13m53s

>>423506

done

>>423512

Thank you kindly.

>>423080

added "skost" and corvus corax's angsty whining. I guess now it's really done

Just say the loot found is worth 1000 of a noteworthy country's currency and they'll get roughly that pretty much anywhere. Exchange rates are like taxes: They seem like an interesting idea, but making the PCs deal with them is really just a pain in the ass.

>>422986

The problem is that D&D prices generally are not particularly reliable. Here are a few quick resources that you can eye-ball for private research:

http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html

http://www.medievalcoinage.com/prices/medievalprices.htm

https://economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/SPICES1.htm

It's not medieval, but since D&D assumes a highly Americanized version of fantasy setting, the material here can probably be applied to give you a rough idea:

https://www.measuringworth.com/slavery.php

I can't help much for medieval slave values, since it's not a thing that's come up yet in my own world-setting.

In terms of keeping kids as slaves or whatever - Yes, slavery is in fact inefficient. Slavery was something ingrained into what people considered "normal" for most of history, but even from the start, paying market-derived wages would always have been the more economically efficient solution - something which contributes to why there's some truth to the saying that the relative quality of life for a slave in ancient Greece might have been higher than a modern work (though absolute quality of life is of course still lower). The biggest factor is that slavery is a large up-front cost, which is always an inferior option to long-term payments, unless the economy is for some reason shrinking over time. This can be mitigated when you capture your own slaves. It's also a non-factor for sex trafficking - this is a large part of the reason why, in the modern world, most of our modern-day slavery is either people tricked into working for the human trafficking ring directly, or human sex trafficking, rather than sales for hard labor.

The idea that slavePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>422484

>>422491

Not too much experience with boardgames here but if you want to make an interesting economy you could link the value of coins to bullion by the prosperity and economy of different cities/nations with different coinage.

Bigger, richer cities/nations with good economies would mint coins with more gold, whereas poorer nations would add other metals.

If you could create a system with a fluid economy the coins could go up and down in value (against bullion) every decade or so, making for an interesting economy.

That said, your goblin gold could be very resourceful as a lower-standard gold bullion seeing as they are impure lumps of gold in your case, having a fixed price against bullion.

Heck, a system where an experienced part member and/or a guy you helped out on a quest could melt it all down into pure bullion would also make it more interesting.

Do note that if you work this much with gold, remember to account for inflation, for example a whole lot of gold got available to an already rich nation, making the price of their goods more expensive as more gold coins get circulated within that nation.

This could happen if your party keeps on trading with a poor city-state with high-purity gold coins or bullions, after a while the city-state gets richer thus the prices go up.

>>422994

>slavery

thanks, that's quite helpful

>>422484

Dwarves are the money creators. Consider them a federal reserve of the fantasy universe.

Gold is gold. When stating the price, you're taking into account after its been purified.

If nothing else, you could always sell both. I would imagine that an alchemist would pay a good price for a vial of dragon's blood, if not a heart.

>>422314

Interesting, but if that's Chinese floss, it's probably made of plastic

>>422912

>I have no idea why plate armor is so cheap in B/X when I think it should be something you don't get until at least level 4 or 5, but that's just me.

This is a hold-over from OD&D. In OD&D, your AC and Movement are directly more or less directly correlated:

AC 9 = 15" // AC 7 = 12" // AC 5 = 9" // AC 3 = 6"

Mail and Plate have the same move class in my games, so I have Plate cost a lot more (B/X equivalent: 1000gp) - it is, after all, a general improvement, held back primarily by the fact you die like a bitch if you fall in a 20ft pit of water.

>>422917

>>422912

Oh, and a few extra things:

http://blogofholding.com/?series=mornard

https://wmusswtwbf.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/gronans-guide-to-gaming/

The stuff from/on Mike Mornard is excellent for getting an idea of what made the original games "tick" so much for people. It's a bit of a system shock from modern games, but it's a worthwhile one.

>>422920

Those were good reads, thanks. I'm already fairly familiar with OSR mentality, I've played a bit of B/X, but only as a 1v1 where I controlled a party of 4 characters.

>>422917

That makes sense. I've never been able to find the swimming rules, but I might make up my own, in that if you are in platemail you need to make a 5+ on a d6 to be able to keep your head above water.

Did you take a look at Basic Fantasy anon?

I didn't read the newest edition and never played it but 2nd edition captured the 'old-scholl' feel imho.

It is open source and free so apart from your time you won't lose anything if you take a look at it.

https://www.basicfantasy.org

You could also try to ask in the OSR thread but I think most of the guys that post there already posted here

>>423034

I've looked through it. It's not that far off what I want, so I might use those rules.

>>420805

What the fuck happened to the thread? Did we get another rollback?

>>423264

was there a point in bumping a month old thread with a non answer and pictures of food in a goddamned scenery thread?

>>418039

This is the scenery thread that was made after the rollback.

sage because dead thread

>>423545

>Check 4chan.

Also a pro-tip to anyone else like me who first found out this thread, w/o realizing there's the half ch one.

Does anyone have the 5e essentials kit?

>>423492

>-Seven Leagues, A Roleplaying Game of Faerie from Malcontent Games

I've been looking for this one forever too. It would be great if someone has it, but it's pretty obscure.

Was wondering if there was an updated Battle Tech trove floating around out there?