/tg/ - Traditional Games

>>307978

Sources are: (Read in order)

AD&D 2.0 Ravenloft - Van Richten's Guide To The Lich - For the fluff on the Lich, and it's power accessible to gain, partial parts of this are still canon in 3.5 but you have to know what's what

WE - Savage Progressions - Lich and Weretiger - (Monster Class for the 3.5 base MM Lich, basically mentions the 3.5 centric Transformation ritual, which borders upon the 2e process at level 4, (You're a half-lich at this point, like Kharlat Jhareg.) barring the means to getting one's soul in the phylactery, which for most ritual practices in canon being simply the act of completing the construction of the magical receptacle for the soul as it is synonymous with this aim, the purpose of the Monster class used for balance in a campaign, for PC or NPC, before completion making the connection to the plane of negative energy thus making the PC actually Undead and thus a Lich. They actually reconnected the Fear aura toggle entirely, to covering one's face, which makes sense in the run of things, but is understandable to it being a toggle in the cases of quick dungeon delves where one doesn't have the time to detail this feature (following VR's guide, which explicitly details what you fell when under the effects of a Lich's Fear aura, the idea the supernatural fear felt by looking upon a Lich's true visage is something that relates to the Lich being a bumper car spellcaster running on negative energy, which is literally the conceptual force of death found in every object that exists in excess, would explain why not fearing a Lich is an act of Willpower because it plays into instinctual recognition of the danger of death overpowering a person's senses, and also explains why a number of Liches thematically cover their appearance when a glamour isn't available in many D&D scenarios, 2e Szazz Tam for example, doesn't trigger the fear aura in his regular state unless he switches to eyesocket death skeleton mode, they evoke natural and unnatural fear by appearance alone, coupled with the fact they're a beacon of danger any living being understands with subconscious reaction.

Monsters of Faerun + 3.5 update - Contains official adaptions of SOME of the 2e VR Salient Lich abilities, not all though. To list the ones Provided - Coldfire (Su) Despair (Su) Doom Gaze (Su) Dream Haunting (Su) Grasp of Death (Su) Grasp of Enfeeblement (Su) Painwrack Gaze (Su) Voice of Maleficence (Sp) Special Qualities: Certain liches have the exceptional ability of spell resistance equal to 12 + their Hit Dice. Others have improved damage resistance of 20/+2

(Apply abilities here in relation to acquisition rules shown in VR's Guide to the Lich and S&S's D&D 3.5 Ravenloft - Ravenloft Campaign Setting)

Libris Mortis (Lich Phylactery Rules) (At least some of them)

Heroes of Horror (Taint Rules)

Sword & Sorcery's D&D 3.5 Ravenloft - Ravenloft Campaign Setting pages 184-187 for the adaptions of Ravenloft Lich abilities, and rules for salient abilities adapted to 3.5

Screw it, I'll post some shit.

I've been messing around with this idea for a setting. The gist here is, there's an ancient monstrosity buried beneath the earth. The old gods impaled the monster with four giant spears, each attuned to a different element, and then (most of them) left. These spears now appear as towering monoliths on the horizon, and the people use them to navigate around the land.

The monster's wounds still bleed, and that blood spawns the various monsters infesting the land. Depending on where the monsters were spawned, they're attuned to the element of the nearby spear - so fire monsters (like dragons) come from the fire spear and so on. The mortals built giant defensive fortresses around these pillars, which now serve as both the first line of defense and a holy pilgrimage site (because it's the closest you'll get to something made by the old gods). The only exception is the water spear, because it's stuck in the ocean, meaning that the seas are infested with various abominations.

So, the seas are out, and people basically live high up the mountains, fortress-cities and in the deserts. But even those get constantly under siege, and civilization is basically stuck in the iron age because nobody has time to do anything but defend against the hordes from the seas. There aren't any kingdoms or large nations, mostly city states and a couple of nomad tribes wandering around.

The only things that somewhat unite the wandering tribes are the stories of the four god-spears, and the Prophecy. The Prophecy is this myth about a chosen hero who'll come down from the skies and save the world from the monster plague by finally killing the monster trapped inside the earth, thus stopping the other monsters from spawning from its blood. But the downside is, nobody's really sure how the prophecy goes (since it's been ages since it was recorded, then lost, then passed down from one generation to the other verbally, then combined with the other myths and so on - so right now there's a dozen prophecies, each one different from the other). The worst thing about this is that the people are completely devoted to fulfilling it, even going so far to interpret everyday events as grand parts of the prophecy. So a bunch of people will stay and fight to their death even if it accomplishes nothing, because there's this bit in the Prophecy that mentions a last stand that will help the Chosen Hero save the world.

The other things interested in the Prophecy are the various powers who sprang up over the years. These things aren't real gods, but closer to the Dark Powers from Ravenloft (in that they don't require worship to exist, and apparently are part of the world instead of being separate entities). These include a trickster entity who tests aspiring "Chosen Heroes" usually leading them to their doom, and a law power who's obsessed with upholding the Prophecy as Law - organizing heretic hunts and making sure everyone pays proper respect the Prophecy (whatever it may be). He's also responsible for bringing players into the world, because he took the whole "heroes who'd come from the sky" part literally and is responsible for snatching people from other planes and dropping them onto this world.

It gets weirder later on, because the monsters that plague the land are also obsessed with the Prophecy (despite appearing mindless) and follow their own version of it - except of slaying the monster that's buried beneath the ground, they look to free it. Basically, the Prophecy (whatever it is) is the Law here, even though nobody is sure what it is.

>>308484

Sort of. It's just that you don't create them intentionally.

Also, pls fuck off with the ponyshit

Stereotypical warrior race that worships weapons, combat, and dying in a glorious battle. Once every X years, a champion emerges that names that era's great enemy, and leads a mighty crusade against it. The champion can not die until the enemy is defeated, and their victory is guaranteed by the gods.

This era's champion has join Evil Empire Inc as their war master, and has declared that the enemy is anyone not in the empire. But, in an unprecedented turn of events, a second champion appears to also follow the prophesy, and has declared the first champion to be the great enemy.

The obvious solution is for the BBEG to win, thereby losing his divine protection and becoming vulnerable to the new champion. But that's boring. Instead, this second champion only wants to fight the first while free people still exist, because his warrior code says killing something that can't be killed would be awesome.

So basically you have two unkillable but otherwise normal people running around foiling each other's plans as the setting introduces increasingly obvious deus ex machinas to keep them alive while also fulfilling the prophesy.

I'm probably NEVER EVER gonna see this idea see the light of day for various reasons, so feel free to steal it.

The setup is similar to First Blood (the book, not the movie) except instead of a lone, traumatized Vietnam veteran we have a whole group of them, either a former unit or a remnant thereof. Doesn't have to be Vietnam either. And instead of descending into violence through a series of misunderstandings and run-ins with the law, our protagonists start off with the explicit intention of provoking a lethal shootout with the authorities to commit suicide by cop, because they're broken men who can't see life worth living anymore and would rather have one last hurrah than rot alive in some shitty retirement home. At first it would be straightforward, starting with the team making one last toast and gearing up with their weapons and gear and marching out to go to their fateful last fight. But somewhere along the line, sometime after the fighting starts, things get… WEIRD. What that entails exactly is up to you, the GM.

>>309024

That would make a great Delta Green scenario.

>>311039

I like it

Well, I have something in mind and I was going to make a thread about it, but I have no image to descrive enouth what I want to do.

I was thinking about making a Survival-Mutation-Evolution-Body Horror RPG in a postapocalyptic world full of horrible hybrid monsters and Every living thing can obtain random traits from other living things by eating them raw or not cooked enouth.

The thing I had in mind for the mutations is a random roll first to pick the mutation from the animal or monster eaten, then a roll to see where that mutation happens (for example, you could eat a giant bird thing and get a wing mutation, but you could get that mutation easily in your leg and turn a leg into a wing), then a roll for compatibility to see if you get that mutation, you don't or you suffer some horrible fate.

I have the ideas of the lore and how everything should work, but I'm not sure how to translate that into mechanics for the mutations, mostly because I want to split mutations from different animal species and how they interact with eachother.

Any system that I could use to go into a whole autistic journey but isn't too hard to use?

>>309287

Yeah, that's the game/system I had in mind for it. Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, etc.

>>311105

So, Prototype BAD END?

I wanted to make a setting where the world is essentially an infinite tower stretching for eternity up and down. There isn't a bottom, nor a top. Each floor is multiple kilometers wide, and a kilometer or two tall, and each one has their own ecosystem, climate, flora and fauna. Humans (and your desired additional fantasy races) are found on a lot of them, and a lot of them have civilizations built. There are massive staircases that spiral across the walls going up to the next or previous floors, which are used to establish trade and communications between floors.

There are quite a few bricks or spots on the walls of this mind numbingly huge tower that are see-through, so starlight from perhaps a nearby star can shine in. There are more spots on one side than another, and the tower itself rotates, giving all of its inhabitants a day/night cycle.

The floors aren't eternal, and staying on a single floor for longer than a couple decades or maybe a century is not advised. The see-through blocks or spots on the walls darken/close up after a while, forcing the inhabitants to move their civilizations up to ensure that they don't live in total darkness. There may or may not be creatures living in the creeping darkness. With this, I was planning on shoving my personal beliefs down my player's throats establishing a motif that says 'nothing is eternal, everything you see around you is only temporary.'

Because of the shifting floors, and the changing light, change and strife is always a factor, and when there's change and strife, there is usually war and people trying to get up over one another, so plenty of opportunities to turn this into a grimdark setting or have multiple opportunities for various faction quests and so on.

At the end of this campaign that I was kinda sort of planning, I was going to reveal that it was secretly a sci fi setting, where the big tower is actually a fucking massive rotating ring structure (think of Halo, only far fucking bigger) made by a space faring race at the end of the universe, to preserve life or what remained of it because the rest of the cosmos is dying.

The idea is very rough, and I know there's multiple spots in it that could use some fixing, but I think its one of my better ideas to date.

>>314840

cont'd

If the end reveal was going to be a part of the campaign, the structure is set up to force the living inhabitants to move and survive (forcefully apply survival of the fittest), for it was remaining stagnant that the other space faring races fell into decadence. Nothing was being accomplished, nothing was challenging them, and so there was no forward motion because there was no need for one. And because of that, all the space faring races killed themselves socially or literally.

The ring was set up so that the living beings in them always had something to do, or a goal. But what the space faring races did not perceive of it (or maybe they did perceive, but either didn't care or cared too much about preserving life rather than letting it die out on its own merit) was that it was more or less a giant hamster wheel where the inhabitants could not escape.

The creatures living in the creeping darkness, if the players ever encountered them, might be some of those space faring races seeking refuge from the death of their civilization and society, and they live where the races in the ring do not. Or, alternatively, I was thinking its an entirely new race that adapted to living in the dark and they have glowing mushrooms and other fungi to light the abandoned floors. I am not sure what would happen if the inhabitants of the light ever looped back around to meet these creatures in the dark probably war but it also might make for a nice plot point.

>>315414

I'm going to self-reply here that in this world, the campaign focus could be on the most ordinary and mundane shit. Just grab a random TV show and add creatine, piledrivers, bulging neck veins, human growth hormone, spandex, and testosterone.

>Pro Wrestling + The Office

>Pro Wrestling + The West Wing

>Pro Wrestling + Oz

>Pro Wrestling + Downton Abbey

>Pro Wrestling + Gray's Anatomy

>>315415

Have you played it? Any good?

>>315416

>Have you played it? Any good?

I was going to do an event for it at GenCon but all the slots have already sold out.

Shitty warlock idea for 5e, hexblade pact.

>Noble family has heirloom blade

>Blade sits dusting above the hearth for generations

>Family is deemed heretics by the higher nobility because of a local demonic incursion

>Name struck, members imprisoned

>The next-in-line patriarch of the family must now pick up the blade once more, it having reverted to a mundane iron sword, and restore it to its sentient former glory

>>314845

If we're talking aliens…

I wanted to do a race based off the Cyth (let's see how many people here actually remember the Deadlock games). The Cyth are an ancient mammalian race, humanoids with features resembling spiders and bats. All of them wear ornate robes, and hide their faces behind just as ornate metallic masks. The masks aren't just for show, though - they're faceplates for an advanced breathing mask. Each Cyth receives cybernetic implants, which replace their natural breathing apparatus with a system that feeds them a mysterious gas. This gas actually helps the Cyth activate their dormant psychic powers - unlike the other races who have natural psychics, the Cyth are basically handicapped in this area. This is one of their greatest secrets - the race that originally used psychic powers to conquer the galaxy, now has to use cybernetic implants that serve as psychic Viagra.

The rest of the galaxy still fears the Cyth. They command ancient war fleets that could eliminate lesser civilizations, have mastery over weird and unexplained powers, and so on. However, there are many who'd like nothing more than to wreck their shit (such as several former "thrall" races which were experimented on in the past by the Cyth scientists), and the Cyth can't count on allies anymore. To make matters worse, most of their civilization has entered a downward spiral of depression and apathy - they just don't seem to care what happens to them anymore. This doesn't stop their lords from putting on airs, though - but the general consensus among them seems to be "Why even bother conquering the galaxy again." It's possible that them losing their psychic powers caused this - they're effectively junkies who've grown immune to the drugs they're taking on a daily basis. When the withdrawal happens (they lose their psychic powers completely) who knows what insane shit they'd do.

Could I get some help cooking up some unique eldritch artifacts of mild to moderate power?

>>321140

Eldritch in an ancient magic sense, or a Lovecraftian sense?

>>321145

Lovecraftian primarily, but either, really.

A silver coin that's been hollowed out and the center filled with RDX. If the PC's pick it up it blows off their hand.

This is a plot I wrote for a game of Edge of the Empire that never happened:

The game took place on the onset of the rebellion in some remote system. Before the Empire had moved in, the system had been run by pirates and smugglers. When the rebellion began, the pirates, who had planned to take back their system for years, seized the moment, declared themselves loyal to the Rebel Alliance and destroyed the Imperial flotilla in a surprise attack. While the Imperial troops remaind in control of the main planet, the pirates held firm control of space.

The players were a rag-tag group of smugglers and mercenaries who were contracted by the local moff to investigate one of the main planets moons, where miners had dug up the remains of a Venator class Star Destroyer that disappeared towards the end of the clone wars. He offered them a substantial amount of credits if they brought him the ships black box and whatever was left of the navigation computer.

On the planets moon, the players would encounter miners who were annoyed that the find had brought their minig operation to a standstill, scavengers and mercenaries. They would have found out that a lot of people had entered the derelict ship, yet no one had come out alive.

Inside, they would have found the reason; A single, surviving Republic Commando, who had somehow survived both the crash and the last twenty years by foraging and hunting wildlife. By now, he was completely insane, kept muttering about following his orders. After dealing with the Commando, the players would have been able to retrieve the navigation computer and return the data to the moff.

The moff would have revealed to them what his plan was; He knew that he wouldn't be able to hold the system since he couldn't beat the pirates with what little troops he had left, and he wouldn't get any reinforcements because the system was just not important enough. He wanted to retrieve the data because it might offer clues to the location or fate of the Jedi master Rhedon Sol, who had been in command of the ship and had disappeared with it, since he didn't want to stand before the emperor empty-handed after losing the system.

I didn't plan any further since we never got to play, sadly. My idea was that the moff would die through pirate shenanigans and the players would decide to find this Jedi master on their own to sell him or his location to the Empire to make a buck, only to discover that he had turned to the Dark Side and had turned into a powerful, conniving Dark Jedi who, following the teachings of Darth Traya, planned to throw the galaxy into a perpetual state of constant war.

>>321174

>He wanted to retrieve the data because it might offer clues to the location or fate of the Jedi master Rhedon Sol, who had been in command of the ship and had disappeared with it, since he didn't want to stand before the emperor empty-handed after losing the system

I think I phrased that weirdly. The moff wanted the players to retrieve the data because he thought it would be valuable to the Emperor, and he didn't want to show up empty-handed after he lost the system.

>>321274

Its not like emptying a mug of however strong Dwarven booze into your beard rather than your mouth (which is a travesty in itself) will kill the buggers. Hell, they may actually thrive on it due to the additional nutrients.

You need proper medical alcohol. As in, filtered ethanol.

>>314843

Seems pretty interesting.

Honestly, ever since I played Kerbal Space Program, I just insert the little fuckers into every setting I do.

>Insatiable desire to explore, perhaps suicidal

>Very fast breeders, resulting in a somewhat careless handling of one another's lives

>Just talented enough at engineering and science to constantly put themselves in danger

>Always, without fail, introduced in such a way as to either involve an explosion or some sort of Kerbal-made natural disaster

>The Crimson Gauntlet

The top of this gauntlet looks like nothing more than a well made leather gloves, the stitching and quality of material indicating that it was perhaps made for someone of high class. The underside, however, is covered in several small, metallic plates, each one a deep crimson in colour. The plates are small enough that they do not overly restrict hand movements, and curiously, they transmit all sensation of touch through to the palm and fingers of the Gauntlet's wearer.

The Gauntlet has a simple effect that is activated when the wearer makes a crushing gesture in the direction of an enemy (if at range). The user may choose to sacrifice as many HP as they like (including a lethal amount), which will then be fired at the target as a slick red ray - it can also be used as a touch attack if the wearer is close to their target. It deals exactly double the damage the user chose to sacrifice - if this were to cause the wearer to fall to or below 0 HP, they are instantly slain, and the damage inflicted is raised to triple the sacrificed HP. Resurrecting someone who died from this effect will cause the gauntlet to squeal and shatter, rendering it an inert heap of leather and steel. The magic that powered the gauntlet will also cast a resurrection spell on the victim of the attack that slew the wearer.

>>308396

I rather like this idea an would like you to develop it further. In a way, your style of world building would be good for designing one shots quite well or with more time, produce dynamic worlds.

If i where you, i would start out with seperating major modules with minor modules

Major could include

-small towns

-Large towns

-Districts

-Country side

-Forests

-Oceans

Basicly,its the filling of the world your PC will be working in. Each one of these modules will have secions to include minor modules, it will be trial and error to figure out a propler set amount of connections for your major mods but i think in theory, more sets, more complexity.

For minor modules, its best to think of them as minor details that drasticly change how the major module works. These could include

-Roads

-varying amounts of wildlife

-Dangerous trophy creatures

-religous presence

-castle

-academey

-meteorite

By making be somewhat basic yet unique, you can provide some change that the characters can't prepare for

>>319627

Those are great, if you have anymore I'd love to have them

A trap

>party has to rescue a captive

>the captive is in a cell behind a locked door

>there is a rope/wire/whatever that connects to the door

>when you pull the door open/pick the lock, the wire/rope tightens around the captives neck

>can only be disarmed with a special key

Other ideas

>addictive healing potions

>the pirate king is actually a queen

>there are a group of beings who kill anyone who discover their true names

>there is an asylum at the arcane university for students who's minds have cracked while studying. Mass jail break lead by a former headmaster who was committed for loss of sanity

>the inquisition

>3 inevitables show up in town, all looking for different people. The trails go cold

>>321391

I would watch the shit of a megas clr show where coop is an ork, kiva is an eldar and jamie is a ig commisar.

Or fuck i could just rewatch xlr again

>>321391

Basically. Kerbans love space.

Space does not love them back.

>>321390

>if you have anymore I'd love to have them

Those three are the only ones I'd finished. I've got a couple others penciled in, so if I get around to inking them then I'll be sure to post them here.

>>321930

>the gods have gods

>the gods are real but the gods' gods aren't real

>some gods realize this, others don't

>there are now atheist gods

>atheist gods make fun of religious gods for worshipping their "supersky (cause it's above the sky) daddies"

>>314843

My immediate thought is that the creatures in the darkness consume the bricks (slowly). That is the reason that they have to move up, food scarcity. And that wat by the time you loop back around the bricks are gone and it looks like a new floor (also assume that the creatures consume most/all signs of a previous civilization, so it isn't obvious)

I think making them a normal race doesn't really work. I think they should be more like Stephen King monsters, specifically a mixture of the creatures from Mist and the Langoliers.

>>322055

Well, the forces of reality themselves fucked and gave birth to the Titans, who were all insane murderous dickbags, but the Titans didn't worship their creators, and in the case of the Greek Pantheon that was born from the Titans, they straight up murdered their parents.

>>323305

It wouldn't even have to be such big events. You could have him as a helpful backup character (players forgot to buy ropes, but you can't be arsed to let them backtrack through all of the two-hour dungeon, so Fate itself sends out Todd with a couple of ropes. For extra-comedy, have him slaughter his way through a horde of monsters only to give the players the ropes with a completely straight face.

Or alternatively, if you suspect your players want to do something stupid, have Todd show up just staring at them before popping away again. After he said "I'm Todd" just a minuscule little note more threatening than usual.

And if you feel extra dickish: Allow the players to formulate an elaborate plan to defeat Todd. And then, just when they trapped him in some kind of super-stasis field…another Todd shows up.

The players encounter a strange man going by the name of Dr. Akula. He is particularly knowledgeable about occult matters and assists them at his convenience though his thick eastern european accent may cause problems. As they spend time around him they may begin to notice several oddities. Sharp teeth, pale skin, dislike of sunlight and tendency to get weird around blood. Signs would seem to point to him being a vampire with a really shitty fake name.

He is fact a russian were-shark who enjoys misleading potential vampire slayers. His fake name is shitty for a completely different reason.

A crossbow that only fires one bolt, but the bolt always fly back to the owner. There is a delay when you hit your torget, and the bolt comes back faster to you the further you are away from it.

>>321932

To complicate things, the god of knowledge is a militant Agnostic

>>324693

Do you have to dodge it every time?

>>322094

>Snake Pliskin

Anon, that's Jack Burton.

You know, when some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

Had a DM run a Big Trouble In Little China themed adventure once. Had an elf get raped by a cyclops but it was fun otherwise.

>>324944

For the most part, in small combat situations, you can probably catch it with ease but if you shoot it really far, it will fly back fast enough you will need to dodge it.

>>325137

I remember that thread. Wanna take another crack at it?

>>325230

I'd love to say sorry poor english am russian" but i think it'd be both a little too late and a load of complete bullshit

>>325211

Halright. Who's Mosley/Mussolini here?

>>325230

Ape kingdoms is not a half-bad idea actually.

>>325326

So hang on, who does Huxley lead and how, if he came from barbaric old Albion?

What's going on in the former lands of Carstein?

Do you have a link to the old thread? Because we'll need that if we want any hope of compiling all this.

>>325332

A rather generic movement of totally not Fascists, technocrats, Klansmen, and… Well, the oddballs of the time period who weren't commie really. I haven't thought of the Carsteins yet.

Sadly, no. I looked for it.

>>325335

Mmmhm. Tell me, during which months of 2016 did that project flourish, roughly? Because I have an idea of how to retrieve it. Once we have the old thread, I strongly recommend we start a new one so that we don't gum up this one.

Oh, has an oil rush started in Araby and southern Naggaroth(sp)?

>>325336

I think sometime in January? The End Times were still a recent memory and the fa/tg/uys needed to vent. Dammit, it was so cool.

I'm thinking the oil rush has just began, which has attracted the wandering eyes of the Emperor. However, the region has already been colonized by either Brettoni or the High Elves. Or at least the coastal regions are, the desert interior has been occupied by utterly mad Mahdists. There are also Laurence of Arabia types courting the Empire. Naggaroth has maintained a state of isolationism in my mind. But honestly? I'm making the Tomb Kings the Ottoman stand-in if I get the chance. Complete with Flying Pyramids of the KANGS!

>>325344

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160801000000*/https://8ch.net/tg/catalog.html So, uh, do you remember what that thread was actually called? Because this is my method. In fact, everything from 2015 onwards can be found using this.

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160320085337/http://8ch.net:80/tg/res/226295.html Oh God, this thread.

>>325351

I believe it was something along the lines of: /tg/ creates a better sequel to Warhammer.

>>325358

That's a more specific word, so you might've just made this easier.

I've been messing around with the idea of an ancient sorcerer king who's essentially so powerful he's ranked as an eldritch abomination. Essentially what happens when a mortal manages to accumulate enough knowledge and arcane power that he stops being bothered by shit such as time or space or whatever.

The twist is that he can only be summoned to a world when a magical apocalypse happens. Some insane ritual that would alter how the world works fails, and instead of transforming Drazak the Dreaded into a god, instead you have an angry superlich with reality-bending powers on your hands. And the only way to properly exile him from your world is to start another magical apocalypse somewhere else.

The Unbidden King, however, isn't actively malicious. As a matter of fact, he just wants to get back home, and is tired of being flung across the multiverse each time some jackass tries to destroy the world or become a god or whatever. He's so tired, in fact, that the moment he arrives he tries to set things right by making them how they were back on his homeworld… or what he remembers of his homeworld. So if that means conquering the entire continent with an army of undead soldiers (and there are plenty of dead around - after all, a magical apocalypse happened and summoned him there) he'll fucking do it, after all he remembers that his world was ruled over by a sorcerer king much like himself. Sometimes he might not even do shit like that, and instead help the players combat some other evil force, because that shit threatens the world he aims to recreate. Sometimes he starts his own farm, because he remembers his parents owned a farm when he was still human, and he used to play in the fields with his sister - if he could only remember her name…

Then he disappears just as he appears, and you're stuck to deal with an army of undead that suddenly has no leader, a bunch of wizard viziers that decided they want to take over after learning everything they could form an ancient super-lich, and also a giant crater where his castle used to be.

>>329451

That sounds like it could have terrible unintended consequences. Say the sword belonged to ye olde hero before the baddy stole it. You apply the powder, and suddenly the dragon's heart in the mountain is unpierced. You saved a king but imperiled a country.

>>329456

>all of this

What does one even call this? Is it polandball speech? I can barely understand. Commas, periods, any grammar discerning punctuation please.

>>329458

>I like that for the villain. The old hero got PTSD after doing heroic stuff and then turned into the BBEG. So when you unfuck the King you also unfuck all the stuff he did beforehand by basically repeating all his heroic acts. You also realise the king is shit like the hero-turned-BBEG did.

I think that's the gist of what he was saying.

>>329529

>and basically have to repeat all his heroic acts*

>>314843

Could have some sort of "time is cyclical" thing, where the lightened/powered-up portions of the ring are maybe about a tenth of the entire structure and it rotates clockwise. (Maybe you could even say it was because the generator is malfunctioning and this was never by design.)

But these civilizations will be migrating through past ages too, and so you'll eventually have people ending up in the Quasiroman Empire or the 523rd Reich and realize "hey, I read about this in the history books from 2000 years ago, now that we have the old structures of these ancient civilizations, we can build on them and improve"; and unwittingly end up living in the exact same conditions as back then. (So if the migration was by design then it still failed)

Another idea:

>once upon a time some wizard stubbed his toe on a table

>angry at the agony such a minor injury produced, he decided to create a power that would redirect the pain into another part of his body

And thus, the wraps of sacrificial pain was created

>2 wraps, both tied onto a part of your body (e.g. your pinky finger and your head

>when one is hit, the other one takes all the damage

Also applicable to any armor.

>>330447

>???

>my foreigner detector is going off

I think that's what he meant.

>>331005

Not a bad idea but I question the purpose of redirecting pain to another part of the body as you would still be feeling the pain, just in another location.

>>331025

Wrap the other part on someone else? Create some kind of elaborate magical trigger that goes off when the user is injured?

>>331025

>Make underwear version of one

>Redirect nutshot pain to your buttock or leg where it will hopefully bother you less

>>331005

>my foreigner detector is going off

I got that bit, I just don't get why he said it in response to me fixing grammar and punctuation

>when one is hit, the other one takes all the damage

Is there a limit to how much damage it can transmit? If you redirect a blow from an warhammer and it crushes your pinky instead of your head does the next blow just smash your pinky into even more of a mush?

>>331057

>You tie one wrap around a tree, and you hit the other one with an axe/nuke/fire ball, the tree gets a gash/explodes/catches on fire.

Being able to use it like that would be very abusable but also pretty fun. With just a little bit of planning and the requisite abilities, you could remotely kill or break just about anything.

Every variety of Dragon has died out and now only Kobolds are left. All of the semi-divine draconic power has pooled in them, making them hardier, stronger, and smarter…but they are still scaly little bastards with a penchant for traps.

You've all heard of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but now it's time for the League of Ordinary Gentlemen. Torn from the pages of everyone's favorite critically acclaimed novels: Santiago from the Old Man and the Sea, George Milton from Of Mice and Men, Chief Bromden from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Holden Caulfield in the most depressing group of characters ever assembled.

Maybe they would solve mysteries or something.

>>321390

>there are a group of beings who kill anyone who discover their true names

Kote, you piece of shit, finish your damn story. I ain't paying for nothing.

I need a really random magic item that is handy in a dungeon. I'm thinking like, a swiss army knife of mag?cal rings. Something that can be used as a emergency torch or a ring that can be used as flint to start fires.

Any ideas.

>>337065

Wand of phospours?

I have always toyed with the idea of making fantasy-themed Russian Civil War. You've got old regime loyalists, revolutionaries, peasants who want to be left alone, expeditionary force from a foreign power (a neighbor or old ally of the old regime) and former provinces declaring independence. The only problem that I faced was one question - should I portray all factions as objectively as possible or be extremely biased and portray only one faction as "good guys". Anyone willing to help me out on this?

>>337055

>Door Whistle

Enchanted whistle that opens locked doors when played. Different doors require different pitches.

>Heart Strings

Almost indestructible magical string that activates when two people tie their fingers together. Allows telepathic communication between the two.

>Tar Baby

A small golem-like creature made from tar that when woken up will follow and stick to anything moving, slowing it down or causing it to fall over. Extremely flammable.

>Gloss Moss

A type of moss that glows (very brightly) in the dark. Will stick to any surface when smeared on it. Do not smear it on flesh, because it causes horrible burns.

>Decanter of Warm Water

Any liquid kept inside the decanter will be kept warm. Cheaper versions have been outlawed, since they have been used as improvised explosive devices after it was revealed that they don't stop heating the liquid inside, no matter what happens.

>Sealing Soil

Alchemical building material, similar to concrete. Once mixed with water, it can be applied to any rocky surface, and after some time it takes on the property of the surface it has been applied to. Used for sealing doors, cracks in the walls, or repairing ancient stone tablets. Do not eat.

You could do a fun game based off Golden Kamui.

>there are rumors of a giant treasure somewhere out there

>the only men who know how to find it are a bunch of escaped convicts

>these convicts have the map to the treasure tattooed on their bodies

>each convict has only one piece of the map, so to get to the treasure you need to find them all

>these stories have gathered a bunch of adventurers to the country

>they might end up way over their head, because there are multiple political parties after the treasure as well

>one political party involves a rogue general and his army who want to use the money and secede

>other political party involves a disgraced knight who wants to bring back the rightful king even if it means another civil war

>then there are all the criminals and bandits who've flooded the area in search for the gold

>all of this might be staged by a neighboring kingdom who wants to seed chaos in order to lay down the groundwork for a future invasion

>>314845

System where each player plays a young hive queen when?

>>324989

Would one who mastered the Australian Crossbow be able to catch the bolt with the crossbow, the impact causing it to ready the next shot?

>>321390

<the pirate king is actually a queen

>the pirate king is actually a ship

Toren's Tiny Siege Engine- First introduced by a wizard of mine, it uses applications of the shrink item spell, telekinesis spell, and the magic chest spell to create a miniaturized catapult shaped like a scorpion on the user's wrist that fires objects from its internal storage.

touch an item with the bracer on and speak the command word, and the item is stored in the bracer like a bag of holding. say another command word and the object is fired as if from a catapult, returning to normal size mid-flight.

>>307973

>Centuries ago a legendary Emperor forged a great empire

>Prophesized to be reborn in an hour of darkness and reconquer the world

>[Emperor] Reborn is an honorary title given to likely candidates (heros)

>Empire gets nearly overrun by a large band of orcs/goblins/barbarian lead by a huge warboss

>Huge battle at capital city, orc hannibal at the gates of Rome, darkest hour = now

>Orc warboss vs Cool hero dude and his army

>Emperor is reborn on battlefield, but was actually the Orc Warboss all along

>Retreats, spares the city, doesn't want to raze his Magnum Opus from other life

>Everyone believes Emperor is reborn as the hero, Hero is crowned new Emperor

>Only person who knows the truth is orc warboss, Hero guy has doubts though

>Must now stop legendary general in powerful orc body from eventually conquering the world

>>337837

Its more like; the soul is reborn into a body at birth, then there is an 'awakening' later in life where they get all their memories and powers from their previous life

>>337918

Meant for

>>337877

>>337984

'timetravel' isn't necessary, its just vanilla reincarnation if there is such a thing;

>Emperor dies

>Soul goes to wherever souls go

>Centuries later, soul enters newborn baby/foetus

>Later in life, soul holder gains memories of past life

>>338176

I miss Gropey. He was a fascinating individual.

I'm never gonna get use this again, so have this:

Crazy wizard merchant who can show up whenever someone folds his business card, carries a large list of poorly thought out items seen here (I'd make a pdf if I knew how)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15HtPpOlfyHbVkqHEoSCfI9kuTmYL4nu-c0DpAfbMMxQ/edit?usp=sharing

Trick to him: Don't tell players what they're buying, just the physical descriptions. Also I only offer 10 items at a time and never repeated so it stayed fresh and every item was almost sure to be lost if they didn't buy it. At most give it a snake oil salesman pitch talking up the item's upsides and trivializing downsides if mentioning at all.

Special offers were a less thought out idea for artifact like items btw.

Oh an a clockwork item thing I never and will never finish.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10cy_2GPSmIXhTXS6dMPQOkJDxw7-jV5RLvlLz6b07kk/edit?usp=sharing

Both made for pathfinder, if it matters.

>>337733

>The pirate Queen is actually a rogue high guard warship

>>337069

Whites were objectively the good guys though

Read up on Redlands

http://tesera.ru/game/76839/

http://tesera.ru/images/items/119145/red_land_test_pages.pdf

>>338231

>was

Don't tell me that clown's now in the big top in the sky now.

>>337733

It actually worked out pretty well. There were tons of brothels that the pirate queen owned, the PCs went around raiding and freeing the slave girls. Naturally the pirate queen inserted herself among the slave girls, found out where the PCs were hiding the slaves, and proceeded to get the drop on them in the middle of the night in a camp in the jungle surrounded by screaming slave girls running for their lives.

>>339684

Well, he's not here, and I don't know if he's posted on cuckchan at all.. So who knows where he's gotten off to. I like to think he lives on, traveling sideshow to sideshow, solving mysteries and bringing Clown Justice to those who would cross him.

Swords&Sorcery world taken over by facial-recognition robots

The Bloods and Crips must put aside their differences to drive out the vampires and werewolves that have infested their city overnight.

>>339805

>linking the daily show

Are you the same faggot who just posted a link to xkcd in the webcomic thread? Because you're a faggot.

>>339668

Both sides were assholes to peasants, but Bolsheviks were better at promising mountains of gold. As for the Redlands - what was the basis of the system?

>>339668

>all in Russian

I CAN'T SPELL YOU

>>337055

Scout's Chalk/Spy's Chalk

Chalk that seemingly does not leave a mark. However, if you mark any part of your body with the chalk (like the back of your hand) the chalk becomes visable to you (1d4 hours when applied to skin). Good for marking places without anyone else seeing it.

Portable Pole

A 10 ft pole with a bag of holding (although it's a wooden container basically the size of a sword's grip. It has a cork in the top, and the opening has a golden ring around it). The pole itself is unremarkable (it can break/burn, etc) apart from the fact the last few centimeters of the pole cannot leave the container- keeping it from falling out of the container.

Basically gives you a 10 ft pole that's easy to carry and can be retracted/extended up to 10ft.

Thundercloud

Also called the Alchemist's Flight or less complimentary names such as the Coward's Wail or the Thunder Clod. It's basically Thunderstones, Smokesticks, and badly cracked Sunrods crudely strapped together. When hurled to the ground, it combines the effect of a Thunderstone and a Smokestick (loud noise and thick smoke), along with a blinding flashes of light and sparks. Combining the items in such a manner is deemed overkill for fleeing tactics (if there can be such a thing), and a waste of money considering the combined cost of the items.

Basically a Flashbang + Smoke Bomb.

Magic Needle

When dragged across the edges of a tear in cloth or material, it shall mend with no trace of stitching. The bigger the tear, the less chance it'll work. Likewise the more material is missing, it has exponentially less chance of working. Throwing in material of the same kind from a different source to compensate for missing material does work if it is the same size as the missing piece- in fact (due to it not leaving any signs of stitching) nobility often use tailor with magic needles to create intricate patterns on their clothes all seemingly from one piece of material. Only works on non-metalic and non-magical materials.

Fix up tiny tears before they get bigger. Technically can mend broken rope.

Pixie Slippers

A mushroom that resembles bunches of wooden clogs when fully grown. The heads grow in even numbers up to 6- though 2's and 4's are more common. Finding one with odd numbers is said to be a bad omen, indicating you'll lose a foot or leg soon (there are various superstitions around avoiding this "fate").

The mushrooms are used with magic to create a sticky gunk. When slathered onto shoes (or any object) it increases friction- preventing you from slipping. But it's real benefit is that it dramatically softens the noise of your footsteps.

You'd think this would be a great boon to thieves. However, it only softens your footsteps. Gravel, creaky floorboards, and other noises produced by you would still make a noise. A good thief has no need for it, the poor have poor quality noisy floors, and the rich have more sophisticated defenses. It's smell can also be quite potent- and animals are sure to notice you coming.

Mainly a buff to prevent slipping, but also stops your feet being noisy (especially if you have heavy feet/sabatons/hooves/etc).

A Paladin of Aroden that has the Chosen One archetype. Their familiar has the figment and sage archetypes.

>>342978

I thought multiple instances of the same image couldn't be posted (like on /v/)?

But thanks.

>>342980

Pastebin actually lasts a shockingly long time.

Depends if folks prefer screencaps or links (especially considering there are some older posts to stick onto it as well).

Thanks! Those pics have actually given me an idea or two of making the clothes/vestamants of the church more pajama/onesie-like.

>>342987

Dynamic-ness isn't necessary. Pomf Cat might be the one I use, if I don't post it.

>>343002

>I thought multiple instances of the same image couldn't be posted (like on /v/)?

On /tg/, unique images are per thread, not per board

>>342980

>first pic

>>349504

<cont

Their Anchor Destroyed, many Daeva simply faded away, blown away by the astral winds of their chaotic home. But the remaining were left with a choice, to continue to dwindle in number as they are slowly displaced by the chaotic nature of their home and themselves , or attempt to bridge the orderly and the chaotic. Many choose to be embodied, using the creation of the greatest of all daeva's Peita. Peita's alter or Piety's Altar, took the immaterial Daeva and created bodies for them. Many gave up their immortal chaotic and powerful form for a few, mortal frame. But with Mortality, came reproduction and a new way to sustain themselves.

Amongst the first to be embodied were the Devi, 7 terrible demons who through unknown means retained most of their powers as daeva during the embodiment. Doing so of course slowly warped their bodies into monsters (if magically potent monsters). The goodly daeva were embodied and diminished into the three races, depending on their disposition. The lover's of nature and life became known as the elfs, the lovers of intricacy and intelligence became known as the especially diminuitive mer, and the lovers of the orderly and crystaline underworld became known as dwarfs, althought they were all technically the same embodied daeva, known collective as Saede or the Finn or Fine folk. Some daeva's remained incorporeal, working wonders for their embodied breathern (and all magic in this game consists of the works of the daeva, a magician would be one who communes with the incorporael daeva and would essentially stat up a fae wizard to do all the magic for them, being as fickle and vain as any mortal).

For a long time time the Saede prospered but more and more of their numbers where corrupted by the darkstone. Eventually the path of the roots of Yggsbaugh became a dark place where dark sorcieres and monsters roamed. Eventually the least amongst the Finn, fled into the world of men, where they began to prosper again, as a slim shadow of their former glory and the hallowed rest of Ygg was lost to the Devi and their Spawn the Devils.

The Devi ruled the mountain where Yggsbaugh rested for many aeons but eventually they too dispersed and man came to this hallowed hill. Drawn by curiousity, to state their desire for precious metals and for their ever present need to expand, they formed the City of Yggsholm, as christened by the daeva who remained. The City grew and continues to be one of the most important and largest human settlements in the north. It is also home to one of the highest concentrations of daeva (and therefore magic) in the world (the population of ethereal daeva is several dozen to the population of 7000 or so humans). Eventually the humans sought to undersand Yggsbaugh and its power and were drawn to the dungeons of Devi and the darkstone that still waits within, waiting for a new age of man and monster.

>>349505

The creations of the daeva and the workings of magic are of the most interest to many, but magic is not an impersonal force in this world but an actual personal (if immaterial) creature. All magic using classes have their spellcasting abilities removed and replaced with the following class feat

Friend of Daeva

Which grants them a single daeva follower who can cast and choose spells normally. The daeva are consistered invisible and immaterial but not technically etheral for the purposes of spellcasting (ordinary magic cast by the daeva doesnt need to be force effects to be felt in the real world ,etc) . The daeva begins the game as Friendly to the caster and is otherwise a free willed NPC who can and will extort promises and favors from their dupe, I mean spellcaster. many Daeva's have incomprehensible taboos and they always have at least one, so they must choose at least one thing that will scare away their daeva for at least a day if broken. (by default, the immaterial daeva are scared of the concept of binding , so tying up most mages stops them from casting spells for a day unless they have a more arduous taboo).

The embodied daeva or Saedh are roughly speaking the elfs, halfings and dwarfs of the world. All of them are roughly in the shape of short but physically mature men, making discerning the three different kinds more a matter of guessing/getting to know them instead of being being a matter of race. Many Saedh continue to have the ability to cast a spell or two of the lowest level, but helpful to their interest (By default, light). The older Saedh were both taller and more magically powerful, but have been long lost, having died as mortals long ago. Occassionally a new Saedh is embodied (in the Altar at the top of the mountain) and there is always someone waiting for them when they do).

So there you have it, terribly derrivative but I could have a lot of fun stating out a 50 laywer dungeon filled with gold and silver and pigiron with terrible Devils plaging the halls and killing would be treasure seekers, where magic is always a conversation and a favor away and somewhat more magical again.

Hope you enoyed.

Saving this garage sale from oblivion.

Well, I always wanted to write a short story on how a former soldier/SWATguy, who left his army/departement because he was injured and was offered retirement, sees his former comrade sitting in a van near a large public space. He approaches him, hoping to strike up a conversation and talk about the good old days, but the guy only tells him to go away, not to turn around and not tell anybody that he saw him.

The main character does, and shortly after he hears gunshots and explosions coming from the public square. When the MC is on the train back home he looks at the news, some "terrorist organization" launched an attack, killed a couple civies and got away. The MC knows his ex comrade well enough that he is certain he would never join a terrorist group, but he also knows that he would always follow orders. He suspects that the governmemt is behind this attack. Only a few days later police is knocking on his door with battering rams. The MC barely escapes, flees to the sewers and attempts to leave his hometown by climbing onto a cargo train. He succeeds, but the police published images of him, claiming he was one of the men responsible for the attack. The MC attempts to find a place to sleep a couple towns further, but is recognized by a crazy homeless guy. The homeless man begins to give him tips on how to hide from the police, but he gets progressively more drunk and keepd shouting about how he found "the wanted man!". Out of fear of being discvered by someone less friendly the MC leaves again. The next morning the MC tried to hop on a train again, but this time the police has set a trap. Hoping to be arrested, not killed, the MC puts his hands above his head and is tazed and goes unconscious from the shock. An unspecified amount of time later he wakes up later strapped to a chair in an interrogation room.

An interrogator enters the room, asks some questions to confirm his identity, and presents him the crimes he is charged with. From here comes a timeskip and a short newsclip on how one of the terrorists from the attack last year was sentenced to death.

Thoughts?

Gods for free, please give good home.

Kroa:

Huge white orb made of light, stays in paradise with angels watching them roam the clouds.

Servants: Angels, doves, mice, albino animals

Shalsk:

Son of Kroa, body is a black lion with the face of a man. Resides in the void under the world, slowly spreading corruption.

Servants:

Grey demons, worms, leeches, wasps. Currently having wasps kill any dragonflies around.

Kish-jiur:

Lord sorcerer of the realm of magic, Great jewled serpent and master of a million magics, Kish-jiur. His domain is the aether, a world that you can only enter via a rip in the void.

Servants: Lamias, snakes, eels, dragonflys.

If anyone wants something else from my setting just ask.

>>360154

Read that as

>.Shalsk: Currently having wasps kill any dragons that fly around.

And im like, how big are these black iron Wasps.

>>360208

Honestly giant wasps that kill dragons in the service of a void god sounds metal as fuck.

>>360254

>>360208

> We thought Dragons were the mightiest thing to fear, but now they fear something else. And so do we.

> Titan Wasps are the size of a horse, yet move at alarming speed considering their size. They can come in any bright neon-shade of red, orange, yellow, and everything between.

> Assuming the stinger the length of a human arm doesn't outright impale/skewer you, the harsh poison pumped out by the stinger causes a sensation akin to "molten metal coursing through your veins, turning into needles and blades". The Titan Wasp also shares it's normal sized counter parts ability to sting repeatedly, and hyper-aggression to intruders to it's territory or targets it hunts.

> Despite needing large numbers (around 100-150) and heavy casualties, Titan Wasps can take down a dragon. Or rather- poison overloads its system to the point it writhes and flails on the ground in agony. Then comes the feasting.

> Titan Wasps also share the voracious appetite of the locust. While they can eat trees and other flora, they prefer flesh- preferably alive. Once the prey is unable to fight back out of agony from the myriad of stings, the surviving members dog-pile on and begin to eat while the victim is still alive. Around 25 Titan Wasps can fell and strip a dragon down to the bones within 3 hours.

> Dragons often form shaky alliances to fend off this threat- yet no dragon or mortal has ever found the source of these foul creatures.

> Stranger still is that the Titan Wasps rarely attack anything outside of dragons. Their behavior suggests they are being commanded- otherwise they would ravish whole forests, villages, and cities.

> They are beasts of magic, but attempts to use disenchantment to undo their existence has failed. It is either powerful magic, or a creature from a far off land. Neither thought is comforting.

< Creature possess Frightful Presence feat due to its twitchy movements and horrifying appearance. (The "dramatic actions" needed to trigger it include taking flight, buzzing, attacking, eating, or bug-specific behavior such as cleaning it's eyes with it's forearms)

< Creature possess a "Shatter" style ability due to its buzzing. While it's flight produces an awful drone that might install fear or distraction in those who hear it, it can intentionally buzz loudly as an intimidation tactic/warning/attack.

< Ideally, remember the 100-150 = 1 Dragon when stating. Make your encounters fair.

>>342951

>>343042

Speaking of gods, I'm still working on this on and off.

>>360290

Thanks for the lore add-on man.

Magic items for free

A shield that's actually an Old Dwarf that got a raw deal from messing with the fae.

When taking him for repairs:

>This better be a DWARVEN blacksmith yer takin' me to, son

>If swear on me father, if they ruin my engravings…

When used to bash an enemy:

>That's right son, now hit 'em harder!

>I'll smash ye focken 'ead in!

>RAAAAAH!

When placed on your back

>I've got yer back

>Don't worry, nobody's following ye

When struck:

>Use that sword fer something, son!

>YE RUINED ME DAMN BEARD!

>Drive me closer, I want 'ta bash 'em

If you try to deal with Fae:

>Don't ye fucken dare

>Prisoners mask

An iron masked helmet with a black and red cats eye painted on the forehead. It emits a low hum when near magic users and causes any magic around it to become weak and the caster, unfocused and dizzy. When worn by a magic user, they cannot use magic at all until it's taken off.

>Eldritch scroll

This scroll, made in the depths outside of time shall summon an outsider of our realm for an hour, what kind summoned is random. The scroll texture is wet, leathery and soft, but is incredibly heavy.

>Yolgs truth

An old rusted amulet with a cracked jade in the middle of it, this old piece of jewelry allows you to speak to spirits.

>Ruinous eye

An orb with a dragons eye inside, holding it infront of an enemy will cause them to rot from the inside

>Lovers locket

A locket with a mirror on the front, putting either a drawing or the blood of that person inside the locket will let you see them from a birds eye view.

>Twin Dukes' Charm

Necklace of adamantine fangs, once worn by the twin dukes of the City Below. The teeth glint with ancient ichor.

The twin dukes were two kobolds who delighted in the art of tooth and claw, replacing their teeth with fangs of adamantine as to better devour their numerous foes.

Secret societies

>Leviathan Guard 

An ancient order of knights that meets up once every month to keep an ancient beast known only as The Leviathan in chains.

Flag colours are gunmetal grey and dark blue and its emblem is a skull with tentacles coming out of its mouth.

>Fae union

A relatively new group that seeks to merge the real world with the Fae wild. The flag colours are Jade and Purple and it's emblem is a eye made of grass and roots

>Students of First Hunters

This society seeks to destroy civilization and have eveyone return to tribal eras via use of ancient magic. Flag colours are tan and red and it's emblem is a spear.

Compass that points true north

Endless salt and pepper shakers

Endless match box

Candle whose flame flickers toward a path that leads you outside

Retractable 10 foot pole

A lucky pocket knife that lets you open one lock a session

Monocles that can see the weather

A cast iron pot that never seems to burn the meal

Magically comfortable socks

A book of small random facts about the setting. PCs can help add small ideas or you can remind them of the applicable lore

A small silver bell that when tied to you shoe keeps away snakes

A bell that summons a mute, but helpful spirit from nearby.

Jar of spiders that weave a hammock and return whenever opened. 

The jar may need to be "fed" either rations or dipping ones hand in the jar and taking a slight amount of damage/lethargy poison effect.

A cursed hammer that makes any building it has hammered even a single nail into uncharacteristically dangerous. Staircases collapse, windows shatter in the breeze.

An abandoned coop for carrier pidgeons, now overrun with Crows. The Crows collect bits and baubles from around town and upon inspection they are weaving minor magical items into a protective tapestry that conceals the nest. Offspring raised in the nest are becoming stronger from the magic field they are growing in.

Shoes that reorient the wearer's gravity to any surface the shoes are walking on.

A mask that can magically appear to be the head of any specific person. Includes voice alteration. Does not alter the body.

A simple crystal lantern that glows with a steady, strong light. Far cleaner and easier to keep lit then a oil lamp or candle, they are prized by nobility and anyone that can afford them

A ring that makes the wearer filled with an emotion based on the colour of the rings gem, for example, ruby mood rings make people irrationally angry, all the fucking time.

A length of rope that speaks out all the things everybody holding it have in common, whether anybody knows them or not. It does so in Morgan Freeman's voice and always starts with the least relevant and meaningful things but it never lies and will go through everything eventually.

Coins that are finely engraved and made of an extremely soft, easily breakable metal. Each coin has a spell stored inside of it. When this coin is crushed in one's palm, the user can cast the stored spell once. If broken by other means the spell will go off, sometimes causing odd, completely random effects, depending upon the spell.

>>308458

MORE??

Mer: Toad people from underground the great swamp, nation is at war with the Durn elves.

Kolsa: Lizard people from the

great swamp.

(Greater:Large lizards like crocodiles/Lesser:Small lizards like geckos)

Human: You know humans? Yeah.

Orc: Tree dwellers that live in the great swamp as guardians

Dwarf: Living stone dudes who rebelled against their elven creators and killed most of them.

Elf: First descendents of angels, now only remaining in forests and raided human settlements.

Durn Elf: Elves who fled underground to escape the massacre, live underground and move from spire to spire.

Mac: Golems made by a long dead species, each golem holds

the soul and personality of one.

Golems: Macs that run on A.I instead of souls.

Beastmen: Offspring of the humans who carry the Wildling curse, these people have the features of one or two beasts, such as Satyrs or Gnolls, as they breed with other beastmen they become more like beasts.

Race notes:

Durn Elf:

Extremely tough, calloused hands with hardened nails for digging and climbing through gravel and packed soil. I also imagine they have leathery, discolored skin from the moisture and humidity.

Thermal pits ala pit-vipers so they can 'see' heat.

Dwarf:

Hard skin, very rough to the touch. Beard is mostly whiskers used to detect ore and gives a sixth sense when underground.

Kolsa:

Lesser kolsa are slaves to the greater, usually 2-4 slaves a person.

Mer:

Not smart, can't build complex things.

Orcs:

Don't leave the swamp much during their life.

>>309024

Check out the battle of Athens, a bigger version of what you described after WWII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)

The planet is long dead, or should have died long ago. Unaware of what they had done, the Dwarves unleashed a long slumbering evil locked in the innermost casms of earth. The civilized races saw the effects as a sign of the end times, and the wise men of the time created a poison that would put them into a deep sleep, so that they would not feel the end of days. Years later they awaken to see that the world has changed, and that apart from there Grand Citadel, the known world is unrecognizable. Those that had not drunk of the poison are mostly long dead, and their offspring are nothing more than vampire like husks that serve the Fallen planet.

>>362091

Continued.

Party would wake up in a prison cell, the doors rusted and such, making escape fairly easy. They'd have to roll to see what they remember, and eventually they find their way out and into the courtyard, with very little opposition. There they find their captor, who is the opposite alignment (evil if they are good aligned, good if evil aligned) with a band of ragged and visibly exhausted soldiers firing arrows and fighting off hordes of barbarians as they try to mount the walls. The characters can choose whether to fight against the former captor or to join him. If they fight against him, they receive a good amount of experience points at the beginning to set them off, or if they join him they have a secure home base. Gave the idea to an old DM. He didn't like it, but maybe someone here will.

Take old monsters. Genuinely, people have been coming up with scary stories for literally millennia, there's plenty to choose from. For example, I've made a boss out of the ancient Mesopotamian demon, Lamashtu.

Lamashtu - Emperor of the night, consumer of infant flesh, drainer of maternal blood.

Lamashtu appears before the player as an avian, winged figure, with a lion-demon’s head. It has feathers darker than night, talons longer and sharper than daggers, it’s head bears a disgusting face, the skull of a lion with mangled razor sharp teeth, two pointed curved horns, like that of an impala, and eye sockets as black and empty as its soul. I stands 10 feet tall, its wingspan is 20 feet, it weighs nearly a half ton.

I have one short campaign idea that I don't think will ever see the light of day. It was originally for Pozfinder, but probably wouldn't work mechanically all that well. The heroes are hired as cheap bounty hunters to retrieve a massive shipment of gold stolen from an armored transport. The thieves are an Ocean's 11 style group of specialists who went their separate ways after the heist. Each one has his own motives and alignments. The campaign is a combination of piecing together what is going on while defeating the 9 thieves.

The story in the background is that the kingdom is planning to go on offensive in a war, because the other kingdom supposedly assassinated him. It's a ruse however, as the assassination attempt was from the prince's own country and he survived. The prince is now working to stop the war and take the throne by force.

Here is the information on each of the thieves:

Mirror Lioness: a paladin from a foreign country who was tasked with sabotaging the country to prevent them from starting a war. She is planning to take her share of the money over the border. She will offer to duel one of the players for the money out of fairness, provided the rest of the party upholds the deal if the one player loses.

Bashful Dragon: a neutral good wizard who has disguised himself as a friendly item shop salesman. He sells items to the party and keeps an ear out on what they might be up to. He has spent his share of the money creating magic items to aid the poor of the city. He is also friends with the next person on the list. He is not expected to be found out. Instead as the campaign ends the PCs will be told that there must have been another thief, because a share of the gold is still unaccounted for. They might go to his shop and find that he's disappeared with everything of his, maybe leaving a note for them letting them know he was the ninth thief and what happened to the money.

Liberating Hedgehog: a chaotic good rockstar bard who uses the money to throw a big protest concert against the king's campaign to start a war. The PCs won't find out he's one of the thieves until right before his concert, where they will have to fight him and his band on stage.

Midnight Spider: A lawful neutral spy in service of the prince. He was the one who intercepted the encoded communication on when and where the shipment of gold would be transported. He will attempt to ambush the PCs at night with a band of subordinates. His ambush is where his subordinates throw bright glowing paint bombs at the PCs, painting them as targets. He is hiding up between buildings where he has set up a bunch of ropes to make a network he can travel across by tight rope walking. (He also has special hooked shoes that keep him from being thrown off the ropes to his death) He uses a bow and will attempt to snipe at them, requiring the PCs to use the buildings as cover in order to evade him long enough to get close to attack.

Whispering Falcon: A true neutral druid who uses birds to spy on the party. He will be found when the PCs follow one of the bird spies back to him. He uses flocks of birds to attack the PCs. He has no need for the money, and simply wishes to prevent the destruction of the wild lands between the two countries.

Snaring Oppossum: a chaotic neutral trapper who has spent all his money creating a maze of death traps for the PCs. He may also have some other tricks up his sleeve, like a potion to play dead if caught, so he can sneak away when the players aren't looking.

Debutante Fox: a lawful evil kitsune who has used the money to feign being nobility with expensive magic items and jewelry and has duped some count into courting her while she spends his money. The players will either have to diplomance their way to find her, or break and enter into the count's estate to nab her.

Undeath Badger: a neutral evil necromancer who has spent the money acquiring a magic item that allows him to move stone and earth at will. He will have an underground lair filled with the undead that they will have to cut their way through before fighting him. He may attack them by sending undead minions after them, or ambushing them by coming out of the ground when they least expect it.

Standoff Bear: a chaotic evil crime boss who has used the money to buy guns and bombs for his henchmen. He's holed up in his mansion, ready for a frontal assault from the PCs.

>>362233

sorry mistake there. this

>The story in the background is that the kingdom is planning to go on offensive in a war, because the other kingdom supposedly assassinated him.

was supposed to say:

>The story in the background is that the kingdom is planning to go on offensive in a war, because the other kingdom supposedly assassinated the prince.

A small village has a revered local hero who fights off monsters terrorizing the local countryside. If the party investigates things further it turns out the hero is actually summoning the monsters from his own portal, then easily dispatching them to gain fame and glory. When the gig is up he drops all pretense of heroism and fully opens the portal, extorting the village for nothing more than a promise of letting him leave with his money.

Offtopic, this is a extremely useful thread. Lots of good ideas I'm going to use in my use in my games in some form or another.

A paladin from the old age goes to the defiled site of his God and finds a helmet of one of the heroes of his youth. It has, too, been defiled and emits a fearsome aura. He, the final enemy, fights a one man war against the new gods.

Rift weapons are a type of WMDs stockpiled (but almost never used) by the Terran League, amongst other forces in the Milky Way. Capable of punching a not-so-clean hole straight through the space-time continuum itself, rift weapons are only employed with great reluctance, given that the collateral damage caused by the dangerously unstable warheads is catastrophic at best and fully unpredictable at worst. The areas swallowed by warheads armed with these devastating projectiles has ranged from anything between capital cities, to planets, to entire solar systems.

Often likened to the atomic missiles used during the Cold War era of Earth, Rift weapons chiefly exist as a means of deterrence between interstellar civilizations; with the threat of mutual destruction usually sufficing to halt what might otherwise evolve into orchestrated campaigns of genocide over one form of dispute or another.

The actual launch of rift weapons is exceedingly rare, and only performed with the utmost reluctance. One potential example was the rift strike against the omnophagic fleet of the Skeirr, which successfully annihilated the invading attackers, but also led to the permanent loss of the Zihashi system; with a total count of nearly 20 billion casualties and lengthy days of mourning observed in nearly all civilized areas of space. Another notable incident was the launch of five rift weapons against the capital world of the Dan'Hir as authorized by the aristocratic government of the Ulhime species - notably not only because an estimated 45% of the entire Dan'Hirian population perished as a result of the detonations, but also because the attack caused planet-wide riots and uprisings on virtually all core worlds of the Uhime race and eventually led to to the transition into the relatively peaceful theocracy for which this civilization is generally known for today.

>>36665

I was thinking, as every group I played with are mostly chaotic neutrals with a 'love for all races', that the new gods would be basically the equivalent of a fantasy 'co-exist" or whatever movement. Mortals, mages and techpriests that promote 'equality' in everything.

>>367459

I don't entirely get what you mean but I going to assume that you mean most people take path of least resistance.

The end goal of the faction is world domination/world peace and all of its rules are intended to reach that end. The cult basically worship this text and try to phrase it as a religion of peace while practicing its violent beliefs.

>>367480

That is pretty much a given. I also like the idea of psychic attacks towards sleeping people being banned in both sides.

>Wait so I can only use my powers after I tranquilize them?

<No, Dreameater. You can use Knock out gas.

>Attacking people in their dreams literally my modus operandi. My powers are completely useless when people are awake.

<You don't see Knightmare complain and he is rank 8.

>Knightmare is 7 foot centaur with a magic sword crafted by the evil clone of the Lady of the Lake. I don't think that he is particularly handicapped by this regulations.

<Look. You are barely rank 3 much less rank 5. We aren't going go to a psychic war with the do-gooders just so you can fail at kidnapping the president. It is just going to end with a fist fight between Dr. Caffeine and Morning Joe.

>Then what is that shit about "Your unique skill will be useful for our cause.".

<For fuck sakes, we have five doomsday weapons pointed at the Earth. Why do you think we keep you around for?

Normally, I hate this sort of stuff but Venture Bros somehow makes it work.

Years ago the party (or noble background adventurer) fought an enemy of the state and allowed him to live, forcing him to leave the country. Years later, as the players gain in power and knowledge so does the kingdom. It is an age of exploration, and the party sails to new lands. One of the lands they come to has a primitive looking people, who fanatically worship the exiled man. Individually they are no match for the party, but they are experts in ambushes, and they desire vengeance.

Located in a very scenic spot on the northeastern shoreline of Medua, the Sappoti Villa was constructed by the eponymous archmage, a woman that not only was one of the most powerful conjurers of the known time, but also had more than a knack for architecture. Combining both hobbies in a practical experiment, Sappoti constructed a house that is stately in its own respect, but has one particular room (or rather, corridor) of interest.

Crossing this corridor and opening the door at its end will lead the visitor to a room that connects to a similar corridoor. Which in turn leads to another room with a corridor, and so forth. Simply put, each time a visitor enters the "entrance" corridor, another room and corridor will be created, which in turn lead to another pair of the same setup. Research has proven that the rooms so generated come in no less than forty-six different variations ranging from parlors to baths and even large, open atriums, but all of them inevitably have another corridor linked to them. The rooms will form branches of inter-connected rooms that will only collapse one hour after the last visitors have left them (even if said visitors entered the current branch long after it had been created).

While the magic that generates more and more rooms for the house is astonishing, there is a minor flaw in it - the deeper one ventures into the newly-formed rooms, the less they confirm to classical realities. In the first ten to twenty rooms, this may be seen in objects that are seemingly floating or completely missing, but the deeper one ventures into the newly-created rooms, the more common and drastic these anomalies become - rooms may look like as if they were melting, may have holes into nothingness in their floor or walls, or may have objects such as a pillows made up from entirely wrong materials like wood. At the 256th room (which apparently is the maximum limit), half of the room simply will simply end in a black maw of nothingness.

Despite of these issues, the Sappoti Villa is a safe place to visit - contrary to popular rumors, the rooms build up by the villa will not collapse if only one visitor is remaining inside of the current branch, and the monsters that supposedly appear beginning in the 65th room so far can only be attributed to an overactive imagination.

>>370351

Venture Bros. is one of the greatest examples of world building in any media. It's so self consistent and put together so expertly that from season to season they can just keep increasing the absurdity levels of the plot and the basic framework is sturdy enough that it can handle whatever they put in there. Venture Bros. began as a very earthy parody on Johnny Quest and Scooby Doo, but you look at the ridiculous super-hero capeshit that's going on in the latest season which is being played almost completely straight and might not even count as a strict parody anymore and you can't help but appreciate how naturally and seamlessly the tone and scale of the show transformed over time.

>>373280

Damn, I wish I'd kept up with Venture Bros, because this aggression level system would have been amazing for the superhero game I'm running.

a planet with 3 distant, young suns.

extremely bright sometimes, and still cold.

>>374185

> Being Lawful Good

> When there is only the Law of the Jungle

>>376655

>not katon nor suiton but futon

God dammit my sides

>>376760

>Vampires despise Muslims

A funny joke, anon. It's as though muslim society was crafted over long centuries to perfectly hide vampires, male and female. Not a cross to be seen, mandatory heavy clothing to block the sun, harems for pleasure and food, nobody minds the streets being unsafe, positions of power that are never questioned or examined, and if you study the 'good book' long enough it will make you sound virtuous and correct in any situation.

Unless you go with the whole geometric shapes being the real cause of their symbol fear, in which case they couldn't take a step into a mosque for the mandatory prayers.

>>376760

it makes sense if Vampire origins are wrapped up in christs story or even if they respond to the cross brandished with faith. They would of course detest the false prophet of an uncomprehended Deity. It could also be a racial thing as traditionally Vlad fought the Turks.

>>376760

Islam specifically condemns the consumption of blood of any kind, which is why they drain the jugular when they slaughter their animals. Christianity tolerates animal blood consumption, despite the Apostolic Decree forbidding it. This means it would be harder for a vampire to hide in Muslim society, as he could not for example hide his victim's blood in blood pudding or black sausages.

>>376774

>Doom being a fag here

His country is comprised of uplifted Gypsys, and possibly based on Latvia which suffered under Teutons for centuries. His perspective is about that of Irish at the peak of England's bullshit, a little clouded by rage and ostracism. Besides, immigration to Latveria is notoriously difficult, making it something like a cross between Luxembourg and Bulgaria.

>>376777

It is the whole thing about saying Islam is a problem being racist. Islam isn't a race. Muslims are not a race.

>>315406

I'm going to have to run this, but I think I'll go with super-plagues.

In addition to making the setting less sci-fi magical, it just makes everybody much more divided.

Destroyed transportation, very different pockets of society, distrust of outsiders.

>>376962

>twisting Vlad into a monster was due to (((someone))) not liking what he did?

It probably wasn't the first and it wouldn't be the last.

Anyone care for a setting based on Megaman.EXE? (Cyber world, most enemies are viruses, major bosses and NPC are directly based off or inspired by the Robot Masters, etc)

>>376988

Either post it or don't bother asking. That's what this thread is for.

Wrote this up about 2 years ago:

Skull Spiders inhabit warm jungles and swamps, and are around the size of a large dog. Their legspan measures approximately 4 feet and they stand approximately 2 feet tall. Their hair varies in color, and can be black, gray, or mottled brown. Most spiders have reddish streaks in their hair. The most striking feature is the human skull which encases their head, acting as a sort of natural helmet.

While skull spiders do not create permanent nests, they do have spinnerettes. As a hunter, skull spiders stalk prey, preferring to jump from the canopy onto the back of the victim. The surprise element gives them time to inject them with its potent venom. Victims are paralyzed almost immediately, collapsing to the ground, which allows the spider to capture it in its strong webbing. A single corpse can last a spider weeks, or even months before it must hunt again.

Skull spiders reach full size in about 4 months, and are sexually mature after 6 months. They breed around twice a year, each cycle producing a clutch of 8 to 10 eggs, which are the size of tennis balls. A pregnant spider will seek out a fresh target to lay the eggs in, as the eggs are typically laid in the mouth of a paralyzed or freshly deceased corpse. However, if no food is available, the spider will lay them in a favorable location.

These eggs hatch after just two weeks and the babies will fight for dominance for the food source. The winner will eventually grow around the skull of the victim, giving it the species' fearsome appearance. Because they wear the face of their victim, it serves as a way to identify specific spiders. Those that are shooed away, or eggs laid without a corpse nearby will generally not reach adulthood. However, seeing a skull spider without a skull is not uncommon, as skulls can shatter, and there are occasionally exceptional survivors that reach maturity. Skull spiders live for around 5 years on average, although some are known to reach 8 to 10 years of age. As they mature, their hair fades in color, eventually becoming a charcoal grey.

As these spiders tend to be immune to other skull spider venom, their venom sacs are in demand as they can be used to create paralytic poisons, as well as antivenom to treat victims. As their four hind legs are as muscular as a human's arm, these are also popular as a delicacy. Their webbing is occasionally used for spellcasting, although webbing and eggs are used in alchemy as well. Finally, because these spiders wear the actual skulls of their victims, the next of kin may wish the skull returned.

I had an idea for sci-fi/alien elves.

Basically keeping some elfy traits.

> They breath carbon dioxide and exhale air. They have large ears, and their hair can be bright neon colors like flower petals. Their skin can also have freckles, and the color of these freckles often matches their hair.

> Their planet has lots of plant life- one giant jungle (and other animals that have this breathing cycle), and animals/insects that would be typically small on our planet are large on theirs due to the extra oxygen. Fire burn a little taller as well.

> Despite being nature worshipers akin to Shinto (and a "waste no part of the animal/plant attitude), their industrial revolution went hard. A lot of animals (that breath normally) went extinct, so they went out into the galaxy to find more.

> Found Earth- which had a resource and pollution problem. So they came to mutual agreements. Trades of animals for resources (since the Elves had mined other planets as they traveled- don't waste anything), and even oxygen and carbon dioxide. Many Elves now live on earth, and their canine companions are starting to over-take earth-based dogs as pets (due to their oxygen breathing abilities giving the bonus of fresh plants in the house and a dog- even it's feces is good for the garden)

> Learning about the Earth myth of Elves amused them due to the similarities. They were happy for that to be the English translation of their name. Theories spread that red-heads were Elf explorers who crashed on earth, though Elves deny this.

> Too much carbon dioxide for an Elf has the same effects as too much oxygen for a human, a little high before serious harm. This makes Elf x Human physical relations a little intense.

TUNDRA

>Trans-Uranium Nuclear Device R---- Arsenal

>>390260

That actually sounds boss as fuck, But all the challenges would be without the skillpoints from completing them, which is a little funny.

>Yian-ti/Orc/Myconoid confederacy

>Yian-ti are engineers and NEETs of society but they build shit and then fuck off back to their temple cities

>Orcs are civilized and HONOROBU as well as being dipolamats

>Myconoids provide for the rest of the people with agriculture and help keep the peace

>Orcs build atop the Yian-ti's basework and make this weird amalgamation of Aztecan architecture with medieval style

this all came to me in a fucking fever dream so don't worry if it makes no sense (This is also ignoring default alignment with Yuan-ti being more neutral than assholes)

>>390260

>Shadow Scouts

That is hilarious. Anyways, FO:NV had an "achievement" system which a bunch of goals (some repeatable and some not) that rewards XP or Perks.

>>393816

That makes more sense as how vampires can sustain themselves with blood. cWoD VTB is still the best Vampire lore.

>>395332

>its about 10 years late to be topical but I could think of worst systems. Its nice to have an rpg that actually rewards in system/character actions instead of trying to dictate them.

It wasn't really an achievement system; they just call it that. It is simply non-shit version of the "do x thing y times to level x up.".

>>394068

>That makes more sense as how vampires can sustain themselves with blood. cWoD VTM is still the best Vampire lore.

typo

A series of random ideas, prompts, and nonsense, courtesy of long walks to and from work:

>If someone abandons writing a book or creating a world, those things don't die. The half-formed world is born, somewhere, and struggles without a God, without an ending, without a solution to any conflict.

>A demon is summoned, trapped in a magic circle. Before a deal may be struck, the summoner dies in an unrelated accident. Imagine the boredom. Imagine the loneliness.

>A race of blind creatures does not find beauty in appearance but in voice.

>A modern world is experiencing a new curse similar to the one that afflicted Babel. How does communicatuion restart?

>The world experiences unending rain that is extremely light, but unending.

>You've discovered that your manager is actually some form of wizard, who likes the simple tedium of normal work.

>The moon opens a mouth no one knew it had, and spews forth endless steel beasts of infinite variety and anger.

>An eye appears in the night sky, dominating the visible space. Only the naked eye can see it. No probes or space missions are able to reach it.

>You take a shit in normal reality and emergy in a fantasy world. Your bathroom, and everything in it, is all that comes with you.

I’ve been trying to think of an alternative to the 3e rule that all druids must be one of the “neutral” alignments, because I think that’s boring. Instead, I came up with the idea that all the druids in my setting would be part of one of four schools of thought based on the four temperaments (which are, conveniently, already associated with the four elements). I can see a druid of a particular faction having a bit of wiggle-room when it comes to alignment (i.e. not all druids of the same faction are the same alignment) as long as it makes sense for that druid’s faction. Also, I wouldn’t force players to make gameplay choices (spells, animal companion, etc) based on which druid faction they were a part of, because then it would get boring. I’m probably never gonna end up using this, though.

Earth faction

Temperament: Melancholic

Characteristics: traditional, unadventurous, communalistic, detail-oriented, cautious

Description: Live in large communes out in the wilderness, far from others. The communes are run by elder druids who make decisions for everyone based on old, highly-codified rules. Every druid in the commune has a purpose which they serve.

Air faction

Temperament: Sanguine

Characteristics: social, impatient, impulsive, playful, optimistic

Description: Small, roving bands of druids going wherever the wind takes them. Behave similarly to stereotypical satyrs: hanging out in the woods partying, drinking, fornicating. Basically acting like wild animals.

Water faction

Temperament: Phlegmatic

Characteristics: laid-back, non-confrontational, unassertive, live-and-let-live

Description: Solitary or small groups. Probably live near civilized areas. Most likely to be approached by outsiders for help. Enjoy long naps and drinking tea.

Fire faction

Temperament: Choleric

Characteristics: independent, ambitious, willful, decisive, confrontational

Description: Solitary or small, temporary groups. Most likely faction to produce eco-terrorists. Also most likely to be wandering adventurers. Actively seek out druid-problems and try to fix them in their own ways.

>>402296

Had an idea for a space campaign setting where there were no aliens. Instead, humanity had separated and colonized so many different corners of the galaxy that they had changed and evolved in distinct ways, based on ideology and environment. Some leaned heavily into genetic modification, others went down the path of cybernetic augmentation, others merely changed over the generations to survive harsh planets, and some who never settled on planets were changed by generation after generation growing in zero g ships and stations.

>>402317

I'm sorry I couldn't find many pictures of a less well known character

>>402296

>>402329

>evolutions has "steps"

That's not how it works, did you even go to school?

An underground cyberpunk corporation that deals with consumer rights and predatory EULA's by kidnapping CEO's families, sabotaging production facilities or shooting up headquarters until the target company issues refunds or compensations for faulty products and predatory tactics.

>>402309

>I don't know where this meme came from

D&D. It's stated in the race's description.

>>402370

wouldnt a corp be trying to do those things not undermine others efforts to it?

>>402370

You mean an anti corporation for profit terrorist group?

>>402385

Yes, basically.

>what if we combined FF materia

<With Elderscroll soulstones

To fix 3.5

Call them Magika or something to avoid the tm. Basically back in the day wizards got sick of how long it took real magic to do so instead they capture a bunch of magical beings Ka in rocks to do it forthem. Eventually it got popular enough, and demand high enough to actually put a lot of magical beings on the extinction list. Classes would go something like Fighter, Ranger, Rogue, Pugilst, Sage (replacement for wizard, focuses on Magika) and Alchemist (Replacement for gunslingers/necromancers, focuses on offbrand uses of Magika)

>how does this fix 3.5

By first giving all classes relatively easy (and expected in universe) access to magic. Using magika basically just requires special sockets (which the sage has instead of scribe scroll). It also allows us to introduce a very strict magicka/spells used limit. The fighty types would probably be about 1/4 level in Magika (a 8th level fighter could use two magika at a time and at most two different magika per day), sage doubles that to 1/2 level and alchemist is stunted (his big schtict is grinding up magika's to do things like make not gunpower and elixirs) so its 1/2 of a fighters ability (no Magicka until level 8 only two used/max per day at level 16).

Clean up the skill and feat system a little with this (along with well supported subclasses or perhaps just drag all of that to the feat system) and I think it would be fun.

My DM is a fickle shit and keeps getting interesting campaigns going, only to abandon them for new games. It's a pain and I'm tired of making new characters every couple of sessions. To that end, I'm currently in the process of writing a python script that put eight to twelve characters, leveled from one to twenty, on character sheets.

But I lose loose paper. So I've gone one step further and put in a lot of legwork to have these sheets made into images, which I will then send to Staples, arrange according to my own design, punch holes in, bind them together, and glue the assembly together. When it's all said and done, it'll be a casebound book between 320 and 480 pages of maximal fuck.

I'll call it the Character Compendium. Or the Hero Handbook. Or the Active Aggression Album.

>>402448

>fix 3.5

An oxymoron. No one's been able to do it, and you won't be the first.

>>402449

Not so much an idea, but more of a declaration, I guess. I wish you good luck and just in case it makes your plan easier, a decent printer is like 50-60 dollarydoos, which I think you might end up spending far more having a few hundred pages printed and binded at staples.

>>402477

Surprisingly, no, it's somewhat cheaper to send them 160 images, request front-and-back in sequence, and order it on 27-lb-weight paper in black-and-white. With those specifications, it comes out to $11.20, with $9.99 for shipping and handling. So it ends up costing less than $25, after applicable taxes and so on. Granted, I could get them to bind it for me, but I don't like the options they have there, so I'm just electing to do the binding with my own hands and supplies.

It's easier than most people think. The fact that my group is unaware of this as one of my hobbies will only make the surprise factor more delicious for me.

>>402306

I remember a similar thread back on 4chan /tg/ a few years ago back when it was good. It was never good.

The idea behind it was that, in the somewhat distant future, humanity has spread across the stars. It took them ages, and since we're talking about a relatively hard science fiction setting here, there was no FTL or other shit that would make traveling the vast expanses of the cosmos fun. So, because of how long it took to cover the galactic distances, the various colonies all developed their own cultures, traditions and so on. There never was an "unified" humanity, only various factions working together in an attempt to survive and expand.

Here's the thing, though. There never were or will be any aliens out there. Humanity was, for all intents and purposes, utterly alone. And because of that, humanity got... weird. Philosophical, solipsistic, spiritual but more importantly, weird.

So you got this really advanced, technologically rooted society, desperately trying to find some meaning in the empty vastness of the cosmos. All kinds of religions, cults and shit start popping up left and right. Everyone's trying to figure out what the fuck this all means, while technology keeps pushing forward and humanity expands and expands like a plague across the void.

Fast forward some time, humans have divided themselves into twelve Signs, each based on a mishmash of western and eastern zodiac. So, for example, the Earth-based civilizations are all focused on the material and have become the backbone of human engineering, mining and industry, focused on making sure human Supremacy is achieved on the material plane (they're also making a Dyson sphere somewhere). The Air-based civilizations are trying to upload themselves into AIs (Geminis always come in pairs of two - the real person and their AI copy, for example).

To "advance" you actually travel from one civilization to the next and adopt their customs, but only after paying your Karmic debt to your old civilization. This also means that, each one starts as an Aries (the first Sign) and has to be an explorer and adventurer, before slowly settling down into politics, science and all other kinds of shit. Once you get to Pisces, the only thing left for you is to die - only to be reborn again (remember that AI pair you make as a Gemini - turns out you get to be re-uploaded into a new body once you die).

Also, the Age of Aquarius is coming to an end. And the next Age is the Age of Pisces, where everyone's expecting humanity to just die overnight because... something? is going to happen. All math shows that something bad is coming, and everyone's perfectly fine with waiting to see what shitstorm comes from the stars.

>>402482

Huh. That's not so bad then. My only experience with some of those print on demand services wasn't great. One of the places I went tried to charge me 10 dollars just to use their computes to connect to the internet and load up a file to check if I could print it, and even then, their rates for printing a few pages were utter shit.

>>402487

Oh, I'm sure trying to orchestrate this in a brick-and-mortar Staples establishment would be a whole other level of nightmare. I haven't tried it specifically because of that. Their website is a pretty pleasant experience, though, and I've found them useful for all sorts of projects. The last involved writing a different python script to make up images with the Lorem Ipsum text written in varied fantasy fonts, so I could make a lazy man's spellbook prop for a group I used to run.

10/10, would recommend, if only because Staples printers apparently don't force a quarter-inch margin on all four sides of whatever print job you're trying to do, like most at-home printers do.

>>402524

>Are you me?

You should know by now that there is only one person posting on /tg/ and having conversations with himself.

>>402538

>implying everyone who has ever played 3.6 hasn't tried to "fix" it already

>resorting to calling everyone who disagrees with your shitty, half-assed homebrew a jew

You should put more effort into your suicide note instead of wasting your time trying to fix D&D.

>>413395

Trolls seem to be goblins and orks natural big.

Its a neat idea, Kinda seems a touch wargamey (as it gives a nice variety of units to a homogenous clan) but I can dig it. Then again I always like as my contribution

>combine orks and elves into a super strong green skinned lithe (ish) forest race of savages.

You could also put some of the classic races at the bottom of their pike (essentially M->L-> Super Large instead the usual).

Dwarves might go something like

>Dwarf > Golem > Mechagolem

As for Ogres which are classic you could probably attach dog like kobols /beastmen (gnolls) to the bottom rung, going something like

>Dog like Kobold > Gnolls > Ogres or Oni (Both Fuzzy, think gnolls with Auruch or mammoth aspects).

>>413395

For elves, their large members can be Fomorians.

>notable NPCs,

The scarecrow

A mid-tier, tryhard bounty hunter known to mostly focus on low-tier bounties with a notable success rate as well as affinity to cosplay as a literal scarecrow with his favorite methods involving pretending to be an actual scarecrow in a field whenever possible

>>413458

>using that skill focus in bluff and craft: farming to good use i see.

<I roll to hide 32, I place a scarecrow, 27, I stealth away 23.

>Ahh Wilbur how many scarecrows were there again?

>>413465

I like it. I feel like the beastfolk need some horrendous one legged giant thing as their large (for 'tism purposes), the formorians are a great choice for elf. I like the biome clans but it means that there will never be a conflict in the forest? Perhaps there could be some branching to the clan idea, The brownies (thinking halflings but grow up to be elfs, better at Crafts less good at stealing) can grow up to be elfs or trow (not to put too fine a point on it) and elfs can grow into Primarchs, trow into Formians but they can also switch sides at the cost of never advancing (so there are trow aligned elves but rarely trow primarchs or perhaps the switch causes a regression into some sort of savage/neadrathal elf (like those 4 armed gorilla things ). Beastmen would seem to be shoe in for the desert clan, you probably also need a tundra, taiga, Coastal, Continental and probably a few other ones (cold desert , etc).

How do you potray a tarrasque or a collosal titan?

>lol I mind-control it.

>>377668

Basically sentient humanoid plants?

Bonus read:

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/thin-air/

Cool tool for creating random (or not) hex maps with descriptions of what is in each cell: https://campaignwiki.org/hex-describe/

>>308484

Why is there another name for imaginary friends?

>>414828

because only one kind of imaginary friend is contagious

>>416736

Look up wild arms my dude. It's vidya/anime, but it should give you plenty to go by

>>417827

I based mine on space western Outlaw Star.

>>417895

if you like Outlaw Star I homebrewed a wizard that used a Caster Gun.

> Preparing spells was creating spell "shells"

> Quests could be built around finding rare or powerful Spell Shells

There were lots of fun ideas to come out of that class. Maybe someday I'll even get to play it.

>>418933

So a shonen anime tournament arc?

>>419019

How would I make it less like one or less generic?

>>419045

>16 year old kid with "holes in his suit" fucking stupid chest window

truth is game was rigged from the start

A faction in post-apocalyptic america founded by someone who stumbled upon an army base with artwork depicting a great leader but containing no other historical context, the group attempts to emulate the leadership and people from the paintings https://archive.fo/ll4uM

Basically The Kings from New Vegas, but with Hitler.

>shadowrun campaign

>PC's are selected (for unknown reasons) to be part of Interpol Task Force 0

>Task Force Zero was created as a part of Dunkelzahn's will, and has a strangely generous but unknown source of funding

>Receive missions and runs from an AI fixer that operates as their Zordon

>Task Force Zero's apparent purpose is the amelioration of supernatural threats to the world and unchecked corporate power

>PC's start with higher than normal budget and build points

>grand arc of the campaign is the unraveling of the true purpose of Task Force Zero i don't know what it is, but if i ran the game i'd think of something over the course of it

>queue good aligned/noble/virtuous shadowrun campaign

>>418933

There was a decent article in Dragon 303 for gladiatorial campaigns. Mechanics (Fame points), types of fighters and matches, and all that.