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What, in your opinions, is the best system for an epic level high fantasy campaign?

>>405165

I'm playing in a 5e campaign with som modified rulings that my DM uses. He's just the right kind of Sperg that the rules are good.

But, more practically for the rest of you, Fate Core. Fate Core or Exalted.

>>405165

Fantasy Craft, but that's just my opinion, as requested. High level FC characters start getting pretty crazy around level 5, and by the time they get to around 15 and higher, they are well within the "nearly Demi-Gods" level of power with connections, holdings, and reputations to match the kid of high level play that most people think about when talking of "epic level" adventures.

Where can I get me some decent chinese proxies for MTG?

What is Latin for sling (the weapon)? What is Latin for bullet (for a sling)?

What's the economic viability of being a professional GM/DM? I've found that I've got quite the knack for it and am willing to do the work.

>>405273

>Where can I get me some decent chinese proxies for MTG?As much as I hate to say it, reddit.com/r/bootlegmtg has an updated list of reviews and comparison images. If you're just playing with friends, then I can recommend Villa Zheng; the cards vary in quality, but he's polite and prices are reasonable.

The Website Guys (appear to) have a wider selection and overall better quality, but I didn't want to give my mailing address to two people with potential Triad contacts.

>>405407

Interesting idea; can't say I know what Middens is. I'd have you focus on the ammunition rather than the gun itself. Perhaps the fires the equivalent of wasp eggs that inject themselves into a host's chest cavity and burst out once they've matured. Maybe they're some kind of magical/mechanical ball bearing which turns the target's insides into grey goo through self-replication.

>>405825

I can't fathom you'd make any money doing it unless you got lucky and became a Content™ Creator™ with (((connections))).

>>405826

>pathfinder

>cleaned up

It's less of a clusterfuck than 3.5, but that's more of a factor of 3.5 than anything. Pathfinder has a lot of contradictory design philosophies, which leads to situations like martial classese needing to spend a full turn getting a weapon from the floor, but casters being able to cast fire magic practically underwater because "it's magic lol." I haven't actually played the system myself, but I'm familiar with 3.5 and anything based on it would be inheriting a monumentally shit foundation. >>364282 may prove useful reading if you really want to learn more.

>elder scrolls d100

Never heard of it. Post the PDF on vola or sendshare (obfuscating the link, obviously), please, since you've piqued my curiosity.

>>405826

>Pathfinder (or 3.5e, but I heard pathfinder's a bit more cleaned up, as it were, and I'm hearing really good things about FantasyCraft)

Pathfinder's changes are hit and miss. While it's nice that Paladin is a functional class 1-20, you've also got retarded changes like CMB/CMD which they knew in the playtest this resulted in combat maneuvers being impossible since monsters had more HD than players.

The real pro of PF is that it's all OGL and the really good third party content. If you know the system and the players are competent at building characters you can absolutely make it work into something mostly balanced with the right restrictions. The other draw is the adventure paths, which vary wildly in quality (Off the top of my head, Council of Thieves, Serpent's Skull, Giantslayer, Mummy's Mask, Wrath of the Righteous and War for the Crown all suck overall, though not all the component modules are necessarily bad.)

>who's only experience is with 5e which is apparently babby's first tabletop and streamlined/dumbed down to hell.

It is.

Actually, speaking of that what are the good and bad PF APs?

Here's what I know

Bad:

Savage Tide

<most events are essentially random encounters

<doesn't really understand what higher level PCs can do and hands them challenges they can break easily

<personality of NPCs varies between modules

Second Darkness

<about helping some elves who explicitly don't really want your help and are assholes

<wonky encounters

Council of Thieves

<has no idea what it wants the overall plot to be

Serpent's Skull

<can't actually remember much about why it's beyond it being unimpressive

Wrath of the Righteous

<horrible NPCs like a tranny that sold a sacred artifact to demons for drugs and is supposed to be the good guy

<doesn't even give any way to convey this to the PCs

<good deities are potrayed as psycho bitches

<mythic rules are clusterfuck

Giantslayer

<focus on type of monsters that aren't really all that varied and have no interesting special abilities

<poor justification for why you're getting to kill all the giant types in sequential order

Mummy's Mask

>actually read through most of this one

>first module is really strong

<everything else just drops the ball

<doesn't actually have all that much tomb plundering past the first book

<Book two opens with the great concept of the local merchants having excess supply of relics and dropping their offering prices to compensate, then stops caring about it once using it to drag the PCs to the next area is accomplished

<none of the rival parties in the first book are mentioned again

<book three is all about appeasing a nutty, obese bureaucrat that has the hots for a random PC so she authorizes you to do visit a restricted library (I'm sure would work great in other mediums but can't see working in gameplay too well in the slightest.)

<since you don't actually do much in the library on-screen nothing really breaks up these scenes

<it's possible to fail, forcing you to sneak into the library which is fine but means you have to toss out over half the module (worse if the PCs do this right away)

War for the Crown

<poorly planed out to the point it isn't sure exactly the central conflict is over

>book 2 is actually a pretty nice sandbox where you recruit allies to take down the local baron while staying inconspicuous and managing a small town

Dragon's Demand

<setup around reaching level 10 in a fixed number of pages so it throws rapid poorly connected encounters at the PCs to give them enough XP

>>405840

Good:

Age of Worms

>good puzzles and setpieces

>challenges are actually suited for the level

>actually easy to convert to Eberron while incorporating what makes Eberron good (Sharn, dragon council being manipulative fucks)

Kingmaker

>awesome sandbox

<lack of foreshadowing big bad

<kingdom building rules are wonky

>>405829

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2KESbIjtwHsOFgxdXhoNDRJN2c

v3 is technically a work in progress but it's complete enough for you to get a good idea, do tell me what you think

I put this question here from another thread. I like Dark Angels, so I will ask a question about the Unforgiven (Successor chapters of the DA) here, instead of the QTDDTOT:

Its explained the the Unforgiven have the same composition os the DA, that meaning that ther first two companies are based on the DeathWing & the Ravenwing companies. But thing is, that would mean in theory that any Unforgiven Chapter have, if not fully, a great majority of the first company in Terminator armor (Which is rare & costly to make); And Ravenwing case would be that they would also have Nephilim figthers & Dark Talons then?

So what is it, then? Do Unforgiven have not only the organization, but the equipment too of the Dark Angels?

>>404539

DnD prestige classes don't really seem all that good, what was even the point of making them that instead of standard classes?

Would you say that having standardized class/XP level requirements has kinda fucked the difficulty scaling in D&D? For example, everyone levels up at the same time, and this introduces several huge power spikes. (And yes, everyone levels up at the same time because some poor sod is going to lose 200 xp from being bodied during an encounter and the DM will invariably give them the extra XP so they don't waste time doing it next session)

Instead, in 2e, you'd have everyone leveling up at different rates, so instead of power spikes, you have constant, incremental growth among the party, and while the power is harder to notice, it lets you be much more creative with scaling

>>406549

Something to work towards. It's bland to be stuck with the same thing all the time. Who wants to go through 20 levels of Fighter when you can do 8 levels of one class, and 10 as another? Likewise, it'd be like sticking with a two-handed sword all the time, instead of being able to try a sword and board

>>406554

>Who wants to go through 20 levels of Fighter when you can do 8 levels of one class, and 10 as another?

But you see standard multi-classing already accomplishes that. 3.5 doesn't use AD&D rules All XP tables is the character level table, class levels is just how many times you choose to pick that class every time your character's character level goes up. Then you get this weird shit involving prestige classes.

Most of these don't even make much sense like Acolyte of the Skin (you devote yourself entirely to a pointlessly slow skin graft that anyone else can buy from Sigil with some coin), or Arcane Archer (the infamous cool sounding trap), or Dragon Disciple (????) they're so useless the only time you'd see it is because someone first got into DnD through Neverwinter or the DM is using it as NPC classes.

>>406554

Everyone using different XP rates makes managing the game a clusterfuck. Tracking that is a pain in the ass, as is everyone having the time to level up. The idea that 3E is what made casters OP is a myth. Look at BG and the Gold Box games, as well as plenty of old Dungeon adventures that say a caster heavy party will need the challenge upped and you'll see casters were always OP.

>>406549

Prestige Classes vary wildly in power.. Dual progression classes (the most fitting prestige class type) like Arcane Trickster or Eldritch Knight simply can't be standard classes. Others are too niche and narrow to focus an entire 20 levels on but are good abilities. In general the core prestige classes are bland (Eldritch Knight, Arcane Trickster, Assassin, ), caster plus (Archmage, Thaumaturgist, Loremaster) or junk (everything else) so you can't really judge based on them.

Ideally you'd do something like Saga Edition did where each class has, instead of fixed class features, talents you select at every level and no talent tree would be super deep. Then you could just make more talents and prestige classes would be nothing more than dual advancement stuff.

>>406750

Evil doesnt necessarily mean bad (I mean in DnD it does but dont think about it that way). Rather, theyre selfish and amoral. They'll do anything to achieve their goals. Being lawful, you'll do cruel interpretation of the law, benefiting yourself and cause, making promises only when it benefits you (but never breaking them) and generally extorting people

what would be a good system for running a game based on the PJO/HoO 'verse?

I've considered scion, and part time gods, and have been flirting with savage worlds but I don't know it well enough

>>406773

What the fuck is PJO/HoO?

>>406779

He needs a patient group and a GM that rewards roleplaying instead of punishing a lack of it

Minis and maps couldn't hurt; they sure help me a fuck of a bunch

>>406786

It sounds as if they never even started before they freaked out, though.

What are people's thoughts on Apocalypse World and it's many hacks? I recently picked up a Wrestling hack of it and it's pretty damn fun, I really like the emphasis on player agency and choice, sandbox nature, easy prep, and straightforward rules. From what I can tell most of the other hacks and Apocalypse World it's self share a lot of the same positives. Just wondering what negatives and positives people have experienced from PbtA systems?

Also I assume it's pretty pozzed, but what isn't these days?

>>406813

So you lost me with a lot of that as I don't pay much attention to the tabletop scene or any of that, but what I'm taking away is that the system doesn't work for every situation as the hacking community like to claim? Sounds fair to me given what I have played of PbtA so far is fair more conversation driven and a lot less of a straightforward game, but again that's why I like it so much for what I've played of it. For a Wrestling game for example that open nature keeps things fast, interesting, and more than anything focused on character and development. Still, I could easily see how that doesn't work for every game, for example I'll probably try Dungeon World at some point, but I doubt it could really give DnD fans the crunch and tactics they're looking for given it's so loose.

Anyway, just wanted to explain what I took away from your post, my only question is if you could flesh out exactly why it's "cancer and shit"? Is it that hackers tried to shoe-horn every system in to it to make a dumbed down version or is it something else?

>>406890

Fair enough, I can definitely understand all those issues. Thanks.

/tg/, is there any site out there that has a complete list of all RPGs and their sourcebooks, adventures, etc? Preferably with the product code of the releases as well?

A site other than rpggeek, something that has the lists in a text format, for instance.

>>406781

Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus.

Modern fantasy, demigod childs that have to get by being hunted by monsters almost constantly, and who go to a special summer camp where they can be safe and train so they are not mincemeat the rest of the year

>>406750

Lawful: You want to maintain the current system. Though there might be 'better' alternatives, having an ordered and structured society is more important than trying to make a 'happy' one. It is also better than trying to tear apart everything - in this manner, you oppose both benevolent and antagonist Chaotic sorts. You are more likely than not bound by some sort of code of honor, and as a Cleric, bound by that of your faith in any event.

Evil: You are generally more oriented toward yourselves than others. This is not quite 'do as you will', since you're still a system maintainer, but you have little qualms regarding morality. That said, your cruelty serves a purpose - Torture to extract information, not for fun (though you may enjoy it); slavery for purposes of labor; etc.

If your 'Evil' outweighs your 'Lawful' in importance, then your wish to maintain things stems principally because it advantages you in some way, and you hover on the borderline between slipping closer toward Chaos in the event of a major catastrophe. If your 'Lawful' outweighs your 'Evil', then age, experience, or influence from Good sorts might make you a candidate for redemption. As a Cleric, whose religious philosophy is built upon Lawful/Evil tenants, these are both unlikely scenarios - More likely than not, a conversion or fall from 'grace' would be required before either could take place, and in any case, would not be desirable.

What are some operational level Hex & Counter games that DON'T utilise stacking.

>>406750

>>406754

I thought Lawful Evil was following a code of selfishness/amorality taught to you by another?

>>407132

It still has "lawful" in the name.

>>407132

It's being amoral, but you generally at least believe there has to be some semblance of rules. You also generally enjoy having power over other people. It doesn't really start to get weird until you go beyond the rules of men.

>>407496

In 3.5 submersion in a substance did 10 times the damage of being hit with it (See Lava rules in the SRD for an example). 5x as a cap for a big container sounds fairly reasonable, though I'd require much less than 40 gallons to get that much.

There's precedent for splash weapons not scaling linearly in D&D history. In 3.5 via Heroes of Battle has 10 pound clay spheres filled with alchemist fire as seige weapon that do 1d6 bludgeonin+2d6 fire. That is 2 times what a 1 pound thing of alchemist fire does at 10 times the weight. You've got 334+ pounds of water (more if the holy water has silver in it).

>>407132

Lawyers come to mind. Exploiting the confines of a set of rules to benefit you and punish others until you're powerful enough to set them yourself. Bureaucracy and backstabbing.

>>407504

I'm assuming this is per turn? I remember doing something similarly stupid in a 3.5 campaign, throwing 20 flasks of holy water all on separate ropes tied to a central chakram. The DM stopped writing sessions before the "flying jellyfish" got to debut but I'm glad to see there were actual rules in place concerning something like that.

>>407496

Damage scaling like that isn't linear in DnD, I'd rule it as 10d6 at the beginning of battle, and then apply it with a successive -2 d6 at the beginning of every turn after that.

>>407920

>but in the off chance both are supposed to be done at once, how do you pull it off?

Obviously Efreets won't screw you if the Efreet benefits, you don't act like a cunt, and it's not the usual vaguely worded grand wishes of power, immortality, become God you know stuff like that. He's still gonna be an asshole about it but the PC has to be smooth when dealing with that.

>>407941

So literally the "I'm either the nicest person you know or a total fucking psychopath" edgy kid meme? Or rather, "talk shit, get hit".

In all seriousness, thanks for answering.

>>407933

Ah that doesn't sound so bad.

> Volcano exploded.

> Why?

> 'Fuck knows?

< But it was actually the fire god, who was mad.

>>408093

What you're going to want to do is lurk for at least 5 years and if you can't do that, return to cuckchannel and never darken our cozy board with your faggotry ever again.

Players want to play genetically engineered supersoldiers wearing power armor in a space opera setting that is not Warhammer 40K. Is there a system that is not a generic system like FATE that fits?

>>408103

GURPS

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>>408104

G is generic U is universal

it's like being wrong twice over.

I ask this about once a year it seems

Could someone remind me of the name of this particular webcomic? its about some guy's x-com character that decided to be a dungeon master. the first comic ends with a newspaper headline about how his dungeon sucks. he then starts to hire monsters and such. it's a /tg/ classic so i know half of you know what i mean, but i always forget the name. the mc is a buff dude and his t-shirt says boss or something like that. and it's mostly in black and white if that helps

>>407988

Is this a different system from DnD? If it isn't then I'm not envisioning an edgy kid. The Efreet are from the Plane of Fire which is the only naturally Neutral Evil elemental plane (all sources of good was placed there from an outside source). Efreet hate servitude but you can pay them for wishes, if your poor you can plead and make a very strong passionate case and because of the honor system they may grant this wish on the condition you don't come back begging for more. Just don't phrase the wish as if he's doing anything but a favor to you. There is one exception to wish granting, since they're from the plane of fire wishing for an inferno burning down some forest somewhere because you lack the tools to do it yourself is about the one wish where it will leave a good impression.

>>408111

Irritability

In 40K are there any Chaos War Bands that are dedicated to fighting off Tyranids? I'm honestly curious if any of the ruinous forces and their lackeys have any sense of self preservation to try and put off the extinction of sentient life by Bugmen. I'd figure at least some Khornates might be big on that shit, plenty of spikey blood skulls to go around and the bloodshed of the faithful that are fighting them, but that's or Chaos Undivided are the only ones I can think that might actually try and do something about this developing problem.

>>408222

Warrands are a shitload of maybe they will, maybe they won't. Even answering Failbaddon's call is a maybe. If any one warband is dedicated to fighting Tyrannids it is certainly not going to be in the Eye of Terror since Tyrannids look like an all consuming swarm in the warp.

Other than Sternhalma, are there any board games that

1: Support more than 2 players

2: Have all information public

3: No randomization beyond game setup.

Would it be feasible to modify dadaengine to randomly generate characters and scenarios rather than post-modernist trash?

Anyone familiar with the Star Wars d20's Living Force RPGa campaign? Mining the adventures for lore and encounters and I noticed The guidelines say heroes above level 13 get retired. However only late ones scenarios give more than 1000 XP and many give less and it was possible to miss a large chunk while it's officially possible to miss a large chunk of XP that's supposed to be an RP award. Problem is it takes 78,000 XP to get to 13th level and even if a character did every adventure that gave XP (none of the LARP ones did), even the country exclusives, and got perfect RP XP getting that high simply isn't possible from scenario XP alone. Was there some other source of XP?

I suspect it's a holdover from other RPGa stuff (I've heard hilarity of abusing XP costs and multiclass penalties to create characters that never retire)

>>408253

Chinese Checkers

>>408478

> What if techpriests uplifted dolphins or octopi into sentience? Would it be heresy?

Sounds heretical.

> I mean, it'd be technically a native Terran species,

But not humans.

> uplifted by Human technology,

Unlicensed and untested.

> and it's not an AI.

They are created artificially and they are intelligent.

Basically, since anything can be called heretical (at least, by some people) and there is no objective measure of heresy, the real question is if people in charge recognize it as heresy.

>>408480

>But not humans.

Yeah, but Imperium considers Terra holy, and thus all creatures that naturally evolved together with humans are holy

>But not humans.

Imperium uses dogs, wolves, eagles and horses, does it not? Hell, some consider them holy.

>Unlicensed and untested

What if it's Cawl? The fucker basically messed with the Emperor's own work, and nobody said anything. And he IS a Magos Biologis.

>They are created artificially and they are intelligent.

So you're saying Krieg guardsmen are AIs?

>>408478

>uplift

Mutants are to be exterminated.

>>408477

That's literally another name for Sternhalma

Ok, I had to delete a post because I messed up copypasting something I made where shouldn't be posted. Today is not my day.

I'm making an alchemist half orc with 18 intelligence, 16 strenght, 14 constitution, 13 wisdom and 11 dexterity and charisma. I'm going somewhat a healer, to have my extracts being infusions. What feats or what stats should I increase to be a good mad doctor with good physical stats besides "extra discovery"?

Trying to write a setting:

> Underground Pocket Dimension where Demons and witches rule.

> Anyone can find suddenly themselves in this dimension (doesn't matter which setting -sci-fi or fantasy) by getting lost in the dark in the underground

> People who stumble into this dimension are captured by monstrosities in this place.

> then forced into a fight in their Colosseum

> Those who survive their first fight are put on an auction to be bought by a patron Demon or Wtich. Their new masters feed them, provide housing, and give them new equipment. But as soon as the fighters tick them off or lose they're either sold into slavery or taken apart to create zombie servants like the losers of the initial bout.

> Mutants, demons and patchworks all around.

> Tone is darkly comedic.

Any good books, comics, and etc that I can draw material from?

>>408847

Ignore me.

I forgot world building thread was a thing.

>>408478

Why in the name of the emperors dessicated balls would the TECHPRIESTS want to uplift a animal species? If anything they would rather find a way to make them specified servitors, but those already exist and are much more plentiful by utilizing humans.

This sounds much more like Xeno shit. Have the Eldar do it, or better yet the Tau so they can reenact some Hentai.

Is there a system where the players can play as Artificial Intelligences?

>>408910

Like a robot or just a facility complex controlled by a computer?

>>409008

neuroshima tbh

>>409008

Use the STALKER rpg system. Yep, it exists. I think I have it, but my main pc is not available, or else I would have posted it. You might find

>>409011

*You might fibd it in the pdf thread, or in some archive.

>>402400

Where can I find the templates for these? I'm getting into 40k after 10+ years of lurking and knowing about it and I want to play around with this before I paint an army.

>>409008

Depends on the genre, how it should look.

Many things are better than D&D: Stopped Caring Two Editions Ago edition.

>>409063

> Savage worlds

Sure, but if you put up with dice juggling stepping, may as well play Alternity.

>>408910

Any Star Wars system.

>>409063

Anything related to Savage Worlds is good. I just felt in love with the system. It should replace the GURPS meme.

>>408779

Sorry for being a faggot and insisting, but this is my first non melee character and I'm shitty doing proper builds.

Also, did anyone try Starfinder? is it interesting enouth to have space ships crash in a fantasy world and do some silly pulp fiction adventures with barbarians and robots?

>>409160

It's shit

>WBL is actually worse than 3.5 since you outright need high powered gear damage power enemies

>to add to this you can't buy better weapons till you're a high enough level, no there isn't an explanation for this

>ship combat is hilariously disconnected from everything else, so your ship arbitrarily grows in power with average party level

>the way ability scores grow means an odd ability score is a waste, even if you intend to increase it

Iron Gods on the other hand, actually is pretty good if you're willing to play from the view of the Barbarians.

>>408779

Healing in combat in 3.X systems is pretty shit. What you want to do is pack a wand of Cure Light Wounds, a Wand of Lesser Restoration (made by a Paladin so it's a first level spell) and get various condition removal spells in your spellbook. Remember that as an Alchemist you have the unique advantage of being able to fill unused spell slots (like a wizard can) to prepare condition removal in less than half an hour while Cleric has to wait a day, spontaneous divine casters need a scroll or are screwed (without the magic item that lets you fuel a scroll with spell slots).

>>409063

In particular the Savage Worlds based second edition Monster Hunter International game that's coming out in a few months might be a good starting point. It's based on a book series about monster hunters with autistic detail on guns.

>>408133

That makes a lot more sense- thanks!

>>409206

I see, that's all fair. What about stuff to do experiments or to fuck up monsters? can I learn Flesh to Stone from a scroll or a wizard's book? To throw petrifying infusions all arround. I'm even thinking about throwing Stone to Flesh vials to stone golems to make them crappy flesh golems.

Also, what other recipes, feats or discoveries should I learn to do experiments? hoping to see if my DM will allow me to do fleshcraft potions even if I'm not evil.

Also, a Monster Hunter game? That sounds coo-

>Not dinosaur hunting game

Oh, ok.

>>409206

Hah, you think D&D has shitty healing? Come back when healing forfeits you AND your target's entire next turn. My players were catastrophically butthurt about that. I love it.

>>404539

ok

What exactly is "bad GMing"?

>>409435

Railroading players through a story and not allowing them to guide it in any way, using a heavily adversarial approach to planning fights and challenges, employing an overpowered GMPC to outshine the players, not knowing any of the rules but using GM fiat to force your way through things, fudging dice rolls so players always lose, obsessively pursuing realism and verisimilitude at the expense of the fun and flow of the game, playing favorites with the players and allowing some to use clearly broken homebrew material, but not allowing other players to do the same, and above all else: Poorly inserting your fetish into the game.

Should alignment have a statistic benefit? In an extension I'm making, I've made it so that based on your alignment, you can perform a level 1 spell once per week, you gain -6 to the stat associated with the opposite alignment, and social rolls with those of an opposite alignment are made harder. Unaligned parties get no spell, but neither do they receive any negatives to stats or social rolls. Is this a good way to add player choice and connect it to the mechanical part, or am I over-complicating things?

>>409448

>When your players resolve to reform the giantess

>>409463

Is this for DnD? Alignments already give benefits to access for feats and spell immunity/weakness tradeoffs plus some supplements expands the Good vs Evil fuckery to include making sworn oaths that are polar opposites of each other, actual real msytical forces that slowly mold you into one alignment or the other. Plus Neutral is actually it's own cosmically enforced alignment because of the Rule of Three, the True Neutral planer embodiments are kind of the worst fence sitters you've ever seen trapped with light Buddhist symbolism and themes. Actively going out of their way to encourage one opposite extreme in counter to the other just because.

>>409479

It's not for DnD exactly, it's for an OSR-type game that I'm putting additional choices on to. The idea is, OCU and FTH are neutral statistics, but chasing Occultic magic or higher levels of Faith can be Evil or Good respectively. Mages and Clerics are exempt from this: both have been trained their magic by an impartial, unaligned school or college, one which may hinge on being Evil or Good, but which is never explicitly one of the two.

>>409498

Sounds like you're just incorporating the ideas of Vile Darkness and Exalted Deeds. The -6 is pretty ridiculous.

>>409508

It's ridiculous only insofar as it can be detrimental to play an Evil Cleric or Good Mage (FTH is used to test holy spells, OCU for arcane spells), or having a Good aligned party that has to face off against holy forces (as FTH is used to resist black magic, and OCU is used to resist holy magic). The benefit is that you can cast a spell as a non-spellcaster, or gain a spell from the opposing school of magic.

I'm going to be a player in my first ever game where story and roleplaying as opposed to rollplaying is the the stated goal. To celebrate this I made a character drastically different from myself; A noble elf lady with moderate magical skills (as magical knowledge is hoarded by the nobility in the setting) but a total lack of practical day-to-day knowledge. Any advice? I've never played a female character or a high class character before. Also elves in the setting are similar to the ancient Chinese as the GM thought the long lives fit China's stagnant culture.

>>409512

Level 1 spells aren't really worth a -6 penalty, -2 maybe.

>>409530

Your character is always going to have knowledge that you, the player, cannot have. They can also be smarter, smoother, more capable, and more experienced than you. The trick is that all you have to do is ask your DM certain questions when you are stuck on how to make a decision.

>I don't know the proper protocol for this situation, but my character should. What would be the right way for a noble to do this?

>I'm not sure how magic works in this setting, but my character does magic all the time, so would I recognize this what I'm seeing?

As long as your GM is competent, these are all perfectly fine questions to ask and within the rules for you to be able to probe the GM for information that fits your character, or could at the very least prompt a roll which will determine whether or not you know something.

>>409542

That makes sense, playing more slowly and pondering my actions and options more than in a dungeon crawl. I'll keep that in mind, thank you.

>>409545

No reason your character can't also do combat stuff and still have the character be a pretty pretty elf princess. If the Elves in your setting are based off the Chinese empire, it was pretty common for them to associate strength and god-like battle prowess with nobility and royalty. Most Chinese emperors and rulers were warlords who dabbled in art and philosophy on the side because that was the trend.

Otherwise, playing a character shouldn't have to feel like something you need to painstakingly play out. Once you know their broad personality, you can just define them along the way and have them shaped by playing.

>>409731

Funfact, there is a movie based on Dark Dungeons that both manages to be completely accurate to Jack Chick's original work while also completely taking the piss out of it.

I've not actually watched it and only know about it through video related. Still, it looks fucking hilarious. The actors were clearly having fun with it, so I kinda want to see it one day.

In Latin is it "Novum Tarraco" or "Nova Tarraco"?

>>409978

Tarraco is feminine so it would be Nova Tarraco.

>>409861

All of them. Get the compendium and ignore rules you don't use. You'll have to make your own turning key and scale all the distances. I've done this before with and it's fairly simple.

How do you handle diseases/curses?

>>409731

>satanic panic over a board game

>nothing about the satanic cults sacrificing animals in the wilderness

At times it seems peoples priorities are misplaced.

Are there any good systems/settings for Age of Sail play?

So... getting back into my alchemist question. How can I justify fleshcrafting stuff to my DM without being evil (or at least not actively doing evil stuff to innocent people even if I have the evil alignment)? I just want to help and heal orphans while turning captive bandits into Dr. Moreau horrors or living tumours.

>>409889

Sawit around the time it came out. It's way more tongue in cheek and silly, if you couldn't tell from the JonTron video. I don't think it really did the Chick Tracts justice, though. They went too over-the-top and made some silly stuff about Cthulhu and Matrix-esque orgy raves, instead of just playing it straight as a direct example of how silly Christian zealots can be.

>>410426

Just be honest with him and tell him you only plan on doing it to "acceptable targets" like bandits or really evil dudes or whatever. If he's not cool with that, then there's probably nothing you can do to convince him that being the human version of The Thing isn't that bad.

>>410433

What I worry more about is the bad alignment and doesn't allow me to do good acts even if I do REALLY twisted stuff to people I feel justified to fuck over.

I just want to heal orphans with the power of unethical experiments.Also give others the chance to get wings and monster stuff just for shit and giggles.

>>410491

First off, what system?

Second off, trying to make your player's characters for them will make them less invested. You don't know if they're even going to care about this Spaniards vs French backdrop you're putting them in. Have you discussed the idea with them? If they're new, you're running the risk of dumping them into the game and getting the entire thing locked up in choice paralysis. They don't know what to do, why they should do anything, where they should go, what rules to use, or what should motivate their characters.

That said, the easiest way to make player's care about what's happening in the game is to make shit happen to their characters. Their home gets burnt down. Their shop gets ransacked. Their favorite mule gets stolen.

Is it possible to use GURPS to set a campaign in The Culture universe? I cannot think of any other system that would make it possible to do so.

>>410495

The system is warhammer RPG 2ed with a good bunch of home brew rules, mainly to speed up the combat. It's a classless system (you get abilities directly), combat is cruel and dangerous and that way players are encouraged to pick their fights carefully and not muder-hobbo their way through. It's a system that also requires the players to learn almost no rules; they just tell you what they want to do in terms of narrative and as GM you translate it into rules.

In my experience, novice players tend to make really weak characters, with a poorly defined personality and no motivation at all. I want to assist them with the character creation to try help them make characters they feel comfortable with but also have some meat to them (ideally, we'll do it chatting online, one on one and a few days prior; in my experience, having made the characters beforehand lets them "mature" a bit in the player's head).

>>410433

Another question about Pathfinder in general. If you make a statue golem and then use stone to flesh, can you create animated human life? or are the rules against that?

>>410548

The result should just be a flesh golem, albeit a pretty one. The spell changes materials but does not add or remove life force.

>>410589

I see... and can I get familiar feats if I get the familiar tumor discovery? And if I do vivisector stuff to it the familiar loses the condition of familiar I've heard.

>>410548

wouldn't that just make it a huge stature-shaped piece of flesh?

Like, I assume, when you turn a human into stone, so do his internal organs, and inside he has a stone stomach, stone guts, stone heart, etc. And a statue only has solid stone inside.

So when you turn a statue into stone, it'd be like this one huge slab of muscle, or skin, or whatever else.

Am I being retarded or is there no way to download folders on the trove? I don't wanna fucking download all these files one by one.

>>410624

So you can't create life by any meaning?

>>410624

Fuck, just another idea.

Could you turn someone petrified into a golem?

>>410642

I mean, it'd still be alive, but it would be immobile, with no real way to receive and ingest sustenance. If you manage to keep it alive through magic somehow, it'd be life alright.

>>410669

I see. I also saw in ultimate magic that you can put a brain in a jar into a golem. Can you keep the brain's original personality into a golem robot or it is ust a necromantic accesory to get feats and stuff on golems?

Also, what if you hire the best sculptor of the kingdom and give him a diagram of every organ in a human body to recreate it on stone before animating and then turning into flesh?

It would be much easier to just clone or do a Frankenstein, but my autism is speaking through me.

>>410670

>Can you keep the brain's original personality into a golem robot or it is ust a necromantic accesory to get feats and stuff on golems?

That's a question we don't have an answer to IRL. There was this one head transplant that was going to happen, but then it was canceled. We still do not know just how much personality is in the brain.

As for the feat transfer, I assume a lot of those have to do with knowing one's body. You can't just train yourself to use your body in specific ways, then transfer to another one, and be expected to pull the same results.

>Also, what if you hire the best sculptor of the kingdom and give him a diagram of every organ in a human body to recreate it on stone before animating and then turning into flesh?

Why sculpt? Why not make it step by step out of concrete, and animate each part with a different stone-to-life spell.

>>410671

Well, what I really mean is preserving a brain alive and placing it on a golem.

The only thing I like about Pathfinder is opening the door to do very weird and rule allowed mad science.

I've been collecting a bunch of army men recently. Because the brand that was selling the best looking army men I knew didn't have them in tan anymore, but LIME GREEN, I threw my fucks away and bought a whole bucket of them to make my own tan army men. But the thing is: I haven't painted army men before. My plan was just to spray paint it and they would be painted forever, but I don't want to ruin them by being careless.

Long story short: How would I go about spray painting army men? Do I need a primer? What kind of paint do I use? Will the paint last forever?

>>410670

The information stored in your organs isn't so substantial that it would warrant more then a footnote. However the question is impossible to answer, because what exactly is being fed to the brain and what would that information be processed as? You couldn't really know. A full body cyborg is easy to visualize perceiving the world filtered through a synth or something but a Golem usually made of some mundane substance and being moved around via magic? Who knows what that would look like.

A person's personality would be the same in the short period but long term it's entirely a guess what would happen, assuming they aren't completely slaved to the body stopping them from being able to do anything forever.

I have a autistic homebrew setting where magic and mythological creatures came to exist one day in the modern world. So you have magic societies that were transported from other dimensions, people with psychic potential showing up, mythological creatures appearing, zombie outbreaks, and other cheesy doomsday/fantasy stuff showing up. I GMed some games in a time period much later than the calamity, but now I wanted to DM a game that takes place in ehe early days of what happened. The later day stuff was described as being more stable slightly as most of the dangerous stuff was cleared out, but there were dangerous areas still. So the setting was more about dealing with other factions and some goofy stuff.

My main question is how weird and creepy should I make the early days of the calamity? I was planning on having standard fantasy stuff showing up in modern areas, but I also planned to have eldritch monsters and cults as well that showed up. The original inhabitants and their descendants are resistant to magic, so should that later some things? I have planned so far to have a town where no one speaks their own names because the people that do end up dying in gruesome ways as people slowly forget who the person that died was outside of mementos. The game will be focused more on survival than combat stuff.

>>410642

You can. Take Craft Wondrous Item and make a Pathfinder's Greatcoat (Pathfinder Society Primer). You have now just converted a bunch of vague magic stuff into a coat that can spawn a living, real horse as an instantaneous effect.

Alternatively, Polymorph Any Object can make inanimate objections into living, intelligent creatures and may be permanent if you pick the right combination or target and result.

>>410788

I'm pretty sure there's also a book for ADnD that outlines how a mad wizard did this already, and that's 20+ years ago.

>>411165

Simple. Make the party struggle to defeat one or two, then have them alert an entire stadium's worth of bad boy ghosts. Have a chase scene for a bit until the party gets away and now they'll know not to fuck with things or try to play hero. All further encounters would be them trying to stay low and failing or something

>>411191

FATE?

Fate is shitlike Madness is.

Dick clown is best clown.

What sort of non-combat-related activities would a Medieval knight be expected to be good at?

>>411452

Eating pussy, as all good men of chivalry learn.

>>411269

Okay, have the previously established necromancers incredibly skeeved out for the entire encounter. Either A. one applies the secret sauce on the party "dampening their vital energonities" such that they need to (keep their pulse down/act like they're dead/etc with threat against combat) in order to blend in; hungry dead attacks them, salve sauce is gone, horde alert, party re-salves and escapes.

You could have the shoud/salve/magic require that they avoid doing anything aside from sessile movement otherwise their vitality shines through the deception and drags in progressively more creatures.

B. is a cooler idea and involves bringing beloved/friendly/least creepy necromancer along, he sacrifices himself to distract the horde so they can get away when someone makes a fuckup.

Try combining the two, if you want. Especially devious is making the party choose to sacrifice someone as a distraction so the rest can get away.

>>411452

Literacy.

Depending on exactly how you define "knight", he may very well have property to manage. Being good at that is helpful. Riding is useful outside of combat as in. Also depending on what exactly a "knight" is, he might be responsible for raising levies from the land he owns and manages. In that case he would benefit from being able to train them well. Having some ability to fix his own gear wouldn't hurt either.

>>411883

Delta Green

>CoC

>Conspiracies on Conspiracies

>Eldritch Mindbending

<Not the greatest combat

Find it on da archive. Bretty solid choice.

Dark Heresy

>I literally know nothing about this

>Kinda fits the theme

<Would need a lot of work to fit in the setting

You can find this fucking anywhere

Esoterrorists

>Weird esoteric cult shit

>Organization dedicated to containing it

>Cover ups and investigations

<Not a ton of shooty stuff

<I dont know shit about the game nor anyone who plays it.

Decent choice if you have a group thats open to it

Find it on the trove

NWoD

>Established Lore

>Long form conspiracies

>Lots of options for players

<Not fucking eldritch

<Janky as shit

Approach with caution

Da Archive

KULT

>Daemons and shit

>Potential godhood through badvibes

>Good potential for storytelling

<Incredibly Edgy

<Obscure to the extreme

<Not strictly eldritch

I say this has good "potential" for characters who are trying to maintain their mental balance to prevent them from drawing creatures to the world or triggering other oddities, but good luck finding anyone whos even heard of the game let alone played it.

Trove.

I'm not very experienced with any of these games but these are the things that crossed my mind when you posted your inquiry.

Despite my ignorance, I hope this helps.

I'm looking for audiobooks, preferably already on YouTube that aren't complete and utter dime store trash. There are some Discworld books on there and the occasional Horus Heresy novels (many of which ARE dime store trash) but apart from those I can't really find good stuff. Some DnD books but those are insulting to my intelligence and a lot of throwaway crap you find for 2 bucks on Amazon.

Help.

>>410740

I am gonna ask this question again. My players were confused at some parts which was kind of the goal, but they seemed to afraid to do anything at other parts which halted the game. Should I make certain signs that indicate something is safe, or how should I got about getting my players to act?

Has anyone played Living Steel before? What is it like?

>>411452

Chess, prayer, riding, hunting, courtship.

Does anyone play Mantic's Vanguard? I'm about to do a second campaign battle about assaulting enemy carriages and I'm playing orcs.

I'm conflicted between having two gore riders and have three greatax and the krudger with heavy weapons or have one gore rider, a godspeaker and no equipment?

>>412058

Just write down clues to whoever has the skill or background to know better. Discreetly hand it to the player.

Does anyone have that collaborative hex crawl from about half a year ago? I am genuinely considering running it as a change of pace for my group, but unfortunately never saved it or archived the thread. I remember it had some sort of void in the north, a crashed mindflayer UFO in the south, and a central ocean.

>>412638

It's in the shitty on-site archive that doesn't save pics or files, so... You're out of luck unless someone has the pdf.

https://8ch.net/tg/res/359678.html

Guys, are there any good science fiction RPGs or mecha RPGs? I'm burned out on fantasy: high, low, grimdark, West, East, etc.

>>412647

In terms of science fiction, you could run something warhammer 40k. There is the d6 star wars system that is pretty good, and the rules can be found for free online. Mutants and masterminds can be used to run pretty much any setting you want. Basic Roleplaying mecha is good for mecha settings.

>>412647

I bet there's a gurps content book for mechas and there are certainly several ultra-high-tech, sci-fi and space opera ones.

Try Traveller rpg for just sci-fi if you don't want to get consumed by gurps.

>>412647

Star Wars D6 and Saga Edition.

>>412786

I'm literally just dumping all the ideas I can think up starting yesterday, if you want to waste time making some elaborate image out of it at this point then feel free.

>>412791

He's saying your request doesn't make much sense because it's just a jumble of words.

>>412809

Try play-by-post forum branch of rpg.net

Maybe not the best place to start with, but probably the most populated

>>412794

Maybe both.

>>412809

Where's the one where the guy made basically a shitty Spirit based monk with no useful abilities, got bullied by longtime vets, and then accidentally ended up with infinite power, and basically OHKO the oldest, most arrogant player and caused the forum to die overnight?

>>412835

Ballad of Edgardo.

It's here

>>407149

4th pic.

Is there any settings like borderlands or upcoming "outer worlds" that I could use as a reference for something similar? Anything goes - books, films, games etc.

I'm sure there's plenty, but I don't know how to find any. What I'm after is a setting where players could go full cowboy in future, maybe on another planet.

>>412914

Space Dandy, Cowboy Bebop, You could take borderlands and make it not shit by getting rid of shitty "haha so selfaware insecure writing"

>>413211

Only play with 15 card packs. Or 8 card packs, but keep the number the same. Having different people open different sized packs means that some people will end up with more or less cards than others.

How the fuck do you deal with retards that can't handle meetup times without burning down a campaign? We will schedule a session a week in advance on the same day we always have it, same time as always.

Yet some people still don't show and won't accept blame or any inkling that they might be in the wrong. I'm ready to quit tabletop over this shit.

>>413542

Are you the GM? Compromise or put your foot down. The most successful groups I've been a part of have succeeded off of 3 factors

>Quality GM

>Group cohesion

>Everyone showing up on time and being ready to play for the same duration

>>413543

Not the GM, the GM is a friend from a previous campaign who thought he would like to try.

Seeing as we have zero of those things it looks like I'm going to need a new group.

>>413346

Yeah I ended up trading away the dark pack because I didn't want to have foreign language shit mixed in anyways.

For warhammer underworlds, does each player do four activations for a turn before the other player does their's, or does each player do one and then switch off back and forth?

Silly question and I'm probably getting bully, but how can I cheat dices without loading them? in particulary 8 side dices to get as many 8s as possible.

>>413874

> get as many 8s as possible.

Throw more, get more 8s, silly.

>>413874

Buy a bunch of cheap ones and check the balance with salt water. Cheap die have such loose tolerances they come loaded. The only hard part is finding out what they favor.

>>413874

To magnify this you can also file down sharp corners but yeah basically you want non obvious cast errors (generally a bubble caught in the die) and then just make it as easy as possible for the weight to do its magic (which is where filing comes into play).

>>413900

>>413890

I need the dice not to be loaded, at least to prevent being caught. Isn't there any tecnique or wrist twist to ge 8s?

**Against someone with so much luck the only way I can fight is with cheats.*

>>413923

If you are so salty about the game that you have to cheat you'd better stop playing.

>>413943

You are being bullied not for asking but for wanting to do what you want to do and for being a faggot

So, as an aspiring GM how do you people find out how to fucking string along the ideas into a coherent idea?

I have a modern low fantasy setting in mind but while I can come up with little things throughout the urban environment Im pegged trying to think of something big to unify players against, natural or otherwise.

>>414024

Right, so it's more or less out of the box Unknown Armies. Magic does exist but it's either through obtuse time consuming rituals, mostly subtle by following the collecting unconciousness and what they expect of certain archetypes, and hardline magic at the cost of being a slave to an obsession and general damage to your mental and physical health as you tie reality into pretzel knots.

The setting was going to be a fictitious Florida city crawling with things such as MIB equivalent trying to keep dumb fuckers from breaking the masquerade while butting heads with a billion dollar NGO run by a man who failed ascension to pseudo godhood looking to control the Magic Underground, numerous magic factions including modern day equivalent of an Ishtar cult focused on recreating their idol who appeared in shitty 70s skin flicks, McDonalds workers spiking your big macs with Mojo to see what happen and even more I haven't even tried to mention.

After revising and trying to explain this atleast three times, I'ms tarting to realize maybe the issue is that I'm trying to fit too much of the setting into one area that I really dont expect the players to leave. The factions are so intertwined in the core books I probably just really need to take a hatchet to it and try and parse down to a more reasonable level before I try and string everything together into a cohesive plot thread.

>>414030

Your setting seems to be full of bad guys. Why not just take one and make him/her stronger, smarter and more evil so that players could have some great time trying to overcome him?

>>414030

Alternatively a few good guy organizations would help give examples / guidence to your players about the play/style you expect from them. It also gives both of you an easy organizing/common factor to you players.

Helpful Magical Bikers? You can work that .

Police Cold Case M-Squad getting called for everything under the sun due to McMojo's and uncovering an actual malicious force while trying to nail teenagers shooting their mana into burgers? You got a story there.

Hell it could even be something like, childhood friend gets caught up the politics, little fish in a big fight kinda deal, where the missing childhood friend is the common element (and conversly the organizing factor of the good guys and the penultimate bad guy as well).

In short read a book nigger. You need a beginning middle and end. If you don't plan on taking it past the streets (aka not into the stratosphere) just think of a modernish ensemble movie (gangs, heist , police/buddy cop/ coming of age story) and work with that til you get the hang of it.

>>414030

This sounds like an interesting, dynamic setting, and I'll echo >>414054 here by saying you've definitely got a lot of villains to chose from - maybe too many, which could be your problem. How do you chose what to focus your players on when there are so many things vying for their attention? That's where I turn to an idea from the Apocalypse Engine/Dungeon World with their Armageddon Clock/Impending Doom, to easily make multiple baddies to go after, each of which can easily be upgraded to BBEG of the campaign. Villains, much like your PCs, have goals to accomplish and obstacles that temporarily prevent those goals, and those systems give a great way to plan out how to plan that out for your PCs to interact with the villains; the party may spend 2 sessions preventing a McMojo breakout from ruining the masquerade,

but in that time our NGO has discovered a magical artifact making the populace much more accepting of anything they hear, thrusting them into a new faction and adventure.

The important part of being a DM is creating a living, breathing world for your PCs to interact with. While major events may turn around the PCs involvement, other threats/actors aren't just sitting around waiting to get noticed, they're progressing with their world/region/city domination or whatever. Fronts are a proactive way of giving your players a world to interact with while not needing to immediately plot-dumping everything about a mission in order to catch their interest. Here's a DMing article about them, followed by a wiki.

http://slyflourish.com/looking_back_on_fronts.html

https://www.dungeonworldsrd.com/gamemastering/fronts/

Anybody have advice on running monthly games? I want to run games but i can't commit to a weekly time frame but can easily do it monthly. Anybody run monthly games and provide tips?

>>414237

Be able to take notes, so you can remember what happened between sessions and also so you can have a recap to jog everyone's memory at the start of each session. Additionally, try not to get bogged down in too much minutia and unimportant stuff. Depending on the system, be prepared to look at a PC's stats and skills and just say that they pass certain tasks and achieve what they're trying to do. At one game a month, you don't have the luxury of wasting time breaking down every minor downtime action into an extended challenge and series of rolls.

>>414243

>>414242

This is acutally really helpful, thanks guys.

My original idea was i wanted to have a game that was basicly the PC's given the tax of removing Oni and other terrible monsters in Wartorn Not feudal Japan. When i get some people together, should i tell them that these games will be mostly self contained each month but with the general story that your cleaning up Oni before to many break through to take over the country?

Another question-I wanted to also generate hexes they travel during game, this wouldn't be wise as it would take up a lot of time? Should i instead do that before the game? or just scrap it.

I play a psionic class in Pathfinder that gets the most off-the-wall niche and occasional support, which is a huge pain because its power list is extremely narrow to begin with, and I have to keep tabs on half a dozen books just for this power or that.

Is there a recommended software for building custom spell lists that I could use to consolidate and basically use as a power rolodex?

>>414342

Addendum: Something like power cards would work best, I guess, but I'd need to be able to hand-edit them rather than just select from some SRD prepackage. I'd like to add their alternative Mythic versions to their text, for completeness' sake.

>>414343

Sorry for triple-posting, but I just found this and it's really close.

http://www.thegm.org/perramsSpellbook_custom.php

The main problem is that the descriptive text body doesn't maintain formatting, not even line breaks, so larger descriptions and psionic augmentation options just meld into a pile of indiscernability.

>>414254

If you're setting up a hex crawl it's always a good idea to have a buffer. If the players can travel three hexes in a session, make sure you have at least four or five planned beyond their current location, just to cover any surprises, and enough events on the side to keep them occupied. Toll roads, samurai standing at crossroads looking to test their swords, rogue kappa under bridges prepped for stealth kanchou criticals, the kind of thing that isn't unique. Trust me, it's an unpleasant feeling to have to whip up locations and NPCs because the players ignored your tailored plot hooks and decided to travel as far north as they could.

Is there a reason given for why the Skraven are all Chaos? Orcs are (if we transpose 40K lore) fungus and Beastmen were mutated by chaos and would be normal humans if they weren't chaos, but I can't find anything on Skraven.

For homebrewers and game creators - when do you playtest, how do you playtest, and how do you find people to perform a playtest?

Are there any good games you can play with green army men?

>>414359

Thanks. I'll probably use a mixture of that.

Why does everyone play dnd5e? Isn't it literally a tabletop WoW with all that rainbow wielding firework shooting stuff, meatpoints and kill-loot-repeat with nonsense dungeons and stuff?

Could anyone give a quick rundown the major differences between the Norscan, Khurgens, Hung, and Tong for warhammer fantasy? The norscan are pretty obvious, but what about the later ones?

For D&D what's a good way to play Barbarian? I know they're supposed to be the screaming retard but for a longer campaign I don't know how to role play that in a way that isn't just grating.

>>414725

https://toc [DOT] qidianunderground [DOT] org/

All of the 5E books seem to be heavily discounted - I don't need them myself since I just use the .pdfs but I have a friend who wants to play and this seems like a good time to get him the phb. Is the sale supposed to last a long time or is it just a flash sale or something? I know, I know, 5E. I'm trying to get him into RPGs at all so I can move on to better systems.

>>414817

You used the right thread, but I don't know if anyone here is going to know how long a sale is supposed to last, especially when you didn't specify a store or site.

>>414821

Yeah, I figured this place wouldn't be of the sort to track that kind of thing but it's the only Tabletop related site I use. The sale was on Amazon.

>>414824

Amazon's sales aren't really all that consistent. Sometimes products are just marked down, especially for Prime users, sometimes it's a "flash sale" (but those will have a timer on them) and other times, it's just because the seller has marked it down for their own reasons.

I've been cooking up a homebrew for a while now, and I have been wondering if there are any systems that do movement with space ships in combat well. I'm specifically talking about stuff like handling turning at high speed in a fighter.

>>414817

Play a non-shit system. There's better ones that are legit free.

>>414772

Many thanks to the gracious Elder Brother.

Recommend some good systems for a xianxia/xuanhuan campaign?

>>414853

Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate is meant for wuxia but it has rules for xianxia-style characters. There are a number of systems that can be re-flavored like Exalted or Godbound and be effectively similar, but it'd take some elbow grease.

>>414842

You won't believe me at first but gurps covers that pretty well. From simple space movement mechanics to complex inertional formulas, pick what you like most.

>>414845

I know. Like I said, I'm trying to ease new players into the hobby and work them into good systems.

>>414827

Right, I'm not sure what the deal is, but it's probably something from WotC themselves since there's no timer on the product page (that I can see). I decided not to buy anyway as I need to pay rent and other bills soon, but thanks anyway.

>>414946

Because 75% of anons are faggots.

I want to create a cleric in d&d5e who worships a god of independence / outlawry. The general idea is he is on a quest to fight against the forces of civilisation and return people to nature and enforce survival of the fittest etc

His personality is basically an anti normie "we live in a society" meme character who hates people of social/political status for being more popular than him

should his alignment be CG CN or CE?

>>415327

Neutral if he hasn't done anything yet. There are no alignment based thoughts, only alignment based actions. So look at your guy's back story and compare to the tables in this link https ://www.slideshare.net/MewChan/dd-35-book-of-vile-darkness

>>415434

>I've heard certain rumors about it being casualized or pozzed.

It is very mildly pozzed, compared to something like NWOD. Mostly just women, blacks and black women as class portraits.

It is indeed simplified, restrictive and not very flexible, but for first time players it's a right fit.

>I'm not exclusively interested in western fantasy settings (Cyberpunk looked neat, for example), but if the system were flexible enough to allow me to write my own setting when I'm comfortable enough with it, that'd be a bonus.

Then you want Savage Worlds. It's universal, meaning that you can play at basically any setting. It has shitton of free fan conversions for any setting out there, and it only requires you to own one core book. It's simple to learn and fun to play.

>>415434

Pathfinder is king of prewritten adventures since that's literally what it started as. Rise of the Runelords, Curse of the Crimson Throne, Iron Gods, Kingmaker, Carrion Crown, and Strange Aeons are all good. Crypt of the Everflame is a good starter module as is the Crown of the Kobold King series. Third party support from Northlands Saga and Way of the Wicked exists and, if you want to, Shackled City and Age of Worms are both easily converted to PF. All the pozz is in lesser adventures or not OGL.

Has anyone tried Traveler D20 edition and is it any good? My friends are looking for a break out of the DnD, Pathfinder cycle with some Sci-Fi and while I know Traveler is infamous for its density I feel the streamlined D20 version may in fact be a good 'in' to other genres or maybe the non-d20 versions atleast.

>>415511

GURPS seems just about perfect.

>>415511

Probably a system like Dungeon World where you're just making up a story with the players rather than playing a serious campaign. You might also want to spike the snacks and drinks for the night with the drugs of your choice.

>>415511

>>415521

Further idea. If a player can think of a Beatles song related to the problem they're facing and starts singing it, humming the tune, quoting the lyrics, or whatever, it's an automatic success and there's no need to roll. The same song can't be used twice in the same session (or campaign if you want to get stricter, though you would probably want to make a big board to write down the names of songs already used so your players know).

I don't ever lurk twitter, but today I went to twitter to see if someone has updated some stuff they were doing. And then on the right hand of trending, I see "DnDSelfie", why would that ever be popular? Apparently saturday night live did some shitty skit about DnD and I'm guessing it was stereotyped to demean Whitey's segregated play place. So there's all these ugly mud people posting "selfies" on twitter pushed to the front page of that hashtag. Cringey stuff like "Queer and ready to roll!" "I’m a person of color." "I’m a bonafide geek & there is nothing that I would change." "Your resident bisexual... this is what we look like".

Literally 90% are attention seeking females, masses of people coming out of the woodwork. Scary to see. Apparently social media is telling the world that the majority of people that do DnD are people I don't want to ever associate with. Where's the normal people? Probably people who don't use social media.

>>415579

Astroturfing and virtue signalling. Sodomites and trannies are literally 1% part of general population.

>>415511

Play a Doom 2 .wad called Golden Souls 2 - it has an entire huge level in that style.

>>415581

Yea but it seems to be that that group has a lot of overpowering social presence, and they state they are in X big DnD group which I'm sure gets lots of views on twitter/youtube. Now I'm remembering twitch also has live DnD and has a lot of minorities. Though they are a minority, they present as a dominant majority like a certain sand people, and climb media ranks with their progressive identities. Sad to just see gays (and people of mud color) proclaim their proudness and association to table top in public, meanwhile its illegal to do that publicly in Russia. Media is like a magnet and they will just get more clout over time, in the current paradigm. I don't play table top anymore but nevertheless is just interesting to see a niche medium get social media jewed.

>>415579

This sort of post is what the politics thread is for. Also, normal people don't have an obsessive, narcissistic need for validation and acknowledgement for doing nothing but adopting a label. They're not going to be on twitter tracking every possible hashtag they can participate in for e-peen points.

/tg/, is it better to try to make a good game out of a shit system, or to try and make a system on one's own instead?

I kinda want to make a Red Dawn style game from the Sigmata games, but the game system/story is shit..

>>415629

Everybody's a fucking game designer now.

>>415629

Depends on your own taste. Some people run D&D 3.5 for decades and never feel the need to go beyond that. Personally, after trying a good bunch of different systems and homeruling all of them, I ended up creating my own system, which fits my narrating style and my preferences better. The most important component of a good game is and will always be a good GM, but the tools do matter. I'd say that if you know what you're are doing and, more importantly, why you are doing it, go ahead and create your own set of home rules or even a entirely new system (specially if you also enjoy creating a ruleset). However, keep in mind that it's a gargantuan task, and you may be better off adapting existing systems.

>>415602

I just saw the politics thread, and thought about that. Next time.

I've been thinking. There's a certain feeling I get, when I load up a decent story-driven vidya RPG, and just cheat the fuck out of it. Like, playing Neverwinter 2 with invincibility on, and just brashly trying to see how far I can go, and how much could I break the game.

Would it be possible to replicate in tabletop? A sandbox campaign not about overcoming challenges, but seeing how far you can break the world. It would require a very adaptive and thoughtful GM for sure, but I think it would be an interesting way to play. A way to play not only without railroading, but without any serious restrictions whatsoever. Bonus points if it's in an established setting, and you get to personally best Darth Vader in a lightsaber duel, wedgie Elminster or slap around Gandalf.

>>415745

>A sandbox campaign not about overcoming challenges, but seeing how far you can break the world

Which world? The world the GM has carefully crafted for you to explore? Or a world specifically design to be broken? Cause if it's the first one, you're an asshole. If it's the second one, well, when it "breaks" it's just working as intended, and thus it's not breaking. It'd just be a really surrealistic, drugged-like game.

RPGs are for telling stories. When you're fucking around with console commands, you're not telling a story, you're just messing around with the game. I think what you're proposing is diametrically opposed to the concept of what a Rol Playing Game is.

>>415768

Post it in the homebrew thread we need more people. If its a pdf you can just upload it. I liked CYOA and Fighting Fantasy a lot before I got into video games

>>415769

Link? thanks bro

So, I spent a few months getting over burnout. I made a post before, but yeah, it belongs here. Anyway, how can I slowly get myself back into the hobby without risking burnout again? I didn't sell all of my collection, so I still have plenty of stuff, plus there are board games at the parents' house I could pick up soon. But, yeah, any pointers on taking it easy until I'm ready to go back to hardcore mode?

Does anyone know if Dreamscarred Press is going to put out an April Augmented 2019? Their April Fool's content has always been a favorite of mine.

Does anyone have experience with Old World of Darkness's Kindred of the East?

>>415834

Depends on the quality, but yes, you can get excellent results with craft store moss etc. without having to pay up for branded dirt. It's mostly a convenience thing as you'll have to fiddle with the material or bake/sanitize yourself.

>>416160

>The world building thread appears to be bump-locked

It's past 500 posts. That happens naturally.

>>416258

Gurps bestiaries. There's a website somewhere listing all creatures from the previous edition

>>416258

Fire on the Velvet horizon.

Posted on the temple, but might here as well:

I'm looking for some longer intrigue adventure for D&D 5e. Plot twists appreciated

>>416434

People aren't interested in ___folk beyond being barbarians to kill if they aren't human enough to fuck (like catfolk are).

>>416444

>playing 5e

>making content for 5e

You poor, complacent bastard.

>>416431

Just start them off with GURPS lite. Hell fantasy craft isnt that hard to get into either if they know D&D Just tell them uts like that but more fun.

>>416451

>>416464

Honestly I've been wanting to run a 1e or 2e AD&D game but the group hasn't been receptive to the idea yet. I'm still hoping that they might go for Fantasy Craft, but I'm not going to be a dick about it. These people are pretty normie but they're good folks, into the immersion and story, and I'd take them over some powergaming neckbeards any day. Also, as other fa/tg/uys have pointed out, 5e isn't perfect but it's not complete shit either. There amount of pozz is blown out of proportion, there are some black dudes and women as character portraits, big deal. The idea of elves, or at least elf deities, being genderfluid has been around since 1e. Crunch-wise it's light and fun and honestly works fine for a good narrative campaign.

As for my woodsman, once I got the idea in my head and drank a little bit I got way into it. If I can't persuade one of my players to play him, I'll have a grizzled dorf be one as a dmpc. Also I'll write him up as a fantasycraft class too, kind of a mashup explorer/keeper/sage.

>>416538

Not that one anon, but dnd isn't really a roleplaying game, it's rather a low-scale pnp mmorpg analogue in terms of gameplay and roleplay synergy. Sure, you can roleplay on top of that, but you can also roleplay on top of, lets say, risk. Would that make risk a role playing game by itself?

>>416542

That is an accurate description of 4e to be sure, but not so much 5e. D&D , in my experience at least/ is much more conducive to a narrative style of play than "deeper" rpgs, which when I've tried to play were invariable full of insufferable autists more concerned with being the best at breaking the rules than collaborating on a story.

RPG setting with hard-SF post-human society?

Like Eclipse Phase, or nuggets from GURPS Transhuman or WOIN NEW.

Not so much a question but would anyone like to review my PBP game https://svartalfheim.org and let me know what I could be doing to improve it?

I noticed my DM in our last session tends to move on from turns once I've made my attack, and doesn't wait for me to make my bonus actions or even say I'm ending my turn. Which as a rouge I can hide, disengage or dash. With which I generally hide or disengage.

We've got a group of 6-9 depending on who available and he says he's trying to limit turn times to be more expedient and actually get through content within sessions. Is he being a bit of a cunt? I just wanna have my bonus action and not have the GM move onto the next player before I'm done.

There's also a vaguely heavy sense of railroading, and I'm starting to feel like I want to put a spanner in the works and derail the campaign a little.

Is that acceptable? I can describe a bit of the railroading if that helps? It's stuff like we'll enter a town, and then the GM will begin describing a flyer with a tournament on it, or some announcement will play over a previously undescribed speaker system.

>>416687

That's pretty catholic of him.

Any good filehosts to upload to? I invite your recommendations.

GM is trying to make a case for removing alignment from our games because personalities are more complex than 9 categories.

I think he's being dumb and conflating morality with personality, what does /tg/ have to say about alignment? Gimmie the run down of your thoughts on alignment.

>>416795

People sure like being retarded about alignment.

>>416795

Play a better game.

What did an Austin 7 cost in the 1920s?

>>416802

Couldn't find for an Austin 7, how about an Austin 7 Swallow?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_7

>its low cost (£175), the Swallow proved popular and was followed in 1928 by a saloon version

>>416795

9-point alignment is dumb, but D&D is not meant to be a deep game with complex personalities anyways. Arguing too much about alignment is for faggots who like to believe that killing a chaotic evil creature and all its children makes you evil too.

>>416795

Only issue is that there's a ton of effects limited by alignment of target. There's two solutions to this

1: Limit alignment to good/neutral/evil

2: Use the color wheel of Magic for alternate alignment.

>>416809

>good/neutral/evil

>not law/neutral/chaos

>>404539

how do you play warhammer 40k?

>>416842

Warhammer fantasy is dead and replaced by Age of Fagmar

Skitarii are cool tho

I don't know anything about traditional games is Warhammer worth getting into? if so where should I start?

How do I deal with depressed players? They're otherwise good, they've just been... lacking lately, for lack of better words.

>>416687

>>416688

Yeah, those are the ones. Thank you very much.

>>416795

>Gimmie the run down of your thoughts on alignment.

I understand what he means but I think this is looking at it from the wrong angle. First, D&D and RPGsin general simplify many things for usability. Secondly, people are complex but that doesn't mean you can't categorize them. Just because two characters have the same alignment doesn't mean they have to act exactly the same way. It's just that the total balance of their actions puts them on the same place of the alignment scale.

>>416846

Shame there isnt one for moonclan grots now their new line doesnt loo like a green stuff mistake en masse.

>>416846

Have you tried ebay? Maybe check for Island of Blood (the 8th edition starter box High Elves Vs Skaven) to get the Skaven half.

So, I'm going to GM a Cthulhu campaign and I have a few ideas in mind. I'm thinking in making my players go through the original Lovecraft stories like "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and the one about the son of Yog Shoggot I don't remember the title, but I'm also thinking about making my own few gods, because there shouldn't be a problem to make a few gods in such a setting with so many dangers, right? Or should I stick with the original lore?

>>416903

Maybe try sticking with lore first before branching off. Mainly to get a few ideas of ispiration and to also make sure you don't make an OC donut steel tier character like abhoth is for Sathla.

>>416959

Well, I wanted to make a god like the bloodborne gods which blood could infect people and turn them into werewolves, but I also want to just have the characters follow the canon stories of Lovecraft. To help destroying Curley, or to stop Wateley junion from stealing the Necronomicon, or deal with the son of Yog Soggot, or recover something from the stories or even meet Herbert West.

Another question, what is the canon regarding hybrid deep ones? are they evil and damned to follow Dagon and Hydra? or could there be some of them just about to kill themselves because they are tainted and maybe they can try to have a peaceful life?

>>416903

Stick to just one and make others variants on the same god. I've found that I rarely ever actually use Lovecraft's source material because it's a lot better known if not a meme, thus defeating the point of an unknowable horror. Call of Cthulhu is more of a homage to the Mythos than a rule-defined codex. You're free to bend shit around if you want the niggers already did it plenty making the setting bulldyke friendly in 7th ed anyway

>>416982

>That spoiler

What? what the fuck did they do?

Anyone know if there's any differences between the 1995 printings and 2002 printings of Human Occupied Landfill?

>>404539

After playtesting and then playing the final product of D&D 5E, I'm really bored of it. You've heard the reasons for more old school fans citing why they like 5e, they were mine for a while. But goddamn, I'm so bored of it now. Any viable alternatives outside of numerous OSR games (that I probably already have)?

What are some alternatives to magic items that aren't "better weapons and ammo that aren't magically enhanced to be so?" I'm running a low magic campaign so the handful of magic items the players do come upon, especially on this first adventure, are major. I am trying to figure out other possible rewards that aren't just money. Has anyone who has run something similar any advice?

captcha: piglxr...Pig Elixir could be a fun concept.

>>417393

>alignment bullshit

Gay.

>>417396

Tell me about it, but our GM has been obsessing over this shit for the past two weeks and I'm kinda sick of his shit.

>>417397

Tell him you don't care what he classifies your dick-ass thief as because you're going to play him the same either way.

>>417393

Sounds like chaotic stupid. Alignment is dumb anyways, if he wants you to put chaotic evil just do it to deal with his autism.

>>417393

>stealing is evil

stealing is merely an unlawful action, unrelated to good or evil. Your GM is secretely a paladin, and abhors anything against law and structured society. You can be NG and steal, just as easily as you can be CE, and steal. Only thing you'd be barred from is lawful anything. Someone like Robin Hood would be NG, Jack Sparrow would be CG, and your typical viking/hun would be CN/CE.

>>417098

horses/carts

castles/land

favors/loyalty

rare medicines

rare books/tomes

non-magic items with magic like effects. LoTR is a good source for inspiration. Horn of Gondor when blown gives +1 morale bonus to all rolls for 1 turn, elven boots/cloaks give stealth bonus, etc. Maybe an unbreakable rope made out of a rare material or something.

So what is it with the cult (in a very real sense) following of FATE and Dungeon World? Why is it so hard to find people that criticise these systems and why are there always swarms of english majors writing tl;dr posts of same bullshit defense?

>This part of the system doesn't work.

<I, ugh, I cannot even believe a person could possibly come up with such a gross misinterpretation of the rules. Clearly you have never played it.

<As an example of how to do it right, here's how something as unsophisticated those, barf, DnD games you surely play resolve things.

<[Resolves simple actions as written in said DnD rules]

<Now, here's how FATE/DW shines in comparison

<[Resolves simple action with a way more flowery description and possibly some houserules]

<Clearly now you must understand the games true glory?

It's always multiple paragraphs of dancing around the subject too, as if they need to have a bigger word count.

>>417541

Why don't you tell us what your criticisms of the games are?

One concerning FATE is probably the phenomena of trying to apply your one good skill to every situation.

<Can I use my shooting skill in this underwater basket weaving contest?