Is Warhammer 40K a "good" setting? If so, why or why not? What are its strengths, and what are its weaknesses?
>>44632742
It's a fun setting with something for everyone. It wasn't intended to be taken entierly serious in its conception.
>>44632742
I'd say its a decent setting.
Mostly, the thing that ruins it is how it only really makes reference to the war aspects of the setting, which I know is kind of stupid of me to say because its a war game, but truthfully? If you ever play a game of Dark Heresy or Rogue Trader, it can sometimes be hard to pinpoint the more "civilian" side of the setting accurately.
Honestly, though, I can't find much wrong with it, there are far worse settings.
It's a good "entry" setting to get people invested in traditional games. Not a ton of depth but a lot of simple and wholesome masculine grimdark fun.
Hey /tg/, here is a question for you
How would one go about playing a shape shifter/doppelganger type character?
Let me be clear, I'm not looking to play one (I'm not in a group at the moment), I'm just curious what your thoughts are.
In what context? This is important.
Are tanuki better than kitsune?
>>44632598
Look up Eberron, specifically Changelings.
> be running zombie apocalypse game
> using GURPS lite because it felt best
> four players: three experienced RPers, one new girl who had never played before
> this is important
> start out with characters all together for some NPC mutual friend's wedding
> zombie shit starts happening
> characters eventually end up in it
>...
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Good ol' Zombie Survival Guide and it's hi-larious claim that the M16 can't even take a bayonet (it claims the thing will break!)
Did you remind your group that that book is found under the "Comedy" section?
>Player can cross a gap by having the wizard cast fly on him
>Instead has his character try a acrobatics to jump across the gap.
>Missed the DC.
>Missed the "Grab onto ledge" DC
>took enough fall damage to knock him into the low negatives.
>Dies right before anyone can get to him with the CLW wand.
You have a wizard with spell slots. Use him you stupid shithead.
>>44632776
If the obstacle was so easily traversed then why did you even put it in front of them?
>You are a young man named Lloyd from the frozen Northern mountains of Tordo, on the continent of Teege. After a youth spent learning magic, you and your girlfriend spent some time as bandits after your home was destroyed, but have recently taken a chance to escape that life into a legit one... As sellswords, admittedly, but it's better than nothing. When the situation calls for it, however, you might take on the POV of a character somewhere else for a thread.
>Your exact goal will change from thread to thread,...
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So now you have a disembodied hand of unknown intelligence running around the lower floors of headquarters. You presume that its owner is close by, and it can still drain people through fingers.
You're not sure if Monique can actively tell what her hand is up to, but after it physically broke out of three layers of being locked up while weakened down to bone in some areas, you, Irene, and Ansi have decided that your absolute safest bet is to destroy the damn thing.
"Lady Monica is very likely somewhere in Elza Oasis," Irene explains. "There...
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>>44632759
>A. That's pretty impressive
>C. And they never fixed that?!
>>44632851
"That's, uh... Pretty impressive."
Irene nods. "Yes, General Corneria was a great leader. It... Was barely year since the fall of Dain's empire, another war for a stupid reason had just begun, and already she'd taken a child under her wing."
If you remember the dates you read correctly, you were... An infant at the oldest when the war with Simia started. You briefly wonder how old Irene is if she was old enough a child to be under the Mage General's wing at that...
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>>44630916
had to update client
>>44630888
dynamicish lighting?
Why the fuck would Wisdom be important to a Cleric? WHY?
>>44630649
Understanding the signs given by their god.
We're talking about a game where you can literally walk up to a god if you teleport to the right plane, you know.
Understanding the scriptures and apocrypha of their religion, related religions (Other members of the same pantheon, opposing faiths, and overlapping spheres of influence from otherwise unrelated dieties), and theology in general is a big part of channeling a god's power and making their will manifest in the world. Most of that runs along the same "Mysterious ways" that it does in real theology, which means being wise is better than being intelligent.
>>44630807
But reading books and studying lore is exactly what Int entails!
Warhammer Fantasy Role Play General thread, open for all discussion of the Warhammer setting and how it relates to the roleplaying games.
Let's keep it civil. Remember - when it comes to your own games, the right answer is whatever works best for you and your group.
>Previous threads
>>44486159
>>44512852
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Some fun reading for WFRP fans:
>How James Wallis Ruined my Characters Life.
http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue8/jameswallisruined1.html
>James Responds
http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue8/jameswallisreplies1.html
>Wolfgang's Guide to Screwing your PCs
http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue9/wolfgangscrews1.html
>>44630524
>Sleeping with the Fishes: An Aquatic race in WFRP?
Marius Lietdorf waged an imaginary war against half imagined 'fishmen'. Of course, to be fair Leitdorf also speaks to his horse, bathes in buttermilk and attacked hedges thinking they were halflings.
>>44630524
>>Maybe we're looking too deep into this: The Dark Beneath The World - The next frontier for WFRP gaming?
We've talked about The Dark Beneath the World a bit over the last few days - any gamers or GM have experience or exposure to that aspect of the setting?
Could wizards use special mirrors to amplify their spells?
>>44630419
Yup. But it adds the lawful and evil descriptor to all spells. Standing between mirrors maximizes and extends them, but they can't move from that point
>>44630419
I personally would say no, magic isn't a beam of light, in the sense that you couldn't shoot a fire ball at a mirror and amplify it, but magical sources of light, like create light or Lazer based spells of sorts might work
I love how many trillions of dollars is spent on and take up the lives of brilliant people for shit like this that is sent into space to stare. At stuff. Far away. And millions of people starve or are blow up in wars, and no one really gives a shit.
Since some anon was nice enough to give us a substantial translation of Night Wizard! 3rd Edition for Xmas this year, I thought I might check in to see who out there is playing Japanese RPGs, translating them, or just interested in them.
Currently, I'm running a Double Cross 3E game for my regular group. We're about five sessions in, and they're really enjoying it. The group is five high school students and their homeroom teacher, who is actually their handler for the UGN. All of them have secrets, all of them have trauma, and all of them have goals that...
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Including the link to the NW3E download. Not my work, but it's pretty good if you're just looking to get the rules and the gist of Night Wizard. I'd kill a hobo for full scans of the corebooks, though.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3ubsz9f12jepxp1/Night+Wizard+3E.zip
So, what is this, exactly?In before "weeaboos" or "autism"
>>44630658
>So, what is this, exactly?
Like it says in the title: "Japanese RPGs General," it's a thread to discuss Japanese tabletop games.
I'm looking for traps I can use for my next game. Stats not needed, just ideas.
http://oglaf.com/trapmaster/
>>44629831
A series of traps that work in tandem for maximum saving rolls and rage.
1. Uneven cobblestone floors, causing players to trip.
2.tables, scattered around at different angles and heights, to maximize painful hits and damage.
3. Embedded traps at varying heights that shoot rocks.
4. Non flammable Grease traps that activate randomly, magically created to make any surface frictionless
5. As doors are opened and closed the dungeon moves and adjusts itself to maximize rage.
6. Rooms are filled with mimics, living armor, and other objects that appear normal, but are actually monsters.
7. A rust trap sprays acid into the entire floor, disintegrating armor and weapons.
I did one that was a false step with downwards pointing nails. The home was filled with decaying sewage. You foot goes in easy, but pulling it out tears flesh and infects.
One I did was two cages in a room, each with a creature inside. Disturbing the creature causes them to screech shrilly and alert others to the adventurer's presence.
I like living traps and simple but brutal traps.
+++INCOMMING DISTRESS CALL FROM IMPERIAL OUTPOST DIMUS-IV+++
++TRANSMITTING DISTRESS CALL++
++[This is acting General Rodney Samson. They have broken through our outer defences, the swarm took us by suprise, with any luck I should be able to relay the data we have gathered from here in order to aid the God Emperors forces. Magos Truntus has explained to me the basic rites to send of this file. I can hear them comming, they are breaking through the bulkheads. Ave Imperiator, and may the Emperor have mercy on our souls]++
What was the information they sent?
What...
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Rolled 37 (1d100)
>>44629735
Mostly just gurgling noises and screaming
>>44629910
Kraken
What is the Hive Fleet's classification?
>1d10
Rolled 36 (1d100)
>>44629735
Oh god pleas send help! No stop no no no no.ahhhhhhhh.................."
>be hive scum
>kill a bunch of people and be worthless vermin
>become a space marine because your psychotic killer instinct is vallued by the Imperium
>alternatively become Guardsman
or just be turned into servitor or killed on spot but I'd say the positives outweight the negatives
meanwhile honest citizens have 18 hour shifts and shit lives (in Hives at least)
>>44629546
That's kind of the point of a dystopia. They suck to live in.
>>44629546
You forgot the part where they live in even worse poverty than everyone else, will probably get raped and/or killed before they hit 15 and the likelihood of actually joining any non-penal guard regimen is hilariously low, while the likelihood of becoming a space marine is negligible.
>grimdark setting
>i can't believe virtuous qualities are not being rewarded!
How do you play Sci-Fi games as a Robot/Droid/etc and tackle sapience? Are you not sapient? How do you RP around that and still have fun? Are you? Wouldn't it be difficult to have every AI PC RP around that? Or wouldn't it be at least distracting to have >that guy make sapience his only character trait?
At the very least, it's a common enough character race that's difficult af to pull off properly in practice.
I think Engine Heart has some advice on roleplaying a robot.
>>44628791
Link? Or can you at least give me a summary?
>>44628770
Do androids count? I love androids and I love playing as androids.
Does Vader wear his cape in the tie fighter
Do you see the cloak clasp
No
It's because he isn't wearing it.
>>44628752
>do you see the cloak clasp?
>>no
>that's because he's not wearing it
Ok
>>44628870
/thread
Front page has 3 preggo threads, a loli thread, and 3 mtg threads
What the fuck guys? Lets bury this shit with some skeletons.
Or you could make threads with actual content.
>>44628592
Skeletons are pure. Skeletons are (mostly) not fetishised. Skeletons are just cool people.