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How do you make an adventure feel comfy? By comfy I mean that it has a certain feel to it, that makes even downtime an enjoyable experience and not just the period where you load up on new gear and potions in preparation for the next adventure.
They say home is where the heart is, so perhaps there's some merit in making the "main" city of the setting feel cozy, but how would you do that? By having that one tavern that has really good beer? The friendly barwench that always flirts with the paladin? The salesman who is always willing to go the extra mile...
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>>45086460
It involves both a feeling of security and PCs actually putting down roots and not being total murderhoboes. It's not even something a Paladin or Cleric will feel at the heart of his fortress stronghold, nor will the Wizard in his tower. It's that thought that nothing could possibly happen here, far removed from any battlefront, and that it's safe here.
For someone who intends to obtain disproportionate power by kicking in the doors of Team Monster and looting their pad for cool swag, it's...
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>>45086460
The most important thing is making something feel like "home". In a Christmas themed setting I had, I did this by having all people in the starting town know and greet them, and invite them to come in and drink and stuff.
Also important is the "home" being way better. For example, if all of the country is frozen wasteland with storms and shit, it helps a ton if the hometown is completely decorated with cozy lights and fires burning everywhere to keep everyone warm.
>>45087132
This basically.
A "comfy" RP will feel safe and welcoming... almost like a cartoon. Even when the fate of the world is at stake, it won't carry the tension or emotional highs of the characters actually being afraid of failure, it won't address the horrible futures that could happen if the party fails, it won't focus on or even bring up the darker sides of humanity or reality as a whole.
Basically what you're looking for is a slice-of-life game. Better off just cutting out...
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Hey, /tg/, how do I play a Lawful Evil (or, possibly, Neutral Evil), without
a) being a fucking edgelord
b) starting moral debates (i.e. no rape/slavery/child torture/other liberalistic autism triggers)
c) murdering anything and everything
d) fucking up a typical Good/Neutral-oriented plot
e) prompting "oh another Evil kid" reaction
?
Share some player stories or maybe book/movie characters, something like that. Basically, an adequate and amiable, but totally Evil character. Interesting and non-trivial solutions are most welcome.
Enlightened self interest.
Being an Evil character doesn't mean being a dick. It means looking out for yourself first.
I played a Lawful Evil bard who never had any conflict with the rest of the party. Outwardly, he was a kind and heroic person, always fighting alongside the party for whatever good cause they were currently pursuing. But he always made sure his name was first and foremost in the songs and stories, always made sure that his fame and good reputation was spreading the fastest. After all, it's so easy to fool people when they're already...
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I once played a Banite ranger whose profession was hunting down escaped slaves with his boar companion. He was pretty much a true believer who would.pen treatsie about how democracy eventually led to the erosion of social and moral values and how top down absolute authority was inherent to humanities social nature. He believes in the future, when Bane was the lord of all Gods, the world would be at peace and there would be no want. Subsequently there would be no need for ruthless, sometimes cruel men like himself. He would make a paradise that would have no need or place for...
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>>45085269
Play in a game without alignments because alignments are a retarded concept that don't work when you play actual characters with depth and complexities instead of cardboard cutouts.
Alignments are the worst thing to come out of DnD and need to be abolished entirely.
In an alternate universe, the chemical reaction that makes gunpowder go boom is inert. How does this affect history? Do we develop on the giradoni air rifle instead? How would we arrive at the rifle with no early powder weapons to lead us to that design? Do we use gasoline powered guns? Does this affect other areas of technology somehow? Does warfare continue to be about full plate and shit?
>>45084089
Nevermind history. How does this affect organic chemistry?
>>45084089
magic guns that cast a low level spell when fed concentrated magic in the form of a pill or bullet or whatever. guns that shoot magic missile or fireball one at a time that require no casting time and made to be usable by even by the mundane
>>45084089
So combustion doesn't exist?
