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Tell us about the settings you're working on. Homebrew General has turned into game design, so let's have a lore thread to accompany its mechanical thread.
Questions, ideas, anything's welcome.
What, no one's writing anything? With all the GM threads we've had recently, I find that hard to believe. Bump.
>>44592960
i've been working hard on the whole candy thing, but every time i do a little research for inspiration i'm always motivated to start another project altogether
Looking for cool cultural stuff. I'm building a world and my group loves role-playing and talking with the NPCs and stuff, so I'm planning on adding a lot of interesting cultural beliefs to help flesh out etiquette and superstitions, objects of good/bad luck, religious sermons, and the customs of the nobility and wealthy. Any ideas or good sources for inspiration?
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Abstract hells edition
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>>44592211
First for marryingan intelligent weapon!
>>44592211
Second for being an unoptimized shitter
Third for marrying a Goetic, or at least having a BBEG with such a wife.
>Erotic, feminine forms applied to wheeled vehicles.
What kinds of settings would this be at home in?
Oh gee I dunno
This is the most bizarre "here an unrelated thing I want to talk about, how would it work in your setting /tg/? :^)" thread I've ever seen. What is even the topic OP? Some obscure car transformation fetish?
>>44591660
Homebrew magic realm for faggots.
Thoughts on my very first character development? I'm looking to improve and if anybody has any tips, please share. The game is Force and Destiny.
Svan're Ikthu is a Kel Dor, native to Dorin. At a young teen age, he had snuck out of his home one fateful night, for no particular reason other than to go for a walk. Thoughts of a certain female Kel Dor dominated his mind, and he needed to come up with an approach to woo her. However, a band of pirates held different intentions for the young Kel Dor. There was no good reason to kidnap this young alien, other than he was in decent physical shape and the pirates needed to expand crew. They stole him in the dead of night, using a device that released Oxygen in small doses...
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>>44591434
Disoriented and afraid, Svan're comes to in a cell, where he was encouraged to follow orders, or suffer death. For about three years, he served the pirates under fear of execution, until a moment of pure chance. The band of pirates had ordered him to join a small band for a raid of a low-income, low-defense village in the Outer Rim, where he came into contact with a human in gray robes, enjoying a drink at a local bar. During the raid, this man neither attempted to stop the pirates nor did he attempt to join...
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>>44591420
Anyone?
So /tg/, I'm getting to work on revising a sci-fi setting of mine, and given that the setting focuses primarily on the criminal element on the fringes of "civilized space," drugs are going to happen.
Problem is that when it comes to shit like this, I'm not that creative, and I'd rather not just completely rip off Shadowrun or something.
So, sci-fi drug thread? Sci-fi drug thread.
Preferably non-combat and non-medical drugs, but I'll take literally anything.
If it's an alien drug you can make it do whatever you want whenever you want. Wing it if you have to.
Low orbit : Two types of druges, one stimulant and one depressant held inside a slow release capsule. The stimulant hits first, then the depressant and then the stimulant again. It's called low orbit because it's kind of like the rush of takeoff, then zero gravity and then freefalling.
>>44591589
>Low orbit
This is the shit I like to see. That's going on the list anon; thank you kindly.
I've heard about this new policy the King is doing. It's called a "Royal Army". Basically what he plans on doing is hiring a bunch of young peasants and laborers, give them some halberds, helmets and hauberk, have some mercenaries drill them and keep them under arms constantly. They say it's to secure our lands against bandits and enemy attacks. But I don't buy it for a minute. He's planning on doing away with our gods given feudal rights and making us slaves to the royal government! Something needs to be done to stop it soon.
I may be in power to provide a substantial amount of explosive devices for your cause.
Do I smell a hint of ~treeeaaason~?
>>44591220
You're just mad because you and your sons couldn't get in on that shit because you got so drunk at court last winter that you literally shit yourself in front of the King.
They've already put three members of my family in leadership and training positions of the King's Own.
I don't know if I should make this as Create your own adventures or as a Quest thing. But then thing is I don't have much world building for it either ways.
additional classes or additional NPCs?
y they all fat?
Working on Fallout: Wastelands v2.0 and I figured I'd drum up some interest by posting the information the men and women of /tg/ helped me come up with for a Fallout tabletop game.
It is February 17th, 2228, two hundred and five years since the Great War that reset the clocks and sent parts of the world back to the Stone Age. Men, women, and children hid below ground from the atomic fire, praying that they would be spared. Buildings were destroyed, cities leveled, and some of the greatest feats of human engineering were wiped off the face of the planet for good.
In Louisiana the Mississippi River –now known only as the Black Water- flows free once more, no longer fettered by levies and dams. Baton Rouge is a glowing pile of rubble, no longer a proper city. Lafayette has been looted, torched, and leveled, with only a single town remaining within its borders. But not all hope is lost. Not all of Louisiana has suffered their fates.
(Shit, when Anonymous for the OP)
New Orleans is waking up. She’s starting to feel like herself again. The combined forces of the Aristocracy, the All-Saints, and the Silver Dollar Sams have managed to get the city back up and running. Every day boats pack the canals and sound of workers can be heard across the city, and each night the lights shine on the water and music floats through the air.
But there are those who would take New Orleans for themselves. The Brotherhood of Steel grows ever closer, having taken control of an Old World Vault to use as their headquarters....
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The Louisiana Wasteland consists of the lands south of Interstates 10 and 12, going from the glowing ruins of Baton Rouge down to the marshes and deltas that make up the southern Louisiana coast. The Great Black Water (Mississippi River), a massive river, runs through the Louisiana Wasteland. Unfortunately for the inhabitants of the wasteland, the Black Water is polluted and carries radioactive material, making it unfit for consumption or use. Large, mutated crawfish live in the Black Water- dangerous creatures known as mirelurks.
Swamps cover much of the Louisiana Wasteland...
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The Bombs aren’t what destroyed New Orleans. At least, not directly. Sure some buildings crumbled when atomic warheads detonated near the city limits, but none of them hit New Orleans directly. No, what really hit the Big Easy was the breaking of the levies. Waters from the Gulf and Black Water flooded New Orleans, sweeping away the streets and destroying many of the buildings and drowning several thousand people that managed to survive the worst of the Great War.
One section of the city managed to remain relatively untouched: the French Quarter. Thanks to its improved...
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You sit at the kitchen table, groggily eating cereal that is very much soggy and cold.
You got maybe an hour of sleep last night, and that's about it. After waking up, you tried for another hour to get back to sleep. Failing that, you tried to tire yourself out. And now you're here.
"Why the fuck do I still buy this stuff?" You ask, as you examine the sort of wheat paste that sits on your spoon. Normally you'd be eating cheerios, but the things that remind you of lost friends can sometimes sneak up on you...
You actually had no idea that you had a second box of cereal up there...
Maybe you shouldn't be eating this...
You toss your spoon back into your bowl and plant your head on the table, only just managing to not dunk your face into the wheat paste/milk mix. Heaving a sigh, you dread the coming day. Mostly because you can see nothing to do; or at least nothing worth doing.
Oh, hang on. You feel something. It's pretty strong. In fact, you don't know why you only just now noticed it.
It's your cat.
Just as you recognize the feeling, there is a knock at your door. You go and open it, and are greeted by two pairs of blue eyes.
"Goooooood morning!" Abigail shouts as she bursts into your apartment.
"Meew" Moriarty says, like he's somehow echoing Abigail
"Back so early?" You ask.
Abigail's chipper expression is replaced by a dull stare. "Do you have any idea what time it is?" She asks.
You check your watch, briefly confused as to why she would ask that. The clock face answers that question. It's currently noon.
>Later than I thought, obviously
>Do you?
>Ask how it went with her parents
>Smooch now, talk later
>Other
>>44591065
>>Do you?
>>Ask how it went with her parents
Priorities.
Also, good to see you, Smiles.
>>44591065
>>Do you?
>>Ask how it went with her parents
Good to see you boss
>"Do you have any idea what time it is?" She asks. You check your watch, briefly confused as to why she would ask that. The clock face answers that question. It's currently noon.
Damn it Saif, you're a Time Mage. Step up yo game.
![inverteroftruth[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ZPwPOrX.jpg "inverteroftruth[1].jpg")
>dat art
Inverter of Truth
2BB
Creature - Eldrazi
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
When Inverter of Truth enters the battlefield, exile all cards from your library face down, then shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library.
6/6
![hedronalignment[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/inbGOVK.jpg "hedronalignment[1].jpg")
How can we break this?
>>44590798
We can't.
>>44590712
I might try to get one just for that artwork. The fucking bismuth clouds, man.
>>44590798
Probably can't. Pull from Eternity could get one from Exile to the graveyard, though, and graveyard exile effects can shuffle them around again.
What system would you use to run a game in this? Is there anyway to adapt DnD to have modern military equipment or do you just bite the bullet and use GURPS?
Couldn't you just use D20 Modern with 3.pathfinder?
>>44590641
GURPS' good.
Wouldn't run that crap, though.
Mysterious portal to fantasy land opens, sure, but Gate's plot, fuck no.
>>44590717
Yeh I wouldn't run it as GATE, i would pitch a 'modern rpg' where they're a team sent to investigate the GATE. Then boom, generic fantasy land.
I just like the fact that it's a legit military in GATE.
Would you ever play games while sitting on an "ergonomic chair"?
That looks uncomfortable
If it was the last chair in the house? Yes. Otherwise I politely decline and ask for a different chair. If they can afford a ergonomic chair then they're probably wealthy enough to own more than a half dozen chairs.
That looks like it would kill my fucking knees.
What are some good DMing tips, /tg/? I've been reading up on a bit of D&D Basic and AD&D(a lot actually in the past few days) And I think I'm about ready to start a campaign with some players on here. I'm already polishing the world off a bit more, but I still feel timid about the other thing. Any advice?
>>44589748
>>been DMing for so long that it's just something I can put on and take off
It's hard to describe. You have to become a conduit to your world while balancing the fun of your players. All your players. Rules mastery is really useful. Being able to read people is more useful. Know the rule books, as in their layout. Don't be afraid to say "I'm not sure, but for now what we're going to do is..." And play that way for the rest of the session. Reward...
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>>44589748
Don't squirrel away your best ideas, use them while you're still excited about them. Get inspired, do prep, don't be a "fly on your seat" dm, improvisation is key, but it isn't enough to run a really great game.
Be willing to make mistakes. If you are drawing blanks, take a 5 minute bathroom break and brainstorm.
>>44590193
This is great advice, but you can also go too far with this.
If your players make it too convoluted to use some of your ideas, you gotta kill your babies. It sucks, but you gotta do it.
Have you ever seen this done well? Are there any good examples?
Are there any interesting RPGs that use custom cards instead?
Savage Worlds uses cards for initiative order. Super fun and fast.
Each round new cards are dealt.
Face cards first, Ace, King, Queen, Jack, then number cards. In case of matching values, use reverse alphabetical order Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs.
Jokers are left in the deck and go first and also provide a bonus to every action for the round.
>>44589950
There are edges (feats) that manipulate this system as well. "Quick" allows the character to redraw 5's or lower. "Level Headed" allows the character to draw two cards and use the best one.
>>44589950
>>44590090
>First post is about Savage Worlds.
Mein negger.
The only drawback to this system is that it's a mite bit more difficult to use when the group is not face-to-face. Skype is alright, but in a medium like play-by-post or something it basically amounts to "let the DM draw and pray they're telling you the truth."
Tell me about your BBEG /tg/
What are there evil plots and how evil are they?
There are in-game rumors about bigger threats out there but right now we're dealing with a semi-insane goddess who demands sacrifices and fucks shit up and is generally horrible.
No clue of how to deal with her though. She's quite evil, we've been thinking of just moving somewhere else where there are nicer gods.
>>44589316
Communist Half-Celestial Blue Dragon.
>>44589316
A very sneaky demonic businessman.
