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What's a good twist for a Medieval not-japan setting?
>>44584031
>What's a good twist for a Medieval not-japan setting?
It's India in terms of religion and Han-dynasty China in terms of government.
Samurai were always also ministers (rather than being pacified later on) and Not!Shintoism reveres a mother/father deity as highest spiritual force.
The size of your weapon is based on your blood. Peasants are allowed only daggers. Soldiers carry shortswords and maces. Nobility use spears and naginata.
The land is showered with meteors. Every meteor has a color and can be made into cosmetic. Many of them also give off poisonous gas. Some of it is good for killing undead, hence there are very few undead in the land. But that gas is also good at killing rice, so people don't like storing all their rice at home where it might get rotten by space gas.
Central granaries set up by the government are where the...
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>>44584031
Samurai are literally demons or half demons enslaved to a master, when they master dies they either are set free to become roaming demons or kill themselves and go home.
Later on crossover with "knights" who are armored angels.
So what new RPGs are you elegan/tg/entlemen looking forward to in the new year?
What new D&D 5E books are we expecting?
I'm waiting for Savage Worlds to make Rifts playable.
bump
Hoping for 5e Psionics supplement
>>44583766
Mage second edition.Fat chance.
So, aside from being power fantasy central that banks on catering to weebs, why would anyone buy Anima?
Anima is actually pretty cool. Large variety of shit you can do with your character, stuff like a custom technique creation system, an interesting combat system that makes weapons actually feel different from each other, etc.
Of course it has its flaws, but having run a game in it and having played part of another game in it, I'd totally do so again if I had the chance.
>>44583667
Actually good system(Even if 99% of people on /tg/ get a spastic fit over it)
Cheap-ish tabletop game that can be fun for a few games.And defunct lol.
No idea why the fuck you'd buy the card game since it's pretty shit.
>power fantasy central
The irony of saying this on /tg/ is large enough to be pointed out.
>>44583794
It's not even that 'power fantasy'. Level 1 Anima character is really nothing special.
How are your campaign / scenario coming along, /tg/ ?
Let's share our ideas about what we're writing to see if we can help each others.
In case of thread failure, have a qt barbarian.
Remember r8, dont h8.
>>44583268
I'll shamelessly bump with my current stuff.
I'm trying to write a vietnam war style scenario with the party starting as mercenaries for the invading and being left to themselves in the woods after an ambush. They can try to go back to their initial camp or join the vietcong elves.
I want to have them completely stressed out, with doubt on who's civilian and who's the enemy.
At the end, either using the invaders new massive weapon to raze the jungle or relics from the rebels...
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>>44583268
I've been working on a campaign setting that incorporates my favourite aspects of Arthurian Legend, real world history, Greek Mythology, etc etc.
It's been about a year since I started and I haven't got anywhere near finishing because of other commitments and mental health issues but I'm genuinely proud of the world and hope to compile it for the players to review.
Although, I can never find the motivation to do so.
How does /tg/ deal with motivation and creative fatigue?
>>44584519
Cutting what's not necessary or what can be left vague for the PC to uncover themselves.. Players will, intentionnaly or not, go offroad. So cutting some stuff will ease the stuff left to write.
Else, submit what you got to friends, preferably not the players and take suggestions.
I am trying to create a mana point system for DnD basic or 0e.
Please assist.
>>44583052
Try a system other than DnD?
>>44583080
I want to use DnD for the supplements and to tap into the large player base already accustomed to the system.
Not sure if it's balanced but can't you just say for every xth level spell you could memorize instead you have x mana points?
>A group of armed humans barricades themselves inside a forest fort, claiming to speak for the elves
>>44583036
I call them faggots and burn down the forest.
>>44583036
The Elves can speak for themselves, they don't need random humans for that
I call for a little investigation because this sounds suspicious.
![Robespierre_zps350bbf65[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/utRrZOQ.jpg "Robespierre_zps350bbf65[1].jpg")
>His setting actually has feudal monarchies where the nobility holds most of the power
You have 10 seconds to explain yourself, collaborator.
>>44582978
Because the setting is pre-enlightenment and not even Robespierre was crazy enough to try to rewrite history.
>>44582978
VIVE LE ROI
>>44582978
It's a game of pretend and you forced me to dm for you asshat.
Daily reminder that you can buy a Tier 1 Modern deck for the same price as a single Snapcaster Mage.
>>44582776
This meme needs to stop.
>>44582776
Alright OP, you can post the T1 modern deck any time now
>>44583641
Consistent T4 wins and no bad matchups is as Tier 1 as it gets, m8. Stompy has both.
I'm relatively new to D&D 5th even though I've been Forever DM for all editions past. I heard that 5e runs just fine as-is if I don't hand out a single magic item. Is that true or do I at least have to give a certain amount of magic armor and weapons with bonuses to make sure the martials keep up with the casters?
You need some degree of magic weapons for the martials after about level 6-ish because otherwise enemies will start to get resistant and eventually immune to nonmagic weapons. That's all.
>>44582674
Outside of monsters with DR, no. Feats are much more important than magic items.
>>44582674
Be careful, there're some monsters that are outright immune to non-magical damage, so that kills the martials.
They're also some, more than the previous, monsters with resistance to non-magical damage, that fucks the martials.
Why did the Emperor make so many silly mistakes? Was this truly all we could expect from the pinnacle of human potential and ~38,000 years of experience?
>>44582653
Your daily reminder that Emps was just a high powered Psyker and warlord. Everything else is Imperial propaganda.
>>44582669
I can believe that.
You know when you do something for so long that it becomes rote and you feel your own actions are obvious.
The emperor is that on crack. He's someone trying to uplift humanity who at the same time doesn't properly understand it's flaws and expects everyone to be held to a standard that's basically impossible
>Back on Track Edition
Adversary is a new, custom format for Magic: The Gathering intended to be played over Cockatrice.
Update 4 is live!
>How is it played?
http://pastebin.com/4JUSJp01
In Adversary, players select an Adversary card from an existing archive, or create their own. These Adversaries enter play from turn one, and possess abilities that change the way the game is played. If you've ever tried out Vanguard, you'll feel right at home. Adversary uses 61-card decks (including...
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>>44582565
Testing
>>44582739
Weird. The board auto-deleted the thread as soon as I tried creating it. I don't even know how come I managed to make it pop back into existence.
Anyways, in case Adversary General isn't welcome in /tg/ any longer I'll be temporarily moving the general to /trash/ in order to regroup and search for a new allocation elsewhere.
>>44582815
In case we are allowed to stay, here is the topic / objectives for the thread
>Create new adversaries.
>Discuss new pitches.
>Balance currently existing adversaries.
>Get on Cockatrice and play, have fun.
>Suggest changes to the format, new rules, new mechanics, even new card types. Get wild.
Remember, /adv/ IS NOT a custom card thread in disguise,...
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How does /tg/ start writing campaigns?
Producing maps, creating memorable characters, plots, hooks, adventures, all this is a ton of work, especially if the players decide to not continue playing.
How do I prepare for everything, basically? I mean PCs can do whatever they want, what's to stop them from going somewhere I haven't planned?
tl;dr tips and tricks by DMs for DMs
>>44582000
Start from the PCs. Who are they and what they want? Who would they cross paths with trying to achieve those things? Then combine those and fiddle with it until it mostly makes sense.
>>44582000
New DM here
I personally like to make a huge world map, as I draw I think of how the environment might shape the people that live there. Then I think of very vague, very loose possible plot hooks that could happen in those locations. I do all of this before "Session Zero" and then offer my players a very brief explanation of each location and what they most likely can expect from those locations. I let them choose which region, island, nation or whatever to start on and then I listen to them discuss...
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New GM's will always without fail construct a vast sprawling world with far too many integrated rules and elements of lore.
The way veterans do it is they'll typically work off what the players what to do and the PC's they've made.
This series is perfect for an RP setting.
Discuss
If you haven't read them then just read the first paragraph of the first chapter and I dare you not get hooked
Bamp
Those books are so great, for young adult fiction anyway. The setting would work great for any pulp RPG, like FATE or Savage Worlds, pulp heroism, adventure and peril in a world where cities never stay still.
Although thinking back, those books actually had a lot of depth to them. From all the interesting bits of lore about how the world ended up like that, to the fact that it's one of the only books I can think of with an explicitly ugly female lead (which is also the reason it'll never be adapted to a visual medium, sadly.)
>>44581688
Must admit, I think steampunk is the most overrated, autistic setting there is. However I love this series, got really fond memories of ready it as a boy.and yes I know it's not technically steampunk but it pretty much is so just shut your hole
Traveller is a classic science fiction system first released in 1976. In its original release it was a general purpose SF system, but a setting was soon developed called The Third Imperium, based on classic space opera tropes of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, with a slight noir tint.
Though it can support a wide range of game types, the classic campaign involves a group of retired veterans tooling around in a spaceship, taking whatever jobs they can find in a desperate bid to stay in business, a la Firefly or Cowboy Bebop.
Master Folders:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1lsz371hqyn5e/traveller
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/puqo88hi0x9vs/TRAVELLER
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/lcajhdj00lsyo/MONGOOSE_TRAVELLER
http://www.4shared.com/folder/SgVP1VoX/Traveller.html
https://mega.co.nz/#F!DkdyQITY!Y1VxiiEtuqDwhHo5wEw65w
https://mega.co.nz/#F!yg8gXRDJ!NMUmuB-cH9fINnkRv0242A
Galactic...
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You have my full support OP.
PDF related guide for running Traveller Solo
A link to the T5 edition (if you dare):
https://mega.nz/#!G0FCEDTS!vtiDevt3YwWbxvSg3M-rrac07_OhS8XowwGzkPxT4KM
>>44582021
Thanks anon
These things usually last as long as a Human in a Type C atmosphere, but we always have fun
Hory shet, I was just thinking about traveler! I don't know jack shit about it other than the outline, where to start...
I'll be starting a new adventure soon, and it will be very Mimic heavy. Would anyone be so kind as to post their best Mimic pictures and ideas? I would really like that spider that looks like a woman crawling around and calling for help.
Much obliged!
>>44581666
so your warned, that campaign will devolve into the murderhoboest fucking thing ever. Too many mimics leads the party to never trust anything or anyone and just burn shit down and sift the ashes for loot
