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I was preparing material for an intrigue game taking place in Renaissance Italy, and at some point or other I know trade will come into play. I did my homework on the economy of late medieval cities, but most of the texts omitted exact numbers completely. So while, for example, I know that a quarter ton of wheat in XV century somewhere was 6 sou, and that a musket in XVII century somewhere cost around 16 sou, I haven't actually managed to find anything more exact despite trade being extremely well documented in Europe as early as XI century, and more to the point I couldn't find enough data for individual locations to compare values and get a feel for the worth of labour, or at least what was the most profitable under which conditions. Wheat price might as well be arbitrary; for most of the middle ages it depended on weather, rise and fall of urban populations and the value and availability of currency in circulation - a ton and a half of wheat might have been worth 26 sou in Florence at some point, but it's not clear if this price was normal, or high, or low, and WHY. So, roughly speaking, in the Italian city-states, with their developed trade networks, strong influence of various guilds and a lot of experience with both overabundance of food and dire famine, where, roughly, would be some hypothetical 'average' value of basic foodstuffs?
...what the heck's a "sou"?
Capitalist pig
>>44519017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidus_%28coin%29#France
Both of these models are prototypes, so don't expect to see anything anytime soon.
They will be plastic.
First release will be a box set of Humans versus Orcs with future teams in the pipeline.
Being developed by the new GW Specialist Games division.
>>44518504
pretty much what I expected, though definitely looking forward to it.
I wonder if they'll put it out before the end of 2016.
>>44518504
Yeah, they had announced a reboot of the "specialist games" earlier last year.
Looking good. Here's to a return of Necromunda and Mordheim as well.
https://youtu.be/f1Fm0g6SWsI [Embed]
Chronicles of Darkness is at it's core a horror game. What advice do you have for horror? In what way can you evoke the uncanny through text or, at best, voice?
On the last exciting episode of the Chronicles of Darkness General Thread: >>44433912 →
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Oh, hey, we've got a booru now. Feel free to add stuff, but tag well or you'll make me cry.
http://urbfan.booru.org/
>Changeling:...
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>>44518421
How are Demon the Fallen and Demon the Descent. I've looked through Fallen abit, but I'm not sure how they play and compare to other OWoD stuff.
Only recently found out about Descent and have no idea about it. How does it compare to the NWoD stuff?
>>44518474
They're pretty cool, can't really compare them to inferno as I've never played it, but I quite like descent
Do minor-templates stack? can you have wolf-blooded ghouls or fractal fae-touched?
Assuming he is not a Serpent Man but at least one of his advisers is, how does President Trump deal with mythos activity?
I plan to play him as a very high POW human who is not totally ignorant of Mythos activity and who would be very unhappy about the Migo and their relationship with the US government.
So far, i figure the best way to protect him is for his body armor (something like dragon scale) to have a multiple elder signs on it and several barrier spells on the white house.
Trump Tower will have it's own defenses, an Eldar sign being the least...
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>>44518391
Build a wall across dimensions? Talk to very smart cultists and shut down that Aether?
>President Trump
Don't even. Don't you even.
>>44518391
He'd deny it exists, and blame all the supernatural activity on immigrants destroying american values.
Assuming he's not faking it, what's the friendliest a demon could be towards mortals, while still being Chaotic Evil?
And please let's not bring out the usual redeemed succubus discussion
>>44518170
Rape-bros.
Demons be like "Yo' dawg, I'll fuck her in the ass while you beat up the pussy!"
That's about as good as it gets with demons.
>>44518170
Depends on who's portraying the demon, what demon, and how. People interpret both regular alignments and outsiders differently. Too broad a spectrum to answer that question simply.
>>44518170
Are you saying you want to play a chaotic evil demon without pissing the other players off?
Because then you shouldn't play chaotic evil.
I think the answer depends on the power of the demon, but overall: being a good friend towards particular humans, stating loudly that the humans are no exceptions to the demon and he could hurt hem any minute.
But, still being a good friend, helping them, protecting them, give them the feeling that they actually are your friendbefore turning and fucking...
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Most First Edition D&D clones (God only knows how many there are, each of them claiming to be more authentic than the last) generally agree about several traits of the "Elf" class: it can level as either a fighting man or a magic user, it can see in the dark, it has a chance of finding secret doors, and it's immune to ghoul paralysis (lolwat ultra specific ability, never made sense to me). The rest of it, though, they tend to make up some combination of themselves. I've seen elves given bonuses to stealth, or to stealth in forests, or to speed while taking...
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>>44517799
I prefer DEAD elves.
Hey ya'll passed out in the middle of the last one (which is here: http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/44334110/)
You are a monk in the fractured, post-apocalyptic California who recently finished his training at Sa'Migel Arcangel, near the center of the empire. Once a glorious beacon of enlightenment in an unenlightened world, California has fallen to division and sectarianism, and the emperor sits trapped in the holy city of Sacremento, while the Imperial Protectors of the Five Provinces openly war against each other, paying lip-service to Elton IV Yudkow, the living Guru while blithely ignoring his edicts and commands.
You are a follower of the Way of the Cowl, a Cetic sect that promotes secrecy and pragmatism, and favors L'Ron Hubbard as the Paramount Guru. You were chosen by the administration of your monastery to spread the Enlightened Faith to the near mythical Filipines, across the Infinite Pacific Ocean. You grew up in the desert wastes of the mojave, and remember well when false honor and inaction cost the lives of many of your neighbors and the abduction of your sister by foul worshippers of the Atom.
Languages:
Classical Inglish (Literate)
Classical Espanyol (Literate)
Angeleno Spanglish (Native)
Valley Spanglish (Accented)
Fransiscan Spanglish (Accented)
Bajanese (Broken)
Jeffersonian (Broken)
Arixian Spanglish (Broken)
Possessions:
Blue Coweled Formal Robe
Grey Travel Robe
14 Imperial Dolares
A Small Dagger
Provisions for your trip to Monterey
Followers:
Shwaig, A Franciscan follower of the dove. Skilled in healing and diplomacy with peasants. Openly hostile to nobles and the rich. Vegan and Pacifist Zealot. Brings Herbs and Vegetables for the trip, but hardly and money.
Djamez, A Vallejan follower of the fist. Well armed, and a master of the martial arts. Good natured, but a bit oblivious at times. Studious, but Forgetful. Brings a Naginata, throwing axe/hatchet, dagger, 12 Valleyan Dolares, and Jerky. Obstains from all intoxicants.
You have just arrived in King City, where you showed up just in time to intervene in what could either be a massacre or a lynch mob. A Nihongo merchant, with a small squad of heavily armed guards, is attempting to leave the city with the wife and children of a failed Vineyard owner in tow.
As far as you can tell, the merchant lent the now-deceased father of the family money to start a vineyard, on the condition that The merchant, Horigoshi Kuri, would receive drastic discounts on the wine created there. Drought hit,and within two years the vineyard owner went broke. He...
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>>44517262
Fucked up my trip, but it's still me.
>>44517262
Also, almost forgot it, but here's a paste ith setting info and shit, for reference.
http://pastebin.com/Ntya3spu
How do you incorporate pseudoscience into your fantasy settings, /tg/?
>Meridians
>Astrology
>Brainwashing
>Mesmerism
>Memetics
>Orgone Accumulators
>Lumineferous Aether
>I-Ching divination
>Seances
>Crystal Healing
>Psychic Powers
>>44516896
World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu and Unknown Armies?
I ran an Adeptus Evangelion game which used the Spirit Science origin of the world video as line for line truth, with the addition of a three way WW2 Never Ended style Coldwar.
Shit got crazy. Two pilots had tantric sex meditation to open their Chakras and to birth a Christ Comciousness and unlock the ancient city hidden under the pyramids while piloting Ascended Humans dressed like robots and using their merkhabas to fight off ascended ancient Mayan-Lemurian priests.
>>44516896
As actual science.
>Yes, I-ching DOES work.
>Chi in human body? Yes, it is there. If you know kung fu well enough, you even can fashion a battle aura from it.
also
>memetics
>not an actual science
>laughinghorizonemployees.gif
what is the best way to paint these guys if i already put the rods in
my friend suggested using painters tape to cover the rods before spraying them
Your friend sounds right
>>44516888
Have you even primed them yet?
>>44517003
i'm going to prime them with spray paint
How do you deal with love and romance in your games /tg/
>>44516839
If it's between PCs: Drive a wedge between them immediately and/or kill them
If it's between PC and NPC: That means the DM has to play the part of the NPC and that's no good.
>>44516839
We play d&d. Not TT simdate.
>>44516861
Unless it's super cringey and starts getting in the way of the game, why would you try to murder them or push them away? It's mean spirited and it'll only make them dislike you. It's worse if it's with people you know in real life.
A man finds himself reborn as a child. In the last thread, we chose an invisible cube, studied 1386 pages worth of words, and drew a great drawing of our family.
Last post before the timeskip.
Choose a physical attack method:
>Bare hands and fists. Anything else is for pussies
>Don't brink a fist to a knife fight. Slashing, jabbing with knives and the like
>Smashy-smashy with blunt objects
>Other (Write-in)
Choose a martial...
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>>44516619
Bare fist.
Other: Poison.
>>44516619
>Bare hands and fists. Triumph against all as no more than yourself.
Against using poison; it's also for pussies.
Can you explain what energy-gathering vs. energy-usage entails?
>>44516912
>>44517080
For the second choice, choose what you do with the energy. Gathering is just storing in, making the energy spark grows bigger, whereas usage involves more attempting to use the energy in various ways.
It's the year 2125. The great cities have risen, and fallen. Mankind has turned its back on civilization and the poisoned fruits of its labor. Oil no longer spews and ore is no longer ripped from the wounds of the earth, Gaia returned to the beauty of her birth. The scattered farms teem with the fruits and vegetables of her bounty, the children of men no longer the savage and bloodthirsty carnivores they once were. It is a pure world, a better world. It is the Pastoral World.
How do you get agriculture and mostly-modern looking tools and clothing in a world without the evils of America, /tg/? What sort of pastoral tools would you use?/tg/ builds a setting thread
>>44515722
So, the european highlands?
>>44516617
Are there highlands in Europe other than Scotland?
On-topic, human slavery. We use humans to imitate modern technology.
>>44515722
Farm tools Made from metal scavenged from Cars,Ingots of useful materials replacing paper currency,Wool and Undyed leather clothing everywhere,Duck foot Flint lock pistols Made from old pipes since there's no more Centralized distribution infrastructure.
How do I selfishly pursue selflessness?
>>44515033
>"The only way to get a knighthood these days is through charity work."
>>44515033
Help people that don't want you too.
>>44515033
>What are the poor and needed but the entry fee into heaven? We must aid them for they are the means of my salvation.
