Why do people say that Advanced Dungeons & Dragons first edition is the Satanic Bible, and that Gary Gygax was the anti-christ?
And furthermore, why is oldschool D&D more dangerous than drugs, heavy metal, and premarital sex?
Only a few people said D&D was satanic, and nobody called Gary the Antichrist. Oldschool D&D is not more dangerous than drugs, heavy metal, or premarital sex.
OP is a faggot, however. We'll need a study to determine if that's related to oldschool D&D.
It came out during a time in which these things weren't understood yet (because there weren't many) and people were more conservative and concerned about Christian values and shit.
Parents and other people who couldn't understand what D&D was supposed to be saw these books and how their kids were convening to do this strange ritual where they player around with these serious, scary (to them) concepts. They had demons, magic spells ("Swords... poison... spells... battles... maiming... killing!" ) and all kinds of things, combined with this weird participatory way it was enjoyed. This was made worse by rumors that the spells, demons and such in D&D were actual parts of satanic rituals researched from real stuff, and that the game was basically fooling kids into devil worshipping.
So in short, because people didn't know what the fuck was going on, and because freaking out over it was way easier than actually finding out.
Because people need something to get offended about.
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You know, you’d honestly thought life could not get much worse than it was sitting on that dock with a knife to your throat, a void of emotion filling you from your love leaving you.
Holy shit were you ever wrong.
The pain experienced after Liz removed her bloody wrist from yours was more intense than you ever thought possible, the fear and red tinted haze you saw the world through, the only sounds being your screams and Elizabeth’s strange chanting. You felt like crying even more than you had been when you started to feel that pull to unconsciousness, the relief from the pain, but you realize that complacency as a fatal mistake when you feel your very being dimming, you knew you were near death.
And the silence that followed your descent into that void? Enough to drive anyone insane with the emptiness of it all. The confusion set it at that point. How could you still think? You knew you were dead, you couldn’t feel your body, you only felt your thoughts and fear. An image flashed in the distance, a woman dancing in a beautiful red gown. You tried to scream at her but your phantom lips just could not open. She giggled and disappeared into the void.
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>>44472416
Next followed a vision of death, of thousands of bodies piled beneath a child, sitting on top playing with a corpse as if it were a toy baby. If you could feel sick you would’ve.
Finally, two identical shadows danced around you, one smiling in glee, the other crying with tears of sadness, you could feel the absolute despair from the crying shadow, the happiness from the other? Endless.
And then… light?
Your eyes cracked open, and snapped shut quickly. The room was so bright. Your nose was assaulted with the smell of sweat and filth, you easily realized it was yourself. You wore no clothes besides simple boxers, you vaguely remember the rest being bloodstained and torn to shreds. Lifting your head you can hear the voice of Elizabeth, almost as if she were yelling in the room adjacent to yours.
A.) Get up and see what’s wrong.
B.) Stay in bed and call for Jackson and Elizabeth
C.) See if you can make out what she’s saying
D.) Other (Write-in)
Hmph. I feels like we're being attacked
A.) go in there
>>44472421
>C.) See if you can make out what she’s saying
I'm going to be honest, I am pulling for the Blade route
Zerg don't have access to anything that doesn't work in RL with two exceptions.
1) Queens and Overlords have human - level intelligence, wide - range telepathy, and very minor telekinesis - much less powerful then a gun. As a result, Overlords can't fly.
2) Zerg hyperadaptivity is still working, but without Vespen gase it takes not seconds, but weeks or several days in a cocoon.
Everything else is just... Not working. Growing a hatchery takes several weeks, Hydralisk have firepower of an LMG, Zerglings are vulnerable to AP rounds or concentrated fire from guns, and even mutalisks can't fly without a major change.
As a rule of thumb, Zerg can research anything that we see in nature, combine it and make it ~ two times better. With some inspiration, they even can emulate modern tech, getting similar results as we do. They technically can create entirely new biological systems, but it will take months even with Abathur - level intelligence, and still will need tests.
Scenarios:
1) A single primal Zerg is transported into a secluded spot on the Earth. How long untill Primal zerg start replacing our ecosystem? Could we fight it? Can we survive it? How it will affect our lives? Primal zerg don't usually use viruses or bacteria as weapons.
2) A single Zerg drone without any supervision or intelligence beyond basic instincts and urge to evolve is placed in a forest in Siberia. Will the very stupid Zerg colony even survive? Will it pose any threat even to a small group of armed people?
3) A single Zerg Queen with telepathy and some basic knowledge of Starcraft universe is placed in a remote forest. It can use telepathy to gather data about today technology, and spawn some Zerg larva, Drones, Zerglings. It has Mineral - hardened shell and spine - launchers that are equivalent to 50 mm guns. It can use evolution chamber and even do something itself. It has no orders beyond survive. What will it do? If it is agressive, can Zerg outsmart modern military?
Zerg are honestly the shittiest bioweapon horde of any scifi setting.
At the most, they've held maybe a dozen planets.
Pretty pathetic.
>>44472016
Considering StarCraft setting, that's not too bad. They were more or less just natives of the Sector who got bigger because humans came into the picture. If it weren't for the Xel'naga crap they'd be just that.
Buggy aliens.
>>44471937
>>44471937
Zerg running on basic instinct are at best a very adaptable and very dangerous alien creature that can certainly out compete and push out more mundane forms of wildlife, but against military grade weaponry they're nothing too special to write home about.
Feral left-over zerg populations were common enough that Terrans in the starcraft universe would have hunting competitions and would accidentally hit and kill zerglings with their cars every once in a while.
The other thing you need to remember though is that Zerg are only as dangerous as their environment: Zerg left in a fairly safe environment would themselves become weaker and less dangerous as time passes and would instead turn to making adaptation better suited for their environment and less so for killing.
Wild and Feral Zerg on numerous planets during the starcraft 2 campaign were demonstrated to be weaker, but expressed numerous and varied adaptations to ice, desert, jungle and lava worlds to better live in these conditions at the expense of perhaps deadlier attributes.
So, few weeks ago while underway my friend and I were playing a game of 40k. 2000 pts eldar vs Skitaari if I recall correctly, with him having an imperial knight allied in. Anyways, I've got a jetbike squad I'm bouncing in and out of LOS with the turbo boost rule, the problem is that the digital copy of the rules he had on his tablet and hard copy I had have differing rules for turbo boosting. I was wondering which was right, anyone know?
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>>44471903
What were the differences?
>>44471903
Generally speaking, the version in the core rulebook overrides what's written in older codexes. Check the errata for specific details.
You sit down to start a new campaign and the DM goes :
>hey guys, it's a sandbox campaign. You start in a tavern. What do you do?
Someone askes : Why are we there?
>i don't know, why are you there?
Someone else askes : What's the world like?
>i don't know, what do you think the world is like?
What do you do?
>>44499562
by the way just in case it wasn't clear, this is about a campaign in a traditional game system. the kind that is related to /tg/.
Ask the DM if they actually put together a setting or if they're just winging this shit.
>>44499562
Are you posting about Dungeon World, OP?
When someone says close combat
Why are Tau so shit?
>>44492058
That's the Fire Caste's deadly form of martial arts, OP.
>>44492058
what program is that?
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what would you think about someone playing a character who wields a katana but isn't a trenchcoat wearing edgelord but just an amicable guy all around?
Ted, we're playing a bronze-age campaign in Shang Dynasty China.
The katana hasn't been invented yet.
fuck off
>>44503507
Why would you want to combine a trenchcoat with a katana? If anything he should wear traditional Japanese clothing
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Considering that you were shot last night – or, perhaps, in the early hours of this morning – you're feeling pretty good. True, one of your arms is bound so tightly with bandages that you're not sure if you could use it, even if you were forced to, but you're alive.
Mastema, that leering angel, with his ink-black wings and his unassailable sense of superiority, could have finished you off while you were unconscious. You're glad he didn't, obviously, but you can't help but wonder why. The only real reason you can think of is that, maybe, it would have shown Cassandra what he really was, what he was willing to do in pursuit of his goals. Would she have remained on his side, knowing that? You can only hope not, but you're starting to suspect that you never realised what Cassandra was capable of.
She was gone this morning, by the time you woke up, and the ring you had prepared – a ring to shield her against any of Mastema's manipulations – had gone with her. The message she had left behind was simple – she took it as a precaution, not as proof of anything. Stubborn, perhaps foolishly so, but you were still glad to see it. She's not burned all of her bridges yet.
And with Cassandra gone, you too must move onto new things. In the West, a strange new land awaits you.
>>44500450
It's a bright morning – or, considering how long you slept, early afternoon – and the world is starting to show signs of new life. It's warmer here than it has ever been, with the snow clinging on for dear life and the sky growing lighter. Still the dead of Winter compared with the perpetual warmth found within the fairy kingdom, of course, but perhaps that is to be expected. The cold, either way, does not seem to bother Cernunnos in the slightest – even taking his continued defiance of pants into account.
He stands a fair distance away, leaning on his stone tipped spear as the wind stirs his long, straggly hair into lashing tendrils. Six of his best warriors stand with him, any nobility in their features lost beneath barbarism and feral decorations. With hair woven into filthy dreadlocks and bone totems festooning their wiry frames, they are a perfect match for their leader. At least, you think wryly to yourself, they have yet to discard clothes entirely.
“Mia dear, it's so good to see you up and about,” Elliot tells you, regarding the gathered warriors with a dubious eye, “We've been talking, Joseph and I, and it might be prudent to leave someone behind. Just to, ah, make sure things are kept under control. Leon is well enough to be walking about, now, and we can't ignore the possibility of him...”
Running off, you suggest, does he think Leon is likely to do that?
“Well,” Joseph adds, “He's got history.”
“I volunteer,” Elliot offers graciously, “Don't look so surprised, you two, I've built up quite the rapport with our Scottish friend. We understand each other, I'd like to think.”
Elliot is useful, there's no denying it, but he might have a point. Plus, if the two of them are already friends, it might look less like you're posting a guard.
>Leave Elliot here
>Take Elliot with you
>Other
>>44500456
I'm awake!
>Leave Elliot here
They are so going to fuck.
>>44500456
>>Leave Elliot here
>>44500563
Elliot has class. They'll go out on a date first.
How would you stat SCP-001?
>>44498958
Which one ?
>>44498958
Presumably you mean Dr. Clef's proposal?
It's your average D&D god so it just has the divine ability of Supreme Initiative and an attack radius as wide as the plane it's on. Any other stats are irrelevant.
>>44498958
we wouldn't because the SCP Foundation is fucking stupid powerwanking. But I'll entertain you and your delusions:
Size/Type:Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice:5d10+25 (52 hp)
Initiative:+1
Speed:30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class:15 (–1 size, +1 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/+14
Attack:Claw +9 melee (1d6+5)
Full Attack:2 claws +9 melee (1d6+5) and bite +4 melee (1d8+2)
Space/Reach:10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:Improved grab
Special Qualities:Scent
Saves:Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +2
Abilities:Str 21, Dex 12, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills:Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats:Alertness, Track
Environment:Temperate forests
Organization:Solitary, pair, or pack (3–8)
Challenge Rating:4
Treasure:None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement:6–8 HD (Large); 9–15 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment:—
My clan > Your clan Edition
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>>44491667
>Favorite clan
Crab. Because reasons.
>What see in reboot
Less stupid, more non-stupid
>Get rid of
Spider as a legitimate clan (As a fake, subversive clan, it's okay)
>Advice
It's not Japan, don't assume that any part of it is identical to any part of historical Japan. A lot of the details are actually inverted from historical reality, some of it more closely resembles Imperial China, and a lot of it is straight fantasy.
>Character never played
A famous, wandering ronin chef. Travelling from court to court, earning his meals by making meals for others.
>>44491667
>What's your favorite clan?
Dragon and/or Unicorn. Monkey if we're talking Minor Clans.
>Why?
All three for probably the same reasons; they just don't give a fuck.
Dragon are more traditional, but Mirumoto are pretty straightforward and without some of the hangups other Bushi families have
Unicorn because Shinjo is probably the second-nicest family in the Empire.
The Monkey because Fortune Favors the Mortal Man, and because the Toku family is the only one with a noted sense of humor.
>What do you want to see in the reboot?
A timeskip jumping ahead a century or two to explain changes from the CCG.
The broad strokes of the setting kept, but a lot of the stupider elements that largely exist to give CCG tournaments a goal to play for and work as an excuse to let big faction war happen every time a cat farts in one Clan's direction to just be GONE, period.
Rokugan better set-up for adventures (or shugeyosha, or whatever) to go out doing samurai stuff, rather then struggling to find reasons to bring multi-Clan parties together because everyone's always at war at some point for inane reasons.
Less emphasis in the fluff on how each member of every family fits into identical cookie-cutter stereotypes and more emphasis on how within these stereotypes a lot of different individuality can exist despite them.
Someone who actually speaks Japanese a bit to work on the game so we don't see things like entire families unironically named "Otaku" in the fluff.
>What should be taken out forever?
The fucking Spider Clan.
I don't mind Lost or evil magic conspiracies, but that shit only existed to sell an entirely new "Clan" as a faction that nobody liked and no matter how badly they lost in fluff, they won anyway because almost absurd writer favoritism.
Shourido isn't bad in and of itself, but at least have then get the term right; it's "Shurado".
What systems let me use man's oldest weapon and make a spear master that isn't strictly inferior to sword guy #5? No Halberds or Glaives, as much as I love them, just a plain old spear.
General underused/underrepresented weapons thread, and what systems do them justice.
Posting other underused weapons.
>>44491054
You could try Dragonquest.
http://www.fantasist.net/dragonquest.shtml
My last character's primary weapon was a garrote.
>>44491054
The spontoon/half-pike is literally the most overpowered weapon in Song of Swords.
Posting Best Weapon with other polearms.
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>>44490403
I hope Gaddock Teeg doesn't keep his price, I want two more for my G/W Hatebears sideboard
He was in the SB of the Hatebears deck that top 4'd GP Pittsburgh as a one-of. Bogles has been putting up a lot of results but ffs, it's not like he sees play in Legacy thanks to Maverick being dead
Also, how does /tg/ determine sideboard slots? In decks with draw and manipulation one and two-ofs are fine, but in G/W Hatebears, main and side, everything is a 3 or 4 of because I have no draw power. If you run one and two-ofs that overlap in what they can hate that makes sense, but I feel safer running three-ofs. What does everyone else do?
>>44490403
Can Monastery Mentor be viable in modern please? I just want to have fun.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/27-12-15-jeskai-mentor/
>>44490592
I've heard from a friend that he just feels too slow to be usable in Modern.
What's your game's currency, /tg/?
It's not something as overused as Gold or Credits, is it?
>>44488461
Nah.
We call them goldcredits.
>>44488461
Everyone except goblins use gold. Goblins use "lings", which are strips of fabric taken from fancy undergarments. As silk and lace and soft materials are rare and precious to them, the goblins have been going into human, elven, and dwarven kingdoms on wild panty raids to obtain as much of the stuff as possible. Since these fabrics deteriorate over time, they have to embark on more panty raids every so often so their economy doesn't deflate or inflate too much. Adventurers beware in goblin territory – you're wearing money under your armor.
>>44488461
Entirely barter based.
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>>44468572
3rd for great justice.
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