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Was this ever translated?
No idea.
I read a PDF for a Kancolle RPG, but the rules were horrible. It was dice rolling the game.
Even your characters dialog was rolled off a chart of stock catchphrases.
>>44432806
How horrifying
>>44432806
>It was dice rolling the game.
Wow, whoever would have thought you'd roll dice in a game? And here on /tg/ of all places, no less!
are the angry marines dead?
Does the guy still draw? Haven't seen any OC recently and he sounded crazy enough to go fight with (or against) ISIS or some such.
>>44431942
>implying "X Y IS X" isn't also an old as fuck meme
This guy's a faggot anyway with his shitty edgelord Chaos shit.
>>44432034
I hope he's dead. one of the biggest cunts that ever touched /tg/
>Being a BBEG
>Plotting inside your evil castle, with your evil minions and your confy, evil sofa
>Fucking heroes burst in
>Their druid bites you
>You're now a werebear
>You're now Lawful Good
>yfw
3.5 Alignments are scary.
This might be the worst unintentionally bad thread ever.
Trolling I can accept to a certain degree, but when someone actually tries to make a good thread and instead makes this, it just makes me realize there's some seriously, genuinely stupid people who somehow figured out how to type and solve captchas without developing any other mental processes.
>>44431643
Actually as a character concept this is pretty dope. DnD alignments are pantsonhead, but if they're around an evil thing forced to become good and commit acts of heroism is a trope subversion I can deal with and could even be done well with a good roleplayer.
>>44431702
>so salllllty
>>44431795
See? This thread, even without OP trying, was going to attract the absolute stupidest individuals, the people who can't really claim to be sharing their thoughts because they simply never have any, to come along and offer the closest thing they could produce that they would call their insight.
It's sad to watch you try. This is the kind of thread that makes me glad we can hide them.
“There's just one problem.”
The thin old man lets the specifics of the singular problem accumulate mystery while he lights a long wooden pipe, its crooked stem and deep bowl glazed sticky with resin. In the forest's perpetual twilight, the bowl flares a bright orange. The man closes his eyes, puffing thoughtfully and letting the air and tension between you thicken. The two of you are seated cross-legged on a massive tree stump, its sharp corners long ago worn to smooth wood.
You rub your forehead with your fingers and bite your tongue. You know Shafir is...
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“The problem is that I never agreed to deal with you,” Shafir says, pointing at you with the stem of his long pipe.
Where Shafir's once-strong face has become a study in the struggle between skin and time, yours has yet to fully mature, leaving you with a youthful androgyny that you have had plenty of time to get sick of. He smirks at you, the majority of his face immediately vanishing into the chasms of his wrinkled flesh. You frown back, your pale brow barely furrowing.
On your lap, the cat blinks at Shafir with its huge moonlike eyes. Moments before, it had...
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“No garbage,” Shafir says, pausing to take at least three lungfuls of smoke off the pipe. “I agreed to deal with you, Escher. I owe you a favor, not this child.”
You can feel your ears redden at the word “child”. You stand up angrily, and Escher has to use his claws to clamber up the thick fur and leather of your clothes to perch on your shoulders, where he flattens his ears.
“I vouch for the...child,” the cat sniffs. “Shouldn't that be good enough?”
“Perhaps if this was just some kid,” Shafir begins.
“I'm standing right here,”...
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He's not wrong. As a native of the waking world, being in the Dreamlands has its perks. The clothes you're wearing were never sewn or sold to you. The food you ate this morning was never grown or plucked or pickled. You simply dreamed it into being. Though you are not nearly as powerful as some, being a Dreamer definitely makes you dangerous.
“What do we do now?” You ask Escher, as one of the younger toughs frees his sword.
“Use your imagination,” Escher hisses.
>How will you dream you way out of this?
>Though your dreaming abilities will no doubt grow with time, currently you are only able to make relatively small objects of inert matter (that is, living matter is fine if it is fruits and vegetables, or a cubic foot of raw beef, but not so fine if it is supposed to be alive or moving). Complex machines are currently beyond your abilities.
>If you attempt to dream something into being, or to engage in combat, please roll a d100
You are a captain of a force of some twenty one knights, it used to be a force of some 48 knights until you decided to attack that town on the southern coast.
See you got out of some some merchants that said area did not have any knights, so you thought that it would be easy pickings for plundering and conquest. The only problem was that the locals instead of hiding under their beds or running to the forest while you stole their stuff and raped them gathered into a big block of guys that walked towards your spear of knights. Normally a mob of peasants would just scatter...
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>>44431337
Alright, now that we got some of our local nobility killed, why didn't we:
A. Flank the side of a static formation
B. Enlist some mercenaries
C. Bring literally any kind of freemen auxillary force.
D. Do some fucking target practice and pepper them with ranged fire.
E. Raid smaller steads further out that their patrols cannot respond to quickly enough to rouse a militia.
>>44431337
This scenario raises some questions.
Levy troops aren't usually disciplined enough to stand in the face of a charge. They'll feel the charge coming, deep in their gut, and soil themselves, running in fear because they haven't been trained from birth to fight. Something is stiffening their spines.
Levy troops don't have the discipline or training to maintain ranks and they sure as hell wouldn't all be similarly armed. Someone, an outside factor, is training and arming them.
The...
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>Unprepared, levy troops assembling and quickly forming a phalanx
>Standing against heavy cavalry wedge
>Disciplined and well drilled
>Essentially a militia
>Professional soldiers didn't flank a pike formation
>Nor did they attack before the "village" could finish mustering their troops and their non-professional officers and sergeants could get them into formation
Well,...
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>Humanity has gone full humanity fuck yeah, blowing apart planets and enslaving ayys.
>Meanwhile, another race is more or less doing the same thing, lets say dragons, fuck yeah.
>Both races go to war with each other, both sides being equally dickish.
How would you go full /philosophy/ with this concept?
>>44431305
I wouldn't
Two imperialists factions wage war to each other. Where's the depth in that ? What do you mean by philosophy ? Just read Machiavelli or Hobbes if you want a philosophy of war.
>>44431305
I don't even know anymore. As I learn more about philosophy, the more it seems like a bunch of people throwing opinions at each other. Except the opinions are mostly worthless because they contribute to nothing and can never be proven.
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Asai strides over to Mom. He sits down in front of her, at around her eye level.
"I came to offer a proposition, Izumi. Perhaps, you'd like to hear it in priva-"
"No." She says, immediately.
I am Itsukuma Masami
Today is lasting forever.
I just want to go home at this point. If there weren't a terrible specter hanging over the city; I would have taken Kaori's advice and just let...
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"I've been thinking about what kind of place would be best for us a lot, Izumi. I've decided that we could make that place for us."
"I don't want that, Asai."
"Izumi, I'm not a human. You're not a human. This isn't something that we can ignore. We can't live like they do. We are the last members of a dying species. All of our leaders are gone, and the only adults left are you and I."
Mom is silent, but she keeps her anger lightly held back. Her face is close to changing color.
Asai continues,...
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>>44430850
>Use this lapse in Asai's concentration to get someone to safety.
>Try grabbing him and putting him in the home-prison now. He's not expecting it.
You're under arrest for being the single worst boyfriend ever.
Do you prefer your games with or without classes? If so, what's your favorite class from any system? If not, what do you prefer instead?
I like classes. Makes character creation/advancement a bit easier and gives everyone a role to play.
Favorite class is probably 5e's Barbarian. Although the Glitterboy was fucking radical too.
>>44430746
Without classes.
I prefer making whatever the fuck I want that'll fit the game and my character.
>>44430746
I used to prefer classless systems, but then I saw 4e, and it changed my mind. Essentially
Classes Done Well>Classless>Classes Done Poorly
I've been unsure whether or not I should post this but after some deliberation I feel like I should. My friend works as a freelance illustrator who gets quite a lot of work from GW (mainly smaller pieces used in WD but did a lot of Sigma stuff) and after a few Christmas drinks he let something slip; apparently 30k and The Horus Heresy is leading up to a Sigma level reboot of the 40k fluff for 2017. From what he was saying the reboot is to appease the shareholders, they want to attract a wider range of gamers and feel like the current image of 40k is too alienating so as...
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>>44430411
>freelance illustrator that knows what GWs board of directors is up to in any way
Yeah okay champ.
>>44430411
So Warhammer 40k is no longer going to be grimderp.
>>44430411
How the hell did he find out
do you guys like cats
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>>44430368
y u do dis?
/tg/, I want to run the most bog-standard cliche-ridden fantasy game I can manage. I just want to play everything completely straight, no parody or poking fun or eye rolling. Just 100% old school gaming goodness. But I could use some help with a couple of things.
First off, what system should I use? I was thinking of just using Basic D&D, but I know there's some pretty good OSR stuff out there too.
Second, are there any fun cliches or tropes that you think I should include?
>>44429967
Running B/X dnd and one of the basic modules. Most of them have the cliches and tropes in them because they weren't those yet.
Alternatively you could run dungeon world or world of dungeons, its pretty much geared for that too. Easy to convert 1st ed modules for.
The different OSR systems are mostly the same with slight variations in different directions like having a neat encumbrance system, or castle building or whatever, but for the most part they're all based in B/X dnd and are designed...
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bumping as not OP for interest
>>44429967
Every development plot-wise in the adventure has to happen in a pub. Every quest-giver refuses to be dealt with anywhere else.
Well /tg/, who's the lucky princess that we're rescuing?
>>44429874
sorry sir Knight, but my daughter is in the cell next to mine.
>>44429874
RARE OC DONUT STEEL
What are your thoughts of people role playing sex in detail at a real life game?
>>44427932
It's pointless and serves to get one person off while making everyone else uncomfortable, unless the GM decides to pull some shit.
Next question.
Sex in game wat do spam again? Wasn't the last purge bad enough?
Unless it's an ERP game I do not want them to have any form of detail for it at the table. They can take their fade to black.
So I made a recurring NPC in my campaign whose main purpose was to keep the PCs appraised on the consequences of their actions and the larger affects they had in the city. I made the NPC a female for some reason - I guess because I already had too many male recurring NPCs.
Anyhow, one of the PCs is now trying to romance her. This isn't unrealistic because the PCs have maintained good relationships with the NPC and are always polite to her when in her company. But this falls out of my comfort zone because I haven't been GMing for very long, and I get weirded...
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Describe actions of characters in third person.
I've been doing it this way since forever. In fact, both as a player and a DM, talking in first person all the time always seemed awkward and weird to me.
>>44427365
If you're uncomfortable with it, just tell the player and come up with a comprimise or get them to stop entirely. make sure they understand exactly why you're uncomfortable with it, or they might be upset, but if they're reasonable they shouldn't be.
>>44427365
Just have her not be interested? It is vital that you don't make this seem like a challenge. Tell your players to spank off before game night, not during.
Whatever you do, never play this shit out. Fade to black. The player is obsessed with something that you cannot possibly deliver, that's why it's awkward. At best you can model your sock puppet for his arousal, and that's a whole different kind of roleplaying which has other boards dedicated to it. Just don't. Ever. It makes everyone...
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Rules question. When making a combined melee attack, is there any compulsion to have every contributing model use the same weapons?
For example, say I have 10 Satyxis Raiders ganging up on an enemy Warjack. 5 are within 0.5" and the other five are within 2". Can I have the five closer models give up their Horn attacks to make Combined Melee Attacks for the rear five's Lacerators? And assuming I can, can the front five make normal Lacerator attacks in the same turn, for a total of five normal and five combined Lacerator attacks?
>>44427444
No compulsion aside from the fact that both weapons most be in mêlée range.
Also , last I played Cryx ...you can't CMA a Charge.
