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I've made a setting recently that I'd need a generic system for. which is the better system, GURPS or Basic Roleplaying System?
>pic related to setting
>>44289150
Pic related will not work in either.
Gurps is for autists, BRP is for GMs who know what they're doing. You might want Wushu. Fate could work. But I will venture a guess that your setting is ten pages of fanwankery without structure or genre, so it really doesn't matter. Use D20.
>>44289638
well so far the setting doesn't even fill 1 page. it's a vague idea.
>>44289748
Well without so much as even a vague idea of your vague idea there is no way we can help you.
What powers the undead?
Vampires don't have hearts, for instance. That's why they drink blood.
So, what force is keeping them alive?
inb4 "undead aren't real"
>>44289139
>Vampires don't have hearts, for instance.
Then what is it you pierce with a stake to kill them?
>>44289139
Vampires totally have hearts. They just don't produce any new blood while they're living blood deteriorates after death. They drink blood to keep their bodies functioning and their dead heart beating.
Also magic.
>>44289139
Being undead is magic, not a fucking medical condition.
Welcome one, and I welcome you all to the tale of a world called Thespia.
Here is the odyssey of one that clings to this world with no face of their own! In a place where magic is fundamental to all of creation, all who live wear their lives upon their face, where a fire might wish to be the cooking fire of an inn!
Previously the Faceless set boundaries with a clingy Protean foxwoman, letting her know of his role's status as a widowed man. Bereft with guilt, she had begun to flee yet the faceless urged her to stay.
Feeling that the rebels could potentially...
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Meditation is a fitful slumber as you struggle with Dramir's sorrows, hatred, and thirst for revenge. As you awaken in your claimed bedchambers, you hear the sounds of a waning day as the Concerto Crickets tune their instruments before their nightly performance. The hustle of the liberated Guisi dies down as you can see through the window, fires built up to burn away the chill of the night and allow the many freed to celebrate as well as remember those that have returned their threads to Thespia.
A...
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>>44289089
“I do not believe that I even began to ask you to ask that you come with us.” You turn more fully, and stare at the fox woman as her ears droop under your scrutiny. “You assisted me, and you saved those children... However you let the others die. I am not sure what to think of if you call that avoiding Thespian disputes.”
“I... am sorry.” Eko nearly mumbles before raising her volume, “Magic of the Thread may be imposing to some, however to a PoP magician like yourself, I am nothing. If only...
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>>44289104
>[“As mad as I am, I understand. You're free to come with us if you wish.”]
Only 40 minutes delay.
Fuck terminus edition
>>44288871
Miracles: best deck ever
Just bought Entombs and other misc. Burning Reanimator stuff, it seems like a cool deck. You don't get that blue consistency, but you have 10 tutors, 10 discard effects, and 10 reanimation spells in the main, along with a pretty solid wishboard. It's been pretty consistent from what I've seen so far, I like it more than Tin Fins.
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Age: 735
Location: Unknown planet
Information: After successfully defeating Zarbon and Dodoria, and receiving a warning of the possibility that Frieza would send his most powerful men, Daikon and his team engaged in training, and, in the process, Daikon's power shot up to a level the scouters were incapable of reading. Word came in of a world under attack, and Daikon ordered the ship to go there. As the ship travelled, Daikon tested his new ability of energy sensing, finding he was quite skilled at it. Unfortunately, an attempt at energy suppression ended...
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Welcome to Saiyan Quest. This takes place in the years Frieza controlled Planet Vegeta, as the Saiyans grow in strength and try to find a way to free themselves.
Voting will operate on a first to five system, at least for the time being.
Dialogue is allowed to be added to votes, as are actions (though I'll ignore what I consider shitposting)
During battles, options will usually have a number assigned to them. After that vote has won, players will roll a d100, and have three chances to match or beat that number.
If a 100 is rolled, it is considered...
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Toma is with you. Soko and Totapo are safe in their healing tanks, and Kamatsuna is on the bridge. That leaves the others for you to find.
You can sense a pair of fairly substantial power levels somewhere on the ship, and some others somewhere in the distance.
>A. Try to raise everyone on the scouters
>B. Go find the two on the ship
>C. Search for the powers outside of the ship
>D. Return to the bridge
>E....
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>>44288756
>B. Go find the two on the ship
Previously, you tooled around with your new alchemy before making something that lives only to suffer. Hiss eventually pushes you out of your alchemy hole and forces you on an adventure.
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>>44287726
The familiar township of Lesser Arlinton looms in the distance as you and your companions trek ever onwards. You have left the forest and its slowly dying trees behind you and have struck out along the river which should lead you straight to the town. You remember walking this path not so long ago as just an apprentice alchemist with a snake princess in tow. An intractable, bossy snake princess who you couldn’t go five minutes without getting into a fight with.
Funny how some things stay the same despite all the change.
Hiss isn’t accompanying you this time however. She’s back in Snakehome, absorbed in a job that gives her little time for you and even less for adventure. You suppose that’s she wanted but still, walking by the river can’t help but make you feel a little nostalgic for when it was just the two of you on an ill-defined quest you didn’t know the meaning of and every waking hour was spent in the other’s presence.
But the lack of Hiss aside, you are far from alone. Aashenpreet walks by your side, much better at long-distance travel than she was when she was climbing the mountain with you. Zigzag lags behind the two of you with a dazed expression upon her face. She’s still wishbound to you and has a dazed expression upon her face, still sobering up. She’s been getting slower and slower, completely unused to walking long distances.
And your third and final companion is not walking beside you at all, hidden away inside your pack instead. Hom is still in his bottle and you hope to find him a body before your journey is through. You probably owe it to the disembodied homunculus after the recent fiasco.
>Talk to Aashenpreet.
>Reminisce to anyone who’s listening about your last trip here.
>Promise Zigzag some Oil when you reach Lesser Arlinton if she keeps up the pace.
>Arrange some other means of transport for Zigzag besides walking.
>Just get to the damn town.
>Other
>>44287735
>>Talk to Aashenpreet.
>>44287735
>Reminisce to anyone who’s listening about your last trip here.
>Arrange some other means of transport for Zigzag besides walking.
We can carry her in snake form or her tiny human form I guess.
Welcome to The Lost Island Quest. Last thread our hero, Alan Rodain, theory crafted about his powers, accidentally gave Gabby an unpleasant experience. Now, Alan spends his free time mastering the art of disciplining his mind and body.
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You've spent the last six or so days attempting to drill discipline into yourself with Gabby mentoring you. You've actually been living a rather austere lifestyle. Waking up early in the morning to meet with her by the beach to meditate until lunch. Eating a rather plain meal afterwards and then moving on to very slow, graceful, fluid movements of the body in sync with each other. Reminding yourself that the body and the mind is all one system, as Gabby told you a month prior when The Skipping Stone was coming in to dock at Seaside.
Then you move on to sparring....
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Each day she has the two of you meditate closer and closer to the shoreline, until by the fourth day you're being hit by the tides as you focus. It is a minor distraction, compared the the life or death struggles of combat and you quickly overcome the disruption with practice.
You notice throughout your training that Gabby has grown much quieter in the passing days since you began. She spends much more of her time in what you guess is quiet contemplation. She's been drinking less, talking less, swearing less. She even managed to avoid an argument with Dolah...
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>>44287317
>>Ask her about it
is DMing on the fly and making shit up as you go a terrible idea?
>>44287128
The first 10 sessions of my last campaign were completely off the top of my head, and they were the best 10 sessions of the game
Once I started planning ahead, it because less fun.
It depends how good you are at it. For me personally if a DM is able to keep interesting and build on it IDGAF, but I also hate /reddit/-tier memefests where it's just whatever the wackiest, most random thing is that the DM goes with.
I personally use a lot of random tables when I run and build campaigns, which I suppose is something of a halfway point between structured and totally on the fly. I would advise more people to use random tables, honestly, I think people really underestimate their usefulness as a session and campaign tool.
>>44287128
No it isn't, as long as you take enough notes as you go to keep within hailing distance of internal consistency later on in the campaign.
What do you think about torture and when should it be used?
Did anyone of you utilized torture in a game of yours?
I feel like newer players are always ready to torture shit at the drop of a hat for some reason, but usually mellow out
>>44287117
>Did anyone of you utilized torture in a game of yours?
Players do regularly. I play 2e, so it's mostly them describing their interrogation, me giving a plus or minus and then having the interrogator roll Cha with those adjustments. Doesn't work? They'll keep describing until I let them roll again.
It doesn't happen very often, because I make bribes work better, most of the time. Also this is true >>44287145
One player I meant was kind of autistic and made a intentionally evil torturer in a noble bright LG CG and NG group.
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>>44266524
>>44286762
Yamaguchi dictated the rest of his intended plot and ending for Familiar of Zero before he died so it could be finished by another author.
What's the most mundane thing you've ever wished for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKTjh_ykQY
>>44286887
I wished for more beer.
Your name is Thomas Cairn, and you are finally starting to get your life figured out. You were on a track to mediocrity when your dad was murdered in cold blood. After finding his hideout, you were changed forever, inheriting his legacy as the Red Rider. You could control electronics with your mind and soak up knowledge like a sponge, allowing you to graduate near the top of your class from a prestigious college of engineering. You climbed your way up in life with innovations concerning wireless energy, nanotechnology, and cold fusion (albeit almost blowing up the city at least...
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On a whim, you decided to visit your grandpa, a retired Supervillain named Dr. Genesis, who is unusually spry for being just over a century old. The trees shivered in the summer wind as you touched down outside his estate, where he greeted you with a smile and a handshake. It was great, until you found out about another guest he has, Francis Kelson, and his son Adrien. Francis used to go by the name of the Pied Piper, and his son inherited it from him to wreak havoc on Comet City. Grandpa looks at you with a Cheshire grin, probably expecting a reaction.
>"Well...
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>>44286820
>>"Well I'll have to say hi then."
Fuck yeah! I love you Lost.
>>44286820
>"Well I'll have to say hi then."
>Run game online
>One of the players wants to play a skeleton
>Fine, it's kind of a lighthearted and silly game anyway
>He sends me his character sheet
>The picture of the character is a skeleton with a bandanna, shades and a gold chain holding a pistol in a gangsta grip (pic related)
>The character is called OG Bonez
>Backstory is that he "was such...
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>>44286458
You'll find out during the first session.
The absolute worst. He's probably gonna play it like a gangster too. Meaning complete disregard for the lives and belongings of others while trying to get rich and bang women.
>>44286505
How is that not like every other PC in the history of RPGs?
