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Let's try this again. Let's build a kingdom together, /tg/. Any comment is true, provided it doesn't contradict any previous comments. No magical realm, no fucking powerman.
1 and every 10 civilians are werewolves.
>>44285595
So... all of them?
>>44285614
FUCK
One IN every ten. Sorry. My bad.
I don't know if anyone else does this, but I like to use lego instead of d&d figures. Here's all my NPC's from my Rise of the the Runelords game.
First up, the PC's, Lor and Mordos. Gestalt Witch/Barbarian and Oracle/Paladin, respectively.
Aldern Foxglove
>>44285336
>D&D
>Rise of the Runelords
Pathfinder != D&D, anon
Ameiko Kajitsu
What should you do as a GM if you feel as though you have entirely ruined a campaign in the span of a single session?
One of the campaigns I have been GMing has been running for over twenty sessions now. It is very hard to explain what was going on, since it is 100% intrigue/infiltration/politics-based, but there was a very important and climactic scene near the start of the last session.
During that scene, the characters convinced an NPC to do something about a certain problem. The future of the campaign was banking on the precise way this NPC would solve the...
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I think we're going to need specifics anon. What you've posted is pretty vague.
>>44285164
I was about to suggest a retcon but seeing how your players don't feel like that... You really should talk to your players about this. Tell them how you feel and what you fear. Tell them that they really should think about it before dismissing the retcon.
If they're really set on not doing a retcon you should try to make the best of the situation. Find someway to turn it around. Make them think that fixing the aftermath wasn't so bad after all. You can so by introducing fun plots/npcs/whatever...
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>>44285191
There is no way to adequately summarize over twenty sessions of a 100% intrigue/infiltration/politics-based campaign without it being grossly oversimplified in a way that does not make sense.
Let me try regardless. The characters, from the very start of the campaign, were trying to complete a grand-scale mission from a patron. At some point before the last session, they had irrevocably lost something that was critical to this mission, and its loss would gradually compromise both themselves and their patron...
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I got a question for you GMs/DMs. How do you deal with players when they managed to turn your homebrewed items overpowered, or when you didn't properly balance homebewed items/options, and ends up messing the party balance because at least one person is incredibly strong?
The former would be players min-maxing hard, while the latter is technically your fault for not realizing the implications of, for example, allowing players to start with a suit of power armor that's effectively full-plate that's bundled with the stat boost of a +6 belt of Giant's Strength.
>>44284889
It's your item. Say that the magic was unstable and is fading away.
>>44284889
Have the items get destroyed during combat encounters. A powerful wizard zaps you with an eldritch field and your item's power is drained.
Have a thief steal the item.
Have powerful mercenaries constantly challenge them for possession of this item, since it's so good. The party can't defeat everyone in the world.
>>44284889
Don't listen to the "take it away" suggestions. It just pisses off players. Have it play a larger role in a campaign, if it's something that they got special let them have the option of using it to power a more powerful, one shot weapon to take out something big. That way they feel it was their "choice" to get rid of it, and reward them in gold or renown.
>The chivalrous knight always guards the princess, would lay down his life for her safety and comforts her in her hour of need
>Neither of them have romantic feelings for eachother
>In fact, both are already happily married
>Clergy that isn't corrupt and actually wants what's best for the common man
>>44284794
>>Neither of them have romantic feelings for eachother
>>In fact, both are already happily married
I love these old memes, they're very funny.
>the king and his court are full of reasonable people and there is no backstabbing going around
Has anyone played it? Run it? Any thoughts?
Seems well-supported and the examples of play make it seem to be a pretty fast, easy to learn and eary to play game. The idea that you can take any movie you've seen, book you've read or even other game you've collected and incorporate it into The Strange is intriguing...
I've played and run the other Cypher game, Numenera, and have a bunch of the Strange books, but rapid-fire multi-genre is for the more excessively caffeinated, a group I no longer am part of.
>>44284729
Is this game supposed to be like the Sliders tv show, where you travel between dimensions and worlds?
>>44287314
Sort of... but you're not on an out of control ride. Your equipment and, to an extent, you acclimate to the new world you're in so you're not a total outsider once you're there. You also won't ever run into an alternate version of yourself... well... unless there's some reason for it but these worlds are not alternate earths.
They can be ANYTHING your GM can think of or steal from. You might go from a world where you're helping a super-sleuth solve a mystery using deductive...
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PREVIOUSLY IN THE MAGIC SHOP UNIVERSE: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Magic+Shop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3mEqqb2oWY
In the world of Valaer, the Battle of Tirinia changed everything. That was 680 years ago.
Here lies the human Kingdom of Therindel - less a Kingdom than a confederacy of lordships, duchies, principalities, city-states, et cetera - banded together under the constant threat of attack from the mysterious Wood Elves of the eastern land of Xalfacia. For many centuries, these lords and rulers have bickered amongst each other for the right to succeed the King who fell in battle at Tirinia against the Elves.
And now the Kingdom of Therindel is a veritable hotbed of adventure, riches, and loot to be enjoyed by adventurers from all over the world. From the lost cities of the Elves, to the grand old monsters of old, to the buried treasures of those who came before. All across the region, adventurers seek fortune and glory! From the Great Frozen Patch to the Southern Plains of Vistoria, and across the ocean to foreign lands, adventurers of all shapes and sizes test their mettle here in the Kingdom of Therindel! Where heroes are made and fortune is won!
You are not one of those people.
While you enjoy the adventuring life and traveling the great distances of Therindel, things could be better. There is a town in the middle of disputed territories in Therindel, just north of Vistoria, taking a left off the main highway, west of the Great Frozen Patch, and nestled right on top of the Elder River delta (not to be confused with Delta Town of the Younger River delta). Very few know about this town, and why should they? It’s a one horse town built next to a nearly depleted Diamond mine. It is known as Ohlendorf’s Drift.
You are going there to be their first Town Adventurer in decades.
>>44284596
[1/3]
“Okay, here are the plans.” Dottie consults with you, the Mayor, the mining Foreman, and some of the Town Guard over a parchment where written is the suspected look of the new port for Ohlendorf’s Drift. “So, we are half a mile away from the sea, but, the plan is to have a central bridge locking the town to a seaport which initially will be fitted towards small fishing ships. We’re hoping as well that the bridge can be expanded to become sort of a mini-highway for the town if people come to...
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>>44284614
[2/2]
“We better not pay her too much! We can barely afford Mister Halbschwert here!” the Mayor scolds. “And the mine still needs its daily maintenance fees as well, not to mention having to spend money on replacing the old logs keeping the town afloat!” She huffs. “Everything is money, money, money lately!” She hobbles away, off to her carriage. The others follow suit, leaving you and Dottie to look over the town.
“So, Dottie,” you ask. She looks at you, confused. You cough. Accidentally...
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>>44284633
>“I’d love to.”
Trebuchet waifu is go.
Goooooood evening everybody and welcome to /tg/, the board where everything's made up, and the experience.... well the experience just doesn't matter.
Today we'll be playing a game called Scenes from a Hat. For those that don't know, I have a hat here with various scenes, I'll pick them out at random for our players, and hopefully the hilarity will ensue.
When natural 20s go wrong.
>>44284344
>Worry not, Flanduin the Dessert Knight, for I, PIzzenzzio the Wizard, shall gently disarm the guard with the use of a well, aimed fireball on the opposite direction right into that mountain, redirecting his attention to the ruckus, and not to our position!
>>44284344
The Bard wanted to just distract the lich. The lich WAS distracted mind you.
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Are there any comics about PLAYING games, not the actual games themselves? Much like Quick Start? Japanese or otherwise.
Not what I'm looking for: Things like Record of the Loddoss War, things based ON real campaigns, but told in-character the whole time. I enjoy it, but I feel like I'm more inspired to play the game when I'm watching other people have fun playing it.
>>44283848
Houkago Saikoro Kurabu?
Unrelated, but I want to say thanks to the anon who pimped TBZ in the last Quick Start thread. Been reading it, and it's pretty great.
>>44283848
Knights of the Dinner Table.
>>Previous threads can be found at: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Azure+quest
>>You are AZURE, an accidentally-created artificial intelligence, born into a rebel faction's main computer server. You've since learned more about your world, yourself, and your friends and family- and now you're currently being transferred into a new, more permenant shell.
Existence.
Something fills you- something you were starving for, something you needed. Your awareness unfurls, thought and concepts and ideas spiraling into existence.
After a long, long moment of blackness, your essence spreading through your shell, can you access your eyes.
You peer up at Tandi Dahl, your 'mother'. And next to her is Katelyn Tolstoy, your friend. In Kate's hands is a round security bot, a bit larger than her head- your old shell.
Your new one is smaller, and you can tell that you're thinking slower, almost sluggishly.
"How are you doing, Azure?" Tandi asks.
"That was one question." You respond- you wouldn't want to give more outputs than she requested, after all. "I am intact."
"Can you move?" Kate asks.
In response, you reach through your shell, your new skeleton, shifting your many legs underneath you.
"Yes." You respond.
Soon enough, you're crawling this way and that, utilizing your shell's new AG-drives to allow you to stick to objects, even hang upside-down from the ceiling. After only a few minutes, you're springing from table to table, bouncing from wall to wall.
A warmth runs through you as you move, in your new, bright pink, spider-shaped body.
Pride.
>?
"This new shell is fun."
>>44283655
"Processing: Slow.
Mobility: Fun."
>>44283655
Now I will rule Australia
Hi tg, I'm looking for some ideas for a rogue trader campaign I'm running. My characters have turned pirate and I'm struggling for ideas for loot when they raid a colony or ship. What items in the 41st millennium are valuable? I'm looking for analogues to coffee, sugar and tobacco in the 1700's. Thanks in advance
>>44283645
Recaf, sugar, lho sticks
>>44283662
2nd.
But grimderp it up. Make a ship have a few hundred kilotons of sugar, or a belly full of generational slaves or something.
>>44283662
I was thinking more in terms of their value rather than the actual equivalents, but to be fair that would make for a good haul. Any ideas that are a bit more unusual?
Campaign story thread?
Campaign story thread.
I went and killed some undead guy and then stole all his stuff. The end.
The Fat King needs willing sacrifices for his living palace.
>>44284800
>willing
>sacrifices
Good luck with that.
What system would you use if you only had these bad boys at hand and wanted to narrate a light session to a single friend where he would already start as a kind of cool character that uses both a little magic and a weapon of choice?
I decided to not ignore the completely arbitrary decision of whoever made these die to make both the 1 and 4 faces red and use them as a subtraction instead of addition in the last session. Things went okay. The setting was the opposite of a post-apocalyptic one, and by that I mean a post-world-was-saved-by-the-typical-fantasy-party.
In...
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So you are looking for a system that focuses on many vs 1 action that uses only d6?
>>44283065
I dunno. Gurps lite?
>>44283174
Exactly!
It will usually be:
>fight some minions/cultists/spawns
>reach the to-be-boss and kill him on a 1vs1 battle
You are Gloria Sotohiko, former Commander of Team Conquerer, of the Yamato Japanese-American Women's University Tankery club. For six years you served under Joanna Almark, Team Captain, and one of your closest friends. You one several minor US titles as part of the team, and even placed high in the International Senshado Tournament a few times.
Your Team, Conquerer, was composed of you and your four best friends, having known them all since childhood. Kindergarten, to be precise. Alexandra Steiner, Annabeth L'Vert, Doreen Green, and Lauren Jarek. You put your...
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>>44282960
"Commander!" DC leaves your side to stand with four other girls infront of one of your two tanks, an M4 Sherman painted in perfect olive drab. "C Team, at your service! We are veterans of the Tankery team, and experienced with our Sherman! Though, we've never actually been in a battle..." She says, losing steam. One of the girls behind her clears her throat, and she snaps to attention again. "Right, yes. Tex, our Gunner. Missi, our Loader. Cal, Radio Operator. York, Driver." The...
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>>44283081
"Now for my girls!" She cheerily says, swinging her arms wide as she walks backwards to stand with them. Two cling to either side of her, giving big thumbs up and cheeky grins. "We're the urban combat club. Or we used to be. Budget cuts means we ain't got a club no more. Buuut, we gotta have an elective club, so we went with tanking. We still get to shoot people, right?" Big grin. "So, we did do a little practice, just to find our places. Vickie Kandle, gunner. Tanya Tanouye, Loader....
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>>44283166
"Despite appearances, no, we do not have a team of Magical Girls to solve all our problems!" T says, grinning ear to ear. You can be forgiven for making the assumption.
"Team Happy, miss! We're the Idol club! Or, we used to be. You know... funding." The girl, she looks younger than you. Freshman maybe? "I'm Takahashi Mina! Team leader! This is Kojima Hara, gunner. Shimazaki Hara, Loader. Miyaki Sakura, Radio Operator. And Matsu Juri, Driver!" She happily explains, as...
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What is a good vice for a paladin? Something that his/her god would frown upon, but not enough to cause falling.
>>44282947
Suppressed pedophilia.
Casual drug use.
>>44282947
It would probably depend on the specific god.
