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Anyone play D&D Attack Wing?
>>44200235
How is the balance? Not sure I can trust Wizkids after how STAW came out after the Borg introduction.
>>44200292
I haven't gotten to play much, but some of the higher-end dragons seem rediculous to me, having things like 10 health and 4 armor. The smaller units and dragons are much more fun to play with and against each other.
>>44200235
I have a doubt. do I need to buy copies of the figs for, I don't know, do anything special? I mean I was planning on get just one of each "unique" unit. is that enough?
>>44200292
>>44200626
and how it looks Wizkids doesn't have a good reputation at handling the games they own...
How would you feel about a game where you play as the personification of various countries and other nation states
>>44190813
Only if you can play as Ireland
>>44190835
>that guy detected
>>44190813
>/int/ the game
>balancedexcept for bosnia
Why?
Last time on Bullywug Civ
J'amp Guud prepared an attack on the Claudhappers.
They got rekt and J'amp put a frog sized hole through his rival through magic and being good at jumping
Get on in here
>>44227316
I'm here!
Working on the 1st post, do you guys want Sprucke and M'tik to run the other Villages? Do we want to spread some of our villagers to those villages? I can give that as a free action
>>44227439
Mix all villagers between each other. Shuffle them. And yes, they can run those villages.
I have no friends and don't know what to do the new year's eve,
can we make a /tg/ online game for poor fuckers that share my condition?
A campaign or even just a tabletop game like betrayal at the house on the hill.
>>44227276
Just leave us alone and play solo, creep.
http://www.mythic.wordpr.com/page14/page9/page9.html
halbrecht
>>44227451
B-but where's the fun?
What do you think of this?
>>44226003
Tell me what "this" is that I'm looking at.
I see a generic fanart of a generic young adult fantasy book based off some splatbook.
>>44226585
The third D&D movie.
>>44226585
There were two D&D movies that were made after the massive flop. They were made on a much lower budget, but ended up being quite a bit better. Not amazingly good, but passable, and you could actually tell that the setting was D&D rather than just generic fantasy with that one beholder thrown in for kicks.
>discussing Roll20
>exchanging macros, maps and tokens
>bitching about the devs
>not asking for games because there's a gamefinder thread for that as far as I know
Also, a question.
>Game asks for backstories and character concepts
>three quarters of the applications are just "HI IM NEW AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN (:"
Is this a regular occurrence or am I just...
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>>44225532
>Is this a regular occurrence or am I just unlucky?
Pretty normal, roll20 is the first online stop for beginner roleplayers these days. And most of them think a scattershot approach to character applications is their best bet to get into a game or two.
Any good Cyberpunk 2020 games on there? I can never seem to find anything.
>>44225608
>Pretty normal, roll20 is the first online stop for beginner roleplayers these days. And most of them think a scattershot approach to character applications is their best bet to get into a game or two.
That's kind of depressing... but explains why I seem to be taken first for like 100% of the games I apply to despite being fairly shit with a low amount of hours.
Also, where'd I go for modern interior maps? Even the commercial packs they offer are fairly underwhelming...
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>>44225646
>Also, where'd I go for modern interior maps?
Cartographer's Guild has some free stuff, otherwise look here for a Maps thread. I've got a trove at home but can't access it now.
The story so far:
You are Anon. Until yesterday you were a kissless virgin NEET, living with his mum and dad and contributing nothing to society. Today you are a regular virgin NEET, still living with his mum and dad, and still contributing nothing to society.
BUT yesterday your life took a surprising turn: your parents set up a blind date for you, with none other than ‘This Morning’ presenter and certified semen demon Holly Willoughby.
After some initial spaghetti-spilling and a small argument with Holly’s co-presenter, Supreme Orbiter Schofield, the dinner...
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>>44224576
You’re in Holly’s house still from the night before, you’re a NEET so you don’t have any job to go to today; you should probably get out of Holly’s house before lunchtime though.
You go downstairs, make yourself some toast and coffee, switch on ITV, and there she is: Holly, as lovely as ever. “Once again, we apologise that Phil can’t be with us on this program; he’s had an unexpected personal tragedy so will be taking some time off.” Huh. You think you know what that means. You finish up breakfast...
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>>44224581
I think we need to go to a nurse, otherwise we might get infected and die just before we knob Holly.
>>44224576
tl;dr
>"Barbarians are just dumb muscle. If you want points in thieving or diplomacy, create a new character."
Somebody would like a word with you.
>>44224442
Like how Gandalf wasn't a d&d wizard, Conan is not a d&d barbarian.
>>44224470
What if gandalf was a really low level wizard with a epic bluff score to begin with? Then he just leveled up on a faster EXP scale than the rest of the party.
>>44224442
Pretty sure you can pull off thieving and diplomacy Barbarian RAW. That said Conan's thieving usually involved someone getting shanked, so I don't know if that makes him good or bad at it.
Hey /tg/, i was wondering if i could get some help and maybe some suggestions from you guys.
In my current campaign my PC's need to get from The South to the North in a limited time frame, roughly 4 months during winter. And I'm honestly not sure how to make the day to day travel interesting, or ways to go about just making it more than "You travel for a few days... BANDITS, you travel for a few more... DYSENTERY, and a few more... VILLAGE etc etc"
So does anyone got any thoughts.
>>44223977
Have reoccuring characters or themes as the PCs travel.
at first there are crows, then crows feeding on dead animals, then a couple days later the crows are feeding on an entire dead villiage, then over the next hill you see...A MEGA CROW
A young man keeps following the PCs, he constantly nags them to help him hunt, or to help him make weapons, or to train him, or let him sleep in the camp. He seems obsessed with hunting or evadingSOME CREATURE
After weeks of this, the boy suddenly disappears one night and doesn't show up. the PCs are all painfully aware of the lack of this young man, and his camping gear is still set up a short distance from the PCs camp.
Later that night aSOME CREATUREattacks the PCs.
Also random encounters can be pretty varied. take the Traveller rural encounter table for example. you roll 2d6. One is the 10s, one is the 1s. So a roll of a 4 and a 6 would be 46.
>>44223977
Old lady and her grand daughter. They receive and shelter the player for one night without charge but...they are actually werewolf ambushing travelers during winter. And the pc's are the new hunt.
>>44224054
>they are actually werewolf ambushing travelersSo they're travelers that ambush werewolves? so that would make the party.... Werewolves!? MAJOR PLOT TWIST
A-anyone got an online group I could join? A-any system?
>doesn't care what system
So you're pretty much guaranteed to not care that much.
>>44223927
I do care, I mean that in a way that open to learn other systems. I can't just side with dnd 5e forever.
i would but...
we already have "that crab"
first to 3 race and location
Current CIVS
Machine-Volcano
Centaur-Desert
Bullywugs-Swamp
Timezone
Melbourne, Australia - threads start at around 1pm i am on holiday so they will be daily until i go overseas and will come back when i return
Humans - Desert river
>>44223906
Bruh, I hope this takes off
>>44223906
I'll second that vote
Found this neat little program and browsing through it mindlessly gave me an idea. I started clicking on random citizens/animals and looking into their thoughts and memories, then thought of the scenarios those citizens are in. It's an interesting practice in characterization/worldbuilding, and I'd like to see your takes on the thoughts and memories of random people.
James Richardson, for example, is watching his life flash before his eyes after being cut down in a shrimp-related incident.
>>44222995
Oops, forgot link - http://orteil.dashnet.org/nested
>>44222995
>I'd like to see your takes on the thoughts and memories of random people.
It's more interesting to go people-watching somewhere and create wild scenarios for people you see when you're at a cafe or something.
It's a neat little time-waster but I don't think I'd use it for any serious world-building.
So tell me /tg/, how do you like/imagine magic looking?
Is it bright and colorful or invisible unless otherwise needed?
For instance, if a Wizard fired an energy beam would it be visible or invisible? If a creature is summoned would it appear in a great circle of glowing runes and wooshing or just appearing there?
I really dislike video gamey imagery of wizards firing lasers and lighting the place up in mystical glowing symbols every time they cast any spell. Just waving their hand and making things happen feels much more mysterious and miraculous to me.
It depends on the setting, character, and spells themselves, for me.
Grandiose arcane swirls and tempests of rainbow fit with high fantasy for me, while more subtle manipulations or invisible rituals carry over into something more Robert E Howard.
I admired the Lord of the Rings movies for keeping magic as (mostly) a strange practise. Most of Gandalf's spells in particular.
>>44222803
I have different fluff opinions on a case by case basis, NPC mages are typically bolts and incantations, but some of my characters include a Fae changeling who manipulates shadows, a pyromaniac revenant who is all fire all the time, and a senile old man whose magic manifests as a cloud of fairies he forgot he conjured doing things for him.
Somehow, my PCs managed to arrange a meeting with lvl 20 wizard living on an island realm within his own floating tower.
Now this guy is exceptionally powerful (archmage caste) and an epicure of the world. He collects the best of everything and everyone. Expensive and meta-expensive items and peple/creatures he can get for his collection. Not exactly evil, but will go to exceptional lenghts to get what he wants.
What should his home be like? I want stuff that will blow my players' minds.
Pic unrelated but intriguing
>>44222784
It looks like a complete mess, because it is a complete mess. The only person that knows where everything is is the Wizard.
Everywhere the players look they find trinkets and enchanted swords, Voodoo dolls, golden statues dedicated to the god of fertility, skulls from gigantic beasts, weird pets where in your plane of existence would be a KoS, Mummies, artifacts or items that have gone missing decades ago and no one has ever found the culprit, gilded armor and crowns from civilizations long extinct
The...
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Scrying pools set up on major cities or political figures in the setting. Possibly portals to those locations in the same room.
Caged demons/dragons/feral vampires/other extremely dangerous magical creatures being kept somewhere like it's a petting zoo.
Within this "zoo" area, have the environments in each cage change. With some being hot arid deserts, and others being frigid artic snow. Don't explain how these effects are sustained or limited to such a small area.
Flying machines (assuming things like airships don't exist yet).
The...
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>>44222784
Tear a page out of the books of the Telvanni from Morrowind.
You have to be able to fly just to effectively navigate his home - where any other building would have a grand spiral staircase, his just has an open, sheer-walled atrium so he can levitate between floors.
I need something cyberpunk that isn't as rule heavy as Shadowrun. Halp.
>>44222263
You could always tryGURPS
>>44222263
How rule heavy is Cyberpunk 2020?
I never played it.
Traveller?
plenty of cyber and punk. nice easy 2D6 system
