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What does /tg/ think about Ars Magica?Does anyone think about Ars Magica anymore?
I just read the corebook and I love the setting and magic system, but I'm a little hesitant at how... extensive some of the rules are. Also, my group's never done troupe play before.
It's fun. Don't upset the apple cart, or else the Vatican comes for you. And then if you manage to fend off the Vatican but don't shape up anyway, actual Angels buttfuck you.
>>44221613
Yeah, it's pretty rare to see a game where the dominant, ruling power of the setting is unambiguously Lawful Good. I have no idea what that'll do for player agency, but it certainly gives the game a unique flavour.
>>44221502
Troupe play isnt required but it is novel and great if you've a group to handle it.
The game is godlike even if you're not a history major taking the boot to some satanists or making deals with the fae Ars Magica is a great time.
Welcome to Banished Quest!
You take the role of a young mage labeled a criminal by his people and cast out into the wider world. In the last thread you were railroaded like a motherfucker.
It is currently the 24th of Svarthi, in the year 936 NH.
Character Sheet:
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Inventory:
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Companions:
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Spellbook:
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Runic Library:
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Current Missions:
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Dice:
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Magic:
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You're getting real tired of this creature conversing with itself as if you're not even here. “If you'll permit me a few questions, just what is this Paramatma, and what in Pani's name would incorporating my memories even entail?”
There's a long silence before the lower mouth speaks. “We apologize. It has been quite some time since we encountered a suitable mind. The Paramatma is our greatest work. It is, or rather we are, a collective composed of copies of the greatest minds to ever walk the sands of Pidjata. It was tradition for those greatest enchanters to journey to our temple and add themselves to us before their deaths. This orb was constructed to facilitate exactly that, mobile so that it might be brought to the most distant and secluded of our number. Incorporation is painful, we cannot lie. It is the last thing ingrained into all of our memories, one last moment of mortal struggle before ascension.”
You don't know if you like the sound of that. “What happens to me, to my body I mean? Am I just left a soulless husk?”
The bottom mouth speaks. “No, you are merely copied. For the rest of your brief existence there will be two of you, one joined with us and one walking the Gods' dominion. We understand that a connection to the cage which houses you is normal, but trust us. Once you have ascended you will not miss your mortal form. You will be as the Gods are, unconstrained.”
Okay, maybe that doesn't sound so bad. Still, he said it would hurt. They said? “Why are you even interested in me? I am barely past the age of boyhood, and inexperienced as an enchanter besides.”
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This time it's the top mouth that speaks. “Over the course of the past thousand years I have determined only six eligible candidates.”
The bottom mouth takes over. “Yes, Mikhael. You must understand that we thrive on new ideas and new insights. Fresh minds are perhaps the most valuable contribution a mortal could make, and it seems as though in our time dwelling outside of the Gods' creation the arts of enchanting have been forgotten, or at least the traditions of the Paramatma have been lost to time. We cannot afford to pick and choose.”
You're...
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After a brief pause the bottom mouth speaks again. “We believe that you ought to be able to weaken the thread by weakening the husk and the shell to the point that pulling the thread will not shatter them, merely strain them. A tenuous balance must be achieved, for if you weaken the shell too severely then you risk shattering the shard in your attempts to save it. You might try mending the cracks in your shard, but that is a lengthy and time consuming process. You might also attempt to sever the cord at some intervening point between you and the interloper, but you would need...
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What are some interesting things to do with dominoes?
Yell "Blank never loses" whenever you play a blank domino.
Click two of them together repetitively right next to your ear.
>>44221365
Aren't mahjong tiles better for that?
>It's a PC with no goals, motivations, traits or quirks.
If you're not going to roleplay, go play Diablo II
>>44221090
>>PC loses a limb, immediately makes new character.
If you're not going to roleplay, go play Diablo II
u mad bro
>>44221112
>PC loses a limb
>Offer them a prosthetic
>Offer them a magical replacement
>Offer them magical regeneration
>Tell them of the various ways their character can deal with this loss
>Nope, I'm rolling up a new character!
There are two main schools of health system in RPG: hit points, and what I'm going to call wounds. Wounds includes FATE stress boxes, Savage Worlds, and the Harm from Apocalypse World, for the sake of this discussion. Hit points includes GURPS, D&D, Star Wars d20's Vitality and Wound Points, and so on.
The defining difference (and trade-off, in my view) between these systems is that hit points allow more flexibility and simplicity, at the cost of having to track them (which slows down mass battles). Wounds systems generally involve very little bookkeeping;...
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Wounds that are gained by being inflicted a threshold amount of damage in a single turn/short amount of time.
>>44220937
I'm a fan of the hit point system because it lets me fluff the damage as... for example, overexertion. In real life we would typically go down in one or two hits but hit points seem contrary to that... but if you fluff it different, your halfling who scurries around and "attacks" by getting enemies to accidentally hurt themselves will start running out of luck, and your graceful swashbuckler will get tired of sidestepping all the enemies blows. This has the added bonus of making warlord style heals...
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>>44220937
I like hitpoints when abstracted into plot-shield and fatigue, because it's the most cinematic system I've encountered
OK /tg/ can someone clarify something for me?
Cause I talk to people about these two words and what I gather is:
Narrativist indicates your game follows principles set down by the ideas of the genre it is attempting to emulate while simulationist indicates your game follows principles set down by ideas of the setting it's in and that these two are intrinsically opposed to one another.
But isn't a good narrative something consistent with the rules established by the setting anyway? And isn't a good setting one that understands its genre and...
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it's a real fucked-up state of affairs when I see a civil and relatively well-thought-out statement like this and my gut reaction is "this is probably someone trying to bait people into a screaming match"
>>44220379
>>44220379
>And this obviously not accounting for setting agnostic systems which have to basically pull double duty of providing both in general assumption.
but this is generally where the "intrinsically opposed" part comes in, so I'm leaning slightly with >>44220466 here.
In GNS theory Simulationist means "game I don't like" Narrativist means "Game I like" and Gameist means "Game I don't really like but I'd be ruined if I insulted"
40k lore question.
Soul is a very real and a very importan thing in W40k, so I was wondering - what happens to one's soul when said person is transformed into a servitor?
Remember that they are portrayed differently in different sources, but basicaly they are lobotomised humans, not just robots with fleshy parts.
I kinda feel that asking when does a sevitor stop being a human and becomes a machine, amd his soul departs his body, is similar to asking when does a fetus become a human and is killed, not aborted...
It's still very much there. Hell, it's probably there even when living tissue is used in lieu of computers in various tech. While the "machine spirit" might only get about as smart as a dog that's probably the ultimate source of it. They have living parts inside them, it probably attracts or grows a soul (or however souls form in 40k) and warp magic takes care of the rest.
You could ask the same question about, say, any member of the adeptus mechanicus. They love replacing their own bodies with machine parts. I think the answer is really, "when...
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>>44219485
There's no hard answer. If you ask two different tech priests, you'll get at least two answers.
>>44219485
Servitors are essentially zombies, except it's electronic reanimating them rather than sorcery. Soul departs the body during the process of transformation.
How does /tg/ prepare their notes? It seems one of the esoteric sagely GM subjects that never gets much discussion. Everyone seems to develop their own methods and indeed it seems a very personalised process, but that shouldn't stop us from sharing and stealing good idea from each other.
I usually do some incremental world building stuff, basically jotting down how NPCs and factions are reacting to the PCs and their actions or how they're continuing to enact their plans if the PCs have had no effect on them. This involves some annotated maps and dot-points of...
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>>44218707
I have a single page of paper with different factions, and a key for my shorthand in case I forget what something means.
Then I have a bunch of index cards with characters or locations on them
>>44218918
I see index cards recommended a lot. I guess it'd stop me digging through pages when some thing I wrote a few sessions ago becomes important. And you'd wind up with a sort of priority heap as the most-used cards keep getting placed on the top
>>44219188
I use index cards for all of my character sheets notes and maps. That includes both Savage Worlds and 3.5 D&D characters.
Meanwhile on dragon /tg/.
What are you talking about you are on dragon tg
I imagine custom dragon keyboards would both be large, bulky, and expensive.
>>44218475
Dragon Han Solo dies at the end Dragon Star Wars
Hey /tg/, im thinking of starting a campaign set in the Dragon Ball universe. Can anyone recommend a good system to run it in?
It needs to:
>Support high powered characters.
>Support temporary transformations.
>Large, sudden increases in power.
>and I'd also prefer somthing that isnt rules heavy.
someone done made a dballz RPG broner, look it up.
>>44218517
DESU, it was only marginally better than the published ones.
Man good luck, Goku and Vegeta are on god levels of power now. You might as well just play Scion: God and not use any of the perviews except for maybe a modified Sun and crap for Spirit bombs.
The rest of the Z fighters would basically just be Hero level characters now. DBZ is batshit now.
With the child I’d rescued out of danger, I throw myself into helping dig out the pit that my master had specified, the constant thud of rocks raining down in our direction ever present behind us.
Thankfully, the boggart is too busy feeding on the already dead corpses, stone-chuckers being rather single minded in their behaviours; kill, eat, repeat. From what I’ve seen at least, this one isn’t even a particularly powerful one, it can only lift boulders larger than a man, compared to higher tier boggarts, that’s getting off easy.
With the pit dug to the...
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