>>44159515
So, Wasteland is in the same set as Waste, the basic land.
That'll be easy for noobs to grasp
>>44160513
Well not really. Wasteland is in Expeditions and Wastes are in Oath of the Gatewatch
>>44159515
>implying Wasteland will ever be printed ever again, ever
That's not even the right set symbol. Come on, son!
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=GURPS Resources==
If you want to learn the basic mechanics of the system, get GURPS Lite for free at www.sjgames.com/gurps/lite/
Character Templates. Think Character Classes.
http://gurps.wikia.com/wiki/Character_Templates
GURPS 4th edition Books:
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4th edition Character Sheet utility:
https://www.gurpscharactersheet.com
Combat Examples. Very useful for new players and GMs! Check out how different options effect things.
http://www.themook.net/rpg/examples/
GURPS Murder Simulator, a fun tool to simulate shooting people in GURPS.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/40207800/MiscDev/MurderSim2015.exe
GURPS 3rd edition PDFS. Unreliable. Try again if they don't work.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/qiq29z073l9zs/GURPS
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/fvkg5h94x1k1m/GURPS
What Skills should every PC have? Good idea, moderate execution.
http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=369148&postcount=22
http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=676097&postcount=4
Combat Cheat Sheet
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10971026/Combat%20Maneuvers%20Cheat%20Sheet%202.04.pdf
Random utility
gurpscalculator.com
Magic System comparisons
http://pastebin.com/4Wk6gB2D (embed) (HTTP)
Planet and star generator:
http://higarashi.big-metto.net/upload/CeleNavigation/CelestialNavigation_x86.zip
Innate Attack Calculator, missing some modifiers:
www.sjgames.com/gameaids/gurps/g4innatecalc.html
>what's going on in your current campaign/s?
>what's the coolest thing that happened in one of your GURPS games?
>are you thinking about GMing a campaign? what's the setting?
>>44159476
>are you thinking about GMing a campaign? what's the setting?
Yep, this is it. And I'm really unsure on what I'm doing. Players want 1800s dungeonpunk, a genre I have little experience with. Everything I have for experience/inspiration drags me back into high fantasy.
What do?
Screencap of a story I posted quite a while ago. Going to be running the continuation of it in the next week, hopefully.
>are you thinking about GMing a campaign? what's the setting?
I have an idea I'm working on. There'll be 4 players who will play a unit of black-ops operators who go on covert missions ala Mission Impossible/James Bond. They will have to break into government buildings like embassies or private buildings. Some missions will be in different countries. Some missions permit the use of deadly force, others don't. Some missions will only be about eliminating a target, others will be about saving a high profile hostage held by terrorists. Some missions will be about infiltrating and stealing delicate data, others about destroying delicate data. And so one. On one mission the team encounters a person that seems to have super powers and things go wrong, forcing them to abort the mission.
But that's only the prologue. The main part is very Supers-heavy. These top sectret special black ops operators will get the offer to partake in a sectret, government-sponsored experiment. The players will only know that they will gain powers but not what kind of powers.
Player 1 will have altered cells which generate and store electricity. He will be able to discharge lightning bolts from his hands. He will recharge naturally but it takes a while. He can accelerate the process by hooking himself up to an electrical socket or something like that. Can't charge by getting hit by lightning though. That's too much at once and would kill him.
Player 2 will also have altered cells. His cells generate gravitons, enabling him to fly. At first not too fast, but he'll be able to level up in order to reach a higher max speed.
to be continued...
Let's create a kingdom, /tg/. Everything said about this kingdom is true unless it conflicts with something previously stated in the thread.
To start, it is a large island nation that has existed for centuries.
>>44159401
It is populated by birds that are spies for the king.
The inhabitants of the island try to trick the spy birds by feeding them all in a central park away from their houses and families.
>>44159422
Few people know about these birds' true purpose, and those that do are viewed as conspiracy nuts and insane.
So I'm worldbuilding for a space-opera type sci-fi setting, and I need some ideas for various species of aliums. Help bls /teeg/.
>>44159283
Alien races are the easiest kind to make. Do you have no creativity?
>>44159283
Just watch Space Dandy
>>44159283
A species native to gas giants made out of metallic hydrogen and transition metals. When leaving their preferred environment they have to wear heavy pressure suits to keep themselves from explosively decompressing.
Let's see some throwbacks to a time when MtG art was good, none of that horrible cartoony Superjace shit.
> implying there has ever been good MTG art
Nah. There's only old-ass cartoon paintings, and new 3D CGI bullcrap.
Pokemon has the best art of any CCG, Magic art can't even compare. Of course pokemon as a card game is shit, but the art is frankly objectively superior to that of any Magic card.
>>44159264
>pokemon has the best art of any CCG
How did you misspell Yugioh so badly?
In the campaign I'm running, one of the NPCs is an older warrior. Not a man of incredible skill or mighty strength, or even great glory, but a stalwart, taciturn fellow who has seen many things and weathered them. The PCs haven't known him for too long and haven't seen him in action too much, but they like him. He also has a magical sword of indeterminate (but apparently modest) power he always fondly describes "his loyal friend, always at his side and always trustworthy".
Last session, this NPC was grievously wronged and wounded by the BBEG's minions, and was rendered crippled and incapable of fighting. The PCs are pretty furious and swearing revenge, and the old warrior, knowing they're going to need all the help they can get (not just for avenging him, but also to actually have a chance at victory as a whole), gave them his sword, hoping it'll do them at least some good.
The session ended pretty much there, and now the problem is that I'm not so sure what exactly the sword should do. It was pretty much a spur-of-the-moment idea that they should get the sword, and I hadn't really given it too much thought beforehand. So, what exactly should a modestly powered, "trustworthy" sword cherished by an old warrior do? I'm thinking of something more low-key, possibly passive or reactionary in nature, but something better than just the equivalent of +1 bonuses (because let's face it, there's nothing intresting about a sword whose only perk is a numeric bonus).
What kind of a weapon would an old, enduring warrior cherish and find always useful, even if it's not mighty or incredibly destructive in nature? What kind of a weapon would always feel reassuring him, even if just a bit, to carry at his side against danger?
>>44158782
The sword is always at the hands of its owner when they need it, literally. If they are disarmed and thrown into the dungeons, it will just be there, under some dirty blankets or a bench, or even their goddamn pantleg.
Their faithful ally, always at their side, and always trustworthy.
Have you considered something like an adaptive blade? Nothing particularly impressive. but something like it lengthens to give the fighter some distance when wounded, gets a couple of blood grooves after a couple of fights. It sharpens itself quietly while resting, it heats up on a cold night.
The blade is truly a companion, and wants to be helpful, loyally changing itself to help the fighter, no matter the odds.
>>44158836
Might be a bit abuse-prone if the sword literally appears anywhere. But I've always liked the idea of a special item that finds its way back to its owner, no matter what, possibly at the time of great danger.
Like, instead of just inexplicably being there in the darkest, grimiest, deepest prison hole, it will find its way into your hands when you stage a daring escape. Possibly carried by a guard who stumbles and falls, or just sitting on a table you run past, or otherwise within your grasp.
Maybe it'd be cool to have an item that's generally "lucky", in the sense that things always seem to go a bit more towards your way when you have it. Like, in game terms, the player can ask a number (whatever feels good) of scene-specific questions, like "Is one of the guards that attack me actually drunk off his ass" or somesuch opportunate, plausible things that could be true and could help the character.
In a campaign I played in, there was a blessed dagger that ensured that no wound caused on the character would fester or otherwise slay the person afterwards, only through direct, immediate damage. Like, no matter how badly you were bled and gutted, as long as you wouldn't outright perish from it, you would persist and get better. Bleeding and infection, mostly. I don't remember if diseases and the like were also included.
Of course, that's only useful if the game system actually has distinct wounds and complications thereof.
Alright /tg/. I wanna hear your worst stories of D&D, 40k, Shadowrun, Call of Cthulu, Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, GURPS, Rifts, anything you play that falls under the umbrella of a TTRPG. I want the cringiest and most annoying players, worst stories, creepiest happening. I'll begin.
>Invited to play D&D
>Huge AD&D and BECMI fag
>Playing with standard group of friends
>DM is a pretty cool guy, but it's his first D&D campaign
>Come over
>We're playing a modified version of 4e
>ohshitniggerwhatareyoudoing.jpg
>we get dailies and abilities (basically fighting styles, bonuses on rolls and the occasional spell) but no cantrips or actual spells from the spell list
>Our typical elfrogue is an obnoxious edgelord, obsessed with Batman and shitting on everyone else, obviously chooses chaotic retarded
>Our wizard refuses to stop joking and intentionally breaks the game because he wants to be a fucking rubix cube, and his daily is turning into a firetruck because LMAOOOO XD XD SO RANDUMZ!!!!!
>Our fighter is basically a drunken homeless dwarf who shits himself constantly and uses brass knuckles and chairs as weapons, actually kind of funny
>Our Druid is just some druid
>Choose to be a vampire fighter
>DM gives them free reign but he somehow expects anyone but me to try and follow the story
>Over the course of the session I:
>Get my gear stolen by the rogue on his first turn
>Get roofied and pimped out as an unconcious sex doll by by group
>Level up once
>Get pushed off an airship and killed, while the guy that came down with me barely suffered a scratch
>Get my soul trapped in a teapot
>Spend 3/4s of the game doing absolutely fucking nothing
>Spend half of the time getting mocked by the rogue
>Get a temporary body for the endgame boss
>The boss is a monster with Lvl 18 Black Dragon stats
>We're all level 2
>Takes a couple hours and a shit ton of rule breaking to even kill it
>Get elected to be the DM for the next game
As you might have guessed, I declined.
>>44158524
You don't have to DM the same game, do you?
That's fucking awful.
My story is not as bad but I think it's interesting in its own right.
> be me, running 5e game for friends
> one player wants to play a tranny character
> "wahhh the book says I can!!"
> okay whatever as long as it doesn't get in the way of the game
> person playing is also a tranny wannabe, though no hormones / self-mutilation yet
> stopped cooking dinner because of this fucker because he/she/it puts KETCHUP on the pasta I make for everyone and also slurps it in the most disgusting noise ever.
> used to cut himself until my friend made him stop
> is into homestruck and all that shit, tries to CONSTANTLY insert it into the game
> interrupts game at one point to make us all watch Steven Universe trailer of some black chick transforming into a man, because it was "soooo relevant" (it fucking wasn't)
Continued below
>>44158761
What?
Pathfinder General /pfg/
"SoP writers are reforming their project thanks to your complaints" edition
If you are asking for build advice, please mention which third-party books are allowed. If you do not say anything, we will ask (probably about DSP).
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Previous thread: >>44147242
I'm a mid-level wizard that needs a reliable way to incapacitate two ~5th level hirelings (both rogues) simultaneously. Ideas?
Not simultaneous, but I was going with command person, get one of them to grapple and pin the other, then cast hungry pit underneath them.
Post pictures of witches and/or shamans.
>>44158221
Fireball.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/metamagic-feats/merciful-spell-metamagic
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 become a greater fighting force with the right "Allies," The Faceless incites them to seek out pacts, finding the old innkeep, Valce a friend in a simple campfire while the Huntress, Oddette, made do with a far more vicious partner.
As she performed her trial, The faceless assisted Mira in getting her two pacts to work together and let the girl train on her own as he fell into slumber and saw visions of his Face's past.
His old allies and friends under the cloak of night and a young Hylon King by the name of Acer...
What trials shall we overcome? We shall see.
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The weather's cleared on this new day, the once dry and dusky haze that fell over this camp is now replaced with the smells of wet earth and the warmth of full bearing down, casting an enchanted mist over the freed labor camp. You've been resting, catching up on lost sleep from traveling through the camp.
You're within the quarters of the recently departed clerk, though pacted he had proved weak. His sword rests with him now in a shallow grave beyond the palisade, a bloodstain still lingering in the masonry of the floor.
“Speak to me.” You whisper aloud to yourself. Your face, the Reaper has been quiet since the night that the Scourge fell and you let the Danhor go free. It's become more difficult to move with agility, and you can feel him resisting you. The others have been told that you're simply weary from the battle considering your age, and they've let you alone... Yet.
“We are not finished here. We must go to the Manor and see that the Guisi are safe, why won't you-”
A knock upon the door snaps you out of your introspection. “Reaper, I've brought you food and water. Are you awake to eat?” The voice is from a Guisi girl that's been helping you. Since the scourge slayed all the rebels in the wood, Mira's closed up, confining herself to a room that's sinee been called hers and not speaking to anyone, especially not you. Valce barely escaped with his life, still asleep and being treated by Eko. The other Guisi seemed wary of the Protean at first, yet she's been of such help that they allow her to stay.
Gaffer and Cornel don't blame you, for what happened, though they have their own mourning to do. No one's seen Odette recently however, and that worries you considering what happened with her... Her family.
>>44157835
Some of the Guisi freed gave you strange looks when you walked the previous day, you've been told that their elders would like to speak to you when you are feeling up for it.
>Eat, then...
>[Visit Mira, even if she doesn't talk much, she may appreciate you being there for her.]
>[Seek out the Elders, you can't fake your current condition much longer. Might as well speak to them.]
>[Find Odette... Hopefully she hasn't done anything dangerous, or perhaps too drastic.]
>[Remain in seclusion, enter your inner self and force the Reaper to speak with you. ]
>[Head out to the woods alone, if anything has taught you anything, one of those twins will find you, they'll know what to do.]
>[Write in.]
>>44157903
>[Seek out the Elders, you can't fake your current condition much longer. Might as well speak to them.]
Time to come out.
Seems that keeping the face wasn't the greatest idea
I've been browsing through my 40k art file /tg/, and noticing all the images I have of angelic or daemonic winged astartes I began to wonder, would space marines look better if they were more or less literal angels in appearance? Not necessarily in the face, but possessing mutant bird wings for unaided flight.
>>44157781
I'd be heresy
You are Siris Erickson, and you are a mutant. This is hardly surprising, considering both of your parents are mutants, and you grew up surrounded by mutants. Despite being somewhat of a late bloomer with your powers, the leaders of the Xavier Institute saw incredible potential in you and your abilities. With the ability to control the wavelength and frequency of light, as well as emit light from your body, you could theoretically do incredible things, although that is currently limited to a limited control over the light in the surrounding area and the ability to concentrate light into a laser. Both of which tend to give you painful headaches, and you can only do those with the help of a specially created suit. You were accepted into the Xavier Institute mid-year despite the late arrival of your powers, and you have been accepted into the Paragons squad.
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>>44157637
You shut your eyes, trying to drown out the loud, droning music. You really weren’t used to clubs, and it wasn’t exactly the best place to have a serious conversation. Still, your brother’s life could be on the line. It was too important for you to get distracted. What were you going to do? Kaufman was too dangerous to talk to on his own, especially considering you were just some nobody. You had no other leads, unless you could find something else... and then it hits you.
Kaufman’s daughter. She had the most connection to this out of anyone. If only you could find her. You open your eyes, and glance at your friends. “We need to find Alison Kaufman. Do you guys have any ideas?” Rahne chews on her bottom lip before nodding. “Aye. If you could find me something of hers, I could probably track her down. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s something.”
Match shrugs, “Or, uh, we could ask some people here if they know what she’s up to. Apparently she hung out with that drug dealer guy over there,” he points towards a blue man. Someone you recognize in fact. Jazz. A lowlife wannabe rapper that used to push drugs for Zapruder, before apparently switching sides. He tended to know a lot about everything that was going on, and conveniently, he was a massive coward.
You go over the options in your mind. Lewis might have kept something of hers back at home, and Rahne could use that to track her down, maybe. Or, you could just investigate the old-fashioned way, and have a chat with Jazz.
> So, what do you want to do?
> Find something Alison owned.
> Talk to Jazz.
> Other.
>>44157650
>> Talk to Jazz.
Hey Xfag! Hype!
>>44157650
>> Talk to Jazz.
There is no reason for an organic species to intentionally invent Von Neumann probes, especially weaponized ones, unless they just decided to destroy the universe and themselves along with it.
No matter how alien their cultural values are, they must have a self-preservation instinct. What possible use could they have for a machine that consumes resources exponentially and never builds anything but copies of itself? To prevent rival civilizations from evolving? Seems overly destructive compared to monitoring planets that might be a problem in the future and intervening as needed.
I can imagine something similar being used as a terraforming tool if it were given directives more complex than "grind planet to dust, make more probes, repeat", but if you encounter a machine that simply self-replicates for the sake of self-replication, you can be sure either it wasn't designed by anything organic, or it was an accident.
Am I wrong?
>>44157295
I think the assumption for most Von Neumann swarms is that they were originally made for something else but are malfunctioning. Like you said, they're meant to be able to do more than just make more of themselves, but something broke in their programming so that's all they do now. Endlessly running the self-replication loop and disregarding any commands to build other things.
>>44157295
>but if you encounter a machine that simply self-replicates for the sake of self-replication
There's a good chance that they're not JUST Von Neumann machines but also have other functions, perhaps.
Like providing exploration data, or mining and sending back raw materials to a particular spot, or fighting against another von neumann probe swarm.
It could even be an intelligent Von Neumann swarm.
I thought the idea wasn't "they do something else" or "why invent them" but that the creators built things, like say, an ai, which then due to improper coding, hacking, magic whathaveyou, that they stopped doing what they were supposed to be doing and turned into Von Neumanns.
There's ton's of character portraits for amazing heroes and dastardly villains. Can we get some cowards up in here!
Every loves a coward.
Pic unrelated.
>>44157077
I don't know about cowards but I've got a few that don't look too heroic.
Stat me guys!
Class: Dude
Race: Weed
Alignment: LMAO
>>44156961
That's my stat block!
>>44156938
+20 Ruin (Everything)
Let's talk about it
Gee Billy, how come your mom let's you produce two anuses?
>>44156927
Mark Tedin > Mike McDigital
changing the borders with mirroden was a mistake
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