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>>44014371
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>>44014371
2016
>>44014371
Willpower:Samurai Prince
In a wild fit of creativity about a month ago, a few people decided to create the setting that Anti-Games Workshop would have created in a different universe.
Thread is here:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/43478161/
We are currently at an impasse: there aren't any more contributions being made! We have a Google Doc up too, link's here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pgCq-YsiJGqhsWekbtJkewhzjRrgmDjVwJ-XgkTkJ58/edit
There are a few questions we need answered and fleshed out:
Since normal GW ignored other human cultures...
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>>44014123
Glad to see this wasn't forgotten. Unfortunately I got finals in like 3 days so I still have no time to write or contribute.
>>44014123
Lizardmen are violent marauders and raiders, operating from their base in Lustria, where they plot to either conquer or destroy the Warhammer world. They construct spawning pools wherever they go, forcing the survivors of their raids to remain vigilant in the years to come out of fear of another Lizardman invasion.
Vampires are created when a human drinks from one of the Eight Chalices of Blood, filled with the lifeblood of a vampire. Each Chalice creates a different strain, or "bloodline" of vampirism.
Why are tieflings almost universally sold as an "everybody hates you and misunderstands you, but that makes your tormented soul even more awesome" race?
They were first introduced like this in Planescape, which was utterly bizarre because that setting was so cosmopolitan that you could have literal angels and literal demons sharing drinks in a bar together, yet tieflings were STILL described as being unwanted, untrusted, misunderstood dregs of society.
This continues all the way to 4e with its Turathi tieflings, 5e with its hybrid planetouched-Turathi tieflings, and even Pathfinder where the devil-worshiping empire still looks down on tieflings as socially unacceptable outcasts.
Why is it always this way?
They're half-bloods, which real people have inexplicably hated.
But Pathfinder tieflings are hated because they can look really fucking ugly and people will fear them, especially if they're qlippothspawn.
You're thinking of Sigil, not Planescape as a whole.
>>44013904
I guess interdimensional rape and/or shady pacts with literally satan are frowned upon in most societies, and the innocent byproducts of misconduct get similarly shitty treatment as the perpetrators because that's just how people are.
I've just now started working on a new game, but I am in serious need of urban city maps, or any modern kind of map, and the site really doesn't have much on its own. I was just wondering if any of you guys had some good sources for that kind of thing. The main problem I'm having is finding them in a high enough quality that stretching them doesn't kill it. I just paid $5.99 for a damn map. That's ridiculous. There has to be another way. Help me, /tg/? (Not sure if this would be considered a request or not. New to the site. Sent here by a friend. Pic...
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You're kind of sol, OP. Short of a kindly soul sharing a hidden cache of treasure with you, it's a massive paint to find ANY maps, let alone modern ones.
You might be able to cobble together some from here.
http://pyromancers.com/dungeon-painter-online/
They have some modern tiles and stuff.
Anyway, good luck
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>>44013797
If you use roll20 you could just abstract buildings as squares and designate doors, and just describe whats inside or draw large furniture. It's infinitely more useful and easy than searching through the web for maps that aren't shitty DnD fantasy encounters or dumb looking sci-fi ships.
In other news, I am working on a Fallout Traveller homebrew that is nearly quarter way done. Looking for any suggestions for possible features or careers or even people who might want to help on the project in some manner.
D20m Critical Locations.
Shitty, but works.
-Stalk Tanks
-Dual turret Super Hydra
-Elite Guard Officer squads with power Armor+heavy weapons
-Fast open topped Quad heavy bolter AdMech assault Rhino
-CC jump pack Sentinels
-Necromunda Spyre Hunter suit Command Squad
-Tallarin Dog Soldiers
-Official chapter approved rules for Loxal
>>44013730
>-Tallarin Dog Soldiers
Really all of the Tau auxiliaries could fall under this. There's a lot of untapped potential there.
>>44013730
Build your own daemon engine just like the looted wagon stuff
>>44013730
Using the Forgefiend or Maulerfiend rules for a Stalk tank might work. It still won't be very good, but it's a decent fit.
Ask a drunk dude simple solutions to your RPG probkems
How do I stop my DM from keeping touching me?
>>44013639
My DM won't let me play as a monster in our campaigns.
I want to be a demon dammit.
The party clears out an Orc stronghold, only to find a room with nobody but some unarmed Orc wetnurses and a dozen orc infants.
The Chaotic Neutral Rogue wants to kill them all, the Lawful Good Paladin does not.
How do you resolve this?
This is that Expanded Psionics Handbook race that works real well from a purely mechanical standpoint with their Burst power for speed and their natural psionic ability.
Fluffwise, I guess they are some darkskinned humanoids that run really fast.
"Ethiopians?" one of my players did comment.
No, the Xeph.
>>44013137
I don't really like the illustrations or the fluff for D&D 3.5, so I'm going to put together my own little booklet for my campaign with my own illustrations and fluff. It won't be good enough for publication, I think, but I'm sure my players will appreciate it.
Anyway, I'm thinking of turning the xeph for my campaign setting into a race of psionic monkey people that dwell in some frosty mountains. I think I should try to avoid detailing them too much in case the players decide...
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>>44013203
Overall aesthetic is a combination of Sun Wukong and Planet of the Apes. Wuxia + post-apocalyptic.
I like to play background music during my games. If the players go to xeph villages, or to xeph neighborhoods in the big city, I'll probably play some Yat-Kha:
https://youtu.be/RPDBDBiaX7E?list=PLCA7D2E202070B233
>>44013203
Guy on the left looks like Sun WuKong
I'm brainstorming ideas for a D&D 4e retroclone. Ideas/goals of mine:
- drastically reduce feat bloat
- ensure every character is useful/interesting in AND out of combat (perhaps through a new category of fluffy utility powers)
- provide base classes with equally useful powers (no traps or clear picks)
- tweak the skill list (strength-based intimidate, wisdom-based religion, ???)
- minimizing the frequency of conditional +/-1 bonuses since they only ever come into play 5% of the time when activated. 5e's advantage system could work well here, too.
-...
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>4e Retroclone
Strike! RPG.
>>44012651
do what I do my own 4e retroclone, make skills and powers share the same list and limits.
basically if you can choose 2 - 3 powers at level 1, you can choose stronger power or a skill power which is shittier but convey an additional use (basically a skill).
Think like pokemon Cut and Rock Smash. By itself it is shit as a power, but it usable as skills outside of combat.
Like in battle, the power "search" help to make enemy defense weaker against you and your allies attack for a duration....
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>>44012651
>fagposting, the shittening
What a fucking queerbag.
>What I made.
We were playing Scion, and I decided to go with a guy based off Porter Rockwell. Lots of bonuses to intimidate like effects and he had two pistols. I basically just wanted to play a scary as hell gunslinger who would wade through bullets.
>What the DM saw.
He couldnt get past the Mormon part, since I based the char off Porter Rockwell. He saw it as pic related or like yandere Flanders
>What I actually played.
I usually play the diplomatic chars in our...
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>>44012269
>What I made
A socially retarded wizard, one of the support staff in a prestigious magical academy and the city that is built around it. Had a penchant for organization and tidiness. Despite her inability to interact with others, she enjoyed being helpful and wanted to make people happier.
>What the DM saw
The same thing he sees whenever a wizard is in his game.
>What I actually played
Things went off-track...
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>What I made.
2nd Ed. Mage, went the Fate and Time route with an Arcadian mage. Not even going to lie, the character start as a flat-out Dresden-expy. The starting cabal were all members of the 3rd Eye P.I. company, making a living using their abilities for financial gain.
>What the DM saw.
Dr. Who. Time Wizard constantly meddling in the affairs of mortals? Must be a whovian.
>What I played.
He started out friendly, but he went very deep into Inquisitor...
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L5R: played a ronin, with a daughter
For some reason GM had a whole different notion what samurai were and how ronin behaved, and saw my PC as..well, pic related
What i played:
i just did whatthefuckever
ass-tits-gunfire-dicks-flying out the windows...
You're a James Bond villain. What do put in your lair, /tg/?
>>44012146
A honey pot assassin with a slight continental European accent I use to head off any potential threats and trust with much of the details of my nefarious scheme.
I am the best villain.
>>44012146
A second lair, hidden under it with the above lair acting as a distraction. Possibly with a giant casino built around them both.
>>44012146
Sluts.
What are some unconventional/entertaining characters you can pull off in pen and paper games?
I like the idea of the White Haired Witch from Pathfinder.
Normally a regular witch can get a hex called prehensile hair, that lets them grow their hair out to a length of 10 feet, and use as a limb that has a strength score equal to her intelligence, does 1d3 damage as a natural weapon and can manipulate items as finely as a hand.
An archetype you can choose for witch is based mostly around this hex, which makes it more powerful doing 1d4 of damage, and whenever...
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If it could form multiple limbs at higher levels it would be cool.
>>44012044
At higher levels you gain the ability constrict people you've grappled to do the same damage as your normal hair attack again as a swift actoin, the ability to trip people instead of grappling them with an attack, the ability to pull people closer, then at 8th level anything grappled is automatically strangled, losing the ability to speak or cast spells that require verbal components.
1d4 damage is pretty garbage to rely on as your main form attack. It's an amusing idea, but it seems more like a "last resort" option than something you should be relying on as your main form of attack. Especially considering the low range required and the fact that you're one of the squishiest classes in the game with the lowest hit dice and no armor proficiencies. You REALLY don't want to be in melee range ever if you can help it.
Your name is Tam-Rek, a 45 year old veteran of the 3rd great space war. You spent the last 10 years of your life fighting in the 1138th fleet of the Uoton Army, but those days are now behind you. You have been recently chosen by the Catalog for your many years of experience to become a Stargazer, a cartographer for the unknown regions of space.
You are in your ship, a C-Grade Trading Cruiser, travelling what the Catalog has calculated to be District YC-555575. Your only mission is to gather information on any nearby planets so that it may be submitted to the Catalog...
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>>44011929
And?
>>44012622Oh fuck, sorry
You look out of your ship and see nothing but black. A few stars glimmer here and there, but for the most part your eyes see nothing but the infinite spanning emptiness of space. There's not a single planet within your field of vision, but you do manage to spot some satellites if you squint hard enough. You see no purpose actually visiting any planets, your job is to locate /them not visit them after all. But you do remember that you're running low on foodstuffs and one of the...
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>>44012635
What information, if any, do we have on District YC-555575?
>Check out the satellites.
So if someone drunk nothing but holy water their entire lifes, would their blood become dangerous to supernatural shit? Pic unrelated.
>>44011454
It would at the very least protect you from vampires or any demons that happen to suck blood. Unless of course drinking holy water desecrates it removing it's effects.
Holy waters power is from it being blessed water. If you absorb it into your body it's no longer just water and loses its power (although this could give you temporary buffs if you want to fluff it that way). I think by pfdnd it stops being holy once it leaves the fuckin bottle
Drinking holy water like that would be blasphemous to a certain degree, imparting no benefit whatsoever.
Holy water is just ordinary water that's blessed, and once you stop treating it like it's holy, it loses any power it might have had.. It gets poured down the drain like all other water, and you don't see any vampire hunters ripping out Churches' plumbing in order to use the pipes as weapons.
So what does /tg/ think to Numenera?
A decent setting with interesting Cooperative Storytelling mechanics? or just a mess of half backed of science fantasy, caster supremacy and 'narrative' bullshit
It's solid, but lacks a selling point.
There's nothing that makes me think "I should play this."
>So what does /tg/ think to Numenera?
Why does it feel like the same guy posts the same thread every 3-4 days?
>>44011167
not that guy, I'm only asking now cause they had the books in my flags
What do you think to stuff like all the monsters having flat attack and defence values, and only the players always rolling for both attack and defend?
Does it actually add a sense of 'agency' as claim or is it just simply needless smoke and mirrors that betrays crippling misunderstanding of probability on the part of moote cook?
Post fantasy food! Do you implement cooking/baking in your games, using fantastic ingredients or otherwise?
Never got the cookbook, but from what I remember Redwall had some good sounding food.
The rôti sans pareil: "Roast without equal"
