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Hey guys fro shits and giggles I think I want to play a boatsluts game
what would be better, a RPG or a tactical game/wargame?
>>43870144
I think it would be best if you killed yourself.
Depends what you want out of a game.
Do you want massive fleet combat?
Do you want dating sim type?
Do you want to play social chess?
Do you want to interact with a few people? Or many?
We would need more information out of you to help you. If we want to.
>>43870144
Killing yourself would be the best option
I need tanks, preferably realistic near future
also general vehicle thread
>>43869766
>>43869769
>>43869766
I already like this thread.
Hey /tg/, how do you destroy a magical artifact which is so powerful that it can regenerates itself even when thrown in the core of a sun?
Asuming our level of technology and magic at best?
(Pic not even barely related)
Does it need to be destroyed or removed from the equation?
You could just send it to another plane, or put it in a bag of holding and dropping that into a portable hole.
>>43869094
Throw it into a black hole, let some other turd burglars deal with it. Just chuck it with a railgun in the direction of where you don't want it to be and it probably won't be your problem.
In fact, if you could put it in a chest and enchant the chest with an anti-scrying/summoning spell, that'd be even better.
>>43869094
Disenchant it. Magic is just raw potential, let it fade back into the weave. Artifact crumbles into dust.
Can you give some examples of settings where humans are physically the smallest race?
Pic related and Dark Souls 1 are the only ones that come in mind
Also,
1. What's your favorite setting as far as it's fantasy races go?
2. What's your favorite fantasy race and why?
>>43867972
>Can you give some examples of settings where humans are physically the smallest race?
I'm actually playing around with pretty much just that idea in my own worldbuilding. There are basically just two non-human races besides people, and both are considerably larger than humans.
>1. What's your favorite setting as far as it's fantasy races go?
I really fucking love Tolkien and I fucking love the way he handles the races, but I...
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>>43868023
>There are basically just two non-human races besides people
Sounds pretty fun, that's actually exactly the kind of settings I really like (again, I loved the Banner Saga and Dark Souls)
Care to tell more about them?
>>43867972
>1. What's your favorite setting as far as it's fantasy races go?
Glorantha, because plant-elves that are convinced plants should eat plants and meat should eat meat and the entire universe started going downhill with the invention of herbivores, and trolls that can eat anything including air although they prefer not to because of the flatulance, and lizarddragondudes that do things like insist you take their money because they borrowed it off a past life of yours sixhundred...
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Alright fa/tg/uys, I noticed the weekend smut threads have disappeared and so have the author generals. There's no way /tg/s aspiring authors are gonna be okay with that though.
Things that are welcome:
>genre fiction
>novels, short stories or blurbs in progress
>campaign settings
>smut (on the weekends)
Resources:
>baara.com/q10/
>pastebin.com
I don't know man. Even though I do like writing (haven't done it properly in years though) this doesn't feel very /tg/ related. At least the novel portion. That seems like it should be on /lit/. I understand the place is a shit hole, but still.
>>43867855
lit rejects genre fiction of any kind and author threads have been part of /tg/ for years.
Traditional gaming and fantasy trilogies go together like DnD and 5 sweaty nerds with way too many free weekends.
>>43867855
Mixed feelings but I am told that this is a grand 'ol /tg/ tradition.
That said, OP made a very wise decision in posting at 5:48 EST. That means that simply by being awake, I am the smartest person in this thread.
Who's up for creating a tempestus scion/stormtrooper regiment?
Company Type
>1d10
Rolled 2 (1d10)
Here goes
>>43867966
Tempestus Scions: Elite of the Departmento Munitorum, Schola Progenium trained soldiers
Training World predominant terrain
>1d100
Rolled 69 (1d100)
>>43867993
Noice.
I'm in a bit of a pickle, /tg/.
I really want to know. Should Clerics be a follower of weird ass pantheons and religions or should they be roaming healers with actual magical powers?
>>43867666
Well Satan, while a lot of people use it as an excuse to tip their fedoras, I've always found that religion not being mandatory for Cleric powers was a decent concept.
Considering Clerics have all their magical powers supplied by deity of said religion I'd say they're mostly followers of weirdo religions,
That being said they don't necessarily need a religion but "something" is answering those prayers
>>43867666
"Cleric" is such a dumb and essentially meaningless fantasy cliché that you can really do what ever you want with them. In reality, cleric literally means "member of the clergy", in other words a priest or priestess. So if you want them to remain true to their name, they should be not only followers of some form or religion, they should be flat out priests of that religion.
Now whenever that can included being roaming healers or not, that is up to your choice. As for the source of their...
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Thread for all stuff no longer in production, for better or worse.
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>Ser-vo Har-ness? Bah, you whippersnappers just need some elbow grease!
There's a bunch of minis I'd like to know what year and box they're from. I know what they are, but I'd like to be able to tell their origin.
First there's this beastman.
>>43867180
These three marauder archers.
>Thieves Guild
The whole thing is an elaborate honey pot right?
What are some good thieves guild names that aren't just 'the thieves guild'?
>>43866465
yep
>>43866518
The Night Club
what is the most heroic thing that any character you have played, seen or a PC in any of your games has done?
>>43866447
WHFRP dorf took all the black powder aboard the ship he was on, loaded it into a longboat, and rowed it into chasing dark elf shittery while singing the songs of his people.
A lot of grudges were crossed off that day.
>play ww2 campaign
>Germans in Stalingrad
>know armor is coming so me and 2 bros (npcs) set up an abandoned soviet anti-tank gun
>6 tanks out of nowhere
>first shoots HE, killing rest of crew, almost kills me
>loading and aiming the gun myself
>getting one shot kills because im almost at point blank range
>manage to destroy 5...
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IG Storm Trooper.
Member of a small squad of heroic guardsmen who fought the vicious ork menace on a frozen hell hole of a word.
Perhaps the most heroic thing he did was rally his wounded, tired and cold squad with the severely injured sergeant to make one last stand against a wave of orks tunneling into the power generator complex in order to collapse the tunnel with a pile of grenades.
The plan was a success and everyone survived amazingly after fighting many orks.
Was killed a couple of weeks later by friendly fire.
>Players find out why the Gods have cursed the mortal realm.
>The Gods always planned on rejoining the races of Elves and Humans. (They were once a single race, but stuff happened and now they hate each other.)
>The Oracle of the Gods has told the party that they must convince the two races to become one once more. Or Everything dies. Even though the Dwarves, Gobliniods, and Orcs had NOTHING to do with this.
Does this count as Magical Realm or is my GM just a dick?
>>43866210
Is genocide your GM's fetish, or do you not actually know what Magical Realm is?
>>43866237
>All Elves and Humans must have sex or world ends.
That sounds like a fetish to me...
>>43866210
"Reunify the divided races" actually seems like a cool concept and I haven't seen it done before.
Especially because, as you presented it, it's not necessarily sexual. You could just be uniting the cultures and getting them to live together/reconcile after centuries of hatred, not make them breed together 1:1 to create a full half human/half elf race.
I think you're overly worrying and your GM's just trying to be original.
going to be playing a Soldier coming up. as in 100% I SERVE THE ARMY I AM A SOLDIER. STRAIGHTEN YOUR BACK.
main inspirations are TF2's soldier and Soldier 76 but I intend to play reasonably sane.
I'm decently excited. Let me hear about your Soldiers for inspiration purposes.
>>43865389
I don't know anything about soldiering but I do know about chocolate cuties that I would like to hold hands with and get to know on an emotional level.
>>43865389
All my soldiers end up Yossarian ripoffs.
>>43865389
Define 'reasonably sane' because there are quite a bit of famous crazy dudes in war.
So, Guy at work just LOVES the Paranoia RPG series, and has been telling me about it. I've been under the impression that Paranoia was this out-of-control game where, as a GM, you really shouldn't even bother with a plot because even a task as simple as "the high programmer wants a sandwich, go make him a sandwich." will end with a full party TPK seven times over with no progress made. He seems to insist that its entirely possible to have a plot and even a long-running narrative in paranoia (though he says it will be goofy and not at all serious).
So...
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>>43863643
First is more true, second is equally true but can only happen by accident.
>>43863643
The modern line talks about different types of Paranoia games, the first type "classic" is what your friends are talking about. You also have semi-serious and in theory serious, Although I've never known someone who's played that.
There are actually three types of Paranoia.
Classic Paranoia is somewhat silly, and tpks happen repeatedly, but usually with some kind of logic (Fucked up, silly logic, but still logic) behind it. A High Programmer wants a sandwich from a specific food vendor in a sector that is currently undergoing a variety of problems and the normal inter-sector transportation methods aren't working. So he pulls some strings and gets a troubleshooter team in there to retrieve it under the thin guise of collecting specific, food-grade biological evidence from that location. It's...
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Hey guys,
My brother-in-law is trying to get me into KoW. He's an old WHFB player but GW sucks and he's looking into more cohesive rulesets.
Reading the rules I think it seems like a fairly solid game, if a little simplistic. I only played WHFB very briefly and it seems like this game strips out a ton of the bullshit, but also loses a little strategic complexity in the process (magic for example looks way too simple).
Warmahordes is my main game, which scratches the ultra-competitive, super precise skill-cap itch for me, so this would be more...
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Bump - I was surprised to see there wasn't an existing mantic/kow thread. Are they not popular here? I figured they'd have a lot of support after the whole AoS thing.
>>43863526
You'd be surprised. I find there are a lot of aos players, actually. Granted they are pretty fragmented being spread out, but they exist. The AoS General threads do pretty well, better than whfb threads, and the KoW General threads need to expand into other mantic games to keep active i've found.
I don't play AoS, but I do pretty much only play 40k or deadzone when I can get another person willing to try it.
KoW is a good competitive game, you can play it beer&pretzels, but if you don't pay attention to deployment and movement you'll get tabled.
Dwarves are a very good army, every unit has it's place, nothing to avoid really. I personally find warmachines a bit too random for my taste, but unless you try to go something random or spamy (like an all shooting army), It'll work.
Not many people on here talk about KoW, not sure why. Plenty seem to be playing, regular store tournies with 20+ locally
Sup /tg/, I am currently DMing a homebrew (Medieval, closest parallel would be D&D) and I’m looking for some advice.
So I introduced a temporary DMPC to round out the parties skills (Namely in knowledge religion and Sense Motive). The result was an extremely charismatic druid who was once a Shrine Maiden from my setting’s !NotJapan. It was a given that I wanted this character (who is aligned CN) to uncover the party’s (of which 2 are evil, and the rest neutral) illicit deeds and plans to invade hell and release and/or depose a number of high-ranking demons. I wanted this to be the thing that eventually drove her away as she realized how insane the rest of these dudes were.
Now this backfired – Hard. When I introduced her friendly, charming, and crafty demeanor, two of the parties more quiet characters perked up to this and started to get loose lips. OOC they asked about her description and I explained that she was very attractive (a trait which I picked to fit with the super charisma to make the party open up) and I noticed that both the players started expressing a strange possessiveness over this NPC. Even more unfortunate the party took her straight with them to their meeting with one of the major (evil) players and got the NPC involved so deep that there’s no way the party could let her go without having a major loose end.
And now I stand, with a DMPC who is in too deep and of which two separate PC characters have set their sights on for a romantic relationship. So my question is this: how might I remedy this situation?
Do I live with the guilt of baiting two players and hope they lose interest?
Do I find a lame, if not probable, excuse to have her bail without a trace?
Or do I say fuck it and simply prepare for the horrendous amount of spaghetti sure to be falling from the heavens as two nerds try to woo an imaginary Japanese bombshell?
Also ITT, times which NPC romantic interest in your tabletops have worked or failed miserably.
>>43863005
try converting the neutrals to be a little Good?
>>43863005
Kill her. She's in deep as a loose end, show them what happens when they pursue this path; people they care about die. Live with your guilt and finish this, she is not a people but a plot device, one you use to fuck with your player's hearts. You hooked them, now follow through.
DMPC must DIE.
>>43863282
Very honestly was the option I was considering, but I was thinking it would be better to have her sink in more first for this way.
Although that can be a powerful lesson.
