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Age: 734
Location: Unknown Planet
Information: After two years of flight through space, Daikon and his team arrived on an unknown word, where they encountered a race of lizard like aliens with considerable strength. Daikon gained their allegiance, but was forced to contend with their leader. To make matters worse, soldiers of the Frieza Force arrived and joined the battle. Things nearly ended in death for Daikon, but he was saved by one of his new servants. Now, the Saiyans prepare the alien ship to leave the planet
Lazer saber
Welcome to Saiyan Quest. This takes place shortly after the war against the Tuffles, as the Saiyans look for more foes to battle in the absence of their old enemies.
Voting will operate on a first to five system, at least for the time being.
Dialogue is allowed to be added to votes, as are actions (though I'll ignore what I consider shitposting)
During battles, options will usually have a number assigned to them. After that vote has won, players will roll a d100, and have three chances to match or beat that number.
If a 100 is rolled, it is...
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Maaaaan Vegi. How am I supposed to get any personal work done if you run like every day?I was bored. You the best.
>Be me, been hosting an online table for a long time
>Have about 16 regular players
>Can jump on at literally any time, any day and start up a session
>Have around 3-4 different game-types
>1 game-type we haven't used in a while called "Heroes"
>Basically X-Men, but Mutants are the majority instead of minority
>Everyone wants a reboot, hype is big
>Agree, reboot and add new NPC's as well as tweaking old ones
>Things are going pretty good
>2 players talk about a new player they're good friends with is coming to join the table
>Sweet, always cool to get new people.
>He joins, first thing he says is he has 3 character ideas
>Good guy, Neutral, and Evil
>Constantly making Undertale references
>Suggest Neutral
>"Nah."
>Suggest Good
>"Nah."
>Okaythen.jpg
>Goes evil guy, names him "Chara"
>Tell him he can't be Chara, a character from Undertale
>Says he's not going to be, he's gonna be a dragon-kin
>"Dragon-kin don't exist."
>"I'm just mutated to look like one"
>Not the worst mutation/power I've seen, allow it since no one else seems to mind
>Makes his character sheet, says nowhere that he looks like a dragon
>Has "Cruel" trait that boost offensive damage
>Has "Determination" trait that lets him get back up with 1 HP at the cost of all his power if downed
>Refuses to tell anyone whether his character is male or female
>Literally the first thing he does when he joins is scratch his knife against a wall (In a school, btw) while walking
>Other character goes out, asks him to put knife away
>Tells him to fuck off
>Literally gets to the point where I just have a strong NPC come force him to put the knife away
>A couple seconds later, takes knife out again
>Threatens to kill literally anyone when they talk to him/her
>PC from earlier, Chris, is tired of his shit, fights him and gets really good rolls, kicking his ass
>Chara uses Determination to get back up
>Knocked back down
>"Aaaannndd I'm done."
>Whines in OOC about how Chris is OP
cont
>>43811605
cont
>"No he's not."
>He keeps whining and literally everyone straight up ignores him
>Throughout the entire session he keeps being the edgiest mother fucker in existence, talks to NPC's that would rape him as if they'd be no challenge for him
>Ends up getting in fight with NPC and getting his ass kicked
>He's been in 2 fights...
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>>43811661
Maybe give him one more shot. He doesn't seem to be causing too much trouble so far, but don't hesitate about kicking him out if he doesn't shape up.
>>43811661
>I don't know what to do
Keep passively-aggressively complaining about it on the Internet rather than talking to him about it like an adult. That always works.
Started a new campaign, and suddenly I'm that guy that always fails their rolls. I've been keeping track of expected vs. actual results, and it's perverse; I can roll up a statistically normal spread when it doesn't matter, but as soon as the check is for something it goes south and I fail 80% of the time. What must I do to appease the gods of fate? What superstitious rites remove this curse?
Also, epic win/fail/luck story thread.
>Be playing 3.5e campaign with friends, including guy who has "Indiana Jones + traveling...
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>Be eternally bad luck guy
>Finally roll a 20 for a combat roll
>Damage is 3d6
>1, 1, 2
Strangely enough, I never failed a single diplomacy roll. Everything else was a disaster
There are no dice gods, nor hope or faith.
There is only Zuvassin, and he enjoys seeing you fail.
Never name The Lady. She is a beautiful and fickle mistress.
Cover is a central mechanic in most modern/futuristic/sci fi wargames. It's a cool mechanic because it gives distinct tactical possibilities and makes positioning important. It's not just rolling dice, it's searching for a suitable place to shoot from, and create advantages and choke points.
Then, what about a mechanic similar to that one, but based on melee combat? Melee is usually just rolling dice and seeing which miniature wins, and it's not so complex, therefore making fantasy/medieval/ancient combat a little more lackluster than their modern counterparts.
How would you fix this? Do you know any wargames with complex melee mechanics?
You could factor in momentum and reach. Warmachine already does that to a limited extent, I guess.
>>43811274
I would say that since games that focus on how positioning works and the effects of cover in depth are usually smaller games, you might want to focus on the large skirmish or almost platoon-level combat for a melee game, and then focus more on Formations, Facings, and unit type.
I would argue that different weapons in a melee game would provide the tactical differences that positioning and cover do in modern or futuristic games, becuase different weapons are designed to do different things in melee.
So,...
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>>43811314
How does momentum work in Warmachine? About reach, yeah, probably handling things like the 'distance' of the melee combat, as in long (spears have a bonus), medium (most weapons), and short (daggers and fists maybe?)
>>43811845
But assuming skirmish level warfare, what would you do?
I want it to be deep but skirmish level. It's pretty hard to do a tactical melee based game if we're talking about skirmishing.
Maybe facing...
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What if all the mist in Percy Jackson and The Olympians suddenly stopped working with no way to fix or replace it?
>>43811122
>FBI RAID ON NEO-PAGAN CULT
>>43812946
Pretty much.
>>43814131
Followed by
>VATICAN IN PERIL: GRECO-ROMAN PANTHEON IS THE REAL DEAL
>AND SO IS THE NORSE ONE
>AND THE EGYPTIAN ONE TOO
/tg/, how tough do you make your average city watch or equivalent be? I'm in a bit of a stiff place.
>be GM
>Party is moderately leveled
>guards built as fighters with ranks in perception, is not being enough
>3 fighters, 1 cleric, 1 paladin gone dark
>unstoppable
>Literally nothing in the world could feasibly kill them all, save GM fiat
>open complaints...
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>>43810729
This has nothing to do with town guards.
>>43810802
This, seriously. Your group is completely dysfunctional and filled to the brim with shitheads.
Town guards are the least of your concerns.
>>43810802
I may or may not have completely breezed off, but what is meant to ask is: how strong should they be so my party can't begin a fucking black crusade on the world? Is it a dick move to do so?
Now, Nyzart, I have a feeling you aren't being entirely honest with us. Perhaps you should be just a tad more upfront, I actually like you and want to keep it that way.
>>43810601
>walks off, back to the beach, towel and sunglasses in hand
Fuckin' Necrons. Fuckin' Tau. I came here to go to the beach, and the Emperor knows I'll kill someone if I don't.
>>43810601
I'll let him answer, Ensign, before I tell you something I've discovered.
>>43810601
Yes. My informations about the combat zone show that there weren't occurences like the ones Nyzart described in this area. And even if this planet is a tomb world, it is still a world of the Imperium and we have to defend it against all enemys of the Emperor.
How would /tg/ create/play a setting in the Netherlands, or a fantasy country based on it?
What elements would you capitalize on?
In before pot and prostitution.
>>43810590
GOLEM WINDMILLS
special attack: grinding my gears
treasure: flour
>>43810590
As a setting, I feel like it would be veryflat
This is how I warlock.
This is how I die hard
>>43810489
Who is this faggot supposed to be?Why am I kinda getting turned on looking at him?
This is how Ifight a war on two fronts.
Sooo, /tg, I have a question.
I'm working on a setting, to be exact on its 'ancient' background.
So, in the distant past, your typical eldritch horrors fell on this world and laid dormant for thousands of years. At some point the sages of a huge and advanced empire found out about these things and, knowing they would have awakened sooner or later, decided they needed to prepare some countermeasures.
Their countermeasure required seven massive sacrifices, each of about 117'000 people (infants, to be exact). Since each sacrifice was part of...
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>>43810350
Yes, that number is absolutely ridiculous. The Roman empire had some 50 million people in it. I don't have figures for age distribution in that time period, but you're talking about, at least, decimating an entire generation.
One attempt at such a sacrifice would doom the empire. The entire empire would revolt overnight. They'd never last long enough to make the first. No way could they hit seven.
>>43811110
It's not that crazy.The Jews arranged for the ritual immolation of roughly half of their total population to restore Israel.
>>43810350
A ritual requiring that many sacrifices would be a logistical nightmare to organize even today, assuming you can't just lay down a maginuke on a city and call it a mass sacrifice. Your empire is basically going to have to wage a continent spanning war against their enemies for no other purpose than to collect sacrificial bodies.
On top of that, you are specifying that they have to be infants. This completely, 100% fucks you over. This means that you need to gather an absolutely huge number of people...
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Are any of you already playing this? What do you think of it so far?
>>43810002
> meh
Until I see something ork then I'll be excited
>>43810002
It barely runs on my toaster but from what I could tell it plays exactly like Space Marine and the character design is pretty goofy looking.
>>43811025
It's really badly optimized, I suppose this'll change in the future.
>Want to play/run
>Actually playing/running
1. Talislanta. Mouse Guard. Changeling the Lost.
2. Forgotten Realms D&D.
>>43809682
>something
>nothing
>>43810779
/thread
So a few days a go I played my first session of D&D, 5th ed. I got together with some friends and the only person who'd played it before DM'ed
So we're in a group of level one characters slaughtering goblins. My Tiefling Rogue fails a stealth check and gets beaten within an inch of his life, running for the cave entrance and leaving the (up until now useless) Dragonborn wizard to fend for himself. Shit happens and I end up unconscious with half the party hurting themselves in failing their Medicine checks.
Then the wizard comes back out of the...
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>>43809652
Just give him a hug...and smile.
>are you 12 years old?
bumping for an answer
Dip his quill in something inflammable that will react with the ink. Have fun scribing spells.
I know this probably belongs in WoD general, but I avoid those threads like the plague. Inspired by a previous thread about Games Workshop, I have a question....
>What if Square Enix bought out White Wolf instead of Paradox Interactive? What would this mean for both of the WoD IP's? Or what about Exalted?
Discuss.
What the Fuck is Square Enix? Sounds like a shitty investment company or some shit?
It'd be far more interesting if WotC bought White Wolf. If shitty designers start trying to shit up an already shitty RPG, dies it suddenly become good? Can you break through to the other side with some weird ads modulo arithmetic shit?
I guess we'll never know....
>>43809189
Square Enix is a video game company most famous for making the Final Fantasy and Kindgom Hearts series.
One of the former Eidos studios makes a Vampire game, it comes out, done.
Square-Enix is one of the most boring companies to pick for owning a tabletop IP. What you want is something like CD Projekt Red or even Fantasy Flight.
What not-obvious features would you want in an easy to use map making program that uses/manages your own assets?
I already plan on making it infinitely sizeable, printer friendly, infinite layers, and have a basic dungeon generator that uses your own tile/floor/wall/etc assets that allows you to edit the map afterward just as if you'd made it from scratch.
Pic taken from cartographersguild
>>43808716
whats on the other side of that bridge?
>>43808786
No clue, I just googled "D&D map" and picked an image
>>43808961
Well, find out.
