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I've been reading this and it seems interesting so far. The rules are easy and the setting seems fun. What are /tg/ thoughts of it?
>>43793998
I've played it, and I like it. It's probably the first system I have ever seen that embraces the common desire among players to advance the technology level of the world and play civilization, and merges it with more traditional adventure.
The main dice mechanics is kinda -death-spiraly, especially in combat, and using your mutants powers comes with the risk of permanently fucking yourself up. I normally don't like such mechanics, but it fits the theme and setting of the game so well that I don't mind.
Also, what little shred of patriotism i have compels me to ask: Are you Swedish too or are foreigners actually taking an interest in this game?
>>43793998
Are there mutant aardvarks?
For games that roll pools of dice, which do you prefer? d6? d10?d12
Do you have a preference? Why?
d4 or go home
d10 dicepools tend to work best, IMO. The 1-10 range is a nice, mathematically simple degree of variation, with enough swing for results to matter but without the absurd highs and lows of D20/D% stuff. Of course dicepools can spread that chance all the more, but d10s also lend themselves to various interesting dicepool mechanics which would be less viable without the simple decimal number set.
I'm going to vote d6.
For practical reasons, they are cheaper and easier to come by.
For aesthetic reasons, I think they make a better clatter on the table and feel better in the hand. Since they fit well against each other, they also take up less space. Perhaps because I'm a wargamer as well, I find something inherently satisfying about dropping a boatload of d6s on the table.
For mechanical reasons, if all you need is a binary pass/fail, then you don't need anything more complicated or granular. If you are fooling with anything that adjusts the number being rolled against, then each shift is more important (16% vs 10%). If you're doing any kind of exploding dice or 1s=Bad, d6s will make that happen more often and make that mechanic more likely to come up in play. Of course, if you want the 1s/explosions to come up less often, or you want TN shifts to have a smaller impact, then these are obviously negatives.
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>>43793865
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You slowly make your way back up the valley to the clan. Beren sees your injuries and just shakes her head, after she hears your story of how you got them. "And you didn't even win? What...
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Rolled 4, 7, 7, 7 = 25 (4d10)
>>43793891
>See what the mood of the clan is like, talk to people and get to know them (free)
>Hunt in the forest 4d10 (Speed +Hunter)
>>43793981lucky sevens must be worth some
Why do all orcs in all settings have purple skin?
>they don't
I phrased a statement as a question, that makes it true!
>>43793795
Congrats OP, this is the most shit meta thread on /tg/. Take your throne as High Lord of Faggotry
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>>43793795
>>43793795
What the fuck am I reading?
Welcome to The Lost Island Quest. Last thread our hero, Alan Rodain, boarded a ship headed towards a strange new land with the intent to save his country from war. After meeting the colorful characters that make up his compatriots, he pushed his ability to learn skills quickly to the limit by aiding the sailors in guiding The Skipping Stone through a deadly storm that claimed the lives of three men before it subsided. Now, tired and weary, Alan heads to his cabin to sleep.
>>43793787
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>>43793787
Hello trick, glad to participate once more of your tale.
>Confront Kyra
Writing!
Do you lot consider the expanded Lovecraftian lore canon?
>>43793756
YES! Robert Bloch was a Machiavellian master of meticulously-crafted monstrosities!!!
If it doesn't include Nyaruko or Demonbane, yes.
>>43793756
I don't really consider there to be a unified canon in the first place.
I thought the point was that each of the stories was just using thematic elements from the other. There isn't a continued narrative or anything.
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>>43793405
Daily reminder, Enclave Best Clave
I spend half an hour judt formatting my fuckin list.
In an hour or so I'll be done
Het fa/tg/uys, I've been playing D&D and other RPGs for years, but I've never played a drow before.
I'm having trouble coming up for a backstory for a NG dark elf druid that isn't cliched. This is in a homebrew setting, so there's room for quite a bit of artistic license in terms of drow origins.
Any ideas you've got would help a bunch.
Thanks!
ithis will be a hot drow thread while wait for responses
>>43793199
>>43793213
Hey /tg/ in my setting there is a carnivorous sentient race, what can they use as travel rations? is there something that can be made with meat besides salting?
>>43793085
Smoked/Dried meat/fish or jerky would be the most obvious solution. Also frequently used in real life.
>>43793085
Jerky/dried meat?
>besides salting
jerky is salted and dried meat.
>>43793122
>>43793114
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RULES:
3 'votes' i.e. posts decides an action.
Please resist the temptation to samefriend.
I TYPE SLOWLY.
Getting that out the way so there's no bitching.
C. Absolutely C. Nothing good can come of this shit.
B.
This place looks pretty neat, a bit of elbow-grease and it'd be fantastic!
Let's check the grounds. Might be something neat. We can peek in the windows too.
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Anyway, the five of you, another batch of super mutants created by The Institute, an advanced secret society, and among their many experiments has been trying to replicate the FEV viral compound that created the original super mutants. You are all just another batch...
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>>43792785
>>An apartment complex with it's top floor blown off
Could always fortify it in the future and the blown of roof could serve as a look out
>>43792785
>An apartment complex with it's top floor blown off
Ain't gonna lie you sparked my interest.
Bumping for interest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkoidwsLXCg
Also some music to set the mood
>Visiting Spain
>Go to a Dungeons and Dragons bar I heard about
>Sit down at a table and take out my dice bag
>A haggard-look woman runs up to my table and tells me that I'm not allowed to use outside dice
>I have to pay the "dice rate" to use ugly gunk-covered dice they keep in a smelly metal pail
>37€ + VAT
Did I get ripped off?
>>43792780
The fuck is a D&D bar?
>>43792780
Euuuuurgh. Fuck yes you got ripped off.
I was invited to a gaming bar in London, called "the Loading Bar" and it was full of geeks and board games and videogames and puns.
Rules were, you buy a drink (£8 each which is about 1.5 normal drink price),you grab either one of the board games they had stocked (a whole bookcase full) or grabbed something from the video games library, and play on a table until closing time. It was full of MTG and catan and some RPGs and fighting games and again, £8 per head.
Great place if you were OK with the puns. €37 is a complete and utter rip off.
>>43792780
>>Visiting Spain
>>Ever
Real or not, that's what you get.Still not as bad as Italy or specifically Paris.
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>>43792365
MY LIFE FOR VEGETA
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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It occurs to me, if my dialogue was chosen last thread to boost the DC to 100, we may have zenkai'd above Rug for the beating she'd have given us.
So I got a question.
Chaos is all about shoving random mutations into their followers that prove themselves until they eventually either devolve into Chaos Spawn or ascend as a Daemon Prince, right?
Then why is it that some of their greatest champions, the named characters of the book, never have any mutations? Even the named characters who do have mutations often only have one or two, rather than the dozens that you traditional Chaos Lord or Sorc is often shown to have.
>>43792127
Certain mutations just aren't apparent, and one even makes it so nobody but a psyker or more corrupt champion knows you are a bloated monstrosity with seven nipples for a mouth
>>43792127
What is with the chemistry joke?
>>43792194
Didn't have a picture that fit, just picked my favorite compound. Not really related to the question at all.
>>43792163
Sure, but even then, a huge majority of them are basically just ugly humans. When you compare that to shit like guys that are totally fused with their weapons, are human/animal hybrids, etc, etc. Like, how the hell is Kharn not sporting a shitload of mutations?
Can any swedefags tell us about this game, how it plays, what the world is like?
Why don't you check yourself?
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>>43792003
The game system is pretty light but it have many abilities with least 3 tier level. The GM don't need to roll the dices because player make both rolls for attacks and defenses.
The setting itself take place in new kingdom after the war with black mages. The old kingdom beome corrupted with evil magic and the earth become unusable for farming.
You can play as one of the four races, human, changeling (elf that raised up in human society), ogre and goblin. You can choose one of the three classes,...
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>>43792356
>you can become corrupted and worst case you will transform into horrifying monster.
Wait, aren't ogres and goblins already horrifying monsters? What is the disincentive if you're already playing one of those?
>>43792045
Is it in Swedish?
