I'm at a loss for ship design for a little sci-fi single-ship game I'm running.
Nothing as outrageous as Star Trek, more Firefly-level tech. I don't have a direct equivalent, but whatever.
Picture related, USG Ishimura from Deadspace.
I don't think I need a complete map, as in every table and chair, but I can't make up my mind about things like where what sections should go and what should be included in those sections.
That aside, space vehicles discussion?
Its important to make sure your command and control section is as far from the section you point at things to move that way as is possible without leaving it fully at the rear.
Engines could be out front, chariot style, keeping them safer from rear ambushes.
The middle area of the ship could contain the crew living quarters, cargo hold etc. It should have some turrets maybe for defence.
Life support etc should be largely central and heavily defended internally and extrernally.
Doorways should be low enough to require crouching to enter them as this gives the defenders and advantage if boarded.
>>43773877
What's the tech level like?
>>43773877
I think Traveller has spaceship floor plans. Maybe some kind anon will dump some.
Friends and I have dabbled in and out of various card games over the years. Decided we should get into one of them. Options are Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Magic. We already have some cards for all three games. Which one should we go for, /tg/? Convince us.
Duel Masters
>>43773822
nah bro
Chaotic
>>43773778
yu-gi-oh is decent. no one seems to know the official rules of pokemon, but if you can find people that do that can be fun. never checked out MTG
haven't really checked out yu-gi-oh/ pokemon card games in years now though
Fantasy Craft General: Smug Fire Brave edition
LINKS
Download links:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/nzs6xsnzbid4t/Fantasy_Craft
>Fantasy Craft Torrent [Includes Adventure Companion/Call to Arms/Homebrew (No Core Rulebook)] - Please seed!
http://www.mediafire.com/download/rscnai437ptu23k/FantasyCraft.torrent
And here's a few other links of note:
>Web NPC builder
http://www.meadicus.plus.com/craftygames/npc-builder/NPCBuilder.html
>General downloads for Fantasy Craft
http://www.crafty-games.com/node/851
>New Player Character Creation Guide
http://www.crafty-games.com/files/File/Fantasy_Craft-PC_Creation_Guide.pdf
Question of the day: Favorite campaign era?
>>43773723
Here's a Dropbox that's more complete than the Mediafire link
That said, it's a small independent company of literally two dudes and there are only two books, so if you like the system, toss a few bucks their way and pony up.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5dkzgw3cn842eyw/AACivEvWTEODXQgsjBPsHv8wa?dl=0
>>43773723
I basically always do my campaigns in Reason era, because it makes it more flexible, what I can and can't include.
Of course, I also have my settings utilize magic in logical ways to get effects that you normally wouldn't see until much later, technologically.
Like, getting messages to people quickly is one of the most important things in a settled society, so there's a few institutionalized magical solutions to that, among other things.
>>43774064
Makes sense. That said, I think there's something fun about building characters for a more limited setting, even all the way back to Primitive
There's something liberating about building an Orc whose best weapon option is 'rock'
Rock can actually be pretty devastating if you build hard enough for it, and Rock, Large has the advantage of being available anywhere you can find a cinderblock.
Is this true? I don't think this is true, but then I'm not a hirsute yogi.
>>43773628DEPENDS_ON_SETTING
Hair being a magical focus is a pretty common idea in fiction, especially those that involve curses.
In Vance's The Miracle Workers, almost all of the jinxman take extreme care to make sure that they don't allow one of their hairs to be lost, by either wearing caps or shaving themselves bald, since even a single hair is a powerful focus for casting curses using hoodoo.
In D&D, one example of the use of hair is that it is a requirement for the spell Simulacrum, which creates a duplicate of the creature.
>>43773628
Compared to most other skin, hair actually has an excellent blood supply, meaning at any given time hair can contain a short record of the blood and consumption of a person within a recent range.
For settings that use blood as a type of identification, hair makes a quick, relatively subtle substitute.
And as >>43773823 stated, hair is a common focus in curses throughout myth.
In fact, a caster having possession of a lock of hair gives a target a massive -10 penalty to saves against the Scrying spell in 5th edition.
>Imagine a fantasy world where pedal-driven vehicles with wheels attached to a frame are widely used by all races
What follows from this?
>The world is covered in ancient paths that never need to be maintained
That they have some sort of monster that shits out paved roads?
>>43773586
What if the road is alive and ever-shifting?
Alright /tg/ what's with all the hate why the rest of the Ultra Marines? I get why people hate Sicarius and the 2nd Company. But the rest of them?
Because memes
>>43773551
It's because they are popular
I think it's less that ppl hate Ultramarines and more that ppl hate Matt Ward. Personally I love their Roman theme, and I also love Guilliman cuz he's actually not that strong physically but is overall a good dude and the only Primarch I would wanna be friends with.
Also Invictarus Suzerains in 30k are awesome.
Just wondering if there's anything like an IRC channel that /tg/ hangs out in?
>>43773376
>GM narrating how gifted the dragon is
irc.installgentoo.com /g/'s irc server has #ad&d, but no one on /tg/ seems to know it exists.
installgentoo also provides other cool services. like wiki.installgentoo.com for purchase advice, liniux help, etc
img.installgentoo for image hosting
mail.installgentoo for mail
a full list is found here https://installgentoo.com/services/
>>43773393
Doesn't that happen in person, either? I'm not looking to *play* on IRC. Just hang out.
Have you ever played or designed a setting that didn't have any humans in it? What playable entities did you have in it instead? How did it go?
>>43773175
Right now I'm working on a world where the three major races come down to dragon-like desert people, bipedal beetles, and essentially really slim yeti's.
The dragon people are held up in large cities across the northern desert and can rapidly cool themselves down by breathing fire. They also have some pretty neat steam tech that abuses how fucking hot it is where they live.
The beetles are mostly barbarian tribes with a few major cities across the central expanse of the world. They can't fly, but can use their wings to quickly dash from place to place. They have the lowest tech level and are more akin to the common notion of how Mongolian tribes worked.
The tundra to the south west doesn't allow much for the way of the yeti-like people to do much tech wise, but they are able to use some magic to turn the ice and snow into their little villages and way-points across the snowfields. They enjoy their isolation as it gives them a chance to focus on their own Buddhist-like culture.
There's also a great jungle expanse to the east, but I have yet to fully do up the sentient creatures there. Same with a vampire-like species to the western islands.
>>43773175
Yep. In my world there are only giants and elves left after the goddess killed herself to save her world from the beings between the stars.
Today the corrupted giants, ancestors of the titans that ate the bbts, try to release them from their prisons that are guarded by the elves.
>>43773175
Yeah it had_______ponies_______
My first was the second edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
>>43773154
Twilight 2013.
>>43773154
Rogue Trader
Sadly I never played any tabletop RPG because absolutely no one played RPGs in 40 mile radius. I think I could pull it of online but no microphone and shit.
I am here for the meems
How's the new Legend Rule? Still gay or has /tg/ finally realized it makes games more fun?
Everything about magic is garbage.
Its business model, its term bloat, its constantly changing rules, its broken card pool, its flawed resource gain for play. Pretty much everything about it is bullshit by most modern gaming standards but people still cling to it because they are familiar with it even though it is a shit game.
The same way people only really associate board games with garbage like Life, Monopoly, and the like. Those games are shit, just shit we are familiar with and they taint the overall opinion that games have on others.
If you play MtG, you are contributing to cancer.
>>43772958
You seem upset
It really only affects EDH, since legend rule interactions in constructed and limited rarely come up.
It's annoying in EDH though since combined with the changes to how tucking affects generals it's become really annoying to deal with really dicks generals like Rafiq or Azami. I get the idea was to make sure that guy playing Omnath and 99 forests wouldn't get immediately hosed, but it's given already good generals even more survivability.
Since Chris mentioned it last thread, let's talk post apocalypse nWoD. How would the supernaturals fare in a Fallout/Wasteland style world?
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>>43772883
>How would the supernaturals fare in a Fallout/Wasteland style world?
I'm interested to see what new Vampire Bloodlines we'd get.
In a post-nuclear apocalypse world, there are at least three more Zeka.
>>43773277
heh. and one of them is a construct made from the divine fire settling in a pile of wood and metal that had someone shadow Burned into it.
His name is Mandus.
Alright guys, let me know when you get here!
here but woke up late
>>43772856
hey how are you doing? guess we'll wait for a bit to see if anyone else shows up.
What are you reading now that Overlord is up to date and no more volumes are out yet?
>>43772929
>What are you reading now that Overlord is up to date and no more volumes are out yet?
nothing really just watching old movies
You are Captain Kusajishi Riku, and your Ninth Division has been roused from sleep.
The morning of August 3rd started just after sunrise, with the clanging of alarms all throughout the Seireitei. You yourself didn't bother sleeping last night at all, instead standing vigil atop the roof of your empty office.
High above you, a bright ball of light collides with the protective dome high above the Seireitei. Rather than being destroyed, as it should by all rights be, the orb of light seems to suspend itself in the barrier itself... you realize that this is Kūkaku's work for certain. A canonball designed to penetrate the barrier around the Seireitei seems like it would have been a fun side project for her, but right now it's serving as the means of insertion for Kurosaki Ichigo and his classmates.
A high risk, high reward strategy to be sure. And it isn't long before you see the risk become reality.
The orb finally bursts, leaving a crackling gap in the barrier around where it had been suspended. As the barrier re-constitutes itself with an echoing sound like thunder, it sends several objects careening towards the ground. Each is engulfed in a white aura of reishi, like four falling comets.
One of these comets falls quite near your headquarters, provoking a loud cry from nearby shinigami who have rallied to intercept it. But this fearsome war-cry quickly dissipates into confusion, presumably as the shingiami responding to the unknown assailant find nothing at the site of impact. That's when a familiar feline presence makes itself known around your ankles.
"Well," Yoruichi grimaces, "that could have gone better."
“How does a cat grimace?” you wonder aloud.
Your partner chuckles to herself. “It's all in the tone, my dear.”
>1/4
>>43772453
“So, who all are we dealing with here?” you ask, craning your head to spot anyone nearby who may be listening in.
“Kurosaki, Arisawa, Yasutora, Ishida, and Ganju,” Yoruichi explains succinctly, allowing you to work out that the fifth name is likely Shiba Ganju. So she did get help from your sister... you hope that won't come back to bite the Shiba in your collective ass later. Yoruichi's involvement in this whole mess can be written off by the Shihōin clan in the event that damage control becomes necessary later, but the more Shiba get involved the less able Kaoru will be to do the same.
Three comets, but five names... that means that someone's alone.
“Yasutora is the one who is alone,” Yoruichi informs you, seemingly guessing by the look on your face what you were considering. “Your one-time student Arisawa is with Ishida.”
“That's good,” you nod. “Between the two of them, they should be fine. Where do you reckon Yasutora came down?”
“I taught them how to hide their reiatsu,” Yoruichi admits, “so they may be difficult to locate that way. I'd imagine that when it's someone like Yasutora, thought, we'll be getting reports about him all day long.”
"Why's that?" you ask Yoruichi quizzically.
>2/4
>>43772479
>August 3rd, shortly after sunrise
>8th Division territory
Yasutora Sado steps over the body of an unconscious shinigami, one of the handful who seem to have been stationed nearest where he fell after the cannonball designed by Shiba Kūkaku exploded. It seems he's alone for now.
The giant young man stoops low over his opponent, carefully examining his frame and uniform before glancing down at his own clothing: jeans and a tank top.
“Too small,” he determines, leaving the man where he fell. Someone would probably be along to collect him eventually.
Yasutora begins running towards a large, oddly shaped hill in the distance with a tower adjacent to it. He sticks to the alleyways where he can, and when he encounters one of the many dead-ends scattered around the neighborhoods of the Seireitei he merely punches his way through the obstacles.
If Ichigo is after someone named Rukia, who was apparently taken prisoner by the shinigami, he'll be trying to find her. And that hill and tower look like the execution grounds mister Yoruichi mentioned. So if Ichigo is trying to find this Rukia person, that's where he'll go. If he wants to meet up with Ichigo and the others, then that's where he should be going.
“I apologize,” the powerful boy mutters as he steps through a hole in yet another wall, “to whoever ends up repairing these walls.”
>3/4
>>43772522
“So it seems one of the invaders has been encountered on Eighth Division's turf?” you ask, looking up from the brief written report Mirai has brought you, interrupting your morning coffee.
"That didn't take long."
“Yes, ma'am,” she bows slightly. “At least, they believe so based on the number of walls that have been mysteriously destroyed there.”
At the same time, you can tell there's trouble brewing elsewhere in the Seireitei even as your second pot of coffee bubbles away merrily across the room. A large number of spiritual powers are in the midst of a battle, with any individuals among them almost impossible to distinguish from here. It's entirely possible that one or more of Ichigo's group are being engaged there. Yoruichi, who has been lazily splayed across your desk, seems to perk her ears up as she feels the clash as well.
>I'll go investigate. Maybe I can tell where that invader is heading.
>There's a large engagement going on. I want you and Kai to investigate.
>Head out to the 8th Division. I'll see what that other fight is all about.
>Other?
My players voted on the next setting we are running. They choose to be vampire hunters in the Twilight series...
I have no idea on how to run this game, what system to use, and if a group of humans can even work together to kill vampire in this setting.
Any help tg?
If this isn't bait, which I'm sure it is, just use a mixture of World of Darkness and Vampire: The Requiem rules. They're both White Wolf publications, designed to work together, and more story-driven, which is likely to appeal to people interested in Twilight.Humans can easily take out a vampire as long as they're resourceful enough, and if its just *one* vampire, or if they happen to have special anti-vampire weapons.
>>43772457
Not bait, I wish it was.
And the only way I can think they could kill one is tricking it into a building and firestorming it.
>>43772421
You could always try GURPS, it's pretty good for modern-day games. Would also give your players many vampire-killing capabilities if you delve into High Tech a bit. Like silver tipped incendiary bullets.
What is the best system for settings similar to Bloodborne?
I haven't played Bloodborne and I know next to nothing about it, but the answer is Lamentations of the Flame Princess.
>>43772208
This is probably actually correct.
>PC release: never
