Negros in space edition
OFFICIAL BOOKS
>Eclipse Phase PDFs
http://robboyle.wordpress.com/eclipse-phase-pdfs
>Zone STALKERs
http://gaxtrope.net/eprepo/ZoneStalkers/Zone_Stalkers%20%2809052014%29.pdf
>Morph Recognition Guide
http://www.mediafire.com/download/j4bjbba89kw8v0y/Eclipse_Phase_Morph_Recognition_Guide_%286098716%29.pdf
>Million Year Echo
https://www.mediafire.com/?45aax64umrlghf2
>Firewall:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/b2umu9s9higm2db/Eclipse_Phase_Firewall_%287029562%29.pdf
PLAY AIDS:
>Advice for new players and GMs
http://pastebin.com/e0EErN6X
>Online character creator
http://eclipsephase.oook.ch/Creator/version4/index.php
>Eclipse Phase hacking cheet sheet
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?axe1vs35muk4juh
>Eclipse Phase xls Character sheet
https://sites.google.com/site/eclipsephases/home/cabinet
HOMEBREW AND COMMUNITY CONTENT:
>3 new adventures for your use in convenient PDF form
http://awdaberton.wordpress.com/about/
>Various Eclipse Phase fanmade resources, and links to more
http://www.aleph.se/EclipsePhase/
>An Eclipse Phase yearblog full of items, locations, NPCs, and plot hooks
http://www.farcastblog.com
>Community homebrew document
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Gy02gp6-WPQ3SoN_24kLPTUu5EjFO8qh_9pjJSVrrY/edit
How much social pressure is there to start a family in the JR?
>>43642617
Its kind of like everywhere else, space is at a premium, so having kids is seen as a privilege, not a right. There is probably a lot of competition and having children is seen as a status symbol.
What kinds of games have you run that don't focus around Firewall operations?
PREVIOUSLY: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=Tank+Witches+of+Orussia
Two days had passed since your return to the rear. You’ve had some run ins with trucks carrying replacements and materiel to the front, but nothing particularly exciting. Aurelia at least volunteered to handle checkpoint duty while the rest of you lazed about with the excuse of taking watch. Already you were getting a bit of cabin fever sitting and moping about in the bunker. What the girls painted on your Striker was not too drastic at least but… well, you’re not going to let them know you disapprove of it somewhat. Maybe it’ll grow on you.
For now, the biggest enemy you face is boredom. Your mother always said that sloth was sinful and this was no different. So what were you doing to pass the time? Why, you were polishing your Striker, for the fifteenth time. Your hands were just as shiny and bright as the steel before you. You could turn this thing into a giant sun ray with how shiny it was on just this one particular thigh too. Maybe if you’re lucky, what little sun there is out in Orussia will reflect off of it and burn the watchtower down. That’ll give you something to do! Fighting fires!
Of course, you don’t want to do it with Thorn inside of it, which she now currently is. She scans the horizon. You had received word that the front was actually beginning to stall again as the Army was running into fiercer and fiercer resistance deeper into the country of Orussia. Mines were no longer remaining stationary, they were actually burrowing through deep snow and charging at tanks and isolated soldiers. Butchers were hiding in houses and bursting out to ambush supply columns. The Neuroi were even leaving flamethrower traps to catch advance columns of infantry. You have to say, it must be absolutely horrific being a regular.
Good thing you aren’t.
>>43641740
[2/2]
You sigh, leaning back on your Striker and looking around. Aurelia sips on her coffee by the road, bundled up in a trenchcoat, a wool hat, and a helmet as she waits for newcomers. Rascal and Greta were busy building some sort of snow fort. And Thorn as usual was still scanning the horizon.
Ugh, you’re going to die of boredom. You shake your head, walking over to Greta and Rascal. “What are you two doing?” you ask.
“We’re building a fort,” says Rascal as she drops down into the surprisingly deep foundation. “I mean, it’s not like Neuroi are ever going to come around here, you know?”
“Don’t assume that,” you gently say. Greta and Rascal look up at you, looking very sad. Morale was starting to plummet in your unit from the boredom. It hasn’t even been a week and you’re already approaching breaking point. Maybe packing alcohol would’ve saved the five of you. “Look, we shouldn’t wish for the Neuroi to come. But… don’t assume that they’re never going to show up. We’re still on their turf you know?”
Greta folds her arms, sighing. “Goodness. I only wish that we could go back to the Front with Captain Kelly and her girls. This business of maintaining the rear is absolutely horrid!” She kicks the snow a bit, grumbling. “I’m going stir crazy here!”
“I’ve had to deal with this for two years, two days is nothing. Just try and relax.”
Rascal looks down, then around the unfinished fort. “Did you want to help us build our fort?”
> “No.”
> “Fine. But this isn’t because I’m bored.”
> Other
>>43641743
>“Fine. But this isn’t because I’m bored.”
>>43641743
>“Fine. But this isn’t because I’m bored.”
Hey guys what if there was a chapter of SMs that were considered heretics because they were able to work with aliens on a regular basis, but whenever they did meet with other SMs, they ran cause they didn't want to fight. They only fight a Tyranid Hive Fleet attacking their home world because they have some kind of artifact that may bring the Emperor back to life or some shit like that. Tell me what you think!
Sounds good desu OP.
>>43641724
10/10 will add to headcanon desu senpai
Paladins-still-don't-have-horses-edition.
I started a MUD quite a while ago, invited some folks from /tg/ and have been slowly tailoring it and tweaking stuff. Feel free to pop on at astaria.net:5000 and just free-form-fantasy RP or smash some monsters or tell me how much I suck or whatever..
General discussion ensues:
>>43641480
Uh. How am I supposed to login as a guest?
>>43641803
Just a small thing, but in the last sentence of the Lamia description, it should be 'due' and not 'do'.
>>43641765
currently you'll have to roll a character, since we just have the one guest account enabled and if someone's logged in as it, you can't share it. Rolling only takes a couple minutes unless you really want to minmax your character, though.
The Story So Far: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=hellborn
1-50 Thread Summary: http://pastebin.com/DYy8w24r
51-100 Thread Summary: http://pastebin.com/wx3HtRT5
You are Sierra Beckhoff, and you are the Imperiate – the one true tyrant of the thousand hells. Or something like that, anyway. You’re working on it.
You’re currently on your way to meet with Borislav the druid about mastering a primordial elemental over by Lake Erie. With the Archduke of Mardusia, the Golden Serpent, and a Grand Wyrmwrither getting on your case, you need a lot of power, fast.
And now there’s this Hildegard woman person who says she knew your dad, and she’s telling you that you’ve got to either work for Sulkrasph, or throw Roger (a friend of yours) under the bus? What the hell’s that all about?
--
All this woman’s ‘advice’ doesn’t quite qualify as such. She’s just telling you basically to roll over and give up. Like hell. You check the tree line on either side of the road, still wary that Hildegard might be up to something – still nothing.
There’s a chance she really is trying to help, and you don’t think it’s wrong to dispense with cruddy advice, so long as you think you’re contributing somehow. But there’s still a lot of questions going on here.
“If you really want to help so much, why have you literally never helped me ever before?” you say, narrowing your eyes further. “I mean, there were points where you could have shown up even with all this BS, and I would have scarfed it down like chocolate cake.”
Hildegard feels a note of regret at your words. “I would have, but circumstances limit me,” she says. “I could not involve you in my difficulties.”
“Difficulties, huh?” you ask. “Anything that has to do with the people trying to kill me, then? Cause you sure know a lot about the Yellow King and Sulkrasph.”
“I do,” she says, cleverly avoiding the question.
>>43641150
Well, if she knows things, you might as well see what she’ll tell you. She already told you about Cadwyn – even if it doesn’t really relate to your current situation, you definitely didn’t know about that before. “Why’s Big Yellow so hot for Roger, anyway?” you ask. “He’s not that good-looking, he’s just Canadian. Don’t tell me Hassatur’s his dad or something crazy like that.”
There’s a serious glint in her eye at the question, her expression drawn. “Roger is the King in Yellow’s nephew,” she says. “The king thinks his assistance would be useful. I do not believe he wishes to harm him.”
That feels like a lie. “Don’t tell me he just wants to chat,” you say.
Hildegard smiles slightly. “Tell Roger what I told you. Let him judge.”
“What about Sulkrasph, then?” you ask. “You know if he really just wants me to help him win over hell and become the next Imperiate?”
“Sulkrasph knows he has no uncontested claim on the Imperiacy while you breathe,” says Hildegard. “But he does not seek the Imperiacy. He seeks hegemony. You have royal blood and an inheritance of nations. He would gladly welcome an alliance, erase the enmity between you, and support you to regain your birthright.”
>>43641169
You scoff. “What if I take him up on it and he just shoots me in the back of the head when I’m not looking?”
Hildegard sighs. “You underestimate others’ estimation of your power. He considers arranging your death entirely more difficult and wasteful than extending a hand of cooperation.”
“Yeah, so he can control everything himself,” you say.
“And yet you would still be the crown Imperiate,” she replies, shrugging. “The title is not honorary. It carries meaning.”
You narrow your eyes at your dad’s ‘friend’, finding it difficult to focus specifically on her. “You know, the only thing I’m thinking poorly of you for is that you’ve got the worst timing. The worst. And like, out of everybody I’ve run into this summer, you’re the only person who knew David who also knows that he’s dead. Just saying, kind of interesting,” you say.
And suspicious. Your dad kept to himself, or so you hear.
Hildegard hesitates for a moment. “I am kept well informed,” she replies, snapping out of position a couple feet to the left.
>I don’t get why everybody and their dog can’t leave me alone for ten fucking minutes.
>Yeah? By who? Who are you working for?
>So what happens if I get on my bike and ignore your advice about giving up?
>You seem like the kind of person who makes a lot of bad decisions, but this is a heads up - getting in my way is another bad decision.
>How does Cadwyn factor into all of this? Like. Why does he or it care?
>Say I’m actually thinking about my options. What’s better here?
>If you legitimately want to help so bad, why don’t you, you know, actually help, instead of giving off creepy vibes from the sidelines?
>Other (?)
>>43641182
>Yeah? By who? Who are you working for?
>How does Cadwyn factor into all of this? Like. Why does he or it care?
>Say I’m actually thinking about my options. What’s better here?
Character now wears a battlemask for extra spooky points against enemies.
Give me some inspiration as to what it might look like. Character is a ranger.
>inb4 baneposting
A lot of African tribal masks have the potential to be intimidating or spooky.
Play the PC adventure game Scratches.
>>43641018Feels Garuda, man.
>The mighty deeds of adventurers are rewarded with honorary titles granted by the nobility
>These titles are hereditary
Why is this allowed?
Because the nobility knows 99% of the adventurers will die. Best-case scenario, the adventurers recover a long-lost treasure or defeat an ancient evil threatening the kingdom, and the nobility loses some of its cash.
It's like a human lottery.
>>43640974
Because by tying the adventurers to their nobility they ensure
1) they stick around to help out. No one is going off to raid a jungle temple if the orcs are busy raiding the estates back home
2) They become aligned with the nobles within the country rather than with the church, the city dwelling bourgeois, or god forbid a different country
3) These adventurers invest in local infrastructure to try to improve their land or standings. Feasts, mighty castles, ultra fancy clothes, these all cost money and in most cases that money will flow into local coffers rather than distant foreign lands
>>43641074
>>43641001
Combine these two and, in a nutshell, you get the most competent of the adventurers as defenders of your realm and, being used to a lifestyle of spending what you have while you have it since you may die soon, more likely to spend in your holdings.
"HRRGGNNN!"
Haruko and I strain to try lifting Julie off the ground with our flight-powers.
"HRRG- Okay! Stop!"
We both land, then we stare at one another.
"Julie! You're heavy!"
"I'm not heavy! You're weak!"
"Enough!" I slap my hands onto my knees. "This isn't getting us anywhere! We need to think of something different!"
"Maybe Julie should eat a salad..." Haruko pouts.
I am Itsukuma Masami. Today's the day. The day that I finally face my father and restore peace to my life.
So far, it hasn't been dangerous, just.. really annoying. It's hard to explain.
The dangerous part seems to be the next challenge I'll have to face. On the horizon, a stone giant is being magically assembled from concrete and rebar. I'm not an expert on weapons or fighting, but I think Asai is going to bring that thing to life and use it to terrorize the town.
Knowing him, he'll probably get inside of it and pretend to be piloting it like a big hero. What a jerk.
First problem is finding him. We checked his company, Fortune HQ. Nothing here except a clown that wanted to kill me. She's in a kind of time-out right now, where I'll probably leave her for a while until she stops being evil.
Still no sign of HIM, though. He's the most important thing in this whole plan. If I can find him, maybe I can convert him into a human and stop this rampage once and for all.
I hope.
Right now, we're trying to see if Asai is anywhere near the parameter, but it's held up by one problem.
"Julie, why didn't you tell us you couldn't fly?"
"I thought you knew!"
I interrupt Haruko's giggling with some scolding of her own.
"And Haruko! Don't make fun of your sister like that! If she can't fly, that's not her fault!"
"W-what!?"
"So now what?" Julie says, rather dejected.
>We wait for Kaori, she's on her way.
>You wait for Kaori, we'll try scouting from the skies
>I'll go scout, you two wait.
>Julie, hide. We'll be right back
>Other?
Archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/QM_CardHeart
Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/E9ZihSBV
>>43640792
>You wait for Kaori, we'll try scouting from the skies
>>43640792
>We wait for Kaori, she's on her way.
I was reading up on the 'That DM' thread that's up now, and an Anon mentioned how that a bit of railroading to describe the setting is cool, so long as the players can do whatever afterwards.
What does /tg/ think? Is Railroading all that bad? Is it the ebola of the gaming community? Is a little bit justified?
Railroading is one of those terms that have extremely nebulous definitions.
>>43640764
Depends on how you define railroading, though I'd say almost all compaigns have some reailroading at the start. You're not going to just say "You're in a tavern, where do you go?", you have to present some hooks or something. Usually a strong hook related to a planned BBEG that will get them started, not just killing some rats etc.
Why is /tg/ so fucking hung up on this term "railroading"?
Look, I know 99% of you are players who have no concept of what goes on in a game besides "LOL I CAN DO ANYTHINg!" and you've never actually stopped to consider that not all, not even fucking most games are "open sandboxes" for you to shit in.
You guys spend so much time harping on the concept of "railroading" that you make people who eventually go on to become DMs terrified of the notion of accidentally committing that one cardinal sin of giving their players an actual narrative rather than letting them fuck around and punch peasants in the face for 4 hours a week.
Look, you are not "railroading" because you give your players a narrative to follow. You are not "railroading" by having details of the setting push them back on track of the narrative if they stray too far or lose the plot. You are not "railroading" if you punch your players in the face for deciding that the campaign they sat down to play doesn't involve enough wacky shenanigans so they want to wander off and go somewhere else. What you're doing is called being a fucking DM.
And fuck every single player who has ever insisted "My DM runs a sandbox game with no plot and we do whatever we want and it's super fun!"
What is the worst Space Marine Legion and why is it Salamanders?
That's a funny way of spelling best
Salamanders are boring as fuck. Yes they haven't been ruined by shits like Ward and Goto, but they haven't been elevated by greats like McNeil and Abnett either.
>>43640821
Iron Hands and White Scars are just as bad (boring).
Let's design a fallout vault /tg/
Posts ending in 5 are facts about the vault
Five out of the hundred vault residents have guns and acces to ammo
>>43640532
20% of women will pop out babies affected by a modified FEV
>>43640532
The vault experiment was LARP.
What kinds of chaos could a murderous, deranged man inflict upon a city if his only power is to perfectly mimic the appearance of any person, but is also bound by the rule that he cannot tell a lie?
>>43640482
He mimics the appearance of dead servants to listen in on higher-ranking nobles/counts/etc plans to do X, then he changes into them and approaches the person their plan/assassination/etc involves and reveals the whole thing and then runs away. He does this countless times to the right people and you could have endless chaos unfold everywhere.
>>43640482
>he cannot tell a lie?
Do people realize this is a shit tier rule?
>tell me where the bomb is
>In the city ;^)
>Buth u cannt liee!!!
>I didn't.
>>43640593
Well, it's a genre staple.
They're not pals and they're not...
On a more serious note, what is it with the paladin class that evokes so many powerful feelings in /tg/ and the roleplay community in general? When you ask people for their most beloved class, a significant portion of players will mention the paladin. When you ask them for their most hated class, many will also mention the paladin. Paladin's are considered one of the most waifable classes while others cringe at the idea of a a paladin romance being brought up in a game.
So what is it about paladin that evokes so many powerful emotions in us?Pic related, believe it or not
Because its a really easy character to fuck up the role play for, while being such an idealistic character to play. The concept is beautiful, but on the table it's alot harder to pull off properly.
>>43640421
My emotions right now are annoyance, due to you shitting up the place with your thinly veiled smut thread about female paladins, as if we haven't had discussions like this a billion times before.
>>43640421
>waifable
If your paladin has low Con, then you're playing them wrong.
post /tg/ related OC
pic related, a reaction pic I made a while ago.
>>43640417
And here's its complimentary pair
>>43640423
Why would you need to say that it's in a good way, if the other one shows that it's a bad disgusting?
>Not having a plan to kill the rest of the party
>Not writing down their modifiers whenever they use them
>Not creating a character sheet and filling in every piece of information you know for every other member of the party
>Not running the numbers in various situations to see your chances of victory if you turned on them
>Not setting up elaborate plans, hiring mooks, setting up traps and everything to maximize your chances
>Not clicking your fingers and watch as your plan with an 87% chance of success crushes the party
>Not laughing and asking what they want to play next game
Speak for yourself. I get a look at everyone's character sheets and then run elaborate simulations between sessions to determine how exactly take everyone down at once if needed. Taking into account their playstyles and personal foibles.
Whatever floats your boat, pal.
>>43640113
I actually do memorize the stats of other players so that I can meta strategize in fights better.
