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So I'm working on a campaign and I'd like to get some opinions and advice on what I have so far.
It's going to be a science fiction campaign, the players will be a team of humans who's ship has crash landed on an alien planet. The planet is almost entirely inhospitable due to volcanic activity, except for the area within an extremely large crater on the planet's surface.
The basic premise and structure of the campaign will revolve around the players attempting to fix their ship and get off the planet. In order to do this they will need to explore the area inside this crater(it's large, I'm talking 50'000 square miles large). I plan on making it hex crawl in nature for the exploration. In the process of exploring the party will come across a large variety of alien cultures and also less civilized life forms living in the crater. The main thing I wanted to accomplish was having extremely alien life forms and culture. No blue human crap. I want a big focus to be how to even communicate with these cultures with each new culture being a new process of communication. How do you communicate with something that might have no face, vocal chords or apparent sight or hearing organs? All of these civilizations though will be primitive in technology, having probably just reached the iron age if that.
As well as living cultures the party will discover the remnants of old ones. Destroyed cities, abandoned hives and tunnel systems. These ruins will be where the party finds scraps of more advanced technology(still primitive to the humans, but more advanced than the natives current level). Using this technology the party will have hope of repairing their ship and give them direction as what their goal should be. In exploring these ruins the party will come to realize all of these ancient civilizations seemed to get wiped out in cycles. Every thousand or so years something happens...
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Most strange of all, and a driving force of the campaign there would be a titanic creature that lives in the crater. I'm talking 600 meters tall. This leviathan would barely even be conscious, it simply wanders slowly through the crater. To the natives it's not even seen as a threat, simply a fact of life like the weather. Its wandering patterns are well known and the locals know to clear out like nomads when the creature begins to enter their territory. However the creature would be invisible. It can only be seen through the disturbances it makes in the ash storms,...
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Now I'm sure you've figure out where I'm going with this by now, obviously this fungus is what has caused the disasters that wiped the crater clean of life in the past. And the reason this happens is every so often in the planets life span the volcanic activity increases in such a way that the fungus can not hold back the storms, or the storms go so high into the atmosphere that it covers the telekinetic bubble it would have created. When this happens the fungus begins to starve. Instead of feeding off the sun's radiation the fungus stretches its roots wide...
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So I've noticed in the rogues that I've played that there is hardly ever an opportunity to actually use stealthy abilities thanks to the rest of the party.
First of all, the tank's clanking armor is basically an acoustic middle finger to stealth. The only way to deal with this is to declare that you're walking in front of the group far enough that their noise won't affect your stealth. In a dungeon crawl, that might not even be an option.
Even if you are able to stealth ahead of the party. It seems like no one wants to wait at the table for the rogue to do his thing (I've seen this happen both when I'm playing a Rogue and when I'm playing something else). Players start to tune out because they start thinking that the Rogue is hogging the spotlight. I've even seen some DMs behave as if though that's what they're thinking, actively trying to bring the focus back to the party as a whole.
>Have you tried not playing d&d?
I'm at that point now. So if this is the solution, then I'm all ears for a system where stealth is a realistic option for the players.
tl;dr, How do I enjoy stealth mechanics in an RPG?
By if bothering for the stealth option is done solitary for scouting purposes. Hiding during combat to do an attack from concealment. Or the entire party goes stealth (monks, rogues, ranger etc)
>>43583217
Your issues aren't arising from the system, they're due to the rest of the group both not wanting to be stealthy and not wanting you spending time alone being stealthy.
Find some way to make them stealthy, and all sneak around together. Problem solved.
>>43583250
This is the best way to handle it. There's nothing wrong with the occasional stealth check on behalf of the tank.
>What is Exalted?
An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.
Start here: http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/
>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?
Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial: http://jyenicolson.net/exalted/. It'll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.
>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?
Roll20 and the Game Finder General...
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>>43583016
>http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?768985-Exalted-Why-is-Everyone-Praising-3e&p=19548177#post19548177
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Oh fucking god.
>>43583244
The damage control downthread is...perplexing to say the least.
The reaction from theoretical backers has been on point.
>>43583336
Though I found this post to be very insightful.
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?768985-Exalted-Why-is-Everyone-Praising-3e/page98&p=19549180#post19549180
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Quest Start
Your phone lights up, replies from Kairi-chan, Keiko, and Midori agreeing to fall back to the Auditorium at your order. An error message lies in your queue from your attempt to text Luna, and that is probably by enemy design.
Cursing as you descend the stairs to the water logged and and heavily...
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>>43582977
Presently, your school is under siege from within. One of the students has been turned into a monster capable of possessing others into a spider swarm hive mind. This monster’s aim is to kill the girl she is obsessed with, and do horrible things to those she doesn’t view as worthy of sharing in that sick and twisted love.
You, as Mikage Chiba, are on the shortlist of those intended for horrible things. Luckily, you stumbled upon a clue to freeing those in its thrall. Loud and high pitched or high frequency...
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>>43583011
>Send him on his way, then arrive at the Gym as yourself
Get everyone headed for the gym. Advise Midori of intent to have her use magic to allow the enemy to see us and alter egos at same time when possible.
(Yay out from work in time!)
>>43583011
>Send him on his way, but shadow him to the Gym
Stat me /tg/
Fag (-2 STR) Elf (-2 STR/CON +2 DEX/WIS) with Sword
LG Gargantuan dragon (Darkness)
Init –1; Senses dragon senses; Perception +40
Aura fire, frightful presence (300 ft., DC 30)
DEFENSE
AC 39, touch 5, flat-footed 39 (–1 Dex, +34 natural, –4 size)
hp 377 (26d12+208)
Fort +23, Ref +14, Will +24
DR 15/magic; Immune fire, paralysis, sleep; SR 31
Weaknesses vulnerability to light
OFFENSE
Speed 60 ft., fly 250 ft, swim 60 ft.
Melee bite +36 (4d6+21/19–20), 2 claws +36 (2d8+14/19–20), 2 wings +34 (2d6+7/19–20), tail +34 (2d8+21/19–20)
Space 20 ft.; Reach 15 ft. (20 ft. with bite)
Special...
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>>43582788
This is legitimately better and funnier than owlbearposting, and I seriously laughed very loudly when I read this. Props to you, anon.
This is not a quest thread, although it is a thread that requires voting and the rolling of dice, and is not directly intended for the purpose of discussion, so I branded it such out of consideration for those who would rather avoid these threads.
I will be using the standard character generation rules for the Mongoose version of traveller. As I do not intentionally receive any monetary benefit for doing so, nor am I sharing the source material, I believe I am not infringing upon the copyright policy set forth by the game producers. If I am, feel free to email me and...
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Strength (Str): A character’s physical strength, fit ness and forcefulness
Dexterity (Dex): Physical co-ordination and agility, reflexes. A character’s Dexterity affects his accuracy in ranged combat and his reaction speed.
Endurance (End): A character’s ability to sustain damage, stamina and determination. A character’s resilience is based on his Endurance score, so a character with a low Endurance score will be very vulnerable in a firefight.
Intelligence (Int):A character’s intellect and quickness of mind. Intelligence is used in a great...
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Rolled 5, 6 = 11 (2d6)
>>43582582
You need to make this entertaining for us somehow. For instance: Link 10d6 and a short personality blurb.
Rolled 2, 4 = 6 (2d6)
>>43582918
>You need to make this entertaining for us somehow.
Nah, people make these threads all the time. The personality quirks will be noted by the people in the thread as they emerge.
Rollin' on down the line.
I'm looking at the 3.5 character sheet and realising something that I have never questioned before but I probably should have:
What the actual fucking is Touch AC representing? Cuz there's Flat Footed AC, so I'd assume that that's like your AC minus the "dodge" or "to-hit" bit of the AC (the dex bonus, size modifier etc...) so is sort of an Armor Armor Class, so Touch AC is sort of the Dodge Armor Class?
...but wouldn't all the smaller melee weapons like daggers and shit hit that as well just "touch" spells,...
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>>43582371
Touch AC is just that: how easy it is to just touch you. A wizard casting Shocking Grasp doesn't give a fuck about your armour - as long as he gets close enough to slap you, you get
Shocked. Dodging helps, armour don't.
Touch is basically what ya use when the armour deflecting shit is irrelevant. For example, shocking grasp targets touch as I recall because it doesn't matter if you ''bite in'' like with a sword for example, just as long as you actually get yer hand on the motherfucker.
Because, ya know, Armour AC is basically its ability to resist or deflect attacks and a touch based spell doesn't need to bite in to do damage
>>43582371
When hitting touch AC, you don't have to get through the armor; you just have to touch it. (Or, in the case of some things that are hitting touch AC, like incorporeal creatures, your hand just goes right through the armor.)
A dagger still has to get through the armor; the beam of fire you're shooting doesn't.
>You are a young man named Lloyd from the frozen Northern mountains of Tordo, on the continent of Teege. After a youth spent learning magic, you and your girlfriend spent some time as bandits after your home was destroyed, but have recently taken a chance to escape that life into a legit one... As sellswords, admittedly, but it's better than nothing.
>Your exact goal will change from thread to thread, most likely involving some job or another you've been sent on.
>The questmasters...
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You aren't particularly in a chatty mood for much of the rest of your travel time towards Tarvos Valley. You engage in some idle chit-chat here and there, sure, but a lot's on your mind.
One of said incidents of idle chit-chat involve Lyeim.
The half-garou muses in your general vicinity, "haven't been home in awhile... Man, hope I'll be able to say hey to everyone at some point. I get it if we're gonna be too busy, but..."
"Mhm," you reply in a disgruntled, half-minding sort of tone.
"Uh, hey, you've...
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>>43582392
>C. You're fine
>>43582402
"I'm fine, Lyeim. Keep rambling about your family."
"Rambling?"
"You... Know what I meant. I dunno, maybe it'll distract me."
Lyeim nods, still a bit wary of your word choice, but apparently happy to discuss his multiple siblings.
"So there's Romulus, he's... The oldest by... Not even a second. Anyway, he likes to lord that over us, and he's all proud and stuff... Mom says he's a lot like aunt Ahua used to be. Then, uh, Tobias....
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>a method for randomly generating the entire city with a dice drop
http://www.lastgaspgrimoire.com/in-corpathium/
>>43581859
Bit hard to follow, but otherwise pretty cool.
I remember seeing this posted on /tg/ a while ago, and I love the idea. I'm actually working on and off on an expansion of the concept (placeholder title '1dWorld'), about using a handful of dice thrown on a piece of paper to generate a setting, map and even cultural or historical details. Not necessarily as a 'You have to use all of these' thing, but as a set of tools people could play around with.
I'm setting it up to be something of a fractal system. You can generate the broad strokes of the world, or zoom in and generate the details of...
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>>43582083
Sounds like you're making microscope anon
We come up with a song for a generic class/character.
I'll start
>Lawful Good Paladin
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjb7rC-RnVc
Wizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFxY_hqTJTo
Monk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVBpAikvnHk
>>43581705
Frenzied berserker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7FaId30aj0
You wake up in your bedroom.
What do you do?
Masturbate
>>43581678
No, first we need to take a morning piss.
I throw a temper-tantrum because OP didn't put the word "quest" in the subject field and I am incapable of ignoring threads I don't like.
Sure enough, sitting in front of one of the alters, dressed in her flowery robe, is Yuuki.
She stands up to intercept Keiko as she goes crashing into her. Then she solemly walks toward you.
"Aye, Yuuki. Somethin' wrong?"
"Sort of, Jack. We need to talk."
You never liked it when a girl told you that.
You are Jack Albator, keen fisherman, excellent babysitter, and usually a shoulder to cry on. Looks like someone else has come by to take advantage of that last part of your newfound title. Just as you got back fishing with Keiko;...
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>>43581575
"Aye Yuuki, what's up?"
She pats Keiko's head, ruffling her hair and ears sightly. Yuuki always seemed to be the best member of the team to deal with kids.
"It's about Kayda. She was acting strange last night."
"Aye, how is that strange? She doesn't seem to like or trust anyone."
"No, no. I mean she was acting worse than usual."
"Not surprising, Lass. Ye did put her in an uncomfortable-"
Wait! No! You shouldn't say that!
"..I did this?" She looks worried.
"Err, no, no. Aye mean, ye did bring out an uncomfortable side of her. What was so unusual this time?"
That was a close one.
"She was talking last night about.. being replaced. Then about Konditorei's maid. Like the maid was going to find someone to replace HER. I'm worried, Jack. I think the maid might be threatening and abusing her when we're not around."
"Yuuki, Yuuki. Listen. First off, kids exaggerate things. That's what they do. Secondly, we already know she's half paranoid. Before ye go say somethin, ask the maid first."
"Ask her, what!? 'Hey, are you going to replace your nation's hero because you're a two-faced bitch'?"
"Listen, we can look into it, but aye think we should also focus on-"
>Friends, Kayda just needs friends, like Keiko.
>Activities, Kayda should focus on somethin' besides the maid.
>Training, She needs discipline.
>Hobbies, Like, er, fishing?
>I don't know.
>Other?
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>>43581592
>>Friends, Kayda just needs friends, like Keiko.
Age: 731
Location: Planet Vegeta
Information: The Saiyans have successfully conquered a world for Frieza, and have been brought into his army. They are breaking into teams to invade various worlds for Frieza's organization. Daikon, having just assembled a team, now takes them to get their first assignment.
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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Some of us anons were talking at the end of the last thread. Could we devote some time for sparring and general training? Conquering planets seems a little too ambitious for 5 warriors of our strength.
You and your team enter a large room, at the other side of which sits a large computer monitor surrounded by several groups of Saiyans.
Images of planets appear on screen, with small bits of information being displayed next to them. The planets become surrounded with a red square when a Saiyan squad selects them, marking them as unavailable for assignment to other teams.
You approach the monitor, and find yourself standing in front of a control console. Right now, small images of four planets are on display.
One is Planet Dian, a grassy world that Frieza...
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Finished magnetizing my Ghostkeel. I like the secondary guns on the left arm rather than the shoulders. Because putting the drone controller bit on a ghostkeel made absolutely no fucking sense, lol.
>>43580839
Show me your wip
>>43580916
I tried doing purple metallic using the guide but I think maybe ai should thin the wash a little, what do you guys think?
ITT: the worst, most embarrassing, least useful, or just weird thing in your game(s) of choice.
Or the best parts, if you're in a good mind.
>>43580754
Cant read it but the bold points dont look bad
>>43580754
FATAL. All of it.
