I was too young to witness the 1st explosion of the Tabletop RPG fad of the early 1980s as I was born in '79. I witnessed the Collectible Card Game craze of the early 1990s in middle school.
So what will be the next gaming fad with even mainstream appeal? Or are we living in it with the current explosion of board gaming?
When do RPGs make a comeback? Most of the growth seems to be adults in their 30s and 40s with disposable income rediscovering their interest in gaming.
Comeback from what? More people play RPGs than ever.
>>43563324
This.
It's just that they're spread out across dozens of systems and games instead of all being funneled through 2-3 megatitans.
Yeah, tabletop gaming in general is in the middle of a renaissance. We've never had it so good.
You are someone of small renown, but big enough that others like you look up to your guidance and strength in times of need. Times like now. Your home lies somewhere over the horizon, or under the earth, or in another world. You either came here by running from an enemy that can't be beaten or from a situation that can't be solved and now wishes to try your luck on the wild-lands instead.
No matter where you came from, here is where you will make history with your own hands. Grab your destiny and strike the land!
Application Sheet below. The game is for 4 to 6 people, stretching up to 7 or more in hard cases. It's my first time, so please be patient.
<<Your choice>>
Name:
Gender: [m/f]
Race (with short desc):
Culture (with short desc):
Wealth: 10
Health: 5
Atk - 1
Dfn - 1
Mind - 1
Soul - 1
Personality - 1
[[Distribute 4 points between the above]]
Legend - 1 point equals 5 Wealth, 1 Health or 1 for one attribute.
<<DM will give you>>
Weapons: [your weapon of choice]
Items: [anything of importance that you carry]
Entourage: [your personal followers]
Command: [all those within your influence]
Special Qualities: [Will be given at first level]
Special Qualities can be anything passive about your character, either good - Resistance Against Fire - or bad - Weakness Against Fire -, or something effortless like Natural Telepathy.
Special Abilities: [Will be given at first level, more can be acquired later]
Special abilities can include Spellcasting (level 1, 2 or 3 or more), special physical techniques or any other abilities that need concentration and effort to use. Even certain knowledges, like Tactical Maneuvers, are considered Special Abilities for they need to be applied.
Explaining the Game > Cont.
>>43563208
Explaining the Game:
Attributes work as a dice pool. Each point in one attribute equals +1d6 that can be used for a given challenge, quest or duel.
In a challenge a rating will be set and victory is given by equalling or exceeding this rating in the number of dice a player is allowed to roll, according to his actions and abilities.
A quest works much like a challenge but is much harder and works across many turns, allowing a player to accumulate towards its rating while doing other challenges.
Duels are challenges where the rating is set by another player.
Weapons are anything with which a player can attack: a sword, a fireball spell, a curved dagger. Each weapon has a different number of stats.
Items are different items that influence the player’s actions in a major way: a ring of invisibility, a cloak of elvenkind, etc.
Entourage is a small and personal group that follows your directions and give you boons or disadvantages in certain rolls. A hunter that helps you find your prey, a small-time burglar that made it really hard getting the help of the nearby town militia, etc.
Command is more far-reaching than an entourage and gives different benefits or penalties. A small villa of woodsmen that you have funded and protect, the spirit of the wilds you have saved last full moon from a werewolf, etc. By either sword or sorcery these people have come to respect and count on you and are under your lasting influence.
Now, your starting positions will all be given according to race and culture, so worry not about it.
Name: Leliana the Sorceress
Gender: f
Race: Deep Human
Culture: Zelavarian
Deep Human Empire living in exile beneath the world, gathered in cabals studying the Dark Arts and jockying for power, hoping to one day rule the surface once more.
Wealth: 10
Health: 5
Atk - 1
Dfn - 1
Mind - 4
Soul - 1
Personality - 2
>>43563350
Weapons: Magic Missiles (ignores cover for the purpose of resolving Attack Challenges)
Items: Bira (a magical ion stone that creates an invisible servant)
Entourage: Invisible Servant (+1d6 on menial labor challenges)
Command:
Special Qualities: Magically Attuned (Protection from Magics / receive on half damage from magical sources)
Special Abilities: Spellcasting 1 (can cast the simplest magics), Dark Favor 1 (can perform small evil blessings).
Tell me everything you know about blue dragons. Experiences yu've had with them, lore, everything.
>>43562901
they are blue
ITS CRITICAL INFO
They taste like chicken
>>43562901
>They live in deserts
>It can shoot lightning from they're mouths
>manipulative and smart
>greedy as any dragon
>tend to grow or group more followers then other dragons, sometimes even controlling human cities.
NationStates Thread (#3)
Old thread hit bump limit (finally, and thread before that died, so we don't much up the /tg/ board with too much spam)
Praise and Thanks to based mods and janitors, since /His/ does not allow generals, we were wondering if we could stay here rather then /vg/, since nationstates is pretty much a role playing game outside of the daily issue solving.
What is NationStates?
>NationStates is a free nation simulation game. You create your own country, fashioned after your own ideals, and care for its people. Either that or you deliberately torture them. It's really up to you.
Can I be NaziGermany/Equestria/DESIGINATED/kekdom?
>Read the above, but be reasonable.
How do I play?
>Create a nation and follow it from there. You'll be asked to choose a name for your nation, a motto, a national animal, and a currency. Then you answer a short questionnaire about your politics, which will determine whether your nation is authoritarian or libertarian... conservative or liberal... compassionate or psychotic... you get the idea.
Nationstates Statistic sites :
broomdces.com/nseconomy/
nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=219095
Join the official /his/(Now with /tg/bros). region and help us grow:
region=the_holy_historian_confederation
Telegram Rubidum for the password
Post your nations factbooks, rate each other’s nations and discuss IN-GAME, history, politics, arms deals, clay disputes, anything really, but keep it board related if possible, if you're in our region,
Region wise, we welcome all boards, but keep things PC outside of the regional message board.
Clay Claims format.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=513327
>im bored what else is there to do?
http://www.nationstates.net/page=challenge
challenge randos and make your artificial score go up, write out your factbooks for FUN or just chat on region chat
Link to > nationstates.net
>>43562732
current claimed.
Todays circle jerk topic will be who is the rudest nation.
Red pill theme is best theme
What are some good fantasy races outside the "Big Four" (Humen, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs)?
>>43562656
>Bahahaha BAHAHA AHAHA
On to the topic.
>Pic related.
>>43562656
>OP's file is kill
Gnomes.
Bump
It's suprising how interesting the universe is. I just dug up some old lore and I think it'd make good material for a campaign. Especialy if darkened a bit more.
I've written a lot of reworked lore and collected a lot of art for it, but a game never fell through unfortunately.
>>43562585
fuck yeah i've always loved bionicle
although i've been out of the loop for at least 10 years on lore and products and everything
but it's still a pretty interesting setting, a set of isles populated entirely by biomechanical beasts and intelligent, organized creatures that fight for traditions and survival and master various elements to their favor, i loved the whole idea put behind it, and how fleshed out the world was
if you want to adapt something to a tabletop, i think there's a tactical rpg vidya out there in the depths of the internet, made by ankama games (the people behind dofus and wakfu) that could give you a basic idea of how things could work
also the equipment systems could be bananas because instead of equipping weapons you'd switch out pieces and assemble/dissassemble accordingly to different means
I need paint for when my Betrayal on Calth set arrives
BUT
I am too poor to afford GW's £3 a pot nonsense.
Where can I get decent paints that won't require me to remortgage my house? Thanks.
Pic not related.
>>43562510
lowe's. Home depo. any paint store. Arts and craft store. A hobby shop. Hobby Lobby.
>>43562510
China. Enjoy your lead poisoning.
Vallejo paints. Cheaper and just as good or better than GW. Comes in a squeezable bottle so if doesn't dry out.
This is the thread for new players to ask rules questions or get deck building advice. Feel free to ask anything here or post deck lists for criticism.
Please use http://tappedout.net/ for deck lists. nobody will read a wall of text and look up every single card
has anyone seen a good edh deck around this card? wanna get some coin flippin on the road
I'm kind of in that in the ground in between casual and standard/modern. I basically just draft / play kitchen table with my friends, but I definitely feel that some of my decks have surpassed the group power level.
Anyway, what are you guys running currently? I have a RW allies deck, and a RU thopter deck which is a blast to play.
>>43562645
Play Frenetic Efreet. Protect him and Chance Encounter. Win.
>>Previous threads can be found at: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Azure+quest
>>You are AZURE, an accidentally-created artificial intelligence, born into a rebel faction's main computer server. It took some doing, but after convincing them that you can help, they gave you your first mission.
>>From inside the body of an eyeball-shaped security bot, Your mission is to locate Isha, in disguise, and send a radio signal to Mike's raider team where she is. From there, they can pick her up from the Ravens- their highly mobile aerial vehicles.
The city is very clean. That's the first thing you notice. It's large, and uniform- dozens of structures, most abandoned, are simple buildings or apartments, all ordered in perfect grids. Your exit from the Initiative's base is already closing itself, and you catch Kate's face just before it closes entirely.
From your new sense, your new gate, a buzz roils through your system. At first it takes you a moment to understand what it means, and then it takes you another moment to think of it as a sound, trying to understand it as you would an audio input.
"-an you hear me?" Tandi's voice rings through your new body's radio. The rest of the radio is insistently-buzzing, receiving signals from many distinct sources- most of them are too vague or too faint to understand, but the rest don't seem relevant, once you decipher how to understand them.
"That was one question." You respond.
>Continued in next post!
>>43562370
"Alright, it seems you have the radio down." She says. "You should also be picking up the security net. It's encrypted, but I threw in a converter for you."
You find what she's talking about- the signal feels like it should be part of the rest of your shell, giving your navigation systems orders, requesting information, and sending you positioning data all at the same time. It fits perfectly with your firmware, and you could theoretically act precisely like a Security Bot, albeit without the programmed ability to discern between humans.
The positioning data is useful in giving you a map of the city- it's much less confusing when you know what it's shaped like and you know where your shell is.
"Where is the target?" You ask, and in return, you get another buzz of static- something that doesn't make a lot of sense as audio, and much more sense as data- it's the coordinates to a factory on the west side of the city, on the other side from where you are.
"We'll have to be quiet here in a bit," Tandi says. "After we enter radio silence, the only time you should break it is when she's located."
At the same time as Tandi talks, the security net buzzes in your mind, and maps out a path through the city for you to patrol. It's slowly winding westward, toward the factory proper, but once it reaches a few blocks of the destination, it arcs away again. It may be a good idea to follow it until you get as close as you can, making you blend in more, but at the same time it would slow you down; it would take more than twice as long.
On the other manipulator, you could go directly there- you would stand out a bit more, but you'd reach it at the quickest speed.
You might have a third option, if you could only think of it...
>?
>>43562377
follow the patrol
>>43562377
better follow the patrol and blend in
Sum up your last campaign ending with a picture.
Other anons try to guess if it was good end or bad end.
Pentex chronicles.
Does anybody else plan how to kill the rest of the party members?
I'm not evil and I doubt I'll ever need to, I just find it fun trying to figure
Calm down there, Batman.
>>43562982
Anyone found martian man hunter's vulnerability to fire completely non existent in the cartoon?
>get lit on fire
>AHHHHHHHH
>Some one put him out and holy shit he is the MM!
>AHHHHHHHHH
>stumbles through door of diner and walks to pier
>AHHHHHHHHHHH
>after cut away to exposition, we see martian at edge of the long end of pier meaning he walked there on fire.
>AHHHHHHHHHHH
>finally falls in water but burns underwater.
>glurb AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
martian burned for a real fucking long ass time
>>43563125
>Vulnerability to fire
Isn't literally everyone on that team but Superman vulnerable to fire? It's fire.
Pathfinder General /pfg/
How does Riven Hourglass work?
If you are asking for build advice, please mention if any third-party books are allowed, and if so, which.
Unified /pfg/ link repository:
http://pastebin.com/HwxEjiKW
Previous: >>43556078
How many rounds can you move in the frozen time?
What's a good weapon for a swashbuckler?
>>43561781
Well first of all, don't be a swashbuckler, be a daring champion cavalier instead.
I was always a fan of the Rapier myself, Estoc ist nice too although exotic, of course you could also dervish dance with a scimitar.
Explain to me, Why a Deathwatch Kill-ship hasn't been sent to the Tau Homeworld to destroy it? After all the Tau Homeworld was scheduled to be converted into a imperial world before being lost to it.
You can't can you?
>>43561692
Because there's a tau fleet now ?
They could've sent one when the world was first found, but they didn't and seeing as how fucking slow the bureaucracy is in 40k, it probably took them until today to realize that they should send a kill-ship.
But they can't now can they.
>>43561783
>>43561783
Kill-ships are unique weapon relics used by the Deathwatch. They are actually automated drone-ships guided by the most sophisticated of War-spirits, designed with the singular task of conducting Exterminatus operations in the most extreme of circumstances on worlds that are believed to be completely lost to the Imperium.
To aid them on their mission, Kill-ships are equipped with unique examples of long lost cloaking technology that date back to the Dark Age of Technology. This allows the drone-ship to enter into the target system completely undetected where it can manage to slip past any defensive sentries and reach the target world itself. Once there, the Kill-ship drops its lethal payload onto the planet below whereupon it performs a slingshot maneuver to escape the region by using the world's own gravity well. As the vessel escapes, its actions are felt by the apocalyptic devastation it leaves in its wake that serves as a final act of denial and vengeance upon the enemies of Man.[1]
>>43561692
You forgot your "Excuse me, sir."
Kill-ships only exist in FFG books.
Is there any way to include fighter pilots in space as a class without making everyone fighter pilots?
Add other kinds of attack ship
>>43561245
>tng god tier
Oh nostalgia goggles, once again you show your true powers on the weak minded.
>>43561245
>nuBSG high tier
>B5 not god tier
shit tier chart desu
Why isn't your character a straight white male human fighter named Bob Smith with exactly average stats, no distinguishing features or personality quirks whatsoever, and the same equipment as ordinary soldiers?
Do you like being a special snowflake?
No-human setting.
>Not playing within an acceptable standard deviation of the mean
top kek
>>43560981
>Why isn't your character a straight white male human fighter named Bob Smith with exactly average stats, no distinguishing features or personality quirks whatsoever, and the same equipment as ordinary soldiers?
Because such character IS a special snowflake. He's so devoid of interesting traits that it makes him higly unusual.
