Tell me about the Homunculi ,or other artificial life, in your setting, /tg/?
A fantasy setting I'm working on has a big golem/construct focus. Like a magical I,Robot, golems build and move and deliver. But for a long time, Creators have been trying to make golems that could think. A great Creator reworks tye very nature of the basics of golem creation and golems can think, but at a price. They increased complexity of golem brains leads to more energy expended, which adds to wear and tear. Golems now have to occaisionally recharge at wells of power. This has led to a strange shift in behavior, golems now have places relatively free of living interactions, and they only interact with eachother. They are creating their own culture, even their own language.
>>47847615
I had a plan for a small side quest before. Village girl was going to turn out to be the homonculus of a long dead alchemist. Unlike most who lose their creator, she was pretty sane and had just taken up running her "mother's" apothecary for the village. But she wanted to be a real human, maybe try that dating thing humans seemed to enjoy so much, eat food, sleep and dream, all that stuff. But she needed the PCs to help find certain reagents that could push her animation to true life...
... and then one player pointed out that constructs can be polymorphed into other creatures just fine and a minor item the girl could easily afford would solve her problems quite handily.
>>47847615
Every time I write up/run a sci fi game, I always find a way to work in androids because I love androids.
I'm planning up a space opera game right now and I'm working on how to include them. I want to take a leaf out of Bladerunner's book, and make them illegal to some degree. But I can't decide if they should be completely illegal or just banned on certain planets.
I'm leaning towards the former.
>Our hero carries an axes with a giant embedded gemstone
How much more assured his her imminent death?
>>47845163
>large and unwieldy
>difficult to carry and travel with
>3/10 would not pay the iron price for
>>47845163
I don't know anon, it seems to be working out for her so far.
>>47845163
depends on a lot of variables that you've failed to mention.
Going to play d&d for the 1st time soon, don't know how the game works or an technicalities of the game.
Have you read the core rulebook for the edition you're playing?
>>47844813
Helps to read the fucking rulebook, champ. :))
You can also try finding some live recordings of DnD sessions on youtube, they'll give you an idea of what happens in a game.
Never forget, demons are totally alien immaterial beings who don't enjoy the sins they represent, and have no desires beyond increasing the amount of evil in our universe. It is absurd to think any of them could ever not be pure evil, because their true forms are literally composed of evil.
It is doubly absurd to think your penis of all things could change their nature, no matter how large and magnificent it is. Nothing a mortal can do to them in the bedroom would register as pleasure or pain.
Don't be tricked. Smite and purge, brothers!
>>47844631
>believing in good and evil
Hoo hoo, how very 20th century.
>>47844683
Fuck off moral relativist faggot
>>47844631
Not in my setting.
Ed has just one shotted the bbeg of your campaign because he has a pebble in his shoe and is now coming after your current party, do they survive the encounter?
>>47844540
He would die within seconds.
>>47844601
>thinking he can dead the Ed
Look at this loser.
>>47844540
Good thing I have ranks in Profession (Cobbler) and can provide better pebble-proof shoes
Sup /tg/. I'm new to tabletop games, and I'm considering getting into D&D's 4e setting Dark Sun. I'm reading the campaign setting PDFs and they look pretty interesting to me.
What can /tg/ tell me about their experiences with Dark Sun? Is it neat? How quickly does it get boring, if at all? How much can you squeeze out of the setting? Got any fun greentext stories about it? Know anybody who plays? Just tell me whatever.
D&D 4e Dark Sun was actually the first thing I DM'd and it was a lot of fun.
I've loved Dark Sun for a while, though, largely due to cutting my RPing teeth on a roleplay MUD based on Dark Sun called Armageddon.
There's quite a lot you can do with it, though I'd caution you against throwing the players into too much "high magic" stuff early on--it kind of takes away some of the setting's flavor if there's magic all over the place. A lot of Wild West story beats work pretty well in Athas, too, the farther away you get from the major cities.
Bumping. Anyone ever play a Dark Sun campaign? How was it?
>>47845140
I have not. The concept was always so exciting and appealing, and my dnd group all felt the same way. I remember when they came out with the 4e books we all bought in and sat down to make characters, but bad luck just kind of kept us from playing it.
what do you think about a MTG movie?
>>47844376
Might do alright at the box office, but critically it'd be complete dogshit though. With the source material and Hollywood there's no way this could ever be remotely good.
If it isn't the Brother's War, then no go.
Mtg is a great game, but the storylines are all over the fucking place. You might be able to tell a compelling story with brief moments of the fluff, perhaps tempest block with Gerrard as the protagonist(maybe if you guy the guys that made stardust to do it). I kind of agree the brother's war might be doable.
You would need to omit a lot of the complex shit, you couldn't have planeswalking in the movie. Its been some years since I had some film classes, but it would be near impossible to introduce the starting plane and transitioning to a secondary plane without a metric shitton of exposition.
With our current run of luck, they would make a movie about how Jace's spark ignited and it would be edgy as fuck.
D&D 5e
>variant human cleric
>forest gnome wizard
>lightfoot halfling rouge
>mountain dwarf fighter
You cannot argue against this.
Also I couldn't find a relatable pic, here's best philosopher.
>>47843650
Interesting, but consider this:
Any Edition
>What the players want to play
D&D 2e
>Human Fighter dual classing to Mage at lvl 2
>Human Fighter dual classing to Mage after maxing Throwing Weapons
>Human Thief dual classing to Cleric after maxing Detect Trap
>Half-Elf Ranger/Cleric
>>47843675
/thread
Stat him /tg/
>>47843553
-10hp
>>47843570
>Not "-9 HP"
>>47843553
Size/Type: Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 5d10+25 (52 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 15 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/+14
Attack: Claw +9 melee (1d6+5)
Full Attack: 2 claws +9 melee (1d6+5) and bite +4 melee (1d8+2)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Improved grab
Special Qualities: Scent
Saves: Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +2
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 12, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills: Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness, Track
Environment: Temperate forests
Organization: Solitary, pair, or pack (3-8)
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 6-8 HD (Large); 9-15 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —
Is the 41K Milennium, a Death Star is entering the solar system, intent on destroying Earth.
Can the Imperial Navy stop it?
Hard mode: there`s also a Borg´s cube.
>>47843495
The Imperium would rather literally use its battleships as oversized missiles and ram them into the Deathstar then even consider the possibility of risking Terra.
>>47843495
These threads are stupid.
40k was born out of satire, the power level of some entities is just beyond what is seen outside of magical girl anime, there are psychers that could literally blink the death star out of existence. Not to mention pretty much every force sensitive person would be periled of the warped to death by the end of their first day in the 40k universe.
>>47843495
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJc9SCCsHE&index=25&list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ
What kind of campaigns could you make based around a dead/dying mall?
>creatures
>people
>situations
>specific storefronts
>occurrences
>>47843109
You could take /tg/'s Night Shift setting and stretch it out a little to fit a larger locale like a half-abandoned mall:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=Night+Shift
Bampu
Group plays a band of urbexers who go plunking around abandoned buildings for [insert reason here] in the modern times. Might go with ghosts/demons/monsters if you're running a horror game, might go with fantasy creature if you're running an urban fantasy setting.
John Blanche appreciation thread.
The character party is going on a long travel from city A to city B. What do you as DM do to make it a entertaining journey? Scenarios etc.
What is the setting like?
>>47842638
Fantasy adventure, standard D&D style.
>>47842704
Elaborate. Personally, if I were trying to plan out something like this I'd start with the route. Where are they going, and where are they coming from? what sort of country are the passing through? What's the terrain like? Do they have enough supplies for a long journey at the start, or do they have enough money that they plan to just buy supplies as needed along the road?
The answers to those questions will inform a lot.
>Spell:
>Skeleton Transferal
Quality contribution OP.
>>47842439
What is skeletons are actually solidified soulstuff? so if you could swap the skeleton of one person into the flesh of another, you'd effectively be swapping the soul and personality of the people?
And simiarly, if you create a skeleton from a mixture of the bones of multiple people/creatures you'll end up with an undead whose "soul" and "spirit" are all a mixed up and uncohesive mess, one unable to truly be sentient in the common sense of the term.
>>47842496
Obviously consuming the bones of another person or thing would obviously give you some amount of their spiritual power and essence - eating the skull of a great scholar could even give you some grasp of their knowledge or skill.
Though beware of eating too much of another's skeleton, for the human form can only contain so much skeleton, and so your own could be gradually dimished, rendering you unto a bone chomping ghoul or zombie, with no self only hunger for more to crack in your oddly white teeth.
Cows and lactating women would obviously be considered holy for the soul cleansing and strengthening milk.
Sup /tg/, haven't been here in a while.
Long-story-short, I've grown unmotivated to DM, I enjoy DM'ing but I haven't in about 2 years. I started my group off on 3.5 and we're still playing, but my friend has taken over as DM.
I started playing after my Brother's friend let me play Cyberpunk 2020 with them, and I've wanted to get back to it ever since. So what system should I play with, what version of Cyberpunk is the simplest and the most fun? If there're any systems that let me run basically the same setting, but better, tell me about those too.
Also general Cyberpunk and art thread I guess.
