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How does one accurately portray the mental degradation that comes from killing another human or realizing you are doomed? I feel like it's very similar to SAN checks in Call of Cthulhu, but I was thinking more of designing a Sanity system for something like World War 1, where running through the jungle only to find a big anti-aircraft gun on the other side and the sudden realization that the air support you were going to relieve is doomed and you have no way to call them off. Plus, even if you do, you and your entire platoon are dead men without that support.
Everyone reacts to extreme stress in a different way so there's no real way to do it "right"
>>47806130
I like the multiple sanity meters system Unknown Armies uses. You've got five gauges: Violence, Helplessness, Isolation, Self and Unnatural. Every time you encounter a stress you have to roll to resist it. Succeed, you get a Hardened Mark, fail, you get a Failed Mark and have some sort of freak-out. Each stress has a rank from one to ten, if you have more Hardened Marks than the rank you automatically succeed. If you get to ten Hardened or five Failed in any gauge, your character goes some manner of insane based...
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>>47806381
OMG that sounds amazing. What would pic related be?
Looking for genuinely unsettling creatures/scenery that might show up in sci-fi, but anything goes!
This is a gif, prepare your asshole before clicking it.
>an ancient evil is just trying to keep the promise it made to a long dead friend
And then Sif was fine and teleported away.
>>47805663
>>47805642
named Cthulu
Can anyone recommend a resource or two for empty room tiles? Trying to put together some stuff on roll20 and all the images I can get there are either cluttered with extras, part of a larger map with hallways and extra rooms, or both.
>>47804931
I figured /tg/ would be the best place to ask.
What, if any, historic, literary, mythological etc. sources are being drawn on for design of "rangers" in contemporary fantasy?
>>47804582
A woodsman or scout I suppose.
"Ranger" is just an old-fashioned word for a woodsman that got more heavily used again because of Tolkien and later Tolkien archetypes partial association with D&D.
>>47804582
Aragorn, Drizzt.
>>47804582
Standard pathfinder/loner/huntsman tropes you find in both real life and literature for most of recorded history.
Tolkien as far as I know was one of the first to use the term "ranger" to describe the Dunedain; a tribe of frontiersmen who lived in western Middle-Earth. Aragorn was their chief, for reasons I can't quite remember. Faramir and his company I believe were also described as rangers, but in a different context.
However, his "ranger"--as in a lower-case "r"--was...
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>Rawr rawr I'm so le angry look I'm a wannabe viking and my parents didn't love me
the faction
the memes jack
I mean, honestly I never knew "parents didn't love me" was a big part of Chaos fluff. Back when I was playing, the whole back story for one of the Chaos Lords was that he was a father driven by his love for his son, iirc.
Honestly, they were one of the more interesting Evil factions I've run into. Yeah, they're bad news, but like real world raiding cultures they tend to live in a harsh, shitty territory and so killing people and taking their stuff is one of the best ways to survive.
They consider themselves blessed because their gods interact...
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>>47804540
>Leddit raiding /tg/ now
When will it end!?!
>"The only man suited to be DM is the man who realizes how woefully unsuited he is for it.
>>47804024
Untested semantics.
>>47804024
That's the thing about creative endeavors - you can't be satisfied with what you can do and where you are as an artist/creator/etc. You must be in the 'fuck this is awful, I need to make it better' mindset constantly, otherwise you stagnate, and your audience gets bored.
'If you meet the Buddha, you must kill him,' etc.
>>47804081
My usual mindset goes something like:
>Fuck, I hope they enjoyed that session
>"You guys enjoy the session, any criticism or complaints?"
>"Nope", "I liked it"
>"Okay."
>What if they're just saying that to keep me running because neither of them can GM/wants to.
Cue a 45-minute, self-doubt ridden drive home from the FLGS.
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What does /tg/ think of Myfarog? A lot of the people I've seen shitting on it do it because of the author's political leaning.
No, people shit on it because it's a bad game, and because there are legitimate shills who make spam threads like this one.
It's basically "gas the kikes, race war now" the RPG.
>shitty rules
>can't divorce personal opinions from game mechanics, so shitty rules intensifies
>only talked about because of creator's previous infamy
>every week OP makes the same thread pretending to have never heard of it before
The one good thing I will say about this isno more Papyrus
Today is the 40th anniversary of Dragon magazine (aka The Dragon, etc.). Did you ever read it? Use it?
Do you miss it?
>>47803035
This was my favorite Dragon cover ever. Not scary, just kind of sad, but with some story hidden in it. I ran an adventure based on this picture.
I read Dragon from the late 80's until the late 90's. I enjoyed it less and less as time went on, and pretty much stopped reading it completely by the time 3E came out (though I played and enjoyed 3E itself through most of its life).
Yamara was the shit.
>>47803035
I've just occasionally skimmed it, but I kinda liked that Planescape comic with a drow dude and his crew of affable githyanki, mind flayers and other shit. Is that one available anywhere or do you have to torrent whole Dragon mag, with shitty image res, libraries to read it?
Does /tg/ hate Yu-Gi-Oh!? There's no thread in the catalogue. Is there a reason for that?
Sorry if I offend you guys, it's the first I come here.
Anyway, /ygo/ general thread?
While we're on the subject, what do you guys think of Toon deck? I'm thinking about getting it, but can't find any recent builds online to try it out.
Has anyone tried it out?
just built deskbots, thoughts on actual competitiveness?
>>47803068
If you post your build I can help you, but generally speaking, they're not very competitive in a tournament environment. It can be fun, but usually Monarchs, Kozmo and PK Fire shit on it pretty hard.
What is the worst class to be spat out by WotC and why is it the Truenamer?
Because either you played "like you were supposed to" and you couldn't beat the DC's of enemies a few levels lower than you... or you played "like you could" and you beat everyone's DC automatically and you had half a dozen high level demons at your command.
>>47802780
Because it is the one class that is objectively broken, i.e. it can not possibly work the way it was intended to.
That's not the Monk.
>most bling in the galaxy
>accomplished scientists
>best general in history
>best warrior in history
>successful career all around
>handsome
>protects your soul from Chaos meme gods
Why would anyone want to worship some warp fuck knows what instead of a perfectly good Emperor?
>worst dad
>a vegetable
>>47802745
Well it's not like you know what having a father is like to begin with you fucking nigger.
>>47802684
Because GW likes to be edgy and lets chaos win everytime.
D&D 5e crafting sucks dick. Pic unrelated but awesome
>>47802380
That looks like a total ripoff of Dark Souls.
>>47802391
Guts from Berserk in his berserk armor
new volume in two weeks anon, ARE YOU EXCITE
In the lore it is said that an average lasgun(lets say M36) can rip an arm clean off. And thats average, not counting more powerful lasguns like the Lucius pattern of the death korps. That would make lasguns probably as powerful as 12,7-14,5mm heavy MG ammo, except it has the dimensions of a battle rifle. That's a pretty big punch per guardsman, and combined with the 100% accuracy of the laser this means lasguns are definately not pathetic and are leaps and bounds better than the autoguns and stubbers still widely used by a large part of the imperium's enemies(chaos...
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You're forgetting the fact that bolter rounds are explosive.
>>47802334
>In the lore it is said that an average lasgun(lets say M36) can rip an arm clean off. And thats average, not counting more powerful lasguns like the Lucius pattern of the death korps
That's lore exaggeration. Lasguns are a closer equivalent to 7.62mm rifles, just much lighter and more compact. A bolter hits its target and explodes inside them, and statistically it's able to instantly kill or maim an average human target in one or two shots.
>>47802334
Also if what ive said about the lasguns is true that means gaurdsmen are definately so poorly armed compared to other intelligent races, especially the eldar. The eldar's main infantry weapon is supoosed to be the shuriken, but since they fire microscopic projectiles, there's no way they can be as powerful compared to a lasbeam. Their main advantage however would be extremely high rate of fire. That said, eldar warriors would have a minor, not major advantage over the IG, especially if the take the IG's...
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>Party cleric worships canine-deity
>Sparks conversation with Perseus, the detecting-dog, before they're cleared to enter town
>She asks what it's like to be a dog or have the blessing of speech
>He just asks what it's like to be so pretty and talk so warm
>Indeed, no matter how many times she reminds him, he just sticks to calling her pretty lady
>She's flattered by this,...
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>Party returns from a months-long campaign away
>A slow, uneasy tension builds the closer they get
>Perseus hasn't run out to greet them
>Eventually the cleric can't help herself, and frantically runs into town
>She asks where he is, starting to become blinded by tears
>Her breath becomes sporadic, her chest bumping like a dryer with a pair of sneakers in it
>Their...
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did they fuck?
>>47802290
Well, she's a rather religious woman. I don't know if she could engage in a childless relationship like that, though I suppose it's perfectly possible, given her faith.
In either case, whether they were intimate or no, she definitely did one thing.She loved him.
