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W-would someone like to run a hexcrawl for us? Pretty please? I've got all the tables and maps and stuff.
>>47772401
>>47772401
So, there are hexes inside of hexes.
>>47772449
>Worlds within worlds!
If we wanted to play a fractalcrawl...we'd never get started.
How would one go about playing a game in the setting of Sunless Sea or Fallen London? The setting is fascinating and I feel it would function quite well as tabletop, but I don't know what type of system I would use.
>>47772294
CoC would probably work pretty well for this.
>>47772294
I remember seeing a pdf homebrew for Fallen London, but I didn's save it, unfortunately.
>>47772329
I was thinking about using CoC because of it's insanity rules and whatnot. Which edition would you recommend?
Hey /tg/ I'm getting into my first 3.5 game soon and wanted to play more of a support role, however the cleric looks a little boring and i wanted to try something more "out there"
after a bit of research i saw how cool the Archivist looked and wanted to run one.
but how should i do it?
should i run Archivist from 1-20
or should i grab one level in (cloister) cleric for the domains and access to divine meta magic.
any other tips would be appreciated as well.
also i have already looked over the archivist handbooks but i wanted to hear from the...
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>>47772031
...Honestly for your first 3.5 game in a support role, I would recommend a Sacred soul. Spontaneous casting means not getting fucked because you failed to prepare the right spell.
Generally casters don't want to dip base classes as this fucks their caster level and spells. you do want to look for a prestige class that offers full casting as it basically just gives you class features.
>>47772375
hmmm so instead of grabbing cleric at lv one i should go for a prestige class that gives me caster levels?
i hear sacred exorcist is good but how many levels should i grab?
1 or more?
>>47772375
>Honestly for your first 3.5 game in a support role, I would recommend a Sacred soul. Spontaneous casting means not getting fucked because you failed to prepare the right spell.
Its honeslty better to pick prepared casters when you're new. If you screw up your prepared spells today there's always doing it better tomorrow. On the other hand if you go spontaneous, if you fuck your selection up, you fuck it for a long ass time.
The prepared version on the other...
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Is there a modern HeroQuest equivalent?
>>47771313
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Warhammer-Quest-Silver-Tower
Dungeon Saga is pretty good.
>>47771336
Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower is more of a modern equivalent for Warhammer Quest.
So does MTGO suck ass? I was thinking about getting into it, but after reading about the way everything works with event tickets and bots and whatnot it seems that MTGO is just straight shit. Anybody have experience with it?
Just use Cockatrice or XMage if you want to play online, unless you're looking for actual sanctioned play by Wizards in case you're fucked.
It's absolute garbage and half of the cards aren't properly coded. God help you if you try to stack effects properly.
It's the 13th century and you and the other PCs are die hard European crusaders in the Holy Land. Things have gone decidedly pear-shaped for the Crusader States and you've decided the current strategy is for the birds. In a last ditch attempt to salvage the situation, you and your band decide to follow an old lead in an attempt to get help: Prester John.
Following what you think are clues, you head to the utter east and after a long and dangerous journey, you reach the banks of the Yangzte river, and are confronted with an advanced kingdom which in your minds...
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>>47770735
yes
What would you want to be doing in this scenario? Leading armies? Banditry? Saving people?
>>47770735
A lot of it sounds pretty interesting and solid. My concern would be that it seems to have been pretty strongly dictated up to this point, so I'd be worried about railroading in the future.
Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
I'll start: in D&D 5e, how do I determine how many spells I can know as a cleric? I know that your number of PREPARED spells possible is your Wisdom modifier + char level, but what about my limitation of what I can know from LVL 1 and up? I'm not a wizard so I have no spellbook. I don't understand.
>>47770681
You pretty much know and can prepare any/all of them.
Yes, it's as retarded as it sounds. Maybe it's because they're less "spells" and more that you're asking your god for a favor?
>>47770681
Clerics don't have the same limitation as wizards in that regard. When clerics are preparing spells, they may choose any spells from the cleric spell list, so long as they are spells of a level which they have spell slots for.
>>47770681
What kept you from asking this in the /5eg/, OP?
>After the war game was restarted, its participants were forced to follow a script drafted to ensure a Blue Force victory. Among other rules imposed by this script, Red Force was ordered to turn on their anti-aircraft radar in order for them to be destroyed, and was not allowed to shoot down any of the aircraft bringing Blue Force troops ashore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002#Exercise_action
Salty railroading am I right?
>>47770106
>Red, commanded by retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, adopted an asymmetric strategy, in particular, using old methods to evade Blue's sophisticated electronic surveillance network. Van Riper used motorcycle messengers to transmit orders to front-line troops and World-War-II-style light signals to launch airplanes without radio communications.
>Red received an ultimatum from Blue, essentially a surrender document, demanding a response...
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>>47770106
>assholes forcing their subordinates to do stupid shit to validate the assholes' ideas
Yep, this is the military, all right.
>>47772028
>>47770106
So how exactly do they expect to defend against an enemy employing the same tactics?
Sup' /tg/, I've recently had the idea to run a game in which the PCs commanded a small airship flotilla and I would like to know which system you think it would be the most appropiate.
>obligatory inb4 GURPS
>>47769860
Going only by that you could play it in fucking anything.
So I'm going to do the reasonable thing andshill Strike! You can either stat out the airships using the tactical combat stuff, or the vechicle supplement (though I have not read that).
But really, based on that premise any generic system would work, or even non-generic ones with very little adjustment.
GURPS lacks a 4e vehicle supplement though, so the best thing you could hope for is a reworked spaceships thing (using that system would be a bit cumbersome though if you tried to control a whole flotilla).
I would consider picking a wargame for the flotilla stuff and a rpg for the character stuff
>>47769908
A wargame, then? Color me interested. I'm not very familiar with that type of games, so I would be very grateful if you suggested me some.
>>47769896
Also, I'll check that game out.
Ugh, I hate warp jumps, feels like we were in there for months...I'm assuming that's mining colony XQ-P113, yes?
I thought it was meant to be a Jungle planet, looks pretty barren to me.
In any case, time for a pre-deployment Field Kit Inspection!
Shall I call the men sir?
>>47769289
Yes call the men, idiot! Who else does Field Kit Inspections? The bloody Navy?! These ship-rats wouldn't know one end of a foldable trench-shovel from the other!
And while you're at it, get that Tau out of the air vents, I can smell it from a mile off!
>>47769208Holy shit... welcome back... we kind of kept your legacy running and even made a steam group.
When was the last time one of your characters caused a Götterdämmerung?
When did you last slay a god?
>>47769157
Götterdämmerwhat?
Armageddon, Ragnarok, Apocalypse
literally: dusk of gods
>>47769157
DM's campaign was basically, "the royal bloodline is the linchpin that's keeping the universe running" and the king was old and dying. The only other member of the family is the princess, who has been kidnapped.
Bad guy transfigured the princess into a dragon and left her behind guarding something. We fought her. I killed her. The universe started falling apart. Unbeknownst to us, the king was kaput. The GM hadn't expected me to do that much damage that quickly. The universe started...
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I'm calling upon your crativity, /tg/.
One of my friends is currently attempting to homebrew the fuck out of a monster campaign and has given us a couple of pages worth of example standard D&D-ish "enemies" to play as.
I'm torn between the idea of playing as an angel (with added backstory that he/she fell from their city in the sky, doesn't remember why because of the force of the trauma and can't fly because of reasons, all of which seems cliche as fuck, but safe) or being an actual monster and playing as what is basically a Beholder....
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so play the beholder of course
start with basic beholder outlook: yours is the superior race - if only you could find others of your own magnificence ... the other party members will have to suffice as your unwitting servants while you search, despite their incompetence
or subvert: alone of all beholders, you are self-loathing, a feeling only confirmed by the contempt of every other beholder you have ever encountered - there must be some way to transform yourself into a creature worthy of the envy of all others
>Not playing as a hobgoblin captain with the intention of rising to the top to become a warlord
It's like you don't want to wipe out the elves in the name of Maglubiyet.
>>47769172
This.
Hey /tg/, Remember that time when you absolutely demolished your target?
Yeah, I don't either.
ITT: We tell stories where GMs denied you glory.
never because my DM is only a cunt to make sure we earn our glory and not when we have it
>>47767797
>Playing in a Pathfinder game (first mistake)
>Low level campaign, level 6 characters
>Play wizard
>Early on in the campaign, get a Black Tentacles scroll as loot from the first "boss" of the campaign. (For those unfamiliar, Black Tentacles is an incredibly powerful spell that grapple-locks everything in a large area and does decent damage to boot)
>GM...
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>>47767921
You had one of those GM's that "worked too hard to let you ruin it"
What are some of your favorite rules-light systems?
Pic related
>>47766920
This gag would work better if I'd ever heard of that game or had any idea what it was
ASL
Dogs in the Vineyard. The base setting is good (Wild West Pseudo-Mormon Inquisition) but the dice mechanics are very easy to adjust for any setting.
Did you ever feel like you were a bad player or DM? I'm DMing for some friends and even though they say they like the campaign, I can't help but feel like I'm doing poor.
what specifically are you unsatisfied about with your performance
>>47766617
this is me rigth now!
after a session im like did you guys have fun? do you guys have any critics? was it to slow etc.
they said it was fun but one combat encounter was slow and i agree but i feel like there should be more complaints given i have ran two sessions in total surly im fucking up on alteast something?
>>47767999
>that watermark
>dem trips
mixed feelings
