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I'm the DM for a game of DnD. I've never DM'd, and my players have never played. Starter DM tips?
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>>47747036
Don't create NPCs that are your pet characters that will hog the spotlight. These are called DMPCs and they generally suck. Let the PCs hog the limelight.
Don't do that shit where you overthink your story because you've read people's accounts of shitty, boring, uninspired, bland sessions. If you want to deliver a cliched story straight up from an 80s dungeon crawler and make your world derivative, do so. The players will form the tone of the story themselves and will play out those segments themselves. So steal.
If you really want to literally run A New Hope in a fantasy setting for your guys, do so. Maybe they will play it straight. Maybe they will murderhobo the whole thing and Leia will end up sold to...
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Don't be afraid to kill your players off. The game isn't meant to be about you raping the players' orifice, but you have to make them realize that the risks they take are very real.
One thing that tabletop does that computer RPGs - a common avenue to tabletop - often neglect is that killing is not the #1 way of dealing with encounters and that even the precious XP points can be gotten through other ways. Encourage them to sneak around powerful enemies and negotiate with people.
Of course, if your group wants to mostly be in it for the action and want high kill counts, make sure to provide it for them and you might want to fudge some rolls (in secret, that's what the DM screen is for) if it's dramatically appropriate - nobody likes to die on the campaign's first session because of a dire rat's lucky crit, and making a new character so soon again is just busywork nobody needs.
But overall if someone fucks up they will die. And that can be a nice plot hook for a future session to get that player ressurected.
I'm GMing for an extremely inexperienced player in a few days. The campaign will be composed of myself, the new player, and a mutual friend, for the purpose of easing him into TTRPGs. I'm looking for what system to start him out on. He's a fan of high fantasy and political intrigue, and pointed out Dragon Age and A Song of Ice and Fire as examples. I was considering doing a generic D&D/Pathfinder campaign but he balked at the magic system, so I'm looking for something that's a bit looser with its magic system that would be nice for inexperienced...
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>Dragon Age
Well, in that case, throw anything at him. It's going to be awful regardless of what system you play. Hell, throw the Dragon Age RPG at him and enjoy the sadism/masochism inherent in trying to run it.
>>47746866
I've never tried the Dragon Age RPG as I'm not into Dragon Age. What's wrong with it?
>>47746988
Anon is probably just some fag from /v/, they like to hate everything. Dragon Age isn't that bad.
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Do your parties ever kick back and relax, /tg/?
Not often enough.
>>47746804
Between runs. It's covered under the rules to near autistic detail.
>>47746804
Yes. We drink strong beer and chill in a nice park or golf course.
Then weget kicked out and run before the rent a cops cause a scene.
Does /tg/ talk about Apocalypse World 2.0e?
There's a lot of hatred towards the World games on /tg/
Probably not. /tg/ in general tends to dislike cool games.
>>47746423
I didn't know there was a 2e. What's changed?
I'm a Dawn of War /v/eteran and haven't played tabletop so I'm going off second-hand info here.
So Space Marines, in fiction, are unstoppable über warriors that crush the enemies of man. Bolters are automatic uranium tipped rocket launchers.
And yet you see them die by the dozens to cockroaches and space communists.
How would /tg/ do statlines for different marine chapters, Aspect Warriors. Bolters, and other things where the fluff doesn't reflect the actual rules?
>>47746041
I guess what I'm meaning is that "the armor just shrugs off bolter rounds" should mean "this thing is badass".
Not "this thing's mid range heavy infantry or a light vehicle"
It's just my opinion but it seems to be reflected in the fluff.
>>47746041
You accept the fact that the video games and the tabletop will never represent the lore exactly. At least on the tabletop, it's easy to consider them as taking an incapacitating wound , not a fatal one.
>>47746041
You play the RPGs, which have much more nuanced representations than either the wargame or the video games .
Why do Orzhov and Boros have angels, but Azorius and Selesnya do not?
>>47745522
Angels don't mix well with green and blue, blue isn't very emotional which may play a part and green tends to be more primal and doesn't really create living breathing constructs capable of complex thought, the only real example of them doing so lore wise is bruna and sigarda but the angels of innistrad seem to be very different then ones on other planes.
There have been things like lightning angel etc but really they weren't created with much lore in mind back then.
B/W are the angel colors. Red dabbles occasionally because of the whole fire and brimstone, glorious warfare thing. U and G just don't really get them in general.
tribal should be more of a thing in mtg.
i want awesome devils, sirens, succubus and well all the others
What method do you folks use to keep parties together in pathfinder. This seems to be my biggest challenge
Keep environment lethal enough that lone individuals inevitably die sooner rather than later.
Start the game with the contrivance that "You guys are a team, you have to cooperate and work together" and enforce it consistently.
Refuse to run for a split party for anything longer than a single roll to scout ahead.
If folks want to split up long term, you'll run for the larger group and the rest become NPCs
Whould /tg/ want a overly motherly paladin in their party who when catching you doing misdeeds give you a stern talking too, but always makes you your meals and takes care of you if you are hurt or sick.
You are pathetic.
>>47743828
>>47743804
Yes
Is there a game centered around playing characters in a family sitcom?
I don't mean "is there a game where you could bend the rules to facilitate this" -- I mean is there a game where that's the entire core premise of the mechanics? Something that could just as easily produce an episode of The Simpsons as it could Bob's Burgers or Fresh Prince?
>>47742617
Bob's Burgers is shit but your group will probably be good at it if they had rules for it since it's unlikely that any of you are funny
>>47742663
ouch
>>47742663
That's helpful, thanks.
So I'd like to discuss what we think will be in Eldritch Moon, and more specifically, if Emrakul is in the set, what we think her abilities will be and what Eldrazi cards we will see.
das pritty cool
I'm guessing Emrakul will be something like:
12 or 13 mana cost.
13/13
Flying, trample
When you cast Emrakul, some wacky thing happens.
I'm also guessing there will be transforming Eldrazi cards, which I would love to see.
>>47745579
>when you cast emrakul, target creature slips on a banana peel
>2; throw target pie
>you should play x system
>don't play y system
Wow, thanks for the advertisement, but I was looking for advice.
As someone who has played just about every system you can name and many you've never even heard of, I appreciate how diligent you are in your proselytizing for the mini cults you've pledged your souls to, but between all the hair-splitting, overstatements, and downright lying that goes on around here, I'm starting to wonder what the undercurrent behind all this madness...
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Whoa we got a badass over here
Try playing GURPS
>>47742385
OP, when you make a new thread to complain about shitposting, you become the shitposter.
So as I kid I played this game called Mechassault. It was fucking cool and the mech designs kinda stayed with me.
So then I'm an adult on a boring night recently, I'm staying up late and can't get sleep and I find a video about Battletech. So then I make the connection and start down the rabbit hole. Eight hours later I'm reading all the entries on Sarna and looking up gameplay on the old Mechwarrior games.
This fucking universe and shit is awesome. Why the fuck is none of the vidya easy to get? Why the fuck didn't I hear about the tabletop till like now. I've been playing Infinity, 40K, and Fantasy since I started college.
>>47742298
>Why the fuck didn't I hear about the tabletop till like now.
I mean it isn't like we've had a Mechwarrior/Battletech general going here since the younger neolithic or so.
>>47742298
>>47742429
on the other hand the IP licenser, Catalyst Game Labs, does shit to advertise the game since it took care of the game, 10 years ago or something
OP, if you want to talk about the table top go to >>47731171
>>47742298
As a kid I thought MechAssault and MechWarrior were two different things. Then all of the sudden I saw guys at my local game store playing Battletech and then I was really confused. The dots didn't really connect very well.
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>>47741446
"Two of ours didn't make it, Miss Sasha." Tai says, pointing over to where a group of Zhou's people are tending to a pair of prone figures, and where the youngest of them are building some sort of pyre.
"You said some of the attackers might still be alive?"
"Might, got them over with Mister James and the rest of Mister Serrak's builders. Zhou wants their heads. Can't say I blame him. We've been tending to our wounded first."
>Question...
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>>47741469
>Check on the survivors.
First things check on those still living. Leaving Tai to coordinate with the others, you head to where Tatiana is cinching a gauze pad to Artyom's shoulder.
[How bad is it?] You ask in Casimiran as Tatiana does a double take.
[I... How did you return so fast?]
[Same way they got here, but that's no matter. How bad are we?]
[The worst is over. There is naught I can do for those two,] The female centaur says nodding to congregation of beastfolk around the dead, [But ours that did die, died swiftly. Which is more than I can say for those Artyom...
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Let's make a setting, /tg/. Every post should have one fact about it, and everything is true so long as it doesn't contradict what came before. I'll start
>Wizards obscure their faces , for to see a mans face is to know him. This has evolved into elaborate costuming, designed to impress, baffle, and terrify. You can generally tell the strongest wizard by who is most outlandish looking
>As a result of this showing emotions through facial expressions have slowly become taboo throughout the ages.
Buildings and statues all have blasphemous grimmacing mask motifs.
>>47741021
>>Wizards obscure their faces
Each wizard has single innate power that they can strengthen through intense training.
>with the advent of the Internet and its rapid technical progress, virtual graveyards have started popping up in the 'Net
>forgotten VR worlds created by the users and NPCs stuck inside of them, abandoned Geocities pages written by people who've long since died or moved on, numerous vaporware that has vanished in the time as fast as it appeared
>and now the rumors have started popping up, that among the endless quantity and variety of these virtual graveyards, some have started...
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Waiting warmly.
>>47741013
..Go on.
>>47741013
>Unknown Armies GNOMON quest
>Your Mission: Kill the Undead Internet!
