I have played a rouge or wizard for years.
Over the past three gaming sessions I have went melee heavy paladin with 'For Justice!' 'Smite the unclean!' and other such battlecries being my main mode of play.
It has been such a fucking blast. Greatweapon mastery and Greatweapon fighting has me doing stupid amounts of damage early on.
The DM lays some spooky atmosphere and a mold mound animates? Justice fears no mound!
>Great hammer it to oblivion
DM summons up a bunch of ghouls? Away unclean things!
>Greatsword hacks 'em to bits
Just running in like a proper tank and fucking shit up with a big ol' smitin' stick has been the most fun I have had in D&D in a long time.
Keeping in character is great too because it means a lot more dangerous situations keep on popping up.
>You find a mauled body on the side of the road with a note written on it that reveals important plot points. The howling of wolves can be heard coming closer.
I give the body as decent a burial as I can.
>The wolves will be upon you before you can finish
Then I am fighting wolves. This lost soul deserves some dignity.
>Manage to kill four of the six dire wolves because I am rolling fire and the DM is rolling shit
>Two of my party members get fucked up and I scoop them up and book it before they are killed
I need to go back and bury that guy at some point.
So, what class do you enjoy playing the most and why?
>>48266378
Paladin.
For when life is scorned and damage done the Pact is VENGANCE!
>>48266378
>I need to go back and bury that guy at some point.
hate to tell you this but two of six dire wolves left alive means that body is moistening droppings right now
Any class from any system or D&D class?
My favorite D&D class would be Warblade. Focus in Diamond Mind and be an honorable samurai with cool ass sword techniques.
I DM for 5th ed D&D. I tricked my players into thinking a group of angels were demons.
One of my players raped and killed Angel.
What kind of divine punishment should the PC get?
Astral Herpes?
Dire Pubic Lice?
>>48266382
Hahaha, that's an interesting choice.
Wtf would dire pubic lice do to a man?
>>48266362
Have a stronger angel come from the heavens and rape him to death? A big fiery angel like this one.
What makes them so popular?
>>48266302
Do you mean right-wing death squads in general or something more specific.
>>48266331
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Hua_Yuan_Exterminators
>>48266302
Fluoro, meth, rave parties, and a general we like to bring the party while we bring the storm to the enemies of the emperor.
I am running a sci-fi tabletop and I needed a name for a merchant/broker style of ship. One name I thought of was Honor of Traders but I am not so sure of that. I want a name in the same style but I am trying to go for a gallows humor type of name. The name generators I've found don't really have what I am looking for. Pic is supposed to be what the ship sort of looks like.
>>48265251
>the lying bastard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDyn9mxlbUo
You name it the Whale.
The Weatherless, The Nebula Bounty, The Tyrant, The Farsighted Whore, The Tradeship Lawless
Your name is Victory. Well, not your real name, but the codename assigned to you by the Bureau of Special Research and Actions. The primary governing body for American ‘magical girl’ operations. They’ve dropped you off in Italy, Bureau agents leaving you at a cafe in Rome to await additional mission details from a spy returning from deep within Nazi territory.
Said mission was relatively simple. A defector of critical importance was looking to escape the clutches of the regime, and you were to provide them with the means to do so. The Bureau has remained extraordinarily tight lipped regarding the exact nature of the defector. All you know is that they’re valuable to the Allied war effort. Failure here would be a very, very bad thing, that much is certain.
You take another sip of your fancy coffee and enjoy the cool night air as you wait for this contact to show his face. Maybe he won’t. Maybe he’s getting tortured by the Hexenkraft or the SS as you sit here. You shake those thoughts from your mind. It was never a good idea to start a mission pessimistically.
Soon after you drain your cup of it’s contents, a blonde haired man sits at your table wordlessly. His eyes quickly dart behind him, before settling back onto you. His leather jacket is bulging, obviously hiding something. If this man is supposed to a spy then he definitely doesn’t look the part. He clears his throat nosily,
“Excuse me fraulein, you are Victoria Jones, correct? I believe I have something for you, a book from a family friend”
>>48265034
The blonde haired man has somewhat of an accent, maybe he picked it up after spending so much time around the Krauts? He glances over his shoulder again, scanning the surroundings for something, or someone. After he’s seemingly satisfied he turns to you, giving you an uneasy smile.
[x] Nod, take whatever ‘book’ he has for you
[x] German? If that’s not a dead give away to who he really is then you don’t know what is
[x] Make small talk with him first, see if you can’t get him to divulge any information
[x] Write in
>>48265048
>[x] Make small talk with him first, see if you can’t get him to divulge any information
"You're unpracticed at this. Stop looking around so anxiously I and other agents already scoped the area out, you're only drawing attention to yourself."
>>48265147
Seconding
>lawful good cannibal
That young woman looks like she's really faking a good time.
>>48264856
>A society where ritually eating the flesh of the fallen is the standard burial rite.
I DM'd a game with a guy who claimed this once.
Is MAID rpg fun?
How do games normally go with it?
About how high on the creepy anime bullshit spectrum does it go? I'm thinking about grabbing it for my group.
It was fun for a one-off.
I ran it for some random people I vaguely knew on the internet a few years ago and now we have a pretty stable couple of DnD games going. MAID created the bond that persists today, ever since beating Godzilla at yu-gi-oh.
>>48264091
>Is MAID rpg fun?
Yes, if your players are ready to perform shenanigans. It's a rules-light slapstick comedy game, you have to be able to run that kind of game and the players have to be able to run with it too.
>How do games normally go with it?
Depends on what you want, really.
>About how high on the creepy anime bullshit spectrum does it go? I'm thinking about grabbing it for my group.
Depends on how hard you want to push it. There are seduction rules, but I've never played with them, and I've ran many one-shots of MAID and played in a campaign.
>>48264127
>>48264234
Sounds good. Probably going to pick it up then. I was a bit worried that it would be too weird for some of my group. We all watch anime and whatnot, but the power levels range from one guy who only watches berserk/jojo/etc to the guy who collects figurines and tried to learn Japanese.
Four figures silently walk away from the embassy. Behind them, a very angry-looking catgirl crosses her arms with a frown.
No one pays any mind to the slowly retreating group. Everyone is more interested in the catgirl as she angrily shouts orders. Most of them to her knights, and her guard.
The mood among that group is more somber, than anything else. Maybe it's because one of them is very clearly teeming with anger.
"Lass." One of them mumbles, "Are ye gonna calm down or are ye gonna go off and murder somethin'?"
"We'll see." One of them replies, she hoists her spear over her shoulders and continues on like nothing happened.
You are Jack Albator, excellent interrogator, arbitrator, and can be very threatening if nothing else. Today's foray into your newfound skills has been a disappointing, and draining experience.
Of course, the one you promised to spend the day with puts this in much more elegant terms.
"This has been the worst date ever." Madeleine pouts, looking in your direction, "You know that, right?"
"Aye." You take a flask from your pocket, and take a drink from it. "Want a sip?"
"Please."
Madeleine takes the flask and nearly empties it. It's just as well, really.
So, what did you learn today?
Aye, right, you remember.
Most of Catland is corrupt, the butler probably didn't do it by himself but good luck finding the people who did, and Biscotti still has a mole in it.
Great.
Oh right, and Yuuki wants to take Louise to the edges of the Earth where the scary politics can't get her.
That's right, too.
Speaking of which-
"Need a drink?"
"No." The black-haired girl desperately stranging the pole-end of her spear continues staring into the distance.
>Well, talk to you later.
>Let's resume our date, Madeleine.
>Let's just go find a place to eat, this is enough.
>We should all call it a night
>You don't want to but.. let's go look for that mole.
>Other?
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>>48263996
>>Let's resume our date, Madeleine.
>>Let's just go find a place to eat, this is enough.
>>48263996
>>Let's resume our date, Madeleine.
>>Let's just go find a place to eat, this is enough.
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I know that sorcerers get their power from themselves, and that most other get their magic from a patron that can be a god, demon or nature itself.
Also not sure where wizards get their powers from.
They read about it in books. Try it sometime.
From the beating of dead horses.
>>48263361
It depends. A necromancer is a specialization, not a methodology.
Wizards generally get their power by understanding how the world works and manipulating the laws of reality.
How to implement physical gods without stealing the show of the player?
>>48263246
By keeping them in the background, little more than moving scenery.
bump for interest
They are not characters. The players do not talk with them. They do not explain things. They do not consider mortal viewpoints. They do not sit down and have a chat.
They are forces of nature. They do, and the world shapes itself around them. It cannot but. They operate on a level completely divorced from what the players operate on.
Hey /tg/,
Opening this Oath of the Gatewatch today for all of you. Let me know what you think, think I'm going to make this a daily/weekly event.
I appreciate the thought, but it's really not that interesting.
>>48262696
I'm game, anon.
1/15
My group are clamouring for a vanilla high fantasy game, I've played nWoD with them and Rogue Trader and while they enjoyed it, they've unanimously said "Something more heroic and magical". Now we all play quite a lot of Video Games as well, and when I said, "Something maybe WoW like?" they jumped at it.
I've never played a d20 game be it DnD, PF or anything else. I know DnD4 gets stick for 'wow like' design but I'm not sure what that entails. What system should I pick to best emulate a World of Warcraft style of gameplay that lets players pick from a variety of races and play distinct classes that are all useful in some way? Is 4e a good pick, should I go for 5 and use the Warcraft homebrew for it? Is Fantasycraft any good?
>>48261501
>I know DnD4 gets stick for 'wow like' design but I'm not sure what that entails.
It's generally by people that didn't really play 4e and are parroting some shit they heard on /tg/. This post will probably start some sort of edition war but 4e is a fine place to start if you want to get into some real crunch and heroic gameplay. If you're looking for something easier to pick up and play I would recommend any number of retro clones (games that recreate the feeling of oldschool gaming with more streamlined mechanics). I recently played Shadow of the Demon Lord which was fun, as well as Ambition and Avarice which was good as well. Personally for retro clones I enjoy Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. It has a nice mix between crunch and roleplay but it can be overwhelming when you look at the magic section and it's like 300 pages. The magic system is a bit bloated, I will admit, but it's not nearly as intimidating as it seems on first glance.
If you are looking for something basic, you might just want to start with, well, D&D Basic (Moldvay edition). That or Basic Fantasy RPG are both great for new players.
Avoid 5e and 3.X D&D, and Pathfinder, although the cult will show up soon enough to try and convert you. Not that they are irredeemable but many new players get trapped into playing these systems because they are so popular when in reality they are just nothing special and in my opinion leave you with a skewed idea of what TTRPGs are. D&D is uniquely D&D at every edition, and while that's fine, there are so many good and simple systems out there that you should explore first.
>>48261802
>avoid d&d
>except the one I like
lel
In all seriousness 4e is alright for what you want. Everyone has powers they use and the at will / encounter / daily makes them a bit easier to manage than long and short rests which can be somewhat arbitrary.
>>48261802
It wasn't my goal to start an edition war about anything, I'd just like to hear the merits and shortcomings of the generic high fantasy systems and decide from there. I've played quite a few other RPGs so I'm not particularly afraid of being glued to a new system at the expense of others.
I'm not exactly looking to jump into the deep end when it comes to Crunch. While I get that almost ever RPG has some barrier into getting into it, I'd prefer the barrier just be at the start rather than a constant obstacle. Basic Fantasy RPG looks pretty decent but it seems (I've not got a pdf of it just yet), but it seems like it only has a few classes? I was hoping for something akin to prestige classes or feats or something, to represent the Specialisations that players can adopt in WoW to further distinguish their class.
I was under the impression that Shadow of the Demon Lord was more akin to WFRP2, rather low key Fantasy? I'll have a look into it. I've seen 13th Age and Fantasycraft get kicked around a bit too, are either of those suitable?
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>Crazy emperors, cannibalistic dictators and god-kings
>A constant struggle between civilized urban life and savage tribal life
>Religious conflict between two major foreign religions and indigenous beliefs
>Witchdoctors, curses, voodoo, fetishes and shamans
>Breathtaking and diverse landscapes
>More civil wars than you can spit at
>Wild beasts that eat humans for breakfast, sometimes literally
>Shady multinationals and commies getting investing in morally dubious causes
>Loadsa resources everyone wants
>Actually some pretty impressive architecture if you know where to look
Is it me, or would Africa legit make an awesome setting for a modern or near-future campaign? No trolling.
>>48261117
>inb4 some edgy 28 year old 14 year old decides to spam the thread with 'nigger nigger nigger'
To be honest any continent has enough interesting about it to warrant a setting. What area specifically would you set your campaign? Would you allow actual magic? What's the history of this world?
>>48261117
This guy >>48261181 has it right.
OP, you described 90% of human history and every continent except Antarctica.
Far Cry 2.
So, my group has been watching a lot of heist movies like Heat, Oceans Eleven, stuff like that. They wanted to run something along those lines, but our GM hasn't really run anything other than D&D or Rogue Trader. I was wondering if there was any systems that could work for this idea? Alternatively, ideas for cool heist ideas would also be cool. Just trying to help my friend out.
>>48261106
Fiasco.
Shadowrun.
Cyberpunk 2020.
>>48261106
Traveller.
You remember how the backstory for the A-Team was that they robbed a bank in Hanoi, but their CO died before he could confirm their orders when they got back? The team could be a SF team doing daring behind the lines shit that mostly involves stealing enemy shit / munitions / secret prototypes / NAZI GOLD or whatever.
>>48261725
I thought shadowrun was cyberpunk fantasy or something, I'm not very familiar with it. The other two I'll look into
>>48262031
I like that premise. I'm realizing probably straight up criminals might be a little harder to do. Maybe special forces running crime ops or something would work better
Don't tell the commissar, but I found this funny little guy rooting around by the latrines. It smells awful, but I'm going to try to wash it.
>>48260204
>Washing food
Fucking soft Cadians. This shit wouldn't fly on Catachan. Now are we gonna eat this thing or not?
>inb4 you find a second one and a sanctioned aquila guitar
>GUARDSMANQUEST BEGINS
>>48260237
>eating
Fucking pleb. Get on my Armageddon
