Why can't we have people being actually sensible on both fantasy and modern earth side? by people not being 'chaotic murderous lolrandumb evil empire MUST ENSLAVE INFERIOR RACE XD' or 'muh equal and democratic and totally fair and superior firepower earth.
See, I really want to see a show featuring the both side making diplomatic contact after the initial suprise. And then embassies and stuff. And then non-aggresion pledges. Eventually open boarders and agreements , developement of science and 'magic'(in which the modern side will name it as 'ESP' or some dumb stuff) in a joint effort between empires to lower tebsion and cause SCIENCE, and most importantly:
Culture. Culture spreading and mingling each other. Fantasylanders gaining increased infrastructure(via high-tech roadbuilding. I know, you'd be suprised how much tech goes into architecture) for increased access to remote regions while terrans suddeny gain access to much more of their worlds (via some 'magic' bullshit that makes underwater breathing possible or teleportation to anywhere, icluding space) causing a sudden frontier expansion boom between moder powers, science and magic cross-research and review causing much more efficient production.
Whichresults in following:
>Terrans evovle to spacefareing level of tech, the very beginning of expansion boom
>genereic fantasyland culture recieves a cultural wave and is left in mass distruption due to sudden development and connection to other distant places
>of course there are always evil people.
And during all this bussit going on, the viewpoint of this show focuses on the little people: town guard, a student, housewive, farmer, modern citizen, and others. The viewfocusing on how their life changes, slowly, subtly, but fastter than they expect in a manner they never expected.
>>47442532
>See, I really want to see a show featuring the both side making diplomatic contact after the initial suprise
That's great. You know who would really be interested in this?
>>>/tv/
>>>/a/
>>47442532
Because 90% of this shit is made by HFY people.
All those errors, no wonder you hate realism in science fiction. Also,
>show
>>/tv/
How would you go about running a one-shot game taking place during The Purge?
What tactics should I use to bring th feel of the movie to the table?
>>47442053
Try pointing a gun at your head, then pulling the trigger.
>>47442098
>Hey I have an idea about a movie.
>No that idea is bad and you should kill yourself.
(You)
>>47442301
well that idea is really bad.
I'm at a terrible impasse /tg/
I have a game I'm running. It's popular with the players, I love running it, and it's absolutely captured my interest
But
The game is run online, and my players are /tg/ regulars. Therefore I can't discuss setting or plot on /tg/ with you beautiful bastards! The players could listen in!
>>47442020
Just obfuscate enough details so that your players won't be able to notice any similarities
>>47442188
You have no idea how hard that is.
The [redacted] of [redacted] are masters of the [redacted]. They use their fell powers to [redacted], harnessing the [redacted] to reign over [redacted]
>>47442188
So how do I post nods specific to the setting?
How do I discuss minutia of npc motivations?
How do I debate game details, mechanical choices? Possible plot developments? Anything?
This is the future you chose
Hey, I remember when you posted this last summer.
>>47441627
>playing tabletop games in the pool
That's actually a pretty neat idea. You'd probably need specialized equipment, though, considering most of the regular stuff is made out of paper or cardboard.
How would you go about it, /tg/?
It'd be a good way to play Forbidden Island.
Continuing from where we left off yesterday. We finished rolling the chapter now we must name it. heres the info we have so far
> Dank Angles sucessor
> Thinks the flesh is weak
> pure geneseed
> loves lion 'el
> Specializes in thunderhawk fighting
>is bros with soritas
>hates the nids
>chapta master is know for slaying orks
>fleet based
>was established because they wanted guys in the area
> Has one gaint warship and several small ones
>small ones dock at soritas convents to re supply
>also stops because soritas help them look for spess hulks on radar or some shit
>once a space hulk is found, chapta gathers at gaint flagship
> marines are dispersed to spess hulk
> flagships acts as an aircraft carrier.
>thunderhawks launch from flag ship
>thunderhawks bust open the hulk with dakka
>marines jump from the thunderhawk, into the spess hulk.
we need chapta master name, chapter name, and other shit.
chapta colors?
chapta name?
>>47442036
Disciples of Perdition
Tell me about Angmar, what goes on over there?
>>47440580
Doom, gloom, and some booms.
After the battle of Fornost, likely not much. But I'd guess that even after that there were a fair number of unpleasant things hanging around.
>>47440580
As >>47440726 says.
Standard Castle Darkbad stuff.
Alright, /tg/, I need a bit of help.
I'm working on a ruleset for a small-scale World of Darkness LARP focused on Mage: the Ascension. When I say "small-scale", I mean that I expect about 20-30 players or so. Little more than an afternoon of fucking around with friends, really.
Here's my situation:
1) The setting will be the old WoD, but I don't like the rock-paper-scissors resolution the old Mind's Eye Theatre has.
2) I like the card-based resolution from the new MET books a lot more, and already used something similar once with some success.(I didn't know of MET at the time, so it wasn't the same thing, but it ended up being sort of similar).
3) Combat, however, will be solved with boffer weapons for melee and NERF weapons for ranged. This is because I know my players, and they all come from the boffer LARP world and will not want combat resolution via cards, rock-paper-scissors, or other non-physical methods. If it matters, we're in Europe.
4) I really do not expect much combat or action. These players already take part in combat-intensive LARP events, and the idea behind this oWoD LARP is to give them a different experience, much more relaxed and laid-back. The focus will be on investigative work, occult research, and politics, mostly.
5) I want there to be minimal or no "social combat" systems to handle social interaction between players. I don't want rules for being "convinced" by someone, or for lying and detecting lies. (of course, until someone brings supernatural powers into the mix.)
So, this much is established.
(continued in the next post)
My main problem is how to exactly handle non-combat challenges.
I want to use a character sheet that will look as similar as possible to oWoD sheets for easier recognition. It will probably have a bunch of skills on it, like "Occult", "Investigate", "Academics", "Computers" and so on.
These are my ideas:
#1: Skills are ranked 0-3. When a player goes up against a static challenge ("I want to hack this computer"), the GM will set a fixed skill requirement. ("To hack this computer you need the skill Computers at 2 or higher"). No random element. If two players are competing ("Let's see who can hack the server the fastest"), the one with the higher skill wins.
#2: Skills are ranked 0-5, plus a system of merits that could grant them +0 to +2 sometimes. Each player has a deck of cards ranked 1 to 10. When a player goes up against a static challenge, he draws a card and adds it to his score in the relevant skill. For normal difficulty, he needs to score a 9. If two players are competing, they compare scores.
Obviously, method #1's advantage is that it's simpler, less fiddly, more direct. However it means that some player's point investments can feel hollow if he bought a skill to, say, 2, only to hear he needs a 3. It would be more difficult to balance all the challenges in a way that players don't feel cheated or constricted.
Method #2 introduces a random element which means that there are a lot more variables. On the other hand it requires more GM supervision and introduced the "let me try too" problem, where players just try doing something whenever they feel lucky. Player A with Computers 5 fails to hack the computer? player B, with Computers 1, steps in, says "let me try too", gets lucky, and hacks it.
So, in conclusion: what would you do, /tg/? What method do you prefer? And do you have any other advice or suggestions on how to handle an oWoD Mage: the Ascension LARP?
Hungarian larpfag, if you're out there we need you.
Shoulda have put "Warhammer 40k" or "That Guy" in the title.
So I'm getting into collecting the imperial guard, and as far as I can gather, while /tg/ loves the imperial guard for being badass, they don't seem to think it's a very fun army to actually play. Is there a reason?
>>47440163
Lots of models to paint. LOTS of models.
In terms of actually gaming, I had a great time playing Guard. So many dice to roll.....
>>47440163
Just bouncing off your thread how the fuck do Guard work? I see that an infantry platoon is 2 squads and then a platoon command unit, but can squad A, and Squad B operate basically entirely separate from each other, no need to maintain distance etc.? I assume that the platoon system is so guard can get a shitload of infantry on the table without going over the CAD.
But I've also noticed you can add heavy weapon squads and special weapons squads, but if you killed one of those auxiliary squads for example does it count as first blood, or does the whole platoon need to be wiped out? and do these auxiliary squads also work as independent units that can run around and do their own things?
Also how does it work when you bring Chimeras into the mix? Should you get one for each squad and then have the platoon command slog it on foot or should you get a Chimera for them as well?
Hi you guys, Im new to this board but can I get some advice about D&D 3.5
I have a Tiefling Rogue/Wizard and I'd like to get some advice about spells and builds
Thanks in advance
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>Hi you guys, Im new to this board but can I get some advice about D&D 3.5
Play 5e instead. That's all the advice you'll ever need.
>>47440084
I'm not in charge, so I cant really do that
>>47440073
>Tiefling
>Rogue Wizard
The fuck are you doing? Try to buy off your LA and take the Unseen Seer PrC to recoup from that. If you can't do either of those, you're probably fucked.
I want to get into collecting either the Warhammer fantasy or 40k miniatures and obviously play the tabletop game as well. Which would you recommend is better to get started with?
I like the fantasy setting better honestly but I've heard the new edition or whatever sucks.
Step 1; Find a group of players, talk to them, if you like them, join them and they'll help you with all that shit.
>>47439509
asking staff at a GW store is a good way to get into it, generally there are people there playing/paining that you can also ask
the GW staff do exist to pressure you into buying codexes and rule books and shit though, so just be mindful of that until you knwo that you want to commit to the game
>>47439509
There is no "new edition" Fantasy has been killed off, and then replaced with a shitty skirmish game with that overtly takes inspiration from 40k.
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>>47439310
Neil Degrasse Tyson a Tim now.
>>47439310
>no hat
it's shit
I let my players choose what kind of game they wanted me to run next and what they decided on was a hard sf game about setting up a colony on an alien world.
I've got two weeks to cobble together an ecosystem and work out some ideas for adventures. I'm going to keep the planet fairly earth-like, have the local biology close enough that they can eat each other, etc.
I've found Snaiad, which is fairly well done example and I'm planning to take inspiration from it, but unfortunately I don't think my players would be OK with all the huge cocks on the creatures so I can't steal directly.
Some ideas for exciting things too happen:
>A piece of equipment or group of personnel (possibly the PCs themselves) have trouble landing and have to crash some distance from the colony. Cue journey through the wilderness.
>Food supplies are lost to bad weather or eaten by local wildlife. They have to work out what native plants and animals are good to eat and then gather enough to feed the colony.
>The colony is stalked by a dangerous local predator. They have to hunt it down.
>A huge storm is heading towards the colony, they have to relocate to an area which offers better shelter.
>>47439054
Depending on how hard you want to fuck them in the first place?
Read Redliners by David Drake.
Or have them discover that some native species or other is sapient, and then throw bureaucracy and aliens rights activists at them.
Or, you know, give people the information they need to make educated suggestions? Are they part of a corp? A government? How much infrastructure and population are they getting to start with? What's the tech level like?
>>47439054
I don't really have any concrete ideas but you might wanna look into ancient life on earth. there's shit that used to walk around on this planet that looks thoroughly alien
>>47439054
>Food supplies are lost to bad weather or eaten by local wildlife
Y'know, I was never a big X-Files fan, but one thing that always stuck with me was an Indian story from the Southwest about a crashed UFO, and how no animals would touch the alien corpse. Even years later, it didn't rot (I think) because no Earth decomposers would touch it.
More recently I saw/read something where an astronaut died on an alien world, and something big tried to eat the corpse, but then immediately got sick, vomited it back up, and died from being poisoned by Earthlife.
The fate of all Magic: The Gathering players
>>47438991
Fuckoff everyone dies even nob mtg players. In fact if you look at history more non mtg players have died than those who did play mtg.
>>47439103
How many died a virgin?
>>47439127
Not a single magic player I've ever known hasn't gotten laid at least once. Even the 400lb ones.
Has anyone actually played the Ghostbusters RPG from way back in the day? Was it good?
>>47438439
I ran gurps 4e; Ghostbusters Tokyo
Shit was fun
>>47438439
I actually hadn't heard of this until now, but I totally want to run some kind of Ghostbusters themed game with now. With all the anti-hype around the shitty reboot, it feels like the perfect time for it. Make our own Ghostbusters 3 and shit.
Thanks.
>>47438439
It's surprisingly well thought-out for being a cash grab. The rules are dated, but some of the concepts are ahead of its time.
>>47438820
It's weird how people are getting so worked up over the reboot. If you don't like it, just don't pay to watch it, problem solved.
Whats the best system for to use for Macross?
Will have jet/mecha dogfights and fleet combat
Alien races/planets and power of song and culture?
>>47437430
Ah, the classic "I want to run a mecha game" problem.
The number of games with both good Dogfighting and good Mecha combat rules are rather low unfortunately.
If it was just mechs I'd recommend D&D 4e but the heavy plane focus changes that.
>>47437838
I knew the 4e meme would show up eventually, but I didn't think it would be this fast.
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