>Be young shit Anon who had never played D&D before this.
>My big bro invites me over to play 3.5 with my future in-laws.
>His girlfriend played a Chaotic Good elf ranger.
>Her brother played a human nightblade, forgot the alignment.
>Their dad played a dwarf fighter, also forgot the alignment.
>I played a Neutral Good human mage.
>Mission is to take out bandits that were harassing a local town.
>Fight some giant spiders on the way there, discover there's drow working with the bandits.
>Defeat a group of drow priests and manage to keep one of them from dying.
>Bro's girlfriend decides to use melted sealing wax to torture information out of the priest.
>The priest eventually breaks and tells her everything he knows.
>Bro's girlfriend takes the rest of the melted sealing wax and pours it down the drow's throat, making him die an agonizing death.
>We all look at her like she's a psychopath while my Bro warns her not to pull that shit off again or else her alignment will forcefully change and she'll lose her character.
Never happened again, but I made it a point to never be alone in the same room as her.
Anyone got similar stories?
>>47210252
Sounds like the scum got what it deserved. Real life had more draconian ways of dealing with thieves and murders.
>>47210252
>she'll lose her character.
Yeesh.
Alignment change I get, but that's a bit much don't you think?
>>47210338
The Star Wars Saga edition had it where if you got too evil, AKA got a ton of dark side points, you lost your character. The GM now plays him as a villain and you get to make a new character.
Hey /tg/! Anyone here want to play a friendly game of Gangrape?
>>47203143
I've heard good things about this game, about 4 out of 5 people enjoy a good game of gangrape.
Seems like a messy affair; I'd rather not.
Fucking swedes.
Is the 2nd Edition the best D&D edition ever?
I'm a casual player of the 3.5 edition and I'm quite satisfied with it, however I know that there is a whole lot of nostalgia around the 2nd edition and I wonder if I should go for it. (I also ignored the 4th and 5th edition btw)
2E has a bunch of great campaign settings published for it, but in terms of rules it's subdued compared to 1E (until you start adding in splats and Player's Option books) and overly complex compared to the Basic line.
If you want to count the whole of all material released specifically for 2E during its tenure as counting for the whole edition, then I'd say it's probably the best overall, but the caveat lies in the fact that almost all of the good extra stuff can be used with 1E or even Basic with little conversion, and they have their advantages in core over 2E.
>>47201354
It's a good system, but you need to know what you're getting into. I found it a bit less intuitive and math heavy, which is to say that its a system you need to learn as opposed to just jump into. It's fairly restrictive in terms of class and race, which some will find obnoxious. It doesn't lend itself to massively powerful campaigns. In 3.5 you can get into dick measuring bullshit on who can do billions of points of damage a second, 2E doesn't scale that high.
There is a lot of good material out there for it, handbooks, compendiums, etc, and if you're willing to put the time into it it can make for really fun sessions.
If you found 4E and 5E too like a video game, and want to try something other than 3.X then 2E isn't a bad way to go.
>>47201354
It's not without its flaws and incongruencies (bard fireballs for one). Not much material was playtested because of dumb late-TSR policies.
However, the old D&D experience is something special. There's less caster supremacy.
It also produced many really interesting campaign settings.
What weird shit has your character started carrying?
>pic related for my wizard
>>47200419
A Mermaid Sea Witch.
I charmed her. We made all the sex. I tricked her into marrying me. We saved the Cleric on the process. And now I need to carry her around my back strapped in a jury rigged custom made baby-carriers.
The good thing is that she can cast druid spells like a fucking champion out of the wazoo making her a very reliable henchman that is always with me.
It is fucking beautiful.
>>47200419
Lots and lots of blood. Very little of it is actually from enemies.
>>47200481
So you used magic to trick a woman into marrying you then keep her as a prisoner in a place she can never escape from? Fucked up, dude.
For all your questions on Dark Heresy (1st and 2nd Editions), Rogue Trader, Deathwatch, Black Crusade, and Only War.
Not the wargame. Not Chapter Master. Or Space Hulk.
Book Repositories (If you're planning to download any Rogue Trader materials, read the .txt file in the RT directory)
https://mega.nz/#F!Pl0UgbJa!vDtTXMKnvZ26fUbuw4X9tg
Shield of Humanity PDF
https://mega.nz/#!xlRWBaiI!MmOEkMse0wHVsyLDGbZJVGUXgVEuB9lWSyVl6ZhvgGM
40K RPG tools, a site that contains stats or references for almost all weapons, armor and NPCs/adversaries. Not updated past DH2 core.
http://www.40krpgtools.com/
40k RPG Combined Armory (v5.43.150418), containing every piece of gear in all five lines. Not updated with any DH2 content.
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/i3akv9qx9q05z
Fear and Loathing (Ver 1.5.2) and The Fringe is Yours (Ver 1.6.0), /tg/ made Rogue Trader homebrew supplements for playable xenos, Knights, Horus Heresy gear, and other things.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/kpl4pvkdiidvg6n/Fear_and_Loathing.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/2zfoc5jo7s7vrb5/The_Fringe_is_Yours.pdf
Previous Thread: >>47129590
Starting question of this thread: What's your favorite bit of FFG-original fluff made for the RPG?
The Grendel shoutout was one of my favorites.
>>47195962
That was pretty good. I'm also kind of a fan of the Scintillan Fusiliers.
Is /tg/ backing this game? So far I'm in it for roughly 140 pounds. It looks like it's going to be great, and the makers are really listening to what the community wants and is play testing things out to see if they work.
For the core game with SG's you get 79 minis for 80 pounds, and it'll probably increase by the end of this. Maybe get to 90 minis. For that alone it's worth the price, no?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steamforged/dark-soulstm-the-board-game/description
>>47182480
what kind of board game is? how is the gameplay?
>>47182505
There's a gameplay demo on the kickstarter page which shows off two players vs the Dancer of the Frigid Valley. Short version is that it's players vs (card based) AI, positioning is important (better to evade attacks than tank them) and the more stamina you use the easier it is to get killed.
I've gone in for it, partially because backing now gets you a load of extra stretch goal enabled stuff, and because at the very worst it should be good for a few games with my fellow Dark Souls loving friends.
>>47182480
Backed it.
Drunk on power Highborne Edition.
Discuss Warcraft as a Tabletop campaign setting
>last thread:
>>47147395
How would you use the basic creep factions as a true power in the world and threat to both Alliance and Horde?
>>47179340
By forming a confederation of mooks tires of being exp farmed.
>>47179340
Intense Enthusiatic Breeding
D&D
>Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma
Rolemaster
>Agility, Constitution, Memory, Reasoning, Self Discipline, Empathy, Intuition, Presence, Quickness, Strength
GURPS
>Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Health
RuneQuest
>Strength, Constitution, Size, Dexterity, Intelligence, Power, Charisma
Unisystem
>Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, Intelligence, Willpower, Perception
S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
>Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, Luck
Which set of core abilities do you prefer? Is there a custom set you'd want to mix and match?
I'm looking for a certain sweet spot. The abilities need to cover everything a character may need to use during an adventure. On the other hand, the set also needs to be manageable and comprehensible during character creation.
I prefer to not have ability scores and instead things be based around skills. Derived numbers from attributes naturally create a disparity for their usefulness. I.E. Charisma.
Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Charisma
All the rest is skills
>>47229081
I think skills are a bit too granular to use without broad abilities as a back-up.
Example:
A player may not invest in the Balance skill if the character archetype doesn't warrant it, but any character should be able to have a go at sidling along a narrow surface. Lack of skill or experience doesn't really stop you from putting one foot in front of the other. You could just have everyone take the same 'unskilled' check, but I think adding a little variation through Dexterity offers the players a welcome bit of control over their character.
What is the highest amount of damage you can possibly do in [System of your choice] without cheesing hard and ignoring rules like you need to with Punpun and the peasant railgun?
>What is the highest amount of damage you can possibly do in [System of your choice] without cheesing hard
?
>>47221487
D&D 2E, 3.finder, 5E,
Shadowrun
WoD
GURPS
Any game you want, as long as you have an answer.
I can also condense it into highest indisputably rules legal damage possible.
>>47221413
Well, technically speaking you can do infinite damage in any system with exploding dice.
More importantly, I need to know how the fuckle you can pull that with Shuckle.
I've been looking into this whole real life thing and its honestly not that realistic.
> Mongols Invade Japan
Is 'Kamikaze' Japanese for 'Blatant Deus ex Machina'
> Execution of Thomas Becket
Really? Could you not think of a plausible reason
> Nazi Germany
Alright, we get it, WWI was a bit too political. You didn't have to go full edgelord with the sequel
> Alexander the Great
100% Mary Sue Bullshit
> Soviet Union
So the nation of oppressed mud peasants executes its intellectuals, and then starts building rockets? Wut?
> Colonial Africa
'Le White Mans Steamroll entire continent of Ogga Boogas' go back to /pol/
> Caligula
Your fetish is showing
> Hitler/Stalin non-aggression pact
What?
Fucking what?
Are you even trying?
> Wars Over Spices
Is this some sort of shity Dune reference? 'Cause who the fuck fights over spices?
> Canada
This could be interesting
*reads lore*
...it's just there to fill space isn't it?
2/10 Would Not Recommend to Friends
Terrible art, too. 90% of it is washed-out grimdark bullshit. And what's with the character "options"? Lel you can be a human from this shitty part of the world, or a darker human from this other even shittier part of the world.
>>47219389
>Alright, we get it, WWI was a bit too political. You didn't have to go full edgelord with the sequel
"Edgelord" doesn't even begin to describe it. I mean, sure, there is a lot of edge. The bombs that work by converting rare handwavium into pure destructo-force are edgy bullshit, and the genocidal maniacs with LITERAL SKULL SYMBOLS all over the uniforms are damn edgy, and they evolve into Ow the Edgehog when they backstab their former ally to start a two-front war because they're Just That Evil. But so many other characters/places are also bullshit in so many miscellaneous ways.
You have mister "true man" leading the superpowered good guys late to the fight showing up with a superweapon developed just in time that ends the war almost immediately, and mister "man of steel" in charge of the Token Evil Teammate nation that murders more people than SkullNation McEvilGenocide ever did, and gets away with it because they're protagonists. Oh and Token Evil Teammate also annexes Poland which is what the good guys were supposed to be fighting to *prevent* in the first place. I suspect one guy wrote the leadup to the war and another wrote the aftermath and they didn't talk to each other.
And then there's Ike. Democratic societies do not work that way. Presidents do not get elected for having been successful generals invading another continent unless you're some kind of interventionist militarist state verging on junta, but the writers have been beating it into us over and over again that America is a democratic isolationist society that's slow and unwilling to show up to this war and then pulls out early next time and soldiers get spat on when they come home from Vietnam.
Speaking of America, they really need a better editor to sort out the naming mess that is the two continents called America, the country called United States of America, and the other country called United States of Mexico that leaves us with *no* unambiguous short name for the middle one.
>>47219767
>mister "man of steel"
Still better than the leader of France-expy called "the gaul" only pronounced with funny accent so it becomes "de gaulle".
And the high level adventurer-scientist-polymath with a billion skill points in everything called "fine man".
And the encryption code called "enigma".
And the encryption-breaking machines called "bombes".
Hello /tg/, I'd like some opinions on a project I've been working on.
Pic related, this is a board game I've been developing since last year called 'The 12 Towers'. In a nutshell, this game is loosely based on a variety of different games;
- Free roam board, exploration and lore (D&D)
- +550 game cards (Magic: The Gathering)
- Randomized Events (Talisman)
- Board control, PvP, Player Elimination (Risk)
I won't be posting the rules in this one, my patent paperwork is still going through, but I'll provide the basics of gameplay.
This game can hold up to 12 players at once, each player chooses a tower, which has it's own strengths, weaknesses and abilities, to control. The object of the game is to either control ALL 12 Towers, or be the last remaining player. The 12 Towers has very heavy PvP, which comes from the cards (Using melee or ranged weapons, spells, etc).
I've designed several new combat mechanics as well, that involves siege engines, setting up fortification, and board placement strategy. Additionally, this game can be Modded (I've played Steam games forever, and I love breaking my games with the Workshop). At the end of the rules, I've added over 100 different 'mods', that change how the game is played, either a little, or a lot. (For example "Dragon Battle", everyone has a permanent dragon card that matches their Tower at the beginning of the game, bonus to movement and damage)
This game is still in progress, posted pic is my 2nd edition (1st edition was hand drawn and broken to all hell), would /tg/ play my game? I'll answer whatever questions, and take any advice.
How many players?
How long does a game take?
How hard is it?
>>47206387
2-12, most I've had so far was 8, at a game night a few months ago.
Standard game takes between 45 minutes to an hour and a half.
It might look complicated, but it's really not. The same process repeats over and over. During a players turn, they can
- Roll to move
- Draw an Event card, if they land on an orange space
- Cast 1 spell
- Attack a player with their Melee/Ranged weapon, and a Siege Engine.
Those can be done in any order, or none at all. (With certain cards, skipping a turn actually benefits you) I've offered a lot of freedom of choice in this game.
looks cool
Faction concepts for post-apocalyptic skirmish game?
Ideas for iconic units for said factions?
Current factions:
Settlers - pioneers and escorts trailblazing the free wastes
- APC-like super haulers
- standardized soldiers/guards
- mercenary characters that have different quirks and a wider variation of stats
Raiders - sociopaths bandits and murderers stealing for excitement as much as necessity
- gun buggies and motorcycles
- dime-a-dozen sociopathic murder hobos
- berserkers
- guys with standout weaponry like flamethrowers or grenade launchers
Ghouls? - like a vampire counts situation with a sentient mutant leading a horde of monsters?
Singularity? - still-functioning robots working under the orders of some hive-mind super computer?
Chrome Domes- a group of Raiders that believe that by grafting metal and chrome to their faces and bodies in order to become closer to their "god", a military ai trapped in a bunker
Post-apocalyptic is such an overdone genre. It's synonymous with "I'm not creative enough to create a new setting, but I'm not adaptable enough to reconcile my creation with the real world, so I half-ass it and create a lackluster setting that is mostly the same grey-metal grim Mad Max motorcycle crap that has been done over and over, and a couple semi-creative tidbits will not inject nearly enough originality to save a genre that is so mainstream and cliche that it has been overdone to the point of death from exhaustion.
Post-apocalyptic is literally the same tier as heroic fantasy now, in terms of being plebian garbage. Pick something else.
>>47224469
You dropped your hat.
After all is said and done, including personal goals, what is your character going to do after the end of his or her adventure?
My current character is likely going to train a Batman equivalent with the stupid amount of money I am amassing due to in game investments in trade. That character will be used in the next relevant campaign.
As much as he would love to, he can't go back to being a farmer, nor can he really settle down. He will wander, doing what good he can and carrying out his god's will.
>>47222891
Well, my Fighter is going to slow burn his way from a shittier Arthur Dent from the worst family in the kingdom to a respectable hero.
He'll probably be employed under the king as a problem remover.
Poorfag trying to play mtg here. wanted to go B/G aristocrats, but just a bit too exspensive.
So then I found a list for meme wolves for under 30$ no arlinn kord, but i will probably get them in trades or a few weeks or whatever.
Creature (28)
3x Breakneck Rider
4x Duskwatch Recruiter
4x Geier Reach Bandit
3x Hermit of the Natterknolls
3x Kessig Forgemaster
4x Lambholt Pacifist
3x Pack Guardian
4x Village Messenger
Land (23)
1x Cinder Glade
2x Evolving Wilds
7x Forest
9x Mountain
4x Timber Gorge
Instant (3)
3x Moonlight Hunt
Enchantment (4)
4x Howlpack Resurgence
Artifact (2)
2x Neglected Heirloom
Sideboard (15)
3x Clip Wings
1x Dragonlord Atarka
3x Fiery Impulse
2x Radiant Flames
3x Reckless Bushwhacker
3x Roast
Maybeboard (13)
1x Canopy Vista
4x Looming Spires
4x Looming Spires
4x Rending Volley
1x Smoldering Marsh
3x Westvale Abbey
How do I fix this shit? not really interested in the zada build of this, or any exspensive cards from origins/dragons (i.e. coco) but anything in the last 3 sets would be fine since they will be in for a while.
It's gunna be fairly weak to board wipes, but it seems fast enough. considering using bushwhackers mainboard.
What about you?
Playing?
Building?
Curious what the meta is like elsewhere.
also, 6 other mtg threads, no standard.
>>47220464
werewolves suck
>>47220498
it's typically how it is here
Gotta go to goldfish or salvation for standard discussion. Faggots here would rather have 360+ posts about the lore or waifus.
Lets have a thread introducing eachother to systems that might work for games we've been dreaming about running.
I've been trying to find a system to run a less-serious combat-heavy modern/near future game. Sort of like Borderlands.
I want a really quick and dirty system but one that has a good system for character skill progression so PCs can feel like theyre growing. I havent had any luck yet; hopefully you guys have heard of something.
>>47219160
Over The Edge / WaRP is pretty good for what you're describing. Very quick and dirty, new skills can be acquired in a straight-forward way, existing ones can be raised but get exponentially harder past a certain point (e.g. karate above 4, time to go find a kung-fu master).
Very freeing system, and does guns quite nicely.
>>47219256
Oh, and it's great for weird tech/psychic/supernatural abilities too, if you've got PC's who are gonna have those.
>>47219276
Sorry, one last thing: XP in WaRP is great. You get extra "experience dice" to spend on things whenever as long as you can justify it (e.g. "jeez, this is like the third knife fight I've been in this week!" /throw in experience die); however, you can "cash them in" for permanent ability/skill acquisitions. It's really cool.
