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I need pictures of cute, Judean vampires with cute, Eastern Mediterranean looks for a chronicle I'm running. In the alternative, dump vampires.
Hey /tg/ I am sitting with a slight bit of a problem, I think. You see with Game of Thrones back and the hype up and going. My players wanted to do a game set in Westeros with all the intrigue backstabbing and what not. Which is fine, I am on board with that being a fan myself. But the problem is the party is made up of well.. Pic related.
How do I make that work? I have two giant warriors, a mercenary from across the sea and a very angry version of Hodor.
>>47129597
Easy, you lead them by the nose via an NPC contract broker. e.g. they have a guy who can read and write who is their buddy in the same merc company as the merc from across the sea.
He's got a job set up with a westrosi lord and your all going there. You can use him as a nice way to introduce options for the players to discuss while giving a modicum of insight.
Which will be useful for explaining why not pulling off the lord's son's head after they gipped you on a contract clause is a...
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Have them be goons for their favourite House or something.
OR get them to make a fan-house they are all parts of, or affiliated with, but there still being a NPC patriarch to give them objectives and shit.
And when they decide to fuck off to rape Cersei or some shit, improvise.
>>47129597
You see, there are two kinds of characters on Game of Thrones.
>Intelligent but weak who stab people in the back
>Strong and stupid who stab people in the front.
Since all your players have gone the strong and stupid route, then you should center the entire campaign around raping, pillaging, and seemingly-random murdering.
Have a big list of all the characters, and every week pick 1d4 random names from that list, and then make up a reason for...
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Is inserting a cute [cat/dog/fox/rabbit]-[girl/boy] NPC into a game a recipe for an instant [waifu/husbando] for the players?
Its a recipe for an instant cringe.
not everyone's a weeaboo faggot like you
>>47129429
Not everyone is at either extreme like either of you.
>>47129365
That depends on your group. Know your group, OP. Nothing is a universal
instant recipe" for anything; it all depends on your group.
>>47129365
It's an instant recipe for a good ol' call to the local inquisitor for the burning of a filthy non-human.
>2015+1
>Not playing anima
What do I do if a player wants to run a special snowflake that is blatantly at odds with the setting? I dont want to be an ass and tell the kid he cant have his fantasy he has to conform to mine, but I feel like if I just let him roll with it and bend to pander to him it will ruin the game.
Bit more on the situation, its my buddies younger sibling. Technically speaking also an adult, only a few years younger than us, I swear hasn't matured at all since I first met them when we were preteens. The younger sibling, whom I will here after refer to as H, says they only play their predesigned characters, and that they then take and adapt them to the setting. In and of itself this doesn't sound so bad, as long as they do it well it could be k, but I know H, and H never thinks things through, and when I sat down to talk about it to try and work with him on it...
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>>47128475
Saying no is often the best thing a GM can do. Saves you from having to run a game you don't enjoy. Saves them from having a play a character the GM doesn't like. Saves the other players from having to deal with that character. It's best for everybody.
Maybe he'll pout, and that's fine. He's a grown-up and you're (presumably) friends. As long as you believe it's for the best just do it. If the rest of the group disagrees they'll tell you.
>>47128615
Reject any stupid shit that won't fit into the world, if he wants to go pugilist against a troupe of armed mercenaries then let him and make him understand that it's a stupid idea given the setting
Just remember that you're the GM and a good portion of the responsibility for all the fun in the campaign is on you, and you just got to be a bit pragmatic about it
Don't let an idiot ruin everyone's fun, you let him be an idiot and make everyone feel like one for playing your game, or...
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Tell us about a time you fucked up /tg/
>D&D 5e. Playing wild magic sorceror.
>DM allowed me to have a homebrewed wild magic table with more varied effects that take place whenever I cast a spell, because the default table was a bit boring.
>In town, waiting outside tavern for the rogue to finish meeting with a contact.
>Decide to use prestidigitation to create a little fireworks display for some kids (my character liked to experiment with his abilities)
>Roll on wild magic table
>"Replace the spell you were casting with a random spell of the same level"
>Roll
>Acid Splash
>>47128431
There was that one time my human fighter got married, but was obliged to do one last job.
The result was the biggest conflict of a millennia and he ended up becoming the BBEG of a campaign I run.
That campaign is awesome (and is ending next Wednesday).
>>47128431
The funny thing is that you fucked up in a different way than you think. Reread Wild Magic Surge.
>>47128493
We houseruled the wild magic surge quite a lot because the default one hardly ever happens and the effects are underwhelming at best. Our homebrewed table had a bigger variety of effects, but you rolled every time you cast a spell. It worked quite well for a 'hugely powerful but can't control it' style of character.
>>47128492
Go on. What was the job? I'm intrigued.
The worst thing one of your previous/your current character has done or the most thing they regret having done in the past.
Pic semi-related.
>Killed one of his soldiers when he realized that she was tainted with the mark of a Cannibal. Didnt give her a second to explain before cutting her down in a hail of bullets.
>Haunted by her dying gasps and death rattle every night since then.
I've never gotten to play before -- lifetime GM slave. These are recounts of a player I had named Jeremy.
Jeremy likes to start shit. He's a white kid who claims he's in the Crips, then a week later claims the Irish Mafia. Has a pair of nunchucks and a .22 pistol in his trunk. He's super cool.
Anyway, Jeremy was in my Heroes Unlimited campaign some years ago. You never need to worry about splitting your party or a villain when Jeremy is playing -- he's got that shit on lock. So in this campaign Jeremy's character is watching news stations...
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Some time later Jeremy's in another one of my games. This time it's White Wolf's version of Street Fighter. Jeremy's at it again -- pitted himself against the other PCs and has joined Shadowloo. Jeremy constantly enters tournaments the other PCs are in so he can have a chance at defeating them in front of a crowd. He fails -- every single time. At one point the other PCs (out of frustration) jumped Jeremy outside of a mall - causing permanent injuries. Out of pity (and to even the odds a bit), I had the Shadowloo organization hook Jeremy's character up with cybernetics. In the next tournament Jeremy is a powerhouse -- running through everyone on the roster. In the final fight, Jeremy is pitted against one of the other PCs. The fight is really close, but Jeremy ends up nearly winning. He had the other PC severely wounded and locked in a stun. Instead of finishing the PC off, Jeremy decides to parade around the ring and boast. The other PC breaks from the stun and delivers a devastating hurricane kick to Jeremy's head - knocking Jeremy out and winning the tournament.
At this time I had a rule (mostly because of Jeremy) that you couldn't create another character unless your current one was dead. But Jeremy's character wasn't dead - he was alive due to the miracle of modern medicine! Though... a paraplegic vegetable and in ICU on feeding tubes.
Pretty sure Jeremy threatened me with a katana that time.
>>47128533
>>47128562
Goddamn.
Did he ever leave the group?
knowing that trolls are bigger, dumber ogres that regenerate, what the fuck are warcraft
""""trolls"""?
My guess would be hobgoblins, but still they too different from them.
>Trolls are bigger dumber ogres
LITERALLY depends on the setting.
>>47128107
>Warcraft trolls aren't trolls
>Smaug is a wyvern
>My arbitrary definition of a fantasy creature that's been reinterpreted so many different ways as to make it difficult to even nail down a single attribute of it that could be considered "universal" is the correct one
Undersized, social, South american native trolls
How do you play a assassing beserker?
>>47127907
Have them twerk over their fallen foes and verbally joust with the bard.
>>47127947
>le joke about the spelling mistake
eric, screenshoted
>>47127988
Make shit thread, get shit replies.
Fuck yourself OP.
any good includes for a casual, modern ban list, $20 budget list with wildfire as a build around?
>>47127673
Why 20 dollars, exactly?
>>47127673
Why is this shitty card a rare? That makes zero sense.
>>47127887
kitchen table format, trying to keep it light and fun
>1994
>Sigil, capital of the multiverse
>where majestic celestials and menacing fiends, towering dragons and teensy faeries, woeful wraiths and energetic elementals, polyhedral clockwork constructs and chaos-shrouded giant frogs, magical beasts and aberrations with shapes plucked from a madman's fever dreams, and multifarious other creatures cavort
>the most powerful information broker in the city is literally a transgendered fox-furry daemon-wizard,...
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>>47127256
What are you? Racists?
>>47127256
But its got a fat ginger for the Tumblr crowd, anon! It's a recipe for success!
The Factol of the Harmonium is black. This shit's literally less diverse than the original.
If you were to (or have previously) run a Dune campaign, how would you go about doing it? During a certain time period? What roles would the players take? Canon-friendly or headcanon for a little more freedom?
>>47127253
Probably during the Jihad between Dune and Dune Messiah.
>I'm tired of cliches
>I'm tired of cliche subverting
Let's try and make fantasy races different but still recognisable.
>Key traits of classic race
>Build the 'different' description around them
For example:
Elves, cute knife-eared longliving magic tree-huggers.
This race has well-developed ears, big eyes and is quite fluffy. In ancient times they were the only sentient race to walk the world. They reached...
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How they may look like:
>>47127203
>tired of cliches
>still jumps to elves
>still jumps to the big three elf sub-races right out of his 5e PHB
You've already failed on every level.
>>47127346
'kay. Next one: Dwarves.
Underground craftsmen, fierce warriors who like a good drink and honor their oaths and grudges.
Antmen. They live underground, spend eternities in the hive and have all the time in the world to hone their craft and war skills.
Their beards are necklaces with chains of varying material hanging down, and materials it is made of tells stories to those who know how to decipher them.
Instead of being only female like real-life ants they are 50/50 male/female for shits and giggles.
Guys, be honest. Would you game with anyone from /tg/?
>>47166270
I found my gaming group on /v/, so sure.
>>47166270
I would play with you, anon.
You all give me the fucking creeps
So yeah.
Have your characters ever been complicit in a genocide?
Non-human groups included.
>>47127157
Have done, will do, and shall keep doing
>>47127157
Not on purpose. We've ended the world due to failure or success a couple of times though. It's more of a nasty side effect.
>>47127157
Try playing any of the 40k RPGs and NOT be involved in genocide..
So what's a good system for Dark Fantasy?
>>47127000
Warhammer fantasy roleplay 2e
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
>>47127000
Symbaroum
>>47127207
Seconding WHFRP2e. Cthulhu Dark Ages is fine too. This looks interesting but I have no experience with it.
