Has anyone considered creating a campaign set in the 1984 setting?
I'd imagine it would be very heavy into rollplaying and insta pk due to the thought police which might not be everyones piece of cake.
I've been mulling it over and i remember that the glossary mentioned that the insoc gov't eventually fell so i can give players a fair chance at survival.
Tl;dr help me create a 1984 campaign.
>>47113341
Also, if anyone has links they can reccomend on everyday life under a dictatorship that would be welcome.
I mean, if you play Paranoia full on seriously (which is a thing if I recall correctly) it comes pretty close I guess. Not sure if there's a 1984 specific setting/rulebook floating about in the PDF share thread, or even in existence.
If you dug a bit into independent news sources you'd find you're already playing one.
>Be elf
>Adventuring with humans
>Naive young whippersnappers, but good enough folk
>They forgot to stock in healing potions before our latest adventure started
>Offer to buy everything for them
>Visit herbalist's shop
>Spend some time browsing and looking for interesting brews and lucrative bargains
>Settle on a 20 for the price of 15 healing potion package
>Hurry back to the inn where I left my party
>"Sorry I'm a bit late, but I got a really good deal on h-"
>They all died of old age
>mfw
>Walking down the street
>Human looking for some trouble walks up to me
>Tries to form an insult
>Winds up complimenting me, but the mean intention is there
>Respond to him politely and calmly
>Start a discussion about what the real source of his anger is
>He breaks down crying, and says it's because nothing is going right in his life
>Spend the next two years helping him out, teaching him, coaching him, sometimes just listening to him
>He ends up becoming a successful merchant, and marries a beautiful woman, with me as the guest of honor at their wedding
>Ten years pass, and I see his charming nine-year old son walking down the street
>Punch him in the face
>"That's for calling me 'Forest Friend'."
>>47113048
This was not funny the first time we had this kind of thread.
>>47113169
But this on the other hand is fantastic.
>>47113048
>Be elf
>Rest of the party gets mad that I'm racist towards drow
>Rest of the party don't know they lurk the woods at night looking for innocent children to kidnap and turn into slaves
>Rest of the party doesn't know they have a ritual where they drain your blood and replace it with drow blood and then you BECOME a drow
>Rest of the party doesn't know that drow are literally a corrupted twisted warps elves who are now a literal personification of perversion and suffering
>Rest of the party believes these drow "refugees" who are "fleeing from oppression" are "good people" and not an invasion force
Literally the last elf character I played 100% believed all these things despite every drow we encountered being a refugee, escaped slave, or just a straight up honest hard-working citizen of the kingdom.
Worse still, 99% certain we're going to the Underdark within the next session or two.
I imagine we take a warboss with mega armor, cybork body, attack squig, an ammo runt and a bosspole. But i don't know if there's anything else we can do to make it more powerful.
You put one in a stompah and convince him its him
>>47112989
The problem there is that you can't do that much with a stompa, other than having it be a stompa.
Give the enemy silenced weapons.
How balanced are the factions in your setting?
>>47110525
Do you count random old hermits who could flatten cities in the factions where their homes reside?
>>47110672
Hermits keep to themselves, so that's not really a faction.
Unless there is an association of hermits
>>47110681
"I hereby call this meeting of the United Hermit Front to order.....order you all to get the fuck out of my cave! Leave me alone, dammit, LEAVE ME BE!"
>You inherit a pair of enchanted gloves
What might they do?
Not cover my palms.
>>47109350
Not fit my fucking hands. God damn halfling grandpa
>>47109350
They acquit.
>that one guy on the tabletop who can control his dice rolls.
>>47109208
Make him use an app.
Or report him to the Inquisition as a suspicious potential psyker able to modify probability.
>>47109253
If you practice a lot, and I mean a lot, you can generally choose where a die will fall. You won't roll 20/20 20's, but you can increase the amount you would normally roll by a bit.
Then you look like a prick adjusting what facing is where when you roll and shit.
>that one girl who can't control her good fortune
What was the /tg/ crowd (or closest thing to one) at your high school like? Stereotypical neckbeards and autists? LAWLSORANDUMB and OW THE EDGE nu-nerds? Surprisingly decent people?
>>47105593
There were none. The closest was a dude who liked wolves and cosplayed Columbine every day.
He still does that. He's a freelance DJ, which is a weird way to say "unemployed"
>>47105621
>cosplayed Columbine
>>47105653
It means he wore black leather trenchcoats and looked like someone from the Columbine shooting/Matrix you dumb faggot. Even I knew what he was talking about.
How am I supposed to play a halfling or gnome in a good way that isn't boring
>>47072741
How would you play anything else in a good way that is not boring?
>>47072757
ivdont know ivonko!
>>47072741
Play a human midget that hates halflings, and is often mistaken for a halfling. Or might be a halfling and insists he is not. Keep it light. Like a quasi-halfling Uncle Ruckus.
Whenever something bad happens or you get bad rolls, make your character bitterly remark to himself, "I bet the halflings did this."
How do you feel about Maro admitting that BFZ was a mistake?
>http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/because-salt-makes-mistakes-taste-great-2016-05-09
Apologies mean nothing without reparations.
Easily accessible Legacy and Modern relevant reprints when?
>>47167508
Admitting mistakes is what breeds success. I am glad he is willing to admit BFZ got fucked
>Time Spiral was a mistake
Huh?
What opinions do you have that you know /tg/ hates with a passion?
Favorite systems you know are almost unanimously hated here?
Etc.
>>47167466
CthulhuTech. 2e fixed the pokerdice, and the fetish shit isn't required in any setting, so we leave it all out.
I loveFate
>>47167466
It's possible to have fun with Pathfinder if you're not an autistic shitlord and capable of applying common sense fixes when the rules present problems.
Am I having a fucking stroke?
>>47148576
no. They've resurrected the old black reach sprues and some other old kits with simplified rules and cheapish prices too go in toy stores to try get more people into the hobby
>>47148613
But... thats a good move forward. Isnt it? It even includes paint, brush, and glue right in the box. I must be having a stroke, I must be heading to valhalla
>>47148662
yes. recently GW has been turning things around. They've also been more open in communications with gamers and shown that they are listening too demand (upcominng points cost system for AoS comes too mind)
>You are one of three characters: Samson, a spoiled bard, Dyrus, an axe-wielding rebel's son, or Rene, an orphan adopted by a high-ranking Director of an ominous empire, now a prepromoted archer-lancer. POV will rotate between them on a thread-by-thread basis, with an off-chance that someone else might occasionally take a chapter.
>These protagonists' motivations and goals will very likely come into conflict with one another's.
>Character Death is always a possibility and sometimes an inevitability (this is Fire Emblem after all), but your actions can very easily influence who lives and who dies.
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With their tragically brief time in the company of Sir Denim concluded, Dyrus and the rest of Lady Hauteclere's revolutionaries get used to the fact that the VERY different Chief Paisley is their ally for the time being. The very same morning that Denim's duel ended in his death, everyone was heading Northeast, into desert Gerxel territory. "We had thought it wise that we avoid slighting the desert region," Hauteclere explains to no avail, "and that Director Cato might even abstain from aiding the rest of the Empire if left ignored..."
"To hell with that!" Paisley calls in response. "Sure, it'd be nice and sweet if the mages just get along with all us rebels and raiders and decent folk trying to take back what's ours, but that Cato's a snake who won't stop biting my people! We'll draw her out to fight us, put her head on a pike before you're outta this desert!"
While Dyrus and pals hope he's not speaking literally, Rene and her little group continue their adventures in Garou valley. They haven't heard from the nomad Rene spared the life of since he ran off, but then again nobody but Rene has reason to believe he's alive, and even if they did they had no reason to care. Our Imperial protagonist focuses quite plainly on the hunt for the nomad chief Tien, none the wiser to the events just West of the Wolfskin region, but nonetheless wary of them.
Samson, meanwhile, multitasks between getting up to snuff with the sword (he has the guiding ring to thank for his being able to learn so quickly...), figuring out how to ration the prison's limited supplies of food, water, and healing items, keeping up with his songwriting and novel-penning, maintaining a newly-made-official relationship (he's partially folded that in with the sword training, since Millicent's more quick and cautious fighting style suits his weaker frame quite well), and planning for his prisoner army to competently challenge their two rival factions.
>A. Be Samson
>B. Be Dyrus
>C. Be Rene
>>47174720
>C. Be Rene
>>47174720
>C. Be Rene
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You are Captain Bjorn ‘Bork’ Bjornsson of the European Union’s Swedish Expeditionary Forces, and today has been absolutely miserable. First, you had to liberate the hated Danish lands instead of glorious Sweden, and look happy about it. Then the UN Space Corps dropped your resupply pods into a cluster of BETA instead of where you could get to it without carving your way through with nothing but the last dregs of ammunition and melee weapons your already battered squad had left. And now, you have 132 vampires bearing down on your position accompanied by the laughter of one of the crazy American pilots who launched the salvo.
Your Gripen is agile and light enough to dodge around the majority of the BETA as you slash out with your melee halberd and occasionally your wrist blades to carve through the onrushing tide. The Eurofighters are falling back, providing what fire support they can from a distance. Now you just need to survive for the time it will take for the American TSA’s to get into firing positions. Hopefully, one of those missiles won’t mistake you for a Fort and decide to lock onto you. Once those things go active, there’s no stopping them.
Your BWS-8 Flugelberte easily rips through a Grappler trying to give you the hug of death, the weapon easily cleaving it clear in twain. Hopefully you can get to the resupply pods before the missiles go active, but it’ll be tight. You’ve got to make a call, and you need to make it fast.
Now just what to do?
[ ] De-Ass Area
[ ] FOR VALHALLA
>>47173099
[ ] De-Ass Area
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>>47173099
Huh. Perspective shift.
Do we have IFF that will interface properly with U.S. Missiles?
>>47173099
If we've got IFF, then I'd say got for it - IR or radar, we aren't going to look much like a Fort-class. Well want to stay low, below Fort-Body-Height and make sure that we keep are transponders facing the missiles.
[ ] Go for it, if we think our allies are competent. Otherwise
[ ] De-ass area
>clerics always wear sturdy metal armor in D&D
When will this die?
>>47165533
>not putting your support specialist in armor
D&D clerics are not waifish clergymen, they are knights templar.
>>47165533
>When will this die?
When they stop wearing sturdy metal armor.
>>47165550
But if the cleric stops wearing armor, the cleric is more likely to die.
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>/tg/ Character Sheet
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>New-ish official PDF
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Custom Monsters Edition
Post your custom monsters! Beg other people to make custom monsters for you!
So far I have made Blood Elemental, Boneless, Ghoul Lord, Goblyn, Hearth Fiend (Fireplace), Werebat and Zombie Fog
I've posted them before, but ask if you want one or want me to make another Ravenloft monster
Here's a thing I'm using for the old Desert of Desolation module:
Necrophidis
Medium construct, neutral
AC 13 HP 45 Spd 30
STR DEX CON INT WIS
16 (+3) 20 (+5) 10 (+0) 8 (-1) 10 (+0)
Prof.: +2
Passive Per. 10 Senses: Darkvision 60
Skills: Stealth +7
Vulnerable: bludgeoning
Immunity: poison, poisoned, exhaustion, charmed
Languages: understands Thune
Graceful Mover. The necrophidius ignores difficult terrain, and has advantage on ability checks and saving throws made to escape a grapple.
Dance of Death. As a bonus action, the necrophidius performs a macabre hypnotic sway as it targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. If the target can see the necrophidius, the target must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or be charmed until the end of the necrophidius’ next turn. The charmed target is stunned. If the target's saving throw is successful, the target is immune to the necrophidius’ dance for the next 24 hours.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
The necrophidius is built and animated for a single task, such as protection or assassination. It has the bleached-white skeleton of a giant snake, a fanged human skull, and constantly whirling, milk-white eyes. Its bones are warm to the touch. The necrophidius is odorless and absolutely silent; the skeleton makes no noise, even when slithering across a floor strewn with leaves. A necrophidius is constantly moving with a macabre grace.
A necrophidius doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.
>>47164919
Forgot his CR.
CR2. Better used in groups against higher level PCs, but could be used as a solo encounter for lower level PCs.
