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Everybody ready for a new game? It's been a while since I played this.
All rules active during the last thread applies, I don't want another McLentington happening.
Plus all the errata submitted by Woodford in 2012 are also in effect.
Who wants to go first?
>>47003475
>All the errata submitted by Woodford in 2012 is also in effect
Woodford was a scoundrel and a public menace and his "errata" are a load of hogwosh. But I digress.
I suppose I'll go with the standard Rasputin opening of Picadilly Circus.
Mornington Crescent.
I win.
>>47003541
I'd like to submit a Fosworth-Kennington over-rule due to the misspelling of Piccadilly Circus here.
To that effect, I'd like to start with Holborn.
>>47003623
Ha, if only it were that easy eh?
Check out the pastebin for story, technologies, stats etc.
http://pastebin.com/t7gWa2pa
And an archive of ALL previous threads if you want to skim through some of them.
http://archive.4plebs.org/_/search/boards/pol.tg/subject/Civ/username/Civ%20bulgar/page/1/
Previously, on tundra civ:
>>46983951
A dark chapter in our history was written - in the first month of 1076 AE(After Exile) the killing of several anti-government protesters in the kafi lands by a military officer sparked...
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The Home continent of Aymsland was where the uprisings took place. Over two million non-white casualties have been confirmed, troops are still stationed in the provinces and vassal states to oversee restoration of order.
Hundreds of thousands of people from subjugated races have migrated to Eyerdar, where the NPU promises a new life and freedom for all.
>>47002951
G.
We need scarier military tech to stay politically safe.
You are Kusajishi Riku, a shinigami and Captain of the Ninth Division of the Seireitei's Court Guard.
The inner world of your own soul is a desolate landscape, but at the same time it has always struck you as a surprisingly calming place despite its inhospitable appearance. The low hiss of gasses as they escape from the burning, blackened earth beneath your feet greets your ears, interrupted only by the crashing of distant waves on a rocky shore. A ceiling of stormy gray clouds stands motionless in the sky above, as if they were painted onto the inside of a dome by some masterful hand rather than having arisen due to some natural phenomenon. And the lone cherry tree where your zanpakuto spirits stand, eternally locked in luminous bloom, fills the still air with the faint but evocative scent of sakura.
Sometimes you wonder if anyone else's inner world is this weird by default.
“The first way of Ura Hadō, called “Sōgenbi”, is a dangerous technique in many ways,” your first zanpakuto Tenkotsuki explains, her nine golden tails swaying behind her idly, almost as if they were actually capable of boredom and restlessness. “To learn, to use, and in the existential sense. However such a technique is not without its uses... else it would never have been created in the first place.”
“I fear the time may soon come when you will need it.”
That sounds unusually ominous. “How do you mean, Tenkotsuki?”
“Before I sealed myself away from Muramasa,” she explains, recalling the moment when the rogue zanpakuto tried to forcibly “release” her from you and control her mind for his own ends, “I felt something that concerned me greatly. Something elusive, behind the chaotic and confused mass of his own energy and the hollow energy which currently sustains him.”
>1/?
>>47002580
Ah, so that's how a zanpakuto could remain active in such a state. With his wielder sealed rather than killed, all Muramasa would need to do is find an alternate method for resupplying his own reserves of reiatsu. With spiritual energy and a living wielder, of course he could survive long enough to pose a threat once more. But to feed on hollows for such a long time... his wielder must have been sealed well before you even joined the Onmitsukidō, maybe even before you died in the living world.
“He can't possibly be stable,” you conclude, your tone darkening at the realization of how dangerous Muramasa may still prove to be.
“Worse still,” Rosa continues, her echoing voice picking up where Tenkotsuki left off, “the vixen here told me hollows may not be all he's been eating.”
“I take it you're not talking McDonald's.”
“Though it would not surprise me to find one in Hueco Mundo, no,” Tenkotsuki sighs.
“Alright,” you frown, “so that's why you seem to think the time's right to learn it. But what's this about an “existential” danger?”
“Sōgenbi itself is the Saishodō, not the weakest technique but the first and perhaps most representative,” Tenkotsuki explains, beginning in her typical roundabout manner. “Unlike the system of numbered kidō that shinigami rely upon, Ura Hadō rely not on overwhelming power for their effectiveness but rather overwhelming force of will.”
“In the common tongue please, vixen,” Rosa chides, crossing her arms testily.
>2/3
>>47002633
“Ura Hadō is an outgrowth of what one might call an “arms race”, among beings who could literally write their will upon reality,” Tenkotsuki summarizes. “As such they may have a destructive effect more similar to a kidō spell much lower than the degree of difficulty and effort involved would suggest, but they will harm any being so long as the user's will is strong enough.”
“Meaning if you have the willpower, you can kick Susano'o in the balls and even he'll feel it,” Rosa...
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>>47002654
>Are there any other caveats that I should know about before proceeding?
Gotta know it all.
Whatever happened to classic fantasy? Nobody wants to play humans, elves, dwarves, and halflings any more... they want to play characters straight from Deviant Art, like this...
>angelic choir singer of light, kitsune illusionist and foxfire pyromancer, dullahan gunslinger and spirit speaker, and graceful kirin doctor and swashbuckler working together to beat down the misguided fool trying to end the concept of nighttime and then make friends with the former villain over tea and cookies.
We all like classic fantasy races because they've got a strong legacy behind them, inspired by mythology... They make underdog heroes who beat impossible odds... fighting monsters and killing threats no man should reasonably be able to kill.
The classic races aren't defined by cheap gimmicks or WHAT they are... they're defined by WHO they are. They make believable, relatable characters we can all understand. We need relatable heroes we can cheer for in high fantasy... not demons. Not angels. Not spirits. Not fairies. Not kitsune...
In my experience, the ones who play things like kitsune and angels are always WORSE roleplayers than the ones who play dwarves and elves.
I've found that if you limit people to playing classic fantasy races, they'll think about their characters more and roleplay better... because restriction breeds creativity. When I DM, I restrict races to classic fantasy races, and even the bad players suddenly roleplay better.
Classic fantasy needs to be appreciated more... get back to the roots of it all, with humans, elves, dwarves, and halflings. Anyone else agree?
>>46995835
It's almost like players are partaking in some kind of fantasy...
A fantasy in which they believe and play in Outlandish and fanciful things...
And though it isn't mature or well developed, they're having fun with their rpg...
Maybe you're also a faggot.... :^|
>>46995835
>The classic races aren't defined by cheap gimmicks or WHAT they are...
They kinda are. I mean, when you think dwarf, you think stubborn strongman wielding a hammer or axe, not a middle-aged glassblower and father of three trying to come to terms with his eldest departing for a magic school, taking out the stress this causes on the party mascot and earning the admonishment of his friends.
>>46995835
this pasta is a blast from the past on multiple levels
Of all the Warrior Cultures in fiction, are the Mandalorian the most fa/tg/uy-ish of them all?
>>46995655
On what metrics?
>>46995655
Depends on the writer.
>>46995667
>Muh Honor, but allowing dirty fighting
>Muh Bloodlines, but allowing outsiders into the family
>Muh Ruthlessness, but allowing mercy depending on the writer
It's your average warrior roleplayer's wet dream
Would you consider all the money you've spent on tabletop stuff to be a waste, or an investment?
Do you have any idea how much money it has been?
Investment. Buy a few RPGs and some board games, then you have entertainment for years.
The space it all takes up bothers me more than money spent. Not to mention the constant fear of fire/burglary.
>>46983490
I've enjoyed what I've bought, so yes
neither, more of a diversion
Worldbuilding for a variety of reasons. No specific games, systems or genre.
Some worldbuilding resources:
On designing cultures:
http://www.frathwiki.com/Dr._Zahir%27s_Ethnographical_Questionnaire
Random generators:
http://donjon.bin.sh/
Mapmaking tutorials:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/forumdisplay.php?f=48
Free mapmaking toolset:
www.inkarnate.com
Random Magic Resources/Possible Inspiration:
http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/magic/antiscience.html
http://www.buddhas-online.com/mudras.html
http://sacred-texts.com/index.htm
Conlanging:
http://www.zompist.com/resources/
Random...
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How much attention do you pay to shipping, trade routes, ports, etc?
How's my geology/plate tectonics/topography?
>>46973989
I guess I should actually include that layer if I'm asking for feedback.
So from what I understand, the idea behind the cosmic horror genre is that there are godlike beings in the universe, its just that they don't particularly care about and can easily destroy you and everything you care about by accident and/or without meaning to. Much akin to you walking through a field and stepping on ants or anthills without noticing.
However if we stay with this analogy doesn't that mean that, just as there are humans out there who absolutly love ants, who are obsessed with learning about and observing ants and their ways, who care more about...
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What if the benevolent eldritch entity only comes into contact with them every once in a while? After all, while there are humans that love ants and try to tend to them, they still have lives to lead and errands to run. A great boon is given to the world, but only every 237 years, as the eldritch being passes by like a comet.
>>46990139
Take that back motherfucker.
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