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>dungeon crawling alone
>suddenly enemy wizard pops out and tries to hit you with a fireball
>he slips on a puddle as he casts, fucking up and causing a wild s-... chaos burst
How fucked are you?
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>>46842245
I guess I'll go first
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Ere we go, Ere we go, Ere we go
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Let's do this
What RPGs to you consider essential to own? Whether it's for the mechanics, the setting, the tables, or any other reason, what do you think are must-haves?
Well, I hate to say it, but D&D oids because so many people want to play them. Pathfinder, D&D 5e maybe.
GURPS maybe as a fall back if nothing else works.
Burning Wheel. I've never seen another system that does such a good job at gamifying narrative structures. You can have completely absurdly different characters with the entirely common-in-books differences in levels of competencies, but everybody can still feel like they're equally contributing to the story, whether they're a crippled slave gardener or a child soldier combat machine.
>>46841490
>D&D
If there is one game that is absolutely NOT essential to own, it's Dungeons and Dragons, because almost everyone you will meet in this hobby will have their own copy.
I don't really think there are any essentials. not for people just playing, at least. For people home-brewing a certain reference library is very useful.
So if magic healing tomes or potions were available to a modern society, would that effectively put surgeons and doctors out of a job?
>>46840800
In 'murrica, yeah.
In the rest of the world, seeing a doctor would be considerably cheaper than paying 100 pieces of gold for the potion.
>>46840800
You'd have to define what HP is first, as that's what most potions deal with.
>>46840837
How expensive would potions be though? Especially if they can be mass produced. It might be way more convenient and faster to go to a store and pay than to wait around for a doctor as well and then wait to heal naturally more or less.
Why do settings have a universal currency?
Is it advantageous in a way or something?
>>46839836
>Easier to keep track of from a mechanical standpoint, mostly. The number of gamers who would appreciate the immersion and realism is much smaller than the ones that would rather not play Currency Exchange 2016.
People don't want to deal with the bookkeeping, so they are willing to handwave it and cut to the exciting parts of the game.
>>46839836
its because its simpler and easier to remember, because otherwise in case some dickass starts playing around with multiple currencies at the same time something can easily get fucked and everything goes full retard in that case.
Shouldn't the good fantasy races be created by evil deities, and vice-versa?
>A good god wants his creations to be happy
>He gives them a strong sense of self-interest. They put themselves first because their creator puts them first.
>An evil god wants devoted slaves
>He makes them selfless martyrs who only exist to serve others and will even sacrifice themselves without complaint. They put others first because their creator puts himself first.
It...
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>>46839803
I dunno, shouldn't the good fantasy races be created by good deities, and vice-versa?
>A good god wants his creations to be happy
>He gives them a drive to assist others and find happiness in seeing those around them as happy
>An evil god wants devoted slaves
>He makes them value power above all else so that they are more likely to brutally control others but adhere to his (near)...
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>>46839803
Maybe you could justify anything with the 'right' perspective.
>I'm always right from my own perspective, so I deserve to command everything as king!
>>46839803
Just read Atlas Shrugged, eh?
I've been reading a lot about Frostgrave and it seems like a pretty interesting game that I'd like to give a go. Plus, I've got a bunch of minis laying around from various tabletop games that I'd like to find a second use for.
What's /tg/s experience with Frostgrave? From what I've read online, some elements of the game are pretty frequently home ruled. (Experience points and game lengths are the most common I've heard discussed.)
Have you played Frostgrave before? What house rules do you use? Are there enough Scenarios in the book to offer more game types than the, "run and collect treasure as fast as you can then gtfo" that seems to be a standard game?
Thanks
>>46839757
It is a really fun game, but as you pointed out it can be unbalanced. Kitting out a warband to kill the other party first and then take the treasure can ruin the fun, hence 6 turn limit being a good solution.
The scenarios all focus on treasure collection, just with a few gimmicks here and there. The current narrative campaign sets the treasure as more of a side goal however, offering it as a reward for doing other things
Terrain is important. Cover the table with it. An open table breaks the game pretty badly, but it's great if things are packed tight.
>>46839882
Is the current narrative campaign the Thaw of the Lich Lord?
For a new player (and my D&D group I hope to drag into this) would you recommend starting with one of the pre-written module campaigns as an introduction to the game? Or just kinda run a vanilla, main-rule book campaign to get the hang of it...it really doesn't seem like too of a complicated game though.
Is there any system that uses d12 as its main dice?
Pokethulhu?
Modempunk
Colonial Gothic
Probably more
>>46839716
Are they good?
Hey /tg/, only been playing tabletop RPGs for a year.
So has there ever been any successful alternatives to Vancian spellcasting?
Are you ready to see an image macro with a screencap from The IT Crowd?
DESU, vancian casting can generally be converted in a point/mana system pretty easily. You just need exceptions for extremely powerful spells (See also: Wish)
>>46839633
Yes, there are lots of RPGs that aren't called D&D who use completely different magic systems.
>The Kingdom has a finite number of gold coins
>All gold that does not reside in one of these coins has been magically tainted
>>46839482
You don't really need gold for anything, so I think they're going to be pretty fine with it.
>>46839482
...Well, kind of?
Rather, there are coins from Generic Ancient Super-Magic Empire that, while most are kept either carefully sealed away or tracked and registered by various orders, some caches might still be found here and there. While these coins are indeed smelted and forged from gold, their value goes far, far beyond their mineral content.
Simply put, the coins were trapped to 'eat' magic. Any spell cast in their vicinity has an 80% chance of being redirected into the coin instead, and if left too close to enchanted items, the coins can actually begin eating away at the spells embedded in the objects, rendering them inert and ultimately useless (if still high-quality).
Even more fun, about a third of the coins have a more sinister trap laced onto them that's undetectable by normal means, that causes them to not only 'eat' magical spells, but build up a charge from doing so, then explode without warning afterwards.
And this, my friends, is why, if you're planning to genocide your magically inferior slave-states while taxing them into oblivion, you don't let them know about it years in advance, because they make money specifically to fuck you over with after they're dead.
>>46839482
There is no gold.
All the currency is beads made out of reinforced glass. The beads are transparent and contain holes in them, so you can chain them.
Their value comes from the fact that government-produced glass is extra clear, and the only one that can be used in good optics.
ITT: Times when you have fucked up and generated a bunch of work for yourself as a GM or a player.
I recently had my players go on a fetch quest to trade magically-enhanced 1000-proof alcohol (yes, it has more alcohol than volume) to an alcoholic dragon for an ancient book of poetry. On the way back, they made decisions leading to the NPC they were on the quest for getting killed.
I only realized about a half hour later that they're going to wind up reading that book at some point, which means that I have to write a shitload of poetry now, as opposed to...
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>>46838650
Why write them? Just google poems.
>>46838650
>"We gonna read the book."
>"The book contains a varied array of poems, ranging from onyrical observations and exhaltation of the bucolic lifestyle, to romantic sonets written to fair maidens of wheat hair...One, whoever, differs from the others, it reads (Insert Relevant Poem)."
Not that hard, really
>>46838722
This.
Do you ever base your plot/characters/settings on your dreams?
No, what little I remember of them tends to be utterly nonsensical and as focused as the ramblings of someone in a padded cell, and soon entirely forgotten.
I did have a brush with Inception a while back though, when I dreamed that I was having a nightmare.
>>46837660
Yeah, I had my average workday with my average wage. Even after subtracting expense for food, accommodation and other life expenses, I'm in the green numbers.
But this raises a question - when I wake up tomorrow do I wake up to be more broke that day? Because while there will be things to do, they won't be things to get paid for.
>>46837660
No. The last dream I remember having was about the National Trust starting a facet regime and my friends committing suicide to escape the reeducation camps because they crossed the velvet rope.
Maybe I should give turning my dreams into plots a go.
Post your magic wands and staves. Describe them in detail. What materials are they made from,? What focuses or cores give them power? Did you add any attachments? How do all these features interact?
Bumpity
>>46837176
there was this one staff i remember reading about in an old homebrew book, where it was made of extremely strong material and amplified magic, but was acting as the one pillar holding up a giant stone block in a dungeon room. i think it was grimtooth's traps or something like that
>>46837176
Ah, I remember a thread like this a few years back. Alright, time for maximum edge:
My wand is made of perfectly smooth, black glass, blown from the sands of the Grand Desert of Hell. The fire used to shape the glass was directly fed by not one, but two of the six Elder Pyromancers of the South. The core of it is pure liquid poison taken from the glands of a giant Dawn Scorpion. It is said the specimen used was a young mother protecting her clutch of eggs.
Thoughts?
I would eat fairy meat, but they're kind of hard to catch.
>>46836155
>thoughts
Just one:
Yet another context-free, 1-line topic = OP sucks at this whole "discussion" thing.
>>46836155
is that a guro version of Bondage fairies?
What would be the best system to run a game based on the Blame! manga?
For those not in the know the world is a massive cyberpunk automated factory nightmare populate with scattered groups of humans and hostile sentient AI monsters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHoXnfpz-rk
It's got some good desolate atmosphere and I've always liked the 'Organic Mechanic' aesthetic it presents.
I guess something like Numenera could work but I'd like something more lethal, the world is very unforgiving.
Eclipse Phase
What would the focus of the game be
>Tak is the best sort of game: simple in its rules, complex in its strategy.
What does /tg/ think of Tak?
I just heard about it when they started their kickstarter and have played a few games over the past day and I think it's pretty interesting, if only for the experience of seeing how it evolves. I like how portable it can be for the depth it offers, as well as how easy it is to teach people. Kickstarter prices are a little fucked though and first move advantage seems rather strong.
>Info
http://cheapass.com/games/tak
>Rules
http://cheapass.com/sites/default/files/TakBetaRules3-10-16.pdf
>Play Tak
https://www.playtak.com/
>>46835447
Reading the rules. I like this a lot.
>>46837303
in fact, having watched a few games I'm totally going to make myself a nice set.
>>46835447
>Patrick Rothfuss
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