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How much time do you spend talking about traditional games versus actually playing them?
>>46758454
The last game I actually played in was about a year ago.
I haven't GMed in about 6-7.
And yet I come on here basically every day. I'd rather spend time bitching about stupid shit with you fags than actually building a setting or planning a game. I can't figure out why.
Please help.
>>>46758496 Please help.
On the one hand, you've come to the wrong place for help.
On the other hand, everyone else here has the same problem.
>>46758496
>Please help.
I wish I could recommend Roll20 or other methods of finding a group online but...
...well just consider the fact that you'd be in a group with other random people from across the globe who, for some reason, can't find a group IRL. So... yeah.
Instead of kidnapping princesses, dragons of late have been kidnapping peasants, usually a male and female. Although sometimes both same sex to raise their young. Their young often behave like /R9K/ posters.
>>46757922
See, THIS is the kind of shit kings keep their Spetsnaz-knockoff force for. Dragons kidnap the laborers, and they're basically kidnapping the economy.
Reminds me of the time a dragon kidnapped some commoners to have as playthings for a little fake village she'd set up in her lair. Basically had them as dolls to the point of dressing them up, trying to put makeup and stuff on them, and make them do things and interact with one another and have their little lives.
>tl;dr dragon played The Sims with kidnapped commoners
>>46757922
>dragons completely disenchanted and disconnected from reality
I mean, okay, but what does that have to do with being raised by non-dragons?
Hello /tg/, I need your help. I'm currently working on some world building and have reached a point where serious magic items are introduced. The thing about them, is they need to be both a Boon, and a Bane, as well as possibly help along in solving puzzles. There is no set game system as of yet, so it only has to be cool concepts.
Here are a few I've gotten already:
>A stop watch, that lets the player reverse time, but for each second they use it, they age forward by a year. Effectively, only able to use it for two minutes.
(In a setting such as DnD 3.5, they could use it to abuse combat, reversing time by 6 seconds, granting a second round of attack.)
>A flask, that revives a character fully, but in order to be refilled, the person who wants to fill it needs to use their own life force to do so, giving up a significant portion of...
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>>46757284
These are retarded.
You don't need negatives with magic items.
>Magic Items
Also looking for these.
Someone suggested the Cloak of Billowing last thread. It does nothing but waft in a cool fashion on command, even on a completely still day.
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All told it took the better part of two weeks to get the bunkhouse set up. In this time, the...
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>>46756817
It's when it is time to go you finally come across the flaw in your plan. The bitter cold, and the winds, have made riding on top of the carriage and untenable prospect for yourself, Liama, and Veles. Unable to sustain a heating charm of that magnitude for as long as the trip would be would leave yourself and Veles drained by the time you arrived. There was nothing for it so the only option was to ride in the cab, which meant squeezing seventy five feet of coils all told into one coach. Colume was at a premium,...
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>>46756843
>Keep on to Riverport, should be able to get to Captain Keel more discretely through the city.
It might be uncomfortable, but I'm going to trust Capt. Keel's advice.
>>46756843
>>Keep on to Riverport, should be able to get to Captain Keel more discretely through the city.
Took us long enough to reach 40 edition!
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The second time doesn't make the concoction taste any nicer. Noh is still a great help to you though and while you suspect his magical abilities will forever remain minimal; if he learns well, he should still be able to...
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>>46756485
It is now late fall and the harvest is coming in.
What do you do?
>Hunt the aurochs 1d10 (Strength -Blind)
>Fish in the river 1d10 (Skill +Trait -Blind)
>Explore the forest
>Explore up the valley
>Explore the hills
>Try and investigate something new (List options)
>Make something special...
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>>46756489
so is that saying our negatives are gone from that injury or one more heal would be great?
>>46756566
Your wounds are largely gone, but you have a lingering scar that may lead to complications. It's on the character sheet.
What's the most mathematically astounding display of unlikely probability you've witnessed during a session? I'll start
>be me, playing Agnor, level 5 halfling barbarian in dnd5e
>in some spooky cave looking for Dwarf king's missing daughter
>find a key which opens the door to some living quarters' of the cultists in the cave
>Agnor opens a door, the cultist who is sleeping in his bed within gets a nat 20 on his perception...
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>>46756195
I had a time in dark heresy where I failed literally every single roll I had for a 3 hour session, and failed more than half the following session. I missed every time I shot. Every time I opened my mouth to talked I just rambled like an idiot. Every skill test that involved any sort of labor I hurt myself because of how badly I rolled, and those that were mental I babbled like an idiot.
There is a reason I don't like using Roll20 anymore with my group.
>>46756195
One time the entire six-person group showed up in the five minutes before the session, with their sheets and books ready, EXACTLY the right amount of snacks and beer, and enough free time to get through the entire planned session.
Never saw anything like it before that, or after for that matter.
>>46756259
I'm looking for some rules-lite systems that I can introduce my players to for one-shots. Something that can still be played while inebriated is a plus.
I've played Night Shift which was a big success but I'd like to try out different goofy settings. As a follow up, what was the most fun setting you've ever played? I'm looking for ideas.
>>46756191
Everyone is John and Fiasco are my usual for fun, drunk one-offs.
In return, I can post a storytime of Night Shift if anyone is interested, though I am no writefag
>>46756264
Isn't Everyone is John kinda competitive though? Like you tally up points and stuff and there's a winner?
How do you think this will do? Neat concept.
>>46756015
Hopefully it'll do better than DUST Tactics.
I liked the idea of DUST, I even bought a few boxes. But literally nobody played it. Shame. I wanted to do an SS holdout army.
Will probably have shitty minis. Just play guard in 40K if you like WW2 so much.
>1960
>ever wanting to play as JFK the Meme President
A much superior game to Twilight Struggle, which is an unbalanced piece of communist propaganda, but I do feel that the wisest players must surely appreciate the pleasures of playing as Nixon.
Kennedy has a big advantage starting in the East near New York and Pennsylvania, but I think this is more than compensated by Nixon's initial advantage in the West, which is such an unpleasant and scattered place to campaign that it's sealed up from...
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>game about Nixon vs Kennedy
Sounds pretty damn based to me.
>>46755590
>Twilight Struggle, which is an unbalanced piece of communist propaganda
Tournament betting rules son.
>>46756549
Even with +2 US influence in Iran, the USSR player just needs to play a 4 and roll 3-6 to boot the US out of the Near East, which pretty much gives Asia and the Middle East to the USSR from the start of the game. Shifts in deck skew later on do not compensate for the entrenched advantage the USSR gains off a single dice roll.
We've all seen the stats showing a USSR advantage, I'd really like to see a breakdown of results given particular outcomes of the initial Iran coup since I suspect it's...
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Tell me about those glorious times /tg/, I was not around back then. How was it like? Are there any stories worthy to be passed down?
>>46755511
You know the faggot bullshit 30k blood angels can do with assault cannons? EVERYBODY did that shit back then.
>>46755511
Anyone else remember Space marine roundhouse kicks?
>>46755570
NEEDLE SNIPER RIFLE
So this guy put up a new video in his series about running D&D. https://youtu.be/8Q8bVPpc84A
A lot of it was stuff I felt most GMs with some experience under their belts will already know (i.e. PCs will almost never surrender/flee, so don't make situations where you expect them to) but he hit on an idea I hadn't thought of before, which starts at 27:50 in the video.
"Tell your players what kind of GM you are at the start of the campaign."
I think that there is a list of questions that might come out of that idea to help current and future...
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Bump with art
>>46754971
If it wasn't for the boardgames in the background, this guy would look like he was planning a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
>What kind of GM are you?
>IMMA GAMING JIHADI!!!!
"What sort of tropes or themes do you dislike"
And/or
"What sort of pet peeves you have?"
May be a bit blunt, but this is an excellent way to avoid problems with the GM or a potential player, and can give excellent insight on how to deal with that person. If anyone has a 'trigger' or something like that, they will say it at this point too. They can even tell you about past experiences you can use as reference or as a warning.
Broadsword beats sword, GO
>>46754890
But anon, that's an approximately 4m long psychic conductor blade wielded by a massive bipedal exosuit, of course it beats a standard sword.
>>46754890
Anon, a broadsword is a sword.
How about "bow beats sword" or something that isn't "X beats itself" because you do that enough, and Jesus is still crying about it.
>>46754890
Swords beat broads
