I have a legal question for you /tg/, how close can you get to another game's basic system without infringing on copyright? for example i have a d20 based system for an RPG which plays similarly to Infinity (the wargame)'s "roll-under-or-on-stat+situational-modifiers" system. i love it, it's great for what i want to do. but i don't want to get sued for making something which, at it's core, is similar. can ya help a guy out?pic unrelated. unless you consider shovel knight derivative. which it is but in a good way.
>>46663642
And yes, i do have intent to sell, not distribute for free.
>>46663662
You can't copyright game mechanics. As long as you take care to use different enough nomenclature, and don't use any of the actually copyrighted stuff in the IP, you should be set.
>>46663699
So, what you're saying is, as long as i'm not using their setting and/or names for mechanics, all is fine with the world?
Some of you might've heard our plea last year to support our webseries on Kickstarter. Some of you might've heard about it through other ways.
Well .. Beyond the Barrier is happening!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDVAysgU1SA
Pilot ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G1ntZovAFo
BtB is a webseries about Pathfinder players, showing their real lives as well as their IC-adventures.
Aimed to be realistic on the RL part.
‘Beyond the Barrier’ follows the daily lives of a group of players of Pathfinder. Pathfinder is a roleplaying game not unlike Dungeons & Dragons which is played with pen and paper while seated at a table. It is played by millions of people around the world.
Besides showing how our main characters cope with what is going on in their daily lives, ‘Beyond the Barrier’ will show the adventures our characters experience in their games as well. The viewer gets a good look on how the game happens in the imagination of the players. The game is set in a medieval themed world, the scenes for which were shot in The Netherlands.
Last but not least, ‘Beyond the Barrier’ shows the influence a game like Pathfinder can have on the daily lives of the protagonists and vice versa; and what kind of influence their real life struggles have in the choices they make while playing.
With ‘Beyond the Barrier’ we aim to give a realistic look into the lives of a group of people playing their game with a lot of passion. We want to break wrong stereotypes and show why this kind of games has been popular for over 40 years.
>>46663616
Aside from the accents this might actually be something interesting.
Like a soap opera for gamers?
Hope it's not only inflated and unnecessary drama, though.
>BtB is a webseries about Pathfinder players, showing their real lives as well as their IC-adventures.
So it's one of those documentaries about the severely disabled?
All of you - just let this die and start reporting when it will show up in incoming days, as that will fall under advertising.
>>46663616
OP, I've got a fucking clue for you.
Just stop. We had this thread yesterday (>>46644939) and apparently you didn't even bother to read it to find out why the project is awful and you should just stop.
>>46664199
It IS soap opera for gamers, made on a budget. Just read the previous thread.
>After resting in the town for the night, and procuring some provisions for the next day's dive into the Cave of Blunders, the party sets forth.
>From the light of the cave entrance, you can see the smith golem Hearth has an expanded inventory being leftovers from yesterday's gains.
"Greetings adventurers! I would offer you a test of my gear, but given that someone stole one of my items yesterday I won't be allowing it. Any single one of these items will cost 2 zenny on purchase. No refunds, but I do offer a one-week repair service for free!"
>Deeper in the cave the adventurers can see a pair of blunders behind... barricades? The barricades appear to be of some flimsy wood that might be rotten. Most likely won't be able to stop much aside from movement.
[Cont.]
>>46663351
New or returning Characters can deploy at the Entrance or adjacent to any currently deployed characters.
>Deploying adjacent to a currently deployed character forfeits your turn.
>Deploying at the Entrance allows the character to take their turn immediately.
[Action Phase]
>>46663405
Speed [5] Health [3] Armor[0]
Equipment: nothing
Wielding: nothing +1 base damage
Worn: satchel +1 inv
Inventory: smoked meat +2 health 5 uses
Skills: flying kick, restore
>>46663375
Please keep your stat sheets to the following format:
[n#] Name
Speed [#] Health [#/#] Armor [#]
Equipment
Wielded: (2 Hands Maximum)
Worn: (3 Slots Maximum)
Strike: (Name and Info)
Inventory: (4 Slots Base)
Skills: (Choose 2 from your Race List at deployment)
[Finished]
[Replies may now be made]
>[You have your Turn's worth of Actions (2) if you deploy at the door, don't waste them]
Come on, show me your parties
>>46662416
I should have known at least one of you went on /tg/
I want stories of the absolute worst person you've played d&d with.
>be me
>playing 3.5 because for some godforsaken reason the dm does not like 5.
>was going to be and two friends, one of whom was dming.
>dm refused to have less than three players.
>enter his younger brother.
>cringe as fuck. Long red hair in a pony tail because he was going to try to give himself an anime hairstyle, pizza faced, and has maybe showered this year.
>is also at least halfway decent rollplayer, and better than some others we've played with (more stories to follow)
>go to tavern
>commotion over in corner that we decide to check out
>it's an in game game that the dm likes to play when he doesn't know what to do.
>other patrons have brought in a viper.
>viper sits on top of pile of coins and people try to grab the money without getting bitten.
>buy in is 5 silver, I'm a dwarf, plus 2 to resist poison, I figure why not?
>friend is Orc, he figures why not?
> you roll to see if you get bitten, if you do take one damage but still get the coin, nat 20, two coins no bite. Crit fail no coin 2 damage.
>play till I've lost 5 hp and walk away with 7 more silver pieces.
>friend does not fair as well, at half health but gets his 5 pieces back.
>now it's autist's turn
>is druid/mage
>put in 5 silver
>wild empathy
>the snake is hostile
>sense motive
>it wants to bite
>diplomacy
>wut?
>diplomacy
>it is a snake
>autist leaves
>wut
>scared of getting bit by snake
>has already payed and refuses to try to get it back.
Have more about how he nearly gets us killed, how he wastes a session wandering around the sewers BY HIMSELF, nearly gives us the Black Plague, and tries to convince a cleric that he knows more about medicine than him.
>>46662190
Sounds awful OP.
>>46662190
>>sense motive
>>it wants to bite
My sides
This dude sounds terrible but I want more
>D&D 3.5 Eberron game
>Well- completely by coincidence- show up a Goblin ninja, Hobgoblin samurai, Hobgoblin warblade, and a Half-Orc Monk- all from neighboring goblin nation of Darguun
>Fucking awesome
>One Player shows up and after seeing what we all have, decides she wants to be a Catfolk
>DM suggests a Shifter with werepanther ancestry
>Player insists on Catfolk
>DM relents
>Player wants to be a cleric of Bastey, the Egyptian goddess of sun, goddes, and cats
>DM points out that Bastet doesn't exist in Eberron. Suggests Dol Arrah, Goddess with Sun and and War domains
>Player insists on Bastet.
>DM relents
>Player doesn't start to decide which spell she'll cast until it's her turn. She then starts flipping through the book because she doesn't know what any of her spells actually do
>Once she chooses a spell, she still doesn't know how it works
>During one game, she proudly proclaims she's a furry and the rest of us roll our eyes because it was already painfully obvious
>Her character ends up dying, so she rolls up a new one: a Half-Elf Sorcerer. Things are starting to look better
>She starts dropping fireballs inside an inn and the middle of crowded streets
>Tries to fight off the guards when they come to stop her
>Dies again
>She leaves the game
She was the worst. We mainly ignored her when it wasn't her turn, because the rest of us were having so much fun.
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You are Brianna la Croix. You were expecting more trouble from Hunting Talon, but this, this is beyond the pale.
If he wants the wages of treason, he can damn well have them.
>>46661961
The next harpy that swoops at you is interecepted by Kat. The bird-man screams in agony as the shadow tears his wings from him and hurls him over the side, spraying blood in hot, arterial gouts.
You pop the cork on your bottle and drop it to the floor before pulling a bone wand from your belt.
"I try to be a nice person," you snarl. You can see Nate weaving a deadly dance with the Hatchet Man. One of the harpies makes the mistake of getting too close and is reflexively cut down by the older human; he buries an axe in her skull and lets her crash to the floor without so much as breaking his rhythm.
He's better than Nate. A lot better.
Amy whirls through a mass of harpies that are learning to their detriment that her wings are sharp and her reach with them is a lot longer than they think. Blood and feathers fly from broad slashes, turning screeches into screams and painting the stone with blood.
"Command me," John growls.
> What do you want John to do?
AND
> Send Kat to help Nate
> Send Kat to help Amy
> Keep Kat
AND
> Use the bottle for darkness
> Use the bottle for direct attacks
> Write-in?
>>46662235
>John helps Nate
>Kat helps Amy if Amy needs help and Diving Shadow for whatever reason can't help her
>Use bottle for direct attacks
>>46662235
John
>Start tearing his way towards Razor. Don't avoid interceptors, but maintain threat in that direction.
Kat
>help Nate
Bottle
>Direct attacks aimed at hatchet man
Now if only there was a way to silently tell Amy not to directly aim for Talon incase he's setting up to backstab Razor.
Are you fighting the Gargoyles of Austria?
Resisting a god-machine mechanical virus in your bioengineered power armor?
Or just a drifter trying to avoid getting killed by a ghost?
Rifts, BTS, Splicers, Dead Reign, Heroes Unlimited, Fantasy and more.
PDFs:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1dsdr28ic5vk0/Palladium
Is cheesecake or serious art more true to the spirit of Rifts?
Definitely cheesecake.
>>46661206
Not a fan of rifts but heroes unlimited soaks my panties
give me ONE GOOD REASON why girls can't be space marines
I've long stopped caring.
>>46661003
man i miss when spartan armor wasn't form fitting. that doesn't even look like power armor
>>46661003
Because the Emperor said so. We all know what ignoring his will is, right?
Now get back in line and shut up, because you better not get the rest of us BLAM'd.
What are your guys opinion on DMPCs?
"DMPC" is a term for something inherently negative. A good GM makes charismatic and powerful antagonists that stand appropriately against the PCs; and allied NPCs that the audience (which is actually the PCs) can connect to. A DMPC is a character that constantly steals the PCs' share of focus. It basically exists as a way for the DM to say, "Hey look at this awesome character I made," and get a kind of reflected glow of weird false pride. They are, in every important sense, a Mary Sue, representing a very basic kind of mistake people make in writing or in planning campaigns. Wish fulfillment at the expense of an interesting story (much more obvious in a game, because in a work of writing, there's always the chance they tried to make wish fulfillment in service of interest, like many pulp stories).
>>46660442
They're okay as long as they don't outshine the players or take advantage of meta knowledge.
>>46660442
They're bad. Very bad. Honestly one of the worst habits that some DMs have.
The issue is that they essentially steal the spotlight and relegate the PCs (who are meant to be the protagonists) to support roles or muscle at best. Essentially the DM is just playing out their own power fantasy, showing off how 'awesome' their character is, even though that character is only powerful is because the person playing them is also in complete control of the rules.
Another issue is that the DM already knows the solution to all of their own problems, the location of all the traps, and the weaknesses of every enemy.
One of the biggest responsibilities of a DM is to be impartial and play by the rules, but they can't when their own PC is in the game.
It should be noted that this doesn't mean that NPCs can't accompany the party, they just shouldn't ever be the focus of the story, and shouldn't join the party permanently. Ideally they'd also be unable/unwilling to fight, or only able to give basic support (like healing, mild buffs or small amounts of damage), leaving plenty of room for the PCs to shine.
Meanwhile, on Cyber/tg/...
>>46659972
This dude needs a rifle or gpmg.
In that get up no one is going to suspect he isn't carrying anyway. Fucking shadowrun lol.
I will give you another chance at life, you poor thread.
I think my decker is rigging the rng for the dice roller. How do I prove it?
who the fuck is your next character?
http://www.whothefuckismydndcharacter.com/
>>46659065
>MODEST HALF-ELF ROGUE FROM A HABERDASHERY WHO IS BEING HUNTED BY A TERRIBLE MONSTER
Nice
>>46659065
ROMANTIC DRAGONBORN WARLOCK FROM A BUSTLING CITY MARKET WHO SAW THEIR WHOLE FAMILY CONSUMED BY A GELATINOUS CUBE
Harsh...
>>46659065
>CYNICAL HALF-ORC WARLOCK FROM THE CITY POST OFFICE WHO SUFFERS FROM VERTIGO
>SOULLESS HALF-ORC PALADIN FROM THE DEEP WOOD WHO IS THE LAST OF AN ANCIENT BLOODLINE
>PARANOID HALF-ELF ROGUE FROM AN ILLUSORY FOREST WHO NEVER TURNS THE OTHER CHEEK
of these three, i like the half elf rouge
What would Warhammer 20K look like?
>>46656982
Star trek
>>46656982
Phantasy Star Online
The Necrons are all asleep, the Eldar rule the galaxy unquestioned, the orks are a minor nuisance at most, the Tau are still banging rocks together, and the humans are an insignificant group that spans only a few star systems that the Eldar haven't gotten around to wiping out yet.
Horus was a hero.
>>46656533
Nope.
>>46657783
He fucking was you faggot and you know it.
>>46656533
This is bait but also a curious theory.
How has your guys testing with visions and thopter sword been?
Is it working for you guys?
What's your deck list with these cards now?
What do you think of Affinity not being a huge share of the meta in the recent Baltimore Classic?
What's your other brews and stuff and acquisitions and decks and so on and so forth?
>>46656168
Garbage op
Fucking new thread pls
daily reminder that Stihl is the master race
>>46656231
This, if you wanna make political jokes, at least keep it Modern related.
Like posting Ib Halfheart with filename G.W.Bush.
Another House has been created and this time it's lead by a lord who rides the cold seas with raiders at his back and the faith of the Drowned God in his heart. Here is an attempt to finish creating the Ironborn house that was rolled up and discussed a few days ago.
Things that need to be finished:
>Settle on a House name.
>Finish the House Banner.
>Creating the Lord.
>Create his story, family, and House history.
>Establishing the lands he rules.
>Decide where to take this.
Here are the stats before we started buying stuff and fluffing
We had settled on a small island off the Lonely Light archipelago
"We are the drowned" seemed to be the motto we choose to use
