>start running the new DnD module
>doing the tarot card randomization thing
>my least likable player knows exactly where each item is based off the reading
>Whats the deal playerguy?
>WHEN I HEARD YOU WERE RUNNING A PREPUBLISHED, I BOUGHT THE SAME BOOK AND READ IT COVER TO COVER ;)
>im not okay with this
>what is the point of me dropping thirty bucks on a book if you're going to cheat
>ITS NOT CHEATING
>how is it not cheating, you know the adventure before it happens
>IM NOT GOING TO METAGAME
>okay, fine
>rewrite a bunch of the encounters so they're different
>guy gets visibly annoyed and angry its not exactly out of the book
>YOUR RUNNING IT RONG
>i changed some stuff because you read ahead
>WOW YOU ARE A REALLY RESTRICTIVE AND SHITTY DM, NO FUN ALLOWED, HEY IF ANYONE WANTS ME TO RUN PATHFINDER AGAIN I WON'T BE A FUCKING DICK ABOUT IT
>other players refuse to take a side, saying "he has a point man, just run it, you can't argue with jerry on these things he wont let it go"
Why cant i meet a good group
its not even that he's being a faggot, its that he spoils it for everyone
OH THIS IS THE CHURCH WHERE THE PRIEST HAS HIS VAMPIRE SON LOCKED IN THE BASEMENT
thats not fun for anyone
>buying premade adventures
>>46684659
now now anon, its perfectly alright to buy premade adventures. For example, Out of the Abyss has a fully done up hexcrawling map of the Underdark, and full mechanics for Faezeruss and all of that shit
what you should have said was:
>running premade adventures and not just writing your own shit while using the best shit the book has to offer
okay, meta time
i've been playing DnD for like, 20 years at this point.
I'm 40.
I've played with people around the world, lots of times at gencon, once played it in Japan with grognards there.
I have never in my life ran into the fucking eldritch nightmare players that get posted every day on /tg/
Do you people just make this shit up
What does he say /tg/?
>>46683437
>welcome to my magical realm
>>46683437
Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding.
How would you handle a Sburb tabletop game?
People still care about that shitty webcomic?
>>46677846
It just ended so yes
>>46677858
>SECOND
YOU AUTISTIC FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT
THIS IS WHY PAGE PLAYERS ARE THE WORST
Due to an unfortunate multiversal accident, you have been transported to the last setting you played in. Even more unfortunately, you've been transported there before time, when only the gods existed. And, because the accident was really quite bad, those gods are all currently around thirteen years old in terms of mental maturity.
You will be released if you can somehow prevent them from destroying reality before it even starts. They retain most of their godlike powers in an extremely weakened form—IE, the god of plague can now cause the sniffles, the god lies is now particularly good about making up excuses for why they don't have their homework, and so on.
Can you accomplish this task?
Ain't no gods in the Star Wars galaxy. Just hokey religions.
I've got no clue. The last setting I played in was a homebrew one where the GM never designed any gods, but they supposedly still existed since there were clerics and paladins.
>>46676116
>Marvel Universe
>13-year-olds
I'm pretty sure everything would play out exactly the same.
Quick question about dice. Is there a way to roll 'Tarot' e.g. a 'd22'?
Rolled 8 (1d22)
this maybe?
>>46686948
>only using major arcana for divination
TOP
PLEB
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, DO YOU EVEN PLAY ACTUAL TAROT CARD GAMES?
>>46686948
What >>46686962 did. Altho keep in mind that stuff like "dice+1d22+1d4" won't work, only uniform dice with one number addition as "dice+XdY+Z"
your characters just discovered that they are the BBEGs waifu
what happens
>>46686566
Convert them to the good side through hot, passionate intercourse
>>46686576
This. Lawful good vaginaings.
Alternatively, use my lawful good vagina to inspire and train a shota hero to grow up and challenge the BBEG, then enjoy my passionate groomed lover in my 30's while he's barely legal
fuck you this thread is MR to begin with so i'm going all in full trash fiteme
>your characters just discovered that they are the BBEGs waifu
All of our characters? At once? How does that work?
Tell me /tg/ if you know of any good and fun spaceship combat games or tabletop systems. And your own experience with them.
Interested in checking them out.
Full Thrust.
Or if you like the idea of symmetrical planning, but want lighter rules, X-Wing.
>>46686404
Traveller.
I haven't played a lot, but the fact that the all game revolve around one crew is cool.
Everybody has it's place, even the gunfight guy ; he can man the turrets, or ready the counter-boarding.
Storytime ?
>Free Trader PC ship close in on distress signal
>Obviously fake, pirates try to attack them.
>Free Trader only has one weapon, who cost a lot of money.
>Of course with unlucky rolls, after one round, the weapon is disabled.
>The pirates try to close in to board, but can't because the pilote of the FT is making it difficult.
>PCs said "Fuck it, we can't escape, we do not have weapon anymore, there is only one thing to do"
>"Ram" the pirate ship to board it.
>The NPC Highclass safari hunter they have aboard take his rifle to help.
>The pirate ship was in bad shape and with fewer crew than usual
>Violent fight, half the party is injuried, and one badly by the Aslan pirate captain.
>They loot the cargo, 90 tons of spice.
>I can see the dollar sign in their eyes.
Tl;dr :
The point in my story is that in traveller, if done right, space combat isn't juste "combat" ; it's more than just firing on another ship until it falls other or looks like a little sun ; it's about why and how wage combat.
Silent Death is a great hex based one.
So what does /tg/ think of the Hell's Rebels pathfinder adventure path? I've been thinking of running it, and it seemed decently written, at least the first half(all i have at the mo')
>Decently written.
You didn't read the other half, don't you?
>>46686397
not yet. goes downhill?
>>46686423
of course, re-reading part 1, there are a few...
Schrodinger's cat issues. No, seriously, what?
"it attacks if it sees [itself] be killed, fighting until death in revenge"
What would a Hypercubical Sudoku look like?
Wait no, scratch that too few SAN to begin with.
Would it be solvable?
>>46685312
Yes, why wouldn't it be?
Any puzzle that has clear and consistent rules and sufficient clues can be solved.
But keep in mind that even 2d sudoku isn't just "randomly populate square, randomly remove X cells".
Cube sudoku is going to obviously be harder (..and ironically, trying to apply easily googled "how to make" guidelines from 2d sudoku will require you 4th dimensioning your cube in process)
Then shit gets even harder for hypercube sudoku.
And hyperhypercube? Insane.
But hey, lets try taking it step. by. step.
Gentlemen, how about we make a 3d cube sudoku?
>>46685674
>Gentlemen, how about we make a 3d cube sudoku?
Lets see then.
A cube is 9x9x9 in cells.
But it's not as easy as stacking nine squares.
This gives us only one axis of successful sudoku.
They must also work in other two axes.
That's quite a lot of cross-dependency.
Did you fa/tg/uys ever figure that out? I remember seeing a picture of a tesseract dungeon on here somewhere.
>Friend gives me Out of the Abyss cause he's a bro
>Read through it, don't get around to running it because I don't want to DM
>Start playing DnD again because a found a cool group of friends
>MFW I realize my DM's running Out of the Abyss
I don't want to bail because it's a /really/ /good/ group but I don't want to be That Guy who read the entire book beforehand and metagames heavily. Besides 'don't metagame, dumbass' what do I do?
>>46685130
Talk to the DM about what kind of character to run.
Maybe there's a place for a well-informed guide for the party.
Maybe you just ought to be a mute mercenary.
Maybe the best option is to do something solo with the DM until their finished.
>>46685130
Rohypnol.
Alternatively, saturate yourself with another system's modules so your brain gets confused on the details. And deliberately don't think about this module.
>>46685130
Hit yourself in the head with a brick until you forget.
Alternatively, just chill the fuck out. Let other players take the initiative when doing shit and only use your metagame knowledge when absolutely necessary.
Or instead of being That Guy who read the entire book and metagames, you could decide to be That Guy who totally derails the DM's game.
Whatever happened to the days of hardcore roleplaying where you could expect to reroll your level 1 character literally every session because they died until finally you got lucky enough to survive to level 2 and beyond?
Why is everyone so scared about killing off the PCs when they fuck up, are too stupid to figure things out, or they roll badly?
Why does everyone want their tabletop to be like a videogame where death is just an inconvenience because you know you'll "respawn" in a few seconds? What ever happened to true consequences of character death where you had to spend lots of time rolling up a new character, or you would be a level 1 among a party of level 15 PCs?
Roleplaying has gone to shit in my time. It's too influenced by video games. Table top should be it's own thing. The quality of gamers have gone down too. I noticed this mentality of handling PCs with kid gloves has gone hand in hand with streamlining the rules, too - so stupid people can play the game as well. I remember the golden times when everybody else I shared the table with took advanced math.
Is there any game or group out there that can cater to my tastes?
>>46684280
A good amount of people decided that interactive storytelling is more fun when you have time to explore your character and the world without having to hard restart every week.
There are also people who are too attached to a particular self insert or waifu character, but I'm not going to get into that.
>Is there any game or group out there that can cater to my tastes?
Sure. You could take a look at Funnel World or just be straight with prospective players or DMs about what you expect or want from them.
>>46684280
>Roleplaying has gone to shit in my time. It's too influenced by video games. Table top should be it's own thing.
You're not going to get roleplaying being it's own thing when you want it to copy how roguelike and roguelite games keep killing off PCs until a player gets lucky.
If you want roleplaying to be different to video games, that means focusing on things that video games can't do. That means encouraging roleplay. Constantly killing off PCs discourages roleplay because players don't expect the PCs to live long, so they stop caring about anything beyond the statblock. A character that is only seen as a statblock is the stuff of video games.
>Is there any game or group out there that can cater to my tastes?
Probably. I hope you find a group that you enjoy.
>>46684280
>smart people are playing the game
>they notixe that the game is too clunky, and the same things can be done with much simpler crunch without losing the essentials
>they decide to modify it, so that it becomes less clunky
>the game gets streamlined, removing superfluous elements and adhering to KISS principle
>becomes more friendly to newcomers, because there are less crunch traps, meaning more stupid people can enjoy it
Wow, you are dropping all these truth bombs harder than your mom falls on her ass. It's like fucking earthquake here.
Just because stupid people can enjoy the game doesn't mean that the game is bad. In fact, it means the game is good.
After all, dumb and smart people alike can enjoy chess, go and poker precisely because they are easy to learn, hard to master.
The problem is that those games are competitive, not cooperative, meaning the stupidest member of your party is the lowest common denominator.
The answer to this is simple - don't play with dumb people, if you don't enjoy it, you fucking idiot.
I swear, if it's not fantasy racism or lewd shit, it'a dumb complaining over nothing.
What has /tg/ become?
At least be creative in your shitposting, goddammit.
Why hasn't /tg/ ever worked together to make a unified fantasy setting, made with the average of what everyone on /tg/ likes out of fantasy?
>>46683390
Because it would be shit, as /tg/ has demonstrated in the past by attempting exactly this.
Design by committee is garbage. Design by MASS committee is criminal.
>>46683413
Aaand /thread.
>>46683390
They literally did and it was literally shitty.
>>46674122
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Setting:Unified_Setting
Pigeon rolls a 7 in charisma.
>>46683329
You can't prove I haven't been buying pigeon feed this entire time... It's not a PHASE, mom!
>>46683329
Just as persuasive as a cat.
I want to start a pirate/privateer themed 40k army preferably human, but i will take what i can get, is there any suggestions?
>>46681753
Orkz, Dark Eldar, and Red Corsairs are official pirates, you could attempted the conversions for humans but GW doesnt sell Empire Free Company anymore
>>46681753
Well, the obvious choice is one of the existing pirate-y factions (Dark Eldar, Red Corsairs, probably a few others I'm forgetting)
>>46681820
>>46681821
To bad Red Corsairs dont look like pirates.
Orkz flashgitz have pirate hats and kaptain badrruk and plenty of alternative sites that sell bits
Dark eldar can be converted with Dark Elf Corsairs as well as the Black Fleet Master and their troop transport has literal sails
Does it really matter what the reward is in a one-shot adventure?
You better fucking believe it, if it's a klondike bar!
To the characters, yes it does.
Not really. If you had fun and it ended in the party getting slaughtered by a horde of goblins then mission accomplished.
