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Okay so basic combat time economy is:
>each turn is a minute
>in a turn a character can do upto 5 actions per turn
>magic spells have components, like vocal, semantic, material, etc...
>each component requires the magic user use an action and make a diferent roll depending on component
>so a vocal component needs a CHA roll, somantic needs a DEX roll etc...
>after the component rolls, there's...
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>>48170455
>Or is it just an overcomplicated way to handle magic
It sounds like it is, but the real question is how does it work out for you and your players? Even if it is complex, if you and your players have good times using those rules, then no harm done.
>>48170455
It depends on how powerful spells are, but it just seems crazy complicated. Every spell has its own rules, in addition to every spell already having its own rules just 'cause that's how spells work (unless it's all standardized like 4e but I don't think so).
>>48170455
That depends, do other classes need to be good at three or more stats to be able to do their spellcasting? Because Rangers would need DEX for aiming, STR for actually pulling the bowstring back depending on the weight of the bow, INT or WIS to compensate for longer distances.
Really, if every class is that complicated than it's relatively fair. If a Fighter doesn't need good DEX to even remotely be able to use a sword than yeah you're probably screwing them over.
So I'm DMing a game of only two people. I've never done a group that small and I'm actually quite used to haveing groups of 5-7 people (I did 10 once because I'm a moron).
So is there any tips that you could give me for a group that small. It's a dark/high fantasy setting that's a (mostly) serious campaign.
The most interesting way I've found to run a game for two players is for their characters to be at odds while still having reasons to work together. Give them opportunities to get one up on the other and push them to create conflict and drama between each other while using external forces to keep them working together as well. Samurai Champloo might be a good example of what I'm talking about here with two characters at odds while still working together, but I only saw a couple episodes.
I'm in the same boat, it's just me, and two other guys. First time playing for me and one other guy and my first time GMing. Fun.
Main thing is just make sure they are both 100% comfortable roleplaying with each other, and actually get on IRL
Is it normal?
>>48170049
Wearing both, even at different times, is wrong. You should feel bad.
Also, on a completely unrelated note: Where di you get those? I'd wear a Slaaneshi pendent.
Doing what exactly? Playing footsies with the Imperial Aquila? A commissar would've shot you half an hour before you did it.
>>48170121
Honestly, if I saw someone wearing a Slaaneshi symbol, I'd probably assume they'd be down for some rough loving in the back alley.
For whatever reason, I'm putting myself through trying to get my 7 year old sister into playing TRPGs, not because I'm a cruel person, but probably because I have no friends.
I've been looking through my collection of PDFs, but naturally a large part of them seem too complex for me to simplify and still keep the game intact, and not quite child-friendly enough to remove the uglier bits from and still keep the game intact. Of course I plan on dropping as many rules as reasonably possible.
I was thinking of trying Engine Heart, and I've already kind...
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>>48170039
Golden Sky Stories
http://starlinepublishing.com/our-games/golden-sky-stories/
Monsters and Other Childish Things (the monsters are pets)
http://www.arcdream.com/pdf/monsters-quick.pdf
FAE
http://www.evilhat.com/home/fate-core-downloads/
>>48170154
Much appreciated, will check out.
>>48170154
Additionally, yeah, the feeling of that film is something that would be cool to capture for my sister if I could manage it.
Is /tg/ interested in doing a DF succession game? I was interested in organizing one and seeing how it panned out.
>>48169876
If we use the Masterwork mod, sure, I'd be up for it.
>>48169876
As long as we don't use Masterwork, I'd be happy to get involved.
>>48169876
Did Toady re-implement goblins as an feature in the game yet, or do they still sit in their empty buildings without ever attacking fortresses?
Wouldn't magic users be at odds with industrialization? I could totally see wizards, an exclusionary social class of mostly academics that occupys enormous power, loathing the advent of industrialization or even maybe trying to stifle it.
Especially fire arms. You can shoot a gun much quicker than a wizard can whisper a spell. It takes a life time to become a an adept wizard while it takes like a few weeks to months to become an adept conscript.
A lot of literature out of the romantic era usually touched on the theme of industrialization causing magic to...
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Who's going to develop the magitech and deal with things beyond the scope of technology? There'll be an old guard, but as with all things, the next generation of wizard will capitalize on the new pursuit and the age of techmages will commence.
Eventually, rather than being at odds, the best of both disciplines will coalesce and what were once the new generation of experimenters will become the new old guard of regent production assisted by automation, spell conducting gloves increasing the stability of fireballs even in the hands of a novice, and legs for your...
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>>48169862
Not really
Wizard shit wouldn't really overlap at all with industrialization, wizards aren't usually portrayed running businesses even if magic made it a 100 times more convenient
Even guns are hardly an alternative to spells, it's a stupid comparison
All in all, it's a pretty shallow and uninspired idea that magic is somehow opposed to technology
>>48170108
>"Ugh he insulted my pen and paper games ;_; better go into autist over drive"
Industrialization versus magic was even a theme in the lord of the rings. Tolkien's idea was that once Sauron's ring of oower was destroyed middle earth would never have to worry about him again since industrialization was right around the corner. Sauron would pass into myth with all the other fantastic elements of the setting like Elves and Dwarves. Tolkien's not even the first...
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So I've decided to theorycraft together some alternate sisters of battle in a sense. Hacked together, modelled from bits and pieces to make them look less silly. Removing the boobplate first of all.
Does anyone find the direction decent, if so, any recommended changes. First thing that comes to my mind is making the legs thicker for instance.
>>48168803
The execution is fine but the intent is stupid. The entire reason SoB have boobplate is so nobody can accuse the Ecclesiarchy of fielding MEN-at-arms. You can't just assume everything's hur dur retard because it's 40k. The boob plate served a purpose.
>>48168912
Sure - I keep trying to maintain a relatively female form. The being bigger than they'd have to be, a thinner waist and the like.
I want them to remain very recogniseable female. (I know why the boobplate exists in lore, don't worry.)
Let's create the most grimdark setting possible /tg/ I'll start
>there is no heaven but there is hell, the best thing a human can hope for is to cease to exist completly once he bites the dust or become undead
>to become undead he must sacrifice the person he loves the most
>every concpiracy theory is true
>>48168415
Real life
>>48168436
Shiiieeet
>>48168436
The world is inhabited by assholes like this guy.
>robot race
>portrayed as borderline evil at best
when will this meme end? Just because someone doesn't have to eat, shit and doesn't die because he fucking trips over and bashes his head on the concrete like a certain hairless ape specimen doesn't mean he is evil in fact robots are far superior to humans in every way you stupid delusional fleshits you never see a furry robot or a pedophile robot right?
>>48167848>They don't have a big robo-dick
What is this shit?! Besides,
Humans > Tech-scrap
>>48167848
I thought captcha was supposed to keep you out.
How might the different classes use makeup?
Barbarian - War Paint
Bard - Effete Indulgence
Cleric - ???
Druid - ???
Fighter - ???
Monk - ???
Paladin - ???
Ranger - Camouflage
Rogue - Disguise
Sorcerer - ???
Wizard - ???
>>48167534
Sorcerer and Wizard would make something to mix in the blood to write blood runes on their naked skin or on someones skin.
Cleric and Monk Ceremonial use.
Paladin also war paint.
>Cleric
Ritual and religious observances, obviously.
>Druid
be the prettiest peacock in the forest.
>Monk
The act of putting on make-up helps the Monk to meditate. Kind of like raking sand or killing goblins.
>Paladin
It was a choice between makeup or stomping on a clutch of kobold eggs.
>Sorceror
It's not makeup, just the succubus lineage coming through.
>Wizard
Disguising...
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>>48167534
>Cursed sword of will travel through matter without resistance, but cannot move through air
>>48167284
Can it be swung sheathed?
>>48167284
Use it to cut things in-situ. Like leave the sword in one place and use it to cut stone or wood really easily.
>>48167284
Heat it up, creating a nanometer-scale vacuum gap between air and the surface of the sword.
Why people blame Twilight for ruining vampires when it's in fact Dracula's fault? Before Briam Stoker wrote the novel vampires were disgusting, zombie like creatures not handsome aristocrats.
>>48167083
I must disagree with you anon, Dracula is an enjoyable novel and helped spawn the idea of vampires being able to infiltrate and act as a parasite upon society. Which works quite nicely from a horror perspective.
Twilight was poorly written and made them sparkle.
>>48167083
I blame Twilight for making young adult novels popular.
Twilight is like a Japanese LN, but Western.
Literally cancer.
It spawned a bunch of shitty uninspired franchises like 50 Shades of Gray that enjoyed a wild success among people too illiterate to enjoy proper literature. And, no, I'm not talking about B-tier paperback fantasy/sci-fi/whatever novels when I'm talking about "proper literature".
If anything Anne Rice ruined them first, and harder. A lot of what she did to them stuck meanwhile nobody really thinks of Twilight vampires as real vampires.
How do you create a resource system for a card game that isn't a copy of mtg's mana system, or auto-scaling like Force of Will's?
>>48166940
Neither of those things are very original.
Everybody starts with a resource pool. A unit of resource, once spent, is spent forever. However, you can invest resources, effectively removing them from your pool for a number of turns and getting more resources when the investment matures.
>>48166970
Name their predecessors, then.
Fact: By 2020, Hearthstone is going to kill the competitive scene for MTG. The secondary market will crash do to a sharp decrease in demand . Legacy is already dying in the US due to this reason. Hearthstone does MTG better. WOTC has no way to compete with the marginal value that Hearthstone provides to its players. I suggest you get out while you can.
pic related, is what will happen to magic
Magic cant be played on your own while on the toilet
And there the advantages of HS end
Competitive Hearthstone is less about playing the game and more about watching your favorite Internet personality play the game and that's the problem. Every Friday night dozens of people go to hundreds of events across the country to play Magic competitively, not to mention the dozen actual tournaments a season where people pour in from every state.
I hate competitive Magic and Wizards but that doesn't change the facts.
>>48166873
But you can play Duels or various non-official rulesless table simulators loaded with magic card images on the toilet
Was there ever any update on TB the House Elf's 'Harry Potter and The tabletop RPG'? The PDF is pretty much finished, except for some spelling mistakes. He did a quest thread here on /tg/ a while back, and had a twitter page for it.
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Tabletop_RPG
Barring that, general Harry Potter thread. Bad writing in a shoddy setting, but the themes are decent and it's a lot of fun if you can appreciate it for what it is.
>>48166210
Daily reminder that Cursed Child is a terrible terrible thing.
Yes, I'm salty.
>>48166681
I didn't even know that that thing was a thing. What's so terrible about it?
Aside from being a part of Harry Potter lore, that is.
>>48166767
Assuming the spoilers are legitimate, it's basically every fanfiction cliche short of mpreg and sudden onset gayness all mashed together into a perfect storm of terrible.
Two words: Voldemort Day
