Is it possible for a group to be friends on very good terms with each other, yet incompatible as a gaming group?
I think I am a reasonably experienced GM. Due to a schedule involving multiple six-hour sessions per week, I have logged about ~180 sessions (according to my logs) since December 2014.
During those sessions, one player ("Player X") has been in all but about half a dozen of them. Furthermore, there is another friend I have been GMing for regularly ("Player Y").
Players X and Y were the only two players in two of my recent campaigns. One ran for 24 sessions before we agreed that nobody was enjoying themselves, and another ran for 17 sessions before my players told me that they were not having fun and that I should end the game.
Those two campaigns were fraught with, as my players said, poorly handled GMing. After every session, I would ask how I handled that session, and there was:
- A ~67% chance that one or both would complain about my GMing in a way that implied they disliked the session. I would engage in a several-hour-long (not an exaggeration) argument to clarify what they wanted, and then capitulate to their requests.
- A ~33% chance that everything went relatively fine.
No matter how much I tried to improve, there was always a ~67% chance that I would greatly fumble. I would always try to cater to their requests, but doing so was often met with "You catered to our request, but not in the way we had in mind." A few sessions down the line, I would then receive a request that was mutually exclusive with a previous one.
This makes me consider that my two players do not know what they want and are inept at expressing their preferences. It also makes me think that I am incapable of discerning what my players truly want, seeing how I have attempted to cater to them across many sessions, yet fail to please.
My players now refuse to explain what I am doing wrong with my GMing, because apparently, I am too dense. What can I do to rectify all of this?
>>46123021
>Is it possible for a group to be friends on very good terms with each other, yet incompatible as a gaming group?
Yes
>>46123045
And how can this be solved?
>>46125685
It can't. Be can be similar and different on varying levels and attempting to change them into something they aren't will merely make them hate you and what you're aiming them towards.
Sadly you and your players are somewhat inept in social skills and can't express yourselves or understand others fully and this cannot be remedied its merely who you are.
Best bet is go on the arduous journey of finding one of those special GM's everybody loves and latch onto him like a leech together as a 3 man player group. Be ready however, as i mentioned earlier, you all aren't social butterflies which also means finding a GM that will put up with your shit.
This thread is to expand on the loyalist successors of the Alpha legion, convinced they're Imperial Fists, with tactics involving stealth-defense and trap setting
>Founded in the 34th millennium, our chapter were created to crusade against the Imperiums enemies(allegedly), however it is unknown to the Imperium and indeed the chapter itself as to who our progenitor is, though they vehemently believe they are succesors of the Imperial fists. In truth, they were created with the Gene seed of the Alpha Legion who paraded themselves as elements of the Imperial fists third company whilst forming the chapter, a belief the chapter holds dear aand true from the hypno therapy and harsh indoctrination they use in recruitment. For unknown reasons, the Alpha legion made them in the guise of the fists.
>They believe in purity above all, and yet their own gene seed is flawed hyper-stimulating the Omophagea of many brothers and leading to the creation of their strnge and esoteric and mysterious Chapter culture. In legend, the former Captain of the fists third company slew a Daemon prince and led the chapter through many harrowing battles, in truth he was one of the Alpha Legion masquerading as an Imperail fist, as all the founding members were.
>Their homeworld is a feral ice world, which they only distantly 'rule'. Perhaps their mysterious creation is to blame for thei somewhat divergent chapter organization, their focus on ranged combat lends them specially modified bolters unique to their chapter. Their chapter badge involves a creature who features heavily in all their iconography.
>Currently, they are an endangered chapter, only a handful remain after(TBD). They are allied with a Navigator house and have a fierce hatred for the Chaos marines of (TBD)
>>46122644
>>46013278
Last time, we discussed the homeworld, tactics, use of camo, history, and structure of the chapter
We're still early on, so every contribute towards everything
Link to previous thread:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/46013278/
We should decide on the chapter badge once and for all.
>>46123577
I'm for ghost Aquilla
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The opposing IS continues to fly straight at you as you continue to evade the closing in laser beams. You take out Gram and return fire only to see 4 laser beams intercept and deflect all of the projectiles. She continues undisturbed by your attack to fly straight at you. Close enough to see her without relying on your sensors, your next shot connects as the active protection lasers didn't have enough time to deflect your projectiles. But that came at a price, as your shields spark against her rifle's laser beam. You turn your body slightly to let the rest of the beam pass by you.
“Reinforce, that was close.” you mentally comment.
“The enemy IS is using as advanced ECM suite making targeting and information gathering difficult.” Reinforce telepathically replies.
You are John Smith, only know male IS pilot, currently fighting against an unknown IS. You were about to fly your Maeve around the Fairy Arms and Manufacturing testing airspace before you were fired upon. Forced to defend yourself, you return fire with limited success. This fight is going to be a lot different that what you are use to.
The opposing IS mirrors your action as you blast past each other. In the instant she is directly in front of you, you look your enemy in the eyes. A woman about Iris or Natasha's age with sandy brown hair with a rather fit body. Her IS reminds you of something like the Morgan you once could have chosen at the start of your school year but with quite a few differences. You'll have to figure out those differences later as you break left to get around to re-target her in a high-g turn.
1/2
Part way through your turn, you have Reinforce control the Edge missile launcher to fire an off-bore shot. The missile is intercepted with all 4 active protection lasers in the middle of the figure 8 pattern the two of you trace in the sky.
“Here comes the snow.” she says as you both speed up towards each other in this crazy air joust.
[]Reply with ”I've got a present for ya.” As you use the ADMM to try and over saturate her Active protection lasers at the merge.
[]Reply with “There's no snow here.” as you try something risky. Firing Fragarch at near point blank ranges to try and get a solid hit.
>>46122416
>[]Reply with ”I've got a present for ya.” As you use the ADMM to try and over saturate her Active protection lasers at the merge.
ALL THE MISSILES also hi conflict
>>46122416
>[x]Reply with ”I've got a present for ya.” As you use the ADMM to try and over saturate her Active protection lasers at the merge.
When I doubt go Macross.
This is a thread to help further expand the fluff of the homeworld of the Hua Yuan 1st Exterminator Regiment, an IG regiment that /tg/ randomly rolled up using the 1d4chan creation tables, specifically things that can be used to run games of Dark Heresy, Rouge Trader, and Black Crusade.
Here's the regiment thus far: https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Hua_Yuan_Exterminators
And what little we have on the moon: https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Hua_Yuan
Taken from the Wiki:
>Hua Yuan is an Earth-sized Hive world, on the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy. It boasts an atmosphere comprised mostly of Neon and Kaihonium, a valuable gaseous element useful for several industrial processes. One of several moons of a large Gas Giant, Hua Yuan is geologically dead, however despite this, the moon boasts rich deposits of several different elements, including adamantine.
>The atmosphere of the planet is extremely turbulent, with lighting storms giving the planet's entire surface an ominous glow as the skies are split by orange lightning, and make human habitation of the planet's surface all but impossible. As a result the majority of the planet's surface remains untouched by the hand of man, but in the depths of the equatorial canyon a sprawling hive reaches deep beneath the surface, marked only by the towering spires of the superstructure of a long-wrecked spacecraft.
We've taken this and fluffed the world as three parts Kowloon, two parts Hong Kong, and ten parts Cyberpunk Necromunda. Descendants the crew of a gigantic mining vessel that crashed on an inhospitable planet and survived despite it all. This has lead to a severe division between the upper hive nobility, the mid hive working class, and the low hive gangers and scum, and much worse.
So feel free to join in and provide fluff, images or whatever you'd like. This belongs to /tg/
IMPORTANT: We're fluffing a WH40k TTRPG splat. Don't oversaturate the influences but do update the wiki with old stuff
>>46121697
Reportan
Last thread: >>46080380
And some discussion starters, as per usual.
>What NPC's do you feel are necessary to be established in the lore to make GMing easier?
>What BBEG's would a Hua Yuan campaign have?
>What kind of McGuffins does Hua Yuan have?
>What are some important locations you feel have to be present to run a campaign?
>What are some End Games that the various factions if Hua Yuan have? How do they work towards it? What will the do once they've won?
>What have YOU done to update the wiki?
>>46122886
>>What have YOU done to update the wiki?
Fuck you Arbites
>You are Maple Son-Mahogany, one of two young Tuffle twins thrown at Earth starting in early Dragon Ball by your "father," Dr. Raichi
>"Canon" had already taken a sharp turn from the "norm" when you began, and through your actions, choices, and dialogue, took even further turns from the "norm," and will probably continue to do so
>Stats and dice mechanics are used, and can be explained again as needed
>Let's all try to have some fun, ok?
And a pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/tG3Wgd0N
Last time, on Dragon Ball Tuffle Quest Z! Things settle down over Christmas, with the King of Earth making a surprise announcement that the planet would be seeking allies from to help prevent tragedies like the ones it had just encountered. You meanwhile met with friends and family, to talk things over...
https://youtu.be/NLOxUvbGG1I
>>46121693
After convincing Prince Beelzebub to do his best to deliver a special "Christmas present" to his aunt should they ever uncover her lab, you manage to spend the rest of the day with your family. Your kids playing with their cousin, the Ox King chatting with Acer and Goku about some guy things. Meanwhile you and Chi-chi end up talking about your own kids, your friend mentioning that part of her isn't sure she wants Izumi to become a fighter like her parents, but at the same time she seems aware that her daughter might try to do so anyway. You comment on how your own daughter already seems to be taking after her dad, even more than her brother.
After that, you have a short chat with Raditz, back at home, sharing some of your Christmas wine with him after the kids have gone to bed. Your brother-in-law is a bit surprised by the taste, even jokes that Towa obviously set all of this up just so she could steal your previous bottle.
In the next couple of days, you decide to...
>A. Check in on Launch
>B. See what Mark's been up to
>C. Go see Tien for a bit
>D. Head to Capsule Corp
>E. Something else?
>B.
Sounds the most plot-hooky
whisk me away Kato
>>46121715
>B. See what Mark's been up to
In japanese mahjong does anyone know why i cant tsumo? i click the button but it says " no multiplier"
This is an issue I run into, and I still don't quite understand it.
It's part of the scoring system, where in addition to your pair and four sets, you also need one of a number of special conditions which make it a valid hand. All concealed is one, a set of dragons is another, but beyond that I forget.
As an aside, does /tg/ know of any good english language Mahjong platforms online? The only ones I've been able to find are either designed for gambling, overly expensive or have very limited options.
I'm really looking for something I and a group of friends can use to learn the game. I know ten second turn timers is considered long in the Mahjong community, but given I'm playing with friends and beginners I'd love a client where we can turn off the timers and take our time to figure things out.
>>46121459
>>46121516
To clarify, I can say for certain that the reason you can't win with that hand is that you called the set of winds.
>>46121516
I understood that if in the case of one hand, if you had 3 sequences you could be able to win even with open hand but yet again well its not working...
What happened with Chapter Master: the vidya?
Copyright claim.
>>46121290
In the dull blandness of the second millenium, there is Only C&D
>>46121290
games workshop did what they do to every 40k fangame
Vehk and Vehk Edition
>Tabletop/P&P RPGs
[Scrollhammer - Tabletop Wargame] http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Scrollhammer_2nd_Edition
Discussion in #Scrollhammer (irc.thisisnotatrueending.com (port 6667))
[UESRPG 1e + other TES RPGs] http://www.mediafire.com/uesrpg
Discussion in #UESRPG (same server)
>Lore Resources
[The Imperial Library] http://www.imperial-library.info/
[/r/teslore] http://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/
[UESP/Lore] http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Main_Page
[Pocket Guide to the Lore] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AtsWXZKVqB4Q825_SwINY6z4_9NaGknXgeOknOCDuCU/edit
[Elder Lore Podcast] http://www.elderlore.wordpress.com/
[How to Become a Lore Buff] http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1112211-how-to-become-a-lore-buff/
>General Rules
No waifus or husbandos except Vehk or Vehk
Keep the MK/Lady N related squabbling to a minimum.
Previous Kalpa: >>46105001
>>46121045
Thanks for using the correct OP
(you forgot the subject, though)
I AM I AND WE ARE WE
>tfw ywn have a knife-ear, purple GF
>tfw ywn hold hands, making her embarrassed but super happy
>tfw ywn fuck her from behind while she submissively lowers her head and adjust her ass
>tfw ywn tell her "What would you sisters think of this? fufufu." (because her people's culture is pretty much matriarchal amazons)
>tfw ywn teach her magic, real magic not faggy nature druidism shit
>tfw she will never make you immortal too so you can love each other till the end of the times
Anyway, do goblins have big noses? why?
>>46120191
>tfw the gf in such a relationship
I didn't need the paladin powers anyway, really.
>>46120191
Is there a way for me to find a archive of magic cards? I want to look at the goblins.
Torrent, mega, anything is welcome.
>>46120746
There are searchable catalogs and shit online.
What's the best system to run a Bloodborne or Bloodborne-like game?
>>46119797
Windows
SoS/GURPS.
Your day begins like any other – waking up in the bathtub of some family home – the family hanging from the ceiling. In the usual manner, you wake up quick as a flash, then quickly wake down a bit with a few Irish coffees.
On your way to work, you bump into somebody. An unremarkable fellow who greets you in the usual manner. “Hi. I like to blame everything in my life on other people and whine about how the world is unfair for not giving me everything I want in exchange for nothing. Please gut me and rid the world of my idiocy.” Being the kindhearted soul that you are, you oblige.
Satisfied at your nobility, you head off, the birds perched above on the power line blasting industrial metal.
Just outside your office, a mother pushing two children turns around to face you. “You really think Lilly could ever love a monster like you? She doesn’t love you at all. She’s just terrified of losing things.” You don’t actually see her lips move, but you hear her words. And they hurt your feelings. So you beat her to death with a nearby fire extinguisher and then set her children on fire.
Fire…
Yeah. Your thoughts are burning now. You need to cool them. So you head into the nearest bar and start knocking back shots. Some bad-smelling guy tries to hit on you. You frown. Body odor is a byproduct of skin-bacteria feeding on sweat secreted through skin. Therefore the problem would be resolved if he had no skin.
Satisfied with your reasoning, you pull out your favorite skinning knife-
“-nako?”
“…?”
You awaken to the door hitting you in the side and a tentative voice calling your name.
“L-lilly?” You murmur, still half asleep.
You hear her sigh with relief. “Are you alright, Hanako? You were screaming in your sleep again…”
“Oh. I had one of those dreams where I was Akira.”
“Ah. Those are always fun.”
Still can't believe it's back
Still in her pajamas, Lilly settles herself in your room for an early tea.
It’s still somewhat early in the morning – the sun just beginning to peep over the horizon. It’s a fair bit earlier than Lilly would rise if left to her own devices.
But today is special.
Today is the day of the festival. Even Lilly, ever undisturbed, seems to have been invigorated. You also, since today is the day you can spend the day with Hisao.
That is mind, you…
[////////__]
[] Ask Lilly to give you a hand doing your hair.
[] Can’t wait. Go camp Hisao’s room.
http://strawpoll.me/7128648
Akira continues to be a terrifying and vaguely pitiable creature, as well as the second best friend we have right now.
>>46121639
[X] Ask Lilly to give you a hand doing your hair.
>Hello, and welcome to a new quest! While this shares a universe with the previous Generically-titled Fire Emblem Quests, it takes place several hundred years earlier, centered around events only vaguely described in those stories.
>The continent of Teege is the setting, nearly entirely overtaken by the tendrils of an infamous empire.
>I, Octoling, will be your guide throughout this prequel, but there is an off chance that fellow verse-founder Grandflaw will make increasingly-sporadic appearances, perhaps even updates!
>Here we have some rules, let us lay them down!
>Character death! This is Fire Emblem, it happens (we’re not casuals here), but we won’t just kill off characters for no reason unless the death ties into the plot. Even those might be subverted with enough unanticipated elbow grease, however. Make good decisions, and maybe you can outright break history!
>Write-ins are encouraged! Sculpt the character you want to play as, just don’t get too salty if it doesn’t pan out that way. These things never play out as initially expected. Not even for us.
>Our first posts will outline the most barebones of aspects of each potential main character.
>Voting periods will last an average of ten to fifteen minutes.
>The first decision of this quest, the start of player character creation, will be in the post right after this one. This is a new quest with new characters, so to any prospective newcomers, it's never too late to step in!
>Our update Twitter is qmgrandflocto, and we have an ask.fm with the same title. The old quests are available on suptg for those who wish to find them, under Generically-titled Fire Emblem Quest.
Welcome to a thread taking place in a before now vaguely-detailed era of the first two installments’ past!
Those who are familiar with our first two quests might expect for this thread to start with the same question that created the first choice of the thread: the player character’s gender. And rest assured, such a choice will still be able to be made! Perhaps several times, if our drift is caught.
I figured that it would be interesting to, instead of basing the class and backstory of a single protagonist on pre-thread choices, provide three prologues, mini-chapters, explaining and influencing four viewpoint characters’ stories before the quest truly begins, closing the thread on a vote for who becomes the overall main character (though this does not completely remove the possibility of revisiting the others in due time, or even outright cycling through all three).
So, my friends, with whose backstory would you like to start?
>A. The child of a rebelling former noble, destined to become a prince/ss in their own right, should history indicate anything. They will have duties of their own to help bring about the course of history.
>B. Abandoned at infancy, a bold youth eventually adopted and formed by the hands of a vicious empire’s. They will be powerful by the end of their prologue alone, but also put into a greatly important-and tremulous-position.
>C. A true-to-the-term nobody, an ordinary citizen of one of the few independent city-states of Teege, who will inevitably need to take up a weapon for one cause or another.
Let it be noted that, though the course of history seems set now, a quest would be nothing if not for its playerbase’s ability to subvert the inevitable. Fate is not easily challenged, but it is not an impossible task.
>>46121573
>C. A true-to-the-term nobody, an ordinary citizen of one of the few independent city-states of Teege, who will inevitably need to take up a weapon for one cause or another.
>>46121573
>>C. A true-to-the-term nobody, an ordinary citizen of one of the few independent city-states of Teege, who will inevitably need to take up a weapon for one cause or another.
How about a civ thread?
i have time to spend now.
>>46118751
Slimes
Swamp
Let's be the ultimate merchant/healers.
>>46118751
Harpies
Swamp
>>46118751
Minotaurus swamp
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It is now summer of your 3rd year: a time of peace, but also stress for your people as undead activity subsides temporarily for a few months and your Homonculi can safely venture through out the tower in longer intervals as the sun hangs high. But it is also a time of heavy, hot, bothersome work.
Previously: The Imp was.. "upgraded" and is now a "devil", we experimented with plants and invented a backwards compatible alchemical interface known as the "mandrake", we came up with our very first holiday, the laborers had a field day constructing an aquarium in our lab and honey producing bee boxes on the roof (much to the delight of all) and we've finally made contact with the sapient undead couple living on floor 3.
Collect Genetics. Expand the Psych. Establish your Independence. Create Beauty. Suffice the Ego.
((2nd post INC, please wait a moment and refrain from posting out of courtesy.))
>>46120314
+Current Environmental Development+ Summer 3rd year
(Cycle repeats: Summer)
Spring has matured and blushed into Summer; this has a few implications:
-It's hot, dry and humid and all three of these things in horrible, uncomfortable excess in any level with outdoor access.
-The stair case has completely dried out and there is no danger of traversing them. The pond waters on FLOOR 1 are also pleasantly full of now adult pan-sized fish.
-Most forested areas (particularly B1) have become completely and absolutely overwhelmed with insects: the sound of Cicadas in B1 are particularly loud and droning.
-The sun has been hanging around longer and brighter and as a result local undead activity has decreased significantly. Even Elizabeth has been restricted to the confined of her level.
+Spiritual Development+ The Technician who planted trees.
-With the Season's changing The Technician has begun to take more of an invested interest in nature (much to the annoyance of their familiar) and has started going out longer and longer by themselves: catching insects, fishing (Elizabeth having gifted them a rod and tackle set), studying plants and has even started taking up the practice of wood carving- producing little carvings of animals or bugs they keep in their study.
+MAJOR SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT & 1/3 END-GAME GOAL ACHIEVED+ The Comforts of home, the company of family.
It's been a few years, but your people can say of their own independent free-will that they've become happy: They work for the community, they serve and respect their communities leaders and elders, they provide for their own people, they care and love for one another and enjoy the comforts and companionship of their own kind. Your people are no longer beheld to their programmed instincts and freely go about their business of their own free-will's and not out of some addiction to their artificial behavior.
>>46120314
>>46120331
>3 minutes late
welp im checking in, how are you cyclops-
time for dinner ill brb-
>>46120331
Right, you guys can go ahead and start rolling and so forth.
D20 for Actions, D100 for Ideas- Don't be afraid to get creative, aggressive, etc..
I'll be back in a jiffy- gotta go fix myself something to eat and then we'll start as soon as I get back.
You name it, we've got it - Ninja Turtles, Space Opera, Cowboys on Dinosaurs fighting Psychic Demons from Hell!
>Minion War: What is your group doing in that storyline?
>Does anyone still play Palladium Fantasy?
>Next steps in the metaplot
>> Reformed CS
>> Destroyed Federation of Magic
>> New challengers on the scene?
>> Is magic in north america screwed?
>> Yer a traitorous wizard 'arry
Get yer PDF's here -
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1dsdr28ic5vk0/Palladium
