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What type of music do the denizens of 40k listen to? Hymns obviously, but is all other music illegal or do they have other stuff too?
Also post 40k music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu7ddmL6Vfs
>>45959215
What the people of the fortyfirst millenium consider hymns, would probably be experimental vaporwave hardcore grind-rap by our today standards.
>>45959215
You know how /tg/ always gives that non answer, 'It depends on the setting?'
When it comes to 40k, that answer is 'It depends on the Planet'
You can literally encounter anything and everything in the IoM, depending where you go, from historically accurate or anachronistic fuedal worlds to fagballs Steampunk mechanicus style to scifi baroque
Why are so many games bad at balancing not just the difficulty of an action but weighing success and failure in a balanced manner? Lemme put it like this:
Some GM's think because the way a game is structured attacking an opponent with an AC of 20 is as difficult as making a Stealth Check at a DC of 20. Except they often forget that the consequences of failure in these are often magnitudes different.
If I fail an attack roll then guess what? I miss an attack and I have to wait till next turn to attack again. It sucks but unless I literally cannot take another...
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>>45959101
>a
I agree with your sentiment, failing a stealth check should raise the "alarm level" by one point, giving someone sneaking around at least a chance to fix it up.
Also remember that in d20 systems rogue type are supposed to tricks like silence and invisibility, having ranks in stealth is just ranks in stealth that are unlimited use.
>>45959101
>>45959370
Aren't stealth checks and similar checks always context sensitive?
If you try to stealth in combat you probably don't vanish completely, it is more about distraction and DM could still allow dodge bonuses or free movement around battlefield even if your smoke screen fails a bit.
Out of combat it depends on situation. Maybe the rogue notices that the guards are suspicious and doesn't try to sneak past them meaning that he loses...
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>>45959101
Because if you have a balanced game people will complain that it's not crunchy enough.
How would you go about making an alien race with a different bio-chemistry (Such as using Silicon instead of Carbon) or environment (For example, high gravity).
>>45958453
Silicon-based life is one of those things that sounds plausible on the face of it (silicon has four valence electrons, just like carbon), but in practice probably wouldn't work. Silicon's a lot less reactive than carbon is, it doesn't form nearly as wide a range of compounds as carbon does. Now, what sort of weird biochemistry you could get is carbon bonding with things that it doesn't in terrestrial life. Arsenic, for example, has been proposed as a possible replacement for sulfur, and there's...
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Well silicon dioxide is soild below 2000K so just replacing carbon with silicon would result in you breathing sand.
>>45958606
That's only if you directly swap the atoms in an already carbon-based life form (which would have a lot of other problems, too). Presumably a creature that evolved in a silicon-based biosphere would have separate organs for taking in oxygen and expelling silicon dioxide. Probably drop it off in some membrane that it would periodically empty. So it wouldn't be breathing sand, just constantly shitting it.
I have a fucking Deutschophile in my group.
They're so fucking annoying. I was hoping to avoid having one in my group, but there's so many of them these days that you just can't avoid them.
He's always talking about how Germany has the best culture in the world. The only weapon he ever uses is a zweihander, which he claims is the best weapon ever designed, and he refuses to call his class "fighter," instead referring to it as Landsknecht and expecting NPCs to react to him differently because he's got a huge feather in his hat.
He...
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>>45958319
Is this copypasta or a new meme?
>>45958327
I'm going to take a wild guess that the original version was about a weeb using katanas and insisting on being called a samurai.
>>45958319
>He's always talking about how Germany has the best culture in the world.
Well, he's not wrong. Better than the Irish at least.
Think of a tabletop RPG system. Then, think of a setting for it, whether the setting is the RPG's default setting, another published setting, or a homebrew creation.
Got it? Good.The system and setting are now the basis for a "2010s anime (adapted from an LN) about kids getting dropped into an MMO/video game RPG world, with everyone inexplicably aware of stats and game mechanics"-style series. What is the anime like?
>>45958154
Fuck, my first thought was Orpheus.
Okay, so there's an MMO where you wander a ghostly hellscape and fight specters and lay ghosts to rest. Lots of kids are playing it.
The thing is that the technology actually allows the player to project, as Skimmers. Hence the rumors of people dying from 'overplaying' turns out to be the truth. Also, some people have gone berserk and become Jasons when they were possessed by Specters.
Ultimately, the game was distributed by a Malfean in...
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Combine Minecraft, unreal tournament, and Corruption of Champions with a ridiculously in-depth and user-created item crafting system (if you can define it with the game physics, you can make it) and exploitable magics.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you GURPS.
This thread was right next to the Gurps general, so I thought of that and a western setting.
I guess the anime kiddos keep trying to bug the GM to let them take certain advantages and superhuman stuff? One keeps trying to make things cinematic and rules-lite while another goes gritty and follows all the optional rules. Meanwhile they make a bunch of fanny jokes about popular movies. Man now I just want to watch Trigun.
Just going to leave this here
>>45957831
and this one
Let's go!
>>45957881
Trying dice again...
>play dawn of war 2 campaign
>it's easy as shit, breeze through with very little difficulty, even the superbosses
>enjoy it, so play dawn of war 1
>it's easy as shit, breeze through with very little difficulty, even the final stage
>enjoy it, so play dawn of war soulstorm for dark eldar
>it's easy as shit, breeze through with very little difficulty aside from the chaos stronghold...
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Depends on the order you do stuff, DC and SS both have a map and you basically have to kill every other faction, some of the specific capital killing missions are hard, other then that it is just tedious.
>>45957305
WA is kind of the red headed step child. I really like the IG Commander in that one and it's a shame he didn't return, thiugh
>>45957362
>WA
>hard
C U C K
U U
C C
K K
My group rescued a Loli Gnome Witch and immediately proclaimed waifu status.
She's not actually a witch, she's a street urchin that stole a wand of wonders and has a magic mouse named Cheeky that casts all the other spells for her.
How do I proceed?
Gangbang
Burn her at the stake for being a witch.
>>45955773
Quite lewd of you sir, she's a gnome! She can't handle that much high impact sexual violence.
>>45955784
Oh, but the warlock gets a pass. Sure.
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How do you feel about non-standard names for common mechanics? Pretentious, nice to have, mandatory? Does it make a difference if the mechanic is being used in a surprising way?
For an example of that last question, I'm working on something that's mechanically feats, but each feat contains both mechanical bonuses and plot hooks. I'm leaning towards calling them Steps and feat chains Paths, because of the weirdness.
(But I'm more interested in starting a discussion than actually talking about my system.)
What do you think about this?
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>>45955681
RPGs are a mix of improv theater and boardgames. Usually with the theater being a frame tale so you can play some boardgames. There's tons of material to plunder among modern boardgames. And by all means, pick silly, tactile games. I recommend Catacombs (again), String Railway, Dixit (or Mysterium), and Bunny Bunny Moose Moose as wild enough starting points. Also Bandu and Tok Tok Woodman are Jengi-likes.
And I'll raise you one - improv theater where you have to react to your actions succeeding or...
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How many CCGs were actually good? Any games worth checking out even now? What dead games are still cheap to get into?
I'm just curious since I know so damn little about the vast majority of CCGs released over the past 20 years, and I'm in the mood to throw money away at ancient games I'd only play with a small group of friends.
>>45954302
This was literally the best CCG/TCG I ever played. Everything about it was fun, and every mechanic was interactive regarding all players. And it wasn't afraid of RNG when appropriate.
>>45954302
The Harry Potter card game was pretty sweet.
>>45954302
Arcadia: The Wyld Hunt. Fucking Amazing
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2169/arcadia-wyld-hunt
http://arcadiaccg.blogspot.com/
stat me waifu /tg/
>>45954262Shit/10now do mine
>>45954295
Two dots in (Squid)
Three dots in (Kid)
>>45954295woomy/10
Reminder that Magnus did nothing wrong.
>>45953985
except having no sense of style
>>45953985
I like how nobody can figure out whether Magnus is Egyptian-influenced or Aztec/Mayan-influenced.
>>45953985
Well...... Not intentionally.
stat me
>>45953868
>stillnotanavenger/10
>stillnotinthejusticeleague/10
.stillhasagreatass/10
>>45953868
Special rules: Roll a D6. On a 1+, your uncle dies
Risus + Aspects
4 The Amazing Spider Man
3 Backup Scientist
2 Photographer
1 Lady's Man
A - Wisecracking Superhero
A - Luckless Civilian
A - (temporary) Borrowed The Captain's Shield
Trigger warning for autists. This thread may offend your need for structure.
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So there's these 'minigames' that really manage to convey a game situation in a visceral way for the players. They are limited in application, but what they do they do better than any dice probability could.
Dread uses Jenga to represent the tension curve which kills characters and players need steady hands under pressure to make it.
Earlier Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes was suggested as a bomb defusing mechanism.
The Good Friends Of Jackson Elias in...
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>>45953137
It's a cool idea but needs to be carefully balanced. For example, having a player solve a little puzzle to represent their character solve an in-universe one may not make sense if the player is pretty smart but their character is a dull, uneducated brute. Or having the player perform a minigame that requires a steady hand needs to reflect the dexterity of their character in some way, too. etc.
>>45953342
That's the thing though. As long as it draws the player in it's still better than a realistic simulation.
Puzzles are a good point though. I'm usually not a fan, but if done right they can deliver exactly that immersion.
Don't make your players solve substitution cyphers. That's tedious. Unless you want the players to feel how tedious their character's job is for hours, don't.
You could give the players a ball to roll through a tilting maze to solve a dwarf puzzle that opens the ancient mountain home.
You can have the mad scientist's journal handout spell out the solution in the first letter of every paragraph.
But even a...
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Hey /TG/, I'd like to start playing Warhammer 40k.
Can I have a brief explanation of each of the factions strategy?
I've played strategy games before (Axis and Allies, Risk, Chess) so I'm not completely inexperienced.
>>45951727
Alright, so you've got Space Marines. They're the protagonists of the setting, so it's only fair that they have the best units, rules, and backstory. You'll love them. They're HFY with a bit of Dune.
After them you have the Imperial Guard, which are the bootlickers that support the Marines. They have tanks, so they're okay.
Moving outside of Humanity you have Chaos, which, true to its name, is mostly RNG units, and orks. Which are mostly grey.
The good aliens...
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>Space Marines: Smaller amounts of stronger dudes
>Imperial Guard: Very large amounts of weak dudes and/or Tanks
>Grey Knights: Even smaller amounts of even stronger dudes, compared to SM
>Sisters of Battle: a weaker version of the Space Marines
>Tau: powerful at range, weak in melee
>Orks: lots of cheap dudes that fire many inaccurate shots
>Tyranids: many...
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I was thinking about Tau, with their strong range
