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It's the first session. How do you bring together an eight player party who all know of each other but don't hang out together often.
Get them drunk and coerce them into acting out their basest desires through roleplay?
>>45922405
Nah son, I mean in-game.
Firstly, the OP is a bit misleading. I thought this was about the actual players and not the characters. Or are you still talking about the players?
Secondly, ditch at least 2 players. You're gonna find it real hard with 8 players.
Okay, at first I was just trying to come up with an excuse to cherry-pick aspects of different chapters I liked, but then I stumbled upon a premise that I thought was pretty awesome by itself:
>What if a small group of Fallen Angels disguised themselves as a hermit-garrison of Black Templars, but then got roped into 'adopting' a bunch of Initiates and Neophytes whose leadership had died in battle?
Basically, the story goes like this:
>Imperial Fists establish an outpost in an out-of-the-way...
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>>45921540
I like it.
>What do you guys think the result would be?
I think that if they assume command eventually they'll get killed off in service to the Emperor. The question then becomes does their secret ever get passed on to the younger Marines? Or do they become one of those groups with an unknown chapter origin?
>>45921540
Thats honestly really awesome.
>>45921722
Hm...
You make a good point with their inevitable death in battle. If they die without any lasting impact, how is this chapter going to be any different from regular Black Templars?
Maybe if they stay at the base as a sort of "council" to educate and direct overall efforts, designating captains to carry out shorter crusades and bring back new recruits, there would be the potential for some kind of a conspiracy vibe.
What I'm most curious about is what they're going to teach their Chaplains...
Thread name says it all. Anybody play this awesome shit? I mean, it has fucking devils making brandy from peoples souls and mirror-travelling eye-stealing spiders which are governed by dozens of spiders literally glued together. Why aren't you playing it right fucking now?
>>45921459
I love this setting and I wish I could figure out how to port it to the tabletop. Have to say I prefer Sunless Sea to the browser game though.
>>45921565
sunless sea is awesome as well. The browser game has the feeling of old solo adventures, like lone wolf. There were already discussions of porting the setting to tabletop on the failbetter forums, don't know if anything was actually done about it. I think it would be quite possible
I'm not playing it right fucking now because it's a piece of shit facebook-tier game where I'm limited in how many things I can do a day without giving them money.
Based on your personal experience what's the best combination?
>poolparty+D&D
>sleepover+D&D
>sleepover
>poolparty
What are you, some kind of nancyboy faggot?
Poolparty: Books get wet, dice get lost, I have to see my neckbeard buddies shirtless
Sleepover: Snacks, comfy pajamas, nobody has to end the session early because they have to get home
Why is this even a question?
Sleepover. If the pool is involved, time will(and should) be spent on that instead.
That is not the case with sleep.
Sent from your homeland to another you must escape your prison and create your own destiny making friends and enemies along the way.
With either the Curse of Dark or Blessing of Light, and the heart of Fire you will affect the world and ways not even you can think of.
Choose your Boon
>Dark Curse
+Wolf Form
+Primal Magic
>Light Blessing
+Healing Magic
+Stun Force
>Fire Heart
+Primal Magic
+Dragon Companion
>>45920867
>Light Blessing
>>45920867
>>Fire Heart
>>45920944
>not wanting to be Jesus With Attitude
>Go to LGS adventure league for Curse of Straud Prerelease
>Usual guy is too high level to take on the adventure
>Decide that playing Revy would be fun
>Roll up a hand crossbow fighter pirate and dive in
>DM (store owner) finds out and mocks it for the entire session
This is not okay on so many levels.
It's "not okay" on exactly one level: someone is posing a minor to moderate annoyance for the space of one evening.
>>45919901
>Bringing weab shit into a clearly weab-hostile environment
Sounds like your problem OP. If you're just blatantly playing NOT!Revy like you say you were then I would have ridiculed you as well, perhaps even making you roll a new character.
If you actually injected some originality into the character then it clearly wasn't enough as the GM still figured it out and so my first point applies.
Come up with your own characters OP. Nothing can ever be totally original...
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>>45919901
That's hilarious and you deserved every moment of it.
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“What are we here to find again?” you ask, looking around the place. Mountains, mountains everywhere. Your allies are at your side, well, except for Volkna, she had a family thing to attend. Still, at least you've got...
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“Um...don't you remember the plan?” asks Shalra in confusion. She's wearing an adorable-looking tabard thing that covers far too much skin, and the armour and the cloth covering her face. But hey half the fun of presents is unwrapping them right? She also has that armband on that's really important it...um, it something elemental plane of earth and mortals, something important...armband can't come off...
Then Aboswe speaks. Oh Hells no, Aboswe is looking at you, panic!
“You sneak in there” she points to a tiny hole in the ground “it'll...
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>>45919816
>Seduce the rock boys
>>45919816
>Distract them, lead them away from their posts
How do you role play Rangers?
>>45918912
A guy who likes dogs.
>>45918912
If we're talking Pathfinder, I always play Slayers instead, because Rangers having magic and being these weird psuedo-druids is kinda lame.
Aside from that... they're scouts and survivalists, pretty simple. In a military campaign or setting, they're the guys who go ahead of the army, spy on the enemy army, and report back with information their numbers and positions (or quietly stay hidden until the fighting starts, then turn things in favor of their own side by providing cover fire the enemy...
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>>45918912
Play them as a maladjusted social outcast who obsesses about their (inferior) skills and hasn't bathed in over a month.
Shouldn't be too hard.
Thinking about running a game based on Dark Souls, but from the perspective of people who aren't undead. Yet. A bunch of questions keep coming up though, and I want to stay as true to the source material as possible.
What's the world of Dark Souls like through the eyes of someone who isn't undead? How does a kingdom of perfectly alive and normal humans react to hollows suddenly appearing in their midst? What questions would this raise in the general populace, and how would they react if their loved ones could degrade into a hollow with little warning? Or...
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>>45918799
The game itself answer all of this. Did you not play?
>>45919011
Except it doesnt explain all of that. Did YOU play the game?
>>45918799
The good news is that you usually get a couple of deaths before you go ''Hollow'. So you are going to freak the fuck out of your family the first time, and you are going to look gross, but it takes a while for your mind to start to fade and for you to become a danger to those around you.
So it won't seem that bad at first, just really spooky, until it gets bad in a hurry. Undead/Hollows don't stay dead. Fullstop. They need to be locked up somehow (burying them counts) because...
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Building up a list of factions for an upcoming campaign and had the thought to add in a few songs I could see used in a montage to show off a particular trait and help get a good feeling for what that faction represents and how they play.
I'll post up some of my selections, but I was more curious what /tg would use for their armies or 40k in general?
TAU:
> Cossack's Song:
https://www.youtube.co/watch?v=26cr_rBQu74
> TAU = Communist in space, therefore why not pick one of the best Red army...
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I find the IG music too specific to a war that already happened. Their are no Chinooks in the year 49,999.
Here. Have literally every kind of orchestral music an Imperial Guard could ever need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Akv4eVFXe8&index=1&list=PL502E01626E1F7592
Ya got your marchy-music, Battle-Music, ominous music, and glorious charge music on one playlist. Though admittedly lacking in faux-latin chanting.
>>45918867
-And here's the entire soundtrack on a single video, should you be too lazy to check the playlist on the original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNTqWyoMWOg
>>45918867
You can easily replace the SLR's with lasguns, Chintooks with Valkyries. It's the tone of the song rather than the specific words that I'm focused on.
I'll give this a squint and maybe find a few choice gems in there. Thanks anon.
/tg/ what is Bill form Gravity Falls chaos alignment or is he his own god?
No one cares. Stat the big hungry head with one arm.
Alignment: From a Shitty Tumblr Show
>>45918417
He just followed his insticts and wanted to get someone in his mouth.
Animals aren't good or evil either
/tg/, if you have an ability in a game that let you say, make mods for armour and weapons at half their listed cost, and then used that to make additional money off your party by charging them 60% of the mods cost (so they get 40% off total while you make 10% profit for your troubles) would this be considered a "dick move"?
DMs, would you allow such in your games?
>>45917161
I don't see why it'd be a problem. It's a business - gotta make money somewhere.
>>45917161
You're actually making a 20% profit.
Anyway, like anything that will effect party and game group dynamics, discuss this with your group.
I did something similar in a game. I was playing a Swordcraft Story inspired travelling blacksmith and I charged the party for all repair work and items they would commision from me.
They were getting 20% off the average price and my friends aggreed that this was a good idea.
>>45917161
Fuck you, that's like charging for healing.
Trying to run a campaign of this and frankly, I've no fucking clue where to start. I know this is a pretty niche system (being, you know, not DnD) but does anyone out there have any stories/helpful insights/tips for an aspiring DM and overall new fa/tg/uy?
>>45915726
What parts of the setting are your group most interested in? You'll need to settle on one region, maybe two due to how difficult and dangerous travel is.
Each region has a general sort of theme, from all-out war between humanity and psychonauts in Franka, Purgare and Pollen to the guerrilla warfare between two human factions in Hybrispania to the strange internal politics of Borca and Balkhan.
The core of the setting really lies in Borca, Justititian and the Protectorate so if you're just...
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>>45917954
It's also kind of pointless, because on a certain level it's all the same shit. Post-apocalypses tend to run into the problem of player apathy because they go overboard with the theme of how "humans are the real monsters" and give the audience nobody to root for and nothing to give a shit about. You would never like or want to fight for any of these clans unless you happened to be one of them. So you can either fight that tendency by making sure the PCs are insiders with NPCs they care strongly...
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Stat her, /tg/.
Class : Not a dirty red
>>45915702
anime cringe/10
>>45916322
/thread
Can we let this crap die now?
As the title says this will be a quest about you the player(s) to survive as a black mesa employee during the Resonance Cascade in the Black Mesa reseatch facility.
Year: 1999 AD
Location: Black Mesa research facility, New Mexico
Subject: (You guys can come up with a good name)
Occupation:
>Scientist (bonus on events/skills revolving around intelligence, negative regarding those of psysical nature)
>Security guard (Bonus on psysical events, negative on intelligence, but get a slight bonus...
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>>45915627
>Engineer (Has the option to make use of work equipment like blowtorches, wrenches, etc to solve and overcome problems)
>>45915806
Ok, one vote so far. I will wait for 15 more minutes and if no other votes has come in then this one wins by default
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaXsb5kS31s
Also some background music to set the scene and the mood
>>45915627
>Janitor (Nothing special about this except that a janitor get a bonus when it comes to navigation)
