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I want to own a gamestore, /tg/. Does anyone else have this dream? I feel like Ive watched so many fail though, lets start a thread about how to not fail as a gamestore
>Clean your bathrooms.
>Keep your inventory stocked.
>>45711194
Know the MTG fanbase like the back of your hand since they will be your bread and butter
Dont let GW dick you over
>pander to what is popular, not what is good
>hire staff based entirely on their sales training rather than knowledge of the products
>replace aging and toxic demographic with a younger, more casual demographic that you only target for their first 18 months in the hobby
>>45711194
be a million billionaire and run it as a hobby
You are Gloria Sotohiko, Club Captain and Commander of the Okinawa Joint American-Japanese Girl's Academy Senshado Club, recently transferred over from the Yamato Japanese-American Women's University as part of the student council's ridiculous plan to save the Okinawa from bankruptcy. The long and the short of it comes down to them hoping you can replicate the miracle that Oorai Girl's High School and Lafayette Girl's Academy, winning the ITL and winning a crap load of money to support the ship. So yeah. No pressure.
However, right now you're...
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>>45710755
Lauren... well, you dunno where the hell she came from. Oh, you know she's got Polish ancestry, and she hails from somewhere in Louisiana, but you mean where SHE actually came from. One day you were trying to find a box of crayons, and then suddenly she was there, putting them in your hand. That's been the dynamic of your relationship ever since. Your driver, she earned the nickname '47' when, early in your tanking career, she damaged every tank in the Yamato Senshado club's roster (forty...
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>>45711041
Previous threads: http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/Glory%20Seeker/
>>45711041
I was thinking of checking out this quest seeing it on the catalog. As a tip, if the time between threads can be measured in months, it may not be a great idea to start the thread off with an open-ended vote if you want any voters.
>You are a young man named Lloyd from the frozen Northern mountains of Tordo, on the continent of Teege. After a youth spent learning magic, you and your girlfriend spent some time as bandits after your home was destroyed, but have recently taken a chance to escape that life into a legit one... As sellswords, admittedly, but it's better than nothing. When the situation calls for it, however, you might take on the POV of a character somewhere else for a thread.
>Your exact goal will change from thread to thread,...
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Wow, you have been... Really out of it since you were. Out. You were pretty sure you were dead or something, despite the last things you'd heard before blacking out, but apparently you were just so lacking in resistance that you had absolutely zero sway against your mind control.
Also, you're in pieces. This is a bit more pressing to you.
"Urgh... Give those back so I can regenerate already." You wave your right armless stub at Ellen, who still has your limbs on a skewer on her sword, and they too squirm in response. "This is really unpleasant."
"Wait......
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>>45710299
>C. Immediately describe the last thing you remember
>A. Ask if you did anything awful
>>45710584
Wait, why are you wasting time with these pleasantries? You have very important information to report.
"There's this Advocate, Limin, and she and Zlatan are..."
"Co-conspirators, we're aware... I've yet to meet her myself, but you were controlled to knock me out when I mentioned as much to you," Irene says.
"Sorry about that, but my point is that it's way more than you think." Before you can be interrupted, you add, "she's Paula, under...
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You are awoken by the sunlight hitting your eyes. You stretch your fingers to feel something metallic in your hands, it’s a medium sized dagger. You look around your surroundings to see a forest with tall evergreens growing around you in all directions. Spotting a small almost translucent interface in front you to see which reads Welcome to Perfect World… but before you can keep reading you hear a rustling coming from you left to see a snarling wolf ready to attack you.
> Try to fight off the wolf with you dagger
>...
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Check to see what we're wearing. If we're wearing clothes we need to fan them to make ourselves look larger.
Rolled 63, 91 = 154 (2d100)
>>45709198
>> Other(Write-in)
TAME THE BEAST
Rolled 45, 94 = 139 (2d100)
>>45709198
>> Try to fight off the wolf with you dagger
Except bare handed.
LIKE A REAL MAN!
>January, 1860
>Montgomery County, Georgia
>Seaborne Plantation
The light never wakes you. Never has the time.
It’s always the crackle and pop of the fire that brings you out of the dark. You don’t feel the warmth of it—hearth’s too far from where you lay, in your bed of hay and two blankets. Two Blankets. One to keep the straw off your skin, the other to cover your body with. It was a rare sight for just about any nigger on the plantation. You were lucky.
Mam Hany liked to point out to you whenever she got the chance, it was a luggshury. Or was that Lucksury? Heck if you remember. She had a better chance at remembering words than you did, being a nigger that knew now to read.
“Done sleepin’, child?” A gravelly voice asks from near the flames. You pull your body from the hay and glance over to see an old man sitting in a wooden chair, his skin a shade lighter than your own and his white hair thin on his head. A thin wooden stick in his hands. He’s dressed a better than most of the others that live in the line of shacks that you and the rest of Master Seaborne’s niggers live.
Jeb is a house slave. He has more than most. Like this shack that he keeps to himself—he let you sleep here. Out of the kindness of his blessed heart. The Master let him have his own place, since Jeb has been around since he was born.
He doesn’t have to share like the rest.
You murmur something you don’t hear yourself, A good morning or maybe just a yes, and Jeb just lets out a chuckling grunt before standing up shakily, leaning on the stick. “Bout damn time too. You took any more o’ mah time, I was gon’ kick you awake. Where you working today, child?”
>The Fields
>Stables
>Cotton Gin
>House
>>45708138
>>Stables
Horses are better than the white man.
Shit I for got to add the tripname
>>45708138
>>The Fields
Previous: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/45563499/Char sheets: Layla http://pastebin.com/AZhZH83v Maria http://pastebin.com/Pz8RjLpu
Eli http://pastebin.com/MTKD1usQ Marla http://pastebin.com/xxAh2vEH
They are coming for me again, a trifling affair, for no man can stay my heart's beat. A lark almost, a joke even, but I know these coins have things besides men in their ranks, and I am blessed to have only met these, godless heavens thou they may be, mortal men. I sigh, walking down the hall, hearing them whisper orders to eachother, taking positions...
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>>45707897
"Yeah soooo, you kind of have to make up some lost time" He says, swirling around his glass of what I can only assume is cheap brandy, ...looks a bit like paint thinner actually, ergh, I've tasted that before, not really something I think anyone would want to drink
What do I say?
[] nothing
[] "So I need to kill someone, honestly you don't have to ask, I me after all"
[] No, I have things to do today, like laze around in the sun getting scratched by maria
[]So who's...
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>>45708006
>[] No, I have things to do today, like laze around in the sun getting scratched by maria
>>45708006
>[] you interrupted my nap for this?
>[] "So I need to kill someone, honestly you don't have to ask, I me after all"
You are a first-time DM soon to begin a campaign using a premade adventure module. You have six willing potential players, but the module you're using is clearly written for only four. Handling more than four would be highly difficult, especially since you've never DM'd before.
These are your potential players:
>Player 1: Longtime player. You've been in games with him before, but wouldn't exactly consider him your friend. Very much a power gamer/munchkin. Really socially awkward; you suspect he might have actual autism...
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I call four of my friends and play with them instead, wondering what the fuck I was thinking.
Get rid of the cheeto smelling guy first, i hate the smell of fake cheese.
Then the transgirl, i don't think i want to know what the fuck Steven universe is desu
The rest can stay, so long as they keep quiet unless nessecary
1, 6, 4, 5.
People I've met or can deal with.
Today has been altogether a very good day. You have reentered the civilized world and within minutes, got yourself a place to live that wasn't out in the cold! Sure you had to fight your new roommate first, but that was completely unrelated and no one died! You are Tom Gainer and you are cautiously optimistic about your situation. Jim Knots, the Monstrous Super who has been afflicted with the form of a Minotaur, is cooking in the kitchen of the house he has graciously opened to you. It smells like... vegetable stew. You wound up going back out to the reserve to pack up your camp to take what you could with you.
The room Jim lent you smells vaguely of cinnamon and apples. To your left, a full size mattress and box spring lie on the ground it is covered by hot pink bed sheets. You placed your things against the wall opposite to the bed. Its a little depressing that you can carry all of your belongings under one arm, you think as you lie down on the bed. You don't care that its pink; only that it is supremely comfy compared to a sleeping bag on the ground. You ask Jim if you can use his shower and he directs you to the master bathroom of his ranch-styled home. Six months worth of funk and grime wash off you and you feel human again. Your mind shifts to introspective thought. It felt good to be able to use your powers today. If you hadn't caught that police car, the cop inside might have been crushed to death. Jim would have been charged for that death and labeled a Villain by society. Chances of him seeing his daughter again would have been slim to none. In a sense today, you might very well have saved three lives in one act. And it felt good. Speaking of feeling good, your hair feels lighter as months of grease is scrubbed off with the vanilla scented shampoo. You wonder how much shampoo Jim must go through in a month...
You finish your shower and Jim tells you that dinner will be served in about an hour.
[CONT]
>>45707638
>Use the time to collect your thoughts and plan what you want to do
>Take a nap (skip to dinner)
>Write in
>>45707638
Murderhobo reporting in.Ironically I was also the guy who chose not to vaporize the cop car.
>>45707734
>>Take a nap (skip to dinner)
I like naps, except I always wake up drooling on my pillow.
>This is a quest taking place in an alternate version of the Naruto world during the same time period as the story, with a few notable differences. You will be playing as Kon Karagowa, a young Leaf Jonin. Your character is defined by your choices, so write-ins are always encouraged. And remember to have fun!
>Quest Info:http://pastebin.com/i69yvu3T
>Previous threads:http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Leaf%20Ninja%20Quest
>>45707605
BENIS!
>>45707605
All aboard Naruto's happy fun time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K59AkGi3xqk&index=17&list=PL9079B89C6A2EE759
You wake up a bit later in the morning than usual, in what is apparently Sasuke's apartment. You don't see Sasuke anywhere when you first get up, but it's only a few minutes before he returns with a bag in hand.
"I just ran out to get us some breakfast." he explains. "There wasn't anything to eat here, but there was some money I could use."
The two of you put away your futons and eat the food Sasuke picked up, while talking a bit.
"One...
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Alright, Gnolls, Orcs, Undead, or Ursine!
Pick yer people, and a place!
>>45707159
I vote for Gnolls and canyon.
>>45707251
If no one joins in five minutes, this wins by default.
>>45707251
i second that
>Game studies, ludology or gaming theory is a discipline that deals with the critical study of games. More specifically, it focuses on game design, players, and their role in society and culture. Game studies is an inter-disciplinary field with researchers and academics from a multitude of other areas such as computer science, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, arts and literature, media studies, and communication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_studies
Is this a scam?
In what sense? I'm sure you would learn some things.
If you're asking "should I go to college for this so that I can get a job?", I would say no for pretty much any creative enterprise. Video game developers, tabletop designers etc. are relatively tiny fields where individual capability and connections matter much more than a piece of paper. Going to college to design games is like going to college to be a pop star, there are just so few people doing it and your chances are miniscule + reliant on your own entrepreneurship, and that aspect of the industry is tiny.
Learn things like mathematics, engineering, etc. that you can apply to pretty much anything for a well round education that will help you in making games and more. And in case you don't become another Monte Cook.
>>45706693
>In what sense?
"Critical study" usually means learning to undermine ideological enemies through the careful misreading of their trusted sources.
People join these programs unaware that they are enlisting in a broader culture-war.
>>45706693
It's not game design. It's the humanities. Some is math. But it isn't a trainee program for anything, it's science.
You are Irue Valen, blood heir to house Valen and currently the leader of a small squad of peasants who you called your knights. Months ago you thought the world was your oyster by birthright, and only since have you discovered that you were going to have to struggle and fight for every inch of ground you wanted. Concealed away by your own family, thrust into a world that was far larger and more complicated than your gilded cage had even begun to suggest, you had experienced a crash course in what it meant to be a noble in La'Fiel.
It wasn't fun and courtly...
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"If I had to guess, they're probably using the main house as their primary base... Though I couldn't tell you anything else about it."
"You haven't encountered anyone yet, then?"
"We're trying to be subtle about it, ser. I'd bet on some of us in a bar fight, but we're not mercenaries. Most of us don't even have blood on our hands... Frankly, I hope it can stay like that."
You turn crimson eyes away from one of the ten knights who had been smuggled into the city walls, staring out of the window...
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>Send a single knight to meet up with Asche.
>Send your knights in to infiltrate; They look like mercenaries, right?
>A Spider's Web [Atelier]
>Meditate (Which Mana?)
>Other? (write-in)
Previous Threads: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=valen+quest
Where things are said: https://twitter.com/Riz_QM
Where things are asked: http://ask.fm/RizQM
Assorted Supplemental:
Current Abilities - http://pastebin.com/PchcdWpw
Basics of Mana - http://pastebin.com/V9b1DMrS
A List of Forgotten Things - http://pastebin.com/kPEscJ3h
Leadership - http://pastebin.com/hGhUA4wf
Write-ups:
Kara's Day Out - http://pastebin.com/8ZbiSKLs
Adventures with Asche - http://pastebin.com/RNviCBJu
The Reclaimed...
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I have a player that wants to play a psionic character in an upcoming campaign in Forgotten Realms.
I dislike the idea of psionic-using people in highly magical settings, would I be a douche DM to say he's not allowed?
>>45705289
Magic is magic, some people just use their own instead of borrowing from the world around them.
>>45705289
the Forgotten Realms is the epitome of kitchen-sink worldbuilding I don't think you can ruin the flavour by adding anything
>>45705289
Do you allow wizards? Clerics? Druids?
Then yes, banning the far more balanced psionics if you allow that shit makes you an utter idiot.
Do you like Fate? Why/Why not?
I like the idea of Fate- by merging the characters' stats with the mechanics of storytelling, the players have a stake in the plot and a real connection to the story.
In practice, though, this leads to players taking the least confrontational and most predictable route, even to the point of saying "This isn't worth it, let's go home and end the story there."
>>45705088
>In practice, though, this leads to players taking the least confrontational and most predictable route, even to the point of saying "This isn't worth it, let's go home and end the story there."
Dude, what? I've literally never even heard of that happening in a FATE group until now. That sounds like a problem with your players.
>>45704660
I love Fate.
I hate Fate threads.
Stop this shit already. Ask a real question pertaining to your game or bugger off. This is just repetition.
An Inquisitor has demanded that we put up a new regiment to aid a crusade that is compiled in the area. As loyal citizens of the Imperium we will fulfill this task.
Give me 1d10 for the classification of our new unit.
Rolled 9 (1d10)
>>45704620
>>45704728
Well, we are short of good men, so we will send just a militia. Not very impressive, but we can't afford better troops at the moment.
Let's look what kind of people will be the lucky ones that get send to die for the Emperor.
1d100 for our recruitment criterias.
Rolled 82 (1d100)
>>45704973
