What's your favorite not-period-appropriate thing to include in your faux medieval fantasy tabletop games? I like to point out to my players that their cellphones have no coverage when they're looking to roll for lore.
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I like to do medieval fantasy with fashions being almost turn of the century in places.
The capital of one of my kingdoms is sort of like an idealized 19th century Paris with bohemian cafes, fancy boutiques, and elegant and decadent dance parties, all while knights and wizards go to war outside.
I have a 10x10 hexcrawl flashed (almost)out and planning to run it next week.
What to do when players are on the edge of the map and want to continue off the map? Do I just say you can't go there or do I invent an obstacle they cant cross?
How do you guys have dealt with this?
>>45340165
Make it bigger, of course.
Is Games Workshop too big? Tabletop has always been a niche hobby. So I wonder whether Games Workshop has expanded too much.
>>45338174
Personally I think that GW is in a bit of a shitty situation.
The main way they market their games is by having GW stores. Due to being assholes to FLGS they have lost their support. As such, currently the only way GW markets their games is through their stores.
Now they are losing money, so they would need to cut costs. At the same time, GW stores account for as much as 50% of the business expenses. Therefore one of the best ways for them to cut costs would be to close stores.
That however would mean losing a lot of visibility, which they would have to compensate through marketing. Since GW doesn't do any marketing however, and they have lost all the support from FLGS, they are in a tight spot.
They have to either try and continue to cut costs / increase profits by butchering their product line, which leads to their actual product becoming less valuable to consumers. Or they start to close more GW stores, which however means they lose visibility as no FLGS wants to deal with their shit anymore.
Overall the biggest problem that GW has is that whilst they were the market leaders they acted like bullies to independent retailers, and like assholes to their customers, and now that they are losing their monopoly its coming back to bite them in the ass.
>>45338333
Very well said, thank you Anon.
>>45338333
They could also go all-out for online sales, both direct and through Amazon et al. They're not in enough of a bad state yet to do that though.
Sup /tg/. I'm a lazy, unoriginal faggot but I have to dm a game soon.
Please give me the most ominous, evil sounding names you can think of for dungeons, towers, places and antagonists. Thanks a bunch.
>>45337879
Well thats not safe for work.
Evil Badguy. He's French, so it's pronounced Ey-fell Beh'jhee
http://www.metal-archives.com/
hit random band and copy shit, worked for my last campaign
T'was another fine peaceful day in Agronar, birds chirping, and the people going about their business in the bustling castle town.
There was to be a great celebration for peace between the fairer races and the more shall we say "evil" races at the castle. There was food, wine, and merriment abound and all were gay with may until one thing led to another and a fight broke out. Turn's out a group of assassins had killed the good King and assaulted his family, which the lesser races seized this chance and took over the land and a terrible king.
Every male heir to the king was thought to have to have met their end on a blade. However by a tiny, small stroke of chance, a heir did survive although a bastard would be the people's only hope to unite the warring people's into a kingdom of his own right, or maybe some other fate awaits him?
Who was he?
>A Hedge Knight: Arion may have grown up without a father figure but the knights of the realm proved to be a suitable lifestyle to strive for.
>Clergyman: Brother Lucius grew up serving the lost and Ill, never knowing his origin but was content serving his faith and those less fortunate.
>Outlaw: Robert spent his days on the wrong end of the law stealing rich and poor alike, he knew how to care for himself.
>Merchant: Graham was a shrewd businessman and made a pretty coin doing so. He knew the currency trade better than most, so he was always coming out with a profit.
>Write In
>>45337727
>Merchant: Graham was a shrewd businessman and made a pretty coin doing so. He knew the currency trade better than most, so he was always coming out with a profit.
>>45337727
>>Merchant: Graham was a shrewd businessman and made a pretty coin doing so. He knew the currency trade better than most, so he was always coming out with a profit.
>>45337727
>>Clergyman: Brother Lucius grew up serving the lost and Ill, never knowing his origin but was content serving his faith and those less fortunate.
You've finally done it, /tg/. After decades of research you've figured out a spell to make you immortal, unaging, and (almost) beyond death's reach.
>almost
The rules of magic in this universe require two things for this spell to work
>a weakness, a way you can be killed (can be a condition or an item so "Only a man not born of women can kill me" is valid)
>that you have to tell anyone who asks a honest clue about what your weakness is, the more specific or complex your weakness, the more specific the clue has to be.
So /tg/, what's your weakness? And what's the clue?
>>45336622
My weakness is
>I can only be slain if my parents come to love and accept me.
My clue is>I can only be slain if my parents come to love and accept me.No need to hide it it if it's never gonna happen
>>45336622
>a weakness
I can only be killed while willingly having sex with someone.Hey, if I'm already a wizard, why stop now?
>>45336622
>WeaknessI can only be killed by one who understands, and feels true compassion for me
>ClueLove shall be my undoing
post foes
>>45336455
Story so far >>45329332
>As we last left our heroes, they had just managed to escape a vicious infected rhinocerous and find a place to rest for the night. Also, the group's resident qt made a comment about what the group was going to do once they got out, causing the players to have a breakdown over the possibility of her death. But now a new day has started in the City of the Dead, and you have 67 hours left to find a cure to the virus.
You awake with a sharp pain in your back. Sleeping in an alleyway is hardly ideal, but what can you do at a time like this? You examine the rest of the crew. Annie is still sleeping, with her face buried into her knees. Romero leaning on the wall beside you, eyes wide open, revolver in his one good hand. Brian's still out, and Sara... well, she hasn't even budged from her guard position. She remained fixed there, the whole night... girl's like a machine.
Slowly, you bring yourself to your feet and dust yourself. Sara acknowledges your consciousness with a quick nod. She's a soldier, waiting on orders. Right now, the choice yours. What's your first plan of action for the day?
A) We used up some of our medical supplies fixing Romero and Brian. Maybe we should look for more?
B) We're pretty much guaranteed to come across other beasts like that Rhinocerous, and we're going to need bigger weapons if that's the case.
C) We need food, before we become food.
D) We could patrol the streets for any other possible survivors. It's a lost cause, but we should try to help anyone we can, right?
E) Write in response
>>45336381
Hey OP what sort 'o supplies do we have on hand right now?
>>45336392
>2x First Aid kits, with basic supplies such as Bandages, Gauze, Tweezers, and Painkillers
>1x Handgun: 20 Rounds
>1x Sawn-off shotgun: 12 shells
>1x Hunting Rifle: 9 Rounds
>2x small pistols: 20 Rounds each
>1x Walkie Talkie
>>45336381
>C) We need food, before we become food.
>Keep an eye out for chances to grab other supplies.
Can't survive 67 hours without food.
Some of you have been arguing that it wouldn't happen because we just left an eldrazi block, feel free to use this thread to continue your flawed and ultimately pointless rationalizations.
How does that picture at all imply that emrakul is on innistrad? It's obviously Nahiri fucking up some castle.
>>45336148
>implying nahiri isn't kozilek
>>45336395
This pretty much, senpai.
I haven't seen many Eclipse Phase threads lately, so let's get one rolling!
What soundtracks do you guys use for your EP games? I find that the soundtracks of Remember Me and Sins of a Solar Empire and the Arcade Fire albums "Neon Bible" and "Reflektor" fit the EP feel very well.
Also can someone post the OP copypasta? I don't have it on me
>>45335330
>I haven't seen many Eclipse Phase threads lately, so let's get one rolling!
I don't know, we use to have them regularly but the tide turned recently and all /tg/ talks about is how mechanics suck (debatable, character creation sucks balls but the basic task resolution is a dream) and how the devs are a bunch of wankers (totally true)
I like eclipse phase
>>45335330
>Also can someone post the OP copypasta?
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Pathfinder General /pfg/
Complete collection of screenshots of Hell's Vengeance 1 is out apparently? But no PDF?
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Vote in the /pfg/ community consensus for tiers:
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Old thread: >>45332136
First for Summoners Best Class
>>45335268
You means Wizard
>>45335264
Fuck yeah, Seviper!
Are fairies just naturally dumb or something? Like, since they're small, they have small brains, right?
I'd say their capacity to think is up in the air, but they definitely exhibit behavior associated with stupid people
>>45335061
Fey are often considered to be spirits, whose mental capacity is not limited by cranial storage space.
Granted, small spirits tend to be things like the kodama in Princess Mononoke, existing to serve a single purpose and generally lacking a great deal of insight or intelligence.
>>45335061
>Are fairies just naturally dumb or something? Like, since they're small, they have small brains, right?
Elephants, Dolphins and Blue whales all have bigger brains than us and yet you don't see them trapsing around inventing television, wireless internet and posting on 4chan.
Brain size does not correlate to how sophisticated it is or how intelligent it's owner is. It's less about size and more about, like, how it's constructed and so forth.
Like, anything with a Smooth Brain is stupid as shit, while creatures with wrinkled brains are usually pretty fucking intelligent.
Dumping some cp while I'm procrastinating on my papers. Looking for more citzens and noncombatants, got plenty of cyborgs already. Post whatever though
Lets play a game /tg/
Think about your last session/adventure. Try to summarize it. I mean REALLY summarize it. Get it down to 10 words at most. Don't worry about providing context.
Now take that summary, copy it, past it here:
http://alexanderlozada.com/iasip/
and then generate the result and post the link it gives you here!
I'll go first.
http://alexanderlozada.com/iasip/?VGhlIFBhcnR5IFN1bW1vbnMgYW4gRWxkZXIgR29k
>>45334130
>Get it down to 10 words at most.
The villain's death throes resurrected the dead guy.
http://alexanderlozada.com/iasip/?VGhlIFNwb29reSBDb3VudCBtaWdodCBiZSBhIFZhbXBpcmUgb3IgU29tZXRoaW5nPw==
If you could chose anyone to DM a game of D&D, who would it be ?
Why ?
For me it would be pic related, even tho games would probably take ages.
>>45333968
His players would probably complain about him being That DM who railroads your party and always splits them up.
>>45333968
I choose you, OP.
>>45333968
Stanly Kubrick, although we would only meet on average once a decade
Post pics of qt elf (casters) that could eventually end up as a trap.
Isn't that elf always getting raped for some reason?
>>45335951
>for some reason.
The reason is porn.
