Hey people, the manga about Japanese Tabletop RPGs finally has its 2nd volume scanlated.
http://imgur.com/a/3b2qh#0
Go read it and enjoy yourself etc.
Is there a place where all of the manga is stored?
I'd like to refresh myself with volume 1.
>>44222166
Hurrah! I've missed this.
Patron Saint of /tg/
>>44222220 mangahere.co/manga/quick_start/c001/
It's listed on the first page of OPs link.
Wew, took long enough guys.
>Double Cross is like a beerslam between X-Men, Call of Cthulhu and [...] Madoka.
Really? I've always heard it characterized as "Darker Than Black, the RPG."
>>44222568
I always called it Shin Megami Tensei meets Vampire the Requiem.
All are valid, explanations, really.
>>44222567You made me sad
Aww yeah. Time to make more reaction images.
>>44222444
I apologize for my dumb
Being Sacchi is suffering.
Cute! More pls.
Sacchi is love, Sacchi is life.
>sensei makes horrible mary sue characters
You won't find a man that way, urenokori.
>>44223004
Will the new translations be uploaded to whatever manga site?
It'd be convenient if I could bookmark it on my phone app
>>44222166
Did you scanlate this? Or just noticed it?
Props for scanlation but the typesetting and spacing are atrocious. Simply centering the text in the balloons would do wonders.
>>44223091
Chances are someone is already doing it.
>>44223109
187'd?
>>44223128
The translator uses it for killed/died. It refers to the California penal code for murder.
>>44222433
I hate this bitch.
>>44223147
Which bitch do you hate
There are 4 of them there
>>44223147
The blonde, or the redhead?
>>44223145
>The translator uses it for killed/died.
But why?
>>44223169
Because eat your hamburgers
>>44223161
The Redhead's hair is actually Blue.
>>44222527
To be fair to them the potentially obscure references due to the niche hobby are a special kind of pain in the ass to properly translate.
I had honestly thought that it was actually abandoned so this quite the nice surprise.
>>44222166
I never thought this day would come.
bless you, kind anon
>>44222745
Sachi is my waifu.
Which one are you?
>>44223004
"superhero syndrome"
Is that the Japanese term for Mary Sue?
>>44222166
You have done well Anon.
>>44222745
Wait, doesn't carving dice screw up their weight distribution?
>>44224343
Yes.
>>44224343
Yes, she made it slightly more likely for the dice to result in snake eyes.
Presumably that's why Sachi is so angry
>>44224343
I think that was the point of her getting angry. The engraved dice seem to make snake eyes more likely.
>>44224353
>slightly more likely
It's Sachi we're talking about, 100% is 100% whatever you do.
>>44224343
It would, but the pips themselves would throw the distribution off more than any scratches on the front.
>>44224368
>>44224475
100% best girl
>>44224493
Yeah. When I have more time I really need to go over the comic and cap/clean up some of her pages.
best as fuck
Good show everyone, and thanks for continuing the translation. It's always a good day when there's some new Quick Start!!.
>Michael Jordan as a god of Air
J..jam...
Long have people abused having an artistic player in the group.
>>44224903
Would you have a space jamthion?
>>44224375
>>44224343
That's why Casino dice are made the way they are. They are machined to precise dimensions, their dots are painted on, and they are transparent so you can see if there are any weights inside. They are also serialized so that Casinos can track how heavily all of their dice are being used and will retire the over-used dice.
Casino dice are much more expensive. A set of them tends to cost about $5-$10 for 4 of them. You can save money by buying the retired dice.
Be aware though, if your one of THOSE GUYS that has a set of lucky dice, Casino dice will give you worse results. Your lucky dice are lucky because they are mis-shaped just enough to give you the results you like more often. Not a lot often, but often enough for you to have noticed. Casino dice will likely give you something much closer to what statistics predicts. You'd have a 1/6th chance of any particular side landing face up. If you're ever bored enough, take your "lucky dice" and roll them thousands of times while recording the results. You'll find that your lucky dice really are weighted towards certain results.
>red box
Ouch. Not cool, girl. Not cool...
>>44225169
sensei, the eternal butmonkey
I can remember a time when pen & paper stuff was in computer magazines. Is this what it feels like to be old?
Ganbare, Sensei!
>>44224943
Is it not written that "Thou shalt remembereth the time of the slam."?
https://youtu.be/VjR7JZbdONs
>>44225210
Reminds me of those few old pc games magazines I have back from the 90s.
Interesting stuff is that I have no idea where they came from - I didn't even know that things like that existed back then and my parents wouldn't get those. The just kind of appeared.
>>44224353
It's because she's poking fun of Sachi's terrible luck. Hang in there best girl, you're just saving all the luck for when you can legally gamble.
>>44225231
this is one of the best slam jam remixes i ever heard.
>>44224183
Come to think of it, how is "drow" pronounced?
>>44225256
>this Anon's impressed
>guess I'll give it a listen
Damn son, those are some hot beats.
>>44225207
don't bully sensei
she's no Sachi, but she's still good
>>44225290
the second of the two official D&D movies (the made for tv one) pronounced it like now or how.
I personally always rhymed it with throw or row [row fight the powah]
>>44225290
Like "cow".
The "row" faction will be purged.
>>44225354
We shall meet on the battle field in 2d20 rounds!
>>44225342
Second best girl next to Sachi. Third best is Ikegami
>>44225290
lets just check http://forvo.com/word/drow/
... they have both pronunciations! Forvo failed me!
>>44225297
>>44225256
Yeah, I don't think I've ever found a remix better than the sum of it's part to extent that one is.
>>44225371
Perfect taste.
>>44225371
I would marry sensei
aaaand I just had to binge through all of it.
gods I love this stuff.
I'm being pandered to and I love it!
>cute girls doing cute things in playing table top games
What is this sorcery?!
>>44225803
And it's not even the only manga of that genre.
>>44225871
ooooh?
> They now have a drawfag on their roster
This manga just keeps getting more and more fun.
>>44225378
D---ROW NOOOOOO?!
FUCK YOU!
>>44225256
>>44225297
>>44225388
Peasants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLuDSIfgt5Y
Be mystified by the stark simplicity. Be horrified when it is stuck in your head forever.
>>44225915
I accidentally stumbled it when my friend told me about it. It's similar to Quick Start, but centers on board games rather than TRPGs. It features a lot of games I recognize, like King of Tokyo or Catan, and some I've never heard of, like Geister or Cockroach Poker. I might storytime it some day.
>>44225931
>mfw I'm the drawfag of my group
>>44225955
>>44225871
Any fanscan groups that picked it up? What is it called?
>>44225954
>not going one step further beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-MmHSc0X0g
>>44225955
>I might storytime it some day.
Please do.
>>44225979
SO IT'S COME TO THIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psiqAeKXXWM&list=PLWHfZVQjg-eSsKON4H5kO853v-qxvfuC1&index=38
>>44225231
>>44225256
>>44225978
It's Houkago Saikoro Club. I was sure that no one has even heard of it, but googling it shows that the first chapter was literally released today.
>>44225994
Honestly the best one I've heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-4AE4ZRtJ8
>>44226018
Neat
>>44226071
It's shit and you're shit for liking it. Piss off back to /v/.
>>44226071
Spooky, I was already listening to that when you posted it.
>>44226071
It's just so painstakingly synchronized. Clearly a labor of love.
>>44226018
Guess that's something to add to the list of reading material.
>TFW you realize Volume 3 is the last of Quick Start!!
>>44226182
don't lie! don't say things like that!
>>44226259
Jesus, that thumbnail looked creepy.
>>44226282
the big image looked creepy too
>>44225931
tfw my group consists of professional illustrators and designers, so i guess my group are all drawfags...
>>44225210
>I can remember a time when pen & paper stuff was in computer magazines.
I'm 32. PC gaming magazines reviewing P&Ps was how I found Shadowrun.
Now I am caught up and feel sad that I have to wait for more translations
>>44223004
>zeroth knight
triggered
>>44222166
>imgur
I seriously hate that this is the only way I have to read quickstart, this site is ass.
>>44223004
Sensei clearly is an Exalted/Rifts-person.
>>44223004
they are also powergamed characters too, she is scary
>>44226652
There's a download option at the bottom, just download it and read it with your favourite image opening program
>>44223004
> If she opens both eyes, it'll cause ragnarok.
Kek
>>44222568
>>44222584
I brought up Double Cross and my outline was apparently thought to be similar enough to CyberGeneration.
>>44226893
brb, making a cbr!
>>44228440
you are a good person.
>>44228797
http://www.mediafire.com/download/pdk1o61va89vo22/Quick_Start%21%21_Translation_Continuation_-_Imgur.CBR
mind you this is only what is on that imugr, nothing from mangareader as I have to download those one at a time, and fuck that shit.
>>44223004
>sachi makes fucking 3 different character paths
>can't decide the name
Why can't I help myself from doing the same
Literally every time.
>>44224183
The joke is that she'd totally play that character.
>>44229404
The name is the hardest thing about making a character for me 99% of the time.
>>44229713
uh... Mug... Nestle.
>More Quick Start translations
Hyeeeeaaaaah
>>44225955
Manga about board games? And ACTUAL board games from real life?
PUT ME IN COACH.
>>44222166
Are we supposed to read this right-to-left like proper weaboos or has it been flipped for left-to-right reading?
>>44229906
Do you really think a weeb scanlator would flip the page?
>>44229906
top to bottom, right to left. maximum weeb. final destination
>>44223128
>>44223145
>>44223169
So now we've cali Crips gang members translating our moon runes? What has this board come to.
>>44229914
Why would they even go through the trouble?
>>44229933
Don't think it was a /tg/ translation. The first volume was, but this is another group.
Beggars can't be choosers, I guess. Though the quality of the scans does make me want to clean and redraw those pages.
>>44229933
>>44229979
On the bright side we've got our own Duwang scanlation now.
>>44226071
Mind if i cut in?
https://youtu.be/1ReSKnPhenU
Is Alshard Gaia a real RPG in Japan?
>emery sword
>bad pun?
>>44230321
All the things they play are real
I really want to meet Meiko's brother now
>>44230440
>killed a player
>A PLAYER
i don't.
>>44230321
The manga was published by a Japanese RPG company. It's basically a giant pile of ads for their games.
>>44230566
4koma suck
>>44230566
So it's like cape comics, only entertaining and written by people who know the material it's based on?
gods... you know what else I miss now?
why did they ever stop translating Tonari no Seki-kun?
Granted it's a different set of traditional games... but still, rumi's slow, agonizing descent into yanderedom...
>>44230459
Some players are too disruptive to the group.
Some players just won't take the hint.
>>44230704
Wait what
What is she doing
>>44230796
Hiding under Seki's bed (that's his little sister sleeping on top) so he doesn't find out she's in his room.
>>44225256
>>44225231
>>44225996
>>44225297
>>44225954
>>44225388
>>44225979
>>44225994
>>44226071https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyVr1ux1Cok
>>44230704
>starts by only being annoyed
>eventually always looking at him
>embarassed the first time she's caught slipping a note into his shoebox
>bummed and bored when he's not playing, and esctatic the time he was gone but left her a whole mystery to play with
>progressively inserting herself more and more into his playtime
>starts actually following him on days off
>playing with his little sister - literally behind his back
>going to his home, his room, again without letting him find out
yeah just trying to photograph the robot family. bullshit, rumi, nobody's THAT intent on it that they'd try to snap pictures of a guy in the bath.
holy shit.
It's slow, but she really is steadily turning into a creepy stalker girl.
>>44230440
wait a minute, isn't there a screencap from a thread about someone that killed his first player?
>>44230939
>playing with his little sister - literally behind his back
>going to his home, his room, again without letting him find out
She tries to replicate his mad ninja skills.
>>44225031
And this, my friends, is why I play with nothing but my precision die with all of the nubs filed down.
>>44230768
COLD BLOODED
>>44230939
>yeah just trying to photograph the robot family.
I can't get over how the Robot Family seems to be her favourite toy.
>>44229933
Mangastream isn't translating this tho
>>44230878
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNMX988Xqi8
With visuals
>>44232007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awkUfIjl1R0
>>44225442
I lack a good male figure to get attached to in this clam festival.
>>44230939
>>44230704
I'm so sad they stopped translating it!
>>44229933
It's actually a double /tg/ joke, since 187 is a bit of old Magic slang for enter the battlefield effects on creatures that kill other creatures.
Pic related was the first.
>>44234680
I can't say I've ever heard that piece of slang. I can't fathom why they would 187'd in the translation instead of killed. It's frankly nonsensical, given not all of the audience will understand what 187'd means.
>>44235110
I've heard it as well. Only us oldfags will remember. It's not a term that's been used in the game for a while.
But I do agree it was a pointless translation.
>>44234680
noice
>>44235179
It's also from those early-ish years of magic, before everyone was using the internet quite so extensively.
Slang was a lot more varied back then.
>>44234680
I remember that one. The 187 discussion was in the last thread too and I guess I never thought it strange that people might not know what it meant.
It there a translated pdf of Tokyo Nova? I wanna try cuber punk with tarot cards. sounds fun.
>>44237829
There is supposedly a group that's holding on to a translated PDF if you can provide proof of purchase of the physical copy.
Supposedly.
I've been reading through volume one of quickstart, and pages 33, 34 and 35 are missing from chapter 7. Does anybody have them or know where to find them?
>>44238762
The site I use doesn't have them, either.
Considering the /tg/ credits are hosted, I doubt they would have left them out. Maybe they were never translated? Or maybe those pages aren't relevant to the manga somehow? (ads? one-shots of something not related?)
>>44238944
35 at least is important, I'm pretty sure it's the one that introduces Sensei and Senpai. There's a thing I remember where Senpai and Momo have an exchange while one of them enters a room.
>>44235731
All this time I just thought it was a bit of Japanese gamer slang that the translator left in.
At any rate, the meaning is plenty clear enough from context.
>>44238762
I've got them.
>>44239185
>>44239207
>>44239228
Thanks, anon.
Just realized, given that I've been saving all of the translated pages for personal use anyway, I may as well upload some rars of the two volumes.
Enjoy.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/uy4u5kb40w6c5/Quick_Start
>>44226182
>Quick Start!! Is kill
No
I need to read all this at once. These piecemeal viewings I've been doing are bad.
I wish we had a western version of this kinda thing.
>>44225955
Oh, i know the cockroach poker.
But i thought its a german only game.
Japan does like german, nice.
>>44242362
Knights of Dinner Table, I guess?
Except the art is shit and they're not allowed to use actual brand names and mechanics for fear of being sued so I guess it's not quite the same.
Meiko is the best girl.
Best girl from her first introduction page.
>>44243017
Isn't Hackmaster an actual game though?
>>44239393
aaand this makes the CBR I made for people obsolete. But yay for volume seperation
>>44232114
Get on my level
https://soundcloud.com/armor-dillo/slamualizer
>>44243472
Only because of the comic.
>NPC needs a German name.
>players joke "Yamada Bichs"
>GM approves.
Who is it? YAMADA BICHS!"
"Your mother, bitches"
>>44243580
Why make it a cbr file anyway? Those are just rar files with the extension renamed, aren't they?
This is a shit 4koma series playing on obvious nerd jokes, some don't even make sense, why would you just throw dice on a stranger's desk and-
>One girl is obsessed with fluff, the other is a genius with minmaxing but can barely muster the effort to give her character a name
...Well fuck, this is secretly awesome, isn't it?
>>44243919
>the other is a genius with minmaxing but can barely muster the effort to give her character a name
She's a minmax genius in part because she has infamously bad dice luck.
>>44243823
pretty much, but I have a comic reader on my win10 tablet :)
>>44225242
>doesn't know about computor magazines from the 80's
> the ones where they would release games in monthly parts, which you had to input into the computer by hand.
>If you missed even one comma or one letter the program would either glitch or not work, forcing you to go through the entire program - line. by. line.
>>44244057
Did you also record radio broadcasted video games?
>>44244057
Thanks for making me feel young. 10-year-olds with cell phones was one thing, but at least Doom 2 was around when I became cognizant.
>>44243919
Momo a best
A BEST
>>44243919
And you have the one who will always play the most exotic (and often monstrous) character options available.I may in fact be this type of player
>>44242362
The French generally just drop the players from the story.
>>44233988
What, PC-1 isn't enough for you?
>>44225955
I'm not saying it's a bad game, but I don't think anyone's been as excited as the girl in the last panel while playing Catan.
>>44243637
>>44243472
Yeah, and the 4th edition (the first one out) was actually damn good.
The new edition... ugh. Okay, the PHB came out, and it was a thing of beauty. But it was missing some things to play, as one of these games where there's a dedicated DMG.
The Monster Manual then came out, and it still to this day is one of the finest quality game books you will ever come across. High production values, superb quality, incredible information, an absolute joy to read.
and then... then a few years went by, the team changed, and the direction and planned modifications went to the scrapper and what ended up coming out was... different. And not all that great.
I *THINK* the DMG is out now. But it might be still the beta doc.
>>44225231
Small world, a friend of mine knows this guy. He also did this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTlq_ZUitVM
>>44244957
She's playing it for the first time, I assume. It's a pretty neat game.
>>44222433
Magical Realm much?
>>44248990
Yeah nonhumans are hers, and the chick with the glasses is all about manly NPCs
>>44243919
>One girl is obsessed with fluff
You are talking about megane right?
She is about fluff, but she also does meta game as fuck, so I don't quite know how to categorize her.
Sachi >>> fang teeth girl = troll drawfriend girl > scaly/furry not-mugi > momo > christmas cake sensei > fujoshi glasses girl > pigtails freshman
I notice that a lot of these japanese trpgs are set up to have very short campaigns. It seems like a single campaign never goes more than a couple of sessions.
Does anyone have experience with playing games like this? None of the games I've ever been in were intended to only go a couple of sessions.
>>44250720
>Does anyone have experience with playing games like this?
Ain't that basically just like playing with modules?
>>44250720
Saikoro fiction system's games are intended to be played in one evening (~4 hours).
>>44250747
Many japanese RPGs are meant as one-shot games you can play in an afternoon.
How is ikegami so based
>>44251234
so are modules? Many were originally designed around being run at conventions.
>>44250720
Read Tenra Bansho Zero. Gameplay is highly formalised (divided into scenes and intermissions, each with phases etc.) and skipping ahead is common, so things progress quickly. E.g. you might have something like
>Player: "His fortress is only a few miles from here! Let's infiltrate the fortress so we can fight him!"
>GM: "Everyone okay with that? Right, you're now in the deepest part of the fortress. He gasps in shock as you appear. 'How did you get past the guards?'".
>Player: "I toss a severed head to the ground from one of the guards I killed when I came in. 'You call these guards? Ha! I've seen better fighters in knitting clubs.' I roll to Intimidate."
>>44242362
Full Frontal Nerdity? It has neckbeards instead of cute girls though.
>>44252329
Are they cute neckbeards?
>>44252392
That's subject to opinion.
http://ffn.nodwick.com/
>>44252446
>words words words words words words
Not cute.
>>44252295
I had some friends who really wanted to play Tenra Bansho Zero. They were some things we loved, (Aiki Chits), but some things that worried us, (Karma and Information).
I should really give it a try some time though.
I feel like it would be really hard to get to make good replays in a tabletop game. You'd have to keep the off topic discussions to a minimum and I've never seen that happen.
>>44254677
I assume those are just edited out?
>>44254744
Lots of editing work to be done then I guess.
>>44251553
Momo can be quite cruel.
>>44239393
Mediafire folder doesn't seem to work for me. Got anything else?
>>44222166
Thanks Anon!
>>44255403
Different anon but I only have the old chapter 1 uploaded on Mediafire, you can try downloading mine
http://www.mediafire.com/download/pb329nl02vp0h70/Quick_Start%21%21_01.rar
>>44249014
I thought it was more "Bad Boy Villains"
>>44222166
Thanks!
>>44254620
>They were some things we loved, (Aiki Chits), but some things that worried us, (Karma and Information)
Not entirely sure what you mean by "Information," but you can't really enjoy Aiki chits without embracing Karma. Otherwise what you really like is "FATE points."
What differentiates TBZ's Karma system from run of the mill bennies/fate points/whatever is that the entire system is constructed in a way where characters are forced to change and evolve, because that's what keeps them in the game. This is the thing that makes the Karma system great; it's a minmax resistant story engine.
To briefly introduce the system for people who aren't familiar with TBZ, it goes like this:
All players have Fates, which are simple evocative characteristics that characters roleplay around. Love: Childhood Sweetheart is a Fate. Goal: Kill the BBEG is a Fate. In addition, the GM is allowed to give each character a Fate, called a Destiny, which mechanically works the same way. Whenever you roleplay these characteristics, you get an Aiki chit.
Aiki chits basically turn into Kiai points, which can be spent to gain advantages in different ways. You can actually outright *buy* successes; by spending enough Kiai, you can outright succeed at anything you set your mind to, regardless of what you roll. However, spending Kiai generates Karma.
Karma can be thought of as "corruption," and gaining too much of it will write your character out of the game, turning him into an Asura, an evil human who has gone mad due to his great attachment to the world. Lots of Buddhist overtones here. Anyway, in order to reduce your Karma, you need to either *rewrite* your Fates, or *sublimate* them, which you get the opportunity to do at the intervals between acts in the game.
>>44225231
Amazing
>>44260697
Rewriting your Fate means taking one of your Fates and changing something about it so it's a little different. For example, if we had our Love: Childhood Sweetheart Fate and we wanted to rewrite it, we'd keep the target of the Fate (Your Childhood Sweetheart) and change something about it. Maybe instead of just being secretly in love with her, you've resolved to propose her for marriage when you get back from your latest adventure, so you might rewrite it to be Goal: Propose to Childhood Sweetheart.
Sublimating means you scratch that Fate off; it's resolved completely and your character has moved on. Goal: Kill the BBEG would be a fine target for sublimation immediately after you kill the BBEG, obviously, but you can do it for any Fate you want. Perhaps you decide your character lost his memory of his Childhood Sweetheart when he was knocked on the head during a great battle; Sublimate it! How heartbreaking will it be when she sees him once he returns and he can't even remember her name?
In addition to these choices, new Fates may be created during the intermission phases of the game. Every intermission, your character should be changing in some way, gaining new Fates, and generally just shaking up the character. In fact, the GM and even other players can offer you Aiki chits in exchange for taking on Fates of their choosing, encouraging other players to get involved in how your own develops.
So what you get here is a constant cyclical system that provides rewards for roleplaying, allowing you to use those rewards to succeed, but more importantly demands depth and change from your character in order to justify it.
The *really* beautiful thing here is that even taken at its most cynical, minmaxy level, this system creates a story. The rulebook uses an example that went something like this.
>>44260710
Once in a game, a samurai player was squaring off against the BBEG. The samurai was nowhere near as strong as the BBEG, and had to draw deep into his Kiai reserves to beat him, putting him way over the Karma limit, which, if he did not reduce below the limit, would Asuraize his character at the end of the next intermission. However, the player had done his mental math, and realized that by sublimating all his Fates, he could keep his character in the game. So he did just that.
The GM asked him, "Well, your character's Fates have all been sublimated; so what does that mean?" and the player decided that in the great battle, his character had fallen unconscious after slaying the BBEG, and after waking up, he had lost all his memories. This carried over to a subsequent game; the samurai had started to work for a wicked witch, and the other players, who recognized him, had to find a way to dispatch the witch without hurting the samurai. After the battle and in the intermission period, the samurai took the Fate Forgotten Memories so he could start to roleplay around the fact that he was trying to remember his lost past. Even taken at its most minmaxy face value approach ("I want to beat the BBEG, but I don't want to lose my character!") the Karma system helped create a cool story that everyone could get invested in. That's what's awesome about the Karma system.
tldr TBZ is awesome and you should play it
>>44260697
>>44260710
>>44260717
Dang, that really does sound awesome.
>>44260962
I am a huge fanboy of TBZ. It lacks mechanical depth compared to some other systems I really like, but it succeeds with flying colors at what it really sets out to do, which is to make this oddly theatrical type of beer and pretzels type game where it gives you all the tools you need to get a dramatic and interesting game going *fast*. Players are constantly asked to evaluate how their characters are developing, if only for the practical purpose of keeping them alive and in the game. It's a perfect example of how to marry roleplay and "rollplay," loathe that term though I may
Another thing I really like is all the little ways it tries to speed things along, yet does so in a productive manner. It is a system designed for one-shots, so it does a lot to try to help make sure you get character drama out of the precious little time you have. For instance, the Emotion Matrix.
You know that slightly awkward bit of the first session in every game where all the characters are trying to feel eachother out and find some material to roleplay with, or some basis to start roleplaying from?
Enter the Emotion Matrix. It's a table that you roll 1d66 on, using a d6 for a 10s digit and the other as a 1s digit. You roll the dice, look at the table, and the table tells you that initial gut feeling another character gives you. This can be anything from "I felt a hint of killing intent from him" to "he reminds me of family." You can also play around it a little using Kiai to move the result to an option you'd prefer, or the GM can try to bribe you into accepting a result that he wants.
And I find that really handy, because then you can develop based on that initial "gut feeling," and you're never left flailing around looking for some material to use to relate to another PC. It gives you a basis for characterization *quick*. Keeping things snappy and interesting is really what TBZ is best at.
>>44261340
Doesn't this 1d66 only give results from 11 to 66?
>>44261396
Yeah
Details
>>44261396
More actually wouldn't it just give (1-6)(1-6), so you could never roll a 29 or something like that. Unless you're rolling a d10 and a d6, in which case it'll average out to around 41 I think. Might as well just use a custom die roller app or online site.
>>44261486
Assuming I'm doing it right in my head, it gives you 36 different possible combinations. Why do they need exactly 36 entries?
>>44261521
It's a d6 system m8
They're probably just working with the type of dice they expect you to have
>>44254744
Well yeah.
>>44244584
>French comic about RPG
>De Cape et de Crocs
>Not Donjon
Even Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk got a comic book
>be the guy who always wants to play unusual races
>universally shitcanned by /tg/
I don't care what anyone says, I'll take any chance I can get to play a tree. Or a hovering metal sphere. Or a spider knight. Or one of those cat-in-boots trickster animals.
And maybe occasionally a real witch witch.
>>44261699
Donjon ain't based on a campaign.
>>44262279
That's a good attitude. RPGs are for having fun, and interesting stories. Not to conform to some internet stangers' standards
Personaly, in the last group I've played, my human PC was the unusual one
>>44262590
it's not about being unusual for me.
It's about just... wanting to play something other than human.
Friggin' everything lets me be a human, with all the human powers. Nothing lets me be, say, a tree, with all the tree powers.
"Haha, humans dying to a little bit of stabbing. how silly. OH NO, SOIL NITRATION, MY ONE WEAKNESS"
>>44262621
Oh, I was not saying you were doing this for the unusual factor.
>>44261340
>roll first impression of other characters
That's a fucking great idea. I'm shamelessly stealing it man
>>44261340
You know, you made me actually curious about that game. if my group was better I would probably try it
>>44262910
For personal reasons I can't upload my copy of Tenra Bansho Zero, but I can post the emotion matrix table.
>>44263199
>You have no doubt that, deep down, this person is asking for your help and guidance. You are the only person who can help them, you're sure of it!
I can definitely see how these would make for more enjoyable characters.
>>44263199
>someone plays a whore type character, loose with their lips in more ways than one
>roll a 41
>>44226556
shh no triggers, onlymurder
>>44263314
Harem protagonist level denseness.
She shows up without clothes on. He assumes she's too innocent to hide her body.
She flirts with guys, he thinks she's being friendly and needs to be protected from the perverts of the world.
>>44263314
>63
>your tortured mercenary is now honor-bound to out-slut the slut
>>44263484
It's a contest to see who can bring the most men to their knees.
>>44263199
I know everyone else is saying it too, but I like this chart.
>>44263484
or (more reasonably) it could be a rivalry centered on which of their methods of resolving conflicts is better. Make Love not War, shit like that.
Or something completely unrelated to their professions. It says right there it could only be a small rivalry.
>>44222745
>Having pity with a powergamer.
Holy shit, it's been a long time.
>>44223265
She will always have red hair in my heart.
>>44225290
Drow and Duergar are Scandanavian pronunciations - so it's "drough" and "dwegger".
>>44222166
Wow...I still have the first volume bookmarked but I had given up hope of anymore ever coming. I'll read it later, thanks for sharing.
>>44264233
Is that through, though, bough, cough or enough?
>>44261669
Back when D&D was first introduced to Japan importers would charge an arm and a leg for d20s and stuff. In order to avoid this they started making d6 games. This has carried over to today, a lot of JTTRPGs use d6s only.
>>44264233
fuck you, you know what you did
>>44264670
Is FATE big in Japan?
>>44264717
I have no idea. I've never heard it mentioned in any of the JTTRPG threads. I would guess it's not 'big' though.
>>44264032
She's not a powergamer, she's just doing what she can to compensate for her abysmal luck. It's not like she's hijacking the game or making everyone feel inferior with her build's power; the dice see to it that she can't.
>>44264717
I get the impression that, to someone coming from a JRPG background, a lot of FATE's signature features just aren't that novel.
Here's Ikegami in a swimsuit.
>>44265730
>no fang
>sexualizing quickstart girls
>>44265842
It's by the author.
>>44265859
well
shit
