Should allied NPCs that travel with the party (I.e. one PC rescues his father who was turned to stone in a dungeon long ago, he fights alongside the party to finish off the Medusa that petrified him) be built like player characters, or like NPCs? This is in D&D 5e of course. In D&D 3.5 all characters were built as PCs were, with minor changes. 5e NPCs are basically built like monsters. I've seen DMs try to use PC built NPCs with class levels as antagonists and it never ends well. But this would be for an allied NPC. Do you believe that the PCs should be the only ones in the world to have levels in character classes? Seems a bit odd and solipsistic, but that's basically what the game is based around. Could also use those sidekick rules from one of the splatbooks but that doesn't really fit here.
>>98922157Nah just build them like monsters, makes it easier and faster.
Crazy how times changeback at the tail end of 3.5 the idea of NPCs not following PC rules was like a major sin for a system to do.
>>98923779>>98923631>>98923599>>98923400Alright sounds like a plan. >>98923970Yeah it really fucks with the world and internal consistency to do it the way 5e does it. I know that 3.5e saying a level 10 warrior was CR 9, when he would die in 1 round against a level 9 party, was stupid, but in some ways this is even worse.
>>98922178This
>>98923970It is one of the stupider things to come out of that era of ttrpg. And, I mean, it was actually the 90s (vampire, shadowrun and cyberpunk are all guilty of this shit.) NPCS fill a completely different niche than PCs, they should be built with an eye for ease of creation and ease to run during the game.
Which systems support body hopping the best?Tried EP but it was kinda mid
>>98908219See the witch on the left? Yeah, I mind broke her and made her beg me to fuck her in the ass. After piping my rock hard cock in and out of her pink little tailpipe for what felt like hours I pulled out, pulled her cheeks taught and looked at her gape. I dragged her up by the hair into a kneeling position, put my hand up under her jaw and fed her the length of member. She was of course hesitant to take into her mouth after I had just pulled it out of her ass, but after a moment she started to moan and really enjoy it. I eventually gacked all over her face and then dipped the tip back into her mouth over her drooling wet lips.
>>98922732That's... True, actually.I wonder how hard it would be to port the rest of EP in the Paraoia system.\I know and like the setting of both, but havn't played either.
>>98908219What's wrong with EP?
>>98922803Did you really
>>98912576Literally just nechronica refluffed into robots instead of zombies
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>>98923252Come n' get your slop:>>98923281>>98923281>>98923281
>>98915861Kek
>>98915861>X A, Y'er B
>>98924312what does that even mean
>>98912332H-hot
Bit niche request maybe but I'm looking for a non-D&D system where wizards lugging tomes around is mechanically important and represented.
>>98908350>Bit nicheat first i thought this was german
>>98915951Please
>>98908350GURPS Dungeon Fantasy. You can use the Sages splat. You will see the Scholar template beginning on page 8, and you're looking for the Book-Learned Wisdom feature / advantage (which is just the Modular Abilities advantage from Basic Set with some modifiers applied to it). Just swap the "only skills" to "only spells", it's the same discount, the advantage will still work exactly the same, just for spells instead of skills. You can of course continue to modify the modular abilities advantage there with various other modifiers which then modify its cost (for example making it faster to study a spell). You can see examples of how to treat spellbooks and similar writings beginning on page 13 in the same splat.You can find the link to the community GURPS repository by lurking moar here.
>>98921122Grim
>>98908350To add, Mausritter has spells as physical objects held by the mice.My own system has a few different styles of magic. The predominant one being "leximancy" where the tomes are, essentially, arcane tomes of long dead sumerian-style languages. Reading them can, quite literally, drive you insane. And, when you prepare your spells for the day, you effectively create semi-random combinations of nouns and verbs with implied effects. If you study the tome enough, you can read a consistent spell that you can later call upon, but it takes a fair bit of dedication.
After a long time away (I last remember the first XYZ cards being advertised), I tried playing Master Duel recently and built a legendary six samurai deck because I played the original six samurai. I know about Yugioh power creep, hell every TCG has power creep, but this is just fucking ridiculous. Almost every single deck I went against could crap out at least 5 boss monsters from the extra deck, remove every monster, and spell/trap from my field in the process, and then do a one turn kill, even if the deck was non-meta like Synchro Diva. Or they could set up a ton of negations on their board that made it impossible for you to do anything. I thought the 20 minute turns were a meme but no, those turns actually take that fucking long to the point nobody plays trap cards any more.The only wins I got were against someone who auto quit and an Exodia deck who spammed a bunch of draw spells to get the Exodia pieces and failed.I tried making a meta deck. But then I found out I didn’t know any of the archetypes and the ones I did know were completely unrecognizable. Like the hero deck is literally 4 different hero subtypes put together. And then even the cheapest decks have like 15 UR cards in the extra that all need to be there to function properly. How the fuck did Yugioh become like this? I’m still used to using hand sizes to gauge how many cards my opponent can play.
>>98921679I remember my experience with Master Duel was playing Volcanics, which actually did get to use trap cards. Largely so that I could stall for just long enough to nuke the opponent's board and get out copies of Volcanic Emperor so they get burned for each special summon.Which in some ways was very satisfying to watch clueless players struggle to play the game when their standard summoning combo deals 8000 burn damage to their face before they're even finished. But it also ultimately wasn't very enjoyable because it just turned everything into non-games because a lot of decks simply fall apart if they don't get to special summon a dozen times for free.>How the fuck did Yugioh become like this?Power Creep in other TCGs often comes in the form of undercosted cards, but since in Yugioh the only costs are the card itself and a limited normal summon, that means an 'undercosted' card is one that special summons itself or gives you more material. Grandmaster of the Six Samurai would be a pretty good example of that, where instead of tributing the monster you normal summoned, you're just special summoning it for free. And if it dies, you can get something back in your hand anyway.Which is to say, if you can see how it took less than a decade to get from Summoned Skull being too slow compared to Grandmaster, you can see how in two decades Grandmaster has similarly become too slow. The trajectory becomes rather clear in retrospect.And it's also been like this for long enough that the people buying packs enjoy this sort of combo gameplay. So that's who the game caters to.
>>98921679So you're saying that you didn't play the game for 15 years, opened the game with an almost-20-year-old deck, and are wondering why you got curbstomped? Are you stupid?
>>98922390Anyone who plays ygo is
>>98921679That's why you run anti-meta. You run stuns, you run floodgates, and you run hand traps. You make the game as unfun for these metaslop shitters as you can, you learn what piece in their combo needs to be cucked to break their entire strategy down, and then they will ragequit and you'll rack up the wins and the salt.
>>98922269Comes with being a manga merch game that outgrew itself
When are we getting the seven havens edition?
>>98920129>>98920134They should reboot the origins story and make only the original series canon, everything else after it (and the origins story) make it non canon, do it like Star Wars style.
>>98921292I wish that would happen but doubt that it will. Plus at this point I think it will kill itself and become like Thundercats and other 80s and 90s cartoons that was big for it's time but never grow past their first series
>>98921785I think that's going to happen. It's a shame, it's an interesting franchise and world destroyed by its own creators and a group of fans and pretenders.At least the porn will outlive the series just like Overwatch and Dead or Alive.
>>98910392Wdhmbt
>>98916427That's all roleplaying
Are there any good Sword & Sorcery, humans only, TTRPGs out there right now? Something that evokes the flavor of Howard, Lieber, and De Camp?
>>98893138AD&D 2nd Edition - Lankhmar
>>98893467Kelly was easily the best Frazetta imitator.
>>98893259This one is amazing
>>98893154Overrated
>>98893233>Conan 2d20Meme
Which is better between Age of Sigmar and The Old World? I find that 40k is just so utterly boring and the models in every other range are more interesting.
>>98920531Because the community is shit
>>98919163Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game.
>>98918984Depends, what are you looking for, exactly?Skirmish or rank and flank?
>>98918984AoS is better
>>98918984Right now I'd say TOW between the two. 3e AoS was one of the most fun wargames gw put out.AoS is too unstable and they're culling models & whole ranges without much warning or telegraphing. The rules writing also sucks, and they basically gave up on the setting and characters.The shitty part about TOW is that it's basically the same rank and flank game for the last 30 years which is ok for a while but has limited potential, and they still don't have support for half the armies. The latter could and probably will change but no guarantee.
What caused massive decrease of Dark Elves popularity in tabletops?I remember them being very popular in 00sIs it because these days people only want to play as boring ass humans?
>>98925398>I MUST STAND OUT REEE I WANT HUMANS REEEfuck off fag
>>98925664>TantrumI'm not surprised you miss the point.
>>98899090Every fantasy fan including Henry Cavill plays World of Warcraft and Dark Elves don't exist there because Night Elves and Blood Elves will forever be Wood Elves and High Elves as for Nightborne they're yet another one of these Troll tribes just like Zandalari and Darkspear which is the only explanation for their willingness to join the Horde without a compelling story that would've involved Garithos and Kael'thas
>>98899056They heccin problematic y'all
>>98899087feep beep
Decide to fuck with my party>we're playing through a discord server, so I have an idea>I just start rolling random shit on dice witch >2d20, 3d6, 1d20+3>random shit>one of the players reacts with "concerning">i roll 5d20 (there are 5 players)Everything in this world is part of my game
>>98923890I'm sure it sounded clever in your mind.
>>98923924One of them fell for it, at least
>>98923890Legend
>>98923890>everyone make a will save >writes down results, passed notes to every player that all say >you feel okay, you think >refuses to elaborate
>>98923890HOLY FUCK NOONE EVER DID THIS EVER!!!!
What was the neckbeardiest thing you've ever witnessed at your LGS?
>>98924592>be me>go to lgs>see people playing tcg tourney>some of them have beards on neck >run away pissing my pants
Mostly just absurdly fat men in sweat pants with atrocious personal hygiene breathing heavily while they pour over CCGs.
'This will make a great thread on /tg/!'
>>98924592When they started selling beer and snacks and introduced barcade. The sweat, coupled with the melted cheese and stale beer was simply too much.
A guy was teaching me legions imperialis and this HUGE like just gigantic dude...not even huge as a fat ass (even though he was fat) just a big fucking dude like 6'5. Went to sit down and just absolutely fucking demolished a chair. Like the dude crushed it with his mass. It was a metal chair too. His whines will never leave my ears. Also the dude who taught me legions imperialis wouldn't stop picking his nose and eating..while standing next to me. So that was fucking fun.
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>>98926968based
>>98926968the OG
>>98927091new>>98927091new>>98927091
>>98925831ew ai
I've never played GUMSHOE, is it good at its stated goal (facilitating investigative play) or is it a gimmick?Also Delta Green thread.
>>98910944A biotech company is getting around steep disposal costs of bio-mystical waste from the synthesis of an anti aging serum by selling it to the cartels who use it to cut stimulant pills.The party is looped in after the 25th tweaker that month has successfully hallucinated himself out of the squad car after arrest (doing so turns them inside out because nobody much less someone high out of their minds) has the ability to hold the formulas necessary for successful teleportation in their heads.
>>98921074Jerry!
>>98842304He understands he just doesn't like it
>>98835268It's a whole ass system that does what one GM advice blogpost for another system would. It's kind of pointless.
>>98925877Nah, there are plenty of ways the point spend economy is a fun system you can do interesting things with. Nights Black Agents is a great system that utilizes the tools pretty well (and I assume FoDG is similar, being heavily based on NBA)
Why'd we stop having Traveller, Shadowrun and Eclipse Phase threads?
>>98865352also Runequest peaked at 2e...
>>98914507ok, but that still allows us to have shadowrun and eclipse phase threads
>>98865352the second edition lore is just so much better than third edition it breaks my heart
>>98865162Yeah right
>>98923711I feel like all the 90s games were better in their earlier/earliest version, before the metaplot really set in hard and the setting kind of calcified. Reading shadow beat or any of the early setting books is so cool, a lot of it is weird/niche stuff that won't ever come up in a game, but it's rad to see the writers were thinking about what the world was actually like.
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>TQGW obviously thinks flyers were a mistake, so no.
>>98923608Not from 40k no. But Chaos fliers for Imperialis and 30k are still on the table potentially. Although 30k are probably going to see Heretek superheavy walkers from LI first.
Nice joke thread....Anyway, rule for Stormcloud Attack. A dogfight game made to sell 40k aircraft kits. It's all flat and there're no attitude like the AI game but it had more efforts put into it than whatever the fuck the 2021 AI 2nd edition was.https://files.catbox.moe/ae7v6t.pdf
>>98923608I appreciate your gusto anon, but this thread (despite being bumped by me now with this very post) isn't going to last, never mind become a general.Godspeed Airman
