ITT: secret knowledge your party would kill for, either to get it, protect it, destroy it, hide it, whatevermaybe just playing delta green would scratch that hitch but I'd like to avoid intergalactic reality warping monsters and keep things tech noir / cyberpunk related because the setting is eclipse phase with nechronica and cowboy bebop shoehorned in but anything goes reallybtw the twist for my players is that they don't know they're onboard a generation ship but I'm looking for ideas to get them on a shitload of false leads kthxbye xoxoxoxo merryxmas & hppy new yr btwfuck this new captcha so much wtf
>>97217422It doesn't normally take much for player characters to kill people. The location of something shiny is usually enough.>false leadsThis is normally a bad idea. A game is not a story, and you shouldn't expect it to work like one.
>>97217422Without knowing more about your party or your world's history, generally anything that indulges or promises to enrich or empower the players is enough.The price for profit can always be reduced to money. Life insurance is proof enough that even the average person understands how much someone's life is worthIf you're talking about raw power, heck just attach a meta-mechanical benefit for getting a piece of treasure or book. You promise to give them a feat from the book? If it's the first time, you don't even have to tell them it's the worst feat in the book.
>>97217422... traditional games?
>>97217429OP asking for plot hooks to engage players (unless he's not just botting, which he probably is)
>>97217422>false leads Give them one that is almost correct but not quite >schizo ramblings about being trapped in a lab-test Have them find a brain-in-jar experiment underway. >abort, retry, fail? t b h hiding that they're on a generational ship is difficult to do unless you get into megastrucutres. Doesn't take that long to get from one side of a ship to the other and player characters will have inordinate amounts of free time.
Wacky Races edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97206969>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, Sharty on the 'log and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97218257They were smart enough to make these two different units that just come in the same box instead of smashing them together
>>97218263The hunters of huanchi themselves are also two separate warscrolls, so you can make 3 distinct units out of a single box if you want.
>>97218238it's objectively analogous, yes
>>97218237It's definitely autistic but there's nothing odd about it, when the first two temples functioned a certain way there's no reason to expect the third to not do the same
>>97218289>5 dudes (super elite)>5 dudes + kangaroos>5 dudes + internsit's balanced
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>>97213563I like to think of it like Tremors.
>>97213563>>97213705Combined movement of stiff hairs covering it's body.The Listen check is actually the way you detect the thing being nearby, because Spot checks will automatically fail by the text.
>>97169428>you are going to be hitting high teen levels within a few months of constant adventuring and such a character would not fit into any world.Utter nonsense. Rising to the highest levels of power in a matter of months, or even days, is entirely believable in many fantasy worlds, and scarcely different from doing so in a few years. Adventurers are extraordinary individuals who encounter extraordinary circumstances. Your sense of verisimilitude is shallow, and overall, you are lacking in imagination.
>>97172251.Go pester the Paizo thread instead.
>>97172773>they are known for being sluts that secretly love being gangraped by orcs and goblinsCucks enjoy such delusions, but your kind are thankfully fringe.
>author adapts his D&D campaign into a well-written, highly-entertaining animated seriesWhy has nobody done this since?
>>97217694Cursory look suggests it's just anime, no manga, no LN, right? I'll throw it into the watchlist then.
>>97217776There's manga, just hard to get your hands on it. The anime that started in the 80's is what everyone knows.
>>97216711He means they already have a story (plotted PC arcs and eventual campaign outcome), then just pretend the mechanics are affecting their fate in some way (like in real games). The streams in CR/Hollywood circles are not games, they are story/play writing.
Why are any of you even talking about Isekai? It's a garbage genre grown from a once novel concept. Now it's just a stamp for mediocrity and color-by-number meta-fantasy.There's no discussion to be had. It's bad. The best one, whatever that may be, is just the most shiny turd in a pile of shit.Go watch Orphen or something. The original one, not the generic looking modern remake.Also English dubbed because it's funny.
>>97218180I'm sorry, but LitRPG Isekai novels have been part of the /tg/ sphere since at least 1983 when Joel Rosenburg published The Sleeping Dragon. Sure the genre is flooded with low-quality Japanese Web Novels, but that doesn't mean that it should be ignored just because you find it annoying to sort through the crap and find the interesting diamonds in the rough. Go wallow in your pool of "classics."P.S. That original Orphen series? That was a mangling of a Light Novel series originally published in the same magazine as Slayers, Rune Soldier Louie and Highschool DXD.
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>>97217917I am aware anon, I've been joking about it with my girlfriend. It seems to have made its way back to Indiana, so hopefully it will be here soon. God bless the USPS, can't believe they managed to send a package shipped within the same city to the other side of the country.
>>97215340I’m in the OP, what the hell. Here’s that guy finished for posterity. First of his kill team.
>>97218046>>97218068To show the light shining through a gemstones (regardless of colour) you shade the top and highlight the bottom, ie the opposite to how you'd treat an opaque material. Finally you put a white dot highlight right where the light first hits it, ie in the middle of your shading.As for a yellow gemstone in a gold setting... the best advice may be to go for a silver or copper setting instead.
>>97217947>>97218078he was scooped off the street so I haven't the faintest. his name is pepe silvia and his favorite food is whatever I'm painting>>97218108I really should have just dropped it at your door but I didn't want to be a creeper. plus if it was stolen I wouldn't have the tracking to show I wasn't a grinch
You think I'm ready to go from here?
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>Only one bant commander that cares about big butts>It just happens to be the defender tribal commanderDamn it.
>>97218088Black weenies (but I want to be attacking with them, not tapping them down.)
>>97218253You're better off using dismember/defile
Orzhov faeries.Discuss.
>>97218253in my experience convoke is good because you always have the option to leave some creatures (summon sick) up and pay it partially. not to mention the connive is good card selection. I have it in a creature deck that doesn't really make tokens and it's fine in that too altho my deck cares about the +1 counters too
Games where Intelligence is the best stat? Hard mode: not because of magic.
>>97217507AD&D 1e alongside with CHA
>>97217507Chess
ACKSYou get more General proficiencies that way, doubling them at 18 INT; as well as increasing your strategic ability (meaning your units become stronger under your command)
>>97217507D&D 3.5e>.t skillmonkey
>>97217527It doesn't do shit in that game.
Moloch's Fun Park Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What Trench Crusade is notTC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97217015I only recently learned about Meshmixer’s existence for digital kitbashing. How’s your experience been learning it?Up to this point I’ve just been using blender/lychee to slap bits together.
>>97215947Thanks!I'm open to more suggestions as well. I just feel that TC shouldn't be small scale skirmish but larger scale.
>>97217135You should give him a heretical prosthesis of some sort
>>97217135>>97217988A wooden leg containing a defiled splinter of the True Cross. Or a pile of fetuses bolted together.
>>97217988>>97218012That'll be a fun kitbash, make him Johanness, One-Legged Twice Gifted, give him a shield and the vuvuzela from the extra bits bag and a grenade
Wanted to talk about advice on GMing, settings you prefer, and styles or issues you as a GM have. I generally tend to prefer dark fantasy or sci-fi settings rather than trying something a little different. I also tend to have a style, depends on the system though, where i have a combat heavy session or two and then a more intrigue/exploration focused session. I have been working on how to better balance games I run, but trying to tie that to timing a game session gets tricky at times. Another issue I noticed is that puzzle solving or investigative games can be a lot harder for a player to get into the mindset for than the dm. It is easy to think everything you planned makes sense when you thought it out in your head but the players might not have the same line of thought.
Why is it so common for fantasy rpgs that try to do the "Deep Lore" stuff to always default to Gnosticism or H.P. Lovecraft in a trench coat?
>>97208974Name twenty five examples.
>>97209182First off, White Wolf is Luciferianism. It even pointed it out in Demon: The Fallen. Everything was because Lucifer loved humanity more than God.So yeah, your wrong.>>97209186This is fact.The only difference between Sword and Sorcery and Lovecraft is who wins the battles.>>97209201Buddhism is Gnosticism, just for East Asia.>>97210777This is also fact.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I like how Gregg Stafford subverted this and turned it on its head in Glorantha. The "deep lore" is basically a constructed mono-myth by neo-platonic atheistic sorcerers, in reality it is the viewer who constructs reality through faith and actions by re-enacting "mythical" actions. Its Jung and Eliade pilled and closer to how humanity has viewed the myths in history and much less positivist (ala Lovecraft), "this is the way the world is constructed" while still having some basic cosmological rules. The Lunars are the most strange because there is no real life earth analogue for their extreme theological syncretism, maybe the Innana Ishtar cult of the ancient near east would be the closest analogue or Hindu Shaktism. However it I have not seen much comparison between Glorantha and the Lovecraft mythos and its funny because Chaosium has owned both games. Maybe Lovecraft's Dreamlands and Clark Ashton Smith influenced some of Glorantha.
>>97210661A) It isn'tB) That's not Gnosticism
>>97208974>why is mysterious, obscure and esoteric lore inspired by mysterious, obscure and esoteric lore??
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>>97217299The best parasites don't kill their hosts. Also the math just doesn't math on Elders needing to stack the bodies up high just to function on the night to night. It strains the credulity of the Masquerade immensely, especially when you remember that human populations used to be much smaller. V5 doesn't understand many things, logistics is one of them. The world prior to the 21st Century is another. It certainly doesn't understand how things like surveillance states and intelligence agencies actually operate. The big issue with V5's vampires is they're so non-functional that one finds it hard to believe they didn't go extinct a long time ago. For the record Blood Potency was fine... in Requiem, where it worked differently and was part of a universal rubric to determine how potent a supernatural being was. I'd go so far as to say that if we were just talking about Requiem's blood potency, you could mix it with generation and have a generational min-max potency and it'd work relatively fine as a compromise. The problem is V5 loved cribbing things from Requiem that worked without understanding WHY they worked.
>>97217476Can a reality deviant provide you with primal energy and / or money? Are you a memeber of the SPD? If you got yes twice then you're good to go.
>>97217736In Requiem it was also as much a negative as it was a power boost to get a high BP, to the point that it was common for an elder to just give up and go sleep away a century or two so they can feed from humans again instead of only other vamps.
Stat him
>>97218254High charisma and intelligence, high occult mastery, probably a sorcerer. I'd say high wits, high perception too. Probably a lot of derangements, even more when you fight him as a boss.
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Oh, man, I remember Iron Kingdoms. I always thought it was a cool setting. If anyone has any other IK stuff to share I'd definitely partake with thanks.
>>97218102GF d/sPYgVX
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>>97218093Purely because they were a spiteful corporate bootlicker, at least one of them admitted as much in their post.
>>97218112I’m not gonna lie you have to be such a pathetic loser to take joy/entertainment for someone bootlicking aside. The bootlicking only makes me think of grima worm tongue. Tragic. It’s crazy people like that exist. I’m sorry you guys lost the mega.
>>97218132Sadly there's a lot of people so miserable that the only satisfaction they get is ruining life for others.
>>97217892Same here. The FW heresy schemes fit the grimdark aesthetic so much better than the weirdly clean edge highlights of eavy metal.
Does anyone know where the table and the holo-monitor bits are from? I think using the LImp minis for holograms is so fucking sovl
I've been on a space kick recently and want to run a sci-fi space campaign as the GM. What are the best systems for a flexible gaming experience without the autistic complexity of something like Shadowrun? I'm looking for a system that can run "magic" (Psionics, occultists, dark gods, etc) and high-tech weaponry and ships and stuff as well as madness mechanics mutations, cybernetics, horror elements, etc. Visiting weird planets, dealing with intergalactic politics, smuggling goods, assassinations, dealing with alien cultures, learning dangerous magic and technology, etc. I also want the players help make the setting so I'd prefer a flexible system that can handle a multitude of scenarios with cool aliens and stuff. I've heard of Traveler, Starfinder, etc, I just wanna know what system(s) I should focus on learning about first. I'd rather not run it in a Star Wars DnD conversion or Feelings and Lasers. This crowd usually plays DnD or very simple games but are open to other games too. Again I've tried Shadowrun and I'd rather a system that isn't over-complicated and just has the hacking take up 90% of the screentime.
>>97212838Oops didn't control fDerp, that has indeed already been mentionedUh Savage Worlds maybe could perhaps fit looks solidGonna go wake up a bit then gather art need more Dai, I'll be lurking
This isn't exactly what OP is asking for but base Classic Traveller is super simple mechanically and will handle any scifi level from "present day, present time" up to the level of a few dozen habitable systems spread over a few hundred parsecs.
>>97198206I have a game I'm almost finished with, but its vibes are less grimdark sci-fi, and more Guardians of the Galaxy, or Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
>>97198491i can't believe something finally happened in dai dark and i managed to get spoiled. wtf
>>97198206the system you seek basically does not exist because nobody is trying to compete with SWN and all the 40K games. Though none of them are able to do what you seek fully there is overlaps.your probably better off trying to use a universal system like genesys or cortex prime>>97217477>>97198491i can't believe i got baited
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Can't show POV of being taken bondsman by a Clan Jade Falcon Aerospace Phenotype on this board.Previous Thread: >>97195724================================>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400>Overview of the Major Factionshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houseshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clanshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97218066So they got the dracversity right, but forgot to make them all have draccents. Well, fuck. That is kind of immersion-breaking.
>>97218081Just check the FM. That will give their composition and upgrade percentages just a few years before Bulldog.
>>97218071YOU DARE REFUSE MY BUTTE HOLD?!
anyone read shrapnel?
>>972180871st ALAG possesses among other things 2 omni companies and an air wing that doesn't provide air support. The other unit, the 7th is listed as having all 3025 tech, so I guess there's room for both
