Thread #008 A Storytelling Game of Personal and Collective Horror EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>97367924Previous Thread>>97270170Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoileredTHREAD QUESTIONComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97379418Who amongst your house is currently the most stable emotionally? I'm aware all are grieving, if none are stable enough then I'll wait. -Kakophoni
I'm the best close quarters fighter in House Venus, and Boy Toy was the best with guns. We weren't enough. This enemy must be out of our league, I think the best we can do is train, survive, and throw money in the general direction of the bad guys until the right hands make the right heads fall.>>97379582Mercury Lamp by far. She read your posts with great interest. Man of Florida (who is just a guest) and her are discussing werewolves right now.Uncle may appear stable but he's one irritating noise away from a frenzy, since he heard mom's wail.I'm probably handling it better than I thought, courtesy of HalfSeeingEye's readings and advice. Thank you, HalfSeeingEye.
>>97379582Teach me Potence, Kakophoni, I wanna learn how to crush skulls with my bare hands.
>>97379582I'm listening.
>>>//TQ//You need to know something before you lose it. I was barely an adult when I got mauled.>>97378844>None of them ever respond very well to diplomacy, anyways.We're mostly the embodiment of hostile forces anathema to them and only when we get into the primordial enemies that orphaned the native Loup does that get put into a box most can deal with. Acras and Lìon.The Night Tribe presence though... They have a chip on their shoulder and I'd rarely call their relations with their native kin kindly. Few kind words, and the further north you get the more you get outright hostility. With all I've learned, something feels off about this entire situation. I'm in the neighbourhood, metaphorically speaking. Do you want assistance?Soon as I drop my boy off anyways. We're in Nevada.
The original Dark Erufu EditionDiscuss elves.Post elves.Love elves.All elf lore, game stories art and any else that's elfy is all appreciated.Thread question: Do you prefer your elves as fallen empire from the past or as dominant and hegemonic entity in your world? previous thread: >>97318413
>>97379423Elves are the only beings that'll live long enough to see the 1995 Toyota Camry reach its limit
>>97379478I don't know if elves would care to get a car that could reasonably live as long as they do. That seems more like a dwarf thing to do. Elves would probably care more about presentation and style, while also keeping it in excellent condition.
Would your ride be elf-approved? By what type of elf?
>>97379630What part of the вapшáвcкий дoгoвóp do you live in?
>>97379322in my d20 Modern campaign dark elves are chicano-likes so low riders, lots and lots of ridiculously kitted out low-riders
So I tend to run high-powered games with lots of homebrew and shenanigans going on in PF1e/D&D3.5e/d20 systems/etc. and I've used plenty of optional rulesets and such and tend to allow copious (some would even say insane) amounts of 3pp and alt content as long as I have a chance to review it first and it seems like it'd fit. Among other things I have used the Mythic rules for some of my games and overall I do find some of the content rather overboard even for my games. I have also granted players customized extras (that occasionally scale) before, once I called them "atavisms".I am trying to design an "add-on" system that's a bit more regular for my games instead of the random campaign specific stuff I've done for people. I'm just not entirely sure what to call this though and I was hoping you lot might have some interesting suggestions (barring making up my own word ofc).Thus far some name ideas include> atavisms> blessings> boons> awakenings (there is a 3pp system for these)> gifts> modifications/mods> templates> splats (WoD reference)> sides (eating lol)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Trinket.Keepsake.Memento.Treasure.Prrrrrrrecious!
>>97374673>>97372311Bequest/bequeathal/bequeathment.
>>97372311Heirloom. I always start my players off with a minor magic item that makes sense for their backstory. I let them homebrew it too if they can justify it and it's not too strong
>>97372311Inheritance. Could be a physical item, could be something genetic or bloodline related, could even be magical or divine power passed down via ritual or gods' gofts
>>97373967I actually tried to do something like that once before but noone seemed really interested in the idea when it was minimal and mostly RP focused unfortunately.>>97374529They're more like innate boons I suppose, but they can be items.>>97374560I'm specifically trying to avoid generic terms like "gift">>97374673Cute pic, though most of those terms don't seem to fit very well as they're mostly all physical item exclusive.>>97375041Some form of "bequeath" might prove interesting.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
SCP editionTell us about your horror settings, games, etc. Share inspirational art, prompts, etc.>List of games:Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Cold and Dark, Degenesis, Delta Green, Don't Rest Your Head, Dread, Esoterrorists/Fear Itself+Book of Unremitting Horror, Fall of Delta Green, GORE, Into The Shadows, KULT, Little Fears, Mothership RPG, Nemesis (free on Arc Dream's website), Nights Black Agents, Silent Legions (Mostly for the tables), Stalker: The SciFi RPG, Symbaroum, Ten Candles, Trail of Cthulhu, Unisystem (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft, Conspiracy X, etc.), Unknown Armies, The Whispering Vault, Vaesen>Inspirational stuff:Caitlin R Kiernan, Castlevania, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Doom Watch, Fear & Hunger, George Romero, Ghostwatch, House of Leaves, I Am In Eskew, John Carpenter, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Laird Barron, John Langan, M.R. James, Nick Cutter, Old Gods of Appalachia, Quatermass, Ramsey Campbell, Remedy Series (Alan Wake, Control), SCP Foundation, Scarfolk Council, Shaun Hutson, Silent Hill, Stand Still Stay Silent, The Evil Dead, The Magnus Archives, The Secret World, The Stone Tapes, Anatomy, Thomas Ligotti, Twin Peaks, Vault of Evil forums, toomuchhorrorfictionOther News:H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society releases "The Spark Devil"https://www.hplhs.org/sparkdevil.phpCurrent Book Club Topic:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97377431Night floors is good because the solution is writing Abigail wright off as a suicideUnfortunately the players will want to investigate. And the impossible landscapes campaign happens.A good KiY scenario is always going to be the protagonist fucking themselves over due to their own curiousity/need for answers/need for controlIt's why that one minecraft ARG is pretty good.
>>97377626Night floors is a series of "ooooh, so spooky" cut scenes. It's closet drama, it's great to read and think about how great it would be to run, but it's actually fucking dogshit, which describes 95 percent of Detwiler's output.
>>97377801It hands you a ton of tools for improvising shit to happen, weird things to investigate. If you can't use the LEGO you've been given to craft scenes from the resources that's your own fault.I find the best way to do it is to ask if it's a 'mood' scene, or a way for the players to find out more. And then writing ideas from there. But if you hate it so much what's your ideal KiY story, anon?
>>97379160>It hands you a ton of tools for improvising shit to happenIt clearly doesn't because turning it into something required a 200~ page campaign book. (Which still lacked an ending)
>>97379797It has an endingThe purpose of the play is to create itself.
It's Da PDF Share Thread!Get ready to stuff your hard drive like it's 2025!STEP 0:<----- That image is not a PDF, it's an image, at least for now. Check the 4plebs link below to find the PDF.PLEASE READ DA FAQ BEFORE REQUESTING OR SHARING.It will answer 99% of your questions about this thread. If you haven't read it, we will know.STEP 1:Please exhibit good manners. Threads start sliding off the board after a certain number of posts. More posts wasted on being rude means fewer posts available for sharing.STEP 2:Request, share, stay awesome!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
is there a Fading Suns folder somewhere?
>>97378972Seconded
Requesting Mothership zines from the Mothership Month, TIA- Awaiting the Burning Gods- Daedalus Station- Death Pay All Debts- Devil's Due- Emergence: an escape funnel - Johnson Squared- Knowledge Asymmetry- Not Enough Scoundrels- Syndicate Wastrels
>>97379654I dont have much but i shared what i did. I thought i had more but i can try to help you find something in particular maybe if i dont have it.
>>97379431>>97378339Seems there's a glitch with DriveThru.
>world's first 100% vibes based tabletop setting
they are so creatively bankrupt they just take shit directly from 40k
>>97379784How an investment company is allowed to have more holdings than the GDP of most nations is insane and beyond me. I'm fairly certain this is the sort of thing anti-trust laws were made for.
>>97379704>official public domain sources are schizobabblePlease tell me you're just a shit LLM
>>97379940>I'm fairly certain this is the sort of thing anti-trust laws were made for.This is the sort of thing WW2 was fought over.
>97374383Anglos live rent free in your head
>What is Exalted?An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.Start here:http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.htmlIt’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck>Resources for Third Edition>3E Core and Splatshttps://www.mediafire.com/folder/b54o6teut3fx6/Exalted_3eComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Talking about Raksi, funny how the east was so populous that they treated it as two directions, to thr point it received two directional Lunar elders.
>>97377069Well, it is the Direction of Wood, with the most verdant life and fertile soil, so it makes sense.
What are the differences between the editions? Which one is best?
>>97377069The East has a lot of resources, people, ancient ruins, food and so on.I like that the Dreaming Sea was added to have something to do in the South-East
>>97374037They buy into the marketing tag line too hard and have a meltdown when reality doesn't align with their expectations.
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>>97379366One of those is wrong. Towerslop isn't ready, One Piece is.
>>97379386anon that's a fairy tail map
>>97379397Yes and? The 3 images are a Fairy Tail map, Naruto Zabusa Arc, and a tower. The 3 cyoas that are about to be finished are Journey which is FT based, Nardo Reimagined, which is the Zabusa arc, and One Piece. The tower is out of place since that's still a couple months away when the other 3 are a week away with NardoR beta dropping in hours even.
>>97379469>Body Flickers in>Heh, nothin' personnel, Towersloppers
>Rentry(Full cyoa link inside)https://rentry.org/m8icnat3>SettingPackedCriminalEccentricEldritch>TraitsGoreyCreepyMutantsRogue AIsThe Secret PoliceComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade, Gygaxian D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere. Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons played as intended by its creators from 1974 to 1983 — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching metaplots and a greater emphasis on player agency. If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started. We also have two excellent beginner guides created by Anons with feedback from the thread that you can check for help: >n00b DM's Guidehttps://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B>n00b Player's Handbookhttps://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0 >Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128 >Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97376605>>97376625The sad truth of self-publishing on DTRPG is that there's tens of thousands of products over there, and most of them are crap. You need a better reason to look one up than "it claims to be for a system I'm interested in", or you'll spend weeks out of every year of your life reading crap.And frankly, the same applies to bringing one up over here. If you have something useful to say about it, thank you very much, share it. But if all the reason you have to discuss it is that it's just a random title that claims to be compatible with something, the overwhelming statistical probability is that it's crap.
Been working on my dungeon. Decided to make it orc-kobold-undead-kuotoa, so the players have even more factions to fuck around with. This is a sample. Thoughts on the formatting and ease of use?
>>97378009Looks okay. I'm not sure I would give away all those noises coming from other areas. Not sure how you mean to use them, but I'd place them in the rooms themselves, right at the top of each entry, for quick reference if somebody listens at the door.
>>97378009Also not sure why you refer to orcish as a "strange tongue". Chances are PCs will speak it, don't elves get orcish by default?
>>97377172As someone who once published through DTRPG?Completely agree.There are tens of thousands of products out there and most of them including mine looking back on it are crap
For some time now, I've been developing my free game, an RPG/strategy interactive fiction simulator about a Dark Lord/Lady trying to conquer/destroy a fantasy world using intrigue, corruption, dark magic, and brutal military force.I have already sought and received your help several times, for which I am grateful.I am planning another major update, focusing primarily on the endgame. Players focused on direct conquest will have new ways to find loot—portals to crazy, Lovecraftian worlds, discovering new lands, and a magical slumber to wait for the rebirth of old enemies/the emergence of new ones (and seeing how the world changes in their absence). For players more interested in the less brutal side of world domination, the options for managing the territories of our empire will be expanded. Will you allow orcs to overrun Dark Elf cities? Will schools focus on training engineers for the army and economy, or on brainwashing them into blind obedience? Furthermore, I'm expanding the Dark Lord's interactions with other characters, including available romances. Of course, new content requires testing, and since, as usual, it's highly non-linear and dependent on player decisions (plus random generation), I can't test every combination myself.That's why I'm seeking the help of testers. Here is test version - no need for download, it is playable online in the browser, no need to register or download: https://adeptus7.itch.io/playtesting
If for some reason you think the game doesn't exist and it's a scam to steal your data/money/soul/virginity, here are some reviews so far:- Indie Game Sampler (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM6f4UCEgWU- [BOKC] BlancoKix (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgNpSKToOSg- Choice Beat (zine, page 30): https://www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/choicebeat-issue-13/full-view.html- Dads Game Review (podcast): https://www.dadsgamereview.com/dgr-78-dominion-of-darkness/
>>97378890ai slop
>>97379631Are you an AIphobe? Sorry for trigerring you than.
Previous thread: >>97295718GURPS is a modular, adaptable system, capable of running a wide range of characters, settings, and play styles, with a level of detail varying from lightweight to completely autistic.Optional rules allow you to emulate different genres with a single system, or even switch genres within a single game.A nearly complete archive of GURPS books can be found by using the image. Never post direct links to the archive anywhere in plain text.If you're wondering where to start:- The Basic Set covers everything, including a lot of optional rules you probably won't use.- A genre guide can be found in the archive, under Unofficial/GURPSgen. It tells you what extra books and articles you may find useful for many common genres.- How To Be a GURPS GM is a good read even for players.- GCS (gurpscharactersheet.com) is an excellent character-builder software, with page references to all the books and the option to export to both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.Thread question: what's the best classic GURPS cover art?
>>97377472Maybe be our GM? We are open for any kind of scenario. Kind of beginners ourselves.
>>97378551I don't like cats.
>>97378891make a world without cats then. that's the nice thing about TTRPGs. contact me if you're up for a game https://app.roll20.net/users/16288673/bogged
>>97376860>They also capitalized Black because that's the popular thing to do.Huh?
>>97377472Start creating your setting. The first steps are you figure out your fetish and your political ideaology.
Based uhh... *checks notes*Based Games Workshop?!
>>97372934This is probably the truth.
>>97377629From what Ive heard from coders, it automates tedious baby code well for applications that do a couple of tasks but you turn into a lead babysitting a junior employee/intern essentially.
>>97377686That was essentially his gripe. It saved him some time but he found out the AI doesn't truly understand what it was doing so he had to look through everything it did to locate and mend errors. Additionally, he couldn't count on the machine to keep an accurate account of what it's done so he was unable to easily verify the completion of assigment. Ultimately, the costs were outweighed by the benefits.Truthfully, I think it's theoretically possible for a machine to do the tasks he does I just don't think it will be done solely through LLMs. The machine is perfectly adequate at imitation but it lacks the solid understanding of what works and what does not so it falls short of what is required. There is an absence of logic. There is something missing and this deficiency seems to be outright ignored or at times purposefully downplayed. I don't know if a world where AI creates for us is a good one but I know until this issue is rectified it wont match us satisfactorily. Though it feels like most proponents of the tech are less interested in solving this problem and more in getting us to adopt it in the first place. Though admittedly this could be the result of the availability of examples. Maybe the people who are interested in fixing this are drowned out by tech grifters and investment bros. Who can say?
>>97358187Hmmmm... I seriously doubt the corporate stooges over there are not drooling over the potential savings of slop machine.What am I missing here?
>>97368661>your life is great because you get to post on 4chan!
dead before bump limit edition▶What is Kingdom Death?Kingdom Death is a tabletop miniature brand stared by Adam Poots and operated by himself and his Team that later spun off into a miniature based bored game funded by two very successful Kickstarter campaigns.▶What is Kingdom Death: Monster?Monster is a Nightmare Horror cooperative boss battler/miniature hobby game for 1-4 players about hope in a strange world of bizarre monstrosities and perpetually darkness. Players take on the role of survivors that band together to form a settlement, fighting monsters, crafting weapons and gear, and developing their civilization to ensure survival from generation to generation.Prologue Narration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNLc8dHv0AcThe Game is broken up into 3 phases:1. During your Hunt Phase your band of survivors traverse the world of KD in pursuit of their quarry.2. After successfully tracking your quarry you will begin the Showdown Phase, where you must fell these horrific creatures in order to acquire precious resources.3. After the battle, your survivors wander home with loot in hand to begin the Settlement Phase. Arm yourself by developing new weapons and bizarre structures to prepare for next year's hunt.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97373192this is why house rules are a must.
>>97372128making changes in a tabletop game is like modding on a video game, you don't have to mod every little thing, just change some annoying stuff and thats it.
>>97373957And just like video game models anyone doing is a flagrant cheater is denial. Just look at how Community Edition turns the game into easy mode by doing nothing but mindlessly buffing "bad" options.
>>97376326>if you use a mod you are a cheaterMaybe if the game wasn't trash to begin with I wouldn't need a mod
Every time I feel bad about my skills as a painter I look at some of the models that were submitted for the pinup painting contest.>>97373192This is why you should have let the bard play as the monster and just pass the controller token around to change who gets the benefit when targeted.
This thread is dedicated to all kinds of solo games, systems, tools, and campaigns.Fail Forward Edition.>Last Thread: >>97062042Resources:https://rentry.org/srpgghttps://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitMore threads:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/orhttps://desuarchive.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/type/op/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I'm starting back on Solo gaming. I was wondering if their has been any new rules created that emulate War Law from Rolemaster
>>97373340Why specifically a ttrpg? Do you think it could work in boardgame form? and if not, have you played earthborne rangers?
>>97373036The fucking STEAMED HAMS screenshot didn't make it obvious?!
>>97373752not sure what you meanWar Law is already GMless isn't itwhy do you need something to emulate that
>>97372650Anyone?
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>>97376825These are both amazing, and please, no apologies necessary, any delivery is appreciated! I might miss something because I'm at work but I'll try and cover everything.I'm leaning toward frogmouth design personally. The addition of the vest and pouches is a neat touch. The spheres over the shoulders are throwing me a bit, if they were perhaps a bit smaller, that would be great.Lore wise-Quintessence is a type of underlying element to all things, like the forces at play in atomic bonds. It's innately magical but not exclusive to magical beings, if you draw out all the quintessence from something which only has a finite amount you can reduce it to dust. A mage can use quintessence to make their spellcraft easier (lowering the difficulty of the 'magic' roll by 1 per point of quintessence. It can be manipulated with the 'prime' sphere, using it to create objects or in the case of my mage, weapons infused with magical energy. The 'quintessence' blade is simply put, a blade of this raw magical force. It is also used to infuse objects with magical effects either as a 1 off or as fuel that has to be reapplied.1/2
>>97377104>>97376825Spheres are essentially the various forms one can use to channel magic, of which there are 9.>Correspondence (movement, action at a distance, teleporting, existing in multiple places at once)>Entropy (chance, fate, mortality)>Forces (Manipulation of elemental energies other than quintessence, wide ranging)>Life (all manner of healing, animating, manipulation of living things and creating constructs)>Matter (Inanimate objects, transmuting one thing into another, creating things from nothing similar to prime)>Mind (various levels of psychic power)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97376259I looked back at it a few hours later and decided i hated it
>>97201840Requesting a doomer blood hunter aasimar. I've loosely based his personality on Sam Vimes from Discworld. He's this lifeless cynic who just wants to get by somehow, but used to be full of spirit and energy.He's around 30, rather slim with light-grey skin, golden irises, white unkept hair and visible stubble. I rolled on 2ed aasimar trait table and got feather ears so I just played this as wing-ears. He wears leather armor and dark overcoat and wields a straight sword (rapier stats, but looks better imho). Thanks in advance!
>>97201840Can I request an original character based on the movie Quest for Camelot (1998) on here?
