So, imagine for a second that a GM is pitching you a sci-fi game to play in soon. The setting is "like StarCraft," the rules system is a new one to you (Flex D6 if it's essential you know), and the general flow of the game is described as flying a small ship around and going on planet side adventures in the face of an approaching disaster. What do you need to know, or want to know, ahead of time? What would be useful to you practically, creatively, etc? Do you want a session zero?
>>97250918>session zeroYes, but has to be setting description, group character creation and a short encounter to get everyone on board. >need to know Rules to the game ideally on a quick reference sheet or short 4 page thing. >want to know Scifi sort, space opera, fantastical, very soft, a bit more technical, are the people I'm playing with part of a regular group or new? >usefulElevator pitch for the setting, blurbs for the space area, how space travel works, what themes we're aiming at, how character mortality works.
"like StarCraft"
What this >>97251058 anon said plus >Can I shoot lightning?>Can I shoot lasers?>Can I have a cool robot arm that does any of the above?
Or have another type of disability before becoming a space marine? Note this is not meant as insult on the disabled I am legally classified with Asperger's and get Canadian Disability for that.
>>97253897OP considers being artistic a disability, why would he ever paint a model?>>97253907>OP calling anyone else a faggot
>>97253970 I'm using a speech to text internet program. it's not supposed to be artsy it's supposed to be autism.And no this is my first post since I made the OP.
>>97253872>artistic Yeah, he makes exquisite paintings of mountainscapes.
>>97253987>I'm using a speech to text internet program.Please go and stay gone.
>I am legally classified with Asperger's Average warhammer fan
>Setting Basically late medieval to early Renaissance Europe >Magic Not really available to players, expect in the form of extremely rare high level magical weapons and items. BBEG should possess magic abilities >Player characters European presenting male fighters only, maximum one low level hedge wizard or shaman>Races All NPCs and PC should be human, finding a non-human village like elves should be extremely rare, unlikely, and magical experience
This one I've been thinking alot:Low fantasy early modernity but there is no gunpowder: pike warfare, swordsmanship and archery dominate and are developed to new levels.The longsword never goes out of fashion and becomes something akin to what the katana was to the japanese.Set in a northern confederacy, a lot of conflict is settled locally by private wars, judicial combat and duels.
>>97249726Yes? Yog is a unique npc that apoears in one story and then fucking dies.
>>97250116generals keep that shit contained.
>>97222512>Space opera setting. Upkeep of individual ships should be unusual for the common person. A vast network of interplanetary spacelines should exist>Magic is as natural as breathing. not everyone should be supremely strong and of course no universe breaking reality benders. Space gods should exist>The who thing should lead characters to be very specialized. Maybe based on one to two backgrounds per player, being their sort of classes. >Players should be able to play whatever species of the setting they want. As long as it is able to communicate with the group and interact with the world in meaningful waysI dislike the rigidity of dnd classes, I would like for everything to be way more open to player choice. Maybe even make the magic system free form, I've heard Macchiato Monsters does it for example. Other than that no clue. Shouldn't be too crunchy but also not too rules light. As long as I don't write it this system will never exist. Problem is I only ever played 5e and got no clue where to even start.
>Magic>Not really available to playersWhy?
I've been told the standard D&D character is now a human female fighter and the fighter section has had gender neutral language replaced with she and her to accommodate the fandomDo all the boys who play really just want to be girls? How do we make them want to not be fighters or humans? Why aren't tieflings the most popular?
>>97250307>I've been told theDid you bother to check yourself?
>>97250307every guy wishes he was a girl
>>97250307>and the fighter section has had gender neutral language replaced with she and her to accommodate the fandom5e uses "You", dumbfuck.
>>97250307>standard D&D characterIf you're going to be a retard could you at least be a retard in the D&D thread?
The hobby has come far
>Dragons that exist on a level above Kings and are paid tribute but otherwise largely don't interfere with the affairs of mortals Vs>Dragons establish their own empires with their own bureaucracies, integrating half-dragons, dragonborn, humans, kobolds, and other racesWhich do you prefer? Or is there one that fits a particular type of dragon more than the others?
>>97252736>never reasoned withDoesn't Bilbo manage to reason with Smaug at least semi-successfully? Yes he considers any mortal affairs totally beneath him but he does have a huge ego and is vulnerable to bargaining and especially flattery. I read the book a long time ago so I can't promise I'm not misremembering.And yes of course Smaug does quickly see through the flattery but that's because Bilbo actually was trying to steal from him.
>>97253010He misleads him, very briefly as you described, and then Smaug quickly sorties out, tries to find and kill the dwarves, fails to find them and so burns or eats most of their ponies so they can't escape the Lonely Mountain, and then flies off to Laketown just to fuck shit up, intending to return and root them out and torture them to death immediately after. The dorfs and Bilbo would've been completely fucked if there wasn't Deux Ex Machina Man, descendant of the King of Dale, with a never-before-mentioned Super Special Magic Macguffin Arrow, who talked to a fucking bird to learn Smaug's weakpoint and then was lucky enough to land a perfect instakill shot with said arrow. Weakest part of an otherwise perfect story. I don't think Tolkien wrote himself into a corner, I think he just wanted to find some way to involve Men in the Battle of the Five Armies, as if a mountain full of fucking gold wasn't motivation enough. But TLDR no, he doesn't reason with Smaug at all, and if he hadn't had the ring during their brief exchange, he'd have been a pile of ashes.
>>97253085It's true that Bilbo only survives through remaining unseen and Smaug would have gladly killed him if given the opportunity, but my point is that dragons, especially those lesser than Smaug, aren't stupid and could respect the power of dangerous rivals and negotiate, at least until they found a way to take the said power for themselves.
>>97252736>They can be tricked or misdirected but never reasoned withSo you don't like mythological dragons. Got it.
>Dragons that exist on a level above Kings and are paid tribute but otherwise largely don't interfere with the affairs of mortals This is kino
It's Christmas Yes I know I'm late, shut up a time of mercy and cheer.SO WHY NOT CELEBRATE WITH THE MOST MERCIFUL MAN IN THE IMPERIUM, THE REDEEMER!?!I'm going to storytime the entire classic comic. Shout out in the thread if you're reading (especially if it's your first time) and enjoy one of the greatest works of Warhammer 40,000 fiction.
>>97249961What's next, "whole gangs of dudes dual-wielding radcannons while doing 360noscopes off of their hoverboards and jetbikes is, liek, totally fine and justified because in the classic game you could, um, liek, buy a lascannon or whatever"? Anyone pretending any level of equivalence whatsoever between Necromunda and the modern shit can and should be dismissed out of hand because the only two possible explanations for holding such a stupid opinion are 1. they're colossally fucking stupid or B. they're being a disingenuous shitstain.
>>97251689Well now I'm imagining a Redeemer TV show where he's played by the guy from Psych, but exclusively doing his put-on funny spanglish accent.
>>97247838He looks vaguely like Iznogoud to me so I imagine him also sounding like him
>>97246658>Dear Diary, today OP wasn't a fag
Warhammer 40,000 is great
Which one do you recruit and why?
>Secular clergy.Man, that's some fucking "jumbo shrimp" oxymoronic bullshit.
>>97249331>>97252707I looked it up. It's the non-monastic clergy.
GO TO THE FUCKING DND GENERAL
>>97252707No, that the older meaning of the word
Why not this dude?
Thread #02 Lean Winter on the TundraPrevious Thread: >>97090196Welcome to /un0/, an RP thread for playing a World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness Hunter. For any OOC questions about WoD/CofD, check the official general. >>97224887Rules:>We are acephale. There is no storyteller, we are not a quest.>This thread is based primarily but not exclusively in the nWoD/CofD game Hunter: the Vigil. However, Vigil is defined by being highly setting agnostic, with a system for creating entirely custom monsters that do not exist in other WoD/CofD games. Thus, you have significant freedom in what you want to play and what you want to hunt. Feel free to play a member of the Society of Leopold, or a member of the Lucifuge hot on the tail of a Lasombra.>Namefagging is encouraged but by no means mandatory.>Keep in mind that even highly experienced Hunters typically only have fractured pieces of the puzzle, and every table has their own canon. The night is dark and full of misinformation.>/un0/ is conceived of as an experimental end to end encrypted program that is very hard to compromise, retains very little data and purges that data regularly. Please play an actual Hunter.>Spoiler any OOC discussion.Happy hunting. Unless this thread somehow takes off like a rocket, this will be the last un0 thread for the foreseeable future. Towards the end of the thread, please give your feedback in regard to these shorter, limited run RP threads.
>>97254355And who's been telling you this? Have you actually encounter anything that doesn't have an enforced rest period? You haven't been employing more than school yard tactics from what you mentioned. I fear to imagine how easy you would turn on your fellow humans if something whispered in your ear. >>97253981They can entertain other explanations, at least.
>>97254815>>97254889>>97255152It's not dogma, it's the truth, not all my brothers feel the same way by the way, so don't mix me and my beliefs in with my duty as a Hunter. Some of them arent even Christian, the Maltese Cross is that of firefighters,mit goes beyond just Christianity. Our physical existence doesn't matter, the most grievous wound to our body or mind does nothing to our soul. It's not our bodies that will leave this world of darkness.Demon ARE real! You've got me there. I've had to slay more than a few myself. Fae are just fallen angels but might as well work on the same principals. Bound by words, wounded by iron, etc. Demons are the only real "outside threat" so you've got me there. But even then, demons are not typical Hunter targets, it's mostly ghosts & vampires, & werewolves, & monsters.
>>97255152I'm fine with them as long as they don't do anything stupid and don't question my methods.
>>97255909I'm gonna need the fae connection explained.
>>97257354When the power of got swept through Heaven during the Rebellion it emptied a third of Heaven. Not all who were cast out remained loyal to Lucifer. These became the Fae & the pagan gods
Do you prefer systems with a strict class-based martial/caster division or classless systems that allow anyone to dip into anything at the cost of never being great at it?
>>97254119Everytime time I see it posted, the thread didn't bump on the catalogue This poster has a habit of posting that and saging.
>>97229027Ugh, this looks like shit.
>>97253985>How much time do you spend explaining to your players your design philosophy?I just take a classless system, but write up a handful of optional archetypes/templates to pick, or if a player isn't interested in any templates, then I write up a short list of limits and requirements for players to follow. I also include a brief explanation of the premise of the campaign, so players know what to expect and build their characters accordingly. During character advancement or "level-ups", I offer optional trait packages, or allow players to pick their own individual traits within certain simple yet well-defined guidelines. If players have any questions, then I'm glad to give further elaborations. These are things that every good GM should be doing anyways.>Have you never had a player complain or argue with you about why the class you built should work differently?Certainly. I often get requests from players to swap out an ability for a class, or for permission to break a certain limit to achieve a particular concept that makes sense in the setting. Classless systems make these sorts of changes easy, since classless systems often have a clear metric for defining the "value" of different character options, and give warnings or reassurance about what combinations might break or might not the game. Class-based systems are rarely so clear-cut, and are much easier to break by trying to modify, because there are rarely such guidelines.
>>97254490What do you have against wizard apprentices?
>>97254212A lie. You know it because you are the spammer.
Stories, art, don’t care. Post it or don’tWhite human male and orc female pairings are the key to fixing the realm
>>97256992it's okay if it's a small and girly cock
>>97257323She's got a foot long beef log. She's still got a pussy though, so you can knock her up. And her sister, and her sister's apprentice, and her best friend, and her mentor.
>>97257338>She's got a foot long beef log.no way it's that big, you can't even see it in the picture
Trench Raiding With The Lads 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.
>>97256201If it was truly edgy they wouldn’t be banning Le heckin chuds off the official forums, discord and servers.
>>97256274You’re dealing with one of the resident troll retards in here doing GW’s dirty work for free. >If their position reflected reality, their propaganda would be unnecessary
>>97256426Just a note, it seems as though issuing the pontifex’s crucifix in a Papal States warband costs three glory even though the first one is free.
>>97256313>broken, low quality modelsSpare us your dramatic hyperbole.
>>97256313Anon I think we can fit a few more adjectives in there, I'm not sure it's loaded enough as it is.>Absolutely nothing besides a terrible, unready rushed rulebook>A measly pathetic bunch of inane images>Splintered and shattered terrible greasy unlubricated low quality "so-called" models
If you think about it a party meeting in a tavern is a meet cute
>>97247153i hate you
Taverns fit any setting from the ancient Hyborean age to far off future settings
>>97252594cantinas you mean for future settings
>>97252571Looks alright, but I always had troubles with the "adventurers inn" trope. It's alright for the party to meet in a tavern but they must be the weird strangers next to the local peasants, butchers and blacksmiths.
>>97248349Then why'd you post this picture? The sidecut faggot to the left of the pic absolutely sucks dick. Might as well post a photo of a fucking homo bar.
Post amazing terrain, amazing tables, and good looking games Rules: no slop!
>>97251794>murder Bro it's a bird you gaping pussy
>>97213658Trench Crusade has been a fucking mess since its very inception. Anyone with any sense will have nothing to do with it.
>>97251221Whenever you go to stores, look around for random bullshit that you can just buy and turn into terrain. Electrical switch boxes, birdhouses, pringles cans, pvc pipes, shipping tubes, toy playsets, a container of peanuts that looks vaguely fuel tank shaped, etc. You'd be surprised how many of these items can be turned into nice terrain pieces if you just paint them, texture them and glue random shit on like straws, foam bricks, 3D printed doors and windows, corrugated paper, cardstock shingles, etc.
>>97252359Good advice. For example, I have a nice crenellated guard tower I picked up at Michael's for $5, in the birdhouse isle. :)
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I feel like this edition has alot of objectively bad things about it and is absolutely where the alot of worst qualities of current editions showed up. But I feel like I prefer playing this edition compared to a lot of previous editions and 10th edition. Its a weird transitional period where there's still a lot of the old units that haven't been legended yet while still having the fucking Primaris lot. Its strange but I don't feel like I'm missing out on much staying on this edition and playing with friends casually instead of going back to playing the current edition.
>>97245050Jokes on you I already checked out. Bring the sloppa forward (to subsidize the games I play now)
>>97245050elaborate
>>97186108>Does anyone here like 8th EditionRight here chief!
>>97213017The god-specific elite Chaos units actually slot into the 3.5 Codex just about perfectly. All you have to do is take some Chosen Aspiring Champions and kit them out with the right gear
>>97186166>I liked 8th edition because the few times I was able to have games I had fun.Common trait
What kind of fantasy monsters are you into? I like original abominations, standard humanoids/mythological creatures/giant animals are boring to me.
>>97251663It's not a debate club--it's a forum pretending to be an image board. You can contribute to them in all sorts of ways. Your choice? Complain about the topics of conversation that other people have. That only hurts the quality of conversation. That's why you're trolling, regardless of whether you "explained your case well enough."
>>97231289Work on your art
>>97252636Stop trying to kill this board.
>>97251663Poor Wilbur!
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