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.
>>97402725>No doubt, all the land is alive but it usually doesn't make itself known. God, it can't fucking stop making itself be known here. Way north from the caern there's some other abandoned or semi-active ones, weaker ones, with what seems to be a living mountain walking whenever it's foggy enough. Steer clear of that place. >Come nightfall we should meet-up. Promise I won't sneak up and scare you.Aw, and here I hoped for a true Gang experience. See you soon.Gotcha. H0T and Meo are going to be meeting Lavender and HSE as their immediate guides. Lavender's outwardly a pasty twink, ballet dancer build, looks mostly normal, discounting his still dyed, because he's yet to figure out it's a HSE ploy, hair and an a whole lot of Lichtenberg figures on his skin. HSE's a shortie freak combining goth and a witch aesthetics because she thinks it's funny, and because the huge boots and hat give her a bigger presence. Lavender's practically brimming with Levinbolt, HSE's got a hodgepodge of various seer-y enough Thaumaturgic paths, plus artifacts and rite tools. Turn her upside down and shake and it'll rain charms, bones, little blood vials and shit like that. Their auras have slight abnormal tidbits to them, not much at all, but it's faint little traces, fitting their niches; even patterns in HSE's, sharp, jagged streaks in LL's. Hard to see them, even, it's something you have to actively seek to spot. The 'chantry' compound is more or less an old, recently rebuilt manor, in no small part still fucked with bold old damage and very fresh. It's clearly meant for a lot more people than there'd be - four Tremere, counting LL and HSE, and several ghouls. Some rooms might be hidden with typical old Tremere tricks or just only accessible if you can swim through the earth. The other two Tremere are other LL/HSE siblings, with different, less fun Thaumaturgic niches. The compound's some distance away from the caern.
>>97403439H0T and Meo actually got a decent chance at figuring out what's up. On top of Meo's Malk stuff, the eyepatch can let H0T see ghosts with relative ease, and there'll also be some scattered ghosts of some exceptionally upset, recently-deceased kinfolk. They were part of a large, multi-tribe, Toreador elder-manipulated war party that attacked the manor during the Week of Nightmares and basically got slaughtered, even if they killed LL's sire and razed the manor. Their gripe is that they died in droves, got used by a leech, and don't even get to be laid to rest properly; H0T can prolly help them by getting their scattered remains out of the soil and burying them right, that might give her some info. All in all the ghosts are haunting the woods and the manor, and at least some of them will be willing to talk in Great Lake languages, being from there. Overall, the ghosts will hint towards that the caern used to be Croatan property, its patron spirits greatly miss the chosen custodians of the caern, and the ghosts are convinced the spirits are tormented by captivity vampires enforce upon them. Only, they're not actually tormented - that one will take more effort and time to figure out, but with some spirit-chatting practices and Malk tricks, H0T and Meo would be able to spot Incarnae Spirit claws deep in every Tremere in the sorta-chantry. They've all got non-Wyrm Spirits wanting something of them, being metaphysically connected to them, as a result of the dead Sire's fuckery. LL's tied-spirit is Thunderbird, hence his thunder obsession and it manifesting before him to scare the shit out of him - it's testing him the way it would a Garou. The Tremere don't notice it, having been mentally and magically conditioned out of it, and HSE's the most aware, while still denied the option to put it all together. Your call how much, and how, Meo and H0T figure out; the Tremere are mentally blocked from connecting the dots, they're of little use.
>>97401254>They can stay on me the easy way. Venus' bloodline is built different and we retain haircuts, dyes, and basic body modifications.Oh, that's remarkable. There's some types who would consider this a sign of the coming Gehenna and bemoan it, but it sounds exceedingly useful a trait. I'll keep this from Tats, lest she really starts insisting you get some piercings, since for her every single new one is a big investment and she'd like to at least live vicariously through you.>The nostalgia is getting to me, but the next lady I'm gonna date in Boy Toy's stead is from your clan! A Blue Blood FFS!A patrician's choice. And a choice of a patrician.>Tats' gonna kill me!Tats nodded in agreement and said you're very sharp. For this she grants you a one percent discount, an honor she expects you, a bourgeois, to appreciate thoroughly.>we train away from the mansion.I'll help your new teacher pick out a sufficiently abandoned warehouse and get the necessary training supplies, Cauldron-Born excluded. We're honestly running a little short on those warehouses, waging a war on the Palatine meant most of that sort of locations got occupied and subsequently leveled, but there's got to be one or two still, thanks to America's deindustrialization. >>97401263>Ask an old Caitiff anything.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97403556>There's some types who would consider this a sign of the coming Gehenna and bemoan it,Nope nope nope this isn't some thinblood nonsense it's a feature some in our clan have!Mom grabbed my phone to type this, by the way.>For this she grants you a one percent discount, an honor she expects you, a bourgeois, to appreciate thoroughly.Another victory for the bourgeoisie!
>>97403556>A tired question, but somebody has to ask it. What's the oldest thing you met, whether Kindred or not?A tree:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarv-e_AbarkuhFor kindred, I think it was the Prince of London, it was nothing special, I was honoring the Tradition of Hospitality, he barely moved his hand, we didn't speak.
Is your experience with TTRPGs more broad, or deep? Have you played a variety of systems, or mostly focused on a single one? I'm interested in what modern /tg/ looks like in this regard. What year did you first play a TTRPG? For the purposes of this thread, we're not counting solo RPGs or one/two page games.In no particular order, list which TTRPGs you have played at least one campaign in, indicating editions if you think it matters. If you GM'd that system, put an asterisk next to it.
>>97402542I'm a middle aged gen X guy. First tg was Battletech 2nd ed I got in 1987. Went heavy in tg's when I got my drivers license in '93 and could go to the LGS whenever I wanted.>which TTRPGs you have played at least one campaign inRouge TraderDeathwatchD&D 3rd and 5thAlternity (tsr)Paranoia XPWHFRP 2nd and 4thL5R (2nd or 3rd, can't remember)Doomtown 1stArs Magica 3rd and 4thTwilight 2k 2ndWoD 2nd + LARP in the '90's/'00RiftsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97402542under GM 1:Dark Heresy 2e, joined midwayD&D3.5Call of Cthulhu(one-shot and campaign)Legend of the Five Rings(one-shot)Rogue Traderunder GM 2:DnD3.5under GM 3:Dishonoredunder GM 4:Only WarWrath and GloryWFRP 4eComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97402542Definitely broad. I've played 3.5, 5e, Call of Cthulhu (5e, 7e, and the d20 version) Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Delta Green, shadow of the demon lord, punkapocalyptic, zweihander, WHFRP 4e, Blades in the Dark, Scum and Villainy, Edge of the Empire, Feng Shui 2, SWADE (both vanilla, and Deadlands), Cyberpunk Red, Shadowrun Anarchy, Mothership, Spooktacular, Unknown Armies 2e, Traveller and a few Fate varieties. Most of this has been one offs or campaigns that only got a session or two before they died, but there have been a couple of longer campaigns in there.
>>97402542I wouldn't say that my experience was particularly broad or deep, but i was definitely captivated by it early on>What year did you first play a TTRPG?I don't remember specifically but the first close approximation in playing with a ttrpg was with HeroQuest in 1994-5? (i was 8-9), at my friend house, i got the real thing in 1996? when my father gifted me the Dragon's Den becmi boxed set (picrel), but to be fair i didn't understand much of it. It was only in 1998-9 that i finally got to play at a real table in my town's lgs with a MERP group.>In no particular order, list which TTRPGs you have played at least one campaign in, indicating editions if you think it matters. If you GM'd that system, put an asterisk next to it.MERP*AD&D 2e*D&D 3.0/3.5e*WFRP 1e*GURPS 3e/4e*Chaosium Stormbringer*CODAsystem LotR RPG*Mutants and Masterminds 3e*Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97402542Started gaming in 2003ish>Proper campaigns lasting from 6 months to multiple years3.5ePathfinderDark HeresyRogue TraderRunequest: Roleplaying in GloranthaShadowrun (can't remember the edition)WFRPCall of Cthulu>Anything lasting a few sessions to 6 monthsShadowrun (can't remember the edition but it was different)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Prototype editionHere is a thread to discuss trading card games other than the big three.>Build Divide>Force of Will>Final Fantasy TCG>DBZ CCG>Wixoss>Keyforge>Gundam>Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R)>Digimon>Flesh and Blood>Gate RulerComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97403190kek
>>97403198Guy was kind of a clown anyway. His own personal blog is a poor English mess with actually competent people dunking on him in the comments.
Not to sound like I'm investorposting but>looking to buy artbook of out of print card series >preferably a still sealed one for the promo card inside it>find guy selling opened artbook + binder at about twice the price >binder has the other promo (box preorders) and over a couple dozen rares>contents of the binder are themselves worth more than the price they + the book are being sold atI'm really tempted.
>>97403408fuck yeah bro flip that shit make cash money get bitches
>>97403423I'm not selling the fucking promo, it's my man big C the squidface himself.
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Which builds tendie and which builds nuggie?Fast food order tier list?
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>>97403621Accurate to my build
>>97403621Dawn is dinosaur nuggies for sure
>>97400663https://youtu.be/QEjmLcgREQU been playing marvel rivals so this is the voice stuck in my head while making the build>>97399849"HR said we can't hire little girls for these foreign shoots.">>97399852"My ex-wife isn't allowed on lot, pal... She's not here, is she?">>97399864"And plaster some goofy maid dress over perfection??? No way, Ms. VA."(All of these would cost production way too much.)
FUCKING PEAK AND YOU CAN’T CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
>>97399158>I dont understand why there is always a fight about this game.Some anons are just big mad.
>>97399158Style over substance and the style is pretentious hipster bullshit while the substance is "what if made D&D even worse?"
>>97399158>>97402886>>97403020Read in order.
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>>97399158>I dont understand why there is always a fight about this game.Easy, i'll show you.>>97402359
God in the Machine editionPrevious >>97347837>Basics Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/GWjTU9Uv>Anon's Locals Survival Guidehttps://pastebin.com/xXp5jShL>Fanmade PC simhttps://pastebin.com/u6aKrBSg>Official Mobile sim (Release Date TBA)https://www.digimon-alysion.com/en/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97402231>>97402251>>97403079I assumed you guys were retarded and looking at the wrong pixiv profile because his name is sasasi not sasai but no, it's legit.
If i play zeedmillenniummon with wicked god descends, can i use overclock on the same turn or does it go with normal attacking rules?
>>97403587Unfortunately Overclock is not Vortex. You can't attack with it the turn you play it.
>>97403647Are rush and vortex the only keywords that allow same turn attack? And does the card need to be unsuspended to be able to use overclock?
>>97403763>Are rush and vortex the only keywords that allow same turn attack?Yes, though Alliance on another Digimon also works in spirit.>And does the card need to be unsuspended to be able to use overclock?Nope, "attack without suspending" means you can make that attack while already suspended. It isn't super intuitive but it is very useful.
Work in Progress, "Battle Chess" Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97403619there's an anon that racasted some busts lately, maybe he can pitch in because I have no fucking idea myself
>>97403624Absolutely, you could probably go darker but it's fine already
>>97403619I was able to take the top of a Dark Angels landspeeder and make a blue stuff cast for milliput copies as terrain (rooftops). for a simple, one-part cast, it worked very well, no grain or bubbles.
>>97403619Bubbles are a major problem with casting so unless you want to invest in a pressure pot you'll have to be ok with filling in defects yourself
>>97403619>shieldsoyamaru + greenstuff might be sufficient. I'd at least give it a shot. stuff the shield face down into the oyamaru to make a mold, cram greenstuff into the mold, and wait for it to harden before removing
>And I will not tolerate>The forces of evil
>>97403296>barbarian>highest stat is Wisdom
>>97401270>I WILL tolerate the forces of evil
>>97403313Yeah he'd be much better with 3.5 and intuitive attack. Might even be a runescared berserker or something
>>97402034Tbh >>97402061 put it more elegantly.but yeah, how IS it? my best guess is this is like Babycakes or something, there was a D&D cartoon. so, can we talk about Retarded Animal Babies or 8-Bit Theater...? what if i posted a Homestar Runner catchphrase?once again, the real answer is that OP wanted to discuss non-/tg/ shit here, because he wanted to crack jokes with the superior /tg/ userbase. gb2/co/ or whatever this is.
>>97401487I am a father, I am a son
Let's try it again editionPrevious thread:>>97275454 >What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97403531Cat is from Goon MasterRabbit is from Bite The BulletBoth are on MMF
>>97403360>"Mom can we have redwall?">"We have redwall at home">Redwall at home
>>97403538thanks
>>97403184So, Gliwiceanon, what war/skirmish games are you into?
Playtest game #4! Vermin Gangs vs Avid Theocracy.>Avids started strong knocking out a threatening Grizzlies charge turn 1, but the Vermin sniper squad cracked off the Avid commander once they were free from combat, scoring commander kill points to bring the score ahead.>Turn 2 Pinion Guard removed some backline Slumrunners while the Vermin bikes took control of the center of the board. Shots were traded but not much died.>Turn 3 activation count of the Vermin dropped heavily, the Avids removed the sniper commander and traded home points with the Vermin.>Turn 4 scores move back towards even but the last Grizzlies pack catches up to and removes the Avid's heavy mechsuits.>Turn 5 the only way for Avids to win is to remove the bikes from the center, but without a good melee threat, they have to rely on shots from the battlepriests to force a Panicked check, which the bikes passed thanks to their Leader.>End score 34-36 Vermin Gangs.Playtesting is coming along smoothly, still making lots of tweaks to factions mid-game. Next step is to finalize terrain so I dont have to keep using 40k-style L ruins. Haven't come into any game-ending issues yet, which is good. 3'x3' play area for "half-sized" games has been working well, I just got another set of "minis" to test out a full game, gonna try 6x3.
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.
>>97397934This is sick, thanks for sharing.
>>97288112>open juice>jesus christ what is going on what is that text above wilderness or wilderness monster encounter>open instructionsi feel like i need a PHD here nigga
>>97397997>>97399446lol'd
I like when NPCs info dump and give exposition. How is that done in solo play?
>>97403669by asking the oracle a bunch of lore or plot related questions.
TP4 reanimation protocols Edition▶Previous thread:>>97139724▶News:Reminder that next box is Sisters vs Raptors:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zrjpzrms/adepta-sororitas-battle-chaos-space-marines-over-a-long-forgotten-tomb-in-kill-team-shadowhunt/▶Official Key Downloads, FAQs and Erratahttps://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/kill-team/▶Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/AinK04▶Boxed Set Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/NWRByw (deprecated)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97398096https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/tvaxw27j/kill-team-shadowhunt-celestian-insidiants-show-witches-the-blunt-end-of-a-null-mace/There's the sisters preview. Definitely nuts bonuses for losing operatives for them. Trying to balance them when they supposedly have a powerful extra bonus against psykers is going to be an issue though.
>>97402329it is not easy to get. they need to be inspired and in 6 or lineof sight to get the bonus.
Can Aquilons still "teleport in" on the Into The Dark and Tomb World maps?If not, that'd be hilarious, because that's their only gimmick
>>97386982https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cKLUkq72vgo
>>97386982Aren't they squatted?
>local discord>"we need a gm! we playing d&d!">join groupchat>decide to run a one shot>tell them the premise>3 days later nobody has sent anything>tell them that if they dont all have their characters ready, i will not run the gamegee i wonder why theres a gm shortage
>>97402565Writing the backstory is one of the best things about DnD. Its a narrative control no other media has.Even though there are better systems, the point still stands.
>>97402565There's also no reason for a DM to run a long-running game for a bunch of randos before knowing how they play unless that DM is being paid which I doubt it's the case here.
>>97401135I've seen both extremes a lot. Players who throw down a thick binder of over-prep, and players who walk in with no character sheet and just tell you to hand them whatever. Neither one is necessarily more familiar with the actual rules and mechanics, but the first one is likely to have an emotional meltdown when their character dies ignominiously at level 1. The second player is probably going to spend the whole night on their phone and basically need the GM to play for them.
>>97396362Oneshots should have pregens.
>>97399563This.When normies say they want D&D, it means they want to pretend they're a Critical Role cast member, and when they realize that your ideas conflict with their Critical Role fantasy, they decide that they don't care anymore.They want to imagine a fantasy version of the hobby, you want to expose them to reality. It's incompatible, and it's why you should ignore people asking you to run D&D. If they ask you to run "something" then they actually care about entering the hobby.
what's the best tabletop rpg if I want to make a campaign that's basically a shonen anime style tournament?
>>97392375That ignores scouting, Diplomacy, analysis, support, and general non combat skills.
>>97373930BESMPanic! at the Dojo
>>97385172I assume people got a little bit tired of regurgitation the same few spots of news and are just waiting for something intersting to come along.
>>97373953so what, we allowed to have generals only? on the second thought... it'd be nice to have a "x in y" general lmao
>>97373930>cortex prime>storypath ultra>warhammer soulbound>exalted 3Ethese would be the best at the top of my head
Is there a reason we have so few games with a Gothic or Victorian inspired setting but a trillion rehashes of medieval fantasy, science-fiction or some eastern setting with katanas?
>>97388554he hyperbolic, I guess. I wouldn't say it's nonexistent but is a rather niche thing compared to shit like dnd, star wars and anime.
>>97388379Dude admitting he never talks to women
>>97388146If we're taking the easy way (victorian era): steampunk is a thing, while it generally is more an aesthetical small part of the whole. Per se it's a very shallow premise, mind you, is't more or less like using togas for a scifi setting. Togas are cool, but if you want to do space Rome that's... not enough. Even something like Blades in the Dark with ferocious class divide is a step in the right direction.Gothic setting proper would be both more difficult and easier. Easier: WOD is arguably already THE gothic setting of RPGs, even if the system doesn't strike me as doing good service to the core themes (interestingly, for all their trappings vampires are less gothic than shit like werewolves, changelings and of course prometheans). Harder: people would probably like 1800s and even 1700s scenery, so castles, cemeteries, innocent maidens, classical monsters and all that "basket of things that were overused when motherfucking Dracula came out". And that's probably not the hardest, mind you: gothic fiction is all about transgressing the boundaries of society. Are we gonna use THEIR boundaries (which to us now seem at very best charitably silly) or OUR boundaries?
>>97388379...does the US even count as Victorian? I'm pretty sure Victoria wasn't our fucking queen
>>97388379u fookin wot m8even without steampunk trappings people love Victorian shit, novels from the time and fantasy set (or inspired by) there.the whole reason you picture London as all foggy is because of the Hollywood obsession that London must have looked like that, get out the fog machines.(of course it's ALWAYS London, never Sheffield or somewhere.)
Back From The Dead Edition Previous Thread: >>97241180The thread to talk about Super Heroes/Villains/Spies/Agents/Rogues be it in spandex or not.Popular Choices for Games:>Mutants & MastermindsCurrently the most played one, uses a d20 resolution for everything, has powers building and rules for tactical combat.>Marvel TSR/ FASERIPClassic Supers game from the 80s, still has a lot of fans and various retro-clones. Uses a d100 with an universal resolution table to decide the degree of success, has random character generation and abstract rules for powers and combat.>Masks (PbtA)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I recently did a conversion for the "space demigod" archetype from M&Ms Cosmic Handbook, I adapted it for the Fudge generic RPG.
>>97402983This is for the Silver Surfers and the like, I'm assuming.
>>97403613>This is for the Silver Surfers and the like, I'm assuming.There's also more than a little Orion in him, but yeah you get the gist.
>>97403680I'm not all that well-versed in cosmic-tier heroes and adventures. What's there to do up there?
>>97403692>I'm not all that well-versed in cosmic-tier heroes and adventures. What's there to do up there?If your Lobo, the answer is smoke cigars in outer space!
