Previously: https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/96936967/When last we met, we made G.E.T.S. (Generally Entertaining Team-built System). Thus far, it seems to be a fairly minimalist system.Now, we shall make our first setting for this system.If your proposed idea gets doubles, it is canonized. Any canon characters, worldbuilding, themes, et cetera can be modified (but not outright contradicted or discarded) by triples, quadruples, et cetera.Let us continue.
An angel's lifespan is exactly 7 days.
Angels are levitating disembodied breasts.
>>97183544When a musician pays in music, that musician immediately forgets how to play that piece and cannot learn how to play that piece again.
>>97246907>>easily thwarted by the same phrase used on lolicons: a drawing of what?>A drawing of a child that you would see in anime. > Woah, thwarted?!If you ever declare your own victory, you are a faggot. If that victory is from some simpleminded attempt at a gotcha, then everyone knows you are a midwit.
>>97201302>speaking would be the same as doing, meaning everyone has reality-bending powers.That's called a magic system.
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?
>>97246705Nope.
>>97246742>Fighters were designed only to fight and Rouges were designed to be skill monkeys. Both classes suffered at higher levels due being pigeon holed.So you think every class should be good at everything? That's shit design.
>>97248962Every class should be good at something meaningful.If a class is dropping off, either what they're good at isn't meaningful, or they aren't designed well enough to engage with it.
>>97249089On that, I agree.
>>97229035>Letting people multi-class inevitably leads to meta gaming.And? Building characters around expressing interesting mechanical ideas is fun, and doing so while also coming up with good rp reasons as for why your character is the way they are ironically makes for even better rp since it usually forces players to venture outside of comfortable tropes and come up with more unique character concepts. A Pallock is obviously a very strong meta gaming class combination, but the potential plot hooks of having someone who is torn between their personal honor code and their obligations to their patron are absurdly juicy from a narrative perspective.
How do you justify a "pest race" like goblins or rat people in your setting? Why wouldn't the dominant species make a concentrated effort to eradicate them if they were a problem?
How about they started off as bandits, but as the world has become more urbanized, they are finding new ecological niches that allows them to survive and not being killed on sight? After all, animals evolve, adapt, and switch tactics all the time. We see it with the rise of urban fauna.
>>97213989Goblinoids are an illness more than a proper race, it doesn't matter if you exterminate them, any large enough civilisation will have a percentage of it devolving into new goblins, one way or another
>>97242599What game?
>>97233792I thought it was because a heavy rain flooded a river in the escort's path, and because the punishment for tardiness was death, the leader decided he might as well die on his feet.
In my current setting, one of the main forces of magic is Rhymes. It's some kind of poetry/art/narrative magic. Users of Rhyme can make things happen by saying something, for example they can make someone somewhat immortal by remove stanzas related to their death. Fae are innately related to Rhyme magic, and specifically a subtype of fae are goblinoids, creatures that have naturally gimped fates. Some goblins don't die, they just fade, some goblins are never born. Some goblins appear only in the mornings. It is said that a whole mob of goblins usually accounts for a single total goblin. So, while it's possible to exterminate goblins, it's not very practical to make much of a fuzz over it, as they can just spawn out of nowhere.
This is a second OSRG, seperate from the main osrg thread, where you CAN talk about 2e, retroclones, and any osr content you want.This is different than the regular osrg as due to rampant trolling from a handful of bad actors, discussion is impossible.PREVIOUS THREAD>>97206318
>>97245637>Also is it just me or are 2e adventure modules all linear railroads?It's not just you, every 2e adventure is dogshit.
>>97248044It's pretty great. Might be a top 10 adventure.
>>97248044The above ground section is pretty great if you change some names (like Toaster the wizard), but imo it gets real fuckin linear and boring once you get underground
>>97248044If you play your cards right, you can have some nasty sex with a dirt-caked druid while her wolves watch.
>>97248609A lot of the 2E Dungeon Magazine adventures were apparently OK to good.
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>>97236404>>97236427>>97236484>>97236523>>97236622>>97236678>>97236690I'm asking if there is some special protocol that is needed to remove Orc spores from armor and weapons after fighting Orcs or not.
Is there any point in taking this sweeping order as a Sergeant in Only War?Is there any way beyond Inspire to help with countering against Pinning tests?Feels very weird half the squad immediately recovers from pinning with snap out of it! while the actually important members (the PCs) are shit out of luck.
>>97248364If I'm reading the comrades rules right, they don't automatically snap out of fear or pinning even if their controlling PC does, so I would say yeah, it does sound pretty useful. I mean, it's a free action which at the very least gives every PC with a spooked comrade back their +5/+10 to hit bonus they'd normally have from their buddy and potentially restores access to some other special orders they may have. But ultimately it also kind of depends on how often your GM likes to put you against fear and pinning
There's a super special language in 40k called Enuncia, which apparently allows those who know it to bend the universal laws to their will. And the emperor knows it, at least partially. So why having this stupid ass crusade in the first place when he could say "i want humans to rule the galaxy" and that magically happens?
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>>97248390based Artemiev
washnus washedsen
>>97248724he mad
>>97248828his was mad indeed after losing a drawn position
>>97248967What kind of masochist doesn't take the pawn here? I'm sure I would.
What are some things that retired adventurers in double-digit levels could get up to in a city?I have an idea for a faction for the next chapter of my campaign being built around five such figures who hold different forms of formal or informal power in the same city, and are still on friendly terms with each other. Each of the five has a successful business operation or other field of influence which may or may not be related to their class abilities, and they can call upon each other for assistance if they run into problems of any kind.
>>97239349>Batman is an active adventurerBut Bruce Wayne isn't.
>>97237367My bard was once retired via shotgun wedding
>>97238917facts
>>97237367Plenty of inspirations to look to from other mediums like manga and anime. Get them involved in courtly intrigue, become competing merchants. Plenty of non combat challenges you can throw at them.
>>97243461If they're going to have a alter ego unlike the comics the alter ego should also have things that challenge them outside running around in a urban environment rather than have the characters exist to change into someone running across rooftops stopping crimes across the city. It works in comics not so in RPGs.
Who was in the right?
>>97248116I believe it's male chicks being sorted for maceration, which they do in factory farming because they don't need them for anything.It's pretty easy to see they're suggesting a hardcore eugenics program using cloning to fill in the gaps left by euthasia/sterilization of lesser people. The Spartans Santiago leads named themselves after a Greek tribe who were famous for committing infanticide, disposing of sickly or malformed children at birth.
I feel like people put far too much importance on what happens to the “canonical” leaders and ignore all the possible social policies and gameplay states that can occur. (You) decide if Lal leads an ineffectual weak faction or the second coming of Super Earth. (You) decide if Santiago leads a survivalist libertarian paradise or a literally 1984 clone dictatorship. (You) decide if the endpoint of Yang’s Human Hive is an enlightened Eudaoimonic collective or a mind-controlled society of ants. The story of the faction leaders and their societies unfolds throughout (You)r game, not through the quotes.
>>97248725I've noticed that people who like in-game lore too much tend to be cucks and completely remove the player from the equation or consider that anything the player does will end up going wrong.Best example is how people just assume the yes-man ending to new vegas to always end up bad regardless of what kind of player character ends up doing it.
>>97248725People talk about the "canon" story arc because its the only common ground you can talk about.Because the factions can change so much when (you) are in control of them, its borderline pointless to talk about.Also there is a reason that the tech and diplomacy quotes exist. It gives you a default attitude and understanding of what the factions are "supposed" to be about. Yes you can play them in almost any way, you could play Zak as a luddite if you truly wanted, but thats both not efficient and not what was intended.
>>97248725>>97248754>I feel like people read the words too much Okay. You can say >I want to go off script and do a different thing with my game and that's cool. I suspect there would be strong difficulty in a ttrpg context of trying to balance player dynamics and ideological preferences with outcomes unless you went for a single or low variance group. >>97247737There was a Legacy:Generation Ship and Worldfall that are clearly SMAC inspired for generational play. Haven't investigated them much, saw the 2010s pbta cherry nose art and didn't go further.
Remember this? what happened. It was supposed to be the next big thing, but all of a sudden I only hear about Lorcana and One Piece.
>>97242821God, the amount of effort being put in to look like Gen I Pokémon is absurd.
>>97242821The art is nice but being a crypto project i ignored it half out of scorn and half of basic fiscal common sense. My guess is there was never really a game to it because noone ever discussed rules or monsters or interactions, whenever they'd make advertizing threads here it was all just>collect these things and dont look too closely because we're embarassed to be associated with NFT blockchain shit
>>97242821It seems monster-catching is not destined for traditional RPGs
>>97242868The did happen. They even had backdrops and props to trigger those effects. The real problem was it was infested with investors meaning once they left they didn't have any money. One of its biggest investors a rapper convinced them to do cyrpto.
>>97242821>>97242868I bought two starter decks and a bunch of booster packs for absurdly cheap (somewhere in the ballpark of 90% off) last year because a FLGS was trying to clear out their stock. If I can find someone stupid enough to play with me I'll give the game a fair try some day.
maps and mapmaking. more specifically, there's something that's been bothering me for a while now. There are endless skirmish-scale settlement-scale and topographic-scale square grid mapmaking tools online, and that's great. There's plenty of topography-scale hexgrid mapmakers too, presumably because of D&D's ancient use of hexgrids for overland travel. and that's great too. There arent many hexmakers ive found for settlement scale maps, but i've had some luck torturing them out of the battletech mapmaker in the megamek software, or other videogames that generously offer to print the outputbutfor the life of me i cannot find a decent skirmish-scale hexgrid mapmaker. i must have tried a dozen programs by now, but the ones that offer hexgrids are either borderline unuseable or just put a hexagonal overlay over a square grid. it's ridiculous that after decades of computer tools for TTRPGS the best i've found is GIMP where i have to draw the damn things by hand. Not to mention the endless enshitification of google makes it harder and harder to find niche programs to match what i need.what are you anons using to create your maps?do you know of any decent skirmish-scale hexmappers (that are free, or at least worth the price)?what do you think of maps in general, do you even use them?i'll share any spare maps i have within the size limit to get the ball rolling
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made the one on the left generated the one on the right (probably won't use it and if i do it will be months from now if ever)
>>97247344Nice, which program is that? stars are treasure? I like that you have a shit room>>97247348Hey i think i have that program, it seemed interesting but i never got it to work quite right. Does it have features to let you edit the terrain after generation, or just draw directly?
>>97247506>starsstatues and i used dungeon scrawl i forget what i used for the 2nd one but i couldn't figure out how to edit it other than the name.i really want to get inkarnate but everytime i see it i'm broke and when i have cash i forget it exist
>>97247348>why are there circles dotting the coastline>zoom in further>oh those are fucking TREESgod I'm going blind
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>>97249461There's also a mystery box, but it's not relevant since it's just for a crossover CYOA that never got made
>>97249346what >>97249422 this guy saidyou usually need a thaumaturgical attribute or school of magical thought that synergizes with it but when you do it can be quite helpful, not brokenly so but still, its shiros sword origin that made him able to use his projection magic and reality marble as well as he did even managing to take on gilgamesh for a time after he grew enough, but this is mostly cause his reality marble happened to perfectly counter gilgamesh when hes not using eaunder normal circumstances doe, most of the time its just relevant when its an elemental origin and can therefor boost magecraft that uses that element, but there are exceptions like with certain specific magecraft schools or abilities
>>97248104Alright, I downloaded it.And what's this. Captcha changed a bit again today (5 vs 8-pointed stars test). Well somebody's having fun.
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Welcome to /wbg/, the thread for the discussion of in-progress settings for traditional games.Here is where you go to present and develop the details of your worlds such as lore, factions, magic and ecosystems. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art. Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback or post whatever relevant input you might have, cunt!Last thread: >>96999149Worldbuilding links: Post someFantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator
>>97245537MediaWiki is what all good wikis are based on.DokuWiki and TiddlyWiki are simpler versions.But Obsidian works well and is easier to use. It's not the same style but it has links between pages like a wiki and is easier to use imo.
>>97245563A chrysalis
>>97165495why not try a less cliche type of magic?
>>97249313So...lightning?
>>97249313Yeah, I just wanted to see what sort of sciency type magic I could come up with out of it but everything points back to fire and the four states of matter.
Then an executive saw the K-pop movie Demon Hunters and decided it was a good idea to adapt it into Dungeons and Dragons.Opinions?
Personally, the only idol anime I've watched in its entirety is Miss Monochrome.
>>97247387The movie was a big hit, ibviously it was going to have some people making stuff like this, but the sheer speed they shit this out at leads me to believe it will be even power quality than most 5e stuff.
>>97247390What the fuck does mean having both a sticker for 5e and another for OSR?
>>97247387give pdf
>>97248071I assume it's like Goodman Games where it has the Original 1e or 2e version of the module and a 5e version in another section of the book.
>>97171444 >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,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97245384THIS.Where do I get heroes etc. in 1/72 scale ? I guess I will multibase them for Horde of the Things
>>972456601/72 is 20mm shouldn't be too hard. Are you going historical or fantasy
>>97245952Both, since in the end all I need to switch between these two is adding a few monsters and maybe wizard or two.
>>97245384Nice. I was recently looking for 40k skirmish rules and Planet 28 came up. I like what I see and will have to give it a go soon. I'm the same Anon looking for wifegames. I bet I could get her to play this with me.
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How do you like your mutants?Do you like them looking more like anthros or circus freak shows?
>>97227263Cute. I like my mutants cute.
>>97247949I'd ask how a game can insist upon itself, but that phrase always made no sense to begin with anyways
>>97248649it's that forced animation meme logic, a an idiot's backhanded way to say effort is bad
>>97248196>Adam & Eve NOT Adam & Filthy Mutie Scum
>>97245417Did you not figure it out yet?
