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>>97380058"Of course you know me, friend. A hoax I do not hock, it is I, your friend...">Name"Baffle Box.">JobEntertainer(?)>PerksSilver Tongue (F)AgilityPersistentWill>HomeN/AComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97385904I meant that I don’t really understand the lore and the vibes for the steampunk world yet. I have to look into it. I should really be working on JITE stuff so I don’t think I should make a steampunk build yet but I’m also pleasantly surprised at how kaiju stuff is going honestly
Who all has a rough Naruto build in mind?
>>97386252Me, but I suspect I won't be able to make it.
>>97386252I have zero interest in doing naruto again, I did all my build ideas in the past and had my fun.
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>>97381933looks like my elementary school teacher. whoever thought this was a good idea is legitimately retarded
>>97385451That happened all the way back in 2nd edition.
>>97385250>>97386151/thread
>>97384380this but unironically
>>97386151all of those arguments are correct
Are interspecies pairings allowed in your game?
>>97340942>The company and the mercs are bound by earth law and restrained by public opinion back home, most of the human race isn't all "kill them all, anything for Earth" and shit, it's literally just the corpos and their goons.Which is rather absurd because the expanded lore explained humanity is doomed without that rock and such. Also somehow pollution from asteroid mining, the moon, and mars somehow FALLS TO EARTH because James Cameron is the most retarded man to ever walk the earth.
>>97384874>the expanded lore explained humanity is doomed without that rock and suchDo we know that's not just self-serving corporate bullshit? And where does this "expanded lore" come from?
>>97384929The 1st movie game and some other shit. Humanity's going extinct without some way to stablize antimatter and fusion reactions to meet energy needs without waste or some shit.And I forget where the shit about offworld industry somehow still polluting earth came from. Some blurb somewhere
>>97384955Well I'm not sure you should blame Cameron for any of that, if it's like most licensed shit he had little to do with any of it.
>>97365102Horny theatre kids that run anthro characters and force this shit on the entire table.
Oh you thought Huron Blackheart was a chaos lord threatening the Imperium? Actually his victories were all because of WOMEN, you CHUD.
>>97379428>random girl ship captain that was never mentioned before and is ACKSHULLY super important for this factionGW writers need to fuck off and read something other than each others fanfiction
>>97386187Referencing some 4chan post has no bearing on how things are in 40k, it's never been stated that women are universally weaker in 40k.
>>97386325>it's never been stated that women are universally weaker in 40kIt's also never been stated that humans don't need to eat their own shit to live in 40k. Stop playing dumb, last chance to make an actual argument or you forfeit the argument.
>>97379486>>97383186>>97379509>>97385859So that means you like these two minis and are going to buy them right? Surely you're not praising shoddy work just to own the chuds right?Where is your fem-custodes army?
>>97386153Just like GW we produce both physical, plastic products along with media, meaning digital but also books and comics. GW absolutely get heavily scrutinized for emissions because they make plastic toys. We've got a contract with a company that delivers an application service specifically so we can track emissions for ESG reporting. I bet GW does too.
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>>97360729A degree of intelligence yes, but making damn sure not to endow them with sentience or personality. Having your own abilities turn against you is a nightmare scenario.
>>97384789thankfully Eidolon's only desire are caring for my needs and desires. And with the inspiration perk giving her the effects of Invictus there are no external means of mind controlling her. I wouldn't know how to go about getting other powers that don't have inbuilt bias towards you to be loyal outside the long hard way.
>Found out The Protomen Act III: This City Made Us finally finished earlier this month, a few days ago>Been thinking about the ending nonstop.>Mega Man is still fucked off in his tent like Achilles>Some random girl who is neither confirmed nor denied to be Roll urges her small army not to give up the fight against Wiley and argues with Light. Girl finds Mega Man but he tells her to fuck off, girl throws his helmet at him in frustration>Light gives her Mega Man's address, then fucks off to assault Wiley's fortress like the Don't Fear The Reaper ending In Cyberpunk 2077>Wiley himself is buttblasted the rebels are hiding out in the south side of the city where apparently his army can't reach and drinking heavily. By the time Light hacks drones, infiltrates his fortress and generally action movie heroes his way to his lair, Wiley is having a full-on existential crisis about whether he should've turned on that machine at all. The entire Protomen saga culminates in a fucking Liquid Snake-style knife fight between two old men that ends with Light trying to convince him to turn off the machine with Emily's music box, and Wily having his robot guards beat the shit out of him in a fit of rage>Then it all ends with Light being publicly executed like he merely imagined in Act II, though not before he sees a flash of blue in the crowd-and the final song confirmed Mega Man does rejoin the fightWell goddamn, that's a bittersweet takeaway. Anyone take that drawback in the Mega Man Classic jump?
>>97360729>>97360751>>97384871>Your power develops into a voice in your head>This voice develops into your waifuschizophrenia is strong in isekai protags.
>>97385114I don’t know about all the story and lore, I just think it’s a banger album.
Con/Health is a conceptually boring stat that should at the very least be looked at>Don't play DNDyeah I included health retard
>>97345443Wound-based death spirals only being appropriate for specific campaign genres is why I generally prefer Injury-based Health. Instead of taking losing a numerical value of HP or taking increasing penalties that murder your rolls, I'd rather your actions become more restricted the more injured you are. Injured Legs? Halved movement.Injured Arm? Can't use it for most actions.Injured Head? Lose your Reaction or equivalent.Injured Eye? Reduced perception and ranged attack distance.And so on and so forth until you succumb to your injuries. Gradually narrow down the options instead of just making the PCs useless because they fail everything due to penalties.
>>97376376Of course pointing to a system where they're independent doesn't prove anything. The fact that people choose to do that when they're not being forced to proves it. Did you not read any of my posts? Why do you continue to assume that they're being forced when no one said that they're being forced, and there's zero evidence to suggest it? It's like you're replying to some invisible third anon whose posts only you can see.
>>97376376Hello?
>>97348376No it's not. GURPS is just health numbers.
How would you humanize enemy mooks even if the players have to put them down at the end of day? How do you make it so that players leaving piles of corpses in their wake is not a trivial matter?
>>97384224Simple fix: Have them flee when they're hurt or bargain for their lives. Real mooks will jump into a meat grinder, but a fleshed out minion will bail if things get too real.
>>97386177In the Uruk-Hai chapter in book 2 we do see orcs arguing and being antsy about the danger of their mission. Also the whole thing in Cirith Ungol when Frodo gets captured. Please read the books.
>>97384224Don't bother. Every shmuck has a story but if you play stupid games you win stupid prizes. You wouldn't feel any remorse for magdumping some "yn" in a "sheisty tryna hit a lick" on you, why should you feel remorse for fake bandits?
>>97386598Interesting take. I want to disagree, but I truly couldn't care less about a modern "bandit" getting hurt.
>>97384224Sounds like you'd have to build the campaign around avoiding combat if you're going to rub in the consequences of killing them
Tell me /tg/ what makes a good tabletop wargame?
>>97385981Will Sharpe meet a gentleman from Virginia?
>>97386472Langley, Virginia?
finally a good fucking thread
>>97374324This would be used as an example of the game dying now.
>>97386517>>97386472>TACOS, PIZZAS AND MILKSHAKES ALL MELTED DOWN INTO BURGERS
Is it better to have fully anthropomorphic beast people in your settings or just humans with like animal ears and tails?
>>97381276He's right.
>>97382349This furry art feels like it was made by a non-furry artist.I like it, it's good
>>97385975If by "right" you mean "Assuming every reply is an automatic confrontation and getting mad when people tell you they're not trying to argue with you, just discuss a topic" then yes, he's right.
>>97386023>Assuming every reply is an automatic confrontation and getting mad when people tell you they're not trying to argue with you, just discuss a topic" Except that the first response wasn't a confrontation, it was just continuing the discussion in the thread.
>>97336842Hello?
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Exotic Cuisine editionPrevious: >>97304062Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97385394>please stop posting your cyoa>in the cyoa thread>it makes people talk about the cyoa's!
>>97385831There's a guy who made a character in one SW CYOA and then rebuilt her in another one, with lore progression and allIt's too much autism, take it back and keep it back
>>97376942Why the fuck is Maul there if Filoni keeps sucking his cock plus he fucking made TCW lmao
>>97380086So this is a complete AU? Since the main Rebel leaders are either dead or hiding and the NR doesn't exist
>>97384065Probably trying to find a new IP with owners that pay little enough attention to licensed works for her to include her rape camp fetish in her books again.
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It's canon btw
So how bad was the life of civilians in the Clan occupation zones? I know that despite their obsession with eugenics for their warrior casts they weren't setting up any extermination camps for spheroids, but I guess they would set up reeducation camps and labor camps to turn civilians into workers, or was it just business as usual for anyone not working for the military?
>>97386509I can't.
>>97386552The writers can't seem to make up their fucking mind. One minute its fucking Space Vietnam with constant rebellions and act of sabotage with even Clan Warriors defecting en masse then next minute they are totally chill and going about their lives like nothing happened.
>>97386078So you've warped your entire gameplan just to deal with a cheap light.Do you guys ever sound the shit you say out?
Should an elven wizard be more powerful on average than a human one? Explain your answer.
>>97377252Take a look for yourself then.
>>97356745lol
>>97377482Obsession
>>97356786I agree
>>973567283.5e handled this by giving elves a bonus to Intelligence, which is truly WotC's official only trait that makes them stronger. At the heart of your post, yes. Yet this is all we got and now even the stat bonus for species has been removed.Why do elves deserve to be better wizards? Because they are documented as getting their powers from years of study and hard work. A being that can live 5 times longer than a human has much more time to study and develop. If we were being real, there would be no comparison, although with a game interested in balance, they won't make a dichotomy that severe.
Why can't Druids wield bows? >bow: wood>arrow: wood>arrowhead: bone or flintEven crossbows can be made wholly of wood and shoot bone-tipped bolts. If anything, making these things actually requires very good understanding of trees and properties of wood. Regardless of all that, the whole non-metal theme is a meme. If you can cook stuff in a bronze cauldron, you should be allowed to use a bronze helmet too.
>>97361089Because it requires two hands and their arms are full of interesting mushrooms they found while walking.
It's pronounced Droods.
>>97371748it's not a depiction, Drids are the Muslim equivalent of a Friar. As in a non-ordained priest, but is educated in their ways. So a Druid would be a muslim educated in priesthood but has not officially joined the priesthood yet. >>97375763Yes you never once bring up a counter argument or any examples. Just a >Nuh uh!!!
>>97369151>Druids are named after what they are based on: the priests of Celtic societies in Western Europe from Antiquity.Yes, but also no. D&D druids have very little relation to ancient Celtic Druids. They weren't "nature worshippers," but a hereditary class of priests/jurists/"white-collar" types.I really don't see the connection the other anon is making with Muslim imams. Presumably the scimitar-thing is due to historical Druid's carrying sickles (because "hurr, curved blade!" I guess).
>>97381270In a similar vein, I just think of Druids as more interested in becoming an animal to fight or just hitting things with sticks they find. I don't really see them "training" with a weapon in militaristic style, something you would need to wield a bow. And yes, for lack of a better term, I guess I would say that Druids are too "stupid" to be good with weapons traditionally. Do exceptions exist? Sure, but a true depiction wouldn't use a blade or bow.
The new year brings new resolutions, inspirations, goals, dreams and half-baked ideas.>Why should I homebrew?/tg/ products are fairly unique in that it's actually pretty simple to make them these days, with a plethora of products to assist in making and playtesting your game. Making your own games helps understand why games are made the way they are, as well as being fun to do.>What you should postIdeas for games, games you're currently making, updates to your own games in broad strokes, and any homebrewing for existing products that don't get much attention. Discussion about the above is welcome. Post good, be good, and look over others products, they care if someone looks more than anything.Had to remake the thread>Resources for the aspiring developer>https://anydice.com/ (A fantastic resource for checking probabilities)>https://miro.com/ (A online whiteboard with tools to help organize yourself)>https://www.notion.so/ (Similar to the above, but in a bit cleaner format for those who work in larger teams)>https://rolz.org/ (Impromptu playtesting at its finest)>https://www.youtube.com/user/georgephillies/playlists (Game Design Lectures)
Have a slightly weird problem. My game is about a bunch of wandering ronin thematically (not literal feudal japan ronin, but nomadic warriors that fit the same archetype) and I have a clash between intended gameplay and the mechanics: the players automatically get bonuses when using their weapons for a roll, but I don't want the game to be combat focused. Without the bonus it feels thematically strange that they're mechanically "bad" at using their weapon, but games become what their mechanics are and with the bonus suddenly violence becomes your best bet for a lot of problems.I've considered saying >you get a bonus to using The Warrior's signature tool, which could be a weapon, shield, piece of armour, or anything elseBut I'm honestly having a real hard time of thinking about what people would realistically pick instead of weapons. Even if your PC put down the sword for the lute or a paintbrush it's hard to find opportunities to leverage something like that compared to a blade.>>97381978>>97382505>>97382174I'm going to go across the grain and suggest the opposite. If your system is blatantly d20/OSR the comparisons to 5e will exist for anyone who picks it up. There's nothing inherently wrong with "Roll twice and take the better result", which 5e didn't invent, players like rolling extra dice, and any speed difference with +flat mods will be completely negligible.Not saying advantage/disadvantage good and everything else bad, though. It depends on the rest of the system. It's a bit silly to introduce advantage here if all over bonuses are +2 or whatever, be consistent with it. Do you want bonuses to stack? Do you use flat numbers for bonuses or penalties elsewhere? Do you want more consistency in outcomes? Do you care about granularity? There's a ton of reasons not to use it, but if you really like it don't be allergic to it
>>97384995anon, wandering warriors will choose violence as their first way to solve problems. this is the thematically correct way to look at it, mechanical bonuses or not.You apparently want a game about wanderers who can fight and defend themselves but it's not their desired mode of solving problems.So ryutama or the like, playing a wandering merchant or a craftsman who can defend themselves.If you want people to not choose violence instantly the best way to regulate behaviour is experience. If you give more exp for non violent solutions they will gravitate towards those for meta reasons if anything. Or make situations that aren't best solved with violence the bread and butter of the game. Or give a similar bonus to other things outside of combat so they have an incentive to use said thing instead of constantly fighting
>>97371541Not a publisher per say, But if all you are looking for is printed material (rather than someone to sell them for you) I remember seeing a few online publishers that can cheaply print presized small books. Look for local family owned print shops too. Somewhere where you can actually talk to someone and they want your money.
>>97385154>it's not their desired mode of solving problems.I honestly don't mind if they desire it or resort to it first, I just want it so that when they use violence it's>I'm doing this because it's what my character would do or it seems like a good ideaand not>I'm doing this because violence gives me the higher rolling numberbut I think>make situations that aren't best solved with violence the bread and butter of the game. Or give a similar bonus to other things outside of combatAre my best options. The former should be fine because it's a game about getting tangled in the local affairs of wherever you end up at, and with the latter skills are freeform and give an equivalent bonus to the one you get from your weapon, but they can stack in theory so if you really wanted you could give yourself a combat background and stack it with the weapon bonus, but I suppose that's balanced by the fact you're specialising and giving up potential versatility elsewhere.
>>97384731>Mathematically it is very close to advantageDamn, you're right. I guess it's a clear case then.
Thread dedicated to Sci-Fi based discussion. 40k need not apply. [\spoiler]How goes your sci-fi setting, anon? I am currently running a Traveller game in a homebrew setting, and am getting lost in the sauce of stellar physics.
>>97374912It's something that's in seemingly every space setting, but it's there because it's cool as shit and you should do it too.
what does everyone think of this early abstracted star map for my system? it shows the Federation, Hegemony and ASI empire territories as coloured hexes, star systems as circles, and capital systems as a fancier star. The Neutral Zone is represented by white hexes. I'm thinking that when the players are traveling at FTL speeds, each hex on the map represents a hyperspace jump, which takes about a day. Ships are fueled in an amount of jumps.
How fast do you like your FTL? I definitely want it slow enough that you'd have rooms you sleep in on your spaceship but I don't know if it should be closer to a day or a week per light year.
>>97380535I haven't actually specified the speed, but my idea is that the actual FTL travel time is relatively short, less than 15 minutes or so, but the maximum distance a ship can travel without having recharge its warp drive is relatively short, making FTL travel consists of jumps between nearby systems, with the time between the jumps lasting several days. Also, large gravity wells interfere with FTL travel, so ships must drop out of FTL in the outer solar system and the final leg of the journey to habitable planets (which are invariably located closer to the star) must be done with conventional drives, and could takes hours or days depending on the mass of the star.
>>97367001boy you are dumb
