This thread is all about solo games and campaigns. Midnight reading edition.>old thread >>96761554Resources: https://rentry.org/srpgghttps://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitMore threads:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/Thread Questions: How do you try to surprise yourself in solo games?
I hate that I have to learn how to write prose for note taking but there's no way around it.
Anybody played Castaway with the Stranded solo zine expansion? I've been looking for survival-focused solo games and I found it, but I have little experience with Mork borg. Also recommend other solo titles with an emphasis on survival mechanics
>>97077453That is me. I am still working on it, slowly. The combat system works great and is very versatile, with room for upgrades and tons of skills and equipment, lasting injuries and such. It basically just copies Blood Bowl but with abstracted positioning, and using 3d6 instead of 2d6 so it has a bit more room for variety. The main issue is that it isn't particularly fast, doing lots of these combats in a single dungeon run doesn't sound appealing. Especially over and over again. It is also reliant on you playing against yourself, as you are also controlling the delvers. I mitigate that by having delvers worth more the further they get into your dungeon, so you want a sort of balancing act where you want the delvers to succeed because it makes them worth more points, but also want to defeat them. I'm thinking I might have most encounters in the dungeon solved by simple skill checks or simplified battles of some sort, with a full battle against that room's denizens only happening rarely. That would make it fun because you might really want to see how the monsters of particular rooms fare in combat, but they are only actually fought rarely. Puts tension on every dice roll that way.
>>97237498For actual dungeon building I'm operating with a tag system. Rooms are basically just empty spaces with archtypes applied to them, then you can fill the room with features. Features both require a tag and also usually add a tag or two. Features cost a certain amount of points, and also require a certain amount of space that you have to account for. For example the Water feature requires the Natural tag, or an adjacent room with the Water tag. It obviously adds the Water tag and also provides food of the Fish type, etc.So as an example, I might have a room that is of the Fortress archtype, which grants the Military tag. The Military tag is required for me to build a Barracks feature in the room, which grants the room the Training tag, which gives access to various types of trained Denizens like soldiers or captains. Normally the Water feature requires the Natural tag, but since there is an adjacent room that already has the Water tag, I can add it here and say the goblins built a canal or something.
I got a $25 Amazon card for Christmas. Is Ker Nethalas any fun?
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #591"All i want for Christmas is for Dark Magician Girl to materialize in my bedroom so i can summon her in face down ass up position, have sex with her, and end my turn" EditionPrevious thread: >>97191908Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97236634In a DARK possessed Joey deck that retypes most of the monsters as DARK Pyros (e.g Rocket Destroyer, Gearfried the Searing Knight) or DARK Beast-Warriors (E.G SwordImp of Landstar and Sharkman Fisherman) what type should the evil Gilford be? Physical changes are allowed for the theme. Should he go with the main 2? Have a new type to make him standout as an evil boss? Or should he just be dark warrior? My front runners are Pyro, Zombie, Thunder, and Fiend.
chat what the fuck did he mean by that
>TCaC: Take any normal fusion/ritual monster and base a new archetype around it.Guardian Crab Turtle>[Level 8/Aqua/WATER/Ritual]>[ATK 2850/DEF 3500]You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Turtle" Ritual Spell. If this card is Ritual Summoned: You can add 2 cards that mention "Crab Turtle" from your Deck or GY to your hand. Apply the following effect, based on this card's battle position.● Attack Position: When this card or a monster adjacent to it battles an opponent's monster, inflict piercing battle damage● Defense Position: This card, and any adjacent monsters to it, are unaffected by your opponent's card effects.
I now have 40 playable cards inside sleeves and when I hold them I feel like a giddy kid as I wait to see when the next time it is I don't work on a locals day
>>97236634How does it celebrate the birth of Christ?
OOP editionInfinity is a 28mm tabletop skirmish game produced by Corvus Belli, and includes the related games Aristeia, Defiance, TAG Raid, REM Racers, and Acheron's Fall. Corvus Belli also produces the fantasy games Warcrow and Warcrow Adventures.>Latest official update:January preorders>Rules and missions:https://infinitythewiki.com/index.phphttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/resourceshttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/infinity/its>Beginner FAQs and guides:https://pastebin.com/x06JG55U https://pastebin.com/xtQzRcq5 https://pastebin.com/xUBR7QFU Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
merry christmasIm enjoying it with jeannu
>>97234628Hands off from my wife!
>>97234628My friend got the gift of infinity. He asked what I wanted and I said "infinity." Can't wait to see what he picked out.
Mondstille Edition>Resources:WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwhWM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgebaWFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H>TOW:https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXShttps://www.warhammer-community.com/the-old-world-downloads/>Warhammer Chronicles:https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip>Time of Legends:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97237230>you would be surprised by how wyrm, wurm, worm and vermin are all extremely related and synonymous, etymologically and historically speakingI've been spoiled by magic on that front.
>>97237396Massacre wurm my beloved.
>>97237402I had to google, hilarious
>>97237548Look at how happy he is, dont you just want to feed him all your low power creatures?
>>97236757nice anon, I'm just working on some bases today. I ordered a bunch of stormvermin off trolltrader and will finally get a block going. should tidy off my skaven nicely. Also FINALLY bit the bullet and ordered 2 rattling guns, went with 2 of pic for variety. I'll still sneak a warpfire thrower into larger games but I do miss its 6th ed rendition.
Work in Progress, Christmas 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.
>>97236582>>97236606Hey, glad you're enjoying your gift and sorry for your loss, especially during the holidays. I like to probe my recipients for more gift ideas, to influence the card and if time permits, I'd add a gag gift like an amateurish sculpt (which I seem to have only done once). When you said you liked Das Boot, a submarine model just felt like a no brainer.I have also attached a scan of the card before I shipped it.>>97236887Oh. I did research to make sure it was the same U-boat but didn't take into account that it may have variants.>>97237102I've done copic ones in previous years but this one is specifically acrylic paint. I wanted to try the Golden So Flat stuff. When you say bleed, did you mean bleed through the paper or do you mean how the ink bleeds past the inked lines? For the former, it's a fact of life but you could mitigate it with thicker paper. For the latter, use a more toothier paper and try to get rid of excess ink by running it on a scratch paper before starting. Otherwise, I would just go over the offending spot with a color pencil.
>>97234445Noice
>>97234445Why are his nipple guns suffering from erectile dysfunction?
now with head! merry chrismas all
>>97237666>only in death does buccal fat removal ends
How has a wife/girlfriend joining the group affected your games?
Women just longhouse the group into avoiding adventure and doing retarded "comfy" rp
>>97234561There's a difference between liking pink things and doing what the OP pic is doing.
>>97223311There characters kept having sex and the wives didn't want to play the game much beyond that
>>97235337Well, there's nothing women hate so much as their husbands being happy, so it tracks they aren't going to want to be in that environment.
>>97234669>when you sternly tell them to stop being such a fuckwit at the game table because they wanted to eat/rape an elf babyImagine being a faggot and trying to stop this.
Previous thread: >>97111514GURPS 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: How often do you use an official GURPS setting? Which are your favorites?
>>97237457Slip and fall from standing to the ground. Treating it as a fall from half his height, that’s about 4 yps, doing 1d-1 (potentially up to 2d with lots of HP).Paint can to the face. As far as I can tell, a pendulum with a six foot arm dropping a weight in standard gravity will be moving about 8 yps at the bottom of its swing. The paint cans seem to be 1 gallon capacity and part full, so maybe 4 lbs. (6 HP). That’s just barely enough to reach 1d-1. Then he falls, but breaks his fall on Marv, so probably only takes another 1d-2. Still, a typical human would be on his second death check around this point.Another dramatic trip and fall, 1d-1 again.Gets hit in the chest by Marv with a crowbar. As Marv was only trying to kill a tarantula, this probably wasn’t a full strength blow, but may well have done a bit more damage.Pendulum swing from around 10’, maybe 9 yps, another 1d-1. Fall from a couple of yards, another 1d-1. Might be on his third death check at this point.The ‘shovel killer’ hits him on the back of the skull with a snow-shovel. I’d treat this as an ultra-light (Martial Arts, p. 234) version of the shovel (Horror, p. 51), for swing+3(0.5) crushing. The ‘shovel killer’ is old, but seems in good health and is fairly tall, so maybe ST 10, for a total of 1d+3. With effective DR 4 from the skull and the wounding modifier, that’s about 10 HP on an average hit. Probably into the fourth death check, but he survives. Marv (Daniel Stern)BB gun to the face (1 HP) or skull (0 HP).Fall and slide down icy steps. Action 5 says to treat this as a fall with a distance equal to that to the next landing (presumably measured vertically). Marv is much bigger than Harry (6’4”) so probably has 11-12 HP at least. Looks like the steps are about half a storey (5’) so this will be about 6 yards per second. That’s 1d for a normal human-scale character, maybe 2d if he has ridiculous HP.
>>97237468Crowbar falls on his head. Assuming a 2 lbs. pry-bar (5 HP), it seems to fall from maybe 5-6’, so 5-6 yps, doing a measly 1d-3 or 1d-2. With skull DR, this is weirdly survivable in GURPS, doing at most 8 HP and more likely 0.Iron drops on his head. This should have similar HP to the crowbar, but seems to fall further, maybe 10’. Still only 1d-2, but this time to the face, inflicting 0-4 HP. Seems to also do 1 point burning follow-up. Again, this would be potentially fatal in real life, but is easily survivable even by a ‘realistic’ normal human in GURPS.Steps on a nail after losing his footwear. Treating this as a caltrop, thrust-2 impaling based on his ST (so maybe 1d-3), maximum 2 injury. Probably another 1 HP lost.Falls from maybe 6-8 stairs up (4-5’) taking another 1d or so crushing, seems to be to the torso.Steps on broken glass with bare feet. This is basically just a cutting caltrop with another -1 damage. Seems fairly superficial, so maybe another 1 HP. Around this point, a ‘realistic’ human would be below 0 HP.Slip and fall from standing to the ground. Treating it as a fall from half his height, that’s about 5 yps, doing 1d (potentially up to 2d with lots of HP).Paint can to the face for 1d-1. The impact knocks him over, so he has another fall for 1d or so, then Marv falls on top of him for another 1d-2. At this point a normal person would start making death checks.Pendulum swing from around 10’, maybe 9 yps, another 1d.Fall from a couple of yards, another 1d-1.The ‘shovel killer’ hits him on the back of the skull with a snow-shovel for 0-20 HP. This could mean a couple more death checks, but if so, he makes them.
>>97237472So long as they have decent HT, the level of injury they sustain is survivable by 'normal' humans with no special traits. Remaining conscious and active throughout the experience is going to be much more difficult, suggesting that both the burglars have high levels of Hard to Subdue. Harry may need a total HT + HTS of 18 or better to keep going after the paint can. Marv could probably manage with 1 level less.
If we're doing Christmas movies, is there a good way to handle characters who can spawn more of their kind really quickly, like the Mogwai/Gremlins?How about characters which permanently shift to another template, potentially one with a different point total?
How about John McClane? IIRC he only gets shot once (in Die Hard, at least), with his own handgun (a Beretta 92, presumably loaded with standard power 9mm FMJ or JHP, more likely the former given the era). It's a Hollywood 'only got hit in the shoulder, no problem' flesh-wound, so probably using cinematic combat rules to just get rid of damage, but what if you had to get similar levels of toughness without cinematic rules? He takes dozens of blunt impacts, but only a couple of them seem like absolutely brutal ones (Karl kicking him through a thick piece of wood, swinging into the side of the building). Explosions are cinematic fireballs, but mostly seem far enough away that I wouldn't expect fatal injuries from the blasts. Even shooting the movie gave Bruce Willis permanent hearing damage, so I expect that the 'real' McClane would need some seriously tough eardrums to hear anything at all by the end of the film.
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This Christmas, the trains WILL run on timeStill need to figure out a base
>>97237464Man that looks so ass. Not because of your paintjob that's fine but you basically painted up a pig.
>>97237474Idk I didn't love the new chorfs but this strikes me as one of the better models
>>97237474Fuck off rajesh
>>97237474Show me your models
I would like to talk about the Chronicles of Darkness game line Deviant: The Renegades, or more specifically, one major upcoming supplement. Deviant was released in late 2021, and has had three additional sourcebooks since then. A new supplement, Black Vans, has been in playtesting for a while, and is currently being previewed.I am not being paid or sponsored to promote this book in any way. I am just very fascinated by it, and indeed, I already ran a mini-campaign using the playtest material.Deviant is, by default, a game about playing angsty, scarred superheroes who either fight world-manipulating conspiracies or work for them. Black Vans is a toolkit full of variant rules, quick NPC creation, variant character types, and variant genres. These variants range from the minor to the dramatic, completely overhauling what were once non-negotiable, foundational themes and mechanics. Maybe your character is not angsty or scarred at all, perhaps they are a """""regular human""""" like John Wick or Batman, or the campaign might have nothing to do with world-manipulating conspiracies.These variant genres include cyberpunk, high fantasy, post-apocalypse, space opera, and superhero emergence.This is a beefy supplement. For example, one chapter alone dedicates 38,000+ words to playing other monsters of the Chronicles of Darkness: Beasts, changelings, demons, Sin-Eaters, hunters (entirely separate from the variant rules for """natural""" superpowers), mages, mummies, Prometheans, vampires, and werewolves. No additional supplements beyond Deviant are necessary; the rules are self-contained, allowing the group to play a monster mash of an urban fantasy setting without needing a daunting 7+ books. And yes, they are supposed to be balanced against one another, so a vampire in the same group as a full-fledged mage is probably some older Kindred.(Continued.)
>>97235231Sounds dumb. This isn't DND.
>>97235283If you pick the biggest conspiracy possible, all the characters are horrible, fucked-up Evangelion monsters constantly on the verge of collapsing into piles of radioactive gore and melting the entire planet into nanomachines and are only held together by love and hatred. It's Devilman, not D&D. The game doesn't actually want you to go bigger than SHOCKER.
>>97235301The game does, actually, want you to play at Standing/Threat Level 7 to 10 at some point, at least in theory. That is why the core rulebook has two Standing 7 conspiracies, Onachus and the Vigilance Society, and has rules for Standing 8 through 10.The upcoming Deep Dive supplement is supposed to detail ten conspiracies from Standing 1 to 2, ten from Standing 3 to 5, ten from Standing 6 to 8, and another ten from Standing 9 to 10. Many of them have already been previewed, mostly in full. Have a look at the blurbs for the Old Boys Club, the Stargazers, and the Symposium here, for example: >>97217974Black Vans specifically offers the possibility of starting at a Threat Level higher than 6. As far as Scar management goes, you can either:• Just deal with it.• Do the cheesy thing of picking the least inconvenient Scars.• Use one of the Black Vans alternate supernatural types, who do not have to deal with Scars.• Use one of the Black Vans variants that tremendously reduces Scars. The high fantasy and superhero emergence genres both greatly dial down Scars, for example, and there are suggestions for mixing and matching genres with bits and pieces.
Quick question:Can deviants be made by other splats? I read somewhere that you could.
>>97237624Yep. Basically anything can make a Deviant.
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.
Most adventurers either die on the job or become vagabonds once they cannot do the job anymore.
>>97237394Most. I want these five to feel like the competent exception, good enough to retire comfortably while still being "in the game" to the point where they get most of the reward with little of the risk.
>>97237367What game?Assuming 5e double digits is high enough to solo mid level devils and demons, so you're probably on retainer with a mercenary company defending the city or its more powerful institutions, leading your own prominent temple, enjoying high placement as a city official or as celebrity researchers/alchemistsReally this is easily solved by writing the characters first, then assigning them an organization after
oh, yet ANOTHER JTRPG has been translated! and this one is Wuxia theme'd. This also happens to be by Group SNE (Sword World, Embryo Machine, Goblin Slayer). So yeah, was translated by the Sword World fan-translators.where to grab:G-Drive /drive/folders/1icyF6HmVOdeG1Z5EiFAciAHupxMrcrHG?usp=sharing
>>97198415sometimes, it's nice for a change of pace.
>>97190751fucking awesome, will read after work tomorrow
>>97221594Hope ye like it.
>>97201954hopefully it's different from most other Wuxia stuff ye came across earlier.
>>97198382must be from the west coat.
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>>97237430>and noticing how horribly twisted up the ki in them is.They’re probably thinking the same thing about you.
>>97237393>Wut? There are Kangaroo furries?Yes, yes there are Kangaroo furries. Hell, there's been a couple movies where Kangaroo furries were main characters.
>>97237574Potentially. Though in this instance. There is something legitimately strange with the cultivators ki. wont go into details because of potential spoilers but its related to a practice done back where he was from.
>>97237657Sounds interesting.
>>97237664Thanks. It's going to be of interest to jumper for a bit. And a bit concerning. He's going to spend a bit trying to mitigate the issue and researching a solution to it
>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?
>do you like red car or blue car or a different car entirely
>>97237640>Dragons are a dangerous animal: their only interactions with civilized societies are violent
>>97230214With a good haircut for starters.
>>97230970If we wanted to use it for something else, we'd have to come up with a new genre for it.We have to have hyperspecific pigeonholes to confuse the concept of genre and argue endlessly over what is TRUE SCI-FI or if it's actually just laserpunk space dark fantasy fictionpunk science.
>>97230214Dieselpunk seems to be stuck in the alternate history territory and that makes it stupidly limited. There is no reason that we couldn't have a dieselpunk setting set in a completely fictional world. The way I see it the most important aspect is a highly industrialized and militarized 1984-style dictatorship and that could exist in any setting.
>>97230970Mutant Chronicles?
>>97230970>>97234145That is partially due to dieselpunk advancing straight into 50's style atompunk. You pretty much need to stop the atomic age from starting while still allowing the Allies to win.
Christmas 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.
>>97233318>>97233454Seems like Poots walked those rulings back, then. Probably for the better, SotF with those rulings was absolutely ridiculous.
>>97233706Pic related, Poots' ruling on the topic back in 2019. It does seem like he changed his tune on a lot of the SotF reroll rulings, probably for the better, but yes he literally used exactly that example back then.
Merry Atnas Day to all anons. May you all receive a jolly lump of Atnas and have minimal offspring disappearances.
>try and name a survivor somthing serious, especially with a surname>Obliterated instantly on any hunt or showdown due to bad luck>other players name survivors shit like Loaf, Schnappi, Bagel, ect>Shining Davior of the phoenix who has reached God like levels of permanent stats and a robust bloodline of weapon mastersEdgy is out. Retarded is in.
>>97231483Old Master art is pretty amazing.
