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?
>>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.
>>97237472>a caltrop, thrust-2 impaling based on his STThat seems like a weird way for caltrops to work. It's not like super strong guys press down into the Earth with more force than a guy of similar mass walking similar gaits
>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?
>>97237640>Dragons are a dangerous animal: their only interactions with civilized societies are violent
>>97237640Fully-grown dragons should be treated like natural disasters. Towns and cities around areas that dragons have claimed as their territory should be ruins that were evacuated long ago out of fear, if not already burnt to a crisp. Killing one should be unthinkable - not because of morality, but because it simply can't be done. How does one kill a hurricane? A tornado? A tsunami? You can't do anything except wait for it to go away, or pray it doesn't hit.
>>97237640I prefer whichever one is a part of a game, and a game whose play has fewer interruptions, and whose interruptions are shorter duration; but ideally, a game whose play has no interruptions at all.
>>97237845Okay, keep to your video games since we all know you don't play tabletop ones.
>>97237838You generally build defenses for natural disasters like the japanese. Im sure the same could be done for a dragon given enough effort, ie if a dragon decided one day to roost right next to a large economically important city like smaug, but i dont think you'd bargain with or anthropomorphise them.
Vista edition>Cyberpunk 2020 vs. Cyberpunk RED?Cyberpunk 2020 is the second edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that focuses on simulation gameplay and has a black trenchcoat aesthetic.Cyberpunk RED is the fourth edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that is set after Cyberpunk 2020 following the Fourth Corporate War, focuses on more balanced gameplay and is more streamlined but has less content.You can discuss Shadowrun here too because I also feel bad for those guys.>Cyberpunk Rulesets (The Vault) (May not have all updated rulebooks, check official sources for updates):bit<dot>ly/2Y1w4Md>Resources for RED:https://datapool2045.net/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97222730>Sinoization surgeryI don't want to force that onto my players, and since this is the time of the red, they aren't going to have access to the same fancy disguise cyberware as say the NUSA agents in phantom liberty
>>97227867Is there any in-lore explanation of how the hovercars and airships work? Also we know that as of 2077 only the ultra rich can afford flying cars, but an airship would be like a hundred flying cars. Who's footing the bill for that?
>>97235035>They're nothing in the rules to say you can't convince a group of people into suicidal fervor with a high enough Persuasion check.That's how the difference between social skills and Charismatic Impact played out in my playgroup. Persuasion can't make an NPC do a suicidal charge, but Rockerboy's fan(atic)s are devout/crazy/stupid to do so.
>>97235035I don't think you're respecting the applicability of Charismatic impact. The effective application is an "automatic success layer" for social checks.At rank 4, as I mentioned, you can meet a stranger and 36% of the time they'll do you something at no cost to you. If that fails, you can't CI them to do the same thing, but you can always persuade or bribe them if it doesn't work. Nothing about CI prevents you from making social checks afterwards; though intimidating them or using force to coerce them will almost certainly make them no longer fans This applies to EVERY STRANGER YOU MEET THAT YOU CAN MEANINGFULLY INTERACT WITH.If you can't figure out how to use that, you should probably play a different role.
>>97234206I mean the fun part of this is that you could get jumped by a couple of guards (corporate, gang, etc) during a gig and the rockerboy can break out the Charismatic Impact and potentially turn the whole enemy squad into either friends or just have them fucking off. My biggest issue with this is that the developers tell referees to go wild, but if a referee goes too wild they'll sign into their reddit accounts and have their gay redditors browbeat the user until he deletes his account.This happened last year (maybe? Time sure flies) when some n00b referee let his crew get abused by ripperdocs (maybe that's bad taste) and then the lawman's backup got corrupted because the local Chief of Police hated his guts and sent assassins after him (harsh, yes, but this is exactly what happened in Dread 2012). tl;dr the devs want us to make our own game but Cyberpunk has barely been a genre for 20 years and if we don't play as they want they'll get their gay reddit lackeys to berate us. It's fucking lame. And yeah that preddit thread is from a year ago but it was so disgusting that I still think back to it and shudder. Imagine how petty of a gamedev you have to be to to log into your personal account to say someone is playing wrong. Which is insane because this whole game is 80% homebrew because there is barely any content here. Remember in 2025 we got Interface 4 (kung fu) and Solo Play and that's it.
If elves weren't the pinnacle of all creation than why do they get the privilege of working in Santa's workshop?
I know this is just some off-topic shitposting thread, but some people really struggle with the concept of a name applying to different things.
>>97227708>one has better tits.Yes, the one on the right. Better size too. Flat is justice!
>>97227600https://youtu.be/fw7dexoX4pQCollege Humor did this gag 7 years ago.
>>97227600Santa shouldv'e made dwarves the toymakers instead.
>>97236515Dwarves and elves are literally synonyms. So in a sense they are.
Men who make/roleplay female characters, why do you? Why do you think it bothers /tg/ so much?>inb4 I don't because I'm not a faggut, hurr durr
>>97230688he's right thoThe decline of births is due to women not being impregnated in favour of women doing whatever they want.There IS a world in which that's good.You could live in a world number 1 with declining birthrates, BUT with women like, vastly improving society. Kinda like a humanpunk take: We'll have less births, but we'll catapult humanity with our collective effort.You don't live in that world.You live in the world number 2, in which there is declining birthrates, and what women do with their tradeoff lives? Nothing of value. I'm sure it has value to YOU, traveling and whoring and protesting asinine causes, but that's not world number 1That anon is right, if the women isn't pumping babies, she's of no value. She COULD tho! we COULD live in world number 1! And the women not pump babies but add value! We don't.
>>97236508Yes we can see you are retarded and don't know anything.
>>97236147it's even funnier and sadder when the same guys who tell everyone online that women are simultaneously both coldly logical gold digger automatons and incompetent hysterical children who can only act on feelings then look around and act all confused that men and women aren't getting together anymore
>>97226437Don't bother trying to make a character that "realistic." You're playing a fictional fantasy character in a fictional fantasy game. Make it a mix of characteristics from characters you like.This applies to male characters too btw.
>>97236764We shouldn't have to """get along""" with them. Women should go back to being submissive sex objects and home keepers and just do what we tell them. Letting them think they have rights or agency was a mistake.
How has a wife/girlfriend joining the group affected your games?
>>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.
>>97229001>>97229080>>97229087>>97229149>>97229167>>97229179>>97229228>>97229256>>97229283Okay guys, lets stop talking about board games and your shitty group. Tell me who's your favorite tranny?
>>97237863You.
>>97237863>Tell me who's your favorite tranny?Me. I'm the best girl.With that aside, we should get a discord game if 5e started. I have an idea for a tiefling barista in a wheelchair who can use their natural charisma to overthrow the capitalist feudal patriarchal system and forcibly feminize all men. Let's make a paradise.
Everyone I know who watches Fatt Coville videos is a fucking terrible GM. I've never fully watched one and I am widely considered the best GM out of all 3 groups I'm part of. I am regularly requested to run campaigns. People borderline fall asleep in the games others run. There's also no tension because they know that these Coville acolytes will fudge rolls until all PCs survive the battle. If you're a good GM, it's an inmate talent you can hone over time. You're born that way. If you aren't, then no amount of shitty advice is going to make up for your lack of talent. It just is what it is. This idea that everyone should "try" DMing is retarded. The idea that anyone can be good at it? lolno. Its like some fat divorced on who suddenly decides he's gonna become a famous author. Fat chance. Most people fucking suck at GMing. Hell, most of them suck at playing, but at least in that case the game depends less on them.
>>97235576You will never be a woman. >>97236969Proof?
>>97237492Yes, /pol/tards are never smart or have anything useful.
>>97232246>sample size of one
>>97235121>I'm just doing make believeWell considering i made the random crit table, you're gonna have to be more specific.
>>97235576lmao
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>>97237129NTA but Race for the Galaxy and Pax Renaissance both come to mind.
>>97237339how is pax ren heavy filler?
>>97237728Despite what it says on the box, it's like a 40 minute game if you know the rules.
>>97237728>>97237741Pax Ren buckbroke some of the members in my group, they cannot fucking fathom it and they are nerd board game regulars.
>>97237929That's a skill issue but at least you know they're retarded now.
>Thirst Provoking ImageMy fantasy campaign just ended with a rally fun fight against 8 dragons. I get to take some time off as the game master, and that's hella cool.Beyond being a game master, I'm also one of those worldbuilders that the What Game Fag hates so much, and my players have asked me for my next time running that I run in this sci-fi post cyberpunk setting I've been making for my own fun. I never planned on running it, just making it to feed my autism.I'm happy to do so, but I'm at a loss for the kind of campaign to run.I want to avoid cyberpunk gang warfare, but that's the only idea I actually have. I got about three months before I have to run, so I want to get ready early.Please, on this Christmas Eve, tell me what kinds of other campaigns I could be running in what is effectively a Cyberpunk Megacity on a different planet.If it matters, the ruleset is Savage Worlds.If it matters, the game I get to play in until late March is Gurps Dungeon Fantasy set in Ultima post U5 but before U6.
>>97236045>rally funRacing or tennis?>sci-fi post cyberpunkThat's not a great deal to work with. Obvious cyberpunk missions are delivering data, stealing data, destroying data, or stealing and delivering data. Or anything you can do in most settings like kidnap some guy or destroy something. I'm not really sure what you're after.
>>97236045You could go for being a corpo hit-squad, though that might tend too close to gang warfare. Though it could be fun having to hunt down the main antagonist because they keep brain uploading like a cyber-lich.>>97236126>Rally fun>RacingAn F-Zero kind of campaign could be pretty dope. Focus on the racing, but then there plenty of other stuff to do outside of the main events like secure sponsors, "aquire" parts to soup up the vehicles.
>>97236045Check out SLA industries and watch movie called Brazil.
>>97236045Could play a bunch of AI trying to escape a megacorp server rack.Could run a campaign where you're playing a bunch of investigators, trying to track down some information, criminal, or secret megacorp project that was stolen/broke out.Could still have a more traditional violent campaign where you play as assassins, trying to false flag some group for your faction's gain. Less constant warfare; more plan of action, coverup, and escape.
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.
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?
>>97237315Kino.
>>97237706it'll be celebrating a conception thats for sure
>>97236634>TQ: What is the single biggest purchase you've made?~$80 for one of the 25th Anniversary Monsters (Magicians of Bond and Unity, etc.), don't remember which one it was.>TCaC: Take any normal fusion/ritual monster and base a new archetype around it.Musician King -> Make a band archetype that becomes more powerful the more band members are on the field. Each has a special ability while on the field (ex. drummer adds protection from targeting, bass player prevents opponents monsters from attacking other band members, etc.). There's also a field spell that can get upgraded that also grants the archetype benefits: club stage -> auditorium stage -> stadium stage, etc.
Previously on /slop/: >>97217403 ▶ Thread Task:. Christmas and Cryptids Edition. Krampus, mimics disguised as presents, Egg Nog Elementals, and all things fierce and festive!▶ Generatorshttps://bing.com/images/create/https://sora.chatgpt.com/https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generatorhttps://civitai.com/Curious about local genning? Check out /g/'s stable diffusion OP or ask one of our friendly locals.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97237722>Inquisitor Corsini stood at the edge of the hull, contemplating what could be the last sunset he would ever see. Though abandoned by his order and opposed by a foe even he could not truly comprehend, the day of his vengeance was finally at hand. The sabotage device was in place, and all that remained was to choose the proper moment to strike.>Interrupting his thoughts, the sibilant voice of Salafié came from behind him; "You draw close to the edge, my lord. Take care lest you should fall.">The Inquisitor scowled under his hood at the double meaning of her words and responded in kind; "He who walks in the Emperor's light does not stumble, heretic.">"He speaks at last..." Salafié drew up alongside the Inquisitor, gazing out at the blazing horizon. "But heretic? Surely you misspeak. Have not the High Lords of Terra themselves attested to my innocence?">"Do not speak to me of innocence!" the Inquisitor growled, his voice like low thunder, "Nor of your pardon bought with the blood money of that damned Rogue Trader. I was there the day your machines laid waste to my homeworld. There and on a dozen worlds since, I bore witness to your guilt with my own eyes.">"Ah..." the Priestess sighed, "So you are the one who hunts me. Am I all you imagined I would be?">"Do you mock me? You stand accused! Have you nothing to say for yourself?"Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97237735>"The God-Emperor will punish you for your pride.">"Such certainty..." Salafié gave a hollow laugh, "Know that I have been slain time and again over the centuries, and ever have I been recalled to life by the same technologies for which you call me heretic. Yet in all of this, never has the Emperor passed judgment on my soul. If I am damned, it is by my hand alone.">"Blasphemy..." the word came reflexively to the Inquisitor's lips. "Blasphemy!" he bellowed once more, raising an accusing finger at the Priestess.>Moving with a speed and force the Inquisitor could not have hoped to counter, Salafié seized his outstretched arm, bones cracking under the grip of pneumatic claws. Even as he tried to pull away, Corsini felt his heavily muscled frame yielding to the hideous strength of metal limbs that folded him into an embrace and drew him irresistibly towards the precipice.>"I waste my words on you, zealot," she hissed in Corsini's ear as she forced him closer and closer to the howling gulf of open air. "Well, Inquisitor? Here is your prey, and there the ledge. If you are so sure of your faith, but ask it of me and I will bear us both down to our fate below, and prove whether the Emperor's will is the match to my artifice." >With a sudden exertion, the Inquisitor wrenched himself free from Salafié's grasp, collapsing to the deck with a groan. "I have nothing to prove to you, abomination," the Inquisitor gasped between ragged breaths, "You will not escape judgment!">"You lack the courage of your convictions, Inquisitor." the Priestess sneered down at him, before sweeping away to rejoin her noble guests, confident that beneath the Inquisitor's costume of fanaticism beat the heart of a coward. But for all her talents, Salafié was a poor judge of character, and even as Corsini lay upon the decking nursing his shattered arm in the fading evening light, he resolved that he would be a martyr before the dawn.
>>97237612wearing an indigo colored gown, plunging neckline split to the waist meeting at the neck open navel>>97235189Perchance for her
>>97237921Forgot the picYou can also use "outfit" instead of gown
>>97237927
What are the funniest wargame mechanics you've ever encountered?
>>97236410100%, no competition, motherfucking cannonball bounce rods.Back when people were retarded, we used to to get dowel rods and paint them with black and white stripes, stripes starting thick on one end and thin on the other. When you fired a cannon, you'd have to line up the rod where you shot, and any units on the black stripes would get hit, while the white white area meant the ball bounced too high to hit them.
>>97237079that is based
>>97237079Ah yes, the "Everything is a TPK, RAW" rule.Someone actually thought that would be a good idea.
>>97237079God I remember building a car to generate as much stress as possible with the "add stress as attack dice on collisions" skill. Slime was fucked.
In Necromunda, the Cawdor Gang have a set of ambiguously supernatural prayers they can invoke for special effects mid game. Most of these are rolled to see if they activate at the beginning of the turn. One of them, however, grants extra jumping distance, as the Ganger beseeches the Emperor for the power of flight. This one is rolled for after you start jumping, in midair, so there's a good chance that the model jumps, and then you roll, and he plummets to his death. Good for a laugh, every time.
>need to read one or more literal textbooks before being able to engage with the gamehonestly that's kinda crazy
Players actually shouldn't learn the rules, a player who knows the rules is a player who may dispute the GM on them.
>>97235374>game rules are presented in wiki formatoooooohh my zoomer senses are gettin excited!!
>>97235374If you're not excited to pour over the rules, then you might not have the right enthusiasm for this
>>97235374>Go to a books-based hobby>There's books>Whine
>>97235374I just skim enough to put the least amount of information necessary on my sheet. Sometimes I just make shit up that sounds right, and if I get called out on it I just say I didn't understand that part of the book and write in whatever they correct me on. I usually don't even spend XP, or if I do just dump it into the one or two skills I use all the time. If the GM or play group makes an assumption about a skill or piece of equipment they think I have I just write it on my sheet and go with it. I'm just here to play pretend, and my groups like the characters I play, so they don't need to know about how I do my character sheets.
Jabbering Jabberwock EditionDiscussion of the Towergirls CYOA, RPG, Setting, or Video Games welcome here!Everyone is welcome.FAQhttps://pastebin.com/vv4xQuwDCharts:Main Gens: https://e-hentai.org/g/2556775/f1669e072b/Imgchest backups(not sorted): https://imgchest.com/p/na7ko9dky8dhttps://imgchest.com/p/pg73rmbv7rnLegacy Charts: https://imgur.com/a/IRtoHXhSide Quests: https://imgur.com/a/7euVXRTComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97234389Thank you.It's gonna be a long one.
christmas
Teaser for the next one!
>>97236538Scorpion and Harimtu looking good
Bluh Bluh!https://files.catbox.moe/1pzpir.png
>DM does the tired old Yin-Yang as mutually exclusive gended-coded principles of magic>acts all uppity when we figure obvious loophole to master both
>>97228297Also in Runequest Ernalda (earth goddess of grain, fertility and snakes) gates her most powerful magic behind birthing children. Luckily there's a way for men bear children through powerful magics.
>>97228297Alright nigga how'd you exploit it? And how'd you keep your boys from going nuts?
>>97224870We've always had fake stories but at least back in the day they were entertaining.
>>97222366Aren't the colours wrong - guy should be pink and the girl blue?
>>97227517>where it was based and not cringe>t. boyfucking Athenian
