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?
They say only Good can create, whereas Evil is sterile. Tolkien certainly does, with Morgoth being unable to make things himself, so perverts Elves to Orcs for his armies. But I think this gets it entirely backwards; it’s Good that just mutates and twists, and it’s Evil that teems with fecundity.
>>97388951>They sayThat's actually a specific school of thought within christianity. I forget the name of the doctrine.>it’s Good that just mutates and twists, and it’s Evil that teems with fecundity.If we look to Antiquity before philosemitic moralfaggery began, the Indo-European views seem to align on the gods (ie. "order", rather than "good") transforming the existing matter (think of titans like Gaia, literally the earth, who is the source of many things we might call evil if we were so inclined), and the anti-gods (giants, ettins, etc., who are certainly antagonistic to both gods and men) devouring that which the gods create and returning it to its base matter. In essence, the gods (and with them, man) domesticate the savage nature and keep the natural forces of entropy at bay.So that's certainy pretty close.
>>97384224If I want to humanize my mooks I have them not necessarily being killed when downed. I describe them screaming in pain, begging or praying as the life slowly leaves their bodies. If the players want to kill them they have to say that they execute the fallen. Every time. Now I don't always describe the suffering of downed enemies. After the first few sessions the players get the gist of it and automatically assume what is happening after a fight. It's pretty effective.
>>97388896turns out I don't care about your forgiveness all that muchalso I didn't read the books in English
>>97384224If the focus of the game is cutting down mooks, humanizing them is counter-intuitive. >How do I eat nothing but cookies and ice cream, but never put on weight?You don't. There needs to be other steps involved, like exercising enough to offset the cookies and ice cream, which takes far more time and effort. You can't have players cutting down countless mooks and then shift even more focus to having them feel bad about each and every man they killed, because the effort required would far outweigh the time spent playing the game where you kill tons of mooks.
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The Akina fandom is fighting for its life on reddit; maybe they should learn to blame the writers first. They have a fake world with plenty of reasons to destroy it, but the best thing akina can come up is to tell the kid with dead parents is that Kento is being bullied.
>>97388870Gab probably has conditions that arent explained right away because thats petty as fuck his world screws over Kento in specificmight have to do with how Kurumi is in a similar place to Kento as one of Akina's friends and he's displaced by her presence in Fantasma.
>world's first 100% vibes based tabletop setting
>>97350485>independent Finland outside of Swedish or Russian rule>PLC with the Teutonic Order still around and an independent Cossack state>ancient nomadic Scythians somehow still arounddoesn't make any sense
>>97386235I liked Queek, but I am a ratfag
>>97361533It has always been all style, no substance.You cannot fault people for wishing there was at least a little substance.
>>97387886Its got the same level of vibes based approach to history as 40K, but without the excuse of 38000 years of humans being retarded and cherrypicking shit to build their new space societies on.
>>97355342>grumblecakeI immediately knew where this was from. Thank you so much for posting this, you actually made my day
Thread #02 Lean Winter on the TundraPrevious Thread: >>97090196Welcome to /un0/, an RP thread for playing a World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness Hunter. For any OOC questions about WoD/CofD, check the official general. >>97224887Rules:>We are acephale. There is no storyteller, we are not a quest.>This thread is based primarily but not exclusively in the nWoD/CofD game Hunter: the Vigil. However, Vigil is defined by being highly setting agnostic, with a system for creating entirely custom monsters that do not exist in other WoD/CofD games. Thus, you have significant freedom in what you want to play and what you want to hunt. Feel free to play a member of the Society of Leopold, or a member of the Lucifuge hot on the tail of a Lasombra.>Namefagging is encouraged but by no means mandatory.>Keep in mind that even highly experienced Hunters typically only have fractured pieces of the puzzle, and every table has their own canon. The night is dark and full of misinformation.>/un0/ is conceived of as an experimental end to end encrypted program that is very hard to compromise, retains very little data and purges that data regularly. Please play an actual Hunter.>Spoiler any OOC discussion.Happy hunting. Unless this thread somehow takes off like a rocket, this will be the last un0 thread for the foreseeable future. Towards the end of the thread, please give your feedback in regard to these shorter, limited run RP threads.
Just killed some texas chainsaw massacre looking freak. Bullets didn't do much more than a punch to him, hitting him with my car stunned him but not much else, but he had this big fucky suit of metal armor, like Ned Kelly's retarded cousin, and I tricked his dumb ass into stabbing a fusebox with that rusted knife of his and it fried him. Weird.
>>97382498One hell of a crackhead or actual supernatural psycho, hard to tell.
>>97383712I've never heard of crack letting a man shrug off three rounds of .308 like it was a BB gun. I know it didn't deflect off the armor, when I was checking the corpse to make certain he was dead I found the holes, my bullets punched clean through his scrap armor. He's dead now. Chopped the body up and put it in the furnace, full blast. My ancestor once dealt with a man who came back from a bloody mess, but burning the body to a crisp kept him from coming back for good. Not sure if this guy was the same but he's finished. Wasn't using a handle earlier, will do so now for ease of identifying my posts.
>>97383916Whatever it was I'm sure nobody is gonna miss it. I always had a feeling some psychos could not be fully human. At least we know electricity and fire work.
>>97385649Yeah I'd reckon something changes when someone completely gives up that which makes them human. Though maybe it's some sort of magic only the depraved would practice.The man my ancestor slew, Absalom Duquesne, apparently he had to bathe himself in blood once a month to maintain his life and regeneration. He liked to choke his victims out while singing amazing grace.
>Medieval fantasy setting>Magic is nanomachine tech>Ancient ruin is a crashed spaceship>"The Oracle" is an AI>Gods are original humansPLEASE stop doing this.
>>97352571>stop
>>97352571fuck off, it's coolyes, angels are robots from spaceyes, devils are invasive alien species
>>97353888>Only stupid Redditfags do thisNo, you stupid nogames, half of old fantasy settings did this back in the day. It was a very common idea in the 90s and earlier.
>>97388233That's not weebshit. The thread is about weebshit.
>>97388233In the game on your image, not once are these M&M scifi elements actually referenced.
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?
>>97388379You need to get out of your echo chamber. There's a lot of interest in victorian fashion, subcultures, literature and personalities which you can find in reenactment channels on youtube
>>97388146It's harder and isn't a world. The Victorian period is really a specific class in a specific place. It requires familiarity with a lot of social mores you've never experienced, and relies on specific technologies and politics. It's harder to understand and has less room for adventure.Also they're not anywhere close to the same thing. I assume you mean the gothic literary period, which starts in the century prior to the Victorian period and is more Romantic. You probably misinterpret it as being based on authors like Poe, but it's not. It's based on authors like Walpole and Ratcliff, who you've probably never read. Who the hell even knows Romance of the Forest or the Italian, which are the two greatest works of gothic fiction and possibly two of the best English-language novels ever written? They've completely fallen outa public consciousness.But who hasn't seen robin hood and king arthur cartoons? You grew up knowing what a medieval fantasy romp looks like. You've never even heard of the best gothic novels ever written.
>>97388508They keep putting out printings of the core book and it's gotten 2 to 3 books released per year since in launched in 2018. You might not like the game, but somebody is playing it, and it's incredibly well supported.
>>97388146Steampunk co-opted most of the public interest in the Victorian era then imploded in a critical mass of cringe
>>97388146>>97388308>>97388325>>97388379>Gothic SettingWhy do people who have never read Gothic Literature pretend they know anything about it?The "Gothic" from Gothic literature comes from the middle ages. The first ever gothic novel, the castle of otranto, was called a gothic novel because it was set in the middle ages at the time of the crusades, written by horace walpole, who built himself a castle and was obessed with the middle ages. Virtually all of the great pieces of gothic fiction written in the Gothic Golden age (1760 to 1820) were set in the middle ages/renaissance. Gothic Literature is inherently medieval.>b-but frankenstein and draculaBoth of which were written after the Gothic Golden age had ended and one of which (frankenstein) only uses gothic elements.>>97388653 is the only one in this thread who actually knows what Gothic means and isn't just a retarded secondary.
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Rolled 35, 24 = 59 (2d40)>>97388912shit taste, I'll be jerking off to my way better ship
JITE can't die soon enough
>>97389155Towerutojourney has you covered
>>97389155on the contrary, after seeing these new mps it's imperative for anons to be struck down with ten more months of jite as punishment
>>97389166SMT Strange Journey MP when
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.
>>97388701cringe
>>97388701only buy at msrp or lessyou dont need cards to live
>>97388862You don't need to live either. Life is what you make of it. Stupid financial decisions are a person's right.
>>97388701The facebook communities for Bandai games are so degenerate.
>What is Exalted?An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.Start here:http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.htmlIt’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck>Resources for Third Edition>3E Core and Splatshttps://www.mediafire.com/folder/b54o6teut3fx6/Exalted_3eComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Cool Dragon Blooded House Idea: They're also Ghost-Blooded. Yeah, Ghost-Blooded Deeb Houses is my new fix for Liminals.
>>97387811Now it just needs court eunuchs letting Malfeas loose.
>>97387981A court of scheming monkey-man eunuchs
>>97387973I like it too, it'd be neat if it gives Abyssals living people they can interact with without triggering their LimitYou can have the Frankenstein's Monster archetype part of Liminals just be something that happens when you try to ressurrect the dead and a separate race like Jadeborn or Dragon Kings
>>97387973That does sound cool. What'd you do with the House aside from them being both Dragon-Blooded and Ghost-Blooded, though? Would they be exorcists, necromancers or something else? Would they be allies or servants of the Deathlords, their enemies or just intent on not getting caught up in their bullshit. Would they be more focused on Creation or the Underworld. Would they be ruled by ghostly ancestors or living Dragon-Blooded?This is not me demanding your idea to be born fully formed, to be clear. I was just wondering if you had something more specific in mind, or if you were interested in brainstorming a more detailed take with /exg/.
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>>97381244>stick to your guns and get no gameLiterally never been an issue for me. Every game I run, I tell everyone I stopped caring in 2010, and Black Library is gay and non-canon, and people flock to me anyway.>>97381536I don't actually believe this post. I'm pretty sure you're just saying this to demoralize people for some reason.>>97383983Okay, now I'm completely sure you're lying.
>>97386723This is a pretty good summary. I want to add, however, that the Imperium has a vested interest in letting the populace know about things like Space Marines and the Inquisition (so that people fear and revere them appropriately). The sisters less so, but the fact they wear the insignias of the Ecclesiarchy and spout holy scripture all day long probably makes it clear who they are if they show up - they don't really need stories about them. Nice to see people actually care about how information dissemination works in the Imperium, though. Last Dark Heresy campaign I was in, the feral world guardsman and the arbites beat cop were happily discussing the details of Necron gauss technology, and nobody batted an eyelash when the cog polisher-tier tech priest laid out the rights and privileges of a rogue trader.
>>97388941I'm >>97383983, I'm not the other guy, you dipshit. Keep your uncslop while the rest of us have fun with the new stuff.
>>97381462>Actual loser mentality because what's the point of playing if you're not doing it with friends.Personally, I'd like to make some friends by trawling the web for people who share my mindset... although my experience tells me that this is impossible for some reason. People would just rather apply to game after game after game and watch them crumble, rather than come together as a group and put in effort to build something actually good. Maybe it's the effort part, that they'd rather hold out hope that some day someone else will just do everything for them, or maybe they're so afraid of disappointment that they refuse to actually get invested in anything. Oh well. I have half a mind to offer to trade services, run somebody else's dream game for him if he does the same for me, but I'd probably just get some jackass to sting me for a one-shot and then disappear.
>>97389029It's a symptom of modern times. If you don't get instant gratification from a thing, don't waste effort, just try a new one! Food, games, romantic partners! Don't waste time and effort with something that doesn't work, just swap out until you find the perfect one! There's a million out there, and all the time in the world to find it!
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>>97388174Don't use the sleeves that come with the deck unless you buy oversleeves.
>>97388217I have a box of Yellow Dragon Shields arriving with my deck too.
>>97388231Ignore that, use the sleeves that come with the deck without oversleeves. Scuff marks are a badge of honor.
Illiad is shaping up to be one of the most annoying megazoo decks in the game, I'm so sorry for shiting on the RKs all these years.
>>97386603It feels like playing against examon but they can just hard play it for 7 memory.
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>>97380177Going after my boy Crix. Shame about your TPK
>>97388145Retard screeches the same thing for 10 years, he's going to be right eventually.
>>97388145broken clock and so forth, anon
>>97385378You want more of that? Then you gotta go back to the well.Inspiration will come from authors like Grim, Baum, Tolkien, Lewis, Shelly and Stoker if you’re feeling a bit ambitious. As well as pulling from war stories, and not just WWII. You just can’t take inspiration from other Star Wars authors, otherwise it becomes a copy of a copy problem
>>97388449That's just this entire board.
New year new me 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.
>>97386217Absolutely blessed session 0, good job choom.>I like the screamsheet format for adventures, they give you a story framework but leave most of the work in the GM's handsThis is pretty much what I do, I just skim a gig and get inspired for something of my own design. For example for the extremely well-written Agents of Desire I changed the Saturday Night Butt Kickers final battle to the crew infiltrating a yakuza lair (I mean come on if the idea was that Ai's engram could be cloned and copied as a free AI slave forever I feel like a bigger player would get it, not a technobarbarian gang), or for A Night at the Opera I set up the evil vampires as a huge infective presence down to even some NCPD having vampyre fangs and indoctrinated into the masquerade. And like most ref's I read Reaping the Reaper and thought that this plot point deserves a lot more love and made Reaper and his cloned AI into a more persistent threat. Also I took the various Bozo jobs and it inspired me to make an entire campaign out of it.
>>97385563A diner that serves whiskey? Sign me up.
>>97290472How do you as a GM handle the more explicit side of the cyberpunk universe without going too far into magical realm shit?
>>97388570just don't include your own personal magical realm shit, or at least put it in sparingly for variety and have the focus elsewhereyou'll figure out the balance because youll know the point at which it's no longer something you want details on
>>97388570>Hendrix is your target, he's a sex trafficker and serial killer, he killed the client's son in a hit and run accident when he tried to run over a puppy>You enter the office and Marshall is being served by a prostitute under his office table, he waves her away when he realises you have the laptop and focuses on it entirely>James will be in the brothel between 2 and 7, that will be the easiest time to extract him.Literally that easy.
What do you even do in a ghost rpg?
>>97388816>no power fantasyis this why ghost games aren't popular?
>>97388848Is this why AI threads aren't popular?
>>97388201We're not concerned about anything we just hate retards posting their dog shit games and pretending like they aren't the author. Seriously, buy an ad
>>97386874You could tell us what ghosts do if you took a gun and put it in your mouth and pull the trigger at least once
>>97388682You're not very good at this. Which ghost RPG? The one OP is shilling? Go fucking download it and give us actual thoughts. Other ghost RPGs? Name them and discuss their approach and their gameplay loops. You aren't fucking capable of a real /tg/ discussion because you're an angry parasitic little faggot who can't even be bothered to make good posts. You only show up to whine and bitch when people point out that yet another shitty thread has been made by retards like you.
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>>97377517stop playing 2e if you dont want slog combat
>>97386828It's actually a 6 man party issue (this dude probably plays PFS LOL) but I would love to hear about your Emerald Spire or equivalent for 1e taking less time and ensuring everyone "gets a go"
>>97368392>below 17I don't think you can even reach 100ft as a human monk even as a 20th level at all, fucking sure not permanent. Pf2e is anti cool acrobatic/athletic
>>97388680So I've actually discussed this before, and comparing 1e at its most athletic (just like with almost everything else about the system) makes 2e look like a paraplegic joke.In the Mythic system for Pathfinder 1e, Champions have a Tier 1 ability called Aerial Assault. Basically, as a free baseline, it adds 10 ft. of height or distance per tier to ALL of your jumps, plus if you hit someone on the way down you got a bit of extra damage equal to the damage you would have normally taken from falling that height. So, when JUST taking this ability into account, a MR 10 character with this could theoretically leap up over 100 ft in a single bound for free, and if they wanted could get up to 10d6 extra damage if they jumped vertically in combat.Now, let's compare that to the closest thing we have to its 2e equivalent: Feet that Stride the Sky. This is an Uncommon Mythic Feat 2 that has a Calling prerequisite, and says that if you SPEND A POINT, you get to make a High or Long Jump at Mythic proficiency. It tries to soften the blow by making it so that no matter what kind of jump you always use the easy flat Long Jump DC of 15, and you also get to double your movement speed, but it only lasts for one jump. It doesn't even remove the need for you to get at least a 10 ft running start first; and worse, it doesn't matter how fast your movement speed is. The most you're ever going to jump with a High Jump (even with the reduced DC) will be at most the predetermined 8 feet vertically and 10 feet horizontally listed on a crit success, so that extra movement speed I mentioned only matters for Long Jumps.You get no bonus damage from the height, and most damningly of all? Paizo didn't even make a follow-up Mythic Feat to pair with this other than MAYBE Godspeed, which requires you to spend EVEN MORE of your limited points to get a piddly +10 to your movement speed for one whole minute.
>>97388841never thought they would nerf that instead of instances of super damage or enemy nullification wombo combos
