How do you justify a "pest race" like goblins or rat people in your setting? Why wouldn't the dominant species make a concentrated effort to eradicate them if they were a problem?
>Exterminating a population is actually really really difficult even for high state capacity societies! If you have some set of population in a city or a camp then yes, you can lock the gates and start the proscriptions, historical examples range from Second Triumvirate to Timurids to nazis, and it's pretty effective. But most people don't live in cities! If you try to do it in the countryside, people flee to the hills, the swamps, the forests, and your army supposed to commit genocide eats state finances every moment they are mobilized. Even when we're talking about proper states like Rome, they mostly can control cities, and little of much else. Even Imperial Japan, a modern administrative state with railroads and telecommunication, basically controlled cities and roads and nothing else in WW2.>Insofar as goblins and rat peoples, etc, are "pests", the powers that be might prefer it that way. For instance, they might provide services that aren't socially acceptable to citizen populations (spartiates might have thought of helotes as "pests", but since it was literally illegal for a spartiate to work without losing citizenship...). Insofar as "actually undesirable" activities like narcotics trade are concerned, they might have a deal to take a cut of the profits. And disenfranchised classes are useful as scapegoats, for taking a disproportionate tax burden, etc (for example, in Al-Andalus the muslim rulers kinda preferred the population to stay Christian so as to raise the jizya tax). Likewise, individual people who'd have to be involved in the cleansing might have personal contacts, friends, etc, and they don't want to work.Consider: Why can't modern states exterminate the nazi populations within?
>Why wouldn't the dominant species make a concentrated effort to eradicate them if they were a problem?Because there are different factions in the dominant species that would rather screw each other over than band together.
>>97213998The goblins fulfill an important ecological niche of being cocksleeves for human men.
>>97213989They can be very useful.
Mods gay
>wizard invests fortune in spell research>doesn’t write an article about it>doesn’t allow peer review, never submits to journal >nothing is ever published And don’t get started on how few alumni of the magic academy ever come back to teach instead of going private.
>>97210641Wold any wizard ever publish their research for review of any kind at all? They tend to keep that shit to themselves and kill anyone that kind of knows about it. Peer review comes centuries later when a group of adventurers uncovers the ashes of that wizard's former tower. and the group wizard skims a bit and realized that was some dangerous stupid shit.
>>97210641I always liked the idea that Wizard communities, schools, guilds and other associations are for the beginners and lower levels. Once they reach a sufficient level of power they become arrogant loners and rarely ever associate with other wizards, thinking things like shared libraries and knowledge is beneath them or the work of lesser intelligent losers that need help.
>>97212155It wold make more sense for clerics with the highest level being DnD Pope.
>>97213462game? players? what are you talking about?
>>97213972That was the old Sierra Games Kings Quest setting. Wizard guilds only existed for the lower levels and when they started obtaining decent levels of power they would immediately quit and become secretive loners. Who would then get to work looking down on any wizard group of any kind as more low level weaklings that were not powerful enough to be loners themselves.
Thread #01 Winter Wonderland.Welcome 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. >>97089644Rules:>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.
>>97211290Hopefully the ship bestows answers. An understandable outlook regarding blood suckers. The world would be better off without them, but the night seems to always have a more disconcerting fiend lurking deeper in the dark.One is fine, maybe when we're closer to falling off we'll feel different. It's been fun.>>97211787God give you strength and endurance on your expedition. I hope you and your group get in and out without issue.>>97211996What type of creature got the misfortune of being bound? You might want to be careful if it turns out to be an imp. Nasty little buggers.
>>97211290just one more thread please
>>97211290Careful, it all starts with letting one of them go because "they seem human". Hunting isn't for the mentally weak. Avoid conversation with the vampire. The vampire will lie. The vampire will make excuses. If only the people would open their eyes again, we made them afraid once, we can do it again.
>>97211290One more to round out New year's sounds fitting.
Christmas is approaching, and so is another licensed choose-your-own-adventure book starring your favourite hedgehog!ATTENTION MODS - THIS IS NOT A QUEST THREAD, BUT A GAMEBOOK STORYTIMEOkay, now that that's out of the way, let's begin...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGkX5V8bwek
>>97213843I forgot Tails was helping, so let's say his help was enough>He was 'pilot guy' for Sonic in his very first appearance in Sonic 2 though...He was more "little fucker that kept losing rings on the special stages" in that game
...>run fuck_it_lets_just_pretend_we_got_all_that_shit.exeAnyway, we auto-succeed, because the morons who wrote this were that fucking lazy.
CHAOS EMERALDS RECOVERED: At least 1, apparentlyLIVES REMAINING TOTAL: 3SAVE FILES LOADED: 0TIMES I CHEATED AND LET YOU WIN/CARRY ON: Technically twiceTIMES I HAD TO SKIP AROUND BECAUSE THE DIPSHIT WHO SCANNED THIS MISSED SEVERAL PAGES: 5ILLUSTRATIONS UNLOCKED: 4/26(?)END SCORE: Who fucking cares? The writers certainly didn'tI'm really sorry about this one - I'm going into these blind, and the previous two were pretty good, so I was NOT expecting such a drop in quality. Hopefully the next one will be better when I post it next Friday.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKmoxLKmp8w
>>97213956Wait... that's IT?! No cool banter, no full illustration at the end? Fuck me, this was some bare-bones shit.
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #590A Few Points EditionPrevious thread: >>97134848Most 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.
#1d6
Rolled 1, 8 = 9 (2d8)dice+2d8
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/138828764https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/138830864Some DMG sex plus oda's C107 H doujin preview
>first full arts ever>95% of them are extremely strongThey're gonna be $1000, huh
>/dng/-lite
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>>97201840Requesting Krampus as Santa Claus and Santa Claus as Krampus.
Requesting a Rust Monster
>>97201851Anchoring at the anchor post.
>>97201851Anchoring the WiP for my Ciri-inspired Githzerai mashed with an Eldar warp spider Horizon Walker/Echo Knight. Hopefully the drawfriend is still active.
Do you guys like expressionist art?
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>>97211627What's the tamer effect and inherit?
>>97213901Forgot my pic dammit.
>>97213908
So what are the ratios after buying 2x Sakuya decks?What would (you) take/add to picrel?I'm definitely thinking of teching an Ex4 Kuzuhamon
>>97213922Thank you
>Brutus' Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g>DriveAnon's Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing>Jumpchain IRC Chathttp://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA>Ruleshttp://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn>How to Jumpchainhttp://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/viewComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97212718He says all of that why also lecturing Brolga about how she shouldn't hate humans.>Humans are really cool, you see!>But only the parts I like
>>97211802I recognize that bandanna.
>>97211802That is amazing floof. Would pet and give tummy rubs. A++
>>97192944>183 - Angel Beasts!>Drawbacks>Location & Time>Background choicesDrop-In>PurchasesDeathless (200 CP version) (800)Obliteration (Free)Heartbeat (Free)Shadow of Regret (700)Donor (500)Acceptance (200)Leadership (0)Freebies (Free)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97213849Otonashimaxxing. I like it.
winter edition >Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- Tech Mahindra Global Chess League | December 13th - 24th- FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships | December 25th - 31st- Rilton Cup | December 27th - January 5th- Lichess Winter Marathon | December 28th- European Women's Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship | January 8th - 12th- Tata Steel | January 16th - February 1st- Speed Chess Championship Finals | February 7th - 8th- Prague International Chess Festival: Masters | February 25th - March 6th- FIDE Candidates Tournament | March 28th - April 16thComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97194152nice game anon
>>97197594Maybe it's just about money
We aren't that bad after all:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRJvX8CsvQo
>>97201186Here's the secret to chess. The previous move is the biggest clue to find the best move. Chess positions don't change that much move to move. Focus on the changes the last move made, which new squares are now under attack and which squares are no longer attacked. Remembering and keeping track of what has already happened, will give you foresight into the future.
>>97179046No but very nice forearm hair.
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?
>>97206674It's really hard to try to balance out the railroading, openness and unpredictability for me.There's exciting moments, but it never coalesces into a congruent narrative and it takes a lot of time and effort to get going.I'm currently in a campaign where I've basically had 3 objective failures and I had to roll for my life just to get out alive. The objective just keeps getting further away from me and it's draining to try to keep the story on track when rolls and random tables just won't cooperate.
Anyone got an OSR campaign I can do solo? I've never played the game, or DM'd before. My wife asked me to do it for her friends and her, so I'm gonna learn it for them.
>>97213239Scarlet Heroes is still the gold standard for solo OSR games. Kal-Arath and F.O.R.G.E are decent alternatives if you want something more generic. Scarlet Heries comes with an oriental sword & sorcery setting that is not everyone's cup of tea, but the SH rules work as is in any other kind of fantasy setting too.
>>97213239which game?
>>97213733Regarding Kal-Arath, Castle Grief also has free pre-written hexcrawl settings/campaigns that fit right into Kal Arath perfectly. SilverNightingale also has some, and Red Wastes of Zostria (Zothia?) is getting an overhaul into a 250-page or so full campaign setting sometime in the next few months
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>>97212915Thank you very much for The End of Everything, anon.
>>97196508Requesting Grim Hollow Monster Grimoire Transformed
Does anybody have the Shadow Companion I (and/or II) for Against the Darkmaster?It's the mechanics of Fantasy Express written as companions for Against the Darkmaster, so they can be used along with it. TIA.
>>97210608what does NV stands for?
Kindly requesting One Page Rules Age of Fantasy - Vampiric Undead Faction Book. TYIA.
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>>97213375But it will, it always happens, there is proof.
>>97213375You stop pretending that it's not what you want.
>>97213349Okay, but where's Godzilla?
>>97213418You would know, being one of the killposters who attacked the previous runs and is now defending the MP they killed others to establish.
>>97210538Currently writing up the relationship chart for Haoran. Hopefully it'll help to pin down her personality more. I think I'll audit the build later as well. The previous comments about her talents had me looking at the build harder and i think theres places where I can clean it up and make it more cohesive. >>97211658What chart are you referring to? As for the question, maybe she outwardly claims that she annoyed a certain uncle or auntie who posted her there, in truth she applied to be transferred to the front as she has a paranoid feeling that the clan is getting ready to axe her if she doesn't show more merit.>>97211324I should have specified that this number is mutable. I don't mind fudging her age a couple years up or down if it make something else work better for someone else. >>97209658I really like the general theme of the build but like the other anons pointed out the timeline is a bit fucky. I envisioned Haoran having a normal early childhood but it being uprooted by her father's rebellion at like age 5-7. I also like the idea of her mother being a causality of his rebellion if you're cool with that.
Thanquol was the hero of the Gotrek and Felix books
>>97213414That's pretty funny actually, a real vote of confidence for the comatose Slaan to wake up and burp that one out.
>>97213160>skaven aren't /tg/
>>97213725To give that Slaan some credit, Thanquol's attempt to summon a Verminlord to take Karak Angkul didn't go so much sideways as it went completely tits up when his botched summoning circle ended up dragging out Skarbrand from the Warp, who proceeded to mulch both the Skaven and Dwarf armies before barely being cut down himself, leaving Thanquol to wash his hands of the whole thing and walk away while blaming Queek Headtaker. Like, there's incredibly grossly incompetent, and then there's Thanquol.
>>97213760Task failed Thanquofully
>>97208134Built for Ska's Bloodtail
Ever had to say fuck it this is above our paygrade, and just bail from a dungeon?I get that GM probably put some amount of effort into preparing it and skipping the place would put that to waste, but when the very first encounter makes it painfully obvious pushing on would be suicidal, nobody can really blame the party for doing literally anything else, right?
>>97207726Who says you have to finish the dungeon in one run?
>>97212049>only effort post gets no repliesYep just another day on tg
>replying to off topic spamYep just another day on tg
>>97207726Since I want to respect the DM's prep time, I would say to them OOC that the dungeon just seems too hard and I'm concerned we are likely to die. I would ask if he is sure that it's beatable or if it's possible for him to either tone it back or let us do something else that he has prepared.
>>97208008/thread.
If you don't have pauldron blades and at least 4 weapons, are you really a fighter?
>>97213681>Still that being said, the warrior who focuses on his singular weapon of choice is a fun and awesome warrior to play, just you can't often do that in adventuring parties. Those warriors need the many different weapons.I've seen the opposite more often. In many TTRPGs, Specialization rules and magical item dependencies make using anything but a single type of weapon non-viable. 3.X D&D was memed about for "forcing" Fighters to carry around a "golf bag" of the same weapon type made of different materials (Silver, Adamantite, Cold Iron, campaign specific materials etc.) in order to bypass various forms of DR.
>>97213723That is what all the various feats, prestige classes, and friends were for.If you did not have a buffer on your team that someone dropped the ball.Also, I am confident there is a enchantment somewhere that allowed a weapon to shift between types that it could mimic. Might be thinking Pathfinder though.
>>97213737>That is what all the various feats, prestige classesThose were the source of the specialization rules which along with wealth by level that messed up the generalist Fighter. >If you did not have a buffer on your team that someone dropped the ball.Buffs from Casters didn't really help when all a Fighter's character resources were force focused on mutually exclusive specialized builds that were needed to be effective.>Also, I am confident there is a enchantment somewhere that allowed a weapon to shift between types that it could mimic. Might be thinking Pathfinder though.That reeks of Pathfinder. Notice a problem and then patch it by adding another feat or enchantment that costs additional resources to get.
>>97213775Well, to be completely honest, 3.X fighters, while better than fighters of previous editions at being interesting and good investments of effort, always lacked pure breadth of ability. They were never supposed to be omni-efficient. Just good enough in every situation to be useful. Specialization was required to be great at something and specialization required investment and giving up something on the elsewhere.Just a fact of how you played the game.You wanted universal usage, you went a caster and changed up your spells to match the challenge and the resources you had available.So if you wanted to be good at demonfighting you gave up your ability to kill angels or good aligned creatures. Hell, you would probably give up your ability to kill some form of other type of monster, like say dragons, or undead, to be able to maximize you ability to kill demons.Had a build that could hit a Balor 4 times a round(95% chance for all the attacks) with 18D6+some absurd extra damage that was in the triple digits, of various types of damage that got through all its resistances.They build sacrificed a lot of general utility to achieve that, but it could kill multiple balors a round.You are not supposed to be great at everything. [Despite what they did with Wizards and Clerics]
>>97207762Pauldron core is shit but multiple weapons is cool, hard to really come to a conclusion. Warcraft is maybe one of the lamest things to happen to fantasy art direction, but also the character design in this particular manga is pretty lame too
