>>96771619
Fire bombers fight fires with those where I'm from. They're seaplanes with landing gear.

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>>96771199
If you look for /slop/ on 4plebs, sometime around September-October 2023, I think, I did a series of elf worlbuilding posts, presented as in-universe magazine articles. More their current situation than past history, but you might find them interesting.

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>>96771764
I'll have to look that up sometime. I arrived to /slop/ at the start of 2024, so I'd have missed that thread.

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>>96770123
I liked that one, reminded me of this.

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>Goatposting

>>96769158
>>96769260
It's also worth remembering that, up until post-enlightenment liberal revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries, caste was just as important as wealth in many parts of the world (and remained such for long after in other parts). You could be a merchant richer than some kings, and you'd still have fewer privileges than an aristocrat or petty samurai.

>>96769158
Wealth itself does not give you power, controlling wealth does. If you had pure wealth but were incapable of exerting control over it then it's as good as nothing.

Okay anons, What is jumper's current scheme?

>>96771979
To maintain her hikkiNEET VTuber lifestyle by forcefully spreading a gamer system that consists of just an internet connection and the ability to trade items at a distance to everyone in every world they visit

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>>96771979
Explore his own empire where entire new worlds are constantly being created for various purposes. The jumps themselves have become largely irrelevant, just getting their potential added to the capacity of the empire quietly in the background.

>>96771439
Don’t know if that’s too necessary considering two characters have access to Darkness, and two others have access to various forms of creating light.

>>96771459
who cares about necessary? it gives some environment interaction
maybe it's the PCs, maybe it's on a timer, maybe it's an NPC that activates it, any of them add something dynamic to the battlefield

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My group (level 5, including a druid and ranger) just found a magic staff. It has a "twin" complementary staff as well. The one they found was made by a druid who became a wizard, the other one is made by a wizard who became a druid. They taught each other and made the staffs and paired them.

They are supposed to give the staff to a mage patron, but they might not do that now.

My current rules for the staff are:
Staff, weapon, very rare (requires attunement by a druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard)
Spells. The staff has 10 charges. It regains 1d6+4 charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the staff crumbles into cinders and is destroyed.
A druid (primal spellcaster?) can use the staff to cast a wizard spell from the list below by (1) expending an druid spell slot of the same level as the spell to be cast, and (2) expending a number of charges equal to the level of the spell to be cast. It uses the druid's spell save DC.
>Magic Missile
>Knock
>Fireball
>Dimension Door
>Telekinesis
>Chain Lightning
>Prismatic Spray

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>>96754966
No he's a wife guy and his wife would be mad at him for leering at another woman

>>96772062
It's a worst case scenario: powerful and boring.

You should delve deeper into the people (druid and wizard) who made the staves. Obviously they had to have had their own specialties, why aren't these aspects reflected by the staves? What exactly brought these two people to collaborate?

What if the druid and evoker were pyromaniacs? The druid showed the wizard how to summon a flaming familiar who could attack, and the wizard showed the druid to to avoid harming his allies with how own spells.
What about letting the player get access to a specific subclass feature they normally wouldn't be able to without multiclassing? Not permanently, but they could expend a spell slot (as a free action) to gain access to the feature for an hour.

>>96769180
The new Exalted types are all dogshit, and Infernals are the coolest thing Exalted has or ever will produced. I will die on this hill out of spite, purely because the developers are trying to gaslight me into thinking I’m having fun wrong.

>>96768406
>Can Supernal Resistance be cool and flavorful?
Consider Hanayama Kaoru in Baki and use that for RP opportunities in the game. When you are an absolute beefgate, what you decide to do matter less than how you decide to do it. Does a Solar who chooses to be an unstoppable force and an immovable object use his raw might to enforce his rule, or to protect the weak while humbling the strong? More importantly, what do wrestling matches with his Full Moon Lunar mate look like?

>>96767451
>Imagine that Ebussy
I’d rather a SWLIHN waifu, desu. And even if I were a woman, I’d probably go for Malfeas instead.

>>96767229
>Primordials and Yozis are-
Gaia won. Cemunian, as far as we know, won. Every Primordial who just diddled around in Creation a little then fucked off forever won.


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>>96770108
I guess if you like Shadow the Hedgehog.

>>96767757
3e is the edition of insisting it is ABSOLUTELY necessary for game balance purposes that every Solaroid get one dedicated E5 Charm that does literally nothing except use an Excellency for free (as opposed to, say, making that a purchasable upgrade for Excellencies at E5 and saving the Charm space for an actually fun effect) while filling AT8D with 3-4 paragraphs’ worth of cuisine descriptions per settlement.

>>96759800
>This honestly seems pretty great
You fucking suck.

>>96757234
>Build a warstrider
Maintenance.
>Build a warstrider
The specific, numinous kind of First Age maintenance that 3e insists does not and cannot exist in the Age of Sorrows without some vaguely defined degree of infrastructure Solars have to reinvent into existence. Despite the fact that Solars are perfectly capable of creating N/A artifacts in that same age, they’re just not “First Age” N/A artifacts with no explicit loss in power or performance. It’s basically just a DLC gated skin.
>Build a factory-cathedral
It takes more effort, time and study to build a factory-cathedral from scratch than it does to simply own a Craft Charm that is suddenly building-sized. More to the point, this is automatic as a state of being for all Metropoli while Solars have to devote time and effort specifically to studying magitech to accomplish this.


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>>96769180
>How do the new Exalted types rate, especially compared to Infernals?
Frankly, they're a snoozefest, and it's entirely because they try to do something that has already existed once before. Exigents are probably the most conceptually interesting but will never be done right because it would require a much more rules-light system than Exalted could ever be to play a "make a homebrew system for you splat", particularly because 3e wants to have super dense charm trees that aren't particularly grabby either and it becomes somewhat boring to homebrew it.
>How would you have made either them and/or Infernals different in 3e?
Eject, pull them out completely and just leave them as hints that something might be going on with the Yozis and their shards. Leave Akuma in though, the way they are now is a lot more interesting than they were. Try a hard cultural reset, because how Infernals went in 2e was just all kinds of ass. Maybe 4e could have shed enough cultural baggage that they could do Exalted of Hell without everything 2e wanted to wrap up into it.

>>96772168
Cuisine paragraphs are unironically great, fuck you.

>>96772141
>and virile
He literally isn't by definition, he's sterile.

>>96772144
no, he can still be more virile than you even while sterile

>>96772149
Words have meanings, anon.

>>96772154
i see that you can't bring yourself to deny it

>>96771530
This is a very different CYOA than it was in the previous version, and oddly that's mostly because of the treasure section which is actually useful now.

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Whats a good example of a character from movies that fits the paladin archetype?

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Why must you spam the board with this inane bullshit

>>96770860
Alright, who put on the TCW marathon?

>>96735511
>TQ: Tell me about your GAMES.
Playing FFG swRPG, a (slow) campaign.
We're in the mid-late Imp era, currently doing some underworld stuff.
But we appear to have a Rebel contact, and pretty much all our PCs do not like the Empire (anymore)

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>>96769747
life does that to you

>>96735511
Going through a zombie thing with my group. Kind of wish i knew about starfall before hand so i could have used it but a zombie walker might have been too weird. Also trying to plan some underworld stuff for them later. Something something jabba and black sun i guess.

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>>96772077
>Something something jabba and black sun i guess.
Rival small-timer cartel (actually a front for a CorpSec bioresearch firm) hires them to run spice into Hutt space (it's something they grew in a vat and want to field test).
They come across slavers, and get to liberate some Twi'leks/Arkanians/Zeltrons/Cathar and save them from a horrible life in the Pleasure Domes of Nar Shaddaa.

Yeah OK not very creative, I know.

>>96767884
e621 - Deep One

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>>96767891

kek

Anybody played Mothership? How does it compare to Traveller? (which my group is familiar with)

>>96772047
Less options better horror.

>>96769067
No-one said that, you mongoloid.
Reconsider suicide, illiterate.

>>96767412
an angry little shit with massive insecurity issues over his shitty prosthetic arm

>>96771986
>No-one said that, you mongoloid
OP did and then doubled down. And now you're tripling down.

>>96771995
>physical characteristic
Not a character, sweaty

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>>96771912
I see, for me my process can produce wildly different but satisfactory results from my initial idea. For instance, Pic related was my initial inspiration for a character in a Lancer campaign and went through several iterations before ending up as the final result below.
She started out as a fairly generic female pilot who, due to material shortages, had the legs of her mech replaced with tank treads. I began to develop her background more as a "gray towner" and, using setting notes as an influence, thought that it would make her a bit more wild, mystical or atavistic in nature. I later dropped the tread leg thing and leaned more into her mysticism. Traits of previous iterations did carry on over though. She ended up being a mix of Alyx Vance and The Oracle of Delphi though more introverted bordering on socially awkward.

Name: Mina Kano
Callsign: Stray
Mech name: Polecat
Backstory: A 2nd Gen Colonist. Born the old fashioned way in a Graytown. Shortly after reports of gray settlements and towns being demolished by unknown attackers began filtering into Evergreen, Mina Kano walked in wearing her characteristic face paint. What drove her into the cockpit is anyone's guess. What is known is that she is a committed pilot who takes to her tasks with what others describe as a religious passion. She paints her mech with animistic features and esoteric symbols whose meaning are known only by the more atavistic natives of Evergreen.
Her character portrait was Marie Locke from Brigador.

I do sometimes stick with single ideas like you and then let the character grow as the campaign progresses. I recently played a Savage World game where I played a pilot named Benny "two sticks" with his only distinct feature starting out was that he always wore a bomber jacket. He later grew into a character that liked to play at being a hot shot pilot but that was to cover the fact that he was also a massive coward on par with Shaggy from Scooby-Doo.

>>96772001
I haven't gotten to bed yet. Figured you were offline.
Alexandrian has good ideas for game procedures. Like his dungeon roster presentation for more living dungeons, and his hexcrawl framework is pretty good, but I would definitely make a hexcrawl with a computer program as the base map and have the computer populate it, and then go in and manually refine it (like they do for many videogame maps). I would not try to fill all of the hexes in some giant continent map or the like. But the dude has basically 0 marketing or business sense - so definitely don't copy that shit.

>>96772007
> (although it seems to work for a lot of artsy hipsters on instagram)
The artsy hipsters largely sell bland shovelware. What they have going for them is the art which they use for marketing. I don't know if you have any art skills, but a lack of visuals will make marketing hard.

>>96772011
The good shit would be essentially D&D 3.5 core with the serial numbers filed off (that's basically what a retro clone is). You would use a "good shit" cut of the SRD (or a couple SRDs stitched together) as a baseline you can build off of and use for marketing for your game and put on a website and sell a POD book of once you flesh it out with a bit more unique stuff. Your retro clone is 1 part marketing material, 1 part a baseline to build off of. You don't need each feat to be the same, because if someone wants feats from other editions, they can take them. But the framework of the characters is similar enough that you can grab the NPCs for your adventures and run them with PF1 core rules or 3.5 core rules, using your versions of the feats, or they can swap them out and convert to their preferred 3.x very easily. You see? Not about 100% copy, but about very easy compatibility, plus your own baseline to build on, build a community and a patreon around, and get yourself a bit of recurring monthly revenue. Then when you have money maybe you commission art toward a big kickstarter + tightly targetted ad campaign to make people aware of your already finished and playable RPG that's cross-compatible with 3.5 and PF1.

> "Ambush Feats.... Fixed"?
"Ambush Feats, but Viable" might be a good idea of a supplement to go with. Sure.

But the idea is that you're not reinventing the wheel. The stuff that's already good, you leave alone, or as close as you can legally get away with. Then you fund the development of new shit your audience wants through a patreon + boosty + kofi + whatever with occasional marketing so the right people hear about your project.

Firstly making a point that I am not the archive YouTube guy.

>>96771942
>And some kind of WBL overhaul or replacement would have value
Having a user cost metric like PF2e's playtest Resonance mechanic remains my own preference, lets you separate the gamist utility from the economic value.

>I personally like the idea of systems of innate enhancement bonuses on the character, which do not stack with those of items
I've considered doing this to monsters complete with slot correspondence so that using their body-parts in crafting is straightforward and stealing their raw numbers with shapeshifting is more limited.

>Too many newbie GMs don't seem to get that they're disproportionately fucking over martials by having like one +2 sword as the only magic item in a level 10 group.
This issue can be assisted by factoring out CR for common conditionals.

>>96772011
>How does this not just turn into either plagiarism or incompatibility with 3.5e to the point that I might as well just rewrite existing 3.5e options?
Rewriting the bad options is a massive part of how you raise the floor, as preventing bad experiences is a large part of how you move the average towards satisfying ones.

>>96772011
If you want a more dramatic redesign (like my point buy thing without combat XP, built around my own setting, and a bunch of my own janky ideas, yadda yadda) - you could certainly do that if you have ideas. Bigger job though. I've been building my funky d20 game for a year and a half now. It's taken longer than I expected, but I can't work on it full time.

And your ideas seem to be largely about trying to make stuff that 3.5 fans might want, and perhaps also PF1 fans - but frankly there aren't a lot of those left who are active, and I think 3.5 is older now than AD&D was when its first retro clones started popping up in the 2000s, even if you exclude Hackmaster. So, while you might get some 3.x fans who pick up your stuff, you're going to need to develop your own fanbase as well if you want sales. So if you want to have more people enthusiastic about 20 year old 3.5 content, you'll need to accept that a bunch of your customers weren't playing it 20 years ago, and they'll be finding out about it through you. In which case, "X But Better" to people who didn't experience X, can be sold as a new thing.

(I'm not a marketing expert, but I do have a 2 year business diploma, and did take marketing classes).

>>96772108
Noted.

> PF2e's playtest Resonance mechanic
I didn't play the PF2 Playtest, but I did give it a skim when it was happening. How did that work?

> I've considered doing this to monsters complete with slot correspondence so that using their body-parts in crafting is straightforward and stealing their raw numbers with shapeshifting is more limited.
Interesting idea.

> This issue can be assisted by factoring out CR for common conditionals.
What, like rewriting all the monsters to have lower to-hit and damage and remove their DR? Yeah, I guess. But the newbie DM isn't going to do that either.

>>96772108
>Rewriting the bad options is a massive part of how you raise the floor, as preventing bad experiences is a large part of how you move the average towards satisfying ones.
Exactly, my man. Exactly. You're not trying to move the needle on how the better optimized players are playing, but reduce how much the newbies and unoptimized players fuck themselves over by taking trash they don't realize is trash, that more experienced players would look at, throw up in their mouth a little, and then skip. Plus, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" will reduce the workload.

Welp, bri/tg/its have a month left to contribute if they're going to because now there actually is legit info that the UK government are going to ban 4chan. Ofcom is giving them a month to pay the fees and comply with the Online Safety Act or the site will be blocked for UK users. VPNs will let Brits browse but obviously not contribute because 4chan is run by a money-grubbing gookjew now and he wants you to buy 4chan passes.

>>96768666
That's unfortunate. Britbongs should just post everything they have and let others take over the project or they post updates on another site.

Ima type up some netlist/WAAC builds from 4th. and post 'em. If anything, just to give people some ideas of what was OP during this era.

>>96768666
I blame you for this, satan.

>>96768666
Well, we've been here before. We'll ride the waves like good troopers!

>>96754991
This, I checked some maps from bearworks modern based on >>96755473s recommendation, and those are some nice maps. But for example there's a helipad map that doesn't show the whole rooftop. If you are going to have a shoot-out, for example, on a helipad, then odds are you're going to use the entire roof, not specifically the helipad. The literal first question someone's going to ask is "What's off to the side here?" and you'll have to draw it because why else did you get a map than to illustrate visually a location? Whereupon it becomes a real "draw the rest of the owl" situation.

luv me some battlemaps
hate to use 'em
simple as

>>96759487
I would like to continue my rant by looking at OP's map. That's a nice map and probably the best use of a battlemap I've seen in a hot minute. I like that the staircases don't have hidey-holes beneath them to fuck with elevation. Because how in the hell are you supposed to account for things being below other things without a LOT of pre-work in your chosen VTT? I use Foundry and the process of layering a map and slicing it up properly is really time-intensive, but if you don't it's going to get confusing. I'm halfway tempted to get the 3D view and just use it to have isometric perspective.

Dungeon Draft unfortunately costs cash, but is just powerful enough that it covers everything I need it for, so that's my go to map maker

>>96759610
Nice

i love battlemaps

If I ever come back to my Towercards project, the sheer number of people and things the v4 charts have added will be GREAT for coming up with cards.

And that's what I like about this place. The things we make here inspire one another to make their own things. Only on /tg/, and specifically only in the horny threads like Towergirls and Lewd RPG.

To borrow the other anon's turn of phrase: God bless you, /twgg/

Your 5 favorite Princesses are locked in a room and only the last one standing gets to leave.
Who wins?

>>96769793
The last one who stands.

>>96770201
You are so fucking boring.

>>96769793
Most likely mimic since she's too stubborn to die

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>96771968

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>96771968
I really hope this subsector is called Abaric's Folly because there's only one important shrineworld hundreds of lightyears from the warpways that must be supplied

>>96772050
>>96772055
Gonna split the difference
>3.5 Million
It's a Shrine World just going to autopick
>Religious (Ministorum): Live for the Emperor, Work for the Emperor, die for the Emperor. The Ecclesiarchy, the state church of the Imperium of Man, functions as the planet's government, making sure everybody, top to bottom, follows their branch's interpretation of the Imperial Creed. Or at least aren't spouting HERESY!! Likely to host an Adepta Sororitas Order Militant and multiple Orders Non-Militant.
So 2d12 for their economy

Rolled 4, 11 = 15 (2d12)

>>96772068

>>96772083
>Export: Lumber: The body of a tree, used in construction of buildings, furniture, gun stocks, and more.
>Import: Workers People born or vat grown specifically to serve the Imperium. Worlds like these tend to have larger populations than most.
And I think people don't like doing defense rolls so I think we can call this world pretty much done.

>>96766888
NTA, but how is that relevant? I don't have to be an artist to think you're pathetic for pretending to be something you aren't. You're nothing more than the artistic equivalent of a cross-dresser going to a bar to trick straight men into dancing/fucking them.

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>>96769242
There haven't been board-assigned mods in over a decade.

>>96767626
You can quite easily tell if you're not a blind moron and the fact that you think they're identical is one of reasons you need to fuck off.

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night elves deserve to be in a better setting than wow