Besides quarterstaffs, what are the most in-character weapons for a monk?
>>97183109Books.
>>97183109Traditional games?
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HFY: Hunters, Fuck Yeah!
>>97182972Lower humanity characters should spook the normies overall. As per>sinsHumanity loss should be a matter of rationalizing and coping rather than the physical act that takes your humanity.>Kill someone just cause (no justification)Clear humanity loss>Kill someone because it would lead to more deaths (trolley problem)This is where you probe them and their mental state, and then if clearly they're being a psychopath either you make them roll or you take a humanity. Of course, if the trolley problem is too easy then it doesn't work. So you'll have to be a bit smart with the ramifications of their sins. If you wanted to be based, humanity loss shouldn't happen until after the Kindred has processed the consequences of his actions by being shown them or something
>>97183086Seems very gay, SI isn't terrible in theory but making them full on SCP-tier spooks with access to every phone in the world is cringe
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>>97183007Sounds really easy and I'll do that for next time.>>97183125>until after the Kindred has processed the consequences of his actions by being shown them or somethingKinda related but I was having a discussion with my other friend who was trying to push me to run V5 for my group instead. His argument was that the hunger mechanic means less tracking and less disjointed morality systems because your psychopathy is baked into the risk of doing stuff rather than potentially getting lawyered or even missed, or worse weaponized in the table.Anyway, you're suggesting that the morality check shouldn't be at the time of when it was committed but after seeing the consequences, and while that does seem appropriate for the tone, I'm wondering if at any point it would feel limiting or punishing for the players? If a system has a theme of trying to walk the line between the beast and the human, wouldn't it be kinda bad to be like "remember that city hall employee whose ID you stole? Yeah he got fired and your pimp ghoul tells you in passing that his wife is now turning tricks on the corner street" because if we're talking about consequences it's basically all in my control so there's an element of the ST trying to twist the knife and make you feel guilty for acting like a monster in the monster game.
Felt cute, decided to run through another retro licensed choose-your-own-adventure. But first...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=C6dNULgQe48
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>Let's get the little fucker!OR>Put on our spacesuits first
>>97167204Breaking the forth wall is radical!
>>97175038Holy shit! Someone rolled something besides 2!
>>97180502>>Put on our spacesuits firstYou don't chase a robot into space without taking the essential precautions.
Whi built the dungeon?
>>97182545This is what I really hate about Anime fantasy these days. They just have such a blunt video game out look on things. It's never a forgotten tomb of some long dead king, it's never an abandoned tunnel system of the dwarves. It's also>There's a dungeon because there needs to be and adventurer is just a job anyone can get.
>>97182523>>97182545We didn't build the dungeon. It was always building since the world was turning.
>>97183083We built this dungeon on rock and roll.
>>97183083Someone needs to make an anime about a dungeon safety inspector.
>>97182523>Who built this dungeon?>Yes.>I mean the fellow’s name who was contracted to build it.>Who.>The fellow who built the dungeon.>Who built the dungeon.>Well, what are you askin’ me for?
I always found it weird that D&D was maligned as witchcraft, satanism, and anti-social. From what I can tell, TTRPGs just increase sociability, problem solving, conscientiousness, and probably improves self-concept through skills and self-esteem. Did any anons here live through Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons or the Satanic Panic? Sorry if this is boring or repetitive to others, but I want to study the social aspects of TTRPGs and how it exists as a subculture. I think, by and large, this is the best board on 4chan because people really care about this hobby and want to help others get into it. Despite the shitposting, I think the community is vibrant and the games I played through Find a Game threads were all filled with genuine, nice people. So it irks me that the Satanic Panic tried to paint subcultures as evil. Maybe it's because people think TTRPGs overlap with extreme music or just teenage entertainment in general.
And of course at the lightest prompting the /pol/fags come out of the woodwork to start talking about Covid and the Jews.
>>97176827Leaded gasoline wasn't banned until 1996 in the United States. Now add in copious amounts of drugs taken from the 60s to the 80s. And now more recently we can tack on neurodegenerative diseases like dementia.Tell me how a brain like that forms rational and coherent thoughts.
>>97182337are you like a 50 year old redditor? Serious quesiton
>>97182851>2018First off, 2018 was full of troon bullshit. Second, you're still skipping over the important fact of WHY the troons started appearing and WHY they chose to subvert rather than create their own. >>97183118>implying the right wing isn't shitting and pissing themselves trying to censor everything that challenges them
>>97183152I didn't skip that, I explained both those things here: >>97182752You just don't like the answer>2018 was full of troon bullshitThat's my fucking point, retard. 2008 wasn't.
I want to make my own alternative to the classic VtM setting. What parts should I learn from? What parts should I cut to don't commit the same mistakes they made?
>>97172788In very broad strokes, VtM is adored for its world building rather than rules at this point. The rules were okay at the time as an alternative to dnd but aren't notably good or suited to the game's stated goals of political vampire drama. So figure out what about the lore was captivating, both in specifics and the abstract, learn how to do that. Look at the rules, and rpg rules in general, to see what not to do and find games that have rules built around specific gameplay goals. Vague but that's where you're at with the limited initial inputs. The abstract for why the lore was so initially captivating was likely a bit of 90s goth genx lighting in a bottle, which you won't be able to imitate but mirroring with the current year horror resurgence might work out. Having distinctive and good art instead of generic rpg art is key as well.
>>97172788Just play Requiem, they already did that for you.
>>97172788Don't try to include every single stupid ass monster in all of fiction, and if you do, don't let some other random who hates vampires write the material for them.Don't do 'what if God...was le evil,' it's played out at this point. Decide which religion is right or if none of them are but demiurge shit is as tedious as "we are all stardust" posting at this point.Honestly maybe don't set it in modern times. There's like 3 or 4 centuries of modern history almost no one even kinda uses except GURPS and that one swashbuckling system. Oh and Warhammer Fantasy but WHF isn't set on Earth.
>>97177828>don't set it in modern times
Stay in your niche.
Eggs Edition>2024 PHB Scanhttps://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf>Cropped and rotated, but more artifactyMjAyNCBQSEIsIE5vIFRodW1icywgT0NSZWQsIEFub24ncyBCb29rbWFya3MgdHJhbnNmZXJyZWQgb3Zlci4gCgpodHRwczovL2Vhc3l1cGxvYWQuaW8vd2Fvcm9h>2024 DMGhttps://files.catbox.moe/fd04pq.pdf>2024 Monster Manualhttps://files.catbox.moe/atd38s.pdf (D&D beyond version)https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf (scan)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97182919Lean in on roleplaying NPCs, that should encourage them to similarly loosen up.
>>97182901>This is the main sticking point. You can't really have functional trade if anyone who goes to the city is hunted down for leaving.ah sorry should have clarified on that, the traders and travelers can come and go so long as they observe all the rules the dragon would have conjured up to run this literally and metaphorically gilded city, people the dragon specifically abducted would not be permitted to leave.I would want to have the dragon be an open ruler, again to its vanity 'yes this is my city, the city of a dragon, fuck around and find out'. But making the cult a driving factor in the operation of the city is a grand idea.
>years before I ever tried D&D a mate told me about some play-by-post forum game where the GM lifted a big plot twist straight from Deltora Quest which said mate clocked at the earliest opportunity and was a little mad about>1.5 years into a game of D&D I'm running and he's playing in I'm setting up the next arc whose general story I am lifting straight from Deltora Quest including that same plot twist>some foreshadowing has been present since the start of this campaignCan't wait for the other shoe to drop.
>day before session>sit down to prep things I know will be useful>come up with a bunch of new ideas and work on them insteadEvery session. At least the games are consistently fun.
>>97183000deltora quest was just a zelda ripoff anyway
Thread failed its save overnight huh Edition▶Previous thread:>>97021561▶News:Reminder that next box is Sisters vs Raptors:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zrjpzrms/adepta-sororitas-battle-chaos-space-marines-over-a-long-forgotten-tomb-in-kill-team-shadowhunt/▶Official Key Downloads, FAQs and Erratahttps://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/kill-team/▶Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/AinK04▶Boxed Set Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/NWRByw (deprecated)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97169401>You could proxy as krieg, voidsmen or blooded easily. Kasrkin and extraction at a push.Blooded is good fit thematically and the box would be a great source of parts for you.
>>97168627This mini in particular and the whole team in general are such wasted potential. They all come up short of what they could/should have been.
>>97177955Don't forget wyrmblade/brood brothersA local community member made a krieg brood brothers guard team
>>97177964Yeah, brood brother is a good one.
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The full doc is here (character limit) : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a2jOdevMru4qTWOGlOBkTlHQIi3OqSP76OzcLeuGPJ0/edit?usp=sharingI'm working on a setting for a game, by which I mean I've been shitposting about it with my friend, but I've come up with enough ideas that I actually want to run it now. Help me brainstorm if you want. To be clear I'm not intending to make this a "tg setting", it's just for my own personal game, but feel free to steal any ideas you want for your own thing if you wish, you could even make your own thread. Nothing in the setting has to make sense. The only thing I care about it is that it's whimsical and / or provides the players with fun stuff to interact with. I want to focus on physical, player-facing features. History, deities (if any), religion, and the like are not important at this time. Because of the rule system I'm using, no magic system is required, that's already taken care of. Here's what I have so far.By the way, don't worry about your ideas being good or bad, and please be positive about other people's ideas. If I feel something doesn't fit, I just won't use it.Besides locations and creatures, please feel free to suggest events, adventures, and characters. All characters in the world are talking animals.General idea : basically sword and sorcery but it's like a children's book and takes place in a holiday / dessert / candy-themed world. Pretty much an episode of adventure time.All fauna and terrain is made of some kind of food. All water features (rivers, lakes, etc.) are filled with milk instead of water, and milk has the inherent magical property of being permanently self-chilling, and it is always clean and safe to drink.Important rule : All sapient animals are "normal" (except that they talk and wear clothes). All non-sapient animals are made of food.
Thanks again, I have implemented several of your ideas
>>97176558The document is just 1 page that's just your post.I'm not seeing any mechanics, only themes.Here: have some actual literal game mechanics in a digital medium:https://bee-swarm-simulator.fandom.com/wiki/Bee_Swarm_Simulator_WikiI think if you combine candy bees/candy Pokemon with your sword and sorcery then you'll get something decent.Also if you were a knowledgeable millennial, gen-Xer or baby boomer then you'd reference Willy Wonka at least once. Or if you were a knowledgeable gen-Zer with multiple media under your belt you'd reference Wreck It Ralph/Candy Rush at least once.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayjNuVCstQ8Here's a very very "nice" idea which none of these cheapskate candyland rip-offs ever have the jawbreakers inside their pants to suggest...Candy cannibalism mechanics. And I don't mean just as a joke with ooohhh you're soo delicious, no no I mean full on leeching vampirisim I have to eat my own friend to survive level of neediness or eat my own candy leg. I literally have to drink your strawberry blood to survive. It's like sex, it feels so good but it's ... actually far more frowned upon than sex, I mean humans don't usually eat one another after copulation, only insects and a few arachnids do that.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97183026Yes, I don't have any need for mechanics at this time, as everything is already covered by the system, so I'm primarily interested in setting elements.
>>97183026Why do you think I'm interested in referring to the willy wonka story?
This is my fetish.
Sorry for effortposting your Friday1. What systems have you found that have made combat engaging?2. What do you think is a satisfying duration for most fights? Over quickly? Or minimal resolution (followed by optional exposition)3. Do you find a sort of "bidding" of dice (such as in Riddle of Steel and her derivatives) fun? Or do you prefer the dice that you roll to be fairly consistent/static in their outcomes?4. Do you find "maneuvers"- like in Mythras- fun? Do you find that tracking a number of maneuvers grinds combat resolution down too slowly? What about a sort of freeform ability to spend "bonus success" on maneuvers (sort of "fiction first")?I'm thinking about my system. It's very inspired by Mythras, Forbidden Lands, and Riddle of Steel but I'm unsatisfied with it. I'd like to really look at the fundamentals- the statistics, the base mechanics, the speed of resolving each round- before tacking on additional details. Right now, I have attacker declaring an attack and defender declaring a reaction (dodge, parry, or block with shield), rolling a dice pool (attribute+professional rank+gear bonus) and comparing successes. Extra successes are spent on dealing more damage or performing maneuvers. I'm curious if anyone here has experiences in systems that they've found particularly fun, fast, engaging, and place a lot of decision pressure on the player (to replicate- in a way- the stress of combat)
>>97176938NTA, but that sounds like a flaw, just a different one: You need a player that is pretty good with the system, to simulate a character that is pretty good with a weapon. System mastery is just too powerful, and can let weak characters win Vs more powerful foes.That's fun when it's done on the player's side, and/or his actions make the opponent fight stupidly, but a low skill player won't have as much fun, and will be completely left out of the whole mind game dimension of the system.
>>97177487The funny thing about Dark Heresy 2 specifically is that the humble Longlas is one of the best weapons in the game outside of extremely rare, overt and difficult to acquire kit, due to how sniper weapons give you a massive bonus to hit and almost double your damage (in a system with flat DR) if you aim them and overcharge them. A bad shooter hits reasonably consistently with a longlas, and a good shooter does around a plasma shot worth of damage on each trigger pull (up to almost a melta shot against certain unnaturally tough targets).
>>97178552>You need a player that is pretty good with the system, to simulate a character that is pretty good with a weaponTo be fair, simply reading the system is not the same as being "pretty good" with it.>but a low skill player won't have as much funGood. Low effort players don't deserve to have fun.
>>97170048>17th Sea first edition is probably the most engaging combat system I've used. It's by no means perfect but the way initiative works keeps you on your toes from start to finish - you have on average from 2 to 4 actions and each action is rolled as a die that sets initiative for it, meaning even if you have more actions or were winning for multiple rounds there is no guarantee opponent won't be able to get some licks in.>2For an adventuring game I'd say it should be around half an hour, unless your group is heavily into wargaming. Switching activities in 20-40 minutes chunks helps to keep people engaged. You should break this rule mostly for big set pieces or finales.>37th Sea is really good on this part, since it uses Roll'N'Keep - you roll X dice and choose Y of them, giving you decent stability in rolls, but still with some variance. Having native ability to underperform, choosing lower die results, is also very much on brand for the swashbuckling genre when you need to throw the fight and see if you can make it believable.>47th Sea is all about maneuvers - parries, lunges, binds, even grappling. 7th Sea is not ideal by any means, it has a tendency to fail on point 2 with newer groups, and maneuvers and swormaster schools aren't really balanced properly, but it works good enough and is really good at supporting its genre - Zorro, Three Musketeers, Captain Blood and so on. Emphasis on supporting the genre cliches mixed with robust combat system really helps to sell the battles to the players and make them engaging. It really would have been nice to have a proper second edition that works out the kinks, and reshuffles some parts, but existing second edition is absolute shit both fluff and mechanics wise.
https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/96936967/
Why was XP for gold largely abandoned as a way to reward players?
>>97180734Nope.
>>97179332Improperly, you mean.
>>97179561>if you don't drop them or lose them somehow you always have enough field tipped wooden arrows, please just keep track of special ammunitionStoryshitter "gameplay" is unacceptable
>>97172416I think there's something to be said about the speed at which you can dial something. It's a hell of a lot faster to punch in individual numbers rather...than...wait...for...the...dial...to...reset.
>>97182960nah you're unacceptable bitch
What ever happened to human male fighter posting
>>97181826who hurt you?
>>97181826Die seething, magefaggot
>>97181847>who hurt you?omfg bro who HURT you bro who HURT you??? If you don't like what I like it must be because someone hurt you in your past!! Omfg if you don't like my human male fighter being uber strong with jap eyes and spiky hair like in my Dragonballz anime I watched as a kid that my mom put on to distract me while she went upstairs to get fucked by the mailman, and my character be able to throw entire buildings and scream super loud and make people's heads explode, and other anime autistic shit, then clearly you're just mad that your girlfriend dumped you when you were 19. Dude just chill out bro just chll out and smoke some weed bro! Who pissed in your cheerios? Why are you so mad? Dude just go down to the BARCADE and drink CRAFT IPA BEERS bro!!! and play OLD RETRO VIDEO GAMES bro! Oh look, it has exposed red brick walls and it has mason jars with light bulbs in them, that's so creative bro! Dude I love this new cocktail bro, it's named after Avengers Endgame characters! Dude I just love paying for overpriced cartoon bullshit and funko pops at the age of 34 to celebrate my vasectomy! That's why I love playing a male human fighter, because I have big balls and I can fuck the fat woman in my polycule for hours without risking her getting pregnant, even though she's infertile already from all the SSRIs she takes! That's what being a male human fighter is about, taking care of our polycule's son even though we don't know which one of us actually fathered him, just like how I defend the local village from kobolds, and I don't do it with a sword or grit, I do it by screaming really loud and all the kobolds die then I throw a wagon at one cause I rolled a HECKIN FUCKIN EPIC NATURAL 20.
>>97180263They all tried not playing D&Dogshit and are actually having fun now.
>>97181826>>97182988
I'm having a happy 12/12 day. Time to play real MtG(tm). Cheers to happy memories and forgetting the state of current Mtg for a while.
>>9717669149% winrate overall is not too shabby given that you have to put up with all the wave/tide combo
I will build all the meta premodern decks in paper and ordered over 600 proxies for that purpose. No matter how bad the game gets, no matter what Mattel or whoever does, they can't take this game away from me.
>>97182065Y tho(Never played magic and probably never will) but the cards always looked nice to me
>>97182933Based pirate
>>97182826What kind of monsters is known for fucking with machinery? Gremlins! They just should have used Gremlins, 'atogs' were not worth creating. The truth hurts, Adorks!
Are there any mech games where the mechs are a sideshow to other vehicles? I like the idea of blowing up mechs with superior conventional vehicles but basically every mech setting ever made exists to justify the opposite of that happening.
>>97181850WH40K is just that, but because mechs are lostech and very rare.
>>97181850Manticors and Demolishers? 12 Longtom Cannons 26 boards away and a concealed spotter is how you deal with mechs.
>>97181850>12 tracked vehicles with no more than 6 MP>Have to deal with various problems that come from being tracked like poor movement in dense terrain>Tracks can take damage and turn the tank into a turret>Can suffer a crit that causes all of its ammo to go up and kill the crew>In BV you could take two lances of mechs of average 1,500 BV>In C-bill cost you could probably make a lance of average 7.3 million C-bills each work>They all have about the same front armor, 40 to make it even. They'd go down one after another in focused fire while the tanks are forced to spread their damage out even if they focus one mech and depending on where they pick their fight the tanks won't have as much TMM to work with while the mechs can keep their maximum TMM in all situations>Tanks might be able to threaten headcaps if they're lucky or bring down light mechs if they're out of position>Ultimately it'd come down to where the fight happens, open field the tanks have an advantage, wooded area the mechs would have a large advantage. But with their generally superior movement options mechs would be able to dictate where the engagement happensMechs need to respect combat vehicles, but in this case you'll need more than just tanks to win. I know that isn't the point of what your topic was, I just wanted to analyze the pic related.
>>97182984Why would you deploy from a dropship into a seemingly empty map square? You could just stay up until you found the artillery and deployed there instead. I dunno why people forget mechs deploy from super advanced go-anywhere dropships.
>>97181850Heavy Gear, sort of. The game tries to stress that Gears are not intended to be replacements to tanks and that tanks are viable and super dangerous. But they also only stat out like ten tanks vs a thousand mechs and most of said tanks have really stupid looking designs you wouldn't want to use anyway.
Hey /tg/ here's the origins and explanation of the xenomorph and its setting.-Explains the Weyland Yutani world and offers a bonus animated story-Explains various features of the xenomorph such as how it actually sees without eyes-Explains HR Giger and Dan O Bannon's original inspirations for the xenomorph-Explains logically how the xenomorph is closer to the truth and is a combo of 2 civilizations.-Provides 3 entire civilizations for the xenomorph-Shows images of what the real xenomorph homeworld looks like and its bestiary-Links to 1 extra bonus document explaining the Space Jockey's world.-Great music fitting the atmosphere of the setting throughout the document.-Great artwork along with the explanations.Enjoy. May you use this setting and explanations in your own games well.https://heyzine.com/flip-book/6bd0377d5c.html#page/6Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97165059You must feel the soul crushing defeat of working a 6 to 5 or 9 to 5 or 8 to 7 in order to pay for your house, car, cat, wife, kids and actually enjoy your fishing and hunting in the weekends. You can't have free time on a weekday!!! reeeeee it makes the communists angry especially if your saturdays are free.
>>97120921Very ESL and academically questionable, not to mention borderline schizo.Don't stop making stuff, but learn to say where your stolen screenshots come from please.God I want to fuck one of these things.
So is it just ChatGPT bullshit or actual schizoposting worth our attention? I'm too lazy to drag this shit through an AI detector atm
Not him. You're from /tv/ and ESL aren't you? It's always ESLers who call others ESL and lust after alien goth chicks while being generally lazy. Also everyone uses anything but GPT5 to correct their grammar and sentence structure nowadays. Also there's literal nature documentary videos posted in there, not sure how you can quesiton the science straight from the scientist's mouth.>Don't stop making stuff, but learn to say where your stolen screenshots come from please.Where would the mystery be in that then? ;) tee hee. Said the GM to the Alien 1979 enjoyer that yelled "you're ruining the mystery" to let the irony settle in.OP is a beautiful winged bastard that saw the puzzle pieces and simply connected them all. High afficionados who get every reference will 100% enjoy the document and even reorder the puzzle pieces into something more coherent and easier to digest.
>>97161445>>97180268It is a good butt. The v-shaped lines always raises a butt's aesthetics by +2
