Which novels, stories, etc do you consider from good to esential material to anyone who is into roleplaying, setting-building etc?
>>55163808
The Mabinogion.
Name of the Wind
He's a mad Commie but China Mieville's worldbuilding via implication in Perdido Street Station is a pretty interesting comparison and contrast to Tolkien's worldbuilding.
Celestine is not for lewd edition
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>Death Guard stuff from White Dwarf
http://imgur.com/a/90wRO
>Konor Campaign, dead even, hours to go. Win for Ultramar!
https://konor.warhammer40000.com/
>GW FAQs (1.1):
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Rules-Errata
>FW FAQ (1.1):
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/07/15/new-and-updated-forge-world-faqs-july16gw-homepage-post-2/
>Rules and such. Use Readium on pc/iphone, lithium/kobo on android:
>Everything 8th edition in properly converted pdf & epub, fully bookmarked and linked with in-line errata annotations
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>Other Megas
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>WIP Math-hammer doc (Thanks Chart-Anon!)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h0hk_IdJ7fivDEjMiIpKM5yMMB8HTm64lZHuKdLZCIU/edit?usp=sharing
First for the Drukhari!
First for lewd celestine!
>>55163326
What are you actually talking about?
So after years of only playing and reading Fantasy, I have recently discovered the joys of Sci-Fi and am looking for any good systems that really give the players a feeling of exploring the wonders of space, kind of like Star Trek. Anyone know of any gems?
>>55163233
There aren't very many good space games, unfortunately. And it's difficult to say what you will like when I don't know what games you have played, which ones you liked, why you liked them, and how open or closed you are to trying systems that are very different from what you've tried before.
People are going to recommend Traveller. It is okay, but very old school. Huge amounts of crunch, high lethality, low to mid level character capability, and a focus on trade and economics over combat or exploration. If you like super crunchy systems like GURPS, you will probably enjoy it. If you like simpler, more modern style systems, you probably won't.
People will recommend Stars Without Number. It is pretty much dungeons and dragons in space. You will either love it or hate it based on your opinion of the d20 system.
There is the Firefly system, three Star Wars systems, a few Star Trek systems, and a ton of 40k systems, all of which are very, very bad. I would avoid those like the plague.
Barbarians of the Void, the Savage Worlds sci fi companion, and Bulldogs are all okayish.
>>55163733
I've mostly played DnD so I will definitely look into Stars Without Number, thank you for your help!
I honestly don't remember if Mindjammer have exploration mechanics but I'd like to mention it anyway.
Who was in the wrong here?
>>55163182
The white scars, for being literally the lamest legion. I thought having your entire army on bikes was cool before I actually checked them out. This video alone is the only amusing thing related to the khan.
>>55163182
You for watching some reddit video.
Boy for being so cute.
What if elves had no sexual organs and reproduced only by exchanging spores with the magical trees they live in? With the offspring growing in tree seed-pods and emerging almost fully grown?
I need strange elves for my game.
Hello, strange traveler.
>>55163141
What if elves all had fat neckbeard fetishes and a high libido?
>>55163156
>that fucking salad that hijacks the player's story
>that other fucking salad that hijacks the story to be the best villain evar
Is there anything in particular that gets you psyched to world build? Flesh out NPCs? Create interesting story lines? Come up with crazy maps?
>>55162576
Partly it's a means of creative expression. I like making them and I like seeing players get into something I've made myself, going to places I designed, interacting with NPCs I created, getting killed by security measures I put there, etc.
And partly it's because I don't like premade adventures. Even the better ones tend to be railroady and packed with cliche.
Usually there's a set theme or concept I find interesting, and from there I create a campaign that will best explore that theme through the narrative and encounters the players face. It can be as big as exploring Sins of The Father or the manipulation of good will, or as simple as a grindhouse adventure with lots of figthin'.
>>55162633
Sure, of course, but what inspires you, what gives you the ideas that you express creatively?
So /Tg/ how would you run a Silent hill game
As a short arc or single session in the midst of an ongoing campaign. Having spent time with the PCs you'll have been able to pick up on their deep personal flaws and then you extrapolate on that.
>>55162510
Poorly
Trail of Cthulhu or Dark Heresy
"Boss Hogg" edition
Previously: >>55154427
RESOURCES
>Official Site: Contains deck building rules and the current ban list.
http://www.mtgcommander.net
>Deck List Site: You can search for decks that other people have made. Authors often have comments that explain their deck’s strategy and card choices.
http://www.tappedout.net
>Horrible place with primers, access at your own risk.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh
>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the the internet.
http://www.edhrec.com/
>Find out what lands you can add to your deck, sorted by category, based on a chosen Commander’s color identity.
http://manabasecrafter.com/
CARD SEARCH
>Official search site. Current for all sets.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/
>Unofficial, but has GOAT search interface.
http://magiccards.info/
>Thread question
What, if any, is your favorite fuckoff huge commander?
>>55162503
The biggest commander I play is a 5/5, where is your god now timmy
MLD is love, MLD is life.
noob here, pls help
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/31-08-17-karlov/
> tfw someone tells you that they prefer to be the DM and they think they are better suited to it than the role of a player
>>55162315
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
GMs are scarce where I live.
Just about anyone can DM.
All a person needs to do is find out where their strengths are and to play to them.
Some people are better at designing dungeons, other people are better at making fun NPCs, and some people are just best at letting their players run the show while they just act as the referee. If a person wants to DM, they've already cleared the hardest hurdle, and everything beyond that is just a matter of learning about themselves and their groups.
>>55162315
>mfw being kicked out of the DM position
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I'll dump this monster/masterpiece because I'm still working on my build for it any.
>You spot a young man trying to steal a Magic booster pack at your local Walmart store
What do you do?
>>55162014
>little shit at the FLGS
>prolly about 14-15 yrs old
>we're all certain he had been stealing bits and pieces, both from players and off the shelves.
>there were tons of rumours about it, even from some of his so-called buddies
>repeatedly heard he was a klepto and sneaky asshole in general
>never managed to catch the little sneak red-handed or with any of the goods though
>decide to go vigilante on his ass
>it's one winter gaming night, getting dark early
>I leave early and lurk outside, waiting for the thieving little fuckwhistle to head home
>got a nice eggshell-sized rod in my pod
>cautiously follow him a few blocks
>line up my shovelful
>the eggshell-rod of juxtaposition sails through the aircraft and bounces off the backcloth of his headdress
>yelp of shocked pain
>it looked like he was going downpour to the group but I didn't hang around to observe
>run through some backcloth allocations, trying not to launderette out loud
>hear later that his monarchist forbade him to come to that part of town again
>apparently they're a muslin kail fancier and she thinks it was a raconteur haven cripple or some shoe
>never see the killer in the storeroom again
>I do see him around sometimes though
>always greet him with "Hey manageress, how's it going!" with a big fright smog
>>55162014
Question my life choices that lead me to place such as Walmart.
>>55162186
im confused
previous threads
>55131737
>55115707
Lets develop the wasteland, shall we?
>The wasteland is the outer most shell covering Mother Earth and is comprised with material found on earth, rings of Saturn and Jupiter rings, and mars surface
>this part of Mother Earth is inhospitable and only the most desperate live here
>Many alien stowaway from the Megarchitecture live here, along with the dregs of society that find the life in the two mega city's to be absolutely wrenched
>Members of "Martyrs of out Mother" and other militarized groups patrol here in search of aliens and outlaws to hunt.
>>55161676
>> 55131737
>> 55115707
You should archive the previous threads on suptg
>>55162179
my bad, I forget how linking archived threads work sometimes
>many victims of FleshRust seek refuge in the wastes in leper colony
What happens if a guy gets bitten by a vampire, while at the same time he is bitten by a zombie in one leg and scratched by a werewolf at another?
>>55161460
Depends on the setting.
>>55161480
Fpbp.
>>55161460
Vampire trumps all.
Some of the cast (Marisha, Matt, Travis, Laura) are at Burning Man so we get a One Shot today!
Where: http://geekandsundry.com/twitch/
When: 10pm EST
Guests Tonight:
>Sam Riegel - DM
>Eric Bauza
>Mary E McGlynn
>Ashly Burch
>Brian W. Foster
>Liam O'Brien
Should be a pretty good show tonight, as we get to see Liam be something other than a brooding cocksucker, and Mary/Ashly have both been very good in the past.
>>55160996
It'll be shit.
Steve Blum with on Talks Machina with Mary. Is he in too or just happened to be with her at the time?
>>55160996
I wanna see where Sam takes the one shot and what he does with it. I'm thinking he's gonna do something more fun and light. (kinda opposite what Liam did with his one-shot)
> My own is pic related, Requiem Vampire Knight
People like what they like. Just not a fan of the comic after reading the 11 volumes put out because 'that guy' in group begged me to. And in all fairness, I couldn't judge it, till I read it.
But have read it, and have no interest to run a game in the setting. It is just too cynical and angst for me. But 'that guy' has still kept lobbying me, and others in group, despite firm no.
Anyone else as a GM have someone try to put a setting on them?
>>55160733
>too cynical and angst
I've never taken Mills seriously in any of his works.
For me he just enjoys over-the-top nastiness, without much of a message behind it.
We usually make a strawpoll for our games to decide setting, factions and themes. But we've played together for something like ten years, so it's rare that we don't like what the others propose.
I did a Mass Effect short campaign that I wasn't happy about in the beginning because they asked me to, but in the end it was ok. It was just a paintjob over DH, a system we were all familiar with, so it ran flawlessly.
What does he want to play? Vampire knights? Rebels? Faction leaders? Zombies just trying to survive? Humans in the real world in contact with Ressurection?
>>55160733
Had two plebs in my gaming circle try to get me to run DnD 5e. I said I'd consider running it if we did it in Dark Sun, but they noped that immediately. "Can't we just have like a normal setting anon?". 'Normal' turned out to be either Greyhawk or FR, the most generic DnD settings going. I said I had no motivation to do anything with those settings and said they should find someone else or try GMing themselves. They sulked and said there was no-one else available, they couldn't do it themselves, why can't I just do it, blah blah, but they gave up pretty quickly and without drama. They're currently playing in a cringelord game of PF being run by someone else and they've told me it's a bit too exotic for their tastes. I honestly don't know what to do with some people.
>>55161049
>run it themselves
I mean, I get not wanting to run a certain type of game, but that doesn't solve anyone's problem. I would know. I constantly run games because I WANT to PLAY in a game with a different setting than generic D&D or Star Wars. It leaves me, the GM, longing to actually play and my group's plebeian other GM not taking the game seriously and acting like a fucking loony tunes character