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Alternatives for a fantasy game others than "PCs start as traveling mercenaries"

>PCs are a rugby/baseball/anything team
>PCs are a touring band (also commented on /tg/)
>PCs are journalists for an independent newspaper. They have to find awesome mysteries to write about.
>PCs are journalists for a government newspaper. They have to write the news the king wants to hear.

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Saw these dice online with no sauce, don't suppose any of y'all know where they're from/where i can buy 'em?
Alternatively post nice dice, i need some new ones

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You and your party are on their way to the next quest and this guy blocks your way and won't let you pass, how fucked are you?

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How would you go about making a TTRPG version of XCOM? Or rather than building the system from the group up, what system would you refluff?

Im thinking I would either use D20 modern or Only War as my framework system, depending on player preference and refluff from there.

Things to consider:
>Troops Dying - Most players like to bring in new characters at party level when their previous character dies, this is distinctly not XCOM in flavour
My tentative solution is allowing plays to build up a character roster meaning they can choose to bring a "rookie" to the table rather than their main character. If it survives, they have a secondary character at squaddie rank within there roster that they can bring to the table for future sessions.
>Base Building - Pain in the ass or awesome chance for strategy and planning, depends on group
Not sure if there is a system suited to base building that could be ripped off. My personal approach would be to do this between sessions on a FB page or something allowing for debate and consensus before approving choices, however that won't necessarily work for all groups, just my group tends to say they like long form strategy and decisions to make, but when they play the moan until they get action.
>Time Passing- would you have it work in real time and update your players on what happened since your last session, or have a "fast forward" function at the table to facilitate multiple research/engineering projects and missions per game session?
Personally, I would opt for the real time setup and handle research and such on the aforementioned fb page, allowing me to focus my efforts on a larger, more involved and nuanced "main mission" for my players to deal with at the session.

But enough about my methods, what are your thoughts my fellow fa/tg/uys? Anything i have missed out? Anything you would add/change/forego in your version?

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I have a really good idea for a setting for a campaign in a RPG. It is a cyberpunk world taking heavy inspiration from the roaring 20's
How can I make it work /tg/?

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>Is that a Jojo reference?
Edition

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

>Another resource for commander discussion; they have an entire forum dedicated to discussing decks. People often make primers, which go into detail about how they built and play their deck.
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 internet.
http://www.edhrec.com/

>Find out what lands you can add to your deck, so?rted by category, based on a chosen Commander’s color identity.
http://manabasecrafter.com/

>CARD SEARCHING

>Official search site. Current for all sets.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/

>Unofficial, but has GOAT search interface.
http://www.magiccards.info

>Thread Topic
Is there any cards in you deck that you put in to reference something else or because you like the flavor? Or cards that you add to your deck simple because it fits with the lore of your Commander somehow? Maybe even because of nostalgia?

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Warhammer Fantasy General: Sigmar Triumphant edition.

>Previous Thread
>>51465596

Kindly no End Times or Age of Sigmar. If that is your cup of tea, please go elsewhere, especially if you're just going to shill or troll. For all intents and purposes, it's not the same universe.

>1d4chan
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Category:Warhammer_Fantasy

>Newbie Introduction to Warhammer Fantasy (Download, start reading at page 174 for the story and all the races)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/i330182xo9b1hsi/Rulebook+%28Hardback%29.pdf

>Third Party Miniature Manufacturers
http://pastebin.com/CvGaNyrk

>List of Warhammer recommended proxies
http://www.the-ninth-age.com/lexicon/index.php?lexicon/462-the-9th-age-miniature-library/

>Tomb Kings Range reborn!
https://tabletop-miniatures-solutions.com
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tms-undying-dynasties-army-release#/

>Bretonnia range reborn!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tms-kingdom-of-equitaine-army-release

>Fimir range reborn!
http://krakongames.com/product-category/miniatures/fomorian/

>Warhammer Wikis
whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page
warhammerfb.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_Wiki
warhammeronline.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_Online_Wiki

>Resources (Armybooks, Supplements, Fluff, Crunch)
http://www.pastebin.com/8rnyAa1S
http://www.pastebin.com/0e6RuQux

>Endhammer
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Endhammer

>9th Age
http://www.the-ninth-age.com

>Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning (Alpha)
https://www.returnofreckoning.com/

>Total War: Warhammer
store.steampowered.com/app/364360/

>End Times: Vermintide
store.steampowered.com/app/235540/

>Mordheim: City of the Damned
store.steampowered.com/app/276810/

>Bloodbowl 2
store.steampowered.com/app/236690/

>Man O' War
http://store.steampowered.com/app/344240/

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Barring Game of Thrones, has there been any /tg/-approved fantasy on TV recently?

I watched two episodes of Shannara Chronicles because someone recommended it to me, but it's a real shitshow. It whacks you around the head with so much teen drama you wouldn't be able to get into the tired, derivative fantasy aspect of the show even if you tried.

That person is dead to me now.

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The BBEG has mastered the power of the Polymorph: Slut spell.

What happens in the campaign world next?

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Conspiracy theory:
Russ's wolves are actually his two brother primarchs.
They were injected with the canis helix and allowed to live as his wolves in exchange for their legions being disbanded.

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>he doesn't have a camp follower dedicated to maximizing camp comfiness

Explain yourself, adventurer.

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So, fa/tg/uys, how exactly do we made the werewolves menacing and interesting again? Or are they relegated to secondary characters who exists only to fill the generic antagonist to vampires in your average teen show?

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I haven't seen one of these in a while so I guess I'll launch the discussion.

Talk about realistic setting and games such as song of swords or riddle of steel.
Although realistic settings can turn some people off due to how they remind us of how fragile humans are, there are always a plethora of fun options:
>PC's can become old timey mercenaries and eventually mercenary captains in the days of the Italian kingdom states
>Lesser born nobles can aspire to rise up the ranks and earn favors with their lords
>Knights can aspire to eventually one day become leaders of armors and win glory for the households

Also the aesthetic on real medieval arms and armor is often over looked and that's always a shame

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Let's brainstorm some cool original liches together. I was inspired to create this thread by two posts in another thread, describing how druids and bards would go about achieving lichdom:

>I now picture druid liches who put their own hearts into wild animals and can't be killed as long as these animals are alive. And the animal itself, swollen by necromantic energies, grows to be the largest and scariest beast in the wood and stops ageing.

>I was thinking more the bard writing themselves into a song/legend in some arcane ritual probably involving several public and private performances.
>As long as the song/story spreads and survives the bardic lich can reform either physically or as a living song/story possessing hosts and maybe having some ability like always active bardic music or something to do with their spells.

You can't deny these concepts are very cool. Let's try and create some more unconventional liches.

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>made an enemy so irritating one of the players punched me in the face

So how's your GMing going, guys?