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Hey

I ran a dubs contest a littke over a month ago and the winning post wanted lady here to be gray all over.

I think it came out alright, this was my first real experience with nmm and the whole model was done with just three colors: black, white and gray. A cool exercise!

>>51481920
>That face
Pffffft

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>>51481920
I don't think the model really suits being grey all over, but sure.

>>51481997
Reminds me of...

>>51481382
I share your sentiment fully.

For good examples of surreal environments in fantasy, read Roger Zelazny, in particular The Chronicles of Amber cycle. You're gonna get the hang of it after finishing the books, I guarantee it.

Or else you can take the Lovecraft route and describe how mind-boggling the place is instead of going into detail regarding what makes it so mind-boggling. It works too. Actually, you should combine a little bit of both.

Less is more is probably the golden rule for environment descriptions in general, because your players aren't reading a book and they're not ready to listen to you for hours on end, even if your flavour text is really good.

>>51481731
Cool, I'll check out the Chronicles of Amber.

I guess just hinting at weirdness lets the player fill in the gaps with what they fins weird.

>>51482380
Just saying "it's weird, man, ain't gonna explain shit" lets the player fill the gaps with absolutely nothing. You need to provide some basic descriptive points, so that the image may crystallise around them.

>>51473063
Of course, each of our campaigns has the obligatory beach or hot springs session.

These are otherwise completely normal DnD campaigns, and even during the aforementioned sessions we do normal stuff rather than wacky anime hijinks. We just always include one of them for laughs.

>>51473063
I'm getting really tired of these retarded threads

We had one in the Nanoha game I'm playing in.

Of course, in addition to showing off swimsuits and relaxing on the beach, we also ended up investigating hidden ancient ruins and fighting/rescuing a slightly mad ancient AI. That was fun.

>>51468340
Ship tits and ship ass, duh

Aka turrets and engines

>>51468388
I agree on the engine. Engines make or break the ship aesthetic.

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>>51468340
well for one not being fulled with prisoners end up crash landing on a wonder planet filled with flesh eating bugs that they have to fight their way though to get out of the crash which, for some reason, the closer to the surface you get the more dangerous the stuff gets

and two, by being sexy as fuck

I appreciate the simplicity in design of light and ultralight RPGs, but personally the lack of substance always wears thin after extended play, they only really work for me for short campaigns or oneshots.

The lack of character distinction is the big thing, for me. I like different characters within the same system to be mechanically distinct- It's not just fluff or roleplay, there is a real, tangible difference in how their mechanics work and how they play from one another.

Lighter games often don't bother with this, giving you very simple, universal mechanics that are essentially the same for everyone with flavour differences being the key thing. PbtA is one that particularly suffers from this for me. I love the idea of Moves, the design elegance is beautiful, but at the end of the day you roll the same dice in the same basic way for literally everything and it just loses its sheen real fast.

>>51457055
Dungeon World and Apocalypse World are no where enar as simple as as savage world or Fate

>>51457077
>moves are the same mechanically thus boring
Do you get upset that everyone in DnD rolls a d20 to attack, check skills and make save throws?

Anyone else play a little fast and loose with the timing for using survival actions?

Secondly, its one use for each survival action per set of turns, resetting on the monster turn, or per turn (allowing you to surge on the monster turn and once on the survivors turn)?

>>51421471
In what way? I've found being able to move between flows is sufficient to let me do most of what I want in the game. My biggest problem is running out of survival more than anything else.

First one. You get your surge back at the beginning of the monster turn. You don't get a second one on the survivor turn.

>>51421507
Consider the Rawhide armor set. That thing often sees use through LY25 for good reason.

>>51292942
I still don't understand what this thread is about?

>>51293304
Its for people who plays online istead of in person

>>51293373
To do...what?

>>51492717
Artificer Tradition :^)

Why is the Trident identical to the Spear aside from bieng martial and expensive?

Need curse ideas for a ring stolen from a tomb

I can't believe that its canon now that a single SJW could take down an archmage

>>51491394
No, but Jesus Christ, you just reminded me of my favorite part of VtM Bloodlines.

The image of Andrei crank calling a late-night radio station is amazing. I can imagine him sitting back in his chair made of people, looking through his phone book made of people, sipping blood from people that's in a chalice made from people, picking up his phone (which is not made from people, how would that even work) and daintily dialing the numbers with his long, thin-fingered hands and long nails, and settling back down, ready for a nice pleasant distraction in order to ensure that his unlife does not become monotonous and, by extension, inefficient.

>>51491394
Wasn't she vampire or ghoul?

Rolled 5 (1d10)

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>>51491326
Counter - "There are Orks over here! Found a Chapter!" "But it'll take 50 ye-" "Do it!"

Pretty good first roll, now onto the next one: When Was The Chapter Founded? (d100)

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Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>51491348
Rolling!

Had a fear of leaving my arms hanging off the side of the bed. The threat was from rats violently pouring out of the ceiling air-conditioner, smashing into the ground and rising rapidly into the roof, forming a wall of rats that surrounded every side of my bed.

I had to keep my hands on the bed or they would eat my arms.

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>>51471064
>When I was little an older kid told me that dwarfs/gnomes existed and they had shotguns that they would fire through peoples window at night, and told me that his grandma was killed by them.

YES.

Using this for a WoD oneshot

>>51460745 Thread died.

I also used to believe that my sister wasn't my real sister. How could we have the same dad when my dad MY dad? Two people can't have the SAME dad!

+10 Ahego?

>>51497371
Look, even if it's a bullshit Stat Me we need a name so we can at least Google a preface for the character.

>>51497371
Statblock for Gene Simmons, but a little girl?

Skeletown

Calcilvania

Bostomb

Tell them to stop being a bunch of whiny, obnoxious pussies.
Get a new fucking group.

Tell them you've accepted their criticism and you'll do a pre-written campaign for the next stint.
Run tomb of horrors.
They'll learn that you are a soft and kind DM.

Or just play exalted or something similar where your pcs are powerful demigods who are incapable of feeling fear.

>>51496680

Easy, you stop running games for them. I'd rather not GM at all and spend the planning time reading or something than put up with that shit.

Have some self respect dude.

>>51496630
Adrenaline is a doomesque FPS simulator. Seems pretty cool, generic theme but has some obvious inspirations.

All in all, I'm generally sceptical against cross-media adaptations. They usually try too hard to emulate their counterparts. XCOM didn't which is why I think it was pretty good.

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While not strictly based off of any one particular game, Battle at Kemble's Cascade is in my opinion a really underappreciated game that tries to emulate those scrolling retro space shooters.

>>51496873

I agree totally. The ones that try to emulate what the vidya do just end up as pale imitations. It's only things which take an alternate perspective and properly make use of the tabletop medium which end up being good.

Which is why I have such low hopes for the clunky generic dungeon crawler they're making with the fucking Dark Souls license. Of course it sold like hotcakes because of the miniatures, but fuck it's so mechanically derivative.