Hi all. I ran a game a while back that I think may be worth sharing. It was a high-level Pathfinder Game that very quickly devolved into the chaos that I know a lot of you tend to appreciate, and I was wondering if you guys would be interested in hearing what went down.
>>51369130
Feel free to share.
>>51369130
>Ancient carthage.
Is your campaign like world of darkness?
or just a shitstorm.
Welp, here we go.
Before we start, I feel I should establish the setting that all of this shit went down in. If any of you want to steal this setting for your own games, feel free. Just know that it does some seriously fucked up things to players.
So everyone's played a game where the GM has banned a character for being too damn powerful or aggressive. The frenzied berserkers, the god wizards, the goddamn physicist who has decided to use his knowledge to utterly wreck your game world. Chances are the character was killed in some incredibly cheap way by the GM and never discussed again. The question arises, however, as to where these characters go.
My answer to this was a demiplane called Ludus, a massive prison dimension that was created by the gods to seal the souls of powergamers away so that they could no longer trash games. If a character has ever horrifically derailed a game, you can bet that they are here somewhere. Henderson, the psionics-destroyer, you name it and they have had their souls thrown here for eternity.
Now, the wards that seal this place off were built by the gods, and are capable of blocking literally ANYTHING that tries to get out. The intent was so no more insane wizards or other casters could ever get out, but it had some unintended side effects. Any souls that wind up here are trapped here for good, and that includes creatures that wind up here as a result of summoning spells and planar binding. At least three demon lords (Pazuzu included) have been conjured to Ludus, and none of them lasted long. On top of that, conflicts on the plane have literally driven many outsider races to extinction. Any outsider that can cast Wish or Miracle has literally been milked dry from their respective planes to fight here, and their souls aren't able to leave Ludus once some conjurer gets lucky.
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What is your favorite published setting for D&D?
First for Forgotten Realms
>>51369107
Mah nigga.
>>51369064
>What is your favorite published setting for D&D?
If you answer anything but
>Mystara
>Birthright
>Dark Sun
you are not my nigga.
This might be a /tv/ question but I'm afraid to ask there and you guys know your shit better anyways:
What are the Top 10 classic Chinese action/martial arts movies of the last 30 years?
Like Hardboiled and stuff like that. Which Jackie Chan?
>>51368176
>30 years
>That means late 80s and up
Fuck man, feels old...
Once upon a Time in China 1 & 2 are pretty much a must-see. Rest of the series is forgettable, but those two reinvented the wheel when it comes to wuxia.
>>51368903
There are a couple of Chinese Ghost Story movies. Which one is best?
What would a magic system based on the Wu Xing look like?
>>51367700
Like Perfect World.
Legends of the Wulin? Priests Arts primarily, but all Secret Arts that game are about the fivefold wheel and the relationships present within it.
>>51367700
>why have four when you could have 5.png
That's misleading. They aren't elements, they're phases/transformations.
A single object cycles through them over time.
Mostly when it undergoes some change of state (rotting, ageing, tempering, getting cut down, whatever else).
What I'm getting at here is, if something changes... it's not made out of different material of another element.
It's made of the same material it used to be, but that material is now in a different phase.
What do you guys think of the Pillars of Eternity setting and its potential?
With PoE2s imminent announcement I got the urge to replay the first and it got me thinking. Some aspects of the lore are pretty fucking interesting whilst others fall flat; though I guess this is a thing with almost anything. So I ended up pondering about its potential as a long-lived setting for use outside of one or two CRPG revival games.
>>51367664
I found it kind of grim and boring, with silly naming.
And I don't like psionics in my fantasy games.
>>51367714
>I found it kind of grim and boring, with silly naming.
Seconded. Surprised they could make a game feel so lifeless, intended or not.
>>51367664
Bland
So Elves are Celtic right? They've even got those weird pseudo-Celtic sounding names to go with their hippy dippy forest dwelling culture
>>51367176
They're depicted as such for God knows what reason, but they're actually Germanic. Spoken of quite frequently in Norse mythology, where they come from Alfheimr.
>>51367176
Celtic elfs are vastly different from Nordic elves, which are closer to what most fantasy elves are like.
Norse elves were demigods, tall and powerful, graceful and masters at crafts, magic and battle.
Celtic elfs are tiny folk with a dozen variations of different sorts of fey. They dance on toadstools, wear flowers as clothes and throw stone arrowheads at you to cause curses.
>>51367329
This thread was more directed at their inspiration in DnD, not the literal cultural difference between Norse and Celtic Elves you fuck
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>>51366818
Especially when they cause me to post CYOAs out of order!
Predictions for March banned/restricted list update?
Fatal Push is going to get Fatally Pushed...out of the format
First for No changes
>>51366466
EDH:
Deadeye Navigator is banned.
Doubling Season is banned.
Sundering Titan is unbanned.
No changes to any other format.
How'd I do?
>>51363627
Lawful Neutral should say "statist cuck"
>>51363670
Sometimes lawful neutral is a retarded druid that only cares about "muh nature".
>>51363627
Close.
Make a wish, /tg/!
>>51363491
i wish this game would fuck off.
I wish someone loved me.
>>51363773
wish anon, not miracle.
I know how well 40k versus threads usually go, but I think this one could be interesting. To make things better, I'm gonna present three scenarios:
>Scenario 1
One Xenomorph vs. One Genestealer, blank, featureless void, nothing to give either a terrain or situational advantage.
>Scenario 2
Five Xenomorphs vs. Five Genestealers in a derelict space ship. Assume these are basic Xenomorphs and Genestealers, so no Broodlords, Queens, or anything like that.
>Scenario 3
A full one Genestealer cult consisting of the entirety of a Hive City vs. A Hive City whose entire populace has been used to make Xenomorphs. The Xenos have a Queen, the Genestealers have Patriarch, Magus, and Primus. Assume the Cult has Genestealers at every generation stage, as well as off shoots like Aberrants and Metamorphs. The Hive Cities are within 10 miles of each other, but there are no other lifeforms for hundreds of miles, so neither side can infect more people.
Who would win /tg/?
>>51361884
Genestealer outsmart xenomorphs by LIGHTYEARS, and hvae more claws.
Also go back to WWW reddit.
Genestealer - they are more robust.
Xenomorphs - they can utilize terrain better.
Cult - either by warpfuckery and assorted witchcraft or by war of attrition (they can keep breeding).
>>51361985
>Robust
Greytider detected.
Off-topic stuff aside, basically what he said, even though i'm not sure on the last one.
Imagine what would happen if a facehugger were to implant a genestealer.
Have you ever played a tacticool character before? What was he/she like?
>>51361534
Let's just get this out of the way.
None of you are operators.
>>51361893
I'm an operator, asshole.
I operate a forklift. Licensed and everything!
>>51361893
Correct. Nor are we wizards, cyborg, elves or any other such thing. I'm glad you have a keen sense for when people are enjoying playing pretend.
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Hardy confirmed a troll/orc race book in the pipeline on the Hiddengrid podcast. What do you want to see? More stuff on the Underground? Any specific metavariants, maybe something from old editions they've forgotten? A Shadows in Focus on the Black Forest Troll Kingdom (my personal vote)?
>>51361032
less errors
>captcha: tarot dress
I'm pretty sure that is in Cutting Aces
>>51361274
Good one, anon. Next you'll want it to be consistent with previously established fluff.
And if the tarot dress isn't in Cutting Aces, it's going to be in the Tarot Deck book they're also putting out.
Has anyone done anything with the Sixth World Deck of Many Things?
>>51361422
>Good one, anon. Next you'll want it to be consistent with previously established fluff.
I don't think we'll have to worry about that, given how deeply involved Bull's self-insert is involved with the Ork Underground. Or at least, we won't have to worry about for the Ork Underground anyways.
>Goblins, Dwarves, Elves, Gnomes, Humans
>>51360758
>Gnomes are bigger than humans.
RIP common sense
>>51360758
Am I supposed to interpret this left-to-right?
Is that Sasquatch-looking motherfucker your version of Gnomes?
>>51360790
Yes.
If you could keep any MTG creature as a pet, who would you choose?
>>51360268
Well played.
>>51360268
If you have 30 of them, they can kill Emrakul