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What system would you suggest to run a Planet of the Apes game? I'm mostly referring to playing as intelligently enhanced apes during the collapse of human civilization.
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Seriously, without meming, GURPS. But you'd need someone who already knows GURPS to help you choose what books and rules to use.
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Savage Worlds
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Mutants & Masterminds
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Constructs: Building and their uses 2017-08-18 04:18:06 Post No.54937594
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Hey /tg/ so I play a lot of pathfinder as a wizard, as I enjoy crafting and the bonuses to spell craft naturally lean me into that roll. Most of the time universal and sometimes one of the elemental for some extra flavor.
But that's just a means to an end, crafting Constructs and Golems is what really is fucking awesome to me because you can more or less convert any creature (in theory) into a construct. There is a special formula you can do it and I came up with an insanely odd way to use this.
Context: Large 'living world' pirate game. Starting level one with a few higher levels around and doing some encounters I come with my Wizard's great plan. Partially inspired by Captain Nemo from 10K Leagues under the Sea.
What if I made a Construct Whale I could ride inside of to destroy ships and take the cargo? Or Capsize them and use the construct or others to drag it/push it back to a port?
I am I just retarded or is this a suitable plan. I can theoretically do it by Level 5 if I have 25 K Gold.
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So long as all the rules are there it all should check out.
Be careful of cannons and the like but yeah seems like a pretty cool idea.
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I'm trying to combine various archetypes into one package to create various npcs with to fill out a party.
For example, Cleric, Bard, Marshall would be a kind of Aura buffing healing class.
or Rogue/scout, Bomb Maker, Archer, would be a kind of Saboteur infiltrator assassin
Can you take three Fantasy D&D style archetypes and create an npc out of it?
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wut?
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End of the World series 2017-08-18 03:57:55 Post No.54937354
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Whats /tg/s experience with the End of the World series? Which ones did you try.
Stories and experiences very welcome.
Thinking about a Zombie Apocalypse with the Pandemic scenario.
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I played a con game of the Zombie one. Followed the rules, played a version of myself - I'm not sure I like the pacing (it's brutal)
It depends I guess if you want Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, or Day of the Dead.
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What if I want Land of the Dead?I actually really liked that one.
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>>54938257
That was the recent one, where they got smart? It wasn't terrible (or any more terrible than the others)
I haven't played EotW in the Post-Apoc mode though.
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>running a game where I let everyone bring in as much OP homebrew stuff as they want
>One guy makes a gambling character
>Chaotic neutral, ToTallY Cuh-Rayzee xD kind of That Guy, believes luck isnt real and fate is controlled by omnipresent deities.
>Spells revolving around dice manipulation, praying to the gods for an advantage in exchange for guaranteed failures on the next roll they do
>Other generic Joker stuff, like throwing cards and smoke bombs.
>His Ace up his sleeve is a 6-barrel revolver called Roulette.
>As you can guess, it works by loading the barrels, spinning the gun and aiming it at his temple. Then roll a D6 to see which one shoots.
>If he survives, he gets some super bonus.
>If he doesn't, instant drop to 0 health.
>The prize for when every barrel but one is loaded, is an instant kill. On anything.
>Have to plan my campaign around there being two BBEGs because I know he's going to bullshit one of them.
>He tells me he'll be using this very sparingly because even he realises its a bit too stupid
>about a third of the way thru the campaign, party has been doing mostly busywork
>BBEG rolls into town
>"Hey, watch this"
>Joker runs up and rolls to punch him in the face
>2 damage
>BBEG knocks him to the floor and pins Joker to the ground
>"Is my left arm broken?"
>"Yes, he's standing on it"
>"Is he also standing on my right arm?"
>"...No."
>"I pull out Roulette"
>suddenly realise that a couple sessions before he'd loaded the gun with 5 bullets, and hadn't used it til then.
>bastard
>"I point it at my head, close my eyes and pull the trigger"
>motherfucker
>roll a d6
>everyone leans over
>4
>he splatters his brains all over the BBEGs shoes
we didnt play with that guy again
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Why let everyone bring wacky OP stuff if you're not gonna let them use it
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I don't get the joke
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That actually sounds pretty fun to me.
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http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/199093/Revolution-D100
What do people here think of this game?
How does it compare to BRP?
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So Zenith is an aspect of the Eternal Champion, but so is also his nemesis Sir Seaton Begg, meaning that the Eternal Champion in at least one universe attempts to protect the Balance by fighting himself.
Why is it that Moorcock's multiverse only gets stranger the more you read about it?
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Pretty sure Moorcock just wrote whatever whatever his acid trips told him to write.
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This. Fun writer, but if you're going into it to find truth or meaning, you're going to be about as productive as trying to find letters in termite trails.
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Looks to me that after his younger years he always had this complex of not making "true literature" so he start going into advanced avant-garde things to justify himself.
He even had this sort of disdain for genre fiction in one of the latest editions of his books.
I still like him a lot though. But he's a reminder of not letting the artistic set of mind get the best of you.
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I want to run a campaign in a space opera universe with a touch of cheesy 80's cartoon tropes. If anyone watched Space Dandy on Adult Swim, basically that universe (though I'd probably goof off just a tad less.)
Does anyone know of a good system I could use for being a band of mismatched mercenaries/couriers/explorers trying to make a living in a universe like this?
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Traveller, Stars Without Number, Fragged Empire.
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>chaotic = impulsive/ADHD
>chaotic = inability to plan or commit to something that lasts longer than a day
Stop this shit.
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running my first evil campaign soon
i'm afraid of all the chaos dunks and npc eating that'll come from this
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>>54931860
Go LE and enjoy some order and brutality,
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>>54931770
How's about you read the fucking average Vampire's from the Monster Manuals desired unavoidable characterization before you open your stupid trap, are you honestly so stupid you don't understand why fucking alignments are presented as Objective all-encompassing facts that are relative to the extra presence of them existing as manipulative forces with cosmic emanations that immediately have an invasive effect on people's behaviour?
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What are your favorite character concepts?
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Personally I love thrallherds. I think it's a cool extension of psionics.
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What's a helpful way to paint scene for my players better? I am too heavily reliant on using a map and am not even sure how to run combat without it.
Can you guys offer some tips and examples for describing rooms and situations?
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Use 3 different senses.
What they hear
What they smell
What they see
describe a new area with at least three senses and you should be good.
In combat usually its best to have a map for more tactical goodness and so players can easily grasp the situation, but outside combat you should be able to rely on your vocal descriptions.
read some fantasy books or play some fighting fantasy books and pay attention to the descriptions
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>>54931387
This here is episode 4 of Nerd Poker: http://brianposehnsnerdpoker.libsyn.com/episode-4-aw-netty
The DM describes an encounter with a beholder as well as the effects of one of the players being charmed in an engaging and interesting way. This combined with the last 15 minuets of the previous episode (where they first find the thing) is a great example of describing combat without a map.
I'm trying to think of a new campaign for my friends and I've been toying with the idea of something similar to Majora's Mask: players are in some land that will be destroyed in X amount of time. Players will be working to stop this event but they'll have to go back in time and reset everything before this destruction event happens and try again.
Any thoughts on if this could be implemented well?
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Make sure you have EVERYTHING planned out in advance.
>What the NPCs like, what they don't, their habits, routines, etc etc. What do they do when the cycle of stuff to do is broken by the PCs, and what do they do otherwise?
>Groundhog Day style—how do people react to the PCs' supernatural knowledge of what will happen or is happening right now?
>Make sure that you have a way to deal with the players just muderhoboing it up. Or let them do just that till they get bored. Again, groundhog day.
>figure out why/how the changes they make are permanent enough to stop the world from breaking down. If it's a simple as level enough to destroy the thing, change it up. They need X, Y, and Z things and the only way to get them is to help out various NPCs. Sure, Mr. Priest could let you into the chapel, but he lost his key and swears choir boy took it. Choir boy gave it to sewer rat in exchange for drugs, and sewer rat traded it to a duergar for some BETTER drugs (after killing him, of course). And then it turns out the Duergar has the key to one of the other items they need and the party has to save him first...and so on.
TLDR: Make everything tie together, and make sure it's all planned out in advance. And make some of the questgivers' suspicions be wrong, dammit. Make the PCs think.
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Thanks pal, that helps out a lot! Any suggestions on how to track time consistently or is that going to be a little more arbitrary?
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Can Space Sharks take Chapter Tactics if i am running Tyberos? The Crimson Fists can take Imperial Fist tactics with Pedro. My FLGS is pretty adamant that i cannot benefit from the Carcharadon keyword and the Chapter Tactics simultaneously. Do i have a snowballs chance in the Warp?
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Tyberos locks you into the Carcharodons keyword, but the Carcharodons keyword does not have any Chapter Tactics this edition, so until FW updates their Chapter Tactics, you can pick whatever one you want.
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Read the fucking rulebook, then tell them to read the fucking rulebook.
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"...A dead silence followed...broken only by the hideous noise of the blood throbbing out of the inert heap before us, which but a moment before had been a brave and chivalrous man. It was horrible."
— Algernon Mitford, Tales Of Old Japan
Is suicide seen a honorable in your setting?
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Casting Pull From Tomorrow With Torrential Gearhulk 2017-08-18 01:24:20 Post No.54928199
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Casting Pull From Tomorrow With Torrential Gearhulk
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Torrential Gearhulk reads, "Flash - When Torrential Gearhulk enters the battlefield, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that card would be put into your graveyard this turn, exile it instead."
Pull From Tomorrow reads, "Draw X cards, then discard a card."
My question is, if you where to cast Torrential Gearhulk and then target Pull From Tomorrow would you just draw no cards then discard one, or would you tap "X" lands and draw that many then discard 1?
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107.3b If a player is casting a spell that has an {X} in its mana cost, the value of X isn’t defined by the text of that spell, and an effect lets that player cast that spell while paying neither its mana cost nor an alternative cost that includes X, then the only legal choice for X is 0. This doesn’t apply to effects that only reduce a cost, even if they reduce it to zero. See rule 601, “Casting Spells.”
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>>54928199
You don't know what X is so it has to be zero, this is why gearhulk decks run glimmer over pull.
It's the same as bringing back walking ballista, it just dies again because it's a 0/0