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/TG/ Why do most game have a simplistic Morality when dealing with Magic? Why is it when a person uses the Dark Arts he is now labeled as Evil? since when did Light=Good and Dark=Evil?

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>that one guy that brings zero (0) snacks 2 sessions in a row

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How do I make a good avian race for a setting? And don't tell me Tengus, those are the only birds I ever hear people talk about.

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Is there anything more soulless than a GM who makes you pay for sessions?

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I didn't see a thread and I don't see how /tg/ derived vidya is less board-appropriate than half the threads here.

>http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/01/18/wizards-of-the-coast-opens-digital-studio

>Game publisher Wizards of the Coast has opened up a digital studio, with the aim of recreating some of its practical properties in a virtual space.

>The studio will be run by a group of 'all-stars" and led by Jeffrey Steefel, best known for his work on The Lord of the Rings Online, according to a blog post from Wizards of the Coast President Chris Cocks. Video game veteran David Schwartz will also come aboard to lead a new publishing team "to explore partnerships and collaborations that will bring Magic and D&D to unexpected settings, genres, and platforms."

>"What would it be like to throw fireballs as a Planeswalker in an MMO, or quest for treasure with your friends in a D&D augmented-reality game?" wrote Cocks.

Thoughts fa/tg/uys. Personally I've been dreaming of an augmented-reality dungeon crawler since Pokemon go but I'm not sure the tech is there.

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>Painting night with wargaming buddy and girlfriend, run out of navy blue paint
>He suggests we hit up his LGS, she needs an RPG mini anyway
>Happen to be chatting about Vermintide as we enter
>Reedy dude at the opposite end of the store bounds across the floor
>Compresses his body to place himself between us, pulling his arms in like he's trying to catch a closing elevator
>Smells like peppermint and ass
>"Excuse me madam, I overheard you talking about Warhammer! Pray tell, what faction do you play?"
>"I don't have the money to buy the models so I just play the video games. Please let me browse the Reaper stuff."
>He visibly deflates and mutters something about girls pretending to like Warhammer
>Returns to the empty table where he's been sitting, stares into space angrily

>Two guys building an Imperial Knight talking at obscene volume about how Only War "is the least canon 40k RPG" because of female guardsmen
>"Yeah but that lady Mordian is a solid 10, she's a great fap if you're looking for 40k-related content," one posits
>"I like the Commissar," counters the other, "she's got breeding hips so you know she can do her REAL duty."
>Buddy makes accidental eye contact with them
>One of them takes that moment to reach out for a handshake and invite buddy to a "heavily homebrewed eleven-player Dark Souls-inspired Pathfinder campaign with minor romance elements"
>Winks when he says "minor romance elements"

What the fuck is wrong with you people, /tg/?

Also, LGS Horror Stories thread, I guess

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Have you ever tried DM'ing an anime based campaign?

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Hey tg, does anyone on have any books PDF that I can download and read when I'm in bed? 40k or Horus heresy only please, thanks!

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Dear potential DM's. Do you wanna avoid being called "that DM"? You want players to be careful and to not run blindly into encounters and to face consequences but don't wanna accomplish that with TPK? Take a hint from videogames: TUTORIALIZE.

Say you want your party to encounter a dungeon with traps? Well here's how you can do that.

1) Have the first trap they encounter have an obvious trigger. Have there be some broken panels of wood around a slightly raised stone. Have obvious burn/singe marks on a specific area or a part of the room clearly eaten away by acid. This trap should communicate to the PC's that "This dungeon has traps and if you're aware of your surroundings you can avoid them".

2) Have the next trap be more well hidden but nonlethal. A pit trap without spikes, a broken pendulum or just a simple dart/arrow trap that'll rough a player up or make traversal more difficult but won't auto-kill them. This'll teach the players that some traps will be more well hidden than others and that you may not always feed them the answer.

3) When you finally introduce your first bullshit horrible death trap have an enemy fall for it first. Have a goblin or orc or ogre run into a giant wall of spikes or a doorframe that explodes into a fireball spell. It'll communicate that there are traps that're horrible and will kill you dead but when the victim is just a random enemy they're not invested in there will be a sense of fairness there.

From that point on you can feel pretty confident that if players aren't careful or get buttfucked by a falling stone ceiling that's mostly on them and only the most petty or antagonistic players would blame you for something like that.

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Null Psykers vs Khornate Psykers Edition.

Old thread >>51296369

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>Up to date FAQs
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I like discussing systems that come up with cool stats / traits / attributes for things other than battling and adventuring in a fantasy world.

For example games / systems revolving around social interactions, building and managing a city or country, training pokemons, racing, even things like farming, or fishing, or blacksmithing!

So yeah, "interesting systems that nobody plays" general, I guess.

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What sort of equipment would a modern day adventurer need, assuming he was homeless

Hard mode: no firearms

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Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General thread.

>Links - Includes a list of OSR games, a wiki, scenarios, free RPGs, a vast Trove of treasure!
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>Discord Server - Live design help, game finder, etc.
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>OSR Blog List - Help contribute by suggesting more.
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>Webtools - Help contribute by suggesting more.
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>Previous thread:
>>51248471

THREAD QUESTION:
>What's the worst module you've ever ran/played?

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My favorite setting is semi-near future after climate change has shaken up the global balance of nations. Third-world USA, palm trees in London, stuff like that.

So imagine how happy I was today to find that some artists made a bunch of images of what London could look like in the future. I've never been, but it looks pretty neat.

Anyway, got any recommendations for books (either RPGs or serious literature) about said coming problems?

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Have you ever seen someone cheat in Magic?

Have you ever done it yourself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GROBM7_TXyU