Archived threads in /tg/ - Traditional Games - 2175. page

>>50721232
Isaac shook his head to clear the last of the haze from his eyes and surveyed the carnage in the room. The two creatures he had fought were very thoroughly dead; one was nothing but crushed bone and pulped tissue from the nose up and the other was lying rag dolled on the other side of the room bent in impossible angles. Across the room Praetorian looked like he had fared better than Isaac. He stood knee deep in the dead, figuratively speaking, holding one limp corpse by the neck with the rest strewn across the deck and in a couple of instances the walls around him. A fair number of the mutated humanoid figures bore gunshot wounds but most looked to have been bludgeoned, smashed or broken until they stopped moving.

For his part the Praetorian simply stood and stared. It looked from Isaac to the modified tools clenched in his fists, to the broken remains that made up Isaac's tally, then back to Isaac. He straightened back up to his full height from his fighting crouch, letting the dead mutant drop to the deck, then surveyed the room around him. He cast one last long look at Isaac then turned and moved towards the next doorway. Isaac sighed and cycled the power cells in his contact beam and plasma cutter. No rest for the weary, he thought to himself. Or is that no rest for the wicked? Either way it appeared a breather was out of the question. It occurred to Isaac as Praetorian punched the door control with more force than strictly necessary that unless he could come up with a way to replace or recharge his energy cells soon things were going to get dicey.

The next encounter took both of them by surprise

>>50721244
One second they were advancing down yet another wide hallway, the next Praetorian was sailing through the air. Blind sided by something big, red, fast and with entirely too many horns and teeth it followed up the charge with a leap straight at the dazed Praetorian. The maintenance hatch the shaved gorilla had barreled out of was now disgorging a mass of mutated figures and something new, something brown that hopped and bounded along the floor and walls. The jackhammer report of the massive auto rifle told Isaac that his companion was still in the fight and could probably look after himself for the moment.

Isaac back peddled down the corridor in the face of the oncoming horde and reached for his hardware. He belatedly wished he'd had a chance to give his weapons a once over before setting out. The contact beam and plasma cutter made the trip alright, now he just hoped the rest of his handiwork was as robust and that the oncoming figures weren't tougher than they looked. He raised his arm, sighted at the center of the horde, and triggered the device clamped around his right wrist.

The saw blade shot out of it's housing and jerked to a stop at the end of its kinesis tether. The first rushing figure ran straight into the rotating blade, and what a blade intended to saw through rock and steel did to flesh was a sight. The rushing figure offered little resistance to the spinning saw blade, collapsing in a welter of gore well short of Isaac. He whipped the blade across the oncoming figures, painting the corridor and himself with fans of red and black. Whatever the pale figures were they were no tougher than the necromorph horrors Isaac was sadly used to dealing with.

>>50721278
The happy state of affairs couldn't last forever. A red ball of what looked like fire came sailing out of the back of the horde, forcing him to cut the kinesis tether and roll to the side. Without the buzzing saw holding them at bay the pale ones surged forward again. Isaac scrambled back to his feet and readied another blade, only to be struck from behind and sent tumbling. He was dimly aware that he could no longer hear gunshots, only demonic howling and the stamping of clawed feet.

File: 1481843532912.jpg (27KB, 480x358px) Image search: [Google]

27KB, 480x358px

>>50796743

File: e1545cae5e5188ea9246313f06decc29.jpg (85KB, 564x1039px) Image search: [Google]

85KB, 564x1039px

>>50796749

File: 1477188083372.jpg (369KB, 1000x804px) Image search: [Google]

369KB, 1000x804px

>>50796769

File: 6456424516415114.png (463KB, 1357x588px) Image search: [Google]

463KB, 1357x588px

>Then there is the neighbors

>>50794825
After one night, there are only three room mates.

>>50794825
>Abaddon
Jock who has too many loud parties and wrecks everything. Constantly clashes with Celestine. Mutual hatred and sexual tension is through the roof.

>Celestine
Politically active educated girl, believes in making the world a better place. Driven to the point of insanity by Abbadon's constant everything. Secretly wet every after every argument.

>Inquisitor
Beta girl constantly jealous of Celestine's superior looks and intellect. Does everything she can to tear others down to reinforce her strict worldview. Can't stand the techpriest's autism. Overachiever.

>Techpriest
While everyone else is busy doing inferior flesh-based things, he's locked down in the basement, building the ultimate feat of engineering, a machine that will render all else superfluous. Incredibly autistic. Literally no interest in socializing.

OotS
K6BD
Unsounded
Teahouse

>>50794650
Anyway, post your own. I freely admit that some of these are shit... but they at least have some sort of charm that brings me back to them.

Anyway, post your own.

File: nodwick.png (307KB, 720x1076px) Image search: [Google]

307KB, 720x1076px

>>50794650
Nodwick was pretty good. Comic about a fighter-wizard-cleric and their henchman, lots of slapstick, got a bit wordy but was still funny.
Full Frontal Nerdity is a comic by the same author about a D&D group.
Nodwick ended a while back, but FFN is still going.

>>50794291
GUARDSMAN: Hello, er...sir. My Leman Russ won't start. What should I do?
TECHPRIEST: DO NOT INQUIRE OF THE OMNISSIAH'S SECRETS, TECH-HERETIC REEEEEEEEEEE

...something like that.

>>50794342

nice meme. He'd probably walk you through the appropriate rituals, or just tell you to get your regiments tech priest to deal with it.

>>50794291
First something on the other end of the line would screech at you in binary.

Then they'd insult you in low gothic for causing the problem in the first place, lament that the poor machine in your possession doesn't have ready access to a tech priest, then tell you to pray to the Omnissiah.

Then you might get some simple technical support.

>mfw made it in time for first post
>about to make ork I2 meme
>it's the OP image

Fuck you OP

First for the Eldar

First for I am Carnac.

Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>50792317

What're we rolling?

Rolled 38, 18, 2, 5, 30 + 23 = 116 (5d42 + 23)

File: 0b463b920dce4bd990b165e993a8895f-d67baqp.jpg (919KB, 700x1000px) Image search: [Google]

919KB, 700x1000px

>>50792317
What are we even rolling

File: 1449482445800.jpg (2MB, 2306x3000px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 2306x3000px

X'th for plastic Sisters confirmed

2nd for alpha legion

>>50791473
Haha I was right.

File: Ao2_40th_day_gattling_gun_boss_by_ClementSauve.jpg (85KB, 900x582px) Image search: [Google]

85KB, 900x582px

Mr. Anderson is a wealthy and paranoid miser, and he financed an artificial heart. You are hired by the company to get a return on their product. Either find his very very difficult to find cache of wealth, get something of equal value from him(or anyone?) or collect the heart.

Hunt a rogue AI that isn't really doing anything more than just jumping into expensive sports cars and driving recklessly around downtown Seattle. Reprogram him or shut him down one sports car at a time.

A good ol' bank heist. Make it a megacorp bank for extra challenge.

There's a band of really hard partying rock stars that is the poster children for many of some megacorp's subsidiaries, but they're just about as out of control as a people can be. Get them to the show without them ODing or driving their bus off of a cliff.

>>50789843
Look up shadowrun missions

>>50789951
Haha, I like these! The rogue AI is my favorite.

>>50789963
Yeah I can look them up,but I want to hear your ideas.

File: 1330202550673.jpg (47KB, 234x234px) Image search: [Google]

47KB, 234x234px

Make one that isn't that way?

>>50789619
Design them with purposes other than connecting random encounters together.

"Vault" dungeons should be designed to keep things out (unless you want to play with the theme and design them to keep something from getting out).

"Lair" dungeons should be designed to be lived in.

"Sewer" dungeons should be design with the idea that they are intended to remove waste materials from a large residential area.

>>50789619
I go with the notion that a "dungeon" is any self-contained area for the PCs to explore, fight in, and loot.

A traditional dungeon with long dark hallways and pointless rooms is a dungeon, as is a design based on an actual castle.

In a cyberpunk game like Cyberpunk 2020 or Shadowrun, an underground corporate lab with a few thousand square feet of space would be a dungeon. In a zombie apocalypse game, a trailer park spread out over a square mile would be a dungeon.

The PCs are doing the same thing in every instance: exploring, fighting, and looting.

Just to get a feel for things - which level of Nobel Phantasm would a cape granting complete and true stealth be? A with some kind of conditional flaw, and EX if it were perfect?

>>50789664
Complete and true stealth?

>>50789100
Jump #10: Harry Potter


Half-Blood - 100 * All the best wizards seem to these.
Middle Class - 0 * Me.
Gryffindor - 0 * Where dwell the brave at heart..


Brave At Heart - 0 * See?
Occlumency - 0 * I'm great at poker.
Setup Wizard - 200 * I’m going to make a fortune selling magical dish washers.
Non-Verbal Specialty - 100 * Useful.
Windless Magic - 500 * Much more so.
Giant Blood - 200 * Yo, what's the weather like down there?


Fellow Marauders - 200 * Friends.
Wand - 0 * I could cave and make a dick joke. But I'm made of harder stuff than that.
Wand of Elder - 250 * Why not?


Statute Scrapped * Yeah, let’s do this.


Prophecy + 100 * Oh, the wizarding world isn't going to be my fan anyway.
Saving People Thing + 200 * Sure.
Prisoner of Azkaban + 300 * K.

>>50789452
Orks would win, no matter what.
Because either they'd end up slaughtering them, therefore winning the war, or being slaughtered, and winning by finally finding an opponent worth a universe wide Waaaghh.

File: 89c.gif (549KB, 500x208px) Image search: [Google]

549KB, 500x208px

>>50789498
Entirety of WH40K's fw

File: Untitled.jpg (88KB, 708x398px) Image search: [Google]

88KB, 708x398px

>>50789452
Green people win

>>50789361
I'd love to see almost-human, not-quite-AI replicants become a serious option for PCs. One that has direct bearing on the metaplot, as the line between drone (property) and personhood becomes dangerously blurred for society.

While I prefer godlike AI stories, I feel like those died with AI, and the current generation of small AIs doesn't go far enough in the Blade Runner direction of examination of dubious line between clever machines and actual personality.

>reading Howling Shadows
>come across this little gem
>Red: Whew! Just in time! I almost missed Slamm’s deadline.
>Clockwork: Busy finding virgins to suck dry?
>Red: Don’t worry, you’re safe.
Say what you will about Jackpoint commentary, but that gave me a chuckle.

>>50788806
>Sleeves
>fuckit, I'ma pretend it's a full suit
Nope.

>>50788829
>even the fluff makes a point of talking about how it looks kinda shitty and people feel bad when they're expected to wear it.
Nah, mate. Street trogs don't like it for appropriating their subculture. "Successfully walks the line between hip and tasteless" is not "looks kinda shitty". Bump up your reading comprehension.

> I know you want your stupid, overpowered trash-suit to not look like trash, but it does.
I replace the RPC with Electrochromic, and drop the price, but don't let facts get in your way now, eh?

>>50789349
Sounds like every other game of Only War to me.

>>50789385

I have yet to do a mixed regiment session of only war everyone wants to be the same or no one does it

File: everyday.jpg (65KB, 396x382px) Image search: [Google]

65KB, 396x382px

>>50789349

GURPS does this with the City Stats book.

>>50789348
Check out 'The Quiet Year'. It's a civ RPG based on the premise of having a year to construct a settlement after an apocalyptic war but before the gangs arrive.

>>50789348

my players have had fun with the over-simple ruleset to leadership and management in our exalted game, but there is no way i'd recommend exalted for it. rather, i wanna mention how neat it is that it's basically just "what do you want made? give me 2 things that are sensibly true about what you rule or own that would let you make that." and the rules directly say "if you can think of a hassle about it to be overcome, hassle it." to make it so the players feel good about pushing their agendas and making sure they have hard choices to make, despite there being no actual quantified system to ruling City X.

that said, i'm colored interested by a game that actually does encourage base-building as a primary thing. most of the base-building stuff in other games is more like a "i'm done adventuring and want the adventures to come to me now" situation....