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>>50537309
So, not OP, but any of you faggots got any good books on game design? I don't really care about lore questions or any of that, but I do need an overview of possible mechanics for a homebrew I was thinking up.

>>50537504
There's been more innovation in tabletop RPGs since 2010 than in all the years prior. Alot of it in games that are easily had for free.

Do your own research. AFAIK nobody has boiled it all down into an easily digestible "for dummies" book because it's a constantly shifting niche publishing field.

I think all of your questions are a matter of subjectivity, except for
>how crunchy
You should almost certainly start with rules light. And make sure you're actually interested in designing a game, rather than a setting or a sourcebook for a game you already like.

>>50537309
These are all subjective questions that are not easily answered in any context and therefore are not helpful or conductive to game design hopefuls, but instead counter-productive in the way that might imply that the answer to these questions are the "Correct" method of designing games, which in fact the answer to all three is...

D E P E N D S
O N
T H E
P R O J E C T

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>>50537256

>>50537256
Where do you buy those?

>counter dice
>Goyf dice

I need these. I didnt realize I needed these but I need these.

>>50536718
>Next step is purchasing a "Rank and File"
>The game comes with a number of jobs and upgrades for units, a Rank and File is a special job that is purchased and applied to all recruits in a unit, they are generally cheaper per unit. Other jobs can other be purchased for one unit at a time.
>Rank and Files not only change your Unit's statistics, but also give your Unit skills
>To continue our example I am purchasing "Rilfleman" as my Rank and File for 1.5 points each (remaining points 15)
>This gives my unit the ability to use Rifles and Pistols competently, and as well gives them the "Tactic" (a kind of skill) Stand and Fire
>Skills are divided into two large categories and several smaller ones
>Skills are either Military of Domestic (military are for combat skills and domestic are for non combat)
>Within Military there are "Tactics", "Styles", and "Competencies"
>A tactic is a particular action your unit can take, like forming a line to fire in this example
>Styles are always active abilities your unit has, like "Unbreakable" would be an examples
>Competencies are the ability to make use of certain equipment, an example would be "Siege Engineers" for cannon use

Now I have a unit of Rifleman, time to add some flavor and some specific with my remaining points.

(2/3)

>>50536748
>the other kind of Jobs are Specialists, specialists are applied to one unit at a time and generally cost more than Rank and File
>Specialists give your Unit skills
>Specalists also change that particlar indivudal's statistics greatly, often making them a good deal better
>Our example will continue in I am purchasing two specialists, a Sergeant (who will be designated my commander) and a Physician. The Sergeant costs 6 points, the Physician 8 (total remaining points 1)
>The Sergeant, as the commander, determines such statistics as the Unit's morale, the total number of units that can be commanded, and what base Tactics they can use (based on his Command score)
>The Physician gives the Unit the Style "Battlefield Medicine" and the Tactic "Collect Wounded", as well as the Domestic Skill "Medical Knowledge"
>This allows your Physician to participate in individual actions, letting him examine corpses to determine cause of death, diagnose diseases, and more
>A individual may have more than one job, but multiple jobs increase in price based on the number of jobs an individual has

Now we have a finished unit. Spending the money I would purchase them equipment, likely rifles, rations, etc.

Now to talk about some specifics.

Jobs, both Rank & File and Specialists often have "Discounts". For instance the "Augmented" (a kind of chemically modified human) are cheaper if you have an "Ordained Synthesier" specialist. Or the other way around as a "Sniper" specalist is cheaper if he comes from the "Rifleman" rank and file. Not only can jobs make things cheaper, but also what Stock the individual is, as well as his nationality (when you recruit you recruit from a particular nationality).

(3/???)

>>50536773
Now after one creates their own unit the party would come together. They spend "Army Resources", which work much the same way expect units created using Army Resources are not controlled by an indivudal. As well this is spend on things such as Siege Weapons, Monsters, Supply Trains, Etc. As well the "Army" units can only contain Rank & File and no specalists.

So here is my Sanity Check. Does this sound at all reasonable?

(4/4)

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>>50536505
This is more a variant of your hour glass one. but if you want to scare the players rather than harm them, perhaps a water trap/puzzle based on the self draining cup. Seal the players in a room which the water level is slowly rising, give them some sort of way of slowly emptying the water, but never enough to stem the tide. But when the water reaches a certain level it all drains out, activating a hidden mechanism opening the door/activating something in the dungeon.

Not really simple, but I'm not great at coming up with these sorts of things.

Other things you could do off the top of my head (probably stupid but whatever)

Have booby-traps triggers (pressure plates, tripwires, whatever) that do absolutely nothing but perhaps make a noise deeper into the dungeon or does something otherwise mundane but lends illusion to the idea that they might have just done something very bad. You can also tie this to stuff like false walls and such that lead to the illusion that the layout of the dungeon is changing.

If your players are observant types have things change, if they go through the dungeon leaving every door open maybe have them come back to find that the door is closed or something of that nature that suggests something else has been this way.

Also check out this random encounter table, seems like a few of the ideas might work . >>>50507990 https://is.4chan.org/tg/1480742278928.pdf

>>50537127
oh yeah... I forgot that children are creepy as fuck

in a battle of tiny, poorly formatted and worded text walls than yes

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I like my dragons to have clearly defined looking shapes, not be a dumb mass of muscle and charms that Japs are prone to making. Bahamut makes me fucking puke every time. I'm not gonna even look at whatever shitty dragon you posted.

BEWD and REBD are bretty gud tho.

>>50536410
Jesus that card is a mess. Just all around. The text, the name, the art. Just... christ

The biggest asshole with the biggest 4-legged mech I can find.

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>>50536370

Oh, we can borrow a guy from /co/...

Ulysses S. Grant

The S stands for Space

>>50536075
Wand of Unlimited Prestidigitation.

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>>50536075
Object of Holding is up there
But Decanter of Endless Tequila is the obvious best choice

>>50536075
Warlock style alter self

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May as well add some cool angel art.

>>50535565
Arcane trickster with skill focus in breaking and entering

+5 jollyness

>>50535565
he definitely has some magical beast taming skills, for the eight flying reindeer.

And he is a king of the elves.

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>>50535466
The zombies would freeze up into weird undead statues of ice, I guess?

>>50535528
I kind of handwaved that. They still move, though they're hard and frozen. Cant fully grip, for example. They thaw just fine indoors or near heat. My favorite ones right now have a kind of turtle shell of ice, locking their head in place and making them more immobile, but tougher. Happened due to them being crouched during the storm.

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Kinda deep snow makes for spooky zombie land mines of sorts.

You could also have them just pop out of large snow drifts against buildings or abandoned cars.

Snow also means your survivors can easily find and follow footprints maybe to discover the horrific last stand of some fellow survivors and they can follow footprints of animals easier and might have an easier time hunting.

>>50535149

You have my condolences.

Condolences.

Give dead their honor and piety, but don't forget the living for them.

fuck off zach

only if it fits within the 6 seconds alloted, otherwise the party gets a chance to act

the speech itself is usually evil gloating, about how the party is going to be history, followed by disbelief as the party tears him a new one

Mid-combat. Talking is free action

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>>50534899

Crashing this plane...

Fighter UA is tomorrow. Be sure to fill out the survey for the druid circles when it drops.

>>50534418

is the result for the bard surveys out yet?

>>50534455
They're doing surveys and releases so fast that I don't think they've even looked at the past survey results yet. They'll probably look at all of them in one big go later on.

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>>50533734

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>>50533745

>>50532442
I would cut the shitty individual creatures and focus more on flooding the board with tokens. You should include more draw/filtering to help you get a big board state for Zada. You're mono R, run Ruination.

>>50528084
Soul Sculptor and Trapped in the Moon can make it a non-creature.

>>50527962
Azusa is the stronger of the two ramp commanders, Titania is stompy. All three can be good.

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>>50532865
>Too many fucking combos
Let me tell you about My Pal Slobad

>>50533131
Tell me. I'm not impressed right now