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>>55036332
>Does any of your games use dice alternatives? How?

I'm planning on making one that uses tokens alongside die rolls. In combat, instead of rolling dice to do things, you roll dice to determine the tokens you can use this round. You also get tokens from your weapon, armor and archetype skills etc.

During each round, the players make a "sequence" with tokens of different symbols, forming a description of their action: if they want to whack someone, they must use either a (Might) or (Grace) token. If they want to move, they must use a (Grace) token. If they want to cast a spell, they need to use an (Insight) token and so forth.

When you make an attack, the attacker and defender go to a bidding war against each other. The attacker sets a price, and the defender can try to meet it with a sequence. The attacker can counter individual tokens in the defender's sequence. Then both can bid Sun/Moon tokens (basically good/evil tokens), and bidding evil tokens, well, either makes you gain darkness or use more and more underhanded methods to win.

Does this sound too complicated? I will probably change it a bit, but I like the idea of the dice giving you tokens, and the dice themselves only used between combat rounds. The game is about valiant characters, so the weight of the game is always on whether you are willing to use those Moon tokens to succeed, not whether you succeed or fail spectacularly.

>>55036332
>DO any of your games use dice alternatives? How?
I remember a long time ago brainstorming a way to use dominos as both a resolution mechanic and a dungeon map. I might still have those notes somewhere.

>>55036332
>>Does any of your games use dice alternatives? How?
nothing big, a card in a 52 card deck is an encounter type, such as 1d6 monsters, treasure found, safe place, miniboss.
who draws the card GMs the encounter. After the encounter's beaten/solved/avoided, the next person draws a card and becomes the next encounter's GM.

Savage World, Gups.

>>55036049
Bushido.

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>>55036398
There are dozens of games called bushido at this point, you should probably explain it better.

>>55035411
Unfamiliar with that setting, but it sounds interesting.

>>55035943
It's a classical fantasy novel. Though some would prefer to call "theological science-fiction". But that whole concept has been used in other settings like Numenera or even Adventure Time.

>>55035411

There is no magic. Only knowledge and I forgot the rest.

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>>55032773
>roll a 20 for survival
>don't immediately find a vacant cabin stocked with food

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>>55032773
>roll 1 for intimidate
>"you caress the enemy warrior in front of his clan."

>roll 1 for religion
>don't immediately become an atheist

A DM who planned encounters around single NPCs able to take the whole group, refused to allow us to go off book (her book not the rules, anything that took us off plan would either result in punishment like increasing difficulty or refusal to allow it), and if we took too long with anything (e.g. trying to kill an enemy we had mostly cornered or being split up and having trouble getting back together) she'd start going tick tock with a warning that she'd kill all of us. We only had one session.

Can't have a bad game if my gamefinded posts never get responses.

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Call of cthulhu.
Get invited to solve a mystery at a mansion. Host is a dollmaker and he needs us to solve a mystery. At the intro scene during dinner, right in the middle of exposition, we hear a loud explosion. Player J had used all his assets and background to be a demolishions expert. J had snuck out and used all his dynamite to blow up the car we arrived in. The car held all our stuff and was also like 90% worth of our youngest player's invested background assets. J starts laughing like a hyena. Youngest throws such a big tantrum that he actually starts to cry. Hours of preparation and we manage 5 mins into the adventure. All because one guy wanted to blow shit up and couldn't wait more than 5 minutes.
In a fucking. Call. Of. Cthulhu. Game.

A kind of hilarious, douglas adams-esque failure and genocide of my pc's. The players are gearing up for the end of the world, as an evil woman has just gained the powers of a demi god and is starving the world of water and when the sun goes down, magic. The lady has done this many times, but each time it happens one of my npc's time turns the fuck out of there and another five people from the nearby town are chosen by lottery to find out why the well has gone dry. This time, my five pc's are chosen and nearly halfway to the watersource, they kill the timeturner npc... now they have one chance to kill this demigod gone wrong. and randomly they just die to this.

>>55032015
wat is that

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>>55032015

>>55030838
The kind where human women get bent over and fucked by their Elven masters, as the gods intended.

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>>55030838
This is the best /pfg/ we've had in a while.

>>55030993
Gay Erastilite clergy now fucken confirmed as totally canon and the new hotness in Paizo's latest sensational AP.
How do you feel about that, Gramps?

I don't see the problem here.

>>55030463
>turks are on the doorstep
>everythings looks bad for byzantium
>PCs go down into a random catacomb or some shit
>they find dragon eggs left their by justintinen just in case shit like this happened
>rest of the campaign is dedicated to BTFOing turks and restoring the empire

>>55030524
Don't get me wrong it's cool but it just kills the purpose of a historical game.

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>>55029711
Pathfinder

>>55029813
They asked for Best, not Worst

BECMI or 4e

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FUCK

FUCK

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>>55029599
Boo Two.
ElectricBOOOOOGALOO
Get it?
GET IT??

>Using dice
>Not using tarot cards for all random number generation

I bet your DM isn't even a priestess of Diana.

>>55029434
>not 5d4

Because you can add more d10's and get dicepools.

>>55029288
oh god...the general had this argument every thread, the best edition is the one you piece together yourself, anon

>>55029288

Personally I like the Mongoose version for pure simplicity with little bits of crunch.

>>55029288

Classic's my favorite. Mongoose is pretty good, but the non-core books are ass. You have to go third party to get decent stuff, and 2e has no third party support.

>>55028531
i like it but have not played it yet.

one thing i thought was odd was that at the end of the book there were rules for futuristic weapons but as far as i can see, the rule set is not really set up all that well for sci-fi adventures just gritty fantasy.

Mastered some months ago, its pretty easy to pick up (if you already played whrp) and its meant so characters are almost never OP like you could made in wh.

I find it as a pretty good system for your not!warhammer world or almost any setting with low technology (gunpowder is probably the limit).

It seems like a pretty solid system. I haven't really dug through it yet, but I grabbed a free copy from one of their events.

The main dev seems like kind of a dick, but if his game is good I'll play it. WFRP is one of my favorite games.

>>55027838
>What is something in the OSR community that everyone else seems to like, but you think is overrated?
Race as class.

>>55027683
>Could you summarize what you like about WoHF for me?

It's wild and untamed, with no great kingdoms or secret societies or incredibly high-level PCs to boss you around. You can truly be your own lord and master and go wherever you like.

It's also pretty wacky and contains some neat scifi stuff.

I could tell more but it's pretty late.

>>55027874
Sounds cool mate, thanks.

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>>55027693

>>55027693

Forget which edition, but one version of D&D has a Minotaur that is immune to the spell, Maze, which traps the victim in a magical maze.

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Sorry for video game, but I have to give to Warlord Battlecry.