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Something I want to talk about that I have been thinking a lot about lately is this:
>For a complex dedicated system you need to provide something unique, and experience not catered to by other systems

For this I examined my homebrews and came to a conclusion. The most unique experience I ever game as a homebrewer was one of my first, years ago. It was founded on the concept of a hybrid wargame and ttrpg that would transition from the control of individual characters to units in large scale combat.

The original hack used Warhammer Fantasy as a base.


Essentially every Player would have a unit that they themselves own. This unit would generally be from 5-10 pieces. This unit would be defined by a "Standard Job" which every member of the unit has as a base for their stats, and "Promotions". Promotions came in a variety of flavors, including making someone a bannerman, musician, or leader of the unit. However it also gave specializations like physician, scout, woodsman, accountant, and more. Each individual piece contributed towards a unit's stats. A big part of the game was making sure your army was supplied, they had work, your pieces were outfitted, morale was high, etc.

These indivudal pieces each could be controlled and their specalizations made use of out of combat. Therefore you essentially have several characters each with their own thing.

Now the players together came to form an Army. An Army has both the units of the player's, but also Army Resources. These were often in the form of siege engines, monstrous creatures, and other strange units.

When participating in engagements both the Army and the Units earn XP. These are used to purchase those jobs I talked about earlier. For armies it is used to purchase tactics and clout. The army sheet has such things on it like Army Relations with various factions, your current contract holder, army resources (like the siege engines), etc.

>>50286873


Now I have gotten off track and rambled. What I wanted to talk about is that I do not know of game that tried to do this blend of having units, engaging in combat, and transitioning to controlling only a few pieces. What I want to ask /gdg/ is this idea something worth moving forward with?

As well I have had more ideas on "Unique Experiences" and the sort of niches one can try and fill. I have ended up throwing out a lot of old stuff in favor of this new design concept. The idea of if one wants to make a rules heavy system the rules must be used to anchor oneself firmly to a niche of a unique experience.

This isn't my first time making a system but it's my first serious attempt rather than theory-crafting and shit. I'm pretty sure it's bad but I was hoping you guys could give me some feedback and maybe push me down the right path.

It's a mesh of three systems. nWoD, Legend of the Five Rings Third Edition, and Risus. At it's core I'm trying to make a system that I can abuse a bit, know everything about, and make abilities and spells on the fly for my players (which I'm pretty alright at when it comes to the few systems I have mastery over).

So far it's Legend of the Five Rings Stats and rolling with nWoD for a point spending system for magic and abilities. I would just use Legend of the Five Rings but it kinda breaks once you take it out of it's setting and I think it's a tinge too complicated for my players at the moment (granted I may have made a system thats too complicated). I'm terrible at writing shit up in a way that's useful for anyone besides me so I already know that's something I need to work on, feel free to scream loser at me tho I probably deserve it.

I was also wondering if you could help me model the probabilities? I heard you guys do that and I think that's swell.

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Warmachine maybe?
epic 40k?

Shit that includes mechs.

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IBO has enough HG kits to do tabletop.

prepare your anus...

>>50286687
Bring us your fascist music, your operas, your orchestras, your metal, lovesongs, laments, warsongs and weird alternative junk and make it 40k themed.

Then purge yourselves or accept the place of serfdom afforded to you by the imperial creed, /m/utant.

>>50286603
I just use tumblr for porn and I never see any snowflakes.

>>50287093
If you don't follow anyone the dash will show you random blogs, all of which were stereotypical tumblr shit, so I thought maybe it'd go away if I followed some random RPG art blogs. And it did, except all those "RPG art" blogs just posted American political shit. So I just moved to something that gave me some better tools to work with anyway.

I've got them connected so the stuff I had on tumblr just transferred over and the wordpress stuff posts on tumblr anyway.

>>50287229
I don't have an account, so I don't see this dash. It's just titties and sodomy.

It was stolen from Glorantha dude. Lär dig rollspelshistoria.

>>50285124
his family matters to him and nothing else

>>50285124
He likes to play games of all sorts. He's a sore loser, and often throws his weight around when he loses.

He views life (and all his plans and schemes) as games.

>>50285124
He loves dogs.
He's a cruel ruthless bastard but whenever he sees a dog he can't help but pet it, feed it, rub its belly, call it silly names and play with it.
He's apathetic towards cats.

>>50284468
bump for intrest

>>50284468
It's 98% garbage. You have to understand that most of the community on roll20 is made up of the rejects who can't get any other game. They NEED to achieve maximum exposure because almost every game they fling themselves at, they won't stick to.

Roll20 is efficient if gaming in real life isn't viable, but you're better off taking an existing group of friends and playing there. If you absolutely must use the LFG, you need to either have very low standards, or get ready to go through 20-30 players to find 3-4 good ones.

>>50284468
>Find a group
>Pretty standard premise and game and characters with 4 people+DM
>Gotta wait another week
>Try to plan things out with others while we wait
>Only the female half-elf druid responding to anything
>Day of the campaign starts and no one, not even the GM shows up

>Me and half-elf start rollplaying our own adventures.
>We drop the dice and go straight to the smut

[spoilers]we've done stories of a dragon and a kidnapped princess, an orc queen and a 12-year-old human, and other non-board games[/spoiler]

I'd really love to get a fucking campaign that gets off the ground though. So far I haven't ha any get that far.

>>50283716
kys

>>50283716
Grow a pair and play with people Maggot!

>>50283716
>having friends
>ever being able to do anything irl
>r9k memes

>I'm such a socially award nerd XDDDDDD

Kill yourself as painfully as possible please.

>>50282775
New subrace.
Borkz.
they krump da federashun

>>50282914
How might one build a cybork army?

>>50282775
The Borg don't just assimulte any species.

>>50282173

I've told the story repeatedly on /tg/, but it's the one where we missed a vital clue that our GM dropped in front of us, and as a result, while our own operation went ahead perfectly, us disrupting an evil liche and by extension knocking out the legion of undead she controlled, (and a former PC turned traitor in a previous campaign, to boot), we missed another line of defense that we needed to remove to hit the ultimate objective, so as a result, we lost the war we thought we were going to win.

I've never felt a blow to the gut like that in an RPG, before or since. We spent roughly a month (real time) in that final dungeon complex, and the entire time, our GM never once gave a hint that it was all for nothing, even though it was too late by that point.

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The campaign we're currently in, it's a WWI campaign using the Only War rulebook

We're currently on the Meuse-Argonne Offensive trying to rescue the 77th Division. Its been a unique experience.

>>50283475
I don't think I've heard that one before, but I've been away from the chans a long while. Is the full story archived anywhere?

>>50283527
Sure sounds like it.

respond pls

>>50281850
Anon, I like the minis, but I haven't played / purchased the game. I don't think it'll necessarily convert a lot of vidya players into table top gamers, and the Halo setting is somewhat of a niche setting. The other thing that may be an issue with people who are already into table top gaming is that Spartan games seems to put out a lot of game lines but isn't the most polished when it comes to rules writing / support. I'd guess that some folks are hesitant to buy in for fear that added Halo content won't arrive if the game doesn't make bucket loads of money.

I'd buy it if anyone I knew knew about it

also if the models were bigger, I can't even paint 40k well

>>50280586
>what did you think?
I like it a lot. A lot of flavor and story with the group I'm playing with.
>Does having 3-4 players much better than 2?
We're playing with 3 of us. Game scales well. Though I think "better" is relative to how people act when there's 2 of you vs. 3+
>Do you feel like you need the full deckbuilding options from the 2nd core set?
My group felt the need after we played through the first act. Players will find cards they didn't like or some they found useful to the way they want to play their investigator. Due to the number of players and the 2 card limit, we would need 4 or more core sets to play our decks as is. We're playing on tabletop sim so it's convenient enough to just copy paste cards to make decks. It appears they pulled a netrunner again with the core set. Future card packs look like they have enough cards for 1 player to make any deck. Maybe they expect players to bring their own decks or something.
>Are you going to try and make custom scenarios?
Already am since that was the first problem I saw with the game. FFG will need to pump out lots of scenarios to keep the game alive. And by the looks of it they are. I can see this being a big turn off for people who don't want to regularly spend $20 to get a new piece of game.
>Is it fun?
Yes. If you got tabletop sim, give it a shot. I personally don't think I'll be buying it anytime soon. Not only is it sold out, but the business model is very taxing and I don't have THAT much disposable income.

>>50281627
>Already am since that was the first problem I saw with the game.
Nice. Can you post it on /tg/ somewhere when you're done?

>>50281627
Which plugins did you use for Tabletop Sim?

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The CYOA's Patron Module, which determines just who bestows your character's magical abilities. But be wary, for not all of these patrons are after your best interests...

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All Add-Ons for both the SCS and AMGC are also linked here and below for further convenience.


AMGC Corruption Module, for mechanics of a monstrous nature.

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AMGC Fusion, for magical girls that are truly inseparable. At least, as long as the fusion lasts.
Hint: it's not long.

Zombie Jerky

Does huffing tanar'ri jenkem count?

>>50279305
Drow pussy.....
What?!
It was this or the spider pits

- can only live if someone angrily posts about how we have this thread every day

>>50279109
>filename

So which is it? What is the distinction anyway?

>>50279109
They tend to work in accounting and are quite boring at parties.

1 or 2

>>50277400
In my opinion, you should get at least a semi-clear picture on your head of what spell will do and/or look like, just from reading its name. Also, a title should roll off the tongue well.

>>50277400
Bump, also.
Hope this thread picks up a bit.
Homebrew spell in an old campaign: Form Ferrofluid.