Archived threads in /tg/ - Traditional Games - 2455. page

>>50241188
Depends. If you do this in a VtM game, it's more of "what the fuck is wrong with you asshole?" but in D&D you might need some buildup instead of just going "poof! a dragon! have fun now poofters!"

>>50241188
that depends, what narrative purpose does the dragon fill? What does its presence say about the world and the characters? How does combating it affect the personal growth of the PCs?

>>50241188
>Is it just boring?
Only as boring as you make it.

Part of it is not giving any context for your game's violence, just slapping enemies down on the battle-mat and expecting fun to happen.

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>>50239743

If Dornkirk succeeds in his plans and get what he needs from your world, he will be able to change the destiny of entire planets at a whim. The last such people to possess this power could even will new worlds into being from nothing, though they eventually destroyed themselves by using the power carelessly.

What can your party do to stop such an enemy? And what is it in your setting that he is probably there for?

I don't think /tg/ has seen Escaflowne, OP.

honestly Basram will just show up at the end and nuke his shit so who cares.

>>50236833
Firefly.

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If you can handle the setting (you really don't need much) you can do it with Savage Worlds.

As an exercise in how little you need, here's a copy of Mini Six. One of the settings in the book is pretty much Firefly with the serial numbers filed off.

>>50236833
Aside from the generics - GURPS, Fate, Risus, Lasers and Feelings clones - there was an official Firefly RPG. You could also adapt Dogs in the Vineyard pretty easily.

Not sure if any of the games will let you play a big, gay horseman though.

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>>50233586

The 3e core book recommends the GM make secret rolls where appropriate to determine what the PCs do and don't pick up on.

I've never done secret rolls against character stats before, only to determine background events that may or may not end up effecting the party. With these sorts of rolls it was relatively easy to disguise what I was doing because the timing of the rolls gave few to no clues to the players what I was doing secret rolls for.

But when you are rolling against PC stats as they enter or move though an area, time becomes a context clue.

what I'm asking:

-Do you think secret perception rolls are a good idea when GMing?

-How do you make it harder for your players to guess what you are doing secret rolls for?

This game is being played with an online group but advice for when GMing IRL groups would be appreciated too.

I am considering using a phone app to roll secret dice so that way I don't accidentally post secret rolls in the chat, and I don't have s separate tab or window competing for real-estate on my monitor when I already have so many documents and notes open in addition to the chat window.

About to run my first M&M game with very poor understanding of the rules and general IQ.

Any tips?

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>>50233586

Has anyone here experimented with drug based superpowers with withdrawal side effects? I'm thinking about making a detective character who grows a plant that when taken enhances perception and reflexes and can grant the user minor bullet time, but when they are not on it is interferes with their focus and causes minor but persistent audio hallucinations resulting in a base penalty to perception and a variable penalty to audio perception.

most of the time he's off of it (because he doesn't have the know how or means to grow enough to keep a constant supply plus he's trying to keep it a secret.)


Before I went further I thought I'd ask for advice and insight from anyone here who may have dabbled in drug fueled superpowers before.

Well, if they're there to kill the guy, that's reasonable approach.

Four hundredth verse, same as the first.

>>50229598
>see some angry guys barge into my fort
>they've killed most of my people
>hm... what's the most logical thing to do here?
>Save myself? Kill myself before they get me? Set a trap for the bad guys? Delete my porn? Write a note saying how much I love my family?
>Nah
>I know! I'll read a speech to the assassins!


>inb4 being sensible goes against the lore
Conan interrupted a villain monogue in "Rogues In The House", hurling a stool at the bad guy and instantly knocking him out.

>>50227256

>12 copies of Infect in top 32
>None ever reached top 8
>Tron wins

How tho

>>50227295
Turns out being Tom Ross and packing white SB cards is pretty good

>>50227256

>karn

just play solitaire or something

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>>50183568
As someone who's played it extensively... the short answer is that the ideas are good but the rules get in the way more than they help. Be prepared to basically bend the rules or freeform alot.

Biggest criticisms (keep in mind I'm judging the second most recent version because the actual most recent one is still incomplete):

-Overcharge builds up wayyyy too fast. To the point where you won't want to use alot of your coolest abilities due to the overcharge cost.

-Mutations. See above. Fuck mutations. Fuck having your character potentially ruined forever because you got too much ovcercharge. Some of the stuff on the mutation table will seriously change the entire "element" of your power and ruin your character concepts.

-Poor/no separation of combat and non-combat stats. Basically you have to min-max your character's personality traits to have good combat stats because.

-Class balance sucks. Basically Priestess (support) is best at absolutely everything. Knights (tanks) are useless. And Sorceressses (offense) are overcharge generators. Powers follow the same trend, with some being INCREDIBLY useful, but being weighed against powers that are absolutely useless (every movement ability in the game).

All of these are manageable with GM fiat, and the system works fine outside of this... but that doesn't really excuse these big issues unless you're super into the idea of playing a magical girl game and don't want to learn GURPS or some other system.

>>50183662
>>50183568

I'd add onto this:

Magical Burst is designed for a very, VERY specific sort of game. I wouldn't use it for 99% of Magical Girl games, let alone generally weeb games.

It's like AdEva in that way. It's designed to play one specific sort of game (And that game might not actually line up with how the genre goes)

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>>50183568
The creator seems to have given up on it sadly, as the latest version has been incomplete for over 2 years now. Reading the creators blog, I'm not sure if it's just because he moved on to more slice-of-life styled games that I don;t really care about, or if he couldn't figure out good ways to resolve the problems >>50183662 mentioned, as they were pretty essential parts of the mechanics.

It's a damn shame, I was looking forward to a new version enough that I almost considered becoming a patron of the guy, but he just seems to have forgotten about the project completely. There haven't been posts or updates about it in forever.

So, is there any information on large extraplanar cities, like Dis? What the populations are, major features, etc.

Come on guys, pls.

>>50255111
But back then Lisa Stevens hired MMO developer Ryan Dancey to develop the Pathfinder MMO, in spite of Dancey's horrible track record with games. This was a purely personal move because they're old friends. It's one of many bad decisions that basically led to the state Paizo is now in and why I left.

Pathfinder Online was developed by the independently owned (but Paizo-backed) company Goblinworks, and Paizo invested a VERY substantial sum of money in the company. Way too much.

So as a result of this investment, there were no bonuses allotted to salaried employees that year. I wouldn't be surprise if they're still denying everyone their bonuses.

Goblinworks failed to deliver the promised product and, in spite of months of us trying to warn upper management that Pathfinder Online was fucked, the plug wasn't pulled on Goblinworks until the 11th fucking hour, way past the point of being able to salvage the company. By this point Paizo pumped so much money into Goblinworks that they were entering financial dire straits. The Goblinworks folks tried but Paizo just gave the fuck up, which I can't blame them for. It's way too little too late.

Paizo became so short on finances that they were unable to maintain the development of the VTT software or essential upgrades to their proprietary forum/store back-end.

I heard that since my departure Paizo's started to intentionally delay payment of contractors (artists and freelance writers) in order to juggle financial burdens from month to month in a pretty blatant breach of contract.

>>50255132
Nah man I've heard some of the last she shit is thousands of dollars per contractor. Some past-due payments wouldn't even be delivered if the contractor "didn't notice" and as a result some payments were out more than a year because folks didn't notice they were getting fucked.

Oh and get this. Following a change in the way salaried employees hours are tracked in Washington State, with regards to overtime hours, Paizo cut salaried employees hours down and assigned them additional contracted "freelance" work to make up the dividend. Paizo employees often work 12 hour days (or more), for an average of $35,000 annually with few benefits. And that's on the high end of salary.


Not counting Erik, Lisa and Vic


Pathfinder product lines are a constant juggling of resources. This is what culminated in the decision to develop the 2nd Edition of the Pathfinder RPG I mentioned before

Pathfinder v2 (or the Revised Edition of the Pathfinder RPG) development started in-house a while back and substantial resources are allocated from other departments (normally handling campaign setting, player companion, and other product lines.)

Increased financial burdens meant that no additional staff could be hired, obviously, meaning salaried employees were effectively working double shift to meet project deadlines. It's almost like in other games companies isn't it?

After I left Paizo it was pretty clear their diminished revenue lead to an increased reliance on licensed products (comics, novels, audiobooks, teleplays, etc). Starfinder RPG looks and sounds like a pretty blatant marketing scheme for licensing. I'd bet Pathfinder 2 either became Starfinder or Starfinder is a stealth beta for what they were working on with PF2.

There's so many other glaring problems I could mention like the GenCon industry insider fiasco which blew me away when I heard a it it. But, frankly, I'm tired of it. "

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>>50249603
Hey Virtue anon, I finished the page you requested. Thanks for putting in the effort you did. Though I do wonder if a few parts are too vague.

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This was a fun one. 1/3

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Will we get a book on the Martain civil war or not?

>>50247486
Well there has been word that FW does want to make Dark Mechboys models, so it's hard to imagine they wont.

It will be like the ultimate exclusive book, with only people rich enough to buy mechanicum able to play the campaign.

>>50247486
Maybe once we get more Dark Mechanicum stuff.

Then again, it's possible we won't see any Mars action until the time it's reclaimed from the traitors in the aftermath of the Heresy.

First for Butte Hold.

>>50233733
>not RELEASE THE KRAKEN

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Black Jacks are awesome.

Society would no longer exist as we know it. Our current capability to produce the resources that we do is based off of a large world-wide work force that distributes these resources via trade. Some countries harvest more basic resources and sell these to countries with more sophisticated means of production that then use those resources to make a variety of products. With a 90% drop in world-wide population, most of the means of harvesting base resources as well as producing more useful goods would practically disappear at once. Worst-case scenario, the remaining 10% fight over what's left until a larger society is formed to protect their remaining resources and to attempt to rebuild the previously lost society. Democratic ideals would be lost very quickly as control and safety are prioritized over freedom and self-determination. In the end, human civilization is put back a couple hundred years, and eventually we catch up. Might be better that it had happened in the end, as the newer society isn't dependent on policies that are self-destructive in the long term.

>>50223872
I...what kind of question is it? Of course not. You'd be lucky if humanity survives at all.

>>50224006
I'm pretty sire ~740 million is enough for humanity to survive

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>>50220449

>>50227421
The Assassin Temples have too much power to let such a valuable asset slip from their hands.

We make it a planet of waifus

>>50227421
well, they'd need a Navigator to get there and that would probably kill or drive any Navigator insane simply through trying to look at it with their Warp eye, let alone trying to go towards it

so nothing i guess

>>50254909
fuck, forgot to change the old thread >>50247945

>>50254909
>What campaign settings do you want published for 5e?
mine

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>>50254909
>What campaign settings do you want published for 5e?
fuckin
SPELLJAMMER