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Pointless picture notwithstanding (but certainly eyecatching): how would /tg/ go about converting the protagonists of various well-known fairytales into something suitable to serve as PCs in a fantasy adventure campaign type? I've been toying with the idea of collecting a bunch (led by Jack, of course) for a short term game. The idea is that it won't be clear which fairytale each character is inspired by - it's not like one of them would clearly be Cinderella and one would obviously be Tsarevitch Ivan. But their backgrounds, abilities and appearances would suggest it, and the plot would touch on it.
It's a risk, I know, but I've recently read a book which I think did that pretty well, and I thought I might as well try.
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Red Riding Hood--ranger specializing in tracking lycanthropes. rather than the generic "bitter, vengeful" idea, maybe have her working with a druidic sect to patrol the forest and keep its paths safe, has a lot of friends among the fey.
Snow White--human who completely adopted dwarven culture, probably a paladin or fighter.
Sleeping Beauty--king-in-the-mountain type who was put in suspended animation after being wounded/poisoned. maybe some sort of Achilles deal where she was blessed by the fey to be invulnerable to any weapons, but then someone got a lucky hit in with a sharpened spindle.
Puss in Boots--awakened animal or familiar who's been spying on nobles and helping his chosen master (kind of a dim bulb) maneuver to the top of the royal court so he can have all the comforts he wants.
Big Bad Wolf--a minor god of the forest, or the divinely-empowered servant of whatever local god/demon lord of beasts. depending on how you want to interpret him, he could either be an evil monster for the PCs to track down and find a weakness of, or some kind of Princess Mononoke-esque figure who's bitter about humans encroaching on the forest.
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Use some more obscure fairy tales. Something like the PCs end up in conflict with a renegade soldier who turned to banditry after he came into possession of a tinder box that summons enormous magic dogs.
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>>50029924
Look up old versions of the fairy tales, before they got Disney treatment.
Have you ever run a game based on Metal Gear? How successful was it? Any tips?
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Rolled 31, 33, 82, 82, 35 = 263 (5d100)
I had a vague idea about running a very short (2-3 sessions) using this name generator... damned if I know what the actual plot would be.
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>61/61
>Brass Rat
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Rolled 35, 98, 14, 56, 77 = 280 (5d100)
>>50029722
>Exploding Puma
Demolition expert who wears nothing but sportswear
>Seeking Gorilla
Uplifted gorilla who is an expert assassin - think Koko meets Agent 47
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Has anyone here played the recently released TCG for Final Fantasy? I just heard of it yesterday when my LGS was offering free demos and I rather liked it despite hardly paying attention to FF as a franchise in the past.
Participated in a release event today and landed first place doing what I knew best - playing the closest I could to RDW. Cloud is nothing to mess with, as expected since he's apparently one of the main characters.
For anyone who has played it, what do you think of it?
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I like it a lot.The CP system is interesting.
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Is there a reason japs like big numbers?
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>>50030793
Currency is largely inflated in numbers.
Also potential for granularity if desired
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>player summons a new die from the aether for every roll to keep an even spread of numbers
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>>50029319
Your image males me sad.
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>>50029319
>Americans
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>>50029701
but thats from Europe.
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I'm considering a replacement for the alignment chart. Here's what I've got thus far. A series of keywords associated with different ends of different personality dimensions.
Personality Dimensions
>Selfless vs Selfish
Selfless characters will risk harm to themselves in order to help others. Selfish Characters will risk harm to others in order to help themselves.
>Proactive vs Reactive
>Analytical vs Creative
>Dominant vs Submissive
>Freedom vs Responsibility
>Principled vs Spontaneous
What other personality dimensions would be useful in defining a character's personality quickly, accurately, and concisely?
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>>Freedom vs Responsibility
false dichotomy
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>>50029285
Perhaps without any more detailed explanation you might think so.
How would you otherwise label the willingness to take on obligations and responsibilities vs the insistence on being able to keep your options open and a refusal to commit?
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>>50029285
And a dichotomy would seem to imply you would have to pick one or the other, whereas you're entirely able to pick neither, and be somewhere in between.
It's simply to quickly note a character's major personality traits.
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For a quick Stand, use the following method-
>http://music.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Wiki
Hit random for the name.
>http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Superpower_Wiki
Same deal for the powers.
OR just use
>http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dft29/Stand_Generator/Stand-Generation-Overdrive.html
Then, write it up
>http://jjba.wikia.com/wiki/Stand
Everything you ever wanted to know about Stands, but were too afraid to ask.
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Dedicated Systems -
>Bizarre Adventures D6 [New]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13eEx_E7y76y14IKGSN7rPWP3AXl1nz2ajlyylsL7DUw/view
>Bizarre Adventures D10
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tgHTQY5OfUQMxXNLbBQd-Wrwv5fLSax-RGOsXuUUmIs/edit
>JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - The RPG
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ReSnZDUvIhpCG0X_8S5C-7P5vBRUb0P08gedAvs0oMc/view
>Expansion: Paranormal Beings and Battle Techniques [New]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WX2tdei5Hb47QEwOxVEykriPsRE3t1slEiSrI3gSTss/view
>Bizarre Adventures D100
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V5mZwgz_Y0L-eoFsZwiPab53vpXQHNSfMY-wjDImPYA/edit
>Heroic Roleplaying
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>Fate Hack
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Other Systems - (In no particular order)
>Mutants & Masterminds
>Marvel Heroic
>FATE (Hack in this post)
>Savage Worlds
>Monsters and Other Childish Things
>Don't Rest Your Head
>Shadowrun (Adept or Mystic Adept with a Geas of POSING)
>Wild Talents (WIP houserules here: http://pastebin.com/bQqAMV5k)
>Monsters and other Childish Things
Thread Question: What is your favorite Stand, that belonged to a player?
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>Thread Question: What is your favorite Stand, that belonged to a player?
The favorite stand of the players in my campaign has to be「Malcolm」. It's just a simple automatic that solves all of its problems via chainsaw, but the way it and it's user interact made it very interesting to see in practice.
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Why is it that RPG tournaments no longer happen? Events where groups play roleplayan games with the explicit goal of outperforming other groups playing the same game? They used to be a pretty big and mainstream way to play RPGs (a lot of the original D&D modules are modified versions of tournament modules), and for some reason they just completely vanished. What went wrong? Don't people want to win at D&D anymore?
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>Don't people want to win at D&D anymore?
Nah. Interest has mostly shifted to story.
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TSR died and with it the modules model of business. Also >>50028871, though I'm surprised it hasn't popped back up with OSR. I suppose you'd need people to actually live nearby for that sort of thing to work out though.
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Modules are still a huge business, but it's all super modules.
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>Wanna play as half-orc
>DM gets buttangered
>"No, you can't play as a half-orc."
>"It doesn't make sense for an non-human race to be in a human city."
>"The story starts in a human city and they are like totally racist, dude."
>"The city guards would pick on you and fuck you up."
>I don't care that your character is visibly armed. They would still pick on you, cuz their racist!"
Which one is in the wrong here?
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I assume the other players have human characters with concealed weapons, yes?
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My opinion on these sort of things is always that if the DM didn't want people to play other races then he shouldn't give you the option.
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This. I will usually make it clear players may suffer some kind of discrimination for their race but if it's that debilitating then there's zero reason to make that race an option.
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Pick a main.
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Give me Earl. I'll tank this shit!
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Fabulous Frank
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Angry Pete, speedy and can tank hits while piling DoTs all over the place.
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I've been worldbuilding a (fantasy) setting, and one of the things I want it to have is old technology that can't really be replicated any more, but that can still be found and that is used to some limited degree. It's not exactly post-apocalyptic, but it is about the collapse of more advanced civilization, and people making use of what it left behind without the infrastructure or resources (or even knowledge) to actually fabricate that stuff any more.
Thing is, I'm having a hard time coming up with an intresting kind of technology these artifacts of the past would be based on. I really don't want to just go all steampunk with it, but I don't have good, solid ideas at this point either. And just straight magitech or the like is kind of ehh.
So, /tg/, what kind of technology do you like to see in your stuff?
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Magitek. A lot of the complaints I see around /tg/ is how magic dislodges technological progress yet normal civilization seems to be stuck in the Medieval Age.
One way I would do is that Magic is used as an unlimited energy source. Mages were scientists as well as walking batteries. The ancients figured out a way to store the energy from mana into batteries and powered their society from golems to flying airships.
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10/10 movie. I wish I could watch it for the first time again.
Numenara does this sort of thing. Earth has gone through the rise and fall of so many great civilizations that no one remembers the technological golden ages. All of the magic and abilities of the setting are just crazy advanced technology, but no one around remembers how or why it works.
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Mine is sort of like what >>50027300 referenced.
Very few people even know there were precursor civilizations and the ones who do usually imagine them to be big magical empires. In reality, they were just civilizations with highly developed technology. One of the greater nations built a system of doomsday bunkers which survived the fall. When new civilizations cropped up thousands of years later and found them it was like opening a vault to a bunch of magic artifacts that even their wisest engineers and scholars couldn't understand the workings of.
Now that BoP is copying DnD with different damage dice, what would be AC for power armor or Tactical Dreadnought armor?
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>Now that BoP is copying DnD with different damage dice
welcome to twenty years ago
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>>50027227
So I can join the other 14 year olds in 40kid general? Screw that
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I don't know if I should be happy or disappointed that we're not getting a Custodes or Sisters of Silence army, and instead it's just for a crappy boardgame.
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COME AT ME MORTALS
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Why does it have tits?
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COME AT ME XENOS!
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>>50026094
...because it's a girl?
>accidentally linked the wrong image from my imp folder
>will have to carry this shame every time I log on to gm
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Well? Are you going to post it or not?
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>>50025768
Post it, faggot.
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Rub salt in the wound why don't you
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Hey /tg/.
Yesterday I GMed for the first time.
There were five people, but we managed well enough.
We were playing onRoll20using this setting called "The Master's Vault."
It's a nice, short campaign I think.
At the moment we have a Human Ranger, out to make cash fucking money,
a Human Cleric, who wishes to transcend humanity by figuring out the raw essence of what it means to heal, and be alive,
a Dragonborn LG Paladin who follows the Goddess of Light, and only has Light spells (like actually just making light), and his character is incredibly stupid and has blind loyalty to the Human Ranger,
a High-Elf Wizard, who believes he can become the best Wizard in the realm,
and an Elf Rogue, who was a prior petty criminal, now training to become an amazing thief.
It's nothing too serious and just me and my friends.
We ended the first session about 8 hours ago, and everyone liked it more than I thought they would.
What was your first time either GMing or Playing like, /tg/?
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Played a monk in my brother's DnD group.
3.5
investigated a castle with a crazy daemon sword thingy.
Turns out, it was connected with a bebilith that then started stalking around the castle trying to eat us.
Can't quite remember what happened after that. I think we either killed it or the group had to disband.
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>Can't quite remember what happened after that. I think we either killed it or the group had to disband.
Being that it is a fucking Beblith going to guess the group disbanded as Bebliths are pretty strong.
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It was freeform play-by-post with strangers. It was total garbage
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When making up fantastical and magical creatures in your campaigns, what kind of design philosophies (difficulty, weaknesses, powers, behavior, gimmicks, appearance etc) do you usually work with?
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>Be interesting
>Serve a purpose
That's it.
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>be interesting
it has tentacles instead of eyes. the interesting thing is, the tentacles ARE the monster.
>serve a purpose
to cause, under all circumstances, a TPK
something like that, right?
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>>50025309
>Nature is scary.
>Have more herbivores than carnivores, hippos show that they can be just as agressive.
>Oceans are so huge you can hide lots of giant monsters like in real life.
>Prefer unique creatures instead of a species.
>Some can metabolize magic.