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>>49938474
I have been working on this small town 80s setting for about a year.

The amount my heart leapt to see a thread about it on /tg/...

The party are HS age investigators in some kind of "Mystery Club", since the town has a history of strange disappearances, but there havn't been any for over fifty years.

Until they start again...

I've put alot of effort into the details, old photo printouts, newspaper clippings, giving the PCs journals to keep track of the investigation on the first session, etc

Starting next september...

>>49938580
>80s
>HS age investigators
>returned horror

this is my shit

you are a true and valiant artisan. i hope all the effort you put into your masterpiece pays off.

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>>49938761
It's really been a labour of love, the town and surrounding woods have so many characters and things to see, their investigation can go pretty much any way they want, although there is a running plot advancing at whatever pace they choose. Sort of like in open world games, you can explore all the side quests at leisure and do plot missions when you feel like it.

I have a few contingency plans for if they get stuck but won't be spoon-fed information, a metric fuckton of synth music, hopefully original/interesting NPCs and spirits, descriptions of scenes and locations, and my GF is happy to do the female character voices and be rules helper. (I knocked up a slightly altered FATE mod)

My one shameful guilt about the setting is that one of the main antagonists is using the artwork of Holo from Spice and Wolf, if someone recognises it then I think it will take away from the experience.

I on the other hand, tend not to discuss the concept with others, although I can certainly see why you would do that. Don't get me wrong, I can often have just as much of a hard time getting into the headspace of other people, but I'm also a distanced observer and a "collector of thought processes" most of the time. So what I do instead is I go through my mental database of all the shit I've seen, and throw the most relevant references that I can come up with into a blender, to pick through them later. Which is why I tend to base my characters on existing templates, and say "they're like character X" even more than most other people.

When I have this raw material, I generally mold it into the rough shape that I want the character to have and I'm usually pretty much done. I'm far too much of a reactive person to have a completely formed character prepared entirely in advance. A LOT of character development happens on-the-fly as I'm playing the game, as I only tend to discuss my character concept during the game. Playing on IRC and having a dedicated out-of-character chat allows me to do this without interrupting anyone. So that's the time at which I might discuss what sort of behavior may or may not be appropriate for the character, and try to compare and contrast them with the other player characters, as well as what is expected of their social group or race.

One more thing I usually try to do is have a voice for my character. Whether that's an actor or a specific role that actor played, I try to look up clips of that person or character talking on Youtube, or even watch/listen to entire things they were in. Even knowing what my character sounds like when they talk can help me come up with lines for them, an appropriate way of speaking, and even non-verbal cues and gestures while they're talking. I try to listen to listen to these clips not just before the game but before each session.

>>49938008

how do you manage to play htat character while also chatting in OOC and listening to voice clips similar to the voice of your character and keep the three separate so you don't, for example, have your character say "I just shot marven in the face" when they should say "I'll have a quarter pounder with cheese, and a milkshake, hey what do you want X? I'm buying.".

>>49938599
Because in text games, there are periods of time when you're waiting for other players or the GM to finish typing their message, which can in fact take a few minutes. Which gives everyone else the time to participate in OOC chat and gives ME the time to compartmentalize my thoughts.

>>49937725
Option 1, without a doubt. As distant and mysterious as possible to the point where people can live their entire lives without seeing evidence of the gods, and that there could be other explanations for the powers wielded by those chosen by the gods.

Whether or not they really exist depends on what setting I'm running, though.

>>49937725
I generally use 2. I like the gods to feel distant but for the world to very clearly bear the marks of their shaping it.

>>49937725
>2. Existing, occasionally interfering in mortal affairs.
Can bring up some interesting events.

Grey knights

Knights errant / black shields

>>49937445
Black shield marines or integrated into other legions, such as ultramarines, to protect their identity. Otherwise they were some of the first inquisitors or they turned mercenary/pirate.

>>49937310
>Salt and Bone.

I read some of his world building on the website. It's not for me, but I'll try it if you bring something good to eat.

This has been discussed at length over several threads, Podcasts, forums, etc. It's a novel idea, but no one ever actually does it because it's always something you run for higher level adventurers, or it doesn't quite fit the setting. Even if someone did do it, it's unlikely that we'll get too significant of a story from it.

Now, finding a way to add a level of depth to Titanic, unintelligent monsters besides being Huge and Nigh-unkillabale, that's something I'd love to see.

That's precisely why I always carry around a genie with exactly one wish.

Simply ebin. Nice work

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>let's give blue a fog

shit general

>>49937096

>Playing game which is much more based on medieval european mores and superstitions than traditional DnD
>Only "black mages" get familairs, which are actually a minor demon taking the form of a small animal
>Don't eat normal food, sustain themselves by drinking the master's blood through an invisible "witch mark" somewhere on the body
>Roll up a dark mage
>Summon a familiar
>GM giggles like an imbecile and says "Your witchmark is on your penis! Every day you're gonna have a cat sucking blood from your cock!"
>Strongly consider punching him in the face.

>>49937166
since the magical blood drain is on your genitals would that not cause erectile dysfunction? could you play on that and give your character some form of bonus from the celebacy? for example a resistance or bonus to saving throws against seduction?

>>49937256
>Discworld Wizards.

>>49936941
>They are forced to put civilians onto the battlefield.
So is the Imperium. And their civilians are still better than the Imperiums civilians at waging war.

>>49936987
Eldar civilians are a well-trained militia, each one possibly hundreds of years old and many of them may have been on a Warrior Path before changing.

Imperium's concripts were literally scraped off the street of some backwater Hive. They get little to no training and their equipment is actually more expensive than they are.

Guardians should still be WS3/BS3

>>49937092
You know, that doesn't really change a single thing I just said.

>>49936825
Going off your picture where monsters are generally CE killing machines whose sole purpose is to spread misery and death, yes.

>>49936825
I don't see any problem with that. Life is many things, but not particularly nice. Nature is both butteflies and flowers and wolves and those freaky deep sea fish. While great and beautiful and necesary, nature will also fuck you up if you fool around with it.

>>49936891
Adding to that, 'mother of monsters' is very unnatural.

Both are possible.
DA and CSM dont work well together, though.
You might wanna try and convert them.

>>49936729
>is it possible for a beginner to make DA into CSM

Yes, just paint them black

> is it possible to field both the Crimson Slaughter and the Fallen Angels in one army?

Yes, just use the Cypher's fallen angels formation plus CSM shit you want.

>>49936816
Yeah, but I mean like get rid of the aquilla and shit like that. I mean, I dont wanna fuck up my expensive as hell models that I had to sell my kidney for.

>>49936281
Ezpz.
Bride gives away her brideprice to her old family, as they need it. Husband takes offence, as it was supposed to be for her, and becomes heartbroken. The bride now attempts to track down the gifts in order to cheer her dearest up, which she finds her family already sold them.
From there the bride can be a questgiver or adventurer or whatever fits the quest you are going for.

Well ofcourse the basic transport and protect and what have you from getting them there to having them have struggles with the wedding themselves.

From a stagemaster with a pompousness that'd make even the toughest sub-urbian footballmother whince, all the way to the cheap hired labour from the nearbye goblin village getting ready and planning a revolt or strike on the night of festivities themselves.

Or you could have trouble with the bride and groom in an arranged marriage, but the king hasn't just given her hand to one fellow. There's about 6 loutish young princes out and about each promised her hand, and now the PCs are tasked with keeping them around and testing their mettle together with the princess to see what the lads are made of.

>>49936281
>>49936337
Here's another.
Two great warriors from seperate cities are in love. Their families want them married, but marriage plans grind to a halt, as each city cannot bear for their great warrior to move into the house of the other warrior. You know, on account of not leaving any one city too undefended.

Try to shore up the defenses of one or both the cities through whatever means you have in order to allow the lovebirds to finally marry and have the strongest babies.

Super easy. Pawns are beer level. Maybe roulette one liquor shot in there. Put wine level alcohol content into the Knights, bishops, or rooks, shots in the others. Put some STRONG shit in the Queen. And the king? I dunno, half everclear or something. Something you can set on fire before drinking.

>>49936063
Mixed drinks. Screwdriver, Whiskey Sour, Rum and Coke, etc. Mix to the level desired.

Or mix the board. Beer for pawns straight liquor for Kings/Queens. Mixed drinks for other pieces.

>>49936155
i haven't considered wine
with wine i can also separate red from white along with the beer, and for the liquor i can do vodka versus whisky

I find this to be undervalued, especially since there is so much fun room to fluff shit with it.

I'll take it

>>49935939
>No catches.
How does it stay in the scabbard without a catch?

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>>49935869
>>Make strange "utopian" society that is a strange blend of corporate communism and laissez faire capitalism
Explain further.

Sounds like you have boring players.

>>49935934
>cyberpunk europe, after apocalyptic war
>governments collapsed, Guilds rose
>Guild Members have Guild Accounts which have all of their wealth
>As a Guild Member, you have access to free food (of the lowest quality : ie yeast paste)
>You have an Apartment Credit, which isn't an actual apartment, but the ability to check out an apartment in any Guild Apartment Building
>ie you can pack up and move across the continent, swipe a card, press a button, and start living there
>The Guild Labor Board is an online website that posts all proximal labor requests within the Guild
>The Guilds are near omnipresent monopolies, completely self-sufficient unto themselves
>As long as you're certified, you can show up and do any job in the Guild in order to get Credits
>The Guilds charge no taxes, just skim profit off your labor

To put it simply, everything has gone the way of Uber. Sign your life away to a Guild, and everything will work out under Big Brother's care.

As long as you don't get caught up in a false flag attack and marked as dead, which would get your Guild Account deleted.

>>49935710
Ok, so just make sure it's owned by old people?

Not suitable for children 13 and under.

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