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>>49519704

Who submitted the Xeno banner for /aco/?

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I love this one. Too bad I don't have a pass.

I'm guessing we only get one vote? There are two or three I'm stuck between.

They already did the time for their crime and not fighting invaders isn't a willful act of evil. I do nothing.

As far as I can see, there isn't any action to be taken other than removing the iron rod from your arse posthaste. I think it may be getting infected.

>>49519523
The broken the law of that land, and they served their time for it.

It is disappointing that they did not opt to fight, but it would be unreasonable for me to punish someone for not upholding my own moral code.

Also, I feel there is not enough information here. It largely depends on the warlord in question.
Does he inslave the people he captures? I am inclined to believe he does not, since why on earth would he free prisoners if that was teh case.

Does he simply sack the settlement and move on, or does he maintain rule over it. How is life under his rule?
If life under his rule is not that bad, and the wizard known this, then while it is not the decision I would have come to personally, I can understand why he would not fight against the warlord.

>>49518550
Mazes & Monsters
THAI COOKERY

> "/tg/, I was just hired to rename DnD. Trips decide what it's gonna be called."

>>49518550
Ball Fondlers

You could have just wrote
> When you are That DM

>>49518438
>when you give the min/maxer of your group a permanent mali through enemy inflicted status attacks just to fuck up their entire setup so it doesn't work anymore
FUCK YOU

>>49518438
:^)

>>49518200
Encounters included:
>Brownies sneaking into camp in the wee hours of the morning to cook a hot breakfast for the party by the time they woke up
>Brief rains of various odd substances, such as wine, muffins, and dresses.
>Various "fearsome critters" from American tall tales, like the hugag and fur-bearing trout
>An animate rock that followed the party around like a puppy dog (one of the players adopted it as a pet)

To name but a few.

There was also a "bargain bin" in the artificer's shop they did most of their shopping at, where he sold minor trinkets and failed experiments. Rather than presenting the players a list of the contents, I had them roll to rummage through it and told them what they found. They absolutely loved it. The one who adopted the rock ended up getting a flying handkerchief (like a tiny flying carpet) for her pet rock to fly around on, and a little top hat that displays emoticons indicating the wearers emotion on the band so she could communicate somewhat with it. Another player dug out a dozen different minor novelty items and asked to combine their effects into a single ridiculous toy, a rod that sprayed bubbles that glowed in various colors, shouted profanities, and gave joy-buzzer shocks to those they touched.

>>49518200
2:
Every game, every system, no matter who GMs (or DMs), our group has a consistent NPC, the wandering mushroom salesman. And every single time we get challenged to come up with a new and never used mushroom to spark another adventure or plot hook. Notable examples include:
>Floating mushrooms that reduced the user's ability to be affected by gravity ended up getting the party involved with local black markets after someone "accidentally" firebombed a random warehouse.
>Glowing mushrooms when eaten copied exactly half of the person's body to the Astral Plane, thus getting the party involved with a cove of unsual Druids.
>Striped mushrooms gave temporary invulnerability at the cost of being temporarily mind-swapped with the last person who ate a striped mushroom. Party tricked a dragon into eating one and shenanigans ensued after we lost track of who was swapped with who.


3:
and an undead who is cursed never to die again when he's had more than enough of all the bullshit in the world.

>>49518229

5:
>Half blind shopkeeper who's stockboy is the only competent thing keeping the store afloat
>Minor NPCs having embarassing shennanigans going on in the background if the PCs ever notice
>NPC romantic comedies going on in the background
>Had a shopkeeper that was literally a cock merchant
>One store in the poor part of a city was called "acceptable meats"
>PC made a perception check on a group of training city guards and overheard that the lesson of the day was how to detect criminal scum
>NPC trying to hire people for a fishing vessel shouting "We made lots of money catching crabs and so can you!"
>Quest board had a picture showing someone and underneath their picture stated "Talked too loud during the play"

depends on the cat

>>49517915
Average male house cat.

>>49517924
neutered?

>>49517675
Not an antagonist, but a player. Here was his story.
>War veteran who thrived in battle against many nonhuman kingdoms
>Descended from a long line of people who worshipped the god of law, war, and light, and were raised to be ridiculously loyal to their country.
>Met his lover, a fellow soldier, on the battlefield.
>They fall in love, of course, and eventually retire after 20 years of service, at the age of 40.
>They spend the next 35 years together, growing old, raising a family (though they had some kids in their thirties), enjoying each other's presence.
>Wife contracts a plague brought in by immigration, rumors place it as originating in nonhuman lands, but nobody really knows for sure. Nonhuman hate is common in his country.
>Wife dies. He spends next five years alone, bottling up anger that combines with war experiences to turn into full blown genocidal racism.
>Taking up his old sword, he sets out to the capital, where he immediately hunts down a cult, slays them, though one of them gets away and actually starts a full blown riot all throughout the city.
>He helps the guards in securing the city and, more importantly, the safety of the royal family.
>He gets closer to the royals by performing important duties and quests for them.
>Eventually tells them of a plan to help the country regain land lost in the wars: a magical plague to target nonhumans.
>Royal family currently deeply considering it, they're extremely talented with magic (and have secret tech for manufacturing the plague).
>It's a perfect plan on paper, because it couldn't reasonably be tracked back to the royals, it would eliminate the nonhuman threat (both the foreigners and the nonhuman toys the corrupt nobility has), and if it somehow jumps to humans they could easily pump out a cure and come out as the good guys by distributing widespread vaccines and cures.

He's a good man - when it comes to humans. Feeds the poor, aids the sick, hates the corrupt nobility. A family man.

>>49517744
Wait, dude's pushing 80 and still kicking butt? Doesn't osteoporosis and the ilk weigh on the elderly?

Sounds like a rather radical player character though. Didn't it bring forth problems?

>>49517767
It did, he has heart problems he has to roll to survive, but it works.

He got de-aged to his prime thanks to a regenerator the royal family was hiding, though. Repaired all the damages to his body, down to genetic mutation over time, that old age brought.

It was an unexpected move from the DM - we thought it was just a generic healing pod we could use to get back to full after almost dying to some buggy security robots.

Instead of working when the inspiration comes use the time you've got it to analyze, if you're inspired to write a horror setting for example, study horror, art, films, books, games everything and make notes on all of it, both the research and your own ideas. Then when the inspiration dies down again you have a bank of notes to work off of.

>>49517543
doesn't work. my "inspiration" picture folders are growing like mushrooms in the rain when i'm actually out of inspiration and browsing through them does nothing to me.

when I'm actually in the working mood I rarely even remember about them

and all the notes and concepts are useless inspiration is off, 'cos there's nothing to make me going and even if i force myself to do stuff, it comes out stale and crappy.

>>49517494
>How do you force inspiration to come, or at least try to?
Absinthe?

>>49517351
I am he who is. Señor Cuckstein.
All your shekels are belong to me.

>>49517351

"I'm anon, herald of /tg/ and harbinger of shitpost"

>unsheathes katana, teleports behind him

"Nothing personal, pops."

Where all the white women at?

>>49517101
Cryomancer hates puns but can't stop accidentally making them himself.

Cryomancer, you mean?

>>49517130
A snow man?

>>49515943
(As the last reason being due to jealousy)

>>49515943

Yes.

>>49516053
So all of the reasons above? It makes sense that it isn't just one issue.

What do you not like about them?

>>49515258
I'd release it just for the big savings.

>>49515258
I'm running a 5e game and had the group play through a modified HotDQ/RoT arc. I didn't want them to end the module at 14th level or whatever it says you should be so most of the encounters were toned down and at the end instead of fighting a dragon God they fought a magically mutated cult leader who was trying to release her into the world. They killed him and stopped the coming of the dragon queen. I doubt I'll give her a chance to return so at this point I'd say crisis averted, day saved, fun still had.

fpbp


also I would release it, for the bragging rights when I smacked it down

There's nothing to speculate about this point imho.

>>49515168
>Overkill

You can buy it right now...

>>49515168
Should really just post this in the general. Codex is out next week and there will be leaks leading up to it.

First and only bump.

They all meet in a tavern. A man comes in panicked, and pleads with everyone in the bar to save his daughter, as kobolds have kidnapped her and carried her off to their fort in the forest. Design the fort around your player's abilities so they can each have shining moments of awesome.

End it either with total victory, a hook that will send them on further adventures together, or something from your magical realm.

If you want my advice, I would personally start the adventure in the dungeon due to the time constraints. Get straight to the good stuff. From there, the roleplay and actions will speak out for the characters.

Now some questions:

1. Where is the dungeon located? Is it in a forest? On a mountain? Alongside a beach?

2. What was this dungeon like before its current state?

3. What resides within the dungeon now? Why are they there?

4. Are the characters premade? Are the characters being made at the table?

Phoenix Command

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>>49514582
Good lord, is it really this bad?

Any other suggestions?

>>49514715

Yeah, it is.

I like the gunplay in Traveller quite a bit. Haven't used it for modern stuff, but some guy on here did like a 19th century military game with it. It defaults to futuristic, but can scale back to like stone age easily. A plus is that there are pretty good rules for running a mercenary company in it.
GURPS is said to be pretty good at realistic firearm combat, too.