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Do you use props in your games?
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>>49360584
like handouts?
no
like decoration?
yes
like tokens for fate points?
yes, various depending on the setting (bottle caps for Atomic Highway, wood tokens for Warhammer Fantasy, etc)
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>>49360584
I had a first time GM that printed out letters and stuff. A little corny, but it was kinda fun.
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>>49360752
>like decoration?
yes
Pics?
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Oi /tg/
How do I make character creation faster? It's usually a slog. (DnD 5e)
And general "questions that don't deserve their own thread" I guess
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>>49360200
A: Git gud and make a few throw-away characters
B: Don't play D&D 5e and play something even more simple.
C: Seriously nigga chargen at level 1 is slapping stats down, picking a race, picking a class, and spending money for starting gear. It's super fucking easy.
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Who gives the best massages in the grim darkness of the far future?
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dark eldar no doubt
no doubt
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>>49359351
The Emperor
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The Kroot.
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New Order of the stick is up!
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>>49358569
>Kill the wizard before it ulrk!
What did he mean by this?
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I can't believe this comic is still going on after all these years.
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Alright. Let's say you had a more lighter version of the Iron golem in your game but it shares almost all the same stats expect for a few.
What would you call it? as the iron golem is already taken.
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... Steel golem?
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>>49358489
A warforged.
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I. Ron Golem
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GM help: Player picked smoking as addiction (and addiction as a whole in games) 2016-09-15 13:39:50 Post No.49358216
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GM help: Player picked smoking as addiction (and addiction as a whole in games)
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alright, so for starters I've never really been good when a player picks any kind of addiction. its always been "so did you do it today? good" I've never really worked it into the game.
but most times the players picked something that was sometimes hard to get a hold of or difficult to do.
now most recently a player of mine has chosen smoking tobacco as an addiction, nothing hard about that really, sure. then went ahead and bought a bunch of tobacco to last them awhile.
how can i better work this disadvantage out? how can i do more than just take it away every now and again when someone in town won't sell him a brick load of tobacco to smoke?
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Make his character get gradually worse at running.
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>>49358216
Addiction isn't fun when you actually play with it. If it starts having an affect on rolls because your player is ignoring it they'll get hissy, and if you keep reminding them, nagging them, like the addiction it is, it'll get old fast.
Players don't want to play with an addiction, they want to occasionally say "I have a smoke/take a drink/inject rat piss into my veins" and use the buy point refunds or what have you to take something mechanically helpful.
On the off chance you do have a player who appreciates that an addiction is an actual addiction, you can just keep reminding them to smoke/drink/rat piss, when they don't get the opportunity to their rolls should reflect their inability to concentrate on anything other than their vice, and they should have to actually go buy their vice. If they've got an endlessly refillable bottle/cigarette packet/jar of rat piss and no one finds it distasteful when they swig/smoke/piss up then the addiction isn't actually in play.
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>>49358216
Fate Aspects are still the best way to handle addictions because they actively incentivize the player to have their character pursue their vice even when it would be detrimental to their own wellbeing.
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Have you ever used a religion based on Christianity in your games? What did you change, and did you try to obscure the connection?
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1) Yes
2) Virtually nothing, there was just no Jesus figure.
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>>49358166
>no Jesus
>changed virtually nothing
I think you might need to read up on Christianity a bit.
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>>49358213
> Implying you need a Jesus figure for a gigantic religion with churches, saints, holy orders, crusades and the Pope at the head
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Coming back to 40k after a long break, do Warbosses not let you take Nobs as troops anymore or am I missing the rule somewhere?
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>>49357454
>He plays Orks
Oh god... who wants to tell him?
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>>49357454
>Coming back to 40k after a long break
I'm sorry.
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>>49357454
>Orks are a melee race
>I2
>No invuln save
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>mfw I open this piece of shit as my rare
>mfw I have no face
Why the FUCK is it possible to open draft-only cards in rare slots in Take The Crown? Wizards already solved this problem in the first Conspiracy set. All draft-only cards were relegated to a special sixteenth slot so that you always opened a real card as your rare, not this limited multiplayer meme horseshit. That was a perfectly fine solution. Why the fuck did they walk right into a problem they had already once solved?
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>>49357216
Sorry about that, anon, but you have to understand that drafting is the purest essence of the game.
If you haven't opened the card you want, why don't you buy another pack or two? Who knows. You might get lucky next time!
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>>49357409
Thanks Maro!
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I'm here to help
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>The Drow princess has 100 fist-sized spiders enclosed in her holes
>The Drow princess has 10,000 thumb-sized spiders enclosed in her holes
Which one should I do?
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>>49357177
The second one seems more probable biologically.
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>>49357177
Neither of those because they both seem absurd, Lolth will not want her precious spiders to die in the acidic hellscape that is a vagina or the biological waste dumping ground that is the anus.
If you're looking for something insidious should the players try and diddle her slit, give her a toothy or poisonous vagina - not only does that make sense given the female domination thing Drow have going on, but it's useful for biting off the umbilical cord!
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>>49357177
100 Thumb-sized spiders are more valuable than 1 Fist sized spider. By pure economics, you should go the 10,000 thumb spiders.
Fuck it, I'mma go make myself a spider now.
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The king and queen had to send their very young firstborn to be raised by the royal family of their rival kingdom.
The princess has since come of age, and now she has the choice to go back to her biological family. But she doesn't want to! She thinks of her adoptive family as her "real family" and doesn't want to shake up her life.
The princess is very precious to her biological parents. They want her back, and they're sending your party to woo her to come home! WITHOUT causing an international incident!
How does your party do it?
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We've been dicked around by kings and queens far too many times to believe any promises of reward. The likely outcome is, we see that the princess is happy, shrug and leave.
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>>49356677
I'm afraid the only solution is genocide.
There's no international incident if there's no nation, right?
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>>49356677
Shit like this is why we need a republic.
Kill the royal family. Then kill the daughter so she can't call in help from the foreign nobles. Then kill the foreign nobles so they can't help on their own accord.
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Hey /tg/, if you had to run a sci-fi game a la firefly where pcs are space travelers/explorers/smugglers/whatever, which system would you use ?
I heard about Halo Mythic but it seems too much combat-focused for me.
Any suggestions?
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Traveller is a solid choice, either the old one, mongoose or stars without numbers.
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Basic Set, Ultratech and Biotech.
Want space combat? Spaceships series.
Want a premade setting? Transhuman Space (it's 3e though, so you shouldn't use anything but the fluff in there).Besides GURPS, other popular systems are Traveller, Stars without Numbers, Eclipse Phase, warhams40k Rogue Trader, probably some I forget. I think Firefly had its own system as well, and there's a cowboy bebop system even
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>>49356617
I've had a look on stars without numbers but it seems a bit too "d&dish" for me.
Anyway Traveller seems interesting, thanks !
>>49356625
Ok thanks I'd look into those, I don't know much about GURPS so I basically only heard about the basic set before.
Also about eclipse phase : I heard a lot about it but is it playable without the whole transhumanist/bionics part ? The game seems to rely heavily on them.
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> even the BBEG fears this character
Who is the version of this character in your campaign?For me, he's a Hawaii-shirt sporting owner of a chain of island resorts and navigator guilds in control of more than half of the world's trade and if the BBEG messed with him, it would be very inconvenient for the BBEG to try and go fishing in the ocean ever again.
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The cute fluffy companion character that gave the characters their magical powers.
I am weeb trash who's currently playing a Magical Girl game.
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>>49356342
The god of death.
Nobody fucks with the god of death except for his wife.
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>>49356342
The God of Loss.
(No meme involved or implied)
By definition, every encounter with this being causes loss, usually of that which you most greatly prize.
No one suffers more than those who try to deal, negotiate, or bargain with it.
Unlike any other god, it seeks no agenda and does not gain power, it simply wanders and causes others to lose theirs.
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Have you ever used a Guise of the Thespian in a game? Or is it just a /tg/ meme?
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The Guise of the Thespian is a 100% /tg/-homebrewed item.
Nothing more than a meme, just like "people actually playing kender" considering how kender stats are buried away in an obscure, non-WotC 3.X splatbook for Dragonlance.
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It's a /tg/-meme/. Why bother with a magic item for disguise when a wizard can use disguise self and alter-self and shit like that as low as level 6?
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>>49356318
I know a person that has actually played kender before.
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how would i do The Thing in tabletop? 2016-09-15 08:11:17 Post No.49355732
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how would i do The Thing in tabletop?
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my buddy and i love The Thing, both versions. and we were contemplating how to convert it into a game, a one shot most likely.
We were trying to think about things like, what would the monster be, player or npc? would the player know? if the player knew wouldn't that eliminate the fear they had and give it away? what system could we even use for such a thing?
so i come here, what do you guys know about this sort of game? anyone done this before? advice?
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>>49355732
Start giving players secret notes.some are blank
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>>49355732
Ever played Call of Cthulhu?
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>>49355796
no i have not