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>>49127823
We can hope. I'm currently on system celibate, but I hope I can break that soonish (I made it deliberately to get myself away from doing nothing but that). I can still give people criticism and advice though.

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Feel like I'm in the home stretch, just have the busy work of going over each mechanics entry to make sure they're clear and consistent, and making final decisions on the Specialist entries. Except the magic section could probably use a lot more work.

>>49128004
Is the end game to create globalism and a central world authority?

>>49201708
They're larger than life super-human holy monk-knights who fight to protect mankind. However they still manage to fit within the grim-dark universe, and aren't supremely bullshit as the crap they fight is similarly horrifyingly bullshit.

And that's before you even get into the level of variance from each individual chapter.

>>49201758
I dunno. It just sounds like some weird cop-out/dmpc/husbandu insert for HFY that shows up just when things look bad never before or after.
Oh no! Orks are fuck over a planet! Better send in the marines JUST in time for them to save fleeing refugees or stop that orphanage from burning.

It just comes across as stupid is all.

>>49201708
>I don't like a thing

OK

>5. Start as close to the end as possible.

>Have you listened to the talk about exposition? Don’t start your story trying to explain everything about your world’s setting or history or characters. Throw them into the fire (perhaps literally), and have us learn about the setting from the charred pile of dead unicorns in a square pit.
World-builders BTFO

>>49191684
Not really. Even in literature that rule needs to be used in moderation, and you need context for it to make sense.

It's more about not being afraid to upset the character's worldview, rather than pointlessly having terrible things happen. If you stick exclusively to bad things with no brightness, you're just writing a very convoluted form of torture/misery porn.

Same thing applies to TTRPG.

>>49191684
>of Kurt Vonnegut's rules
literally who

>>49141709
Without an Iris the Imperial Gateway program is doomed, unless they only contact low-technology worlds. There are plenty of tools available to the various factions to bypass simple shields.

Although this might explain the sudden Egyptology craze...

>>49141747
>put gate on pivots
>when not in use, point gate up
>enemies come through gate, fall back into gate

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>>49141747
Good point; that was a seriously good bit of retcon-reactive writing they did adding the near-indestructible titanium iris to the gate.

What would be a good victorian science solution? Massive locking slabs of steel and several battleship sized guns pointed at the gate?

>>49209389

"Though I bet Eli is begging for forgiveness right now" Vera cackles, her eyes shining red as alex pushes her foot away from his face "with how mean she was to poor little iris"

"Oh I bet there's a lot of crying on both sides" Alex says with a slow nod as he stands back up "and regret"

What do I do?
[] Go see how Iris and eli are getting along
[] ask one of the twins if they want to fight
[] Ask them something
[]Go for a fly in the night sky.
[] Make sure my "pets" Are okay
[]Go to hell to see if I can find anything exciting to do down there
[] write in

>>49209400
>[] Go see how Iris and eli are getting along
>[] Make sure my "pets" Are okay

>>49209400
>[] Make sure my "pets" Are okay
then
>[] Go see how Iris and eli are getting along

Venasaur
>supply of vines and veg, probably a decent pack-animal

Charizard
>fire is a good thing to have in the end of the world.
>that must mean that a LOT of fire must be MORE GOOD

Blastoise
>use hydro-pump to get water moving in pipelines to supply settlements

Onix
>no good reason, I just like onix

Cubone
>an expert thrower of things, could hunt down food

Sandshrew
>because it's cute?

>>49206289
My six pokemon would be:
Magneton - electricty for appliances, doesnt need to eat.
Charizard - transport, hunting and fire provider
Liligant - medicine and healing, doesnt need to eat.
Stoutland - bed and protection
Starmie- must have surf and hydro pump for endless supply of water.
Pikachu- because im a sucker for shouldermons

I would check out pokerole or ptu if i were you.

>>49206289
>what pokemon do you pick to survive the end of the world?
Flareon, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Umbreon, Espeon, Glaceon

>why did you pick them?
Because I like them.

>where would you live with them?
Dunno.

>what specific moves would you insist on them having?
Dunno.

>what system do you like your apocalypse games to be in?
Apocalypse World

>is there a functional TTRPG out there that could do the Pokemon thing?
Yes.

>could it also do an apocalypse?
Yes.

> party headed innawoods on heug pine mountain. >Gotta find friends and reach the outpost within a week or they will fail the test
> birdfolk foreign islander and human bookworm try to set up camp.
> birdy goes looking for food, kills a pig. Gets chased by giant electric wolf
> alerts bookworm who rushes to her loud hawk screeches
> they escape the wolf, but have lost pole staff and boar spear
> still have sword and sheild, and a hand axe
> rain fucks their fire up, they sleep in the cold huddled together and eating safe mushrooms
> next day, restart on camp, fix it up, get fire started, kill more pig, kill stupid little raptor lizards, take their teeth, and spend all day cooking and eating the pig.
> back on the trail, looking for their friend.

The birdfolk cut the thunder wolf on the face before they escaped across a river. Once they reunite with their team they're gonna see it again. Bet your ass they'll kill it this time.

>>49204993
I am also running a one man one DM campaign set in [world's largest city] full of intrigue, plots, murder, anarchy, domestic terrorism, corruption, and insane magic users. It's a hell of a story.

>>49204825
Break him out.

>What's your terrain mix?
I assume this is asking theme, and our group has a bunch, we have a casino/boom town, now a "eastern" board, a carnival board, a desert board, and a derelict ship board.
>how much terrain?
a lot, and it's gonna be even more when I finish up the forests, graveyard, hanging trees, and victorian buildings I have in store. and all of that is if I decide not to do some vegetation like bushes and some green area cover (considering I had a player bitching at me and our lack of forests last week)
>Do you base your models based off what would look cool on your model or to match the playmat you normally play on
Depends usually whatever looks cool.

>>49144381
There's apparently a modest Malifaux scene nearby me. Can you give me a rundown on the rules, or an example turn of play?

>>49144472
https://temp-share.com/f/wktjomdiqw/4523669ae2b9d0b11121b51252b3dc093a7e2f6c5858b5dabc0709faced7fef3

You flip to see who decided who starts the turn, then you take turns activating models, spending 2 AP (3 if they're a master) and one 0 action, then everything ends and you score points and the next turn starts.

Duels are either against each other or a TN. For a TN you need to reach a target number with your Ml/Sh/Ca + your flipped card, for opposing duels you need to get the same or a higher total than the defender. If there's funny little faces on the card you get a nice little bonus if your card has that face too.

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Discussion starter:
Would you allow Warforged in your OSR game?
Why (not)?

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>>49137420
>Add your HD and your foe's AC to a d20 roll to attack, roll 20+ to hit

This just makes THAC0 more opaque than it already is.

>>49137528
Pros:

I really like Warforged. I think they're one of D&D's best races, in that they are weird enough to justify being a race but also have strong, basic cues to roleplay from so people can get a grip on them pretty easily. I like weird fantasy and warforged fit in weird fantasy. They open up a lot of plothooks to go with for characters and adventures.

Cons:

The armor, endurance and long list of immunities don't really fit the OSR playstyle. There are dungeons and traps you could overcome just by making your warforged walk into them. You can argue you can do that with some other classes too, or spells, but there's always a risk or resource element to lose.

Solution:

Race-as-class. Even in a game which isn't doing race-as-class, race-as-class. This fits Warforged to a tee: they are literally built for a function, so to play a Warforged is also to play a Warforged of a particular type, and that whole package is a class. You can make this more interesting by allowing Warforged PCs to choose how they improve/customise themselves as they level up, or (if they make the change to a completely free Warforged, trying to escape their purpose) let them roll for improvements randomly or at that point take on another established class.

>>49204935
heretical scum get off my board

>>49204935
Need a dispensa!

I enjoyed the prologue a lot more when I looked at it as if it were a Dark Heresy group, with a token edgelord, serious soldier man, and quiet girl doing very little.

The plot hooks that already exist

now with giant hyenas

>>49159854
Osprey books?
Low Tech for GURPS?
All the magic-related books for GURPS, since they cover shitload of stuff taken directly from African religions and magic practices?

And about the plot-hooks - it GREATLY depends on the region. Just to remind you, Africa is almost three times as big as Europe and comes with at least 15 very distinctive regions with different cultures, biomes and what not. Without specifying what part of Africa you want to use, it's like saying "I want to run game set in Earth, what plothooks to build from"

>>49159888
Gnolls?

>>49208349
I think you're retarded.

>>49208349
>dnd
>alignment thread

This is bait all right.

>>49208349

Only the GM's opinion on the subject matters, so shut up and deal with it.

>>49205060
I played through an entire campaign of FATAL.

>>49205083
Without any lube.

>>49205118
And didn't roll for anal circumference even ONCE during the game.

>>49204027
So is this the one from the new "intro packs"? I was wondering how they were gonna do these. This version of chandra is standard legal in the same way torch of defiance is right?

>>49204027
It's made specifically for turds/retards/idiots/noobs/new players.

>>49204179
SPECIFICALLY
AND ONLY
It's made to be bad.

Internet fast-matching

That is literally it

>>49202390
>What qualities does it have that makes it so attractive?
It's a video game.

>>49202390
It's free to start, was well-advertised and made by a company that has a massive fanbase already, unlike physical games can be played without having to find other people to talk to, isn't terrible, and probably most importantly it jumped into the market when it was one of the only examples of its time.

Also this: >>49202408