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My players are tired of D&D's bestiary.
What are some good alternatives?
or at least good references.
I need different monsters.
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>>49051415
>go to SMT wiki
>reskin dnd monsters as SMT monsters
>????
>Profit
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>>49051415
There's quite a fucking huge amount of monsters in that manual. Are you just throwing humanoids at them?
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How the hell do you get through the entire bestiary? There's like 500 monsters or something.
Just switch them up a bit. But them in weird environments, or add class levels.
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Thalassocracy Fantasia 2016-08-29 03:02:24 Post No.49050508
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CONGRATULATIONS!
Your humble party gains a ship-of-the-line, free of charge, no catches. Unfortunately, it also comes with no advice.
What do they do with it?
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Is the ship where they are right now or does is it in the nearest port?
Because there isn't an ocean, sea or even a large lake for a very significant distance.
So they'd probably turn it into a gimmicky inn and get some side income from it.
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>>49050508
>Nearest body of water is a stinky lizardfolk-infested marsh
Sure. We'll just broadside the lizardfolk village. Sounds like a fun time.
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>>49050508
Crash it into the castle within the hour.
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Hello, straight to the point; does anyone know of a (free) site like roll20.net for playing table-top games online with random ppl?
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Roll20?
I'm almost certain it's mostly free, and if you're looking for random people to play with, there's a gamefinder thread.
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>>49049853
There's a program called maptool.
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I'm just gonna roll
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Hey /tg/, need some help. I'm looking for a system. A friend of mine wants to run what he calls "The Viking Campaign", and we need a system to work with. Something low-magic, more of a focus on martial combat and roleplaying. A D20 system would be good, since that's the type we're most familiar with.
If you guys have any ideas let me know.
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GURPS
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>>49049706
I don't know if I should trust you or not anon.
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You could probably get away with just using 5e. Low level, and restrict what classes can be picked.
You might want to take a look at Riddle of Steel if you want really want to focus on the martial combat business more though.
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>Elves mature at roughly the same rate as humans, though they are not usually considered past adolescence until they reach 110 years of age.
WTF. So an Elvish mother could have a child every two years for a couple of hundred years?
What's to stop massive Elvish dynasties from forming?
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No one wants to raise children that remain children for 110 years.
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Elves have a lot in common with pandas
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>>49049530
>girlmarks on that grill
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I hope you take good care of your horses, /tg/.
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>>49049388
No horses in my current game.
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Only when I marry one!
>tfw DM made me marry one
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I'm known as the horse slayer though. Whenever people mention what that sounds like I kill more horses.
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What's your opinion of this game?
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I played while it was still under FFG, and I enjoy the newest rule update.
Unfortunately it had a terrible kickstarter during the brief Battlefront Miniatures partnership, and pissed off a lot of backers.
I've been digging the new North African front units, especially the Neue Deutsches Afrikakorps and the Luftwaffe
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Never heard of it but the lore makes it sound super interesting
What is the game like?
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>>49049228
Got burned by FFG being utterly shitty with the Dust Warfare expansion rules.
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Races for Conan Barbarians 2016-08-29 00:53:03 Post No.49048399
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Races for Conan Barbarians
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I'm looking for an interesting take on a Conan-style barbarian in a classic fantasy setting.
What's an interesting way to present a barbarian? I know that people tend to create barbarians as orcs, humans, and dwarves, but what's another race that you think would make for a good barbarian?
Anything outside of the barbarian's race would also be cool to discuss, but I'd like to have something fundamental like race decided early on before I start fleshing out this character.
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>>49048399
Pick what races you want and run with them. Usually in Sword & Sorcery games non-humans are incredibly hostile. Rather than going with standard fantasy races, why not go with stuff like beastmen.
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>>49048399
Except that's not Conan, that's Al Capone.
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Cimmerian
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Welcome to the Accidental Magical Girl thread!
Various worlds and multiverses have become connected together via the mysterious Overcity, a sprawling landscape inhabited by monsters and magical beings. Girls and boys endowed with their new supernatural powers can work together solving conflicts that arise!
>This is NOT a greentext adventure style CYOA with one GM and thread posting to dictate the adventure, but rather a hub thread for multiple storycrafters to use.
A majority of activity (including campaigns) instead happens in the Rizon IRC and the Discord, which is open for newbies to join.
Characters can be rolled with the CYOA's purple PDF, the Supplementary Combat System can be used for campaigns and PNP, or AMGC's blue pdf which contains its own rules for PNP campaigns alongside the rolls.
Post builds, roleplay, write stuff.
1.51 CHANGELOG (Important if you intend to update a character that was created with the CYOA writing prompt in mind): http://pastebin.com/ub28mT8t
CYOA Stuff:
Writefag Archive: http://pastebin.com/rSvTGQzP
Magical Girl Images (updated 02/26/16): https://mega.nz/#F!xINWxCqY!HsVA2LnU9RDMMmZieoqv9w
AMGC Character Archive:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_ugcJa0fs2KkZ-oXy7kexzqAySUzsbUJ42GydS_kV_w/
Add your character here!
RPNP Stuff:
IRC Linkboard:
https://titanpad.com/RWlqAHmERq
Spec Trees (spells for all 19 normal Specializations, updated often):
https://titanpad.com/FUjuIO6cfH
IRC on Rizon:
OOC Chat: #MGCYOA
In Character RP Pub: #TheWand&Circlet
IC Campaigns: #MGChronicle or #MGPnP
IC Shenanigans: #Overcity
IC Cafe: #MGCafe
https://www.rizon.net/chat
The Discord Server for Roleplaying and Campaigns:
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Early 2015 Old Thread OP Text: http://pastebin.com/usMM2EC7
Previous Thread:
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The CYOA's Patron Module, which determines just who bestows your character's magical abilities. But be wary, for not all of these patrons are after your best interests...
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This PDF is for AMGC 1.131, used for PnP in the IRC.
>Features 10 additional powers and 20 extra perks, as well as combat actions, point buy, and more.
>Character generator for AMGC, made by Doxy using RandomGen by Orteil.
Just one click and your mahou will be finished!
http://orteil.dashnet.org/randomgen/?gen=xvJyAbps
>Add-Ons to AMGC Core including the Corruption, Fusion, and Puchuu docs, now in one semi-convenient spot!
http://pastebin.com/ZvxkyAbH
>Character sharing thing made by emperor_
http://mgcyoa.azurewebsites.net/
Magic overhaul by Drakon in progress. Teaser located here: http://pastebin.com/jCStZAqq
>Torque's Google Docs Character Sheet
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11e88asWSMIIxB-iX7c5QX1j6pRcXWXAg0DTrLuOGVWo
>Mirrors: http://pastebin.com/ArCvYAPt
>Changelog: http://pastebin.com/3rwLq8TT
>Previous Versions: http://pastebin.com/FJwNH5Fz
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Introducing the MGCYOA Supplementary Combat System!
The SCS was made as an add-on to the CYOA to cover the combat side of roleplaying. It allows players to easily take characters made in the CYOA v1.5 and use them in Quests and long-running campaigns alike.
This PDF covers the basics of magical girls and sets the groundwork for future updates (which will include Patrons, DMGs, and Monster Girls).
>Addons to the SCS, currently only the Order & Chaos / Friend & Foe expansion:
http://pastebin.com/X0Ngy7zY
>Mirrors: http://pastebin.com/cTL5Ptpa
>Changelog: http://pastebin.com/LFmGNMBq
>Previous Versions: http://pastebin.com/cbcBUc03
So im playing Pathfinder and my party ran into some sick people strapped to a scarecrow post. We know what ghoul disease is.
The chaotic good ranger in my party kills it even though my lawful neutral cleric says we should just bring them back to town and have them cured
What am i supposed to do? This is murder to my PC, how am I supposed to RP this without completely turning against my party for this clear murder.
It's a disease that can be cured, and yet they just dont care.
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Refuse to heal them when after the next fight that drops them low in health. Then club their face in as they're dying.
Remember to finish off with "Psh, nothing personal kid."
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>>49048084
Honestly i figured ill refuse to heal them next time they need it, but I feel like it would cause friction out of the game.
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>>49048039
>take diseased to town
>get them cured
>before they got cured the disease spread
>dozens of new cases a day
>town's only cleric high enough level to cure disease can't keep up
>is used to repeatedly cure mayor/sheriff/self/etc
>sick peasants mad that higher ups horde all the healing
>class war starts
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>Cowboys
>Ninjas
>Pirates
What do you prefer in your games if you had to pick one?
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Cowboys and pirates both imply guns, and I prefer to not use guns in my games. Thus Ninjas win the day.
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>>49047912Aliencowboys.
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They all come in so many different flavors. Any rugged individualist might as well be in the cowboy mold. Any subculture that swears loyalty to a lord and supports him with sneaky stuff in the middle of the night is in the ninja mold. Every reasonable setting with commerce has pirates. There's no way you don't already have all of these elements, if you squint a bit and really look at your setting.
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> Character gets knocked out during fight
> Spend an hour unable to do anything, have to watch the game with no ability to impact or influence it
> Feel like it was a giant waste of time now
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>>49047897
Hope you learned your lesson: don't get knocked out.
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>>49047897
This is why I avoid Vampire larps.
>Friend invites me to a Masquerade game. Claims there will be plenty of cute goth girls there.
>I crack out my black three piece suit.
>The game turns out to be a total sausage fest.
>The head storyteller has the new players all start off staked.
>We grab a table in back and play cards.
>The storytellers never come . After a few hours we all leave.
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At least you didn't get mind controlled and actively make the situation worse against your will.
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Come join. Differentiate between religious and non religious bonuses.
>Name
>Start
>Religion
>Color
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>>49047754
preliminarily put me in
>Oslo
>Vikings
>Red
>N. Pagan
may change once the players come.
did you see my change in start rules?
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>>49047815
I did not. Sorry.
I'll also wait to see where we need people. I'm hoping to play Pagans or Jews.
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>>49047848
if you do norse ill switch. in the qst thread check it out...
i though it would be nice to start everyone outside their cities and that way everyone starts equal in terms of asset bonus
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Most Versatile Historical Setting for Mysticism? 2016-08-28 23:44:18 Post No.49047360
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Most Versatile Historical Setting for Mysticism?
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Hey, I want to do a low-fantasy historical campaign that draws off of themes in epic poetry. I'm mainly looking for a setting in history where most or all of these magical tropes are present in some form so I can make it all make sense.
I'm looking for these specifically
Thaumaturgy (could be construed as any socially acceptable mainstream religion i guess)
Goetia (Anything resembling that culture's depiction of demons or lesser spirits or what have you)
Psionics (is this even a thing?)
Necromancy (Voodoo........?)
Hermeticism (something like sympathy or control of the elements)
Alchemy
Astrology
Animism
What would you suggest? Thanks for the help.
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The Near East, anywhere between 300 BC and 400 AD.
Central Asia, in the age of Scythians
India, at any time really
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>>49047360
Mesoamerica. Honestly OP, you could really enter this place and see the magic in the society. I can dump some reference materal
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GMing for newe players 2016-08-28 23:28:31 Post No.49047132
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Here's my situation, /tg/.
>have been playing tabletop RPGs since my grandfather ran OD&D for me when I was 7 (I'm 29 now)
>have DMed a few campaigns, mostly D&D 5e and OSR
>still like D&D, but kind of burnt out on running D&D and systems derived from it right now
>want to run a game for some fellow grad students in my department who have never played a tabletop RPG before
>don't really want a universal system, as much as I like GURPS
>am fine with any genre, though (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, what else you got?)
>doesn't have to be rules-light, but I would rather it not be super heavy
What systems can you recommend? Just trying to spark my imagination here and maybe find something that gets me excited about creating a campaign for and GMing it.
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>>49047132
I'd say Ryuutama, Apocalypse World or Meikyuu Kingdom, depending on the specifics of your group.
I've had good experiences with introductory games in all three of these systems.
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Mutants and Masterminds is pretty simple mechanically (requires imagination for the most part) but can be overwhelming the first time you create a character. I'd recommend it simply because Supes are fresh in a lot of peoples minds right now due to all the movies.
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>>49047199
I know the first two. What's Meikyuu Kingdom.
>>49047202
That's an option. I do loves me some superheroes. And I got two of my probable players hooked on The Flash recently.