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Anyone know a link to a good site for these?

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Is there a system where the primary "level up" mechanic is getting new equipment and weapons? An example would be "level one" is a musket, "level two" is single shot rifle, "level three" is a semi auto rifle with 20 rounds. The progression is clear and losing that item takes away your "levels."

I really want to run a game without "classes" where you tell whose the "thief" by what they have. That guy has a lock picking kit, rope, and daggers. A person on the street would call him a thief or similar. Take away those items and give the same guy a warhorse, full plate, and a long sword? They would be called a knight.

I want a system where you are what you are based on what you have and "leveling" up is mostly just getting more familiar with your tools. New "class abilities" come from getting new items. That way anyone could theoretically do anything. Nothing is stopping the "knight" from honing his skills with a lock pic besides not having one.

Does such a system exist or am I going to have to come up with my own and hope for the best?

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So, my current group swapped to Shadowrun, since we've played before. The first time I played, I used a melee character which was so f***ing useless and boring (But I love being melee in any game). Right now I'm playing a ranged/skillboat character, but Shadowrun is just so tediously boring to me.

The setting is a poor man's Bladerunner
The character design is so limited and development is nonexistent. From what I've seen, you basically don't change at all from what you start with. Bigger guns, maybe.
You're pretty much forced to be an 'edgy cancerstick-smoking liberal DontefromDmCDevilMayCry mercenary', which I hate. I always play a morally upright character

I've played Mutants & Masterminds and Savage Worlds, hated both of them for the same reason.

DnD 3.5 was pretty good, 5th and 4th are just shit.

I guess particularly for Shadowrun vets, what do you guys like about it? How do you play your characters? I won't be leaving my group, but I don't want to hate every Saturday night we have.

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Post Classic Sci-fi Stories and/or Sci-fi Art

Robert Silverburg's *Why?* is a great short about man's need to explore.

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Are there any cool, fun single-player board/dice games?

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Boo.

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Hey, /tg/

One month ago, my wife's friend's boyfriend approached me asking if I'd ever had experience DM'ing before, and if so, would I like to run a session for he and his group who were tired of trading DM position week after week.
Being familiar with DM'ing and getting along with this particular person well, relative to my regular social habits, I decided to opt in.
I've been frequenting here more often to garner inspiration for my newfound groups campaign, popping on for two or three hours the upper of five times a week.
In all of my time getting distracted and not actually putting any work in, today has come, the day of the first session

And I literally haven't written a word.

We established that the first three of our seven to eight hours together are going to spent rolling characters. That leaves five hours of entirely unscripted play. I have no encounter tables, no loot tables, no NPC's, no quests, no objectives, nothing.
I have a printed out core rulebook and five character sheets.

As far as I see it, I have three options

> A) Spend the next five hours before the campaign putting together at least some semblance of a planned first session

> B) Wing it, go with the flow and try to ad-lib five hours of first level play

> C) Abandon ship, never contact them again, go into hiding, have wife tell her friend I'm hospitalized with lupus or some dumb shit like that.

I kind of fucked myself, and here I am even further fucking myself while I ask your advice.

tl;dr You're running a first session for a new group you've never met in five hours and you've prepared literally nothing. wat do?

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>when your entire party is composed of smart guys and social guys that can't fight their way out of a paper bag

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>Setting has a device that makes emotion potions, commonly used as war drugs due to monsters being made out of negative emotion that infect people with said emotion to cause a commotion.
>If you take to much your soul absorbs your body.
What can be some consequences for this? Other than death of course.

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Paladin appreciation thread

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Think of an army (in any wargaming system) you've played.

Got it? Good.

You're transported into a world by a an ancient entity where you must fight armies led by other people who were also dragged into the world. Your army is loyal to a fault and will never question your orders and decisions. How do you fair?

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Most of the time cultists are pictured as meatshields and speed bumps, but can they be used for anything else? Maybe they're good in a stew??

To satisfy my inner Alpha Legionaire, how do you think a single chaos cultist could infiltrate and corrupt a society that has never heard of the Imperium or Chaos?

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Yo /tg/, looking for a fun game you can play with just two people? Not sex.

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Are there any systems that are good for more Mundane Sci-Fi adventures? By which I mean that rather than focusing Interstellar Exploration or a William Gibson wet dream, it instead focuses on more mundane adventures. Something like more akin to Classic Science Fiction Anthologies, or works produced by Arthur C. Clarke and Asimov. Generally with a focus on critical thinking, problem solving, or investigation.

Bonus points if it's easy to get into with running One-Shots in mind.

Suggestions that make you a Cuntwaif:
-GURPS
-Powered by the Apocalypse/Dungeon World

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Character sheet thread: Fuck you, I'm not learning a new program again edition.

Here is my progress on my character sheet. I think it's coming along well.