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Let's talk goblins, /tg/. They're everyone's favorite adventurer fodder, right after basement rats. But what makes them tick?

They're greedy, but don't dig for gold like dwarves.
They're numerous, but don't breed like kobolds.
They're violent, but don't raise armies like orcs.
They're tinkerers, but don't invent like gnomes.

So what's their deal? What do they pride themselves on? How do they determine social status? How do they survive as, basically, the evil race equivalent of humans - jacks of all trade with no specific niche of their own?

Pic: the only setting that's unequivocally theirs.

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Would you let someone play a succubus pirate so that they can be a semen demon and a seaman demon simultaneously?

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We all know the story.
A Big Bad Evil Girl and a paladin trying to fuck the evil out of her.
It doesn't matter who she is - a bog-standard succubus, or some kind of exotic princess - the point is, the concept of pleasure torture and brainwashing isn't exactly new.

However, it does make you wonder.
If there are people who train their willpower to resist painful torture, surely, there are also people who train themselves to be resistant to pleasure, right?
People who derive a semblance of satisfaction solely from their job and are numb to ordinary worldly pleasures - usually those are people so obsessed with their work or art that they literally are unable to derive pleasure from sybaritic pleasures.

Ascetic monks who believe in minimalism and self-perfection, bards obsessed with their art to the point they only care about music or whatever they perform, curious wizards who have complete lack of interest if the task at hand doesn't include some sort of intellectual pursuit etc.

And we like these people, especially, when they are presented as good guys.
I mean, who doesn't love the good ol' Judge Dredd?

And yet, when the two of the different kinds of characters cross - a beautiful evil seductress and a frigid ascetic person - we often come up with a blank.
Maybe it's a succubus who hates her job and milks people as fast and as professional as humanly possible.
Maybe it's an evil princess who seduces people for fun and profit, except there is no fun in it, just profit.
The point is, it's their job, they work it 9-to-5, and they slave away at it without deriving any pleasure from it, despite the fact that their job is the posterboy for excess and debauchery.

What's the point of this post? I don't know myself.

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Starting up my first ever dnd (5thEd) campaign as DM, my only experience with dnd is ~10 sessions with some other friends half a year ago.
I am planning to just make this an "introductory" campaign, since all the people i am playing the game with are also first-timers, but at some point i want to continue on a grander campaign with the same players and characters. I was thinking something on a small scale for starters, like saving a village from a Ogre chieftain or something kinda "local"

I like to make cool settings, and started making a world map for the last campaign I played a part in, and it might be fun for the two groups to meet at some point.

In short: I am looking for a good (but short) story, preferably without that much closure, like an introduction to the TRULY GREAT adventures to come.

(Also, general DM tips, tricks and online resources greatly appreciated)

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What's the worst setting and why is it always steampunk? I can't think of steampunk being done well ever outside of maybe Arcanum.

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Why is there no GoT tabletop?
The license can't be more expensive than LotR and it has at least if not more fans worldwide.

Don't care so much about rules but minis would be great.

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Hey /tg/.
Is there much better of an adventure hook than a ladder leading to a sky island?
Also, do you guys love sky islands as much as I do? I have been using them for years, and I have yet to get tired of them like other environments.

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Reading the Dragonlance books again and want to run a campaign in the setting. I have ran 2nd edition campaigns for years, but all the PCs want 3.5. I have all the books and setting for each edition but I need to know which will capture that Dragonlance feel of true danger and struggle the best. Thoughts?

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This is how I faerie knight.

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The pod people have no way of knowing whether they've killed the last humans, or if there are still some out there, somewhere.

Will they look over their shoulders, wondering if any of the people they pass by on the street are faking being emotionless? Will they be suspicious of anyone who tries to create human-style art? Will they worry that throwing out all the junk of the humans who they replaced will leave them vulnerablet o secret humans? Will they have nightmares haunted by monsters with one face, making up for their inability to shapeshift through sheer malice?

Will they start to wonder, could the strange man who just showed up in town perhaps not be a pod person like he at first seems?

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>It's a cyberpunk settings
>Player wants to play as a schizophrenic HIV+ transsexual chinese-latino stim-addicted LA hooker with implanted mirrorshades and a bad attitude

Would you allow it?

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>TFW You're running a game in 2 days and you have no idea where you want to go with your story

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This might be better in /WIP/, but I wasn't sure, and I was kinda interested to see just these, but what are some models you guys have kitbashed or built from scratch?

Pic related, this is a (very shittily painted, I know, I was 15 and left it unfinished) Librarian I kitbashed from basically Tac and Assault marine parts. He's wielding a plasma pistol, and a stupidly OTT power sword with a hilt basically 3/4 the length of the blade

i've got another one somewhere where I rebuilt one of the old metal axe and plasma pistol librarians to have a bolt pistol and power sword (in the opposite hands to the other weapons)

So what have you guys done?

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What was the worst perception-related check you have ever failed?

Have you ever failed an incredibly easy perception check and gotten everyone massacred for it?

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Well /tg/, am I in for the best or worst £2 I've ever spent?