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Hey, I remember when you posted this last summer.

>>47441627
>playing tabletop games in the pool
That's actually a pretty neat idea. You'd probably need specialized equipment, though, considering most of the regular stuff is made out of paper or cardboard.

How would you go about it, /tg/?

It'd be a good way to play Forbidden Island.

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chapta colors?

chapta name?

>>47442036
Disciples of Perdition

>>47440580
Doom, gloom, and some booms.

After the battle of Fornost, likely not much. But I'd guess that even after that there were a fair number of unpleasant things hanging around.

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>>47440580

As >>47440726 says.

Standard Castle Darkbad stuff.

My main problem is how to exactly handle non-combat challenges.

I want to use a character sheet that will look as similar as possible to oWoD sheets for easier recognition. It will probably have a bunch of skills on it, like "Occult", "Investigate", "Academics", "Computers" and so on.

These are my ideas:

#1: Skills are ranked 0-3. When a player goes up against a static challenge ("I want to hack this computer"), the GM will set a fixed skill requirement. ("To hack this computer you need the skill Computers at 2 or higher"). No random element. If two players are competing ("Let's see who can hack the server the fastest"), the one with the higher skill wins.

#2: Skills are ranked 0-5, plus a system of merits that could grant them +0 to +2 sometimes. Each player has a deck of cards ranked 1 to 10. When a player goes up against a static challenge, he draws a card and adds it to his score in the relevant skill. For normal difficulty, he needs to score a 9. If two players are competing, they compare scores.

Obviously, method #1's advantage is that it's simpler, less fiddly, more direct. However it means that some player's point investments can feel hollow if he bought a skill to, say, 2, only to hear he needs a 3. It would be more difficult to balance all the challenges in a way that players don't feel cheated or constricted.

Method #2 introduces a random element which means that there are a lot more variables. On the other hand it requires more GM supervision and introduced the "let me try too" problem, where players just try doing something whenever they feel lucky. Player A with Computers 5 fails to hack the computer? player B, with Computers 1, steps in, says "let me try too", gets lucky, and hacks it.

So, in conclusion: what would you do, /tg/? What method do you prefer? And do you have any other advice or suggestions on how to handle an oWoD Mage: the Ascension LARP?

Hungarian larpfag, if you're out there we need you.

Shoulda have put "Warhammer 40k" or "That Guy" in the title.

>>47440163
Lots of models to paint. LOTS of models.

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In terms of actually gaming, I had a great time playing Guard. So many dice to roll.....

>>47440163
Just bouncing off your thread how the fuck do Guard work? I see that an infantry platoon is 2 squads and then a platoon command unit, but can squad A, and Squad B operate basically entirely separate from each other, no need to maintain distance etc.? I assume that the platoon system is so guard can get a shitload of infantry on the table without going over the CAD.

But I've also noticed you can add heavy weapon squads and special weapons squads, but if you killed one of those auxiliary squads for example does it count as first blood, or does the whole platoon need to be wiped out? and do these auxiliary squads also work as independent units that can run around and do their own things?

Also how does it work when you bring Chimeras into the mix? Should you get one for each squad and then have the platoon command slog it on foot or should you get a Chimera for them as well?

>Hi you guys, Im new to this board but can I get some advice about D&D 3.5
Play 5e instead. That's all the advice you'll ever need.

>>47440084
I'm not in charge, so I cant really do that

>>47440073
>Tiefling
>Rogue Wizard
The fuck are you doing? Try to buy off your LA and take the Unseen Seer PrC to recoup from that. If you can't do either of those, you're probably fucked.

Step 1; Find a group of players, talk to them, if you like them, join them and they'll help you with all that shit.

>>47439509
asking staff at a GW store is a good way to get into it, generally there are people there playing/paining that you can also ask

the GW staff do exist to pressure you into buying codexes and rule books and shit though, so just be mindful of that until you knwo that you want to commit to the game

>>47439509

There is no "new edition" Fantasy has been killed off, and then replaced with a shitty skirmish game with that overtly takes inspiration from 40k.

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WE

>>47439310
Neil Degrasse Tyson a Tim now.

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>>47439310
>no hat
it's shit

>>47439054
Depending on how hard you want to fuck them in the first place?

Read Redliners by David Drake.

Or have them discover that some native species or other is sapient, and then throw bureaucracy and aliens rights activists at them.

Or, you know, give people the information they need to make educated suggestions? Are they part of a corp? A government? How much infrastructure and population are they getting to start with? What's the tech level like?

>>47439054
I don't really have any concrete ideas but you might wanna look into ancient life on earth. there's shit that used to walk around on this planet that looks thoroughly alien

>>47439054
>Food supplies are lost to bad weather or eaten by local wildlife

Y'know, I was never a big X-Files fan, but one thing that always stuck with me was an Indian story from the Southwest about a crashed UFO, and how no animals would touch the alien corpse. Even years later, it didn't rot (I think) because no Earth decomposers would touch it.

More recently I saw/read something where an astronaut died on an alien world, and something big tried to eat the corpse, but then immediately got sick, vomited it back up, and died from being poisoned by Earthlife.

>>47438991
Fuckoff everyone dies even nob mtg players. In fact if you look at history more non mtg players have died than those who did play mtg.

>>47439103
How many died a virgin?

>>47439127
Not a single magic player I've ever known hasn't gotten laid at least once. Even the 400lb ones.

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>>47438439
I ran gurps 4e; Ghostbusters Tokyo
Shit was fun

>>47438439

I actually hadn't heard of this until now, but I totally want to run some kind of Ghostbusters themed game with now. With all the anti-hype around the shitty reboot, it feels like the perfect time for it. Make our own Ghostbusters 3 and shit.

Thanks.

>>47438439
It's surprisingly well thought-out for being a cash grab. The rules are dated, but some of the concepts are ahead of its time.

>>47438820
It's weird how people are getting so worked up over the reboot. If you don't like it, just don't pay to watch it, problem solved.

>>47437430
Ah, the classic "I want to run a mecha game" problem.

The number of games with both good Dogfighting and good Mecha combat rules are rather low unfortunately.

If it was just mechs I'd recommend D&D 4e but the heavy plane focus changes that.

>>47437838
I knew the 4e meme would show up eventually, but I didn't think it would be this fast.

Homeworld is too strict and too regimented, everyone has a specific place doing specific things within their specific castes and whatnot. I'm not saying that there's no stories to be told there but I would argue that the most interesting stories are those of people being broken out of that way of life. I would therefore argue that rogue gem factions make for much more stories.

As for gems fusing with humans, there's not actually anything to indicate that it's possible. Steven is the exception as he himself is half organic himself.

>>47437274
One significant area of exploration is dealing with non-human, non-Gem aliens. Homeworld must have some enemies out there to have so many soldier Gems and military weapons.

>>47441374
>Homeworld must have some enemies out there to have so many soldier Gems and military weapons.
We manage without any external enemies.

>>47436523
http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/laskaya-and-salisbury-middle-english-breton-lays-sir-launfal

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/sir-gawain-and-green-knight

https://archive.org/details/huondebordeauxch00gues

>>47436523
For all the shitty bastards in A Song of Ice and Fire, those books have one of the best paladin characters I've ever seen. Ser Barristan Selmy is an old man but still a skilled warrior, who just wants to do his duty in protecting the king, but instead he is doomed to suffering and exile. Even there, he has yet to sacrifice honor or justice.

>>47436523
While it's not about them predominantly, the Traitor Son series features Paladins and magic Knights.
The main cast also gets more noble as the series goes on and the main character develops into a muscle wizard

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>>47435948
2/2

is charisma important in this game or should I just pump whatever points I would put charisma in into body or quickness?

>Shadowrun : Hong Kong thread

Play Dragonfall instead. Hong Kong is honestly pretty shit compared to Dragonfall.