What's an ideal system for running a space campaign? preferably space opera.
Already know about Traveller and Stars without Number, but wanted to see what all options were available to me.
Also if I was to run Traveller, what edition/version should I use?
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>Also if I was to run Traveller, what edition/version should I use?
Mongoose, although skills are retarded and Education is broken.
The most important thing when picking a game system is picking one that fits what your players want. Are they tacticool /k/ommandos who want big lists of guns with minute differences and infinite customization rules, or do they want "a sword and a big pistol"? Do they just want a talkie where 90% of the game is socialization and the other 10% is one-hit-one-kill assassination attempts?
Do they want to have to worry about having the cash to buy enough space fuel for their spaceship, or do they just want to have space travel as a way to go from biome to biome?
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Traveller is really a terrible system, even the Mongoose edition. It uses the same garbage "stat score and stat bonus" pairing that is unnecessary, it uses stat + skill in a 2d6 system which games like Apocalypse World and Dungeon World have already basically proven as the wrong way to do things, the chargen is confusing and you don't get any traits / feats to optimize your character, the combat system is complex as fuck, as well as the range system (Near, Distant, Very Far, etc. type shit for ranges, a bunch of meaningless adjectives that is even more complicated than range increments or a range table would be), the skill system is kinda shitty and overall there are just much better systems out there. Also rolling for stats, which is pretty much objectively bad and is only used in games like D&D (which still use shit like Alignment so that should say something about how good they are).
Overall, I would say you are better off with GURPS Lite or FATE for your spacefaring campaign, OP.
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Star Wars EotE. Not even kidding. I love those gimmick dice
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Tell us about the time when, in an adventure, you (or someone else) was doing something critically important that required a roll, and it came up a natural 1.
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Trying to break into a fortress stealthily by melting through the bars of a window.
Nat 1, so stealth was abandoned and they proceeded to just try and murder their way through the fortress.
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In a desperate, dire situation and my wizard is one of the last people left conscious. We had been blessed by a God with an investment in the current conflict, and I had a staff that was connected to that God, so I decided to pull some bullshit and try to beseech the God for help. I came up with a fancy speech to see if it would be enough to sway the DM but he just told me to roll, and I got a one.
He tells me the staff shatters in my hand.
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In a hostage situation my character had a bow drawn on the attacker who was holding the shopkeeper's daughter hostage. I rolled an attack roll, and got a 1. The second roll to hit the shopkeeper's daughter succeeded and I ended up killer her instantly.
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Warhammer 40K: Ork Variations? 2016-05-15 18:20:41 Post No.47268408
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In Warhammer 40K all Orkz are the same. That is because, if one is to quote the Orkz: "Orkz es best!"
But I do enjoy to think that it would be a whole lot more interesting if the various Klanz would have different looks to their gubbins.
Bad Moons: Still the chubby dudes. Still the biggest an' longest teef. Usually long and outward-facing ears to catch all the noise going on. They'd look like overgrown and Ork-y Gretchins.
Death Skulls: Obviously horrendously skull-faced. No lips at all, just teef bared. Spinal cord and ribs are usually shown throughout the tightly woven skin and muscle. Dead eyes.
Snakebites: Largest snouts to make them into great trackers, often used to track things without tech. Fungal growths and mucus dwell forth from their bodies far more than other Orkz. Forked tongues and jaws able to dislocate themselves to eat Grots in one foul swoop.
Evil Sunz: The 'Classic' Ork look. Flat head, short but extremely wide jaw, long upper jaw, often bared teef. Larger cranium allows for better knowledge of tactics and deft cunning.
Goffs: Biggest, baddest and scariest. Studded with dark fungal growths along their skin due to their hardness. Upward facing ears to know which 'unz will try to shiv you in the back so you can kromp 'em before they even try.
Blood Axes: The REALLY Classic Ork look. Squished, almost toad-like faces. Straight out of the 1st edition.
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Jobs a gud 'un OP!
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>Blood Axes: The REALLY Classic Ork look.
YOU GO ME LAD
ERE WE GO ME LAD
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I like this a lot, but feel like the Deathskull and Snakebite designs are a bit too off-base compared to the others. There's some appeal in Orks having a degree of uniformity beyond being big, green and toothy.
Also I refuse to accept that Ork skulls are not rectangular.
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Old school art thread 2016-05-15 17:10:39 Post No.47267458
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Post anything from this time period, whether if it's scifi or fantasy or anything inbetween
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Let's talk about dice, /tg/. What are good brands, what should you look out for. Thus far I've been using the somewhat better selection of Chessex dice, but some of their sides are uneven and the numbers are often a bit off.
If someone can recommend online shops etc for a yuroanon, particularly in Finland, I'm all ears.
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I'm going to go ahead and bump my thread now.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of dollars of Chessex dice because I always liked the way they worked. I wasn't until relatively recently that I heard complaints about their balance, but I wasn't too worried because I'm not gambling and being a bit off isn't a big deal, if I don't know what numbers they favor. I mean, if I need a huge sample size to detect the bias, who cares? Then I did a roll-test on one of my speckled d20s and the bias was so strong I had to revise my opinion. It's one thing to have a die that's off by a little bit; it's another to have it roll half as many 20s as it should. That's a real problem. And so, I feel like most of my dice collection has been invalidated. It sucks.
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I get mostly transparent dice because I am just too paranoid I end up getting dice like that. At least if you can see through them you can see the bubbles that cause this issue, so you know they're good without testing them.
Does /tg/ like:
5e Dungeons and Dragons?
Shadowrun?
Fantasy Flight's Star Wars RPG?
Pic related, my collection of rpg books and a few fantasy novels from a bookshelf thread on /lit/.
So far of my collection I've only played 5e and I really love it. I kind of stopped playing D&D when 4e came out but got really excited when 5e was released.
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No, those systems are too mainstream for tg. They only like anime and dark souls
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If you're asking what our favorite rpgs are then Unknown Armies is my favorite.
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Oh I didn't know.
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/tg/, I find myself at a quandary.
My Aunt has given me £100 to get my younger cousin into a hobby that will get him off the Xbox, and I was thinking of getting him into Warhammer, either through an Age of Sigmar starter set for a 40k one.
Which one is more fun/can be explained within a few days to a 14 year old console addict?
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Get him into a tabletop game that doesn't suck instead
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>>My Aunt has given me £100 to get my younger cousin into a hobby that will get him off the Xbox
Buy him some martial arts pajamas and sign him up for taekwondo classes.
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>>47266042
>forcing another generation into eternal debt and cursing everything GW does
Just get him a Munchkin set or something.
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Improved 40k, thoughts? 2016-05-15 13:23:07 Post No.47265430
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The emperor is actually the Empress, since it makes no sense to use the side of the species who can't think in anything but terms of fuck/kill if you can give the other side even better biological advantages.
Emp comes out of the unification of terra with a much stronger, more united army, thanks to diplomacy and better tactics. Mars is easily reigned in via the Emp superior body smacking the nerds out of their retarded machine love.
Great Crusade becomes the Great Galatic Unification, which goes swimmingly until Chaos, feeling incredibly threatened attacks ahead of time. That stalls out when Slashneesh is convinced into joining the Emp's side via the reasoning that it will grow much stronger then the other three under a happy, more decant Imperium, and the promise of the finished extinction of the Eldar.
The war with the Craftworld elder and Exodite Eldar is fast and brutal, the space fucks precognition and better tech inflicting massive causalities, but ultimately not enough to stop the Imperiums better leadership, numbers, and new and demonically improved female space marines.
The Dark Elder end up being a more long term project, as the Emp finishes up her webway project. In the end they're turned into pleasure toys to be handed out amongst the male cannon-fodder, so Slashneesh gets a constant stream of power and souls, keeping it, and the troops, happy. Plus it means mixed race babies, who will help mix the very useful eldar genes amongst humanity.
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The now powerful and much better led Imperuim can focus on dealing with Khrone, the Orks, and subjugating, NOT exterminating, any lesser aliens races frolicking about on humanities turf.
In the end, the big factions you'd be playing against on the tabletop, would be the awakening Necrons, would be much more dangerous with out the experienced Precogs like the Eldar to keep them in check, and humanities forces being much more intergated with the warp. Then the Ork's and Khorne, would end up sort of 'merging', Gork and Mork nomming the skull guy and taking over his domain, giving a major boost to the power of the Orks. Nurgle won't be much of a threat, improved living conditions for most of the Galaxy, plus his now dead waifu, keeping him locked up like the slobbering loser he is.
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Kill yourself. Yes it is a low quality bait thread that I should not answer, but I have not told anyone today to kill itself, so you gotta pay the bill.
P.D: grab a loaded shotgun, place the barrel on your mouth and press the trigger.
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Playing a level 1 Wizard for a 3.5 game. 18 intelligence.
What spells to choose? Need to pick 7 and prepare 3. I have access to the PHB and Spell Compendium.
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Depends on what do you want to be. A wacky magic freak, a soulless statblock, or something else?
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More importantly; do you want to be the bro-glue that holds the party together, or are you a fun-crushing minmaxer?
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No, I don't want to be the party buffer and handjob machine. I'm just looking to stay alive with 6 hit points. Having only three spell slots limits survivability at this time.
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I was thinking of two ideas. One, transmutation and conjuration, with the fluff of being a mad scientist. like "let me try this pell and this and this... now gaze upon my greatest creation! AHAHAHAHAHA
Two, enchanrment and illusion, being an all round skeevy female that's truly ugly but makes herself and others love her.
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>If demons exist, they'd probably use the internet
>They'd almost certainly go on 4chan
>They'd definitely be curious about what we say about them on /tg/
I'm calling you out.
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Why would they go to 4-chan? Most people on here would already be headed below anyway, if only for Sloth, Greed and Gluttony.
No, they'd go on Facebook. Much more universal reach. Maybe Tumblr and Reddit too.
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They are most common on the /x/ board anon.
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Are there any sources on how to make a good system? 2016-05-15 12:46:03 Post No.47265189
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Are there any sources on how to make a good system?
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Hello.
I was wondering if there were any sources that looked at game system and discussed them what made them good.
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>how to reinvent the bike
There are soooo much of systems, from simple d6 and mini six to GURPS and FATE to FATAL
apllying a few houserules to one of them should do the trick
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Good call; heavily base components of your game on functional systems or alter existing ones.
I was working on a system for a while (which started out quite math-y and computer-centric), then I grew enamored to the Fate system's dice distribution/skills/Aspects, preferring to modify the rules and append some extras.
Anyway, I do have this PDF.
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>>47265189
There probably are, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. Instead, get some advice.
>read as many different rulebooks as you can, and try to understand why they made the choices they did. Books which actually explain their design choices are a godsend here.
>read blogs by amateur game designers.
>Decide on what you want your system to do. 4th ed DnD was a brilliant system but only for a very specific type of game.
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TITAN "FUCKING" LEGION CREATON THREAD! 2016-05-15 11:43:35 Post No.47264787
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TITAN "FUCKING" LEGION CREATON THREAD!
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We will show all those fucking heretics and Xenos the might of the Emperors boot!
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>What is the Mainstay Engine of the Titan Legio? (1d100)
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Rolled 87 (1d100)
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Here's hoping big
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Warlord Pattern
YEA!!!
>First and Lead Engine of the Legio (1d100)
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Rolled 53 (1d100)
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Aw yeah
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What is he holding?
Is it a banshee's hair or something?
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Abbadon's topknot. He got krumped by a Grot.
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>>47264743
Clearly, that is a root for some plant he uprooted.
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>>47264743
He saw that this whole place is pretty dusty, so he got his best feather duster to clean up.
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Got a question /tg/.
I just moved to Turkey from Europe and I'm looking for a group to play board games with. Stuff like Castles of Mad King Ludwig, or Ticket to Ride. Not D&D.
How do you go about finding groups to play these with? In Europe I just searched on Google and found group sites then went along one day. But so far I've not been able to find anything online for groups in Turkey.
>don't speak any Turkish
>have no friends
>actually pretty socially adept for short/medium periods of time, but don't really form friendships
So how do you go about finding a games group /tg/?
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>I just moved to Turkey from Europe
why
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For a job
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Hey /tg/ I've been toying with a character idea in my head and I was wondering if you could help me develop it.
Basically I want to play as a prince that's done something wrong, forcing him not so much into exile but into some sort of voluntary adventure of penitence to redeem himself. I just can't figure out what sort of deed would warrant such action.
He would be stripped of all titles and the majority of his wealth but not be on entirely bad terms with his family (I guess he has a forgiving family). Upon completing his adventure he'd be welcomed back to take up his rightful place as one of the heirs to the throne. He would not be a wanted man, nor forced to leave his home, just suspended from princely duties and privileges.
Then comes the question of what sort of deed could redeem him. I guess the cliche of slaying a great beast could do the trick if it posed threat to the land, but I want to try to be original. Maybe something like uncovering and thwarting a nefarious plot could work. So long as he does a major service to the kingdom/world.
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Cowardice
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Everything you said reminds me of this.
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He literally rebelled against his father, causing a teeny weeny civil war. His motivations were purely self-centred but after he lost his father had mercy upon him. So he lost his titles and was banished, and now has to redeem himself and become a more responsible, well rounded man, a man worthy of the throne.