GMs, have you ever pulled the plug on one of your campaigns mid-session? I'm not just talking about That Guy stories or "rocks fall, everybody dies" situations, have you ever had a moment where you realized that you or the players are dissatisfied enough with how the campaign is going that it caused you to make the call and say "fuck this, the campaign is over, we need to figure something else out"?
Pic sort of related
>>47237989
Nope, because I'm the best GM. I only GM quality. People pay me to play in my games because it's better than sex.
A friend was DMing Deathwatch when we realised that it was very much "Do mission, succeed, next mission." with very little difficulty, so we canned it.
I was a few years ago doing Star Wars d20, enjoying it but we had little combat. It was my first DMing so I stopped as I was enjoying the story but there wasn't much combat which worried me. Was I wrong to stop if there was more plot than playability? We all enjoyed it but I think the group were expecting more action.
>>47238490
In situations like that, combat it's relatively easy to insert to create action. Political assassinations, bounty hunters, shady business and crime lords all create tension for itchy trigger fingers.
Stat me, /tg/
>>47236906
Symbol of Justice: 10
Might: All
One: For All
Con: 1
Make a good Zada deck
>>47236663
protip: you can't
That one wolfir guy.
>>47236663
Question: if I have tokens, and use a spell that says "target nontoken creature" will it duplicate to each other creature?
I want to run a Pathfinder campaign with a sort of Arthurian setting. What are some good sourcebooks to consult? I've already seen Relics and Rituals: Excalibur. Are there any others? I cannot into geography, so anything that has a good map of Arthurian England would be helpful.
Hopeful bump.
>>47236422
GURPS has a good Arthurian sourcebook.
>>47236748
Link:
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/camelot/
Hello, /tg/
I am GMing my first GURPS campaign tomorrow. I've never played the system, and I know absolutely nothing about it other than it's "like" the original Fallout games.
I am currently acquiring the books.
I'd just like to ask you how character creation generally works, and how combat is run.... Is it percentile based or based on the D20 system, or D6's?
Picture unrelated.
Just stick to D&D. Its way better.
>>47236147
I'm tired of D&D.
>>47236080
What about actually opening the book?
>>47236147
>you just can't be serious
Hello, fellow fa/tg/uys, want to open some dead CCG sealed product?
I've decided to go all in on the WoW TCG and also begin playing Middle Earth CCG (a LOTR CCG from the 90s). Both games are solo playable. I like to have a solo game board game of some sort set up on my gaming table to play a few rounds throughout the day, or over the course of a few days. I'm a bit burned out on Mage Knight, so I'm hoping that these fill that role.
And most of my friends think that CCGs are a waste of money, and never want to play them with me. They might not be wrong!
The WoW TCG becomes solo playable via dungeon decks, and self-running raid decks that act as a 'house'. Not all WoW raid decks are self-running though. The older ones all required a dedicated DM who ran the dungeon and controlled all the enemies. At the end of it's life, the WoW TCG moved to all raid decks being self running. These are two of them. All dungeon decks are self-running.
To solo play, you build 2-3 decks of different classes & heroes and take on the encounter. So it's solo in the sense that you are ghosting a few other players. It doesn't take away from the game play experience IMO as it is a cooperative experience to begin with, and a player's hand is public knowledge to all at the table.
But let's start with Middle Earth CCG!
This is the set I am most excited to get up and running. Gameplay is deep and complex, and the artwork is great! It's all painted art, but before the LOTR movies, so the characters aren't based on the movie actors. A description of the game copied from BGG:
ICE's now-out-of-print CCG launched in 1995 (they lost their license to produce Middle-Earth products in 1999). Players take the role of the Istari, or Wizards - most familiarly Gandalf, Saruman, and Radagast, but also Pallando and Alatar - in the struggle against Sauron in Middle-Earth. Each player competes to bring the greatest strength to bear against the Shadow, including Factions such as the Riders of Rohan or the Great Eagles, allies like Gwaihir or Shadowfax, items such as the lost Palantiri, Glamdring, or Narsil, and the completion of various quests - from the relatively straightforward rescue of prisoners through the involved Reforging of the Sword that was Broken, restoration of the White Tree to Minas Tirith, or the quest of quests, the destruction of the One Ring.
The game also features a map that you have to move around on. Each region has different types of cards that are playable at them. I'll admit I don't fully understand the game yet and the rules are pretty daunting.
Also it's a bit difficult to find reasonably priced cards for this game! It doesn't look like a lot of it is around anymore.
So my DM has us create new spells every so often as we advance through the ranks of the local wizard college. My wizard is a conjurist and I've run out of ideas as to what a 2nd level spell of that school might consist of. Backstory of being a minter and banker. Help a guy out.
>>47235959
I'm going to guess this is some flavor of D&D you're talking about, but which one specifically?
It's Pathfinder, that's my fault.
>>47235959
I have the same problem. Homebrew setting Pyro-mage here, with the ability to summon, control, quench or cast fire.
Until then I only have 3 powers, and I can't think of more for my next lvl up :
>Flame control/Fireball/Firestream
>Flame Teleport (can teleport myself in a fire and come out unscathed, great to panic-dodge any incoming blow if I set anything on fire before)
>Summon a Fire Horse. It's a thrall, with no will of his own.
I'm partially immune/resistant to fire (lava kills me, but a bonfire/pyre/stake/fireplace is fine)
Do you have any creative ideas that I could suggest to my GM ?
Are there any good space opera systems besides Traveler?
>>47235498
It really seems like you get more replies with the HOW PROGRESSIVE comic than you do with this image.
Just something to think about for the next time you make this thread.
>>47235498
I was thinking of making this exact same thread earlier today. Bump for interest, Anon
>>47235498
Diaspora for slightly harder sci-fi than Traveller.
Orbitals for "You weren't properly shielded during your EVA. Roll to see if you now have leukemia" levels of hard sci-fi.
I could swear I saw a homebrew ruleset for a Transformers RPG on /tg/ yet no amount of archive trawling has yielded it. Do you guys know if it exists or if I'm just dreaming?
If I hallucinated it, what system would be good for doing some TF themed RPG?
There have been a couple. There was also a parody 24-hour RPG about robots that transformed into office furniture.
>>47235260
I've seen at least 4, but i can't find/link to them at work.
They seem fine though a bit cumbersome. Each system was custom. I don't think any existing mainstream scifi/fantasy system - like GURPS or D&D - can properly represent giant transforming robots with personalities and multiple vehicle modes, and narrative systems like FATE or AW are not crunchy enough to represent all the facets of TF robots.
>>47235260
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Transformers
Scroll down to "See Also"
>Chickens are descents of phoenixes
How does this affect your setting, /tg/?
evidently, phoenixes are pretty stupid
>>47234626
Chickens become a sign of nobility, and as such are only available to people of class. They also make great lifelong pets as they tend to rebirth themselves.
>>47234626
>descents
We invest more into the education of the kingdom's subjects.
/tg/!
You have just been commissioned to write that home brew you've been promising to yourself for the past 10 years.
Where would you begin in introducing your setting and make it stand out from all the other 3.5e home brews?
For one it doesn't use 3.5. Uses a homebrew classless dicepool BP system I have created. First made it generic and use it for all my homebrews under the name PiPs.
Second I could choose any of the following, I'll explain which one fa/tg/uys like the most:
>Blorg's Ultimate Survival Climax
>The Practitioner's Handbook
>Benjamin Moore's Field Guide to Primitives
>Beneath the Wall
>>47234520
Benjamin Moore's Field Guide to Primitives
sounds interesting.
>>47234444
I once wrote this advice in a world building thread. Make what you will of it.
>Most campaigns that I've read recently try so hard to avoid being like LotR, that they miss the point of fantasy all together. Do not be afraid to settle in what's familiar, and build upon what your players know.
Only you might know it /tg/ !
I read some times ago a little story about a wizard and a warrior , and warrior asked to the wizard how could he be happy without a family ( or some love stuff ) and the wizard said something about magic was it's own reward and that why he dedicated all his time to magic ... fast forward, the mage dies but the warrior lives on then decide to learn magic and he does , but when he then thinks about getting a family he realizes that he doesnt want it anymore cause he knows that a family will cut his time doing magic and so the wizard was right...
I'm searching for the original but can't seem to find it, and since I know that /tg/ is wise and stuff , well here I'am asking ...
4th page? really ? I didn't even have time to see it on the 1rst page !
bump
>>47234380
Yeah, I remember it. Good luck OP.
What chess set is this? Its basically a big one like a table with it on it that you can play with a friend with.
I uploaded a 10 images to imgur here, I think I found what it is but im hoping you guys could give me some insight on it.
http://imgur.com/a/xT59G
I think it might be this:
http://www.chesshouse.com/4in_Burnt_Pyrography_Chess_Pieces_p/js-0004.htm
>>47234343
That looks like it to me.
Can confirm. I've played with it against Karpov and Tal a few times.
>>47238994
How did they get the chess set inside the table? Or what kind of table, do you understand my question?
Stat me, /tg/
>>47233966
All that fucking gear an a nigglet with a knife could seriously injury him. Look at that fucking armor.
>>47233966
Eaten by a Sarlacc in Afghanistan/10
>>47233994
That's not really unique to that armor.
>Be dm
>at uni
>decide to host d&d at my place
>put out public bulletin for players to come
>spend entire day cleaning up house
>get stuff for refreshments: buy some chips and salsa, make bbq pork sliders, pick up some beers, coleslaw, etc.
>gamenight
>players show up, everyones getting set up
>gather round table, people got snacks, start introducing eachother, everythings goin good
>play for a bit, doin dungeon crawl, party encounters treasure room guarded by troll
>down the troll, start going thru treasure
>fighter finds a magic ring, puts it on, it gives a bonus to strength
>barbarian demands the ring, starts getting angry about it
>"dude im in character relax im not mad"
>fighter tells him no, barbarian attacks and crits the fighter, dropping him to -7
>infighting, "its what my character would do", more bitching at the table
>cleric steps in, goes to heal, barbarian rolls dice to attack
>guy playing fighter gets mad, cleric mad, barbarian is now shouting loudly at them both
>cleric picks up a pork slider and chucks it, nailing the barbarian square in the forehead, splattering it all over his face and clothes
>barbarian flips the table and gets into a fistfight
>fighter guy intervenes, while dude playing a bard and the chick playing a sorceress go to the living room and start playing ps4
>wind up shoving barbarian out of house, slamming door and calling the cops
>he runs off, players get their shit and then leave
>mfw sitting in torn up gaming room with food everywhere and ive got a bloody lip now
>get a text later saying "thanks for the game night when r we playing again?"
how do I tell them it's over, /tg/ ?
>>47233935
OP at usually I hear about off-play slipping into in-play but damn I never heard about in-play slipping to off-play. Next time make it a LARP :)
Jk now serious shit: D&D is a hobby and as a hobby, you need to have fun doing something you love, and those powergamers hotheads ruin it (with ruining your house). Tell the problematic dudes that they can try find somewhere else to play, because if they think its okay getting cops into your house and make your house look like a robbery, they should do this in their house and fuck off.
>>47233935
Hello Windows default kuala pic, old friend.
>>47233935
What the fuck.