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The situation in my game escalated and now we have three petty kings vying for position as high king of a dark-age people. Thing is, I have not given much thought to how to portray these kings nor this conflict, not in any nuanced fashion anyhow.
Where do you draw inspiration from for your kings and their struggles?
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>>47036155
Play Crusader Kings 2 and take inspiration from your game.
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Sengoku Jidai.
Never before has there been a viler pit of serpents back-stabbing and kenivering for position.
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>>47036155
History mainly, and myths and legends.
Also do you have problems with only three petty kings bro? Make one than the players would like, a king than wants to improve the well being of the people for example, another than they can sympathize or at least understanding his motives, like a honorable traditionalist, and then one they can hate, a murderhobo with the rape-army.
What is the most blatantly fetishy thing ever to appear in an official sourcebook for a system that isn't FATAL?
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How about this wondrous creature?
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Both those things seem like they'd have a believable place in a setting. One as a inevitable conclusion for robot/cybernetic shit and the other as a fucking horror story
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oh, what's that? you've never seen the Horned Ones from Cthulhutech?
god Cthulhutech was a trainwreck of a game. trainwreck of a system, interesting setting premise destroyed by various things, and almost every adventure was a railroad.
in the 'debut' adventure of the Horned Ones, they literally sexually assault/rape you. if you're a woman, enjoy your horrific abortion! if you give birth to it you'll die.
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What do you like to see while exploring underwater?
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>>47035811
Water, sunken ships, treasure, sea life, the absence of giant monsters, and the surface.
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>while swimming in a flooded cavern the party comes across this sign
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>>47035811
Surface UFOs
HOW DO I PLAY A 5TH ED WARLOCK
HOW DO I ROLEPLAY?
i am FREAKING out
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>>47035705
NEED HELP THIS IS IN REAL TIME THEY'RE STARTING THEIR CHARACTERS NOW AND ORDERING PIZZA
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>>47035685
Behave like a shady, paranoid motherfucker
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>single-handedly saved the Imperium when no one else would
>refused the position of Ecclesiarch twice because he was not interested in power
>rebuilt Imperium on stronger foundations so that to this day there are no more large scale civil wars
>was never an asshole to his followers
>no immortality, no psyker power, no biological or technological argumentation, he was just an ordinary human like you or me
I submit to /tg/ that Sebastian Thor was a better person to be emperor than Big E ever was.
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>and yet his teachings are still massively misinterpreted and abused, allowing the clergy to abuse the system further and justify more atrocities
It doesn't matter how good he was, history still fucks him in the ass, as it's not written by people as good as him. Things would be no different.
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>>47034872
Sebastian Thor was only able to be as good as he was because of the Emperor and the principles he laid out himself for Thor to put his faith in.
Also, Thor never had to deal with a Horus Heresy waged by the entire Imperium at once and led by 19 mini-Emperors, each of which was equal only to another or to the Emperor. That kind of throws a major kink in the plan there.
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>>47034872
>Never built Humanity to its glory during the Dark Age of Technology.
>Never repeat the same feats again to build a galactic spanning empire
>Never fought a C'Tan and force it to subservience and imprisoned it into a planet
>Never laid the foundations of an Empire that lasts to this day through the men it has produced
>Never empower ordinary men and women into Saints to inspire them against the depredations from Xenos and Chaos
Acolyte, dost thou even lift?
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Your chapter discovers this bizarre plasma blaster, what do they do?
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>>47034255
let a scout use it
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>>47034255
Report OP to Ordo Chronos for a time loop.
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>>47034255
Is that plasma on your plasma so you can blow up when you blow up?
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>"PSSSHHH, fucking wood elves and all those woodland fucks. Think they're top shit of the woods, forests and jungles and all that. How'd it feel if their own medicine and dirty tricks and tactics used against 'em. Them wood elves ain't the only intelligent race who knows how to utilize camouflage, stealth archery, and concealment of body signatures. I'll show those knife eared tree-huggers."
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Kay.
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t. dumb human found with arrow up asshole
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WTF was this guy's problem?
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>>47033713
Autism
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>>47033736
Should have known
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He was an asshole, plain and simple.
He cared more about himself and his image than he did serving humanity or the Emperor.
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>You find an enchanted box topped by a finely wrought figurine
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Ok.
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>>47033579
You're going to need an actual premise and actual subject matter before you start a thread
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>>47033579
Cool. I bet I can sell it.
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How did your adventuring party meet /tg/? Did you use the classic tavern route, or some kind of clever twist of it? Or perhaps no in-game reason at all and assumed they were together already? I love hearing creative ways this is done.
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Since we fell to page 5, I'll post one of mine.
When I started my group in a tavern, there was an actual collective groan, but by the time the massive drunk brawl was finished and the 4 PC's were the only ones still standing when shit actually got real, they liked the start. This was probably on of my longest running campaigns because of people not dropping as well.
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>>47033207
Game started with all of them in the same town doing their own thing (one guy at the bar, one at the town hall posting an ad, on buying groceries, etc.)
The city was attacked by the BBEG and his army, with the High Paladin meeting him in combat with his Order.
The defenders fended off the BBEG, but the whole town got wrecked, and the player characters were all part of the rebuilding effort. Then they headed out as a scouting party.
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>>47033207
Each made their characters, and an animal they felt would best represent that character or would be that character's "spirit animal" to use a phrase that's been abused lately.
They each started in that animals natural environment and would meet in the 2nd session.They ended the game finding out they were actually those animals who had been corrupted/transformed, and this was then reversed when they beat the BBEG. The tiger immediately ate the ferret. It was hilarious.
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How do I encourage dialogue between characters?
My players are really good about being descriptive in combat, things like describing the swing of their weapon, or gathering energy for a spell, etc., as opposed to throwing spell names and attack modifiers at me. What they don't do is use any in-character dialogue and speech (with the exception of one player, who does a tremendous job, voice and accent included).
I know what the problem is, they don't feel engaged out of combat, but how do I fix this? They don't talk to each others' characters, they just talk everything out as players at a table do.
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>>47032777
Use NPCs.
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>>47032935
I do. They don't speak to them as characters though, they always discuss what's happening as the players, not the characters.
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>>47033046
Example? If they perform a conversation with an NPC in third person, I don't think it's so bad.
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Hey /tg/ bit in the dumps tonight, and I don't have a great outlook on the next few months. Can I get a story thread? Old or new I'll take it, looking to smile for a while.
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Capt Drake
Feel better anon
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>>47032529
I got about to the second post before I realized this was the dumbest shit ever.
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I want to run a game like Hotline Miami or Drive that I can run episodically, and I'm trying to come up with a suitable system. Feng Shui and NWod come to mind, and I don't want something as loose as Fiasco. Any suggestions /tg?
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For as many mooks that get mowed down by a single person, I recommend Exalted.
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>>47032298
3:16 Carnage Amongst The Stars
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It'd take some adaptation, but I could see Unknown Armies working, capturing the weird and eerie tone of those games/movies, alongside the extreme danger and violence.
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ITT: Characters from vidya/film/tv/comic/anime/etc who're good inspiration
Pic related could make a nice rogue
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JoJo is shit, but its fans are even worse.
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Could make a decent Paladin.
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First time on /tg/. Since I was a kid I always loved Rol games but the thing is that I never played one except the ones that I made by myself. I also loved playing Card Games (Magic, Yugioh, Pokemon) etc. When I keep growing my interest on board games in generals disappeared (I was still playing card games).
But recently I had this feel again and I ask my friends if they wanted to play a Rol board game or something like that. They said yes, the problem is that I don't know what I should buy, can you guys recommend me a board game or rol game that is kind of entry level for my friends? that is cheap but also pretty colorfull with art?
Also another question not related : there is a group here for Tabletop Simulator?
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It mostly depends on what you want to play, OP. And by "you" I mean everyone at the table.
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>>47032449
I dont know what they want to play, they just tell me yes.
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There's a board game general that has plenty of board game recommendations. I can personally recommend Settlers of Catan as an easy first step back into the world of board games, and you can also try easy pick-up games like Age of War or Love Letter, which are cheap and still a lot of fun.
If you're looking for a roleplaying game, the current go-to would probably be D&D 5e, and all you really need to do is pick up the starter set to start playing.
But, these are just casual suggestions, and you'll likely find a multitude of other suggestions here.