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stop playing against computers
the strong ones are too strong, the weak ones are just retarded and will play perfectly for a few moves and then just randomly make a mistake

get comfortable with opening principles and practice some basic tactics and you should see a marked improvement in no time

at it's core chess is still a game of attacking and capturing material
kids understand this intuitively and that's why they can play so well so soon, they love nothing more than making threats and munching up pawns and pieces

like anything you have to master the basics before you start layering strategy and more advanced concepts

>>46169085
i was just like you for awhile, then it just kinda clicked with me. I'm not great, but I'm around the 1300 ELO range.
I can give you some pointers if you want, Chess is always easier to learn if you have someone helping person to person

I'd like to think I'm decent at Chess but I'm probably not.

My mind is just too weak to be able to predict people's moves in advance. I've read good players can think several moves ahead. What does that mean anyway? That they calculate for almost every move the other person will make for up to, say, 7 turns? If so I'm too stupid for that.

Depends on the system.

>>46168566
Pick a system and say why, then.

And don't follow up coy with "Magic: the Gathering" and "buy".

>>46168548

Points buy. Whoever does rolls is the spawn of satan. I've seen people have literal breakdowns trying to build characters with the equivalent of 8 PB in Pathfinder

>>46168228
Should be. You twist the sword again, just to make sure, before prodding the damn spider with your toe. Despite the grievous sword-inflicted wounds, the arrows sticking out from the monster's ruined eyes, and even the odd crossbow bolt feathering its abdomen, the giant cave spider is /still/ twitching, fitfully trying to regenerate.

... jeez. Void corruption's a hell of a drug.

The long-haired Mini-Nep- the yin to Neptune's yang, you suppose- lands a moment later and copies you step-by-step, stabbing the spider with her own gunblade before prodding it with her foot. Apparently, that's the straw that breaks the camel's back; the monster gives a truly horrible death rattle before giving up the ghost, stiffening legs curling in toward its stomach. "Is... is this normal?" Mini-Nep asks, looking considerably grossed out. "I mean, do these kinds of monsters always come out in caves?"

"Only Oneechan's caves!" Mojang replies, giving her a reassuring(?) smile. "But don't worry, we'll be just fine if we stay on our guard!"

"Exactly! And besides-" Neptune pauses to take a long draft from your flask of booze, slaking her (your) dwarven body's never-ending thirst. Under any other circumstances, you'd be distinctly worried to see a goddess hitting the bottle so hard, but right now, you're just green-eyed jealous. "- that's our token boss battle for this visit. We won't see another one until after we leave the cavern. I guarantee it!"

... Mojang averts her eyes. You quickly pull the silk webs back up over Neptune's shoulder, before giving up and just hurling more stray webs onto her body. The moment you get up there, you're shoving her dumb ass into a set of good armor, and that's that.

"Don't worry, don't worry! I'm sure a whole bunch of mysterious light beams'll cover up any wardrobe malfunctions, so-"

That is NOT reassuring, goddammit!

(Cont.)

>>46168250
Before too long- and before you lose any more sanity- Mojang and Neptune continue mining out the rest of the Seganium, while you and Mini-Nep patrol from the air. You /need/ that damn ore out as soon as possible, which is- in turn- because you want your body back as fast as possible.

You frown thoughtfully, trying to spot any movement among the underground trees and colorful mosses. Other than the rapidly-disappearing spider corpse (which is weird, in and of itself), there's literally nothing else around. Since it /seems/ safe, you could spend some time poking around; there's that breach to the next level, for one thing. For another, there's the matter of your missing party member.

Come to think of it, you were honestly surprised that Doomgirl wasn't the cause of all those explosions earlier; you didn't spot her in the fortress's upper levels, and you sure as hell don't see her down /here/. Not yet, at least. If Therapist wasn't all but unusable, you could just ping for Doomgirl's location. As it is, you've got too much weird static-y interference going on, probably due to this whole body-switching thing and because your abilities weren't meant to be used from the /outside/ of your body.

(Cont.)

>>46168273
On the other OTHER hand, she's a big girl, and she's more than capable of taking care of herself, despite her rampant insanity. Maybe you ought to pay more attention to your /other/ surrogate little sister, Mini-Nep- or just, y'know, postpone all this idle chitchat until /after/ you get your own body back.

[ ] [START PACKING SEGANIUM] Seriously, you and Mini-Nep aren't doing anything right now; since Mojang has limited inventory space and Neptune doesn't know how to access yours, you might as well get a move on. (TIMESKIP)
[ ] [INSPECT THE SPIDER'S BODY] for clues before it disappears completely. Maybe there's something in there that can give you clues about how to prevent this whole void corruption thing from seeping into your caverns.
[ ] [INSPECT THE CAVERNS] Take a closer look at your surroundings. Might as well see what the breach down to the second cavern level looks like, or try and find that bird-man fluttering around your fort. Also, Doomgirl's been missing for a while, huh?
[ ] [CHAT UP YOUR ALLIES] Might as well keep an eye on Neptune's progress, and see if Mojang or Mini-Nep have any thoughts about whatever it is that's going on.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>46168112
40k
/thread

>>46168126
40k's government is brutal and cruel out of necessity. It's literally a setting where humanity is beset on all sides by enemies that want us extinct or worse and an unforgiving, iron-fisted totalitarian government is basically the only thing keeping the Imperium from imploding.

>>46168112
Over The Edge.

>>46167945
I like the look of Samson.

>>46167945
Neat

Glad to see you're up and running.

>>46167682
Hell, I haven't played D&D since... wait, when did Pathfinder come out?

>It's not fun
>fun
>it's not an completely subjective emotion

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>>46167682

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Again, here are all the sets of Cryptoliths.

>>46166729

currently resizing them all

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Resized them to be mostly uniform. Now to play with them.

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>>46165582

The party is a group of average teenage summer camp counselors.
An ax murderer is on the loose.

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I've always wanted to run a Hitchhikers game for a few sessions. The old radio series/tv series, not the film. Doesn't require a lot of prep for it either, just a basic outline etc and a good ability to think on the fly.

Closest I got was playing with a master GM who is part of my RPG community. He's an old guy but he ran Paranoia perfectly, it felt very BBC Sci-Fi.

>>46165129
The cities are all inside giant spheres rolling forever.

>>46165129
>Water is somewhat transparent black

All rain is acid rain. That ruins the water and the land. Which, in turns, make the "who can kill more peasants" tournament (fertility festival? ) more frequent.

So basically, you make a roll and have to beat a 'Weight Difference' check.

Which makes no sense to me because if you have 2 targets each 300lbs, it should be harder to grapple the one who is 10% bodyfat than the one who is 50% bodyfat, more muscle more force. A stronger target could buck you off or pull you off more effectively.

Passing an intimidation check doubles the weight difference you roll against, fair enough. Someone who feels defeated and overwhelmed wouldn't be able to struggle as hard since they would lack confidence.

The "weight difference" you roll against refers to Overbearing, which doesn't even allow the maneuver to happen unless the top target weighs more than the bottom target.

This effectively means that a 200 pound man cannot rape a 200 pound woman in FATAL, she has to be 199 or below.


Aside from the difference-doubling from intimidation, there's penalties for either party wearing clothing... and that's it. Nothing for strength, perception, agility...

>>46164372
>having high expectations
>of any kind
>for FATAL
How could you possibly go so far wrong?

>>46164372
>If it were actually a core element it would actually have some decent rules.

Counterargument: NONE of the rules in FATAL are decent or even approaching "usable," so what is and isn't the core focus has to be taken relatively.

And relatively, the rape rules are the core focus, in that their rules function at all, handily dominate other sub-systems like combat.

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Alright Major, we know how you work.

Everything you need is on your desk. I'll let you debate with... yourself, like you usually do.

[He then exits your office, leaving you with your paperwork.]

[spoilers]This is a thread to debate strategy, funding allocation and ideas relating to NBS.[/spoilers]

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[Unit Status Report]

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[District Status Report]

Have everybody make 3-4 characters, and then as they get killed, new survivors show up.

Firstly, glad to see another fan. I love Day of the Triffids, and Wyndham's work altogether.

I would just orchestrate some close encounters with Triffids scripted for them to barely succeed, maybe even with an injury of some kind.

It'll help set the mood of the triffid creatures.

Also, I wouldn't base too much of the story on protecting the blind survivors, like the book. Perhaps include that as a mission for a while, but diversify

Perhaps diversify with your triffids, make differant breeds so the party has to think about what they are facing instead of the same plant again and again.

>Player
>System Preferred
FFGs 40k RPGs with preference to Black Crusade
>Times Available
UTC+2 on Sundays (can also do weekdays)
>Method of Play (Skype, IRC, roll20, etc)
Mainly voice
>Contact Info
Eeply to me here and we can talk from there.
>Additional Notes
Very experienced with the 40k systems (especially BC). Preference for heavy RPing games.

>GM
>AD&D
>Friday+Sunday evening
>Roll20+Skype
>Fuck ya'll
>I've already got a group.

>First time GM
>Dark Heresy
>Mon, Tue, Sun
>UTC+01:00, from NL
>Skype, Rolld20
>reply and see what we can figure out
>Would love to try my hand at GMing Dark Heresy.

>>46163681
Stuff that might be worth looking at:
Streamlined simple retroclones, like LotFP
Barbarians of Lemuria
Torchbearer
Also b/x and becmi DnD are actually pretty simple, it's oDnD and AD&D (particularly 2nd ed) that have the clunky stuff.

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>>46163793
>Torchbearer

I've actually been looking through Torchbearer. It's one half stuff I love (light mechanics, focus on survival/the grind and inventory management) and things that are a hard sell to me personally (highly formalized conflict resolution, the Winter Phase, any other of Burning Wheel's more esoteric rules and design choices)

>>46163681
Ask OSR general, this is pretty much all they talk about >>46138411

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>>46162794
I think I found it

https://warosu.org/tg/thread/40279129

>posting zombies to attract more zombies

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>>46163018
This is sick. Is this from the guy that does Screw-on head?

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>>46163073