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>>46005658
>>Komnisare? Come on, i am like a quarter Westrom.

>>46005872
(By the way as a new GM you honestly want as little ambiguity in your quest name as possible to tell people whether they actually want to check what it is, because otherwise they're quite likely to just go 'eh I'll check on suptg if it actually survives'"

>>46005872
"But you got Westrom in you nonetheless. Westrom are not welcome here, Komnisare." the guard chose to stay silent as he led you to a small secluded room at the end of the hallway "Kemlin awaits, he ... he is not good man, I pray you are not a spy , Komnisare."

>[Say something in Tugvokzaian]
>We will see.
>I will be fine, me and him are best pals
>Didn't expect a high rank, i must be pretty important.
>I heard what he did to the Rosaluk doll... such a shame.
>[attack the guard]
>[say nothing]
>Write in

>>46005305
>smearing blood on the illustrations and sprinkling demons everywhere
I agree, and I see a lot of this as well (basically Dragon Age). When it comes to genre as a marketing tool, a product/world only needs to be aesthetically dark in order to be in the dark fantasy genre.

But if we are talking about genre as a more honest categorization, something can be either thematically or aesthetically dark to be in it, but preferably both. My dark fantasy goto is Berserk as it checks both those boxes. I'd also classify the Warhammer world and lore as dark fantasy, but more in a Boschian sense than like, an Edgar Allan Poe sense.

>>46005305
>What's the real definition of Dark Fantasy, /tg/?

"All the gods want to kill everything, except that sentinent tree which is probably somewhat on our side because it feasts on evil god's bodies."

>>46005305
>What's the real definition of Dark Fantasy, /tg/?
Supernatural beings hate humans and want to make their life miserable. Gods either don't exist or hate humans too because fuck them. Sprinkle sex, violence and pseudopoliticking over matters of honor and vanity to appear more mature.

Suddenly magic stops working. Fuck.

>>46004976
Most people can't do that in five days.
cut out the original requirement and its fine.
>The Orc tribes have united under a Tribune of the People and must fight to gain land for a proper empire.

>>46004976
Dwarves become evil and start killing everything.

Additionally if you have any cool ideas or suggestions it would be greatly appreciated

>>46004189
yea i was going for a sci-fi vibe

>>46004058
A really important thing is how do they become stranded on the planet? Do they take a life raft/escape pod down to it, or does their whole ship crash down on the surface.

If the whole ship crashes down then a lot of their tech will be seriously fucked, but small stuff would still work. They'd have a place to operate out of, but the ship itself will pose dangers as fuel and coolant leak all over the place making most the ship lethal via radiation or whatever.

If they come down in a life raft it may have some small supplies but it won't provide nearly as much utility as the ship, but it can be mobile and used for other functions and the characters will be in much better health if they landed via life raft rather than a fierce crash.

Is the planet inhabited? What do you want the end game to be?

I have only played 40krpgs so I can't tell you what system would work well, but the 40k setting would be fine for the scenario.

>>46004042
Professional army painter
Professional model maker
DM for-hire
Game designer
Redshirt
M:TG Judge
Hobby shop proprietor
Hobby shop employee

>>46004074

>DM for-hire

Surely no one pays for a DM? I mean, wtf?

>Professional army painter

Not sure if there would be enough comissions to live off that? I mean, surely its not that common to have your army painted for you?

>Professional model maker

Auto-cad drone working for GW, so basically the same kind of cubicle whore as now, or an actual sculptor working for some tiny sweatshop in Spain that sells three miniatures a month and die of starvation?

>Game designer

Not actually an impossible idea, but the market is saturated with competition and something as niche as rpg:s isn't exactly the golden goose of moneymaking, no?

>M:TG judge

Wat? No.

>Hobby shop proprietor

With the pace hobby shops are going out of business? Rather not.

>>46004142
>Surely no one pays for a DM? I mean, wtf?
There's probably a demand somewhere.

>I mean, surely it's not that common
Never underestimate human laziness and the power of disposable income.

>Auto-cad drone... actual sculptor
yes

>Not an... no?
Pretty much, just gotta be good.

>Wat? No.
It pays good money for relatively little cost, so I've heard. Excellent side job.

>Rather not.
Just gotta capitalize on the voids and niches left over, anon.

>>46003010
My thoughts will be witheld until November when I get the core book PDF and begin disemboweling it of the original rules so that houserules may be put in.
Until then I don't care.

>>46003135
If you're going to ignore the rules anyway, why not start now?

>>46003010
Well, instead of constantly bemoaning what's going on in the lives of whoever you've decided is the biggest Internet Boogeyman, you could get a fucking life.
Just a thought.

>>46002890
Hearthstone of course.

>>46002890
I ain't touching shit at a place called the bleeding taint, let's go down the street

>>46002890
Five punches, then salt and lemon.

Don't ask why.

>>46002874
Yes, and then the slave owning elven mistress calls the sweaty, calloused field hand in and...

>>46002874
Elves don't farm because they live in "harmony" with the land where as humans "exploit" it in most fantasy settings.

But you already knew that and just wanted an excuse to post shitty loli, didn't you?

>>46002667
Do an adventure where six old folks at a nursing home discover a macguffin and embark on a cross-country quest to recover it.

>>46002869
But what system? dungeon world? D&D gran gran edition?

>>46002667
Most systems can do it. Even Pathfinder and D&D have rules to represent elder people.
For example, in Pathfinder, just change the base characteristics the following way:
>At middle age, –1 to Str, Dex, and Con and +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.
>At old age, –2 to Str, Dex, and Con and +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.
>At venerable age, –3 to Str, Dex, and Con and +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.
Obviously, the problem with this is balance: spell casters will be A LOT more powerful than other classes, even more than usual, for obvious reasons. You could perfectly homerule it by generalizing the malus to EVERY characteristics, as elder people often tend to loose their cognitive capabilities. Then, playing elder people would simply mean playing character with very low base stats.
It would probably a bit boring without a DM to make it interesting narratively, though.

>>46002075
CONT

AD&D, Dungeon Master's Guide 1e:
>It is quite unreasonable to assume that as a character gains levels of ability in his or her class that a corresponding gain in actual ability to sustain physical damage takes place. It is preposterous to state such an assumption, for if we are to assume that a man is killed by a sword thrust which does 4 hit points of damage, we must similarly assume that a hero could, on the average, withstand five such thrusts before being slain! Why then the increase in hit points? Because these reflect both the actual physical ability of the character to withstand damage - as indicated by constitution bonuses- and a commensurate increase in such areas as skill in combat and similar life-or-death situations, the "sixth sense" which warns the individual of some otherwise unforeseen events, sheer luck, and the fantastic provisions of magical protections and/or divine protection. Therefore, constitution affects both actual ability to withstand physical punishment hit points (physique) and the immeasurable areas which involve the sixth sense and luck (fitness).

Hit point implementation, class/skill implementation, whatever differs from game to game but either way they're all games that are intended to be fun. Stop shitting them up with "BUT HOW DOES IT MAKE SENSE???"
Nobody cares.

Just awful OP.

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>>46002075
If it's not realistic.
If it doesn't make any sense.
If my "How does that even work?" throws me out if the game.

IT'S NOT FUN.

IT.
IS.
NOT.
FUN.

>>46000261

It is only sensible.

Just like it is only sensible for wizards and clerics to rule over everywhere in that same setting.

You could probably cook up some reasons for why Harpies wouldn't do it, if you didn't want them to.

>>46000261
How would they do the finger waggling involved?
Or pick up the books?

>>46000261

Reminds me of Poppy O' Possum.

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>>45999995
>I lied about the wheels

i wish i did, as a GM I've never come up with any good ones, and as a player our GM was so fucking vague and subjective about his riddles we never got them, and even when we did he would change the answer just so that he could be soooo clever and come up with a riddle we couldn't solve.

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>>45999995
>Dad Jokes

I actually ran a dungeon where there was a sphinx who asked them knock knock jokes. If they couldn't guess the punchline, the sphinx would eat them. They managed to guess their way through with some intelligence rolls as handicaps.

In another dungeon, there was a stone gate with a riddle on it.

>I stand in front of you.
>Your right is my left.
>Your left is my right.
>What am I?

A door/wall/gate. The gate opened when one of the players said, "You guys go and dick around with the side chambers, I'm staying here to figure out this fucking door."

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>>45999527
Dam redline was a great ova. Gonna go watch it again.

>>45999527
Depends on how easy it is to make these batteries. If it's super easy, then expect a tech boom. If not, expect crime rings popping up, like mafia groups and the like. If they do end up getting control on them, the setting may be run by gang families, buying all the land and having wars underground.

>>45999581
Stream it

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>>45999342

>>45999342
A friend is playing a warlock who sold his soul for the talent to play the guitar. The magic powers were just a bonus.

>>45999342
Literally doing it for fun. You are to evil powers as Orks are to fighting.

>>45999281
The warlock looks the best. New demon slave labor equals peoples freedom to study and learn and little law breaking due to OP guards and wizzard police

>Warlock
>Resources: 1
>Flying castle
???

>>45999281
Enchantress
Seduce King
King hires Cult Leader
Don't need to kill Lich, just turn him into harmless snake
Overwhelm everyone else with sheer numbers