The world, there exists one in all shapes and sizes, today as a new creator you will help me create one. You watch as Allfather forms a blue world before in the hamper of this solar system. Alright so now what should do to spice this place up?
Sun's?
>1 Sun
>2 Sun's
>3 Sun's
>4 No Sun
Moon's?
>1 Moon
>2 Moon's
>3 Moon's
>No Moon's
Land?
>Pangaea
>Islands
>Two Continent
>Three Continent
>>45943509
2 Suns
2 moons
One sun and a moon are almost always visible. The moons are incredibly close and take up much of the skyscape.
Three continents.
>>45944029
Why not.
>>45943509
can we have 3 continents surrounded by islands
>lurking /tg/ for over three years because I casually play MtG and some D&D
>decide that maybe I do finally want to get into Warhammer after reading a fair amount of lore and seeing all the Warhammer threads
>go to my FLGS to see what kind of Warhammer scene there is
>the owner tells me that they have groups who play Age of Sigmar and then he hesitates, glancing around, "some 40K"
>A small neckbeard manthing resembling a squat pops up out of fucking no where
>"40K? FOUR-TEE KAY? Don't listen to him. We play 30K here."
>he proceeds to launch into a full rant about 30K and pre-Heresy chapters and how it's a vastly superior game because of point scaling, blah blah blah
>literally rants for 10+ minutes
>asks me what Legion I want
>I tell him I don't really like Space Marines
>"OHO A MECHANICUM FAN"
>I don't even know what that is
>Can I play Orks
>he proceeds to rant about how Pre-Heresy Orks are so large they can crush a marine with their bare hand, single hand, no power klaw
>flies into another apoplectic fit
>ask the owner about Age of Sigmar
>he tells me it's cheap and that it's easier than ever to get into
>shows me the "beginner army" box for Skaven
>$320
Fuck this.
I TRIED.
I HONESTLY TRIED. I know Warhammer is expensive and full of autists but I assumed there'd at least be someone NOT jacking off about space marines in real life for five fucking minutes. And I thought I could get a starter box of some fucking rats and, a catapult or something, I don't know, for like $80 to plant the seed and slowly work up to taking the GW dick in my ass for more models, but I'm not shelling out three hundred dollary doos just to START.
I give up.
People like him is the reason I never tell I'm a 40k player in public.
>>45943239
this
40k is such a terrible game and community. Its strange to me that its so popular on /tg/ when in my real life experience its so expensive, unfun, and attracts the bottom of the barrel social rejects, when compared to other tabletop games.
>you find a legendary sword
>the blessing of the setting's one true god aside, it's not terribly impressive compared to new production weapons from a competent blacksmith because there have been significant advances in metallurgy, ergonomics and the like in the 1000 years since it was last used
>>45942980
It'll still look cool on my back as I fight with weeaboo martial-arts magic.
>>45942980
>Better shaped metal
>vs the setting's sole diety's blessing and power
Who the fuck care hell well it cuts if I can shoot goddamn laser beams out the end of it?
>>45943048
care's how*
Man I should really get some coffee.
Hey/TG/ I need a system to play low powered heroes game. Like mutant and masterminds but more lethal.
Power level is going to be between O5 X-men and new X-men when they introduced colossus and nightcrawler.
>>45942685
>>45942685
You could just do low-level mutants and masterminds for that.
I'd say that level 3 characters would be at about the powerlevel you're looking for.
>>45942737
Do you even play the game?
One the game isn't lethal, two power level three is for normal teen-agers, four I asked for not mutants and masterminds.
>>45943867
You asked for "like Mutants and Masterminds, but more lethal". To which someone said "make Mutants and Masterminds more lethal". Heck, you could just make damage saves start higher without changing the power level.
Also, you haven't really given us much explanation of what you want to do. X-Men is wildly inconsistent.
The Spanish failed to conquer the Aztecs, who used captured Spanish slaves to derive the mystical secrets of metallurgy and basic sciences. The Aztec Empire used these things to expand massively, and combined with its numbers, took most of North and South America, though the English maintained the thirteen colonies and France maintained Canada. As technology advanced, trade between Europe and the Aztecs led to the latter advancing as well. They maintained their insane human sacrifice religion, and waged constant wars on everyone, including Asia, once technology permitted.
Eventually the Aztecs became the dominant world power, developed hyperdrive, and set up an interstellar empire that met with other interstellar empires. Other human groups exist on Earth, forced into constant rebellion by being overtaxed so that the Aztecs will have excuses to capture soldiers for sacrifice.
How do they maintain their religion in space, when it's clear that the sun will not be destroyed if they stop sacrificing people? Do they sacrifice sentient aliens in addition to other humans? What do their ships look like?
>>45941438
As profoundly unlikely and ridiculous as this would be, I like the concept.
The religion evolves to the Universe will explode, not just the Sun. All blood is sacred to Huitzilopochtil.
>What do their ships look like
Literally giant space serpents
How could they capture alien soldiers in ship-to-ship combat?
>>45941746
Disabling shots on the engines and then boarding torpedoes.
What are you writing, /tg/?
My own CYOA, but my fucking grammar suck when I try to write... It fucking hurts.
>>45941245
Working on a few settings, mostly just for giggles. Hit a bit of a wall, though. Nothing too bad, just a bit of writer's block/burnout.
>>45941245
Trying to combine HFY and Lovecraftian Horror
It's actually coming along quite well, despite how shitty I am at writing.
Why are there so few stories that take advantage of Colonial times as a setting? It seems like you could add magic and fantasy and make something out of that, but I can't think of any attempts.
There is an RPG in that era called Colonial Gothic. I haven't played it myself, so I have no idea if its any good.
>>45941220
Nobody cares
>>45941220
Because muskets make for slow, uneventful combat
You know what I love the most about the WH40K?
The Imperium, even though it is the theocratic fascist shithole - is the only form of organization that could survive in their horrible galaxy.
>>45940911
The Culture could survive, thrive and overcome this entire horrible galaxy.
>>45940911
Yeah, 40k definitely gives you a setting where you don't have to feel bad about creaming your jeans over pretending to be a Nazi.
>>45940911
>Implying you need an organization
What did you name him, /tg/?
>>45940839
Snuggles
Commander
>>45940839
Chad.
/tg/ has been on a creative streak, so let's continue that. roll me a d15 to see what tables we'll be using
Rolled 5 (1d15)
>>45940303
Do it faget.
>>45940476
Alright we are making a Titan legion, Roll a d100 for our main titan.
Rolled 96 (1d100)
>>45940584
Rollan
Rifts, Palladium Fantasy, TMNT and all the other related properties - vast, expansive games with tons of cool shit, despite their flaws.
If you're going to piss and moan about it being perfect, go away. And if you're going to piss and moan about it being totally unplayable, go join them.
>What books do you have and what are you looking for?
>Favourite book?
>House rules to make it work better?
>Vehicle creation rules?
>What's your campaign?
>>45939916
>>Vehicle creation rules?
Is this a thing?
>>45940002
I think Road Hogs and Rifts Australia has them.
>>45940018
Also:
mutants down under, mutants in orbit, fleets of the three galaxies, sourcebook 1 has robot creation rules, and Heroes Unlimited has a few versions of vehicle creation rules.
Help me /tg/ you're my only hope. Someone here must be better at crunching believable populations sizes or knows where to go to get something to do the job.
Anyway. Atlas of Rokugan says that "At most, the Emerald Empire is about 900 miles north-to-south, and between 500-600 miles across at the widest point." Then goes on to say that about twice the size of England (I'm assuming they mean the UK as a whole here).
The closest I've seen to population figures were these for the standing armies + reserves, just before the Clan War:
Crab: 300,000
Crane: 150,000
Dragon: 200,000
Lion: 500,000
Phoenix: 100,000
Scorpion: 200,000
Unicorn: 270,000
Minor Clans and Ronin (combined): 200,000
And that's just the military forces. Packing all those bodies + civilians + peasants into a Rokugan twice the size of the UK beggars the mind.
Anyone have a stab at more believable figures?
Oh, and general L5R thread I guess?
So adding all those armies together, you get roughly 1.92 million soldiers. If you generously assume that that's 2% of the population (since as I understand it the armies ARE comprised of a large chunk of able-bodied adults), 1.92 million folks times 50 is a total population of 96 million.
The current population of the UK is roughly 64 million people, so allowing for twice the land amount but regressing technology by a few hundred years...90 million might be pushing it a tad high, but not unreasonably so.
Of course, the total Rokugan population might be lower if you assume a larger chunk of the population is in the various armies. Bumping from 2% to 3% means you hit 64 million on the nose--so exactly the UK's modern population spread over twice the landmass.
Or we can just assume that the writers don't know what they're talking about and that the standing armies should be half their listed size, with a commensurate reduction in population (so, say, a total population of about 30 million, which is the approximate figure I can find for the entirety of the British Isles in 1801).
Haiku contest go!
>Anon, you should know
>[My clan]: greater than [your clan]
>It's just science fact!
If you assume that the soldiers of Rokugan are equivalent to the Japanese samurai class in just a general social organization sense, then the numbers there add up to close to 2 million, which is about the same as the number of (former) samurai at the time of the Meiji Restoration, out of a population of about 30 million or so. Japan's landmass is about 1.5 times the size of the UK, so even being conservative I would say it's feasible that Rokugan could support a population of 30 million or so, about the same as Japan throughout the Edo period.
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You've probably mentioned this before, but you don't have a very high opinion of lynch mobs. Any mobs, really, but especially lynch mobs.
And yet that is what you've found yourself staring down once more, confronted by a gang of superstitious locals as you were trying to go about your business. By your side, you sense Aya – intrepid, impetuous and utterly out of her depth Aya – growing stiff with fear. The dirty dozen before you, brandishing cudgels and knives with an obvious willingness to use them, seem to sense her weakness. Like predators smelling blood, they look like they could fall upon her – and, by extension, you - at any minute.
Perhaps it's to be expected. Their leader – a self-styled poet by the name of Tobin Hayasa – is missing, and here you are questioning his loving mother. The fact that you might want to get him back home safely never seems to have crossed their minds.
And to think, you were actually considering helping these people.
>>45938633
“You've got a lot of nerve, stranger,” the leader of your happy band of harassers declares, prodding you in the chest with his cudgel, “You think we don't know everything that goes on in this town? You think we don't listen to the word on the streets?”
You weren't exactly making much of an effort to hide your investigations, but you decide against pointing that out. You're talking right now, and not fighting. That's a good start to any working relationship. Now that a leader has emerged, the rest of the mob seems to hang back, waiting for a signal to attack or retreat. You take a moment, as an uneasy silence descends, to study the leader. Although he carries himself with the kind of bullying swagger you'd expect from a mob leader, his eyes suggest a certain intelligence – a sensitivity, even. This is a young man with a very personal stake in this affair.
“So, stranger, I hear you like asking questions,” again, he prods you with his cudgel. That's fine – you'll take that over being prodded with a knife any day. “How about answering a few for a change?”
That's fine with you, you reply in a cold voice, you're all ears.
“Maybe we should cut an ear off,” one of the voices – coming, you note, from the back of the mob – bellows, “See how smart he is then!”
“Enough,” the leader snaps, an unforced authority obvious in his tone, “You don't have the air of one of Kurasu's men, but I can't think why else you'd be here, asking about Tobin. Tell me, stranger, what are you looking for here? There's nothing but suffering and misery to be found here.”
>I have my own reasons for looking for Tobin
>I want what you want, nothing more
>I'm a Wanderer from the Nameless Temple – and you don't have the authority to question me
>Other
>>45938639
>>I have my own reasons for looking for Tobin
>>45938639
>>I have my own reasons for looking for Tobin
He might know something about the recent death.
Stat leviathan from worm /tg/
Noone? i thought this would be a interesting creature to stat?
>>45938492
>Gargantuan Monstrosity (Humanoid?), Chaotic Neutral
>Armor Class 23 (Natural)
>Hit Points 546 (28d20 + 252)
>Speed Swim 80 ft.
>STR 20
>DEX 13
>CON 19
>INT 14
>WIS 12
>CHA 2
>Skills Perception +12
>Damage Immunities cold, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons
>Condition Immunities frightened, paralyzed
Senses truesight 120ft., passive perception 19
>Languages understands Abyssal, Celestial, Infernal, and Primordial but can't speak, telepathy 120ft.
>Challenge 20 (32,500 XP)
>Legendary Resistance.(3/day) If the leviathan fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead
>Siege Monster The leviathan does double damage on objects and structures.
>ACTIONS
>Claw Melee Weapon Attack: +17 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. >Hit: 17 (2d6 + 10) slashing damage.
>Tail Melee Weapon Attack: +17 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (2d8 + 10) bludgeoning damage.
>Frightful Presence. Each creature of the Leviathan's choice within 120 feet of the Leviathan and aware of it must suceed on a DC 21 wisdon saving throw or become frightened for 1 or 2 minutes . A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each turn, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effects ends for it, the creature is immune to the Leviathan's frightful presence for 24 hours.
>Steam Breath (Recharge 5-6). the Leviathan exhales a stream of hot steam in a 120 foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 24 dexterity saving throw, taking 91 (26d6) damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.
Who's this chump and why should I care?
Is Dune and Warhammer 40k really trying to tell me that after more than ten millennia there would still be pure bred humans hanging around?
Considering the advances made even only during the 20th-21st centuries so far, there is no way humanity won't have mutated beyond recognition on earth or in other planets. Maybe the only original sapiens would be hanging around in a bumfuck abandoned terraformed planet, but even they would have to adjust to the planet's gravity and climate, and they would certainly be a minority.
Sure it looks horrible, but I thought 40k was supposed to be grimderp.
Dumping more Dougal Dixon far future nightmare fuel.
>A human engineered to live on open grasslands needs the adaptations of a grass-eating mammal. For the plains-dweller these include massive teeth that are replaced if they wear out chewing tough silica-rich grasses and, more importantly, a specialized stomach within the bloated abdomen containing engineered bacteria that can break down cellulose � a substance not normally digestible by the human frame. Cutting edges on the hands help to scythe the thick grass while the long legs enable the creature to move swiftly over the open landscape.