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>>44583268
I'll shamelessly bump with my current stuff.

I'm trying to write a vietnam war style scenario with the party starting as mercenaries for the invading and being left to themselves in the woods after an ambush. They can try to go back to their initial camp or join the vietcong elves.

I want to have them completely stressed out, with doubt on who's civilian and who's the enemy.

At the end, either using the invaders new massive weapon to raze the jungle or relics from the rebels to push back the army.

I don't have a lot of ideas on encounters beside villagers/rebels attacking them or strange noises in the forest. Any ideas on how to improve this ?

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>>44583268
I've been working on a campaign setting that incorporates my favourite aspects of Arthurian Legend, real world history, Greek Mythology, etc etc.

It's been about a year since I started and I haven't got anywhere near finishing because of other commitments and mental health issues but I'm genuinely proud of the world and hope to compile it for the players to review.

Although, I can never find the motivation to do so.

How does /tg/ deal with motivation and creative fatigue?

>>44584519
Cutting what's not necessary or what can be left vague for the PC to uncover themselves.. Players will, intentionnaly or not, go offroad. So cutting some stuff will ease the stuff left to write.

Else, submit what you got to friends, preferably not the players and take suggestions.

>>44583052
Try a system other than DnD?

>>44583080

I want to use DnD for the supplements and to tap into the large player base already accustomed to the system.

Not sure if it's balanced but can't you just say for every xth level spell you could memorize instead you have x mana points?

>>44583036
I call them faggots and burn down the forest.

>>44583036
The Elves can speak for themselves, they don't need random humans for that

I call for a little investigation because this sounds suspicious.

>>44582978
Because the setting is pre-enlightenment and not even Robespierre was crazy enough to try to rewrite history.

>>44582978
VIVE LE ROI

>>44582978
It's a game of pretend and you forced me to dm for you asshat.

>>44582776
This meme needs to stop.

>>44582776
Alright OP, you can post the T1 modern deck any time now

>>44583641
Consistent T4 wins and no bad matchups is as Tier 1 as it gets, m8. Stompy has both.

You need some degree of magic weapons for the martials after about level 6-ish because otherwise enemies will start to get resistant and eventually immune to nonmagic weapons. That's all.

>>44582674
Outside of monsters with DR, no. Feats are much more important than magic items.

>>44582674
Be careful, there're some monsters that are outright immune to non-magical damage, so that kills the martials.
They're also some, more than the previous, monsters with resistance to non-magical damage, that fucks the martials.

>>44582653

Your daily reminder that Emps was just a high powered Psyker and warlord. Everything else is Imperial propaganda.

>>44582669
I can believe that.

You know when you do something for so long that it becomes rote and you feel your own actions are obvious.

The emperor is that on crack. He's someone trying to uplift humanity who at the same time doesn't properly understand it's flaws and expects everyone to be held to a standard that's basically impossible

>>44582565
Testing

>>44582739
Weird. The board auto-deleted the thread as soon as I tried creating it. I don't even know how come I managed to make it pop back into existence.

Anyways, in case Adversary General isn't welcome in /tg/ any longer I'll be temporarily moving the general to /trash/ in order to regroup and search for a new allocation elsewhere.

>>44582815
In case we are allowed to stay, here is the topic / objectives for the thread

>Create new adversaries.
>Discuss new pitches.
>Balance currently existing adversaries.
>Get on Cockatrice and play, have fun.
>Suggest changes to the format, new rules, new mechanics, even new card types. Get wild.

Remember, /adv/ IS NOT a custom card thread in disguise, but a format. That's why the focus of the thread should be balancing the 50 current adversaries + Spike's set. For this very reason the number of new pitches that will be accepted will be reduced for the time being.

>>44582000
Start from the PCs. Who are they and what they want? Who would they cross paths with trying to achieve those things? Then combine those and fiddle with it until it mostly makes sense.

>>44582000
New DM here

I personally like to make a huge world map, as I draw I think of how the environment might shape the people that live there. Then I think of very vague, very loose possible plot hooks that could happen in those locations. I do all of this before "Session Zero" and then offer my players a very brief explanation of each location and what they most likely can expect from those locations. I let them choose which region, island, nation or whatever to start on and then I listen to them discuss what possible characters they will want to make. By the end of "Session Zero" I usually have a good idea of what everyone will be playing and where they want to be, and only after I get that inkling on my players do I begin to actually plan out potential plot hooks for the party.

For example, if my players decide to begin on the largest island that is mostly controlled by human nations with an uneasy alliance, I might start the players in a small village, far from the major cities. I'll give them a reason to begin looking for work which will slowly bring them inland and with each NPC they speak to I might drop some subtle hints that two of the nations are getting close to blood shed. After a few small quests and more dialogue I might drop a hint that one of the nations attacked the other one and started a war. Now the PC's have the option to get involved in either side or go to a new area of the map. Alternatively if I have a party who are deeply tied to religious events I might use an ancient evil or a cult as a plot hook and instead make it so that the players must venture deep into a dangerous temple to find an artifact, or to slay the leader of the group.

Most importantly it's important to make it so failure is part of the story.

New GM's will always without fail construct a vast sprawling world with far too many integrated rules and elements of lore.

The way veterans do it is they'll typically work off what the players what to do and the PC's they've made.

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Bamp

Those books are so great, for young adult fiction anyway. The setting would work great for any pulp RPG, like FATE or Savage Worlds, pulp heroism, adventure and peril in a world where cities never stay still.

Although thinking back, those books actually had a lot of depth to them. From all the interesting bits of lore about how the world ended up like that, to the fact that it's one of the only books I can think of with an explicitly ugly female lead (which is also the reason it'll never be adapted to a visual medium, sadly.)

>>44581688
Must admit, I think steampunk is the most overrated, autistic setting there is. However I love this series, got really fond memories of ready it as a boy.

and yes I know it's not technically steampunk but it pretty much is so just shut your hole

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You have my full support OP.

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PDF related guide for running Traveller Solo

A link to the T5 edition (if you dare):
https://mega.nz/#!G0FCEDTS!vtiDevt3YwWbxvSg3M-rrac07_OhS8XowwGzkPxT4KM

>>44582021
Thanks anon
These things usually last as long as a Human in a Type C atmosphere, but we always have fun

Hory shet, I was just thinking about traveler! I don't know jack shit about it other than the outline, where to start...

>>44581666
so your warned, that campaign will devolve into the murderhoboest fucking thing ever. Too many mimics leads the party to never trust anything or anyone and just burn shit down and sift the ashes for loot

Leave out the bits you don't like, emphasise the bits you do.

>>44581252
is the forgoten realms the one with that ao fucker
get rid of him fuck dieties with divine rank above 20.

>>44581289
also this
>>44581287

>>44581249
So you and your group is totally ok and casual about having erps throughout the session?

>>44581670
I usually say no unless it advances the plot, but this guy just wouldn't take the hint.

>>44581733
You're the gm, gotta bring the hammer down harder if need be.

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Shut it anti-skub
Skub is best chapter

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Nah, the worst chapter by far has to be the Dark Angels, their entire chapter can be summed as"look how dark and brooding we are", also there have been renegade chapters that have helped the Imperium more than those bathrobe wearing cock-splinters, at least the Templars get shit done.