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>It's a PC with no goals, motivations, traits or quirks.

If you're not going to roleplay, go play Diablo II

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There are two main schools of health system in RPG: hit points, and what I'm going to call wounds. Wounds includes FATE stress boxes, Savage Worlds, and the Harm from Apocalypse World, for the sake of this discussion. Hit points includes GURPS, D&D, Star Wars d20's Vitality and Wound Points, and so on.

The defining difference (and trade-off, in my view) between these systems is that hit points allow more flexibility and simplicity, at the cost of having to track them (which slows down mass battles). Wounds systems generally involve very little bookkeeping; once a combatant's Toughness is exceeded, they are out of the fight, or wounded in the case of player characters and other "specials". Or are "stunned" or "shaken" in the case of Savage Worlds.

What do you prefer, /tg/? Do you like a system that uses hit points, or one that uses "Toughness" and wound boxes. What advantages do you think each has?

pls take strawpoll, because why not: http://strawpoll.me/6289191

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OK /tg/ can someone clarify something for me?

Cause I talk to people about these two words and what I gather is:

Narrativist indicates your game follows principles set down by the ideas of the genre it is attempting to emulate while simulationist indicates your game follows principles set down by ideas of the setting it's in and that these two are intrinsically opposed to one another.

But isn't a good narrative something consistent with the rules established by the setting anyway? And isn't a good setting one that understands its genre and creates its rules in accordance with it?

If you followed purely simulationist philosophy then the rules of your setting would be completely chaotic and nonsensical. You could just make up whatever crap you wanted, say "it's like that because the setting is like that its to emulate the settings rules" and make something that's just weird and random and not particularly well thought out. You could just throw down random numbers and say "It's like that because it's like that" and arbitrary decide how 90% of the conflict resolution goes in your game with no indication as to why it's like that.

It seems like these two elements should ideally be working with one another. Genre and narrative providing the guiding principles of the setting while the setting exists to provide context to your action. Trying to remove one of these from the equation would just lead to random nonsense.

And this obviously not accounting for setting agnostic systems which have to basically pull double duty of providing both in general assumption.

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40k lore question.

Soul is a very real and a very importan thing in W40k, so I was wondering - what happens to one's soul when said person is transformed into a servitor?

Remember that they are portrayed differently in different sources, but basicaly they are lobotomised humans, not just robots with fleshy parts.

I kinda feel that asking when does a sevitor stop being a human and becomes a machine, amd his soul departs his body, is similar to asking when does a fetus become a human and is killed, not aborted...

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How does /tg/ prepare their notes? It seems one of the esoteric sagely GM subjects that never gets much discussion. Everyone seems to develop their own methods and indeed it seems a very personalised process, but that shouldn't stop us from sharing and stealing good idea from each other.

I usually do some incremental world building stuff, basically jotting down how NPCs and factions are reacting to the PCs and their actions or how they're continuing to enact their plans if the PCs have had no effect on them. This involves some annotated maps and dot-points of motivations and enacted and future plans. I'll do this every three sessions or so.

For each session I usually dot point goings-on or adventure hooks that the PCs are likely to run into, and top it off with some story questions like "How will PC A react to NPC B defiling the church?". I'll stat any thing I think they're likely to run into but I tend to go for rules-light systems so I can stat on the fly anyway.

Most of the time these session notes are a third of a A4 page or less, as lots of the session I improv. This seems to work pretty well for me but I'm often finding my notes disorganised if I go looking for something, or just too sparse if I don't have enough energy for good improvisation on the night.

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Meanwhile on dragon /tg/.

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Hey /tg/, im thinking of starting a campaign set in the Dragon Ball universe. Can anyone recommend a good system to run it in?

It needs to:

>Support high powered characters.

>Support temporary transformations.

>Large, sudden increases in power.

>and I'd also prefer somthing that isnt rules heavy.

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With the child I’d rescued out of danger, I throw myself into helping dig out the pit that my master had specified, the constant thud of rocks raining down in our direction ever present behind us.

Thankfully, the boggart is too busy feeding on the already dead corpses, stone-chuckers being rather single minded in their behaviours; kill, eat, repeat. From what I’ve seen at least, this one isn’t even a particularly powerful one, it can only lift boulders larger than a man, compared to higher tier boggarts, that’s getting off easy.

With the pit dug to the right depths, a panicked sheep is lead into a barn, letting out noises of terror every time a particularly loud thud slams the earth, before it’s cries are cut off.

It’s blood is set to drain into a large bucket, while the rocks ease off slightly, the boggart on the hill focusing more heavily on feeding clearly.

“Once we bring the blood out, it should make it’s way over here.” I explain. “So everyone else should clear the area.”

Most of the farmers back off, as I jump into the pit, applying the iron solution to the walls, necessary to drain the beast’s power once it’s in the pit.

By the time I’m done, Mr Johnson has arrived, a stonemason close behind him, with a large flat bottomed stone in the cart. The ‘lid’ of the boggarts’ trap, needs to be lowered completely level, to seal the beast in… leave a gap the size of a pinhead, and it could squeeze itself out… and likely be very pissed off at whoever was attempting to seal it.

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I finally made a PDF with the big lines of this homebrew. Almost nothing is stat-ed yet, I just fill it up when inspiration hit me. I'll put it in the following post.

I use RuneQuest for almost everything in this homebrew. If you want to see what is already half done, go directly to Starting Classes, Characteristics & Attributes and Covenants. Game mechanics is just me throwing my vision of the game and the end of it is more incoherent rambling about bad players.

Now for the questions and suggestions:
-How could we successfully include skills (climbing, ropeworks, mechanics, blacksmithing, etc) in the game? Is it even worth it? (Because, I feel the bullshitstorm coming with some players)
-We need perception checks and a way to make them fair, when it come to traps and ambushes.
-In what's already there, what is missing according to you?

Same OP as last time, by the way.

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Stop murdering children in your game

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Why would you use soldiers for ground combat instead of robots if you're a spacefaring civilization?

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>You are a young man named Lloyd from the frozen Northern mountains of Tordo, on the continent of Teege. After a youth spent learning magic, you and your girlfriend spent some time as bandits after your home was destroyed, but have recently taken a chance to escape that life into a legit one... As sellswords, admittedly, but it's better than nothing.

>Your exact goal will change from thread to thread, most likely involving some job or another you've been sent on.

>The questmasters are Octoling (myself), and Grandflaw. There's no particular rhyme or reason to who posts when, and sometimes one of us might not appear all.

>Character Death is always a possibility and sometimes an inevitability (this is Fire Emblem after all), but your actions can very easily influence who lives and who dies.

>Voting periods will last an average of ten to fifteen minutes, but this may be increased, decreased, or generally changed at any given moment based on voter turnout.

>The previous threads are archived on suptg. A link to the most recent (coupled with summary and a handy list of names) is pasted http://pastebin.com/Rhxd2izZ

>Our update twitter is https://twitter.com/qmgrandflocto and you can shoot us questions at http://ask.fm/qmgrandflocto

>An up-to-date link to all threads currently archived, both for this quest and its precursor: http://pastebin.com/Q77ts75m

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>Google Drive
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B20r6rsFLOg_Zk5RdVdya3hJNnc&usp=sharing

>IRC
http://client00.chat.mibbit.com/?server=rizon.mibbit.org&channel=%23JumpchainCYOA
https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA

>Rules
http://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn

>Last Thread
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This is Boruto Quest, a quest set in the universe of Naruto. It is during the generation of Naruto's son, shortly after everyone has graduated from their Genin exam. I haven't kept up with the series beyond the end of the original one, so this one is intended to recapture the feel of that time of Naruto. I will not be incorporating the main show or the Boruto movie's plot into the quest, although some recognizable characters will be present. You play as a 12 year old Genin graduate named Takeshi. You have been assigned a Jounin squad leader named Hanto, and your two squadmates are Kichiro, a young delinquent, and Ai, a strange social outcast of a girl. You are of average skill in most aspects, although your sharp intelligence has recently been making itself apparent. Preparations for the final tournament of the Chunin Exams has begun, and Genin all over the Leaf Village training under wise masters. Shikamaru is in charge of your instruction, and you're currently in the middle of grueling training!

Character Sheet: http://pastebin.com/fpP2TjrS

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Three years have passed since our world first came under attack from invaders from another world. These invaders, Neighbours, entered into our world through gates in Mikado City. Conventional weapons had no effect on these enemies; however when all hope seemed lost, the Border Defense Agency (Border) fought back the invasion using mysterious weapons utilising the weapons known as "triggers", allowing the use of trion to battle. Today, life in Mikado City goes on as normal, Border serving as our world's protection from the inhabitants of the Neighbourhood.

You are a newly minted C-Rank agent, having just passed the aptitude test, you are ready to begin your tenure within the Border Defense Agency, and to learn how to use triggers to battle neighbours.

But first, are you a boy or a girl?
>Boy
>Girl