Archived threads in /tg/ - Traditional Games - 4515. page

File: back0026.png (1MB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1024x768px

You're kind of sol, OP. Short of a kindly soul sharing a hidden cache of treasure with you, it's a massive paint to find ANY maps, let alone modern ones.
You might be able to cobble together some from here.
http://pyromancers.com/dungeon-painter-online/

They have some modern tiles and stuff.
Anyway, good luck

File: b0d496d9b9[1].png (554KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

554KB, 1920x1080px

>>44013797
If you use roll20 you could just abstract buildings as squares and designate doors, and just describe whats inside or draw large furniture. It's infinitely more useful and easy than searching through the web for maps that aren't shitty DnD fantasy encounters or dumb looking sci-fi ships.

In other news, I am working on a Fallout Traveller homebrew that is nearly quarter way done. Looking for any suggestions for possible features or careers or even people who might want to help on the project in some manner.

D20m Critical Locations.
Shitty, but works.

>>44013730
>-Tallarin Dog Soldiers

Really all of the Tau auxiliaries could fall under this. There's a lot of untapped potential there.

File: lootedWagon.jpg (340KB, 1301x822px) Image search: [Google]

340KB, 1301x822px

>>44013730
Build your own daemon engine just like the looted wagon stuff

>>44013730
Using the Forgefiend or Maulerfiend rules for a Stalk tank might work. It still won't be very good, but it's a decent fit.

How do I stop my DM from keeping touching me?

>>44013639
My DM won't let me play as a monster in our campaigns.
I want to be a demon dammit.

The party clears out an Orc stronghold, only to find a room with nobody but some unarmed Orc wetnurses and a dozen orc infants.

The Chaotic Neutral Rogue wants to kill them all, the Lawful Good Paladin does not.

How do you resolve this?

File: xeph Copy.png (189KB, 638x825px) Image search: [Google]

189KB, 638x825px

>>44013137
I don't really like the illustrations or the fluff for D&D 3.5, so I'm going to put together my own little booklet for my campaign with my own illustrations and fluff. It won't be good enough for publication, I think, but I'm sure my players will appreciate it.

Anyway, I'm thinking of turning the xeph for my campaign setting into a race of psionic monkey people that dwell in some frosty mountains. I think I should try to avoid detailing them too much in case the players decide not to interact with them in any way. If they do end up interacting with or playing as the xeph however, I would like to have something to work with.

So... brainstorming!

>>44013203
Overall aesthetic is a combination of Sun Wukong and Planet of the Apes. Wuxia + post-apocalyptic.

I like to play background music during my games. If the players go to xeph villages, or to xeph neighborhoods in the big city, I'll probably play some Yat-Kha:
https://youtu.be/RPDBDBiaX7E?list=PLCA7D2E202070B233

>>44013203
Guy on the left looks like Sun WuKong

>4e Retroclone

Strike! RPG.

>>44012651
do what I do my own 4e retroclone, make skills and powers share the same list and limits.

basically if you can choose 2 - 3 powers at level 1, you can choose stronger power or a skill power which is shittier but convey an additional use (basically a skill).

Think like pokemon Cut and Rock Smash. By itself it is shit as a power, but it usable as skills outside of combat.

Like in battle, the power "search" help to make enemy defense weaker against you and your allies attack for a duration. Outside of combat, it is used to look for clues and other stuff.

This allow your players to decide if they want to play a skillful character or a powerhouse in combat but a flowerpot during social interaction due to no helpful powers/skills.

Of course, with this rule in place, you have to increase the number of powers they can get but I think you get the idea.

Players have full options on how they want their characters to be.

>>44012651
>fagposting, the shittening

What a fucking queerbag.

File: Horrible Clockwork Nightmare World.png (487KB, 1200x535px) Image search: [Google]

487KB, 1200x535px

>>44012269
>What I made
A socially retarded wizard, one of the support staff in a prestigious magical academy and the city that is built around it. Had a penchant for organization and tidiness. Despite her inability to interact with others, she enjoyed being helpful and wanted to make people happier.

>What the DM saw
The same thing he sees whenever a wizard is in his game.

>What I actually played
Things went off-track quickly. The DM basically had her advanced in position until she was essentially running the show (despite me explaining why that was a bad idea, he wanted all the party members in positions of power), which she couldn't really deal with. She was terrible at the job because she didn't understand the human element and basically just gave arbitrary orders with no explanations, expecting them to be followed to her extremely specific dimensions and timing. End result, everyone was pissed at her, she was panicking because nobody was listening to her, and she didn't know how to deal with that.

She came to the conclusion that people would be much easier to deal with if they had no choice but to want to listen to her. That way, they would do what she wanted, which was also what was best for them.

It sort of spiralled out of control from there.

File: Fuckyourtime.jpg (124KB, 1022x396px) Image search: [Google]

124KB, 1022x396px

>What I made.

2nd Ed. Mage, went the Fate and Time route with an Arcadian mage. Not even going to lie, the character start as a flat-out Dresden-expy. The starting cabal were all members of the 3rd Eye P.I. company, making a living using their abilities for financial gain.

>What the DM saw.

Dr. Who. Time Wizard constantly meddling in the affairs of mortals? Must be a whovian.

>What I played.

He started out friendly, but he went very deep into Inquisitor mode very fast when he started abusing his powers for his own ends. Didn't end well for the character, and it turned out he became the BBEG for the whole campaign from the start.

File: I had a seriously retarded GM.jpg (150KB, 1022x453px) Image search: [Google]

150KB, 1022x453px

L5R: played a ronin, with a daughter

For some reason GM had a whole different notion what samurai were and how ronin behaved, and saw my PC as..well, pic related

What i played:
i just did whatthefuckever
ass-tits-gunfire-dicks-flying out the windows...

>>44012146
A honey pot assassin with a slight continental European accent I use to head off any potential threats and trust with much of the details of my nefarious scheme.

I am the best villain.

>>44012146
A second lair, hidden under it with the above lair acting as a distraction. Possibly with a giant casino built around them both.

>>44012146
Sluts.

If it could form multiple limbs at higher levels it would be cool.

>>44012044
At higher levels you gain the ability constrict people you've grappled to do the same damage as your normal hair attack again as a swift actoin, the ability to trip people instead of grappling them with an attack, the ability to pull people closer, then at 8th level anything grappled is automatically strangled, losing the ability to speak or cast spells that require verbal components.

1d4 damage is pretty garbage to rely on as your main form attack. It's an amusing idea, but it seems more like a "last resort" option than something you should be relying on as your main form of attack. Especially considering the low range required and the fact that you're one of the squishiest classes in the game with the lowest hit dice and no armor proficiencies. You REALLY don't want to be in melee range ever if you can help it.

>>44011929
And?

>>44012622
Oh fuck, sorry

You look out of your ship and see nothing but black. A few stars glimmer here and there, but for the most part your eyes see nothing but the infinite spanning emptiness of space. There's not a single planet within your field of vision, but you do manage to spot some satellites if you squint hard enough. You see no purpose actually visiting any planets, your job is to locate /them not visit them after all. But you do remember that you're running low on foodstuffs and one of the satellites could be a grocery vender

>>44012635
What information, if any, do we have on District YC-555575?
>Check out the satellites.

File: tasteitscrub.png (247KB, 500x281px) Image search: [Google]

247KB, 500x281px

>>44011454
It would at the very least protect you from vampires or any demons that happen to suck blood. Unless of course drinking holy water desecrates it removing it's effects.

Holy waters power is from it being blessed water. If you absorb it into your body it's no longer just water and loses its power (although this could give you temporary buffs if you want to fluff it that way). I think by pfdnd it stops being holy once it leaves the fuckin bottle

Drinking holy water like that would be blasphemous to a certain degree, imparting no benefit whatsoever.

Holy water is just ordinary water that's blessed, and once you stop treating it like it's holy, it loses any power it might have had.. It gets poured down the drain like all other water, and you don't see any vampire hunters ripping out Churches' plumbing in order to use the pipes as weapons.

It's solid, but lacks a selling point.

There's nothing that makes me think "I should play this."

File: 1447980120094.jpg (26KB, 640x480px) Image search: [Google]

26KB, 640x480px

>So what does /tg/ think to Numenera?

Why does it feel like the same guy posts the same thread every 3-4 days?

>>44011167
not that guy, I'm only asking now cause they had the books in my flags

What do you think to stuff like all the monsters having flat attack and defence values, and only the players always rolling for both attack and defend?

Does it actually add a sense of 'agency' as claim or is it just simply needless smoke and mirrors that betrays crippling misunderstanding of probability on the part of moote cook?

File: Redwall summer all.jpg (2MB, 1499x1197px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1499x1197px

Never got the cookbook, but from what I remember Redwall had some good sounding food.

File: 9751488_orig.jpg (137KB, 400x375px) Image search: [Google]

137KB, 400x375px

The rôti sans pareil: "Roast without equal"

>>44010802
Show them this picture, can i seriously be a gun wielding octopus?

>>44010897
Blasto, the first Hanar Spectre?, With a gun on every tentacle and a lover at every port.

>>44010897
that's how I got my house mate into it. it's the philosophies and economics that's difficult for us to grasp

>>44010659
No.

>>44010659
No, because the idea of "I'm siding with the elves until the elves start winning then I'm siding with the orcs" is stupid.

>>44010659

It works best with powerful shadowy figures manipulating things behind the scenes, lending aid to one side only for as long as it takes to restore a balance. They may work as coordinators to help unite disparate groups on one side, while sowing division and discord on the other side. Much of their work will be done through assassinations and espionage, with lots of secret agents and double agents. A motivation based on religion or mysticism works best, but you could also do it with calculating self-interested types who don't want either Good or Evil to take over and a threat to them.

Michael Moorcock's books have something similar, though it pits the Gods of Balance as trying to maintain a parity between the Gods of Law and the Gods of Chaos.

>>44010138
>>Nah, it's nothing. Business as usual, right?

>>44010138
>>Nah, it's nothing. Business as usual, right?

FIRST

>>44010138
>>Just a bit nervous, that's all.