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>>43737103
general abstract strategy game thread

Objectively the best board game ever developed
>http://www.lutanho.net/play/hnefatafl.html

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>>43737104

Players not showing up repeatedly ruins a group. Don't make allowances for it. Yeah, if it happens once or twice, it's salvageable, but if certain players are missing more than a third of your sessions, you're better off just not including them at all.

>>43736233
>2-4 hours
Sadly, I've had to adapt to much shorter sessions as well. I used to consider anything under 6 hours disappointing, but in recent years 3 1/2 to 4 hours has been the average. 2 hours is bullshit though. Maybe it'd be tolerable for one session in the middle of a bunch of longer ones, but generally speaking, I hardly think of a session of less than three hours as worth playing.

Anyway, one of my ideas for addressing the problem of inconsistency of players is to run games more like movies than television shows. A movie may have a sequel, but you don't necessarily expect to have all of the same characters involved (and sometimes not any of them). And sequel can build on the same themes and profit from the world building in the movies that came before it, but you don't necessarily have to have seen them to follow what's going on.

So essentially, you can design your sessions as one-offs in which what happens does affect the world, and influence future events, but which can be understood and enjoyed in isolation. So maybe one session is about the party being hired to track down bandits, and the bandits were introduced or their identity was discovered in a previous session.

If you game like this, then you don't need a consistent roster of players, and can have signups for each individual session, with no assumption that just because somebody was there for last session, that they'll necessarily be there for the next. This means that you don't have to delay your game when people fail to show up, and it's easier to drop dead weight (it's easier to not invite somebody or to tell them a session is full than to boot them out of a more typical group).

>>43736338
It's definitely a problem if the campaign requries them to show up always/regularly. I'm just asking if there's a campaign structure that would cope with players irregularly showing up.

They ain't missing sessions because they're busy scoffing Doritos and playing Haloz, they're missing sessions because they're uni students and have commitments and things that come up and shit.

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>>43736219

Hard mode:
>"Anon, we're quite busy right now, so it's up to you what'll happen with the Golden Throne and the Emperor himself. What? No, we have no idea! Do what you want!"

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>>43736219

>>43736231
bring on the star child

Let's do this.

>>43736114
So is it a boy or a girl ?

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>43736135
I forgot to roll

Size/Type: Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 5d10+25 (52 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 15 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/+14
Attack: Claw +9 melee (1d6+5)
Full Attack: 2 claws +9 melee (1d6+5) and bite +4 melee (1d8+2)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Improved grab
Special Qualities: Scent
Saves: Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +2
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 12, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills: Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness, Track
Environment: Temperate forests
Organization: Solitary, pair, or pack (3-8)
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 6-8 HD (Large); 9-15 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —

>>43736020
Fast - Much
Strong - Some
Smart - Few
Fireblast - Very
Sex - None

Scout
The youngest of eight boys from the south side of Boston, the Scout learned early how to solve problems with his fists. With seven older brothers on his side, fights tended to end before the runt of the litter could maneuver into punching distance, so the Scout trained himself to run. He ran everywhere, all the time, until he could beat his pack of mad dog siblings to the fray.
>Aspects
High Concept: Rapid Recovery Merc
Trouble: Gotta Keep The Ego High
"Eat my dust!"
"Major League!"
"I'm not even winded."
>Stunts
"Hehey, I'm flyin'!": You do not need ground to perform a jump. You may use this ability only once without touching the ground.
"Woo hoo hoo!": You do not need ground to perform a jump. You may only use this ability after taking a Physical Stress.
>Skills
Superb
• Athletics
Great
• Shoot
Good
• Contacts
• Fight
Fair
• Burglary
• Resources
• Lore: Pop Trivia
Average
• Physique
• Rapport
• Deceive
• Notice

>>43735991
I'm all about that shit. My ideal setting is a mix of Lovecraft's Dreamworld and Lieber's Lankhmar, with the weirdness cranked all the way up.

I also made a random generator for surreal location descriptions. Check 'em:
>liminal vault below slumbering jungle
>phosphorescent cenotaph amid sacred crags
>resplendent tomb beneath petrified crags
>prismatic shrine hidden within sulphurous mountains
>burned hall hidden within verdant sea
>burned cenotaph beside verdant crags
>illusory hall beyond flowering coast
>stone prison within benighted coast
>prismatic spire beside ancient wasteland

>>43735991
>How does yall at /tg/ feel about settings that are very surreal in nature and present an alien world for your PCs?
Enjoyment is the combination of familiarity and novelty.
I would love a surreal and bizarre setting, but the more surreal it was, the more normal I would want my character to be.
I want to be John Crichton lost among the alien setting.

On the flipside, if the setting is near modern day, I want my character to be as special as is reasonably possible: alien, paranormal, magical, Bruce Lee, etc.

I do not want to play a Slice of Life as Average Joe.

I also do not want to play a crystalline hivemind plasma navigating the fleshwrought shoggoth carapaces of the 6th dimensional hierarchy of undulating harmonics.
Why not?
Because I don't want to have to earn a Chemistry degree to understand the social skills.

>>43735991
You gain Brouzouf

My Mage works as a bartender on weekends. It pays the bills.

How would you handle Lifepaths in WoD?

I mean, I know how I'd mechanically do it. Divide everything up into about 350xp (nWoD2e) and separate things into little packages of about 20xp each, each "level" of life being worth the same experience. Start out with giving a basic array of Attributes (not quite 5/4/3), then through three or four life events give out Skills, Merits, and Specialties.

It's just that I don't really know how to structure a lifepath, and I don't know what events to use, since WoD characters are generally regular people before the start of the game.

>>43736111
I can understand bartending as a hobby or cause he likes that particular bar or something, but your mage either lacks power or imagination if he needs to work to pay the bills.

/pfg/, what's the best way to deal with constructs without being a 9th level caster? Also preferably without magic.

>>43735042
This image would be better if we replaced all the location names with the word 'loot'

Also, new pastebin.
http://pastebin.com/BuSCnkyy

A lot of the bog-standard drawbacks listed in the DM's guide are definitely worth looking through.

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/cursedItems.htm

I like the idea of cursed items that kind of fuck everyone over equally.

For example, a cursed dagger which if touched makes it impossible to be ressurected. This includes the user, but also the guy he stabs. So your rogue may not be able to come back but neither will the BBEG.

I also like the Sword of Olympus from God of War. It has all the powers of a God but you get your power taken when you use it. Obviously a weaker mortal version will work better for most parties.

>>43734917
I'm not sure I'm a fan of the whole "permanent curse" thing, and frankly I don't think resurrection prevention would hurt anyone at this level except party members, but it's a good idea. Maybe something along the lines of it stealing a stat at random when you take it out, and it steals it from enemies too.

Like an Orc.

>>43734599
Like a Warbuggy that keeps working, even when it shouldn't.

>>43734660
Sooooooo.... basically any Warbuggy?

>>43734236
Everything in the book is Adventure League legal except for flying tieflings and rare elf subraces.

>Doing the Adventure League
you chose your future.

>>43734236

Meh, the book should have been like $10 to be honest.

Nothing really neat added except for monks pulling off hadokens and shit now. That is pretty bad ass.

>>43734131
Here we go. Farmer time.

>>43734131
It is a combination of the heat of the morning sun and Eustice's licks on your face that wake you up from an awful sleep. You brush off the dirt and bugs that had covered you in the night and stand up, nearly hitting your head against the low dirt ceiling above you. As you slowly bring yourself outside, you are greeted with the distinct smell of a rotting dog's corpse (although along with your own smell, it almost seems mild). It seems that something had tried to dig it out, but only managed the leg. Looking to the sky, you can tell it's at either late in the morning or very early noon.
You look down the road, seeing the forest up ahead. It seems whatever light you saw last night was coming from some sort of small, wooden shack, hardly bigger then the hill you slept in. Well, you've slept for a rather long time now. Perhaps its best to continue onwards.
>Eat some rations [bread, cheese, onions]
>Continue down the road, towards the forest.
>Look around the current area some more
>Try to go around the forest.
>Wait here a bit longer.
>Other.

>>43734330
>>Continue down the road, towards the forest.
Maybe hit up the shack for info about a good path to take.

A vocaloid-style J-pop idol starlet AI in a Shadowrun game.

>>43733711
Legendary Pirate gets swallowed whole by a fuckhuge whale, ship and all, and has adventures in its stomach.

A mutation based character. Basically a spy/infiltrator with a lot of body horror themes.

Check the Horus Heresy General's link in the OP. or the 40k General's link in the OP.

>>43733580
Yeah the OP should have a link to the mega that has everything. Just got the red books today. Death Shroud termies 'Favored of Mortarion usr includes:

>Death Shroud Terminators must always be modeled/painted to be visually distinct

This game is all flavor, its awesome.

Awesome guys, thanks! I'm new to /tg/ didn't see that stuff before.

>>43733513
Male
White
Nate Wickman
Doctor, Big Guns, Science

Male
White
Bane?
Big guy, no survivors, hothead

>>43733513
Male
Caucasian
James Eriksson
Explosives
Lady Killer
Speech