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>>53650077
Sounds cool OP.

>>53650077
>Adventure
So far I have this:

The adoptive family of the priestesses sister was last seen moving east towards the mountains with a settler trek some ten years ago. Nothing has been heard of them since. The Priestess and the dealer know each other and the ranger is recommended to them for wilderness survival. In the first adventure, they will visit a mining town where two things have happened: The wife of the mayor has disappeared and the machines in the mine are malfunctioning too often to be due to random chance, too little to be sabotage.

>The case of the missing wife
She was having an affair with the local prospector whom the groups prospector knows. Unhappy with her marriage, she decided to run away with him.

>The case of the machines in the mine
A digging robot was locked in a collapsed tunnel and presumed destroyed. Instead he survived and malfunctioned, prompting him to dig his way back and proceed to "repair" equipment whenever he stumbles across it.

>>53650141
Thanks. Credit goes to the players though, they made up most of this.

What I'm asking is: Does this sound playable? SHould I connect those two story strings somehow? Should I fill in more details or trust the players on doing so?

>>53650077
>FATE for complete newbies
This could go so wrong in so many ways it's not even funny.

>>53649725
It's d&d5e by the way.

>>53649725
Race: Pirate
Background: Pirate
Class: Fucking Pirate

>>53649801
You make a good point Anon

>>53649428
Depends on the setting.

>>53649435
>faggot non-answer

Ah, the cancer of /tg/, still spamming itself.

I like my gods like the Greek liked 'em.
Vaguely omnipotent, immature, and very bored.

I feel like anything short of The One True He Above should be flawed, fallible and constantly stepping on eachother's toes for kicks.

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I'm feeling somewhat under the weather, so I hope you guys are having a nice day. All of you, even the shitposters.

Also, cyoa makers, cheers. I appreciate your work.

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>>53649414
Thanks for the OC last thread, anon. It was pretty fun. You mind if I stay over tonight? You can tell me about the next cyoa you'll be working on.

Oh and do you got any spare underwear I can borrow tonight? I've been freeballing today.

>>53649488
Sure, bro.

Borrowing boxers is kind of gay, though.

>>53648784
Madness at Gardmore Abbey is considered one of the best modules for 4e.

It's also notable for starring the Deck of Many Things, _without_ destroying the campaign.

>Second question is, what are the best hacks to speed up combat. I've seen some 4E Lite projects and stuff like that.

Just have everything at hand, including rules compendium. Make action cards with the Character Builder (use CBLoader if you don't have a subscription), and make sure the players know their shit. If needed, add a 1 minute timer.

>>53648784
>Second question is, what are the best hacks to speed up combat. I've seen some 4E Lite projects and stuff like that.

Shadow of the Demon Lord

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>>53648859

Nothing? No response?

>>53648177
A lot of those problems are answerable the same way as if you'd run a fantasy campaign, you just switch terms around.

Reccuring NPCs are met the same way, long-range weapons are fireballs-for-everyone, spaceship is "should I give them dimension-crossing mounts".

The last two questions aren't specifically sci-fi oriented but to throw a few ideas around:

> How to emphasis the emptiness of space when the players are able to go planet hopping in space ships?
Part of it you got the inkling about - the feeling of isolation. Make them move through the space dealing with something while there's nothing there, stars merely pinpoints that don't seem to be closer, sensors that detect things from many kilometres report nothing. Switching timeframe in a way that makes them deal with stuff on ship, with moments of respite underlining how they travel and travel and it's nothing but stars away all that time might help. Make them realize that if not for the ship they're in they could very well be in an empty void stretching forever.

>How to create a dark tone and feeling of isolation without them feeling like nothing matters?
Give them a goal, give them information of things being out there but don't make it easy to get there. Obviously their sense of scale will be off if they only need to press a button and they'll travel across galaxies on FTL drive between populated planets, stations etc in a few moments.

It will, again, make things happening locally (as in, on the ship) necessary, so the sessions won't be "you keep on travelling through space, see you next week".

>>53649360
cont.

There may be many little chores and personal goals/quests introduced ("you start working on the weird, alien rifle", "you tend to the engines trying to figure out what makes them overheat so fast", "you continue your meditations, trying to develop your psychokinetic abilities to level above barely interesting party tricks") as well as bigger events ("thorough whole big ship there are nests of hullworms - while only mildly dangerous on their own, they multiply quickly, eating up the alloy the hull is made out of and have to be eradicated") that will be adventures taking up sessions all while the ship's in transit, often with little outside of it.

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>>53648100
It's a little trick that expands our repertoire of abilities, born from ingenuity, talent, or just plain luck.

You'd be surprised what you can learn when you have some spare time and don't have to worry about finding proper fucking clothes, ancient one.

>>53648100
We're annoying. That's it. At the end of the day, we don't do it for god, gold, glory, or four our own race... we do it because we're petty, even amongst ourselves. We do things deliberately because we know someone, somewhere, will be less happy because we did it, and that sounds like fun. Because it makes us feel superior to them in some way. Outbreeding Elves and Dwarves, yet still dominating those who outbreed us? All just petty lust for superiority. Killing a Dragon, or a god? Well, what's more annoying than getting killed when you think you're immortal, or at least very close to it.

In short, there's no reason other than Humanity does it to spite everyone else for shits and giggles.

>>53648100
I tell you. For about tree fiddy.

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Any jumps with EUROBEAT?

>>53648091
youtube

>>53648091
Jojo, make a cool Stand with it.
The Transporter Shard in Worm will make you a beast at driving

>>53648021
>What are the weirdest weapons your characters have used/picked up?
See normally I'd say an enemy Wizard but that's typical on /tg/
Then I'd probably say that monk that did unarmed attacks with his Large cock for 1d8 damage at level 1 but that's also typical on /tg/
So probably 3rd place is when I used a nuclear fuel rod as an improvised club.

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I don't like the vancian spellcasting system, but I do like spells.
Is the Dreamscarred Press psionics stuff a good pick for this? I hear it's mosty X power, but you add Y points to make it suck less when you cast it.

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Which games are still recruiting?

>>53647995
Op, I certainly can't hold anything against you for playing hex-and-chit. I'd like to get into it myself.

...but around these parts, unless it has miniatures - good miniatures - most don't give it the time of day.

>>53647995
Do you know of any good games still available? I used to have one called Necromancer but that was looooong ago.

>>53647995
Used to play the shit out of it back in the late 80s.
Came in 3 books at the time. First was basic combat, second added fighters, and the third was a campaign system.

Ships looked like this -
BRADLEY - FG1 - [2] - S S S A A W I H W I I I I [5]
Meaning the Frigate Bradley had a turn mode of 2 and movement of 5. The letters refer to ship components.

Unlike some other space combat hex & chit games (star fleet battles), there is no power allocation, you can fire any and all of your weapons each turn, which simplifies the game (for good or bad).

Warcosm is a modern hex & chit game that is current and very similar in play.

What are you looking for in a space wargame?

>>53647885
So it includes having sex with you?

>>53647885
>the game will include sexual horror

Only reason I'd include sex in a game.

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>the game won't include sexual themes
It was my life

>>53647732
sunless sea is great and well written, but its essentially a cthulu-esque, Victorian/steampunk era game.

>>53647732
Remind me how Sunless Sea handles sanity? All I remember from the game is that darkness is bad.

>>53647861
You acrue 'Terror' over time, the rate of which is linked to light. So if you have your Headlamp on or are near a buoy or lighthouse then you'll get Terror at a slower rate, but there are times when you might want to turn your Headlamp off because of monsters you want to sneak around or your running out of fuel

Terror is also gained through the story, which is interesting since you can get Terror from... having a chance encounter with some sea beast which is understandable, but also from going into a abnormally dark room with a deep sense of foreboding. If your terror hits 100 you go crazy.

>>53647792
I haven't ever played CoC, how often do you like run into the monsters, since in Sunless Sea you never run into something like a... Shoggoth for example, its always hinted at or eluded too through tricky word play and excellent writing. Most of the uncomfortable things that you read come from some shady character saying something off.

>>53646904
I pick the kobold because magic is cool and would compliment my fighter skills. Would probably romance her at some point.

Jessica can't be a human, this is not how human legs work.

>>53646904

I'll wait until there are choices that aren't shit thank you very much.

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PDF related is a slightly overenthusiastic pitch by some guy from SA forums.

PDF download for core rulebook:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/m555wbs905jb00z/Strike%21+Core+Rulebook.pdf

Sell me on Strike! versus just playing 4e.

>>53647998
Instead of using a clear-cut rulebook to run tedious, but functional combat you can read a tedious, but functional, rulebook to run clear-cut combat.

>>53646704
it releases the exact same convoluted rules in every set. That's like complaining about chess because each set looks different.

>>53646733
I'm talking about shit like climaxes, levels and how your need certain cards to activate everything

It's like not even the waifus in this game aren't worth the struggle.

>>53646704
Maybe it depends on the type of deck you're trying to use if you're a newcomer.

If you jump headfirst into Love Live or KLK, your first impressions won't be as good since those are decks for those who are already accustomed to the game.

Try the Miku decks.