What's the best Harry Potter RPG? And why does /tg/'s

>>52308986
Witch Girls Adventures.

Just ignore the magical realm parts.

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>>52308986

>>52309005

>Just ignore the magical realm parts.

Why contain it?

>>52309793
>left to right

>>52312124
all comics are read left to right

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>>52308986
I guess you could try GURPS or Fate, but why would you want to roleplay in one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises? Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though r-right
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>>52308986
Hack Gumshoe I say it every time HP is mostly about the mystery with not much fighting till the later books.

>>52312172
Oh hay it's the pasta.

>>52312182
I think the funnest part of a Harry Potter RPG, along with the mystery, would be creation of custom spells. As the GM it would be fun to see what players could come up with to solve any obstacles you throw at them.

>>52312485
That seems more like a job for LOS MAGOS DEL TIEMPOOOOOOOOO

>>52312172
I could tell by the length and placement of the text that this post was going to end with "Stephen King".

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>>52312485
>I think the funnest part of a Harry Potter RPG, along with the mystery, would be creation of custom spells.
No joke, I actually do like the Witch Girls system >>52309005 and the custom spell creation stuff is fairly balanced (when you remember that all the PCs can probably cast spells).

>>52312172

Kanye's book is good? I'm guessin it's a biography

>>52308986
I want to impregnate Bellatrix while Narcissa watches and cries.

What's my alignment?

>>52308986
>no hufflepuffs
fuck this whole thing desu

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>>52308986
>Best Harry Potter RPG?
Ghosts of Albion.

I originally ran my magical school game under Gurps. When I moved to game over to GoA my players and I had much more fun with the game.

My players consisted of a muscle wizard, charisma monster, necromancer, narcolepsymancer, and alchemist.

>>52312224
i just enter this threads to read this pasta, makes me feel good

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Tabletop_RPG

>>52313721
It's has an amateur charm to it.

There's actual rules to play it in the world of "Larry Trotter" in the book, you should include the pure blood traint it's cool.

>>52308986
Delta Green. It's what I'm using.

>>52308986
Why is Hermione white?

>>52318799
Why are you, cracka?

>>52318940
I hate Ron so I want him to be BLACKED

>>52319055
Man, dem Weasley boys is honorary niggas. Not like that Longbottom busta.

>>52319154
>longbottom
>no prestige except his tortured-to-insanity parents
>supposedly rich but couldn't even get his own wand at first
>almost zero talent
>still sticks it to evil when he gets his shot
>busta

>>52319183
You can't un-busta the busta. Once a busta, he a busta for life, no matter how many snakes he done killed.

>>52314607
>no boring girls

Live a little, anon. You're young, don't settle for "alright cook, not terrible to look at, doesn't push you to change" just yet.

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>>52319202
>implying you wouldn't
>implying Hermione wouldn't
>implying your mom wouldn't

>>52309005
I recommend people listen to the System Mastery episode on it. They show how the system is fun but with serious problems from no playtesting, and that best girl is a muscleloli who at chargen can either magic not!Cthulhu to death, or straight kick his ass.

>>52314419
Heterosexual/chaotic

>>52319569
>>52315543
>Punch Witch

It's so broken it's beautiful.

But yeah it does show off how massive the games needs a editor, a 12 year old girl shouldn't be able to get enough gains she can punch spells.

>>52308986
>includes pansy, who is called pug faced and ugly
>not Cho or the Patil sisters who show up more in the story and are described as beautiful

Rude.

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>>52308986
I'd probably use some kind of nonsense with Academagia. More important to get that magical school feel than to straight up match canon mechanics.

>>52312172
Go back to /lit/ if you want to shit on peoples taste

>>52321056
>includes pansy, who is called pug faced and ugly
I never read the books, but since all the unattractive characters are evil, I assume she is too?

>>52323487
Lurk moar, newfag.

>>52323919
>since all the unattractive characters are evil

Neville is ugly, and he's good. Hermione was at least unlovely with her buck teeth, before she shrunk them.

But yeah, Pansy is a Slytherin bitch.

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>>52320803
>a 12 year old girl shouldn't be able to get enough gains she can punch spells.

Why the hell not?

>>52324592
Because there's enough fetishes in WGA without adding more.

>>52321056
She is described from Harry's perspective, and Harry is anything but unbiased. Rita Skeeter, for instance, described her as pretty.

>>52308986
Because Harry Potter isn't a thing where you fight monsters and clear out dungeons and shit. It's a thing where you have whacky misadventures in a big-ass castle where you're learning magic, and then bad things and plot MIGHT also happen.

It's more an issue of tone. The monsters don't really need stats beyond what you make up on the spot because that part of the experience isn't codified, and doesn't need to be codified, because doing so would remove a lot of the whimsy from things, and the whimsy is like 50% of Harry Potter.

>>52326741
>complaining about bias
>Rita Skeeter

>>52326977
What does she gain from lying about Pansy Parkinson?

>>52329382
By making Pansy seem attractive (I think she uses the term 'pretty and vivacious') it lends credit to her account in the eyes of the readers. People like beautiful people.

It also flatters Pansy, as she flattered Malfoy, making them more likely to keep feeding her info.

Onyxdime's Hogwarts game is probably one of the best ones out there, funnily enough.

>>52312172
lmfao that list

either /lit/ are philistines entire, or that's meant to trigger

>>52331567
You should lurk moar before posting on 4chan.

>>52320803
>a 12 year old girl shouldn't be able to get enough gains she can punch spells.

Anyone magically talented can "punch spells" in that system. The defensive magic rules don't specify what the character does to deflect, hold, dispel, or volley hostile spells. If the character in question is a mystical adept type what's wrong with punching the bad guy's fireball, or grabbing and chucking his charm person so it hits his goons.

>>52331666
Been here for...uhh...shit almost 10 years now.

Never been to /lit/ because, well, shit taste.

>>52331730
If you take self taught talent it lets you cast spells with the other ability stats

You know how it Dnd wizards (with the spells selection) could be better fighters then fighter? The exact Opposite apply to witch girls.

You can max out max body and be a combat monster while still casting spells with the Flexing of your abs.

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> when the Macaulay Culkin syndrome hits hard

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>>52332513
JUST

>>52312172
>Les Miserables
>above shit tier.
Your taste is bad and you should feel bad.

>>52326741
Rita Skeeter is a hilarious character in retrospect. Now it's Rowling's turn to be fake news!

>>52312172
Where would you rate Ender's Game?

>>52332513
That's just a bad picture

>>52332534
Yeah she got hit hard with the british slag curse

>>52331747
Sorry newfag, it's pasta beyond /lit/, and if you'd really neen here that long you would have seen it all over the place when the movies were coming out.

>>52308986

Harry Potter = Worst Witch + Troll (1986) + Lich's Phylactery x7

>>52332621
> Les Miserables
> Shit tier
Mother fucker I will fight you in real life.
> ib4 musical
Shut the fuck up. The book is what matters anon. Not Russell Crowe's inability to sing

>>52333561
Is there a level BELOW shit tier?
I guess whatever tier
>>52332621
Resides at.

>>52332534
Her nose is crooked and her eyes are asymmetric both horizontally and vertically. It's possible she has more serious asymmetries (possibly of the jaw) but it's hard to tell just from a couple photos.

That's always a hard hit against facial appearance when you're trying to consider genetic viability and sexual quality instead of just whether someone is "cute".

>>52342129
You know who else has very asymmetric eyes and the same serious droopy eyes that Brits seem cursed with?

Ryan gosling, and somehow plenty of people think he looks great. I guess money and success trumps genetic viability.

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>>52342129
>Crooked nose
cute

>Asymmetric eyes
Perfectly symmetric faces are creepy anon

>>52342311
Nah, that's just really good marketing and people parroting. Once enough people say that something is desirable, many more of the simpleminded want it too.

>>52342576
Lolno.

>>52342576
>spotted the person with the crooked eyes
Just get an asymmetric haircut to try to hide it like >>52332534

>>52342587
I guess that's true. It seems to work for the diamond industry.

>>52333561
Ender's Game is pretty good, Speaker for the Dead is great, Xenocide is okay, and Children of the Mind is shit.

The Bean/Shadow arc is okay.

>>52332534
Her whole face is crooked. It's like her skull had a stroke and half decided to fuck off down to her neck. It's uncanny.

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>>52312172
>no Beyond Elder God tier for Blindsight

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>>52332534
I think you're cute, Evanna

>>52331747
Yeah, it's posted on /tg/ about once a week

>>52332534
>>52332513
Tiny island, tiny gene pool. It's like Arkansas even in the bigger cities, and Innsmouth tier in places like West Country.

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>>52341927
For a true literature connoisseur, read The Lower Depths. It's like Les Miserables, but much better.

>>52343117
I still make fun of my wife from coming from the wrong side of the hills in the same county

but then it is my Grandparents who has the same surname before they were married...

>>52343162
Does this have some other title? Because I can find 20 books by Maxim Gorky and none of them are called The Lower Depths.

>>52312172
I know that list is pasta but it is still awful to witness. Kinda like the whole of /lit/ to be honest.

>>52308986
>No Molly

Shit Desu.

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>>52344722

>>52319508
Clearly you've never been with a Hufflepuff, anon. They're freaky when it counts.

>>52344747
It is nice to be reminded that while /tg/ is not by any means "good", being a 4chan board after all, even with the current invasion of /pol/ memesters going on, it still manages to be one of the least awful boards to dwell in.

>>52344787
It's fun to bitch about some of the idiots here on tg, but you're absolutely right as it relates to the rest of 4chins.

It's kind of like complaining about being around the median income somewhere in the US when there are people in bangladesh who hope their sweatshop doesn't burn down around them today.

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>>52344787
They didn't mean to do it. /lit/ went full Lenny

>>52344787
I think it's because we're one of the few boards based around activities that require sitting down with other human beings and interacting with them.

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>>52312124
>this fucking guy

>>52344366
I have no idea where you looked, simply googling The Lower Depths immediately leads to the book in question. But it's not a novel, it's a play.

>>52344747
I don't care for her at all. She overreacted.

>>52344770
Ravenclaw or bust, mate. It's the /tg/ house, after all.

>>52345272
We have a fair bunch of cunts who've never held dice in their hands, read a mind-boggling amount of popsci literature and now come here to screech at the people who want to have fun.

>>52345664
>Not being CG Slytherin Master Race

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>>52345778
>overachievers
>/tg/

>>52345866
All being a Slytherin is prepared to go the distance for what you want.

Set your goals, mate.

Then fuck over literally everyone else to achieve them and spend the rest of your days prepping for the inevitable backstabs and revenge plots.

>>52345711
Sure, it comes with the territory of being a subgroup in a szechuan cyber society. Still, there's nothing inherently social about reading books or folding paper airplanes or masturbating to cartoons. Traditional gaming is centered around the idea of finding some other socially maladjusted geek and using a rulebook to substitute for actual social skills.

>>52345778
>Slytherin
>not LE

Chaotic is for Americans who can't work the British class system to ensure your vast wealth and political influence are respected as leading members of society

>>52345934
>fuck over literally everyone else

It's like you have no respect for the empire your fathers built and your children ought to inherit. You are lord and shepherd of your family, not some thug who goes to jail for two Knuts.

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>>52312172
> Notes from Underground bad
> 1984 good

>>52345987
Slytherin is the designated support house of the magical amalgamation of Hitler and Bin Laden. They aren't some noble society of partriarchs, they're a bunch of amoral douchcanoes. Crabbe and Goyle were in the house, and even Draco isn't exactly shown to be a principled braniac throughout the series.

>>52346008
>1984
>good

>>52346059
Slytherin is, in principle, the house for the most ambitious students. That's it. The Death Eater kids only got there because they wanted to, and they only wanted to because Voldemort went to Slytherin. You know who else really belonged in Slytherin, but was placed in Gryffindor because he asked for it?

>>52346127
Dude, I like Slytherin as much as the next guy, but Harry was only gonna go to Slytherin because of the Voldemort in him.

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>>52346078
The message and the ideas behind the book are sound but the execution is so clumsy and awkward it's hard to take it as anything else other than prolefeed.

http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm

>>52346127
Then how come Hermione or Percy Weasley weren't sorted to Slytherin?

>>52346185
Because of the Slytherin Stigmata, of course. You can't be sorted into a house you don't wish to be sorted into. So since literally everyone keeps hearing about how Slytherin is so "bad" it mostly only gets kids who don't mind the stigma, AKA: the children of Slytherins.

>>52346216
>You can't be sorted into a house you don't wish to be sorted into

Didn't that happen to one of the kids in Harry Potter and The Property Can Still Be Milked So Here's A Play?

>>52346262
I'll be honest.

I've not seen or read the fucking play. I've heard it's shit, that's all I know.

But the last fucking scene of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows is Harry explaining to his kid Albus that ultimately, you can pick the house you want to go into, because choice matters more than fate.

>Captcha shows me a list of sentences and asks me to pick the ones that are improperly formed
What the fuck?

>>52346262
Harry explicitly told him that Slytherin is fine.

>>52346185
For the Weasleys it's a family tradition, and Hermione would be bullied for being a muggleborn.

>>52346298
Captcha wants to learn. Shame it thinks that the internet is the right place for grammar lessons.

>>52346298
Never forget there's scene when they're the evil timeline where the food trolley woman starts throwing Freddo grenades then turns into a Dark Souls boss. It sounds like I'm taking the piss, but the depressing part is that I'm not making this up.