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>>92844324>Lucia has that entire southern area/peninsula to herself while Steerpike has a couple of islandsGoddamn, Southerners eating well. No wonder Lucia's raw resource pop is insane.
>>92844104>>92844324If Othalanon doesn't make the Central region bigger, I'll do it myself, but it's gonna look somewhat patchworky.
>>92844324Vicaro's position seems weird, I specially mentioned he should be in the mouth to the heartland. Also he's got no mountains in his domain, but a bread asked and rivers.Wouldn't it make more sense to switch him and Auria and give him that Region there?
>>92844844>breadasksBread-basket. He's got a title upgraded breadbasket
>>92844844Alternatively, if you can't move auria, Switching with Levi would be better than his current place
A good friend of mine is about to start running a game - this is what we've been provided about his setting (truncated due to character limit).>The world is one where various realms have fused together following a catastrophic event where all planes collided into one massive modern city and the lands around it, merging realms that embody elements like Light, Dark, Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. The resulting world is diverse, featuring locales from dinosaur-ridden jungles to high-tech cities with weather-altering powers.>The central hub is a sprawling, class-based city surrounded by mountains. The city features advanced technology and magic, especially in its central areas, while the outer regions resemble medieval Europe in tech level. This city is culturally diverse, with various beings integrating into its society over thousands of years. Magic is common in the outer regions but less so in the inner areas.>The surrounding realms are equally diverse, including wetlands with rocky giants, radioactive swamps with plant-like beings, mountains with prophetic moth-creatures, ethereal realms with ghosts, volcanic lands with fiery beings, and black-and-white grasslands with 2D shadow creatures.>Playable species include non-magical and magical humans, magically enhanced beings, rocky nomads, plant-like dwellers, moth-like prophets, ghostly entities, fiery beings, 2D shadow creatures, sentient candy beings, and apple-like forest creatures.I'm more the sort of person who prefers a core central theme to base a character around (I am uncreative). When "anything is possible and you can be whatever you want", how do I come up with something that would mesh with the theme? The GM says he'll come up with the adventure once we've made our characters, so I can't make a character who might suit a particular type of adventure thematically either.Also, what does /tg/ think of "anything can happen and you can be anything you can think of"-style settings?
Still don't know what the actual objection to these kinds of settings are. I always run kitchen sink settings and they work wonders. Players can be anything they want - if you can't work with that then the game isn't for you?
>>92841281>ask why people dislike a thing>people answer>others tell them this opinion is incorrect>continue asking why people dislike a thing
>>92842151This was the only answer given, and it's not really valid imo (>>92835179)Why isn't flexibility a selling point? And it's not a blank page, it's the opposite - literally everything is on the page (and don't give me "if everything is on the page then it may as well be blank" stuff)
>>92842373Rum is good, cola is good, milk is good, chocolate is good.Drink of rum and cola is good.Drink of milk and chocolate is good.Drink of rum, cola, milk, and chocolate is not good.Ugg now has explained to Oog why kitchen sink is not fun for all cavemen. Ugg think if need simplify further, then Oog must have mental health issue that make feeblemind. Ugg not know how to explain to Oog what a preference is, if Oog not already understand not need reason to not like thing. Oog not young cavebaby who still suckle milk from Agg's tit. Oog understand all preference valid, only feeblemind plainsmen not understand this, they feeblemind and drink cola mix with milk from Agg's tit.
>>92842373>dismissing both points out of handWhatever explanation I give you will be dismissed because you yourself don't agree. Unfortunately, this makes you a fucking retard.Ugg here >>92842642 basically has it right anyway, not all great tastes taste great together.
>ITT you post IC as a monster hunter from WoD. Every user has an unique number appending their username. Need more info? refer to /wodg/Reminder that conact and discussion with God_45 is strictly prohibited.
>>92842500Do you have any hunter friends you could bunker with for a while? It may help to have another imbued with you, I know some of us get these healing powers, maybe they could soothe your dreams for you? and if this ominous figure does show up in reality well, it'd be nice to have a friend with a shotgun on standby. Otherwise socializing and taking a break away from the hunt may help if this is simply your mind being overworked from stress and the hunt
I'm sick and tired of these goddamn wraiths. they have these most balls to the wall "well you know the thing keeping me here is the fact that when we were kids my sister called me a poopoo head so now I possess little girls that look like her".
>>92828756fUCK WHOEVER TOLD ME STAKING THEM KILLS THEMI tried staking one of them and he didn't fucking die!He just stood there, unmoving, we had to cut his head off. We made more of a mess than needed and now I'm tyring to get the blood off my clothes. It sticks like hell.Get your facts straight next time.
>>92843605Atleast staking them does SOMETHING. One of the people I worked with tried to load up on chocolate and grapes because "chocolate kills dogs and like, werewolves are just giant dogs right??"
WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THESE GODDAMNED BLACK SUITS?!Before you pricks say anything, yes I know anyone can wear a black suit, that's not what I mean. I've been staking out this vamp den for months now, real creepy place. It's some dude's plastic surgery clinic, and the mosquitoes must have some kinda ridiculous dirt on him cause the dude is a fucking mess. Surgeons are supposed to be rich right, so why is he living in a house that looks like a fucking crack den?? Anyway that's not the point.Every week or so, a couple dudes in black suits step out of an unmarked van and walk into the place. It's never the same guys, but they all look like the most stereotypical government spooks you can imagine. Sunglasses, clean suits, the same haircut, and one of them always has an earpiece. Whatever they're doing in there, I can't figure it out.So that's weird enough right? It gets worse. Last week I was trying to set up an ambush to kidnap one of the bloodsuckers for a good old fashioned interrogation. Right as I start prepping the trap though, one of those black suit fucks randomly shows up and asks me what I'm doing. Obviously I spill the usual oblivious pedestrian lines and the dude seems to buy them, but why in any fucking world was he there right then?? It wasn't nearby that doctor's office, and I've ONLY seen the suits there. I've never met a spook like that before in my life, and it happens right when I'm ready to snatch a vamp? Have the bastards been watching me the whole time? Do they know everything I've been doing for months? I can't even sleep at night thinking I'm gonna wake up with a pair of fangs in my throat now!
>ITT: You post IC as a vampire, what setting? VtM. What clan? Doesn't matter. Need more info? see /WoDg/>Be cursed to be hideously ugly>Be incredibly good at getting secrets from mortals because no one notices you with your powers>Be bitch-boys to the local Camarilla for few thousand years>Finally cry for freedom and go to the Anarchs>Nothing changes because your IQ matches your body temperature>Get bossed around and used as mutts for secrets and bodyguards still>Be Nosferatu, pic unrelated
>>92840781have you seen what happens when they give the position to a protestant?
>>92821196Anyone know where I can find one of those eye sheepu guys to score some kalif? Asking for a friend...who is also the sherrif because that stuff is totally illegal and not at all allowed and any sane kindred wouldn't do supernatural drugs. Totally.
>>92842904The sneks know how to get kalif.Supposedly.
>Go participate on the Setite Hunt because fuck 'em, along with >>92838331-bitch here.>Don't heed any of the warnings or practical advice >>92839169 has because I don't need no advice from some rando.>Get going.>The nightss nice and young.>But suddenly, I'm ambushed! >I strayed too far from the others in a maze of alleyways, and was set upon by them!>Neonates emerge from the unseen, and give chase after my Malkavian ass.>Chase me into an alley, three of them coming to take me down to Hell with them.>But then, I realize something.>I have the one trump card(literally) in my backpack(I never leave home without).>They are running mad, snarling, and run to me at full speed - Celerity.>But I have faith - true, undeinable faith that this can, will, and shall protect me from these creatures of the sands.> I draw forth Exodia, the Forbidden one.>The Setites stop at once recoil at once, and as I approach, I invoke bullshit knowledge through my Demented smackering of Eygptian History.>That Exodia was the being that locked Set away from this world, and was so great the God himself had to divide him into five to keep him from destroying all.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Gibe kalif and instructions for Approach the Veil, pls.
Okay, but what are you actually supposed to do in this setting?Like, it's cool and all, and kinda useful as a framing device to introduce various GURPS mini-settings (even if you have to contrive things like Yrth's quantum sargasso and kick THS out) but I just don't see how you turn it into a campaign.
>>92839099>Continues to confirm he didn't read the bookIf only it contained something more than 2 pages to describe ISWAT and half page to describe Reich-5... I mean it's not like it's 243 pages long and five different expansions came to it or something.The fuck are you even trying to achieve here, you moron? This is so blatantly clear you are utterly clueless, you can't even make a semi-coherent bait out of your wild claim, and yet you keep posting things that aren't simply wrong, but are addressed in the book you are bitching about. Really, what's the end game here? What? "Infinite Worlds le bad"? Like no shit, Sherlock! The entire point of making IW was so that they don't have to make setting books, akin to 3e, and just call it a day by releasing expansions and edition updates for their pre-existing settings, while IW being a catch-all bag for whatever left. Which only further paints you out as a clueless idiot, since this is basic knowledge since what? 2008? 2009? Were you even a thing back then, or still just sperm?
>>92839175>The book is useful if you ignore its contentYeah, sure mate. Next thing you will say Banestorm and its Ministry of Serendipity makes sense.
>>92839305>Things nobody even implied, not to mention said... so you've been arguing with voices in your head this whole time, then?
>can play it as interdimensional Cold War spooks (for any side)>can play it as time cops or pseudo-inquisitors rooting out subversive influences>can play it as time-traveling/dimension-hopping treasure hunters>can play it as historical mystery solving squad >can play it as patriots for Earth nations like Britain or Germany or Russia ensuring your country is supreme in all timelines>can play it as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen multiverse edition>can play it as regular-ass isekai>can play it as the natives getting invaded/colonized by outworlders>can basically run any sort of game you would run in a space setting except with modern/pre-modern tech levels>HURR WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO PLAYOP is a gigantic fucking faggot
The biggest problem I have with Steve Jackson Games's settings is that there's no blatantly obvious "Team Good Guys" to join; it's moral ambiguity all the way down. Which works just fine if you like political intrigue in your game, but if you'd rather just protect and serve the people of "Good Guy Land" in heroic fashion, you're out of luck. Why would I want to play in GURPS Banestorm, where every nation is compromising to heroic ideals? Why would I want to pick any of the 3 major factions in GURPS Infinite Worlds, and morally compromise my adventuring the same way I would have to in real life? I wouldn't go so far as to say the settings are unusable, but they're certainly lacking options for more idealistic players to grap onto; and that's a damn shame.
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>>92831567What's a good approach to deliberate and efficient study of chess? I've mostly just played the game casually but I'm just now reading up on some openings and playing around with making them work.
>>92841523Watch videos where things are explained clearly and do a lot of puzzles.
I am quite terrible, but was the solution to this puzzle supposed to be obvious? Like eventually after failing it I figured out they want me to pin/skewer the queen into the king after it takes the rook... but the queen could just not take the rook?
>>92831567What's the most dog- and weather-resistant chessboard on the market? Last time I tried to play in the park a dog toppled my king and scrambled my pieces right as the midgame started. I have some ideas for overkill /diy/ options but I don't have a ton of time for extra projects right now.
>>92843271>the queen could just not take the rook?Yes, but that pawn was protecting the knight; now you can take it and even threatening a devastating discovered check on the king when you'll move the rook again. Rook to e8 is a checkmate if your bishop is on d5 (because is a double check).
How do you handle magic systems in your settings, /tg/?
>>92837256I'm playing with the idea that all magic and related things are remains of dead gods and that casters are simply channeling an aspect of a greater power they don't fully understand
>>92837256I handle them by posting threads asking how other people handle them, not offering anything relevant to the topic I needed a thread about, not responding to anyone who puts in the effort to answer, and then by giving petulant responses to people who call out this behavior.
>>92837256In mine you make wishes to gods, and if you’re lucky one grants you a spell to fulfill that wish.
>>92843166>Namefag cast "Dispel Bots"Intresting strategy, let's see how it works...
>>92842076It means kill yourself, bumpfaggot.
Why does 30k Admech look so much cooler than 40k Admech?
>>92837592When will you realize the codex lore is the voice of the Imperium? Any lacking data into the Mechanicum could simply indicate that the bean counters of the Imperium do not know.Let me dream of civil war games anon, just imagine, Geedubs hits us all at once with a massive update to Mechanicus but the monkey's paw curls once more and now Terra and Mars are at war. One lambasts the other for Heresies large and wide, and the other curses the Lords for their excesses and lack of results. Who should lead this stagnant behemoth to victory over the stars?... and why did the MOIRE SCISM send cadres of Sons of Medusa to Mars to cull the adepts that translated the Astronomican? Mind you; the astronomical is the psychic screaming of the Emperor across the void. Did they find all of the manuscript copies? Emps screams in warning of what he had forseen, and War with Mars is inevitable.
>>92837592Ad mech being one of the sick factions of 40k is more indicative of how much rot the game has accumulated as opposed to designers hating the faction. Just look at how they treat the game now: every faction gets a pity HQ for their codex while the game spirals out of control growing more bloated and more abstract than ever.
>>92829521Thanks 30k for the cool Custodes Bikes and tanks, I’m so glad Custodes don’t have to use the horrible ultramarines bikes or worst yet…..the fucking outrider
>>92839043This
>>92838892It's an Ornithopter like in Dune.If it had Rotors it wouldn't be an Ornithopter; it would be a Helicopter
Remember when talking about 40k lore on this board before 2016 didnt result in threads devolving?
>>9283980540k sucks woodchuck assholes. The game and the people who make it are a gonorrhea rash.
...so you made another thread in hopes of that happening again in real time? why bother
>>92839805Ravenguard are cool!
Female custodes lmao
>>92839805Remember when WH40k was still an active setting, before it was replaced with nu41k?>"lore"How can you speak of 2016 when you clearly joined far later?
In a world where the Gods are real and bloodthirsty (think like, Aztecs or Bronze Age-era sacrifices to Moloch), is there actually anything you can say to...I dunno, 'talk people down' from sacrificing dudes? It just seems that any "Hey, put down the obsidian daggers" argument is going to get deflated by:>"God wants us to do this, he literally told us in no uncertain detail, and he gives us superpowers for doing it. Anyway, the other guy's God also wants basically the same thing."
>>92842620If the god wanting the sacrifice is objectively, verifiably real, what reason would I have to even try to talk someone out of it assuming things work like with the Aztec religion and the sacrifice is necessarily to keep the world going? And if the sacrifice is just going to give the sacrificer superpowers that I don't want him to have, talking is not going to work, it's violence time.
>>92842648Yeah you know whatI think you're right actually. It would be weird for the PCs to argue from a humanist perspective, especially if they grew up in that world.
>>92842620Maybe if your god would give them equal or greater super powers without killing people and promised to protect them from the wrath of the god they'd be cheating of blood and you showed them some proof right at that exact moment. Otherwise, I'm with >>92842648 in that nothing you can say is going to stop someone from getting an obsidian dagger shoved inside.
>>92842699I've actually had personal experience with this one. My storm-god worshipping cleric managed to convince several cultists to switch sides by explaining how my god would protect them and, even if they should fall, they'd at least get a spot in knockoff Valhalla instead of their souls taken by fiends. This was after the Sorceror had tried to get them to switch on purely ideological grounds; as the DM put it, right and wrong is all well and good but the promise of an eternal afterlife of suffering tends to be more immediately motivating.
Terrain, scenery, how tos and what ifs and beautiful tables in general.Also: What about yours?
>>92835918Sloped simply looks better
>>92838239If they are built into the gaming board like those old Lotr boards it definitely does. Problem is you can only really use scatter terrain on that like singular trees. I suppose if you want bigger height differences for hills that obscure LOS you'd probably want a stepped hill, so they don't get too big while still being playable.
cool
>>92835918>Is there any practical reason GW added the slope leading up to their wargaming hillWarhammer Fantasy Battles used ranked square bases, they're easier to set up on a sloped hill and look kind of fucky on a stepped hill.
>>92833970This is a really cool idea.
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>>92820440If I heard backtalk like that from my players they would be out of my game and on their asses so fast. Then I'd enjoy my extra time no longer spent on prepping.KNOW YOUR PLACE, TRASH
>>92843189>>92820440You deserve each other.
Any good homebrew of advanced specialities for commissars, sanctioned psykers and stormtroopers? Those seem to be the missing part from the book that was never published. >>92835099>Question for the thread; Do any of you anons have your own sector or setting that you play in? I'm slowly putting together a sector map and would love to see what others have made.I once saw a pdf from a man who had turned Iocanthos into a fully realised world here, but like so many things I don't have it anymore. I think the bits and pieces were lower gravity, slightly higher tech level (onions green machines in the roving billions strong hordes) and more space mongols, but it's been a while. Struck me as fallout on steriods, to be honest.
>>92843303Rule 0 may be the GM is always right, but Rule -1 is if the GM has no players, then the GM has no game.
>>92843677The zenith rule is always: assholes deserve each other. And I've replied to at least two assholes.
When slaying Tieflings on a beach, your party finds an unknown monument. It turns out your setting is the future of our world. All the races and monsters are mutants, genetically engineered creations, and even antediluvian horrors from an earlier, even darker time period. What do?
>>92838532>Lug
>>92831272Round up some slaves, look for the place which is not a place of honor and get them to start digging.
>>92841198The only actual answer ITT.So power generation or weapons?
>>92831329Dibs on that guy's hat.
>>92831272Without being a person from the destroyed civilization that would recognize such ruins, they are effectively meaningless to me or my character or whatever.
>new player joins the game>new character materializes out of thin air in the middle of the wildernessreally breaks my immersion
>>92839568Which does not explain why the ranger would suddenly want to leave the habitat to tag along with the party.
>>92812451Agreed. Need to find where his newest stuff is being posted outside of his Patreon.
>>92842987https://kemono.su/patreon/user/859005
>>92843079Bless you, anon.
>>92812309Thats why you should play in caravans/mercenary companies if you got a shifty table. THen you can say that this guy was working under the ship deck/in the carrage, until now.If you got a shifty party, you should be playing in situations that accomidate drop ins and drop outs.
Fuck dwarves and elves? Where are the hafling players at?
>>92840333wtf is this gross shit
>>92840749in my campaign, the only halfling is a very rude paladin
>>92840333And I thought Dungeon meshi fags couldn't start threads with worse pictures than the ugly elf making stupid faces or the hobo gay dwarf
>>92840738nearly every character that gets introduced is an insufferable asshole beyond like 3 people or so. It mostly devolves into interpersonal drama where all sides are assholes. And the sex scenes aren't really all that good either
>>92840333I thought we all agreed that hobbits were reserved for children and younger relatives and have unspoken plot armor on at all times?
