/tg/ - Traditional Games

emperor good
aliens bad
chaos bad

>>24899490

Considering the pic is called "kunoichi_yumi_2", I think it's implying that she's an ninja. Or something.

Still, I agree. God fucking dammit.

>>24899511
I redact my previous statement. Next character will be a big booty murmillo bitch.

>>24899529
Again, it's kunoichi. That's a reference to how female ninja have one extra hole to use
You can't seduce a guard with hairy legs.

Shields Shall Be Splintered-
At any time, a player may sacrifice his shield to cancel the damage from a single attack. They have to narrate how it broke.

Best one all round. Shields become an actual thing rather than a +1 AC.

>>24899481
If you have to ban alignments, you need to find a better group. People need to understand the third axis on the alignment scale.

"On your side" and "Against you".

One of my favorite PCs is a LE vampire fighter. Funny thing, the party trusted her more than the Paladin because she wasn't spouting her dogma, and her manipulations were much more subtle through excessive use of domination.

>>24899519
Uh, old school doesn't require learning checks.
Do not denigrate my favoured system type or I will feel sad.

Always refer to rule 0: Your job as the GM is to make sure everyone has fun and the game keeps moving, this may mean you making final calls on things or quashing a player's stupid shit. Just because one guy's idea of fun is to derp around, doesn't mean the group gets to suffer for it.

-Make your players develop their characters, and help them with it.. A well-written background can provide advantages and disadvantages to certain scenarios, especially social encounters.

>I was in a game where someone wouldn't allow us to be a 12-years-old half-fae catboy. I don't like that just because it limits character creation.
-If you have a vision for your campaign, enforce it. If there are no Thri-Kreen in your game, no one gets to be one. If there are no psionics, no one gets to be one.

-Don't pull punches, and make death a real possibility. There's no fun if the players know they have GOD MODE from level 1

>I was in a game where someone wouldnt allow us to be evil, I dont like that just cause it limits character creation.
-Don't worry about alignment unless you're using a system that uses it mechanically. Strictly speaking, the reason to curb/limit alignment is because characters of opposing alignments SHOULD come into conflict with each other, and how could the group possibly save the day when they're trying to stab each other in the back? Furthermore, I would only trust about 10% of the players I've played with to operate in an All-Evil campaign, as the average player's idea of "evil" is a murderous, raping manchild.

I use Old School Hack's awesome points in every game now.

Because I still remember that fucking fetishistic living armor made out of slime that eats your shit. Goddammit.

>>24899349
I would kind of like this idea if I didn't feel you were getting off on it. Legitimately a beholder glove or helm would be pretty cool.

Waaaaitwaitwaitwaitwait.

Why do we think he's getting off to it again?

>>24899531
Because living bodysuits are pretty /d/. Internal tentacles/full body stimulation, etc. You get threads about it now and then.

>>24899564
A shame, because I like the idea of organic symbiotic armor.

I throw a pokeball at it!

>>24899323
1 d20 roll.

>>24899332
20

>>24899357
mouth critical, the monster ate it.

I cast Headbutt.

Well, finally got my laptop fixed, hopefully next saturday I'll be running RHI and starting the discussion for Primordial Civ South. In the meantime, though, I've got my final college presentation in about 72 hours. Wish me luck guys.

>>24899558
>they need direction.
Then give the character a motivation, but otherwise? Build for a sandbox campaign. Yes, have things available for arcs and storylines, but don't EXPECT people to fall into place. Build a thousand hooks and stories, and they are bound to find one.

>>24899558
At the risk of arousing the ire of the many people who kneejerk to its mention, that seems to be one of the main problems BFQ is facing.

If Femcock actually slapped her playerbase into some sort of order every now and again they wouldn't spend thread after thread herping and derping about a dozen different inane plans which never get done because every time a consensus is reached, someone vetoes it.

>>24899570
That's why no one enjoys quest threads, right?

>>24899551
I guess I'll figure alchemy out along the way. Kinda want to take the Diverse route on it and not have existing elements. Create my own that have similar effects.

Castles already planned! But creating stuff specific for dungeons like traps I haven't thought off.

>>24899205

To add onto that, if the purpose is to make players paranoid, you'd have to both set a precedent for enemies occasionally jumping the party right after combat, and secondly you'd have to use some more in-universe terms. For example, instead of saying, "Combat is over", say, "You don't see any more enemies." There's a difference between the two, as the first one just seems redundant whereas the second one gives a feeling of doubt that the players can't act upon because they don't have any reason to act upon it in character.

But again, it only works if there ever comes a time where there are actually more enemies after combat. If someone notices more enemies once, or they fail the roll and get jumped rarely, that'll be enough to keep them on their toes.

what a cool and inventive trick. you are the most clever DM I have ever seen
>yfw pulling off these master ruses

Oh good. Please, make summer end already...

>"You look around the room. There is a bookcase, though there are only a few books left on it, a couch behind a small table, a stairway to the upper floor, a young girl, a fireplace and a door that looks like it leads to the basement."
>"What is the girl doing? What does she look like?"
>"Did you see a girl? Roll perception."
>Player rolls, you roll.
>"Maybe you're seeing things, there's no girl here."

Dick move or no?

>>24899377

a good, if old, plot hook...
something foul is afoot...

>>24899148
Man, keep your pantaloons on. Just host it somewhere and get that little dosh from the adverts. Personally I don't care about few ads here or there, but on the other hand, I'm using adblock.

If it's good enough people will download it out of interest.

>>24899148
If it's good, we'll all copy it, hands down.
If it's not perfect, we will laugh at you.
If you think you can make money with this, you are mistaken.
If you think it's good enough to be stolen, you probably overestimate your capabilities.

Show it, await our verdict and live with the consequences or get lost.

Will upload in a moment, using adfly. Bear with me.

>wez kant stop ere thiz iz nidz country!

Where da 'ell'z everywun got ter?!

Get back 'ere and gimme more gubbinz!

Roight, 'as you got a lie-senz for all dem bits?

>>24899262
S'right 'ere!

DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!

>>24899073
cut it off with clippers like you would any other part. File the connecting area (front foot in this case) flat from any bits left from cutting to get a better surface, use strong glue and maybe pin if wobbly.

Snip with clippers, file flat, drill hole in foot/feet and base, pin together.

>>24899070
Good decision. Carry on citizen!

>any tips on fighting lightly armoured and with just a sword and a spare hand effectively?

It all depends on your larp's rules, but yeah, you're likely at a heavy disadvantage fighting someone 1-v-1 and should just try ganging up on opponents with your friends.

If you can lunge and thrust at your LARP, you might have a chance, but since that's not likely I can only recommend that you just employ sound tactics against people, and there is no more sound tactic than three people ganging up on one.

>>24899470
The loyal servant thing could work.
The cat could play it as being the pet of a noble when it's actually the other way around and the servant poses as a noble in his stead.

>>24899470
I have proposed 1,2,4 to the player.

I don't like the idea of portraying cats as more intelligent than they are, since cats are stupid. So it would be more like: >>24899135

>>24899318
Because you can't have fun applying a little bit of common sense right?

>>24899524
One thing that I forgot to ask that is very important: Can the cat talk? The cat is sentient, but if he can communicate, then it's perfectly reasonable to assume that being able to learn new ideas through communication that the cat COULD become intelligent.

Mind you, his moral compass would probably be a bit warped being a feline where you eat your dead sometimes and the like.

Either way, I still think noble amongst cats could work. Mind you it would really suck if there are any rogues in your party, an army of stray cats following their leader would be pretty hard to hide.

>>24899552
The PC is intelligent, he is an awakened cat.

Other cats can't really become intelligent.

>>24899035
>Deathwatch
>Pros
Its fun to power fantasy as space mehrehns every now and again.
Chapter creation allows some amazing diversity
Because you are a part of the inquisition, you can do shadow-runner esque work (to an extent), or just space-marine it up all up in some xeno faces. Even Diplomacy.
Because deathwatch is ordo xenos, its practically mandatory that there's some nice variety in alien species to deal with (I like species variety. Its just nice to add variety)
I could totally run this shit as Battlefield: Bad Company if i wanted to.
>Cons
My experience with the d10 system was poor, to say the least. DM was first-timing a non D20 system (decade of experience my ass), so didn't get how it worked, and it kinda crashed, hard.
As a result, I really don't quite know how the system works, and am skeptical as to how well it supposedly works. I'd be willing to learn though
Its a big universe to get into, and it's difficult to discern fan-exaggeration from setting cannon. Though, this can be settled.

>Rogue Trader
>Pros
40k, but HIGH ADVENTURE!!
Practically demands fun quirky characters
Can justify any sort of game I want, from event horizon to road to el-dorado.
Don't need to worry about the big setting, as more lighthearted games in this system I can just go with what's more fun at a given time.

>Cons
Ruleset as mentoned above. Lots to dig into, and I don't quite trust the d10 system.

Basically, universal cons in retrosepct
>Big universe to get into
>New ruleset to shift to
>Don't know how well the rules work of if a previous edition was better/soon to be released later edition was better.

And this is just off of the top of my head. Please expand upon, confirm, or refute these perceptions, and add your own Pros and Cons. I'd like to hear opinions before I buy.

Bumpin'

I'd really like to hear your guys' opinions on these systems.

Anybody?
I don't have the kind of consistent income that allows me to just get one, decide I dont like it, and get another. Not at this time.

Can I please get some information/opinions on these systems?

>>24899031
But the Blood Ravens traveled through the warp dozens of times during the game. It must have been more than 21 days.

>>24898985
>Is it even possible to stop a Tyranid invasion without massive orbital interception, space defenses and fleet support?
generally no. A really heavily armed fortress world might be able to scrape through, but its not likely.
Even Macragge itself barely survived and it had massive amounts of fleet support as well as several guard regiments, some titan legions and the whole ultramarines chapter on the ground.

There as also another timeline in some fluff that came with a nid terrain article that had the hivefleet invade and strip a world in 80 days, during which they removed ~12% of the planets mass.
It might still be on web archive I'll see if I can find it.

>>24899045
warp jumps over such short distances are really quick, we're talking hours not days.

>>24899054
http://web.archive.org/web/20060429152846/uk.games-workshop.com/tyranids/tyranoforming-worlds/1/

the article i mentioned.

>>24899103
>http://web.archive.org/web/20060429152846/uk.games-workshop.com/tyranids/tyranoforming-worlds/1/

Wow. Thanks Anon.

Rolled 3, 2, 6, 1 = 12

>>24898935
>COLDCOLD or COLDBLADE
>or BLADECOLD

I can live with it.

Rolled 1, 6, 3, 4 = 14

>>24898944
>ULTRAHAMMER

Although that's a little more badass.

>>24898957
ICECLAW and COLDBLADE could team up, I guess.

I am watching and reading intently. is there any more to this system?

>>24899077
Did you even read the first post? You can download it there.

>>24898934
Northern European seas = Cog users
Southern Europeans/Mediterranean = Galley users

Tactics: in northern European seas: boarding based combat.

Southern European seas: same as the above, but with more ramming and the inclusion of missile warfare.

1500's Everyone gets cannons and begin to fire at the everliving shit at each other.

>>24898988
Look at this picture.

Northern European naval ships possess fighting towers to aid in boarding.

>>24899056
fuck my picture.

Galleys are perfect to range missile troops upon the deck, specially with some possessing raised fighting decks.

>>24899166
That, was fucking brutal. Also, near the beginning with the mid-air feint kick was awesome.

>>24899297

You should watch the movies. Not genius or anything, but the fights are good and they're decent brainless entertainment. No Undisputed 1 though, it's a bit shit.

Would that be BEAR HANDS-type martial arts or something that can eventually be put to use behind a lightsaber?

anyway krav maga:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Fz3b4kd7Dt4#t=32s
it's a very brutal looking modern self defence martial art that focuses on incapacitating a foe as quickly as possible but the throws and grabs in it still seem pretty theatrical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1B5FuYxfgo
Plus who doesn't like "wait a minute, what just happened there?" moves?

>>24899183
I know, Echani is a martial art, used by the Echani people. I just have no idea what it's like, or how to describe it. Will look up that one you mentioned though.

>>24899381
Unarmed preferably, though something that could theoretically mix with a blaster and pistol whipping would be cool.

>>24899428
Echani is basically space kung fu. By a similar notion, the Baran Do sages I picture practicing what amounts to Shaolin kung fu.

>http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/110555-Galaxy.html

>>24899156
>http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/110555-Galaxy.html
Yeah I found things like this annon, been trying to find a nicely detailed map of all races all worlds