I do wish our /tg/ were more active. Near everyone here is a traditional gaming fan and this is a nearly derp free zone. By all rights the game stories thread should be packed for instance. Hell, I'd even listen to DH and "my awesome paladin" stories.

Ok, that last is a lie.

>>314221
Silly Stranger, Quests are what we do here.

So many quests, good god.

>>314229

Go away, Gnome. Let people discuss what they want. The world doesn't resolve around quests.

>>314229
Why don't you put the whole world in a quest, Gnome?

Though, thanks of course for bringing me here. I still haven't made any real plans for that ONE quest I talked about.

GNOME IS THE RIGHTEST AND SO AM I

Make sure you embark somewhere with a lasting supply of water.
Aquifers are a bitch to get through, though.
The dwarf fortress wiki is useful to figure stuff out.

Strike the earth!

with the newest version you only really need surface water. then it's just a matter of getting your farm up and running really well.

Dig to the bottom. If you find any adamantine, get ALL OF IT. Ignore the demons, they're just there to congratulate you.

I managed to find a tutorial for 40d, so I've been digging through that. I like Obsidian, and rivers.

Then I started digging down.
and down.
and through three different caverns.
and down.

The mythical metal rock was mine in massive quantities, enough for any tower or Fortress...
then...

I dug too deep.
HFS, Indeed.
Why is this game so addictive?

rolled 2 = 2

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>>314097

rolled 4 = 4

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Intellect: Clearer thought and occasional insights.

Sight: Able to disbelieve illusions by force of will.

Light: Able to see in the darkness.

Chaos: One additional mutation added to the RANDOM lists, selecting from 7 instead of 6.

rolled 5, 2 = 7

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>>314225

rolled 1, 6 = 7

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>>314226
whoops!

rolled 3 = 3

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>>314227

>>314191
I'm aware of what the word means.
I just don't see how it fits in particular.

I also question the wisdom of taking a word and making it the name, rather than using syllables from different words or whatever.

A name isn't necessary. We've gone for quite some time without one. It would be convenient in certain cases though.

Alluvium as a synonym for Earth is OK, but doesn't really sing. Trying various English-Latin translations for relevant words like <unified setting son daughter child traditional games four chan> yields <unified occasus filius filia parvulus institutio venatus quattuor chan> which also lack punch.

Maybe another language?

Is 1d4chan down? I'm trying to access it to look over everything, and it's down.

Halp?

>>314208
It does indeed appear to be down.

1d4chan is back up for anyone who wants to make a local copy of the Unified Setting pages.

Lucid 2010/08/19(Thu)16:32 No. 314201
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OC doodles that came about as a result of the last session of CBSF

Anonymous 2010/08/30(Mon)12:06 No. 314210
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This is really, really too in-jokey for me to explain. ENJOY ANYWAY.

>>314210
You have an aversion to explaining in-jokes?

>>314211
Maybe I can help. The player of Asix was wondering what his sexuality should be during chargen, alien weirdness and all. The response was "I dunno, roll it?" but then that turned into "roll at the start of every session", and thus, Asix became a promiscuous witch that hits on people one moment and completely rejects them the next.

Ñ 2010/08/31(Tue)00:55 No. 314217
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My players continually find new ways to surprise me.
Of all the times to attempt diplomacy...

Fuck yes, I play a crippled, blind Domina of Sound who is durant, immutable and dedicated to the wild.

We had a group all set up, plans on characters, settings, and even some pretentious styles of game play going - like removing the usual table and using the empty space as as stage and try to personalize the chairs and stools with our characters and so on. I wish we actually got the game going. Magic Tea Party (free form) would indeed fit the bill and it all felt like the perfect game for embracing all our pretentious urges.

Been trying to get a game going for two or so years now. Still little to no hope.

I have no idea what this is but it looks pretty.

Anonymous 2010/08/29(Sun)23:46 No. 314207
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Every time I see the OP I think of this.

Well, I think we found your problem.

You're using 4E in a modern day setting? That must have taken a ton of edits.

>>313913
Or no edits at all, just make custom stats for tanks and guns and shit. Characters function exactly as normal, except maybe give a tech skill.

How big off a cliff was it?

D6
1 or less = Crew shaken
2 = Crew stunned
3 = Damaged- Weapon destroyed
4 = Damaged – Immobilized
5 = Destroyed – Wrecked
6 = Destroyed – Explodes

I admit, I loled...just a little though

>>314021
Don't tell me you've stopped ;_;

Nah, we're playing this sunday.

Hambol, sessions 36 and 37

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1YLXL6MW

I wish I had fanart to post with it, but the rest of what I've drawn sucks too much. Enjoy the logs anyways.

Θ][Σ 2010/08/22(Sun)14:03 No. 314204
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Didn't know this thread was here. Huh.

Thanks for the logs. Noticed the last complete one had the wrong file for Hambol 1 part 1, so here's a fixed complete upload of sessions 1-37 for Hambol.
http://www.multiupload.com/O9O1VCKN0W

>>314168
Wait, there's a bold in the bed? Damn i missed that.

>>314169
He's feelen bad becasue he dissed his loving cutebold waifu in public to fit in with the crowd... and she has no clue.

>>314170
No, he's feeling bad because the way they reacted gave him himself doubts.

>>314172
Nope.
He's pretty much just a coward.

No, he's feeling bad because he saw one of bg's drawings. He will probably kill himself later.

Also a reminder that the MUD is still taking archons, the grinder is still really easy to use and the only requirement is still having a quest.

Even though TGMUD has nothing to do with quest no more?

>>314187
Yes. The quest requirement was only there in the first place because having a quest implied having some imagination with which to create areas with.

Anonymous 2010/08/18(Wed)14:47 No. 314197
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Dogmeat again

Anonymous 2010/08/18(Wed)14:48 No. 314198
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Showin' that paranoid survivor who's boss

>Races in the world of Five songs
Humans are the only race to which all classes are available. There are four kinds of human: Savage, City, Noble, and Rural.

Savage humans are stronger than average, and have a greater fortitude. They are less capable and patient in society, though.
>+2 STR, +2 CON, -2 CHA

City humans are not neccesarily smarter, but are almost universally taught some sort of magic as they grow up, surrounded by wizards, sorcerors, and bards.
>+2 INT, Choose 1 0-level spell from any Arcane spell list. This can be used as a spell-like ability. caster level is based on character level.

Noble humans are born and raised in ivory towers and castles, distant from society as a whole. They are mentally trained to be great spellcasters, so that they may properly rule over the 'lesser people' and 'protect them'. Some Nobles in fact live up to this obligation, using their bearucratic power to help those below them. Most, however, do not.
>+2 CHA, +2 INT, -2 STR, +2

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>>314071
>This can be used as a spell-like ability 1/day.
hurr



Dwarves are people of the earth, animated when Farnle and Oosa had a contest of song in a rocky chasm. Farnle's song gave birth to the Dwarves from the ore-filled boulders. They have eyes of gold, silver, or copper, and flesh of a stone similar to marble. Thir beards are similar to steel wool, and their blood is like very hot sand.
>+2 CON, +2 STR, Damage reduction 2/magic. This damage reduction increases by 2 every third level, capping at 10. Dwarves are always provicient with Axes, Maces, and military picks, regardless of class.


Halflings are cousins of the Dwarf. When Oosa and Farnle had their musical duel in the chasm, Oosa's song animated the loam and pebbles and jewels, giving birth to the Halflings. Halflings are nomadic, clever folk, who are happy to help others and just as happy to relieve them of their wallets. Thier philosiphy is that

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And thus far is everything I have written down. I'm going to stop here and see what others can add or feel is mechanically unsound. I should note that the basic races should retain their normal racial traits unless a trait is different in this setting. So different kinds of vision, preferred classes, etc, are the same.

No one has any input? :<

Nope.

Obviously stick with pic related. Bravura Warlord is basically Kamina.

rolled 79, 85 = 164

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>Pray to the dice gods

Blessed Rune Thought

>>313980
For posterity over the epic-level trolling I engaged in:

[00:44] <Larro> All right, let's pray to the Dice God

Cecil 2010/06/24(Thu)00:41 No. 313974

rolled 67, 46 = 113
Blessed Rune Thought

[00:46] <Larro> hey that wasn't my roll!
[00:46] <Seven01a19> It wasn't? o.0
[00:46] <Larro> I call shenanigans
[00:46] <Larro> No..
[00:46] <Larro> I haven't even rolled yet

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rolled 3 = 3

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rolled 13 = 13

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rolled 8 = 8

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Havoc

You know those dice you roll to see how many Hit Points you have? Those are your Hit Dice. The number of Hit Dice you have is the number you've rolled to determine your maximum HP total. It's usually 1 per level.

I love that image.

Mostly because I imagine the retard being in horrible pain after it tries to fire an arrow like that.

Or the bow just flying out of its hands. Feet. Claws.

Ech. Lawful doesn't neccisarily mean the laws of the land. A pirate with a moral code could be lawful. A lawyer could be chaotic (though I doubt they'd get many clients).
It's all about order on that axis.

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2010/07/21(Wed)21:00 No. 314057
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>>314050
>A lawyer could be chaotic (though I doubt they'd get many clients.)

Nicolas would like you to know that he gets plenty of clients, thank you very much.

>>314043
Actually, it was because he tried to seduce royalty when she had an arranged marriage. Took the arm for 'stealing her heart', and the legs for 'breaking a contract and skipping town'.

>>314058
Sounds like what a Lawful Evil cleric would do.

Sounds like what a lawful evil GM would do.

Anyway, my story begins with an insane were-rat druid. Yes I make difficult characters. The whole focus of her character was that if her fellow druids discovered she was an abomination and an affront to nature at any time, they would tear her to ribbons. So I joined a group with this character, and I'm playing it up, dangling my dark secret around like it were a handkerchief with just the barest hint of blood on it. One of the other characters (a sorcerer) bluntly demands to know what my secret is. I forget exactly how he worded it but it wasn't the sort of thing my character would tell anyone ever at pain of death or worse. Also he was being totally meta, and I suspect he snuck a peek at my character sheet before that.

So I refuse of course. And the GM is all "Oh, well, I think you need to roll to see if he intimidates you or not." Intimidate being a Charisma battul. The players had been cool before, but now with this sudden rules flinging I was beginning to wonder. So I ask what his Charisma is.

It's a natural 20.

The GM let him start his Charisma at a natural

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It seems as though your problem would be best solved by using one of the many systems that use non-vancian magic.

Anonymous 2010/07/17(Sat)13:19 No. 314031
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Fuck anyone who says it's "too sciency."

Fantasy can have just as much Science as it damn well pleases.

Pic related. The Witcher has heavy implications of there being genetics in the setting that actually function somewhat like real genetics.

I've seen the vancian wiz/sor spell list changed to model the psionics system, it looked pretty good.

I've used psionics to replace sorcerers, but somehow I like the arbitrary weirdness of the vancian system for wizards.

One of my friends always forces the use of Spell Points from Unearthed Arcana, I think, when he DMs 3.5. As for Psionics, I just think of it as a different kind of Magic. Divine casters take energy from some greater power and channel that, Arcane casters use the energy of the world around them, and Psions use their own personal energy. At least, that's the way I think of it so I can blissfully ignore how the flavor is different.

>>313888
>Implying it's easy to create appealing, original maps.

Anonymous 2010/06/03(Thu)14:31 No. 313891
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>>313888
Good news! It might get revised....Again! And I'm sure you say that about every two continent map kitten.

Anonymous 2010/06/16(Wed)06:39 No. 313947
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DAT SECOND POST
http://z7.invisionfree.com/A_whole_new_world/index.php?showtopic=394&st=0&#last

*Cough*
!!ALERT!!
!!ALERT!!
!!WARNING!!
IT IS NOW DAY 10 ON LENORE!!!

That is all.

IN OTHER NEWS, NEW SIDE PROJECT ALSO A CITY LEVEL EXPANSION TO WITS COMING SOON

zombies and brains...
cool stuff

They do, it's now just positives telling them what they are good at, and then they don't have negatives, so that as a player, if you want your character to be someone competent in the area that they normally got negatives in, you can do so more easily.

It leaves the player to decide what negatives the character has, making the creation more their own.

>>313898
Ehh I liked the negatives becasue it gave me something to either work against (overcoming the challenge and defying the racially expected to become something more) or to work 'with' (lulz iz got's 7 int, anina- anmul-ani-... der is beastes smarta n; meh bu dey cannot accedently my... erhm... a hol AXE!)

>>313898
I'm glad they got rid of the negatives, myself. I don't think it makes the fluff of, say, a 'bizarre' half-orc wizard or elven melee STR-fighter any less valid. If anything, it just means that the character's playability isn't negatively impacted, which enables the creation of such characters. I don't think I need a mechanical slap on the hand to tell me that elves are not normally barbarians, thanks.

Dbr 2010/06/22(Tue)09:10 No. 313963
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What!? Related Content?

So the Monster Manual 3 for 4th Edition came out recently.

Low and behold, a 35 Solo monster has only 500 health.

Considering a major problem that DM's were running into were fights starting to last too long due to huge health gains over a much slower player damage chart, this looks like a good Monster Manual update.

>>313963
The monster has two forms with their own hit point totals.

Anonymous 2010/06/09(Wed)19:15 No. 313926
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I had an feral world huntsman (Assassin) who eventually gained psychic powers due to a series of horrible and unlikely events. He wore an eyeless bronze plague doc mask covering a horribly scarred and equally eyeless face.

He was a melee monster with 4 attacks a round (although only a 35% chance to hit with each.) If he couldn't close with an enemy he used some witchunter's repeater crossbow from one of the Dark Heresy supplements.

I later offhandedly mentioned that he was engaged to what was likely the descendant of a shipwrecked Navigator family from his haunted swamp homeworld. I don't think anyone caught the reference despite RQ running at the time and all the players being /tg/ frequenters.

<related shoop was supposed to represent said character.

Different types of kobolds

Rainbow of goblins

Sergals

2010/06/09(Wed)19:52 No. 313928
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My players now refuse to enter ruins that are dwarven.
They'll seriously spend a week in-game calling in experts to make sure it's not dorfen craftsmanship.
Seriously, you trap them in a city full of ghosts and insanity ONE TIME...

Before /tg/, I didn't give two shits about dwarves. They were melee and generic and kind of uninteresting.

After /tg/ (and 4e making melee not only viable, but downright good), dorfs have become one of my favorite races.