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

Castaways Anonymous 2010/09/19(Sun)14:47 No. 4427 ID: ea0b12
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eherm. We are currently bogged down due to college...my apologies folks.

Oh hey, people are playing this again.

Still moving, also looking into FATE system

aaaand after a crash of the old one new site

http://z13.invisionfree.com/New_age_dawning/index.php?act=idx

>>317230
I was looking at the new Savage Worlds book for it and liked what I saw. It was pretty good for what I wanted. The only steam punk part of it that really gets in the way are the robots. The wild west is probably the only setting I can't stand robots in.

Rules looked pretty cool. The option of using a poker set for spell casting looked pretty cool.

>>317233

Oh so they're still using the poker set for spells? Awesome. What about the chips, are they still in?

>>317234
I haven't read through it all yet, but from what I've gotten out of it the poker set thing is entirely optional. The chips are still there for good I think. They adapted the 52 card thing into the existing magic system for Savage Worlds in a way that it can be entirely ignored unless you're bored of rolling. Then again, I haven't flipped through the Savage Worlds main book or read the entire Deadlands book so I'm probably entirely wrong.

My recollection of Deadlands is that the steampunk components were pretty minimal unless you went out of your way to include them. But our group had someone intending to eventually become a mad scientist, so experience probably not typical. It never overpowers the western feel though.

And using poker supplies for combat never gets old. Wear a cowboy hat if at all possible.

My DM is an insane genius. The first town we wnet to turned out to be alive and trying to kill us. Eventually it got fed up, summoned a bunch of undead soldiers from the civil war, and then sprouted a bunch of FUCKING SPIDER LEGS out of the bottom of a clocktower and chased us down. We fought and killed a clocktower with spiderlegs. We now hate clocktowers with a passion.

Some people in the group also run thier own Deadlands games, where the REAL weird shit happens, including a town beset by EVIL CLOWNS and killing the angel of death by dropping a zepplin full of nitroglycerin on him.

tl;dr play deadlands, you will like it

Very handy and useful! Kudos!

The city section seems like it probably needs a few more map sources, but then you probably get more demand for dungeon/cave maps anyhow.

Overall, looks good.

>>317327
It's really all based on the resources people in the community feel like making in the first place.

If you're interested in contributing some tiles (of any type) or know someone who is, I'd be happy to add more.

I hate drawing city layouts and you just made my life ten times easier. Thank you!

That said, IMO the maps look better when all tiles are from a single author, so it would be nice if I didn't have to uncheck everyone all the time.

Other than that, great job. I know a fewlazy DMs who will really appreciate it.

>>317331

Yeah, sorry about that. Before, you could double-click to single out an artist source, but when I rewrote the back-end that caused some weirdness. It's on my list of things to fix soon.

>>316330
>these kids playing with banhammers have only been around for weeks.

Several months at least.

Anonymous 2011/04/22(Fri)04:39 No. 6530 ID: 41f341
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>>316465
Related image, you can see here how long the mod we have has been around.

the current mod is hilarious at how bad he is

he leaves ban messages up instead of just deleting the posts and banning them so threads derail into nothing but

>(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Hell, I just got a warning for saying "I'd rather see Verity come back, at least she was entertaining" in a thread that was about posters that were gone, the reason I got was "that furshit will stay out, the banhammer is out and ready if you try me"

>>317308
I just hope that you're as stupid on 4chan's /tg/, because I'd LOVE to see your brainless carcass permabanned. Sage, because this thread has NOTHING AT ALL to do with traditional games, and would be deleted with several bans if /tg/ had good mods.

Seriously? It had been two months, this thread was long dead, why the fuck would some dumb shit post in it now?

If you want to bitch about 4chan's /tg/, go do it on the general board in the topic set aside for the purpose. This is /tg/ - Traditional Games, not /tg/ - 4chan whining.

I hate GM'ing because I suck at it.

But if I could run a satisfying campaign, I'd enjoy it.

About half the enjoyment comes from revealing the plot of your own story. I don't believe any published adventure can be exciting enough to motivate you running it from first encounter to last. And of course, players can just read the adventure elsewhere and force you to stray off from the book.
It's the thrill of watching players react to your laid out traps, pulling information from your NPCs, making theories about what's going on and noticing something you'd never think of. Many times I caught myself giggling and rubbing my hands while reading players' posts.

>>317215
> And of course, players can just read the adventure elsewhere and force you to stray off from the book.
Our That Guy from back in the day did the opposite.
Whenever anyone wanted to take a break from creating things from whole cloth and run a premade, he'd go torrent it and read it and metagame the shit out of things.
Then again, this is the same guy that for his first time playing Morrowind went with a speedrun guide so he could 'beat' the other group member that bought it at the same time.

Anonymous 2011/06/19(Sun)13:22 No. 7270 ID: a8a734
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I'm almost a full-time DM in my group. I enjoy DMing a lot, although I would like to be a player in a campaign with a realy good DM at some point. I have a bunch of character ideas I really can't use because I'm almost always behind the DM's seat.

Also, my tastes as a DM and the players' tastes don't completely overlap; I'd say they sort of 70% overlap, but from feedback I've gathered that they like my lighter-hearted, sillier, more escapist scenarios more than my more serious ones. We all like dramatic stuff, so it's good, but sometimes I just want to turn the grimdark meter down from 'platinum' to 'vougishly light grey'. Sigh, the trials and tribulations of a DM...

>>317270
Run dark heresy and turn the grimdark meter to standard Warhammer 40k.

Though I really desire to play, there's none who can DM, I would but I've proven quite horrible at remembering. I was wondering if there was some IRC's I could go to for online play?

>>317280
why?

>>317281

because thanks to the margin-of-success rules you don't lose any amount of complexity by inverting the rolling system.

>>317282
Actually, I would say you do--less head math. Subtraction is much harder for most people to do in their heads (in my experience, at least), and if you roll over 100, you simply need to drop 100 from your roll to figure out your degree of success.

best of all

>>317050
But there are several hundred years between that and the early handgun.
Just because metal pipes and stuffing gunpowder into them have become popular, doesn't mean that anything that isn't a machinegune is readily available.

>>317209
This.

It's like saying iron swords are okay and then someone demands spanish steel.

Anonymous 2011/06/11(Sat)16:44 No. 7217 ID: 28e94e
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>>317209
The filename says it all

Gunslingers can full attack at first level (assuming this is pathfinder platest round 2)

Rapid reload allows you to reload a pistol with alchemical cartridges as a free action.

I'll double check with muskets, but I'm fairly certain you can also somehow.

>>317220
Here we got:

When using rapid reload, the action required to reload is reduced by one full step RAW: Fullround to Standard to Move to Free (specifically skipping swift in that order RAW)

Two Handed Weapon with Paper Cartridge and Rapid Reload = Move action to reload, costs 1.2 gold a shot.
Two Handed Weapon with Metal Cartridge and Rapid Reload = Free action to reload, costs 2.0 gold a shot.

As thus when you full attack with a musket, you're paying the extra 8 silver per shot for the d12 damage as opposed to the 1d8 damage for a pistol, but you're also firing more realibly.

The only feat you need to do this is Rapid reload which you ought to have with your favored firearm by at least level 3, but you are more than capable at level 1 to full attack with multiple shots.

The only question is whether or not your DM allows metal cartridges and this ruling determines whether or not your gunslinger will be a deadeye focused gunslinger or not.

>>316981
From what I understand, it was determined that the specific configuration of people necessary for the Layridin campaign was unlikely to ever be assembled again.

>>316981
Oh my god, is that a tiny bat riding on the Umbral?

>>316986
It's the umbral's familiar. The umbral is a WITCH WITCH BURN IT AT THE STAKE i mean see also >>313699 and >>313727

>>316990
That is one of the most adorable things I've ever heard about.

Lucid 2011/06/12(Sun)11:36 No. 7218 ID: 049dfa
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guess I'll post this here
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JFAZF9VM

Layridin (Journey setting) races + some racial feats for D&D 4e. I hope to eventually fill out a setting info dump to accompany it, and a even a monster bestiary eventually as well. But for now, here's the races set up so you can take some and kill some goblins and kobolds or something.

This is basically a first draft, so there's bound to be some errors. So, just a heads up

>>313434
Five interwebnetbucks on semen breath or some kind of magical quality to their sperm.

Broo, from RuneQuest. Cross with almost ANYTHING, as long as it has an orifice. Sometimes even a wound.

>>315121
>From RuneQuest
Nope.

Race = race are strains of a sentient species which can crossbreed. Races: Asian, caucasian, latino, african would be human races. Great dane, poodle, etc would be for dogs.

Species = creatures that cannot crossbreed. Humans, horses, rabbits, dogs..

Anyways, of important note are:
Goblins and kobolds: Very small, mature very quickly, reproduce very quickly, die young. Think rabbits... they are most fertile in the term of "have the most children in X years"
Crossbreedability: Low
Rate of reproductin within species: Ridiculously high

Humans: Uniquely able to crossbreed with any other humanoid and some non humanoid species. Breeds fairly quickly but has fewer children and at an older age then goblins/kobolds.
Crossbreedability: Ridiculously High.
Rate of reproduction within species: Above average

Devils, andgels, dragons: Can and do breed with anything and everything that is alive (including non sentient animals). Most breed with members of their own race, very slowly, require many many years to reach sexual maturity. Most breed very little... its presumably the occasional crazy horney male that shapeshifts into animal/humanoid form and impregnates anything moving that causes so much half breeds.

Crossbreedability: Anything alive, no exceptions.
Rate of reproductin within species: Very slow

So... which one of those is the "most fertile"? that depends on how you measure the word "most".

>>315122
>2010/10/28
oh god I am so sorry. I don't know how I missed the date on that one. That confirms it, I need sleep.

>>317141
>If you've got something great, a thread or two on the relevant board on 4chan will get a huge audience.

I strongly doubt it. You'll get called on "viral" and ignored even if you are actually good at what you do.

>>317149
Well that's just a matter of knowing your audience. You don't go into /tg/ and say "Hey this is my game check it out!" You go in and say "Hey I heard about this new game, has anyone else played it/heard about it? It might be neat!"

>>317150
>You go in and say "Hey I heard about this new game, has anyone else played it/heard about it? It might be neat!"

Even this will bee recognized as viral.

>>317150
>>317152
No, you're better off going "hey look at this awesome thing I made!" If you own up to being the creator, folks won't call viral on it. In places that aren't /v/, folks don't really call anything viral, though.

>>317152
Probably because that's what it is. Or maybe astroturfing. I'm not quite up on terms used for shitty social marketing practices.

>>316951
Herp derp conceding does not use the stack.
Yes, you can even do it while mindslavered or while a split-second spell is on the stack.

Points for creativity, though.

>>316951
>Chaos Confetti
Hah, this game has a card which lets you cover the gaming table with confetti? I'd expect a game of this level to be more conservative, but that must be a fun card to play.

>>316988
If memory serves, you make that confetti out of a card. A card that people paid money for and covet as if they were made from shavings of the True Cross.

There's a copypasta that lurks about of someone using it to teach a That Guy a lesson. (So is, naturally, probably a complete fabrication.)

>>316988
It itself refers to an old, old card called Chaos Orb, which you didn't tear up, just dropped onto the field from at least three feet to destroy something.
The story goes that in the early days, at a tourney, a desperate dude tore his into little pieces to scatter all over his opponent's side of the field, thus 'touching' most of his permanents and destroying them.
They don't make cards like that anymore, sadly.

>>316988
It's silver-bordered. It's not a "game of this level" thing. Silver bordered cards can have whatever rules the designers please, and are intended to be silly. Off the top of my head, Blacker Lotus also requires you to tear the card up.

Fluffnazi that I am, I rage at your mention of chaotic Tau.

And steam-punk? With massdriver weapons? What?

kroots suck, period

>>317067
its OK, i understand.
http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/showthread.php?t=90699&page=1
this is my basic idea, not really part of chaos, just allied with it. by steam punk i meant that i would kind of try to strip back that sleekness the tau have. not actually steam punk, just lots of pipes and cogs.

Anonymous 2011/05/25(Wed)17:51 No. 7077 ID: 694e74
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British Tau?

Allotter 2011/05/15(Sun)21:02 No. 6933 ID: 544dd4
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"Horribly news everyone! They cut Mysticism, Athletics and Acrobatics, albeit I would have been fine with them simply merging the latter two."

>>315641
>>315642
>>315642

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Newfag to Elder Scrolls here. Bought Obliv on steam, suggestions as to what required mods/ect I should get/use/need/want/help computah?

>>316938
At first: Try to get the addon, Shivering Isles, if possible. Should be rather cheap now, but is actually better than the main game (personal oppinion).
But avoid Knights of the Nine and other DLC like a plagued peasent.

Refrain from using major game changing if you want the original experience (You can try out one of the many overhauls for a second run).

Look for a mod which squishes out the last bugs and inconsistencies.

Depending on the PC you use, you might want one of the performance optimisers, since due to a bug Oblivion slugs down your RAM and/or graphic card memory after a while.

I personally would recommend a mod like "Natural Environment", which changes lightning conditions and adds weather effects (which are a bit broken in vanilla). It doesn't affect gameplay, doesn't cost FPS and only adds to the atmosphere imho.

There are tons of mods which only change aesthetics. I like the one which lights up the citie's windows at night and the "Better Landscapes" series, which have done a great job on the variety of the landscape, but the drastic changes might be a turn-off for a first time player. Also the mod which adds a few travelers on the road (but that one was a bit buggy last time I checked, so caution).

Lastly, depending on the type of player you are, you might try on of the mods which change the trading system (which is not that great in vanilla), the leveling system (which could definitly need some improvement) and the need to sleep and/or eat once a day.

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>>316943

Thanks for the information. As far as the DLC goes...well, I got all of it gifted, so its not like I paid for KoT9 at least. :P

>>315614
nice flea
>>315616
ordinators are assholes.

>>317026
I am sorry, but writing the spells into yout spellbook is free. So there's probably something missing from "spellbooked" spell, so I wouldn't allow it.

>>317034
Well that's one of those loopholes that would get blocked very soon. You can't re-add a spell "for free" since, according to the D&D magic system, you only "knew" these spells because they were recorded in your personal spellbook in the first place (and a personal spellbook is, supposedly, filled through extensive study). Tear them out and you can't put them back anymore because you no longer "know" those spells.

On a less related note, magic in D&D is a pain indeed, but designing a viable spellcasting system from scratch is considerably harder than it might seem at first glance. I tried that during my attempt to create a lightweight MLP: FiM roleplaying system and I'm still on the fence on how it turned out. My group's unicorn doesn't cast much and more playtesting is needed.

I feel I wasn't clear enough. Think about spells in terms of tab A slot B.
"A" is your word, gesture, thought, whatever - it's always with you. "B" is everything else. It takes a lot of time and effort to create the B part. Those come either from you spending months of off-screen studies or by a scroll scriber who makes a living out of it.

So when you prepare a spell, you sort of copy the B part into your mind for the remaining day and voila: the spell's at your disposal. When you cast from a scroll you just use someone else's effort.

Logically, if a player wants to use their spellbook page as a B-part blueprint, I see no reason to turn them down, but later they won't be able to just write it back in a minute, because they only know the A part.

>>317034
It didn't used to be, however - to ink a spell into your book actually was quite costly, except for the very, very few spells you learned for your class abilities.

>>317043
yeah, think 200G per page. and a spell is one page per lvl. so a 4th lvl spell cost 800G in magic ink and stuff to write into your book. in 3.5 at least.

>>317013
Tolkien did call them different races rather than different species, you know.

>>317014
Yeah but in Startrek even creatures from different planets, even no humanoids are "race".

In fiction "race" == "species"

>>317033
Tolkien could be a complete hack and still abuse less terminology than the Star Trek writers. Also, sci-fi, and ISTR it's actually stated in-universe that they have to use their fancy future medical science to allow crossbreed freaks.

>>317033

>Yeah but in Startrek even creatures from different planets, even no humanoids are "race".

All of the primary aliens in Star Trek were created by the same alien super-species that came through the universe and made all of their genetic codes fit together to spell out a 'good job!' message.

Anonymous 2011/05/23(Mon)10:17 No. 7037 ID: bf6085
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>>317036
Also, hot alien sex - wait...

Wait, doesn't the astronomicon keep going as long as there is a sufficiently powerful psyker sitting on the throne? I remember somewhere that for a short time the Emperor had some Alpha minus grade psyker (or something to that effect, pretty powerful but not as much as him) sit on the throne to maintain the Astronomicon because he had to go face down Horus. Following that course of logic if the Emperor woke up the Astronomicon wouldn't go out unless he actually left the Golden Throne. In fact, if he regained enough strength to wake up then the Astronomicon would probably get BRIGHTER.

But that's just my take on the situation.

>>317009
Oh yeah, and if the Emp' dies, the universe is still fucked.

Nah, if the emp dies, the Imperium and Tau are fucked. The Eldar (fucked anyway) retreat into the Webway, the Dark Eldar do absolutely nothing different, the Orks enjoy the new status quo quite a bit, and the Necros just stay in bed.

>>317028
uhhh, pretty sure the necrons are going to wake all the way up. and set up that great warding stuff everywhere making any warp based travel impossible and the nids can't fight them cause their weapons leave no biomass to re-eat and they aren't made of biomass at all.

>>317029
The Emperor is in no way hindering the Necrons from waking up. They're just taking their own sweet time.

In the long run we're looking at Necrons v Orks v Tyranids
My money's on the Orks.

>>316589
just so you know, this is a picture of drizzit. he is a drow ranger that was disgusted by his people's ways and managed to leave menzobarran. he is neutral good. has a magical panther statue that summons a intelligent magical giant panther from another plane. not entirely sure how he a mary sue, he sometimes got his ASS KICKED, and everyone distrusting him makes sense because trusting a normal drow is a good way to end up dead. those that do trust him were hard fought victories. only person who trusted him right off the bat was a little girl who didn't know you were supposed to be afraid of drow.

>>316640
I believe one of the reasons most people have a low opinion of him is the piles of philosophical interludes where he angsts about whether he's worthwhile to the world while casually slaughtering hundreds of giants and orcs.

>>316649

his pre-3e stats also have him having outrageously high stats and a drow CAN NOT have the levels he has in the classes he has. So there's that too.

Not sure if you already read something pointing out that drow have litters of children, and they fight to the death in womb.

Anonymous 2011/05/14(Sat)00:11 No. 6912 ID: 73d9a7
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>>316859
Speak of the devil I have actually.....

Pic Related.

>Cool story, bro.

And it was just one little fight but your mom got scared? And maybe said "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel Aire?"

Dat Pick Swingan Dorf!!HkBJLlAmuw 2011/05/12(Thu)10:38 No. 6880 ID: 63401d
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>>316841

mimiga

Arguable Complexity 2011/04/28(Thu)05:48 No. 6654 ID: b4e796
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>>316650
Well then, here go a few more pages.

This is somewhat related...

I've always been disappointed that 4e never had the soul knife. I was wondering if there were any way to convert/create the soul knife for 4e.

Fricking hate the monk mechanics so inb4 reflavor.

>>316635
From what I understand they would be a standard character except they would use the alternative 'inherent bonus; system for their weapon boosts, stat boosts, etc, making them the equivalent of a low magic style character in a normal magic world. I don't know for certain but I think it would be in the DMG 2 or 3, under alternate world systems.

I'm not a 4e player, mind you, and I don't like the system, but it is good enough. Other than the 'inhrent bonus option' applied to a melee striker template of some sot, it's just prohibative to develop the slew of powers unless you pulled the thing they're dong with vampires and werewolves - no power selection, just a straight progression of abilities.