D&D V6 - Edition jokes don't really make sense anymore - Games

[QUOTE=Alsojames;52215498]Got my physical copy of Blades in the Dark last night. Who wants to play?[/QUOTE] It's out now? Looked pretty neat from the beta version I read. What's the book look like?

[QUOTE=Chronische;52215502]It's out now? Looked pretty neat from the beta version I read. What's the book look like?[/QUOTE] The backer/preorder copies are just being sent out. If the Google+ group is anything to go by, people only started getting them a week or two ago. The book itself is slightly larger than most Apocalypse-World books and in hardcover. I don't know what the covers are made of but it feels nice to touch. It's got the logo/image on the front: [t]http://www.evilhat.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/blades_cover-683x1024.jpg[/t] [editline]11th May 2017[/editline] Overall a very good quality book, glad I spent my money on it.

Today, in Unknown Armies: [quote]It started a few days before their school's Winter Formal dance, with them being reminded of both the dance and a party being thrown after it by a classmate of theirs, named James. They started hanging out, and I think de-facto decided since the group consists of 2 guys and 2 girls to go to the dance as each other's dates?? As they left school, they saw a weird lady in some foreign-y looking shit standing across the street, watching them as they left. There was a lot of general roleplaying/figuring out characters and a group dynamic, and then they went to the Winter Formal The dance was lit by blue lights, and DJ'd by another student, who started off by fucking up and playing a few seconds of Sexualizer by Perturbator, then correcting his mistake with Safety Dance. After that ended, he decided to play something slow, and almost immediately after the song started, everyone moved out of the center of the room to give James and his date room to dance, and found it hard to look away from him, until the room started to shake, and then the floor buckled and red light started to pour out. And then the floor exploded, right under James and his date, with him getting knocked away and her getting impaled by a pipe, followed shortly by a giant red light-monster showing up, looking around at all the panicking students, and disappearing while simultaneously shattering all the windows. All but one of the players failed shock checks when the entity showed up, and one of them chose to run [I]towards[/I] it. Since it disappeared pretty quickly, though, I had him roll to not trip, and he failed, resulting in him tripping on some of the debris and landing in the dead girl's blood.[/quote] Also, everything after Safety Dance ended was to the tune of this song. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE_ZCytqFYM[/media]

I'm starting to regret coming up with my own campaign :v: Just fleshing out the player's starting city is hard enough...and I still have about four more places to make.

[QUOTE=slayer20;52225327]I'm starting to regret coming up with my own campaign :v: Just fleshing out the player's starting city is hard enough...and I still have about four more places to make.[/QUOTE] Pro tip, only make main things and just bullshit things on the spot as they come up otherwise.

[QUOTE=Crimor;52225390]Pro tip, only make main things and just bullshit things on the spot as they come up otherwise.[/QUOTE] Yeah I'm just trying to come up with key NPCs and buildings. I'm very bad at coming up with names.

[QUOTE=slayer20;52225549]Yeah I'm just trying to come up with key NPCs and buildings. I'm very bad at coming up with names.[/QUOTE] *name*'sburg *adjective*ville *vague term that has something to do with the town's industry/founder/surrounding landscape* Worst case scenario, look up names of cities in fantasy literature and swap words for synonyms.

In today's 5e campaign this happend: [T]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/255487325235052545/313280831940460556/baget.png[/T] They took the small female catfolk they saved from slavers and bought her a maid outfit. God help me.

The first pic was drawn by an artist friend of the group, now we got another version from another artist friend. [T]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/289454647360618496/313417048166367242/IMG_20170514_224424.jpg[/T] automerge nooooooo... i should've known better

I wish I could art real good, I always have cool character concepts in my head but I can never present them in a way that others will fully understand them. Best I can do is steal images from google that best represent my characters.

Made this for my players: [t]https://i.redd.it/vl2j514wucxy.png[/t] Spent a pretty penny to get it printed out, I then lit it on fire and now it's soaking in tea

[QUOTE=JeSuisIkea;52230785]Made this for my players: [t]https://i.redd.it/vl2j514wucxy.png[/t] Spent a pretty penny to get it printed out, I then lit it on fire and now it's soaking in tea[/QUOTE] Tell us about your setting!

[QUOTE=GÃ©za!;52231365]Tell us about your setting![/QUOTE] Sure! It's fairly low fantasy and I'm sort of developing it as I go with the players (I want to base it off what they want to see in a fantasy setting, instead of what I want). They started in the south of Rone, the Contested Lands (the far southwestern landmass) where roving armies, monsters, and bandits fairly regularly scour the land for their own uses. A perfect place to run through some standard adventures. Rone is a political mess that's verging on constant civil war since the nobility there is so strong. They're kept together by patriotism over throwing the Svardrik Imperium out of their nation some thirty years ago, and the King is the only thing really holding it all together, despite the fact that he is reaching senility and has basically allowed the nobility to run rampant across the nation. I'm waiting for the players to hit a point where they can fight some serious shit and then the country is going to go into open collapse. The king is going to die, which will spark a huge civil war (along with a revolution of the peasantry similar to the French Revolution), Orcs and Goblins of the south are going to unify and attempt to swarm the south, and the Imperium is going to march south again. Oh and the ancient Roman Empire stand-in the players have been looting the tombs of? One of the players is unknowingly related to a barbarian king who basically destroyed it, and his desecration of their burial grounds will lead to them rising back from the dead to reconquer the land of the living. I have a few setpieces I want to usher the players towards but ultimately however they deal with it and what they deal with is ultimately up to them. Some of the places I've written up backstory for are Csareseg, which is a standin for Hungary and was founded by an adventurer who slew a blue dragon and married the princess of a local kingdom, forming a new one as its king, the Acrian League which is a mix of the Crusader states and the United States and is a loosely held confederation of city-states, and Dalinard which is feudalism dialed to %100 and is basically a country whose entire government is entirely based on knighthood. Finished DIY: [t]http://i.imgur.com/00787bN.jpg?1[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/MJx6cYI.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=JeSuisIkea;52231565]cool stuff[/QUOTE] Although the Arch-Kingdom of Csareseg is your Hungary stand-in, it sounds like you could find some inspiration for things in the upcoming clusterfuck of Rone in the way things were in the borderlands of Ottoman-occupied Hungary, alternatively from the Thirty-year war.

My friend drew a picture of me as their DM :v: [img]http://i.imgur.com/dbPs37G.jpg[/img] very accurate

[QUOTE=GÃ©za!;52231617]Although the Arch-Kingdom of Csareseg is your Hungary stand-in, it sounds like you could find some inspiration for things in the upcoming clusterfuck of Rone in the way things were in the borderlands of Ottoman-occupied Hungary, alternatively from the Thirty-year war.[/QUOTE] Good ideas all around, I'll have to do some research on exactly how I could incorporate them. Though the south is very much inspired by the Deluge. I was thinking that since I'm throwing all this at the players I'll make it impossible to beat it all. They can take down the invasion but then the Orcs will swarm over and the undead will wipe out the continent, or they can stop the undead but then the Imperium will conquer the nation and start an apocalyptic war with the Orc hordes across Rone. So I'd have them beat one thing, but then when it becomes clear that they're not winning, I'll have a wizard NPC they'll hook up with, along with some other NPs they'll meet (the resistance members against whatever's happening, members of the Imperium who are afraid of their insane God-Emperor, necromancers who have realized how fucking insane the undead invasion is and how they can't control it) and together they'll all make a spell to launch the players and a few of the NPCs back in time to stop it all from happening. I'm thinking the jump point would be back to an ancient 'Roman' vault that has the secret to great, God-like powers that were sealed away that the leader of the Imperium discovered a decade or so before the campaign which let him start the war. They get / destroy the artifact and he'll never be able to hold onto power, the Imperium will fall apart, and Rone will be much stronger at the point of the undead / Orcs and be able to throw everything they have at them. But I figured we'd have fun with it and things will go haywire with the spell (perhaps with the Paladin's God / the Warlocks patron intervening and shooting them somewhere else). I think my Kenku would rather be speaking so I'd have them first get launched back through the planes thousands and thousands of years ago to when the Kenku first tried stealing from their patron. She'd be dropped with the rest of the party back to the treasure vault they're stealing from. She'd be freed from the curse and able to speak again, and the players would fight the Kenku robbers (in which case the God might give her her voice back as thanks) or against the vault's guards, in which case they'll have to get back to the future before the God can curse her again. Then they'll go jumping around across the past, present and future. Some fun places I'm thinking of are some historically relevant places (see the barbarian tribes crown the first King of Rone, the first apes discovering magic, the birth of one of the players), some humorous things (into the God-Emperor's bathroom as he's bathing, in the middle of the sky thousands of miles in the air, in the first tomb they ever cleared out minutes before they arrive/after they left) and so on and so forth, or the future (a good minute of the players doing athletics checks not to get hit by cars, a nuclear wasteland, a World War 1 style battlefield with magic). And of course anything they fuck up will reflect when they get back home (or who knows, maybe they'll decide to stay wherever). This is still a ways away so I think I'll start dropping hints at their time fuckery now. Like I'll have the players hear a crack in the sky and screaming through the distance, and then later when they time travel, they'll shoot through the sky in the present time and then shoot back into the past. Or one of the NPCs will be dropped in front of them by accident, getting separated from the group, and he'll see the players and freak out and run away while rambling about the continuity.

oh man I had a complete blast DMing for the first time with my friends who are also first timers (5e). I learned that players will ruin anything you have planned. I had a scenario where goblins are raiding a museum. I intended the players to enter the front door, not to fucking flank the museum straight to the bugbear goblin boss. I have made an island setting. so next session I am going to wrap up the first island. and setting sail to the second island. I need a bunch of character combatant ideas as the next land is in the middle of a festival and there is an tournament of 3v3 fights. I want to give the players (dragon sorc,rogue,monk lvl3) a challenge and a proper way to see all the classes from the PHB in action. So yeah. there are 16 teams and the players will fight about 4 groups if they manage to win them all. Again I need some random character ideas for my players to fight. I hope you are kind enough to help me with this.

My friend is going to be running a game and sent me an image of Savage Worlds. I remember mumblings about it in here, but no specifics. Was there anything in particular about it that I should be aware of?

Stay in cover if you're playing in any setting with firearms, you will need it because unless you are straight up absorbing bullets shaken will ruin your day and stunlock you and that is not fun Otherwise, it's a pretty good generic system, that can be used for almost anything and is pretty simple to go about.

[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;52238042]Stay in cover if you're playing in any setting with firearms, you will need it because unless you are straight up absorbing bullets shaken will ruin your day and stunlock you and that is not fun Otherwise, it's a pretty good generic system, that can be used for almost anything and is pretty simple to go about.[/QUOTE] Sounds good to me. And yeah, our game will have firearms so far as I'm aware, thanks for the tip.

I know how much y'all like Eclipse Phase, so in case you guys missed it, the Kickstarter for the [url= [url]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/507486226/eclipse-phase-second-edition[/url]Eclipse Phase Second Edition[/url] is entering it's last day. There's also a playtest package out there.

Yesterday on my Pathfinder misadventures I activated a trap by pulling a lever on purpose to prank our party Gnome who keeps hitting on my character. He gets sucked up into some kind of windtrap then drops down and takes a shit ton of falling damage. What we didn't realize out of game until we left the dungeon is that the gnome that fell was a doppelganger that got swapped in for the reason one. He then he ran off while our real gnome was stuck in a jail cell getting his shit pulverized by an undead skeletal troll. Now we're looking for the doppelganger that ran off in town and our gnome is lying nearly dead in a jail cell 3 levels down in some mega dungeon and we still haven't realized it. Revenge had I guess

I've figured out the next game Im gonna run for my party will be about.... Cold hard cash. The game will be about a gang of hypercompetetive thieves that are given over a dozen possible heists. Each week, someone will be the heist leader. I have about 7 players, and theyll choose the people they want to join them. They can bring everyone... but thatll mean a smaller cut. So the leader will usually choose 2-3 players to join them. (Usually based on who's available to play) What system should i use?

Thread music [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnFIRc0k6E[/media]

My girlfriend and I drew our current party. From left to right, Abraxos a tiefling warlock with his imp and pixie, Walter the White the halfling druid with his pet obese bear Bluebeary, Vyrill the elf wizard holding the skull of an elf slave he loved but sadly died due to a accident caused by Walter, and finally Ario the human Paladin [t]http://i.imgur.com/7mdXPxM.jpg[/t]

Shoulder pads that would make a sigmarine proud.

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;52259026]My girlfriend and I drew our current party. From left to right, Abraxos a tiefling warlock with his imp and pixie, Walter the White the halfling druid with his pet obese bear Bluebeary, Vyrill the elf wizard holding the skull of an elf slave he loved but sadly died due to a accident caused by Walter, and finally Ario the human Paladin [t]http://i.imgur.com/7mdXPxM.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Does Walter the White grow narcotic plants in his downtime?

My party fought a young white dragon. Our halfling rouge climbed the dragon's back and it attempted to fly away. Our half-elf bard put it to sleep while it was 40ft in the air. So the halfling decided to climb into the dragon's mouth/throat and use his daggers to "brace himself". He also decided to attack the dragon while doing this (I gave him the option to not do that after explaining that hitting the dragon would wake it). He hits the dragon and the dragon manages to stop itself from hitting the ground. However, before the dragon got it's turn back, our Paladin threw a javelin at the dragon, killing it. It was a hilarious and fun fight.

[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;52260078]Does Walter the White grow narcotic plants in his downtime?[/QUOTE] looks more like he grows them in his beard.

What is Bluebeary holding in that picture?