Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[Deus Exica]

any interesting ones in particular i can rip off take inspiration from?

I'm not a terribly original man, so most of them are fairly basic. God of the Sun and Light, or the sea, love, shit like that. I give each of them a bit of a twist in how they deal with mortals or the role they play in the setting's major conflicts, but they're fairly rote otherwise.

The two I consider most fun or worth stealing are Curio and Mar'ghel.

Curio is the God of Trinkets, Deals, and Curiosities. He doesn't really take a particular interest in valuable things, so much as he takes an interest in peculiar things. Items with bizarre magical enchantments, lost relics, even some otherwise useless but sentimental things can catch his eye. His realm is an endless warehouse of doohickeys and gizmos where nothing is quite as it seems.

I had a warlock player that used Curio as a patron, it was fun.

Mar'ghel is the Mother of Monsters and Queen of the Hunt. She often takes the shape of a gigantic canine beast with a maw of teeth and three eyes, dozens, possibly hundreds of blades, arrows, spears, and axes protrude from her hide, reminders of prior hunts and the chosen few who managed to strike her down and become her champions.

She is responsible for most of the monsters you'd encounter in the setting that aren't explicitly mortal-made or alien in nature.

I skimmed through what can be charitably consider their rulebook and its just a buncha half-assed suggestions and "You make your own rules!"

That's pretty much Daggerfart to a T. I distinctly remember that player death has to be something you discuss with the DM and Player to make sure that you don't ruin their character's story.

Why not just co-write a FUCKING book at that point?

 

[Blarmed&Dangerous]

Talking to someone about DnD and he casually mentioned the amber room. He seemed surprised I didn't know. Said it's basically the new version of the trove. Anyone heard of it?

My understanding is that the amber room is just a torrent with all the stuff that the trove used to have. Not nearly as convenient.

Edit: No I was thinking of something else. The Amber Room is a telegram group, so even less convenient.

 

[Ghostse]

If its anything like their other TTRPG Candela Obscura or whatever it was, its going to be an absolute shitshow, I skimmed through what can be charitably consider their rulebook and its just a buncha half-assed suggestions and "You make your own rules!" The whole thing is so vague and DM dependent you might as well sit down and pencil whip your own RPG.

There was a pretty good take down of why Candela Obscura sucks ass. Such as everything is players rolling against a number made up by the DM, but there is no mechanism for PvP combat, a situation that came up in their actual play of the game. (Its not even a game or a system)

That's pretty much Daggerfart to a T. I distinctly remember that player death has to be something you discuss with the DM and Player to make sure that you don't ruin their character's story.

Why not just co-write a FUCKING book at that point?

Mercers "cinematic" bullshit has basically been that. From the excerpts I read, it was more like one of those worthless "Follow these 12 rules to write a unique & creative story!" guides but with a social aspect (Ironic since most of them have no friends) and about the same level of bullshit results, which is only people who will actually beable to use the outline to write a good story would have been able to write one without the guide.

Curio is the God of Trinkets, Deals, and Curiosities. He doesn't really take a particular interest in valuable things, so much as he takes an interest in peculiar things. Items with bizarre magical enchantments, lost relics, even some otherwise useless but sentimental things can catch his eye. His realm is an endless warehouse of doohickeys and gizmos where nothing is quite as it seems.

Recommend you make this God crow or packrat related - as a signant, avatar, or just a giant eldergod crow.
Have his commandment be you must leave something behind as replacement for what you take.

Recommend: Like a crow it should be "something of utility to the taker regardless of value" (i.e. a bag of peach pits doesn't count, but a pair of boots would). Have this extend to things like 'taking a life' - a follower must leave trinket on everyone they kill like they are some sort of fucked up serial killer (which they are)

 

[Mr. Manchester]

spending big bucks on Marvel, Lord of the Rings and Doctor Who Licenses

I don't touch the Devil's cardboard, but I thought doing this was a stupid idea. Magic has its own setting that people really like, and I feel like it ruins it when you've been playing this game for years and have a lore heavy deck only to have some faggot show up with Optimus Prime. Multiverse stuff is played out now too but you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

 

[Buckaroo]

Magic has its own setting that people really like

This hasn't been true for years sadly.

 

[Ghostse]

I don't touch the Devil's cardboard, but I thought doing this was a stupid idea. Magic has its own setting that people really like, and I feel like it ruins it when you've been playing this game for years and have a lore heavy deck only to have some faggot show up with Optimus Prime. Multiverse stuff is played out now too but you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

TBCF, a MTG 'creature' card has a cost to play, Offense/Defense stat, optional abilities from a set list, and then a picture and usually some flavor text. So you can take a 12/12 Spider Queen card, change the image to some Spiderman cover image, change the flavor text to "Your local neighborhood Spiderman" so its just a Current Product paint job and doesn't change the game or lore at all.

The Disney Multi-verse Donut Steel has from images I've seen (lol actually reading the rules) an interesting mechanic where you can universe swap your Disney™ characters along various traits so you team can include steam punk Inventor Gaston if you give him an intelligence upgrade.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

when you've been playing this game for years and have a lore heavy deck only to have some faggot show up with Optimus Prime.

When was the last time Magic the gathering gave a shit about its own lore? Does WOTC even remember they made Ravnica and the rest of the magic the gathering universe apart from the D&D multiverse? Ravnica would've made a better default setting for 6E than Greyhawk. It is already a very faggy setting. If anything, Ravnica killed old-school MTG fans' interest in the lore of the series. Magic the gathering got woke long before D&D. WOTC now can't sell MTG without retarded crossovers. If that is at all.

 

[anti SJW]

 

[God of Nothing]

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reminds me of phylactery being renamed to soul cage paizo wise

 

[ZMOT]

reminds me of phylactery being renamed to soul cage paizo wise

to make it worse, apparently all based on a single tumblr post.

Does anyone have any recommendations for good resources/guides/youtubers etc for PF2E? I've been shanghaied into a game but I have zero experience of 2E, and only had limited experience with 1E many years ago. At this point I don't even have an idea for what class I wanna play so I'm hoping that simply learning more about the system might inspire me.

https://www.youtube.com/@HowItsPlayed

maybe rules lawyer, back when I checked some of his videos (granted years ago) he kept his leftshit tendencies out of his "content".

in comic form: https://www.simplypf2e.com/

all rules online here: https://2e.aonprd.com and https://pf2easy.com (could be outdated, haven't checked).

if you prefer text the subreddit should have a post about any question. however it's reddit AND paizo, so it's even gayer than singing barbara streisand at an all male orgy. but for looking up straight rules questions/discussions it should be fine.
paizo.com also still has it's (very oldschool) forums, but also extremely gay.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

There was a pretty good take down of why Candela Obscura sucks ass. Such as everything is players rolling against a number made up by the DM, but there is no mechanism for PvP combat, a situation that came up in their actual play of the game. (Its not even a game or a system)

https://youtu.be/TdW1qFM522k

I have a feeling this is the takedown unless it was a textual one, its a pretty good breakdown of how it doesnt even seem fun to run unless you're doing a crit role larp to be just like the podcast

I know the eyepatch cuck Indestroctuboy or whatever did another video but black lodge is more of a "chud" take, he seems like a decent guy

 

[Judge Dredd]

reminds me of phylactery being renamed to soul cage paizo wise

I'll bite. What was the problem with phylactery?

 

[God of Nothing]

I'll bite. What was the problem with phylactery?

jews
yes, they use an entirely different word for it
no, it does not make sense

 

[Adamska]

jews
yes, they use an entirely different word for it
no, it does not make sense

It was literally a single twitter retard who cried about it, and that's why they changed it. That was all it took.

 

[God of Nothing]

It was literally a single twitter retard who cried about it, and that's why they changed it. That was all it took.

twitter and its consequences have been a disaster for all media

 

[Tom Bombodildo]

When was the last time Magic the gathering gave a shit about its own lore? Does WOTC even remember they made Ravnica and the rest of the magic the gathering universe apart from the D&D multiverse? Ravnica would've made a better default setting for 6E than Greyhawk. It is already a very faggy setting. If anything, Ravnica killed old-school MTG fans' interest in the lore of the series. Magic the gathering got woke long before D&D. WOTC now can't sell MTG without retarded crossovers. If that is at all.

The different planes were usually pretty cool, and though not all of them would have worked well as game settings (what kind of adventures could you do on Phyrexia other than eternal suffering?) they're usually cool enough that could at least do a one-shot if not a very short campaign in them (thinking primarily of Dominaria, Lorwyn/Shadowmoor, Alara, Ravnica, and Innistrad). The "story" of Magic started to suck shit when instead of following the planeswalkers the fans had come to love, they started adding oc donut steal furry and lesbian planeswalkers and tried to make them the main characters.

 

[Imperial Citizen]

jews
yes, they use an entirely different word for it
no, it does not make sense

Not only that but the use of the word phylactery instead of tefillin was only found in the New Testament, which means that Jews didn’t even come up with the translation. It was Greek Christians who wrote that. Those Twitter retards are shitting on both fantasy rpgs and Jewish culture!

 

[Ghostse]

Pozzio is a bunch of cucks and if you play PF any version you are enabling people who hate you to maintain traction in the hobby.

 

[ZMOT]

Pozzio is a bunch of cucks and if you play PF any version you are enabling people who hate you to maintain traction in the hobby.

exactly, that's why you only play your self-written obscure ruleset to not indirectly support a company like WOTC by playing their brandname game DND in any edition, nor any other of the soycucks in the ttrpg-sphere. I don't get many players but boy the ones I get are immediately on my wavelength, no filtering necessary!

 

[Ah ha']

Pozzio is a bunch of cucks and if you play PF any version you are enabling people who hate you to maintain traction in the hobby.

Well I pirated all of their stuff and the last time I spent money on my gaming habit it was to buy Fantasy Craft, the superior 3.5 derivative.

Shame how that went