/d20/ - Traditional Games

Hello, this is a great thing you are all doing. I am very thankful.

One request, the MtA Guide to the Technocracy is cut off at the end and incomplete.

>>56

>BESM

Oh shit, just what I needed. Now to figure the rest of this touhou d20 shit out.

Anyone can upload Degenesis: Rebirth (not the english one), english or german, doesn't matter

To whoever asked for Morton's List:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/8rjkmbicn71a8ai/Mortons_List_The_End_to_Boredom.pdf

http://8ch.net/morton/

>>50

Awesome thanks.

>>1098

I think he means that /d20/ implies that only d20 system discussion is welcome.

>>1262

>Implying the original BO isn't just logging in to keep his seat warm, and preventing a election.

Well, the board election is goin' and it's a lot more complicated than last time. If you enjoyed your time on this board, feel free to go to >>>/tg/173772 and vote for #28 (me).

So when are you shutting down /d20/? Chrow's elected.

>>1300

I've tried making it redirect to /tg/ but I'm not really sure how. And I can't delete the board or anything. So as soon as I figure out how, I guess.

Although the system that powers it is pretty complicated, Champions includes enough stuff to make it useful as an anime simulator. You might need some drama points in it to make it better able to replicate the larger than life feel that anime heroes have.

http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptationsanime/animechar.html

>>1291

L5R is not an anime based game but it's good.

L5R is a fictional Asia conglomerate with history written by weeaboos.

>>1295

yes but it's still a solid and very fun game. But yeah i hate the setting.

SLA Industries falls somewhere between insanely violent anime and the movie Running Man, which is pretty cool.

Can't say it's a complete bastardization.

Can say that it's exceedingly far from ideal.

3.5 would need to be adjusted slightly to work play by post. How much depends on the forum and what it can do.

.../d20/ going to become a play by post forum now?

>>1276

> .../d20/ going to become a play by post forum now?

Actually I was just asking because the only games I could find to join were on Myth-weavers.

Play-by-post is just too slow-paced. I've tried it before. It died even faster than a regular game.

I've been running a play by post GURPS game, for a little over three years.

I have 7 players and we average about 8 posts a day, according to the stats provided by our forum.

Some days, when everyone is on, it moves along pretty fast, some days not so much.

But as long as your players are committed to checking in at least once a day, and making a post if they need to, then the format can work.

It is too slow to really replace the tabletop experience with friends. We recently had a combat that took two weeks to play out, since we only got through about 1 round a night.

It is the methadone to RPG-smack, but it has some advantages. As the GM, you are never really put on the spot. If you need to draw a map, or come up with a name or description, or craft the perfect dialogue, or whatever, you can take 5 minutes to do so, and nobody is actively waiting for you.

I'd never want play by post to be the only format I play, but it's a nice thing to do during the week between in-person game sessions with my RL group.

As for the system. I don't know if D&D (any edition) is a good match for the format. It would take you many many months to gain a level, if the GM is awarding XP by the book. Even in my GURPS game, I give about 5 times as many Character Points per adventure than I do in my RL games, since it takes us six months, or real time, to get through an adventure, and I want the players to see their characters improve on a more reasonable realworld time scale.

>>869

More like we decide the degree of variation for certain actions, and that determines how many fudge dice we roll. The more dice in a roll, the more the check's result can deviate from it's base average, either positively or negatively.

Contrast this with increasing variability with bigger dice, or using more of regular dice. Either of those methods requires adjusting the static value, or else higher variation = higher average.

I like how Eclipse Phase did percentile

Roll under your percent skill, with doubles being a crit success or crit fail depending on your skill level (if you have 70 in a skill, 66,55,44,etc are all critical successes, while 77,88,99 are all crit fails.

in opposed checks you want to go as high as possible without going over your skill AND beat your opponents score if they didn't roll over their skill.

I enjoy a simple 2d6, it's outdated but works and I have the probabilities more or less memorized so fuck having to learn new things.

I like Dark Heresy's 2d10 system too, that was one of the better diceroll systems I've dealt with. Ironclaw's multiple die sides system looks really interesting as well, I'd like to try it.

>>938

>Roughly 10% of successes are crits

>Roughly 10% of failures are crits

That's really good.

>in opposed checks you want to go as high as possible without going over your skill AND beat your opponents score if they didn't roll over their skill.

Huh. So if your opponent has 25 and you have 50, there's a 75% chance the opponent fails completely and a 50% chance you fail completely, making for a 37.5% chance you both fail, a 87.5% chance at least one of you fails, a 50% chance exactly one of you fails, and a 12.5% chance you both succeed. Assuming you both succeed, there's a 50% chance you roll higher than your opponent could possibly roll, and below that it's 50/50 odds one way or the other, so a 75% chance you win if neither of you rolls over. The odds of that happening overall are 9.375%, while the chance of you rolling under while your opponent rolls over is 37.5%. All together, your chance of beating your opponent are 46.875%, a bit shy of 50%. Meanwhile your opponent has a 12.5% chance of rolling under while you roll over and a 25% chance of beating you if neither rolls over (3.125% overall) for a total of 15.625% chance of beating you. As stated above, there's a 37.5% chance you both fail, bringing the total to a nice even 100. You have exactly 3 times the chance your opponent does of winning and 1.25% the chance of neither winning. This gives us a whole ratio of you:them:neither 12:4:5 at skill level 50 and 25.

This sounds pretty great. I'm too tire to do it now, but I'd love to see how this works on non-flat distributions like 3d6.

I just use 3d6.

>>1281

Dude sauce pls I'll jerk you off. <3 <3 <3

>>1282

http://www.shadbase.com/league-of-loli-tasting/ here ya go

>>1283

Thanks man!

>>1281

Furoticon is already a cardgame

Criteria

Creativity

>What does the game do different to other games and what new ideas does it have

>How was design space and limits used to the games advantage

Mechanics

>Are the mechanics clear to understand both in how they work and why they exist

>Are the mechanics balanced and fair

Playability

>Were the games rules easy to understand and remember

>Was the board and its pieces easy to use without causing clutter, bumping things into each other or confusing colours/objects

Depth

>How well can a player be rewarded by appropriately using the complexity built into the game

>Does the game reward multiple ways to approach the game

Theme/Aesthetic

>Does the game have a solid consistent theme that meets the rules of the challenge

>Is the game aesthetically pleasing and presentable

Fun

>Did you enjoy playing the game

>Free points or disregard entirely

Suggestions for Judgement

>Strawpoll on the individual threads on the ratings

>Board owners rating each others games and providing a brief critical breakdown on their choices

>ContestRunner getting local gaming group to play and test each game and exchanging feedback sheets

>Your suggestion here

>>1235

Yes,I did that. Go ahead and take a pic of the UIs so they can see if you want.

GG checking in. Now is a good time to take your board back.

>>1274

We can't, the old owner is twiddling his thumbs so no one can do anything.

>>1279

I can think of one solution. I don't think it will be entirely effective, but it might at least get people involved in the discussion more than they already are.

>>904

That's actually pretty cool. I like to think of some matriarchal society based around "Holy fuck woman are goddamn important, if we don't have enough we die. Men kind of are easy to replace though." being disgusted by the idea of the society and kind of fear it cause it makes it so woman would lose power in her society.

Someone really should make a Game of Thrones for FATAL. The system would work really well with that setting.

>>925

I'll correct the guy you were talking to: The gender, ethnicity, sexual preferences, quirks, blood type, zodiac sign etc. of a character should remain undefined if it is not important to the story.

>>1265

As the anon you replied to, for everything except ethnicity I can agree. Ethnicity is as important to the story as what a character is wearing. That is, it's meaningless to the plot most of the time, but it can't just be ignored.

>>934

In a TRULY culturally medieval society, a character would never reveal they're trans or gay because they don't know what "trans" means, and because no one cares, and they probably don't either. It only really matters if someone has some reason to pay attention to you, e.g. how homosexuality is treated in Game of Thrones. Everyone knows, nobody cares because they've got far more important things to worry about, up until the character's homosexuality can be used against them. Then their enemies care. The same would go for crossdressing, probably the only medieval manifestation of transsexuality.

>>503

derp I forgot my regex again

I swear I'm a programmer

>>476

Wouldn't it be a Wisdom check?

lets see here

aight how about this

Rolled 16 (1d20)

Gogogo

This was posted up in the original /tg/ thread on this, but here's the traits you'd need to start play as the stereotypical necromancer lich:

Combat

>Undying

>Work with the GM to create a death condition (decapitated, destroyed phylactery, staked in the heart, etc). Unless you die under those conditions, gain creative license to reanimate within about 1 day to 1 week (the GM decides when) with full life. You are temporarily weakened (the GM decides how and for how long).

>If you die and don’t have this trait, you can work with your GM to permanently sacrifice something (memories, your humanity, stats, etc) and immediately gain this trait.

Exploration

>Ritual

>Tell the GM an effect you want to achieve through ritual magic (eternally seal a creature in a tomb, open a portal to another plane, make a magical effect permanent, etc). The GM must explain everything you have to do in order to complete the ritual (sacrifice rare items, join with other mages, visit a certain location, etc). If you perform the ritual and satisfy the requirements, gain creative license to achieve the effect.

Interaction

>Marshal Forces

>You can acquire unique allies through means that would otherwise be impossible. Work with your GM to determine the creature type, recruitment method, and limitations (build loyal robots that run on fuel, animate mindless zombies that crave flesh, call feral beasts that do as they please, etc).

You can realize a pretty wide variety of character concepts with this game, even at just the basic starting level.

>>88

>none of the themes has any kommando theme

;___;

>>633

you can flavour it Kommando yourself, that's the idea with this game.

>>633

Some suggestions

>Warfare

A Hundred Scars, A Hundred Lessons

Crowd Control

Master of Arms

Athlete

Sheer Determination

Tactical Reposition

Bound by Blood

Motley Crew

War Stories

>Tracking

Called Shot

Eagle Eye

Take Aim

Survivalism

Vigil

And basically everything under Command.

Oh hey I met the guy who made this.

He's a giant self-important asshole who shitposts on RPGuild, goes by Disciple Cain.

>>500

Yeah, I see what you mean. That shadow could easily have been created with Photoshop just by fiddling with the brush tool and layer opacity.

>>500

> looks like a complete photoshop

It is a photoshop, I've seen the original.

Bump

>>1239

>8chan's /tg/ is what remains from the long hardships of our board. We are weathered, in fear that our best years and accomplishments are behind us, yet hopeful for our new beginnings.

That fucking comical to hear you say, but I'll leave it at that and let you enjoy your delusion.

>>1239

There's always that guys who takes internet life like he forgot the material one.

>>1099

They already have a board tan. It's that thing with loads of teeth. So a drain wouldn't be a bad idea.

>>1240

I will admit, I got a bit carried away. The basic point stands, 4chan /tg/ has accomplished almost nothing in the past couple years compared to pre-Nazimod. Quest-fags made things even worse. The people on 8chan /tg/ seem to be the ones who remember when things used to not suck.

>>1242

Says the anon that posted on Saturday night.

>>1246

>The people on 8chan /tg/ seem to be the ones who remember when things used to not suck.

I'm certain that modern fantasy freeform roleplay threads about qt tieflings moving in next door were part of that. Next thing I know Harem Knights will pop up too.

>>1135

You're something awful, are we seriously supposed to be scared of the biggest faggots on the web?

>>1137

>> He frequently edits the unique IP count and there's a ton of archive bots inadvertedly bloating the numbers

Assuming anything you say is not complete and utter bullshit

I did think something weird was going on with the IDs. /pol/'s ID'S usually drop on weekends,which always sounded strange to me.

>>1128

Porn.

Edition wars.

Whining about SJWs.

Anything slightly off topic (/v/ shit mostly).

Repetitive /tg/ meme of choice when it isn't started by someone of the inner circle.

It's an overmoderated cliquish shithole.

>>1243

Porn is probably the main reason really, fa/tg/uys are shirty.