/tg/ - Traditional Games

So we're playing Spell. A game where magic is powered by rearranging scrabble tiles to make words. The better spelled the words and the more tiles used, the better the effect. Errors in spelling mean the GM fucks with you or unspeakable things happen.

>Roll up characters.

I do a mad scientist. We've got a body modification specialist, and a cop named Murphy.

>Robocop is on the table. Kek.

There's also an improvised weapons guy, demolitions guy, and someone who put one in every stat and was just an ordinary teacher. Sort of.

>Name one thing about the setting that's true.

School Teacher/Primary Teacher:

>We all work at a school.

Cop/School Policeman:

>The school is like Xavier's school for the gifted: It has a jet.

Me/Science teacher:

>Yeah, like that, except it's a school for delinquents.

Body Mod anon/School Nurse:

>It's got an umbrella-corp like lab under it.

Weapons anon/PE teacher:

>Which is full of guns.

GM:

This is insane, how could this ever work?

Demo anon/Chemistry teacher:

>The school is run by the honor system. No locks on anything. But for some reason the honor system works.

GM:

Fuck it. You're the faculty of this school for future Jager pilots, training them to fight against Kaiju. Let's go.

What could possibly go wrong?

>>225878

First session! Go!

GM: Anon, someone has hacked a girl's phone and distributed her nudes throughout the school. What do you do?

Me: I cast a spell!

GM: What is your intent?

Me: I want to create an AI to hunt down and destroy the nudes as well as find the person who did it.

GM: That fits your Ardor (Science!)– roll 4d6 for your tiles.

>3, 2, 1, 1

>Shit.

I look at the tiles. Shift them around: "DIRE NOTE." Death Note is invoked by the table.

GM: You announce what you are doing in front of the class. Everyone's cellphones flicker as the AI goes to work. One geeky kid, Tim, has his phone flash oddly. He has a seizure and forgets how to program.

The girl whose nudes he stole punches him out.

What do you do, anon?

Me: Send him to PE for remedial training. Getting punched out is unacceptable!

(I also spent a potential point to make DIRE NOTE a permanent Spell.)

GM: Weapons Anon, a new recruit has arrived, wearing the sign of shame, indicating he lost a fight. You are teaching Chair throwing 201. What do you do?

Weapons Anon: I bring him into the class, have him stand in front, and throw a chair at him.

GM: Roll vigor!

>Success!

GM:

>Roll vigor for Tim.

>Failure!

GM:

The oak chair splinters across Tim's face! He falls unconscious and is bleeding from his broken nose! One of his teeth also got knocked out.

What do you do?

Weapons Anon:

Pick two students to take him and his tooth to the nurses' office. Then continue teaching my class.

GM: Body Mod anon, an unconscious student has been delivered to your lab by two students. They hand you a tooth.

Body Mod anon: I begin dictating– "Subject 005: Tim. Multiple facial lacerations, evidence of blunt trauma to the head. Obvious lack of physique. Solution: Improve reflexes."

I use chemicals to boost his reflexes!

>Failure!

I attempt to stabilize!

>Success!

I cast a spell to augment his reflexes!

GM: Okay, roll Ardor (Body Modification), 3d6.

>6,4,2.

12 tiles.

>That's a lot of "E"'s…

"RAGE EYES"

GM: The student's eyes go red. He's totally pissed. He doesn't have any strength, but he takes a swing at you!

Body Mod anon: I defend with smarts! (Realizing what's about to happen, I go for a sedative!)

GM: Roll 4d6.

>Body Mod anon Rolls: 6,4,3,1.

GM: Raging kid's difficulty is 6.

>GM Rolls: One success!

GM: You manage to sedate him, but take a blow to the head and one point of smarts damage.

Body Mod anon: "Subject 005-Tim, result: Failure. Subject sedated, straight-jacketed, and placed in isolation chamber 2."

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>>225883

Awesome!

>>225751

My group got to try out the latest Seventh Sea quickstart rules. We were all already huge fans of the system and setting, so we were really excited to try out the new rules demo. Some of the highlights of our adventure included:

>My Fate Witch disabling four guards by using a mix of the Tempt skill and some Castillian red pepper powder that just happened to be in a nearby merchant's booth

>The Sarmaccian prince following through on his turn, using his cloak and Knowledge (Fashion) to fan the remaining powder and disabling 3 more guards

>The party assassin killing a whole squad of 6 assassins by herself, picking them off one by one while using the burning building around them as cover

>in part 2, the duelist decided to theme his costume as the prince from A Midsummer Night's Dream, earning himself a Hero Point when he stated that "I'm literally going to make an ass of myself."

Overall, it was a lot of fun and we all look forward to when the books arrive in around October.

GM: Demo Anon, you are about to teach a class. What do you demonstrate for them to mess up horribly copying?

Demo Anon: I'm gonna teach them how to blow open a door! I cast a spell!

GM: I see where this is going. Roll.

>Demo Anon rolls for 11 tiles.

>Absolute shit is drawn.

"GAK PLAN"

GM: You assemble a startlingly powerful explosive out of household chemicals. You blow the door off its hinges, and blow up the new wing that was being built to hide the jet launch. Again.

(Demo Anon pays 1 potential to keep GAK PLAN.)

GM: Teacher anon. You have your class outside and it begins raining rubble.

Teacher: I use my spell 'SIT' to make the rubble sit down quietly over there.

GM: Roll 3d6.

>6,5,4.

GM: Okay then, the rubble obeys your will.

Teacher anon: I use the opportunity to teach some basic math by counting the rocks as they sit. I use my spell "WOW" to keep the lesson engaging.

GM: Roll 5d6 for your spell.

>6,6,4,3,2

GM: Your lesson is going very well.

GM: Meanwhile, Cop Anon, you are taking charge of the safety patrol. Your patrol, like you, has all kinds of Vigor, but no Smarts.

You respond to the sound of an explosion and see all kinds of rubble siting in circles around a bunch of young kids. What do you do?

Cop Anon: I will order my patrol to clean up the mess!

>Rolls Trust & Vision to get his squad working.

>Bosses both rolls.

Cop Anon: I will use my great vigor to reconstruct the wall that has been destroyed!

GM: Roll 4d6!

>3,1,1,1.

7 letters, 5 vowels.

Literal shit choices.

"NEAP"

Cop Anon: I build a neat heap of a wall. So it's "neap." Kinda.

GM: The wall forms, and one of your students goes to touch it, because it looks soo good. The wall collapses on him.

>"NO! NOT BRIAN!"

Many vigor rolls are made with great success.

Rocks are moved.

GM: Brian doesn't look so good. What do you do?

Cop Anon: Have him sent to the nurses office!

"Subject 006-Brian. Subject evidences many broken bones, some protruding from what is left of his limbs. Ribcage crushed. Cybernetic replacements will restore function."

Body Mod anon: I call Science Anon. I'm gonna need help with this one.

Me: I attempt to hook up the leads and electrify his nervous system.

GM: Roll Ardor(Science!): 4d6.

>3,2,2,1

Me: Shit! We need to defib! Roll Smarts to recover!

GM: 3d6. Roll.

>6,4,1.

Me: Whew!

Bod Mod Anon: I cast a spell!

GM: Using Ardor (Body Mod) you get 3d6!

>rolls 8 total.

"IN CARE" two Es leftover.

Me: I combo off of his spell!

GM: Roll 4d6 for Ardor(Science!)

>result is 18.

"FUSE TOTAL DOCTOR" + "IN CARE" =

"FUSE IN TOTAL DOCTOR CARE"

We trash the lab, but Brian boots up fine. He his now the six gorrilion dollar man.

(Both of us save the combo by spending potential points. "FUSE IN TOTAL DOCTOR CARE" is now our first dual tech.)

GM: Yeah. We need to call it there, I'm getting a headache from laughing so hard.

>>225891

I wish to hear more of this in the future

>>228251

I'll be looking forward to more then!

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