Crazy cultist minotaurs show up in the nearby wilderness after one of their labyrinth-cities breaches the surface. Fight them back down and either seal off the exit or kill their blind oracle-king.

There's always been ruins visible a ways out into the bay that the city rests on. Recently, a fisherman's boat was blasted into smithereens with golden fire, and now people can see lights at the bottom of the bay... The local wizard has your Water Breathing Masks. Head on out.

A four-legged box stands in a disused dungeon corridor. Fiddling with the buttons on the front or clearing the glass top of dust transports all but one of the party into a subspace. The remaining one must exercise loose control over the others, and lead them past obstacles and dangers... Hey, was that something moving down the hallway?

The king is a doppelganger. The innkeeper is a doppelganger. The party's mentor is a doppelganger. The party is doppelgangers. Wat do?

A flying castle is following the group around. The king wants to know why, and furthermore wants them to get rid of it, it bothers him.

A cake run through a cave of goblins turns up a mysterious box. Fiddling with it transports everyone nearby into a series of large, metal-walled rooms, full of constructs, mutated goblin descendants, and items made of a strange silvery metal...

The nearby forest has gotten dark and creepy. The town drunk just stumbled into town today and exploded into hundreds of spiders. Find out what the fuck's going on. And no, it's too wet to burn down.

Strange lights have been seen circling over the Witch-King's Mountain. Either climb the outside, full of icy hazards and snowfalls, or brave the uncertain maze of passages inside, and the many members of his court, preserved in unde

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A man steals your hat
A man steals your cat
A cat steals your hat
Cats wearing hats run rampant
Vikings invite you to raid the Elves with them
Elves invite you to raid the vikings with them
Due to clerical error, the elves invite you to raid the elves with them.
Vikings invite you to drink beer with them as they watch elves raid themselves.
A local inn needs rare ingredients
A local inn needs common ingredients
An inn halfway across the world needs ingredients common in your local area
The Innskeeper's guild is employing adventurers for trivial errands
Adventurers, irate at demeaning "fetch quests" are boycotting inns.
The inns have no money.
The inns have no beer.

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>>10047
>A specific item has asked to be stolen
A perfectly valid plot hook for a limited-AI-self-ownership Cyberpunk game.

- A group of lower-level adventurers recently went to a site they discovered after some moderate preparations. They didn't return. Find out what happened to them.

- A crow that looks somewhat ghost-like is following you, and whenever you try to talk to it, it flies off towards a specific landmark. Could this spirit animal know about something you want?

- The king is being held hostage in his own castle. His family has escaped, but he may die if the kidnappers don't get what they want - a fast horse for each ransomer and a pardon for all past and current crimes. The PCs are all ninja/doppelgangers/stealthy-or-skillful types, or at least have one in their party.

- The bakery spontaneously catches fire. After it's put out, the PCs discover that the oven opens to the Elemental Plane of Fire. Who would do something so careless? Why? Or, is it a purposeful portal at all?

- A vampire comes "out of the coffin" and confesses to crimes he has committed in life and unlife. He asks in return that the law enforcement chain him up long enough to find a "cure" for his affliction. He also tells the local constabulary of an associate vampire that's been a thorn in his side...

- A tribe of werewolves has moved into the local area, marks their territory, and expects everyone to know what the markings mean. They're in a special language only therianthropes use, so plenty gets lost in translation, and the result is a war between wolf-men and farmers armed with silvered weaponry.

- A green dragon has made peace with an elven tribe. In return for a single elf woman to sire him children, the dragon proclaims the village and all its lands under his protection. The elves take this chance to take over their own kingdom, the ruler of which they believe is denying them their "rightful place" as rulers of the world.

- The king is replaced

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>>10139
Scuse me.

>Go out of town far enough and the curse ends.
should be
>Go out of town far enough and the water isn't cursed.
I'm a derpface D:

GMG 2013/03/27(Wed)19:39 No. 10098 ID: ec1490
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Goblins like their maps

GMG 2013/04/18(Thu)00:31 No. 10119 ID: 273856
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I may have screwed up the bit with the big fingery lake, but otherwise this is legit.

GMG 2013/05/06(Mon)20:01 No. 10137 ID: 273856
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Visual Aid!

GMG 2013/05/21(Tue)00:00 No. 10140 ID: ebe4e0
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Whee!

This thread is adorable. Also holy shit is it old, and it was pretty high on page 2. Do things really move this slow here?

The tg board of tgchan is the slowest board permitted by law. Most of the posts aren't even content, just items useful to a handful of people participating in some IRC rpg or another.

Oh hey, L5R! I assume you're talking more about the CCG than the RPG (which is also good). Anyway, I'm a few years out of the loop and never really got into the tourney scene so consider me a sketchy source here. That said though...

It's a really solid game. I'd say second only to Magic as far as CCGs go, and to my knowledge, any card ever printed is still totally fair game. New sets don't reinvent the wheel mechanically, they just progress things plot wise.

As in, every year they have a big ol' tournament, with the developers watching how the last few games play out. If Clan X comes out on top, the fluff of the next set says their leader is the new emperor. If there's a big duel between two characters, one kills the other. If someone wins by mixing some naga cards into his deck? That clan allies with the naga. Stuff like that.

This leads to multiple versions of the same character, but you're free to use any or all. You can promote a character to a version of that character from a later set as an alternate method of getting them into play.

Past that, there are, if I recall, 3 ways to win- There's actual cards of the 5 rings you can get out, but doing so is a royal pain, so that almost never happens. There's successfully attacking all 4 of your opponents Holding cards (kind of a combination of life points/secondary hand containing all your land-equivalent cards, to really stretch a metaphor), and there's getting up to 40 honor points, which, in my experience, is the most common victory method, since a lot of things rack armor up, particularly winning a fight.

Attacks are big productions that don't get made until pretty late in the game generally. There's a ton of buildup until someone feels confident that they can win and makes a major attack, and then you spend a good 5 minutes or so activating special abilities, playing cards, challengin

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Is the ban message any good? I could use a laugh.

rolled 6 = 6

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rolled 57 = 57

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rolled 53 = 53

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rolled 22, 3, 24 = 49

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>>9995

rolled 1 = 1

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Diplomacy
Shoot

Cirr 2013/04/23(Tue)00:35 No. 10127 ID: a18d07
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and glowies

Cirr 2013/04/23(Tue)00:35 No. 10128 ID: a18d07
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i put on my top hat and

Cirr 2013/04/23(Tue)00:36 No. 10129 ID: a18d07
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does anyone remember if i even used this

Cirr 2013/04/23(Tue)00:36 No. 10130 ID: a18d07
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or this

Easkai 2013/04/23(Tue)01:13 No. 10131 ID: 8c82f4
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You forgot Salazzant

It's less that you're venting and more that you don't know what to do and you are seeking opinions on the matter.

Opinion 1: Stop making excuses and kick him from the group if he doesn't fit in. He doesn't fit in. Kick him from the group.

Opinion 2: Stop making excuses and just talk to the guy about the stuff you're having trouble with. If he doesn't improve, follow Opinion 1.

Talk it out, tell him he's not contributing enough to the group. You don't wanna kick him but you really want him to participate in this you're working very hard to make happen

I dunno if I can help, since my entire gaming group is made out of 'That Guys,' (me included, probably) but I will offer my ideas regardless.

I certainly do not think you should kick him from the group. I also realise this is like, two weeks old now, and you may have very well already taken action against that guy.

To me, he sounds like he is stricken by trepidation, and not by an unwillingness or inability to cooperate with you and the other players. He may feel inadequate around the rest of you, given your more impressive occupations, and apparent social aptitude (which this fellow strikes me as devoid of). To me, his small claims of 'LOLRANDUMB' attitude seem more like a way to appear more, I don't know, well-adjusted, or whatever. I don't know.

I don't know how you guys are with him at the table, but I can suggest perhaps you should consider being a little more lenient with him, to a point, of course. Possibly even positively reinforcing good, and active role-playing with small, in-game rewards. You know, a little extra gold or something.

If you are concerned with his unwillingness to speak in-character, then perhaps I can suggest including some dialogue, or actual specific questions, aimed at his character.

As for not showing up, well, that's how it goes, I guess.

Anonymous 2013/03/29(Fri)14:52 No. 10104 ID: ec1490
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Tweeeeak

#1 Santova 2013/03/18(Mon)14:05 No. 10074 ID: 6c1738
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First puzzle! Is tgchan up to the challenge?

I resent being only called 'semi-intelligent'. You didn't even spell intelligent correctly!

The difficult ones have purposeful spelling errors and grammatical mistakes, but the target is the picture below it. I would guess you already got that one

I'm not sure you understand cryptograms. Longer ones are not more difficult. Also there is no way to solve your first puzzle without extra information. I *had* to half-solve your original picture in order to solve your 'first' puzzle (and at that point there wasn't any reason not to finish solving the original picture)

That said I did like what you did with th, that threw me off for a decent while

Hm, alright, I'll keep that in mind. The idea may have been lacking foresight but I did have clues handy if you peeps needed them. This is just my first time doing anything like this

[Race Class Level ] Character name
[Kobold Artisan 58 ] Taykis
[Gnoll Archon ] Blackjack
[Lamia Artisan 92/100 ] Asuraus (OOC) (idle: 35m)
[Gnoll Veteran 6/9 ] Elithor
[Gnoll Beastmaster 34/35 ] Ria
[Gnoll Soldier 11 ] Jekyl
[Clockwork Artisan 28/100 ] Walter
[Human Soldier 22 ] Azizeron
[Nevrean-Gnol Apprentice 1 ] Maysa
[Lian Apprentice 1 ] Remazi
[Ezilot Monk 4/5 ] Tyarith
[Slime Cleric 17 ] Panacea
[Gnoll Doomsayer 28/64 ] Durga
[Human Fighter 88/89 ] Hibited
[Demon Conjurer 16/17 ] Synn the Demon
[Tabaxi Enchanter 5/6 ] Minta
[Lamia Beastmaster 41/67 ] Ilya the Witch
[Minotaur Fighter 20 ] Adyali
[Lamia Ranger 19/20 ] Artyem
[Gnoll Monk 10 ] Glas

Huzzah for people!

How active have things been recently? I keep checking the MUD's homepage and there's never more than like 1 or 2 people online.

>>8810
It dropped off and started picking back up recently. Still mainly active later at night. Could definitely use some more players.

Do I need to memorize all the prefixes? I loathe memorizing prefixes. I'm a programming student, I don't enjoy it in my off time.

>>10038
I am not sure what you mean so, no, probably not.

Anonymous 2013/03/01(Fri)07:48 No. 10050 ID: 30df25
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Huh. reminds me of http://davesmapper.com/

/tg/ has biweekly threads on this now, Ahriman's Aide, DarkMage, and especially Someone else. are writing WHH books.

Yes, books.

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>>8537
Nooooooo why did you post the chaincock version :(

>>8780
Because it was the original.

Yarrick shoved Furia into a seat, then settled into his own swiveling chair. They glared at each other for five long, silent minutes. The Dean pulled out a small silvery flask, understated filigree resolving briefly into the Imperial Guard's skull-and-wings icon before the angle changed. He took a long pull and paused. After another minute he nodded, and passed her the flask. She threw her had back, taking fully half of the ash whiskey down before handing it back, and nodding in turn. Yarrick began to organize paperwork as Furia stood and adjusted her bag, then walked out.
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Ah, yes. Is there anyone here from the uh... drainpipe over there at 4chan?

>>9937
Drainpipe? What?

The cleaner teams arrived, cleansing promethium burning away the taint of extragalactic life, hostile even in its demise.

The flames swept over the pile of bodies, and suddenly a great cry arouse. They all stopped and looked up to see Iaerno Aexbard roll heavily atop the Carnifex's mutilated body, now snoring loudly.

Burfess rushed over, shaking the sleeping warrior awake. "Iaerno! Iaerno, you're alive!"

"Whuh?" The snoring resumed as Iaerno slipped instantly back into well deserved rest.

Burfess chuckled, and roused him again, "Iaerno, what happened here? How did you manage to... to kill so many?"

Iaerno snorted and mumbled, heady dreams of stout brew and stouter women flitting through his mind, "Suwuh, it was the Eldar."

Burfess chuckled, then laughed aloud, and soon enough the others joined him.

Far away, lightyears away from the Daerven system floated a graceful craft, seemingly composed entirely of a forest of bone. Great crystal domes allowed a view inside, an entire world suspended on the emptiness of space.

Thousands upon thousands of Eldar moved through this self-sustaining world, living their lives.

Deeper in the ship, in the psychoplastic wraithbone structure of the craft itself, swam another hundred thousand minds, the souls of dead Eldar, forever alive and ready to assist their brethren at a moment's notice.

Deeper yet, even farther inside, sat a lone figure, reclining easily in his seat. He wore a helmet and armor, disguising his features, but still radiated a palpable aura of satisfaction, and, perhaps, dickishness.

Eldrad Ulthan watched through the warp as yet another splinter of Hive Fleet Kraken perished, another threat to his people ended by the arms and armor of a younger race.

Low, so low not even a Space Wolf standing at the doorway could hear it, a single phrase whispered out.

"Just as planned."

Please, comments, criticisms and poorly-veiled insults are welcome.

wait is his name irono or iaerno or

Best dwarf.

CoC is not D&D, or many of the other games you may have heard bandied about. Do not treat it as such.
Make sure you do right by the lore, it's 60% of the game.
Make sure the players understand they are not going to "win". CoC is a brutal game, at times, where the few victories are presaged by defeats in spades. The easily butthurt need not apply.

Indeed. Well-run CoC games should not include much in the way of serious combat; any character significantly better in combat than their *player* would be is already trending towards munchkin. (That's a good way of gauging it, really: could *you, the person sitting at the table rolling dice, do that?)

Also, go watch the Spoony Experiment video talking about Call of Cthulhu, combat, and characters: "If you stat it, they will kill it".