Lighthearted Quests, Heartwarming Campaigns

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>>It's the start of the hunting season and the Lord is running a contest on who can find and capture the White Stag as is customary to begin the season

>>It's time for The Grand Tournament and skilled warriors, archers, and magi are entering in order to win, as first prize is a place in the king's royal guard and a kiss from the crown princess.

You seem awfully upset at the prospect that people enjoy things you do not.

Don't reply to 40kids.

"Hey guys! Who wants to play a game of Palermo?"

>shut the fuck up Jerry, you fucking tumblr casul nigger, we'll play fucking monopoly
>I fucking hate all of you and your shitty "durr hurr whodunit" games
>kill yourselves you shithead, fuck you and your nigger birthday and your fucking "but it's fun" excuse
>monopoly is way better, I can have a proper economic strategy instead of pointing fingers you motherfucker
>what do you mean I'm not allowed back in?
>wait until I tell Veeky Forums about this!

I am.
I am upset tha RPGs move into "everyone is a winner" mollycoddling tumblr shittery. The games like faggots in this thread describe usually don't last beyond a single session after which everyone just doesn't bother arriving to the second. You know why? Because if a game provides no challenge and no consequences, it's not interesting.

This

I play D&D to fight dragons and orcs and get loot.

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Things can be challenging and have consequences without being certain be violent. Some people want games that are more drama than action movie.

What's the appeal in posting in a thread you dislike just to broadcast your being butthurt over other people's preferences? Do you actually have that little going for you?

Not him, but I am astounded at how you manage not to gag on that foot in your mouth.

What about helping either that commoner woman or that elf soldier/town guard in confessing or supporting their romance towards each other, as it turns out both that commoner woman and the elf-dude-at-arms have a crush on each other but won't admit it to one another. So you may help either of them out.

If i do it enough, more people will be put off by these games and there would be more games left for us. Stamp degeneracy out before it takes root.

>I am upset tha RPGs move into "everyone is a winner" mollycoddling tumblr shittery
>playing anything other than murderhoboism and dungeon crawls is "everyone is a winner" and tumblr
>games should be nothing else but kill, loot, repeat

t. shitposters and shit people in general

>The games like faggots in this thread describe usually don't last beyond a single session
You must not have played many games then. or turned full that guy on those that weren't to your liking.

I've recently had an elaborate campaign based on protecting and rescuing poor, misunderstood monsters. It was comfy as fuck.

I blame bioware for this shit

A generation of millennial libcucks raised on LE QUIRKY CHARACTERS and shitty waifus

TEE HEE THE ZANY ELF WANTS ME TO PRANK OTHERS

LOL THE CUTE LADYKNIGHT READS LEWD BOOKS, SO FUNNAY

As opposed to characters with no personality beyond 'Has a sword'?

There are shitty things in all directions of media.

It's just making you look like a tool. And everything you stand for.

Just sayin' senpai

But everyone else in the thread is just laughing at you for being a salty faggot.

The fact that you seem so worked-up over strangers having fun wrong makes it seem like you don't even have a group of your own.

ITT: People I'd never run a Ryuutama game for, even if they put a gun to my head.

hey imoen had a nice backstory.

>Things can be challenging and have consequences without being certain be violent.
If your consequence is "oh no, mr.bumblefuck and mrs.yeastcunt didn't marry :(" it's a shit consequence. It changes nothing. It's even worse than "omg so creative" DM's "oh no, the kingdom will fall into darkness :(", they like to brag about. I don't give a single shit about your imaginary kingdom, i care only for my character. He (and other party members, but it's THEIR job to look after their characters) is the center of a game, and nothing DM says has an effect on that.

Actually, it's making me lean the other way, as it makes people who are opposed to these kinds of games look like total douchebags.

>Nobody should like the thing I don't like, otherwise the entire hobby is ruined for me
I always wonder if there is hope for people like you to function normally in society.

Simple archetypal characters are better than cutesy whedon / felicia day quipfest shit

I don't care about your backstory you faggot, go and fap over how you're like totally doing NaNo with your other fanfiction.net retards.

You're a Fighting Man, you fight. As Gygax intended.

What if I pat your head?

So you don't give a shit about the actual role playing in a role playing game? Why don't you just play a video game instead?

>implying proper OSR dungeon crawls are equivalent to video games

This trope might exist in JRPGs somewhere, but I would be a fan of a kind of "cosy catastrophe" post apocalyptic setting. A lot of post apocalyptic stuff is like Mad Max, where technologies from the former civilization are still available and familiar to the characters who lived before "shit hit the fan." And the post apocalyptic society is extremely chaotic as people are using guns and cars to fight over what few resources exist.

I'm thinking of going farther into the future, where the climate has stabilized somewhat and human society exists as an agricultural society somewhat resembling our notion of generic medieval fantasy. So far in the future that people forgot what happened, and regard the ruins of the previous civilization no differently than the more natural features of the landscape.

Obviously the kind of stuff you see in weeaboo ruin porn art.

>as Gygax intended

Gygax was fair for his time and that time is long gone. RPGs have shifted gear and have managed to be more than a miniature wargame. A proper RPG can have your swordfag get swarmed by a guy that decided to make connections in town, make himself likeable and send a bunch of guards your way. Also GMs start growing some balls and if you say that shit, your character gets killed and you get kicked.

tl;dr, what Gygax intended doesn't apply anymore, kill yourself you baity faggot and choke on this (You)

>user hits "extraneous smileys" level of desperation
How much longer before you start replying with misspelled all-caps greentext?

>RPGs have shifted gear and have managed to be more than a miniature wargame

>le change is good meme

yes, letting all the fucking casuals in really improved the hobby

show some fucking respect for the hobby, or fuck off

That and Gygax ran plenty of games with plenty of story. I mean, that's the entire REASON we have Greyhawk as a setting with a heap of fleshed out details.

People seem to think that con games (Games designed for people who don't know each other and will likely not meet again) were 100% of his games.

>Actual roleplaying
Here's how it works.
You're a normal dude, with a normal sword (or a magical dildo if you're into that).
You go into dungeons. In a dungeon nobody cares if you're third prince of Fuckoffistan or a duke of Bumburg - you catch an arrow in your gut, cleric either resurrects you or gives you a small epitaph, the group moves on.

You can roleplay in downtime, buying bitches, building castles, sodomizing yourself with your magicl dildo, i don't care. It's not ROLEPLAYING game, it's roleplaying GAME. The world doesn't give a shit who you are. Git gud or git ded. Don't try to save your shitty mary sue with "b-but i have ten fail points! I can spend one and magical fairy will fly to me and not make me die of tetanus!". No. get over it. The world doesn't give a shit.

I would play that. GURPS or some other system?

>the fucking casuals
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>Lazarus Darkshadow has been sitting in the dark corners of the pub for a week now. The owner is upset he has been bring his own drink and never buys anything. He thinks this town is boring and is waiting to find an adventure. He just needs a friend, someone to help take the edge off.

>A dragon has come to town trying to book a venue for the 213th Council of Wyrms. He is trying to buy land to begin construction for the event but no one will sell it to him and he is getting tired of explaining to knights that he won't fight them.

>Old Man Wizfizzle is a retired wizard who mostly uses wish spells to help out the people of the town. But his hearing is really starting to go and his interpretations on wishes is getting worse and worse. Maybe he should get it in writing...

>Dopplegangers are coming to town looking for work. When anti-doppler sentiment keeps them out of jobs they start imitating some of the lazier townspeople and doing their work for them and taking their pay. Someone finally caught on and they are very upset.

What if I give you a massage, user?

Ryuutama.
Magic is just NANOMACHINES, SON.
Ryuujin is benevolent AI on a satellite, tasked with rebuilding humanity and making it better.

So it's basically the homebrew setting I made when I was 15?

That Lazarus Darkshadow reminds me of a story of an angsty edgelord stuck in a light-hearted campaign

Damn, when do we start?

>Ryuujin is benevolent AI on a satellite, tasked with rebuilding humanity and making it better.

What a thankless job.

hey, it's AI. It's not like it has anything better to do.

>the harvest god is a climate control satellite that regulates weather on the planet to maintain balance and sustainability

that might help, but only a little.

>What is Numenera

>An ancient golem, buried for thousand years has reactivated on the outskirts of town.

>It has been plodding through farmlands and farmhouses, locked into some sort of patrol mode that doesn't account for the growth of the town in the centuries since it was programmed.

>While the golem doesn't seem to have an attack mode and won't do anything but walk through obstacles, no means of force or magic the townsfolk have come up with has been able to stop it.

>Any attempts made to communicate with the construct thus far have been met with strange quires made in its original magical programming language.

>The PCs must find a way to talk to or reprogram the golem, stopping its slow-motion rampage and turning it toward more constructive activities.

>A Dwarven mercenary has fallen in love with a travelling human Minstrel and needs the PCs help in wooing them
>A hulking giant wants to intergrate into society, finding the idea of sleeping in a village with friends instead of in a ditch surrounded by corpses to be more appealing, and wants to find a peaceful job that a simple brute like himself can do
>A strange man from a far away continent has come to visit, and won't shut his mouth about how great his nation is and how the locals are backwards savages. Show him a good time or teach him a lesson.
>A Barbarian tribe is having a competition of strength and skill, and for the first time is opening the competition to outsiders (optional: A dastardly baron is entering with intent to cheat his way to victory, and the PCs have to stop him)
>A village is stripped of just about all of its guardsmen when a war mandated draft rolls in. It's up to the PCs to train a ragtag group of misfit villagers into a competent fighting-force that can keep the village safe until the regular guards return
>Another adventuring party rolls into town, and gets competitive with the PCs over who can impress the most townfolk

I'm glad my half baked ideas have been properly formulated well before me.

>The patrol routes are the streets of an ancient city that use to be where the town is.

I'd play this game in a heartbeat. The advanced technology of the past becomes the setting's "magic," with A.I. spirits, holographic familiars and the like.

>if you stop the golem you can find the map inside

>the cave outside the town leads to the upper floors of a tallest building in that city

>over the centuries golems down there have carved pathways through now-buried megapolis

>some of the buildings were sealed off and still contain artifacts of civilization long gone

Exactly. Who the fuck plays RPGs to do NOTHING EXCITING?

I mean, 'comfy' is stupid as hell.

And smug asshattery like that is why so many people voted for Trump.

samefagging is bad desu :^)

I like this idea. I will incorporate it in my game

I'm happy. Why aren't you happy, user?

>I am upset tha RPGs move into "everyone is a winner" mollycoddling tumblr shittery.

You're projecting your hatred for that mindset onto things that aren't necessarily advocating it.

Can the players find a control room for the golem and stop it before it demolishes the village wall? Tune in next time to find out!

He actually probably enjoys slice-of-life games, because he doesn't seem to be putting a lot of effort into trolling this thread.

Or maybe he's really just a low-energy loser.

He clearly didn't vote for Trump. I did, and I have a nigh-permanent erection.

You're no Trump, boy.

I honestly hate that I can't tell if comments like are serious anymore. I guess it's just a feature of this website.

I get where he's coming from, though. Like, increasingly we've seen a lot of media play that up to 'soften' what should otherwise be a more solid setting. The comic The Wicked and the Divine is an example of how...I'm not sure of the exact word for it, but 'leftism' is a good one...can infest a genre like a cancer that needs to be rooted out.

And the "nanomachines, son" explanation for magic might be a handy excuse for sorcerer bloodlines.

I love these thread because it allow me to play tabletop with KIDS

>inb4 pedojokes

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I honestly don't see enough of it to get angry about it, though. I stopped liking Bioware games a while ago, the agenda they push exists concurrently with genuinely boring game design. And I can tell that the new Star Wars movies are trying hard to avoid white male protagonists, but The Force Awakens was otherwise very uninspired so I don't care. I think you're making an opportunity cost argument, though.

I just don't think we should associate tumblr safe spaces with light hearted comedy pertaining to our interests and hobbies. That's not the point.

I don't know. I think that we should lash back as violently as possible, because the other side is making a mockery of everything we love. (Remember Ghostbusters and the shitstorm over it?)

We need to send these people a sign that we're onto their shit, and we don't want more of it.

>shooting magic nanomachines from your dick

>And I can tell that the new Star Wars movies are trying hard to avoid white male protagonists

Huh? We have a white male character right in the main team for Rogue One and the Rebel Ace who gets the entire story going/saves the day in the end is a white male.

The latter can be seen as maybe not a protagonist but the entire team in Rogue One are protagonists, not just the female lead.

but what if i want to run a light hearted game for kids user what then

And flinging shit is more effective than, say, boycotting them?

I don't mind this thread, because it gives me good ideas for not so serious side-tasks that the group can do when they feel like it.

Nah. The proper way to deal with them is to ignore them.

Just like all trolls, once they realize that their shit got in the no-fly zone, they will stop.

>the other side is making a mockery of everything we love
>brings up Ghostbusters
You are now aware that the people who made "everything you love" were in the past and still are today, for the most part, on "the other side".

Yeah, I was thinking about the team composition in Rogue One and wondering if Star Wars was the best example. But Kylo Ren was a fucking awful antagonist, I'm not sure what they were doing there.

But I could also point to the "feminist" influences in Mad Max Fury Road and say, "Hey, these make sense and the movie was really good. I can't complain."

Ignoring them doesn't work, that's how shit got this far. There has to be a backlash.

The Force Awakens wasn't trying to be a dramatic change. It was very clear it's mission statement was to go 'These is going to be much more OT than Prequels' and it did that by making a very, very OT story.

It's also set up a very different dynamic between the two factions than the OT had. The Rebellion/Empire was very much 'Can't fight a real war, so they need a golden bullet'. While the First Order is more 'Neither side has a huge military advantage over the other'. Hence the First Order being forced to pull back when the Rebels actually turned up, as they couldn't afford to get into a proper fight.

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>buzzwords buzzwords buzzwords
Kindly end your life.

Well if you start acting like a screeching retard, they'll play the victim card. If you dismiss them with "hey everyone, get a load of this cunt" and then let them start digging their own grave, it will work.

So no, getting violent just robs you of any proper say in the matter you may have had and reinforces their position. Think of the long game, user.

>What is Tékumel
Literally the first full-fledged published RPG setting.

You can do that by not buying it and criticizing it fairly. Anything more and people will just see you as a sperg, and they'll just dismiss you. Of course, to your point, we have people now plugging their ears and yelling misogynist for not liking something they like that happens to have women in leading roles.

Anyways. Lighthearted can be done without fanfiction tier quirky writing a la Bioware.

Actually, I really like Kylo Ren (If they are doing what I strongly suspect they are doing with him.)

He's not supposed to be a potent, imposing antagonist in the way that Darth Vader is. He's supposed to be more 'Opposition that grows with the protagonist'. A rival, not a final opponent to be built up to beating.

He's got some serious, serious issues that fuck him over and a lot of room to grow himself. If I'm right (And I hope I am) the movies are going to focus on his progression as a character nearly as much as hers.

What long game? Both sides are just slinging shit. The side that slings shit harder wins.

>It's also set up a very different dynamic between the two factions than the OT had. The Rebellion/Empire was very much 'Can't fight a real war, so they need a golden bullet'. While the First Order is more 'Neither side has a huge military advantage over the other'. Hence the First Order being forced to pull back when the Rebels actually turned up, as they couldn't afford to get into a proper fight.

Star Killer Base was a pretty massive operation, though.

I think you might have quoted the wrong guy there.

>The side that slings shit harder wins
Your posting rights are revoked.

Kylo Ren is a deliberate attempt to emasculate men and mock people who wanted a white male protagonist. Fortunately, with Trump in charge, the zeitgeist is going to be changing, and soon.

I won't be surprised if we see a new, white Captain America, for example. Same for Ms. Marvel. All the 'diversity' characters are now out-of-place in a country where they're no longer the prevailing interest.