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Song of Swords is a a tabletop RPG centered around realistic medieval fightan' with a ludicrous variety of weapons and fighting styles, centered around a dice pool system. It's currently in beta, and can be used for both fantasy and historical games.
Call of the Void is a pulpy sci-fi tabletop RPG about fighting space-nazis and hunting giant whales with harpoons made out of the moon. Its combat system is more modern, based in the early 20th century, but can probably handle combat up to the present day.
MEGA folder containing current version of the game and all supplementary materials. At this time the latest version is v1.9.9: mega.nz/#F!S89jTT7J!ozFi9GvzaFGHfBa59Ik2-Q
Alandi is a large country. Larger than its simple geography would suggest. Its endless plains and swamps give it a feeling of enormity, and the lack of permanent settlements, except for the capital and a few farming villages, add to that.
But on the borders of the country, in the great swamp called Valershk, there is a township that has reported the appearance of strange goblins.
These goblins, they say, are blind albino mutants who emerge from the swamp periodically, gibbering and frothing at the mouth. They usually die within a few hours if ignored, but they rarely last that long.
It has been found that in the gullets of the beasts, in a leathery sac that occupies the place where vocal chords would normally reside, are pearls which swirl with strange colors, like glass spheres filled with dye.
These pearls are very rare--after all each goblin only has one--and are sold by the townsfolk to merchants at great expense. Hunters often wait in the swamps with food and drink, watching for the arrival of these albinos, to kill them and take their precious spheres.
The Kasonic Order's Black Sun Chapter has attempted to send agents to investigate this phenomenon, but the King of Alandi has resolutely refused them: His people are entitled to their land by ancient writ, and he will not even permit his own nobles to interfere in this township's business, however valuable it may be.
Agents have been hired by various governments to try and infiltrate the town covertly, perhaps as hunters willing to pay for a chance to kill one of the goblins themselves and claim the stone, or as scholars wishing to observe the creatures for posterity. But what sort of fool would venture into the cursed swamps of Alandi to participate in this blasphemous ritual hunt? The goblins have supposedly been appearing more frequently. What if multiple appear? Shouldn't be too much of a problem with all of the hunters.
Chase Rodriguez
Metal. I wonder what the pearl is for.
Charles Kelly
To make necklaces with. Duh.
Aiden Roberts
Hello, fellow groin-puncturers. I haveth a question for thy; How does shieldbash really work? In the example of shieldbashing it mentions halving parrying succeces of anyone trying to parry it, but I vant find that rule anywhere else! Pls halp.
David Howard
bump
Eli Ortiz
Halving successes also happens in trying to do things like block bullets, I think. It's a pretty unfrequently used rule. Your opponent just declares a defense as normal, if it's a parry it's less effective, and whoever wins resolves their maneuver be it the shield block or defense. It isn't different from anything else.
Jace Nguyen
And because my autism is too strong, - eth is a third person suffix that doesn't conjugate with have anyway, and thou/thy/thine is second person singular. You is second person plural. "I have a question for you" is actually more accurate to medieval syntax.
I have You hast He hath
Cameron Johnson
Sorry, thou hast not you hast. I fucked myself up.
Carson Rogers
Is the halving successes still in this version of the rules?
At present the rulebook is a slapdash and haphazard collection of three years of tweaks and changes. I'm not sure the examples are fully caught up.
Justin Sanchez
Just the book and I was right. Now parries have +1 TN not reduced successes.
Connor Kelly
Bump
Lincoln Sullivan
Those stocks have always looked unholy uncomfortable.
William Brooks
Yeah, I was wondering about that exact thing while posting.
I think they absolutely had to use the forket to shoot these
David Barnes
I like to think of SoS development as a slinky in literary form.
Julian Reyes
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Kevin Ross
Hello, original question guy here.
That seems a bit, weak? I dunno how i feel about a shortsword stopping shield bashes that easily... Unless shields count as heavy weapons. That would make them great again.
Julian Wilson
Update: They don't.
Is it really that easy to parry a shield? I know that parrying is directing the weapon away from you and not blocking it, but still...
Carter Carter
As someone who likes to shield people, no they are not easy to parry. About the only way I see it happening would be more of a beat where you'd strike the edge of the shield and knock it to the side, and then you'll probably still have to deal with the guy shoulder charging you.
Even with this scenario it'll only really be feasible with a two hander vs a center grip punch shield. Forearm strapped shields are much harder to move in General.
Samuel Thomas
It is, however, usually easier to void a shield bash though. Which is why running over people in tight formations is fun, they have nowhere to go.
Hudson Green
It's an egg of something terrible that uses poor albino goblins as a part of it's reproductive cycle. It counted on humans harvesting and spreading it's eggs to satisfy their greed. Soon they'll all hatch together and the Time of Woes will begin.
Connor Gutierrez
What did the High Elves worship, before Ruvia brought the light of Genosus to the west?
Wyatt Barnes
They might've always worshipped the sun. Then again, they sound like huge lazy bastards.
Eli Sullivan
you take that back you slut
Logan Foster
Hey kid, wanna talk social combat?
Ian Bennett
[Speech 32/35] How about you talk about what the game was meant to do - physical combat?
Jack Baker
Spears are fun, armor is great. What else do you expect to hear?
Connor Moore
Did you get that list of new stances I sent you?
Aaron Ortiz
>Secret secrets are no fun, secret secrets hurt someone Share em with the thread why don't you?
Isaiah Green
SCYTHIANS!
Gabriel Brooks
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Gabriel Howard
bump
Blake Martin
SASSANIDS
Austin Powell
Truly the Ben Foster of ancient empires.
Robert Anderson
So, /sos/, what would the armor of Napoleonic Cuirassiers be classified as? And what would you stat the pickelhaube as?
Benjamin Foster
"Not bulletproof"
Landon Lopez
Post that one from Waterloo, with the canonball sized hole.
Jonathan Rodriguez
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Austin Reed
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William Lopez
Laser whales has that shorty steel armour which provides a pretty good approx relative to regular guns. I.e., it doesn't do shit.
Wyatt Stewart
All nice and dandy, but what about statting for when folks are being stabbed and bashed?
Nicholas Watson
I wanna be impaled by her bayonet on the field of battle
Justin Sanchez
Just a regular old cuirass I think.
Thomas Cox
For that it's probably use regular plate stats. That's my guess.
Ethan Rivera
>Using bayonet on a lever action rifle
Dylan Foster
What's wrong with that?
Joseph Green
Nothing much, I just don't like the aesthetics.
I also couldn't think of a better bump
Ryan Phillips
Post attractive girls next time
Noah Sanders
Too much Zell. Pls no fish.
William Bailey
she's cavalry. She has no bayonet.
Jackson Allen
I tried.
Also how would you rate a late 17th century caracena armour? as scale/lammelar?
Kayden Foster
Yep, lamellar armor. Good protection against cuts and sabers but more looks than general utility.
Brayden Ramirez
Bump
Also: >Your Hetman is a Cutie 3.14. Wat do /SoS/ ?
Owen Martin
Bump
Justin Gray
How do you guys go about statting NPCs for your games? Do you have a simplified character creation or go through the whole nine yards?
Luis Hill
I've never had the luck to play in or run any TRoS derived game. But I think I'd either prebuild a bunch, and do small adjustments to them when needed. Like, have one or two generic Bandit stats, and adjust them to get a bunch of slightly different individuals. Or I'd just make what feels appropriate.
David Bell
I can't be the only one that thought of this when I saw the thumbnail.
Henry Bell
I usually just track important stats and skill numbers unless it's a combatant.
Grayson Hall
Get some head, man.
Parker Gonzalez
Dacian iron miners and steel workers unionizing and attempting to seize the means of production?
Wyatt Hill
In other news, Dacian iron miners and steel workers massacred by the Gizka company.
Colton Reyes
Which one though?
Alexander Wright
Or just the local city governments. The mines seem to be owned by the government.
Owen Morgan
They already live in a dictatorship of the proletariat, and it sucks.
Aiden Campbell
It's going to drive me insane if I don't figure out where this is from.
Hunter Hernandez
google image search it and you will find out in literally three seconds
Joshua Torres
That's the first thing I tried, all I got was your post history.
Adrian Gonzalez
I'm actually surprised that the political commentary in Dace has essentially glazed over Proto-Socialism in favor of what appears to be fascism vs monarchism vs lolbertarianism.
Juan Taylor
Well, in the literal sense if all of the mines and such are state-owned, then they are technically living in a Socialist state. I imagine it isn't that simple though, Racoco's family is rich because they own a bunch of stuff, so private enterprise is clearly legal. Perhaps the natural resources are state property, but manufacturing and such is left to the private sector.
Aaron Torres
It's Baron Ashura from Mazinger Z.
Jace Bennett
Thanks m8.
Jose Carter
When did Echidna become the archtypal zell girl, she's a wood elf.
Gabriel Cruz
Hell if I know
Connor Collins
Probably because the turtle pauldrons invoke an image of the sea, and dose titties.
Adam Sullivan
I'm looking to GM an SoS campaign in a couple of weeks. any anons feel like running me through it on roll20?