Last time on Song of Swords: The Legend returns with a slew of insane new bullshit SoS Magic is fucking ridiculous Jimmy makes a surprisingly sober video about historical politics Elves
THIS TIME ON SONG OF SWORDS New Ballad version is out, has a new intro.
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. The Kickstarter was nearly 300% funded, and we're on the fast track to kicking ass baby.
Call of the Void: Ballad of the Laser Whales 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. Note that the latest version of the game is v2.0 but with additional supplements. mega.nz/#F!S89jTT7J!ozFi9GvzaFGHfBa59Ik2-Q
There's also a roll20 room where new players are encouraged to try the rules, test new rules, and find game breaking issues: app.roll20.net/join/346755/hRKd4w If you're looking to learn, post here in the thread.
We also play Guy Windsor's card game Audatia in the room, but now we have a much better way to play Audatia: Tabletop Simulator! The (official!) mod for Audatia is now up and running! steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=904774480
Give it to me straight lads, are we going to make February?
Thomas Garcia
Not gonna make it
Christian Smith
They haven't even got the skill system working with the terrain effects (though they have with light, I think) yet.
Kayden Powell
>The people backing Kingdom Death are more likely to see their games before these guys do. Wew.
Lads.
Jaxon Martin
We've both seen our games though
Jackson Jenkins
when you lay siege you play for the long game
Benjamin Peterson
No, I don't think so. And this will make Jimmy depressed and begin drinking again, because he will look back and realize he could have done it by February, but he didn't.
Noah Jackson
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Jordan Ward
Nice wallhanger, made in India or China?
Jaxon Collins
That one's legit; Model 1850 Army Staff and Field Officer's Sword.
Colton Edwards
this, on the other hand, is probably actually a wallhanger.
Grayson Rogers
Song of Swords isn't the only Riddle child out there. Sword & Scoundrel has released their maneuvers and wound tables, making the game's combat playable at last.
Sword & Scoundrel is what's replaced Band of Bastards. Now when you google their name you don't get gay porn.
Benjamin Nguyen
>I'll start updating in a month or two >January 2017
Truly Elf is SoS in webcomic form.
Eli Perez
How's BotIT doing, anyway? They had that space supplement, didn't they?
Jonathan Price
POST NEW BALLAD
Jack Hill
>Sword & Scoundrel has released their maneuvers and wound tables, making the game's combat playable at last. Didn't they do it last year? Two guys even had a fecht with their ruleset here.
Joseph Scott
No, that was Band of Bastards. The Grand Heresy developers didn't like their skill system and how it interacted with attributes, so they threw BoB out, toiled away in their garage, and emerged with Sands. Most notably, it uses d6 dice pools instead of d10s.
Their forums are on life support. They seem to be done with their run.
Jack Reed
>it uses d6 dice pools instead of d10s Are they trying to make it garbage on purpose?
Dominic Thompson
Whoa there. Shadowrunner here. What's your problem with d6s? Are you a cunt?
Ayden Moore
d10 is way better if you've ever read the system and how it's used for weapons
Austin Rodriguez
A player of Shadowrun has no rights to defend the mechanics of any game.
James Howard
It's not the same system. You should read S&S before whipping out your dice bigotry.
Jayden Adams
>It's not the same system If it's not TRoS inspired system then why should I care about it in this thread?
Camden Wilson
>Previous thread died without even hitting 20 replies >Too big pussy to admit or link to it Finally get over it - your game is dead and will never be released. Time to end this meme general and stop pretending otherwise.
Nathan Rodriguez
>Time to end this meme general and stop pretending otherwise. For what purpose? It's not another pointless bait thread for shitposting. There is no harm in keeping it alive or necroing when it's about to die.
Grayson Ross
It's Ok To Be d6
Gabriel Rogers
It is "TRoS inspired." But it's not the same system.
Brody Rogers
BoB and probably now S&S has this weird set TN system. Apparently weapons don't actually change the TN, only wounds. I have no idea how weapons are balanced against each other, but that's how it works.
Carson Williams
>TRoS inspired If the system threw away good parts of TRoS like weapon TNs and Spiritual Attributes then this claim is worth very little
Liam Brooks
The important part of the TRoS system is the dice wager system. The value of that system is compromised by a lack of TN variance, but that's the heart and soul of all of those games.
And hey, at least it isn't d12s.
Alexander Anderson
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Benjamin Foster
You think weapon TNs are as good an idea as Spiritual Attributes? Really? That's weird but whatever floats your boat man. You'll like S&S as much as SoS. It has Spiritual Attributes but not weapon TNs. SoS has weapon TNs but not Spiritual Attributes.
Isaiah Smith
I think the fellow that died was their only real creative energy. Without him there's only plagiarism.
Blake Wood
Everyone misses Ian Plumb. BoB dedicated the book to him and SoS roll20 room had a message about it for years.
Hudson Russell
The SoS one was incorrect about him creating the idea for Ballad, I think. It was one of the other ones. He's still alive. God took the good one and left the bad ones to live.
Noah White
Jimmy seemed pretty sure it was Plumb who came up with Laser Whales
Isaac Price
Jimmy was also pretty sure Strength Caps would balance the game and that he'd be able to fix the game by Halloween 2014.
Camden Mitchell
The Spatha is the most aesthetic sword of the classical world.
Tyler Baker
They are rather underappreciated.
Parker Nguyen
>There is no harm in deluding yourself an impossible thing will ever happen See what you just did?
A delay will probably be necessary before it gets released, since Jimmy hasn't actually fixed anything in about three months now.
Michael Mitchell
Jimmy isn't the only person at Opaque
Gabriel Gray
Then they haven't been doing anything either.
Tyler Roberts
But do you buy a helmet or a codpiece first?
Daniel Barnes
The available information suggests that Jimmo is desperately bashing his face against the magic system.
Jonathan Sanchez
You protect your heads in order of size.
Logan Campbell
What the fuck is this?
Brody Foster
Is the Magic system and other extra booklets even supposed to be out by February? I always thought they'd come out after the core rulebook
Camden Kelly
fucjk how can i n ever have seen this i need one
Alexander Russell
Only the regular core book should be out in February. Jimmy is wasting his time with supplements and commissioning high quality art when he needs a format for the book, a layout, something pretty to look at. He needs setting lore in the book, GM advice, and as the least important part clean up the mechanics. Then he needs to get many of these printed and distributed to his backers.
Christian Wright
A...Viking with a horn?
Parker Sullivan
Will the core book include BIG ZELL TITTIES
Josiah Harris
Thats totally okay in my opinion. Two other kickstarters i'm in are delayed... Also i backed Star Citizen
Carter Gutierrez
The core book includes the possibility there are big zell titties somewhere in Vosca
Adam Garcia
I'm trying to read the book, are Zells supposed to be massive slut elves? Why is there so much stuff besides that here?
Lucas Foster
>are Zells supposed to be massive slut elves Zells are massive sluts, massive elves are Ohanedin
Nathan Reed
Avoidable delays are not okay.
Ryder Rogers
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Lucas Reed
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Ethan Sullivan
It's a meme. The Elvish races all have at least one trait that makes them totally degenerate.
The Zells are massive whores The Ohanedin are cannibals The Burdinadin are sterile cowardly NEETs the Orredin are like 5'1 on average
Zellish sluttery at least serves a purpose.
Evan Johnson
I'd say having at least the basics of magic out there to be a good thing though, so it attracts people who want the full shebang of fantasy and not just the lovely combat
Nathan Moore
>Jimmy is le ebin catholic >Jimmy's favorite race are tall slut elves
