Material que fiz para minhas aventuras de fragged empire 2, funciona como um terminal para a tripulação procurar missões oficiais oferecidas
Hello everyone, I've been narrating TTRPG for a few years now, but I've only recently become fond of games that use more minis and custom terrain, before I started painting some minis I wanted to gain experience painting some planets with a more alien design, but the last time I painted something I was still learning the multiplication tables hahaha, do you have any good suggestions for those starting out?
Mapa que eu fiz para minha aventura autoral de fragged empire
I'm thinking about buying an rpg grid with 23x27 squares (official size), I also have some A4 laminated sheets to expand the grid if necessary (8x11 squares), do you think it's a good size for a face-to-face table or should I focus on getting a larger grid?
I know it's relative, but take into account the official adventure maps and campaigns and your experience with the system's combat.
For those who play in person, what is the average grid size (in squares) that you usually use? What do you consider ideal for a table with miniaturas?
For those who play in person, what is the average grid size (in squares) that you usually use? What do you consider ideal for a table with miniaturas?
Well, here's the link to part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/rpghorrorstories/s/vY7gNkvCia
The reason I didn't ban him: he's from the same city as me and from the same online RPG groups as me before we started participating in events together, so for the sake of that coexistence, I thought I'd put up with him for just one more session.
We came back to play the final session of the adventure I wrote with the intention of officially publishing it. The group was in an isolated facility after killing the zombies and in the middle of a storm that prevented communication, so now was the time for them to rest and do whatever they wanted.
Player Y promptly volunteered to give a recap of the previous session and, well, besides ridiculing the whole situation, he kept insisting that the zombies were lobsters (imagine a Dead Space necromorph with elements of The Last of Us zombies). Even after I corrected him, he replied with: "Well, I first associated them with lobsters, so let me call them lobsters if I want to."
Already feeling clearly uncomfortable, we continued the adventure until the group decided to rest, and the robot chose to try repairing the facility. When there was a need to enter the greenhouse area (where the contamination was), the player spent the entire time talking about how the other player needed to prepare and protect himself to avoid infection. The player who literally licked zombie blood, wanted to eat zombie flesh, was now giving advice on how the other player should enter the greenhouse because he works in healthcare in real life.
After they woke up because of an alarm, several hours had already passed, so I thought it was fair to start showing symptoms of the infection. I asked him to make a roll with a difficulty of 16 (a system based on 3d6 plus modifiers; difficulties range from 10 to 24+, so it was a reasonably high difficulty for a level 2 character, but nothing impossible to achieve, even with penalties, which he didn't have). I established that if he failed 3 times, he would turn into a zombie and, well, I genuinely thought it would be at least somewhat interesting, but it only gave me an even WORSE headache than before.
When he failed and I informed him that he was coughing up blood, Y spent the ENTIRE SESSION roleplaying coughing, something that was already extremely irritating the first time, but he kept doing it constantly, including in the middle of MY narration and the OTHER PLAYERS' ACTIONS, actively disrupting the table. To make matters worse, he kept making jokes about it, not out of character but in character: "I'm fine, it was just a vaccine from China that I took"; "it's okay, just take some (insert the name of a generic medicine here) from the pharmacy." This wasn't just irritating because it was repetitive, but it showed a complete lack of respect for the scene and the setting. This was a futuristic sci-fi setting so far into the future that humanity literally doesn't exist anymore; nobody even knows the name of humanity's home planet. It would be the equivalent of a centurion in a historical Roman campaign saying he's going to Google how to make a katana.
The group's doctor still tried to examine him. I informed her that, since they didn't know what disease this was and didn't even have the equipment of a specialized clinic, she could attempt the test, but the difficulty would be 20 (she has a healing bonus of +3/+4, so she needed a very high roll, but it wasn't impossible). However, she chose not to try because of the danger.
When he questioned why he was like that, I told him it was because he had consumed zombie blood and Y came back with: "No, I didn't eat it, I redid that action and I didn't drink the blood because you said there wouldn't be blood on the plasma sword." I said, "Yes, but I also said you could still lick the blood off your face, which you wanted so badly to lick, and you did." He simply replied with: "I didn't lick it, I just spread it all over my face like war paint."
Man, that was so stupid. The whole week, everyone in the group talked about how it made no sense for him to drink the blood, and he justified it by saying he's a Vampire player. Everyone was there waiting for the moment the consequences appeared, only for him to come up with a ridiculous excuse that would still lead to the exact same consequences.
When the group, in the middle of the siege, managed to establish communication with the rescue team and were passing on information, Y once again started the damn constant coughing-and-vomiting roleplay right in the MIDDLE of the players' narration.
Unfortunately, he had good rolls, so he only failed once, but I was already so irritated that I started skipping events just to get to the final combat. My players were even sending me private messages asking if I was okay.
When we finally reached the final combat, the guy interrupted me to check a news article (showing that he wasn't even interested in the session), and on top of that, during his turns he would spend minutes rereading his abilities. He couldn't even remember his RACIAL ABILITIES. The character sheet was literally one page long, I had set it up with arrows showing what each thing did and had already applied all the bonuses to attacks. He only had to look and roll. We'd been playing for 4 weeks and he had done NONE of that. Besides wasting the group's time whenever he acted, he would also show off, wasting even more time.
I got so upset that I simply came up with an excuse to end the adventure right there.
What hurt me the most about all of this is that, after talking with the other players at the table, one of the newer players (she has been playing for a little over 2 years and has been in my other campaign for 1 year) said it was the first time she had ever seen a GM trying to kill a player's character; she had only heard stories about it. That hit me hard because I genuinely have bad experiences with that type of GM, and I had even established "rules" and a difficult but possible chance of survival. But obviously, since the players didn't have that context and saw me actively discouraged as a GM, they got that impression.
Things only got a little better because the other players asked to finish the adventure without him, but I still catch myself thinking about it.
Bonus story:
Player Y also played in an adventure run by another Cyberpunk Red GM. I was playing because I wanted to test the system, and the adventure took place shortly after the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, with us having to recover >!David's jacket after it had been stolen. !<Our employer was Falco and, in every interaction with our EMPLOYER, he threatened to shoot the guy in the leg. In every interaction with gang leaders, NPCs, everyone, he threatened to shoot them in the leg, even when the NPC was completely friendly and even providing information easily.
At the end of the adventure, we found the thief. He was trying to flee Night City while being escorted by the Aldecaldos because several gangs wanted his head. After we saved him, he explained that he needed the item to sell because he had already spent all of his money trying to escape and needed something to start over. We convinced him to give us the item for FREE because we had saved him, and he handed it over without any extra conflict. The player then threatened to shoot the guy in the leg so he would "learn his lesson." Completely unprovoked. When we convinced him not to do it and we were leaving, he said this to the Aldecaldos: "Did he hire you to get out of Night City alive or in one piece?" When they answered that the job was only to get him out alive, he replied: "How much would you want to shoot him in the leg once you're outside the city limits?" Everyone fell silent and the GM simply said they wouldn't do that because they had honor.
Pensei muito sobre como começar uma postagem sobre meu cenário, mas nada parecia certo, então decidi começar com uma das maiores controvérsias em torno das espécies do Pacto: os Simulacros.
Desenvolvido originalmente pelos grandes Concílios Enouxa como ferramentas vivas de aparencia semelhante a artrópodes para o trabalho, a tecnologia foi posteriormente reutilizada para criar os Bio-Horrores usados durante as grandes Guerras dos Portais.
Através de recuperação e engenharia reversa, os Genarqui (humanos que vivem em bunkers) descobriram a tecnologia e começaram a replicá-la durante os Anos de Escuridão que se seguiram à queda dos portais de salto. Presos em cidades subterrâneas por anos, a necessidade de expansão os forçou a criar Simulacros com aparência humana para realizar trabalhos de alto risco. No começo, os Simulacros não eram mais capazes intelectualmente do que autômatos primitivos, exigindo supervisão constante e possuindo uma aparência simplista. Isso mudou durante os levantes populacionais que eclodiram à medida que as crises começaram a se espalhar, quando supervisores rebeldes soltaram grupos de Simulacros contra as corporações Genarqui. Como uma solução inicial, chips inibidores foram criados para impedir que fossem usados em revoltas futuras. No entanto, à medida que a escassez de mão de obra especializada continuava a piorar, suas capacidades cognitivas tiveram que ser aumentadas até que se tornassem autônomos, com inteligência e aparência comparáveis às de humanos comuns.
Foi durante a Peste Vermelha e as constantes falhas nos sistemas de reciclagem de oxigênio, que resultaram em uma perda considerável da população, que os Genarqui começaram a se preocupar tanto com a degeneração genética causada pela diminuição de sua diversidade genética quanto com o crescente problema dos Simulacros. Assim, os Simulacros foram modificados para conter uma ampla variedade de DNA de seus bancos de dados genéticos, bem como a habilidade de reprodução com outros humanos.
À medida que a necessidade de abrir os bunkers para a colonização crescia, também aumentava o medo de que novas colônias buscassem independência. Os Genarqui modificaram os Simulacros mais uma vez. Novas gerações receberam memórias implantadas, permitindo-lhes operar máquinas complexas sem a necessidade de anos de treinamento especializado. Em vez de chips inibidores, agora foram projetados com uma vida útil de pouco mais de cinco anos, dependendo de injeções recorrentes de enzimas para estendê-la. O segredo da composição das injeções foi mantido sob estrita guarda pelas corporações Genarqui.
Com a formação do Pacto entre os Enouxas, Boujins e Genarqui contra os Fungos de Y'golor e seus exércitos de Magnus contaminados, uma nova variação de Simulacros foi criada com capacidades físicas aprimoradas para combate. Isso permitiu que o Pacto mantivesse um suprimento de soldados de linha de frente altamente capazes com apenas um curto período de treinamento.
Até o final da guerra, o Pacto já havia estendido sua aliança além da frente militar. Rotas comerciais estabelecidas pelos Príncipes Mercantes alcançaram colônias distantes, enquanto assentamentos defensivos com populações mistas e comunidades em expansão começaram a surgir. Os Enouxas começaram a pressionar os Genarqui sobre o uso da tecnologia, considerando abominável a criação de Simulacros com aparências e intelecto semelhante as raças sencientes.
Os Boujins, no entanto, consideravam qualquer um que servisse nas forças armadas como um cidadão, o que incluía muitos Simulacros. Além disso, para eles, impedir qualquer ser senciente de realizar serviço militar era em si mesmo considerado um afronta.
Temendo a perda de numerosos mercados devido a sanções de ambos os aliados, bem como a descoberta da Geléia Real Magnus (que poderia estender indefinidamente a vida de seres orgânicos como os Simulacros), os Genarqui declararam que todos os Simulacros eram cidadãos livres, desde que pagassem os custos de produção de sua própria criação. Na prática, isso os vinculou a contratos corporativos até que suas dívidas fossem totalmente quitadas.
Para os narradores que costumam narrar jogos com combate tático presencialmente com mais frequencia (como Pathfinder 2ed, Starfinder 1ed, D&D 3.X, Cyberpunk Red, etc), como vocês costumam fazer ao usar mapas grandes? Em aventuras com bastante mapas de tamanho maior que folhas A3 (como a trilha de aventuras Sois Mortos de Starfinder), como costumam se organizar com elas?
Já narro a bastante tempo so que presencialmente costumo narrar jogos mais simples onde o mapa servia mais para uma noção relativa (Tales from the looping, CoC, Shadow of the demon lord, Forbidden Lands), mas no online eu costumo usar mapas maiores e bem trabalhados, recentemente peguei para narrar fragged empire 2 presencial que é um rpg moderno e com combate tático bem legal e apesar do online eu conseguir me dar bem com mapas enormes no precensial nunca usei.
Obs: a dica tambem se extande ao uso de Mega Dungeons detalhadas que tinham no 3.x por exemplo.
I met this player, who I'll call "Y", at a local RPG event where we were both GMs. We got along talking about RPGs and sci-fi, and since he had never played a space opera before, I invited him to join a short Fragged Empire 2 adventure I had written as a playtest for a future free release.
For those unfamiliar with the setting, Fragged Empire 2 is a tactical sci-fi RPG set thousands of years after humanity's extinction. The party had been hired by the Legion, a highly militaristic government, to deliver supplies to an isolated research station on an arctic world and recover some research data. The mission was intentionally straightforward.
The problems started almost immediately. Another player foresaw a pirate ambush, giving the party time to decide what to do, but Y ignored everyone and charged the pirates, forcing a space battle the group barely survived. Later, while negotiating with the Legion commander, he interrupted another player and said, "None of your own people want this job. You don't have anyone else who can do it, so either you pay us more or we walk." He completely invented those facts, failed the roll, the commander replied, "Alright then. Good luck finding another job," and the rest of the party had to convince her to hire them again. Minutes later he tried stealing alcohol from the military base that had literally just hired them, got caught, and only escaped punishment because the party convinced everyone he had serious mental problems.
Things somehow got worse at the abandoned research station. He immediately wanted to loot everything despite everyone pointing out they would be the obvious suspects. After restoring power, the party was attacked by infected Legion researchers transformed by an alien fungus. I repeatedly described them as infected researchers with rotting bodies, exposed muscles, and grotesque mutations. After killing one, Y said he licked the blood off his plasma sword. I explained that a plasma blade wouldn't have blood on it, so he insisted the blood had splashed onto his face instead—and then licked it off. I even showed the table a picture of the creature and reminded him, "You just licked the blood of THAT." His only response was, "Looks like a lobster." After the fight ended, he described eating the bone marrow from one of the infected corpses. I stopped the game and asked, "Are you seriously doing that? Guys, did everyone understand these were infected Legion researchers? Did I describe them clearly enough?" Everyone answered yes. Y simply asked, "Why? Can't I? Is there a problem?" When I explained that the answer should be obvious, he backed down and said, "Whenever the GM asks if you're sure, it means something bad is about to happen."
After the session I spoke privately with the rest of the players. Every single one said Y had become exhausting to play with. Besides constantly making reckless decisions that forced everyone else to clean up the mess, he also slowed down combat with long, over-the-top descriptions of his character. When I later asked why he wanted to eat the remains of an infected corpse, his answer was simply, "I'm used to doing things like that because I play Vampire."
I want to create FREE battle maps for a completely free sci-fi adventure I'm writing and make it available at no cost to the community, can I do this with the Creator license or do I need the Studio license?
Well my first battle map, this is the first floor, I'm still going to do the basement, what do you think?
Segue a descrição com arte dos meus jogadores na minha atual campanha de fragged empire 2, um TTRPG space opera bem divertido.
Pessoal parei finalmente para ler minha coleção de dungeon meshi nesse feriado e percebi que a contracapa dele esta descolando aparecendo a lombada, a folha em si em colada na contracapa mas não faz aquela dobra do manga, existe algum risco com isso que eu deva tomar cuidado/comprar outro ou é algo normal e so esta aparecendo por não estar dobrando a página?
Um aspecto de que gosto bastante em vários jogos de RPG, e que muitas vezes é pouco valorizado em muitos livros, é a capacidade de personalizar equipamentos: fazer sua arma e armadura da maneira que mais lhe agrada. Vários jogos que já joguei trabalham esse aspecto de formas bem diferentes.
Mas e vocês, quais experiências tiveram ao criar itens? Já jogaram algum desses sistemas? Qual foi o equipamento mais único que já criaram?
O que acham da minha atual coleção de mangas ?
Conheceria algum patreon de artista que faz naves sci-fi para RPG com imagens tanto da estrutura interna quanto da nave externa totalmente fechada?
Ja encontrei alguns mas é normalmente a nave incompleta mostrando apenas a parte interna, o estilo não importa tanto, mas se for possivel algo soft sci-fi estilo Starfinder/Coriolis/Fragged Empire seria de grande utilidade.
Obs: Esse pedido vai filtrar um pouco então é algo totalmente dispensavel, mas se o artista fizer as artes da nave tanto de lado (como aparecem nos livros de starfinder), quanto visão de cima (para tokens), seria de incrivel, conseguiria usar tanto em VTT quanto presencial.
Em alguns posts recentes, algo que percebi é que muita gente trata o "game" do RPG como algo puramente voltado para o combate, deixando o roleplay como um aspecto separado, independente e sem relação direta com as mecânicas. Não vim aqui para dizer que o seu jeito de jogar está certo ou errado, mas o game do RPG vai muito além do combate.
Desafios mecânicos para momentos-chave da história estão presentes em RPGs narrativistas e até mesmo em jogos de investigação. As regras de perseguição de Call of Cthulhu e as mecânicas de relógio de tempo de jogos como Blades in the Dark e Fabula Ultima são bons exemplos. Perseguições de veículos e duelos de pistoleiros em Savage Worlds e Deadlands também demonstram como mecânicas específicas podem se integrar muito bem ao roleplay, criando dinâmicas diferentes e ampliando as possibilidades do jogo.
The Expanse RPG traz uma discussão bastante interessante em seu livro sobre rolar ou não dados em interações sociais. Além de apresentar as vantagens de cada abordagem, o sistema oferece sugestões de bônus para testes relacionados ao roleplay. Já Savage Worlds possui mecânicas de duelo social que geram bastante tensão durante as sessões. Inclusive, já utilizei essas regras em outros sistemas além de Savage Worlds, com resultados muito positivos, incentivando ainda mais o roleplay, já que os jogadores eram constantemente desafiados.
Outro conjunto de regras de que gosto bastante são as de exploração presentes em jogos como Mutant: Year Zero e, principalmente, Forbidden Lands. Elas dão uma nova cara à experiência, fazendo você sentir de forma dinâmica cada passo da jornada e tornando o jogo muito mais imersivo.
Claro que nem todo estilo de jogo agrada a todo mundo, e não há problema nisso. Algumas pessoas preferem resolver situações de forma simples, quase como jogar uma moeda e decidir entre cara ou coroa. Ainda assim, considero que tratar o game do RPG apenas como combate e enxergar o combate como um elemento de combate e separado do roleplay empobrece muito o potencial que o hobby tem a oferecer.
