>DM, I'm sick from Medieval settings, can you come up with something else?
Well, what's your answer?
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>DM, I'm sick from Medieval settings, can you come up with something else?
Renaissance setting, but no guns
Do you really have a working solution, or are you just trying to show off?
What's your definition of a "solution"? Is roleplaying in a historical or a speculative earth completely an alien concept to you?
I don't know, maybe NPC, plot, locations, knowledge of historical facts about the period? Am I asking for too much, DM?
>Am I asking for too much, DM?
Your'e not asking for anything. You're shitposting.
>smug moron - yes, I have everything
>be suspicious because you know where you are
>ask for details
>rrrrrreeeeee, I won't answer
>suspicions confirmed
Classic. Most likely, all you have is another kitchen sink dnd setting.
What do you mean by "have"?
The frick are you on about?
Did you mean to title the thread
>give me a system, setting and complete campaign notes, now
but you just made some typos?
>have a guy posting campaign notes
>literally does not address him
Go do your own historical research, chucklenuts. I'm not getting paid enough to give you World History 101.
No one is asking to share notes, just say you have it like anon did here
But you're too dumb to fake it, so no wonder no one wants to play with you, kid.
Okay, yes, I have notes about my setting. It's set in the pike-and-shot era, though I don't lean too hard into Age of Sail stuff. If you harp on about boats too much, the players get fixated on it, but they never know what they want to do once they have a boat.
Why should anyone tell you anything about their game?
You're asking for random people to do all your basic research for you. Just go do a wikipedia dive and some Google searches.
>a working solution
Not exactly sure what you mean, but I have written enough notes for a cyberpunk-y setting to run a game in my chosen system. If I end up missing something, I'll just figure it out as I go along, as always.
Most medieval fantasy systems can be run pretty much seamlessly in basically any time period from antiquity up to around the adoption of the flintlock (around the 1600s). Matchlocks are around significantly before that, but they're awkward in an adventuring context and not egregiously more potent than a sufficiently heavy crossbow.
Cyberpunk, but no guns.
That's just Battle Angel Alita when set in the Factory
>Anon, but no games
Renaissance setting with guns. And steam engines that only occasionally explode.
Prehistoric Caveman setting, but WITH guns.
WWII Flintstones Campaign with Comedic Dinosaur War Machines when? I want an AK47-BC and to ride a Triceratops covered in bamboo armor with a cannon strapped to the top of it, with bats that act as the supply of explosive powder nesting on the roof of it.
>47-BC
Ah yes the cave man times of 47 BC, the year before Julius Caesar became dictator of Rome.
BC in his setting obviously stands for “Bustin’ Caps” and the number of years after the invention of the firearm, which was miraculously comparable in functionality to what we think of as firearms today.
Actually, it's the year the AK-47 was invented. That's why they named that year "47", after all, moron.
..so fricking dnd?
Yeah that's the joke
I don't think there's a single official D&D setting that hasn't had guns shoehorned in at this point.
Western setting but no guns
Any period of history or future on earth offers infinite variety.
Okay, sure. How about some cyberpunk-ish stuff? I've had a couple of ideas recently.
Mating press.
Don't give an inch, give all the inches.
Full load, multiple sessions
I'd love to know how the OP picture is related to the thread topic, though.
topic?
>topic?
nogame shitposting
What games are you currently playing, anon?
The frick are you talking about? We haven't touched a medieval setting in the last five years.
Antiquity setting, but with guns.
>Well, what's your answer?
I haven't run a Medieval setting quite literally ever. My last few campaigns were, in order:
>Mythical Nautical WWI Agartha
>Industrial revolution fantasy in arctic circle
>Real world modern post apocalyptic mecha
>WWI hidden world fantasy
>Mythical bronze age empire fantasy
>Stone Age Post Apocalyptic tribes with insect livestock
>Mythical bronze age empire fantasy
Iltam Sumra Rashupti Elatim enjoyer here.
Please elaborate.
The campaign was called Godhead because it was completely focused on the imperial religion.
The empire was set in a jungle. Pic related is the chart that explains the various parts of the governmental structure. The government and religion are two sides of the same coin because the Imperial City's resident god is also the head of state.
The players were a group of militant tax collectors sent on various missions to ensure the free flow of taxes. Their fist mission was to investigate the death of an imperial almsman and to appoint a new one.
Was it mostly based on any particular civilization?
I'm very interested in running a bronze age game, so I'd like to know more about the adventures.
The thematics were based on Thai for some aesthetics and regional stuff.
>Real world modern post apocalyptic mecha
weird way to describe evangelion
Ok
eww
I don't run medieval setting campaigns at any point, ever, so no.
Space setting, but with flintlocks.
I always play early modern period anyway, when I have a choice.
I’ll DM either 1500 colonial with early matchlocks and wheel locks or sci fi, which means a different system
Planescape/Spelljammer. Don't be afriad by the fact there are cars lasers and machines in both settings. Lean into it in fact.
Planescape for more steam/machinepunk, spelljammer for more magicpunk
Sure, I can come up with vacating your chair at the table and offering it to a new player.
Are you ok, anon? We're playing alternate Earth WW1
Sure, what system?
Only War
We're playing the privateer press rpg with the robots and allah akbar elves
What a fricking tragic place to put your entrenching tool. Frick
Victorian
muppet babies the rpg
>muppet babies the rpg
I'm listening.
Golden Age of Pirates
Sure, it's 2023 now and you live in the urban capital of a country that's in a cold war with a neighboring country of elves. Roll up a new character. The gun you use as Ted Halsted uses the same d8 as the sword Timur Herod used
Nobody showed interest in my Chainsaw Man game and everybody's sick of Star Wars so sorry charlie, you're going back to dungeon crawling.
It's because you're selling it as a Chainsawman campaign, which makes it clear you're a weaboo. Even if I really like CSM, I'd likely never join a campaign sold as such, can't imagine the trash I'd have to share table with, but I'd totally join a campaign about "modern day setting where law enforcement is at war with devils who use the power of fear over concepts".
I speak from experience. I run a campaign that's just One Piece, down to the king of pirates being called Rold Goger. However, I realized when looking for new players, that if I ay it's a "OP themed acmapign" all I get are moronic OP fans, but if I sell it as a fantasy pirate campaign, everyone eants to join.
Worthless nogame bait thread made by a mouthbreather.
We’re playing blades in the dark. The campaign title is White Russian. You’re the bodyguards of a surviving Romanov grandson during the 1980 Olympic Games hosted in the Kingdom of Russia, a white Russian state in Alaska that survived the Bolshevik revolution. You guard Alexi, grandson of the current Tsar, Alexadrovich. His father is dead (was assassinated by the USSR). You suspect assassins are coming for him but have to keep his schedule for the Olympic Games. Campaign begins one week before the Olympics and ends sometime after the closing ceremony.
tell me more about this world, what else is different since the US bought alaska in the 1860s
Sure, come up next Saturday 3:30 PM, we're playing Hollow Earth Expedition.
Listen, if you not even going to *read* the ad you answered, then just go away.
Late renaissance, early Enlightenment. Guns are par for the course, Protection from Arrows has become Protection from Bullets, the Nobility is either in decline or Sorcerors, every town worth mentioning has an airship port, and there are knights riding magitech mechs.
You will regret your mouthy homosexualry. As will we all.
Frankly, I'm confused. I haven't run a Medieval setting in ages.
The last 4 campaigns I ran were, in order: a mecha game set on an island where reality got rewritten in increasingly obvious ways every time an Angel fight happened, a supers game where supervillains successfully took over the world but then had to turn around and defend it from aliens, a space detective game about government agents tracking down a stolen FTL engine, and the current game is a bunch of dipshits in 1983 learning that magic is real after finding a summoned demon in a basement and trying to figure out how to become wizards.
No problem senpai.
How is ghosts of saltmarsh compared to other pre-written dnd 5e stuff?
It was pretty fun, especially the haunted house.
However I ran it as my very first time DMing and underestimated just how complicated some of the adventures would be, especially the Sahuagin dungeon. So in the end I decided instead of trying to make that monster of an encounter work, I would just replace the BBEG with a pirate lich and reskin the Isle of the Abbey into a lich's lair.
>OP ignored everyone who gives him an actual idea.
>Implying OP was even thinking about this thread after clicking "Post"
Yep, it's a bait thread.
>OP asked about details to make sure that he was not being lied to
>rrrreeee, you just ignore the answers
Nice attempt to divert attention from the fact that you were get caught in a lie. I think from now on I want to see a system name, you know, just in case.
>Nice attempt to divert attention from the fact that you were get caught in a lie. I think from now on I want to see a system name, you know, just in case.
Literally gave a system name you dumb c**t.
. Now learn Blades in the Dark you soggy cum sock.
>OP should respond to every post
No. Now take your pills.
>to make sure that he was not being lied to
This "OP" sounds like a pretty important guy!
Why should anyone tell you anything about their game?
>"I'm glad you asked"
[Proceed to use this request as leverage for running something other than d&d]
>from
Dumb ESL
Cowboy settings but with fantasy or other elements integrated work really well if you’re looking for something dnd like. Everytime my group has tried it we have lots and lots of fun.
How about you run the fricking game for once, Stacy?
>Well, what's your answer?
What the frick are you talking about, [player]? We're playing Only War.
Sure, I'm running a space-fantasy setting right now in a galaxy where the stars are suddenly going dark as Precursor megastructures and ruins appear among scattered planets that weren't there before. Countless races vie for power, some to survive and others to unlock the mysteries of these ruins, the greatest being the Anchor, a light-hours long spire rising from a massive black hole, suspected to be capable of fixing the dying universe. Whole worlds are stripmined for fuel, while others are converted to vast portal-shrines so the pantheons of old may return to rule in glory. Some ships travel the stars by FTL trchnology, risking chronoflux from their abuse of physics while others bind djinn and similar spirits to their engine cores to access astral space, risking strange phenomena instead. Alien empires, techno-cults, star dragons, megacorps, Precursor mysteries, erp we have it all!
Sign me up for this.
(Also what is chronoflux?)
>Also what is chronoflux?
Just weird time stuff that happens as you break lightspeed. Quickly growing older or younger is the most common result, but sometimes a dinosaur, ancient warlord, clarketech entity or burst of random evolutionary mutations will appear onboard.
DungeonPunk Renaissance.
bitch, we just switched back to medieval shit from the wild west cause you wanted to.
I have a sci-fantasy setting if you prefer.
I run an actually medieval game, because I guarantee whatever they are calling medieval isn't (see: 5e)
>anon, we haven't played medieval settings...ever
>are you having a stroke?
I’ve been wanting to try a sort of space knight mecha setting.
I'd play a Battletech game
Eh a little more esoteric idea in mind, but ultimately battletech would fill my wants well enough. Party are a small PMC with a lance of mechs at their disposal.
PARABELLUM FANTASY. Everyone in the Empire is ginning up for a civil war. You run guns and have been charged with stealing a train.
Basically, the Great Train Robbery but with elves, orcs and hobbits.
Simple
Throw you in a desert without any gear. You'll just have to guess the time period whilst dying of heatstroke and dehydration
"D&D has never been medieval"
Pic related
Well, birthright hits that spot and greyhawk leans to that general aesthetic more or less.
she needs rape correction.
“Fair- did you have anything in particular you were hoping for?”
I literally wrote a Barbarians and Laserguns chargen for my shitty homebrew to be prepared for this exact scenario Not that I run "medieval" anyway, it's more like Pride and Prejudice but with magic.
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Okay, time to play CoC but set in 80s California.
I unironically would be into that.
My current game is about THE PHARAOH'S CURSE
Okay I'll run Call of Cthulhu.
>One session later
>"Oh my god we're dying I hate this, please go back to DnD!"
>Dance for me! You are my entertainer!
If you want something different from what I want to run, then you'll have to run it yourself. When I run games I do it to enjoy myself, not to please your whims and fulfil your fantasies.
I am theoretically open to running other things, I've run early modern, I've run rocks-and-bones-and-monster-bits, I've run renaissance, but the future fricking sucks wiener and I don't want to play anything in it or in a true modern setting because I have no passion for them. For now we are putzing in this fairy tale forest hexcrawl.
Alright, we finally get to play Deadlands!
I don't invite Vampires to my table, GTFO
French Revolution
Which one?
The one known as The French Revolution.
Awesome, can't wait to see what you run, man. Oh wait, did you think I am Burger King? That you can have it your fricking way? Nah. I blocked and booted some gay from here for trying to tell me what music to play, you think I'm going to let you decide the whole fricking game?
ok, now its an age of sails black powder pirate campaign set in the isles of mystery, the old fantasy world flooded because the gods were sad about gunpowder and now its just a load of floating cities, islands with isolated tribes made from old fantasy races, low magic, since the gods cut people off when they started using tech too much, but old school magic weapons are now game breaking mythical tools, able to slay the undead that haunt every corner of the world, ghost and zombies cant cross water, but if with the amount of dying sailors, the dead are learning how to raise boats and attack the port towns.
and if they dont like that, then i guess we play some stars without numbers, where i just reskin the water with space, islands with planetoids and undead with an alien race.
We're playing in the city then
Have fun distorting
The joke's on you, I'm into it. Chapter 3 is my favorite moment in the game.
Space opera or modern zombie apocalypse or fallout-esque post-apoc. Those are my go-to non-fantasy setting areas (not that I don't like Dungeon heavy fantasy).
>Okay, but... why? I mean, our current games in our friendgroup are bronze age, high fantasy, present day, present day, present day, high fantasy space opera, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Who are you playing medieval games with?
How does he respond to this without sounding mad?
Interstellar apartheid where the smart but weak race are slaves for the dumb but strong one and are forced to produce all their technology.
Your own fault for assuming that you're playing in a medieval setting.
I haven't ran a medieval setting once in my ten years as a GM. Post apocalyptic neo feudalist one was the closest. Ran urban fantasy, ran futuristic sci Fi one, ran apocalypse in a modern USA, ran an alien game.
I should run a medieval game...
Get your surfboards ready
First, I tell them I'm going to stop running D&D, and then I throw together either my cyberspace combat game about overthrowing an insidious hacker plotting to use the cyberworld as a battery, or finish my modern fantasy game with cute chimaeric heroes toting guns and fighting robots to liberate the innocent.
Oh wait, my games are too bean counting, complex, and video gamey, so I guess I'll just keep doing things by myself.
Alright.
Mesopotamia or Mesoamerica?
And yes, giant robots will still be involved somehow. This is non-negotiable.
60s Call of Cthulhu
I'm Jon Hamm and I'm gay
Every time I consider this question I desperately want to come up with something fresh and interesting, but I keep fricking botching it.
>Generic setting that's been covered before
>But with a GIMMICK!
>My autistic deep lore that the players don't give a shit about!
The only shit I've seen come out of /tg/ are some really fricking interesting AlignmentJak threads. Blood world was kickass. Also that one with the dichotomy if nautical fishman stuff to weird stone stuff.
Then run it yourself.
Antedeluvian Hyperwar, Nephilim Lords vs Kingdom of Set(Atlantis) vs Empire of Nod
WWI tech level perhaps with some exaggerated big cool airships and landships
It's kinda hilarious how Lenore was custom made to be a huge thirst trap right down to the implication of her name, but almost all the porn of her is utterly dreadful. There's more good art of Sypha as a femboy, and that's hilarious.
Anyway to answer your question, I honestly prefer the Renaissance, or a faux-Ren. No later than the 17th century in feel. You get a good mix of old fighting styles and new emerging ones. Black powder vs. heavy cavalry. Well armed ships which can survive the deep sea. Cities worth the name. Printing presses, coaches, highwaymen. Good stuff.
If you want a meme answer, how about a post-apocalyptic swords & psychics setting in the ruins of a terraformed and slowly dying Mars, surrounded by the deadly and malfunctioning relics of an incredibly advanced but utterly annihilated civilization?
think a few settings you'd like to run, write a short (as in three sentence long top) pitch for an adventure, let your players vote and hope their will be a clear winner.
steampunk, but thanks to poison fog any place under 500 meters from sea level is uninhabitable making planes and blimps only way to travel between locations
mythical ancient greece, egypt etc.
I have been picking away at a SWN setting based on multiple Stellaris play-throughs, bit now feel the sector is overcrowded with alien races and too kitchen sink to satisfy players who want a particular slant to their game.
Yeah we'll play Transhuman Space
Let's go with..... A cyberpunk setting? It's 2023, we've essentially just stepped into this one, so it's more like just current modern with a little squinting.
If you chop off the moronic bits, Shadowrun works (4th ed is best). That gets you elves and dwarves and dragons and shit if you really want to open that can of worms. CyberpunkRed is currently pretty popular because of the game and show, but it gives people an idea of what they're getting into. Both are run by the exact sort of slimey corpo pieces of shit, so it's your duty to go pirate them. Interface zero has potential, but I've never run it.
The crucial bit here is that the game takes places in a city. There's people and laws and cops. Or at least some semblence of a legal system (C) And LegalSystemLite(C) for kids. So it's not just a dungeon generating XP goblins, so you have to get some plausible deniability or at least understand who you can and cannot shoot. And that's a healthy guideline and not a rule.
Yeah, as long as this question isn't just dropped on me in the middle of the campaign. This group is almost all DMs as it is, so the replacement game when it finishes will be chosen by the combined preferences of everyone out of the options put up.
I already made a high-tech urban setting 5e campaign based on the goofball 'Modern Magic' unearthed arcana, then realized 5e was shit anyways and ported it into Shadow of the Demon Lord with the vastly superior Godless supplement.
Im going to run 'All the little things' and you will play as a lamp, and you will like it.
Fantasy cavemen setting.
my turn to DM again? Ok well we did late 40's call of Cthulhu last time i was in the hot seat. Iv got late 60's CoC and mid 70's fantasy venture brothers on deck. take your pick
I gotcha, guys. This time we're setting up Fluffers and Foxes, a game where you roleplay employees of a porn studio in the 60s. You form a studio of actors and extras trying to make a buck set in the backdrop of cultural upheaval in the late 60s, pitting your crew against television censors, Hollywood producers, preachers, communists and the AIDS epidemic.
>Why is your studio pursued by the government?
>Why does the weatherman underground constantly send gunmen to your sets?
>How will you both make payroll and pay the bank back by the end of the month?!
You'll be rolling for a lot more than anal circumference in, Fluffers and Foxes!
okay, sure. I kind of want to play a Victorian Era game. not steampunk. Victorian. put your top hat with gears and lenses back in the cringe corner.
I'm talking Landsknechts, Political Intrigue, Corruption in the Clergy and Inventors/Artists seeking sponsors.
>Landsknechts I’m the Victorian Era
No omg just no hahah open a frickin book
Okay my character wears a black duster jacket and sunglasses and uses two Colt Model 1903s.
Neolithic tribal domains, PCs are trailblazers founding the first legends of the world
Mesoamerican setting in an alternate history where the mesoamerican empires created seafaring ships for gulf coast commerce
You're welcome to GM it yourself.
Far-future setting. Everyone plays a robot that's not humanoid and has built-in guns.
IL TAM ZUMRA ISHUPTI ELATIM
>thank god, we can now play Vampire/ Shadowrun/ whatever for a change
No
It's been a pleasure playing with you though, let me know when you're in the right frame of mind
Aight, lemme crack out my autistic NASApunk setting with Atomic rockets.
Sure hope you boys n girls like calculating Delta V!
HAHAHAHAHA
Norther crusades but with Vietnam era tech
Feel free to run your own game. I wouldn’t mind being a player for ONCE IN MY FRICKING LIFE.