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Why Dieselpunk and Furries?
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Yeah, but you can metagame that too in anything set remotely modern day just by including some time spent in Texas, Florida, or Australia.
DM: "Okay, so why does your Oxford Professor of Ancient History have levels in Care and Handling of Dangerous Animals?"
Player: "Well, you see, he once visited some distant relatives in Florida and..."
DM: "You know what, I'll stop you right there. We're good."
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Dieselpunk because one of my players wants a World War 2 setting, and offered to send me the PDF of some game called Dust 1947. It's setting is World War 2 didn't end in 1945 and they have mechs now. I know it as a minis wargame that went bankrupt years ago. Cool models, but I don't know anything about the rules. There was supposedly a RPG back in the day, but I don't know the rules.
And furries because two of my players are furries. One of them has already asked if he can play a furry character so I'm likely going to allow it.
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If you're using Traveller as a template, you roll to see what happened during major career events, and bad things can happen. In classic traveller, That's up to and including death. Modern variants, you can still start the game with a missing arm. It's not just background fluff, there's an actual risk to taking extra levels at character creation.
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If you're looking for a campaign plot, how about searching for a lost relic that can be weaponized into a mech (or integrated into a mech). Think Raiders of the Lost Ark (WWII setting) where two factions are after the Ark of the Covenant because it would make their army invincible.
Throw in some mech combat, and possibly a way to incorporate the relic into that technology, and there you go. A clear goal with potential for a very unpredictable outcome depending on player choices. Alternatively, the power might prove to be too much to control after a few initial uses and ultimately better off left alone, meaning PCs can abandon it to the enemy at a crucial moment and watch them destroy themselves or go down in a blaze of glory themselves.
It doesn't have to be so on the nose that it's essentially Indiana Jones piloting a giant bipedal Ark of the Covenant equipped with lasers and rocket launchers, but it depends on your group. Unsure how to incorporate furries in a meaningful way, though I'm guessing it would be largely cosmetic. In any case, I hope you find something that works.
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Basically, yes. There are some rules for specific races, but it's fairly minor. Basically a "humans get an extra feat, races get natural weapons" kind of thing. I know people on the internet hate "freakshit" races, and furries specifically, but I've never really had an issue with them.
I also never fully got where the line was drawn. Like with DnD. People are fine with people playing Tabaxi, Kitsune, or Tengu/Kenku, but mention Dragonborn and they fly into a rage.
Nice. I'll think about it. I think I know an extra hook to add to that.
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Make the robots the furries. Some of the relics are mecha parts like cat ear shield projectors or rear-mounted whipping tails.
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I used to allow animal people within reason, but that was back in the '80s before all this bullshit.
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Be real careful. Let them play a furry, but make it absolutely clear further faggotry beyond that will not be allowed. I've had experiences both good and bad.
Yeah, I've heard about that. I was speaking purely about a more free-form system though. Especially because if you play it right and you have a couple levels in Fast-Talk DM you can get away with a ton.
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The A24 Civil War map could work for tabletop gaming. After some fixing, even the setting could be less retarded with some rewrites for a tabletop war gaming. I like to fix the faction to be less retarded.
A24 civil war canon faction: California + Texas = Western Front
The Florida alliance = all the south without South Carolina and North Carolina
Portland Maoists took over Oregon and Washington state
On the subject of fixing a fictional world maps for settings. I like to see people fix how retarded Harry Potter magical school maps are.
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Correction, FAGGOTS are fine playing furry shit. That furry shit is 500% banned from my games.
I have had issues with
Or I guess if do, they keep their furry shit deep in check to the point I didn't pick up on it.
Which is sort of odd given the big scaly mommy milkers 4e put on them in the art.
Lol, niggers & dune coons at the same school. My sides.
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I love the transparently blatant favoritism of the UK getting its own wizard school but a region of the world with around 4 billion people in it also only has one.
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I love how progressive white woman savior J. K. Rowling's world views are in her writings. She probably assumed all South Americans go to the same school because they all speak Spanish. At least all of Asia goes to the same magic school. The Middle East has to go to the same school as the Russians and Mongolians.
My favorite part of Harry Potter world building is that she could justify the UK getting its own magical school by saying the commonwealth nations shares a school with the UK. Nope, Australia and New Zealand have to share a school with all of North America. Including Cuba and Haiti. Which pretty much confirms the British view that Australians are culturally closer to America and even Mexico than themselves.
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I'm at the opposite end of you where I'm fairly permissive unless something blatantly doesn't belong in the setting I'm running and won't pick something weird just for the sake of being weird. I'm not a furry and there's nothing sexy about playing a lizardman or a catperson. It's a chance to try something from a different perspective or ethical framework. I tend to read the room and go with the flow. If it's a serious game, I play a serious character. If it's something silly, then I'm playing a tabaxi rogue making sleight of hand checks to knock things off of tables/ledges without being noticed and when eventually caught, cry out discrimination for blaming the cat for doing cat things.
Imagine the non-stop fighting among the clusterfuck that is india/se asia/china/japan/both koreas/island abbos from PNG
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They're not exactly wrong though. Both our countries were built up by the unwanted filth of the UK proper, and after WW2 Australia wound up in the USA's sphere of influence as a result of us saving them from the Japanese while the Bongs were nowhere to be seen in the Pacific until the very end.
Gotta say the houses for Ilvermorny are fucking gay as shit though. Hogwarts get badass shit like badgers, ravens, gryphons, and snakes and we get some native hooey.
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What gets me is that school symbolism culturally has nothing for students from Australia, Cuba or even mexico to connect with. Icing on the gay cake is the Native American mythological creature she picked. She gets wrong. J. K. Rowling picked Native American magical creatures to be progressive. Native Americans in the magical world would never pick pukwudgie as a school mascot. They are porcupine people who are famous for killing and eating men and boys while raping women and girls. Pulwudgies have nothing to do with healing. I have no idea why Wompus is a North American symbol. The thunderbird is the only non-gay house symbol. She should've used chupacabras and Sasquatches. The horn serpent is more of a South American thing. Not a Mexican thing. Even that's wrong.
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I actually got inspired to give it a shot myself:
The ones I found as the most egregious with the HP world were the lack of a native Chinese School as well as not having another school for the Middle East given its history.
Also yes there's a shitpost in there; but it'd make sense.
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All chinks are muggles.
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Worse: House elves.