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PREVIOUSLY IN THE MAGIC SHOP UNIVERSE: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Magic+Shop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3mEqqb2oWY
In the world of Valaer, the Battle of Tirinia changed everything. That was 680 years ago.
Here lies the human Kingdom of Therindel - less a Kingdom than a confederacy of lordships, duchies, principalities, city-states, et cetera - banded together under the constant threat of attack from the mysterious Wood Elves of the eastern land of Xalfacia. For many centuries, these lords and rulers have bickered amongst each other for the right to succeed the King who fell in battle at Tirinia against the Elves.
And now the Kingdom of Therindel is a veritable hotbed of adventure, riches, and loot to be enjoyed by adventurers from all over the world. From the lost cities of the Elves, to the grand old monsters of old, to the buried treasures of those who came before. All across the region, adventurers seek fortune and glory! From the Great Frozen Patch to the Southern Plains of Vistoria, and across the ocean to foreign lands, adventurers of all shapes and sizes test their mettle here in the Kingdom of Therindel! Where heroes are made and fortune is won!
You are not one of those people.
While you enjoy the adventuring life and traveling the great distances of Therindel, things could be better. There is a town in the middle of disputed territories in Therindel, just north of Vistoria, taking a left off the main highway, west of the Great Frozen Patch, and nestled right on top of the Elder River delta (not to be confused with Delta Town of the Younger River delta). Very few know about this town, and why should they? It’s a one horse town built next to a nearly depleted Diamond mine. It is known as Ohlendorf’s Drift.
You are going there to be their first Town Adventurer in decades.
>>44840119
[1/2]
It has been two months since the port was completed in Ohlendorf’s Drift. And in that time, the mine dried up. The mineshaft was abandoned. Picks, cutting tools, and minecarts were discarded and left to nature’s blessing. And now the miners, a great many of them, had left Ohlendorf’s Drift for better work. Despite the work you had put in, the lack of ships arriving had discouraged them. Not a single ship had arrived to trade or transport goods or even to visit. You sat with Dottie on a bench overlooking...
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>>44840126
[2/2]
Now today, even though Ohlendorf’s Drift was smaller from lack of the miners, more permanent residents were coming in from nearby villages. The Hawkins family was hiring more farmhands as well to help in their latest harvest, and while they lived a great distance away, they remained an important fixture in the food business. The Windsors continued their fishing as well, now backed up by more professional fishermen who came to fish in the surprisingly lively waters of the Elder River.
It was...
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>>44840146
Is it a cake?
Justify the use of crossbows in a sci fi setting
I don't need too, it's my setting.
What I say goes, if people use crossbows, they use crossbows.
>>44839304
Why?
no, you justify why her knees are bending the wrong fucking way
it hurts to just look at it
What do your parents,or god forbid your children, think about your tabletop habits?
Anything that gets me out of the house is a good thing to my parents.
>>44839230
they encourage itto the horror of my bank account
>>44839230
Though we are not americomrades, they still oppose D&D because of the satanism-scare. Don't have anything against other RPGs though and as long as I don't mention D&D, I'm fine.
Five years ago, the world was changed for you forever in a flash of blue radiance. This strange event bestowed wondrous powers on you and many others. Even if there were ones before, this new generation of heroes and villains was unprecedented in size. Your powers almost netted you enough money to pull you out of poverty, but you just couldn't bring yourself to steal. Your job already lost, you soon lost your apartment, leaving you on the street.
Three years ago, the same blue light shined worldwide in an event known as "The Pow Boom". If you were still...
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You wake up to a trashcan falling over down the alley you're parked in and a scream from the same direction. Immediately you recognize the silhouette of a man holding a knife, and he seems to be threatening somebody you can't make out. This might be a chance to try out your new costume, so you slip the robe from your backpack over your clothes and put on the mask. With a click, the mask switches to thermal vision and you can see the victims, an old couple, and the purse that one of them has.
Experience with others wearing it has taught you that knives won't...
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>>44839208
>>Draw and animate something
Bring up our good friend, Balto the Wolf
>>44839208
>Draw and animate something
then
>Try to sneak up on the mugger for extra fear factor
For character informations, old threads and stuff:
>http://pastebin.com/RR1jbGbc
>New rule, 1 free reroll each semester
>Please read the previous threads because most of the main story progresses slowly with each thread, sometimes veiled.
>Summary: Year is 1983, Lord Voldemort was "killed" by the Boy Who Lived one year ago. You are John Apise, only child of a rich pureblood family, you started Hogwarts last year. You love potions, herbology...
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The next day, Gryffindor plays against the Slytherin. The game starts quite fast with both sides scoring against each other. In fifteen minutes the score is 50 to 30 for Gryffindor with Alba scoring most of the goals. You can clearly see that she is a very skilled player. Probably the best on the field actually. The beater, who tried to hit you with a Bludger last year, Malus, is also playing. He tries to knock off Slytherin players with his usual dirty playstyle. You also see Rachel Rosenfeld, joined the team as a Chaser for Slytherin. The weather is cloudy with distant claps...
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The next day, Monday, you start the day with your common class with Gryffindor which is the Potions. Professor Snape seems to be in a better mood than his usual. He walks around the classroom explaining how to slice kidneys properly. He stops behind the desk of Bill Weasley and smacks his book on his head. "Since you think gossiping is more important than what I am telling, Mr. Weasley, you might as well tell us what is the difference between brewing a Forgetfulness Potion in a silver cauldron and a copper cauldron?"
Bill, looking completely terrorised, says...
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Rolled 2 (1d10)
>>44839222
Lets gooo
Let's hear your saddest backstories and in-game moments.
>>44838970
A little cliched, but the saddest I've ever made a character's backstory as I tend towards the more well adjusted in terms of characters.
>Half-elf, who are discriminated against in the DM's homebrew
>His mother was some higher up in the Elvish government, his dad was a adventurer of some description.
>Mom forced his dad to take the baby, he dumped it at an orphanage, orphanage didn't want it either and...
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>>44839364
Seems like a better use of cliche. What all happened campaign-wise for him?
>want to hear the good end, or alright end, whichever
>>44838970
Why was the mob after him ?
Previous Thread
>>44801873
http://pastebin.com/mxLKGGi9
What with Dark Eras being on everyone's minds, what strange times and places have you set chronicles in? When and where would you like to see one?
So /WoD/ if there was a Century of humiliation as a dark ages book what line do you think it would be?
>>44838982
>Century of humiliation
What's that?
>>44839073
The Western (and Japanese) influence and colonization of China that lasted till the end of World War II. Off the tip of my head, I guess I'd say Geist could work, because Geist works best when there's cultural tensions going on since they're all about fusions and cultural blending. Demon could work too, as would Vampire and maybe even Beast.
Where we last left of our pilots:
Salt was fighting a creature beyond reason in the castle garden, while White started with the cave to start evacing people. Red, SK, and Czar are talking to the Hatter. And Edin is watching the fight between Salt and the Wocky.
>SALT MUST ROLL 3 DODGES.
>MISSION BEGINS IN 30 MIN
>>44838384
>There was a misprint. Edin was in the castle looking for some means of weapons control. He was last in the back of the meeting area at the foot of the stairs.
>>44838384
Here
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>>44838384
>http://pastebin.com/6bRRY3MP
>Present
Am I the only one who is bothered by how most DnD settings (meaning: the large official ones, like FR, Greyhawk, etc) get the idea of polytheism wrong?
I mean, characters seem to chose a deity, and follow that one and only that one. And even though the information is mostly vague, it seems that even common folk tend to worship only one chosen deity.
Where does this come from? Is it ingrained in the developers and writers because of the Christian mindset? Or is it because of the alignment system? I mean:
>you can't pray to the...
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>>44837866
They're not polytheistic. They're henotheistic.
>>44837866
>I mean, characters seem to chose a deity, and follow that one and only that one. And even though the information is mostly vague, it seems that even common folk tend to worship only one chosen deity.
That's not the case in most D&D settings.
Players choose patron deities, but they still worship the rest when appropriate. A fighter who hates undead and worships Pelor still offers Fharlanghn a prayer before he sets out on a journey, and a wizard that considers Mystra...
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>>44837909
But that makes little sense(with the exception of clerics and monks), as the gods are extremely thematic. Henotheism was an early form of monotheism, where the worshipped gods gave a lot broader portfolio, so to speak.
Archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=digimang
>Last time, on Digimang Quest.
Waking up in transit, our heroes immediately broke themselves free, finding themselves having to square off with a not so chivalrous knight. Having looted him, they find a mysterious coded ring on a necklace, as well as some unreadable bank transactions.
Swiftly moving on, our heroes arrived at their destination; Coded Village, wherein, they met a witch lady with giant hands and Dash once again tried to a spider.
Finally,...
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You wake early, something gooey and warm dropping itself heavily into your lap. You startle awake, staring down at the blackish blob thing now sitting on your knees, little yellow eyes peering up at you.
“Bo-bo!” It squeaks, bouncing a few times, before leaping out through the window, hurrying off through the grass towards another series of blobs.
Seems the baby Digimon are entertaining themselves, even if it’s at the expense of your sleep schedule. And, of course, Jeff’s snoring up a storm in the front seat, and even after a solid half hour of trying to...
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>>44837630
>>See what those kids are up to
>>44837630
>See what those kids are up to
Welcome to Academy City. The time is morning, the weather is hazy, and the date is February 5.
You were Kyril Torikov, Level 3 telekinetic ‘business owner’ and you probably were feeling the effects of a hangover. A night on a couch after getting rip roaring drunk was the cause. Around you, several bottles of alcohol were strewn about. You remembered that the punch had run out rather quickly. Your drinking companions were still dead to the world. Touma laid sprawled out on the armchair opposite. The next chair held the Accelerator, dozing off yet still as a statue. Sagara had borrowed your desk. All in all you were probably the only one with a relatively comfortable bed. It would explain how you woke up first. It took a while for your mind to get itself in order.
First you remembered why you were drinking. It was more of a distraction, giving the august presence of the First Ranked Level 5 in the room. He had been brought low by the casual offer of a drink. Either it was a blind spot in his usually impenetrable defences or he knew what he was doing letting his guard down like that. Still it was good to know that there was something human in being to share a drink with him. Then you remembered why he was here in the first place. He had been in the company of a former classmate who had a crush on you. Fortunately, or not, for everyone involved, Asuka had whisked her away when you had rejected her confession. There was less drama after that, only drinking, complaining, and the telling of old stories that should have been left well enough alone. The things the Accelerator got up to was tragic but also horrifying in its own way.
There was a message from Nayuta asking for you to come in for a debriefing sometime today. It was the start of the work week after all, though you rarely did have the weekend off. First things first though you,
>Woke up your drinking buddies
>Left quickly to change for work
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>>44837303
>Left quickly to change for work
>>44837303
Forgot your subject line
>>44837467
My apologies for that.
What are some examples of lovecraftian style horror done right in tabletop?
When are the moments that left you confused, frightened, or otherwise concerned about the things from beyond time and space?
Nobody? Is it really that hard to pull off?
I don't know if I'd call it "done right" but I ripped off some Lovecraft dream stuff for my fantasy campaign.
Instead of D&D's astral plane, most teleportation and astral travel relies on the dream realm, a realm-between-realms where the dreams of conscious creatures take shape and form into bubbles. This means that astral travel is easier at night because more creatures are asleep -- it's like a navigator at sea having more stars in the sky.
What makes the dream realm unique is that there are a few "fixed" dreams that...
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>>44837231
The important thing is to keep the characters in control. If what they do makes no difference it's not a game. That doesn't mean their guns have to have an effect, but if they run the situation changes, and where they run to has an effect on the outcome.
I don't think you can just replicate a successful game. A lot depends on the players and the right mood.
My favorite session was A Cold War. But be warned, this one is definitely KEEPERS ONLY! If you read it you can never play it. And...
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Pathfinder General /pfg/
What's your dream game's setting?
Unified /pfg/ link repository: http://pastebin.com/53QiHfcU
Old Thread: >>44824737
>>44837056
A setting that lets me play psionics without my group considering them overpowered
Asked this just as the new thread was getting made:
Let's say I want to play a blaster in the same vein as Iron Man, as in I can just shoot scaling energy beams from my palms (amongst other abilities) all day.
How do I best go about doing this, in 1st and 3rd party?
>>44837073
But they don't even have spell slots, how can they be anything but overpowered?
Been thinking of a homebrew chapter idea to draw lately. What about a chapter based off Chinese army concepts? Guan Yu alone fulfills the badassery requirement for a Chapter Master. A war saint in China, he remained absolutely loyal to his monarch Liu Bei to the point of certain death, literally played chinese chess while surgery was performed on an arm, and died, refusing to surrender his loyalty to Liu Bei at the battle of fancheng.
"In the Western world, Guan Yu is sometimes called the Taoist God of War, probably because he is one of the most well-known military...
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Would greenstuff badass beards/10.
Given how fucking often "Fire Attacks!!!" appeared in Romance of the 3 Kindoms, you could model them after his classical green-and-gold with red trim and run them with Salamander chaptacs, especially given how bro-tier they are.
And fucking seriously, roll with a bazillion fu man chus on your helmetless dudes.
>>44837016
For anything China-based, Guan Yu and Zhang Liao have to compete for conceptual space with Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao. And that's just in that era, and not at all inclusive. You could easily fill out a full eighteen legions from ancient Chinese concepts and not repeat yourself once.
>>44837111
Yeah, I do love me some manly fucking beards popping out of power armor. Never even thought of the Salamanders.
Was originally going with Imperial Fists, but now that you mention it, Salamanders are pretty bro-tier, especially if I'm going for the most brotherly kingdom in the Three Kingdoms Period as a motif.
Imagine the troll doll head I'd have to de-attach to make Zhang Fei's wild beard lol. Really good idea.
The carriage rattles as it bumps over stones in the dirt path winding up toward Rookstone Manor, your new home for the next several months. You have been invited to study at Rookstone, all expenses paid, including room and board. Your parents were bemused by the owner's invitation, but the opportunity for free private schooling seemed too rare and valuable to pass up and everything appeared above board.
Across from you sits Dr. Pendleton - not that kind of doctor, he assured you on meeting, but rather "just a chap with a bit too much schooling." You're...
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>>44836889
Name: Clarissa Green
Age: 12
Gender: F
Did you make before some Russianboo quest?
>>44836940
Sounds good
>>44836940
You write down your name, age (12) and gender and scribble down the other basic information required. Handing it back to Dr. Pendleton, you feel like you have to ask.
"Why are we taking a carriage up to the school?" You've been wondering for a while now. "Why not just take the car?"
"The owner of the property doesn't like motor vehicles on the estate," he replies with a chuckle. "I don't think she likes the noise very much. She's provided this carriage...
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