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what happened? why is this $25+ all of a sudden?
>>44679927
People thought it was going to be reprinted for some reason and jumped on the hype train
>>44679927
Modern season is starting so expect more shekel grabbing
>>44679927
I'm actually tempted to trade mine away since I never use them, but I'm scared that they may hit $50 with no reprints ever.
What good system let's me be a fencer /tg/?
GURPS
Song of Swords
7th Sea
RuneQuest
GURPS
>>44679897
If you like crunchy 3e-style systems (but maybe you don't like 3e because it's shitty and unbalanced and martials are subjected to terrible feats like "Basic Competence: Owners of this feat won't stab themselves in the dick when they roll 8 or less") you could check out FantasyCraft. It's got crunchy, tactical wargame combat, but is well balanced (everything is a bit gonzo) and the martials are fantastic. Pic related, it's the fencing tree. The whole thing; you'll have...
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>In the far future the world was given to AI's
>For reasons unknown, they all went insane one after another
>The near utopia they had created crumbled to dust and war
>Unknown generations have passed since then
>the megastructure sprawling across the planet is falling apart
>The only hope is to make a new AI that can usurp the mad rulers
>But the source...
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Sounds like a solid premise for a post apoc cyberpunk game. Make sure to have things be arcane enough to be manipulate blend, but not really understood.
"Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic"
>>44679428
Spells and Magic could be only when you're in the VR
>>44679237
I think it's a neat ideadoesn't hurt that I have a corruption fetish
>>44679489
but then again, if its been so long that futuristic megacities are falling into disrepair, then the scavenger inhabitants working mojo to ge tlights or heat from ancient machines might not appreciate things in the same logic-based way we do.
Imagine a clapper being plugged into the last light in the last room in the last building. We know to clap to activate the light. Some poorly evolved mutant screwhead might not know what clapping is, and might slap themselves in the face to make the light work, and then...
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Why are the AoS pricing conventions so much higher than everything else?
Are GW deliberately trying to make it fail? 100 dollars for 10 slayers is ridiculous.
It gets even worse when you compare the Starter Kits. Compare 21 dwarfs with a pair of Nurgle/Khorne starter sets.
Or even worse with 40k, where 2 Necron, or 2 Skitarii sets are both cheaper, and a full army.
>>44679110
First off, I hope you know you are showing the australian prices. Those are expensive, period.
Second off, the Start Collecting box sets are the exception to GW pricing, not the rule.
Third off, do we really need another GW price thread? Hasn't this been discussed to death? Yes, GW is overpriced. Play something else.
Not saying it isn't overpriced (it sure is lol), but to be fair AoS is built around needing less models.
>$70 for 5 dwarfs
What the fuck? Are they made of gold or something?
Tell me about gargoyles, /tg/.
Where can I best learn about them, in regards to IRL folklore and mythology?
>>44678547
bump
>>44678961
Thanks, but I'd rather not have a bunch of racists tell me how Hitler was a hero parrot around the "WE WUZ KINGZ" meme.
Question:
How to you handle your players all making rolls on the same thing?
Like, let's say your players are looking for a hidden diary that they are pretty sure is in the room. One player rolls a search while the other players are somewhere else, gets a low number, and is told they look all over but don't find anything. Then another player goes "Well, I look too when I'm done." then they make a roll. Continue until the diary is found or all players roll. Or, let's say they are being snunk up on by a bandit. You tell them to roll...
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For something with say 5 people searching for the dairy, could you have them decide as a.group ahead of time how many people are going to help search, and then take the average of the 5 rolls. You could even make some charts ahead of time with nber of people and degrees of success. So like if all 5 people play they need an average of 65, but if it is only 4 the. They need a 60.
>>44677939
Have you tried talking to your players about this?
>>44678085
Yes, they think it's perfectly fair.
Or I should say, they think it's very unfair when I try to limit them. "So what if the strongest character wasn't able to pull the rusted lever. I want to try to pull it, I might get lucky!" Queue some sort of discussion about being able to open a jar after someone else tries.
I mean, it's good they get to advance, but in some cases it makes it impossible to create real obstacles or tension since they seem to succeed at everything eventually.
Evening gents.
I'm trying to remember a creature from D&D. I can't remember what edition it's from, but I remember the picture from the book. It's like this big, moon sized creature. with a huge maw of teeth.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Image is similar, but not related to D&D and not what I'm looking for.
>>44677815
Atropus?
>>44678069
Yes! Thank you!
The artist depiction I had seen had teeth, but it is the same thing!
>>44677815
Anon delivers.
You're in the club and this guy walks up and slaps your gfs ass
>what do you do?
>>44677742
dies to removal
>>44677766
>wasting removal on a dork
>>44677742
>gf
Yo teegee, what do you guys think of Infernum?
Core rulebook's a freebie on RPGNow and DriveThruRPG (Book of the Damned), and it's a criminally underplayed and discussed game with goddamn fantastic art, design, writing, and core concept. It even has Doomguy.
Seems to me the crux of the issues with it came from the system used, and the way they modeled a couple of the game mechanics, like Illiaster (a FUCKING AMAZING CONCEPT), Sorcery, and the fact that Demon, Angel, and Mortal are all character classes instead of races.
The setting is so goddamn...
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>>44677693
Link please
>>44679615
http://www.rpgnow.com/product/2151/Infernum--Book-of-the-Damned?it=1
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/2151/Infernum--Book-of-the-Damned?it=1
Yeah, played it a bit, enjoyed it a lot. The system's not great, can be pretty imbalanced, but there are interesting options for player.
Is it possible toclaim the professor's wife as my own waifu?
Also, waifu thread
Well the professor is shit and you must be also. There is one objectively superior waifu.
>>44677366
>>44678392
And thus the waifu wars began.
>>44678486
And many pictures of Chandra would be posted before they came to a close.
I Dm'd my first game recently and the teams cleric (Who followed a good god) ended up swearing allegiance to a vampire mistress for free enchanted gear, she now uses his head as a way to travel around throughout the day, while he still follows his original god. Needless to say the entire party was wondering what the hell he was thinking. We ended up having to drop him down two alignments in the course of like 3 in game hours.
>>44677304
maybe the player and the cleric viewed a vampire mistress as not that bad in comparison to the stuff gained from swearing allegiance to her?
>>44677304
Honestly depends how he roleplayed that shit, probably wouldn't have been on at my table, the vengeance pally and the other cleric would have murdered him and his mistress
>>44678902
No his character knew it was against his religion (The religion he follows is completely against any form of undead, and the only reason he didn't fully attack on sight is because he still isnt fully trained.) but thought eh whatever gloves of +2 strength are worth it. He then praised himself (in character) for not being a paladin so he didnt lose any abilities.
Alright anons, its that time again, lets roll a third founding chapter for this motherfucker for he deserves one.
Rolled 8 (1d10)
>>44676738
Reason for founding.
Rolled 4, 8 = 12 (2d10)
>>44676776
Geneseed purity of the chapter in the 41st millenium and demeanour.
Rolled 10, 6, 6 = 22 (3d10)
Commander Farsight Needs YOU to Join Him In his TRUE Crusade for the Greater Good. He Can't Do It Alone!
Shas'O Vior'la Shovah Kais Mont'yr is the most dedicated Tau leader to ever serve the Greater Good. The "Hero of Vior'la," "Protege of Puretide," "The Bane of Greenskins," and the leader of "The Eight", Commander Farsight is the great hero of the Damocles Gulf campaign before he founded the Farsight Enclaves spreading the Greater Good to previously unreached areas of the Galaxy and producing as many if not more warriors than great Vior'la herself! Be a part of the greatest expansion of Tau in the galaxy!
And you get a free Tau girl!
>>44676872
>Tau with noses
H E R E S Y
Playing at high levels is bad practice.
Most people don't really seem to appreciate that every time you play, you're putting in a bit of practice. Reinforcing the habits you have, good or bad, and deepening the rut in the road that your wagon travels in.
When you're trying to create a cool character, it's only too easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the stronger the character is, the cooler they are. At some point, you might end up playing a world-shattering demigod, reveling in just how much fictional power your character has, while asking for the rest of the group to be shocked and amazed by how cool your character is.
The sad part is, that's actually the easiest way to make a character no one likes. A strong character that lacks a personality beyond "I'm strong" and who has obtained their power solely because the narrative demanded it is the recipe for a forgettable midboss, placed into the position of one of the main characters only because you happen to play him.
Playing at high levels is a bad idea, but not for any of the reasons you say. You're wrong about pretty much everything. The idea that you need to be high-level to revel in PC power or that players are going to start doing that when they level up is utterly terrible.
Playing at high levels is a bad idea because designers don't test high-level stuff. The game breaks down really fast. As an example that I'm sure everyone remembers, D&D 3rd edition went to print despite breaking down at high levels because the higher-level stuff wasn't well-tested...
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You know what my take on high-level play is? Things fall apart because it becomes impossible for people to take everything into account. At low levels, the players and the DM are going to be on the same page. The DM knows what the PC can do and what they should want to do, and the players have a good general idea of the threats and challenges ahead of them. But at higher levels, there's a chance of divergence. Our last campaign was very underwhelming because the DM basically expected us to be up to speed with the powers of enemies we'd never seen before (in and out of character) while most of us were RPing characters who weren't exactly into party cohesion (bunch of random people forced to run errants for vastly more powerful people).
Low-level stuff basically plays itself, but high-level stuff requires both more effort in preparation and socially. The best quest I've ver run as a DM was the very first quest of the campaign, and for the reasons I mentioned: Things were clear. I could anticipate what people would do, it was a closed environment, and they did not have unpredictable powers. And because money didn't matter a whole lot, the party actually cared about the nuances of the setting.
Plus at high-levels its fucking hard to do a nice dungeon or quest for your PCs. And you lose a lot of variability in creatures.
