>>44577607
Prophecy's don't usually have a guarantee of success anyways so their existence does no mean free will does not exist. Even then who cares. If your divinely ordained to behave or act a certain way it'll still mostly feel like your in charge so whats the difference?

>>44577607
You can still have free will. Fate just knows everything you'll "will" to do, though.

You could even call fate a product of collective wills, and that the power to see your fate would change nothing, as working to try and undo it more often than not ends in an M Night Shyamalan style "trying to stop it is what caused it to happen" ending.

Fate's a bitch, but it also makes for good tragic stories of people desperately fighting to work against it.

>>44577704

That gets me thinking. If King Laius didn't try to kill Oedipus and raise him as normal, would he have grown up normally and the prophesy would be bust? Or would Oedie and his mum have developed a forbidden love and Laius would be fucked anyway?

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>>44567892

How do you cheat in any card game?
Hide cards in your ass/screwshuffle opponent

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Stacked shuffles, of course.

>>44556186
Because no one took the initiative to start them.

>>44556186
>Scientology got me thinking
If that's the case, you're using it wrong.

>>44556198
This.

Plus: Fuck you for thinking we need a Conan/Silmarilion cult. Fictionkin are bad enough.

>>44551898
I did the "magic is science" thing, so "mages" are just scholars, machinists, and alchemists making use of fantasy chemicals and technology that muggles just can't understand without the same number of college credits. Much of the setting revolves around applications of monster blood, such that it's the primary ingredient of my fantasy black powder and critical to all explosives and firearms. It also factors heavily into miraculous potions and alchemical concoctions. Some mages are fusiliers...
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>>44551898
>What are spellcasters like in your campaign? Are they respected? Feared? Hated? Are they trained centrally or by individual apprenticeships?
Yes to everything.

>How much do they abuse their power?
All the fucking time.

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>>44551898
>What are spellcasters like in your campaign?
Subby little casterslut bitches

>Are they respected? Feared? Hated?
Ha ha no

>Are they trained centrally or by individual apprenticeships?
Varies, but most of their training is at the hands of the first martial to defeat them

>How much do they abuse their power?
No but they get plenty of abuse

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Okay guys, help me out.

I plan on introducing my group to the gameworld by playing. My idea is an adventure similar to In 80 Days around the World. Something about a rivalry between two Neolybians wich involves lots of traveling. But where do they start? What are the objectives of the players? How can I involve them?

Any ideas are welcome.

Been reading the rule book sooo good. I want to play so much. Thing is half the people I play with are D&D players so they don't understand subtlety and other half are shadowrun players .

I want too run a short campaign thats basically a Scrapper gathering people to find an artefact. A group of angry Neo-Lybians are also aiming to get the artefact. Its a race against time, Neo-Libyans and other scrappers. Its supposed to be quick and introduce the players to the world.

>>44545564
A point to point race around the Mediterranean coast could work. The players are gathered, by one route or another, in Gibraltar and are paid to race between pre-arranged checkpoints that take them all around the coast till they get back to the other side of the Gibraltar land bridge

With cygnar, i imagine seige would be top, with stryker2 (assuming our S tier being haley2/3 and caine2). If you count seige and stryker2 as top/S tier (a stretch I think), i dunno who'd be up there. Nemo3 or Haley1 maybe?

Will Darius be the Battle Engine Caster for the Swans?

Whats this about errata I keep hearing about

Is it sometime soon?

>>44543526

In truth you are Mikage Chiba, second year highschool student fifteen years old. Formerly you were the third woman to carry the mantle of Sailor Moon, after your mother and older sister. Now you secretly support the new magical Guardian of Love and Justice, your younger sister Koyomi.

“The undefined ones probably the projection type, but the specialized ones have a chance of being fully transformed civilians,” Captain Osaka reasons once your explanation is finished, “We can’t just go in with incendiaries...
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>>44543543
Good morning! One moment please.

>>44543543
>Lead them into an Ambush of the Senshi

>>44469372
I love the thread image. Good choice.

I should have some pictures to share later tonight. I'm just about done with assembling a Team Yankee demo kit for my FLGS.

>>44469372
>Not RIP sweet prince, Lemmy Killmeister edition

YOU HAD ONE JOB

>>44470596
He can have the next one

>>44584137
How are minmaxing and netlisting not legitimate? One of the things that makes them so bad is the fact that they are legitimate.

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>>44584137
I love it when my players do this. I always make them not the only people who have discovered this power. Or, if they are, they begin attracting adherents. Disciples who want to learn the skills which make the PC so powerful

Imagine that the Sith was started by some power gamer
>holy shit, if I combine these two feats, I can draw on my anger AND use telekinesis to choke someone to death
>fuck yes

>>44584154
Netlisting I'll agree with; it's making the best of what there is, often with the goal to win prizes/money.

But TTRPGs? You're basically playing cooperative make believe. Most people grew out of the "nuh-uh I have super special anti-bullet shield I can deflect anything" by 5th grade. Minmaxing is like inheriting a fortune, then berating all your friends for being poor. Like sure, you got the money through legitimate means, but that doesn't excuse your behaviour.

>>44582659
"Good luck yourself Captain, I'm not sure who'll need it more."
>Alice sighs and continues walking, rather preoccupied with her current dilemma to pay the Captain's own much mind.

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>44582735
>Decides to rather try to sneak past her than to face a punishment before she can even help the Somerians out.

>Preoccupied with setting up defenses in the square
>Further away tanks and stormtroopers are fighting furiously against the heretics

>>44577934

I like the Bodyguard -> Take the Blow featline, since you already have Combat Reflexes.

You may wish to take Seize the Opportunity from the PoW:E playtest, but I think my reading of things is that you can already use most combat maneuvers (trip, disarm, etc) as an AoO.

If you're going full Intimidate, then I suggest taking Signature Skill (Intimidate). Combine that with Grim Guard's Laughter and you stand a decent chance of making your opponents run away while...
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>>44578262
Which Skinwalker heritage is best for Magus-ing?

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I want to marry a drow!

>>44577621

Unstoppable juggernaut? Fuck no.

Depends on the time for level of protection.

But generally you would be lucky to have armor. Mistakes are not as deadly, and you are invulnerable to blades in most areas. Maces hurt you the same, but they are slow weapons compared to the sword you would probably carry, so you still have advantage.

>>44577621
You're asking in the very wrong place. Try /his/ or something, instead. That said, full plate armour was effective enough for knights to reliably survive on the front lines of battle. Nobles sons and hiers would vie for glory by participating in major battles, and the plate armour they wore give them very little chance of actually being wounded or killed.

Really, the effectivness of plate armour was the primary influence for people adopting bludgeoning weapons, and the rise in popularity of long, thin,...
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>>44577621
the crossbow thing is untrue>>44578670
fuck yourself with a oddly shaped stone penis this is the correct place

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It's translated.

>>44577034

storm only plays two spells in a turn on the turn they go off, triggering this only once

>>44577034
>4 mana for something that doesn't do anything the turn it comes down unless you have extra mana
>only counts for the second spell for the turn vs every other spell triggering it
Not really making the cut for storm, but are there more "second spell matters" cards coming out? Could be cool

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Reposting this

Alright fuck me I'm having trouble figuring out what to do with the Manifestations.

I wanted five Unlocks for each Key, but even ignoring the more difficult Keys, that seems harder than expected. Meanwhile I could do like Werewolf and each one is one and one, but that seems a bit too low, since most of the Manifestations couldn't be covered in just one power.

Maybe I should scrap the existing Manifestations and try to break them out into different ones? Werewolf has like 20 Gifts with 5 powers each.

The other option is some...
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>>44575353
>What would you want to see out of a World or Chronicles of Darkness video game?

Focus. As much as one splat varies from another splat, the goals and methods of a video game for that splat should also change. What genre best supports the themes?

>>44575164
>One of their cult has to make the ultimate sacrifice and be ritualistically murdered. Their body becomes the Arisen's new Sahu, and the sacrifice's memories and mindset integrates with the Mummy's. This can be a problem in future risings.
This happened with one of the PCs in Dave's AP before the game began, IIRC.

>>44575346
>knees on wall, no foot support

Shit climbing desu senpai

>>44575346
FELLOW AESTARTES! MY SENSORS HAVE PICKED UP A HERETIC AT BEARING 129! RANGE 20 METERS, ON THE WALL! OPEN FIRE!

>>44575346

I snipe her down for interrogation.