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Your name is Finnel Leoric, Captain of the Brass Boys, Head of the Great Company of the Valemen, a mercenary company with a name longer than its history. You’ve been sent across the Narrow Sea by your Lord William Bordain in the hopes of getting him the two things he needs most to survive the coming storms: Gold and Glory.
Until yesterday, your time in Essos had bored you to tears. Endless talks, parties, meetings, parties, ‘discreet inquiries’, and the occasional party to break up the monotony. You were beginning to wonder if your merchant contact had tricked your...
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I've been sick as a dog the past three weeks, and I've been looking forward to the return of G&G the whole time.
>>44554092
Hmm. Should have put more paragraph breaks. That is an ugly first post.
C'est la vie.
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>>44554116
I'm almost better now, just looking to shake off the damned cough.
Why is monk the most underrated class?
Because D&D et al is a pretty shitty place for them.
They were decent in 4e and you can make a better monk using Tome of Battle/Path of War stuff, but there are better games and systems for playing martial artists of all stripes.
>>44549809
Because people don't want to believe that that they could do extraordinary things on their own and the only person holding them back is themselves. Its much easier to believe that the system is designed against you and unless you're lucky enough for the "key" to fall into your hand you're just a fucked scrub, whether that key is a magic micguffin or a unique trait that only sets you apart is irrelevant.
The whole idea of a monk is that they're a normal person that pushes themselves through hard work, dedication and perseverance. Literally anyone can do it, but if you tell someone that the only reason you're you and not mister amazing hands over there is because they're a lazy fuck, they don't like that. So an excuse is made e.i. mister amazing hands was lucky, or shit is unfair. This correlates as much to real life as it does to fantasy and the fact that the people trying to escape real life via fantasy may often go to table top games just compounds this.
Tl;dr people are just as lazy in fantasy as in real life
Note: this does not apply to the people who actually enjoy the acting and real roleplaying as appossed to those who just want an ego stroke.
>>44549845
Pretty much this. D&D heavily influences tabletop games. Monks are bad in the most influential version of D&D. Thus Monks are performed as bad.
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>>44546300
Hey /epg/ is back! I have a question for my game: what would a secret research station on the surface of Venus be like?
>>44546300
>what would a secret research station on the surface of Venus be like?
It'd have to be run by Q-morphs or similar on the outside, probably have a giant heat shield of something anti-corrosive over the important bits. Geothermal power maybe?
Best way would be to rig it to have a secure darkcasting rig so most people just beam in, very rarely do they smuggle physical bodies/stacks down with the mining. Then you can have the classic horror scenario "wake up and...
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>>44546342
A big ceramic refrigerator in the middle of nowhere.
How do you Alien, /tg/?
I'm working on a homebrew space opera setting and I want to give the sense that life isn't exactly rare in the Milky Way, but I don't want to just have rubber forehead aliens because Star Trek.
So how do you make interesting aliens?
>>44545683
Make them truly alien and incomprehensible, with exotic goals.
>>44545967
How alien? How incomprehensible?
>>44546499
Don't listen to >>44545967. Your only frame of reference is the human one. Just give them agency in the setting and keep the details to a minimum. When they do appear their interactions should be strictly professional or downright cold. Star Trek fantasies be damned, these things shouldn't be here to fuck you or to be fucked by you.
curious to see what armies TG plays and your unit of choice from the army
What do you mean "unit of choice". As in favorite unit, go-to unit, or the main spammed unit?
Only the best
Tyranids - Trygons (Think they look way badass)
Dark Eldar - Raiders (Spikey pirate ships are badass)
Dark Angels - Generic Ravenwing Biker (Go fast)
Tau - Crisis Suit (Customizable mini-gundams)
D&D 4e General: Discuss anything directly related to D&D 4e here.
If you are GMing, remember...
1. To strongly consider giving out at least one free "tax feat," like Expertise and pre-errata Melee Training.
2. To use Monster Manual 3/Monster Vault/Monster Vault: Nentir Vale/Dark Sun Creature Catalog math. Avoid or manually update anything with Monster Manual 1 or 2 math.
3. That skill challenges have always been scene-framing devices for the GM, that players should never be overtly told that they are in a skill challenge, and that the Rules...
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>>44525615
Unfortunately, damage type-switchers, damage type-adders, and damage keywords have always been a profoundly murky, gray area in the rules.
There has never been a clear, unambiguous answer to this matter, much to the chagrin of people who wish to make use of Frostcheese, radiant mafia, Psychic Lock, and Resounding Thunder builds through less conventional means (e.g. Malec-Keth Janissary).
This is something you will have to run through your DM.
What class is the best leader?
Like, actually best at healing and support?
>>44531959
In terms of raw force multiplication and support, the warlord is easily the all-around best leader in the game provided that most of your party is equipped with strong basic attacks. The Tactical Presence or Resourceful Presence warlord is the cream of the crop here, particularly by the paragon tier thanks to the superlative Battle Captain paragon path from the Player's Handbook 1.
In a party with middling basic attacks, on the other hand, the title of "best leader" is much too dependent...
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Honor is the Streets, Duty in the Sheets Edition
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What's your favorite clan? Why?
What do you want to see in the reboot?
What should be taken out forever?
Is there a company would you have preferred to take over, or are you fine with Fantasy Flight?
What's the best bit of advice for GMs new to the game?
What's the best bit of Advice you can give to players?
What's that...
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>>44529097
>What's your favorite clan? Why?
Monkey, fortune favors the bold and Scorpion waifus.
>What do you want to see in the reboot?
The last few years of metaplot gone, let the taint either be a very real thing to worry about again with Spiders being an insidious fake clan that might be going legit, or go with a more Asian folklore sort of deal where there's no arch agent of darkness other than the lying darkness. Oni and other things become more spirit like things of the natural world.
>What should be taken out forever?
Daigotsu/Fu Leng being good.
>Is there a company would you have preferred to take over, or are you fine with Fantasy Flight?
I like FFG, though I'm worried how much crazy dice they'll come up with for it.
>What's the best bit of advice for GMs new to the game?
Have a plan or at least a theme for the game, and in some way communicate it to the players before hand so they have an idea of what to expect. No one likes going Courtier in a war game. Also, don't over due the ninja/scorpion inevitable betrayal.
>What's the best bit of Advice you can give to players?
Talk with your GM about for character and what you expect for them.
>What's that samurai you've always wanted to make but never got the chance to?
Probably a tortoise jew merchant or Mantis pirate.
>What was the story of your last PC?
Suffering.
I don't know if I like the idea of Fantasy Flight taking over until I actually see what they poop out.
Sometimes they're good, but on the other hand, Elemental Dice, or worse, Clan Dice (With imperials, minor clans, and ronin told to go fuck themselves) both sound like really bad ideas that could easily make whatever guy at FFG has a fetish for special dice have to change his underwear every time he walks into the office.
>>44529097
Forgot the title of the thread.
It's my first civ thread but I'd like to give it a try.
Pick a race, first to three wins.
Pick an environment, first to three wins.
>>44572426
>demons
>tundra
>>44572464
i always vote for insects but lets do something different.
I second this.
Aquatics, Desert :^)
Why are owls the best familiars edition?
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>>44565746
>Why are owls the best familiars?
A good fly speed, so they can fly 100 feet above you and give you a great scouting vantage. Advantage on Perception checks so they can see shit great (and have 18 passive Perception for sight), and an impressive 120ft darkvision range. And flyby, so they can zip in and out of range using the Help action with little risk of dying.
Also they're cute.
>>44565746
I prefer owl griffons.
new UA is out
http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/kits-old
Remember, back in the 80's, when D&D actually taught you how to summon demons so you could use magic in real life?
When did rpgs become so casual?
>>44561432
>shooting yourself when it's not your turn
How casual can you get.
>>44561432
Started with GURPS.
D&D was clear cut man. Draw the sigils, make a pact with an ancient being, and BAM! mind control and fireballs at your finger tips. True it drove some people to commit suicide because they couldn't handle being amazing (its not for everybody), but the thrill was amazing.
Then GURPS came along and it disrupted the balance needed for demonic rites and rituals.
I still have fond memories of sucking the teat of a decapitated she-goat to summon a succubus so I could...
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>>44561432
Fantasy in general became casual when Warcraft got big and Lord of the Rings made it popular.
If you mean when did RPGs stop being a favored target for scaremongers like Jack Chick, that's a lot more closely related to that era's religious right being ridiculously embarrassed by scandals. Jim Bakker's affair, Jimmy Swaggart's soliciting and Oral Roberts' shameless money grab set the Religious Right back so far, they weren't even politically significant within the Republican party...
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How would you run a game that combines the themes of "cosmic existential horror" and "comfy"?
>>44554379
Simple, really. You become so severely mentally disturbed that cosmic horror IS your comfy.
>>44554379
Vore.
>>44554413
Or you become so wise that it is.
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