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My players just beat a dragon and are thinking of how to skin and gut it for all its worth.
How do I handle this?
My players get pretty crazy and I'm honestly expecting someone to ask me if there's a market for preserved dragon dicks or something.
>>44292775
You ask them to send for a bunch of experts who take a large cut of the profit, because murderhobos generally don't have the expertise required to field dress a dragon.
>>44292775
They make a roll to say how well they butcher it, and you tell them that they harvested X currency worth of dragon bits, provided they can find a buyer before it decays.
>>44292775
Do any of their characters have skill relating to skinning animals? Its not easy if you don't know how. On a dragon, with its super-tough hide and scales, you might run the risk of really botching it.
Require some skill checks.
Secondly, how far away from civilization are the players? If they're out in the wilds and have substantial travel time, the hide may start rotting before they get back and its scent attract scavengers looking for an easy meal.
Which is better: dead raising necromancy, or black magic necromancy? Which is stronger in your system of choice? Which is more fun?
Not /tg/ related, but Guild Wars 1 is one of the few places where I feel necromancers were done right.
>gaining strength from death
>blood magic
>using life to fuel magic
>curses
>raising undead minions
>death magic
And then you had ritualists in GW:Factions, which were pretty much shadow priests who communed with the dead, summoned spirits of the dead, and used spirit based magic.
>>44292711
I've always liked the Raising the Dead Necromancy.
Haven't played them in many PnP unfortunately, but in Rift I really liked how they portrayed the class and their abilities. Undead minions, of course, but with crippling spells and debuffs. Probably one of the coolest things was they could convert Death damage inflicted on enemies into healing for themselves and their pet.
>>44292711
Personally I prefer neither. I like necromancy as magic related to the spirits of the dead, and necromancers as people who put down zombies and spectres for a living. So, pic related.
what is a good anime plot for a campaign of OVA?
>>44292624
The daughter of the general store owner is sad.
Cheer her up.
>>44292624
>Anime-Girl-Hand-Warrior-Debris
That's Kula Diamond from King of Fighters, you dink.
Staying on topic, you can use any of the KOF plots.
>Far-flung modern desendents of the Japanese clans sworn to protect the Three Sacred Treasures must team up to beat back the reincarnation of Orochi looking to destroy the entire human race
>Evil futuristic megaconglomerate seeks to use clone army and other genetic and scientific...
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>>44292822
my players like a little more of action
What would a Vulcan Jedi be like? For that matter, a Sith Predator? And who would win?
>>44292222
Pretty fucking metal, that's what.
>>44292222
A predator probably couldn't be anything other than a sith.
>>44292222
The answer in both cases is "retarded", or "the same as before but with laser swords and vaguely defined space magic".
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You are Urist Twelfthbay, and you are a short, sturdy creature fond of drink and industry.
While that makes you a dwarf(-ish sort of creature), you ARE the moe personification of Dwarf Fortress, so you technically represent /every/ damn creature found in your game. F'r instance, your summons give form to everything from felines to animal men to forgotten beasts, and you're reasonably sure you can channel the respective powers and abilities of the other sentient creatures populating your "world."
You know this because right now, there's a little elf-y part of your brain that's shrieking bloody murder at you.
... well,, not /literally/, but a certain elven quote keeps coming to mind, all snotty and high-falutin and whiny. Elves truly were made for bullying. "Once a beautiful tree, and now?" You can /hear/ the delicate scoff. "It is a rude bauble, fit only for your kind."
Above you, a grand armada of wooden windmills creak as their propeller blades spin in the breeze, their combined strength generating enough power and lift to keep the entire rickety-looking contraption a few feet off the ground. This stupid dwarf megaproject, providing more than enough transmittable power to pump-drain half an ocean's worth of water, will let you make things REALLY fly.
So, yeah, you'll be real damn happy with THIS rude bauble, thank you very much.
(Cont.)
>>44291959
After a moment, you turn away, staring out across the rest of your subconscious's Arena. The windmills' wholesale violation of physics doesn't surprise you as much as it /should/- that's why you're trying out this shit in the first place- but it's a little disquieting to watch, and your instincts keep screeching that a cave-in is imminent.
Still, you can't argue with the results- this sort of thing is only possible because Gamindustri's (and/or the hyperdimensional void's)...
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well meme'd with the thread time predictions blorp well meme'd
>>44291977
>[ ] [FIND NEPTUNE] ... there's SUPPOSED to be a goddess living inside and/or corrupting your mind. Maybe you should find her before she ruins something important to you.
It is finally here.
Welcome to Corsair Quest, where the high seas pillaging is more legal than not. Usually.
Dice rules for basic skill checks are a standard best of three. Ship-to-ship combat is also uses best of three, but uses two dice for firing success and accuracy.
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You are Darmund Hosplitar, a cleric graduate, Ocean-Wanderer, and, as of this afternoon, the House Sword of the Azala city state. However, with your great accomplishments come a plethora of new threats to your home, not to mention your honor. You are under pain of death...
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>>44291928
There's no way this is here, christ alive it's been months.
Almost all of the Naval officers come from the monastery. It's the only real academic institution that Azalans can use. Each city state on Mala has at least one, each with slight stylistic differences in the way they use the Kain; the embodiment of natural aspects of life. Your training was heavily influenced by the empire. They taught forms of Imperial Swordsmanship, and graduates were even taught to duel in Hassern manner.
As you begin the trek out of the city, a thought occurs to you. You're still wearing the plain clothes that were left for you at the hotel....
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>>44291979
Back at last. My apologies for the several month interval. The story of why is long and fairly uninteresting.
How would you guys fix this shit? Has someone already fixed it? For some reason I doubt that Rifts Savage Worlds will ever come out, mostly because of Siembieda.
Personally I wish someone would buy Palladium out right and fully execute a great idea rather than milk it with shitty book #59:the kitchen sink is overflowing.
>Rifts
>the biggest fucking kitchen sink cluster fuck setting ever made
>a great idea
If you think anything in Rifts is a good idea then you deserve the Palladium system.
I tried to get into it. I could not figure out the rule book. Its all over the place
>>44291735
>> I wish someone would buy Palladium out right
That will never happen because for some bizarre reason Palladium has a fanbase that will donate money to keep the doors open. Kevvy will likely have to have a donation drive soon because he ran out of kickstarter money and still needs to deliver the second half of Robotech RPG Tactics. Some of the backers are starting legal action against PB.
Did anyone else really like the 4e Points of Light setting?
>>44291722
Sure
>>44291722
it is the perfect example of "bottom up" worldbuilding
Points of Light is an excellent setting with far more lore than most people give it credit for, especially with regards to the Dawn War, the primordials, the gods, the archfey, the primal spirits, and the fallen empires of Arkhosia, Bael Turath, and Nerath.
Let's talk about how certain creature cultures might work.
Actually, let's just talk about about centaur culture could work.
Actually, I just want to know how they can function as intelligent, sentient semi-humanoid people if they can't even bend over to pick things up off the ground. Let's face it, with a shunted upright spine like theirs, there is no way they have the flexibility to avoid snapping their spine in half to try and touch the ground.
>"Alright, Billy, now be careful with your christmas present,...
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Centaurs work better as fey creatures. The logistics of their physical bodies cease to be a problem because fey opperate under their own rules.
>>44291281
There's the idea I remember that was suggested that their torso is as flexible as a horse's neck to facilitate the bending over.
>>44291281
>Actually, I just want to know how they can function as intelligent, sentient semi-humanoid people if they can't even bend over to pick things up off the ground
They can.
>But anon how
They bend over to grab stuff
>But their spines
THEY BEND OVER TO GRAB STUFF
>SPINES
THEY JUST DO IT NO ONE CARES EXCEPT YOU
Hear ye, hear ye, I call to order another meeting of the Mage Guild.
This is just a formality, but technically we still need to hold the meeting. We all know about the Chronomancers' fudging with time caused us to have to invoke Guild rule 2314.231, which is to roll back the rules to a prior time before their meddling so no one can influence the guild too much. Unfortunately, this accidentally set us back to when Page 2311, Subpage 3 stated that "all Mages in Good Standing with the Guild must wear Pointed Hats at all Official Occasions. The hats must be brimless."...
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>>44290862
But with the brims on, how does the snow fall off?
>>44290862
The Equal Opportunities for Undead Trust moves for cowls to be added to the amendment.
>>44290862
I think it might actually be a good idea to have a change of fashion around here. Brimmed hats have become dreadfully dull.
My last three groups were torn apart when two or more people just couldn't let go of whatever hot-button issue we have today. My Pathfinder game fell apart when two otherwise cool guys decided to argue literally the entire night about religion VS atheism (sparked off by some off-handed comment the Rogue made to the Cleric). My regular Magic meetup has shrunk since several people got into it about "SJWs" versus "MRAs". And even my online guild of the MMORPG I play has lost like half its membership when people started slinging shit on the forums and voice...
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>>44290834
Susie best girl.
I just ignore people who try to stir shit most of the time. The problem is people give them attention and then it booms from there.
How about you ask the people who did the thing, instead of some random bunch of twats on the internet? We're not going to answer for their behaviour, and we can't really answer any questions about it either, because we're not them, nor do we know these people.
But I guess it doesn't matter. You a butthurt little bitch who came to vent and seek confirmation as you trade stories of shit that never happened with other loosers.
Just fuck off.
>Be Knight
>Ordered to save princess
>Walk in castle
>See this
Wat do
>>44290584
>>44290624
I'm glad I've got people here turned on to Isai no Hime.
>>44290584
>nothing wrong
The head of a JoJo character on the body of a daemon.
>>44290538
His fashion style was wrong. I mean, those tusks? Like, ew. *So* M24
>>44290555
Awaken my masters
Having some problems with necrons at the moment, I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
The cron list usually is:
Lord
Immortals x2 (gauss and tesla squads)
Sypder
Ark
2 cyptex in the immortal squads
Wraiths x3
He'll charge everything at me, keeping the spyder back with the ark; repairing and dropping blast templates.
I play:
CCS (MoO and banner)
2x vet squads with plasma
Leman Russ Executioner with plasma sponsons
Sentinel with plasma
Vendetta
Vindicare assasin
I'm forced to stay back and...
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>>44289786
>I don't know what I'm doing wrong
>playing 40K
there is your problem....
>>44289786
What type of ark, destroyer or ghost. I main necrons all day every day.
>>44289894
Doomsday Ark
Ahhh… the first few days of summer, blazing hot sun overhead, inviting everyone out of their homes to enjoy some icecream, climb some trees and work on that tan.
But you, Dash Addams; student extraordinaire, won’t be doing that, now will you? Nope, you’ve been forced into summer school, thanks to a desire to graduate any time soon. You only failed by a little bit, and that’s mostly because the teachers didn’t like you. Mostly.
Of course, the school doesn’t leave the air conditioning running during summer, so instead the comfortably warm heat from outside...
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The morning draaaags by, and more than once you have to stop writing to clear sweat from your eyes, the room only getting hotter as the day wears on, until the class mercifully breaks for recess. The teacher, Miss Kelli sags into the chair behind her desk, wiping sweat out from under her collar, as you finally get a chance to look around at the others properly.
That kid with the glasses is looking at the fan again, pulling open some panel at the back, and looking between it and his phone. Besides them, there’s a pair of twins behind you, the sister frowning at everyone...
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>>44289531
>Gonna take a leak, screw all these guys.
too cool for these fags
>>44289531
>Gonna take a leak, screw all these guys.
We must find toiletnatormon!
