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>wake up
>see previous thread reached bump limit and got bumped off the boards minutes before I woke up
>about half the posts are touhofag, the other half is some autist unable to grasp the basic concept of player having the responsibility to make characters that aren't just a collection of disjointed mechanics
>so basically /tg/ as usual
Well then! Last thread was a disaster, so I'm trying again, putting a bit more effort into OP.
Strike!...
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>>44191842
This basically means that there are the equivalent of 50 class combinations to begin with, and many classes/roles have further specializations, each having multiple powers to pick from as they level up, and also class paths that also put a spin on how the class plays (such as shapechanger picking 3 shapes from his list, leading to radically different combinations within the class). It's really quite diverse, but also kept very simple.
Combat itself is heavily tactical, making use of positioning with opportunities,...
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Guess I'll just post player aids to bump.
I backed this.
Never ran a game before, and this looks like a nice place to start. Got link to previous thread, by any chance?
To all the other GMs out there.
When magical realms come up, it's usually in a GM context, but every foreverGM knows that players do it as much as GMs, if not even more.
What's your attitude to it? Do you permit a little bit of it, a lot of it, or do you put the smack down as soon as a player with a female character tries to detail her looks? If you've had a player's magical realm pop up in a game, how did it go?
My personal approach is that I allow a little bit, depending on the player. One of my players is a bit of a fedora, but not That Guy,...
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Everyone plays their real life gender, Magical Realm doesn't come up (plus I don't deal with guys making annoying mock-female voices), there is no problem.
>>44187371
If your players have to make mock female voices when they play female characters, that's the problem. The problem is that you make a big deal out of it and see problems where they don't exist, and that cuts off people from 50% of the character concepts out there.
It's roleplaying. You're supposed to get out of your comfort zone, not play yourself. Of fucking course you'll never get better if you aren't allowed to play anything but what you know, and especially not when you're...
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>>44187065
>Of course, I've had bad experiences - games nearly being ruined by arguments because some Tumblrsexual wanted their character to be a gender that required them to explain it to me before I even knew where they were coming from
I don't believe you.
THIS IS NOT A CIV THREAD
Discussion of civ threads only
1st question what's tg's favorite race?
CMs feel free to drop a link to any threads
>>44182990
The machine volcano thread appears to be dead for tonight.
Anyone online interested in starting a new thread tonight?
>>44183228
>>44183228
If there's interest I could possibly run Bullywug Civ tonight
>>44183248
I'd be down for a bullywug civ. If you do end up running one, throw a link in this thread, I'll be on for a few more hours.
Haven't seen a thread in nearly 2 days.
I don't have the OP pasta.
What would you consider the all-around easiest Neverborn box to play?
My girlfriend has expressed interest in playing and she like's the art style of Neverborn most.
>>44177548
>What would you consider the all-around easiest Neverborn box to play?
Probably Lilth. She seems has a decently shallow learning learning curve.
>>44177548
I feel like people should be concerned with what that dude is constructing in his shed.
>>44178699
That's what I was thinking also.
She's interested in Dreamer but I think that might be a bit much for a complete newbie to skirmish/wargaming.
>>44179044
Why is that?
Just read the first three Horus Heresy novels. Did Horus seriously fall because he felt the Emperor didn't appreciate him enough even though he literally was the most important person in the galaxy after him and had been given every possible honor?
>>44245781
Do not seek reason in falling to chaos.
It is cancerous madness what drives a man to fall, not reason.
>>44245781
It was more because he believed that the Emperor wanted Godhood (which was probably the case anyway) and Chaos playing on his fears. It was less that the Emperor did not appreciate him and more that the Emperor was using and abusing all the Primarchs for the reason above. It just spirals downhill as it gets further into the heresy becoming more of a Horus ascending to Godhood and pulping the shit out of the Emperor.
You have to remember that he had no real encounter with Chaos, even though he mentions it earlier...
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Pretty much what anon said, he went mad then tried to justify it.
Ever actively try to get your character killed just so you could leave a bad game without looking like a quitter?
>>44245411
That thing in his/her mouth... is that a bait?
>>44245411
If a game is so bad I want to quit, I'll do any of the following EXCEPT try to get my character killed.
>Let the group know they suck and just leave IRL with no concern for the story
>Try to get everyone EXCEPT my character killed in a terrible way.
>Try to stick it out as long as I can just shit on the story and the GM for lulz.
I've been trying to do that for the past three months with my current character.
Making a Rogue/Scout and thinking of throwing a level of ShadowDancer in just for hide in plain sight. Any suggestions? Obviously taking the feat that let's you stack Rogue and Scout levels for that sweet sweet Sneak Attack/Sudden Attack Stack
>>44244058
>3.5
>Scout
>Sudden attack
Wut? you mean skirmish, right?
>>44244086
Whatever nerd
>>44244240
They also don't stack in the sense you think they stack with swift ambusher, that feat only allows you to pick rogue feats that depend on sneak attack as you were a rogue of the required sneak attack damage, you don't end dealing 10d6 from sneak attack and 10d6 from skirmish.
So I had a thought recently. I asked my players why they never bothered to do even simple maintenance on their weapons, and I got the answer that it was pointless. Because most weapons are either magical as fuck, or disposable.
So I thought of some of the items they have, and what the story behind them were. Most of them are not really "crafted" magically, but have gained their power through the actions of their owner.
So I thought of doing something different for my next group. Magical artifacts are SUPER rare, to the point of ridiculousness, and they...
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Track a kill list. Once a weapon takes a hundred souls it gains some sort of power based on the lives it's taken. A weapon that's killed many orcs would gain a preference for them, while a weapon that's recklessly used against enemies and innocents alike may drive the wielder into a bloodthirsty rage.
Throw in some foes who are slaughtering innocents just to power up their sword in one of the early adventures while you're at it. That'll let you introduce the idea within the context of the setting and show them the consequences of abuse firsthand.
Number...
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If you throw it on the player, there's a good chance they're going to try to make something game breaking. The best thing to do is keep the respective character in mind. You said the growths depend on their actions, right? You can expound on this by also basing gains on their personality too.
As for how often the gains should be awarded, that could vary with participation. Or, you could have them meditate/pray to get a new gain after a notable event. Like, a Paladin who stopped an assassination would gradually gain higher range and magnitude to his ability to sense evil intentions.
You could come up with a chart to make things easier, but there's no surefire way of accounting for every possible combination of actions your players are going to take.
This sounds like a really neat idea, though. The players are essentially forging their own weapons through their very being.
>>44243590
If you're going down this route (which is cool) you should probably have it so that everything can be explained to the player as to why the weapon is a certain way (at least to a degree). If a weapon is possessed with a desire to constantly shed the blood of any and all nearby, it should be relatively clear to all players that there is a reason for that (likely that it was used on anybody that moved for a long time). This isn't to say you can't have some "mystery weapons," but they should...
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Trying to think of a good name for a room in my campaign that trains you in spying, assassination and espionage.
>>44241566
Bob
Totally Spies 101
>>44241566
Officio Administratum Edgelordium.
Have you ever had another player copy or steal on of your character concepts?
Not really, though I've run into people who independently developed the same concept.
No. On the contrary, I'd really like to see what someone else would do with one of my characters, and if I'd be able to get over the 'but they wouldn't do that' hump.
I ran into a player who did this repeatedly in several different online games. They'd either resort to a boring and cliche archetype, or take one of the other players ideas (or multiple other players ideas, smooshing them together) except make it less interesting in every way. This, in addition to other things which made them a shit player, eventually ended with them getting booted form every game I shared with them, and they're not getting invited to any more.
How do you worship Chaos Undivided? What kind of rituals and acts must Chaos Space Marines do to worship them all?
>>44237857
Move to Florida
>>44237857
start withnot being such a filthy heretic
>>44237857
Masturbate incessantly to your own intellect while arguing with literally anyone who you can perceive, all while stewing in your own grease and filth.
So...post on 4chan, basically.
How would Scooby Doo translate into a Call of Cthulhu game?
>>44236287
Very well if you ask me. Up until the unmask which just reveals something -much- worse.
>>44236341
I've been toying with this idea for a while, trying to figure out a good way to keep it both CoC-y and like Scooby Doo. Most of the guys who play my game don't know anything about Lovecraft, so I can do almost anything I want right under their noses and they won't realize it. I need a good plot hook and a Lovecraft-y monster.
>>44236287
Skooks.
3 REASONS WHY YUGIOH IS BETTER THAN MAGIC:
1. It's much more fun. No mana restrictions=no long waiting games.
2. It's far more balanced. The diverse archetypes prevent Yugioh from being dominated by a select few cards like Magic is. Like Tarmogoyf in Modern, Brainstorm and Force of Will in Legacy, Power 9 in Vintage, and Fetchlands in every format ever. And don't even get me started on Standard, that's literally just "play the 60 best cards still in print.format".
3. Our community is MUCH better. Yugioh players are generally...
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>>44230221
Balanced and more fun?
1. More than five creatures on any side of the field. With Magic you can build an army, with or without stomping monsters. YGO has a limit of 5 and you can choose which one to pew with yours.
2. YGO monsters have either 0 attack/defence or 100... Why such a big number? Summoned Skull is way more powerful than Blue Eyes White Dragon or whatever power card because you summon him more early in the game and crushes the opponent before he can do anything. When it comes to Magic,...
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>>44230221
1 reason both are bad:
1. Nerds
>>44231079
>8. Lastly, I never heard a Magic player call a phrase like: I ACTIVATE MY TRAP CARD!
You must not have played during original Zendikar block.
What is the most evil / funniest thing you ever subjected your players to?
Evil Clown House
A completely by the book evil clown, with non-lethal pranks to be the most annoying shit ever. Fighting inside an appropriately themed madhouse.
Fun moments include:
> Constant bike horns and laughter from nowhere and everywhere.
> Heavily trapped hallway with clown jokes such as sprinklers, stink bombs, boxing gloves to the nads
> Lubed hallway leading to a glass window, failing acrobatics would mean you'd often take fall damage.
>...
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>>44230131
I once sent them on a fetch quest for an item that was
A) Cursed, but not immediately apparently so (It would react badly in the presence of the clerics of a major church, causing irrational hostility all around)
B) Was worth way more than what the guy who commissioned them was paying for its return.
Thus making it very likely that they would in fact abscond with said magic weapon instead of delivering it; which was Just As Planned, as a means of pushing the PCs over towards the bad guys,...
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>>44230551
God I was subjected to something similar, some macguffin that we had to fetch, only for our employer to be assasinated, the item cursed (we couldn't get rid of it), and us now becoming the center of attention for every evil factions on the plane trying to steal it, including the one big evil god.
Shit was annoying.
http://pastebin.com/0uWQ2Ee0
This paste bin contains the rules of the game as well as the character sheet you need to post.
Open Kingdoms
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Okay guys some rules about the game
1. You must have a trip code and name, if you want to claim an open spot you must have a trip code and reply with the first half of your character sheet, the half youre responsible to fill in.
I'll go into length about the game later, I'm going to be replying later after everyone has gotten their sheets up.
Guys also a note about the map. I'm...
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>>44226322
I'm here
>>44226322
Hello!
>>44226336
>>44226370
Hello
