Because if people were rational about things they wouldn't get to start big stupid fights on the internet.

>>44225443
Min-maxing is a problem for systems if the system is *particularly easy* to break, or if some options are significantly better than others; this can make players have significantly greater or less impact on the game as a whole.

This leads to two problems;

First, the GM will find it difficult to judge what level of challenges to throw against the players as three players could be super-fantastic and stomp all over the opposition, or all three could be bullshit weak and die in one hit. Or any mix inbetween,...
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>>44225744
I admire Mutants & Masterminds because the book openly admits that the game is blindingly easy to break if you looked at it hard enough, and it trusts you, as players to not do it. It's a game that trusts you will build for the narrative than for the power; build the character you want, not the character you need.

We won't know till we get there. I personally think it might be Bolas, cause fuck you that's why?

Could also be some kind of internal issues. Some corruption of the heavenly host due to Avacyn's presence within the hell vault that she used to lock up scores of demons, vampires or ghoul callers discovering something to give them an upper hand over humanity, or an unforseen consequence of the Cursemute.

>>44224870
Black/White corrupted Avacyn when?

Advice to new STs:

Always have a cheatsheet and/or Storyteller screen ready.

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>>44217095
Already on that.

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>>44217095
Not what I meant to link.

First for lizards aren't bullshit

Mathbowl is stupid

And elves are waifu tier

>>44213954
My nigga!

Is there any difference between the CRP and LRB6?

I think CRP has better writing/language

>What's on you're holiday wishlist?
Yggdrassil
Hobbit Tales: From the Green Dragon Inn
Mice & Mystics
Sherriff of Nottingham
Clue: D&D


>What's you're favorite game at the moment? of 2015?
Just discovered Tsuro this year, so for board games probably that.

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>What's on you're holiday wishlist?
Summoner Wars, maybe some new metal coins for assorted games.
A pile of money to throw at the latest Heroes of Normandie Kickscammer would be nice.

>What's you're favorite game at the moment? of 2015?
Favorite full stop right now is still Twilight Imperium, been making up some modified components with extras FFG sent me.
Favorite of 2015 has to be Chaosmos, just for being the...
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>What's on you're holiday wishlist?

Nothing, although I'm planning on getting 1-2 card games in January. Nothing concrete yet I want something 1v1 and something that works well with more people.

>What's you're favorite game at the moment? of 2015?

At the moment? Kemet I think.

>Are you looking forward to any release?

Nothing comes to mind. Maybe Scythe, but...
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I'll halfta tell ya later, I'm a little short on time.

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both the greatest thing ever and worst than Hitler. It depends on the setting.

>>44199465
I always wanted to play a perpetually pissed-off halfling, but I'd probably come off as That Guy.
>"Everyone asks where the other half is. It's in the dagger I put between your ribs, smartass."

Right now I'm just throwing shit against a wall and seeing why is works and doesn't.

On a related note, The motorcycle is a pretty cool card.

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I am not sure how I feel about this...

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>>44242824
What you could do is present a few hooks for overarching goals and see if there's anything they all leap at. I'm sure you can think of a few breadcrumb trails for them to look into.

Anything involving large-scale war should interest the druid. Forests are a great source of wood for siege weaponry. It should likewise interest the mercenary fighter for obvious reasons. Or, maybe they'll just find some of the plot hooks interesting as players.

If you ever figure it out let me know. I found it best to let them know that too much soloing on game night isn't allowed and to get their sandbox stuff out of the way 1 on 1 with me on Skype during the non game sessions.

>>44243069
That's what I had been attempting, and like I've stated, it's left the game in far better condition. However it doesn't seem to stick.

Since this game is a true sandbox, with me coming up with hooks as the players show interest, or sometimes forcing hooks into existence, I've also allowed any morality, as it has potential for excellent plot depth. However, I feel like this is beginning to hurt the party. We have one neutral-evil and one neutral-good, and they've fought on 3 occasions,...
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The last pathfinder game I played, we were all members of a mercenary group and the GM had us roll up 3 characters a piece. The "missions" we were hired to do were usually done in teams of 3 since there were three of us, but the band itself was much larger, so if one of our characters died (or we simply wanted a change of pace) we could switch to another, or even make up and add characters mid-game.

Loot and Exp was gained among all characters equally, under the assumption the ones we wern't using at the time were off doing their own missions.

>>44242392
I make a new character.
The GM can deal with it.

>>44242392
>I was think of having a sliver age super hero game where in a player's each get a low level kid sidekick to take over in the event their man super hero dies.
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>After at least 3 sessions of playing say Fallout boy they can decided to either bring the old hero back or continue with the hopeful now developed replacement character.

Doing it right. I'd happily play in a game like this. You on Roll20?

>>44242336
Maybe, a few ruined buildings that lead the way to the place? Or a ruined road that's half overgrown so they lose it along the way?

>>44242336
Give them legends of great wealth, stories of adventurers going missing, maybe a drunk old man remembering his greatest regret.

This is really simple, actually. You just need to answer some basic questions to help you figure out where your tomb is hiding:

>Who built it, and why?
>Where is it relative to the player's starting location?
>How much is known about it?
>How much do the players start the game knowing?
>How obscure would information about it be?

If your players are starting completely dry and only learning "You...
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>>44241640
First of all, the party.

-The Good Guy (we'll call him GG) - a kind, beta dude that presented the other players to me. Likes surfing weird shit and memes but remains a good-hearted fellow.
Decided to play Odric of Hoberia, a human paladin of the goddess Azah, a poor orphan taken in by the Church-State of Hoberia and, not knowing any better, trained as a soldier of the holy order of the Hospitaliers. Despite not knowing, he was always the heart of the group he hanged out with, and so it became the same...
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>>44241662
-The TryHard (we'll call him TH) - a fit dude that plays lots of vidya, enjoys The Walking Dead and always tries too, too hard. Like, really too hard. Everytime someone said anything in or out of the game, he had to come up with a retort, a pun, anything to look cool. It was rarely funny, and even more rarely cool.

All he wanted was to make an expy of Geralt of Rivia, namely Garrett of Etorian, and he always struggled with all the rules not going the way he had imagined by playing vidya. I tried to arrange...
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>>44241709
-The Nerd Girl (we'll call her NG) - an actual nerd, not really charming or quirky like many attention whores I had at the gaming table. Actually it was quite the opposite, as she had trouble doing anything during the first sessions and whenever her character spoke, it sounded like he was reciting the grocery list. This problem eventually disappeared as her more emotional side kicked in.
Since she was a big fan of the Silmarillion and could actually remember every fucking name in it, she decided to make a male elven fighter named Aegnor, but after rolling a fuckton of good rolls in physical stats, she changed her mind and made him a silent, gruff, STRONK human, a woodcutter enlisted in a war between nearby counties and soon MIA.
She eventually leveled up as barbarian and ranger to get the right mix of brutality for what her character would eventually turn into.

-The Outsider (we'll call him OP2, since I'm obviously the faggot who opens threads, and he was, sort of, my good companion in this adventure) - this dude was a friend of mine, who had started playing rpgs only a year before, showing amazing natural skills in roleplaying, and, as we went ahead, a mind for powerplaying.
He was at first just a spectator and a counselor, but after some time it was clear that he was craving a place at the table with the others, and so I allowed him to have it... but not immediately. I had told him the ways I was going to shape the campaign and the plot hooks I had in mind, so first I let him be a half-NPC and, as we reached the end of the story, a full-fledged character.
If you are wondering which one of the characters in the picture he was, I'll tell you he wasn't there. I drew all illustrations of the campaign as we proceeded, and sometimes even before we got there, but he wasn't on the team yet, just an interference in their story. The goblin near the paladin and the elf in the background are DMPCs that I added by my choice and sometimes by theirs. We'll get there.

Parn was a fighter. Pretty blatant that. You could possibly multiclass him to Paladin later, but he does tell a goddess to go fuck herself

You use the system the writer of Lodoss used.

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Depends on the system, but I'd generally say "not well."

If we're looking at D&D, which is going to be Lodoss' closest equivalent, he's pretty much a straight fighter, is the thing. So if there's a "fighter" or "warrior" class, that's him. Sadly, fighters tend to suck quite badly in the most popular editions. You might do okay with 4e, though.

I'm not sure why you'd want to roll Parn, though. He's pretty unremarkable...
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to clarify, this is a thread meant as a resource for GM's to use as enemy/whatever art, it doesnt have to specifically be big beasties

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>>44240019
I want to run a game where everyone is a waitress in a Chinese Restaurant and you have to use all your skills to not fuck it up and make the restaurant a success.

Like, you could have different paths to get people to come in. You could use sex appeal and just hypnotits and flirty, you could be talky and just cute and friendly, you could do tricks. It'd be fun.

Challenges would be like a party, or not having the right ingredients, or too many people, or bloody fucking yelpers. You've either...
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I was going to help, but your picture offends me.

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>>44240075

Now hear me out... MAID. The system works wonderfully well for those sorts of challenges, and I'm presuming you aren't planning to take things too seriously anyway, which is kind of the point. (Also, it's D6's only, so that's something else)

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The cast consists of (left to right):
>Mayumi
A slut (whores do it for money, sluts do it for the love of the game) virgin who was highly educated on the occult. She was basically the foil for every other character.

>Akina
A turbo edgelord who dressed like a male delinquent. Almost murdered Mayumi "by accident." Secretly a yaoi artist.

>Yuudai
A big dude who tended to take offense...
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>>44239151
What the fuck, man.

>>44239157
Setting wise, the campaign took place in 2019 after the economy of Japan crashed. Y'know, something that could actually happen. The entire school is recorded and broadcast around the world to raise money through merch sales.

The first proper adventure we went on after doing introductions and the like was cheerleading. The baseball team needed cheerleaders and implied that we were the only club that was willing to do it (that wasn't mostly traps). We volunteered because Yuuri always wanted to be a...
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