So what makes more sense to you as a stat for melee accuracy: Strength or Dexterity/Agility?
>>43858239
Melee Accuracy (MACC) obviously.
Dec/agility to hit, with str augmenting damage.
>>43858239
Dex/Agi for accuracy, STR for damage, and maybe parry effectiveness
I'm looking to get into Magic. I had a small collection of lousy cards as a kid, but have recently been playing casual with a friend. I'm looking to get some cards of my own to play at the dinner table and see where it goes from there.
Are those duel decks any good? What can I expect to find in stores? Or am I better off picking some lots up off the internet?
Any suggestions for a noob?
Thanks!
What format are you looking to play? If you are planning on playing casual picking up the card lots might not be a bad idea. If standard, I'd recommend the Battle For Zendikar event deck. You can build a nice sacrifice deck out of that (without losing your life savings in order to pay for fetch lands). Modern will require a little research and a larger investment. Commander is essentially a sandbox and there are a lot of ways to get started in that.
Also, buying cards singles in store is generally a rip off, but it depends on your community. Make sure you compare the prices of the store to that of a site like tcgplayer. My gaming store charges about 40 percent more than the card is worth, so you have to be careful about that.
>>43855776
I was thinking Modern because I like the idea that my cards won't be phased out of the format. I really don't like the idea of paying to be competitive though.
Inexperienced GM here. I've played a few Mongoose Traveller games before, and it is by far my favorite system. I'm going to be running a small game for two friends, and to build motivation, I wanted to find some fellow TravAnons to discuss this glorious game with.
Tell me about your favorite Traveller stories, characters, and settings! Homebrew shit is welcome and encouraged.
I'm probably going to be basing our game in the fringes of the Third Imperium. I prefer gritty, near future sci-fi, so I don't generally like Tech Level 12 and up. But it seems strange that there could be such a huge tech level disparity between neighbor worlds, despite the near-universal presence of Imperial influence. How do such things come to pass, and how can I effectively model them in my game?
Posting psy phi
>>43854671
>How do such things come to pass
Lots of ways. Religious strictures, wars, disasters.
The big one is that that you can't manufacture stuff without the right infrastructure. Devices need parts need components need tools need alloys need chemicals, on down in a massive branching tree of dependencies. And all of that needs people who can handle each step.
Lack any of those and you can't make that particular thing, and probably a whole host of other things. If your population's small, or certain chemicals are rare on your planet, or your tech base hasn't been built up enough, or anything, then you'll be unable to build, nor likely repair that tech.
You can still import it from off world, but that's a big cost, and trying to rely on offworld imports for a specific tech worldwide will eat a huge amount of your economy, so it's best to use locally produced (lower tech) stuff for everyday use.
Let's have a Degenesis thread, 'cause some of you fuckers have to have the physical books at this point surely. How is everyone's campaigns going?
>>43853989
Wrong picture.
>>43854202
That's a doctor fucker choking out a Judge. How is that a wrong picture?
>>43854285
It's completely SFW.
Forty two men wander about the now empty evacuated city, they are stealing glances at your group occasionally, their weapons ready to draw. Their hostility seems to go beneath the notice of its intended target, Tslah pure gold eyes are focused on you as she basks in the glow of raw power joining your host has granted her. The giant lizard of course doesn’t let basking go unchallenged, and with no small amount of effort the lizard has discovered how to harness the mana that radiates off of you to bask.
The leader of the men, Osanas Lightbringer, the man that you guided back home with Ayla’s assistance from his centuries long journey speaks with your group directly. It is by his command and the confusion of Tslah clearly being a demon, yet not evil, that has prevented a fight from breaking out. Osanas himself is intrigued by the story behind you came to met Tslah and her conversion, the Law’s hard-line approach makes such things impossible. You get the impression that your returning of the holy books still has you on incredibly good terms with the Law despite your questionable company and actions.
Hestia interrupts your friendly banter to inform you that she has completed her construction in Djinnistan for now. Ayla’s imperial rule is not absolute, there are still many cities which have not yet accepted her rule, however the now fourteen that she does control are now fully modernized.
Completed Research
>Forced warp enchantment – The basis of the invitations and their magic require someone to willingly read and/or trigger the enchantment. Hestia has been able to bypass this restriction and create a new enchantment that forces those affected to teleport to wherever she desires. Since teleporters already all Hestia to do this the enchantment is largely a waste of power.
(1/2)
(2/2)
>Psionic jammer – These devices deployed by the administration’s AI before it rebelled are designed to induce a field that disrupts psionic energy thereby stopping psychic powers from functioning. Now that she is aware of how these devices operate Hestia can now alter the ‘frequency’ of her abilities to operate within the jamming field and her own jamming devices now cover the entire spectrum of ‘psionic frequencies’ so that others will be unable to replicate this feat. Some powers are unaffected by the jammers in particular those like Evangeline’s which appear to not utilize any energy externally.
Ongoing research
Neural control parasite
Detailed void studies
Dragonbane and protection from draconic power
Completed special projects
>Djinnistan modernization – With Hestia having fully implemented her technology into the cities Ayla controls there is no more work to be done until more territory is seized. The final stages of Ayla’s social reforms are being implemented slowly via the learning program. A new capital city has been constructed form the seat of power for Ayla’s empire, but there are rumors of a rival kingdom rising - some worry that it is supported by dark forces.
“Our patron has asked us here to offer our assistance for a short time,” Osanas tells you, “word has spread that the nature of hell is changing under your influence so I was asked to give you this.”
He presents a crisp and perfectly white envelope to you; the letter’s seal is the visage of a crocodile, the incredible detail makes it look not stamped on but rather created this way. You can feel Hestia’s interest in it as she closely inspects it with her sensors, she draws the conclusion that the letter itself is charged with the same deific power as the mysterious crocodile altar that appeared before.
>Open the letter
>Don’t open it now
>End the evacuation, return people to their homes
>Explore the altered city
>Talk with someone
> Ask Osanas about the Law orb
>Other
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It was just a brief mention but ignoring the dragon’s demand that you feed it will probably be a bad idea.
>New lizard ability unlocked
Mana basking: Rank 5
After joining your host the giant lizard can feel mana, the ever present warmth of magic all around us all can be tapped to enable basking even where there is no light. Such an insight into the nature of basking will truly go down in lizard history. This ability probably helps the lizard recover mana.
I forgot to mention Hestia’s changes for worship distribution, right?
Her Invocation ability is now maximized. Due to her being the first of your high host and first you’ve tried this on her stat cap increases to 50% of your own and it will be linked like that so further improving you own benefits her as well. She also gains 102 to all her stats for her core and body. She has also gained the unique ability to store worship it you share, among other things this allows her to act as an intermediary for the invocation ability so her pool can drain instead of yours. Well it is yours in the first place since she can’t gain any otherwise but it could still be useful?
>>43853784
>>Open the letter
The inclusion of various types of "animal people" (primarily cat, wolf, and rabbit types) alongside the traditional elves and dwarfs is a staple of Japanese fantasy settings, and one of the most noticeable ways in which they tend to differ from Western ones.
How can this be done in a setting like Mystra, the Forgotten Realms, PoL or an other generic Western fantasy setting without devolving it into absolute faggotry?
>How can this be done in a setting like Mystra, the Forgotten Realms, PoL or an other generic Western fantasy setting without devolving it into absolute faggotry?
It can't. Or rather, it can, but it's never worth the effort and will always be turned into faggotry by furfags anyways.
Can't be done.
Make the Catfolk into nekomimi, Kitsune into fox-girls, and introduce a race of wolf-people.
Congrats:
How do your spend your adventurers time during their downtime /tg/?
>>43852406
Testing wenches for prowess. General wenching turns into tournies of sorts. So there will be a regional that pits champions from the villages we've passed through then nationals, internationals, dimensionals, interdimensionals, etc. the finale will be me taking on the champ. Whoever wins calls all the shots in the relationship. He also crochets cause thats a manly hobby gods damnit.
>>43852406
Drinking. Whoring. Gambling. Boasting.
Alternatively,
Spending time with children and spouse, enjoying a fine family meal, visiting relatives, regaling tales of your adventures.
>>43852482
"How was your adventure honey."
"well this one town up north, hooo boy, those tavern waitresses got some HUGE knockers,-"
"THOMAS! The childs at the table!"
"Errr...right. Those waitresses have some HUGE breasts....?"
"Better."
hey /tg/, i need to do a bit of a thought experiment to help me get ready to run a game. i need you to pick three magic cards the rules for the cards you pick must be as follows:
>CMC 3 or less
>all 3 cards must be a single color
>all 3 cards must be the same color
>all 3 cards must be from the same block, they cannot be from a block then a return to block
>nothing from alpha, beta unlimited or revised
thanks for your help guys.
Just say you want us to build you a tiny leaders deck and be done with it.
WIld Mongrel
Basking Rootwalla
Nimble Mongoose
How could this possibly be of use to you?
>>43852185
well, some people asked me to put together a game. they wanted the cards to be used in the game. i've kinda got something together to make the cards interact with the existing system. this thread is more or less to force me to figure out cards beyond those being used by my players.
AVE SENATORES!
It is the 21st October, 1757 IVC.
Attached to this report is a purported "ship class design" sent in by a student from one of our Scholastica Terrae. Suffice to say that our new fleet does not look anything like this, though I will admit to kind of wanting to build one just for what I believe are commonly referred to by the plebians as "risones et excreta".
In light of the Senate's discussions in the previous thread, I have implemented a 50/50 per cent strategy regarding Turret Tracking and Missile Agility technologies. These should begin to bear fruit in the next year.
To bring us up to date:
In September, our Leading Scientist Spurius Pisentius Marcipor achieved a significant improvement in his throughput, increasing his potential maximum Laboratories to 25.
24 hours ago, our shipyards completed work on our new survey fleet. Three Decius class Gravitational Survey Vessels and three Scipio class Geological Survey Vessels have been completed. They have been named the Decius I, Decius II etc at present. As we speak, they are being lifted into orbit and are undergoing final spaceworthiness testing.
At an organisational level, each of these craft has been placed in a singular fleet of their own, under a single commander. This presents a specific issue. We do not currently have a doctrine regarding fleet command.
>>43851577
At present, we have an officer corps of 38. Of these, 27 are of the Centurion rank, 8 are Trierarchs, and we possess 2 Navarchs and a single Praefectus.
I can instruct the militarius to begin an internal search for properly-assigned applicants (a process known as "auto-assignment"). We should also give specific attention to how long we believe an officer's tour of duty should be; if we wish to ensure our officers receive proper rotation for training and rest purposes, we should set a tour of duty period now.
One other major decision remains. Our military command staff needs to be selected, and before this can be achieved, we need to appoint a Fleet Commander.
This must be a naval officer of at least Navarch rank, and at present this gives us three potential candidates:
Praefectus Publius Calpurnius Valgus - Fighter Combat 50%, Fighter Operations 10%, Communications 20%. (A hero of the Unification Wars, Publius is an expert fighter pilot and not much else.)
Navarch Manius Tremelius Cornutus - Political Reliability 10%, Terraforming 15% (The son of a noble working in the nascent terraforming sector.)
Navarch Gnaeus Lollius Balbilius - Political Reliability 10%, Fighter Combat 50% (A former colleague of Valgus, Balbilius is also an expert fighter pilot but a little better at public relations.)
Clearly none of these are ideal candidates, but they are the only ones available. A note is that we will not be able to place a naval staff officer in a role beneath one of lower rank - so we cannot expect Valgus to work under Cornutus.
(As an additional note, we also have the ability to forcibly retire any of these individuals if we wish.)
The choice is yours, Senators. I personally advise that we appoint an overall commander and then permit them to handle all other assignments.
>>43851579
>Praefectus Publius Calpurnius Valgus
Might as well go for the meritocratic choice.Also, jesus OP what timezone are you posting from?
>>43851579
>Praefectus Publius Calpurnius Valgus
as he has earned this rank he shall put it to good use.
let him set up the Navy, if he screws up we can fix it and send him too work in the Moonmines. Wich reminds me, we have to set up Mines on the moon, how long does our geo-surveyfleet need to get there?
and how long till the nearest grav-anaomally for our grav-surveyers to check?
Let us say that the Chtorr invaded Earth in an alternate timeline, how would they fare against somebody like Mr House from Fallout: New Vegas provided he has the Mark II upgrade drivers for his robots and defenses?
>>43850582
>Chtorr
The who now? Give us some more info here.
>>43850778
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Against_the_Chtorr
It's a superorganism I think it is
House always wins
The last one got archives >>43763421
>>43850338
And I start with the usual:
(list of all the books here: http://pastebin.com/AeSTqkmp )
Feel free to ask for anything.
All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet? In the mood for some late-night rare PDF speculative biology.
>>43850346
>http://pastebin.com/AeSTqkmp
can I get the dungeon dozen?
also does anyone have 2 hour dungeon crawl?
Kingdom Death: Monster Lantern Year 29 - Black Friday Buyers Remorse
>What is Kingdom Death: Monster?
Read the description here:
http://shop.kingdomdeath.com/products/kingdom-death-monster-preorder-special
>Tabletop Simulator Mod
http://kdmtts.tumblr.com/post/131199311266/kingdom-death-tts-mod
>Rules question thread on BGG
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1441104/faqs-poots-crew/page/1
>Mobile-friendly Survivor Sheet App
http://ivoilic.com/projects/character%20sheet/index.html
>Google Drive Settlement and Survivor Sheets
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16lPgAUgDyv5XaqOU9IdHgKqUA3GW8HzaRbRvkQAve90/edit?usp=sharing
>Latest rulebook scan
https://mega.nz/#!rZF2GISD!Ki5wDn7SWE_1IOxrd7B5HOXItJHFFlGmQ4nhV36Rods
https://mega.nz/#!7QUkQC6J!yO93ZUmm0kRynNh6f00EZd9UVcQkZecWTzJIQx5cTk4
How did everyone's Black Friday binge spending go? Post some loot and words of comfort for those who missed out. Or just gloat.
>>43849825
First for falling off the bottom of the world
the ride will never end
>>43849825
I fucked up the thread title guys. I'm off the team.
I want to run a bad game of D&D on roll20. How do I go about making the players as uncomfortable and butthurt as possible?
Note: I'll post a warning about the game in a game finder thread so I don't waste any fa/tg/uy's time.
Repeatedly curbstomp their characters in combat, only to have them rescued by your super special GMPC character before they die.
>>43848500
>How do I go about making the players as uncomfortable and butthurt as possible?
it looks like you have your answer already
>D&D
>>43848500
Make sure that voice chat is on. Make odd noises/neckbeard scratching sounds over the mic.
It's the little things that count.
>>43848555
We're not playing Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Derek. We've told you this before.
Now answer the damn question.
alternatives to the vanilla lich raising undead army to sack the kingdom
>wizard uses slime army to take over world
>Time Wizard uses a vorpal grindstone to vorpalize the planet's crust.
>Druid incites all the livestock, pets and other domestic animals in the kingdom to turn on their owners and reclaim their freedom.
>>43847345
>Bard raises an army of Amazon musclebabes to snu snu the world to death
Malifaux thread?
Malifaux thread.
(Crickets)
Anyone else spend way too much on the black friday stuff?
>>43846839
I'm getting the alt. Dr. McM, so yes.
Kaeris Crew box, Brotherhood of the Rat, a few pre-releases, and a lot of limited stuff. I'm hoping the promo Performer will make a pretty good Ice Dancer.
