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"But why GURPS?"

1) The splatbooks/worldbooks are universally written by people who know what they're talking about. The Fantasy book is written by archaeologists and historians, the Space book is written by astrophysicists, the Guns book is written by gun experts, etc. The factual mistakes are few and far between, and almost always acknowledged later. They give great advice on how to make believable worlds, how FTL affects society, how magic changes warfare, how real supernatural elements change secret societies... or how to ignore all realism and make whatever setting you want in a way that players can't take advantage of. They're great reads, even if you don't use the system.

2) GURPS has rules to handle anything. You don't need to use them all (why bother with rules for asphyxiating in a vacuum in a game about biker gangs?) but they're there. So if a game doesn't go where you expect, and your party of adventurers buy a wagon and start managing a merchant caravan company, there are books to support that style of play in a systemic way, integrated with the core rules in a way that makes sense. This also makes it great for crazy blends of game. Dungeonpunk with automatic firearms? Yes.

3) GURPS by default uses "heroic realism". This is when the odds on the heroes' sides but reality doesn't bend for them. Two bullets will knock a human unconscious (but not immediately kill him - this is fairly realistic) but hitting a moving target more than 100m away in a firefight is hard as hell. It suits games that go for a realistic or gritty feel and gives a break from the slightly cartoony damage sponges in games like D&D but can be customised with optional rules to change the feel from "Fuck You, There Are No Heroes and the World is Shit" right up to "The Heroes are Good and Always Triumph Over Evil". Incidentally, what makes it heroic realism also makes it the best game on the market to play a game about Operators Operating Operationally.

>>43614359
>"move and attack" penalty of -4 or max of 9
Actually, it's not "or", it's "and". Move and Attack cannot be higher than 9

GURPS 4th edition Books Alternative Link
https://mega.nz/#F!RcJUHApY!uVGhU1FAZaWQAURsfrOgyQ

A guy in the other thread said that he needed 14 pak 40 for his sturmkompanie... is that possible? I thought the maximum possible were 8 or i am a retard?

And what is the best list for a pak 40 spam

>>43614364
Gentlemen... I need someone to teach me how to scan...

>>43616001
Put document in scanner, press scan

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Runner Roulette:
Last numbers of your post ID, or a D100

01,02: Cerebral Imaging
03,04: Custom Biotics
05,06: Cybernetics Division
07: Engineering the Future
08,09: Stronger Together
10,11: NEXT Design
12,13: The Foundry
14,15: Chronos Protocol
16,17: Harmony Medtech
18,19: Industrial Genomics
20, 21: Biotech
22: Personal Evolution
23: Replicating Perfection
24,25: Nisei Division
26,27: Tennin Institute
28: Haarpsichord Studios
29,30: Making News
31,32: The World is Yours
33: Near-Earth Hub
34,35: New Angeles Sol
36,37: Spark Agency
38,39: SYNC
40,41: Argus Security
42: Blue Sun
43,44: Gagarin Deep Space
45,46: GRNDL
47,48: Titan Transnational
49,50: Because We Built It
51,52: Building a Better World
53,54: Edward Kim
55,56: MaxX
57: Noise
58,59: Quetzal
60,61: Reina Roja
62: Valencia
63,64: Whizzard
65: Andromeda
66,67: Geist
68,69: Gabe
70,71: Stirling
72,73: Tenma
74,75: Fisk
76: Leela
77,78: Silhouette
79,80: CT
81,82: Exile
83,84: Hayley
85: Kate
86,87: Nasir
88,89: Kit
90,91: Professor
92,93: Apex
94,95: Adam
96,97: Sunny
98: a corp deck built around a card you've never used before
99: a runner deck built around a card you've never used before
00: draft deck

>>43608928
Will Andromeda once again be the only runner ID after this card is out?

>>43608957
Rollan

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Can't be bothered to make an english version right now, but here's the current charsheet (although the Weaponry section at the top left is gonna change in the near future)

The old HUD had to go in order to leave space for the current health system chart thingie.

I'm almost done with most things! I should have a working build 3 in a week or two to share and possibly make a quick roll20 test.

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Progressing with fluffy stuff and writing up a weapon table

Pic is some Matrazani hardsuit types

I've been getting desperate for feedback on a Final Fantasy dark knight fighter archetype for D&D 5e. The GITP forums were fucking useless.

http://pastebin.com/VMRmBbgt

>>43589170
T-that's just like, your opinion, man.

If you're putting a game together, certain elements need to be present in one form or another- like Adam, Lillith, etc.

What are some less obvious things people should keep in mind when putting a game together, especially if you're not just putting it in Japan?

>>43589170
>Production
>not Test
wew lad

Filling the table with terrain only makes the game worse

>>43582683

different != worse

it makes higher points harder though

>>43582683
Pretty much. If you want terrain density play infinity.

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>Wargaming Compendium
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cghxf3475qy46aq/Wargaming+Compendium.pdf
>Saga
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/alj31go19tmpm/SAGA
>Black Powder
http://www.mediafire.com/download/o5x6blwoczojmfr/Black+Powder.pdf
>Bolt Action
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/n7jmdnlv1n0ju/Bolt_Action
>Hail Caesar
https://mega.nz/#F!s9xTTDpQ!CasEjRETeqZsJ5LOzYrJdg
>Warhammer Ancient battles 2.0
http://www.mediafire.com/download/uttov32riixm9b0/Warhammer+Ancient+Battles+2E.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ta7aj1erh7sap1t/Warhammer+Ancient+Battles+-+Armies+of+Antiquity+v2.pdf
>Warmaster Ancients
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cifld8bl3uy2i5g/Warmaster+Ancients.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3emyvka11bnna1b/Warmaster+Ancient+Armies.pdf
>Advanced Squad Leader
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d9x0dbxrpjg48/Advanced_Squad_Leader
>Impetus
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/28i9gevqws518/Impetus
>Ronin
http://www.mediafire.com/download/m8xke04pc3hne2k/Ronin.pdf
>Battleground WWII
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cb83cg7ays4l1/Battleground_WWII
>By Fire And Sword
https://mega.co.nz/#!jxgCWTYD!FCp52DAqIUc-EM-TsRsWv7fB92nJ3kkzKsNcD_urI5Q
>Modelling & painting guides
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7b5027l7oaz05/Modelling_%26_Painting_Guides
>Twilight 2000/2013 RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!C9sQhbwb!NVnD4jvUn5inOrPJIAkBhA
>Phoenix Command RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!b5tgXRwa!mzelRNrKPjiT8gP7VrS-Jw

Desired scans :
Black Powder supplements
Rank and File supplements
Harpoon 3 & 4 supplements
Hail Caesar! Late Antiquity to Early Medieval Army List
Force on Force supplements
Hind Commander
At Close Quarters
War and Conquest
Germany Strikes!

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11th of November in military history:

1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army.
1778 – Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 1100hrs.
1918 – Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
1919 – The Centralia Massacre results in the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.
1919 – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1940 – The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of Vichy France.
1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

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It is 97 years since hostilities in the First World War ended with the Armistice. It went into effect at 11 a.m. Paris time on 11 November 1918 ("the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"), and marked a victory for the Allies and a complete defeat for Germany, although not formally a surrender. The Germans were responding to the policies proposed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Points of January 1918. The actual terms, largely written by French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, included the cessation of hostilities, the withdrawal of German troops to behind their own borders, the preservation of infrastructure, the exchange of prisoners, a promise of reparations, the disposition of German warships and submarines, and conditions for prolonging or terminating the armistice. Although the armistice ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty, the Treaty of Versailles.

Although the information about the imminent ceasefire had spread among the forces at the front in the hours before, fighting in many sections of the front continued right until the appointed hour. At 11 am there was some spontaneous fraternization between the two sides. But in general, reactions were muted. A British corporal reported: "...the Germans came from their trenches, bowed to us and then went away. That was it. There was nothing with which we could celebrate, except cookies." On the Allied side, euphoria and exultation were rare. There was some cheering and applause, but the dominant feeling was silence and emptiness after 52 exhausting months of war.

I've discovered it recently and after talking to my friends we are going to start a campaign

We are only 4 people, and I'll be the GM, but because character creation is so funny I made a GMPC as well (seen enough threads to know what NOT to do with GMPCs) so far we have

Warforged promethean big shooter follower of the omnisiah that looks like Eva-01

Dullahan symbiotic knight follower of Sigmar and obsessed with padding chaos

Arachne spellshooter nephilim with magical prowess

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>>43574430

>playing lel: the game
>talking about lel: the game

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>>43574454
>implying playing "lel the game" isn't funny as shit

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You feel your strength leaving your body. "...I miss them."

Karas doesn't reply, he just nods.

"...We'll find them. I promise. We'll take back our home."

His expression softens. He sits down on the bed's edge nest to you and hugs you stiffly. "...I just hope they're alright." He whispers. "...I feel guilty, being here, while they..."

There's really no possible answer you could give him right now. You try to cheer yourself up.

By standing back up and going back to the mirror to make sure you-

"Maka!"

"What?" You ask back innocently.

You check your internal clock once more, probably the millionth time today.

Ten more minutes to your planned appearance, according to Amata's schedule.

You briefly wonder if letting a Chosen of Venus handle the planning for a wedding was the best or the worst idea ever.

>Keep checking that mirror. Make sure EVERYTHING IS PERFECT.
>Try to calm down. Breathe. Focus.
>Distract yourself. Talk with Karas. (about?)
>Other?

>>43686352
>>Keep checking that mirror. Make sure EVERYTHING IS PERFECT.
Congrats on the 00

>>43686350
>Exalted Quest (Session 100)
Nice get

>>43686352
>Try to calm down. Breathe. Focus.

>>43657475
Keeping your arms crossed and eyes closed, it's not too difficult with a little help from your 'gift' to pick up the words that were being said in the transport, little snippets of things at least. The kids seemed to be scared, muttering mostly among themselves, a few trying to hold back tears, likely from being dragged away from their parents. The teenagers, in a way that honestly you should have expected, are all focused on the more flasy parts of being a Jedi. Excited whispers of lightsabers and the glory that could come from fighting against the Sith, all eager to get a piece of the action.

The Zabrak was keeping quiet, seemed like he was actually asleep based off his breathing patterns, or he was even better at hiding that sort of thing than you were.

One person however, is far more composed than even the sleeping Zabrak is. The human woman sitting right across from you, the only real Jedi on the ship and the one that was tasked with guarding it and the future students that were on their way to the academy, which included you. It seemed like the redhead was busying herself with a holopad, there was always more news coming in over the net about the 'Cold War' as people liked to call it.

>Talk to the kids (About what?)
>Talk to the teenagers (About what?)
>Wake up the Zabrak, big 'kids' gotta stick together
>Speak to the Jedi (About what?)
>Stay Silent
>Write in

>>43657483

>Stay silent

Let's just try to stay centered and calm.

>>43657483
>Speak to the Jedi (About what?)
Ask what we should expect from the Academy.

>Is it possible to...

Yes.

Yes, just don't play with people who cannot control themselves. But if your definition of magic realm stretches to include people transforming into a giant lizardman and wrecking stuff because it's "furry" then you'll have a slightly harder time.

>>43656604

Have their mom play the game with them. Nobody's getting into magical realm shit in front of their mom.

>>43655921
>I run a local ERP
Go back to /jp/ you faggot weeb. No one wants your magical realm shit here.

>>43655921
Look up "figging" if you are into using fruits for erotica.

sage otherwise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdHZ5hp45Fc

Well, I fucked up, but whatever, I'll flip it around.

Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony, but everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished. The world slowly smoldered as the Air Nomads were eradicated by the Fire Nation, leaving nothing but empty homes in their wake. The Fire Nation has already started a full-scale campaign on the Southern Water Tribe, beginning the cycle of death anew.

Fifty years this war has raged, scorching the forests and destroying lives. Many have died and all hope of the Avatar's return has been extinguished, but life goes on. The walls of Ba Sing Se, Omashu, and the Northern Water Tribe have held the Fire Nation at bay, seemingly nothing can penetrate them. As always, there is also solace in wandering.

But this isn't a story about the Avatar, or a king, or even a hero, this is the story of Kuo, a wandering Firebender.

>Archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Hundred+Year+War+Quest

>Thread 2 because 4chan broke: http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/42620238

>Character sheet: http://pastebin.com/dvvubPQK

>The Cast so far: http://pastebin.com/VTf6evPR

>>43655882
>Meditate

>>43655157
Abby goes "Dude, where's my eye of terror?" for two seconds then everything it back to normal?

Everyone celebrates for 2 minutes

>>43655157
Whatever Eldar remain in the eye, if there are any, nope the fuck out of there as fast as possible.

>>43654328
Set up and learn alchemy. I'm basically crippled, so no adventuring for me, I'll also have a regular income and some knowledge of magic/drugs. Why would I want to go back to working at Wal-Mart?

>>43654328

>Ravenloft

>One-eyed, chunky monkey, computer jockey with an interest in cooking, bookbinding, and woodworking.

Settle in to some small town, join an Ezrite church. Establish myself in one of the trades I actually have skill in and marry the Baker's daughter. I'd grow a little garden with garlic as the main crop, and wait for the inevitable day when I get mauled horrible by a werebeast, or have my family and all I hold dear destroyed by the Legions of the Night, and I end up a footnote in some 5e adventure hook.

>>43654411

Saving up the money to petition for a few healing spells would mean I get better healthcare than I do in this world, so at least there's that.