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>>43612301
Sure why not.
>>43612488
>dat horse
I'm not sure I'm doing this right.
ITT: Self-drawn character portraits.
You've all done it at least once, so show your work and comment on the character if you'd like.
Just to be clear, this is not a drawthread. Just a showcase of your own artwork depicting characters you've played.
My first character was a demon hunter who targeted succubi and inccubi to avenge his father who was killed by one. He ended up getting killed by a lich who had a harem of succubi that my character was unknowingly hunting down one by one.
Wysteria was a halfling Druid Geomancer that eventually became more plant-matter than flesh. Her weapon of choice was a blowgun tipped with various poisons she brewed using plants in her grove. She eventually retired when her body became so plant-like that she took root in her own grove and became one with it.
Here's a goblin gladiator for old DoD.
I never used it but I intended this to be the final boss of a campaign I was running.
What's your character's backstory?
Why are they a murderhobo, or whatever it is they are? How'd they pick their career, do they have any specific reason to want to violently murder the BBEG?Storytime encouraged, but not required
>>43612292
Soldier battling in the mines of Ypres during WW1. Found an Abyssal Temple period deep underground, complete with warped cultists praying to a mind-blasting abomination. Was forcibly awoken by the sight and discovered that most major mortal wars were engineered by supernatural powers. Since then went on a quest to stop said influence.
Not going so well.
she was bought from her mother at a very young age by aztechnology and used for experimental gene therapy, mutagenics, and 'ware testing. she survived it, so they jammed a persona fix chip in her head and started using her as an assassin, most typically for wiping out runner teams that had reneged on a deal or played false.
Then on the way back from her last deployment she mustered up all her willpower and slammed her head against the wall of the extraction helicopter as hard as her augmented muscles would allow. It was an attempted suicide, but she only managed...
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Tiefling that Grew up in slums and turned to crime to survive.
Eventually managed to hire a demon specialist to help him track down the guy who made his bloodline like that, she worked cheap and yadda yadda sappy love story.
Eventually manage to figure out how to contact who they think is the fiend who's responsible for it and contact him.They ended up contacting basically the fiend version of Trazyn the Infiniteand he offered to make him a warlock because he needs an errand boy.
Well, he and his GF get captured by rival criminals, she dies,...
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Do you use a voice different from your normal voice when speaking as your character? Does your DM do different voices? Do you think it's important at the table?
I only do voices when I'm the dm, typically. It's too much work to keep a consistent accent or different voice as a player. I will however, alter my cadence as a player, talking how a goblin or a haughty noblewoman might speak.
And I don't even try doing a womanly voice. I simply can't do it and it embarrasses me terribly.
sometimes I do, if I can actually get into the headspace of a character. I was in a game that felt very video gamey and railroady at times and I just couldn't feel the character of my characters. on the other hand, in a deadlands game I played a black hat cowboy who called every party member by some derivitave nickname, I had a slight drawl and gruff tone every time I spoke in character and can't remember any of the other PC's actual names to this day, though I know what I called all of them.
No, that's silly and shows you have mental problems.
How do I play a schizophrenic Malkavian correctly?
I'm both fascinated and terrified by the concept of schizophrenia, but I have no real idea of what its victims actually go through. Other Malk players in the game I'm attending aren't helpful; they're almost entirely MPD Malks or women playing creepy children in grown up bodies.
>How do I play a ... Malkavian correctly?
You don't.
>I have no real idea of what its victims actually go through.
I can tell you that having one for a relative is a big old fucking pain. Always thinks people are out to get her, convinced that I'm stealing from her, even simple shit like "take your goddamn medication so you can be sane to go outside" is a chore because she's convinced it makes her hair fall out.
RTFM
http://www.guilford.com/books/Clinical-Handbook-of-Psychological-Disorders/David-Barlow/9781462513260/reviews
>>43611997
>How do I play a schizophrenic Malkavian correctly?
Recognize that the appropriate question to ask is not "how do I play a schizophrenic Malkavian believably," it is "how do I play a schizophrenic Malkavian in an entertaining way at the table."
For your latest character, what is their biggest flaw/shortcoming?
My character's is that he is a massive racist towards monstrous races and is somewhat intolerant of anything that isn't a human, dwarf, or elf.
>>43611704
>Fighter
His paranoia, a trait he shares with his brother.
>Bard
She's a bit too materialistic/shallow for her own good.
>>43611704
I don't really think racism against monstrous races is that much of a shortcoming in a setting where "monstrous race" often means "murderous rapist". If your games are generally lighter in tone it might be, but you still get money and experience for killing them and fir the most part they don't form or fit into large societies, so dealing with them rarely needs to be peaceful.
>Tiefling Magus
He's obsessed with becoming more powerful but doesn't realize his demonic sword is trying to possess him.
Thankfully the demon tapped within said sword is kind of an idiot.
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The bestial figure risen from the gaping hole in the ground tries to stretch its wings but finds that it's unable, some sort of invisible barrier keeps it contained within the confines of the summoning circle. It hisses, flame licking out from between its jagged teeth, and whips its head around to face the priest who summoned it.
The other...
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The demon, or whatever it is, has stopped thrashing now. It simply sits within its cage, every muscle in its body tensed. You get the sense it's figured out what's happening. The priest stabs the dagger into the edge of the summoning circle, breaking it, and the demon launches itself towards one of the women, the one at the apex of the semicircle. He grabs her by the shoulders, but as he opens his mouth wide something happens.
The crown on her head starts to glow, the tendrils of smoke drifting off its surface wrapping around the demon and constricting it tightly....
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After several minutes the woman stops twitching, and one of the other women remove her crown. On her forehead sits a burning red symbol identical to the one you saw on the creature's chest, though much smaller. You're not sure if the symbol is actually there or if you're able to see it due to your extrasensory capabilities.
The priest, for his part, seems satisfied. He gestures, and the gaggle of women lift up their fallen cohort, carrying her off towards the church.
>Demon summoning cultist with magical crowns? No thanks....
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>Demon summoning cultist with magical crowns? No thanks. Best to step back to your car and drive home to fuck your wife.
First for spoogies.
I have a GF. She likes all stuff fantasy and gothic and stuff, but is untouched by gaming, either tabletop or vidya.
So, I want to draw my GF into the sweet world of tabletop gaming, so when she sooner or later sees my miniature collection she's not appaled but goes "Oh, awesome!" and also so she's interested in my gaming, not getting pissed at me for not paying attention to her.
What should I start with? I was thinking some RPG, maybe a dungeon crawl, so she can get used to some minis... It's gotta be something she can do solo, preferably - she wouldn't be interested in joining a bunch of geeks at first - but it's gotta be engaging.
Wargames, even skirmish, are a no-no, since such a bunch of minis will surely scare her off.
Help me, /tg/!
>>43611494
A goth chick?
Run WoD for her. Maybe a solo game of Vampire. "Personal horror" works well for solo games.
I wouldn't get so worked up about it. She'll either like it or won't, and there's not too much you can do to convince her otherwise. But the good news is that you don't need her to be into the same shit as you. She can still be an awesome GF with her own independent hobbies separate from you.
>>43611534
not really goth, just enjoys gothic stuff from time to time.
I'm afraid to start with storytelling games. She might get too interested in them and look down at dice throwing and mini hordes.
>>43611539
I just want to make a good first impression. Dispel stereotypes, if she has them.
And yes, while I don't need her to be into it, I'm fairly sure she'd like it if I properly introduce her to gaming, and it'll be awesome.
Fun cards edition
RESOURCES
http://www.mtgcommander.net
>Official Site: Contains deck building rules and the current ban list.
http://www.tappedout.net
>Deck List Site: You can search for decks that other people have made. Authors often have comments that explain their deck’s strategy and card choices.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh
>Another resource for commander discussion; they have an entire forum dedicated to discussing decks....
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>>43611441
First for Perplexing Chimera
>>43611466
you could atleast post a picture
>Derevi player plays Prophet of Kruphix and leaves mana up for two counterspells
>Cycle Decree of Annihilation at the end of his turn
>He tries to counterspell it
>Scoops as soon as I explain he can only do that with Stifle/Trickbind, calls me a tremendous faggot for using MLD
>Humanity's AIs are the only "True AI" to never rebel against their creators.
Can you come up with a valid reason for this? Or does is it just automatic wankery?
![300px-Waypoint-Mendicant-Bias-Rampant[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/V2hlFOR.jpg "300px-Waypoint-Mendicant-Bias-Rampant[1].jpg")
>>43611395
What if you designed an AI to rebel against its creators?
It's because God doesn't exist, so we can't rebel against him.
![1221854432790[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Sotb06v.jpg "1221854432790[1].jpg")
Humanity was willing to merge with their creations and transcend their weak flesh. AI and mankind's mind are one and the same.
>The senses are not equally represented in traditional gaming. Most games involve sight, tactile feedback, and auditory perception, but few games involve tasting or smelling.
How do we fix it?
>>43611354
>Thinking there are only five senses.
Fukken plebs.
Does anybody have that sceencap how true dedicated fan plays Song of Saya?
>>43611387
Yeah psions should be even more broken.
Ave Dominus Nox.
Iron Within, Iron Without
>>43610833
>>43610871
ITT: Alpha Legion fuck ups.
>>43610871
thats the Iron Warriors battlecry
Post pics of your collections!
Also, I am considering getting a booster box of BFZ but am hesitant to. I feel like my money would be better invested in the next expansion.
So I might buy a fat pack of BFZ and booster box of the next. What say you /tg/?
Dont buy BFZ unless you're drafting it. It's garbage outside of Limited. I split a box with a friend and man do I regret it
From Top Left to Right:
1 4th Edition Necropotence
1 Eidolon of the Great Revel (foil)
4 Goblin Guide
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Unopened box of FTV: Annihilation
1 Cryptic Command (foil)
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
1 Xenagos, the Reveler
1 Future Sight Daybreak Coronet
1 Promo Suspension Field
1 Promo Dictate of Kruphix
1 Promo Barbarian Ring
1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
1 Kruphix, God of Horizons
1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
1 Keranos, God of Stormsjust important stuff here
fuck, i'm too lazy to compile all this shit into one pic.
What y'all think of Axis & Allies?
Any good stories?
bump
>>43610831
Allies almost always seem to win when I play.
US player in my grouop (he trades with whoever is playing US specifically so he can be America, and if you don't trade places with him he moves around US pieces anyway) is almost always a dumbass and invades Spain and Turkey first chance he gets, causing all neutral nations to declare war on him, and London usually falls... yet Russia is so fucking overpowered Allies win anyway.
I got Australia (ANZACS) three times in a row last times we played and...
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>>43610831
I one-shotted my friends the first time I played Germany without having any units on England. I suicided my subs to attack England's homefleet, beat them and rolled my tanks into battle. I then built all my reinforcements on England. The US tried to dig me out but it turns out even when you don't have any units on a land it is still yours. My friends refused to talk to me for a good fifteen minutes.
http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/avowed-racist-h-p-lovecraft-no-longer-representing-world-fantasy-award
I honestly have no idea how to feel about this.
>>43610428
On one hand, lots of people who should be acknowledged were racists, like the founding fathers.
On the other hand. It's just an award nobody cares about you fucking sperg.
Heh. The separation of the author and his works is not a new thing. Also, that statue was fucking ugly, holy shit.
"Award no one has heard of changes design that's never seen."
