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>GW coming back to Singapore
>Opening 3 other stores at the same time
Damn, things are looking up. That and the WD announcement, it's been a good week for the hobby.
What WD announcement?
>>47801815
Huh didint know about the VA short pump one at all. They had one shutter it's doors in stony point a few years ago. Look forward to seeing how this one does.
Hey /tg/
I'm making a new character and I need some help
I am basically making a rogue that specializes in speech/bluff checks in case they are caught sneaking
I know that there is a specific name for the class but for the life of me I can't remember/find it
Help would be much appreciated
>>47800530
Yeah, we're gonna need to know what system you're using before we can suggest anything at all. If I start giving you help with D&D and you're looking for help with GURPS we're all gonna have a bad time.
>>47800551
it's for d&d
>>47800557
Which edition?
In Preparation for an upcoming campaign i am currently rereading the Dune Books. Right now i am about halfway through the third (Children of Dune) and a question came up that, as far as i can remember, doesnt get adressed in the books:
in the chapter where Leto starts his transformation it says
> Leto groped on the sand with his right hand until his fingers encountered
the leathery skin of a sandtrout. It was the large one he had expected. The
creature didn't try to evade him, but moved eagerly onto his flesh. He explored
its...
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Probably not after Leto's death unless some part of him consented to it. Keep in mind that post God Emperor sandworms all carry a pearl of his awareness with them.
>>47800429
Who is to say that it wouldn't drive them mad?
Or that they'd be able to control their body without the abilities of the kwisatz haderach.
I seem to recall Leto getting force fed a truly preposterous quantity of spice, or the waters of life, or whatever it was not long before his transformation started. Quantities that no one short of a kwitsach haderach could have any hope of surviving. This was probably necessary for it to work like it did.
His twin sister might have been able to copy it, possibly Alia, but neither did. Alia of course didn't stick around for long to ponder what had happened, and his sister probably had no desire to follow Leto's path.
This is how I /lit/ edition.
This is how I paladin.
That ain't paladinin'
That's being a that guy
>>47800174
Funny, THIS is how I paladin
>>47800174
What is this, a book for ants?
Have you ever had a genderbender hero or villain in an RPG, either as a serious expression of someone's gender identity or as a "lol u have bewbs now" lark? How did it turn out? It's one of those horror stories /tg/ keeps telling but from what I can tell mostly it's just stuff people make up.
>>47799037
Unfortunately since I'm trans gender myself, it'd look like pandering or self-inserting so I feel not allowed.
>>47799037
>Genderbender
There is no logical reason to do that other than satisfying your magical realm needs.
>>47799037
No but that's apparently my characters kink
What would you choose /tg/? The ability to see the future or superior intellect?
>>47798937
Superior Intellect. You may know the future, but you need to be smart now. Plus, knowing the future does not help if you're too dumb to make good use of it, plus being smart enough I'd be able to get pretty good extrapolations/weighted guesses in some cases.
>>47798937
Is my ability to see the future something I can activate and ignore at will? I don't want to know everything that's going to happen to me.
How superior an intellect are we talking about?
>>47798937
i wanna be enlightened by my surperior intelligence
I'm trying to roleplay being a red blooded American man circa 1978 - what magazines and literature am I reading?
My hobbies are UDTs, wetworking, intelligence analysis, secret projects, cars, fast planes with cameras, guns, and explosions. I love to win and despise incompetence. I love the idea of the outdoors, premarital sex, and I go to work with a shirt and tie.
I could use a few ideas for drinks I'd be into. I'm tired of coming home after work each day to the same fucking gin and tonic I've had since I was 13.
>>47798923
Cape Coder
>>47798719
Omni, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, National Geographic (got how that magazine has fallen), and Esquire. You occasionally read Playboy, but for the hot stuff you have a stash of Hustler.
At least, that's what my dad had.
As a semi-new player I'm having issues. I want to rp better and just be a more involved player in general but I am just terrible with words. It's even worse when the people I play with are really experienced. How did you deal with your irl low Charisma /tg/?
>>47798413
Are you with a group of friends or are they acquaintances/strangers?
>>47798432
strangers
>>47798413
Read more books and expand your vocabulary. Also, drink alcohol to chill out.
https://youtu.be/k7JNTfrK3Yk
>>47798405
I still think it would have been better off with point buy armies.
>>47798405
>Inb4 It's shit my nostalgic fueled fallacies about DoW 1 have never been wrong
I for once will wait more info beyond this demo, perhaps they'll make it less colourful when released but it's not a deal breaker, it could get a lot better at release.
>>47798405
not grimdark enough.
i will wait 10 years until all the faction DLCs are out and in steam sale.
>GM/PLAYER
>SYSTEMS
>AVAILABILITY/TIME ZONE
>CONTACT INFO
>MISC
>GM/PLAYER
Player
>SYSTEMS
Mouseguard
>AVAILABILITY/TIME ZONE
EST
>CONTACT INFO
[email protected]
>MISC
Text prefered, could do voice as well, though
save
GM
D&D 3.5 with heavy thumb on scale (Yes, I have tried not playing D&D)
GMT+1 (Yurop)
"erikmesoy" on irc.nightstar.net or steam
Pitch: The Titanomachy is over a few years past, the high fantasy and mad science civilizations having all burned each other down. There are now no necromancers looting your graves, no druids sacrificing your children, no firebrand preachers compelling you to worship new gods, no cybernetics eating your soul. It is an age of reconstruction, where men colonize, rediscover and pacify a world littered with...
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>A civilization has found a way to make completely organic AI/computers through cloning and programming brains.
What advantages or disadvantages could this bring to a modern society?
Instantaneous betrayal.
>>47797948
A steady supply of soldiers.
A skilled work force, that requires no wages.
Advantages would be clear, but the disadvantages would be that it would marginalize your existing population, and most likely lead to a revolt. Good thing you you have a ready supply of loyal subjects to put down said revolt.
>>47797948
You've basically got the AdMech right there.
I was thinking of a setting consisting entirely in a city. But this is not just any city, it's a massive continent spanning city. A city with so much variety, that no matter where you go, its always new. Countless districts, each governed by their own leaders and each with their own varied cultures, traditions, etc.
Magic makes keeping it all together possible, mainly communication and travel, but even then the bureaucracy is thick.
Below ground is as much of a city as there is above. Endless sewers and waterways very few people have completely mapped or archived.
So...
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>>47797931
>crime district. think a huge state size penal area walled off and protected by a magic bubble where all the ne'er do'wells (and some that people just want gone) go to die
>agriculture district. even with this city being the worldwide trade center, some of the population needs sustenance. This may be the biggest district, but least populated. Unless you count the animals. Also each neighboring district has a long standing request of the mages to put...
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>>47798040
So how do you make a BBEG fighter a threat to PC's?
Normal Mode: Not "Because he controls some really powerful monsters"
Hard Mode: Not "Because he commands some wizards"
Nightmare Mode: Not "Because he has a stupidly powerful magical item"
Scale. Run it as a low level campaign but make him ludicrously high level. In a world of CR 1/2 commoners and CR 3 King's Guard a CR 12 bad guy is downright cinematic.
You make him a Warblade.
>>47797930
You could try not playing 3rd Ed.
That helps quite a bit.
I'm not being sarcastic or anything, I actually don't know if you are aware of the differences or not between earlier and newer editions and 3.0 so I offered a suggestion.
If not going 3.0 is not an option then my apologies.
Hey /tg/,
I need some creative people to help me make spells for the blood mage class I've been working on. It's mostly complete, it just needs to be looked over and edited, numbers most likely need to be changed, and the spells that are referenced in the pdf are placeholder.
>>47797198
Didn't they already publish something Blood Magic? In March?
This: http://www.mediafire.com/download/xvonypd69f3poxb/%285E%29_Blood_Magic_Arcane_Supplement.pdf
>>47798028
I felt as if the mechanics were shallow, which some people might enjoy over something overdone like the way I've built it. For me though, I wanted something more fleshed out.
>>47798289
You may want to drop in the game design general and ask there. The folk in there might have ideas about it.
I'll get back to you with my thoughts for spells.
Hey /tg/, I'm trying to find a game that works for my group. Specifically, we want to find a game that's 1 player controlling multiple units vs multiple players controlling single (or very few) units, that can be upgraded between multiple sessions. Basically, your typical RPG. However we want something where the ‘GM’ can go balls to the wall aggressive and play to win, without ruining the game for everyone.
We’ve played Descent, but that lacks the flexibility/character creation we wanted. Likewise for Super Dungeon Explore. RPGs on the other hand are TOO...
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>>47797136
You are everything that's wrong with the hobby. RPGs are not meant to have a winner. Just go play a video game.
>>47797932
tbf - it looks like what they want is an asynchronous board game with an RPG flavor. That's fair enough. He's just already said that the games I would have recommended aren't what he wanted.
Did you go to boardgamegeek.com and look at what people recommend that are like Descent/Super Dungeon Explore? (Or whatever games came closest to what you're looking for.) That might put you on track more easily.
>>47797932
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