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Okay - I'll admit I've been playing pathfinder, and say what you will about its bullshitness, its approachable because of the breadth of it's playerbase.
How does one effectively perhaps subtly characterize their character beyond their combat prowess?
My character is very "me" which is both a fault of me, and the system's lack of actual character depth. Or should I accept that the combat bogs things down too much for actual role playing? Even with the role playing hooks given by the GM, I find it hard to get a good grasp of "how...
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>>47621647
Would animal cruelty laws apply to humans in a campaign setting as they (humans) are animals, it seems like it would be playable with regard to regions.
>>47621708
Whats "it"? I'm a little confused.
>>47621647Have you tried not playing D&D.
What's the best star wars rpg system/newbie friendly/rules light?
Basically having to homebrew the shit out of some stuff. Friends love sw imperial alliance but want "more"
What system will let me combine them best/easiest?
>>47621633
>Star Wars setting
>Easy to mod
>Incredibly flexible
>No boring franchise game
StarORE
>free
>fast
>excellent
To appreciate what it can do you should have a look at Reign, A Dirty World, Better Angels, Wild Talents, Monsters and Other Childish Things, and the ORE Toolkit....
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Star Wars d20. Or Savage worlds with the sci-fi companion
>>47621633
the d6
FFG's Star wars RPGs
or >>47622029
Stat him,
Take any contract-binder devil and you'll be good.
>>47621609
Con-Dead
Dex-Dead
Wis-Dead
Hp-Ticklish
>>47621609
does DnD have a stat block for Mephistopheles?
Draw or share an image YOU MADE of your own character, party, campaign, etc. Doesn't matter if it's shit, we're not all drawfriends.
Don't put art requests here. That's for the drawthread.
>pic related is my cyberpunk russian mobster
>>47621200
>Secretly a robot edition
>>47621207
and a friend's SWAT officer.
I'm a shameless hack. Can't even go without using Inkscape to copy the style of a stick-figure webcomic.And it's not even done in that style anymore.But this is my Pathfinder Gnome Spiritualist, from a one-shot where we had to take over a prison ship.Her Phantom stands behind her as well.
Hey, I'm attempting to GM a game with a group of my friends. I've never GMed before and only one of them has ever played a tabletop roleplaying game before.
For an absolute beginner working with mostly beginners, what system should I use? I was thinking about going for GURPs but I'm still not sure.
As for my game itself. It is set in the Fallout Universe (the popular video game series), except I'm deviating from the established lore and am setting my roleplay in china. The premise is that the Chinese also survived the nuclear war and had vaults of their own .
And here's a simple backdrop I wrote for the players.
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On October 23rd, 2077 the world ended. The People’s Republic of China and the United States of America launched their nuclear arsenal at one another, destroying human civilization within the course of a few days. After the apocalypse, vaults and bunkers across China began to open and people found a transformed world. A world where life dies and death lives, and radiation breeds perverse, monstrous things.
The largest vault of them all opened, its monstrous metallic door screeching...
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Don't do any of that.
Get a few pre built modules and run/play those. Probably shadowrun or d20 modern for the type of world you want.
Desperate to find an escape from the undesirable position the state currently sits in, the People’s Army sends out scouts to traverse the wastes in search of pre-war technology. A particular scouting party is sent to traverse to the ruins of Beijing and find the government’s bomb shelter that is believed to lie underneath The Great Hall of the People. There’s likely to be documents there that could help locate armaments, or possible information to where the governing body of the communist party would re-establish itself in the course of war (if anywhere).
This is...
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So, a friend of mine has been wanting to get the Chaos models in the Dark Vengeance box, and I've decided to go halvsies with him and take the Dark Angels.
However, I usually need to find an aspect of an army that I love before I can get fully behind them. I've been reading the Dark Angels codex, and they seem to be much bigger dicks than I thought. In addition to that, the codex only ever fixates on their OBSESSION with hunting the Fallen and make it seem like they do literally nothing else. Same for their successors outside of the Guardians of the Covenant...
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>>47620732
Play one of their successor chapters.
Angels of Absolution are similar, but they're not as obsessed with the Fallen.
Alternatively, you can make your own chapter and play them. 40k is great for stuff like that.
Are the models in Dark Vengeance pre painted and everything?
>>47620732
They have a sick rivalry with the space wolfes dating back to before the Horus Heresy. The end result is that every time DA and SW meet they each pick their bravest warrior to fight a duel of honor. Dark angels are all about honor, but their own comes first. I would suggest you read the HH books about them before making any decisions.
Selling the models is also an option.
>>47620753
Yeah, I was considering going with either the Guardians of the Covenant or a chapter of my own creation. The question was more of a general one, though.
Should i
>>47620434
Make like Shia Lebeouf
>>47620434
No.
That risk board is pathetically small.
>>47620434
No.
Like all alternate Risk boards it has some 'good' ideas that make it fun for a game or two. however after that the imbalance and other stupid idea overshadow everything else.
>Leave fucking up everything forever to me
>>47620378
That's a weird picture of Lorgar you've got there
>>47620378
That's not the Emperor, orDorn_______
>>47620399
Eh, Lorgar was a harmless dork. Magnus was like giving your pet cat a bazooka
>Human miners have been digging the same tunnel for seven generations
>>47620297
Considering the piss poor lifespans of the average rpg humans, they just hit the profitable phase of the mine.
>>47620297
There are active mines that are more then 120 years old, the primary shaft at East Rand could easily have had seven generations of miners, given the poor conditions and large families common to South African gold miners.
>>47620360
>primary shaft
So I guess so much needed context is in order.
I was asked to run a game I had been reading Cthulhu d20 but i felt like adding a bit of Scooby Doo and steam punk to it So I said lets go BESM to make it slide. Also still using D20. One of the players said I want to make a steam punk magic fueled Adepta sororitas.
So I thought about it and if you look at Warhammer 40K it has a slight Lovecraft feel so I allowed it. We've got a colorful cast of characters and i was trying to pool data but hit a roadblock with Warhammer.
I'm trying to lay out 2 crashed ships...
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>>47619825
bump
>>47619825
>steak is good
>ice cream is good
>bread is good
>let's put them in a blender and the result will be good!
This is you right now. Now stop.
>>47620034
What kind of bread is it?
So, one way that (in universe, at least) some people thing about Chaos Undivided is that the Chaos Gods are not just a pantheon, they are minor parts of a greater whole, either broken or intact but schizophrenically fighting themselves.
Assuming they are broken, what would they look like if broken further, or if the totality was broken along more general lines?
Take Khorne and Tzeentch, for example. Khorne is a very proficient commander, and Tzeentch would have to be at the level of grand strategy if nothing else to be able to manipulate wars to his benefit. Take...
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>>47619821
very interesting. I would like to hear more, if you wish. if you could make an entirely alternative chaos pantheon, that would blow me away.
>>47620100
Well, basically, the idea is to take an aspect of a chaos god, check if there's something similar enough in a different one to fold it together, and work with what you get.
For instance; Nurgle and Khorne. Nurgle endures. Khorne fights. Cross the two aspects, and you get a god of siege and attrition; attack his champions, and expect to lose half your invading force to the environment before you even get to start fighting. Cross Khorne and Slaanesh, and you get a god of warriors; their only joy will be...
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>>47620316
That being said, the place to start would be with their aspects. Who represents what.
Khorne represents battle, war (different from battle), bloodshed, slaughter (different from bloodshed the way I'm using it), martial honour, a warriors code (again, different), possibly a warrior nobility, duty, and survival of the fittest. You could reasonably make some sort of chaos god out of each of those aspects. Just make sure that none of the other gods would have any influence in it (Slaanesh, for instance, attracts...
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Is there something like gritty epic fantasy?
Malazan Books of the Fallen
I dislike the author's writing style, but there you go.
>>47619767
i was mostly asking for an rpg system but thats good too
>>47619877
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay? One of them is bad I've heard, I don't remember if it was 2nd or 3rd Ed though. Who never is the newest one is the bad one I suppose.
Best/worst Planeswalkers edition
>RESOURCES
>Official Site: Contains deck building rules and the current ban list.
http://www.mtgcommander.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.tappedout.net
>Another resource for commander discussion; they have an entire forum dedicated to discussing decks. People often...
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Really tired of seeing the same fucking characters get remade into slightly different cards all the time. How many more shitty Chandras do we need? Can you even name all of each Kiora's abilities without mixing them up?
I shouldn't have commented. You fucked up the thread
>>47619530
There are two Kioras. So yeah, I can.
I personally would love more Chandras. They've started getting pretty good.
Does anyone here participate in Freeform Roleplay?
If so, what's you're preferred medium? Forums? Skype? Tumblr? MMO's?
Does anyone use dedicated resources for character profiles like RP Repository or Charhub?
Do you prefer creating and piloting a single character or having everyone write out extensive scenes controlling both their main character along with many NPCs?
What kind of themes or settings do you prefer? Medieval? High Fantasy? Dystopian Sci Fi? Generic Animu Highschool? (lol)
Does your group divide the task of running...
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>>47619289
I prefer to have some kind of structure to my games.
>furcadia
I'm one of those degenerates, so I can understand. I hopped in there once. Found it boring and never went back.
>>47619338
Do you prefer tabletops then?
I've only ever done text based online but since I live in a fuckhuge city I've been considering dropping by one of those TT meetup groups.
And yeah, it's dreadfully boring without a core group of friends. Most folks, myself included, use it as a glorified chatroom with movable avatars.
They ran some Kickstarter a while back but the updates have been dragging on for years. Been bleeding players for a decade so there's not many left besides ultra diehards and people who invested too much time/money to leave.
I dig the custom isometric art in the dreams though many stand empty nowadays. And there's a few places left with 60-100+ concurrent players.
>>47619443
Yeah. With rules and boards and minis and such.
If I want to rp without such things, there's furnet irc.
Any one else here has a group that reunites like once or twice a month?
How can I (the DM) make everytime we come together worthwhile?
>>47618308
Your question is irrelevant and your plight ignored because you committed the classic blunder.
You posted with images of cats, you fucking idiot. Do you know what you've done?
>>47618308
What kind of cat are these?
