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With the high and every-increasing cost of entry, is it worth it to become invested in MTG? I enjoy the game and all, but it's such a huge financial commitment to keep even a few good decks around.
And then, dealing with the neckbears at FNM.
Thoughts?
Is MTG worth it, cost/benefit-wise, for a new player?
>>47294524
Cost/benefit doesn't really apply to games and luxury goods unless you get that much enjoyment out of it. Generally MtG on the competitive scene isn't worth it in general.
>>47294524
MTG is fine on a casual level
MTG isn't fine on a competitive level unless you're willing to make competitive MTG your life, and even then you might as well pick up a second job of some kind to pay for the MTG.
Learn to draft. It's the cheapest way to start playing and be competitive at the same time.
I did draft for a year beforr breaking into constructed.
Ok /tg. Why is it down?
>>47294471
I've heard there was a Wood E- er, "Sylvaneth" release today. It's possible the site's down for update for the release, or traffic has crashed the server.
*/tg/
>>47294471
Because you touch yourself at night
Hey lets discuss the regiments, chapters, rules, and units you've made up!
For instance what are you chapters recruiting methods or rights of passage into being a battle brother?
>>47294255
They recruit from a penal world, everyone is sentenced to death and their execution is going through the organ implementation, if they survive they become marines otherwise they die. No one knows this of course, except the marines and the inquisition conclave in charge of the project.
>>47294255
The Razor Wasps Chapter takes its name from a unique arthropod species on their now-lost homeworld. As a steward chapter, the space station that is now their home doubles as the government center for their subsector. It produces an elite regiment of stormtroopers drawn from the best and brightest Imperial Guard regiments of the sector, as well as the station's own eugenically-optimized crew. The entire regiment is semi-secretly undergoing Astartes-scout training (though without most of the cybernetic enhancements...
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>>47295211
Don't they need to be at least younger than 15 to become a space marine?
Or is this some kind of fucked up "If you die before your sentence is finished your kid takes your place" deal?
I need pictures of regal looking Driders, cute/friendly Driders, and some soldier ones. All female, as in my setting they are only female in opposition to the regular elf king of the dark wood. I need art for the Queen, who is stern. Pic related is her peace-loving sister.
>>47294051
Just say monstergirls.
Also, if someone could remove the watermark of pic related that'd be neat. Also, just post any sorta cool monster pics.
>>47294066
I mean, that's fine, but I legitimately need art for my campaign. I'm not good at drawing monsters. I can only really do scenery.
Showing the new test pops for the Northern minis.
These are the minis they will be sending off to their commissioned painters so they can get some photos for the box art.
>dem mold lines
Likely their painters will finish cleaning up and scraping off the minis.
>>47293630
>>47293642
And these are the CEF test pops from last week.
I dont know what it is, but I just dont like the look of CEF battleframes. They just look too blocky and disjointed, compared to the terranovan gears at least.
>>47293664
I'm making a sci-fi system that involves types of transhumans, vaguely as classes. I have Psychic, Genetic Augment, Cyborg, and Normal Guy right now. What else is there I could use?
Uplifts.
>>47293582
People with one or more alien parents?
Does psychic include spiritual transcendence or enlightenment?
>>47293625
Just your thoughts manifesting as reality. Partly spiritual.
Playble harpies, playable minotaurs, playable dryads.
Now where the hell are my playable cyclopses and medusas?
>pic semirelated
>>47293262
Forgot centaurs.
I'm playing a lowborn vampire that is half spider.
Hows that for an interesting race?
>>47293262
>medusas
My autism gets up every time someone uses "Medusas" for the species.
It's Gorgon. GORGON.
Medusa was a Gorgon.
Seriously its so dumb starting out in a card game because you don't have the 6 quintillion cards the regulars of the game have. Is it even possible to balance a card game so this shit doesn't happen?
>>47292311
LCGs?
>>47292311
Collectable card games have that problem, yes, but constructed deck formats and deck building games are generally free of this problem. Try Netrunner as opposed the Hearthstone.
Try playing online. On some websites, such as untap.in, there is no limit on what cards you can use and what you have available.
Stellaris has been my vidya kick lately, and it got me thinkin: What systems work best for space opera? Exploration as well as action.
I've heard good things about Mongoose traveler. I'm aware of Eclipse phase, but I haven't heard as much positive about that.
>>47292225
You could try Stars without Number. There's a lot more material, but this gives you an idea.
>>47292225
Eclipse Phase is more of a cyberpunk/horror setting. It's got stuff that might work for exploration and galactic scale multi-species interactions, but generally it's probably not anywhere close to being a "space opera".
Traveler is what you want to go with, though I haven't played it myself.
>>47292225
Is it any good? I keep hearing that the combat isn't good and overall it's "okay" rather than "great".
>You are one of three characters: Samson, a spoiled bard, Dyrus, an axe-wielding rebel's son, or Rene, an orphan adopted by a high-ranking Director of an ominous empire, now a prepromoted archer-lancer. POV will rotate between them on a thread-by-thread basis, with an off-chance that someone else might occasionally take a chapter.
>These protagonists' motivations and goals will very likely come into conflict with one another's.
>Character Death is always a possibility...
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Garou Valley, the heart of the Wolfskin region.
Here, the paths of Rene and Dyrus may finally intertwine.
Dyrus' family is all somber with thought of where his father, Dyrus Sr., disappeared. A vile corruption existing under the astute nose of Director Chiffon, despite his best efforts to sniff out the wolves in... less evil wolves' clothing. Chief Tien and several other Tarvosians are expected to unite with them soon, another group of temporary companions replacing Paisley and the Vautou in their home region.
"Hey," he said when Winona...
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>>47291352
Vote time renewed and also a reminder to avoid bait.
>>47291572
Renewed again. No rush, I can be patient.
A Song of Ice and Fire DnD/RPG/Quest Thread: Beta 2.0 test
Created by JONSNO, Ornstein, and Ash, with special thanks to the other memes that occupy the GoB chat
This game is a text-based, player-driven RPG set in George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire Universe. A story is set up by the OP, and is played through by any number of players, with the maximum decided upon by the OP.
>Getting Started
To claim a spot, link a post stating you're doing so to the OP or the latest update. Your next step is to make a character....
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>>47291136
In addition, you must also roll for initial skill points. A roll of 2-3 gives 5 points, 4-5 gives 10 points, 6-7 gives 15 points, 8-9 gives 20 points, and a 0 gives 25 points. If you roll a 1, you can roll again. If you choose not to roll, you can take 10 points. You can distribute the skill points you rolled for among the stats available.
Stats
>See chart
>Flow of the game
At the start of each turn, the OP will provide an update....
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Claiming my spot in this game.
I am rolling for the skill
>>47291158
>Money
Money and economy play an important role in the world of ASoIaF. Money has the following values:
10 copper pennies == 1 copper star
50 copper stars == 1 silver stag
100 silver stags == 1 gold dragon
A player may start the game with any number of money up to and including 20 stags.
>Duels
A roll between two player characters, or a player character and an NPC with stats is treated as a duel. A single roll judges the...
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Hey so in my game i have a location that is a flying castle in the sky, manly so the players know where it is and won't get lost trying to find it. but also for dramatic effect of knowing that who ever runs it has the power to keep a castle sustained in the sky.
when it came time for them to finally enter i was gonna have some generic gargoyles pick up the players and fly them up, scaring the shit out of them, and showing them they have no easy way back down without these gargoyles.
so I've been thinking (because this isn't going to be my only floating...
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>Giant canon
>Place rock canon
>Hollow out rock and make it like a crash zone
>Fire rock at sky castle
>Burst out Genestealer style
>>47290819
>Floating castles and how to reach them
You don't. The entire purpose of flying castles is that they're up so high that people /without wings/ can't get up there. Maybe try a flight, heat and constitution spell. You'll probably need some high level mages and alchemists for this.
>>47290819
Like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtyuAAUCEVI
/tg/ tell me about the primary plots you currently have in progress, either as a DM with full knowledge of the plot or as a player with your best assessment of the plot in progress.
to start things off:
>players began as a group of volunteers hunting bandits and a stolen artifact
>players discover the son of the magistrate who hired them is working with the bandits and is a coward
>players kill or capture the bandits, the son flees
>the players...
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>>47290750
>plot
Absolutely shitty GM detected.
Players make the plot, not you.
>>47290775
>THE PLOT IS NOT ALLOWED TO MOVE WITHOUT -MY- PERMISSION
>>47290775
Having a framework for the players to work with isn't a bad idea.
To deal with high, heavy armor, what is better an axe or a mace?
Assume the weapon to be used with a shield and the user to be recently trained, strong and use heay armor himself.
Mace, no contest. Flanged maces - along with the pointy end of warhammers and various polearms like halberds - are designed to focus the force of a blow on a single point, allowing the possibility of penetrating plate armor. Axes, meanwhile, distribute that force over a broader area. You'd never be able to hack through Late Medieval/Renaissance plate with one, even if getting hit with one wouldn't be a good time in the slightest.
>>47290232
Almost 100% the mace
>>47290232
>To deal with high, heavy armor, what is better an axe or a mace?
A mace.
Maces were specifically built for dealing with heavy armor because they bash and rattle the person in the armor.
An Axe is still a bladed edged weapon that hacks away at something and heavy, thick, armor doesn't give a shit about edged things.
> From now on I will dedicate my body and soul to freeing my Kingdom!
> Were you born to a noblewoman of ancient linage at the hight of the winter solstice?
> N-no. My parents are cobblers
> Then you can't REALLY save the kingdom. Be sure to keep an eye out for the Chosen Hero when he stumbles along!
Everybody knows a defining trait of a Hero is a significant birth. Doesn't this strike anyone else as elitist? Especially in stories...
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>>47290155
>Everybody knows a defining trait of a Hero is a significant birth
Never heard of this. In all the stories I've read with a chosen one, it's always some podunk farmboy nobody.
Besides, a "significant birth" could happen to just about anybody.
>>47290155
Westley from Princess Bride
>>47290198
>In all the stories I've read with a chosen one, it's always some podunk farmboy nobody.
You never got to the part where they were actually the descendant of some great wizard or old king?
