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Why is metal always so closely associated with fantasy and roleplaying games?
Is just because they both happened to be part of the counter culture in the late 70's and 80's, or is there another reason for it?
Pic fairly related, I guess.
>>47211939
Quite often the themes of the songs are related to rpgs or similar. The lone hero with a sword hacking away at monsters, or the lone monster with a sword hacking away at heros is somwthing rap and pop rarely feature..
>>47211939
wellp i know what my next BBEG is gonna be
>you hear wailing guitars as you charge the lich and his devil ally
>>47211939
Because metalheads are__NERDS
I want to do a Cowboy Bebop type campaign. Modern-like game but set out in space. What system would work best?
Maybe try toning down Eclipse Phase?
>>47211683
Normally I'd say Traveller, but someone should have the bebop pdf.
>>47212266
>Modern
>Eclipse Phase
That'd take a little more than some "toning down", hombre.
>>47211683
Traveller is the archetypal Cowboy Bebop system.
Did people just stop playing it or what? The lore is at a standstill, the meta is utterly stagnant, sales are dropping off and its fanbase is dissapearing.
Kind of a bummer, really. Its amazing how warhammer 40k managed to be so fucking smart and so fucking stupid at the same time. Its theme was subversive and seditious, buts its implementation was borderline retarded.
It could have really benefited from some clever writers, there was always just way too much filler and not enough content.
RIP 40k, you will be missed.
>>47210980
It's more alive than it has ever been since the start of 6E.
>>47210980
>The lore is at a standstill, the meta is utterly stagnant
Are you serious? The meta has changed a billion times in the past year due to all the new broken shit and monthly releases.
>sales are dropping off
>10% drop = dead
You wanna see dead? Look at WHFB or AoS. Or any other wargame that's not Warmachine/X-Wing.
>>47210980
Well, the lore has more or less been at a standstill since the great Eye of Terror campaign, when Chaos won and GW decided they were kind of terrified of change.
As far as the company declining, well it's no secret that GW has management problems and was operating on a rather bizarre business model for a long time. Add to that the fact that miniature wargaming is a very niche hobby, and wouldn't surprise me to hear that the company is in a bad way.
Still, the IP will be around for a while and so it...
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Well, there seems to be no standard thread up, so lets all talk about the worst format.
What are you guys brewing? What are you net decking? Whats your local meta like?
I'm currently in the process of assembling the BG company deck, and trying to brew some shitty UB control deck. My local meta is lots of company, aggro, and mill, so for my shit brew i'm trying to make a deck that can counter all of those strategies.
r8 and h8
http://deckstats.net/decks/47438/479303-ub-brains?saved=1&lng=en
I understand, nobody wants to play Avacyn only: Final Destination.
>>47210636
Vampin' it up
Creature (29)
2x Asylum Visitor
4x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
4x Falkenrath Gorger
4x Heir of Falkenrath Flip
3x Incorrigible Youths
4x Indulgent Aristocrat
4x Olivia, Mobilized for War
4x Ravenous Bloodseeker
Land (23)
2x Evolving Wilds
4x Foreboding Ruins
6x Mountain
4x Smoldering Marsh
7x Swamp
Instant (8)
4x Fiery Temper
4x Lightning Axe
Sideboard (15)
2x Duress
3x Fiery...
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>>47210799
Looks like a reasonably clean list, but it has been my experience that vampires is not quite good enough yet. Its slower than Human Aggro, and less resilient/powerful than most of the control decks. I think what will truly make/break vampires in this format is what tribal cards we get in the second half of this set.
If we get more good and cheap humans than that deck will continue to be great, but some key zombies or vampires/rakdos burn spells could really make those tribes more powerful, or at least be included...
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This is a thread dedicated to various scenes. Things that can be posted to give some visuals, help people actually see what sort of majestic chapel or firey hellscape they're walking into, or what the huge battle or hearty tavern or what have you looks like. It's meant to add a bit of flavor to things. I'll post a few, folks can take it from there.
>>47210078
>>47210095
>>47210110
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SaSentinels
Archive:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Helljumpers
Char sheet:
http://pastebin.com/dcTmEV8t
We pick up right where we left off!
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The cold clinicality of the alien passageway gives you chills as you walk within it. You're nervous, not just from the mysteries that lie within, but from the feeling of exposure. There's no cover to be found here, and your lack of any sort of shadow is unnerving. You don't want to meet any Covenant here, or anything...
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>>47209665
Ahead of you in the main passageway seems to be a massive chamber, filled with bright white light that contrasts to the light blue that fills the rest of the complex. The passageway leads to a strange, glowing bridge, that looks a little like Covenant shields, but somehow more solid. The bridge stretches out across a great chasm, as far as you can tell, leading to a floating platform in the centre of the massive chamber. You can see another massive passageway on the other side of the chamber, as well as one higher...
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>>47209673
>>It'll be safer somewhere where we can get lost by virtue of scale. Head for the massive chamber.
>>47209673
>>It's too spooky for me. Turn back
So I've finally gotten around to slightly updating some tables I made a while back. They're for creating some kind of Mad Max/Fallout-esque Post-Apocalyptic faction/clan. I only added a few more tables, and was wondering what you guys thought. What does it lack? What does it have too much of? What do you want to see? Typos?
Feel free to roll up on it, or we could do that as a thread in the mean time.
http://pastebin.com/UAaG5jbu
Anyone?
Go on OP, Start us off so we see what one looks like. We can go through it as we roll up.
Rolled 26, 80, 23, 72, 24, 54, 19, 39, 47, 36, 78, 31, 65, 69, 80, 96 = 839 (16d100)
>>47209041
Let's see.
Stat me, /tg/.
>>47208510
You need to post a pic, OP.
>>47208510
stat what?
Maybe try posting a picture next time.Character gimmick taken entirely too far/10
I will be doing some assignments until the weekend. But in the meantime some content discussion.
Updates:
-Levelling up.
-Progression.
- Factions. [ partially up for discussion]
Next Game will continue on Action Phase, and will happen around the weekend. Until then I'll be stalking this thread and adding content as well as answering questions.
Dearth of Gods is a d6 skirmish system and a public game on /tg/ accomodating 20 players per session. And posting turns around 1.6 times a day.
Bonus level;
Faux Medieval fashion and neat armor references :0c
The image is a handy reference on how to start a character.
Incoming posts about levelling...
Premature Hub explanation:
When Players Reach the Sacred Forge, not only may they recover their wounds but they will also refill their soul count to 1.0 Exactly [even if they spend it to 0 it will remain at 1 to avoid Hallowing.] It will not fill past that if you have have greater than 1.0 souls. But it wont dock you to 1.0 if you have more either.
Wound Recovery here is gradual but not instant. However as a consequence the Forge is not a combat zone when lit, and players are urged not to fight in it for fear of being dismissed by the Forge Maiden
Gaining...
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Tolls and Minted Spirits.
Tolls are the currency in Abalathia and are used to trade with those behind or outside of the Wall. Since much of the materials in the Dearth are made of Souls it comes as no suprise that one may convert even these nascent forces into simple Minted Spirits called Tolls. Tolls are used to pay for materials as well as legitimate services offered by various guilds. However since there are varying Factions at work, each one will produce a differen t Mint. In Abalathia and the city of Dias it's Tolls, some ancient societies for example will use...
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GW has recently announced that they are going to do a complete reboot of their warhammer 40k series, starting from the ground up.
Most of the lore will remain the same, but it will be made a bit lighter and more user friendly to newer players, and to that end, they have decided that 20 primarchs is too many, and to choose a more serrendiptitous number like 7, 8, 11, or 13.
Which Primarchs do you think are redundant, do not have enough of a personality to carry a story on their own, whos units are boring or unoriginal, or who you could just plain do without?
>>47207628
well we keep the important ones
>alpharius
>omegron
>sanguinus
>rogal dorn
>magnus
>horus
>leman russ
>girlyman
there you go, 8 primarchs. 4 fall to chaos, one for each god, 4 stay loyal.
i'm applying for gw story team in the summer wish me luck
>>47207675
Alphy and Omegon are one.
You could throw Lorgar in there.
I think that's pretty reasonable.
>>47207675
>not bad, senpai.
Hello, /tg/
Tell me about your party members.
BUT
This time there's a TWEEST! After doing that you must answer this simple question:
If you could only save one of your party members from imminent death (as in everyone else will die horribly) who would you save? Feel free to list your IC and OOC choices if they differ.
OOC I would save my character, who is a moucheur*/look-out in a pirate crew.
IC I would save my captain, because I see her as my own daughter and failed to save her mother. And anyway my character is a bit old so why not save someone who is still young?
*don't know how to translate this in english, it's a kind of sniper
>>47208505
It is not implicit at all. There is plenty of situations where you can save someone by sacrifying yourself.
>>47207609
There's
(D&D5E)
>myself, the rifleman dabbling in basic magics
>the rogue doorkicker armed with a blunderbuss
>the tiefling barbarian, full of childlike wonder
>the ranger, Geralt on steroids but with a personality
>the elf paladin, acts as party leader despite nobody listening to him
>the dark elf druid, bit...
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How would the imperium use battlesuits?
>Under the assumption that they have developed the technology itself.
They're called Centurions or Sentinels.
>>47205942
You mean Terminator armor?
Or Centurions?
Or Knights?
Or those retarded Grey Knights baby carriers?
>>47206037
Or Titans?
Or Dreadnoughts?
Or Sentinels?
Hey guys im up to starting to join some of my friends in their Mutants and Masterminds playgroup.
I have no idea what kind of stuff will go on there and i have absolutly no idea what kind of character i should play and so on. My DM said "think about a power you would like to have and i will see how i bring it into play".
Any tips, ideas, opinions or suggestions?
My first idea was a hero who manipulates time... but i think this would be much to overpowerd for a hero in a rpg i guess...
>Also M&M / Superhero general...
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Think about what kind of character you would want to read a comic about.
>>47205844
There already is a superhero general actually.
>>47206026
its just some big chargen for NPCs nobody will ever use though
/tg/, how do you handle the level of average magic competence of your commoners?
I've recently realized that I've been essentially treating all my commoner's and non-magical NPCs as though they had never seen magic before in their life and are often "ooo" and "aaah"ing even the most basic of magic effects. But if most worlds, especially D&D worlds like Forgotten Realms are dealing with high amounts of magic, wouldn't they be aware this shit is magic?
At what point should your average farmer look at a magician's spell...
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Depends on the setting.
As in, this is one of the details that needs to be thought of during your worldbuilding process.
Literally depends on the setting. Not even meming here.
>>47205280
>>47205258
Mechanically though, how would it change things? Most players like impressing the local yolkals with some magic, but if peasants are unimpressed by 3rd level spells regardless of how common they are, then wouldn't that detract?
What is the level that makes the average person not an idiot, yet not overly knowledgeable.
Also, I don't think it's really that setting specific. I think the level of magic itself would be a determining...
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What are some interesting archetypes you've imagined and/or played for a true neutral character?
I'm tired of druids and animals.
Rot druid. In my campaign there's a class called Skrelniks, druids who work the cycle of life from both ends, raising the dead to till soil and work compost. They've got fungus leshys that are inhabited by the spirit of one of their ancestors, and often choose yeast as their leshy, making beer and bread. They're out to overclock nature.
>>47205223
They're also cheerful as fuck
>>47205223
That's pretty good, although I'd like to avoid druids altogether.
I was thinking more about a mercenary or lone traveler type, but I don't know if that's feasible without getting into respectively NE or CN territory.
I'm having a hard time defining the personality of a TN character since it's generally the nameless bystander alignment.
