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So, I have a very odd problem with one of my players. In short, he actively refuses to fight during encounters and instead will attempt to convince the enemy to join his side. He only fights unless there is literally no other option availabe. Not only does it drag encounters to a snail's pace, but when he succeeds, it occasionally causes me to throw out entire elaborate bosses and setpeices that I've took days to plan out. Now I would be extremely pissed if it weren't for the fact he roleplays all of this out excellently. In fact it's some of the best role-playing...
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Kill him.
>>so it's only a disappointment for me
Welcome to being a DM. You're job is to make it fun for the players. Your own fun in coincidental at best.
>>46034306
This never happened.
In all the things that never happened, this happened least
that being said
If it's not meshing with the game, if it's grinding the game to a halt, if it's making it unfun for you
either THE GAME NEEDS TO CHANGE
or THE PLAYER NEEDS TO CHANGE
decide which.
I wish to make an entry for /tg/ approved Mango.
http://bato.to/reader#f8f08fcef90f8533
Honestly, the best read I've had in a very long time. Some good Hard Science Fiction.
YOU FUCKERS!!! READ THIS!!!!
>>46031488
>>46032032
a) you're on the wrong fucking board, idiot
b) shitt animoo story about god-like alien superintelligence turning AIs into humans isn't anywhere close to hard scifi.
c) fuck off back to your containment board, weaboo
>>46032095
At least you read the first story. For that I am grateful.
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You've got an island. You never wanted an island.
This is a situation that deserves context. Some time ago, you were asked to cooperate with the Emperor – and a former Wanderer, a man you once called a colleague – in settling a dispute on the island of Dumas. Needless to say, this was no mere attempt...
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>>46031201
“Ra, I'll leave the details in your capable hands,” Sho Tatsuhiro says lightly as he struts back to his palanquin, already growing bored with this subject. As his masked servants lower the platform, any hope of guessing their expressions or their true thoughts defeated by those blank masks, the Emperor hops onto his seat and raps one heel against the floor. Rising, the mute servants turn and bear him silently away.
“I really must apologise,” Ra says eventually, when you can be sure that the...
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>>46031209
>Send the appropriate documents to the Nameless Temple – I'm returning there as soon as I can
"I'll iron this out there."
>>46031209
>Send the appropriate documents to the Nameless Temple – I'm returning there as soon as I can
Alright, gentlemen, last I remember captain Elizabeth wanted us all in a meeting about two hours ago. How come it hasn't started yet?
>>46031134
I would like to be brought up to speed on... recent events.
>>46031134
>the Eldar just shrugs as he eats an apple.
>>46031162
Mylord. We dropped for a search of...
>Checks data.
Amelia, believed to be sorcereress of chaos, refound as sister.
Not much more than that, other events are classified under the big I's encription key
Hello /tg/, I am going to referee D&D 3.5 battle between 2 lvl 1 characters in several hours.
Rules are:
1) ECL = 1, HD = 1 (class levels only)
2) Point Buy 32
3) Magic of Incarnum is banned, Regional (related to any specific setting) books are banned.
4) BO3, fight arenas are created by 3rd party.
The point is, I am interested in just how strong optimized lvl1 characters are. Post your builds for those restrictions, ideas, rough estimations of damage/turn, DC of almost SoD spells and other stuff you might find interesting.
>>46030723
Tell us how it turns out. What sort of minmaxers are you getting to run the test?
>>46030723
Optimized what?
Off the top of my head, some sort of Cleric that gets two Quickened spells with Divine Metamagic and Extra Turning while only having to drop a 12 in Cha sounds quite useful, especially because you could attack right after.
Winning initiative might be more important, though, so don't quote me.
>>46031026
Haven't been at 3.5 in a while so I just remembered that that would take one feat above the two max (unless Flaw gives free feat bullshit is allowed)
Still, simply dropping extra turning and getting two spells for the price of one while wearing heavy armor sounds pretty decent.
>TFW the GM says "Hey, roll for perception real quick."
TFW I never invest in perception ever because everyone else in the group DID and usually gets better rolls than me anyway.
>>46029834
>Tfw you do this too
>Tfw everyone thought the same and now no one has points in perception.
>>46029733
>GM says to roll for Perception while the party is camping
>Suddenly the Fighter and Paladin in the party are just deciding to spar for a bit and start gathering their weapons and donning their gear
>The party Wizard says that he just though it'd be a good idea to cast Wall of Fire around the camp and Protection from Missiles, just in case
>The Rogue announces he's hiding, because...
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First time to /tg/. I expected more traditional games and not all this new stuff.
Anyway, are mahjong threads common. I'd like a place to discuss intermediate strategy for Japanese rules, in English.
I am too readable with my richis. I want more spontaneous Rons with pinfu/tanyao combos and the likes. Any advice?
Attached is my recent lucky Koushi Musou.
I'd like to help you but i have no idea what you just said because my brain is too filled with knowledge about elves and robots.
Best of luck on your search for fellow mahjong players.
>>46029030
sometimes there are threads about chess, go or traditional card games
it's that too, you may find someone to talk to
>>46029030
Sorry, /tg/ generally isn't lesbian enough to play Mahjong.
Are Black Legion considered the chaos Ultramarines? Duo you like them Anon? Personally I love the color scheme and the fact that they're undivided.
I always thought it was Word Bearers being the Ultramarines' equal.
That's mostly because I grew up playing Chaos Gate though.
I think the failbaddon fluff gives them a bad rep
>>46028252
They are an interesting faction. I like how they have their own inner cults since they're technically undivided, but don't split into seperate warbands. They just need to be fleshed out, as of right now, they're just stock chaos guys.
Will it be good? Or is it too fragile?
its been discussed many times but /tg/ is split on this one. they either love it or hate it.
I personallylove it
>>46027960
The payout is good enough that there's probably a deck somewhere that wants it. That said, it's hard enough to flip that it can't just go into all the delver decks, which would really hate to draw it after turn 2, and even on turn two it might be a little slow and all-in to suit their game plan. My guess is that there's a control deck somewhere that might want it as a finisher, since the front side is a decent and the flip trigger is pretty relevant.
I'm so conflicted on whether or not this card is actually worth a damn.
Pros:
basically a three mana 7/8 bounce
Out of bolt range
Bigger delves of secrets
Cons:
No protection
Huge (let me stress HUGE) target and immediate threat
No self recovery
I think it has potential to actually see play, but I don't think it will be the new format breaker (even though I really really want it to be). The only way I think it could be super good is a storm/combo deck that relies on stupid early game kills.
Tell me stories of when your characters had major character development. I mean like the major stuff that your character had to sit down and deal with or think about when he or she realized how much he or she had changed.
Pic related, it's my favorite kind of character development.Her recent fall into feeling bad about how many people she has killed really makes me love the 3 point character development they've put her character through.
>>46026460
I one built a character with the intent of such development occurring. I ended up hand-waving the part I assumed would be explored, but another one came up.
This game took place like, 6 years ago, and it was set in the world of Avatar the Last Airbender, 80 years after the events of the core series.
The thrust of the story was two-fold: first, that non-benders had developed guns, and this was changing the dynamic power between benders and non-benders, with non-bender resistance groups believing...
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>>46026460
>First time playing DnD. Choose Warlord cause we needed a leader/martial class
>Group members take ages to make any decisions so out of boredom I always rush into situations and improvise
>Use great Warlord charisma to make friends with everyone. Basically become a shonen hero, fighting people then making friends with them, being irresponsible and being reckless
>Campaign moves on, become king...
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>>46027411
So of course, I assume the arc will be him learning that other benders aren't evil subjugators of Firebenders' strength, and growing to understand other races. And the other firebender in the party tries to make that a thing, but there was never a real arc to it.
Instead, two big points happened: First, the anti-bender rebels used several critical phrases in their complaints about the benders. Just turns of phrase the DM used. They were the same kind of points the character (Ta, so I can write...
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The halflings have begun producing a new tonic which they are using to supplement or replace their field rations. They claim this potion is invigorating and give the nutrition of a full meal, and will allow a soldier to march further, longer. They warn it tastes disgusting when not cold, though, and has a bad tendency to eat through metal.
Bitch, I get kidney stones.
Get that poison pain in a bottle away from me
Fuck
>>46025978
>Half the army dead from diabetes in a year from chugging it every day
Potion of endurance?
There are 117 skulls in this picture.
Can YOU find them all?
>>46025754
Fuck off, Dorelia the Explorator.
>>46025754
I am up to 97 amazingly enough.
>>46025823
I found 11 more and I can't find anything else.
I am missing 9 skulls.
Inspired by Floors, >>46002754
I decided to try as well.
Feel free to brainstorm and discuss what you'd like from a new skirmish game.
A what now?
>>46025036
Check the link. >>46024933
>>46024933
I think you need to start the ball rolling OP. Tell people what a skirmish game is, provide some example sets, tell us what your idea is to start.
You can't just post pictures of centaur skeletons and expect people to get it
Look up
>Ten Spades
>Epsilon Drive
>Skirmish Quest
>Iron Hearts
Provide samples and examples.
Don't be a Mymridon.
So, question for you /tg/, both DMs and players. What's the biggest group of players you've ever played with on the tabletop? Was it an absolute clusterfuck? How often did you get everyone to attend? For DMs, how did you manage to keep everyone in line?
>>46024101
I played in a group of ten players once. In a 4e game.
Game was a bit of a cluster fuck but we had fun in spite of everything.
I would only do that again with Swords and Wizardry or something lite.
>>46024101
I've DM'd nine twice and I have played in a group of nine.
Both Groups I DM'd for were normies first time so lot of dumb shit. Only a handful of them get in character. One was always on his phone. In another group there was a that girl who would always derail to talk about tumblr shit.
Group I play witth, two players constantly try to steal each others shit. Another two are players girlfriends, one is shy,usually has to leave early but when she does something it's usually helpful....
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Fourteen players. It was a one-shot at a convention. The game was run by some White Wolf pros called the "Wrecking Crew", you should be able to google them.
The DM had an assistant DM and was very forceful - "You, what do you do? Okay! You over there, what are you doing? Okay! The rest of you, which one of them are you helping? Raise your hand for the first guy! Now raise your hand for the second guy! Okay! Second group, roll [dice]!"
It was like being in a game run by a Marine sergeant, only with far less profanity.
It worked, largely...
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You've got ten words to describe the best NPC ever.
>>46023454
He's the most compelling and most memorable character ever seen.
>>46023454
1. The
2. Best
3. Non (shut up, it's a word)
4. Player
5. Character
6. With
7. The
8. Face
9. And
10. Such
I heard the dude's got, like, fifty dicks.
