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What kind of creatures, poisons or weapons have given you a severe case of nope?
The last thing I remember were something my current DM came up with, something like demonic tapeworm-arrows. They are used by a swamp tribe and are enchanted demonic worms. The enchantment turns them into weird looking black arrows that can be shot normally but when they breach skin and draw blood, the enchantment falls off. When this happens, the worm immediately starts digging deeper into its victims flesh until all of it is inside. Once burrowed completely under the skin it starts eating...
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>>45858655
>Another thing was a poison that made your bones slowly grow spikes that just pierce right through anything that might be in the way. Muscles, lungs, liver and eventually brain.
Ah bone cancer, my old friend
>>45858655
Giant mosquitos like from Jumanji or FO4 tend to give me a case of the Nopes.
>>45858655
BBEG was a necromancer that figured out how to animate skeleton on a skeleton that was still inside a living thing.
PC starts screaming and tearing their own flesh from their bones.
Only way to get close enough to kill the necromancer was to get rid of our skeletons.
Cleric, previously a knight who was killed by their own skeleton and had to roll a new character, went through with the transformation to become a gelatinous cube hybrid.
Paladin became an Ilithid because they only have cartilage.
Sorcerer...
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Would your run a setting based on a donut-shaped world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J4iIBKJHLA
Post your favorite world-building resources!
>>45858199
Nice video. As to the question I'm not sure if an rpg campaign would properly reflect all the unique features of donut world. Some kind of novel or smth would do it better imo. But it's a very interesting idea for a setting. Espiecially if the more educated inhabitants were actually aware of the fact that their world is constantly at a brink of destruction and one gravvitional instability could easily collapse it.
if I wanted my players to constantly make arby and the chief jokes sure
would be very interesting scientifically, since you might be able to use it to sling shot things pretty fast through the centre of the taurus
>>45858199
Universal stillpoint rod in donut hole. Armageddon.
So does 40k have a chainsaw/power whips yet? They already have all this other ridiculous shit so why not chain/power whips for killing xenos of the night?
Deldar do
>>45858182
The sister leading the repentia has some power whips.
>>45858182
>chainsaw whip
...what would that even look like?
Hey /TG/ do you play any background music when your playing Table Top games? If so what kind of music do you play?
>>45858056
I play a lot of techno and dubstep for my Shadowrun games, I don't have a set playlist though
I play a ton of music for our Rifts games. It's pretty cash. Roll20's jukebox function is better than it used to be but still kinda shiesty
>>45858228
Wow I realized that I didn't even answer the question.
Since Rifts is a sci-fi/fantasy game I get to use a ton of different music. Recently I played this cover by Timothy seals of Pyre Light from the Mechwarrior 2 soundtrack during a travel sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRSoc-iyEWg
I also played the Gravelord Nito track from Dark Souls for a big monster fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS6imkjmYcg
Hi players! <3
The AdMech Discovers a dyson sphere that is a giant AI but its protected from humans with legions of men of iron..
The AdMech have a code for AI to become friendly but do not know it.
It asks them on first contact but they do not respond.
Neat idea. Unfortunately, The Imperium would resort to Exterminatus real fast, spoiling what could be an interesting plot hook. Such is 40k.
>>45858059
Oh, Shit. I forgot to mention this AI is a STC library of all human knowledge.
>>45858067
Doesn't change a thing.
Has your character ever been polymorphed or used a polymorph school spell in an inventive way in a campaign?
>>45857940
I used it one time to survive without regular access to freshwater. My survival-skill-less Wizard was going on a solo adventure to explore the great unknown, that being a desert continent populated by various forms of reptilian and draconic life to the East. I managed to get there with the supplies I packed extradimensionally via Polymorph (into a Roc for max flying speed) only to find out that I was out of water. Since my plan was to mainly hug the coast anyways, I figured that all I had to do was figure out an...
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>>45857940
Polymorphed an entire squad of the city guard to surprise and ambush some corrupt lord and his smuggling ring.
>>45858003
Polymorphed into what? Alter self them as people who should be there?
Let's get a 40K fashion thread going.
What kind of sexy clothing would people wear in the 41st millennium?
>>45857571
Literally anything. The Imperium is non-standardized and is not nailed down to any single culture. You'll have men and women wearing 15th Century noble italian clothing and guys wearing 3rd Millennium style jumpsuits on the next planet over.
so, what kind of clothing considered heretical?
>>45857624
Potentially every kind. Has anyone on your planet pissed off anyone recently?
So a year ago I finally got the chance to GM for my group. They all started out neutral and/or good so I let one play a paladin. I figured what's it matter, the guy never plays anyway since every time he misses a game his character is knocked out by something.
Well now my other players have gone evil to reach goals previously set, and the paladin wants to play again. I'd hate to retcon anything or force him to change characters, but once he wakes up he'll have no choice but to smite his evil friends or fall. One way or another some player/s will have a shitty...
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My best idea so far has been to pass them through a settlement of what appear to be orcs. I'd try to nudge them to head to the tavern where the leader will turn out to be much less alcohol tolerant than you'd expect from a big ol' orc. He'd eventually drunkenly spill the beans that the town is mostly populated by doppelgangers, and that they stay in contact via marks like hobo code scratched on walls and fences across the continent. He slowly gathered them here to form a false orc settlement to attract real orcs. Once the town is full the fakies will be paid...
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>>45857261
Just tell him the parties gone evil whilst he's been gone so a Pally just ain't gonna gel with the group in it's current composition. You'll help him reroll and set him up so he can keep up.
Honestly if he isn't showing up you don't have to cater to him getting to keep his character.
>>45857261
Would he be open to becoming a blackguard?
Alternatively, you could gloss over the alignment of the party so long as he never catches them in their knavery.
Although how exactly you're managing to accomplish any kind of quest with an evil party other than the usual conquer the world and gain power thing is beyond me. You might be able to use that to glue the paladin into the party unless the party is really committed to the stereotypical forces of darkness shit where they're thirsting to...
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Would speculative fiction be better if authors and fans read more than just sci-fi and fantasy all the time?
>>45857104
>assumptions
>>45857287
Twas a question
>/lit/
The first instalment of the Red Path and the Black Crusade series has been released, and it's FREE!
It features Kharn going head to head with Abaddon.
http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/furnaces-of-haeleon-eshort.html
Get it now!
>>45856923
To be honest, Kharn should kick Abaddon's ass in a fight baring Chaos intervention bullshit. Kharn's killed waaaay more men than Abaddon has in personal combat, and personally broke two legions by himself. Not to mention he has a plasma pistol instead of a combi bolter.
Considering that Kharn joined up with Abaddon, we know how this ends.
>>45857018
>To be honest, Kharn should kick Abaddon's ass
Kharn got killed by Sigismund.
Abaddon killed Sigismund.
Abaddon one shot Horus.
>STATBLOCK
Human Female
STR 7 (-2) DEX 12 (+1)
CON 6 (-2) INT 16 (+3)
WIS 6 (-2) CHA 18 (+4)
I have crossed the Rubicon and, in light of Twitter just not working out, made r/thameless. While that site is generally terrible so is twitter so I'm not horribly concerned with loss of ability to communicate.
>when we Last saw ourselves...
We were dealing with a particularly divided set of opinions about who of Lord Hubolt's close aides to forge and alliance with:
1. Seek the...
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>>45856904
2. Cozy up to Mofran the Sage, a priest of the old religion who advises Lord Hubolt closely and is said to be in his utmost confidences.
Cha 12
>>45857030
We could do so. But will we?
>which days/times are preferable for playtimes, any Anons who see this
>>45857053
I'd get twitter working if you want anyone showing up; even though I use Reddit I'd still never see updates because Reddit is awful for live updates.
Also, quests set in OC universes tend to not do so well in general at the start unless the QM is really well known.
(I got two hours, if the quest gets good maybe it'll be still alive when I wake up a few hours later)
It has been over 200 years, but finally the last member of the Llorenal family has passed. Or rather that should be the case, if it wasn't for one who still remains. His name is Agoth, Agoth Llorenal, the final living member of the family, and with the recent death of his brother brought upon by untreated disease, he is left with nothing else but a now inherited sword. This sword has been in his family for generations, and now it is his...however this is not a treasure,...
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There are no enemies here, except the sun itself as it bears down on Agoth through the dragging afternoon. Beads of sweat fall from his face, falling to the ground below only to be latched onto and sucked in by the thirsty soil. Agoth is quite thirsty as well from his trek, as sweat falls from his face which holds no facial hair. He takes a moment wipes it from his short black hair, and allows it to fall onto his dirty black boots. His pants were akin to old rags, and his shirt was made of old leather that was fit for a countryman as himself. He came from a family which weren’t...
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>>45855704
>>Go to...Ratchey’s Groundin’ Tools? His family knew yours well before his time.
>>45855704
>> Ratchey's Tolls
A family friend could spare a drink without having to deal with the attention We'd get a bar.
Would you want to play a tabletop game with four clones of yourself? How do you think things would play out?
Assume the party itself is pretty balanced.
NOW NEITHER OF US WILL BE FOREVER GM
>>45855398
It would probably devolve into a anime-esque shitfest, the plot would most likely be unintentionally an exact copy of a Final Fantasy game but I would play along with it until the end and inevitably mechs and science fiction would become the main endgame for no reason. All of my characters would probably be depressing as hell.
Sounds better then any other RPG group I've been in :(
>>45855398
The game goes nowhere because I'm always the guy who makes "support characters", both mechanically and narratively... so the plot would pretty much go nowhere when none of me wana be the "main character".
>Just sick of shitty generic fantasy games using 3.P for everything
>Oh wait scratch that, sick of neo generic fantasy games where I can't even play a fighter without dumping my charisma to 7 and being anal fucked by casters
>Want to try something new, anything
>99% of tabletop rpgs are extremely complicated and rules heavy and difficult to learn and are written horribly
>Seriously most books can't explain their rules for shit, they are just longwinded as fuck
>Nobody wants to play anything else, let alone run it
KILL ME
>>45854375
GURPS
RuneQuest6
Burning Wheel
Shadowrun
Traveller
Pretty much anything that isn't D&D should fit a great deal of your requirements, actually. Unless you're retarded and think GURPS is too complicated to understand or something.
>>45854375
Fallout P&P looks fairly rules-light.
>>45854375
Dude, doood, dude. STOP PLAYING DND. I'm not even saying that to shit post. Their rules are super convoluted and complicated. Play a less rigid, more dynamic system. Try GURPS, it's really really not that complicated, and it's fanbase is 1000% better on average than dnd players usually are. Just give it a shot, you can play a semi historically accurate fantasy game with it just using the basic rules, try it.
What feats would you need to effectively dual-wield bastard swords?
House rules feat.
>>45854244
Ah, thought it could be done in vanilla with gorilla grip/two weapon fighting/something something.
>>45854222
>>45854303
What fucking system are you playing with?
It might be helpful if you let us know.
