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Welcome to Academy City. The time is now morning, the weather is metallic, and the date is February 9.
You are Kyril Torikov, and your sides hurt. Apparently you were much more injured than you thought. One lost kidney, several inches of your intestines, two ribs, and the nearly half of your abdomen had gone missing. That was what the doc had said when he was finished stabilising you. If you remembered correctly, Etzali did have some kind of disintegration ray, or something. It had been so far at the back of your mind that you had left yourself open. It worked. Whether it was worth it was another matter. Given the mess of machinery surrounding your and their near silent whirring, you couldn’t be sure. For the foreseeable future you were going to be hooked up until a more permanent solution could be implemented.
Bedridden as you were, news and well wishes had filtered in. Mostly it was from Nayuta. Apparently the recording of Etzali’s final moments had been captured, edited, and spread loose on the wider web. You didn’t have to guess who was responsible for that. Those who had the technology savvy to catch a glimpse of it had been in awe, or at least that was what Nayuta had assured you. School District 10 had remained quiet, surprisingly enough. Again, Nayuta had commended you on your effort on having stabilised the district. Given that it was your money that was circulating the district it better damn well be stable. There was still the issue of how to deal with your now newfound fame though.
While your sunglasses stumped electronic facial recognition, it did little good against the Mk1 eyeball. You assumed that your boss, or your secretary, would eventually show up, to settle matters. Thus, as visiting hours started the first person to walk in through the doors surprised you. It was,
>Your little sister
>Dinah and Taylor
>>45559949
>Your little sister
Time for more robot bits?
>>45559949
>Dinah and Taylor
Rolled 2 (1d2)
Rollan then.
1. Last Order
2. Dinah and Taylor
This is not ok
why not
Hmm. Seems like something worth caring profoundly about.
>>45559792
If they have proper weight, I don't see why not.
Okay /tg/. Everyone likes to say you're shit at Magic, but here's a chance to prove them wrong.
Also post other puzzles if you got 'em.
You got me lad.
I'm stumped
>>45557991
How could there possibly be an answer? The most you can deal is 3 damage
Clearly, you don't play Children's card games.
Play me /tg/
Make a move
e4
d1-e8
checkmate
>>45557379
d2-d4
How exactly does one play a paladin of love?
You remember that sex =/= love, and play a paladin as normal.
>>45557281
I played a paladin of a goddess of love once!
I played it straight, the only difference being that when something went wrong, my character would be pissed off for different reasons.
Orcs raided a town and slaughtered people? HOW DARE THEY RIP THESE PEOPLE'S LOVED ONES AWAY FROM THEM!
Someone kidnapped? I MUST SAVE THEM AND RETURN THEM TO THEIR LOVED ONES!
Monsters attacking? I MUST ENSURE IT DIES SO THAT IT NEVER ENDANGERS LOVE!
Pretty basic. My character was real interested...
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As a magical girl expy. Just replace power of friendship with love.
I'm an adventurer. Well, kind of. I flunked out of college, so I got kicked out my parents' house. Taking bounties and doing odd jobs is the only way I can make a living, so that's what I've ended up doing for the past few months.
Speaking of bounties, I'm preparing for one now.
**WANTED**
Arthur "Rattler" McGinty
Wanted for
-Stamping crops
-Rattling bones at old people
-Being an all-around dick
*&200 REWARD*
Sounds like a real piece of work. I might need to make some preparations before I try to fight this guy.
>Head to the market
>Try and recruit some party members
>Spend the adventure budget on booze and whores
>Ask me a question
>Other
>>45557105
Whoops, forgot the image.
To the market we go.
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>Adventurer does not exist as a title, "adventurers" are just swords for hire doing the dirty business nobody else wants to do
>Adventurers are acknowledged as a vocation, but they are mostly seen as foolhardy fortune seekers willing to risk their lives for the thrill of treasure hunting
>Adventurer is a genuine profession, adventurers are organized in guilds that broker between the adventurers and prospective clients, possibly with support from the established ruler
Which...
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I'm good with A or B.
>>45556567
Halfway between first and second, where "Adventurers" is a word that most people say while rolling their eyes
Second. Possibly with a bit of first mixed in: it's not uncommon for professional adventurers to sideline as mercenaries in lean times.
what happened this week in your session?
I cut a goblin in half.
In the Wednesday, game we did diplomatic stuff. The bard predictably got into trouble. We saved a guard from some oozes later by having my character jam a rope into the ooze. I got a +1 short sword and free food/lodging for the group because that guy was definitely going to die and was very grateful.
In the Saturday game we finished off a dilapidated castle we were searching through and covered about half of a cave we had a map for. How we didn't finish that cave in 3 hours is a mystery
My character is finally being forced to face the fact that he's dead and has been for a long time (he's basically a revenant).
He was able to ignore/deny it the first few sessions since he's in an area he's never been to before. He just assumed he'd been displaced while unconscious or something, but last game his barely-corporeal nature basically became undeniable.
Playing characters going through a BSOD is oddly fun.
how am I supposed to focus on the game if I constantly have an erection?
>>45555989
Don't focus on r63 Rasputin.
>>45555989
masturbate before games
rule 63: the game
seriously japan, wtf
>you find a legendary sword
>it's on fire and crackles with demonic sexual energy
>seriously, it's rad as hell
>it's 2016 and guns are a thing
How do you proceed?
>>45554232
Learn how to parry bullets
I take it out see what I can do with it, and then put it away. It's not like even guns have much of a place in the modern world... Actually now that I think about it, I'll start a youtube channel about video games and such, complete with one of those stupid face cam things in the corner. Only instead of my face, the camera will be focused on the sword at all times, and I will talk to the sword, not the audience.
>>45554232
I check to see if I can cut the following things in half:
A chair
A cinder block
A boulder
A hill
A building
A mountain
A city
A continent
An ocean
A moon
A planet
A star
Where I go from there depends on where I stop being able to cut things.
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Ill start us off witg my question from the last thread.
Does anyone know any good references for social combat systems? Does anyone have any experience or observations to share fron having played with them before?
If has always frustrated me that most games are 60% talking yet most rule systems are 90% about fighting. Obviously fighting is a more technical affair than conversation, but the lack of social mechanics makes it difficult to design accessory rules (abilities, magic, items, status, etc) that arent basically "+x to talking".
A more complex...
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>>45553912
My current attempt
A character has a pool of charisma points that function like hp for social interaction. The relative amount of charisma points between characters in any given scene dictates relative social dominance/personal pride.
Whenever you want to accomplish something (explain/convince/insult/posture/inspire/etc...) you gamble a certain amount of cp on it. You roll (maybe presence or wisdom or something else depending on the action) and they may roll against (will or perception) if the action...
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Fucked up the op, no handle/title, sry, tried to delete, was too slow
For my game Im considering changing up how the XP economy normally works. As it's currently set up, you buy your advances, both stats and talents, nothing unusual with this method.
Im trying to blend a few ideas and make it workable.
>Abstract wealth
Bean counting is not the primary goal, I even want to remove it. Gold is unnecessary and it introduces another power scale to balance EVERYTHING around
>Buy Items with XP rather...
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> magic can be learnt with effort by anyone or at least by percents of the population
> magic offers great advantages with either no disadvantages or insignificant ones compared to the benefit magic gives
> magic is mostly resource effective, at least to the point that a given nation can provide the ingredients to most magic users on a stable basis
> magic users don't differ ridiculously in power levels to the point where a single very strong mage can overwhelm dozens and hundreds of just strong ones
> (the above all applies to DnD and many other settings with learnable magic)
Why don't mages rule all? Come on, such magic is a type technology, and one of the few lessons of history that nobody disputes is that technology is all. Monarchs and people of power should all be mages, having mages on your side should be the definitive factor of solving every conflict, economies managed by mages should outperform all others, training as many people as possible to be mages should be inevitable due to arms races, magic should be not just common, but the very absence of it unthinkable.
Seriously, DnD makes absolutely zero sense when it comes to wizards. They can do all most everyone else can better than they can for little effort just by studying hard at first, and they aren't literally everywhere? Nonsense.
pic unrelated
>>45550800
Most common mages don't get above 3rd-6th level or so. Also, DnD forgot to answer the #1 question about magic systems; Why haven't people possessing this power taken over the world yet?
>>45550800
Percentage is too low, people are lazy, or improbable circumstances.
Or many other reasons.
DND is many settings. The Baseline of FR- this isn't true. When you consider that magic is both divine and arcane, magical power and major nations are indivisible.
The Drow are a race-wide Theocracy.
Red-Wizards of Thay.
Cormyrian War Wizards.
Zhentarim Theocracy.
Amn's Cowled Wizards
The Shadovar's Shades.
Calimshan's Emperor was a wizard/rogue
Chessenta was ruled by a dragon for a while.
I'd have a harder time finding exceptions where a dude has power without supreme magical artillery at his disposal.
A while back, a friend of mine created a supplement for the Only War Warhammer 40k RPG allowing players to take the role of Imperial Knights. He initially floated the idea to me well over a year ago, but time commitments stopped that particular game from happening. He’s been tinkering with the ruleset ever since, and fairly recently came out with a full supplement, [Chivalry Intensifies]. Once that happened, he wanted to run a game using the ruleset and I was among the first he approached. I roped in one of my friends, he roped in one of his friends, and we started making...
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>>45550414
Our cast
>Maksimov Caernev, a dishonored Knight from a world of cold, ice, endless forests, and even more endless wolves, self-exiled from his House after a mysterious black-armored Knight murdered his father. He seeks vengeance on the Black Knight, or failing that, a heroic death. He also has a severe drinking problem and has his own oath-bonded moonshiner to support his drinking habits with lots and lots of gin brewed from engine coolant. He pilots a Gallant Class with dual Thunderstrike...
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>>45550510
Our first session was set on the forest world of Lukan, a jungle of densely packed, skyscraper-sized trees and bushes knee-high to our massive Knight Engines. The world had been invaded by an Orkish WAAAAGH!!! and the orks had begun to dig in and convert the macro-forests for their own use, led by a creature called The Red Mek, which pumped out Dreds, tanks, trukks, and looted wagons at a ridiculous pace. For some reason, Sector Command had decided that this was an excellent place to send in the tanks. So many tanks...
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>>45550543
We pursued the orks, because fuck letting them run away, we have Sweeping Advances to make, and the fucking orks managed to ambush us by leading us into a forest clearing, blowing the bases off of trees to block the path we took in, and sending in a dozen Squiggoths to kill us. A furious battle ensued as Imperial morale started to falter (Because orks aren’t supposed to be clever enough to ambush people), Morgaine (literally) whipped herself into a Frenzy and Maksimov decided to try to literally grab two Squiggoths...
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Anyone else kind of think cantrips are bullshit in 5e?
I can understand giving mages a few extra spellslots (vs. old school where they get 1), but it seems like bullshit to me that a first level sorceror can cast a 1d12 damage attack at ZERO cost indefinitely.
Is there something I'm missing? This idea seems fucked to me.
>>45548021
This is what happens when you cater to the World of Warcraft crowd.
Roleplaying is more than just combat and mechanical advantages!
>>45548021
While I agree that 1d12 may be a bit much, I think giving them a "free" attack spell IS a good idea. I mean, Fighters can swing their swords as much as they want, right?
>>45548021
Other than eldritch blast and dragon-blood sorcerer cantrips that match a particular element, they are objectively less powerful than "dude has a crossbow." Literally meaningless.
>When someone has a high charisma, persuasion based character but has no inkling themselves of how to speak like a normal human being
>When the fat guy plays a thin, athletic character
>when a mundane mortal plays a wizard
>when neckbeards don't role play as neckbeards
