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You are Tsukuda Ryouta, a Shinigami of the 12th Division with the unique role of an investigator of abnormal occurrences.
The arrival of a bizarrely mutilated corpse has provided you with a new mission. The briefing is, as usual, transpires in Urahara's seldom used office.
"The deceased's name is Tatsu Shin, an unseated officer of the 5th Division. Apparently they took it upon themselves to investigate a series of murders committed in Northern Rukongai's 4th District. Well, it seems that their investigator bit off more than he could chew, and...
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>>45534209
"Hollowification experiments?" You read a part of it aloud.
"Hollows are like poison to the Quincy. Those two types have complete incompatibility with each other, much more so than humans and Shinigami. It seems that it didn't sit right with Kurotsuchi, and he tried to make it work anyway. Unfortunately for us, those experiments add yet another layer of unpredictability to this mission."
Perhaps unknowingly, Kurotsuchi Mayuri followed Urahara Kisuke's footsteps. Coincidentally,...
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>>45534224
There are two ways to approach the mission that you can think of: you could go plain-clothed and hope that the locals cooperate with you, or you could go in uniformed and use authority to leave them no choice. The risks of prolonging your investigation are uncertain, much like the risks of not utilizing subtlety.
...
>Be subtle. Don't wear your uniform to the 4th District.
>Make it quick. Go in uniformed and try to get to the bottom of it...
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>>45534243
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Discussion thread for Fate, Evil Hat Production narrativist RPG.
Held a retro-future dieselpunk space RP for a couple of sessions. It's pretty great with player interaction, since they really are encouraged to shape the world with you. It's great.
>>45531499
Masters of Umdaar was a great FAE World, released in the Fate Patreon and released PWYW at drivethru. It's technofantasy in the vein of Masters of the Universe. I really enjoyed the artwork.
I ran that a couple of times.
I was seriously thinking about doing a G.I.Joe/M.A.S.K. type thing with FAE as a follow up, but then I remembered M.A.S.K. sucked.
>>45532604
Pic related.
One of the few things I found below par were some of the included stunts were unbalanced with each other on the same page.
I am interested in getting into the Tabletop scene but I'd like to know what would be a decent mix to get my foot in the door. I've never played anything like this before but it seems wicked fun once you get the hang of it.
>>45528662
None of them, because Pathfinder is a bad game. Play D&D 5e instead.
You can get pregenerated characters from DM's Guild and your local gaming store probably hosts Encounters.
>>45528662
Play the stuff that appeals to you, this isn't rocket science.
Play what you want senpai. It'll be easiest to play something you enjoy and have ideas how to play.
Keep in mind though people will groan if you roll an elf ranger orphan or something cliche. Just put work into making the character your own.
Long story short, DM will only do a Dark Sun campaign if we do it in D&D 4th ed.
I need your help, /TG/.
I've looked over the mechanics and this edition does -not- look enjoyable to me. Not in the slightest. Sword Mage looks kind of alright but that's it.
Post fun times you've had with 4e. Stories, characters, builds, tricks, encounters, anything. Anything.I just want to play a fucking bug.
>>45527272
I played a half-elf barbarian who specialized in throwing his enemies halfway across the room and knocking them on their ass.
This was pretty effective, since the setting was a chain of floating islands.
Me and the fighter became tag team champions of a local fighting ring and were allowed to develop a custom cooperative maneuver as a reward.
Oh, yeah, and then we deliberately escalated a war between the two largest nations in the setting in hopes they'd wipe each other out and not devastate...
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I have only ever been in two long standing campaigns. This is the story of my proudest moment.
At the time, I was going through a bit of a phase of existential dread, and had the void of death on the brain. What sort of character should come to life but a warforged, a race without an afterlife in a setting where everyone else was assured of theirs? He was a paladin, broken free of the lord of blades. I named him Cyrus Gold, after the undying Solomon Grundy, and a symbol of his God, Pelor.
Now see, I love playing tanks. It feels so good to get swung at by an enemy...
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Well, that's be boring, and I had a WIS score high enough, and a background relevant enough to warrant some solid planning. I can see that the necromancer' horse has two of those scales mounted to the sides. So I ask the necromancer if the ones that we found belonged to him, and begin to approach to return them. Everybody can clearly tell that I'm setting up a trap. So he sends the gnolls three to retrieve them for him.
"Describe the gnolls to me."
They're clearly unhealthy, and seem to be half-starved to death. Mother-like, I express my...
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It's my turn in our group's DM cycle, and thus far the requests are action sci-fi, bonus points for mecha and remaining upbeat (IE: no AdEva).
Finally settled on a SRW-style pastiche of the mecha genre, starting out with man-sized power armor and really low-end grunt things (think missile trucks or at best an Anf) and eventually finding their way up to good old 70's style planet smashers. Most of the mechs are to be pre-built and they just come across them and use them, maybe give them basic equipment swaps. Player custom-builds aren't out of the...
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I'm currently converting WEG Star Wars D6 into a mecha game with a homebrew setting, but my group is aiming more for a gritty experience rather than a playing out a Super Robot anime.
>>45525861
Mekton Zeta is crunchy as fuck and basically awful
GGG is the precursor to Battle Century G so if you're considering that just go check out BCG instead
BESM is a generalist system at its heart so meh
Don't even know what OVA is
I'd personally use Battle Century G
>>45528544
This, BCG is practically SRW the tabletop.
So I introduced a friend to WH40K,namely Dark Heresy by FF Games. He's a nice guy, and I have known him for years, but he's a political dude, and he believes very strongly in libertarian values; the rights of the individual and so on and so forth. So he started a debate with me about how the Imperium is so evil and everything, and said that I must've been trying to force my authoritarian and fascist views because my campaign was nothing but propaganda for my views.
Which leads me to my point, people who don't get that part of Wh40k. In WH40k, everyone...
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>>45525191
Yeah, basically all the enlightened philosophy stuff in this universe turned out to be a trap by beings that will fuck you up not just because it's fun for them, but because it's in their very nature.
Mankind lives in the worst possible scenario because this is the best they can do, and the question is whether it would be better to die than live like this.
>>45525191
Are you sure he's not a liberal? Because liberals are the only ones who are this humorless.
>>45525241
>Yeah, basically all the enlightened philosophy stuff in this universe turned out to be a trap by beings that will fuck you up not just because it's fun for them, but because it's in their very nature.
No. All the enlightened philosophy became a luxury humanity can no longer afford.
Hey, So I've decided to be a real piece of shit and get into the game of buying warhammer 40k (specifically, forge world) for a fraction of the price, dicking over GW in the process, because fuck those prices.
So I'm looking for several people with "a very particular set of skills", namely CoolCastorNot (CCON) and the ever elusive "Z", but any recasters that can be considered "reputable". I'm pretty much just looking for email addresses, the password for CCoN's catalogue and reviews/testimonials from people who have used them before (anything from if they're reputable, what they're good at, how quickly they reply/ship out, price differences etc).
So, /tg/, will you help me be a real asshole and steal models out from under GW and forge world?
>>45521478
fuck off GW nobody likes you here
Well...shit, you've got me.
>>45521478
Sorry GW Legal Team but no one on this board will just post the information for all to see. You have a better chance lurking on reddit.
Seriously did you think this thread wouldn't make you look like a narc?
Your name is Amy Nakamura, a 17 year old void Oni, and right now you’re trying to not fall asleep in English class. You were up kind of late last night after discovering some sort of thunder-Oni magic. That amazing discovery netted you a one way ticket to yard work this weekend. On the bright side you did manage to figure out how some of your Oni bullshit works, which was always neat. But on the not-so-bright side you didn’t get much sleep last night and now you’re suffering for it. English was one of your better classes as well, the material was somewhat interesting and...
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>>45521410
>Just let it happen
We don't really do 'inconspicuous' and falling asleep might be worse
>>45521410
>Go to sleep
not good to neglect our health
Welcome one, and I welcome you all to the tale of a world called Thespia.
Here is the odyssey of one that clings to this world with no face of their own! In a place where magic is fundamental to all of creation, all who live wear their lives upon their face, where a fire might wish to be the cooking fire of an inn!
The Faceless overcame the tyrant lord of Bikel, Stephan Grant, son of Mikael Grant. Thus, while wearing the face of the vengeful spirit "The Reaper of Aurel" otherwise known as Dramir, a story in the world of Thespia comes to an end as a hero...
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>>45520856
It's Sol's zenith again upon another day on the road to Pruden, yet your party rides in much improved comfort. Biz sits upon the Lady Damsel's carriage(whom you learned to be Lady Cyrielle of Bordello Noveu). After dismantling the banditry that had been the Men in Tights, you rendezvoused with Odette for the results of her hunt, and set forth once more upon the carriage safe from the heat of Sol or the incessant pounding of your feet upon the shabby dirt road.
Lounging comfortably inside...
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>>45520867
“Just curious, most Guisi tend to... keep to themselves. You know, let alone travel with a fellow Namour.”
“To answer your question.” Odette speaks up, her tone clear as she stares right at Lady Cyrielle, “I'm transitioning, I need only wait for Akkoril to come with the summer and I'll wear the marks again. As for why I was a Guisi or why I'm ceasing the Arche, that is none of your business.”
Lady Cyrielle smiles, swiftly covering her mouth with a fan, “My, fiesty aren't...
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>>45520880
>[“Do you have any business in Pruden?”]
You're late, Dran
You are Tsukuda Ryouta, a Shinigami of the 12th Division with the unique role of an investigator of abnormal occurrences.
It could be said that even now, within the comforts of the Soul Society's wealthy Seireitei, you are looking into something unusual - a house for your adoptive mother.
Shinigami that originate from Rukongai do not bring their families with them because it is both a costly and seldom available option. Generally, if someone needs to be within the Seireitei, they already are. Noble families, no matter how small, have claimed themselves a speck...
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Only a handful of Shinigami - the highest ranking and the most elite - own their own property in the Seireitei. Date Gorou, the 7th Division's ninth seated officer, is one of them. The officer is retiring, and is looking to do something about his house. Even though you are both seated at a table, discussing the matter of selling property over some tea, his massive stature still looms menacingly, even though the man clearly has no intention to intimidate anyone.
"I am retiring. It pains me to leave my many friends and comrades here behind, but there are matters that I must focus on." He explains, his massive hands making the teapot in them look tiny by comparison. He makes to fill your empty cup. "Tsukuda-san, I hope the terms are acceptable for you. As I've said, if you don't want the furniture, I could..."
"It's fine." You say, nodding your head in silent thanks as you sip the tea. Gorou has been rather eager to please, open to barter and compromises. It seems that he wants to get rid of the house as quickly as he can, but even so, he's been honest about the house's few downfalls, like the fact that it gets particularly cold during winters. It's nothing that couldn't be remedied, but despite that, the giant seemed rather nervous, clearly anticipating an unsatisfied reaction that ultimately never came. "It won't be difficult for us to redecorate if there is a need."
After a stern nod of his bald head, the documents are signed.
The house is now yours. It cost you a fortune, but it's not as if you have anything else that you wanted to purchase.
(2/3)
>>45514514
...Wanted. For just a brief moment, your steady breathing quivers. There is no necessity for you to own a house; the barracks should be sufficient for the work you do. Likewise, it is not 'necessary' for your mother to live so close, either.
It's just that you want her to be near.
...
>Ask Gorou why he needs to retire.
>Present the house to your mother as a surprise.
>Write her a letter and...
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>write her and tell her to et ready to move to sereitei
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You're still not sold on the idea, but after nearly two days on the trade road, you're starting to warm to this “train” thing, whatever it is. Not that you mind a long ride, of course – you couldn't do what you do if travelling long distances was such a burden – but there's a difference between...
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>>45513597
Even when your horse draws close to the Nameless Temple, you're still thinking about the Dragon River. When the Emperor of the time – Tatsuhiro the second, you recall – ordered a great bridge built across the river, there had been outrage. Some even claimed that the construction had been a turning point for the country, a symbolic victory that signalled the start of a new era. From that day onwards, some have said, the gods started to grow distant and spiteful, erratic and cruel.
And now Tatsuhiro the third want to send a great iron beast roaring across this sacred space whenever he pleases. It'll never happen, you think with vague doubt, he wouldn't start a war over something so petty and egotistical.
Then again...
Smiling bitterly to yourself, you dismount your horse and leave it in the able care of the stable attendants. Striding into the Nameless Temple, you pause only to glance at a cluster of posters, marked out with the faces of missing apprentices. There are a few more now, you realise with vague dismay, even in the short time you were away. Before you can think too hard about it, though, Howa calls out to you.
“Ira,” she greets you, “Back again, I see. Listen, I want-”
If she wants to give you another pointless riddle, you complain, she can bother someone else.
“Actually, I was going to apologise about that. Maybe, just maybe, I overdid it a little,” she smiles ruefully, leaning heavily on her cane, “I suppose I was just glad to have you all to myself for a little bit, just like old times. Can you forgive me?”
>Fine. Apology accepted
>Never mind that. Has there been any new writs?
>How is that apprentice, Koa, doing?
>Excuse me, I need to see the Mentor
>Listen, what can you tell me about these missing apprentices?
>Other
>>45513603
>Fine. Apology accepted
Wasn't really that big a deal.
>Listen, what can you tell me about these missing apprentices?
>How is that apprentice, Koa, doing?
>>45513603
>>Fine. Apology accepted
>Listen, what can you tell me about these missing apprentices?
>The entire party maxxed out _________
What's the best stat for this and why is it Charisma?
because Charisma allows boring people to negotiate out of fighting altogether and turn the campaign into Diplomacy Simulator 2016
>>45512504
No.
Charisma is alright but Wis and Dex are far more useful.
Think about a party with perception so high you can't surprise them, they can sense every single motive they want, survival checks out of the ass and so on.
And of course Dex especially if you got the saving throw proficiency will make you nigh immortal in battle.
>Wisdom
>They don't go adventuring in the first place
Why didn't the Eldar make friends with humanity, or fix the enmity that developed?
WFB elves made friends with humans when they weren't in as great of a situation, and in 40k, humanity controls almost the entire galaxy. They have uncountable bodies to throw at problems when Eldar are reluctant to let one of their number die. And many of them are fanatics that can easily be swayed in one direction or another and never question orders. Why couldn't they just bury their pride and make friends with a race of literal meatshields? Humans could fight more effectively with Eldar guidance, if not technology or direct military help, and they both hate Chaos and most other Xenos anyway.
>>45507870
because they did not need us until we were already xenophobic.
>>45507938
So? That could have been fixed. They had 10,000 years to work on it.
>>45507870
The Eldar are more full of themselves than the High Elves are. Had 40k truly been Fantasy Battle in the future instead of End Times & alternate universes, the Imperium would have had far more Elves & Dwarfs.
>The DM is the only one who wants to take the game seriously
>>45506055
as GM i abandon taking it seriously whenever i play.
>>45506055
I ran a game like this.
Never again.
>>45506055
And that, as well as catching two of the players smoking inside when I left for the bathroom, is why they're no longer invited back.
Alright guys, lets role up a heretic cult!
1d10 for for societal background
Rolled 2 (1d10)
If it's a 7 our cultural background is drug cartel. Drug of choice is Weapons grade LSD.
>>45503517
>2
>Desperate underclass
Looking for a way to make the Grim Darkness a little less grim, we turned to the forces of chaos
1d100 for leadership type
Rolled 41 (1d100)
>>45503563
