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Dungeon World and Torchbearer.

Not even kidding they are shilling this at my FLGS.

>>228237

What is so bad about those games?

>>228196

40k is popular but still pretty niche. It's a lot like metal; the aesthetic is pretty deliberately normie-repellent even if a shitload of people like it.

>>221889

Dungeons and Dragons.

>>228237

>Torchbearer

>Normalfag

Seriously what

>>227304

>Wherever you are ‘Sophie’ I want you to know that I forgive you and that I sincerely hope you are happy.

You're either a very mature man or an utterly spineless beta.

>>228242

I rather assume it's the former.

This is from a while back.

>Planning a campaign with a small group of friends

>One of them ask if they can invite another player

>"Sure why not"

>Fast forward to first session

>The new guy is alright, and pulls off a semi-descent RP.

>The new guys goes off with another party member to find a missing person

>NPC is talking to them

>"My brother and I will pay for any information regarding our missing aunt…"

>New guy starts laughing uncontrollably

>Confusion, ask him if hes ok

>He bursts out "HIS ARMS, BUT HES GOT TWO RIGHT THERE"

>Awkward laughter from other party members

>He just yells it over and over as loud as he can

>"HIS ARMS BUT HES GOT TWO RIGHT THERE"

>"HIS ARMS BUT HES GOT TWO RIGHT THERE"

>"HIS ARMS BUT HES GOT TWO RIGHT THERE"

>Tell him to cut it out

>He doesnt

>Mute him so we can continue with the dialogue

>He starts spamming me saying he has something useful to input in character.

>Unmute him

>"HIS ARMS BUT HES GOT TWO RIGHT THERE"

>Are you fucking serious

>Mute him again

>Tell him if he says it one more time im kicking him

>He promises not too

>Unmute him

>"HIS ARMS BUT HES GOT TWO RIGHT THERE"

>"HIS ARMS BUT HES GOT TWO RIGHT THERE"

>"HIS ARMS BUT HES GOT TWO RIGHT THERE"

>Ban him from the teamspeak

>Later found outPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>228281

>I've got some more stories about "that guy" and one where i joined a mary sue fuckfest that fell apart due to 90% of the people involved being asspies The GM was alright i guess

By all means post them. It's not like you need our permission.

That is some very strange autism right there, though. I doubt you ever figured out what the fuck he was going on about, did you?

surprisingly good song

>>227761

Hamas makes some good shit

>>228271

My brothers and I have, for years, wanted Rhapsody to do a cover of Red Sun in their high, wailing epic way.

Im still not sure which of these tracks is the best to play in the background as you start an Only War campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MgTQ-56P0

>>228285

Whatever was blue about Geist of Saint Traft, who does the exact same thing

>>228276

I can already see the downside of Sin Prodder though. It should only be played when you have enough lands on battlefield for everything in your deck or opponents will mana screw you hard

I'm actually working on a Dark Souls/Bloodborne system based on the Fallout SPECIAL system.

Having a pool of stamina points that you spend to attack or dodge, a static Sequence, and so on.

Currently trying to figure out how to get my magic system to have reasonable difficulty across the board.

The system runs on attribute + skill + 3d6, with both attributes and skills being 1 to 10. Magic comes in 6 difficulty levels and 10 power levels: the maximum level of power is limited by the skill in a particular kind of magic. You can buy up to 3 specializations at levels 3, 6 and 9 and 3 masteries at 4, 7 and 10 that apply to particular ways of using spells, so you can have up to a +6 bonus at level 10.

I got two possible ways of doings this going on. One is (3D)+P+10, with D being difficulty and P being power. This means the lowest roll at 1 difficulty and power being 14; each increase of power raises difficulty by 1 and an increase of difficulty adds 3. This means that at low levels you have a decent shot at making the roll, but at higher levels it's all but trivial, with difficulty 4 magic at power level 10 requiring you to roll a 12 without taking a specialization or anything. But the highest difficulty of magic becomes all but impossible to cast: you'll need a nat 18 to cast difficulty 3 at level 1, difficulty 4 at level 3, difficulty 5 at level 5 and difficulty 6 at level 7.

The other way to do this is (3P)+(2D). This means at the lowest levels magic is very easy to cast (starts at 5, with each power increase raises the target with 3 and each difficulty increase raises the target by 2), but magic becoming quite a lot more difficult. This means that 10P 6D magic takes a 42, meaning you have to roll a 16 or more, which has a chance of 10 in 216, which is next to nothing. I might add other ways to make actually casting magic easier (maybe something with magic implements or something), but I don't know about this just yet.

The mana system on the other hand will be a lot simpler: your mana points are your Magic attribute times your Attunement skill (which is pretty much for mana only) times three, meaning you have a total of up to 300 points to spend. If you want to restore your points you gotta take a good night's rest.

>>227449

1.) The money people make in universe versus what PCs get is fucked from a narrative standpoint

2.) Their backstory has jack and shit to do with any of the campaign, far as I can tell, much like pretty much everything else in NPC backstories. They are just there for the GM to use to know who they are dealing with and the PCs will never have to know.

>>227458

The Queen of Cheliax is indeed a woman, and the series does have its fair share of male and female villains.

Though there is a literal demon lord of misogyny in the setting. He came from a barbarian tribe that treated women like property and got screwed over in a deal by Baba Yaga, so he hates all women now.

>>227506

You seem a bit retarded on the matter but let me help you out with that.

No, lust is good as it leads to children but excess lust is what is frowns on. All the sins are good in small doses like pride or righteous wrath but an excess is what is wrong. Also if we are talking about Christian angels and demons you realize that they take on a human form when dealing with humans, what they actually look like is far different than human. Hell most of them have four heads and six wings.

No, Christianity had nothing to do with SJW ideals and your current view on Christian values is laughable and reddit tier at best.

A quick run down of the values:

Faith is belief in the right things

Hope is taking a positive future view, that good will prevail.

Charity is concern for, and active helping of, others.

Fortitude is never giving up.

Justice is being fair and equitable with others.

Prudence is care of and moderation with money.

Temperance is moderation of needed things and abstinence from things which are not needed.

I hope this clears things up for you and you be less retarded in the future.

>>227506

>I'm applying basic common sense logic…?

>iconics and select NPCs only

>literally every named character in the setting

no logic here.

you distinctly stated "So yeah everyone in the setting" >>227363

Yes, the setting heroes, being blank slates, are bisexual as are a couple of NPCs

they do NOT comprise 100%, or even 5%, of everyone in the setting

let's refine that: even when you eliminate unimportant NPCs such as the dozen or so named shopkeeps in a given adventure, the bisexual, homosexual, or otherwise sexually deviant characters don't even comprise a number equal to or greater than 5% of important characters

therefore your logic is flawed and your statement is at best smug assholery

>>227950

Yes, but Kirby is gone now. And judging by the new starter boxes, new and old boardgames, revival of specialist games and attempts at enticing more kids in, whoever is in charge now seems a lot more competent.

No matter what asinine shit they've done before, they've always more or less followed the numbers in the end.

I had a quick question about Only War. When concerning overwatch, does the attack action occur every time an enemy does something on their turn? Could someone theoretically shoot the enemy for each of their turns and pin them?

Or is overwatch only able to be used on one enemy to pin them?

>>228267

Have you tried looking at the errata? I don't know myself, but there my be an answer in there.

>>227573

IIRC the fan canon is:

Winter Assault, both wins (IG makes it to the Titan but the Eldar fuck with it).

Dark Crusade: The Bloody Magpies wins

Soulstorm: The Imperial Guard wins.

Real canon Taldeer (winter assault) fucked Sturnn (that's in a actual Only War sourcebook) then got killed by the blood ravens (hunted in Dark Crusade).

The Bloody Magpies won because a lot of shit with Davian Thule/Avitus (in DoW II) is related to the Blood Raven purging the Imperial Guard from Kronus and the relic they found.

The Imperial guard win Soulstorm because it's sure the bloody magpie got rekted (DoW II Cyrus) but they got out (which is only possible with IG winning).

>>228267

The language is very singular and all good reasoning should tell you that you get one attack with this one action you are taking, otherwise you'd be completely breaking the flow of time.

> The active character guards a specific area, poised to shoot at an opportune moment.

An opportune moment. Just the one. There's also the short description of Overwatch in table 8-1.

> Shoot a target coming into a set kill zone

A target, not every target.

>>225662

>>225667

>Mage: Dark Ages

Never played.

>WHFRPG

Never played.

I'm going to imagine I'm emulating some good shit, though.

>>225685

M:DA takes place in the oWoD (so same cosmology as Vampire: the Masquerade) during the Dark Ages and the days of early Renaissance. The players take on the role of the aforementioned Mages - a bunch of reality warpers locked in a secret war over the fate of the whole world. This includes the ancient Order of Hermes (your stereotypical wizard, except with insane cutthroat politics thrown in), the various pagan spellcasters (who're perfectly capable of calling down Odin on your ass), or the Church (who're capable of working miracles and other acts of faith - and which also includes the Inquisition).

Besides fighting each other over whose idea of how the world should run is the best one, they fight infernalists, demon worshippers, vampires, werewolves, the fae and other eldritch horrors. They do it with sword and sorcery, by forging fates of Kings and Heroes (Merlin is around, and he's one of the Mages overlooking King Arthur - and yes, the Arthurian myth is real here), or by invigorating the masses to do heroic shit and fight the oncoming darkness.

One of the newer Mage groups that appeared near the beginning of the Renaissance are the Order of Reason. These guys were tired of their fellow Mages ruling as sorcerer overlords, of vampires ruling entire kingdoms from the shadows, and of people generally being piss poor and sick and starving. So they banded together, and used technology and the Consensus (the subconscious magic field that every human has - think the WAAAGH from 40K except capable of rewriting reality) to wipe out vampires, demons and other horrors from the face of the Earth.

Of course, since they're still young, they haven't managed to accomplish their goals yet. So your idea of a bunch of Dark Ages / Renaissance men fighting tooth and nail for a better future of mankind from the shadows really reminded me of that.

Oh yeah, and the Order of Reason? These guys became later known as the Technocracy and are behind every banking plot, government scheme, vaccination conspiracy theory and all sorts of Orwellian bullshit going on in the World of Darkness. They wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>225685

I'd say you are. The WHRPG had witch hunters wandering the land, destroying the taint of chaos wherever they found it. That was their main purpose, but the Templars of Sigmar also went after the undead whenever they started acting up. The Witch Hunters are grim people, but dedicated to stopping the all devouring hordes of Chaos lest they destroy the world.

The Vampire sourcebook also made hunters who specialized in hunting the undead playable. Unlike the Templars, these sorts are mostly just crazy people.

>>225799

Well, I'll take that as a good thing! If I'm emulating ideas (although to be fair, the idea of monster-hunting for the safety of the populace is fairly…broad and popular), at least I'm emulating good stuff.

>>228259

The message is redistribution of value for no other reason than because it's "better that way", even if the people without have done nothing to earn, deserve, or trade for their received value.

That is communism in a nutshell, and no amount of smug or reaction images will change that.

>>228263

>tries to find deeper meaning in a children's book

>recognizes the utilitarian overtones in Rainbow Fish

you had two options

>"oh, it's a book that encourages giving up one's surplus of resources to make sure everyone is happy!"

>"It's communist propaganda! What did THOSE people do to deserve having a rainbow scale? They STOLE it, despite asking nicely and making sure to reward him for it!

The mistake is on you. Get better at literary criticism.

>>228265

I'm not even the guy that wrote the original criticism, but you just in your own words held up a positive view of communism as the 'correct' response, so I guess you've made my point for me.

Lefties can never seem to parse "kindness and generosity" from "mandatory communal resource pool". It was none of the other fishes' business what the one did with his own property in the first place. Full stop.

>>228265

>"oh, it's a book that encourages giving up one's surplus of resources to make sure everyone is happy!"

>"It's communist propaganda! What did THOSE people do to deserve having a rainbow scale? They STOLE it, despite asking nicely and making sure to reward him for it!

Pick both.

…I didn't expect to see a political analysis of Dr. Seuss on /tg/. I wouldn't have even expected that on /pol/.

We've dug too deep.

>>227308

>Replying to a post from over a month ago for 'continuing this retarded argument'

>>226531

>cloning exists

Why don't they just clone space marines? Or the emperor?

>>227691

see >>227256

And the Emperor is what he is because he is a fusion of the souls of tons of ancient shamans. You wouldn't get to replicate that by cloning him.

>>227683

Fuck, I keep forgetting how slow /tg/ is, I need to start checking dates

>>227659

Yeah but that's what I said Abaddon has a reason, a purely selfish one.

Which is why he should be told to fuck off by the chaos gods (roughly like what happened to Magnus after the whole rubrik marines thing).

It doesn't happens because that's a lore can of worms.

The whole thing is a pretext to explain "The Emp killed Horus, for good, yeah sure chaos tried to resurrect him any way they could, but even that failed".

>What they could, and really should do though, is cloning or otherwise using genetic manipulation and eugenics to mass produce recruits that they know will have a maximum chance to survive the marine creation process.

Some of the lore said that about 30k era space marines. But that they stopped because somehow they were heresy prone.

>>226449

A worm that walks composed of countless worm liches and whose every bone is a demiurge

>>227438

demilich

>>226295

variant: Spider That Walks

>>228238

okay what the fuck>>227658 (You)

>Tetsuo

Manages to assassinate (pre-walker) Bolas w/ the help of other guys.

>Bolas manages to get a spark because of this.

Botched!

>Kills Xira Arien, a 1/2 Fairy

>All in all, an ok character

>plus that historically accurate art!

>Toshiro

>Ronin, Kanji, and Con artist

>Carries a Jitte banned in almost all formats/

>gets help from the most powerful Ogre to ever exist in MtG.

>literally Planeswalks without a spark.

Toshiro is the more badass of the two.

>>228239

>>228238

Dude, if you're being fucking legit right now

Clear your reply box before you reply. You've clearly got some friggin leftovers in there and aren't looking. Failing that, check your settings, clear your cookies or do fucking something.

>>228244

Close and reopen the browser, clear cookies and cache, reboot your PC.

Just do something other than posting.

>>227792

Except that Bolas was born with a spark, and it was awakened tens of thousands of years before any of that happened

>>228268

Kill the Thri-Kreen, fuck the Gith, Marry the Construct.

>>228268

Kill the Githyanki/zerai, never was fond of the Githyanki and if I accidentally kill a githzerai then shame but acceptable.

Fuck Thri Kreen, always had a soft spot for them and https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Thri-Kreen_Erotica has only added to my desire. I would marry them but they die after 30 years.

Marry Construct, Inexhaustible Robowaifu when?

>>228269

>>228270

>>228273

>Constructmind

Book of Erotic Fantasy has Pleasure Golems.

>>228273

>Thri-Kreen erotica

I just read it and damn that was good.

Thanks anon.

>>228268

Marry the Construct.

Kill the others.