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Requesting my paragon hero for mutants and masterminds, Emerald Knight.

The costume is rather simplistic near full body suit with a simple two color scheme of white and emerald green. He has a side part haircut of blond color and a big cheesy smile on his square-jawed face.

He is played like a classic campy superhero, always being super positive.

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>>53382986
Posting a bit of an updated request of my human Fighter, Harlow Ironeye

The main picture shows his overall design. He has a couple of missing fingers, lost an eye to burns which he's replaced with a metal ball and is generally pretty greasy and filthy-looking. He wears a sleeveless gambeson and a pair of mostly decorative leather bracers. For his lower half, he'd wear something like the stuff circled in the picture, bags and all.

He usually arms himself with a round shield and waraxe like the ones shown, but he'll take anything he can get his hands on and never gets too attached to a weapon. He also carries plenty of knives as backups.

I'd love to see him stood with his shield and axe in hand, looking as if he'd just gotten done with a fight, maybe with an arrow or two lodged somewhere non-fatal in him.

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Requesting my massive hammer-wielding character. The belt should look a little oversized and be hanging at an angle as it was originally a giants bracelet.

He is a rather happy go lucky character thus the Nora-like pose I'd like to see him in, standing on his hammer.

Light of Mercy 3WW
Creature- Angel
Flying
Whenever a creature with power 2 or less dies, return it to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.
4/5

Vile Oppressor 4BB
Creature- Demon
Wither
Other creatures get -1/-1.
Whenever a creature dies, if it had 0 or less toughness, draw a card.
6/4

Magehunter Pack 2GG
Creature- Wolf Beast
Hexproof
Whenever a creature activates an ability, ~ fights that creature.
4/4

Preserver Sphinx 2UU
Creature- Sphinx
Flying
Whenever you would discard a card, exile it instead.
Whenever ~ leaves the battlefield, you may put the cards exiled with it on top of your library in any order.
3/3

Brash Hoardseeker 2RR
Creature- Dragon
Flying, haste
At the beginning of your combat phase, ~ fights target non-Dragon creature you control.
4/4

>>53433663
They have to fight her on the stage, and the stage keeps CHANGING to match various backdrops, scenery, and props from shows. In one phase they have to fight her on castle ramparts. Suddenly the curtains fall, everything goes black, and when the lights come back up they're in a deep dark wood at the edge of a lake, and the ghost is soaring across is dressed as swan princess.

Have the ghost try to drain the charisma from party members with a horrible, ghastly forced kiss from her corpulent mouth

What system?

I would suggest some way to release the souls and weaken her. Out of combat, this to require knowing personal details about the dead, maybe laying them to rest.

Playing with the equipment on the stage is good. Dropping a curtain or backdrop just as a barrier, or maybe onto someone. Maybe changing the set changes something about her abilities.

>>53433663
The banshee sings a romance opera scene with a villain confronting a hero and the heroine. The song conjures up a ghost show of what she's singing about. The men draw rapiers and fight it out, and every time the villain lands a blow on the hero, the players get injured too in the same place. However, hurting the villain does nothing to the banshee - she's actually singing the heroine's part, so it's the heroine that needs to be killed to weaken her.

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>>53433179
Sorry i found this in my friends house

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>>53433179
It's an old chaos sorcerer of Tzeentch from Warhammer 40K.
That eight pointed star on his staff automatically points him to being something chaos-related from Warhammer.

>>53433179
>2017
>being a Chaoslet

>>53432803
>I want to just put a random Rick and Morty encounter in my Numenera game
No you don't.

Stop lying.

>>53432803
this has to be bait

>>53432827
>>53432846
It ain't bait. I genuinely think it's a funny idea. Especially if I leave it vague so the players have to put it together.

Yeah, they mostly vary from lofty contempt to bitter hatred though.

>>53432054
Very few and it's seen as tasteless. Hybrids are not a thing and what hybrids do exist tend to have major health problems and are generally sterile.

Most non-humans are some manner of beast with varying levels of intelligence. Harpies for instance with their poor intelligence is seen as borderline bestiality.

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>>53432054
There is a race of black-blooded people in my setting. Their women can't have children from others and if they try to impregnate red blooded women, they either die a horrible death or have a torturous nine months and die giving birth to a mass of flesh.

>>53430371
Psychics are empirically true?

>>53430371
It's a memetic disease of disbelief, designed to be spread and thus starve the Gods into powerlessness by feeding the Warp with such thoughts.

>>53430408
But this proves that material has no true form, therefore a materialist/ positivity understanding of order is an objective because what can be measured to be true can change whenever it feels like changing.

>>53430000
>loyalist word bearers

Fuck off.

>>53430166
you sure seem salty anon, would you like some water?

>>53430176
Stop breaking the lore.

Why haven't you played a Spiritualist with the Kindness Emotional Focus yet, /pfg/?

>A phantom with this emotional focus was a being with a generous heart in life and continues to remain that way well after death. The phantom’s intense generosity compels it to remain a phantom and continue assisting the living, especially relatives or those who had been its good friends during its living years. Kindness phantoms have pleasant and gentle demeanors and speak with a melodic cadence, putting most who see them at ease. Their auras are bright emerald green with occasional fluctuating scarlet or golden hues.

>>53429810
His slate's clean for now, but that can change very soon.

>>53429776
But there are things you're talking about in the discussions that you haven't written in the setting info.

>>53429451

Cool aesthetic, cool colour scheme
coollest parts of the iron hands and imperial fists
WW1 tactics used by SM

Most of these things lend themselves to a style a lot of people like, even if some of it is impractical, ie "rule of cool"

>>53429451
Cool colour scheme, their one of the few factions that are just cunts for the sake of it, not because they need to please their weird god/fetish and they get shit done!

>>53429451
Aren't they Chaos?

freeboota??

>>53429519
Ya need to roll ya git!

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>53429432
I for one, am looking forward to seeing how this bonus Stack method will wprk out for Da Orks. I'm quite hoping there's a broken combo hidden somewhere in there that gives Orks a chance to be really broken.

Also Green Tide viable now!

Infinity is probably my favourite wargame I'm playing at the moment. Individual models are somewhat expensive but army sizes are quite small, so building a functional force can be relatively cheap. It's a game with a lot of tactical depth and complexity to it, along with a wonderfully weird selection of units thanks to the odd sci-fi mashup universe.

>>53429414
You should get into one that you'll actually be able to play in your area. Figure out what people play at gaming stores and clubs you're willing to travel to and pick one of those.

Otherwise you're just buying miniatures.

>>53429481
This, basically.

Generally 40k's pretty popular, and in the US Warmachine/Horde's a close second, Infinity third. I can find games for any those with some effort though.
>>53429414
40k's cheapest on a model by model basis (plus easiest to find used), but more models are needed.

Infinity's got a low barrier to entry in pricing (but not hobbying because of the metal models). 70 bucks can really stretch far with it. The interfaction balance for Infinity's the most palatable for me between the big three.

Any of those games is far easier to get into with a friend and/or splitting the two player starter.

Also, Malifaux exists, but I don't like it. Same with Dropzone/Dropfleet Commander, and the various Warhammer Fantasy Equivalents/alternatives like Kings of War, ninth age, and Frostgrave that people have been pushing since Age of Sigmar.

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>>53429332
The books are fun and the audible narrator is Elder God tier.

>>53429405
eh, "delightfully twisted and evil" just sounds so edgy middle school tier to me.

People will recommend Lies of Locke Lamora and its sequels. Do not listen to them. Save your time, money, and sanity.

>>53429307
Keep doing everything you've been doing thus far.

>>53429307
Everything they have accomplished? Ruin it. Makes me feel hopeless and give up immediately.

>>53429307
Just be a good dm, learn how to tell engaging stories. If your players are getting hyped about the sessions then you know you're doing a good job. Once you've mastered that you can get them to feel whatever you want

Learn to prepare or learn to wing it.

Give 'im some practice in the latter.

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I have a theory, that very young DM's can "do anything" because their imaginations are not constrained, and neither is their players' ... but a young adult DM has a much harder time with "doing anything" on the fly, because their adult minds are much more organized and rely on context. This again changes as DM's get older.
>age 10-16: no problem being creative on the fly, limited in experience and realism
>age 16-30: much more difficulty in being creative on the fly. Strive for realism.
>age 30-50: rarer, but DM skills have developed. Tend to be much more formulaic in story design, but can utilize such to be creative when needed with less prep.
>age 50+ Grandmaster DMs. Rare. Approach with reverence and respect. Gifts of root beer are appreciated. Will blow your mind with their tales of Adventure and Drama, Halcyon Summers and Despairing Woe. Use a coaster in their homes, or your suffering will be legendary.

To be fair, this makes sense in games that rely heavily on battle mats (or VTT maps), figures (or tokens), and complex stat blocks.

This is why a lot of 3.x adventures onwards are more like branching paths than a true sandbox. You can go to balanced encounter site A or balanced encounter site B, but you're strongly encouraged not to stray too far.

It would be unreasonable to expect a 3.x/4E/5E DM to run an old school hexcrawl where the party can do literally anything or go anywhere. You can't just say there are some 5 HD monsters or a 3rd-level magic-user, you have to work that stuff out (stats and special abilities and CRs and...).

Kudos to people who try, like those running West Marches games, but it's still very much a compromise between planning and free exploration, with a lot of prep between sessions.