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>>53354438
Aw damn, an error already. That title font should be Herculanum

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>Why use FFGSWRPG as a base?

I've played and enjoyed a lot of EotE, AoR, and F&D. I think that Fantasy Flight Game's narrative dice system lends itself very nicely to the Avatar universe due to the way the core mechanic tries to facilitate episodic, fast-paced adventures. FFG created the system to explore a vast universe which enables the same desire in players who want to explore the Avatar universe.

The core mechanic for Star Wars is the narrative dice which relies on a success/fail mechanic. You want to perform an action and you either succeed or you don't. The nuance is that sometimes you fail, either due to the environment or other narrative circumstances which can be quantified in negative modifier dice. Sometimes, even though you fail your action, you may still gain some sort of advantage and sometimes you succeed but with unintended negative consequences.

I think the combat system is what needed the most work to really emulate the fluid and often ad-hoc nature of the fights in the Avatar world. So when it comes to bending, entrenched techniques (like the water whip) are outlined as though they were Force techniques. This means you start with a basic technique but each technique can be upgraded along a tree to enhance the ability in ways to make it more powerful, potent, or to boost the form's utility (more on this in a later post).

So specific bending forms are handled by a Bending skill (itself reliant upon any of the character attributes depending on the nature of the ability) whereas generic one-off moves, like sliding across an ice path or using earthbending to enhance your ability to climb a steep cliff, are handled by a Bending Arts skill to represent the utilitarian nature of bending.

By separating certain techniques into outlined abilities (Bending) and free-form maneuvers (Bending Arts), I've provided players with definitive mechanics for combat as well as the narrative flexibility for improvisation.

Can this work for eras outside of the Second Age? In other words, if we pretend Korra never happened?

>>53354282
There are some RPGs that net you XP for staying in character. I suggest you play one of these with a GM that doesn't skip that particular rule of XP rewards.

That has very little to do with the system and everything to do with your group.

There are RPGs with mechanics that key off IC behaviour, but none of them work if people aren't willing to engage with them.

>>53354282

The problem is your group. Some RPGs are definitely better at encouraging roleplay than others, but if the players are blatantly ignoring the RP aspect of the game, it doesn't matter what you do with that aspect. They're ignoring it.

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He also had the brilliant idea to throw fruit at the sorcerer king of Tyr upon seeing him for the first time and then pick up the entire party and dash through the city becasue, you know, that makes sense for him to do..

>>53354241
Just say "you break down" instead of "you tire yourself out."

>>53354279
This, he will suffer the effects of wear and tear eventually if he doesn't get repaired regularlly... And considering it's Dark Sun.

>>53354211
Dark Angels are my Bois coz they got secrets, I got secrets too ;)

>>53354251
Oh so mysterious and loyal and not the tretourious chapter of all time.

>>53354309
I don't know what you're talking about, we are loyal

FIRST FOR SISTERS!!!

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1st for Slaaneshi porn is best porn

>>53353685
This commissar looks way too into that stuff.

>>53353636
It depends on each chapter and their respective culture.
But as a rule of thumb, you have to understand that being a giant killing machine that is litteraly endoctrinated via hypnose and goes through torture to become that and THEN spending your whole life doing nothing but fighting and going to other places where you will fight might have to do with a wee bit of a social problem.
For all is flaws, ADB is, imo, the one that pictures Astartes the best, as the demigods that they should be. The fact that hr often used the 1st person helps a lot.
A formula from Grimalfus in Blood and Fire stuck with me: "We are not Man made weapon. We are weapon made Man."
But again it depends on each chapter and each individual. Chapters like the Salamanders, Lamenters or the Doom Eagles are very humane.
Their entire mentality is about being the most self-suffering fatalistic grim bastards possible, but all in the name of ensuring that mortal humans don't suffer like they do.

They all see themselves as being already dead and that suffering and pain is their lot in the universe and nothing will change that, so nothing can hold them back from fighting as hard as they can to protect the innocent and the faithful from feeling their suffering.

They're one of the only chapters that manages to be both very grimdark and very sympathetic about protecting regular humans, without those two sides of their mentality conflicting.

>All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in accepting our own mortality can we make a difference. Only in bearing the burden of our failures can we find the strength to go on. Only in detachment from glory, or honour, or jealousy... from life itself can we hope to spare others from grief.
>We are Doom Eagles. And we are dead already.

>>53353636
Depends on the chapter. Space Wolves and Salamanders treat their crew and serfs like family (in the Salamanders' case they ARE family) and Ultramarines, Blood Angels and Lamenters take the "protector" part to heart. The Celestial Lions nearly got wiped out because they're trying to be decent.

>>53353636
>Why are Space Marines such dicks
because they are still human

Yes, now go hang yourself.

>>53353528

Incredibly, intractably gay.

You, or your friend, has caught The Gay and must be reported to the proper autho

What the fuck. No. It is not 'gay'. What the fuck? Why would it matter if it was?

Jesus christ.

>>53353547

/thread

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Does the existence of brass and bronze dragons imply the existence of zinc and tin dragons?

>>53353504
Yes, but they're extinct.

I need a +1 Str, Con or Int Feat and already have Con Save, what's a good choice? Heavy Armor Mastery?

>>53353272
Is there something wrong with the megas?

>>53353303
Working for me

>>53353316
Downloading wise, seems like some downloads would just freeze.

>>53353243
>+2 to your roll if you provide a picture
>-2 to your roll if it involves recognizable memes
>No rerolls
>Don't get to upset about shit, it's just a game
>No /pol/, we're not talking about that kind of race

correction
>3-5 : this race has almost gone extinct
>2- : there's no such thing

let's Fucking go then

This is a race of bipedal ferrets that stands about 4 foot high.

>>53352972
Song of Swords could work, though you'd want to have the magic be essentially rulesless as only big NPC's and villains have it by the description you've given

>>53352972
Burning Wheel sounds like it could work well. It's easy to make work for a relatively mundane setting but still has options for magic if you want to introduce that stuff later.

GURPS with ritual path magic is really really good for gritty medieval stuff.

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Latest update for Starfinder: The Mystic

This is the one of the Magic Classes for the game. It's magic reaches the equivalent of 6th Level spells, which are the highest in Starfinder. It basically combines all those Arcane, Divine, and whatever made up magic groups you can come up with.

http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5ljtz?Class-Preview-The-Mystic

What do you think of it's special ability:
>Backlash (SU)
>Whenever a foe succeeds at a Will save against one of your spells and completely negates the effect, that foe takes 1 nonlethal damage for each mystic level you have. This is a mind-affecting pain effect.
Seems kind of early but posting here before sleep.

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>>53352014
Forgot to include, there will be higher level spells if you want to Port a Pathfinder character, but Starfinder will try to stop at a lower level

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>>53352014

Good, glad to see we don't have to deal with arbitrary divides like arcane and divine

>>53351674
Strengths: Robot
Flaws: Teenager.

Robowaifu/10

>>53351674
A pertinent question: what system to use?
Mutants and Masterminds? Maybe.
GURPS? No. Not powerful enough.
Champions? Another good possibility.
Brainstorm.

>>53351674
If we're going by tactical waifu rules than Wayne is right + she's a 5, by far more tactical than waifu in terms of competency & tendency

It's well done bc her flaw makes her try waifu shit and she fails and has to fix it with guns.

>>53351522
GURPS

>>53351522
Freeform it. All rpg systems have mechanics that get in the way of realism sooneror later. You should trust your judgement instead of the dumb, blind luck of the dice.

>>53351522
Why do you want realism? How far and deep do you want to get?

>i just found this setting.
I can tell, because
>it sounds really good as ideas go.

>how hard is to make the transition from high fantasy DnD to this ?
You'd be amazed at how little difference there is between fantasy and sci-fi.
Numenera is a smaller departure from not!Forgotten Realms than Wilderlands of High Fantasy is.

>Are the premade adventures any good ?
No.
>what is your opinion on it ?
Mechanically, it's garbage.
Thematically, it's underdeveloped garbage.
The idea had some potential, but it was not exploited or even properly developed.

>>53351283
Going from D&Dfinder to numanuma is pretty easy seeing it is a "rules light" system written by a hack who decided that what a rules light system needed was more d20.
Everything it does is done better by something else and the fluff is too scatterbrained and space magic did it to actually be any good.

>>53351283
I read through character creation and decided to delete the PDF.