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>>53202271

I prefer the method used in games like Unknown armies, where players can design their own skills.

>>53201622
>If the aim of the game is to give you the most options, what's the least amount of skills required to cover everything but not so many that it becomes difficult to cover?
Depends on the game. Are you designing a granular and generic system? Include all of the skills, perhaps too many, like GURPS does, and then include the option for drastically reducing the number of skills with Wildcard skills.

Are you making a specific game with a theme in mind? A skill list tailored to that game's themes with the granularity you want. There are important differences between Scholar!, History, and History (20th-century America).

The way I look at it is, if the game doesn't have any mechanic for substituting one skill for another or ensuring that related groups of skills grow together to some degree, then it had better have a short and broad skill list. If your skills are too numerous and too specific you're going to end up with a lot of lopsided characters, like the greatest fencer in the world who somehow can't throw a punch to save his life, or a professional dancer with terrible balance.

In this situation I think you want about a dozen skills at most - Fate Core or D&D 4e are good examples. But if you go this route then you probably want a separate mechanism to indicate what proficiencies you have for those really specialised skills, e.g. you might have great Craft and Speech ratings but unless the game is extremely freeform you'll want to be able to reference aspects or backgrounds or something to say actually you're a trained aeronautical engineer who speaks Farsi.

You can also go the GURPS or Shadowrun route and have lots of highly specific skills but allow for buying groups at a discount, using one skill as default for another and so on... but I'm not really a fan of this approach for a number of reasons, the primary one being that not all skills are created equal, and the more you have that are bought with the same resource the greater the chances are that you're making players spend their limited resources on what is essentially fluff - the mechanic above might have spent as many build points on speaking Farsi fluently as other characters put into shooting their primary weapon, so he's essentially being punished for adding background detail.

somebody post the greentext with the eastern refugee drow

>>53201368
use pliers

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>>53201368

> anon finds out there are people who disagree with him on the Internet
> anon barely survives this traumatic experience

>>53200213
>Implying not wanting SJWs to murder the lore is simple disagreement
>implying SJWs know anything about 40k and just saw space marines and no women in them

what are the Sisters of Battle

>>53200233
>implying these are SJWs and not NEET who want more wank fuel

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>>53200032
We have a discord server set up for all things /tg/ Cup-related. So pop in if you want to talk about the team or just anything in general. https://discord.gg/011qOR7qt0vo3Siiv

>team 40k

When does /tg/ get its own team?

I got a question, why is Creed no longer on the team and why do we suck now?

You're friends are either shit or don't actually want to play. probably both.

Have a look to see if your LGS has RPG nights. Might be a better way of finding people who are keen to play.

>>53199116
>cthulhu is too niche
Shit taste.

>narrative is too limiting
Ah, so they're freeform faggots then?

>no mobile devices
>he doesn't use the glorious anti-cheating-faggot measure that is a dice-roller app

>coasters
OH NO
YOU'VE DONE IT NOW OP

I have some basic rules

>players must be able to do 5 pushups or run a 5k
>must be able to write in cursive
>must be able to drive or ride a bike
>no new rocks, converse, crocs or skechers
>no tracksuits, sweatpants, tighty-whities or t-shirts
>no backpacks or fanny packs

That helps get rid of fatties, children and special ed kids

>>53198478
...you could just ban the things you don't like directly instead of trying to ban stereotypes you associate with them.

Pigface
Tuskies
Momma's boys (hyena matriarchy be crazy)
He-bitches
Dogface
And the all purpose "brutes" or "savages"

>>53197525
>Momma's boys (hyena matriarchy be crazy)
>Gnolls call humans "Daddy's daughters" instead
>Neither side thinks this is an insult

Orc/Gnoll PC's get served rotten or raw meat "hey, you like this don't you?"

Bones get thrown at them in the streets, with taunts of "free food for the brute"!

Escalating provocation, trying to "prove" their animal nature. Any response leads to retaliation

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First for the only children the Emperor loved

>>53196960
Second for best legion

You get to design and add one unit to the next FW black book.

It can be legion specific or generic, what do you do?

But when I play with my friends I feel like every other word is some off-topic shit. I completely lose my immersion in the game. And on the occasions we play with a subset of the group and get into the roleplaying, we REALLY get into it. Like, I forget where I am, like a good movie, it really sucks me in. But this is becoming more and more the exception. I've considered a "no phones" rule because players will be showing us memes in the middle of me trying to talk and shit. And will be talking about random animes or star wars shit, or will mention something and all the sudden it's "OMG you haven't seen that youtube video? he needs to see it right now!"

Is this my fault? They love the campaign and love my GMing, they shower me with adulation even though I have many flaws I am aware of. Is there a way to get them more immersed? I've been running games for years, I foreshadow and cliffhanger without even being aware of it until later, I run the combats when they happen like a well-oiled machine. yet it's still not enough? Am I alone in this issue? Is there a solution?

Also sorry for literally copy pasting a thread I made last night but it kinda died before I got many replies.

Different groups find different things satisfying. For some, that deep immersion and a few hours of heated roleplay is ideal. For others, the game is a setting for socialization. Ask your groups which they prefer; if they want the deep shit, put that much extra effort in and make them relish it. If they just want a beer and pretzels night, that opens up other things as well; besides the different atmosphere and humor you could try running some different board games every once in a while, or trick them into roleplaying with Everyone is John or something.

Fuck immersion.

Some people play rpgs not to be the epiphany of storytelling but to have fun with friends. Stop trying to force a group out of badwrongfun reasons.

The only thing that is real at the table are the player. Immersion can be cool, but in the end you are still playing a game and not everyone wants to act as a fictional character in the same way.

Ask the group if they want to be immersed or if they feel comfortable with the fun they have. You are the problem if you want others to be immersed without their buy in.

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First for wood elves!

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[Autistic rattling noises]

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Reminder

Reposting from old thread:

>>53188244

Would any kind admech anons out their be willing to tell me the measurements for a kataphron battle servitor?

Been thinking of teching up some blightkings and running them as kataphrons for a dark mechanicum army but can't find any size details besides the size of he base. I don't want them to be too small.

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>>53188998
They make steel legion drab as a nice color, I think it'll be a lot easier to work with over a large amount of individuals than mustard yellow.

I used it on the pants and the bedrolls.

>>53186879
Western ones are actual dragons by our definition

Eastern are more of serpents or wyrms.

They both have their place.

they're both fine, whatever

>>53186879
Generally, Northern dragons are cooler, because climate and stuff.

Bandits

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>>53184765
Xvarts or Tasloi, clearly.

Goblins. Kobolds can remain challenging into high levels.

>>53182762
I like typical fantasy weapons (swords, axes, what have you) but with ornate or impractical design flair.

But if I had to pick one fantasy weapon as my favorite I guess I'd go with spear.

>>53182762
a gun that shoots swords that divide into daggers that explode

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>>53183150
>not using the double club