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I shall pollute 5e with another homebrew of mine. Looking for criticisms and yada yada. General preface as always is that these are just mechanics I have come up with that I thought would make the archetype desirable, and have not yet been fine tuned or nerfed from the original idea so I don't waste 2 hours fine tuning it just to realize it should be something else.

Feature names and numbers are subject to change, looking for fluff as well since the best I can think of is "Natural knack for controlling blood".

How do you do lootations?

>>53129015
No larger organization this campaign, our de-facto name throughout has been the "rib-ticklers," one of our PCs played a necromancer and we needed a name at the time that really sticks to the ribs

>>53128222
Blowjobs

I throw it away and find people with better taste.

>>53128222
What's that?

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>>53128213
>New World of Darkness: Grappling Rules

The only grappling rules I've seen that aren't an abstract fucking mess. You want to do [thing] during grappling? Roll STR + Brawl - Enemy STR. Special training lets you do some special maneuvers during the grapplefest, but everything that a normal human being could do during a grapple is allowed. Simple, logical, efficient.

>>53128213
>Burning Wheel: Emotional Attributes
You're playing a non-human, they have powerful drives which humans don't. Great for making playing an elf or dwarf actually feel like a character who plays differently than a human would, not just a human with slightly different stats.

>>53128973
this. Also in Burning Wheel:
>Advance what you use
IMO is a better way to character advancement than levels and xp, though more bookkeep intensive. It really gives a feeling that your choices and the story mold the character.

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>53127952

For the glory of the Omnissiah.

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>>53127969
Caste-born: Raised from birth to serve the Omnissiah and his chosen Tech-priests as warriors.

It's the will of the Omnissiah!

>Forge World Primary Function

>>53128051
d10 for the roll btw

>>53127570
>most of what we had envisioned for the campaigns would be kind of corporate investigation/espionage stuff

That sounds like a cyberpunk game minus the cybernetics.

>>53128442
And with a vastly more faux-victorian tone rather than a dystopic one based on 1980s values.

But you think I should be looking to modify something like Shadowrun?

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So, this is a question that doesn't deserve its own thread, so I'll post it here. What's a good system to use for a sci-fi setting that relies heavily on interplanetary travel, namely one with good ship mechanics? I'm trying to create the whole space-NEET feeling of Starbound while not actually basing it on the game (that game's lore isn't bad, though). I'm a Dee en Dee fag and so are my players, so I'm not familiar with any sci-fi systems.

Inb4 pic related. I'm not opposed to it, but I'd like some thing more specialized.

>>53127542
I dunno mayne. Nerds like cheesecake, I guess.

>>53127542
Advances in CAD and casting mean that companies can now make female minis that aren't fuck ugly. Necromunda and SoB had boob plate and stuff so it isn't really anything new. not to mention the Slaaneshi daemonettes with their tits out.

>>53127542
So you don't fap to badass warriors and monsters?
Fagget.

>>53127399
Practice helps. Like any new, complex skill, you can't expect to be very good at it at first. Can you tell us any specific issues you're having / they say you're having?

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1. Most GM advice boils down to truisms and common sense. Don't be mean, remember the golden rule, communicate with everyone as clearly as you can, practice makes perfect, etc.

2. Some of the best advice you'll get is right in the rulebooks. You might not take the author's advice to heart immediately, but make sure to reread them on occasion, because you might find answers in them that you initially overlooked.

3. Your players know how well you GM best. Make sure they feel comfortable in giving you advice and criticizing you. Ask them what you can do to improve and what they want to see in your games. Pay attention to their likes and dislikes.

4. Make sure to read/watch whatever you can in relation to the genre of the game you are running. Constantly be mining material for ideas and inspiration. Listen to music, and try to imagine scenes in your game inspired by that music.

5. You might find it useful to record your sessions and to watch/listen to them to get a new perspective of your games. It might be painful at first, but it's an easy way to see for yourself what you might need to improve.

>>53127399
>everyone say I'm not a good master
How many times have you run a game?

>>53127298
I think that pure competitive play is a mistake.I would much rather go to a tournament where everybody plays then ranks their opponents based on how fun they were to play against. The point of games is fun. The point of tournaments is to win. As such, games which are focused on the tournament scene are destined to break.

>>53127340
I think that does a pretty good job of illustrating casual vs. competitive. This post does seem more geared toward the competitive scene obviously.

>>53127681
My point is that competitive play in general is a mistake. The goal should be to win, but you'll eventually end up with a perversion of the original game. Just look at chess. Moves are not evaluated at face value, or even several moves ahead: true masters just memorize nodal boards which relate to the greatest number of successful endgame boards and make move to reach those.

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>Thread gets made right after my browser crashes and I lose the post I was saving for hours.

>>53122979
>Jumper Rules
>Your will has King is a mighty thing indeed

/jc/, what are some magical realism settings we have jumps for? That is to say, what are some settings that have a single supernatural element in them, but are otherwise like the real world.

I'm asking specifically because I'm considering making a jump for such a setting, but I'd like to have some examples on how to balance the supernatural vs everyday stuff before committing to it.

Specifically in the setting I'm thinking about there is a single person with a single supernatural power, and everything else is real-world rules as far as anyone can tell. I'm having a hard time deciding where the line between overpowered for the everyday stuff and underpowered for the supernatural stuff is, and would like some examples to help me judge

>>53127048
My university's rpg club is fantastic
>Minimal number of autists, those present are never bad enough to ruin games
>Bearable standards of hygiene
>Intermittent free pizza from club funding
>Cool camps and balls and shit
>They book sweetass rooms for us to game in

>>53127048
>>I'm planning on joining a Vampire: The masquerade club.

DON'T

>>53127444
What's wrong with the VtM community?

>When you don't play, and only know one person who does, but don't even know who he plays against.
>Yet you still are reading on the game.
help

>>53126837
>Guardsmen can wound titans on a 6+
Seems legit. Genuinly no complaints there. Certainly a boost for my blocks of chaos boltermans.

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>>53126837
>https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/08/17794gw-homepage-post-4/
It sounds perfect to me.

>>53126555
Well, if you feel like answering the unanswered.
boards.4chan.org/tg/thread/53058772

Can i equip Horobi with equipments that grant shroud or indestructibility without him instantly dying?

>>53126628
Son of a fucking bitch, it's doing it again. It's just saying "Connection error while posting" every time I try to post the answers.

>>53126436
>Surely they're not all equally matched, right?

Defiantly not.
Mortarion got defeated by Draigo with a single blow.

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>>53126489
Could've happened to anyone.

>>53126489
Draigo knew Mortarion's true name. No more than 3 people in the galaxy have ever known it at one time, and one of them is the Emperor. In fact, the Emperor could have told Guilliman the true name of several, if not all of the Daemon Primarch, possibly making the total of four.

Large monstrosity, unaligned
Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
Hit Points 59 (7d10 + 21)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
20 (+5) DEX
12 (+1) CON
17 (+3) INT
3 (-4) WIS
12 (+1) CHA
7 (-2)
Skills Perception +3
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages -
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Keen Sight and Smell. Mcree has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight or smell.
ACTIONS
Multiattack. Mcree makes two attacks: one with its beak and one with its claws.
Beak. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 5) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage.

Noon: High

>>53126058
Gay for Hanzo/10

I use what amounts to the historical Hellfire Club for all the villanous noble characters in my game world and the Rosicrucians for the good ones. Most of the nobility are of course neutral, and I don't recall basing them on any particular organization. Political campaign, revolving around securing the rights to some slaves btw.

>>53125581
That sounds pretty neat. Any more details?

>>53125363
>NCR, Boomers, Brotherhood, and Legion not lawful
>NCR quote about following orders
>Boomer quote is about calculated losses for the good of the collective
>Brotherhood quote is about group brotherhood and strict ideals
>Ingame Caeser goes on rant about how to make an autocracy
>His Legion's only known benefit is they kill all lawbreakers

Also Followers of the Apocalypse are LITERALLY ANARCHISTS. Who made this?