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>>53062147
How about be an adult and say "hey could you ask your girlfriend to not distract others at the table? If she's not having fun have her talk to me so I can try and get her more interested in the game."

>I'd like it if your girlfriend didn't come to the sessions anymore, she's become a distraction for other players and conveys no interest in the game to the point that it slows down play and adds unnecessary tension to the group. I understand the request puts you and your relationship in a bad spot, so for your sake and the sake of the other "x amount of players" and their enjoyment of the game, it's best if the two of you no longer show up.

Get to it.

>>53062147
"Todd your girlfriend is a fucking mood killer and I hate her almost as much as I hate you"

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no

maybe

who cares?

gonna post this preemptively

>>53062095
I mean Egyptian mythology involved a male god self-impregnating to create the world, so I don't see why you could have the reverse

>>53062164
>who cares?

One of my players.

>>53061761
I'm going to have wet dreams about this

>>53061761
>hamplanet with dyed hair clearly not engaged
I can smell the tumblr.

>>53061761
What games is that even?

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There's not one magic system but instead many different Traditions.

Each Tradition is associate with different Nouns and Verbs (that you have to buy as Merits.) Each Tradition also has specific Modifiers. Alchemy for instance takes a really long time (but you can also make potions so in practise Alchemy revolves around making potions.)

You can use Effects you have bought as Merits before hand or improvise Effects that cost twice as much Potency. The Potency of an Effect is how much the Effect costs as a Merit. Every Tradition used in an Effect gives the Effect some limiter based around the Potency such as requiring a Potency based skill check or a Mana cost based on Potency. You build Effects using a GURPS style ability building system. However, the Effect must fall under the domain of some Nouns and Verbs that you own and the Effect is modified by the Tradition Modifiers of the Traditions you took Nouns and Verbs from.

Hermetic magic for example has the Nouns of Demons, Angels and Undead and the Verbs of Sense, Summon, Command and Banish but costs mana and takes at least 1 minute of preparation.

The Assassin Arts tradition has the Nouns of Man, Beast and Demons and the Verbs of Destroy and Restore but requires an ability check and must work at touch distance.

My setting has multiple forms of magic, each with a different way of being utilized.

First Circle - Alchemical. Energy is extracted from natural raw materials and is placed in some sort of consumable which is then ingested to gain the effect. This is how your typical Potion of X comes about.

Second Circle - Arcane. By tapping into the Leylines that envelop the world, one is able to create overt effects that are clearly supernatural. However, channeling arcane energy isn't easy, and doing too much of it in too short of a time could cause serious side effects.

Third Circle - Divine. Similar to Arcana, but instead of tapping Leylines you recieve energy from your deity. The energy is more "refined" which allows you to channel more of it, but you simply cannot cast any spells that your god would oppose. A priest of Capitalism could not use magic with the purpose of being charitable, for instance.

Fourth Circle - Thaumic. One can harness the energy from one's own soul to various effect. Continued practice with a particular spell refines the ability, and can make it take less energy from you, and so Thaumic casters have more narrow but reliable abilities most of the time.

Fifth Circle - Artifice. It's something of a subcategory of other circles, representing the placement of energy into a permanent item.

Sixth Circle - Void. Magic that is cast with "null energy" granted to an individual by a Void Lord. Depending upon what Lord a person has contracted with, the individual has access to an extremely limited set of abilities that fit the persona of their Lord. These narrow spell lists cannot be changed, but they can be cast infinitely (for the most part) and the contract grants some passive abilities

Cont...

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I'm working on a setting with ritualistic magic right now.

All magic is learned, there's no such thing as inborn magical talent. It's poorly understood, and surrounded by superstition. Think of your typical soothsayer, or deranged cultist, or voodoo magician, but its actually real.

There are different magical traditions, some more trusted than others, but all magic has some kind of a cost, and generally the more powerful the magic, the greater the cost. There are no spell charges, and no mana, the only limitation is if you can pay the cost of casting.

I'm still looking for a system that can support this kind of thing if you have any suggestions (apart from GURPs, I'm not really looking for simulationism).

I'm new to Aos, what do you think?:
Allegiance: Sylvaneth

Leaders
Branchwych (100)
- Artefact: Ranu's Lamentiri
- Deepwood Spell: Regrowth
Treelord Ancient (300)
- General
- Trait: Gift of Ghyran
- Artefact: Briarsheath
- Deepwood Spell: Regrowth

Battleline
5 x Tree-Revenants (100)
- Sylvaneth Battleline
10 x Dryads (120)
10 x Dryads (120)

Units
3 x Kurnoth Hunters (180)
- Scythes
3 x Kurnoth Hunters (180)
- Greatbows
3 x Kurnoth Hunters (180)
- Greatbows

Battalions
Gnarlroot Wargrove (80)
Household (20)

Scenery
Sylvaneth Wyldwood (40)
Sylvaneth Wyldwood (40)
Sylvaneth Wyldwood (40)

Total: 1500

>>53061000
Isn't Wyldwood 0p if you have Sylvaneth allegiance?

>>53061000
You can't take Sylvaneth Wyldwoods as part of your army. You can create them with whatever abilities, but you can't take them like units.

They are also 0 points if you have the Sylvaneth Allegiance, so there is no need for you keep aside any reserve points for them.

The one with the zombie Romans.

>>53060941
It leaves out that the best necromancer nation is in the middle ages. And I think the best blood magic nation is in the late ages?

>>53060941

I tend to like playing the middle ages best, but I like the early ages factions the most. I am also objectively shit at the inner workings of the game so I'm probably missing a lot of stuff.

I do love building a middle Age Ulm pretender who just sits around crafting magic items so I have flying heavy knights with giant fuckoff axes to split entire castles in half.

>>53060426
Pf?
Take all the bad things you said and put them together. Evn the contradictory ones.

>>53060426
>D&D 4e
>too much depth

I was going to reccomend GURPS but something tells me that would be a poor idea. Paranoia and Traveller are fun as fuck.

GURPS, you dont even need to spend your hard earned money to start, you can start with GURPS lite for free and then move on to the basic set uf you like it. GURPS lite is a great place to start with too as it doesnt overwhelm a new GM withe the massive amount of content that the basic set offers. If you like it buy some physical books and then get any other pdfs you need from the GURPS general mega.

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>>53059275
>Eight dog Lucius?
I don't see it working fantastically - even if it's good for a Claim Jump/Leave Your Mark/Covert Breakthrough pool, the last scheme is going to be a freebie to your enemy (since it will be an interact or kill scheme), and the strategy is a total toss-up.

The Watch My Back(?) upgrade to let eeeverything Accomplice (Companion?) might work too to get the interacts in.

I only heard recently that the Changelings can copy Focus'd shots when it comes up.
Seems filthy.

>>53059275
I mean you will have a lot of activations but a side from that I don't think you will have much else going for you. The dogs put out meh damage and are pretty easy to wipe off the board. Also the lose a lot of value if you go to wide a lose a few of them. But I think in table quarters Strat and some schemes it would be okay. If you take a dopple you could so some plays. I don't know really need to know what you would run for you other 27 stones after 8 dogs and Graves. Sounds like it could work but it would be so situational as to make it pointless. Even more so since nothing you said there can 100% make the TN 12 horror duel from Lucius.

>>53060605
I don't really get your meaning...if I focus them with Take Aim and then they copy the Trapper's shot they can just spend their focus like normal and it will apply to the shot...right? Changelings are pretty nasty though for 4 stones, that is for sure.

>>53061037
Point taken. Although nothing can really pass Commanding Presence's duel "for sure"...I would only ever use it if I could guarantee it desu, and that's in any list. I am talking more about Issue Command.

So any other input on Lucius as NB? What models do get me a lot of value? Just Doppel/Nekima type stuff? That seems boring. I am not trying to win tournaments here, just shake up my club games with some fun/weird shit.

>its a big rift
>its bad

I saved you all from having to click that.

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>>53059172
what's the point in even writing something?

>>53059241
>>53059257
At the very least, old abby fucked up, because his crimson path is heading 90° away from terra. He destroys cadia, only to fuck up on getting it where he wants to go.

>>53059099

Magnetism

>>53059099
Take your pick of presence and manipulation.

Appeal

No idea what this game is or how it works or what kinds or mechanics it has aside from using dice.

Can you tell me more?

>>53058311
It looks like a Fantasy Flight lcg.

I've never seen this specific one but the general criticisms are too many awkward moving parts in the name of thematics, annoying vocabulary (though I don't see anything awful in this image) and no-one likes custom dice.

>>53058311
FFG makes pretty good video tutorials for its games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gPu9pp2WOM
also free rules here
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/star-wars-destiny/

>>53058366
>It looks like a Fantasy Flight lcg
actually it's a collectible game with decks, boosters etc.

This thread will never be canon.

Is there a good clear pic of a Tau girl that is canon?

>>53058248

Shadowsun.

>>53057691
>Not CASTING FIST

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>>53057691
>>53057755
Why not both?

>>53057884
Hm... can a Fire Elemental become a Muscle Wizard?

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>>53057676
some to kickstart the new thread

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ill dump what i got

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>>53057014