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>>52774560
no?

>>52774560
yes?

>>52774560
No. It's a legitimate rule.

>>52774190
Yes. The (fantasy)Warhammer generals should combine.

>>52774190
Literally worse than the one I was about to make. How?

Fuck off

Read the rules, then find a group to play with. Finding the group is the hard part.

>>52774076
Even on here? There's nobody irl I could play with. Also, is there anything about /tg/ in general I should know?

>>52773975
Just about every system has a section in the beginning about "How to play Tabletop RPGs." check that out.

>>52774092
>Even on here? There's nobody irl I could play with.
Welcome to the hell that is enjoying tabletop RPGs. It's very hard to find a game and most of the games you find will suck.

Someday you may find a group that you can stick with consistently and play with them regularly across multiple campaigns. Then you will be forever sad when like any group of friends it inevitably breaks apart do to people moving or members getting into a fight.

>>52774092
>Also, is there anything about /tg/ in general I should know?
We're a bunch of autists that like playing pretend. You'll see a lot of terminology. Most of it you can discern from the context but otherwise just ask. You'll probably get an answer, even if it's sarcastic.

Just gestalt instead

>>52774051
What do you mean?

In our group, players regularly get a few NPCs to control in battle, in additon to their characters. The GM already has enough shit to do, so that makes managing combat a lot easier. It works fine and gives players more stuff to do, especially if somebody plays a less combat-oriented character.

>>52773902
Its mostly convincing your population to want less things/space personally and put up with more violent oppression because their physical forms are only representations of their spirit as part of Humanity.

Look into stoicism and zen/buddhism stuff. The practice would be making do with less to be better at when there is actually less and because material possessions are attachment which makes you less of a Good Humanist.

+2 base size was dope though.

>>52774062
Damn, the faction I'm building this for are cutthroat industrialist academics
kinda like if Morgan Industries and University had a hate-fuck lovechild.

I might need to rework it a lot.

>>52774139
This could still work.

Consider that at the level of tech for all of this, your cut-throat capitalist technocrats could just buy peace of mind, probably in the form of some wonderdrug, or BTL-cyberchip memory implant.

Net result - still living a "minimalist" physical existence, but in their own mental innerworld, they move as gods.

>>52773734
My favourite plot hook is making PCs play matchmaker between two NPCs. Delivering a love letter or helping them sneak out to meet each other, that kind of stuff.

>>52773734
I don't have anything to add but I hope to see more of this, could be a great help to my current campaign. Hope someone has more comfy adventures.

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>Old paladin women finds a half-demon child in a burned village
>usually she would just kill it and move on
>[motherly urge intensifies]
>ends up taking the child with her
>leaves order
>spends the rest of her days taking care of child
>is hard work, but she loves him anyway
>fast forward years later
>ex-paladin is on her deathbed
>child has grown into an adult and is a symbol of good despite being a demon
>passes away while holding his hand, happy to spend her last moments with her adapted son

I hope to write a book like this one day.

>>52773520
I've become expert at deepthroating GM cock to get into games

>>52773544
Oh yeah? Well I let GMs cum inside and carry to term

>>52773543
Let me snooze ruse ooze

>>52770881
>>52770895
Yeah I guess all they can do is act as meatshields to stop them shooting special guys, which isn't the best thing when there's no acceptable losses with the 25% bottle test going on. 2 Guardsmen down and you test on Ld7 or 8 every turn. Hopefully plasma guns in overwatch can stop whatever is trying to charge them.

Then again if you move those plasma guns at all they lose overwatch. Guess I'm screwed either way!

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Second for Necron specialists were an oversight at best.

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Third for the entire necron faction was a mistake.

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Contributing

is this a good thing?
can we level it up?

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Get out of the way.

>>52772275
>They live in a rusted-out ship
Please not a shipgirl.
Its a shipgirl isn't it?

>>52772265
As the DM, you should've known better than to pit such a challenge against such a group. If you had any idea that they would react with violence, you shouldn't have given them that encounter. Especially not as an attempt to 'break them out of their ways' or anything like that.

If you think they're idiots - and I agree that they're idiots - you shouldn't be DMing for them in the first place. Find a better group or learn how to properly entertain idiots, if you're going to DM for idiots.

>>52772265
If you used those exact words then yeah, they are idiots and should stay dead,

>>52772265
Okay, well if they read this thread

You guys are straight up retarded, and as much fun as that is, when somebody gives you a "heads up, this is dangerous" don't get pissed when you die.

To you, the DM, I would ask if the players were able to make any saves to catch ropes, did they roll for the actual damage taken for the fall (what was at the bottom of this misty chasm and was it survivable)?

And finally, never rollback a death. It will kill your future games, I guarantee it.

>early
>anime image
can you just stop living

>>52770852
Holy Fuck what is up with the DM to Player ratio on roll20? I just started looking around hoping to supplement my IRL gaming with some online but this place is crazy. The DMs hold so much power they can just set a start date and let 30 applications flow in, then deny 25ish of them.

And these applications are pretty serious too, like, you have to write out a wall of text and stat out a character to even stand a chance, and the odds are still that you will be one of the 25 rejected two weeks later, all that work and thought wasted.

I just want to not be Forever-DM.

>>52770908
I got in with an app I made in an hour. Chill, dude.

>>52772241
SKULL TAKIN'

>>52772241
ORK-SPORE SWILLIN'

>>52772241
BLOOD DRINKIN'

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>>52771984
Sounds like a shit DM pulling the worst possible cliche from the book of shitty DM ideas. Talk to him about his retardation outside of the game in the hopes that you two can find another solution to take

>>52771984
No, we need more details. Literally how does such a situation come about?

>>52772056
Sounds like a decent dm giving you dilemmas and actual decissions to make instead of spoonfeeding you a premade kill and loot adventure.

>>52771864
It's like wiping your ass with leaves: rough, kind of a chore and obviously not the best way to do it, but it reminds you of the past, when you were strong, healthy and without responsibility.

>>52771864
There's a HUGE INTERNET FIGHT about what osr means and who gets to decide that at the moment. Its mostly older grogs vs art weirdos. Older grogs are more traditional, play raw, etc. The art weirdos use the flexibility/lightness of many older DnD materials to make neat shit. Its mostly not very important, one of the key aspects of osr being modularity and homebrew anyway.

Basically it focuses on early, pre90s dnd, dungeons, wilderness exploration, simplified character generation, higher lethality, being a game with abstractions, highly GM dependent, being able to modify parts you want and being easily compatible with DnD TSR products. Some people play it more codified with time tracking sheets torch duration and monster checks every 30 in game minuets on the dot, some people play it looser.

>>52771864
As someone who was around back when "old school" was the only thing around, my 2 cents on the matter are as follows:

"Old school" games are much more fluid. Largely because the rules were so much more amateurishly written back then, you only had a vague idea as to how 3/4 of the actual game actions in the game were supposed to take place. "I want to convince the guard to help me look for the lost orphan"; well, you've got a charisma score, and there's something there about an attitude adjustment, but how much of an attitude adjustment do you need to get him to abandon his post for what is an important thing to him? The rules weren't helpful about the subject in a way that newer games often are, giving guidelines for this sort of stuff.

As a result, the DM/GM/Referee/Storyteller/whatever you're calling him has an enormously greater role, not just in building the setting and challenges, but actually determining how the game itself works, and hard and fast rules were much rarer, and it was if not exactly encouraged, at least understood that every play group would have its own ad-hoc collection of rulings and ways they did things, which might or might not even be consistent within that one group.