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>>52418618

what game is this?

>>52418616
Looks like Yugi-o or Pokemon.

>>52418616
Magic, looks like a mock up joke of the next set.

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>Nurgle anon, not dead (yet)
>Life caught me off guard so 0 time for hobbies - even got a gf
>now rushing to get my army finished for Dark Sphere's Tourny on Sunday
Also - GW Monsters are really small...

>>52411935
Damn I love that GUO

>>52411935
Isn't the hand weird? As if it didn't march with the wrist.

The GM is a human, a fallen creature enslaved to its instincts and perception.

The dice are not human. They are the only wholly impartial arbiter. To use dice in roleplay is to take a glimpse of the unknowableness of fate itself.

The dice are cold.

The dice are heartless.

The dice betray us.

And that's why we love them.

Amber Diceless is good specifically because it avoids dice and forces players to think in a narrativist rather than gamist sense. Dice are a crutch for people who can't handle a story deeper than "We need to kill ten blue goblins in order to make a Blue Pair of Leather Pants."

>>52411648
I wish my DM could do this more often, just ditch the dice sometimes and just for once make something up on his own.

>>52410952
Because you don't have flux muscles. Also, a cancer wizard can beat Tharizdun, dicuss.

>>52410952
didn't you mean...
Fighting Dreamers!
takami wo mezashite

It breaks convention and "invalidates martials", which mythically could pick up fucking cliffs (Beowulf, Cuchulain, etc) but in tabletop can't do anything more than swing every turn or some grognards flip their shit because of muh realism.

These same conventions left unbroken will cause a different group of grognards to flip their shit because it's all so derivative and tired.

In short, you can't please almost any TTRPG fan and should instead try to make the game you want with whatever classes/classlessness/moves you want because at the end of the day, if your group is having fun, fuck everyone on the internet.

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Example of the kind of magic circles we were oohing over, things that are distinct but not too distinct and give an opportunity for tons of factions to spring up.

The story so far:
Hit me up with Fantasy books which feature Wizard/Magic families having rivalries and shit.

>Different defined schools of magic would be the dream.
>I love the Arcanum spell colleges, how they're distinct and closely related but there's a lot of them. Don't know a magic-school book with something like that, but I haven't been up with YA in a long time.
>Yeah! It's something along these lines that I'm looking for! Magic in LoTR etc is cool but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. HP style is ok but the spells have no consistency, there aren't levels of transfiguration spells that I'm aware of or different "tiers" of fireball spells etc.
>And magic schools are great, too, lets you have all these factions at each others' throats but it's not as heavy, lots more room for humor.
>Yes! There must be some books with this, right?
>This is a book project that /lit/ (more specifically /sffg/) could actually pull off. None of that pomo incoherent rambling bullshit. Just a google doc full of lore and another one full of short stories set in the context of magic schools. We have the autism to iron out continuity errors and actually make it work, and don't need to worry about prose. After all, there are people itt admitting they like Sanderson. Surely this is workable?

>It's raw and primordial but nobody knows where it comes from, though it does change over time. "Magic" refers to the set of actions that cause this force, whatever it is, to change things. The various schools have their own theories on what this force is - the mind of the being that dreams us, the chaos from which is drawn order, the imaginative force of beings who can change creation with their thoughts, the will of God. They all seem to access it fine, in their own ways.
>Magical spells, items, and beings are compatible - a fairy can recognize elixirs, even if the methods used to summon fairies and brew elixirs are very different. That's the most common thread.
>Alright, so what do they all have in common? >How about
>a power source
>an activated mental state
>a ritual, and
>an offering?
>Those four sound good. Different schools may emphasize different aspects.
>Some spells require an inactivated mind, but that's a common aspect even still. Some schools' offerings consist of one highly magical object they guard closely that operates as a power source, or even one spell that's still reverberating that they can shape, pull out of the air like a radio transmission.
>For a crusader mental state and source may be the same repository of faith. For an Alchemist offering and power source are both found in the gathering of herbs and minerals with the preparations serving as ritual. A warlock observes ritual in the drawing of power from a patron but not during the casting itself, requiring only the mental state. And so on and so forth.
>I remember one idea I had a long time ago was a sort of spectrum from incantations (which would be on the spot, raw spikes of power, mostly mental) to enchantments to potions (which are carefully planned, subtle, mostly physical). We might want to do that

>look! I rolled a nat20! I totally just convinced the guard captain to suck my dick! huehueheuhahaha! You HAVE to let it happen now! I rolled a 20 and whenever that happens on Critical Roll and in the 4chan greentexts i read, something awesome happens. If you DON'T have the guard captain suck my dick, you're a bad DM!"

>The GM pre-prepared a full "plot" and his campaign will fall apart if they don't guide the game along a predetermined series of events

Kinda had it coming desu senpai

>having a plot
nice railroad, you failed writer

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>>52399681
ok here we go, starting with 50s scifi shit which is far more scarce than I thought it was

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>>52400210

Just in case you think that
>I'll build an utopia, where the dead will do all manual labor!
Is an original idea, no, it's not. It's been done to death, and most DMs will sneer at the notion of a good necromancer.

>>52397357
Sounds breddy gud

Do the Morrowind and summon your ancestral spirits to help you.

>>52386592
ha ha purple burd

Haha, I believe in Devlin Stone

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>>52386611

CA CAW!

>>52385478
>guerilla war in the Third World
>drug smuggling in south east Asia
>early Moon colonies (or Mars, Europa, Titan, etc)
>modern pirates preying on commercial shipping

I think you could easily do a dark cyberpunk take on all of those.

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>>52385577

Indeed, a part of me wonders what would cyberpunk look like if you had to go farmville America.

You have a few rich people who have property because it's fashionable to own a ranch but the actual farms are handled via drones and what not and are basically corporate gated communities except without the massive skyscrapers and cleaner smelling air.

Perhaps you have a great deal of people living of the grid kit bashing various pieces of tech in their isolated hovles such as hooking up a solar panel to their server cluster they built in an old barnshed. while they live in communes that do subsistance farming because they typically don't get enough money to afford a lot of the expensive food items or they live in such isolated places it's not worth going into town proper

Wild life types ride around on retired horses that were given a second life, as it were, given a number of cybernetics designed for their bodies while the rangers themselves where high tech survival suits.

>>52385478

Just use real world issues.

Pirates bribed by megacorps, organ harvesting, resource wars, anything like that.

If anything it lends itself better to those scenarios.

>>52380273
{Touch}|touch

>>52380317
lol, what would that do? touch you back?
its funny, but i need shit like this too to find loop holes in stuff, also the spells will have to be aproved before being created (i will decide if they are not too broken)

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>>52380317
i think i just found the mechanic equivalent of that

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First for Dusk Elf

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>>52329648

>Mimic Princess returned to her father by the knight, and he looks like a normal king on a throne with guards at each side. When he responds to the knight the guards turn into hands and the throne is the face.
>Too much?
I like the sound of this.

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Second for wedding dress.

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>>52329930
mimic king

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reposting this guy from the archived threads. Is he fallen or loyalist?

>>52263290
Clearly a Slanneshi Fallen Marine disguise used by the Omega Marines.

So to get the conversation started, I don’t know if this has been discussed in any detail but there was this cool little throwaway mention of Beast cultists in the Alaitoc fluff. As in, when the Beast smashed through the Imperium during the WotB some of the people on the worlds he conquered turned quisling and started worshipping the Beast (or would it just be the Orks in general).

It sounds strange, but when you think a little bit it kind of makes sense. It fits with one of the major themes of 40k, which is that humanity is willing to worship any sufficiently powerful being that they don’t understand. I mean, just look at how the vanilla Imperium views the Emperor, or genestealer cultists view the Hive Mind. Heck, we even describe the Hive Mind here as “kinda god-ish, if only because it’s the best descriptor the human mind has for a psychic entity of that size”.

It seems like something interesting to elaborate on. Something that would have been an absolute pain in the ass to eradicate during the Great Hunt/Reconquista/whatever, and whose existence would be utterly confusing to the Imperium (as in “We can see why people would find Chaos tempting. But worshiping a fucking ork?)

So what were they like? Chaos cultists, but replace Chaos with Orks? Digganobz? The “livestock” of the Beast Arises series with Stockholm Syndrome? All of the above, depending on various factors?

>>52417881
Forget Spheres of Might. PoW is close enough to being a viable alternative that we just need to get some unofficial errata and spread it around until it becomes official.

I'm new to pathfinder and new to divine casters (played 3.5, though)

How would I caster oracle well? Arcane is much more obvious to me with spells like grease, create pit, burning hands, fireball, etc.

Using the hammer-arm-anvil perspective, oracles would mostly be the arm, right? Would there be a way to get a hammer (caster) oracle, or an anvil (caster) oracle?

>>52417881
>What will it take to save Spheres of Might as a whole?

A good designer.