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In a tabletop game recently I smacked over the opponent's ball carrier, followed up and then rolled scatter (it scattered onto my guy) and my opponent goes "no, I roll for scatter because it was my model holding the ball". Is that actually a thing or was he just being That Guy just to keep the ball out of my hands? I've only recently gotten into playing it on tabletop so a lot of the nitty gritty dice stuff that the videogames did for me are hard to adapt to (that and losing rerolls due to illegal proceedings when I forget to move my turn counter).

>>52041480
Hat/10

>>52080671
>cently gotten into playing it on tabletop so a lot of the nitty gritty dice stuff that the videogames did for me are hard to adapt to (that and losing rerolls due to illegal proceedings when I forget to move my turn counter).


He was completely being ThatGuy, whether he was correct or not, I'll check the roll book.

So, about to finish up my current campaign with victory or death. After this I plan to do Dragon King for the first time.

Does Dragon King play well with any expansions? I'm thinking of swapping in Slender Man, since I am kinda tired of Armored Strangers and the Kingsmen.

Likewise, can I afford to add in or swap around Quarry?

>>52073708
Slenderman is a bad fit for Dragon King, since it gradually takes over your entire campaign.

While some people would recommend against "diluting" your Fighting Art and Disorder decks with other expansions, I've found that it makes very little difference. I would work in Gorm, Flower Knight, Dung Beetle Knight, Manhunter, and possibly Sunstalker.

>>52073752

> since it gradually takes over your entire campaign

Does it? I haven't used Slendy before, wanted to keep my first game fairly vanilla. I hear that he eventually replaces the rest of your nemesis fights. But I'm okay with that since my group is sort of 'meh' on the Butcher and the Hand anyway.

Is there any effect beyond that which would screw with Dragon King?

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>>51999333

>its a dnd rollplay conflict episode

How about no?

>>52253963
Sounds like you have a shitty DM.

>>52253963
Need more info:

>I respond by casting Invoke Magic and then casting Wrack, which should have made the warchief become blind and fall to the ground helpless.
Explain why this is true if he's in an antinagic field.
I'm not familiar.

>DM doesn't like that
How is this known?

>the Warchief order his "faithful warriors" to kill me.
Dishonorable warchief should be mocked as weak.

>I respond by flying 40 feet in the air out of their reach.
Sensible reaction to dishonorable orcs attcking.

>DM sighs and says "You're being an asshole, dude."
What did he say when you asked him why he thought so or what he meant?

A dragon is not an asshole for flying out of range and using their breath weapon, it is a victor.

You were taking extra time in solo combat while others wanted worldbuilding downtime, but as you told it, I don't see that you had another option other than handwaving failure and shrugging.

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>>52251988

that shit worth watching? i can't help but notice there's only one male character

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>>52252031
It's a harem isekai series whose sole purpose is to take the absolute piss out of actual harem and isekai series. It's good fun, decent length (two 10-episode seasons + an OVA), and the wonky animation makes it more enjoyable. Good for a laugh and feeling good.

>>52252031
It's ok. It's a parody on PnP games, JRPGs and harem animes.

The main character loathes the chicks and actively tries to prevent them from joining his group. The girls are all crazy and/or useless. No romantic tension at all. Watch if if you have too much spare time on your hands. Expect lots of sarcasm and JRPG tropes played with.

>>52247850
I'd move 40k up a notch, personally. The video games have given it significant exposure outside the tabletop audience.

>>52247913
>>52247850

40k is normie territory. LotR too, after the movies. Discworld is nerdling, BSG is AT MOST nerdling, and probably normie. Cyberpunk is nerdling because it's entirely possible to have got into multiple works across multiple media without being a nerd.

>other anime

This covers stuff like mecha, cyberpunk and seinen action series too though, which are a lot more accessible to mainsteam culture than the usual anime full of otaku bait.

>>52247850
>fapping to tiles
Gets me every time. I wonder where tileanon is these days.

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>>52247091

>Literally the problem for about a third of the overall books is that he's too powerful and might accidentally blow up small, important things, like "the entire world" or "the concept of time itself".

>>52247091
I really like Legion. I honestly expected some awful shit, but it's a fun show. Probably the best thing in the wild world of /tv/ with muties in it.

David is too pure for this world

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>>52247091
This guy should serve as a good base.

>>52244180
Post homerules that buff the shit out of your favorite op classes/archetypes in order to piss off austic hekanon

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Should I include !Japan in my game?

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>>52244206
Stop trying to defy me.

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>>52243137
Would not be welcome at my table/10

>>52243150

>he thinks a push-up minimum would keep THE ROCK out of his game

I haven't seen the movie but cmon anon, can't you smell it?

>>52243150
Do you actually believe bodybuilders are the strongest guys around too?

>>52241330
Burn them?

>>52241330
You have nobody to blame but yourself.

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>>52241330
>filename
That's pretty funny, anon.

>>52240974
F.A.T.A.L. I guarantee after 10 minutes you and everyone else in your group will be horrified.

>>52240974
None.

It's hard as fuck to get the atmosphere of the room right, player buy-in is almost impossible to get with most groups and nearly every GM is nowhere near good enough to pull it off right.

Depends what kind of horror. There's a huge number of different options out there, so I'll just list my favourites.

I'm partial to Don't Rest Your Head, which is horror through self destruction, putting players against impossible monsters and giving them all the power they need to survive, but making them ask whether victory is worth the cost. DRYH is a game for short campaigns and one shots, but I still love a system which draws players into an endless spiral of self destruction as they struggle to stay alive, stay awake and stay human, and at the end of the day they can generally only pick two out of three, if they're lucky.

Unknown Armies is another interesting one, postmodern horror which inverts the usual tropes of Lovecrafts cosmic horror. Instead of humanity being a tiny, insignificant speck in an vast and uncaring universe, UA puts humanity at the center of everything. The tagline of the game is 'You did it', and the fundamental horror of the setting lies in that intimate sense of personal responsibility. It really is all our fault, and no matter what monster or abomination might rise from the shadows, you're just cleaning up your own messes. There's nobody to blame but us.

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>>52240827
Armour as damage reduction, with different types/levels of reduction for different types of attack (Smashing, Piercing, Slashing, Crushing, etc), often rising to the point that some types of attack are completely ignored.

Armor as bonus to defence. I prefer to keep things simple so having just two pre-calculated numbers and a single roll to compare is beneficial. Especially that there is also no separate roll for damage and it's derived from difference between attack roll and defence instead.

>>52240827
A combo of bonus to defense and damage reduction. Realistically, armour is shaped with the intention to deflect a lot of the time, hence the bonus to defense. And armour is always meant to reduce the impact of blows that do hit.

>>52238917
Sub-par stats with high WIS, and a number of feats, but only with flaws taken, around middle-class NPC class levels.

Low physical stats except for an average CON score. Average intelligence. Below average wisdom. Shit Charisma (no drive).

Str: 11
Dex: 9
Con: 9
Int: 11
Wis: 11
Cha: 11

Maybe an Intelligence of 12 but even then I think that'd be a bit masturbatory

>>52237499
>A world with tons of geographically perfect continents and con-langs is a substitute for writing interesting stories in that world.

>>52237499
>Your world can't be a flat surface floating in space because that's not how Earth works

I hate this goddamn board sometimes.

>>52237556

If it ain't on the back of some giant animal, it doesn't count.

>>52234471
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Did you take that picture with a 20 year old cell phone?

>>52234505
Your goddamn right

>>52234519
COUNT THE PIXELS, COUNT THEM IN HONOR OF THE ANCIENT AND HOLY MACHINE SPIRIT