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>>55165855
This is clearly a beloved folk song of a Warforged empire, which is very soon planning a full scale invasion against the kingdom portrayed in this song. It's up to the party to uncover the truth of what really happened all those years ago in order to hopefully stop the conflict from happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8

>>55166031
Call of Cthulhu PC backstory of a Zoopheliac. the guy in the back of the car was a cultest wating to nab you for a sacrifice until you crashed, botching the kidnapping. You then dedicate you life figuring out the truths of the universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnGq69ey5tw

>>55166109
A CoC campaign. A group of detectives are hired out by a paranoid man with too much money on his hands to investigate the many neighbors he now has after moving into a new home, only to find that the very action of investigating these neighbors causes intense damage to one's sanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_yPb78Oo4U

I've always enjoyed the breakdown going like this.

Science is learning all the rules of how the world works, and then using those rules to get what you want.

Magic is the ability to circumvent those rules, and do things that would be impossible to do anywhere else.

Personally I find that trying to make magic a science gets rid of the charm of what makes magic so magical in the first place.

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>>55165916
>Personally I find that trying to make magic a science gets rid of the charm of what makes magic so magical in the first place.

George R. R. Martin agrees with you.

>>55165916
>>55166352
While I agree with this viewpoint, this only ever works if those wielding magic also barely understand what the fuck it is they're doing, can seldom achieve truly repeatable successes and make extensive use of con-artistry, manipulation and other smoke-screens to hide the fact that they are nowhere near as in control as they pretend to be.

>>55165815
A Civil War scenario I've always wanted to see is somewhat of an alternate history situation, where for whatever reason, perhaps World War 2 goes a whole lot worse for a whole lot of people, or the Cold War finally gets hot, most of the world outside of the good ol' US of A hits a massive decline while America just keeps getting bigger through corporations, to the point where states rights are blowing government rights out of the water.

One thing leads to another, the states in their own personal interests start turning on each other, and bing bang boom, the entire united states is fighting against itself, with no larger world powers coming in to take advantage of the chaos.

Silly? Yes. But I love the concept of each state, or at the very least a lot of smaller factions set in the US, going at it and state cultures being driven up to 11.

>>55165815
Re-use Kaiserreich.
You'd end up with Canada, the USA, three american separatist nations and Mexico fighting over the US.

>>55165815

> century or two into the future

Oh, to be young and free again

You can go back to /pfg/ now.

Cool story. You should make a blog.

>>55165531
takes one to know one, you fraud

>>55164978

A big part of it will invovle assigning a point value to things like vows and conditions and what they'll allow. We have several examples of what can be done but it should also be as deadly as it is in the series. If one of the conditions is death then the power should be appropriately powerful but if the PC fucks up then there is no takebacks they just die.

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>>55164978
>>55165216
I think ORE/Wild Talents can totally fit this game.
If you include the rules from Monsters & Other Childish Things where you can add dice from beliefs/vows/pacts to your power roles, you capture the essence of Nen really well.
Also given how the system works, it's really easy to establish the sort of tiered power-levels that the series uses to great effect without characters being totally invincible against each other.

Check Marvel Heroic RPG and Cortex+ Hacking Guide

>>55164965
Mick Gordon did a damn good job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm932Sqwf5E&t=1021s

>>55164965
Radiohead

The Protomen, easy.

>>55164898
Being a elf is a crime

>>55164898
Near 100%

>>55164898
/pol/ can tell you all about FBI crime statistics, anon.

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So we have a lot of jumps in the works at the moment, tell me what ONE jump are you the most excited for?

Can you take Friendbringers as companions?

>>55164889
Fate/Waifu Order

What's a hexcrawl?

>>55164738
It's a hexagonal map for exploration type games.
http://www.runagame.net/2014/03/the-hex-crawl.html?m=1

>>55164717
Good to see I'm not the first to consider such systems. I was considering them for a HoMM clone, but yeah, could be useful for tabletop too.

>>55164716
Don't bother, it's trash

>>55164716
Buy Rusty Kuntz's card, he's super overpowered.

>>55164737
what does he do? is he just really strong or does he have a broken ability?

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At this point it's really just polishing up the rules and testing different ways of doing the core mechanics until things click and feel right. I may need to redistribute the card levels but aside from that I really need to just get on with shit. Maybe rewrite the manual, make a rough layout for it, plan the box etc.

>>55164361
Pretty good. I spent the weekend trapped in hurricane harvey so I wrote out a full rule book. Which actually organized all the elements of play

>>55166904
elf sex?

>>55164361
I stopped working on my board game and rpg to speck a pokemon in open 6d.

>>55164079
>Inspired by the necromancy wizards / summoned druids talk in the last general - how do you tackle archetypes that bog down the game.
Why did WotC make this shit work this way if it's so reviled? Do they not playtest their shit?

>What are the classes or races that make you groan when you see them hit table?
Tiefling and Dragonborn for races. I just don't like how they seem to show up in every single fucking adventuring group.

>>55164079
>What are the classes or races that make you groan when you see them hit table? Why so? What work arounds are available to make it not so much of a painful experience?
None, I don't play with shitlords
>Inspired by the necromancy wizards / summoned druids talk in the last general - how do you tackle archetypes that bog down the game.
By not playing with shitlords.

>>55164063
Just about all the time. It's not strictly necessary, but it can help the mood.

Hey pa heparee henos deh henos deh hey pa hee teh dee eenos deh eet ta dee, SEPHARASU,

>>55164063
Every "boss/boss battle" has a theme, as do the players and other recurring NPCs for when they do cool stuff.

Other than that, ill occasionally use it during tense moments, or anything to help get the players into the mood. Since since its PTU, i even have a full playlist for a fightclub that has the arena change every couple of rounds with different tracks for the rooms.

>>55163867
evil is dumb and good guys always win

They dont exist.

>>55163867

Alihnments is merely a roleplaying tool for helping you roleplay and quickly create characters. It is not an ironclad rule that must be followed at all times.

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Who /valhalla/ here?

>>55163854
>still no clear text box
Come on man.

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>>55163900
>tfw I wasn't playing soon enough to experience older sets
>>55163921
I want full art Pandora NOW.