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Most of my players' do. I love it.

You just wanted to post a trap, didn't you, OP?

>>51966197
That bulge is clearly a rudimentary third leg

>>51964360
>Pollen allergies. Pollen allergies for days
>Chronic procrastinator
>Talent for picking up random, unimportant trivia

>>51964360
>doesn't like sand
>often abandons moving vehicles
>disregards mentors teachings
>but not the obviously evil mentors teachings

>>51964360
>A huge pervert
>Obsessed with magic
>amoral
>nihilist

>>51963065
It ain't bad if yoiu're planning on collecting one of the factions.
Otherwise get in some test games at your local GW and see what you like.

>>51963065
If you're planning loyalist or Horus Heresy, might as well get Betrayal at Calth.

I wanted to play DA so I sold the other half for 50% of the price and I kept the rulebook, so yeah, it's worth it.

>>51962989
mesoamerican + negroid

or

mongoloid + negroid

>>51962989
Gary Stu.

>>51962989
>Ravnican-Eternian

>>51962852
>I'm not sure why they are on the ship in the first place though
Because they're on a quest to get rid of pirates that have been taking people to islands to participate in arena battles. Duh.

>>51962852
More diarrhea of the mouth
I want to give the players a choice if/when they beat their last opponent. One is obviously freedom. But what can I tempt them with instead? Maybe sold to a rich spectater as a guard.

This will be a fairly long bout. I'm not sure how long between rounds, but I want the players to level from 1 to 5 before they actually leave the island.

The coast line is guarded by a red-dragon who's bonded with the demi-god. It sinks any ships who leave not from a designated dock. But they'll only encounter it if they decide to escape.

If you've done something similar to this I could use some tips/tricks.

Non-combat oriented classes will probably fight from the sidelines against opponent-allied support. (I.e. Bards)
This will be my first time running 5e. Anything you can think of to keep the game running smoothly is appreciated.

>>51962873
The players are mostly likely to be a Bard, Monk, and Wizard Fighter.I'll have to tailor the reasoning to them. The bards not going to be running towards trouble, she'll probably be hired by the captain himself. I just need a hook for a monk and a wizard-fighter. I don't want to just force them into the mercenary pigeon-hole.

Functioning societies are not inherently good. People being cared for are not inherently lawful. Evil people might tend other evil people to do more evil stuff. Chaotic neutral is dumb. Alignment systems are dumb.

>>51962507
Society-barbarians model.

Society, once established, inevitaly falls to stagnation, disrepair and then ruin. Barbarians are a force of change, testing the society and either overthrowing it, becoming a new society or shaking up society enough for it to start changing.

The other answer is that alignments are a dumb overly vague simplification and trying to force real world processes into them leads to useless autistic conclusions as distant from real life as we are from alpha centauri.

>>51962507
Because those alignments are terribly designed constructs to describe morality, and their only true role is have more content in an already bloated and confusing magic system.

contractor are a good power at a price thing, like the guy in the 1st episode had to break his fingers.

>>51961892
>What are some of your favorite examples of this in action?
Safest example: classic Glass Cannon.
Dangerous Example: The Deck of Many Things

Unknown Armies. You'd have to be crazy to use magick, literally to use magic you have to be a special kind of crazy to bend the universe to your will.

>>51960203
we still have high-level bounty hunters in case the players start breaking the law because "bitch i got superhuman power"

>>51960203
I will. I've been slowly introducing all the members separately for a few months now, eventually they'll have a full party vs party brawl.

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>>51960203
Does it count if the party works for said NPCs? Somehow my players ended up joining a guild run by a bunch of REAL heroes who can't be bothered to do menial grunt work like pest-extermination and other "low-level" quests. Meanwhile the real heroes sit around all day and basically bask in their fame and have parties with nobles and stuff. The party is determined to work their way up and become equals to these ponces.

This plays right into what the "real" heroes want. They're actually the final BBEG, and secretly a bunch of body-snatchers who use the guild to train up "replacement vessels" for when their current bodies start to die. I didn't expect the players to actually want to join these guys, but this actually works out better than what I originally had planned, sooo...

>>51959810
>back when they were less anime and more space USSR (read: 4th ed).
They were literally made to try and cash in on the early 2000s anime boom, so I don't think they were ever "less" anime, their mecha were just smaller back then. Maybe they used to be more space USSR than now, but the two aren't mutually exclusive.

>>51959810
it seems you are lacking dudes to me
but otherwise i don't see anything offensive
may the omnissiah bless you

>>51960354
Yeah the body count is pretty low, I don't want to be running full size ranger blobs for the hell of it though, I figure I'd get more mileage out of having 3 dragoons.

Pinterest is oddly good, for some reason.
I usually just google search, bitch I can't find anything good and have the rest of my group send me possibles, though.

>>51958742
Well shit, I don't have a pinterest, and googling 'modern guys' is going to fuck up my search results for months if I tried that.

One of my group suggested shit like pixiv or a booru for character art, but all I've found is just smut. And I refuse to be that one guy who uses cheesecake anime girls as character art.

I'm strongly against stealing art. Either I don't use it at all, or, when I'm serious about a campaign, I commission a portrait.

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>>51958325
>as he hoes out into the universe
Must be making big bucks being an intergalactic hooker.

>>51958325
It's my favorite mech for just that reason. And the aesthetics are on fucking point.

>>51958325
It also sounds like nearly the entire starting lineup of MechWarrior: Dark Age, so not exactly revolutionary.

>>51958324
Burning of Prospero offers better stuff than Betrayal at Calth. Especially when you can get all the Calth Stuff on its own.
However, you're going need to provide more context.

>>51958324
Never knew Ahriman had such a small dick

lol, rip thread

>I like the idea of a magic system where the mages make assertions about the universe or future and the degree of difficulty depends on the amount and severity of the assumptions it makes. Maybe the mage must visualize each assumption and convincingly narrate them to themselves, and also give an appropriately sized Push for each assumption. This Push is a painful mental affirmation to themselves that they intend to magically intervene with the Flow, and the strength of a Push varies wildly from person to person.

Based off of the dumbest magic I've seen in a game, where each point of Mana just improved a roll. You could use it sparingly like Luck points to be a heroic character, or spent shitloads at once to do otherwise impossible things.

In other news, has anybody seen a build of Sympathy that they liked?

>>51958317
For the purposes of balance and inventive gameplay, I tend to limit magic caster's ability to deal direct damage with magic, but encourage clever/creative uses of magic both in and out of combat. Note, I typically don't use DnD or Shadowrun frameworks. We either homebrew or use "build your own" style games.

Rather than being pure buff/de-buff or blast casters, our mages provide side advantages and change the battlefield.

For example, in the last session, one of our mages used alchemy to turn salt into flour, then used a gust of wind to to create a flour cloud that our thief shot with a fire arrow, causing a massive explosion which left the enemies' side of the field in flames. The stragglers stumbled out of the smoke choking and partly blind, so they were pretty easy to clean up.

Other mages we've had included a seer who used clairvoiance and a rusting spell to effectively pull the role of thief; a druid who could build hills or create thick hedges to control enemy movements and give the party a huge tactical advantages; or my favorite wizard, who once opened a dimensional rift to allow a beast beyond comprehension rampage through a bandit camp for ten minutes, attacking ally and foe alike.

>>51958317
>Maybe you really like the idea of necromancers that are fueled by something instead of death
So, the actual historical necromancers?

>>51958265
I'm assuming you mean space opera because of your picture, so:
GURPS and Fate can both do space opera. GURPS would best benefit from some of the sourcebooks, but space sf is definitely one of its strong suits. Diaspora, Bulldogs, Starblazer Adventures, and Mindjammer are all variations of Fate that are built around doing space science fiction out of the box, but given how customisable Fate is you could make do with the free core rules as well. The OpenD6 system is totally free, has free space sourcebooks, and has been used as the basis for an official Star Wars game and an unofficial Mass Effect game. I'm sure Savage Worlds and most other universal systems have some ability to handle this.
Traveller is the classic space rpg, pretty much the D&D of space rpgs in terms of popularity and age. Beyond Classic Traveller and Mongoose Traveller, there's "Cepheus Engine" which is a pay-what-you-want mashup of the two.
The core rules for Stars Without Number are free (or were, last time I checked), and the GM segments are worth reading even if you're playing a totally different system.
SPI Universe and Star Frontiers are old school space sf rpgs that are now available freely online (or, again, were, I know Star Frontiers is still up but I haven't checked on SPI Universe) but their quality is questionable.
Star Trek and Star Wars have both had official and unofficial games based on them, if you want to do something based on them. I think both franchises actually maintain generals on /tg/ for their games.

>>51958265
Go with Star Wars.
It's the easiest to learn and also the most popular and easiest to find media to make your campaign even more fun for everyone.

>>51958562

Star Trek thread
>>51899084
Star Wars thread
>>51942741

Knowing what games you've played before and liked/disliked, or just anything more specific about what sort of stuff you're looking for/would want to do in a game, could help narrow down the list.
One unfortunate thing I will note is that in pretty much all space sf games, ship-to-ship combat winds up being a little less satisfying than people hope it would be. There's kind of an inherent issue where, in a starship, the starship essentially functions as a single unit that everyone takes a part in. In a normal combat on the ground, be it sci-fi or fantasy, each player acts as their own unit and makes all the decisions for their character. In a starship each player is only going to be making a small slice of the decisions. It's not usually a huge issue but if you're envisioning elaborate Star Trek-esque systems where the power can be diverted between ten different systems on the ship, those aren't going to be as common.

>>51958699
There's at least three different Star Wars systems (WEG, Saga, and the new FFG one). I don't think they're going to be much easier to learn than, say, Fate, and depending on what someone wants to do a Star Wars game might be much less suited for the style/theme than something else.

>>51958260
its only funny when sneks do it.

>>51958329

It has a forked tongue and lacks external ears, isn't it close enough?

>>51958329
Lizard > snek.

Lizard can hug without strangling you to death.