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>>52123339
Rise of Primarch epub anyone?

>>52123339
Tau are the best race. Prove me wrong

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>tfw too intelligent for a to hit and wound chart

>>52123259
something on your mind there OP?

>>52123273
I've been leaving secret admirer letters in my GM's rulebook for a month now. Curious if anyone's had the same experience.

>>52123300
Oh tell me more, I love hearing this kinda shit.

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Hello?

New player here.

How would one properly utilize the bard's countersong, distraction, and fascinate?

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>>52122476
>>52122533

What if the "Trade Language" isn't even a spoken language at all, but rather the character is proficient at grunting, gesticulating and generally showing their interest in buying a good for so much cash.

That way a person *has* to learn the local language if they want to hold a conversation, but anyone who knows Trade can "function" in a foreign society.

>>52122553
Necromancers are great, they can talk to the dead to emulate divination, they can use negative energy and cold to both blast and battlefield control, and of course they can summon hordes of the damned to emulate a conjuration summoner.

They are jacks of all trades, one of the many reasons the dread Necro was so damn good.

>>52122228
because its a reasonable motivation that can be easily supplanted by a deeper motivation once the BBEG does something

because most characters arent made with heavy involvement in the setting due to that being restrictive

because its fun&easy

>>52122265
>bbeg isn't a low effort individual
>huge lore preface is given before character creation
>character could have some sort of anchor in the world that the DM could use
It's not fun&easy, it's low effort and low immersion. People who do this are incidentally also bad players, because their characters have no motivation to do anything before the BBEG literally rapes an entire village in front of them. Most often such characters are also merely stereotypes, such as the elf-hating drunkard dwarf fighter.

>>52122228
>>his characters entire motivation is that they were bored with life or want to get filthy rich
It's realistic.

>>52122024
my GMPC was a walking parody of one
level 20 with epic boons, packed to the gills with artifacts, annoyingly polite to everyone

he never seemed to be able to help the PCs with their personal problems, he was always saving the world off-screen

>>52122040
Did you ever encounter one of the threats he fought? Sounds like one of the better GMPCs by the way.

>>52122024
Mine usually kept them as background characters.
My personal favorite was just a giant cleric of winter who was basically a fucking viking, and had a barrel of kittens he carried on his back to give to the hopeless people to raise spirits.

>>52121958

Altruism does not exist, every opt-in action has a cost and some possible gain even if they are extremely abstract.

>>52122289
>Altruism does not exist
Altruism exists, because altruism is the basis for comparative morality.

Suppose there are two options, and both are "good" morality-wise. The catch is, one option is less good for you personally and more good for someone else you might or might not know, and the other option is vice versa.
No one will judge you if you pick one option over the other. Despite that, there are still people who choose the option with lesser personal gain.

>>52121958
my players love being good, they, only with occasional hesitation, always try to do the right thing

their characters arent in it for the money, and so far they have been rather consistent

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>>52121552

If anyone deserved immortality, it was Terry Pratchett.

>>52121552
Go with the Disney Hades but rather than have him shoehorned into being a generic villain have him be just doing a job. Gives the impression of being a bit sleazy, a bit of a fast talking used car salesman people don't trust him but basically is an alright sort of guy with a job to do. Delegates a lot of his work, would delegate more but you can't find reliable underlings these days.

Either that or you could go full Baron Samedi. Jovial, bombastic and loves a bottle or two of whatever the local hard alcohol is. Has been known to look the other way for a time, has been known to "loose" people in the filing (near death experiences), will always have time for a joke and a laugh, fond of music, fond of dancing you can put money on that not being tobacco in that pipe of his. Always has time for his people (the dead), does not delegate but also doesn't have to be just in one place at once.

>>52122662
I like the idea of a tacky Death in a cheap suit. It seems like everyone these days wants a cool, sexy Death, maybe as a hot chick or whatever. Or a """funny""" Pratchett rip-off. A sleazebag, kind of whiny, a little pathetic, always overworked, would be legitimately fun.

I remember having this card....

>>52120666
Raigeki

summon kuribohs and phallus of the forbidden one while dork magician doesnt wanna get involved

probably a mistake, I wouldn't get upset about it.

>>52120517

But it saves you clicks. Don't be ungrateful, anon.

>all these cucks crying becasue they can't afford premium product

>>52120466
I think the bigger question is... Why the fuck would you stat gods?

>>52120466
Nope, it's a level 9/8 spell once cast at that level. I can't remember the exact evidence for that, I just remember it being a thing.

Vulnerability has no save, as does magic missile.

Must be really powerful legendary actions, because they only need one turn (Grave cleric's turn) + one turn (Druid's turn)
The only thing is, if you have immunity to force damage you become resistant, if you have resistance you have normal damage and if you're normal you have vulnerability. So it's technically better than 2x damage, but it doesn't ignore what resistance they have.

>>52120484
This

>>52120444
In my experience, entirely underwater campaigns aren't really any different. Either you ignore restrictions, and let everyone act as normal but with what amounts to a fly speed, or you heavily restrict everything and either everyone plays underwater races to ignore them, or they pick options to have ways to ignore it.

Thematically, it can be great, but mechanically, its best ignored, or done in short bursts.

Odds of the rumored Super SMs being true are what, anons?

WOOOO!

>>52120319
If that pic from last thread is the real deal, 100%

Also waiting

Someone leaked all of the rules/formations already.

>>52120293
Thanks for a link! Guess I'm off to Google "someone."

I don't think so. Slavic mythology is just too metal for a noblebright setting.

>>52119724
Perhaps not noblebright, but you can easily make it more like a lighthearted fairytale

>>52119724
why would you want to do it wrong?