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>>52043110
It's a dwarven religious practise
It only works because dwarven ancestors depart some of their own energy or strength into the runes of power.
Rune weapons that are not used by dwarves will slowly decay over time.

I like this system.

I dislike any system where runes is just another form of magic without really being different from regular magic.

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>>52043142
>without really being different from regular magic

Being different in the way that the spell is cast and the types of spells runes are capable of casting isn't interesting enough?

>>52043110

Lore wise for my setting joining them in certain ways creates "magic circuits" that can certain spells indefinetly as well as produce energy like electricity and heat.

This forms the basis on how most magic items works and leads towards industrialization of magitek.

Dark Angels suck

>>52042948
Hold brother, thy choler is up

Let us swear an oath of moment on Caliban to cease this foolishness.

are Raptora Breachers actually worth their price now?

Well, the /k/ommando in me gets a little upset seeing an M1 carbine have the same damage dice as a BAR, but if you aren't a /k/ sperg it shouldn't bother you; but if you are then play Ops & Tactics.

More details on the game you're trying to run?

Another thing that sucks about Recon is that armor and helmets do nothing. (The argument being that a direct hit from a bullet will go through the stuff available) - trouble is it ignores shrapnel, which is a huge threat and armor's pretty good for.

Other games to look at -
Savage Worlds Weird War Series
Savage World's Modern Ops
Ops & Tactics (like anon said)
Gurps (which can run from super simple to operators operating)

But for a good recommendation, what's your game about?

>>52042080
I'm not a huge /k/ spurge, so it won't bother me quite so much, and I'm willing to homebrew the kinks out anyway.

I had two ideas for a campaign: one would be relatively simple, basically mercenaries in the 1980s doing mercenary shit in various third world countries, a la Jagged Alliance or MGSV.

Second idea would be based on GATE, and would involve the PCs being soldiers sent to a low-fantasy world. It would probably be closer to the modern day and would require a bit more homebrewing and refluffing, though I wouldn't think that much (helicopter stats for a dragon, etc.).

From a campaign some friends and I ran through a while back
>Ghost Bard with an accordion
>Dunderhead barbarian with a proficiency in arcane
>twink cleric that got killed
>hardass old man that got killed in the same incident
>jackass demon-elf that took the cleric's place
>undersized monkey man that took the old man's place
The incident, as shitty as it was, was hilarious throughout the whole ordeal
>come upon bbeg
>not supposed to fight him yet, do anyway
>he's a full on spellcaster
>bard casts silence, dm visibly befuddled
>things go to shit for the bbeg
>he ends up dead and so do his incubi
>barbarian sees the bbeg's belt and picks it up
>arcane runes on it, starts mashing all of them and activating everything
>belt blows up
>barb rolls lucky and ends up flying out into the ocean through a window
>ghost and a pirate captain npc peaced the fuck out
>old man and twink practically vaporized
The dm's face when the bard whipped out silence was priceless.

i shit out some alright characters that im happy with
sorta post apocalyptic campaign, 100~ years since everything fell to shit
we got sader
>stoic gentle soul
>found a suit of armor
>rarely takes it off
>fights with a big ol greatsword
>rad fire abilities
maude
>pitch black hair
>nice as hell and polite
>THICC
>also fire
>thrives off getting upset
>hair starts smoking when she does
sovn
>literal viking man
>dude's huge
>heart of gold
>skin always a light blue
>ice
>two axes
working on an icy grill so the faction of fire and ice fats can come to a close

>>52039428
I like your style

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>>52036196
Tell me about Starjammer, homiebro. What's so special about?
What does it do well?
How does it compare to what we've heard so far of Starfinder?

>>52036306
Fuck, I thought Starjammer and Starfinder were the same thing

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>>52037224

Glad I wasn't the only one.

>>52030079
Warhammer fantasy Orks were green.

>>52030136
Warhammer orks became green since someone painted his orks green at the Citadel team which catched on.

>>52030162
Because they though they looked like Hulk.

Making an entire setting, top down and filling in every square mile with believable features, inhabitants, and all the other details that an RPG party will continuously ignore unless they're killable/lootable.

create cyoas.

>>52029324
Play a battle for the north africa
solo
for both sides

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>>52026440
Something like this I guess

He just torrents the music directly into the parties brains.

Go watch Macross 7

>>52019466

The rankings are all out of whack because I'm the only person who has voted thus far, so the books I personally have read are all at the top of the list.

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>>52019466
Please add The Night Land a Story Retold. A fantastic setting, but the original story was written rather autistically.

>>52019529
It's in there under William Hope Hodgson's Night Lands, Volume I: Eternal Love. I put in Stoddard's retelling, so now they're both in there.

Haven't had as many games of GG17 as I'd like, but I like how it's not very focused on killing.

Dig there graves seems pretty cool though.

I love tail em but it pretty much confirms that we won't get a unit that can ignore line of sight, I want permanent scout the field vision

>>51904492
I think it's going to change. It's way too easy ATM.

>>52045825
Setting is bland and uninspired.

Mechanics are poorly designed; it requires a lot of effort and you don't really get a reward for playing it. (Unlike, say, shadowrun which is also quite heavy but also very rewarding).

The book is shit. Certain pages / sections feel malplaced. Some wordings are odd. It's a pain in the ass to read.

>>52045825

Fuck off, Christian.

>>52045909
It is ass scanon asking the question though.

>>52045155
could you give us some more info?

is there a pattern? do certain players always split off together? Perhaps having two groups instead of one, if that's possible.

giving incentives to being together, and threats to being apart is a choice. limiting their communication abilities between groups and ambushes and stuff?

>>52045155
Put obstacles in their way that can only be reliably surmounted if they all work together. If they don't, it's a mini-party wipe. Make sure to forewarn this way beforehand of course otherwise you'll just be a dick.

Also, just talk to them about this if them splitting up isn't something you want or can handle.

>>52045203
I am actually a player in our current campaign. The person who GMs is a player who never GMed before and our first session was kind of a disaster. I tried to help him a little bit by trying to keep the party together because I know how much of a horror it is as the GM to deal with 3-4 split players that all do their separate thing. But one of them constantly wants to be the sneaky rogue navy seal super agent.

I wanted to have a talk with our GM and see if we can come up with a solution to the problem.

>>52044657
I've never noticed that. Most player's I've played with have played very different characters over several campaigns.
Except one guy who basically plays a boring self insert human in every game. Same name as him, too. I've also had one guy who only played females, but they were still somewhat different.
Oh, and one girl who always played prettyboys.

Yes, every person plays characters of only one class for their entire life.
I myself have never not played a ranger, and I intend to play rangers again and again.
That's not a clearly untrue generalization you pulled out of your ass at all.

Pretty much all my players are skinny to athletic build.

Sadly their WoW characters. Except the one guy that never played WoW who always plays Reddit meme creature mashups (best player).

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>52044500
The best damn regiment in the galaxy sir!

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>>52044605
I'll belive it when I see it! But I can see that you are a a true imperial guard regiment. Imperial drilled and hopefully competent!

>Recruitment Criteria (1d100)

>>52044651
Did that Psyker accidentally set that dude on fire?