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Burn them all alive.

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>>51860480
Time for pic related, anon.

Mate dnd isn't a job or responsibility, the whole damn point is that it's a way to have fun, a vehicle for fun.

What you're describing sounds like a great night with friends to me.

You need to feel the mood of the the table and play to it, not force things.

Players are in the mood for irreverent dick jokes? Improv them some bawdy goblins or something else silly.
Players in the mood for serious dungeoneering? Time to advance your plot.

So long as the group isn't silently browsing their phones you're doing your job.

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>>51868198
>the Nation and Self Pacts are being fixed
>Self Pact
>"being fixed"

You better mean "Aether Channel and Aether Duelist are being fixed". You know, the thing that was ACTUALLY being a problem? I still don't understand why you were ever allowed to full attack with a weapon and just add half your level in d8's to it. The Pseudo Full BaB is cool and should stay, but the damage stacking of Aether Channel is retarded and never made any goddamn sense

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No offense but if combining Avowed and PoW is enough to break things then it might be that the Avowed was never working in the first place.

Regardless, with a new thread comes a new opportunity for me to shill my game for people who haven't already seen it. All the details are either in the description or in the forum links down below: https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/69913/slash-pfg-slash-dragonborn-game

>>51868301
>if combining Avowed and PoW is enough to break things
>2hu combines them both along with a few build mistakes and two extremely dodgy rules readings
Some of the path of war 1 disciplines also break damage math even without avowed anyway

>>51866054
First for new elemental cantrips.

Someone make some cantrips that deal some mundane damage types (bludgeon, slashing or piercing).

>>51866052
Are you saying your DM is disallowing Foci?
The random ass components are intentionally replaced by a focus, and are freely stocked and assumed restocked in a component pouch. Most also aren't consumed anyway.
Yes, the idea is that you grow goodberries on your mistletoe sprig, but thats all flavor, the only time you should ve worrying about non-costly components are when gear is lost, which theoretically nerfs everybody. Except Monks i guess.

>>51866105
Eh, they wouldn't do much because they'd be magical, unless you explicitly said they didn't do magical damage. Realistically they would be Force damage tier.

>>51858478
They can't.
After the whole debacle about splitting the Roman Empire, they've been bumfucked to oblivion. However, if you think the Germanic tribes is overpowered, what till you see the newest fuckers to entry the fray. Mother Fucking Huns

>>51858541
Don't even get me fucking started on archer calvary
I miss the good old days of elephant spam

>>51858579
Oh fuck, remember when the little bitches are like
>HUEHUEHUE YOU CAN'T BE MY ELEPHANTS!
>Bring out the flaming piggies with your spearmen
>RRRRREEEEEE!!!!!! CHEATER CHEATER!!!!
Fucking loved those days man.

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>>51855053
Yes, very bad taste.

>>51855053
Depends on why the encounter is happening, if they've pissed someone off and they've taken the time to study their weaknesses? Yes, otherwise just what fits is better

>>51855053
Not really as long as there are other encounters that target the party's strengths.

>>51850367
It's the Sixth World.
It's not really touched upon a lot in actual games, but especially 3e fluff implies that the combination of commercially available cybernetics, biosculpting, high-tech clothing, constant media exposure, stressful megacorp jobs, top-down consumer society and the increasing glamourization of shadowrunners means that the Sixth World is a bit more intentionally freaky than ours.
When you make a living on your reputation, as well as being expected to get a shitton of biotech/cyberware, living cut off from normal people, getting a lot of cash in hand and have too much individuality for your own good, you're much more likely to use that cyberware (or bioware, or just clothes and gear) to stand out.
That's not to speak of the average citizen, who lives most of their life inundated by corporate propaganda, advertising and exploitative media, in a hyper-competitive environment where the Matrix is ever-present (and things escalate when they hit the Matrix, just like the Internet). If a GM was to actually describe the people in attendance at an average nouveau-riche kid's party, including their cosmetic mods and clothes, his players would throw him out for magical realm if they hadn't been briefed on it.
The Sixth World is a blunted, hyper-connected society where you're always being told that someone else is prettier, cooler and more successful than you, through the hyper-immersive media of simflicks and Matrix rooms, and that they've gotten that way from buying corporate products and you should too.
People care too much about more (perhaps unattainable) status and satisfaction to give a shit about many taboos anymore, and the corps are happy to provide. Someone buys all those biomods.

>>51850577
I go to the stuffer shack and pay for it with my fake SIN along with my microwavable burritos and soy bacon.

Anybody have the Missions S5E6 pdf? Its not in the pastebin download.

to clarify, I'm not looking to create something better in terms of stats I'm just looking to create a better thing to role play.

but if it helps I'm a crab clan shugenja kuni

You'd probably have better luck in the general, buddy.

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Answer the 20 questions followed by the extended 20? Yeah, people aren't a fan of that one. Other than that, and I've been using this one a lot because the characters just write themselves, use the heritage tables. Depending on edition, they're really good or really okay. I've found 1e to have the best tables, which you could always roll on for inspiration.

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>>51849784
it's cus it's literally a redrawing of a Frazetta picture.

Jimmy, when are you updating next? It's been a few days.

>>51838431
CR is useless, what a surprise

>>51838447
This

So don't cast spells at it?

Are 3.PF players so brain dead that they can't comprehend overcoming a challenge without magic?

>>51817103
>What's your favorite long (>2 hours) game?
StarCraft
Dominant Species
Through the Ages
>What did you play last weekend?
Nothing last weekend, but last week I played Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization.

I like the game but I still have no idea what's the best strategy.

Second for seasons best game

>>51817103
>What's your favorite long (>2 hours) game?
Honestly, none. If a game lasts that long I will flat out never play it.
I have multiple games in my collection that last 90 minutes, but 2 hours is a bridge too far, and the vast majority of my many games are all in the realm of half an hour, which is comfy.
I can't fathom how a person could enjoy doing the same thing for that long.
Whenever I'm done with a short mission in Dead of Winter I feel like I have to immediately get up and run a marathon, it was so difficult to keep actually caring about the game all the way to the end.
This isn't because I only play gateways. I don't, I've got many large games.
But seriously.
How do you do it?
>What did you play last weekend?
Lots of Mint Works and Red7.
Red7 with my boyfriend - he loves the scoring mechanic and how it makes some wins much more dangerous than others, making you maybe want to fold a single turn in because your hand is bad and they're only winning with 6 points right now. Ingenious mechanic. The game didn't get enough love mostly because, I think, nobody plays it 2p with advanced rules and scoring. They just play it on a per-hand basis, and never get to see the poker-like folding strategy the game provides.
Played Mint Works Solitaire. I finally beat an AI, this one was Rachael, took, and I have a feeling she's meant to be easy. I really love this game, though. Perfect for travel, which is what we were doing this weekend. Just like Red7 is.

>>51868250
please clarify
>how many players
>what they all want to play
>the general theme of the campaign (ie. fightin cultists or political intrigue)
But in general, have a few hooks, some pre-made maps, and a list of names for throwaway npcs

>>51868250
Prepare the skeleton of what you want to do and improv the details.

>>51868250
https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/DND/Curse%20of%20Strahd%20Introductory%20Adventure.pdf
Here's everything you need.

>>51867502
I'm ready to start doing puzzles if it can get me dates.

>>51867502
No.

>>51867502
I dunno but it might be a good activity to break the ice on date.

>>51866327
>Tfw used to be in league with Alfa and chat with him all the time and be a somebody

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>>51866327
I did!

>>51866501
HHHNNN, NEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUWWWWWWWWWW ER! (Chopping, Screaming, Bloody murder)

NNNNEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUWWWWWWW!

im at work and i dont want to work - edition

Advice on building a strong guests list?

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Thread Discussion: John Wick is cryogenically frozen by a nascent chaos god, then awakened in the 41st Millennium and told to kill the Emperor.

He is given a collection of powerful guns for the task, appropriate for the time and his body type (standard human male).

Does he succeed, or how many space marines does it take to stop him?

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>>51865979
Are you sure you do that?

>>51865979
Don't forget to close it afterwards. You weren't born in a barn, were you?

>>51865979
The door snaps off it's hinges.