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FIRST FOR MAGE SUPREMACY

>>51834720
My changeling, an Ogre Dragon/Ifirit (special Ice Variant)

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>>51834732

Life Mages don't need to eat to gain Endorphins.

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Please don't tell my supervisor!

>>51832662
They got better artists, who asked the writers more/better questions. Then this was built upon for 5 primary iterations across 30 years. In that time, Beholders have become among the most iconic and fucking awesome monsters in D&D, and only D&D, when they shouldn't fucking copywrite the beastiery names. Beholders are fucking cool and all of fantasy fiction should have more of them.

Floating cyclops head with medusa hair ending in eyeballs. Also viciously xenophobic and paranoid. Considers itself the true perfect pinnacle of its race, but every one of its race are so different. Some fleshy, some scaley, some chitonous, some with piercing teeth, some with human teeth but bigger.

Beholders are great mang. But they've had five editions to iterate them and have new teams try to grow the monster and its lore/themes. Beholders are just an example of them nailing it. Less valuable iterated monsters might include Driders, goblinoids, Chuuls. To a lesser extent the purple worm and the terrasque. They don't really get better but they never were bad and never got worse.

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>>51832854
>terrasque
Gonna have to disagree on that one, they fucked up an awesomely weird monster.

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While we're at it, what /tg/ thinks about this place?

Same thing as what has happened to /tg/ and the world - whiny little bitches run rampant.

>>51828855
It's shit.

Also, checked.

> Improves upon 3.5 design, while avoiding mistakes of 4e

Applies a thin coat of paint while not making many real or significant improvements, lacks a strong and coherent design philosophy in the way 4e did

> Massively buffs mundane classes such as fighter and monk

They both still fucking suck

> Diverse race and class list, content is added at a very fast pace. 5e got two splatbooks. Not this year, period.

Has the same problem 3.5 did, the majority of the content is garbage.

Is Pathfinder a unilaterally awful game? No. A good GM, with a decent amount of work and sensible content restrictions (tier 3/4 classes etc) can make it work damn well.

But any less skill on the GMs part, or if people don't know which content to restrict, and you'll be fighting the system to make things work significantly more than it'll be adding to your experience of the game.

This isn't about hating on it. This is about being aware of the flaws systems have and being able to clearly highlight and explain them in ways that are useful to new players or people who might be struggling with those same issues. If anything, the meme is people refusing to acknowledge that systems are flawed, or trying to claim that those flaws are meaningless because 'The GM can work around them'.

>>51828671
Some people don't enjoy "3rd Party: The Game."

Some people hate the diverse race list because they're "muh gygax"es and "muh tolkien"s, and despise the idea of a beast race that isn't a mindless alligator man or a gnoll.

Some people hate the sheer amount of shit they have to keep up with, considering how much gets released for it.

Personally I find it pretty fun, but shit if it isn't a clusterfuck that you have to keep to a minimum-- especially when the newer classes are involved, as they tend to be weird technically.

>>51828735
A good GM can make just about any rule system not suck. But a good system requires less work for the GM.

>>51828671
Pathfinder is DND 3.6. Some improvements but not enough to make it not have the same flaws 3.5 did..

And now Paizo has pigeonholed themselves into this system. Especially with Starfinder coming out.

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>>51826719
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/c7tfqff9sqp71/L5R
>lots of stuff from 4e and previous editions

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/xpa768hxwcezl/RPG#2nbbe1kyny4qo
>some other 4e stuff can be found here (9th link from the top)

Ever read any Larry Niven shit? You know about scrith, or monomolecular hulls?

>>51807588
They're as durable as the plot demands.

>>51807588
Saitama can obliterate half the universe with one punch, and that's only because he can only punch in one direction at a time.

>>51806687

Thank God. Leave it for the 40shit.

First for the Hyperpower

Long live PanOceania

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>>51806727
I should get back on that PanO mug design.
Either two Fusiliers or a knight. Holy Sepulchre with two holoechoes sounds like a nice idea.
Not gonna do Joan because CB actually sells a Joan mug.

a-yes

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>>51804247
I see no reason why not. If you want people living there you might want some more rivers. Maybe not everywhere, but a few major ones going through the big agricultural country that may or may not export loads of grain to other countries

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>>51804279
Like so?

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If there's a scene in the area, it's absolutely worth the buy in.

Just be aware that the work that goes into being competent at Malifaux (or Warmahordes), rather than just pushing models around a table, is a hell of a lot more time-consuming than 40k.

For my money Malifaux is probably the best game with a decent playerbase out there, but I'm sure someone who mainly plays Warmahordes will be along shortly to tell you I'm wrong.

To get into Malifaux though, just go to your store and pick up the crew box that looks coolest to you, and then maybe another crew box from the same faction that the shop recommends.
Instantly you have two completely different but fully playable crews at the standard game size for $100 or less, and that will be all you need for a couple of months until you work out what else you want.

>>51783190
Its not 40k or AoS so its shit.

>>51783190
why dont you approach the scene, look if you like the people and minis instead of asking on a random imageboard?

'Knife ears' has been a generic elf insult for ages, anon.

>>51850891
Not really. It's just a dumb thing from dragon age.

>>51851066
I thought knife-ears has been around since Oldhammer?

Fate, or some other narrative game, like Risus or something PbtA based (Worlds in Peril?).

Trying to stat out anime is stupid, autistic, an exercise in futility, and entirely missing the fucking point.

>>51849997
Yeah a bit of research recommended the FATE system to me.

How difficult is it to grasp would you say? For players that have only really dealt with D&D and some Edge of The Empire?

>>51849997
Oh and maybe to clarify a bit, I am not looking to recreate the anime just its concept.

I.e a Grail war, Heroic spirits and mages.

The only reason I thought D&D or more stat based systems might work was to have the heroic spirits be maybe 10th level characters with their respective class (Berzerker as brarbarian etc.)

And obviously have the mages have relatively low lvl 1 stats. Though the issue would be dealing with Mana and spell casting.

>>51849160
Burn, heretic.

>>51849160
why do you hate Mankind, Anon? The Emperor has provided you with everything, and this is how you thank him? Truly, your heresy runs deep

The emperor doesn't provide me with daemons

>>51848655
Is All Tomorrows a meme

>>51848655
On Drugs. I would run it On Drugs.

Normality

Honestly, probably GURPS or something

There's not a lot of detail in All Tomorrows with which you discern appropriate game mechanics, but rather whatever the intention of the game that has been inspired by All Tomorrows would be more relevant for the system.
Eg a game inspired by all tomorrows might be combat heavy or it might largely involve weird beings searching fantastical locations of billion year old artefacts to piece together the fate of a race. In the latter situation, a game with loose, narrative combat would suffice.

>>51845416

Why do you always spite me on the important rolls you son of a bitch? You best start rolling right or I'm going to go and get dice who will, and you can say good bye to your comfy case and regular cleanings.

>>51845416
"I wish you existed."

>>51845416
you watched me melt your brother and sisters in the oven, do you really think i'm not gonna do the same to you? your choice is simple, be on my side or become a pile of molten plastic on a cookie tray while your brother and sisters watch from a chair.

>>51844774
Why does it wear the box?

>>51844786
It's a big game

>>51844774
It's a pretty fun game.