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You should do something with you life and find purpose other than making other people feel better about themselves by having a comparison with you.
I would suggest start by getting a job, but i general any proactive approach works.

>>51699130

i have a life and a job that pays okay. one player commented once that it really seems like my life is on power-saver mode for how little i seem to do.

also i'm the only one in the group that's fucking ugly and more money doesn't fix that

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Gonna post whatever cool cyberpunk art I have meanwhile.

>>51696326
Low fantasy is just a sword, without sorcery.
But there might be a wide assortment of swords to choose from.

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How much skin the PCs show.

The commonly accepted definition of "low fantasy" features less of the mystic, and what magic/mysticism there is tends to be somewhat plodding ritualistic-type stuff.

Sword & Sorcery, while it has a fairly 'gritty' feel similar to Low Fantasy, is more about high-flying heroics and epic struggles of the heroes rather than "everyone dies face first in the mud". Also, magic tends to be flashier and more indendiary in S&S settings, with lots of clashes between savage nomad kings and evil serpent sorceress queens and shit like that.

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Make them (almost) human.

>>51696319
Check out delta green or other modern CoC stuff.

How near is the near future? Because all you need to do is engineer a situation in the long term that will inevitably lead to his death regardless of what he does. Ozymandias would still have succeeded if Rorschach could see a minute into the future.

Orchestrate a future in which the best option is for the villain to kill himself.

I assume you mean he has some kind of Rain Man math wizardry and not something like Muad'Dib seeing the future so clearly that he can still see after having his eyes put out.

>>51696137
Again drawing on the zero system analogue, the villain can only with near perfect accuracy predict events that are about 0-10 min into the future. However, there's no sharp cutoff, but rather exponentially more difficulty on discerning the correct outcome the farther he looks. He might be able to predict 20 min fairly accurately, but would have hazy Greek oracle style visions of say a month out.

One mechanic I've already implemented is that the villain has "marked" certain lieutenants, and that killing these marked men reduces the vision he has into the medium term future.

>>51695154
Do it too many times and psychopomps or inevitables get pissed at you.

>>51695154
>Why can't reincarnate bring you back into something older or younger than young adult?
because magic is about being able to cheat

what if reincarnation spell makes you forget about your earlier ego?

>>51693501
I've always recommended Savage Worlds with the Super Powers Expansion for such things.

>>51693501
There's Exalted, which isn't all that great, Anima, which takes an eternity to learn, Legends of the Wulin, which has terrible editing, Legend, which is woefully incomplete, and Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, which lacks character creation rules.

>>51693639
>Anima, which takes an eternity to learn and also memes you because everyone is as mortal as all fuck ending up in a death filled world with anime eyes

I converted the planes from Planescape into planets for Spelljammer. Ended up using them in a Fading Suns game...

>>51693743
Really? How'd that work out?

>>51692491
Why do people lump Planescape and Spelljammer together? The former is infinitely more popular in my experience, and I've played it. I don't know anyone who's played Spelljammer.

>>51692182
its all furries

>>51692182
They're not wolves, they're dogs.

>>51692182
They are not wolves, they are yiffs

To properly worldbuild your setting you need to answer "Why?" Up to 3 times in a row about most things. Example:
The republic of aldia dislikes halflings
>>Why?
Because bitter blood fewds between human and halflings nobles have caused trouble
>>Why?
Because halflings tax non-halflings races unfairly, which has caused discrimination between the two races to increase.
>>Why?
Because halflings have hands in many manufactured goods companies, making prices arbitrarily higher for the working man.

>>51692060
Read, read, read.

http://thealexandrian.net/gamemastery-101

>>51692115
That's actually great advice.

>>51691876
pdfs where?

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>>51691876
WHich system does it uses? what is the best summary of the setting that you can make?

>>51691876
I like the picture, looks like mass effect, after closer inspection, it looks like mass effect in space sweden, lost my interest.

Plump caps

>>51691679
Mushroom ale.

>>51691724
I was not aware you could make ale from mushrooms i wonder if they ever make some with the hallucinogenic kind?

Seriously? WW2? German Tiger tank? The most iconic tank of the war?

>>51691390

>/hwg/
>/fowtg/

historical games have a really strong community here on /tg/, wrapped up in a few small threads and occasional outliers, but the viewership is healthy

also, we DO spend most of our time actually building and playing, if not attending to our businesses/jobs and families/women.

/realmenindeed/

so go there.

we do answer good questions...

>>51691390

"Real" games! What worthless bait.

>>51690437
would not recommend

amazing thread. anyway it's way too big so have fun with your casual truescale games i guess?

>>51690437
For what reason.

>>51690240
GM's

if a chaotic neutral person tortures a innocent child and the chaotic good doesnt do anything about it their alingment is going to shift wheter they want it or not

>>51690295
I can see how CG doing nothing about it is problem, but CN is still in alignment unless he starts doing it on regular (eg. becomes a teacher).