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Eh, 3.5 is fine. You could use the whole "casters OP" to emphasize the themes of your source material.

>>55100438
Go OSR, something 1e or BECMI based maybe. It'll be fairly familiar since it's just Old D&D but you won't have as much "Everyone is a goddamn superhero... except for the Fighter, who is the only one with any actual chance of dying" problem.

A friend of mine from school ran a Dark Souls game that used Dread. It was a good way to represent how often you get worked.

Nah, they'll just split custody of your soul kind of like how some divorced parents handle their kids.

>>55099353
Nah. When all these dozen entities come to take your soul they will merge into one laughing figure. Figure reveals that it was he Devil who traded your evil for wordly power under different masks. He found in you infinite pettiness, evil and spiritual filth for which you will suffer like no other man did. You will make a decent substitute for him while he goes on hellish vacation.

>>55099353

>I too like to play skyrim

Given how renown you are, there most certainly will be a divine fight. But what kind of being gives you power in exchange for your soul when you already owe your only soul to a much powerful being?

>>55098876
Fuck bitches, get money.

>>55098876
To get all my gear dragonforged.

>>55098876
Fuck, where did I put that old insta-kill arrow?

>>55098875
All of them without codex's

>>55098875
Hrud or Rak'gol

>>55098875
Necrons tbqh.

What do you mean? Is it planes or other dimensions like that?

I mean, the colors really are just closer to personality types. Everyone is technically able to use all colors but the stronger character traits dictate your kind of magic you can do. Honorable knight does white magic. Nerd and curious Rogue wizard will do blue. A resourceful and practical person may act with black magic since it's the least merciful.

If you want factions then look into Ravnica, Alara, or Tarkir.

>>55098701
>Is it as simple as taking five or so color aspects and then building factions and races to match each one?

Buh? Have you ever even played MtG?

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>>55098692
some closeups to really get a good feeling

>>55098692
>Garden/Death world
>Lots of unspoiled wilderness
>kills unmodified humans

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>>55098736

European magic tends to be portrayed as the hermetic kind from the Rennaisance. East Asian magic is the Force.

One goes with pasta, the other goes with rice.

>>55098478
Source of the power, use of the power, and aesthetics

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>>55098330
>players are trying to uncover a crime mystery
>they don't know a beholder is behind it
>they've never fought or encountered one before
>as soon as they found the location of "the boss" they just headed straight there
>riding on a high of confidence after catching a Vampire off guard by destroying his resting place and then him
>"we're basically gods"

how fucked are they, boys

>>55098330
I'm trying to run a game with an oldschool feel right now.

>>55098373
110%

How do you handle the party being split up? I'm asking more in terms of meta knowledge given. Like for example if one player goes off on his own and ends up getting kidnapped. Do you let all the players know or do you attempt to keep it hidden somehow?

Personally, I'm inclined to pull the player aside when they go off on their own to play out what happens solo, but I feel like this slows the game down and bores the other players. Similarly the other player won't be allowed to interact with the players until their characters have all been reunited. I just believe this will make things boring for people though, but at the same time meta knowledge may impact decisions.

>>55097617
Really depends on the group and the setting. Some groups play well rrgardless of above game factors so saying things aloud just gets them invested too. Setting is really the big one in my eyes, since if your in one that has cell phones or similar its gonna be hard for player to resist the urge of just calling that character to gain the knowledge right away. I see no problem with keeping it hidden either way, so long as you can juggle between groups so people dont get bored.

>>55097302
Well, the biggest advice is always to forget what you want to write, because you're not even a writer, the group is the writer. Doing this alone means you'll probably not create the kind of story where people complain over railroads...

Secondly, the best railroad is the one you create and just leave there, turned off. If the PCs decide to take it, they must then go in and turn it on and get it running back up again all on their own.


And I've recently gotten real good results by adding random 1d100 rolls every single time I can't make up my mind or I'm not satisfied with what would be the "expected" result. So, PCs just barge in somewhere, make a mess and THEN they think about cameras? d100, and so they get that tiny chance of there not being cameras to begin with. PC needs something that they don't normally carry with them? Well, a d100>50 and there it is, they packed it after all. It's gotten to the point that some of my players call for d100 rolls from time to time and it works really well.

As a DM, I just use these d100s to decide how favorably off-scene stuff is resolving, etc. It's fun in that it grows out all on it's own.

>>55097131
>be me in OP's exact standard
>Decide to play janky mono-red dragons deck
>Play against Temur Dragons
>He plays thunderbreak regent
>I double Draconic Roar it because I don't give a fuck
>Next turn I sacrifice a Generator Servant to activate Monstrosity on my Stormbreath Dragon
>his turn he drops atarka the 8/8 and kills my Dragonlords Servants
>Tell him he has me, if my next draw isn't the exact card I need it to be
>topdeck Crucible of Fire, the exact card I needed it to be
>Play Crucible, swing with a 10/10 Stormbreath, who proceeds to gobble up Atarka like the pussy she is
>The guy said he liked my brew
I was so happy

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>>55097205
That standard was actually pretty fun, aside from, you know.

>>55097131
>Guy at my LGS collects peregrin drakes for some reason
>Nice guy so what the fuck I dig through my bulk box and find 2-3 for him
>Show up when hes not around so I leave them with the store owner
>He comes in later that night and the owner hands them to him.
>He gets really excited and asks who they came from
>That girl raises her hand and says it was her
>Feel awkward correcting her
>He thanks her and she gets all the credit
>Senpai never noticed me

Obligatory "5e Paladins are bound by their oath and not their god" post.

>>55096074
Eberron handled that as "worshipping the entire pantheon." Just choose two domains you feel are most representative of the whole and you're good.

Also, fuck Dizzy. May best waifu

>>55096440
You made six mistakes typing "Baiken"

>>55094910
I'd guess all the feudal lords who don't trust all the military power of the land in the hands of a single other individual.

>>55094910
Well, the initial reason the European aristocracy militarized was so they could keep their own peasants in check during the early years after the fall of Rome when everything went to shit and kings had no real power to maintain law and order beyond the vicinity of their capitals. To avoid the rise of knights, you'd have to have a culture where the transition from classical empire to feudalism went more smoothly, without that period of anarchy and isolation.

Italy would be a fairly good example, where things were already developed enough before the Roman empire collapsed that city states could maintain relative order in the countryside as opposed to things reverting to the castle-and-village feudalism of medieval France, Britain, and Germany.

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>>55094910

>>55094308
Thread Question: Helm of Awakening. It's an all-star, particularly in my Emrakul deck.

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Instant speed grave hate + regularly gaining more than 12 life. What's not to love?

>>55094383
>What's not to love?
2B

>>55093703
>Eredin Bréacc Glas
>A Skeleton

Thinking about retraining a feat, namely net proficiency

(Soundstriker) Bard 6 / (Zen Archer) Monk 1

Str 10
Dex 14
Con 14
Int 14
Wis 12
Cha 16

F1: Lingering Performance
FHB: Improved Initiative
F3: Additional Traits
FZA: Perfect Strike
FZAB: Precise Shot
>F5: EWP Net
F7: Fast Learner (+1 HP & Skillpoint in fav class)

Skills: diplo 16, intim 13, bluff 18, sense motive 18, knowledges 12, linguistics 12

Traits:
Reactionary: +2 init
Life of Toil: +1 fort
Inspired: 1/day roll twice on skill check
Guiding Spirit 1/day* roll twice on next d20 roll

Combat: drop inspire courage, use net/tangleshot arrow to entangle, use weird words for 4d6 + cha sonic damage, use scorching ray wand, buff allies, aid another, throw net, help complete mission objective (e.g. take an AoO so another player can run safely by to seize the macguffin)

Instead of that, I was thinking about taking point blank shot so that I could get rapid shot to entangle a few enemies with the tangleshot arrows, cunning so I get more skill points, or a +2 bonus on my saves or something.

Advice, criticism, suggestions, hate crimes?

>>55093703
>Post elf
>Call it skeleton

Dwarf propaganda is getting out of hand, damnit. Or is this hobgoblins? I bet it's both!

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Bad.

"XD RANDUM" probably

>>55090896
nu-humor