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>>51372853
Forgot my GM's reply

>>51372853
>inorgarating the new king
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>>51372897

>40k
Start by picking a wargame that isn't complete shit.

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>>51372611
This is from 5th edition (we're currently in 7th) but most of his advice is pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PXaEUwAZSc

>>51372641

This. The ruleset is a bloated, horribly balanced mess, the models are expensive (I don't know what the competition is like, admittedly), and the setting has some big doin's going down soon. Given that everyone who writes for GW is a hack, that means the setting is probably going to get a lot worse in the near future.

>>51372302
First for Dark Eldar! Long live the Dark City!

>>51372302
Second for Adarki Aeldari! Long live the Adarki Acityi!

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>>51372320
>>51372323
u fuckin joker

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We all end up agreeing to work as security, and the next day we hop in a caravan with a group of mercenaries and get on our way there. As the day goes on, we stop to water the horses, and there's something weird about the ground, like someone's been running a hoe through the dirt all willy nilly. As we refill our waterskins, socialize a bit, maybe grab a bite to eat, the ground seems to quake beneath us. Suddenly, an entire carriage is crushed by a blur of motion, and the horses dragged into a large pit.

Now, I'm wigging out because I didn't sign up for this shit. Eventually we figure out it's a Land Shark, and when Adlai throws his canteen at it, its hatred of water. Now, we're hitting this thing as hard as we can, but we're just dinging off its hide. Its pretty much shaking us off and trying to eat the horses/destroy the caravan. We decide to try and distract it by using spells and letting the caravan get away. This is going great... At least until Ayzel fucks up a spell and casts a noise spell meant to intimidate ten horses on herself. The bullet jumps on her and is eventually saved by the rest of the party. Me, being kind of a dick bag, just hopped on the caravan and left with the guy that was paying me.

We decide to end our first session when we see the gates within our view. Night has fallen, and we need to be in and out by the time the sun rises, or else we will be trapped in the city until it decides to reappear.

>>51372248
It was pretty basic. None of my friends had played before, so we went to the store and bought all of the 4e stuff.

Then we went home, read a tiny bit, and played a 1 hour long session. I DM'd.

>>51372248
Playing an intro, first time to DnD one-off adventure at a "learn to DnD" type event. All characters are premade, we just pick classes. End up with a ranger, a thief, a druid, and me, a paladin. I'm the only one with any healing ability, and no one wanted to play a cleric. Also I'm the only melee character. The DM is canning himself in between trying to convince one of us to take a cleric and another to take fighter or something. Story:
>villagers are super scared, figure out what's going on!
>wolves have been attacking every night
>half village is dead, more wolves every night
>all the warriors are dead, they can't hold out on their own anymore
>please brave heroes help us!

So we get forced into our first quest.

>almost nightfall
>hole up all surviving villagers in the tavern
>have ranger put beartraps and shit by the door
>barred all the lower story windows, but left door open to lure wolves in
>Villagers hide in cellar
>ranger goes upstairs to shoot at wolves
>druid, rogue, and I stay downstairs to kill any wolves that make it past the traps.

The DM is telling us that in all honesty we will probably all die due to lack of a proper healer and little melee tanks. But we ignore him.

>wolves attack!
>I'm standing to the side of the door, and I roll a string of 15+'s for each wolf that comes in, killing every single one as they come through the door, without any of the other party members getting a shot in.

DM is kinda flabbergasted, I've just killed like 6 wolves in one hit each without even having to dodge an attack.

>You hear a loud crash on the level above!
>Werewolf has smashed through an upper story window right next to the ranger
>manages to swipe away half the ranger's HP with his claws
>ranger misses all his attacks
>sprint upstairs, I get there first
>Suspecting werewolves, I'd previously smashed a silver candlestick with my warhammer until the thing was jammed onto the end of my hammer
>nat 20, ohko werewolf

>>51372157
>u
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>>51372157
Its the best system they made and I wish we were in 2002 again.

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>>51372136
Get into real-life arguments. Doesn't matter over how trivial a topic; doesn't matter how asinine a stance. This is no shit how I learned to speak confidently in front of other people.

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>>51372136

>Would taking an improv class be good for getting into character better and with dming?

If the One Shot podcast is any indication, YES. But you might be able to get by with just PDF related.

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>>51372136
You should.

Be aware that you're gonna have to do some stuff that feels embarrassing. If you can get into it, you'll have a good time and definitely improve your acting/dming skills.

What style of guardsman are they? Catachan, Cadian, Krieg, Moridian?

>>51372074
The figures themselves are Cadian, but I plan to get some Catachan as well.

>>51372024
Make them famous for losing, but everybody gets inspired by their failure anyway

>"Well, my character has no reason to leave or explore or go talk to anyone."
I asked this player on input before I made up the campaign. They said they liked to explore.

Now, I was rolling with things, but they got a little snippy about it and that took away all my interest in continuing to run this game. Didn't exactly log off in a huff, but I told them I needed to go. I do not plan to continue.

What is the proper response here, because what I keep coming back to is "Make something happen? Yeah, all right, a drake with a four foot erection bursts through the wall."

Try not running asinine storyshit.

>>51371599
Actually a drake with a four-foot erection would have been hilarious.
That is precisely what you should have done.

>>51371437
This seems like a terrible idea.
Keep us updated.

>>51371437
That seems awkward, but I guess as long as no one plays a token or heavy land ramp deck any lack of slots is unlikely to become an issue.

>>51371460
Oh it is the worst idea.
The deck box can't stay shut so the deck will fall out all the time, the upper play area can't hold cards, the thing is balanced like shit, and it's actually really really damn hard to play magic with one hand on a small moving surface.

not to mention I play a myr token deck so this is the most useless item ever.

Man, don't take out feelings on NPCs. And not on PCs either. Do ooc talk with the actual dude or dudette to settle things.

>>51371213
Have you tried not being a fucking Private Pyle?

>>51371213
>>51371254
Yeah, fuck you Private Pyle

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>>51370819
also post cool space suits if you got em

>>51370819
If you want to make the shit more interesting, check some of the space superstition threads, create a sailor like mythos for things you should and should not do aboard your ship. And make sure the captain pisses on the wheel before take off, it's a must.

Also, because it's space, mix in a little horror, like the lost cosmonauts coming a knocking'.

>>51370819
Will checks.
LOTS of will checks. Make em roll dice even when nothing is happening just to get your players paranoid. Pass lots of notes around, separate them frequently. Try and get them to believe that the others are plotting to kill them.

dumb frogposter

>>51370338
The Bag Of Several Rats.
It's bag with d4+2 rats in it. While these rats are in the bag they're in stasis, not requiring food, water or air, and are impervious to damage from the outside.
If the rats are released from the bag, new rats appear in the bag at the next sunrise.
All these rats are otherwise entirely mundane.

Some say it's really just a poor man's Bag Of Rat Holding, but the two can be combined to great effect

Living Rock
A rock that is alive, cannot move or think

Clerics are servants, Paladins are paragons.

>>51370263
They were, now they aren't because reasons!

>>51370263
>>51370423
>>51372513

Clerics are casters, so the devs suck their dicks and bend over backwards to make their lives easier. Paladins, even if they can also cast some spells, have the stink of martials about them. This means their faces get pushed in the mud the same as the rest of the martials.

Stop ban-dodging, you sad spamming egomaniac.

>>51369671
No, he has a pretty simple point.

If my barbarian knows how to craft beer or moonshine, I can't give out the details for that process, but in game my character would possess all the technical know how.

>>51369671
Varg, in this particular case, is objectively correct. There's literally no legitimate argument to the contrary.