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>>55073352
A wizard and an alchemist got bored and said fuck it lets go make a new species.

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Natural selection is the one I always go to.
They're from planets where animal traits and high intelligence were advantageous, and so they evolved to reflect that.

Artificial selection is interesting too. I'm honestly curious, despite ethical implications, if we could breed something with higher intelligence through artificial selection, maybe starting with animals that already have the capacity to mimic speech, like certain birds.

To citizens of Rome while it was "split" it was a single Empire, they just had two Emperors that ruled different parts, the Romans had actually done this before.

To people that were alive centuries after the Western half fell they still considered the Easter part as the same Empire. This was for both citizens inside it as well as its neighbours and enemies.

Best Roman Empire in game is clearly a Romano-British one fighting Germanics however.

>>55073478
Not to mention that one of the eastern Emperors officially and legally reunited it. I want to say Justinian, but I'm unsure. Point is it was only split in half for a few hundred years. This point is conveniently ignored by everyone who hates the eastern half.

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>>55073210
Like a fucking magical masterpiece of human ingenuity. In a non-magic or low fantasy setting, this empire's existence seems supernatural. They built things taller and larger than any had before or since. The fountains they once used for decoration and pleasure are the only water source within fifty miles for the current denizens. And if migrating groups, like what happened in Western Europe, were the ones who brought down the Empire... their grandchildren would look at their elders like they were monsters. They fucking burned books filled with the knowledge on what crops to grow in certain areas. They tore down statues of past great-men in order to forge them down into simple boars and helmet ornaments. They tore apart frescos and defaced temples for... whatever reason.

The descendants of destroyers look back and try their hardest to mimic this empire. Kings start calling themselves by a previous emperor's name, [Kaiser and Tsar = Caesar today], they employ any intelligent men left to tutor their children in the classical languages of the dead empire, the queens have their daughters learn to spin classical patterns and clothing for the court, and any institutions left would be flooded with coin in an attempt to revive and copy any remaining literature from the past. If the Empire survived elsewhere as itself or as an evolution, these new kingdoms would send envoys vying for favor and support in their wars.

>>55073166
are you illuminati

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>>55073166
Valeu, vou checar.

Quem mais era fã de Tormenta e ficou desapontado com a perda de qualidade no cenário? Eu ainda adoro "Área de Tormenta" mas após Guerras Táuricas a coisa inteira desceu quadrada.

Brazilian child prostitutes sold their bodies in between glue-huffing sessions outside the Rio Olympics.

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>New guy has an enemy recruitment skill in a fuckaround game
>Let him decide who's in the dark hole below them and try and turn them over because fuck it it's his first time
>Manages to summon the ghost of Macho Man Randy Savage
>Tear ass all over the ruins while every player does their worst MMRS impression and derail the whole game

A lone AI on a space station invites the party to seemingly sadistic, but actually benign game show

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In my kung fu game I had the party run into a group of mischievous monkey spirits who had fallen under the sway of a cursed crown that made them slightly more intelligent but also made them want to conquer china.

It was meant to be a joke filler encounter, it almost turned into a TPK and now the word "Scatapult" is perma-banned in my gaming group.

>>55072754
Stakes. Themes. The best example, of course, is Lord of the Rings.

Don't listen to faggots who say "amount of magic", they don't know what they're talking about.

>>55072754
How much shit is on your peasants.

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The power level. Anything with a power level of 2 or above is high fantasy.

Well, that's what I think anyway. Wikipedia calls Conan the Barbarian High fantasy just because it's not set on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fantasy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_fantasy

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>>55072699
YES, GOOD INDEED!
TRULY, OUR CONTINUED SURVIVAL IS PROOF THAT THE EMPEROR SMILES UPON US.

TO RAISE MORALE IN THE MEANTIME, I SHALL BE CHECKING EVERYONES COPIES OF "The Imperial Infantrymans Uplifting Primer",
AND EXECUTING ANY WHO SHOW A DAMAGED COPY OR OTHERWISE FAIL TO PRESENT ONE AT ALL.

THAT IS ALL CAPTAIN

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>>55072699
>A tall, snake like figure emerges from the shadows
Good day gentlemen, I'm Phoen Cun'ek, the recently decased Ars'andog's lawyer, here to distribute his inferitence and will.
Where can I find the following people: Viktor, Van Kleez, Mr and Ms Wyvern, conguradulation by the way, Mr.Wolfe, Han'zo, Priest Michael and the current Commissar Krochemus?

what's the matter ?
i will only answer by the law of the Farsight Enclave

>>55072452
But Magnus isn't trapped in the webway.

>>55072452
>planet of sorcerers
>in the warp

Try harder OP

>>55072452
OP is a retard but he makes me wonder something; is Inquisitor Jaq Draco still a ghost in the webway?

I can never decide whether it's worse to make a character you like and never get the chance to use them, or make the character you like but the campaign goes wrong somehow (like ending prematurely, or just being plain unfun).

Do you use silly voices? Silly voices help.

Making characters less fleshed out helps me. I try and piece two things from a traditional "class" and an oddball and run from there.

> he fights for god
> skilled blacksmith
> loves flowers, has a garden

Then let the game find where your character fits.

>>55072413
I suspect you don't truly enjoy anything. Nobody can help your depression but you anon.

>>55072293
Worgens were a fucking atrocity. Werewolves in top hats. How can you fuck that up? Yet Blizzard does, and they do it in so many different ways.

I never understood why vampires got to be nobles in everything when hereditary lycanthropy is like a direct reference to noble inbreeding

>>55072464
>I never understood why vampires got to be nobles in everything

Because haughty assholes that come out at night to whisk away the village virgin just so they can savor her blood is a twisted allegory to rampant decadence by the nobility. It's murder, prima nocte and thuggery all rolled into one - fuck, you could even say their ability to control packs of wolves is a colorful metaphor for their household guard adding muscle behind the madness.

Have the overarching story be related to the train itself, explaining it's existence or why they're there - maybe to exorcise the ghosts of the past.

Elements of this plot will be in each of the train carriages, which will all be locked to begin with and unlock as they piece together clues or complete the stops. Maybe each stop is a location relevant to the unfolding of the story as a whole - like moments of the ghost's lives frozen in time.

>>55072325
I was thinking of that first part, unraveling the mystery of the train itself, but I didn't think of the locked carriages and stops being significant part

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind.

>>55072348
Also, what is actually outside the train? Think about it.

>>55072196

Brutally cunning.

>>55072208
Cunningly Brutal

>>55072196
Brutingly Cunnally

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first for cadia

Renegades can't use VotlW but some random cultists from other legions can.

Makes sense.

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>>55072078
I haven't finished him yet, have Kranon eating some bananas.

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posting second part in 15 mins

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This is probably technically better served in the other thread, but this is a criminally underrated CYOA.

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>>55072217
And the world.

>>55071982
We have done that shit hundred of times.
It will end in magical realm, cringey shit, Tolkien fans whining or an unholy trio of the above.

>>55072006
Shit my bad senpai you're right, everyone go back to /pfg/ instead

>>55071982
NOLDOR NOLDOR NOLDOR

ANGERY ELF PUNCH MORGOTH

AAAAANGERYYYY

MUH SILMARILS GRRRRRR

>>55071881
They thought they were hot shit enough to beat someone far above their weight class. It worked out exactly like you think it would. They all took turns trying to best the level 15 adventurer as level 6s themselves. Instead of working together to possibly have a chance, they figured it was fine to do it one on one because they're the protagonists! "There's no way we can lose to someone else, guys!"

>>55074275
Why did they meet a character of that level at all? What matters of import were he or she taking care of that coincided with meeting the players?

>>55074430
Can't a lvl15 adventurer just be on the way of your PCs? Does he really need to be a special person?

I mean sometimes I feel like it's OK to do what books and movies can't do. Which is make it clear that there are things that are in the world that aren't necessary. Maybe TTRPG should be the type of media that could free from Chekhov's gun.