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>>55032588
Yes. Seek help.

I'll take that hook.

Yes. At least if you were writing a book or play you could say you would legitimately be improving the craft by doing that shit out loud and activating the "this sounds retarded" response that doesn't like triggering in your own head or writing it out. But just playing D&D by yourself like you have schizophrenia and having all that go nowhere and do nothing is just stupid.

I don't play D&D with myself, but there are a few "lite" roleplaying games designed to be played solo out there that are OK. Sort of like choose your own adventure books but with dice and sometimes miniatures/cards.

>>55032574
It's impossible, kill yourself now to avoid the struggle.

>>55032574
its almost exactly the same, calm down. Roll a d20 add any bonuses against a target number. It won't be that hard. Especially for level 1-3. By the time the group gets that far (if it gets that far) you will have figured out the nuances.

>>55032574
>I have never played 5e. I have experience with 3.5 and pathfinder.
You'll be fine. They are very similar, especially from the DM side. Only real difference is when you qualitatively judge that circumstances make something easier, say "you get advantage on that" and when you qualitatively judge that circumstances make something make something harder say "you get disadvantage." Other than that, they are largely the same game, and experience with one will carry over from one to the other.

>>55032403
No, FOW doesn't have enough traction on /tg/.

I have the green lady starter deck and that guy in a tophat with a giant robot waifu.
Don't really play since no one around here does.

>>55032666
Pricia and Machina?
I've got bad news for you. That stuff has rotated out.

Give us some details on how magic works on your setting, and how you specifically define "essence" and "energy."

Everything you said is vague as fuck. The system (or at least the closet thing to what you're making up for comparison) for a class could change the details tremendously, and the concepts of 'essence' and 'energy' don't really mean a whole lot without context

>>55032276
This, seriously. What's the rest of your magic system look like. What do "essence" and "energy" mean in your system? What other kinds of magic users do you have, and what are their particular focuses?

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>>55032139
It's like you're saying what I'm thinking! If anyone is going to finish a racist crusade, it's going to be CHAOS! #Khornesnotchaos #imwithherm

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>>55032457
#Notmyemperor #NotallKhornates #Moderatechaos

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>>55032139
>Not hating the filthy xenos as you hate the unbeliever

>>55031621
4E:
[trite and inane name] Level 2 Brute
Medium natural humanoid, whatever XP 175 because everything is a killable blick in this stupid system
Initiative: shitty Senses: Womangrok +4, low-light vision
HP: 3 Bloodied: 1
AC: 16 Fortitude: 20 Reflex: 15 Will: 20
what we laughingly now call Saving Throws: -3 to faggy tenors and Pitbull
Speed: 5
(^) Mandolin Pummel (standard; at-will)
+2 v AC; 1d3 +1 damage.
^ Fancy Name For Regular Attack (standard; fuck do you think)
+2 v AC; no different than the first one of course
Alignment: because this fucking matters Languages: Common, Fucking Guess
Skills: disguise character sheet like an MMO readout
Str: 14 (+3) Dex: 14 (+3) Wis: 9 (+1 because snowflake system)
Con: 17 (+itd suck if I forgot this one) Int: 11 (like it matters)
Cha: 18 (i deliberately left out this persons gender because those are the tards who play this monstrosity)

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>>55032010
what did he mean by this?

>>55031621
wait, who is that even? melody?

Oh, I like that too.

>>55031462
Rogal Dorn is the only good part of TTS. Alfabusa using his low test friends to voice demigods sounds like shit.

>>55033168
Tzeentch sounds fine to me. His nasally voice and spastic mannerisms fit pretty well for a scheming god. Nurgles sloppy, wet gurgling is as much as I expected. I don't know about Khorn or Slaanesh though, as they do seem a little generic.

Core book will be fine.

If they are assholes then find a new group.

Chances are you want to be a caster character unless you are really excited to be a non-magical dude

Look up the Pathfinder System Reference Document, its got basically everything online. Lots to sort through though. How average is the 'average player' you are referring to? What kind of thing do you want to play?

>>55031359
what's your character concept? if it's something like martial and you don't want to suck man ass after you pass 6th level take a look at ultimate combat, advanced classes guide, unchained pathfinder

>>55031190
Found this:
>focused ultrasound can be used to kill insects.
>Here is a Chinese patent that does that. Note the translation from Chinese to English is awkward, but the invention's function becomes clear. "Ultrasonic generator (1) is provided on the front panel power switch (7), the power indicator (8), the frequency adjustment knob (9), power adjustment knob (10), ultrasonic output socket (11). Use the knob to adjust the frequency difference between the two ultrasonic frequency range suitable for use, according to the size of insects killed by properly adjusting power adjustment knob. Work ultrasonic generator and ultrasonic generating two different frequencies, the frequency difference of the two desired resonant frequency, then the focused ultrasonic transducer can be electric oscillation generator is converted to mechanical oscillations, which produce ultrasonic waves and ultrasound focusing in a range of two ultrasonic certain angle space propagation in air and encounter, both high-frequency and low-frequency sound effect, between the high frequency sound waves are combined, the area A in Figure 2 , low-frequency sound is the difference between the frequency, i.e. the area B in Figure 2, high-frequency sound waves attenuate rapidly in air, when the frequency of the low frequency sound wave frequency in accordance with wings pest or respiratory frequency will resonate, thereby destroying vermin Wings of muscle tissue and respiratory system. So as to achieve the purpose of insecticide.

>The idea is to cause the insect's abdomen, for instance, to vibrate so strongly that it explodes, killing the insect. One way of doing this would be to generate an acoustic field that sweeps across a range of frequencies, from say, 40 kHz to 200 kHz, just as the above patent does. When the applied acoustic pressure waves resonate with the insect's body those bodily structures vibrate themselves into destruction.

>>55031545
Do you happen to know how loud (in db) the device would have to play or is that not as large an issue?

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>>55031190
Did you say bees?

>>55030711
Pathfinder is a rules nightmare. The only way to balance it is to not play.

Haste and various spells/abilities can give you an option, though remember that an extra turn allows a quicker set-up of a villain's overall battle strategy to come to fruition quicker and could potentially make the experience frustrating for the party if they haven't come to support each other well enough in their chosen skills and powers to do the same. Of course, the better option in my mind would perhaps be design some challenging but fair additional abilities for your villains that can give them a fighting chance against the party or understand what the party's effective level is and try to beef up encounters with additional monsters that would bring the CR in line with them (pro-tip, don't just stick more of the same monster in or at least have something unique going for the ones you do add besides 'generic hobgoblin'). That would be how I would balance it out as a relatively well-experienced player (roughly 7-8 years, with Pathfinder being a big part of it) and one-time GM (while I had some fun with the duties, I just didn't have the time to work everything out and wasn't enjoying myself as much).

In any case, what adventure path are you running? That might give us some ideas, plus we can give you directions to the GM threads on the official Paizo threads where they discuss issues like this and what causes them.

>>55030834
Carrion Crown, they ran over every encounter at the end of the first book (Splatterman, Lopper). I gave one of the mobs in the second book double turns and it lasted a little longer but still got run over.

In a future encounter I planned on giving a "boss level" monster multiple turns and gave him additional mooks to counter the sheer numbers (they have multiple pets).

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>>55030647

>>55030733
"The Fonz" System: Fate: Acc
High: Coolest Guy in the town
Trb: Sticks up for the little guy
Ac1: Italian-American
Ac2: Don't go out in the rain in your socks
Ac3: Loves his ma

Stunts
Aaaaay!
+2 Flashy when dealing with social problems

That'a fix it
1 /per session +6 to smarts when trying to fix something

Ladies man
+2 to Flashy when dealing with girls

Flashy 3
Forceful, Quick 2
Smarts,Careful 1
Sneaky 0


I think he works best in the rules light systems.

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>>55030647
Let's go with a classic. 3.5 Core-only.

>>55030609
But I'm here though.

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>>55030627
That's why we love you Disu

>>55030609
>No Survivors
Can't slow me down, anon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4

>Death Guard get at least 11 new units and probably more.
>Thousand Sons only got 6.

They didn't even get psychic dreads.

>>55031033
Papa Nurgle is love. Also Thousand sons have the unfortunate honor of having a more popular arch rival in the space wolves they simply got more cool shit in that cycle.

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My question is what the fuck are the things in the bottom left of this pic.

>>55030031
>the guy turns into the 3dpd
That is one of the darkest porn comic book series I've read, and I've read the one where a shota was tortured to death and eaten by an ojousan.

>>55030031
>I'm having trouble trying to engage my players who haven't written a back story in the events going on in the campaign.

Well don't worry about them then. If they throw some stuff out during there game about their backstorys then let that be cannon

>With the few players who wrote a back story I think I'm incorporating what they gave me into the game decently.

Good job they added to the game and got rewarded because they care

>As for the others I'm completely lost. I've asked them directly and they've basically said "I'm in it for the laughs". Those players also barely roleplay.

They want to play for laughs and not roleplay so let the players who want to roleplay, roleplay

>I'm not a great writer so I don't expect for players .... What else can I do to engage players who don't seem too into it?

Let they play to the sillyness. Throw in silly stuff. For example (you have robots so im guessing its at least modern) The next session makes them go to a paint factory, the silly guys get covered in paint of diffrent colors.
Bonus points if its the power ranger colors before having to fight that giant robot.

Or they have to save a princess but shes really ugly.

Or some kid gets their rare pokemon tradeing card stolen. The pcs beat down they guy who stole it then find out he has had it stolen by someone else and this happens about 4 times down the line with the thief being stronger and stronger each time.
Last that guy steals it is super strong. BBG strong. But turns out to be the kids dad who just wants to get a gift for his kid.

Check out the yakuza games substorys for a bunch of silly missions

>>55030273
wew son, better not look up Chitsu Kakai-Kei Joshi then

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>>55029938