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Why do you expect logic from Newcrons?

>>54810032
>Necron destroyers that sacrifice armor and melee to act as super speedy cavalry forces, quickly closing the distance to claw and their enemies or straight up ram them until they are nothing but a gooey red paste
I can dig it.

>>54810032
they put on an amazing technicolor dream coat made of flesh

I think making a game built around the skills would make skills a tad more useful. I'm trying to make a game like that, though it's slow going.

But what games have skills that you feel are done as an afterthought?

Easier to list games in which they don't feel like an afterthought. I think the trouble for me is that most RPGs can have a bunch of skills but the combat section out is almost always longer and more complex by a wide margin.

Two notable RPGs that I think have good skill systems are Basic Role Playing and unironically GURPS.

>>54810890

What makes them both good though?

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Legends of Mystery

>>54809587
I'll start off with a few:
>A Conspiracy of Blades: Knives - Book 2 of the Bladesinger Trilogy
>The King's Sword
>Shadows over Midnight: Darkness Rising
>Bounty Hunter
>The Flash of the Sword

>>54809587
Dragon is definitely the most commonly used word in fantasy titles this is undebateable

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>>54808943
Best knight is here

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>>54807241
Shit printing.

>>54807241
It's a common printing error. The printers were running low on ink. Not worth any more than normal cards, unless you find a super dedicated collector, which is unlikely.

WotC has had some pretty shitty print quality the past few years. Wait until you open one of the no-black-ink ones or the ink-too-dark ones.

I respect boldness.

Doubly so for a GM. Most people are lazy fag players who bitch about not having a GM.

>>54805702
There is a difference between boldness and stupidity. We've had a thread recently, where a new DM who had no idea about anything about 5e had to be explained, again and again, that he shouldn't let players use anything from dandwiki, and just didn't seem to understand what we are saying.

>>54805729

Homie, you are talking about two separate things. If you are going to respond, stay on topic.

Ysoki: +2 Int, +2 Dex, -2 Str
Sherrin: +2 Wis, +2 Dex, -2 Cha

>>54804418
what game is this?

>>54807109
Paizo, the makers of Pathfinder, have created a sci-fi system and setting called Starfinder.

It's unironically good and one of the best futuristic systems out there.

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90s cyberpunk is so predictive that anything that is part of the 00s zeitgeist has probably been done already
>neuromancer had VR, electric cars, deep learning/ AI (personality constructs, the Aleph)
>we're just starting to get close to having functional bodily augmentation

there's very little we've done in the 00s/2010s that hadn't already been done in cyberpunk

also, I think afropunk(pic) would be a cool subculture in whatever 00s punk would be. It looks fly as hell

>>54802996
can we call it noughty-punk?

>>54803577
>>54804204
I'd like to call that naughty punk.

FOR SEX!

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>>54802033
Here's some of what I've written/borrowed so far:

Dragon-Worship: The world is full of spirits, beasts, monsters, and men, yet only in the Dragon is there the perfect balance of spiritual/magical and physical prowess. All forms of life, all spirits, are on a quest for perfection which leads to being reincarnated as a Dragon.
-prominent in the north and east.

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>>54802213
Spirit Courts: Uncountable as the grains of sand, and as unique as them. The living emerge from their number, and the dead return to them. There is no afterlife, only an endless circle of possession. Above all of this are the Courts, named by the Elements. Appease them, and you will prosper, for a time.
-prominent in the fringes.

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>>54802307
Our Lady of the Hallowed Dawn: Man was once as gods, but the spirits of the world grew jealous. They dragged us from the Heavens and made us forget our radiant past. The Dragons are, or were, our wardens. But Our Lady and her knights slew the Lord of Dragons, casting them to the farthest reaches, and banished the Outer Darkness. In time, the dawn will come, and the Heavens will open to those who are faithful. The rest.... will be left to the horrors they feigned to consort with.
-prominent in the central kingdoms, Gastanon and Frollanon are participants.

>>54801213
We had hit a rut role play wise.
Our forever dm stated he had something new.
He wouldn't tell us what.

We made character without a rule book.
Peculiar named stats.

We were people if tge forrest.
Rich culture that functioned as a unit rather than individuals.
For example if a none violent crime was committed everyone told the criminal gow much they had failed him and presented him with a gift.
The tribe had failed him.
1st ep we were young and introduced into adult society

2nd the forrest was invaded by scouts and our mentor perished.

3rd the people of the plains were caught as the culprits

4th There was a conflict with the people of the plains.
Trial of gods took place rather than war.
The trial was set by people of mountains and river. If we lost the trial we would lose our great tree.

We cared about that dam tree.

Half way through the trail.
The sky split
A mountain raining fire decended.

It had the imperial insignia.

Our people decimated.
Captured and recruited
...
We work for an inquisitor now.
It was dark heresy
We rp from a feral world.
Wow

>>54801225
Is this a /tg/ copypasta?

>>54801547
No.
It happened 2weeks ago.
My dm did this.
Loving it so far.

What's the nature of the dungeon? Is it a natural cave? Old buried catacombs? Bunker?
We need to know how the entrance looks like.

>>54800803
is a temple to a snake god, now in ruins

>>54800505
Sounds like it's just a larger dungeon with the first level being a surface battlefield.

One player did animate a dead PC as a skeleton so he could walk to the priest to be resurrected, except in doing so "destroyed" his body thus requiring us to spend twice as much money to resurrect him. Oh and I supposed there was that time the wizard cast a sudden-maximized fireball against 2 mohrgs the barbarian was fighting and due to blowback rules ended up burning him for 54 damage. He made his death from massive damage save by 1 point (rolled a 3 and had +13). And the guy in an apocalypse world game who decided that the party's brainer (psychic) was the one betraying them so he opened fire into him and due to some weird rolls ended up getting outright killed before he could really fight back, died and left the party without any clairaudience-type shit to keep an eye on the enemy warlord the brainer had supposedly been "betraying" them to (he hadn't, there was a mole in their base who had access to radio and it was blindingly obvious because they gave the lost newcomer they rescued from the wasteland a job as their new radio operator with zero supervision).

>>54800319
I was very badly hurt in a superhero LARP. I was picked up by a bush ambulance and they were racing me to a hospital and then TORCH, the in game Avengers, came to 'rescue me' me thinking they were bad guys as my guts are falling out. They almost killed me to death!

>>54801815
My party is pretty good at avoiding stupid mistakes. However one time we were fighting an umberhulk and I was upfront. Our NPC companion who had been blinded by and artifact decided she would try to cast eldritch blast at it because things were getting desperate. She shot me in the back instead.

>>54800229

This is what you get for using a demon weapon, just like I never told you not to because I didnt want you to know Chaos was a thing.

Errr... let me try that again.

You should have been more prepared for that insidious threat which I purposefully left you completely ignorant of.

...

Am I a bad parent?

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>>54800132
Don't you have demo decks? Like, the 30 card ones wizards gives out to get people hooked? If not, just have the owner eat the coast of pre-made decks. also fuck yugioh mtg's better

How the fuck can you own a FLGS without knowing about games? It makes no sense

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>>54800172
Uh, fuck no. This is Konami. They don't playtest, balance, or anything like that. I know it's better, but the goblin herder was determined that she needed Yu-Gi-Oh because that's the cartoon the kids liked and she wants them to play games.
>>54800181
Because originally it was just a hobby shop but the owner's son was a geek and he wanted to impress his kid but his kid just left to do his own thing and now he's stuck with a FLGS which is basically the only FLGS in the city so everyone is desperate to get him to keep it.

Pic Related and Text to Speech Device are all I know about Yu-Gi-Oh. Pls Halp.

>Savage Worlds has its own system for this
>There's even optional rules for medieval sieges
>Players can do more than simply command their troops, albeit often at risk to themselves
There, done

Players are given (or come up with) quest to make their side win or have a significant advantage.

Players do quest.
Assuming quest is believable, player side wins.

There, done.

"But what if the pitched combat is somehow spontaneous????"

Run combat with the players vs some of the enemy army as a microcosm of the battle.
The more the enemy army outnumbers the player army, the more fights the players have to have in a row. It's a mini-quest! Players can retreat if necessary.

If the players win then their side wins.

There, done.
Usable in any system!

>>54797737
Most good systems have subsystems for this. Usually I benchmark each unit as 1D6, then move them in ranks through the field. Players are 1D6 as well. When two blocks collide they roll off, whoever loses spins down their D6 by the number they lost by. RPS advantage confers a re-roll. If you've got enough D6s you can color code based on unit type.