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>>55399195
>druid
>useful at 3rd level
>in a village
>lawful good
None of these things makes sense when put together, anon.

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>>55399195
I have such wonderful sights to show you.

>>55399195
In our Pathfinder game, my character was a druid and lived outside a village.

>taught villagers the importance of crop rotation
>acted as a vet for their animals
>occasionally acted as doctor for their people
>taught them to only go after larger deer to help the Dee population while still feeding themselves
>advised them on places not to go in the forest

>>55398767
Depends on - you guessed it - the setting.

>>55398767
Elves already used their extremely long lives to gain enough political influence to take over basically everything. They have no interest in breeding super soldiers from a human base, but do experiment.

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>>55398767
Pointedly yes.

In any sane setting where breeding can give you superpower, especially when the setting is medieval or fantastic in nature, then there will be eugenics in place.

Though it won't necessarily be called like that. Nobles of pure blood will marry with other nobles of pure blood as a matter of course.

>>55398786
Kek. Well memed friend.

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>monte cook

>>55397636
What are the odds there will be a full subsystem devoted to dickeating in the new addition? I can't see Monte not putting his favorite pastime in.

>>55397636
Honestly? I don't see the point. The game doesn't need expansion in rules or new edition. It needs more GM/Player handbooks to explain people how to run this without turning into THE most generic fantasy RPG, wasting the entire potential of the setting in the process.

>>55397516
well, depending on if we can get laser weaponry working, it would be a lot of really intense...nothing. something that gets hit by a laser will heat up at the spot hit, but there aren't visible laser beams unless its smoky or dusty.
if they are still using propellant-based projectile weapons, it wont look much different.
there wont be mechs, too expensive and too unweildy to work well unless we make signifigant advancements first, and its cheaper to make wheels or tracks anyways. there will be a lot of white, tank like vehicles. bubble cities that will be automatic targets, basically it will look very similar to earth based warfare.
the only places that will be different are something like titan or venus, and even those places are unlikely due to the hostile environments.

>>55397516
What a conflict looks like depends entirely on the technology and resources the belligerents have available to them and what the goals are (which will be based on the reason for the conflict).

You haven't specified any of this critical information.

>>55397516
Oh, did you see Aldenoah too?

>>55396701
Completely depends. Are you running a Heroic Fantasy style game?

Then, I think character death should be a possibility but extremely unlikely. The DM should try to balance encounters as much as possible.

Playing a gritty, higher-fidelity setting? Death is absolutely on the table.

I sort of run a mix. I do not go out of my way to send players adversaries they wouldn't be able to handle. I do have a world with incredibly dangerous stuff in it. The players can seek out the dangerous stuff and the consequences associated with them.

I think the important distinction is that the game is group storytelling and if you rob your players of some autonomy it cheapens the experience.

So, if I'm a player and a Wizard shows up and starts whooping my ass I might not really enjoy the experience. But if the players hear about some horrible Wizard living in the Black Tower and deign to run off and fight that Wizard, well that's their choice.

If you play DnD, one of the most underutilized skills is "Insight". I have players roll it frequently. The check can be pretty easy too. "You notice this warrior moves with an experience far beyond your own. You suddenly feel a rush of doubt cross your mind that you have any hope of defeating this foe."

There's nothing wrong with dropping hints. If you didn't convey how scary this creature is, it is sometimes necessary (and definitely okay) to tell your players what's up.

>>55396842
I hadn't considered using insight in that way. I think that makes the skill incredibly useful if you're the type of GM that doesn't keep everything balanced to your party all the time.

>>55396842
Con't

So, in that sense, I think you probably did it well. People generally don't like to run away. It doesn't feel "heroic". Especially if the DM stuck them in a sort of zero-sum scenario where the only way out IS to run away.

So my suggestion to you, DM to DM, is to give them a way to temporarily "win". Whether that be temporarily disable or banish the creature, or perhaps it's manipulating the environment to buy them some time.

Throw an NPC in there to die. Someone the PCs trust. He gives his life to buy them time, "I know the cost I am about to pay. Now run you fools so that this effort matters". This is a nice out because players will HATE the enemy more.

Another fun way to show that the bad guy they are facing is a baller? Have the bad guy kill off something the players struggled to kill as though it's nothing. Players struggled to down an Owlbear? The players encounter the black night battling the Owlbear by himself, gutting the creature in a deft, sweeping motion.

And now, a story of how I fundamentally failed as a DM:
>DM for a typical adventuring party that wants a "living world"
>Players encounter the bloody trail of a terrible Bruxa, well above their level
>Players insist on fighting the creature despite its attempts to talk
>Bruxa immediately starts fucking them up
>Killing is not always the outcome, Bruxa stops to talk and offer the PCs a Faustian Bargain
>Players say "fuck you" and keep fighting.
Here's where I fuck up
>Deus ex machina the Bruxa to stop short of killing them. Instead leaving them a demand and branding them with a curse, promising to return later.

Honestly? I should have killed my characters. I gave them many obvious warnings (the Bruxa was found tearing a horse to pieces) By not killing my characters I cheapened their choice.

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>>55396632
GREE

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>>55396638
N

>>55396648
>beware my stinger tail

Before it was banned, I bought a dozen Treasure Cruise.

>>55395902
Why you needed dozens?
To sell them?

I have 25 Vizzerdrix and 18 DCI Sprouting Thrinax.

The latter was because my cardshop at the time was price crazy for FNM. The owner gave zero shits and would hand out promos and mats willy nilly. The Vizzerdrix are just fun to collect.

>>55395757
Crits already kind of suck. They aren't exciting as they rarely come up and you aren't even guaranteed to do more than average damage, as you can roll for shit. I wouldn't make them worse by requiring confirmation. Personally, I'd prefer to have them always do max damage plus one additional weapon die on top of that.

Also, I use exhaustion more. If you get up from death, fall off a cliff and live, or anything of the sort, you normally just dust yourself off and continue going all out. Just add a point of exhaustion when that shit happens.

>>55395757
>>another free feat for instant death at being brought to 0 hp

what?

>>55396394
Some systems let you live when you're dropped to 0hp but you fall unconscious. I guess this guy lets you trade survivability for power.

>>55395081
Nechronica, maybe?

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Big fucking robots and sexy elves.

The influence of JRPGs, and eastern video games in general, on the medium.

Skeleton war.

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>>55394987
Slaanesh's stomach.

What are some colours that aren't comprised of varying levels of Red, Green or Blue?

>>55392845
GURPS
glorious GURPS is your answer.

>>55392845
I've heard that mouse guard has a good system for that. Haven't had a chance to play it so I guess take it with a grain of salt.

>>55392845
On the off chance you havnt made this thread before, Ill give you my spiel on fighting big stuff.

Basically, in any system you can divide the fight into two parts: the trick and the kick. The trick is a series of actions taken to distract or disable the monster so that the other party members can deliver the kick: a blow to its vital areas. That sort of a format works in nearly all systems, but it requires creative players and leg work from the GM.

>>55392807
Wouldn't a strong, directional light source actually make a creature of shadow stronger?

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>Having a creature whose mystical essence is "the absence of light"

You brought this on yourself

Less an attempt to be clever, more of a common association. What do you do when it's dark? You turn on a light. It'd be like splashing water on a creature made of fire.

They turn back on death so yes.

If you swallow a druid as some other animal, whole, you'd have a full grown human bursting out of your stomach.

>>55390120
There's a fetish for that.

>>55390048
If a druid becomes a cow and I milk him, does the milk change into human milk?

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I'm still trying to decide what the dice system and stats should be. For stats I'm thinking something along the lines of a 3x3, like WoD, divided between Body, Mind, and Spirit, one each of Power, Finesse, and Resilience. If I do that, though, I don't want to wholesale steal the dice system from WoD as well. Maybe have each stat from 1 to 10, with the dice rolled dependent on the stat.
I'm honestly just thinking this up as I type it. It helps me think, I suppose.
So for stats: (Strength, Deftness, Toughness)(Intellect, Reasoning, Focus)(Personality, Creativity, Willpower). Do these sound alright?

>>55389002
Use Risus(evens-up)

Keep in mind that it is just a baseline system, so add stuff as you need to.

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>>55389760
I've not heard of Risus, but I'll look into it, thanks for the recommendation.

Nothing really to contribute, but bumping for interest.

>>55388810
Hmm, let's see.

First one - evil mage:
Killed and mutilated people for fun.
Made statues out of princesses.
Lied like there is no tomorrow.
Killed around 100k elves with one spell.

Second - demon:
Gathered and leaded an anarcho-terrorist group
More or less declared war against the whole world
Knowingly lead people into fights where they had no chance to survive or win
Trashed a city block in a metropolis during a fight (with inhabitants included of course)
Made a young women to willingly continue his work after his "death" with a good possibility of doing it for all eternity

I completely erased the prime material plane from existence.
To be fair, it was an accident.