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Magic is sentient in my setting, though magical items vary by time period. In the old times when magic was dormant and the gods were not yet created from it, it attached to anything close to other sentient beings. I.e. it seeped items in magic that were significant to adventurers and other interesting people, causing them to gain somewhat separate sentience on their own. These are the magical items, all sentient, and gaining powers as the user continues doing things to inspire and empower it. So if you're a murderhobo your sword may become a sadist that tells you to torture people and that gets buffed every time you kill a creature. They could also be created though that shit is hard.

Once magic reformed and gods came down to walk the earth, magical items no longer increased in power nor did new ones get created. The gods taught humans of alchemy, advanced smithing and so on, so it's in this time there is most creation of demonsteel swords, suits of mithril plate armor, and so on, as well as consumable magic items such as potions. If scrolls count that also goes, as wizards were very rare without the organization and information that the gods brought. Then the gods died and the world fell into disarray again, but it didn't really impact magic items and such.


Systemically, the different materials you can make weapons/armor/certain other things from have mechanical effects that make them roughly competitive with others but superior to mundane items and generally surpassed by magical ones. Magic items are a lot of different things and come in different variants and functions. The two can stack because I don't see why they wouldn't, but a smith capable of e.g. forging mithril and then give it to someone who caused it to gain significant magical power, before the age of enlightenment, would be extremely rare. The consumable/minor items are mostly D&D-style ones focused on utility (mostly created for everday uses, not specifically for adventuring).

>>54470564
ethereal and haste; they look the coolest too
if I could have three I'd put on diamond for the perfect sword

>>54469437
>being this autistic
Throat shots exist bruh. Also with an actual firearm emptying most of your target's skull across the wall tends to leave them unable to do much of anything, let alone scream and thrash about.
I'm sorry fun clashes with your 'tism.

>>54469437
Because it's fantasy.
You seem to be in the wrong hobby.

>>54469437
I'll take "Systems intended to model fantasy fiction and not real combat" for $200, Alex.

>>54469020

This is exactly what I was afraid was going to happen.

>>54469020
Sheep wrestling.

>>54469020
I get poked couple times by curious party members and explode spectacularly.

>>54467329
What line, what time, how many people playing, etc...?

>>54467504
V20 VTM, idk how many people and anytime

>>54467420
Really interested as to how you make a party of beasts work together if you're keen
to explain and tell us a bit about it

>>54467177
>give it pantsu helmet
>count as Sister of Battle

>>54467177
Gotta say, they look better without the big dumb missile launcher on the back making them look top-heavy. Now if only they could have made it so the flamers didn't look like they were haphazardly bolted on without any thought put into it.

[Kurwa intensifies] I will never defend this whole ,,gw ain't stole from blizzard" anymore :/

>>54466701
It should be pretty obvious that the average paladin is better than the average warrior. If you're talking about D&D (and what else?) then your PC fighter is not an average warrior but represents the very best of warriorkind. A paladin who is both the best warrior and also the mightest paladin rolled into one would be represented by multiclassing paladin/fighter.

>>54466778
Actually by 3.5, there are a lot more better options than being a paladin for a martial/divine class.

Hell there's even a Paladin PrC, so you don't even need the base class, just take 5 fighter- 5 Paladin PrC or 10 fighter, 10 paladin and you're set.

But for functionality based in lore, effectively a Paladin is a fighter who follows a strict code that adheres to the values their deity represents that is restrictive and linked to their connection to the faith through that deities following. They're basically sponsored divine warriors that advertise the faith, in practice.

Because of that, you won't find many of them as it is an undertaking becoming a man of the cloth and a man of the sword, forsaking personal gain and the like.

Unless the deity is a deity of wealth, in which case CAPTALISM HO HERETICS. or if you're a *Sponsored by Pelor/Zarus Grey Knight or a Lloth issued Paladin of Slaughter or Bane issued Paladin of Tyranny.

Objective D&D Alligment took a bit of a spin in 3.5 with Deities making reflex saves against alignment shifts and that entire abyssal layer which allows for you to be ammoral in a world of Objective alignment because it was once part of the upper planes.

Paladin's of tyranny make a wee bit of sense because Bane is the Violence that comes before the peace, the guy did technically live in an age equivalent to the Dark ages full of all sorts of unsavoury assholes and people of such low-quality that it is comparable to today's awful standards, even if his followers overdo it, and sometimes when it comes down to it, you could be a nice and kind ruler but your people take you for granted everytime, and become objectively evil, whores and basically the worst scum imaginable to the point where all common decency and goodness are but void in their everyday lives out of their own avarice and greed and that's where Bane steps in to violently beat the fucking scum out of the heart of a kingdom until it ascribes to rule of order.

>>54466701
there are two ways of going about this:
the paladin's time is divided between combat training and studying scripture and spiritual training
or what this anon said >>54466778
and a level 1 fighter has more combat experiance and training than a level 1 paladin

What about printing presses or tractors or computers?

Why are people so obsessed with firearms in fantasy?

>>54466158
People have this weird cognitive defect where they think that once the first guy creates blackpowder magic will start to go away and everything will become hard physics.
Probably because of decades of technology kills magic and magic goes away cookie cutter plotlines

>>54466120
I think that in a fantasy setting that mages and alchemists would kind of out-class firearms, also nobility might make it a suppressed technology given the relative low training required to become a rifleman vs. years of training for a mage. I roll with the idea that guns are too intricate for blacksmiths and that only a mage could have the mathematical training to make guns.

>>54464921
You do know the new writers are all problem-hair Tumblrina's right? There was a facebook post on it and all.
>When you live in nottingham and don't see females anywhere near your GW

>>54465369
>There was a facebook post on it and all.
On what? What did the facebook post talk about?

>>54464921
>GW likes making new stuff rather than updating old
Based on Primaris and...what else?

>>54464146
>freest faction
What? 90% of them have their personalities repressed or destroyed to be mindless machines.
Orks are weirdly probably the freest

>>54465900
>near-anarchy is free
Pity the man who is slaved to his nature, for even a man who is slaved to others is put to higher purpose.

>>54464146
>Necrons are the freest faction in the galaxy

Like 99% of their population literally has no free will.

>>54464108
For the dwarves, fungus farms in played-out mining tunnels are a staple.

Elves pretty much are hunter-gatherers if we talk about the wood elf stereotype. Dwarves either trade or eat a lot of mushrooms.

>>54464108

The dwarves farm mushrooms beneath the mountains. On the surface, the dwarves farm normal shit in the fertile valleys between their mountains, like the Swiss Alps.

>>54463609
>Connecting with an NPC.
What the hell is this bullshit? Kill her and steal her wheelchair already.

>>54463650
Your table sounds like hell of normalfaggotory and wackiness.
>>54463609
It's insane to let her continue, talk to her. If it doesn't work, let her continue. Lives of those you know well are more important than random lives.

>>54463609
Set a time limit for stopping the construct without killing the girl, kill her when the time is up if we haven't figured anything out

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So, what kind of group compositions do you usually run in your games? In the video games, the action is centered around one individual, so how will you balance out skills between party members? Do you include one of the typical character archetypes for each player? Do you have several shooty dudes and one smooth talker?

>>54463094
I've been thinking there aren't really many "feudalistic" factions, considering there are factions for most other stages of human history. We have primitive hunter-gatherers, despotic slave-states, and liberal democracies, but we don't have any divine monarchs or aristocrat-serf relationships.

>>54463544
Does feudalism make sense for the Wasteland? It's a very loose system that suits itself more to controlling and protecting territory more than actively warring against others, at least compared to warlike factions like the Legion, or how the NCR can rely on conscription and drafts. And it requires a lot of links in the chain - if it was just a lord and serfs, that'd be just a despot, you need people above that lord to pay homage to.

Like, I don't like what Caesar did to the tribes he united under the Legion, but he had a point in that they were 'playing' at war - they would never survive a war like what the NCR could have brought against them. Then again, skirmishes and non-total war are what most tribal cultures do, so it's not exactly fair to act like it was lesser for it.

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How retarded am I for wanting a fragment of the Outcasts to have attempted to head back to the West Coast to tattle on Lyons, and have gotten stuck somewhere in the Midwest and holed up?

I'd like to imagine they'd be on their last legs in some factory, barely keeping a force of robots together with their human members numbering little more than a squad or two, but still stubbornly holding to their goal and utterly exasperated with a group of tribals squatting around their base that think they're the warrior spirits of their ancestors.

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It looks a lot more fragile now. The old Dreadnought would obviously have problems going up stairs, but this thing seems like it's begging for some to hit the obvious unarmoured joints, conveniently placed at a height that makes them easy to hit for infantry.

>>54461597
Honestly?

Would've looked much better if they gave this Dread a Venerable/MK.IV Dreadnought Helmet.

>>54461627
Holy shit that's fucking hilarious. Is there more like this?

>>54440341
Start shadowrunning, make some nuyen, get in over my head and die in a gutter on the 3rd job.

Does anyone have a cap or something of the Seven-7 anon's story?

>>54460884
I don't cap my own stories, so, sadly, no. You can probably find it on one of the 4chan archives.

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