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>>54355809
in most cases either some kind of special material is introduced, such as whale oil in dishonored, or the inner workings of the technology are just glossed over because it doesn't really matter. bloodborne tech is a mixture.

>>54355966
Thanks. I think I'm okay to use a "vague" description of "how it works" then.

Draw them. I have never printed out a map before, and instead of tokens I usually use scrap materials, like spare dice, to represent enemies. For map I use a white board to reveal area slowly as they discover it. For prepped dungeons I have it drawn out in a notebook, for spur of the moment dungeons I improvise.

Props are not your game. Your game is in your head, and it is up to you to share it with the players. Be descriptive, and engage the players verbally.

>>54355303

>Your first session is always going to be shitty , nobody has fuck all idea what you're doing yourself included

>So just keep it simple stupid !

>Here's a town.

>Here's some NPCs with hooks

>Here's a nearby dungeon

>Here's a random event if nobody takes any of the hooks.

You're done.

Do you really need 6 hours to prep for the session? Now I'm feeling bad about prepping in the half hour I've got before it tomorrow.

It's a temperament thing anon. Some players aren't interested in the world. Mine are, for example, to the point where they assume every throwaway NPC is important and the session drags out.

Do you have like, really obvious plot hooks? Like someone says "You should talk to X person about this"

>>54354379
The campaign started out with our contact (my NPC) getting a letter to check out kidnappings of local wildlife and villagers. They ran into another dude who sent said letter, who directed them to a guy in a tavern who was witness to it. Near the end of it, we ran into an alchemist who was the main alchemist for the bad guys, then the final guy was the prison warden who knew everything that was going on.

>>54354416

And they just weren't interested?

Maybe they're less into investigations and more into dungeon raids or hexcrawls.

But then, are they not asking things like "what's in this room" or "what do I see"? Usually you just have to say "you're in a room", and if you ask them about the room, then you can ask them for a spot check.

Maybe they just wanna murder things, in which case dialogue-heavy and plot heavy things aren't their game.

Did you have a talk about what they want out of a game before session 0?

Bullshit, it never had good writers. All 40k fiction is uniformly trash.

>>54354308
Ok

>>54354308
You are wrong.

>>54353965
>http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/store-play-evolves-2017-07-16

Foil promo lands with Guay art? Sounds nice, to me.

>>54353965
>Giving promo material for the next set to tournament winners
>Axing FNM promos in favor of fucking tokens
>Severely limited availability for promo foil basics
What part of this is supposed to be good? Seriously, killing FNM promos is a fucking terrible idea, people liked FNM promos, but not anymore I guess.

If you need a map - Dwarf fortress and some sort of filter afterwards possibly

If a game location, dwarf fortress legend mode gives some great ideas

Or you could just roll a dice for some random high up npcs and form countries from that

>>54353769
https://www.profantasy.com/products/ft.asp

http://donjon.bin.sh/world/

http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world/

http://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/world/

https://experilous.com/1/store/offer/worldbuilder

https://experilous.com/1/project/planet-generator/2015-04-07/version-2

https://inkarnate.com/

>>54353769
>>54353812
See, I have the same sort of issues. I want to do stuff like make a city map for shadowrun, but all the map making programs seem to be tactical map scale.

Also I want to take a topigraphical map and add battle lines to it for only war... but I first can't find quality maps of real remote locations, and second that kind of edit seems like it will take photo shop and time.

>>54353385
Let him try running a game with eight people, he'll realize you're right

>>54353385
By articulating a convincing argument, either appealing to reason or emotion, depending on the guy you're addressing.

>when you run the game use 5 players kick the rest

>When he runs it he can do whatever he wants and see what a clusterfuck it is

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Nice thread OP

>>54352172
Planets are doled out to the more powerful factions, moons for smaller allies under the protection of the faction of the moon's planet.

The way they progress depends on the environment of the planet and its available resources, flora and fauna.

cultures evolve like normal but change to adapt to the new world and regular pace.

>>54352172
space slavs get mars, turn it into a more unhospitable wasteland, mosin rifle still prevalent weapon.

China and the Poos get the asteroid belt since they need the space and available resources, they are still overpopulated as fuck in space.

the NATO (minus USA) allies band together and make tons of space stations that are held back by shitty bureaucracy.

US wastes their opportunities to get majorly offworld on earth stopping brown people and africans from making any space race progress.

mexico is bandito drug cartels IN SPESS

>>54352172
The activation of the Giza Mass Autism array was truely a dark day for Finnish kind.

Seriously though, it would heavily depend on several factors, such as whether there's FTL or not and how said FTL works.
I could imagine the Moon and LEO being either owned by some sort of central authority in like a UN Trust territories sort of way

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>>54352148

>>54352148
Have you asked in /awg/? They'd probably know.

>>54353440
Oops--I'm not a regular of this board.

>>54353609

Ebay if you're good at it.
Bulk list the chaff to StarCity or another big buyer.

Ebay and similar.

Selling in bulk or packs or to LGS is a good way to lose money,

>>54351907

Ebay is the way to make the most amount of money from your collection, but it also takes the most amount of time.
Sell lists from Card Kingdom or other stores are good way to get rid of cards quickly, but for 50-60% of their value.