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I love my premade character. He's an entirely human folk hero from a town that's been overrun by dragons for 30 years. His destiny is to revive the town!
Also he swears creatively in Elvish, because I think it's funny.

>>54301104
no

there used to be more container glyphs but I took out "up triangle" and "down triangle" containers because of the "cross" state a card can have. "Crossed" cards have solved a few things and made the game less cluttered.

|None| - No container.
(life) - Organic life. Not for golems.
[material] - Generally represents Material. what something is made of and how much of it it's made of. Damageable
<passive> - these are always "damage" when crossed onto a stack. They may come with additional effects. A lot of cards have these because every card can be considered an energy resource for another card. There can be positive effects too for diamon cards that are held regularly; parallel with the stack.
{general-association} - a master of ___, skilled with ____, primary emphasis ____
[|Vehicle|] - Damageable.
[<Device>] - This + Material is for golems/mechas. Damageable.
[[Building]] - a building made of ____, a building for ____. Damageable
<[AOE]> - fog, earthquake, rain


Smaller creatures can be good for ecosystems because they're abilities will focus on routing the targeting of your cards and changing states of cards. Another great ability for "starter" creatures, is for them to allow larger ones to be summoned with certain costs.

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There are many glyph types.
If there is enough imagination to back a concept creatively, it's deserving of a glyph. That's how the blockchain works.

Ink will be a glyph.
Think of a card called "ink heart"
It enchants a creature, and allows it to cast ink spells that also share their element.
There will be ink spells that are not just ink, but water, fire, lightning, etc.

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Not all monsters can attack each other directly. that's because this is not a battle scene. this is a story. Some creatures can attack directly, but in order to go to war you'll need to summon battle cards. These are cards with specific rules for each advantage and bonus different types of creatures gain when engaging in many forms of battle. Battle cards have different rules and use glyphs differently when calculating for priority, attack and defense. Be prepared for all types of combat.

Total shit Illuminati based on woketard platitudes.

Hagbard would have ate this nonsense for breakfast.

>>54300162
I'm looking at running a game of the FATE version. The mechanics and options are cool (you can play a sentient space station and so on) but I'll definitely be jettisoning the lore for something not super boring.

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>>54300688
>for something not super boring.
The lore is super-boring? I thought that was the whole appeal of the setting.

BTW, can I play as a hyper-intelligent Mantis-form von Neumann machine swarm?

>>54300758
It feels very ho-hum and settled to me. Stars Without Number has more interesting lore in that you can still do all the cool shit, but it's set in a universe not run by a giant insurmountable star empire that ultimately cares for nothing more than preserving its bland oatmeal culture.

The best way I can describe the Commonality is if all of the modern "liberal" causes were accomplished and now nobody has anything better to do than safeguard that progress. It's a nice place to live, I'm sure, but really fucking boring to play in.

Also the backstory is hilarious in how long it takes humanity to accomplish anything.

You fooooooool

>>54300058
pls no bully

>>54299238
Looks like some pretty solid gretchins though.

I mostly want to run games in my own setting, but yes

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>>54299167
There, there, you poor thing, you.

>>54298978
>but those stores seem usually small to me, which seems like it would make it hard to keep things happening between the aisles

Not when they're piled up with 16 feet of junk food and diapers.

>>54298978

>Also from NSWanon, he described a system of rolling d6s and counting 5s as successes. But in that system, what would the attribute numbers mean?

You start with 1 free d6 in your pool. If the challenge in question is related to your character's role or background (packing a bowl of N'Zur Kind Bud in order to smoke yourself back to the right dimension, for example, while being a fucking stoner) you get another d6. At maximum, you only get those two d6 for free.

If there are any helpful [Tags] you may draw a die from the central "Station Pool" which all characters share. This gets replenished when you start solving the Weirdness or just do your job (that second part rarely happens in my experience).

[Tags] are temporary notes added to your character sheet like [Stoned Out of Mind], [Currently Lacks A Nose], [Baba Yaga's Wallet]. They arise out of play and I hand them out like candy. Not great candy, though. Those gross orange waxy things everyone has on Halloween.

Finally you may draw any number of dice from your personal "Effort Pool" (starts at 5, replenishes according to role, so Assistant Manager might replenish by being an asshole), and anyone helping you may donate from their Effort Pool as well.

You roll all the dice, adding (or subtracting) to each result depending on which Attribute the DM specifies. 5's and 6's are successes, if you get enough you do the thing. But you probably didn't get enough and now the ghost of Yogi Berra is trying to take the rest of your toenails.

>In Summary
1d6 + Background + [Tag] + Effort = Dice Pool
+/- Attribute to dice results, 5 or 6 = success
If # of successes = or > DM specified Target Number then Yay! If not then Boo.

In practice, the game involves me setting unrealistically high target numbers and rewarding players for absolute bullshit. And then punishing them for absolute bullshit.

Every game that /tg/ talks about is a meme game because memetic discussion is the default for this website.

Why would someone make a game about the worst Halo game?

>>54298588
I've played one of the older versions, and it was alright

>>54298466
>Is their anything stoping smut threads from coming back?
The colour of the background.

>Why?
Because some of us browse at work, and don't want our bosses to know our fetishes.

>>54298498
Erotic literature is outlawed on blue boards?

I think if we made the OP's extremely sanitary we could get around number 2

Maybe have a rule about posting no racy images or something

>>54298466
Mostly the whole business about the people who made the smut threads having really no intention of actually discussing traditional games, and the other boards they've ended up on are much better suited for their topic of discussion.

This is the traditional games board. If you just want to talk about your fetishes, that's what /d/ is for, and why there's a smut thread on /d/ right now.

That, and yes, it's a blue board. It makes no sense to try and hamfist fetish discussion here when you can't even post uncensored pictures here.

>>54298464
whose idea was this

>>54298464
Give Robin's Laws of Good Game Mastering a read. Exploit tools and frameworks like Five Room Dungeons. Rip off your favorite media if you're strapped for ideas/inspiration. Consider not running PF.

>>54298563
Literally everything on this list. Especially the spoiler text. I realize it's free online but there are better games that are also free online.

>>54298200
Wtf you smoking f a m? Abolishers have been the Supreme Auteur's waifu faction. Of course they gonna win.

>>54298200
Bitch please, the Mindforge are fucking shiteaters and cumguzzlers extraordinaire.

I mean, mind control powers across the whole faction, and they go "lol they're a bunch of over-hedonistic twats" like that isn't the characterisation of like every mind-control capable bad guy.

I mean, the Abolishers are shit, but at least they're interesting shit. The Mindforge are just shit, period.

In case you're wondering: Rain Men for life, yo. Precipitator best girl, Condensation a shit tactic that should be thrown in a garbage fire.

>>54298333
>Condensation
>Shit
Pleb detected. Do you even Spark synergy bro?

>He doesn't bait the enemy into Mist Clouds under gunbolt fire before condensing the cloud and zapping the whole squad with a chain-Spark

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b0mp

>>54298193
Talking to them to find out what their interests are, what their experience is, and how well they mesh with your desires.
People who have a similar vision as you, or are flexible enough to have fun and be creative with multiple ideals are best. That said, you want to see how well they accept instruction from the GM (which is damned important these days), with many other issues such that you can pull them aside and talk to them first, kick them second (like electronics at the table).
As a long time DM, I prefer to have a mixed, varied group, it keeps me on my toes, and the stronger clash of mindsets adds to the party.

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>>54298193
First, propose a game, including a campaign setting. That will immediately cut out 50% of the people who don't want to play that particular game or in that particular setting.

Next, set a time. That will cut out another 30% who can't make it for that time.

Then have a Session 0 to make characters. 1/2 of the remaining people won't show up.

After the 2nd session, another 1 or 2 people will flake out and never show up again.

That should leave you with a group of 4-6 reliable people actually interested in your game.