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>>54278843
Dreadhard, boss! Deyz got skorchas and 3 to an elite slot theyz do. Put a whole bunch or none, no "kombined armz" like dos humie gitz.

>>54278880
"KOMBINED ARMZ". WHAT DA ZOG ARE YOU TALKIN' ABOUT?

>>54278888
Dey keep muckin about wit dis Heinlen git.

>>54278112
Not enough bait, better luck next time.

Arabian Nights is such a great game. Hope you have fun OP.

For me it's a copy of the expansion for the old FFG Doom boardgame. It's a surprisingly great game, but the expansion is nigh on impossible to find.

Oh, and a complete copy of Heroquest. I had one, but as a kid I played it so much most of the components are broken or lost by this point, it's fucking tragic.

>>54277798
What's this?

>>54279223
It's a cute little roleplaying game set in an Arabian Nights setting, it's all about roleplaying the results which are random events basically.

>>54275653
Magnitude of emotional attachment affects the scope of ability.
Example: You can make a doodle you scribbled dance, but you can impart a painting of your beloved departed family with an independent will.

>>54275653
Basically you guys seen Rosen maiden?
That can happen, but with drawings and imperial guard. And they don't have to kill each other

Fictional characters come to life,possess some of the characters Attitude but are their own thing.

>>54275653
> What could be done to improve this?

Sexy single dads.

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Desperate op bump

I'm kinda self-convinced to work living metal into the game, and maybe have the prehistory of the place be "fantasy world built by precursors, populated by their slaves"

Convince me I'm crazy/not crazy?

>>54274612
Depends on how far you're going to take it. Are they the source/inspiration for every modern piece of magic/technology in your setting?

It could be interesting if you take it all the way. If you don't take it farther than it currently is, or tweak it a bit, then they sound similar to the Dwemer/Dwarves from TES. Though they were more "Sufficiently advanced steampunk is indistinguishable from magic" I guess, so you're already a step away from them in that regard.

Also are all the Dwarves completely gone? Or do some remain? If there are those that remain, are they aware of how this magitech works, or are they in the dark like everyone else?

>>54276675
Good questions

It would certainly be a twist. And there's not really a precedent ingame so far. The dwarves living now are a strong kingdom, but none of them have the knowledge of their forefathers. The Craft of it is lost, certainly.

The party already encountered a lost keep, where the clan of dwarves descended into barbarism and villainy, becoming mad dreugar possessed by black magic. The group knows the dwarves lost a lot with the ikd empire falling away. They know quite well how far they can fall.

Thank's for the story OP, I had a good chuckle.

>>54274779
Our DM is cool like that. He once directly ripped a campaign out of D&D Online and had us blindly play it. It was cool to eventually find out how he had revamped it for us without us knowing. He also did an old episode of the Twilight Zone for us. I gotta say he's mastered his poker face.

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>an old, red-robed wizard approaches your party

Despair and death.

Determining some sort of meaning/pursuit/goal to justify your own life.

large quantities of alcohol in an attempt to recapture stages 1 and 2

I like the idea, but you gotta present it in a good way. Don't just say "good job, here's some extra sanity", pitch as the player feeling so confident or relieved that they solved something without issue that it strengthens their resolve.

>>54273606
[Lore Check]
Search the hastur tag on suptg.

Divination is magic information-gathering, subject to misinformation, hostile action against the information gatherer (via counter-spells, wards, etc), information protection (such as anti-magic zones, blocking spells, etc), and counter-intelligence.

An information-gathering spell to divine the future, or find out things not discernible with the tools at hand should be cast with caution. The target might have set up countermeasures, or be casting their own divination magic to track down people trying to tail them. Wizards may also cast far-reaching curses or other hostile spells that trigger when people attempt to learn about a certain subject, perhaps trying to keep that information for themselves.

Depends on the game's paradigm. It literally works where the supernatural exists, and is just placebo where it doesn't. I let the game rules decide when that is and how the mechanics work.

But yea if something would be too much of an advantage/revealing then I just fudge around that problem. No need to tell the player you're taking back some of their advantage.

>>54273565
Powers that tell the future should not be in PCs' hands at all. Like teleporting, flying, or reviving the dead, it's not conducive to good roleplaying games because it further distances players from constraints which are essential to the human experience.

Mind dropping some general lore about the world/main quest? In my experience, it's usually a good idea to have what players encounter during a trip to have some small connection to the larger conflict.

If you ever played a NE in Vanilla WoW you could use some the journey from Teldrassil to Ironfall as inspiration.

>Lots of deadly beasts that can kill you waiting on the side of the road
>Complete change of geography, races and architecture

Another idea could be a druid living in the swamp and he asks the party for help. Simply getting ambushed by intelligent creatures or the classic Troll Bridge that you can tweak

>>54273529
The characters are seeking a missing young woman, daughter of a local lord, who's gone missing. She's a young magic user, and so far they've discovered she was last seen at this other city they're currently travelling to, surrounded by a significant amount of dark interference stopping even a powerful seer from seeing the girl clearly.

They have also drawn the significant ire of a female warrior Orc along the way, who captains a small band of 30 or so Orc rangers.

>>54273455
Pre-calamity would be a playable setting however i feel setting things during the events of the game would just feel like a dungeon crawl.

>>54273455
Narrating that way could be a great way to fuck with your players. "And so the band of adventures set off in to the woods. Little did they suspect the horrors and misery that awaited them

>>54278714
Fuck I love that idea.

>>54273102

Napalm.

>>54273679

Why napalm? Are there any more efficient methods to do it?

>>54273102
Stop spamming this fucking thread, anon.

>captcha: select all squares that are street signs
>image is a stop sign
Even Captcha agrees.

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All was still in the Red Forest, the eldritch red fog which followed the dreaded blowout was rapidly flowing away through the trees. Slowly, but surely, the unnatural quietness of a post-blowout dawn began to fill with the comforting sound of gunfire and the reassuring howls of unknown monstrosities.

Cautiously moving through the forest, stumbling over tree roots and things best left unseen, came a group of four fair framed figures. Garbed in plain, rough-looking, but not poorly made, robes and wielding staffs with intricate ruins carved deep into the smooth wood of the shafts. Shambling out of the mists, they were but a minor curiosity for the denizens of the Zone.

“Brothers…why have we come to such a…horrible place?”

“To do what is are most sacred duty Sister Sylvarin. We have come to cure this place of the presence that corrupts it. Surely Sister, you can feel the foul corruption which poisons this wonderful bastion of nature.”

“But…this feels wrong. I have been in many a tainted grove before Brother Morrigan and felt how seeping evil twists our world into disgustingly unnatural forms. I do not sense evil here. I don’t sense anything at all.”

“Then surely this is a good thing Sister Sylvarin. For if one as experienced as you cannot sense the evil that pervades this place, then it must be weak and thus easily routed.”

“I hope you are right Brother, for all our sakes.”

The druids sluggishly made their way into a clearing of the bare, bleak trees. In patches dotted around the clearing, the air shimmered menacingly; but the group paid no heed. This sort of thing happens in lands such as this, a harmless symptom of a greater disease.

“Ok Brethren, here is where we will conduct the ritual t-“

“Of stopping, pansies whose brains are of shit!”

>>54272938

One of the natives, dressed in the rags and scraps of armour that seemed to be the typical dress of this strange land, stood at the edge of clearing. Normally they ignored the druids and made no attempt to interact with them. Even when one crossed their path, they would walk straight through the group, as if they never existed.

“What is the matter my good man!?”

“Is of you, cyka. You of walkings into the field that is of anomalies. Most retarded.”

“I do not understand you. What is the problem.”

“You of throw bolt to direction of one that is fat, you of the see.”

“We are children of nature, child. We do not wield that which is torn viciously out of mother earth.”

“Cyka blyat. Pansies are of most brains that are shit. Most poo is of you. You is of watch, maybe enough shit in pants of you, that you is of thinkings the clear, da?”

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R took a tiny iron bolt out of his pocket and flung it into the clearing. It collided with one of the shimmering patches of air a few feet from where the group of druids were standing. Instantly glowing white hot and sent zooming past Brother Morigan’s head, a fountain of pure white fire burst forth from the ground where the bolt struck.

“Spirits preserve us! How will we get out of here?”

“Is of fine, pansie cyka. Move in line that is straight and of commings here. Do not of touchings the anomalies, or you be of crispiest critter, da?”

>>54272963

Scooting carefully into a single file, the druids cautiously navigated their way out of the anomaly field towards the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Once on the other side, they carefully formed up to the side of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R, in case they accidently stood on the wrong blade of grass and blew up.

“Thank you, thank you most sincerely my good fellow. Without your guidance, we would have surely burned in eldritch fire.”

“You can of thankings me by of leaving. You pansies of make the Zone most pissed. Make many a blowout by taunting Zone. Of calling it of nasty names and of makings the empty threats. Many a group of pansies come through here every the day. Always of taken by Zone. You of leave now.”

“Thank you for your concern my good man, but we are mighty druids and have cleansed many a place of stronger taint than this. We will beat this so-called “Zone” and save you all from it’s terrible influence.”

“Cyka! Fines, be of havings your way pansie who is of pooed brains out of trousers. But if blowout of happenings and I of being attacked by of snorks during morning piss of mine, I be of most furious and of beatings what is of left of you.”

With that, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R strove back into the woods and was soon out of view. The druids stood dumbstruck for a moment whilst they watched him go, as if waiting for another sign to warn them of the foolish task ahead of them.

But the Zone does not tolerate fools lightly.

>>54272638
Yes. We were an evil party collecting artifacts that could make us into and evil god. We had agreed to share the power after my wizard lied and said he totally would be able to split godhood into 5 pieces, easy. after we got the last piece I teleported back to where we had stashed the others and used them alone. I become a god of betrayal and had to spend eternity trying not to get betrayed by my own evil angels.

>>54272638
>Have you ever been the betrayer?
S O O N

>>54272638
I GMed one, years back.

One of the characters got hit with a nasty death curse and was slowly wasting away and dying. She saw a way out in becoming a liche, but lacked the appropriate knowledge on the proper rituals IC. She winds up striking a deal with the BBEG and lowers the wards on the players fortified manor and leads to what isn't quite a TPK, but the wiping out of the 3 of the 5 remaining loyal members of the group and the other two giving up adventuring because of it.

Surprisingly, despite it being very bad business IC, OOC there wasn't much animus over it. There was even one apology to Erin for not doing more to save her character.