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>>54262935
You're about a week late, high speed.

>>54263310
Frak-I've been off-grid, and I only check for updates once a month...

>>54264010
I know it seems the end times have come with the frequent updates, but try to keep at least some access to internet to avoid such blunders.

>>54262913
What system? I'm guessing 3.5, but I hope not. Also, during what season?

>>54262913
>>54263040
>3.5
Factotum.

In terms of a DnD skillset he'd probably be a rogue or barbarian, though that could probably vary a lot depending on the episodes you're looking at

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>>54262894
[2/4]
But when we do want or need to come up with such an understanding, belief, or explanation (actual or merely believed to be so) for why and how looking at the shoggoth makes you crazy, or why learning the secrets of xenotech leads to madness, it can be difficult.

So please, share explanations have you encountered or come up with for why a bit of knowledge can be more dangerous than you would think, and any times you’ve played a game where that has become relevant or important.

I myself am having am currently having a problem related to the latter and would appreciate any advice or assistance you could give.

The setting is 40k and the game is rogue trader. We aren’t using the fantasy flight system, however the elements of insanity and corruption are still there and abstracted out in the Frankenstein system we are using.

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>>54262918
[3/4]

We are currently in the lower levels of an arch-heretek’s fortress built into a moon in a system that we are investigating because it belongs to the rogue trader’s dynasty but was erased from star charts by someone. (This campaign has been going on for over a year and a half now so in the interest of saving time and space I’m not going to go further into why we are where we are.)

My character, an eldar contacted into the service of the rogue trader, killed a pair of prisoners (2 deeply faithful magos who our enemy had captured and handed over to the Arch-heretek who then fitted with mind control devices and forced to operate necron devices for him, while the heretek’s dangerously charismatic boss manipulated the faith of these two men into a miraculous will to resist him that delayed the onset of madness from what they were being made to do, so long as they remained in that condition of resisting active enslavement) because he figured out that they had been too damaged by the experiences and forbidden knowledge they had been exposed to stay stable. In other words they looked saveable, unless you could see minds and souls with the clarity of an eldar, and had seen humans fall enough times to know where this was going.

In crunch terms you could say their insanity scores were maxed out but none of it had resolved yet, but would begin to.

Our explorator is an idealistic and insatiably curious magos biologis with a deep sympathy for the enslaved (servitors are not the same thing because they are just automatons that happen to include people parts, or so the belief goes). The explorator also believes in the power of human will. The idea that non-chaotic, non-demonic, knowledge and expereinces can corrupt someone to the point that they can become a threat whether they want to or not is alien to her.

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>>54262930
[4/4]
This combination of tremendous technical skill and knowledge with dangerous levels of naivety, curiosity, and idealism is completely in keeping with the character's backstory and experiences. (And, yes, if you are wondering, it has also been biting the character in the ass in terms making decisions and embarking on projects that have made enemies and lead to a declining sanity score. So if that kind of character triggers you please keep it to yourself so as not to distract from the subject of what I’m asking for help with. )


So
Do you have any advice on how to have my character do the following?:

>1.) Explain to this magos that knowledge that doesn't come from deamons, the warp, or evil tomes, can indeed corrupt someone, and that situations can push a person to the point that they become dangerous, even if it is completely against their will to do so.

>2.) Explain that this situation was indeed irrefutably such a situation and therefore killing these magos who wanted nothing more than to know the emperor/ommnisiah forgave them for something that they were not at fault for and had no choice in, was the correct action and spared them from a fate worse than death.

>3.) In the Process, avoid revealing information that would warp the mind of the magos, or any other human who heard it, and won't turn the party against my character.

In other words.
My character knows, understands, and can explain something that I, the player, Don’t understand. Namely how forbidden or alien knowledge can corrupt humans. So I am asking for ways to understand and approach this subject, and ideas on how to explain it in a way a someone scientifically minded can understand and accept, so that I can play my character right.

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What is the reasonable adult race and why is it T'au ?

So this general or the other one? >>54262404

This one doesn't have bait in the fucking op so I'm inclined to legitimise this one.

But the other one already has more posts...

>>54262493
You move to a new one when the old one is full of old posts. Because those old posts might be shit.

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>>54262171

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>>54262187

>>54262144

Depends on the setting.

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>>54262144
Never look back, because I can never go back.

What's that you say? A faggot has caused a bad thread to occur? Well I don't know what I can do about it I'm just an anon with shitposts at my disposal.

>>54261455
I don't know what this is but it has a melancholic and beautiful ring to it.

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>>54261455
Not sure what to tell you, but that the story gives off a sense of relatively subtle sadness, and this kind of nuanced storytelling is rare and pleasant to see in this hobby.
Also, Shuna no Tabi is an absolutely beautiful piece of art, fantastic tale with fantastic art and fantastic, subtle worldbuilding.
So massive props for both.

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>The Coffee shop owner needs help in making her special brew
>She asks you to head to the shop a few miles from hers
>Shop is manned by a kind gentleman that knows the shop lady by name, but hardly talks with her due to the busy nature of his job
>He sells you the remaining ingredients for the brew, but tells you that the people have gone out of business and he's starting to lose the stock
>You come back and inform the lady
>Instead of selling the remaining special coffee, she invites you to drink some of it with her, alongside the ingredient shop owner
>You're given a thermo with some of the special coffee as a thanks, and leave the two to chat and drink among themselves

>>54261280
Alright, and?

>>54261338
Nah, it's just something I found out when I used the horn.

>>54261348
A thread got bumped off the board for this bullshit, you know. There's a perfectly good 5e general you could have used.

>>54261227
1960-1990 after the war those with powers stayed active, but not funded or controlled back the government. They formed their own teams or worked solo as heroes fighting back against surving haven members who kept trying to destroy and take over cities, countries, and sometimes the world. The population of earth saw them as heroes and villains, but those titles slowly turned sour. With no government guidance or accountability the heroes efforts that resulted in death and destruction fell to the taxpayers to pay for and they hated it. After a giant man attacked Russian and leveled half of Moscow the Russian government approached the U.N. with a proposal to globally outlaw heroes and that villains be dealt with as terrorist and handled by the U.N. it was agreed upon and heroes were outlawed with a global set of laws and power restrictions on people with powers.

It's an interesting background for the setting, but who are the players? What are they doing? What is the current state of the world?

>>54261239
1995-2010 with the government now handling villains and those with powers under ability restricting laws there was a time of peace. Villains were slowly wiped out until completely gone and people were living nice quite lives. But those with powers felt that they couldn't live and be happy. They wanted to use their powers and under laws couldnt. A few protest groups emerged to try and change laws, but only on Argentina were they changed. The rest of the world stood strongly opposed. 4 months later, at a U.N. meeting the Argentinean delegate stood up and screamed "Omega freedom" and using the power of radiation proceeded to kill as many people as possible. The world was in shock and fear once again. Russia stepped forward in the aftermath and revealed that they had been working on a means to stop the threat of super humans. They revealed to the world a chemical capable of killing only super humans and materials able to restrain and hold even the strongest man. With hesitation the world joined Russia in a joint global security effort. Anyone with powers and using them in public was to be arrested and separated from the population for the safety o the general populace. Argentina did not join and was hit with sanctions and travel banned to and from there. The world was now at peace for everyone.

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>>54260919

There's a link in this thread :

>>54190839

Just ctrl+f it

If you mean the last post of the thread, that was me asking for it before it got archived; Otherwise I can't seem to find what I am looking for by CTRL+F but thanks anyways!
I will look post by post and see if I can find it in that thread.

I looked through the whole thread but there were no links and no mention at all about Dawnforge & Midnight if not me asking for it in the last post :(

So I am still looking for help if anyone can share those two collections!

>>54260777
very carefully

>>54260777
What is the setting like at the best of times? What is it like at the worst of times?

That's basically it.

>>54260777
Wording your narration correctly.

>>54260689
If you don't want mad science and techno heresy you're looking at the wrong planet. Under the watchful eye of the mechanicus the only sorta cults and nasty things that will crop up are mad science and techno heresy.

Wizard, every single one of them.

>>54259644
Who are we counting as main planeswalkers here? Because Garruk has been irrelevant forever now. So irrelevant that when my group went out of their way to sneakily play them, they fucking forgot he was the OG green neowalker and made an admittedly less retarded not!Nissa instead.

By the by, it was Psion (Jace), Sorcerer (Chandra), Wizard (Liliana), Warden (Ajani), and Druid (Nissa).

>>54259754

Warden is a 4e class is it not? I'm guessing if we don't have to stick to 5th strickly Gideon would be a warblade? Or perhaps an Immortal in 5th