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Yeah, stuff like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnRrPqgKBS0
is great for creating a spooky environment.

>>54184590
Dungeon Synth my man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_jkB9xT6U

>>54184590
I like the World of Warcraft soundtrack. They did a decent job of matching zone music to zone atmosphere. If you spend enough time you can even pick music for different times of day, which personally i really enjoy.

>>54184494

whenever it defies the logic of the setting to offer it

For a classic example, the party tracks down a Succubus only for it to claim it has fallen in love and will do no more harm. Naturally suspicious, the party confirms using magic that the Succubus isn't lying.

Sparing the Succubus seems like a well-intended, merciful act.

But in reality, it has a wide variety of consequences that you would be perfectly justified to visit upon them, including but not limited to:
>Someone finding out the party spared a demon and assuming they were tainted or heretical.
>The demon changing its mind or succumbing to its baser instincts and harming others, which would have been prevented if the party had killed her.
>Someone harming the demon's lover, sending the demon straight back on the warpath.
>The party just being outright wrong, the demon having straight up fucking tricked the party's truth detection using magic of its own, and continuing to commit horrible acts of evil.

But honestly, anything can have consequences that no one intends at the time and there's nothing wrong with playing that out from time to time. But don't overdo it, don't poison every, or even most, acts of mercy or you'll warp the players mindset.

>>54184494
when it was foreshadowed or if you just feel like being a dick

>>54184494
Whenever they just half-ass it.

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Warp God, or Anathema?

Have the winds of change gone too far? Click to find out!

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Experiencing mutations? See how this one sorcerer fixed his friends with one simple trick.

My last character was a dead 'ard Arbites investigator with a drinking problem and a guilt complex over his dead partner
[Spoiler] I was going for the most generic buddy cop possible [/spoiler]

I'm thinking either Fuck The Police or the opening thing from C.O.P.S.

>>54182890
Did you try talking it out with your GM?

>>54183000
I didn't ask how do I deal with it, I asked why GMs keep doing it.

>>54182890
Lots of players say they want epic shit, grand, world shaking stuff. Lots of GMs think that is how games are supposed to go. Going from battling a few orcs near rivendel to Helm's Deep, then to destroying the dark lord himself

Fun fact: That's hard as fuck to run and turns things into endless escalation.

People are happier with a game that has a consistent scale and themes.

There is no "official" way to win the game. I've been having too much fun with the simple and elegant mechanics to really stress about that. I will need to do a few test runs before I can figure out what a default match's win conditions will be.
I'm going to guess that the most common rule is to deplete your opponents deck. You draw cards hoping you can sustain your own deck longer and deplete your opponents faster.
Stalemates are possible. Avoiding them tends to water down game potential in my opinion. With the mechanics available in the game, a player should be able to build up enough for themselves in order to defeat an opponent though. I think it's more likely that exponential growth of power will help bring a conclusion to the game.

With that being said, about no "official rules", the cards simply have effects on each other. There's no standard framework for "attack and defense". Or for classifying summons. The scalability of this game comes with glyphs & player content on the blockchain. Glyphs & cards will be added to the game by players.
One thing I worry about is complexity and accomplishing a slick design.

Other than trying to generate interests and answer questions, I'm looking for some cool & edgy ideas to add into the "just for fun" release.

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I am meeting with an old friend to iron out the rest of the rules to this game this weekend.

One thing I am trying to sort out is something called "Hidden Glyphs".
Here's the challenge: I want a "Key" card to interface with a "Door" card, but I can't make a general "Door" glyph, because all special "doors" are portals.
So in order to select a door, I need to come up with a slick way to mark all doors in the same way.

The only way I can think of is the order of the glyphs & their containers.
Glyphs will often be inside a container. Some basic geometrical outline. This container represents different things:
Circle - (Life)
Square - [Material]
Diamond - <~Passive>
Triangle Up - <+Buff>
Triangle Down - <-DeBuff>
Wide Hexagon - {(Area of Effect)}
House-like Pentagon - [<Building>]
Square Top Round Bottom - <[Vehicle]>
Rounded Top Square Bottom - {Meta}
Rounded Top Square Bottom - [{Device}]
No Container - |Basic|

Stone golems would be made of [{device}] & [materials] while Living creatures would be made of organic (Life).

So if I want to have "hidden glyph" meanings then I'd have to find a solid way to make sure I can make an order pattern appear however I wanted it. Containers are an evident way to do that because I can use position offsetting too. Problem is, a tiny-gnome elephant isn't going to use up the same amount of containers as a regular elephant is. (Life) & [Material] are generally used to represent how much life something has. So I can't say all circle-square-square-circle are elephants, so in order to boost all elephants with some effect just target circle-square-square-circle.
Using arbitrary basic glyphs is a little scary. How do you really use the right arbitrary glyph? That glyph can now be interacted with, does it introduce glitchy "side effects"?
I am going to try to figure this out without having an "elephant" glyph for every "elephant' that anyone ever comes up with.
What if it's more than just an elephant?

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|Flower|{Dark}{Evil}{Shadow}{Black}|Flower|
The Black lotus has the power to channel Shadow, Dark, Evil,
and Black energies interchangeably.

>>54182533
Damn, do people here don't like crowdfunded projects ?

>>54183923
You'll get a better response once west coast are online...

>>54183923
Dude it's not even 8am here settle down

>>54182412
>Night Fever
Causes those who suffer it to automatically lose any bluff checks and allows those around them to automatically succeed at guessing their intentions.
When asked, anyone who views you replies "well, you can tell by the very way he walks."

are we getting a trove? I don't want to make an account just to download the free First Contact pdf.

>>54181924
the first contact link in OP is just a scan, not the original PDF.

>>54181901
In the compiled data under magic items it implies that the layout of the Starfinder Player Character Folio has been leaked. Anyone know where to find it?

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>>54181855
Servants of the Imprar. More as slaves! The babes who live are offerings stolen from the plate of the Ner-Gull, the healer of men! Other spirit seers even now tell me that the Ner-Gulls gentle wife, Eyeshai weeps in his garden, for the babes lost she would normally care for. Instead of going to the homes of their ancestors, their souls are SWALLOWED by the Imprar!

And what of our chiefs? They no longer bow their heads in respect to our elders, no matter how many scars they have. They no longer thank our mothers, for birthing our children and providing Slah-nesh's love. Instead they grow fat, and feeble minded on the drinking fire the Sky Clan brings them!

Even now in my communing with the feathered snake Tsench, I have seen visions of the future. I have seen what the sky clan has in store for us. More metal giants will come. With them will be hollow men made of iron and red. They will peel our land apart and steal it's bones, they will enslave our people to work in their lodges, they will force our women to give birth to their soldiers and they will steal our children to feed to their metal giants, who above all else desire the flower of youth.

This is wrong I say! Wrong! We should not turn from the ways of our forefathers, which protected us during the great storms, when the sky was blood and ancient cities fell! It is not salvation the Sky Clan brings us but slavery!

I have seen their warriors and their sorcery. Rocks that shoot thunder, sticks that hurl red spears. I know we cannot defeat them in the field with honor, but I do not fear them! For I know in my heart of hearts that death is not defeat, but freedom! Freedom from the Sky-Clan and the Imprar!

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As I thought. You have no words. You know what I say is true - we have been damned by the Sky Clan.

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>>54181992
Nobody cares, Dave.
And put some fucking pants on.

There are many amazing programs out there for playing Table Top RPGs, like Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds (the latter being my personal choice as it gives so much fine control over whats going on).

As for meeting people online, you could find some forums or connect with Friends you already have online and getting something started. I would recommend any forums where you could find people, but I have a really strong local group and don't have any need to seek those kinds of things out, and wouldn't know. I do know they exist, as I have talked with people who use them before, and they give these kinds of setups rave reviews.

>>54181320
Read a system. Hit up Gamefinder threads and your website of choice. If it has a general, maybe talk to people there. I know roll20 has LFG functionality. Set it to "welcomes new players" and apply for a game that looks interesting. They can be hit-or-miss, but you can eventually get a handful of solid players. Don't join living world campaigns, as they usually go up in flames.

>>54182361
I don't understand most of that stuff, but I'll google things. Thanks.

>>54181031
Cool! One minor gripe: I'd have included the damage of the spell in your video so folks don't have to look it up.

Good choice on the theme music.
https://youtu.be/hwsJyaDVEEo
https://youtu.be/GSKeo5AS5vM
https://youtu.be/z0efJeGsvlc
https://youtu.be/Uf5ja-GEizY

>>54181476
thanks!

I always try to choose something thematic as possible. I have footage for dancing lights next, but I do not know the song yet!

>>54182193
Hmm. There are lots of songs about dancing, but it'd be cool if you could combine that with darkness/light. The best I can come up with in short order is...

https://youtu.be/hEJ26h_cBqQ

If it were a bright light of some kind, you could do Blinded by the Light. You could always just go with a disco song of some sort. ELO's Strange Magic is disco for the disco ball and mentions magic, but I'm not necessarily sold on it as a theme song (besides, you don't want to wear ELO out when Turn to Stone would work great for Flesh to Stone, should you even do that). Shine a Little Love is another ELO that comes close. You could just go for a recognizable disco song that maybe mentions dancing: You Should Be Dancing, Dancing Queen, Shake Your Booty, Boogie Wonderland, etc.

Diamond Head's Shoot Out the Lights could work. Or the B-52's Strobe Light. Joe Walsh's Life of Illusion would probably work better for phantasmal force or some shit like that.

>>54180759
They don't make them anymore, gotta buy off people who happened to save some and perhaps the occasional garage sale.

>>54180759
I remember having a bunch of these when I was little! They were super fun to build.

>>54180759
I couldn't find THOSE specific ones but I found similar ones.

https://www.3dpuzzleplace.com/ship-series-p/b368-16.htm