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>>54100838
I didn't even need magical Christmas land to win as bolas. He has just enough stealing effects to get things done.

I suggest you try two more sessions. Sometimes its just a cluster of bad influences that comes to the front. If problem endures, it may be a specific player that is killing the vibe.

>>54100673

1) Call for a break.
2) Move as many people as you can from the table. Smoke break, snack run, suggest bathroom runs, go out on the porch and pretend to see a deer. Whatever gets people on their feet.
3) While away from the table, talk about the game so far. Ideally bitch about something you did not going as well as you wanted.
4) God willing, people take the bait and talk about the game. Listen and use it to guide the rest of the session.
5) Alternate God willing, people honestly claim nothing is wrong but the break gets people back into the game.

>>54100673
Check your themes.

Are you aiming for dark and gritty, and everyone else thinks it's a light heroic fantasy?

Are you black trenchcoat, but your players are pink mohawk?

TLDR -> Make sure that you and the party have a similar vision for what the game should be. Then what you build should be the playground that they want, and they can take your pieces and run with it.

If the session is unsalvagable, then you probably have some cogitative dissonance going on here.

>>54099573
There's a bunch of shitty baboons in Prax.

>>54099792
Lunar Empire.
Their cults seem reasonable at first, but are essentially a "5th column" to disrupt and influence the locals, making it easier for them to conquer.

>>54099573
Tastolar?

>>54099314
Look up Gygax's old system for this where there's someone taking down all players' moves and relaying them directly to the DM for combat.

Create "social initiative" for dialogue and out of character chatter.

sometimes you need to make sacrifices
run fixed initiative, and have all the lesser bad guys act as a single unit to speed things up

>>54099325
*but NOT out of character chatter shit sorry

>>54099052
You'll need fuckloads of resources since the realm is guarded by adamantine dragons and several gods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf0s3v1VTMc

Most likely if your DM plays bytopia right, you're boned. But most likely he won't.

>>54099052
Bytopia seems to me to be a Minecraft map.

By the time you get there, the established residents are simply on an other level from you. The resources they have to throw at you is nearly unlimited, and they will have prepared for you.

It's also like the Legend of Zelda lands. It's a destiny wrapped land. The chosen peoples are protected, their destinies are laid out in here. As an interloper, you are up against those cosmic forces, because you are stomping in their playground.

>>54099052
Since it's an infinite plane, you'd need infinite resources to conquer it.

Wind powers and Super "Everything stat to do with the physical condition"

Probably the ability to meld into biological matter too

>>54098738
Oh yeah that's a given, meld is a good add on. any idea how I should balance him out or what to put the most points in?

>>54098665
Um, someone must have not read the book very well, a game of MnM at power level 5 is ridiculously low, especially for someone like Wamuu. The average starting PL is 10, PL 8 is about the lowest you can go before things start to get really constrained for anything not super realistic/mundane

>>54098528

Fuck, they're still coming.

That being said you should probably be ashamed of yourself for begging for it like this. That ain't right. You want it pay for it or wait, like a good moral person.

>>54098528
God damn you, anon.

Captions couldn't always get sailors by honest means, as such, Crimping was not too uncommon in the Americas. That being said, a hired crimp would do some pretty silly shit to get extra pay from a captain.

Since the crimp the crimp was paid per man, they would sneak in a corpse two among those they drugged and then dragged aboard. Though, as you might guess, dead bodies can be hard to come by. So crimps would pass of scare crows as drugged up sailors to be.

Eangrrish badd.

>>54098321
Does the city have a zoo?

Also I love you make sure to make lots of monkey puns

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One option that the book suggests would be to make it so that the Apes, rather than appearing at my location when I use the summon ability, would need to travel to me from their point of origin using their own movement capablities. In their case, the ability to run at 30 mph (these Apes are a bit super), climb buildings, swing, leap rooftops, etc. This point of origin could be the city Zoo or the university, but I feel like that might be hard to justify from a flavor perspective without people asking questions and causing a panic when the apes are regularly escaping their enclosures, especially one where my character works.

Another option would have to be to have it so that the apes always start out indifferent to me, rather than helpful. I'd need to run a Diplomacy/Handle Animal check to be able to order them around. This I wouldn't mind. I can communicate with them mentally, and it's not like anyone else could. Seeing as I'd only bring them out in combat, it stands to reason that any mook that sees 4 angry gorillas show up while Professor Primate is around would put two and two together and start shooting them, drawing aggro without me needing to say anything. From a flavor perspective too, it makes sense that Gorillas and monkeys would be a bit fickle and unpredictable, even IF I can communicate in their language.

>>54098321
One way I did a "summon" power for a newer player is to just have an AoE Effect like Damage or Affliction take the place of the Summon and have the monkeys as simply the flavor. The drawbacks to this could be simply Source: Monkeys and perhaps have a Check Required: Persuasion or simply Activation flaws for your character to communicate with them if you so choose.

If you really still want to do Summon, there's also simply having the Summon as one unit with the Insubstantial: Swarm/Gaseous and Growth or AoE effects on the single swarm unit's abilities to simulate the size of the group.

>>54098238
That's a roleplaying characteristic, not something that can be created through mechanics.

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>>54098275
Yes, but books often have hints and examples which can make a good foundation.

>>54098238
is that mads mikkelsen

>>54097544
I don't think you could fit really all the major rpgs in a single image.

>>54097137

Your GM is probably just not used to having players who actually roleplay. He's probably been stuck with players who tend to murderhobo about in his games, and is surprised to actually meet somebody who roleplays.

Treat your GM well, and let him know how much you appreciate him.

>>54097137
>Doesn't it make a roleplaying game just an imaginative video game?
A lot of people just want video games+, where they can climb the chest-high roadblocks, take the weapons off the wall, and make molotov cocktails. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just a different playstyle.

>>54097270
>>54097248
To be honest, the setting is kind of flip-floppy on whether or not the characters go murderhobo or not, but we would of missed out on a hours worth of car racing. I just wish that musician had survived. Apparently he had a very tragic backstory.

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Bring back the human bomb penal troops

>>54096899
>>54096943
Also the Penitents and maybe Bound Psykers.

>>54096943
What Edition was that?

>>54096827
If it's that underpopulated there wouldn't be any factions beyond "the Sykes family has a land dispute with the Wilburs".

>>54096923
This. Is there some reason why people are moving into this place? Resources, agricultural land, precious metals/gems, etc.?

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Roll 1d6
>1 Wild children, such as those outcasted or abandoned have formed tribes. They are not normal, and are not really human anymore on the inside.

>2 Religious fanatics of an unacceptable religion of the main society that left to found their own societies. Only 50% chance of being murderous, child-bride cultists

>3 Servants of a haunted mansion of an old exiled noble. The house is in ruins and the noble is long dead, but the servants are still bound by magic and serve by bringing victims to be composted in the garden or meat for the table.

>4 Wolves that act like wolves, but when they think they are alone, walk and talk like men. They have been watched humans and collect clothes and weapons from them. They want to start their own kingdom. They're not anthropomorphized at all either, they're literally just wolves on two legs, fumbling with rough paws trying to put on crowns and so on.

>5 Inbred hillbilly families. Both lines have several monsters in their lineage though, expect lots of sorcerers and weird mutations.

>6 Tanglewoods slowly encircle and suck the nutrients from any humans caught in them. The plant is just a plant, but they are ruled by a caste of cruel and wicked dryads, who hate humans and human men especially.