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I'll fait for the release and take a look at the miniatures quality. So far, every fucking CMoN kickstarter had great renders and absolute garbage at release, so I'm not holding my breath.

>>55306607
It won't release until after the show ends right?
That means it's fucked

The minis are nice, but the game looks eh. If I've the money in the future to just blow on nice looking models I'll never use, I'd buy it.

I'm going to hot glue that Cersei mini tho

I played the first round with five people and we haven't played since because we can't get everyone together.

It was fine, just make sure everybody understands that their starting position is where they place the small cities if they choose that option and where to put stickers on the board (on the black marks).

>>55306042
I like the game a lot. Played it weekly with a group of buddies. My advice would just be aware that it isn't very well balanced and some races are just way better than others (bear people suck ass).

I also spent some extra time to put each sticker on some thick paper with some tac clay so I can take things off when done with that group to be played again fresh.

Funny I thought /tg/ hated "legacy" games.

Anyway any risk game lets you wipe Australia permanently off the map is worth a play.

>>55305635
give it to kaldor draigo so he can carve his name in nurgles brain and then skull fuck the god to super death

>>55305635
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzKk2PZxGQ

>>55305666
But anon, Slaanesh would be pleased.

We have a grand total of ONE party member who can even swim, let alone go on an underwater adventure. We tell the GM to step it up and bring a plot hook the party might actually be interested in.

Okay you got me, i laughed a little.

>>55304197

>"20% consignment on all future restaurant profits, or 10k upfront. No 'supervising' - we take jobs, not orders. And we don't do discreet. Deal?"
>"What? Oh. Blodwyn wants to know if the crab guy being left alive is important. Something about 'braised in garlic butter'?"

Friends.
/thread

http://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop/players-basic-rules

Here are the basic rules in a beginner friendly format. Also, be sure to check out the /5eg/, or 5th Edition general, for the full PDFs.

Beyond that, all you need is some dice (or a dice rolling app) and some friends.

>>55304099
Find friends to play with.
If those friends happen to already be playing D&D, you're set.
If not, avoid D&D. Have a look at Ryuutama and Apocalypse World 2e instead. Both books tell you everything you need to know about running a game.

>>55303878
Something that'll increase her strength by 4.

>>55303878
Brigandine because brigandine is fuckin rad

>>55303900
Eh?

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>>55302810
I don't know what this is, but it's ugly and not in the good way.

>>55302810
For a vehicle dedicated to Nurgle it looks very neat and clean.

>>55301872
>He never played with supes

>>55301872
>You haven't really played Magic until you've played with this card.
I ran 1 in UW Control back in Standard. It was alright.

I wouldn't even put it in my top 10 most fun or memorable cards.

>>55301872

Savannah Lions says hi.

Never played it. Tell me about it please. Assuming I already have a stack of Fantasy systems, why should I get T&T too?

>>55301585
Which Fantasy systems does your hypothetical stack of Fantasy systems include?

>>55301692
D&D, Earthdawn, The One Ring, WFRP, to name a few well-known ones. I feel they cover most eventualities.

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>>55301245
>drow

>>55301245
Who is The Viper?

>>55303175
He's some Swedish dude that plays Age Of Empires II. He's pretty good.

>So, I'm the guy who's GM's tinder date got doxxed
Wait wut

>>55299041

I don't think Find Familiar works that way.

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>>55299041
I had a campaign where the entire epic tier was crafted by the true wish that each party member individually got.

One member wished for "all the money" which created a universe in which anything of value could only be used by him, which included food, meaning that literally everyone HAD to be a slave to him if they wanted to eat, because then it would be a transfer of resources between one form and another, and the food wouldn't turn to ash in their mouth.

One wished for enough power that her village would never need to bargain with any other entity than her. This wish actually worked out pretty well for her.

One wished for the power to protect humanity from the predatory influence of the fey, which created an entire police force of clones of him that diligently, and rather coldly, protected the universe from the fey, and he continued to play the youngest shard of this entity. Unbeknownst to the party, this was actually a backup shard intentionally left by the now eldritch entity that retroactively experienced millennia worth of lifetimes as defender of humanity in an active attempt to maintain its own waning humanity.

..... more wishes to come....

>>55298631
Not without a fiasco-like session 0 to set up random relationships and plot hooks.

I am thinking about a true cop start next time, but I would be required to tell a player an aspect of their background they should know themselves already.

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>>55298631
Hard to do, just by the very nature of RP.

Starting in the middle usually involves either cutting to the beginning or making assumptions on what a character would do in a situation that by and large should be played out by the player.

Cutting to the beginning after presenting them with a scenario does encourage a certain amount of meta gaming, as they will often actively attempt to avoid that fate or prepare for it. Unless you have a player who enjoys helping the group stay on path it is an effort in futility.

Making assumptions is a more vile offense in the players' eyes as you are literally taking control away from their character, and unless you know your players really well

That being said. I have started a campaign like this as a way to group up the party. Run a solo session with each player and then at the beginning of the first real session they find themselves in the same predicament and break the ice by telling each other their side of the story Reservoir Dogs style. Let them lie, let them be boisterous, and let them really personify their characters. It's an interesting spin on the whole you all meet in a tavern/prison/crypt/police precinct/customs office

tl;dr it's hard to do and really depends on your players and how well you execute it. I feel it's better done at the beginning of the campaign

>>55298631
> You wake up in an inn
> You were awoken by a crashing sound
> The building next door is demolished by an anchor dropped through it
> You look up, and a fleet of airships fills the sky, dropping anchors and dispensing troops into the city from hang gliders and down the anchor chains
> What do you do?

Worked well, but the campaign didn't last long.

>>55297785
Go to /tv/, buddy.

>>55297785
Just learn the language, silly billy

Over-ti.me?

>>55297768

That's not wild. The Orcs are still evil from the human's perspective because they've been attacking for generations. Motivation doesn't matter.

Now that you made the orcs a thinly disguised reference for Real World Oppression™ I want to kill them even more.

>>55297768
>>Just before the war, blindside the players with a three session orc game leading up to the same war, learning that the orcs just want some more farm land to eat but the humans always see them as a threat.
Perfect. Now you have a way of genociding them by focusing on their food production.

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>>55297610

in addition to those few examples of insane "science" the world also has ancient artifacts with unexplainable powers;

Such as:

>Poseidon's Blood
a tear-shaped ruby set into a gold amulet approximately 2"x 4" in size, discovered on Catalina Island, the object attracts storms and sea Serpents to it, and attack whatever possesses the amulet.

> the Cube
an ancient cube of black stone 4" x 4" x 4" in dimension, when "activated" it will emit a radiation pulse that will transform any people or animals in range into hyper-aggressive lovecraftian horrors. effective range of the pulse has ranged from 100' to 20 miles.

>the stone of life
a small polished stone that will transform any complex tool it interacts with into a beast possessing some abilities similar in nature to the original tool.

>Slave Nails
a set of 3" long silver nails capped by a white pearl, if one is pierced by one of these nails such that the tip penetrates the brain, the victim will enter a state of bliss and mindlessly obey the commands of whoever inserted the nail. there is no known way to remove a nail without killing the victim.

I realize that any setting with all this insanity all at once is going to be fucking stupid. But what I'm curious of is this; is it interesting? Is a setting where this kind of stuff happens one that would make someone want to have adventures in and explore this world?

2/2

Sure, make it.

>>55297610
>>55297622
So it's the real world except with some mad science and magic added in? Doesn't seem all that unusual. So yes, a setting that is basically the real world, but more interesting would make someone want to explore and have adventures in it.