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Before it, let them fight another minor antagonists, who will tell and show them that "honor amongst thieves" is not a thing. Then have another minor antagonist, who will fight them because they are outsiders who have no honor and respect for the system.
Both should clue the party in on where they stand, and what they should do.

>>53970303
D&D 4e with level 0 start is actually suitably deadly.

There's also DCC which is based around starting as peasants who have about a 1:4 survival chance, but they don't really get to be demigods.

Maybe you could do something like a pointbuy game starting with low points and then handing out a lot. Something like Savage Worlds starting with low stats , or GURPS/M&M/other point buy things.

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>>53970563
forgot PDF related.

Technically you are still talented, but you are really a piece of shit compared to a 1st level character (about 1/4th in strength).

Dungeon Crawl Classics, Zweihander, and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Be sure to check your local store OP, DCC passed out an adventure for free RPG day that includes the rules for character creation.

>>53969051
I'd do it in packages.
For example

Package A would be theater of the mind (so no mini's) , smaller number of players and 2 or 3 hours long. You want to get the hipsters with this, it will be your bread and butter

Package B would be much more focused on minis and should be a subscription for a long term campaign. Like levels 1-14 or whatever. have a fuck ton of minis that actually represent the monsters, even some real scenery and props.

Or just charger per session and per person, more players is more difficult to work with so you should get paid more.

>>53969051
I would pay for something like this. But only if the GM was "professional" tier good.

You would need both 1 shot sessions with a slick execution, premade characters and an adventure you are intimately familiar with running, and longer running campaigns on a subscription basis.

The 1 shots are for drawing in new customers, the longer campaigns are your steady income.

Run it in a private, quiet, professional setting and spend a lot of time getting the atmosphere right and making it clean and comfortable for your customers.

Don't make players pay for dice, sheets, minis etc, it will make some people feel scammed. Include the cost of these materials in your upfront pricing. Obviously this doesn't include snacks, drinks, souvenirs etc, or if the players want to purchase their dice/minis.

Patreon, I don't think so, unless you want to broadcast material on the internet. Which you should expand into, but it will require a more complicated operation.

>>53969051
One thing i will say is don't run your sessions out of your own home

>>53966118
a world thats 99% water is obviously gonna have extremely diverse sea life, life on the islands, depending on how small and far apart they are, is goping to be extremely niche and may be unlike anything else on the planet
a planet that shifts between extremes like that every season would probably have seasonal animals that choose to hybernate during their off seasons, digging deep into the ground to escape the elements and emerging in their preferred climate.

a flesh would is gonna be pretty alien, but I imagine life on that would exist in a similar manner to creatures that live on/in flesh here, parasitically, likely feeding on the endless supply of blood and flesh under their feet. there'd be almost no point to predation. Though the logistics on how a flesh planet would work are pretty questionable. Does it itself need to eat?

>>53967257
The flesh planet recycles any dead matter that isn't consumed by the other creatures into new life or landmass.

>>53967305
>>53967257
The Water World's Cave Systems have main entrances that descend down below the seabed and run all across the planet.
and the radical shift planet has it happen on a instantaneous level.

Dice or no dice?

>>53964119
I'm going to recommend Valen Quest and its Forgetting mechanic, which I find is really fun in a sufficiently high-stakes game.
Link to the thread where it's explained: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/40650605/

>>53966029
Not OP but thanks

What was this quest about anyway

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>>54216700
Primaris are just diffrent units my dude, outside of hellblasters I doubt anyone will use them anyway since normal marines have the fluff.

>>54216782
I think it's safe to assume GW will be pushing more Primaris equivalents as time goes on, but I do think you're right. Traditional marines are in no danger of being rendered obsolete with regards to fluff.

>>54216272
>Are they relaunching Necromunda or not?
Nope

>>54216283
:(

Why is James M Hewitt such a faggot?

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>>54214912

They let me be the little girl.

>>54214912

While I've done more freeform/improv RP, and I also enjoy board and wargames, RPG's are my favourite because I feel like the combination of both is more than the sum of its parts.

I'm not just playing a character or engaging in storytelling with my friends, I'm also engaging with interesting and enjoyable systems that help guide the story in interesting directions or create tangible, mechanical consequences to actions. Meanwhile, the roleplaying side also adds extra depth and concerns when the mechanics come to play, forcing me to consider actions through the lens of my character.

RPG's take more investment than most other media, some demanding hours of time before the game can even begin, but I get so much out of them that I feel like it's always worth it, and the stories my friends and I have told together, the amazing battles we've fought in worlds of our own creation, are things I'll remember for the rest of my life.

>>54214912
>What do you like about RPGs, fa/tg/uy?
It's the most interactive storytelling there is besides freeform, and the problem with freeform is that it is usually unimaginative.

>>54213408
Only D6?
I'd use GURPS Lite.

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>>54213408
Also, thoughts on these icons/names?

>>54213624
I'm wanting something like the narrative dice system in FFG star wars. Basically, every roll has a success/failure axis and a threat/advantage axis. So you can "succeed with a bonus", "succeed with a cost", "fail with bonus", or "fail with cost". You roll a dice pool of good/bad dice, count up positive/negative icons, and that's your result.

One Roll Engine is kinda similar, but with a D10 pool, and more math.

>>54213408
>combat and skills are too crunchy
wot

>>54213238
We really need to make these threads reportable

Also false, there are no current sculpts of female IG besides a few one offs and unofficials.

>>54213276
Fuck off, this isn't a bait thread. Some people legitimately enjoy discussing female Space Marines. Hide it.

And I'm not saying there are official GW models, I'm saying you can have female IG lorewise.

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>>54213287
>Fuck off, this isn't a bait thread. Some people legitimately enjoy discussing female Space Marines.

>>54212978
>the mayorate

Are they ruled by a mayor? What did he do that was so evil?

>>54213018
its Mayo-rate

Mayonnaise empire

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I'm going to pull from my book. It's called The Elsewilds.

The Basillica
- This is a city built by the Malgarii, squid-faced creatures created by the Primordial, and banished to the center of the Moon. They are lead by the Princess of the Moon, a human girl with magic powers called a sleepwaker. Lying is lethal to them, but they use colorful language to get around the truth. L/E

The Grand Library
- A colorful city where every living being who can dream has their life story written in real time and stored away at their death by thousands of scribes. The Librarians were killed, and replaced with the Host of Many. A parasitic bug that attaches to the faces of the sleepwakers, and takes over their bodies, wearing them out and filling them with eggs before cocooning them, and having a public ceremony attaching to a new unwilling host. N/E

The Mechalith
- A giant floating monolith where the Simulacrum live. Tall, beautiful people with sharp features who never age. They are synthetic, and have split into castes, where the lowest castes are sacrificed and cannibalized for parts for the ruling caste. N/N

The Circus
- Home of the Hobs and Goblins. They were ruled by a king who was killed by one of his sons. The seven Jacks, his sons and generals, were either killed or banished. The Jack of Lanterns wants his father's kingdom back, but the Jack of Cats is in power. C/E

The Terminus
- A citadel and prison above a great infinite pit surrounded by waterfalls and suspended by chains. The Primevil is imprisoned here. This is where the King of Nightmares lives, an ancient sleepwaker who entered the Elsewilds thousands of years ago as a defector German soldier in the Roman army. N/E

The Duergar
- Stour, hairy, cave dwelling people. They are lead by Maga, the matron mother. She lead the Neanderthals from Earth after the Primevil was captured and imprisoned.

The rest of the lands are home to other mythical creatures, and humans warped through generations in the Elsewilds.

The ten-thousand moons signal the opening of The Door of Malice, and once it opens The Demonking is free to walk the Mortal Plains once more.

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>The time of his return is approaching and his five Dark Lieutenants are already sowing terror in the Lands, each with his own unique and dreaded army

>>54212635
>most generic possible fantasy world
>The Thousandfaced Demonking
You already fucked up.

>>54211634
Bariovians tend to be extremely weary of outsiders to begin with.

If those outsiders are non-humans, that weariness could quickly turn into outright racism.

Not sure why you would allow Dragonborn and Tieflings in a CoS campaign in the first place though...

>>54211634
If you don't want them to chose races you hate for reasons, don't have them as available races in your game. All you're doing now is being a passive aggressive bitch.

>>54211659
>>54211634
People don't typically have a choice if they get pulled into Barovia or not, there isn't a particular reason people would get uppity.

You're stupid.

The d20 system does not allow a player to call literally any action and then roll with a possibility of success. Part of your job as DM is to tell players whether they can or can't roll for shit. You don't have to let a player roll to pluck the moon out of the sky because HURRR NAT 20 IS AN AUTO SUCCESS. It's your game. Don't let players do stupid shit.

>>54209522

Punch him as hard as you can in the chest. After he stops crying and asks you why just tell him you were trying to pickpocket his heart.

>>54209965
This.