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Are going to see a new card preview article today or just some gay ass fiction?

>>54167272
Gay ass fiction, fampai. It alternates weeks. One week is the clan fiction, the next week is the clan's card preview. From the few leaked cards, Crab have a defensive Holding thing going on as well as card sacrifice mechanics to buff others.

So that samurai who died, that was Hida O-Ushi's mother right?

>>54212833
Are Exocrines really that good?

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/NEW-ARRIVAL-LEGION-SICARAN-BATTLE-TANK/2776005_32814063881.html?spm=2114.12010615.0.0.rg8qKX

>>54212854
they are the premier non-FW ranged option for nids. plus it nearly does everything you could possibly need it to solve.

This might be the only time where D&D can be recommended.

D&D because it's shit like everything you mentioned

>>54212384
>>54212444
WotC D&D, to be clear.
Not TSR D&D.

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>>54211644
Whoops. Looks like I submitted before actually writing the post.

The protagonists have just cornered the Villain's henchman in Greece and are about to learn the secret of the Villain's power. Thing is I'm not sure how I should make his power for an interesting finale, as the player characters will be heading directly to the villain for a confrontation.

Here's what the party knows about the bad guy, Herman Zi:

1. Is a vampire that was buried underground for 130 years.
2. Developed a Stand Power while underground.
3. Was rescued by Henchman, who trained him for the purpose of making him powerful.
4. Stand can make extremely large spherical holes in things, we're talking entire buildings or mountain peaks.
5. Each time the power is used, it gets stronger.
6. Sometimes stuff that was previously hit by the power re-appears.
7. His Stand can prevent sunlight from touching his skin.

My original plan was to have his Stand [Dragon Force] able to teleport things to precisely the opposite side of the Sun. But how can the players defeat him with a power like that?

>>54211693
We're gonna need to know the players' powers to know what's possible, dude.

>>54211888
Joshua Joestar, and his Stand『Fabrication』, made of living metal that can form tools and drones.
Nole "The Malestrom" Nalestom and his Stand 『Super Beast』, power of making any inorganic object soft or stretchy.
Feel Fresh and his Stand 『Take On Me』, power of Hooks that mind control people.
Captain Frank Black and his Stand 『Wave of Mutilation』, power of swarm of tiny stands that can control water and provide remote touch. Also has Hamon.

I've got a few of those, although partially used characters are a way worse issue.

Characters I made for games which never started or died a few sessions in. So many of them float around, waiting for a game they might call home, and even then I end up making new characters most of the time anyway. And when games fall through, more are added to the list.

Still, I occasionally get to clear entries. Even if a game isn't entirely finished, as long as I feel like a characters personal story has had a pretty good run, I'm generally able to let them rest at that.

>>54211239
>developing the whole life, world and universe of a character in particular and come to love what you can do with them
>dies like a bitch soon and unused

Ever since I got the egypt itch again, I wanted to roll a tabaxi but a jackal instead, dual wielding a khopesh and shortsword.

That and if I could find a balanced minotaur stat... Some say just use half orc and give a horn ability but idk.

Usually play humanoids so want to see some other options that could be played.

>>54209912
I don't like the sound of it, frankly. In my experience, genre bait-and-switch campaigns are one of those ideas that every GM has, that every one of them tries at some point, and that never play out as well in practice as it sounds in your head. I've never seen anyone run such a game and have the execution go well enough that it justifies it.

"Your characters think they're doing X, but *really* they're doing Y", what does that add to the campaign? I mean really? I've never seen it add depth, or open up story avenues that otherwise wouldn't be options, or really serve as an improvement. It's a conceit, a gimmick. Not worth doing.

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>>54209912
>oppressive pigs
>they've got society in their hands and oppress the people
I hope your party consist of rainbow-haired girls, and at least one had asiatish ancestry?
But idea seems fine. Most difficult part is writing parallel real world story [gazetteer, tabloids, news, etc], to reflect things what they done while was junked up and saving kingdom, to reveal it at the moment when party shrugs off illusion

>>54209912
...but why tho?

Lots of questions and stuff that doesn't line up. Injection drugs aren't really a medieval thing. Also unless they're born addicted and raised delusional there isn't anything to make them think this. Also how does it make there not be guns, cops, escalators, etc.? The amount of delusion required to pass off a skyline seems like it would make actually doing anything impossible. Team black already gets their heads kicked in fighting state power directly, it would be even worse if they thought they were knights or some shit.

>>54209376
Sealed is less dependent on skill and more on luck than draft is, because your card pool is pre-determined and can't be affected by interaction with other drafters.
Knowledge of cardpool is always helpful. Partially to judge relative strength of the cards, partially to know what you're up against.
Stick to two colors, 3 if you have fixing.

Your last question is easiest to answer. Draft is when you and 7 other people get three packs (each) and pass cards around until you make a deck. Sealed (the prerelease) is when you get 6 packs (in this case 4 hour of devastation and 2 packs of amonkhet) and you build a deck out of those packs.

With if you should look at the cards or not, it's all a matter of how confident you are on your deck building abilities and card evaluation abilities are. You can totally walk in blind and build a deck that rekts the house. You can also know every card by heart and still struggle to get wins in. I personally like finding out what cards are just because I like the discovery, but you're totally fine going there with no knowledge of the cards.

Honestly you should expect a casual environment. Sure, there are prizes, but it's very relaxed in the fact that 1: a lot of people haven't seen these cards before, 2: not everyone is a pro player and doesn't play competitively and 3: I forgot my 3rd point.

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>>54209544
I think I will just go in blind. I don't feel like spending the rest of my night studying cards.

bump because I want this to be explored but I have no clue how to answer it.

>>54208862

From the people who are actually complaining, nothing.

Their complaints aren't rational, they're based in the dumb 3.PF double standard that only spellcasters are allowed to have nice things.

As you point out, in vidya and, heck, in most other RPG's it isn't a thing, but a vocal minority of the RPG community still cling to it as if it is somehow objectively correct.

Personally, I'm fine with Martials doing all sorts of things. Healing, guarding allies, buffs and debuffs, special maneuvers of all kinds. Although Darkest Dungeon uses it differently, the various movement manipulation abilities they get are also very cool.

>>54208862
There are plenty of systems grounded in reality where martials have a lot of options in combat, I wouldn't use a superhero system for that kind of game though, that being said martials still need more options than what's offered in 3.pf and 5e

Didn't MtG's Lorwyn already do exactly this?

I can only imagine the fucking conspiracies are brutal. Do you know how fast a ruler who's the most beautiful would go out?

>Get into power
>The person you were running against has a goon throw acid on your face
>That goon might be arrested, but you're ugly now, you lose, your competitor is now the ruler and pardons the goon.

>Anywhere you go people are trying to secretly fuck you over so that their contacts can become slightly more beautiful and go up the ranks farther than you.

>Even if you are able to stay safe and pretty, you'll be slightly less pretty in a couple of years
>Someone else will take over and you'll be demoted because of your ugly ass.

Perfect chaos.

>>54208268

Yep. They even had assassins whose job was not to kill, but to scar, to destroy someones position within the society.

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>>54208211
WotC pandering to furfaggots confirmed

>>54208211
hopefully they pack it with good stuff like exploration, worldy tutor, top, and the like
but they likely won't cuz they're faggots

>>54208211

There is three or four feline loving furries on the MtG development teams who are very persistent in getting cats made. Good cats too.

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>>54207061

Wait, even better: be a Fighter and select the Purple Dragon Knight but fluff it so that you're not actually a member of the PDKs, you just idolize them. Take the Noble background and the Knight variant.

Put your WORST SCORES in Wisdom, Strength, and Dexterity (wisdom MUST be worst) but your BEST scores in Intelligence and Charisma.

Fluff yourself as an old man who had actually never picked up a sword nor fought anyone in his life before, but rather lived a rather quiet life in Greenest...but read great books about the heroes of the Forgotten Realms from ages long past. The coming of the Cult to Greenest somehow at once broke your sanity and clarified it, and you conceived of the strangest project ever imagined: to become a knight-errant, to sally forth into the world in search of adventure! To write all wrongs, to mount a crusade, to raise up the weak and those in need!

No longer would you be plain Alonso Quijana, but a dauntless knight, known as...

DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osvdGAD0z5c

No, but seriously, it is my dream to one day play Don Quixote in a D&D game.

>>54207342
Whoa. On that note I think I just stumbled across an even better version of "I am I, Don Quixote" than any of the official versions.

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

Christ, Scott Bakula can sing.

Planning to go swashbuckler for the first 4 lvls then fiendlock dip for the next 4

What level should I retrain fiendish vigor?

>>54206127
THERE ARE OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE
> gets shot to hamburger meat
> cops sprinkle crack over my body
Well done boys

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>>54206127
YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!

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>>54206127
COME AND TRY IT OP!

>>54205054
Probably because you're autistic

>>54205265
Seriously though what's wrong with having explanations for these things?

>>54205383
Because it's magic.

Just like in every case, depends on the group.
If you and all of them including DM like it. It's probably gonna be comfy fun like nep, or pain and eternal despair like "made in abyss"
Have fun

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>>54202365
Is that a remake of this illustration?

>>54202365
Play game as "normal"
Add anime