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What are your favorite D&D monsters /5eg/?

[Reposted from the end of the last thread]

What's the least bullshitty way to have a powerful enemy take an item away from my players?

It's a plot item that allows them to open a portal to the source code of the plane they're on, and it has towers which support the structure of the main plane. Each tower culminates in a powerful weapon, but when they take it away, they damage the structure of the plane, and once they're all taken, the whole plane falls apart (and the "main" quest of the sandbox goes into the endgame).

So far they've done 1 tower and we stopped the session halfway through the next one, and there are five in total. Once they get back to the main plane after this one, I want a dragon (in human form) who guards the plane to take the item away, and prompt a questline where they have to track him down to get it back, but I don't want them to feel cheated out of the item mechanically.

Any ideas?

Have you played a Chaotic Evil character before?

>>54010908

Hell naw bro, you just suck dick.

>>54010908
What's it going to do on an empty board? -2 to plink your important T2 guys?

>>54008249
karma > life modules > sum-to-10 > 4e hacking > priority table

>>54008352
>I want to just min-max

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>>54008392
I just want to have options. If I wanted to minmax, I'd play 4e.

Plus pic related makes me mad; 5e AI only works with karmagen.

>>54007948
"Look dude I know you're my friend and all but quit acting like a fucking dumbass. We're here to have fun not be idiots."

Kicking a player for something that isn't really their fault.

It's happened a couple of times to me, and it doesn't get any easier. Playing in online groups where one player just doesn't gel with the rest of the party. How they play and what they enjoy just doesn't line up, and they're oblivious enough to not really be able to notice or actively fix it.

I feel bad, because they're not doing anything inherently wrong, it's just wrong in context and often they lack the self awareness to really realise that, which is why they often need to be sat down, talked to and told that the game would probably be better off without them.

Sometimes they hold a grudge, sometimes they don't. I've actually invited some back in future when the group composition and game premise is different in a way that I think suits their playstyle more, and I've had some pretty amazing successes with people who were once problem players. Context is really, really important for things like that.

>>54007948
Kicking a player for spotty attendance even though he was chill, enthusiastic, and played a character others generally got along with.

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>Has a game just not meshed well with you?

Demon. I just don't like this whole christian shtick.


Anyways i am continuing to plan my Masquerade chronic in cologne. What sessions do my fellow fa/tg/uys plan ?

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>>54001864
>Has a game just not meshed well with you?
Yeah, Mage games usually never sit well with me, whether they're the Awakening or the Ascension. The only game that I actually enjoyed was Dark Ages.

>>54001864
>Has a game just not meshed well with you?

I've played a couple campaigns of all the splats in CofD (except Beast because you know) and the ones I didn't enjoy were Vampire and Mummy. The rest have their own quirks and I appreciate them for what they are.

Vampire to me felt kind of tedious. I get up. I drink blood. We squabble. I go to bed.

And the 'ending' to every Mummy game I've played has always been disappointing.

To be honest I've never played anything from owod the scene just doesn't exist in my neck of the woods.

>>53996952
It's never going to be gnomes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf4U4UMGhLs

Gnome: annoying but nonlethalmischief and troublemaking
Goblin: theft, violence and murderous mischief

Gee, I wonder.

>>53996952
Smurfs

>>53989053
what was your deck

how'd you do against the enemy decks, and what were they playing

any great moments?

>>53989140
I went with blue/green control, focused on getting as much mana as possible and stalling until I could play one of my two copies of Sandwurm Convergence (along with some other big meaty cards like Scaled Behemoth, Lay Claim, Floodwaters, and Cryptic Serpent

I lost my first two sets 0-2, but won my third against a mono-red blitz deck 2-1. I lost the first game, but then won the next two due to him getting a flood of mana and spells instead of creatures.

Greatest moment was when I almost got both of my sandwurm convergences on the field.

>>53989265
I had a lot of cycling cards, so I could make sure i'd get a mana drop on almost every turn

>errs by making a thread before the bump limit
>compounds this by failing to name it correctly (it should be /hhg/ - Horus Heresy General, for future reference)
>doubly fucks his own reputation over forevermore by making a second neigh-identical thread and tells disgruntled anons to migrate over to that

Pls tell me you're Curzefag, I am loathe to believe there are two faggots of immense proportion on this tiny of a general.

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Centurion-Delegatus Plasma McPointyhand claims this fresh bread in the name of the IV Legion. Previous bread was suitably bitter.

Does anyone know if HH is going to be brought in line with 8th edition rules wise? I might start collecting it but, from what I've read, I'd rather play with the current rules opposed to an 8th ed HH.

>>53983912
it's T H I C C

That's your complementary Nurgle-aligned waifu

>>53983912
Bait.

>>53982544
I'd honestly love to see the option of player-controllable aircraft carriers, where, in space combat, some party members would control tiny fighters while others man systems of the carrier itself.

>>53982604

You could just play EVE at that point.

>>53982620
Tbh tabletop EVE sounds pretty rad.

>>53975593
I hope this comic continues and gets busy.

>>53975690
yes, very

>>53975690
what comic?

Continuing from the previous thread:
>>53963866
>Attacking Enemy Units on page 52
The only kind of damage mentioned here at all is the damage against heroes.

>look at the table on page 59
Only brings up the regular damage of a single unit.

It basically looks to me like a unit has the same number of hit points, and does the same amount of damage, regardless of how many actual creatures is in the unit: you could have ten ogres or hundred ogres and they'd do the exact same amount of damage and be able to withstand the exact same amount of punishment before all falling at the same time. Basically their actual numbers cease to matter entirely.

This can't possibly be what the truth of this is, but there's just so big walls of text here with no easy-to-read sum ups that I'm forced to ask here about it and probably make myself look like a complete moron in the process.

>>53965864
>What's your favorite OSR adventure that no one ever talks about?
I'm fond of Assault on the Tower of the Gibbelins, Fiend of the Spired City and The House of Rogat Demazien.

>>53966434
>Assault on the Tower of the Gibbelins
There's an adventure about Gibbelins? Does it go whole hog with them at the edge of the world, or does it just borrow their name or something?

Lets Iron out the basics of combat for the Velvet Book. For example, innitiative uses the child's (persona user's stats) but then how would a wild shadow, who functions like a persona, determine initiative?

>>53858563
Possibly by using a hit location that suggests quick thinking or movement?

to keep things simple, how about the GM makes one 10d10 for the whole group of monsters and the result is treated as the brains+outthink. If there are no pairs then monsters go last. if there is one pair then all shadows act once. If there are multiple pairs then the monsters can be divided amongst the sets and fight in that order.

example: three shadows show up, and now it is time for combat. Actions are declared by lowest brains+outthinking for the players, but the gm rolls 10d10, and gets 3x7 and 2x4 in the roll. The gm can now divide the shadows into two groups one group that uses the hight of a set for their brains + outthinking stat. So now the shadows are in two groups with a fake brains+outthink total of 7 and another with 4.

then actions are declared and rolled for.

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>>54020400
OP here.
I feel my character has adequate motivation to turn against the team (wants to win the approval of his long-lost but evil parents) but I don't want to ruin our campaign. Everyone in my group is pretty close friends but we're new to DnD so idk if people would ragequit or whatever.

Basically I want to do it because it would be fun for me, but not at the expense of my group's fun. Logistically it might be awkward because it would entail the DM doing my segments of each session as asides/intercut to the team's exploits. I talked to them and they're reasonably okay with it but again, I don't want to fuck everything up. Extra challenge because we're doing our sessions audio-visual because everyone's in a different state.

Thoughts?

>>54020400
AH FUCK I MEANT "HEEL-FACE TURN" GOD DAMN IT IS THREAD KILL?

>>54020468
Calm the fuck down, nigga. I'll answer you.

First for tau making people salty... again

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>>54019196
First for Faith and Fire!

NEW SISTERS WHEN?