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To do India in fantasy justice, you need to make it the spotlight of the setting. If not, it will just a really shallow exotic place far away with lots of monkey-people and elephants.

>>55323999
Would they worship Minotaurs?

Well I have multiple hellish planes. That seems close enough

>>55322214
>I think we can all agree
eeeehhh probably not. But, to work with your idea, its more that individual player power level accomplishment rather than household building accomplishment started becoming the focus around 2nd edition. Being a confluence of a shift in fantasy literature and adventure module design away from material aquisition in the more pulpy od&d and appendix N material. 3rd and 3.5 just made it more mechanically streamlined towards character building and demonstrating those builds on a tactical grid.

Not sure if it counts as going wrong. Defs a different play style that I'm not as interested in though. Dungeons and Dragons adventuring has had selfish power fantasy as a big part of its core, they're just expressed differently and are representative of different demographics over time.

Would have to agree somewhat.

Now, I've not played a campaign following good=xp but I've listened to one where they did, and it's a much more organic experience. Characters are not just...the game is not simply about rolling your damage die at that point. I personally, don't enjoy needing to fight more monsters in order to unlock a much needed ability. That's all leveling up feels like, getting the ability or spell that will make me useful. Which sort of feels empty in a way.

>>55322214
>I think we can all agree that 3.5 is garbage.
No, we can't. It's by far the best edition.

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Cooking shows for the BBEG.

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>>55286953
Ahem.
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Good Eats.

>>55286953
Cooking with Fireballs (and Unruly Minions)

>>55286902
What kind of genre/tone are you looking for?

>>55286902
Try Apocalypse World, if you like that then you can start to look at all the other games using the same engine to find one in a genre you like

>>55287015
preferably sci fi but low fantasy works as well. or any sort of fantasy for that matter.

Source?

On this scale there was a natural tendency to focus on the big 'hand-made' war machines the Squat artisans produced, and this created an army with a feel that was very different to the biker hordes in 40K. However, this tended to reinforce the problems we saw in the Squat background rather than alleviate them, underlining what we *should* have done with the Squats in 40K.
In the end (and it took years to really get to the roots of the problem) this led to a realisation that we were going to have to drop the Squats in their 'Squat' form from the 40K background. There was little point having a major race that we weren't willing to make an army book for, and their inclusion in the background meant that people kept asking us when we'd do a Squat Codex. Instead we decided that we'd write the Squats out of the background by saying that their Homeworlds had been devoured by a Tyranid Hivefleet. This would give us the option in the future to return to making a race based on the Squat archetype for 40K. This race was given the name of Demiurg, and a certain amount of preliminary work was done to get a 'feel' for what the race would be like. At present the only hint of the Demiurg in 40K is the Demiurg spaceship for BFG. However, we do have this race 'in our back pocket' as a possible new race for 40K, or an interesting character model in Inquisitor, or whatever. So far the Demiurg have lost out to other projects, and it may be that their time never actually comes, as they will have to win through on their merits, not simply because we once made some Squat models in the past. At present, I have to say that it is more likely that they *don't* make the cut than do, as there is a certain prejudice these days to simply taking races from Warhammer and cross them over to 40K like we did in the early days, so it may be that the Squats/Demiurg end up remaining a footnote in the history of the 40K galaxy. Only time will tell...

I'll finish off by saying that whatever we decide to do 'officially', there is nothing stopping players with Squat armies from using them, either in Epic or 40k for that matter. There is no GW 'rule' against using old Citadel Miniatures, as long as you use them with existing army lists and in a way that won't cause confusion for other players. I recommend taking a positive stand by saying "Have you seen these cool old models? They're called the Squats and GW used to make them back in the late eighties/early nineties. I love 'em, so I count them as Imperial Guard and use them with the current rules..." Put like this I can't imagine that anyone would stop you from using your army.
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Jervis Johnson
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Rolled 23 (1d100)

I used to play FASERIP a lot. Can't say I remember every rule by heart, but I should be able to look stuff up easy.

Rolled 50, 39, 40, 60, 39, 49, 93 = 370 (7d100)

>>55286660
Origin: Altered Human

I'm still a bit iffy on powers. I get that they have ranks, but are there any hard limits beyond "try this with power, look at chart?" I'm still learning the system.

Rolling for FASERIP

>>55286678
F: Excellent
A: Good
S: Good
E: Excellent
R: Good
I: Excellent
P: Incredible

Our altered human is well above normal human standards in both its physical and mental capacities, and its Psyche is firmly in superhuman territory. As a Human character, we can choose to raise one of our abilities by one rank.

>>55321192
It's actually an antenna so he can contact the chaos gods and call them faggots whole purging loyalists.

Hair squig.

>>55321192
Maybe it's because I haven't actually played 40K in a long ass time, but what the actually fuck is the piece of shit artwork? Is Games Workshop taking cues from Wizards?

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First for Tau!

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1st for we are the night!

Repostan:

Leaks of the 9 new datasheets from Codex DG:

Mortarion
Foulstench Flatullent (Back canister guy)
Toxicspew Injectocary (Apothecary)
Festulent Reckoner (Tallyman)
Plaguecrawler Pusmortar (Tank)
Plaguecrawler Gutslimer (Alt build for tank)
Malaisereaper Deathshrouds (Terminators)
Festermaggot Deathshrouds (alt build for Terminators)
Slimegarden Plaguesower (40k version of snail man)

>>55321048
No. Necromancy is forbidden.

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>>55319094
Generally yeah, but I'd take it on a case by case basis. Which Dark Power are you thinking of playing?

>>55321048
You're technically not even allowed to have magic items according to the king. His soldiers are.

I'm too busy being a pirate to care about what he says.

>>55319944
> Fatal
Oh wait, you didn't ask for headache inducing nonsense. My bad.

FATAL

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>>55319944
I would guess any RPG you want that you like, and a perverted mind and a bunch of perverts to play with.

Alternativly GURPS, as EROTIC ARTS is a skill and if you ad (SEX) behind a number of the existing skills their meaning changes dramatically. Like Forced Entrance.

Y'know I've noticed we never actually inspect our equipment, we just start shooting at each other or getting high. Weird, huh?

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>>55318987
I AM HERE, I WILL NOT DESTORY THE BASE THIS TIME

>>55318987
VERY GOOD MAJO- I MEAN LT. COLONEL
MEN, LOOK UPON MATTHIAS AN AN EXAMPLE OF HOW QUICKLY ANY ONE OF YOU CAN ASCEND THE RANKS!

ALLRIGHT THEN, LETS GO!
>Michael would begin wandering off into the hulk with his two bodyguards

Necrons want to conquer and enslave the galaxy because they're selfish, arrogant, warmongering assholes. They should be equal with the Imperium.

Dark Eldar should be closer to the center, as other than the Haemonculi Covens they're largely motivated by self-preservation, and are slowly rejoining the Craftworlders in kicking the shit out of Chaos.

Orks aren't evil they're just misunderstood football players

Imperium < xenos

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Also how would Space mining work with relatively simple space tech?

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So, Star mercs, Yay or nay?

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And how do you like your Space armies? Full of combined arms with mechs, tanks, power armors or simply a fuckton of dull, boring drones?

The problem with "skill trees" is usually that their purpose is to create a modicum of balance at the expense of freedom of choice. This is more useful for a computer game than it is for a role playing game, because it is very very hard to do well, and the potential pay off to do it that way instead of relieing on the individual gaming group solving these problems as they come up is small. Often you even end up confusing the players - in the end the rules are there to support the game and not the other way around - and they end up trying to satisfy the rules instead of satisfying the plot.

You bring up WHFRPG 2e as the example of it being done well (and I agree), but remember: the game pretty much said, you can drop out of the tree and enter it somewhere else for a very small penalty. The game generally out of its way to say: "Here's cool non-static tree rules, and here's how you bend them if they're still in the way."

>>55285303
Most computer role playing games don't use the skill tree style progress that is popular in computer role playing games. Even the image you posted is from a game that has clearly defined classes with different advancement and starting positions on the shared tree. Each class also has it's own personal sub-tree it can only access, which when filled left minimal room for choice. They also bind character race and gender to the class choice with no aesthetic character customization.

Another way of looking at it is that many table top role playing games do offer skill trees but they don't explicitly draw it out. Dungeons and dragons has used profiencies, feats, ability scores, class features, alternative class features, and spells as nodes on the skill tree. Taking the node of high dex with allow you to take the node for dodge which connects to node for mobility, then spring attack and whirlwind attack. Now if you combine that with other tree nodes of skill ranks in certain skills you open up the subtree of prestige classes like weapon master.

It's fairly simple to remove classes from those games and map them out as trees instead while still preserving all the mechanics.

I've seen systems that use skill trees.

They essentially require you to either memorize the location of every option and plan your build far in advance, or to just pick randomly.