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>>53569080

>>53569131
Imperial Guard: A true regiment, drilled and competent in their service.

Finaly a dint of professional guardsmanship, none of that scum-levying penal mess
or incompetent local militia bands, real guardsmen, real grit

Recruitment Criteria d100

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>>53569076
OP here

Here's one of my ideas

>The Cone of Uncertainty

In the middle of a room, there's a cone on a pedestal, protected by thick glass. It appears to be made of wood and painted bright green. It is around 40cm tall and the base has a diameter of about 20cm.

The only power this object has is that it confuses and fascinates people. Why is it here ? Why is it protected ? What is it ? What does it do ? Why would someone put it on a pedestal ?

The answers being : because the mages created it by mistake, because people would spend their lifes wondering about it if it was in the open, it's a cone made of wood, nothing in particular, because even trying to hide it never worked since the mages were so fascinated about it they had to put it were they could see it.

>>53569249
Another one for you

>The Sphinx

We all know the classic tale of the Sphinx that tells riddles and eat those who can't answer but this one has been there for so long and has met so many crazy mages that could answer his riddles that he doesn't have any ideas left.

So instead of telling the players riddles she will ask them to tell her riddles and if she can't answer, let them pass through.

>>53569258
And another one

>The Dice Room

Take a cubic room inhabited by weird flying creatures and have the PC fighting them... Except each time something looses hp in the room, gravity shifts to a random wall determined by assigning a number to each wall and throwing a D6.

Practice.
Plagiarism.

Little of column a, little of column b.
Fake it till you make it.

Steal plots and characters from things the players don't know about and change the names.

Then steal single features and archetypes your players don't know about, and change the names.

Then steal broad concepts and genre conciets, and change the names.

Then steal nothing at all. And change the names.

I take modules and adventure paths and change up encounters and NPCs until it looks decent because I'm goddawful at making overarching plots and basic encounter ideas but my players seem to enjoy my stupid NPCs for some reason.

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>>53568721

Also, to explain further, the stun penalty is entire the DM's invention and I feel like he borked the math on this because my character spends a lot of time in stuns. He told me the odds of the 1d6 being higher than the 1d8 are 12% but that doesn't seem right to me at all.

Is he fucking with me?

>>53567939
We're gonna add up all the safe combinations to derive the probability of a stun.

If you roll a 1 in the d6, you're safe, so that's 1/6
2[d6] has 7 safe options on the d8, so that's 7/48
3[d6] has 6 safe options, so 1/8
4[d6] has 5, so 5/48
5[d6] has 4, so 1/12
6[d6] has 3, so 1/16

1/16 + 1/12 + 5/48 + 1/8 + 7/48 + 1/6 = 0.6875 = ~69% chance of action succeeding

ergo, you're looking at a ~31% chance of being stunned each time you make the 1d6 1d8 check

>>53567880
Here are the odds, source is my statistics degree.

1/6 chance of a 0% chance of stun
1/6 chance for a 12.5% chance of stun
1/6 chance for a 25% chance of stun.
1/6 chance for a 37.5 percent chance of stun
1/6 chance for a 50% chance of stun
1/6 chance for a 62.5% chance of stun.

(Assuming that if you roll doubles there is no stun).
That averages out to a 31.25% chance of stun each round.

If you get stunned when rolling 2 of the same number, you actually have a 46.75% chance of stun.

Your GM is terrible at math.

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>>53567483
>Lameass D&D refluff.

Barbarian: Strong, simple sea-faring sort. Gets a little crazy when the cannons start firing but you can count on them to lift fallen timbers off your leg in a pinch and they're good to have at your side in a scuffle. Scary and intimidating when they want to be. Probably an outlaw, might just be uneducated and temperamental.

Bard: Always a niche for the musician. Drummer keeping the oars in sync, Fiddler keeping spirits high in calm waters, Warrior-Skald whose sea-chanties keep the Barbarians laughing in the middle of a boarding party or Dirgesinger whose siren-songs sink ships and keep the skeletons manning the sails.

Cleric: Priest at sea needs a reason to be there. Aquatic deity, adventurous doctrine, monetary wealth for commercial patrons, etc. Whether they worship the things in the depths or the sea and the skies or the money they travel for, faith will see you through many a stormy night if it's strong enough.

Druid: As Cleric, but much more likely to worship the sea, the sky, or the things in the water and the like. Might also be an exiled fire-focused druid charged never to return until he sets the seas ablaze. If you want to never be becalmed or plan on fishing as you go, grab a few of these. Might work really well as a Captain with an uncanny sense of the tides and reefs of the region.

Fighter: Anywhere you go, stuff needs fighting. Ship-guards, ship-raiders, monster-security, fish-people-discouragement, etc. More common on the docks than the ships themselves unless they favor a fighting style that fits well with the sea's circumstances.

Monk: Very Orderly Second-Mates can pull this off just fine. They run a tight ship because they live a strict life for themselves, but they'll hold the crew together like few others can. Lost their things overboard so many times that they've learned to make do with their bare hands in many cases.

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>>53567333
Continued

My thoughts for how the game might handle a fairy character.
Flying:a) play a wingless fairy and ignore unless cast fly spell
b) max fly height and fly endurance based on level/strength modifier. Suffer exhaustion if exceed endurance limit. at high lvl remove limits?
c) Cast 'Fly' on self as racial ability, needs short/long? rest to recharge
d) leaves behind a light trail when moving. disadvantage on moving stealth checks

Inventory: a)entrust other players/animal companions with loot, have a small carry weight
b) 1min fairy ritual to shrink any standard items to fit in bag, item must be able to be stored in a normal character bag

Equipment a) Have DM include tiny size items in loot-table
b)same as inventory. 1min ritual to shrink items, no fast looting
c)tiny sized items must be custom crafted by a npc/the pc
d)weapons/magic? have reduced damage, but improve accuracy

I like pixies but I cannot stand halflings and warcraftesque gnomes.

Yeah, here's what you do: don't. If you want to be tiny, pick a small race and flavour it as a tiny one that is mechanically exactly the same as the small race you chose. Do anything else and it will fall apart.

Hey Faglord, where's the question?

Chris Perkins has said structurally the next adventure we're getting is like Curse of Strahd (in his interview on Encounter Roleplay).

He's also said there'll be a unique t-rex in the adventure. That the main villain will be unsympathetic but it's underlings will be multidimensional and multifaceted characters.

>>53567121
Sounds cool. Curse of Strahd was great and so are Tyrannosaurs.

Gonna need more details than that if you're gonna get fa/tg/uys to analyze.

>>53567003
You should play a better system
>boom snarky comment

Whats a better super system. Hero system m&m etc.? Trying for a low powered campaign.

AKA "MTG Gore Thread"

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Here's an average MTG alter

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sure

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i just try and be as cheesy as possible when it comes to character names

For something in the real world or based on a real world culture, I look up national sports teams.

For fantasy stuff, I'll pick a relevant culture to warp something from, or just go full fantasy ridiculous. Or sometimes choose a thematically appropriate word for the character and warp it into something that sounds like a name.

Lots of fantasy and even sci-fi settings use nicknames as surnames. I.e., stuff like "Blackmane, Hellscream, Brightblade, Brightflame," etc. So my surnames are [adjective][noun]. Given names are based on what culture I think the character's race is related to.

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>>53565920
bump

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>>53565920
Tangentially related, but I kind of liked how the original Space Jockey seemed to be some kind of biomechanical organism that was fused to its control station. I thought that made for some interesting possibilities on how their species developed and functioned.

If they had to expand on this setting, it might've been interesting for some human explorers to come across a large orbital structure or moon where we could see more of these things either fused to more control stations or silently stalking around and cultivating xeno eggs. There wouldn't even have to be a lot of monsters or jump scares, just humans walking around vast dark halls and tunnels and the Jockeys obliviously doing things beyond our logic for reasons we'll never fully understand. What was their relationship with the xenomorphs? Did they create them to be weapons or tools or were they an experimental life form? Or maybe something else entirely that has no human analogue?

For me, the way Ridley Scott made it so the Jockeys turned out to be "engineers" who looked more like humans instead of giant elephant-like creatures, and even created humans while David was able to decipher their language, fly their ships and even replicate their xenomorph experiments all felt a little too convenient and lacked a lot of the mystery of the original movie. Where before we were just a minor species that happened to stumble by freak accident on something we shouldn't have, now we're suddenly the star creation of the Space Jockeys/engineers who'd actually been looking for us with very clear but asinine and not particularly interesting or compelling motivations.

Does anyone else feel this way? I understand Ridley wanted to come back to this universe and explore it, but I feel like there was a way to do it without making the everything seem so small and limited and intentional. There's a way to leave audiences with questions without making them frustrated that they didn't get any answers.

>>53565976
Yeah scott ruined the franchise

IIRC in most editions of D&D, you have to eat a pound of food a day or suffer penalties. That's usually not a problem, as food can be obtained easily.

In campaign settings like Dark Sun or the old Fantasy Flight one Midnight, where food is treated as a currency and thus literally treasured, it becomes much more important to keep track of.

>>53565909
If you want to go all the way then make it so not eating certain foods can make you sick over time. Not enough Vitamin C, Vitamin A, fiber, carbohydrates, etc can lead to bad health.

>>53565909
Keep track of rations and apply penalties for starvation
Eating rotting or poorly handled food carries a penalty
Food is expensive enough / PC's are poor enough that a substantial chunk of PC wealth go's to paying for food
High quality food comes with mechanical benefits

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Oh fuck my the emperor have mercy on our souls

>>53565255
No, they are the locusts.

>>53565255
How does a individual consciousness and temporary semi-sentient tactical programs translate to any human ideology?

>>53565255
...i don't think you know what Communism is, anon.