What is a way in which I could create this kind of experience in a story - playing gods trying to guide and protect a hero on a quest and interjecting new challenges - without having anyone play the hero or the hero's party directly?
Everyone is Odysseus
This would be an ideal situation for Maid.
>>53375110
every challenge is opposing god's chess move.
What is a good system for a game of kids solving mysteries like Gravity Falls and similar stuff?
come on
Please
Bubblegumshoe springs to mind as an option
My Orks can't be this cute edition.
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>>53368052
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Who's the best recaster of FW shit while still have high quality/decent prices.
Fingers crossed for Orks tomorrow!
Fourth for Tyranids are a turn 1 guaranteed assault rapetrain in nu-edition
Is being part of a cult or magical conspiracy something to be proud of? Are these the expressions you should be making while placing your hands on a magical orb?
He's just making all the best deals with Isengard, anon.
>>53374701
Hey, I remember when you made this thread yesterday!
That was great.
>>53375718
>everyone on /tg/ is the same person
Alas, fair shitposter, some of us are no longer young enough to spend the whole day and night here.
EDH/Commander General
Missed trigger edition.
>Commander 2017
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-commander-2017-edition-2017-04-18
>MTGO Banlist Latest Update
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>Latest Commander Ban Announcement
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RESOURCES
>Official Site: Contains deck building rules and the current ban list.
http://www.mtgcommander.net
>Deck List Site: You can search for decks that other people have made. Authors often have comments that explain their deck’s strategy and card choices.
http://www.tappedout.net
>Another resource for commander discussion; they have an entire forum dedicated to discussing decks. People often make primers, which go into detail about how they built and play their deck.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh
>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the the internet.
http://www.edhrec.com/
>Find out what lands you can add to your deck, sorted by category, based on a chosen Commander’s color identity.
http://manabasecrafter.com/
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CARD SEARCHING
>Official search site. Current for all sets.
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>Thread Question:
What's the worst card you've ever seriously put in a deck?
>What's the worst card you've ever seriously put in a deck?
pic related, fucking awful but wins the game with Repercussion in play
Here is my Xmage Kagemaro build for the anon who requested him
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>>53373008
>>53374206feels bad man
>>53374206
>What's the worst card you've ever seriously put in a deck?
I have no idea why I bought this card
started playing 2 years ago (jumped right into edh) and thought this was bonkers
Hones Question: Why do so many people dislike/outright hate D&D and Pathfinder?
I'm definitely not the most experienced roleplayer. In my former group, we had a Shadowrun campaign going for a good year, then a couple of FATE one shots, and a good 3 months of Pathfinder before our gm had to move to another town. Entering Pathfinder with this background, i had a lot of fun with it, and our gm said that it's relatively comparable to D&D.
Posts that start out with "Honest Question" never are honest questions.
There are legitimate reasons to prefer other games over the D&D milieu, but the most outspoken hate comes from people who just hate things that are popular.
>>53374173
>most outspoken hate comes from people who just hate things that are popular.
So true.
Like Critical Role.
"The GM should have a good understanding of how his traps work mechanically (unless they're magical)." Do you agree with this statement?
>>53373805
Basic understanding, and even of magical traps.
>>53373805
Yes. Otherwise, the players will get mad when they can't engineer their way out of it.
>>53373855
How do you understand how a magical trap works?
In a survival horror setting, what are some essentials I should carry?
Keep in mind weight please.
A fresh set of socks
A dragon dildo
And one unit of bogroll
A gun
Uhh
A shotgun and a gas can.
Things go to crap drop the gas can and shoot it.
Can take down anything less of pyramid head.
Other than that, what kind of monsters are you fighting?
Small hordes or powerful monsters?
How do you flesh out your player character's personality?
>>53373680
Answer the following questions about your character:
>Where does your character live? Who else lives there?
>Where is the character from originally? If this is a different place, why did he/she leave?
>What kind of family did he/she come from?
>What does your character do for a living?
>What would he/she PREFER to do for a living?
>How much schooling has he/she had?
>How smart is he/she?
>Who does your character love? What is his/her strongest attachments?
>What does your character care about?
>Who is he/she in love with? If this was in the past, what happened?
>What has disappointed your character?
>What is he/she proud of?
>What is his/her biggest vice?
>What is he/she insecure about?
>What is your character's biggest shame?
>How do other people see this person?
>What does your character smell like?
>What makes your character happiest?
>What does he/she dream about?
>What is your character's earliest memory?
>Does your character enjoy thinking about his/her life, or are they trying to forget?
>Is your character nostalgic for something? What?
>Is your character waiting for something? What?
These questions are paraphrased from writer Audrey Niffenegger, and can apply to TTRPGs as much as they do actual fiction writing. The more you answer, the better idea you'll have of the character's personality and history.
>>53373680
During game play, because it never turns out like you autisticly wrote down beforehand.
Look at various forms of personality type charts, like Zodiac signs, blood types or MBTI. Even if you feel like they're just superstitious bullshit, they usually provide various archetypes for you to choose from. Listening to music might also give you inspiration, especially if you listen to the lyrics.
If you're looking for more specific personality quirks, my experience has taught me that you can't really force those well. They'll just come naturally as you write more of the character (or in case of RPGs, play them more).
That or just google some "100 questions about your RPG character" thing, that will force you to come up with a backstory to answer all questions.
What kind of aesthetic do you love in your settings? For me it has to be Japanese/Far East. Shit really gets me.
What about the rest of you fa/tg/uys? What aesthetics do you dig?
I like Far East/SEA, but I don't like anime.
not!Egypt, and anything northern-Native American
>>53373681
>I don't like anime
why is anime/"""weebshit""" so tied to a Far East aesthetic? oh right, maybe its because ITS FROM JAPAN, IN THE FAR EAST
Posts present interesting (preferably system-neutral) dilemmas. Responses present possible resolutions with reasoning.
>>53373598
Evil (Not chaotic retarded) PC in a party of obviously good people
Eg ; Evil Wizard , Good Fighter , Good Wizard etc etc
>>53373598
Interesting idea. I'll give it a shot.
You are GMing a campaign and one player seems to always have a trick up his sleeve to get out of the situation you have the players in without much trouble. You've double-checked the rules and determined that he isn't breaking any of them nor ignoring any restrictions. He just really knows the system, better than you do in fact. Most of the other players are content to let him play his min-maxed character and do what he does. However, a lot of his actions have thrown a wrench into your ideas about the general direction the campaign is going in. What do you do?
>>53373667
How is that a dilemma?
>>53373691
You adapt.
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>>53366544
Whats the best way to stat out a war wagon full of orcs to fight my party? My party will be on foot and I'm thinking there will be about 6 orks in the wagon with bows and swords shooting out. The wagon will be powered by goblins turning the wheels or will be pulled by some boars.
Do I just stat the orks inside or should I stat out the war wagon as one entity?
I couldn't find anything on enemies fighting from carriages
>tfw mystic bitchslapping cunts 50 feet away from me when they try to step to me trying to start a tavern brawl
>>53373501
If at any point they're gonna get out of the war-wagon, stat them each.
If they're just gonna fight in it and you're gonna have it blow up when it's defeated, just stat the wagon.
So I've been looking through my Pathfinder books for an artifact (major or minor, I don't care which at this point) to give to a 1st level party that would kick-off an adventure. The problem is finding the right one that will meet the following criteria:
1: needs to be something inherently interesting enough to build an adventure around.
2: something that while inherently useful is not so OP for their APL that it instantly TPK's the party or completely breaks the gameI don't want their every solution to be "use the artifact" but at the same time it needs to be useful enough that they want to hold onto it.
Any suggestions?and "Don't play Pathfinder" is not a valid suggestion
>>53372956
make up your own goddamn fucking artifact jesus christ how bad are you leave and don't come back don't ever GM a game again
>>53372956
Stop playing RPGs. They're clearly not for you.
Just make a magic weapon of some sort and make it plot relevant.
Good morning and welcome back!
if you have celestial kirin and kami of the painted road on the board and you play a torii watchward can you give the kami protection from white so that it doesn't explode?
what about protection from creatures?
if i have celestial kirin in play with a 3cmc creature and i play bestow an eidolon of countless battles onto the kirin that doesn't trigger the kirin ability right? when you bestow the eidolon it doesn't count as a spirit? and it wouldn't trigger if that creature died and the eidolon falls off because it doesn't count as being played?
>>53373417
Jein. You CAN give your Kami protection from white; both the Kirin and the Kami are your permanents, which means you control their triggers. Since both triggers are wanting to go onto the stack at the same time, you can stack them as you like, having Kami's trigger resolve first to give pro-white, THEN Kirin's trigger resolve.
This will not save your Kami, because protection does not stop global destruction events. Protection stops DEBT: Damage, Enchant/Equip, Block, Target. Celestial Kirin is not attempting to do any of those things to the Kami, so Protection won't save it.
Bestowing won't trigger the Kirin. Bestow makes it into a noncreature spell, which means it can't have creature subtypes (since it's not also Tribal). It won't trigger Kirin when it converts from an Aura to a dude, for the reason you said- you didn't cast anything. It just changed what it looks like.
>>53373472
damn. that makes things more complicated. thanks.
What if Elves were more like ants?
What if Elves were more like mushrooms?
>>53372102
>>53372127
In both cases they'd be Ents
>>53372137
Talislanta has bugs that make little bows.