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>>53351138

Add an explosion.

>>53351138
Yeah, they needed to make it a 45 minute long special with a quarter of the running time dedicated to the war on Aku, and another quarter dedicated to Jack's biggest fight ever.

>>53351138
>>>>/co/

good.

>>53350312
Prepare for them to be extra forgotten when the Primaris Exterminators and vehicles start hitting.

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>>53350312
You're forgetting the worst one of them all

>>53350194
But I don't want it to be mainstream. I mean, it is about as mainstream as a tabletop wargame can get outside of XWing, seeing as the sci-fi section at said Barnes and Noble is composed of several hundred Horus Heresy novels.

X-Wing is pre-painted and ready to play for normies who don't want to get engulfed by a deeply autistic hobby. It's more like a board game.

Warhammer 40k is a Rolls-Royce-costing luxury game that requires actual time commitment and willingness to learn the skills of modelling and painting that take months and years to become proficient and then skilled. All the shit you have to know to even make a squad of a troop choice, from buying a bunch of paints and tools to learning techniques and the why behind paint lore and loadouts, takes actual time. There's no way in hell such a thing is going to sell in masses at a book store. Dealing with GW and hawking their rack of shit is really only possible for niche places like FLGS who cater to serious collectors/hobbyists. Plus there's are no tables at B&N to play, which is another mega downside to buying there.

The only way to sell 40k at a normal store is to make it like X-Wing, which means changing it into an entirely different game/hobby.

>>53350194
Make it remotely affordable to anyone who isn't already playing it anyway. There is no good way to onboard new players which is why the playerbase has stagnated for a decade.

Other than that have rules that aren't absolute trash which create lop sided and totally pre-determined games (lol knights). Something they never quite achieved, but late fifth was probably the closest they managed.

>>53349233
Over-complication is bad. It's often related to realism; but it's not the same thing.

>>53349233
always, in both vidya and tabletop having too much realism can make a game too tedious, boring or frustrating to play if you aren't careful with it.

conversely too little realism can sometimes lead to a game feeling cartoony, simplified or just strange if it goes too far in the opposite direction.

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>>53349233
>Realism

>>53348920
capture and escape scenarios at low levels

Ressurection by the BBEG/other high powered forces with geas-type scenarios at higher levels

For those PCs for whom being captured/bound does nothing, better to have them overly secured like having all 4 limbs chained up, gagged and mind-drugged to prevent purely mental action

>>53348920
>Archery is Balanced.jpg
It is now motherfucker http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2t1a6&page=3?Does-ammunition-fired-from-a-magical#130

Based paizo putting those filthy martials in their place

>>53348920
I give my players a 1-a-game saving grace if the circumstances would theoretically permit them to live a situation where they would normally die, such as the situation in a game not too long ago where a player was about to die to a bunch of Rogues but their healer was there to technically heal him mid-stabbing so he didn't totally die from his injuries.

If the healer wasn't there he would have been super dead.

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>>53348683

>>53348683
You really, really have to give us more than that if you want advice. What system? Party? What's the campaign premise? Is there something in particular you're having trouble with? Etc.

>>53348683
Do a session zero first.

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>>53347771
Go nuts.

>>53347839
I said I dunno, anon. The exact mechanics were never detailed in the story. Use your imagination and wank responsibly.
>>53347841
Sure.

>>53347877
Discounted.

Rolled 351 (1d816)

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Where did you find your faith, if you have any? Where do you place it?

>>53348004
I fucking hate roleplaying

>>53348017
Fair enough mate that's cool too

>>53348004

Surprise me by playing against stereotypes, but not against estabilished characters.

Creating the setting as a group, and everybody partecipates.

Trying new games hard and fair.

Sticking to what the game is about.

Which CYOAs make you feel sad or melancholic, somewhat wistful maybe?

>>53348008
your own life

>>53348008
All of them because they're not real.

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>>53347817
What chapter?
I'd like Primaris Iron Hands

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>>53347817
From big daddy Belisarius

>>53347817
Every Chapter is getting Primaris.

>>53347392
Here's your "ugh".

>>53347392
Make it a lich's phylactery
It becomes a golem when threatened

>>53347392
Put googly eyes on top of it.

Also, Ugh.

>>53347371
Cumulative Draw 2 and Draw 4, as in, you throw a Draw 2 at someone, and if they have a Draw 2, they can throw it down and the next in line either has to lay a Draw 2 or else draw 4. This keeps adding up until someone can't throw a Draw 2.

There is no real strategy. It's pretty random. And I don't really have house rules. This shit is gonna be deader than chess threads. We need a "games nobody else but the biggest fucking spergs care about" thread. Because a lot of games get drowned out in 40k, ttrpg, and magic threads.

>>53347371
My family has a house rule where if you have the exact matching card you can lay that card down out of turn. The play goes on as if you had skipped everyone else's turn. This speeds up play because if you aren't laying cards fast there's a good chance you'll get skipped.

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Only the most terrifying.

>>53347179
I like your enthusiasm but I still need my players to sleep at night. I need something more animistic, less horror movie

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>>53347111
You gotta work up to it.

First he has to become an irritation to the party.

Status. Beat the best and you become known as the best. Let them leverage a new found reputation for fun and profit. Intimidate people who'd otherwise fight the party, get contracts they'd have been passed over for, kid's asking for autographs and wannabe groupies throwing Lacey undergarments at them.

He insults then and offers a duel to restore their honor.

He forces the party to insult him (some sort of local rude action or hospitality, or just bumping into them and spilling his drink) and demands a duel to restore his honor.

He hosts a fighting tournament before revealing himself as the current champion.

He duels every other member of a PC's family and defeats them, robbing the family of wealth, then stakes it all on a duel offered to the PC.

He buys the next bridge the party is going to cross and refuses to let them pass without a duel.

He steals all the party's footwear while they sleep and will only return it if they face him barefoot on the naked earth of the dueling ring.

He steals all the party's clothing while they sleep and will only return it if they face him naked on the naked earth of the dueling ring.

He steals the party's next macguffin and stakes it on the outcome of a duel.

He steps in for the next person the party has legal trouble with, offering to duel one of them to decide the case.

He hires a witch to give one of the PCs horrific nightmares each and every night which can only be resolved (this is stated in the dream) by dueling him.

He pretends to know the whereabouts of one of the PCs lost loves/relatives and offers to tell them if they duel him.

Etc etc etc.

>>53347000
I've been repressing my urge to tell OP that he is a faggot.

That could haunt me, so I'll just voice it now.

>playing Unknown Armies

they'd either weaponise it, get charges out of it, or somehow prove "too spicy" for the place to handle.

In fact, I'm pretty sure the epidromancer of the party wouldn't even notice anything was amiss.

>>53347000
Why is it always Silent Hill 2's "your character's psychological issues" thing