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How about not fucking up everything by being a shitty father?

He gave his life so you would be a slave to chaos and darkness.

>>53082817
How about not having your sons scattered trough the galaxy and having them brought up in extremely diffrent cultures thus creating friction between said sons?

>>53077980
Just from the Family Standpoint, isn't it adorable?

>>53077980
Naaaaah.

>>53077980
It's pretty impressive how much worse the second picture looks.

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>>53064142
What are you playing?

What are you brewing?

What are you hating?

What is a spicy sideboard card in your deck?

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Why are there hedrons in Amonkhet?

>>53064227
skred

something with vehicles

gifts storm (i have an easier time as skred vs ad naus if i pithing needle lightning storm and hold up 4+ instant speed removal for a sideboarded lab man)

Insult // injury

Critics are fine, but do it before the session picks up speed or after it's done, don't fuck up the pacing if it's not necessary.

Be polite (ie. don't be a dick) when criticising and explain yourself at length. People can't improve if you don't tell them, but just saying it's shit won't be good for anyone.

>>53101325


I think politely asking is usually fine. "Hey, last time you mentioned she had green eyes but you just said they're brown, is that.. deliberate or..." etc. If he fucked up he'll probably just say so.

It's sometimes hard, though. My DM had us go back to my hometown and meet a girl from my backstory, and she acted like an insane whore. She was a sensible, respectable young woman in my backstory who happened to have a child out of wedlock. I want to ask the DM.. is she acting weird because something is going on? But.. that's basically saying "you suck at RPing this character and didn't pay attention to my shit." I don't think he's doing it 'on purpose' and actually just thought that's how she is, and it doesn't matter much so.. I just let it go. Still, super weird.


However, years ago when I ran a game for my friends who had played a lot of D&D I had a 'dmpc' and deliberately used their assumption that an npc like that would be Word of God to lead them off course and deceive them. He was actually one of the bad guys in disguise, and they were meant to notice a lot of things like the way he acted, certain lies, etc. But they never ever caught on or questioned anything. I would have him straight up contradict himself and they wouldn't care because they were looking at their phones. One of them convinced one of the other bad guys to be on their side without fully informing the party what he was up to, then they told 'dmpc' about it and, wanting her dead, he told them she was tricking the PC and that they should kill her. The party agreed. Campaign ended before they got to it because I just didn't want this ooc party conflict or their shittiness anymore.

>>53101325

The golden rule- Wait until after the session.

If you notice something or want to mention it, bring it up Once. If the GM doesn't want to deal with it now, wait until later.

As always, try and make criticism positive. Assuming your GM isn't an arrogant asshole, they'll likely care about what you think and appreciate useful advice or tips for improving the game experience for everyone involved.

However, it's also important to remember that GMing can very much be a style thing. What you think of as wrong might be their preferred way of doing it, and sometimes a degree of compromise is necessary.

AND HOW THE FUCK DOES KING CRIMSON WORK!?

>>53099496
That's a thing. I think they are called Sensei. The Emperor actually has literal children.
Unfortunately, because they aren't exactly normal, a lot of them got hunted down and murdered, to the point that there are only a few, if any left in the setting as it is now.
The Primarch's likely can't, because they are space marines with all that entails, but who knows?

>>53099496
Why should one have sex when you can kill the enemies of the imperium

>>53099066
Crossbows. Pikes operated by 2-3 children.

Grenade. It's sort of one-use setup but gets the work done.

Submachine guns, crew served weapons, command-detonated mines, grenades, and IEDs.

>>53098606
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying is actually structured around this sort of benign railroading: with its Act system, the GM is supposed to outline possible actions and story paths for them and negotiate how the emergent details play into prepared scenes and segments. Also, player characters have their characterizations and character arcs prewritten as their specific milestones.

It's a good system, but it really is designed to play out very specific and structured stories. If you're the type of GM to normally overprepare for other systems, you'd get a *lot* out of it.

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>>53098606
Railroading is fine so long as you throw one of these in every so often

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>>53098606
But it's not what my character would do.

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>>53098176
Rest of playbook

Do you like rules light, narrative heavy stuff? If so, you'll probably like Masks and most other PbtA games depending on genre preference.

Personally they lack a certain amount of mechanical weight to keep me interested for long, but I respect the elegance of their design and enjoy them well enough for one shots or short campaigns between meatier games.

>>53098176
Anybody have the playtest materials for it? Can't seem to find them in the pdf share thread

Write Lawful Evil character, have them occasionally do something pointless and petty.

the important thing to understand about chaotic evil is that it's classically written as stupid evil. the goblins that mindlessly attack villages despite getting stomped by any starter party is pretty stupid.
if you want your chaotic evil to be 'good', it's as simple as having them understand their limits and acting within them, viciously. if they know they can get away with something with no repercussions and it benefits them, they're going to do it.

Raoh

I cant find any reason why.
Id estimate $40 of it is for the name.

Depends, what's $1 worth to you?
How much effort does it take you to acquire it?
What else you could exchange it for?

apparently there will be expansions released for it. also its very grindy just like the real game. idk tg

>>53097788
>Soft sci-fi.
>Another galaxy.
Pretty sure that makes it hard sci-fi by default.
Like any setting where inter-stellar travel is possible makes it hard sci-fi.

Soft sci-fi would be something that's more like "twenty minutes into the future", like changes in agriculture mean that food can be grown anywhere and soil can be made fertile through a chemical injected into the soil, etc.
Making technology that seems very fantastical into a mundane triviality.
Especially where aliens are involved.

>>53098196
Hard sci-fi generally means that the laws of nature apply as we know them now, so interplanetary travel takes days or weeks and interstellar travel takes decades or centuries.

>>53097788

FTL is impossible.

Pathfinder, the game that succeeded because 4e was bad, but is dying because 5e is good...

Sigh.

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>>53097695
What are your evil queens like?

>>53097728

Thank god.

As bad as bounded accuracy is, 5e is a better, cleaner game.

Machavellian, full to the brim with cunning, easily represented by giving him 2-3 other languages he speaks fluently.

His people fight dirty like the vietkong, has a die-hard cadre of well-drilled disciples who move through underbrush quietly laying simple but effective traps, blowdarts and shortbows with poisoned projectiles.

The threat he provides is never going to be physical, so make it much much worse than that.

>>53097488
Just make it a big-bold. Whenever I run kobolds I fluff them as being the product of unfertilized dragon eggs. They, in turn, have a chance to give birth to larger dragonoids, who can in turn eventually give birth to lesser dragons etc. The first step is basically just a dragonborn.

If you dont want to go that far, you could make them have some kind of demon-god-idol that a shaman can channel to make himself into a motherfucker.

>>53097562
this sounds very much in tune with what I was trying to get. One thing I had considered was making him more or less addicted to potions of Fox's Cunning (+ intelligence), so he becomes a better tactician or even give him a few wizard levels.

Thoughts?

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>>53097277
I tend to make my Fae based after folk lore.
I suggest listening to these episodes of The Lore podcast.

http://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes/11
http://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes/14

I think people are fascinated with things we don't understand.

For me, Fae are not only things, it is a place. A place made up of the threads and laws that holds our universe together.

Its what keeps space turning and holds our feet to the ground. But it also life also comes from it. Humans and animals, but sometimes something nor alive nor dead crawls out of it. sometimes that thing will look fairly human and other times it is an unfathomable monstrosity.

>>53097277
>hot fey
>not eldritch abominations that steal your children and play tricks on you

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>>53098403
You, I like.