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>>53072484
What's your security clearance, citizen?

>>53072625
infa red sir!

>>53073095
This is a BLUE clearance area, citizen.

Normally I'd report you for treason, but you don't seem to be up to anything.

Here, this is a temporary permit and a bom- free can of Bouncy Bubbly Beverage. Head down that corridor, take two lefts in a row, and take a seat in the lobby. My riva- er, coworker will be happy to assist you.

Oh, and remember not to drink while you walk! Don't open the B3 until you're sitting in the lobby!

Godspeed, citizen, and stay happy!

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Meatloaf: I would do anything for love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srEe6K34DVo

Judas Priest: You've got another thing coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOk0mkwnmZQ

Ac/Dc Dirty Deeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onE43h_TUUY

Drowning pool: let the bodies hit the floor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04F4xlWSFh0

White stripes: 7 nation army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY

>>53071621
Pally, possibly to a God of Justice or Vengeance. Likely a bit of an egomaniac. Armor fascination, always trying to upgrade armor even before weapons. Plays a bit like a murder hobo.

Well?

OP here.

>>53071717
A mercenary who will do just about anything for a fair price. He is rather reckless and cocky. Sometimes he has romantic desires and doubts about his career.

>>53071741
5/10. He is actually rather humble most of the time (his main problem is wrath). If you listen more closely to the second and fourth songs, you'll notice that what he really wants is to help people and find a way to belong, despite his wrath and tendency toward black and white thinking.

Not too original, I know, but I had blast playing him.

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Repostan due to end of thread. Anyone got any tips on painting these Elysians? Magically finding it harder to paint than any of my other guys. Wash just makes him look dirty, have been using thin paint almost all of the time, perhaps too thin... spent quite a lot of time on this guy and am getting nowhere. Tempted to try outlining everything in black or some other crazy things I've never tried before to see how it looks.

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bumping with my deathcult assasin, the white and the metals came out nice so far, but i need a colour for the holsters and straps. i don't want to use black or grey, maybe a very dark blue would be nice or a jade color to go with the nihilak effect. suggestions /wip? the tiles on the base are going to be dark green

also, my camara does not like all this white

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Didn't see a /gdg/ thread for like 24 hours, so I decided to make one. Hopefully it's done correctly.

I finally have a first draft PDF of Mystic Harbor (well, the first 8 pages or so at least) and I was really excited to post it!

I'm too dumb to know how to compress PDFs, but I have a link:

>https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwHpyafMnHlsMVhuZXBud3VZRmM

Hell yeah glad to see you made one. I was looking for this thread for exactly your progress.

>>53064001
Awesome, thanks anon. I'm really glad you guys are liking it - I can't wait until it's done.

I'm feel like I'm at a good place with the mechanics, save for needing a page on Guts, Backbone, and Health, but that won't be too difficult. I do also want to make a "Backpack" page to build in some consumables like snacks and juice boxes and stuff.

Then, I have to get into the fluff and decide what format to go, one book or PHB and DMG. The town setting itself is swimming around in my head, just gotta write it down.

>>53059877
Five is the most you can have and maintain coherency of ideals and objectives. Ive run a game with as many as 9 players and it was a mess. 3 is optimal, 4 is good if your players are reasonable experienced, 5 is only doable if the group has a clear IC or OOC leader.

>>53059877
One less than the number of people you're able to tolerate for an extended amount of time.

Yes, but he was an asshole anyways so no one really missed him.

I only invite the first batch of 4, and then additional people if one if the first can't make it. That way you never end up with too many people

>What brought you to OSR?
I was disillusioned by the slow-moving storygames I was playing and found that OSR was the most interesting thing around. And then I started appreciating the design of old school D&D.

>>53058029
what IS OSR?

Continuing on the subject of saving throws.

>>53057999
In short words, the saving throw categories make no sense and often contradict themselves, even in the same book.

Examples from our conversation so far:
Save vs death is said to be against losing a fight, petrification against being gimped. The former can be cured with a fifth level spell, the latter with sixth. I was told the latter is a longer term issue... but being killed or turned to stone is going to get you out of the present situation just as surely, and if the battle is lost, no one is going to be there to ever turn you back to flesh anyway.
Save vs breath weapon is made against unavoidable large area damage (such as dragon's breath), while save vs spell is as you say it to resist magic, and as I understand it to deal with whatever doesn't fit in the other categories. Yet Fireball, despite being a blast you can at most resist halfway, is a save against spell. The best explanation I've gotten are that it's just written that way, or that it's a leftover from when breath weapon was just against dragon's breath.

Then, apparently because you have no other answers to give, you implore me to change it myself. I could, but I wonder what made them come up with such a weird and self-contradictory way of dealing with this stuff to begin with, and why they couldn't manage something better even then - it even carried on to the 2nd edition and most of the retroclones!
Further muddling the issue is the claim that I shouldn't change it, lest I break something I don't understand. As you see I'm trying my best to, yet fail.

Can you shed light on the matter?

An Endless universe RPG would be interesting, but you'd need to figure out what scale the players would be acting at and how the various sources interacted.

After all, we have Endless Legend, Endless Space and Dungeon of the Endless all contributing bits and pieces to the greater whole.

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>>53052304
I think a game focusing on the world of Auriga would be the best option for a more traditional RPG style of game.

I'd be down. Maybe base it on Runequest or something?

Rasheth is T H I C C.

Battle Engine and Bane CID week 2 changes (Will be continued):

"Cygnar

Storm Strider – We want to see the “Storm Strider” moving, not just sitting back and shooting to help differeitnate it from other battle engines like the Arcantric Force Generator.
Build Up Power only when advancing.
Protectorate

Vessel of Judgment – Quality of life changes to improve how this model interacts in Faction.
Cleansing Aura does not remove friendly upkeeps.
Doors of Judgement: Changed to destroy so the soul can be collected.
Khador

Gun Carriage – We felt the Gun Carriage was able to stay very safe with Reposition and 12" range on its cannons. This change brings the Gun Carriage in line with what we would like to see it doing on the battlefield. We found the majority of users only used the Trample Power Attack to gain extra threat range on its ranged weapons and Line Breaker should give it a solid bump in melee potential.
Replace Power Attack: Trample with Line Breaker
Reduce the range of heavy Cannons from 12 to 8."

>>53049465
"Cryx (1 of 2)

Desecrator – We felt this warjacks ranged output could use an increase in effectiveness.
Increase the RNG of the Plague Bearer to 12 and its POW to 14.
Bane Warrior Command Attachment – Moving Granted: Tough to the Standard Bearer makes the ability harder to remove from play. Removing the need to box enemy models as a requirement of Void Bringer makes it more reliable in unfavorable match ups.
Granted: Tough moved to the Standard Bearer.
Void Bringer changed to returning d3+1 models.
Bane Knights – Feedback showed that Bane Knights were under performing, please continue to test with this new point value and provide feedback.
Change point cost to 10/16.
Bane Riders – Increasing the threat range of Bane Riders has been a very common theme in feedback. It also has a nice synergy with Vengeance.
Increase the RNG of the Bane Blade to 2.
Mechanithrall – With the increase to DEF, Mechanithrall to cheap at 5/8.
Increase point cost to 6/9.
Necrosurgeon & Stitch Thralls – We want the Necrosurgeon to remain pertinent. Veteran Leader makes the Mechanithralls (and Brute Thralls) more effective on the battlefield while they are in close proximity to the Necrosurgeon.
Gains Veteran Leader [Mechanithralls]
Bane Lord Tartarus – As a passive ability Veteran Leader is easier to use with regards to order of operations, and is a nice bump for Agathia
Change Curse to Veteran Leader [Bane].
Increase MAT to 8.
Wraith Engine – This removes the counter intuitive interaction between Soul Bondage and Cleave.
Replace the text of Soul Bondage with the following:
Once per round when a living enemy warrior model is destroyed while within 2˝ of this model, you can replace the destroyed model with a Machine Wraith solo. The destroyed model is removed from play and does not provide a soul token."

>Walking around walmart, it's pretty dead
>Hear phone going off, figured it was a staff phone
>Nope, it was hidden under some weights
>Answer the phone, lady starts telling me to give the phone back or she's calling the cops
>visable minority in a 96% white city
>no way they'd believe I found it. drop phone and run
Almost framed I tell ya!

>>53039763
Could have at least left is somewhere she could find it.

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>>53039615
>Smoking in my backyard
>FeelsGoodMan.png
>Suddenly hear my cat freaking out in my garage
>Casually investigate
>Its a fucking black bear
>My cats got it scared in a corner
>I slowly move to pick up my cat
>On the outside he look calm and ready, but on the inside hes spilling mom's spaghetti
>Cat notices me at last second and runs away
>Bear also decides to cheese it
>I fucking scream like a bitch as it charges past me
I learned that day I'm more of a pussy then my pussy

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So who decided that the prime variant for a 100 ton omnimech should have a damage capacity of 25? Seriously, even if you don't play battletech you should know that's way too anemic for its weight class.

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Fed Suns?! Yeah that was our territory initially.

>>53025483
Is it because of the company engine that it doesn't have a lot of pod space? Even the targeting computer doesn't really offset the fact it has the long range weapons of something I would put as 60 tons.

Has anyone ever done a slice of life game in EP?

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Is simulspace just as good as reality?

If so, I find it really hard to believe anyone would care about real life anymore. The only reason we don't spend all our time in the virtual TODAY is because it can't replicate the feelings of reality, just make a shadow of an imitation of it. And we still spend half our lives immersed in media, even with its limitations of experience.

Beyond doing what's needed to sustain the virtual life, why bother with reality when virtual reality is even better?

>>53012005

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/507486226/eclipse-phase-second-edition

Currently at 90k, 10 away from the pictured supplement.

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>GM or Player
Player
>System(s)
DnD 5E, although willing to look into other systems too
>Time availability
Every night CEST 6PM-11PM except Friday/Saturday
Add two hours availability on tuesdays and thursdays (extending availability to 1AM CEST)
>Text or Voice
Either
>Contact Information
Discord: Murminki#2250
>Additional Information
Completely new player, so if you don't want to play with that, shucks for me I guess

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Player

DnD 5E, PF (I'm shit, I know).

I can play anytime after 7pm EST any day except potentially Tues/Thurs, I have a different group that night.

I'm down with text or voice, Roll20, etc.

You can reach me at Discord: Nera#1461

Pick me, Senpais!

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>GM or Player
GM
>System(s)
Hackmaster 5E (similar to DND)
>Time availability
Sundays 2pm to 8pm EST
>Text or Voice
Mostly voice
>Contact Information
Throwaway: [email protected]
>Additional Information
Game is of a more serious tone, in a lower magic setting with more roleplaying than combat. Already have a group but could use one more reliable player. No prior experience necessary.

Who cares

space marines are considered mutants

they get away with it because the emperor literally created them out of his own flesh and blood

>>53076612
That's the point idiot. They have to make themselves no longer human in order to protect human kind.

>>53076284
I had a shadowrunner whose wife kicked him out because of his stupid life style (shadowrunning). He sends her a lot of gifts and tries to win her back but it wasn't working. Eventually she left for Japan (where she had some family) and the party found out and took a trip to the island. Things got crazy and we got wiped after some japanese adventures, was a lot of fun.

>>53076284
>Surely you don't leave them at home

What. Why not? They're well-protected, my character's wife is a high level sorceress.

>>53076309

if they're out of sight, the GM can get to them more easily.

>>53041527
Nah, only Gideon does because the God told him that his doubts only lead him to confusion, while the doubts of the crop leads them to excellence

>>53041527
>Numbers of planes saved by the Gatewatch - 1
>Number of planes ruined by the Gatewatch - 3

>>53041527
>You can't be a heretic if you never had faith to begin with