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>>53078816
Report his behaviour to another commissar and your own higher ups first. Just be "safe".

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>>53078816
Nah, its all good m8

>>53078816
You didn't shoot him the first time, you saw him talking with the xenos!
Your whole regiment deserves the firing squads!

He'd probably try to fix them, it's not like it was out of his power.

>>53078775
Emps would probably throw them after the nids once they showed up. No doubt the nids would only show up sooner with a thriving imperium. That, or he'd have to fuck with the silent king eventually.

>>53079033
No they'd arrive at the exact same time. The Nids head for the Milky Way because of events during the Great Crusade and get there at the 41st millenium.

>>53078532
>So I'm running a game of D&D 4e for a bunch of new players
Do you want them to hate tabletop?

>>53078587
Yeah, I know, but I don't own any other books any I don't have the money for more. Besides, it's not hard to make fun.

>>53078641
Probably the worst defense you can give for playing a shit system

>>53078460
Bail.

>>53078460
Don't. It's not that hard, anon. Just don't.

This is a bit of Catch-22 situation.
I would be perfectly willing to pay for some good time, especially since I've got money to burn. But since we're talking money here, I'll only part with them if the DM is good.
But how do I know if the DM is good, if the only way to find out is to play with him, which isn't free?

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Why doesn't /tg/ appreciate the more epic side of adventuring? Its a lot more fun to have an exciting and unique character than just a cookie cutter "guy who uses a sword xDDD ftw" or "guy who uses supernatural powers." Think tourists, chefs, professional wrestlers, and of course, the most epic hero of them all.

Take a deep breath, cool your powergaming jets, and read the awesome tale of Sir Bearington.

>Social Intrique Campaign
>Large City Criminal Investigation Campaign
>High Seas Piracy Campaign

There's three reasons I came up with off the top of my head and I've only played D&D once. So you can bet your sweet ass that if I built my character around being a grizzled City Guard chasing a serial killer, or a foppish lesser noble trying to maneuver his way to the throne, or being The Dread Pirate Roberts that my character isn't going to want to go explore some claustrophobic ass dungeon.

>>53078382
I would, put in your folly, you seem to have posted a thumbnail so small and so riddled with jpg compression that it is unreadable.

Also, we already know the tale of Sir Bearington.

>>53078094
Square for indoors, hex for outdoors.

>>53078118
I see where you're going with that, but I can't really use both because of all the AOE. I'd have to make every weapon twice. Are you saying perhaps that hex is better in general, but square is good for architecture and map design?

hex is better because you have more ways to move, which means more options. with square you can't do round area of effect.

>>53077888
>What are some things you would want to change in 5e?
>What are some things that irk you in this edition?

Classes.

They shouldn't exist.
They should be replaced by a pointbuy.

>>53077911
>>>/gurps/

>>53077911
>(You)

>>53076960
>he doesn't spend hours sharpening his sword

>>53076960
Assuming we're running on the bizarre combination of fantastical and real logic that giant swords operate on, I guess the sharpness helps against "very-large-but-soft" creatures?

>>53076960
Yes, they cut better.

>>53076148
>Let's use gear we don't fully know the functions of, nor how to repair or replicate!
>Oh, and that's not counting it might have been corrupted by chaos!

>>53076148
said flashlight solves a huge logistical bottleneck in the imperium.

>>53076148
And the romans then abandoned the chainmail in favour for Lorica Segmentata because it was cheaper and quicker to produce.

Its almost like logistics rule supreme when it comes to equipping large armies

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>inb4 mods nuke this thread too

First for 'let's keep the sex in the old thread'.

... nth for captcha shenanigans.

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hate edition can't come soon enough

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[I swear to god, if someone says this is OP please take a look at Spider Climb and end yourselves

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I find it a more honest way to blend cool mundane, heroic shit without completely bending the game backwards with 4.0 stuff, mechanically... But the ideas they had for flavour in those books were sometimes amazing.

also I know, i am but the lowliest of phone posters

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also do you have pics of cool, alien celestials and fiends? I desperately need some for my campaign

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>>53075108
Where can I get good edges?

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When do you have to convince someone to join you, do you actually tone down your charisma perks or you just bomb them with social combat and every emphatic manipulation skill that you have?

A good campaign is never finished, only on hold until the next generation or because the DM died of a drug overdose after we started wrapping up RIP Mike

Finished running my second Adeptus Evangelion campaign.

Only one and 5/6ths characters went insane, and cooler heads managed to prevail. Due to a hilarious and unprecedented sequence of events orchestrated by the players, all the giant robots get disarmed and all the angels but one get neutralized, and the one that doesn't has successfully managed to avoid detection and has fucked off into deep space. Humanity as a whole didn't get mindfucked, and things actually turned out OK in the end.

>>53074862
Until that last angel comes back anyway

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>>53074176

>Make your choice first, then see what happens.
Most terrible advice I've ever seen. Go away.

>>53074193
Nobody plays it like that, anyway.

>>53074135
Drop clues in 3's.

Never hinge the entire adventure on actually SOLVING the Whodunit. If they solve it in 3 seconds, have a backup adventure ready to go.

Red Herrings everywhere. Make them have to actually guess what's relevant.

>>53074208
I have plans for full success, partial success, and outright failure
by three do you mean 1 real one tangential one red herring? or straight up 3 clues at a time

>>53074262
If a single detail must get across to the players, it needs to come up in a game at least three times. So if the Whodunit relies on the players following muddy footprints, then mention mud and people walking in the mud at least three times.