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A Kobold who's sick and tired of the many stereotypes surrounding his race - dragon worshipping being his biggest pet peeve.

>>52951008
A friend of mine did a good kobold dragon slayer, he was convinced that if he killed dragons and ate their hearts, he'd ascend to the next stage of his dragonhood or some shit

>>52951008
All dragons?

He could just align to Tiamat or Bahamut and kill one of the dragon sets while leaving the other alone.

I'm getting tired of the Put Idris Elba into everything meme

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>>52949160
You were sayin?

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>>52949148
Whfb grognard on suicide watch.
their wife sucking Stormcast BBC while they dream about being in 1990 and complaining about gw price.

I grilled my prospective players and got some info on what they're expecting and what they generally want, and they want to be Big Damn Heroes of Prophesy in Hyrule. That works for me; the first challenge, then, will be making an overarching threat in the world that will drive the players to find/complete dungeons and collect items in the process, which is the LoZ RPG equivalent of leveling up. A big problem with the campaigns in our group is that the big overarching threat is too...well, threatening. The characters usually rush towards the end-goal of the campaign and ignore 'side-quests' or other lower-priority goals because who has time to help find a priest's missing book when the fate of the world is at stake?

We admitted it as a problem, and I tried to alleviate it with my first/last campaign, and I ended up with the opposite problem: with no threat or goal to move towards, the players were eternally indecisive and had trouble driving themselves to do anything. I should probably try to find a middle-ground, something that's an obvious threat, but not an urgent one.

For anyone familiar with the Legend of Zelda, there's usually an actual BBEG (Ganon, Ganondorf, Zant, whatever that nightmare in Link's Awakening was, etc.) that resides in an untouchable castle, and has usually already completed their goal, or at least the first part of their goal. The land is already dead, the princess is already captured, the kingdom is already ruled, whatever. The hero(es) needs to find the three/seven/eleven McGuffins to defeat the monster, but generally there isn't a strict time-limit on that because the world is conveniently pre-fucked before the adventure starts (or at least shortly after the tutorial), which leaves un-fucking the world to the hero(es) instead of preventing the potential fuckiness like it usually goes in campaigns.

>>52945397
>none of my players browse /tg/ (or 4chan in general, it's "that scary site where all the meanest people go" to them)
I've never run a game for children.
Kudos to you for your patience while encouraging adolescents to grow into the hobby!

Seriously though, I do have some thoughts regarding your "middle-ground".

As much as I'm a fan of the Zelda timeline, crazy as it is, it's fairly self-contained and doesn't give a lot of opportunities for a party of adventurers to be Big Damn Heroes of Prophesy. So either the definition of 'Big Damn Heroes' will have to be shrunken down in scope to not actually affect the state of Hyrule in the future (maybe taking place during the Imprisoning War where hyrulian knights fought to close the gate to Ganon's Dark World), or it will take place at the end of the timeline, which is probably preferable.

So, why would a band of Big Damn Heroes be needed instead of the Hero of Man/Time/Wind/Courage swooping in to kick evil in the hindquarters like the story usually goes? Well, Ganon and Link have this weird curse thing going on (due to Demise being a spiteful bastard in Skyward Sword) that makes them always reincarnate to do battle with each other for the rest of time, so Link is only reincarnated when Ganon/Ganondorf is alive or is about to be. That leaves room for an adventure to take place canonically without Link being part of it, but this is the Legend of Zelda, so it would be a shame not to include the big man himself somehow.

So, theoretically, what if someone found a way to break that cycle? Or at least stop Link from reincarnating-- his Spirit of Courage (the thing that makes Link, well, Link, as mentioned in Twilight Princess) is a singular presence. If someone found a way to stop it from reincarnating into a body, all they'd need to do is wait for Big G's inevitable return to being the King of Darkness, and there'd be no tunic-wearing fairy boy around to kick his ass. Maybe the characters could be introduced during this time, hundreds of years after the Spirit of Courage has been locked down but before the Spirit of Power reincarnates proper, and their 'prophesy' is to free the Spirit of Courage so Link can go toe-to-toe with Ganon when he needs to?

>>52942105
I'm actually finishing up Suffering Game as I type this.

I dunno, I think a lot of Griffin's stuff can be railroad-y, and he can definitely get a little too into his own story, but I honestly think the insistence on reusing gag characters is probably because they were so popular. I honestly don't mind the story because even if it is a bit hokey and contrived, I am just a sucker for someone giving a genuine fuck about the game, and it's pretty obvious even if he isn't great at it he loves making stories. I'm actually excited for him to be a player because I think he'll be a lot better at playing in someone else's story. That, and the players constantly keep his melodrama in check and I love that.

>>52942105
It's ok. Better than Critical Role or Godsfall, though that's not saying much.

Personally, I prefer Roll to Hit, which ultimately feels more natural as a campaign.

Dungeon Master's Block is my personal favorite when it comes to tabletop related podcasts though. Genuinely good advice on there, interesting segments, and they've got good voices, good audio, and good commentary, plus interviews with people like Keith Baker. Their MTG segments do a better job than Planeshift, and their League of Legends Lore episodes are top notch, even if you're not into it.

>>52942313
See, no, you're going to have a very different opinion very soon. Finish up, I liked Suffering Game, get to episode 60, then come back and tell me what you think. Maybe even listen to The The Adventure Zone Zone before 60.

lexicanum . com

thx

>>52937144
One's a shattered warp god and the other is a chaos god.
Which was a more significant distinction before GW said, "Variety and creativity is hard, and Chaos needs to be jerked off a bit more. Everything in the warp is chaos now :^)"

>>52937230
Does GW ruin the lore often? I've heard complaints about it before when skimming over a Necron article.

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>>52932933
THE WHOLE WORLD

>>52932933
A wedding ring, a prosthetic limb, best friends weapon, armour etc, glasses, the character's tombstone, a pole in a strip club/whorehouse.

Anything that isn't glass or wood.

>>52932933
Attach to brick, toss in ocean. Cheap, discrete, hard to find and hard to get to.

And when you FINALLY FINISH REGENERATING, you can just walk back to shore.

Note, this only works if off the continental shelf. Otherwise any fisher could stumble off of it.

>>52921937
And immediately I fuck it up.

Actual previous thread archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/52865307/

>>52921937
>>52921967
awwwe yeah nigga it's the argo brigade

>>52921937
Here we go lads

First
Crane worst clan

>>52918724
fpbp

>>52918724
I mean, there's always spider....

bump with no games

>>52865106
Do not reply to this cuck, as he has no games.

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Boy, this just needs to be stickied.
The Game Finder thread is a great part of /tg/, but it it dies too quickly during a dry week/month.

>>52855803

I tetris it up. Try to fit as many games in as little space as I can.

Though I'm realizing I goofed. I'm waiting for several hueg kickstarters and have litterally no space left whatsoever.

>>52855053

No organization. Chaos

>>52957507
IQ: 8
ME:3
MA: 4
PE: 40
PP: 20
PS: 20
PB: 1
SPD: 8

Major supernatural entity:

Minor powers:
breath without air
superhuman PS

Major powers:
zombie flesh

Special:
if immobilized or separated into parts, fate, luck, and dumb NPCs always bring his parts back together or free him, or wake him up.


it really depends on the group i'm using him for.
if its the supernatural group, with a magic weapon user (like the black knight), a supernatural powerhouse (think like shazam with spells) a demon hunter (like the winchester brothers mixed with some magic and with 50+ years of experience), and an arcanist (a man who knows EVERYTHING supernatural and magical without any of his own magic) he's just another badguy for them to put away.

if i do it with my current group, a small child who animates objects and enlarges them with SCIENCE goggles, a hobo with the power to control and manipulate garbage, a fledging wizard with a magic staff that grants him spells, and a man who can control technology with a touch and a thought, he's still kinda gonna get put down hard.

Jason is only a good enemy to people who are totally mundane. teenagers and camp counselors. when faced off against characters who are in some way superhuman or supernatural in their own way, especially 3.pf characters, he's more or less a very durable, strong, and relentless zombie who realistically poses little threat outside of catching PCs unaware. sure you cant kill him, but you can make it EXTRAORDINARILY difficult for him to harm anyone or follow them. sure, he has a plot armor thats basically "nuh uhh! i have an everything proof shield" because he will always find a way to continue, but think about it, a group of 6th level characters would see him as an annoying and reoccurring bad guy more than anything.

Someone recently made a Legends of the Wulin External style inspired by slasher horror villains

http://wulinlegends.pbworks.com/w/page/117179652/Demon%20Mask

>>52957730
Nice post.

I'm not sure what system you're using for the stats as I'm more of a d&d type (let the hate begin)

Str: 18-24 (depending on his need)
Dex: 7 (he's not quick or agile really)
Con: Either 30, or 0 (is he undead)
Int: 4
Wis: 4
Cha: 4

HP: 1001
AC 14
Attack: +28 with a 50% chance to dismember or remove a head (all weapon types)
Grapple +30 don't grapple him.......ever
Medium supernatural creature

Feats: weapon mastery (Jason can kill with any weapon)
Unarmed skill (Jason can kill with a punch)
Sense fornication: Jason can sense when people are fucking, and act with a +10 surprise bonus and a 80% chance to insta kill
Teleport w/o error: Jason can always teleport to right behind you, or just around the corner
See the unseen: Hiding is useless, as Jason will see someone trying to hide, no matter their hide check
Regenerate: If his body is destroyed, jason will reform within 10 years (depending on how well horror flicks are doing at the time)
Instill fear: Seeing jason kill, or raise a weapon, will force a fear/moral check and cause the viewer to flee at maximum speed away from jason
Break tech: Being within 100 yards of Jason, will cause phones to be static filled, and auto's to fail to start, chainsaws will fail to start as well
Immunity to projectiles: Shooting jason has no effect
Immunity to slashing weapons
Partial immunity to blunt weapons
Slow: Jason can not run, or take double actions
Immunity to elemental damage 50%

>>52957506
>the tau that killed slaanesh

I'm already at full cringe. Please, take me further.

>>52957506
I do, now tell me how.

>>52957506
Well that sounds stupid, but also interesting enough to warrant a story.

>>52956216
> A series of memos from NASA to Richard Nixon, charting the progress of the Mars settlement from 1972 to present, through the establishment of a temporary and semi-permanent bases, including the current "permanent, independent, self-sustaining" base. Arrangements are made to take him there, and a memo is dispatched to him, dated two days after his death, about initiating "...stage two of the project."

Well, that is interesting.

>>52956523
>A tube of ointment marked "Hair Remover" in oddly spelled French and German. It works perfectly and permanently; if it's applied to the skin, the hair will melt away instantly and will never, ever grow there again. The ointment is green and minty-smelling, acid-tasting if eaten but nontoxic.

Best Hair remover in the world. Use it to prank the local king 10/10

>>52956216
>A human skeleton. The ankle bones are fused in a manner that will keep the toes pointed. The head is normal-sized but appears grotesquely small in comparison to the body, which is nearly 8 feet tall. Other pink boxes hold a myriad of high-fashion clothing sized to fit.

Some kind of high-class mutant species. I predict this is some elf-like strain of humanity that attempted to genetically and culturally engineer itself the ultimate bourgeois society.

>>52956177
Neat?

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>>52956177
Is this the DM?

We choose to camp along the road.