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The fantasy genre has its roots in medieval romances that were frequently set in the distant past but kitted out their heroes with the equipment of what were then modern warriors because it's what the intended audience would be familiar with.

I blame renaissance faires.

But Late Antiquity is my fantasy shit of choice, personally, though I can absolutely respect your style, OP.

actually it probably has more to do with liberties taken by victorian dudes like walter scott and the pre-raphaelits. just put all the peers of charlemagne in gothic plate, it'll look good on the page and they weren't real so it can't be innacurate.

Fuck Sheldon.

>>52884276
Solitary Confinement is a strong card but I don't like the idea of discarding a card before I find out it's true value because my draw for turn could change everything.

My playgroup(s) also have the reasoning if I am trying so hard to protect myself then I must have something scary planned.

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>>52884242
>What, if any, attrition-based decks have you run?

More recently I have built pic related as stax, it is in the first version and I have yet to play it in my lgs league. (Playing it this week).

I am hoping it provides some insight for changes.

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How much attention do you like?

>>52884103
None, and it's amusing to see women act like children and sociopaths just to get attention.

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Posting PDFs of Marvel's WIPs from a few threads back.

I'm going to go GURPS for 500 bob

>>52883956
I wanna say stuff in the LARPG genre does it well. World Of Darkness usually bases its settings around it, and I could easily see Fiasco or Primetime Adventures do something with it.

>>52883983
Ahh, but is there in fact a gurps book about politics? or negotiations? bargaining? swindling?

Mel-lon.

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>>52883296
In my setting the verbal components are ultimately unimportant and just used as a mental focus- but there are some spells (mostly sound or language based) that demand speech just based on the nature of the spell. Otherwise, most verbal components used by traditionally trained mages are spoken in the Not-Latin of the setting, just because that was the tongue of the society where most ancient magic was practiced, and it also happens to be the language used for scientific and other academic terms. Other common ones are the Fey language, the not-Arabic language, or the not-Norse language, depending on the region.

>>52883296

omg lol pwn noob

PC's don't learn from their mistakes.

Experience, as well as the gaining and loss thereof, is a purely mechanical element. It does not exist in setting, and is purely an abstraction to facilitate smooth gameplay.

Besides, if characters got XP for dying they'd be throwing themselves off cliffs willy nilly.

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>>52881684
>Allowing revives in your game
>People don't die when they are killed

>>52881286
>Losing to Grey Knights
What army do you play?

>>52881379
Black Legion

>>52881286
>When he wins, he'll also mock me at least till the next game and also during our matches.
Ask him to lay off? I understand that that can be easier said than done when emotions are running high, but if you can get through to hm that solves all your problems. Well, except for the actual losing, but what do you want from me? I'm not Merlin.

Just say that it's bad enough getting your ass handed to you without him constantly rubbing it in. Even if it's meant as a good-natured ribbing, it gets frustrating after a while and you're starting to lose interest in playing as a result.

As far as the losing thing goes; maybe you could ask him to give you a hand? Ask him how you could improve your strategy. Maybe play some friendly games with him where he points out what he'd do in your situation. Or if things primarily come down to army building, maybe he could give you a hand with that.

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>>52880561
Anonimi, fighting the good fight against the evil forces of the Tumblr Witches...

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>>52880625
...and other such horrors all across the massive (To them) land of... This land... Didn't give it a name at the time...

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>>52880650
...From the mightiest /fit/izen, the strongest of the Anonimi ...

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>>52880295

I sense nothing, brother.
T. Dark Angel.

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>>52880162

In the current group, I/party spend most campfires doing the following:

-discussing events of session/ campaign

-being fed delicious rat stew by the half-ork paladin nobody wants to tell isn't a great cook

-begging the cleric to let me use the dangerous magical artefacts we decided not to use just because like 2 people died, stupid good party

-modifying my musket

Campfires are good opportunities for small side projects the player can do over multiple sessions, RP conversations and/or a bit of humour if your game is usually a bit serious

>>52879573
Party trust in my group has dwindled to the point my wizard sleeps alone in a rope trick every night without fail and the other party members safeguard themselves alone too.
I miss narrating what we ate and how we unwound.

>>52879735
Ok Anon, what did your character do?

>>52879338
Anyone got that webm from Final Fantasy 7 of the entire party meeting Rufus on top of the Shinra building? Normally gets posted with a title like "skipping session zero", ends with Rufus saying "what a crew". I found myself missing it last session I played, when it became clear that none of our PCs fit together.

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>>52879198
We keep encouraging it until casuals get fed up and walk away.

>>52879231
How do you encourage it at your table? When I was DMing I would sometimes provide special bonuses for really getting into character.

>>52879198
>It seems like more and more players are concerned with doing the maximum damage possible and making min/maxed builds rather than creating interesting characters with which to explore the world that they inhabit
I'm curious as to how you're going about charting and tracking this trend

what's your metric, your sample size, the duration of your study and your control?

>>52879156
Participation is Fun. Fun is Mandatory. Not having fun means you're unhappy. Unhappiness is treason. Treason is punishable by termination. See you on Sunday citizen.

>>52879349
Did you get many new recruits for your table with that?
>implying you don't live in Belarus, Best Korea or some other distopian country
>Also implying people don't know about Paranoia, which I suppose you play.

>>52879607
The people it doesn't get can't be convinced to play it no matter how long I try, and that line is enough to get potential candidates curious to ask more. I've got a consistent group of about 5 players with others dropping in and out as life permits.

And people really don't know about Paranoia, despite it being so old. Even a lot of grogs don't know anything more than the name and the meme.