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>>52861857
I'm sure some Tumblr child has either created a TTRPG with a polymemeory mechanic or is in the process of doing so at this very moment.

It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Eve and Lilith and Steve.

>>52861857
None that I can think of, as polyamory is not usually a mechanic. That is the sort of thing better handled by roleplaying, not roleplaying. Most male players are not interested in larping a soap opera.

If you insist, Golden Sky Stories has an interesting relationship mechanic that is a mechanical representation of the closeness between two characters and does not have a limit on the amount of characters you can have it with.

>when you introduce a new PC and the players accept the conceit of the ttrpg and welcome this stranger instead of wasting the entire session being suspicious and refusing to accommodate the guy because that would be "metagaming"

>when the players want to play something other than 5e

>when you gave your players pointless scrolls and they found a use for them

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>>52861339
>What if mankind became so devious and sinful that a second biblical flood fell upon the earth, but people just started making floating cities and boat caravans?

I don't know... Netflix dropped the show before I could finish watching all the episodes.

>>52861424
Looks sinful alright.

>>52861339
The problem is that God is like petty spiteful GM. If you manage to outsmart him and make it though the punishment he will throw at you something even worse.
The oceans will begin to boil, clouds will cover the Sun, sharks, sea locusts, etc.

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I roll to perform and intimidate of course

>>52860528
do you have the shotgun master perk to shoot three times?

>>52860466
>your characters fly girl
The monstergirl thing might have gone too far...

>>52860285
Let him do it. Then immortalize him in a folk tale for his troubles.

>>52860285
maybe the news of a witch hunt reaches the inn, where there's a higher level npc staying there. He comes along on the hunt and is able to whisk at least the PC away before a killing blow lands on him. He could be a mentor long past his prime and aids the PC in training until the PC can fight the witches. Bam, plot hook

>>52860285
have rumors abound of things the witch has done and previous failed attempts to stop her which give the PCs a clearer idea of what they're dealing with

1) part of the customer base are grognards who like to have their stuff as it used to be in "good old days"
2) part of the customer base are soccer moms, who think buying their crotchspawn a book is good because reading is good and more time at computer is the devil
3) arguably more difficult to pirate
4) printers lobby - those people don't want to go out of business any more than the other obsolete professions

>>52860097
I just like the feeling of holding an actual book. It's more comfortable for me to use.

Publishers could easily release changes to the books, it would just need to be a printable file that lists what they changed.

>>52860176
>I just like the feeling of holding an actual book. It's more comfortable for me to use.
I'm the same way. I find it almost impossible to read a book in PDF form, but if I have the same book physically in hand I'll lose myself in it for the entire afternoon.

>>52859961
If you understand the concept, D&D5E is an alright jumping on point and then you can branch out to other systems once you figure out what you like, combat, story telling, traveling, etc.

>>52859961
D&D is the call of duty of PnP games, and I mean that very negatively.

Keep that in mind.

>>52859961
GURPS is a great system for a newcomer if you can find a GM.

D&D is really bad, but it's what everyone plays so you'll have the easiest time finding a game for that.

Most other systems are varying degrees of quality.

What kind of game do you want to play? Not system, but genre. Do you want to play a high fantasy, cinematic game? Cyberpunk? Modern mystery? Sci-fi explorers?

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>>52858669
So was it wrong to not make paladins alignment dependant or have people had more fun and interesting paladins with the looser rules?

>>52858712
Having more clearly defined Oaths rather than the vague as fuck alignment system was a great move.

>>52858712
I don't think we ever used alignment in any of our games since AD&D. As far as I'm concerned, half my players clearly play evil characters that manage to do good more often than not.
Alingment is a limitation that adds nothing.

I dont think this counts but anyway.
>Been playing shadowrun 5th for a year.
>Quite interested to run a few games .
>Forever GM has GF in town and states that he will not run game as usual because of this and asks if anyone else wants to run game that night.
>Time to shine and take the spot.
>I had a 3-4 scenario long campaing under works and the first few were ready.
>Except I had to do math and statting for the combat encounter dudes.
>My favorite thing in SR is summoning and spirits so the "boss" for the night would be a big posessed troll.
>In fact all the cannon fodder dudes were posessed too.
>The game goes pretty well.
>Scenario about cult kidnapping a rich kid and trying to get him posessed by their masters.
>Shit happens, players are players and trying to herd them without railroading was quite fun.
>Now our usual GM had a edgyish Major from GitS character (cool dude, just never understood why)
>His GF had a mage with loads of touch range spells.
>Rest were "I beat face with fist" troll adept and a "a chair is a legit throwing weapon" orc adept.
>Eventually they get into the final fight for the night.
>Now I had failed statting my troll from reading the rules for posession wrong basically giving him way too many stats.
>And posession would make him already hard to kill.
>So I had planned the spirit inside the troll would follow a simple logic (I think I used guardian spirits)
>"If anything hurts me, I will attack the last thing that hurt me"
>So beefed up troll will CHARGE anything that hits him with a combat knife.
>players actually shoot most of the time so charging was not that bad and troll did few good hits.
>Then it happened
>For obvious reasons usual GM and his GF in character were standing quite close
>Troll charges GM
>Major dodges
>Touch mage attacks the troll and back off
>Troll charged her and basically kills her but no because fate points.
>Silent table until next combat they snipe the troll ded.
Last game I ran.

If the GM makes us roll for stats, I fudge/reroll/ tweak the stat after the fact until I have at least an 18 in something.

>>52857590
this actually sounds kinda fun anon. i would not be mad at this character death. games arent fun without a little risk and you presented a way for them to avoid the danger of the fight and still be effective.

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don't get hoodwinked into letting KO players pick and choose what sky-port affiliation they want during the set up phase.

Their rules require them to paint that ports colors if they want that ports bonuses

the ports behind paint gates
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paint gate rules in pic related

if they don't paint it they can pick other abilities from a "default" list. The good ones are locked for a reason.

>Back when Brokk was a beardling, his father, Grung, had failed to make Musterpress during his time at the Arkanaut Academy and instead found work in the docks. As a result, Grung was always telling his son stories of a life of aeronautical adventure, the one he himself had yearned for. Fed upon all the tales of famous Captains, Brokk vowed to make his mark, aiming for nothing less than to rise to the rank of Grand Admiral of the Council.

Tophat Man is an inspiration to us all

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does everyone really play chaos?
chaos sucks

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>>52853559
Breddy gud.

>>52853559
They're not challenged by 3D printing because it looks like dogshit.

>>52853559
Not yet, but you can bet once the resolution gets just a little bit higher they'll be screeching and filing C&D's all over the internet.

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>>52853073
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>>52851638
Rule of cool. I need no other justification.

Also, sexy armor is also available for the dudes in my setting.

>>52851677
>Also, sexy armor is also available for the dudes in my setting.

how magnanimous of you im sure it sees lots of use

>>52851638
>>Unlike males, females are recommended to wear less clothing during their academic period in order to increase their affinity to the magic power in their surroundings called ‘mana’.
Why

>>52849632

Evil shit is much more forthcoming with power and also much more demanding of its followers. That's the deal, generally.

A "good" faith might ask you to live a good life, turn the other cheek, love your neighbor, and all that good stuff. Maybe sacrifice a goat here or there for those more bohemian faiths, attend a festival, whatever. Dragon slaying and villain-foiling are generally reserved for paladins and shit, and you'll note that they *do* get magic buffs.

For an evil cult, though? Man, the price of entry might well be selling your soul, or procuring a sacrifice, or murdering someone. A good god is likely to give you some core tenants and things to live your life by. An evil god might very well have an earthly agent (in the form of a demon, spirit, whatever) literally giving you instructions. Being a devotee of a good faith is a lifestyle choice. Being a devotee of an evil faith is a job, and--often--a difficult, deadly one. And so you get paid.

If you want to get more into it, the forces of "evil" can probably afford to be handing out all that mojo because they're so busily and actively generating it. Old man living in the clouds and asking people to live moral lives might be a little stingier with his mojo, but the god who has his followers suck up souls for him and throw bodies into pits in eldritch rituals can probably afford to be a little bit more spendthrift.

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>>52849632
>Why is the power of Dark and Destruction able to supply its worshipers and minions with cool supernatural powers, while the power of Light and Creation isn't?
>what are clerics
>what are paladins

I somehow have the impression that you got this idea from christianity where supposedly the bad guys do the spooky magic tricks and the good guys pray.