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>>52852035

His death gives way to more paladin orders.

>>52852035
>what is martyrdom

>>52852070
>>52852090
OP here.

Holy hell. Splendid ideas.

>Will you burn down my neighbour's house in return?

I ask him what two-threeing sheep is. It's possible I might be into it.

>>52851790
I ask the dragon if he accidentally a verb.

Here's a question for you /jc/: I want to do the whole "I knew you would do that, and so I had my men following me" thing and then have a bunch of soldiers reveal themselves around us. I don't want to teleport them in, I want them to have 'always been there', without having actually been there in case I decide to just blow everything up or something. I want them to be able to come out of hiding and hand over video of whatever just happened, if that's what I need.

Does anyone have *any* idea how I could do this? Retroactively decide to have had my troops follow me?

>>52851778
Precog would let you actually know if they would do that, and prepare accordingly.
It’s not quite what you asked for, but it would work.

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Is it wrong I want to be a bushido babe just to get the Organization and troll Yoichi?

>>52851382
Depends on the set... the story.

I often have them start as work-mates for the same organization. They know each other but they often get to decide what kind of relationship they have and if they've already worked together in the past or not.

Or just make their objectives complementary.

>>52851382
I tell the players what the premise of the campaign is, then I ask them to explain why their character is involved in that premise, any further information is up to them

>>52851382
Depends on the game. For one-shots, they usually have the same goal and meet for that reason.
>You're all aboard the same plane when something goes awry.
>You're all heirs of the same estranged, weird uncle.

For campaigns, usually I try to work it from their character concepts and build some reason for them to meet. I usually encourage playing family members if two characters are from the same race.
Otherwise if I can't find anything else, it's usually "same (bad) place at same (bad) time, forced to cooperate". I've never found a way to make "you all meet at an inn" work.

>>52851023
A highborn/administratum/whatever can get the party stuff in DH 2e. The Influence boost from Highborn and the bonus from the administratum background opens doors.

>>52851023
>How do you handle a PC (likely a non-combatant one) backstory of being an extremely wealthy merchant, part of the nobility, or any position of power?
Make them foreigners from faraway lands or exiles who retain their skills but little of their money and connections.

>>52851023

That depends on the tone of the story. Trading off combat ability for political power is something I see acceptable, but if you're going to play a greasy politician in a dungeon crawler-centered campaign, don't say I didn't warn you that it wouldn't be the optimal choice for the situation.

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>people getting butthurt prematurely edition

>>52850093
What is a 40kg without butt hurtness? Really? it's the fuel of this thread nowadays

2nd for tallmarines

We're just pissed (not surprised, just pissed) that 'replace tacticals' has shoved itself back to the top of their priority list again already

>make 4 year old Tactical marines larger instead of making 14 year old Guardsmen smaller (like ForgeWorld has been doing for years)

Enjoy your smaller vehicles, I guess.

>>52849719
That's a pretty smart move to force marine players to buy more models. "Keep your old stuff or buy new models if you don't want to play as manlets". Placing old marinelet and new marine next to each other would be a perfect advertisement.

>>52849526
Is there any reason why they are still using mechs to fight mechs, when the technology they've developed is enough to kick Martian ass on its own?

What's stopping them from wiping out Mars with invisible warheads, teleporting bombs into strategic locations or the cockpits of Martian mech pilots and whatnot? You've listed a bunch of technologies without realizing that just about all of them making conventional warfare pointless and give the Earth forces a landslide victory without ever having to utilize mechs.

>>52849565
Space Geneva convention

>>52849565

The machines are basically irreplacable. They're running off a unique power source that basically warps the fabric of reality. Also, you need a psychic pilot to power the death-machine - all the PCs are Newtypes.

Is Battlerager any decent? It's seems better then Berserker's level 3 and level 10 abilities.

I was going to grab Brawny for grappling people.

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Second for Meepo a best.

>>52849610
I want to incorporate modern and futuristic firearms in my 5e game. How balanced are they, as written in the DMG, for both enemies and PCs to have regular access to?

Only four? Krump em.

I want tumblr to stop.

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>>52849271
We'z got wot? Ah, Zog it, just stick 'em in da Squig pit an' if dey makes it out dey c'n do wotever it is 'gurlz' do.

Mainly at the point where there are zero options for changing the round-to-round gameplay.

If we're talking the typical TTRPG anyway.

Lightest you can get for combat I believe is making an opposed check, winner deals damage.
So we flip a coin, loser suffers one point of damage.

That's pretty dull.

>>52849245
This is basically correct, also consider your audience - a crowd of drunk friends can enjoy a shitty meme game because of the social factor (See cards against humanity, etc), whereas a lot of the folks who frequent this board see some level of complexity, or even impenetrability to casuals, to be a requirement of good game design.

>>52849143
http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/risus.htm

>>52848336
Read that comic that came out last year. about aliens leaving new york and a cop.

>>52848336
read the foundation trilogy.

>>52848336
Define sci-fi. Do you mean, like, a space opera setting with planets and stuff?

Basically you need a region of space that was fully of star systems with a variety of resources but relatively primitive civilizations, many of which hadn't even achieved FTL travel yet. Bonus points if Earth is actually one of these planets and was the conquered rather than the conqueror.

Much of the area of space needs to have been fought or contested by two major powers, with a host of less powerful ones also having a piece of the pie. However all of them have had declining influence in the region for years due to the expense of maintaining control beginning to outweigh the profit of doing so - most African colonies were actually unprofitable, and held largely to deny them to other major powers and/or for the prestige of having colonies and/or as "stepping stones" to get to the actual colonies of profit. For example, the only parts of Africa that Britain actually cared about was Egypt and South Africa, as they formed "stepping stones" to the actual valuable colonies in India. The remaining colonies were mostly bulwarks against the odious French.

Now, here's the big trick. This region of space had to be heading towards decolonization anyway, with a gradual phase-out planned by the various Great Powers, in order to assure stable transition of power (i.e., the plan for Africa was for decolonization to occur in the 70s and 80s). However, due to events back in the more advanced area of space (Europe) and fighting against a retard (Hitler) and his somewhat less retarded but easily amused and provoked friends (Mussolini, Tojo), the money simply doesn't exist to maintain the colonies. Coupled with vastly weakened control, many of the colonies took the opportunity to declare and seize their own independence, with the Great Powers too exhausted and bankrupt from the war back home to put up much more than a token resistance.

(cont'd)

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>>52848207
interesting news soldier, please resend use your direct coordiantes so we may organize an assistance fleet so we may completly anihalate your traitor ass lend support

>>52849519
The hell you talkin' about civvy? I'm asking for advice, not some shitty rhetoric or "memes."

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Also I just wana make sure I got my understanding of the history of we we the people of Ulgaria and the elves of Sarenbel are now friends and in an alliance:

>An 'evil' faction that is the "Dark Heart Pact", who're essentially Saturday-morning-cartoon villains and are composed of Orcs, Goblins, assorted evil mages, Dark/Drow Elves and even orgres decide to invade and take over Sarenbel.
>Coincidentally, the Dark Heart Pact heard of us; the land of Ulgaria, and decided to invade us too. But we prevented them from setting foot further into mainland Ulgaria because we have guns, tanks, aircraft, battleships and missiles.
>One of the numerous Dark Heart Pact guys who we imprisoned tell us of their invasion of Sarenbel and where its geographical location.
>Ulgarian Military Forces arrive at Sarenbel, make contact with the good elves and both learn and realize we have a common enemy.
>Ulgarian leaders and the elven council of Sarenbel decide to team up to kick the asses of le eveel dark forces with a combination of firepower and magic-whoop-ass.
>Both we the people of Ulgaria and elves of Sarenbel become good friends and decide to make our alliance long term.
>Now Ulgaria helps Sarenbel with certain technological advancements and scientific knowledge, we share some of our firepower with 'em and the Sarenbelians elighten us a thing or two about magic.
>We continue them evil forces out of Sarenbelian lands till they're out.
>And now both Ulgarain and Sarenbelian High Command are planning and or deciding a decisive move against the Dark Heart Pact.

So did I get my little history lesson correct board?

>It's a setting where wide technology gaps between several major races exist
>It's "hurr durr marines fuck yeah" wank

I'm not saying you should stop having your fun, and i'm going to leave this thread after this post

But your setting is shit
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Just had an idea for the Daemon Prince.

What if he's a newly created Daemon Prince? Thought he was really hot shit when he was mortal, but the rest of the Knight Daemons in the group give him shit all the time because he's new to the whole "being an immortal creature of the Warp" gig?

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>>52848167

Just gonna bump this real quick

>>52848220
Why not make him the owner of the knight who melded into his titan?

>>52847902
>Well how come so many games are able to pull off morality so well

They aren't. Inevitably you end up with retarded situations where you can murder with impunity and get away with it because the 'evil' points you get from killing innocents are cancelled out by the 'good' points from some of your victims inevitably being evil themselves, and that's just one example.

>I'd rather play a game where the game states that killing is always wrong (because it is)

No it's not. For example, if you were to kill yourself, the world would be a better place.

>>52847945
> Inevitably you end up with retarded situations where you can murder with impunity and get away with it because the 'evil' points you get from killing innocents are cancelled out by the 'good' points from some of your victims inevitably being evil themselves, and that's just one example.
As opposed to tabletop games where you can get fucked out of your class abilities because the DM decided to throw a catch 22 that stated that you were going to fall no matter what? Like I said, if I'm going to get fucked by morality, I'd rather it at least be consistent.
>No it's not.
There's a reason why most tribal societies have gone extinct while societies that don't condone killing have been allowed to prosper to what we have today. You can't advance as a society when every other day is like the Purge mixed with Battle Royale.

>>52848006
tribal societies hate killing people