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>>52540296
Good thread, OP.

Haven't entered one in years. Feels good, man.

>>52540296
Not been to one.

because there are none nearby. I really want to go to one tho. Hopefully get a job there because GW employees get a 50% discount. One day.

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First for Imperess

>>52496392
>Don't make them magnificent
they're kinda the opposite really. very xenophobic, a history of being needlessly hostile to foreign powers, and tons of infighting. technologically behind compared to other nations too but not extremely behind.
> similar to samurai aesthetically, but without the autistic obsession over honour.
my NotJapan!'s "samurai" are actually mostly foreign mercenaries. after the country was basically forced to accept foreigners, an influx of mercenaries and the already prevalent barbarian population (originating from their habit of just burning foreign settlements to the ground instead of just kicking them out) caused them to make a regulated guild of mercenaries that offers cheap/free weapons in exchange for guild fees. samurai aesthetically and they serve the same purpose (helping keep the peace, basic soldier work) but the culture and expectations as well as societal views on them is different.

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Creatures are difficult to come up with, sometimes.
How do you come up with new creatures? Not just monsters, but fauna in general.

If you were a city of extremely petty gods and goddesses and you could make planes of existence for whatever you wanted, what would you make?

In my fantasy setting, I have the sun as the primary city/chilling place of the gods and the other planets are locations they can visit/use for whatever they want. I was kinda focusing on what a castle/kingdom would need during the medieval ages, so I have so far:

A prison
A graveyard
A library/magical research place
A forge/factory
A vault for any and all valuables
A garden for growing whatever extravagant food you want as well as going on hunts for beasts that can challenge gods
The courts, where the guilty are judged

I was considering making a planet of luxury where there'd be parties going on all the time and arenas for combat and all that shit, but I figured they'd have all that in their home base so they could just chill there. Sorry if my word choice is weird or vague, I've been out of it all weekend.

Over interplanetary distances, do RKVs have a significant advantage over an equally powerful laser or particle weapon?

>>52497719
Question is wrong. An energy weapon usually seeks to cook something, yeah? Think of an RKV as an asteroid. A really fast one. You can't really use energy weapons that are that 'big' because the power requirements are absurd. That's talking about the deathstar or something.

Okay, let's define an RKV properly. It's a big hunk of fuck you - which can be anything, really - accelerated up to near lightspeed. Charles Stross has a good one - they sit out in the oort cloud until activated, where they accelerate up to as close as they can get to lightspeed and shut off their drives. At that point, unless you saw it start the acceleration burn, it's pretty much invisible. And it's riding so hard on the tail of its own light that you can't prepare even if you do see it. Say someone launched one with magic technology an AU from earth at us, so there was no burn. They launch it at, say, .95c, travelling from its start point. It'd travel the distance in 504 seconds. Light would take 480 seconds. Give or take a bit because I'm too lazy to be exact. The big 'thing' about an RKV is that it's sitting on its light. You can't see it, or stop it, or prepare - it's 24 seconds behind the current light.

>>52497989

What about the limits of a RKV in EP? One of the points is that the mass has to be high enough to actually be an efficient energy delivery system but not very high since you are aiming at something like 10-15% speed of light and the energy cost is always exponential.

Thats just to say if there can be rings of anti-RKV around moons and planets that can just put themselves between the RKV and the target asuming a response window of minutes(so... they would have to be in low orbit and their only function would be mitigating damage)

So I'm playing in a 10th level oneshot, the other characters are two barbarians and a life cleric. What's a good/fun/interesting class to play for it? I would play a bard since I've never done that, but I'm playing a wizard and druid in other campaigns and picking out so many spells is tedious for just a oneshot (maybe valor though since they get magical secrets at 10). Could also do a paladin, don't think any of them are goiung to use a polearm though that is still quite frontline-y. New ranger is allowed so I'm a bit interested in that too.

> http://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/12/18/but-the-surprise-is-not-supposed-to-be-an-extra-round/

Just a friendly reminder that surprise round doesn't exist in 5e.

>>52585514
Forgot to say, the oneshot is likely to be about dealing with werewolves and related things, not sure if we're getting magical weapons as the gm is quite stingy with them so a class that doesn't get fucked by physical damage resistance would be nice.

What should i do about resistances and level bonuses to hitting? If i keep folowing this way

Savage Worlds

aren't savage world rule uber comlexe?

>>52584923
I don't like it when they mix up audiobooks in there, but sure. You can't really get a cheaper entry point short of pirating. Handful of books won't give you an indication of HH's quality because there isn't any and series is all over the place. Can't go wrong for $1.

>>52584923
>>>>>/lit/

>>52584923
Yes faggot, even the 15 dollar one, now get it

Hello, where are the curse defenders from several days ago? This is what you want right?

>>52584507
>implying Kamigawa didn't have cool legendary card interactions and one sided flip cards.

I liked Kamigawa.

>>52584507
Kamigawa was the fucking shit man. Sure it had some shitty mechanics but it also had a metric fuckton of interesting cards. I wish they do return to kamaigawa but WotC dont have enough balls to do it.

>>52583081

What the actual fuck is wrong with you.

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>>52583081
Aw come on bitch this has literally NOTHING to do with Pathfinder.

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>>52583081
I prefer my wolfgirls to be adorable

>>52581851
The god delegates to angels or other servitor spirits while the god's attention is needed elsewhere. The lesser spirits disagree on something significant (or potentially something insignificant).

>>52581851
>Schisms
Deity is lazy or doesn't actually care how his worshippers do [thing], but they decide they can. Deity is unresponsive. Deity encourages or facilitates such squabbles.
>Heresy
Really, this just a word a faith uses to describe "something I don't like because god" and extends to non-faithful or even nonsentients, so doesn't have shit all to do with unambiguous deific commune. Ex: Kelemvor's worshippers considering undead heretical.

>>52581851
>and there are angels who can relay divine messages?

The angels themselves may have slightly varying interpretations on what the gods themselves believe - or may seek their own goals among mortals.

Also, "My God can beat up your God," but like cranked up to 1000x because we all know they actually exist.

>>52581746
>Doesn't sound like my style, so I'll pass. Have fun with that, though.

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>Get to meet interesting Xenos
>Plenty of opportunity to RP
>Occasional attacks means extra excitement during negotiations
Sign me right up, Fampire.

>>52581746
The only thing I dislike is that the players can't choose when to apply "aggressive negotiations", since it sorta takes some agency away, but the rest of the blurb sounds breddy good.
I'd play it.

We barely researched Symbaroum and got hyped at the premise.
Then we started plating It and I realized that the book provides nothing to use for Its own setting, has no social combat, no pvp, no tables for anything, no nothing but a collection of talents with barely any sense of progression. I ditched that one and refluffed Mouse Guard to restart the story. It feels so much better.

I might use Symbaroum for a mindless hack 'n slash feel kinda game

>>52581647
I ran a Pathfinder game for two fucking years and it almost burned me out on tabletop RPGs altogether. It was so fucking clumsy and clunky and awful, and it felt like the game was actively trying to stop me from having fun running it.

>>52582065
Are you my old GM?

>>52581321
Probably something with a lot of narrative flexibility and easy on the spellcasters.

>>52581321
Something rules light and narrative to preserve the game's pace.

>>52581321
A PSP.

>>52581034
Fucking Japan should just declare war on the management Lockheed Martin, they are just NOT getting it.

Imagine what 24/7 survailance could do for Israel, or Palestien? Imagine what a live sattelite feed could do for hot spots like the Korean and India/Pakistan border? Or kurdish oil wells?

Maybe if you submited some of our classified sattelite feeds to the general public, you might show how the Americans were provoked into supporting American companies doing business overbroad in the interest of national security, (i.e. securing sufficient oil reserves before time ran out on peak oil)

>>52581034
Why can't we discuss politics at the Game Table? Aren't politics and ideologies relavant to telling a story? Isn't a morality tale for a fundamentally different audience than a nihilistic odysee through space?

>>52579822
Well if it's indestructible, it can't be shaped into a weapon.
Meaning it would need to pre-made.
And that alone can limit it.

But being indestructible can mean that no sharpening is needed, some weight and sharpness can theoretically allow it to get through anything, and it's probably more easily enchanted.

>>52579822
Oh, and for future reference OP, if you were being serious about this, make it seem less baity.

Otherwise, if this is bait, disregard this comment and my above advice.

>>52579822
>How would you go about making an indestructible PLOT-anium super metal?
Something along the lines of adamantium where it can only become indestructible if melted in its purest form and cast into molds. Once the cooling process begins the smiths have a very limited time slot to sharpen and shape the blade before it becomes indestructible and unchanging.
>How would it be used?
Weapons is an obvious possibility. Symbols of power and divine catalysts would be another. Someone is going to try and make a golem out of it.
>What special properties make it useful?
It's a perfect heat conductor. Also a perfect magic conductor making enchanting extremely easy compared to other materials (-50% enchanting cost) When it's used as a catalyst or focus for magical effects the power is increased by a good 10%-20%, including enchantments. Small caveat is that it is extremely rare and valuable. Like a Plotanium sword would be worth in the range of 15,000p-25,000gp unenchanted.
>Why would an indestructible (item) function better than a normal metal version?
Never needing to sharpen the blade. You can use it as a tool without worry. It'll last forever so the same sword that King Ivan the first used to kill the Akalich is the same one that his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandson used to kill the Tarrasque.