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>>52549262
>Also, where is all this snow coming from? Isn't it suppose to be global warming?
I think thats my favourite thing you ever said fist. My sides hurt so bad from laughing so hard.

>>52549310
Don't worry, anon, he was only pretending to be retarded.

>>52549262
Many the snow was on the roof. When she went outside it fell on her and blocked off the entrance
At least that is my understanding of it from the quick explanations that have been given.

Also Climate Change isn't quite like that. A degree or two difference isn't going to make snow stop happening in already very cold places

>>52548744
Gonna have to give more details than that, mate.
History, weapons of choice, that sort of thing.

>>52548744
Silver hands
like hands of a clock
their base is a clock tower

"Aye. I recall them. Dark clothes, dark purpose, dark countenance. They rolled through ages past as something more bloody, less refined you see? Back then they didn't neatly call themselves "catchers", back then it was the Order of the Bloody Moon. Fancy title, one of those hunters claimed it was cause they would dye the full moon red with the blood of beasts. Fanatics, all of em."

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Favorite Tau caste?

>>52548091
the thicc one

>>52548091
Trick question.
0.The greater good as whole
1.Ethereal
2.Your own caste

>Poems where the answer is sacrifice a party member
What did he mean by this?

>>52547668
like riddles and shit idunno im not good at this

>>52547676
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air

In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
And said you're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air

I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way
She gave me a kiss and she gave me my ticket
I put my Walkman on and said I might as well kick it!

First class, yo this is bad,
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass
Is this what the people of Bel Air livin' like
Hm this might be alright!

I whistled for a cab and when it came near the
License plate said 'Fresh' and had dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought now forget it, yo home to Bel Air

I pulled up to a house about seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabbie, yo Holmes smell ya later
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
Now kill the wizard.

A clock that precisely tells someone their time of death, but not the date.

>>52546649
Your mother

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>>52546649
>A labyrinthine subterranean cave network with a self contained ecosystem within. The only inhabitants were all fungus or lichen until humans arrived and became trapped within the inky darkness of the underworld. After millions of successive generations, hundreds of species of post-human creatures crawl, slither, and roam the tunnels. While the cave has been exposed by a recent earthquake, making it more accessible to surface dwellers, the inhuman beasts have little of value and few are willing venture into the hazardous depths.
On the other hand, the original creators of the caverns are quite pleased with how their experiment has progressed.

>>52546487
First, I would recommend going to the multiple Discord channels for DDA advice, since the small community around the games tends to gather there.

Evolution is a bit of a complicated thing, and it relies on the speed the game moves and how mechanically and narratively you want the games to be separated. First of all, only worry for Champs at the beginning, and make most evos after that be locked beyond plot until they can reach it, like in Adventures and the Crests/Tags. If you take it purely by narrative decisions, just make them evolve whenever it's fitting, but until everyone unlocks their evolution they can't go in and out at will, so it will give whoever you plan/manages to get the spotlight in a nice way. If you want it purely mechanic, just pit them against an opponent they can't defeat, it's not that hard if you make a difficult opponent, and when they are on the edge of defeat give everyone a Will roll for evolution, there are rules about it on the manual.

One idea I've toyed around while planning a game, is making it so the players have full agency about when their Digimon evolve. However, if they don't pass a series of trials related to their destiny, they will get a Dark Evolution. So it's a matter of the players themselves understanding when evolution is needed, and when they characters are ready. A small set up scene of the evolution and maybe some inner dialogue can achieve this very easily, and show the focus on which evolution should appear. Needing strength, gaining strength and earning strength are very different concepts.

The discord, just in case:
discord gg/NUSWZJ6

>>52547250

Yeah, I'm going to have some kind of narrative similar to the tags/crests. I'm going with the narrative decisions mostly, as well.

>>52551088
Think if you want the team to evolve (or unlock at least) evolution at the same time, or if they should do it on their own individual episodes.
Whatever you choose, make sure everyone knows beforehand so they can prepare, and if you do it individually put a bit more focus on their characters so you know what buttons to hit when they need to trigger the evolution. Focus more on trying to pick up a rhythm and structure for the first few sessions, or even make them start with In-Training Digimon and make them earn their Rookie rank, so you have more flexibility along the first few sessions.

>>52546460
I'll be your friend anon. I'm not ERPing with you though. Also you have to be the one to put yourself on the spot with contact information. Also I need a list of your fetishes, not for ERP but to know if we'd get along.

>>52546460
Because I feel awkward asking for RP with someone unless I've got a good idea in mind to start things off. That, and most of my characters fly under the radar.

I had been preparing for a whole month to get rejected from RotJR, and then again for WotRaunchy.

Hey, new player here.

I'm starting a fresh campaign in a couple of weeks and I could really use a hand putting my character together if anyone has a few minutes to spare.

First off, I'm pretty indecisive when it comes to race. Normally in games like this I stick to standard fantasy races since I have a hard time relating to anything else. This time around I was thinking about maybe playing as a Tengu. I'm not sure why, just to mix it up I guess. Are there any downsides to playing a Tengu? Any advice on playing one?

Next, I'm not really sure about what class to play. I was thinking about either druid or alchemist, since both looked fun. I don't have any grand backstory planned out for this character or anything, but know I want to follow a sort of supporty chef/brewmaster type of theme. Of course I'd be open to something else if druid and alchemist end up being too complicated for a beginner, I just figured they could both fit the theme well enough.

My primary fear is that I'm going to put a bunch of work into a character only to lose interest in it after a few sessions, as that's usually what happens every time I play this sort of game. Any insight into how that can be avoided?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

>>52545940
>BBEG.

Huzzah!

>>52545940
Re.

There you got what you wanted. Nkw fuck the fuck off.

>BBEG.
ugh

>>52545678
why not just play a cleric or druid or wizard, why a fucking sorcerer of all things
they're only okay

>>52545729
They had no face and I initially thought it would just be for a session or two not a long running thing. Also I'm mildly retarded hence coming here for advice

In a pure core game I think almost every absurdly overpowered feature ends up as a druid class feature if you really wanted to go all out. I don't see why you wouldn't just sit out the game if you don't like it though. Sorcerers aren't really overpowered in any case

EMP

>>52545512
Take the magnetron out of a commercial microwave, put it in a metal tube as a waveguide, and plug it into a car battery in your backpack.

Light those microscopic motherfuckers up.

>>52545512
Discover its killcode.

If the creator has no killcode, show him that still means nothing and hack it.
EMP can be resisted. But hacking will always be an option, no matter how many defenses the controller/machines have.

James T Kirk

Bardy McBardface

>>52543688
Magnus Hammersmith

>>52543379
Like most classes, the bard is drawn from a variety of stories, mythologies, and the like. The travelling charlatan who gets by with their wits, primarily.

And sure, you could tweak the bard and have it fill the same basic role. The music aspect is most closely tied to the bard as a support class. You can imagine that if you just stripped it, you'd end up with a class mostly about magical deception/trickery with a bit of swashbuckling. Either bolster those aspects, or add in a new gimmick to make up for losing Bardic Performance. You still have a dashing and clever adventurer with a variety of tricks up their sleeve.

>>52543447

They still overlap some (or a great deal) with other archeytpes. Both the Bard and the Rogue could be investigators for instance, the Bard and the fighter could be swashbuckling swordsmen and duelist, they could also be spellcasting mystics.

This is not a problem unique to bard so much as subclasses of the big three archetypes were shoehorned into being their own thing.

>>52543379
Bard tells stories, stories are often songs because it makes them more memorable and attaches visceral feelings to them, hero is inspired by the bard and goes off to fight the big bads with either a better understanding of history, and therefore a higher proclivity towards doing things right instead of wrong, or gains a figurehead/scenario to emulate.

Music appears more "magical" than storytelling because instead of using mundane language it uses a more ethereal language.

>>52543176
And are themselves fully sentient with morals and ethics only slightly different from humans. Mind control is viewed as murder and only used for war/espionage.

How they fuck does a species of mind controlling brain slugs manege to become squeamish about doing mind control?

What the actual literal fuck?

>>52543176
Xenocide.

>>52543463
"Ted, have you ever noticed how our Walkers act a bit like us before we take control of them?"

"You know, Nes you're right. I was like halfway through eating this thing's brain and it turns out it has something called a Master's Degree."

"Ted?"

"Ya, Nes?"

"I think we might be assholes."

>>52541834
so long as it's still balanced it should be fine

there should also be a lot more focus on the consequences of the violence, you can get an entire session's worth of social drama out of the fallout of someone getting killed in a duel or bar-room brawl

>>52541834
Hold out pistols and pugilism.

>>52541834
Every puzzle has an answer! And sometimes that answer is violence!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSj74equS0

Maid RPG. Seriously.

Despite the slightly distasteful layer of japanese perversion, it's an honestly amazing comedy game perfect for utterly ridiculous one shots, full of zany hijinks and absurdist humour. It's legitimately amazingly designed, with its mechanics perfectly suited to its goals as a system.

>>52541748
Paranoia. Paranoia is the greatest one shot machine to ever exist. Also probably one of the best games to exist.

>>52541800

Seems funny but not everyone in the group is super into that sort of genre so I feel like it'd be hard to get everyone into the idea.

>>52541843

It sounds fun, but I'm worried it'd be hard to keep everything lighthearted when it sounds like players are encouraged to betray each other a lot.