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>>52521536
No as the genestealers would sabotage imperial assets and attack from the planet.

>>52521536
It makes no sense. The genestealers mutant, in their overwhelming numbers (or wisdom) would have sabotaged the defenses of the planet to a crititcal level, making impossible or incredibly hard to retaliate.

>Players are sent down to investigate reports of Genestealer cult.
>Show up to planet.
>One mega-corporation is accusing another mega-corporation of being infiltrated by Genestealers
>Players spend majority of their time investigating accused mega-corporation
>Find them out
>report to first mega-coporation
>through some twist of events, players find out that they too, are Genestealers.
>run away to arbites station
>wtf you're genestealers too
>have to fight off planet in order to get to inquisitor and call exterminatus.

I spent yesterday's usual prep time teaching my wife the basics and walking her through her first character gen.

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>>52520624
I have a few months to prepare my first session.

>>52520624
Because my asshole players always turn up 2 hours late and even then they barely remember what we did last session.

>>52520341
Why thief? You should explain that a rogue is nowhere required to steal.

>>52520341
10 foot poles exist for a reason, maybe make it a gift from an NPC or hint that they should take a couple.

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>>52520341
Punishing the party for the choices in what they want to play is the sign of a GM that views it as a game that he must win by killing or driving off the party. That's a bad GM.

Maybe some sort of philosopher/bard, a spartan warrior, or some sort of primitive engineer/scholar.

>>52519815
The man DIOGENES.
A hobo bard that gives no fuck. No actual musical talent or fighting skills, he just fart and tell his enemies to fuck off outta his sunlight.

This is me, just throwing some ideas around.

>soldier
Shield, short sword, spear. Might be a militia from a democratic republic, or a soldier from an autocratic city-state.
>shepherd
Knows how to use a sling. Maybe fought in wars as lightly armored skirmisher.
>athlete
The fittest. The nudist. Might use unarmed combat.
>necro-, pyro-, geo-, hydro-, whatevermancer
You might want to stretch the definition of what these guys actually did to have more standardish mages.
>aristocrat
High CHA, knows how to influence the public. Can be a warrior as well or more of a sneaky guy.
>rower
High STR character, may has seen exotic places.

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>>52519732
Used to do WoW RP a few years ago. Mostly Hordeside, occasionally Alliance.

It could sometimes be fun, but most people took their characters way too seriously. Especially Horde, where it was just a bunch of Orcs getting into /pol/tier arguments and making idle threats at each other because the game can't actually facilitate bar fights. It also got incredibly boring sometimes as it was almost always "Let me tell you about my character" and "Please, let me let you tell me about your character".

The most fun I had was reading cringey Blood Elf RP addons or playing as characters who deliberately flaunted what people expected from RP characters. Mostly ones with no delusions of being tough stuff or were just too thick to actually appreciate or be impressed by all the grandstanding.

Great if done well. OPs pic is a pretty good example of gaming communities done pretty well, if you can find your niche

>>52521841
There were some good persistent world servers a few years back, no idea what the scene looks like now.

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Give them Mass Relays, wormholes or something for long-range travel and give them more far-off colonies (maybe disconected) so they can be involved in more things than just the ultra-dense star cluster that its their Empire. Stuck in one tiny place only means that they only interact with their own immediate surroundings.

Kinda sad that they're not the good guys in space. It'd be nice to have a civilization that is kinda representing our ideals that contrasts with what we actually became in 40k universe.

Irrelevant minor power with no reason to actually be a playable faction. The imperium could completely ignore them and the game would be the exact same.

>inb4 2/3 of the entire thread talks about the movies
>again
Please /tv/, leave. We had this already. They forge, they live underground and you need technologies to to make the underground habitable.

>>52519050
Because dwarfs are industrious. Industrious-industry-technology.

They are associated with craftsmanship.
They take a known concept and autismo over it to the point of it becoming extremely nice and valuable.
They don't drive fundamental science/technological innovation the way gnomes do, and they don't make sords as applied objects of art the ways elves do. They just take a sord and make it an excellent sord because they obsess every step of the way. Like bearded unwashed hardcore linux users argue over which distro is better instead of doing fun things like algorithms. And even if they did algorithms they'd just obsess over crap like conventions.

>>52516629
Play my favourite system anon!

>>52516629
At least it's not D&D.

>>52516629
Talislanta: tattooed slave amazon women.

-4 intelligence

-4 str

-4 wis

I started designing my game with almost Gurp-esque complexity. And then I reread it all when done and scrapped it. Each time I redo it, it's simpler and simpler, less and less numbers and rolls. Right now I have a modified ladder version with only d10, and I'm satisfied.

The only problem with a d10 ladder and simplified skill/asset use, is the combat. I fear that removing numbers and complexity of action will remove crunch and hence fun for some of my players.

What would be a good way of doing combat that is more complex than straight-up ladder and less complex than traditional ''all kinds of numbers and dice'' like DND and such ?

Thanks.

Bump to keep the thread alive til I get home from work.

>>52515766
I'm not familiar with the term ladder. Is that like a system with varying thresholds for success?

>>52513386
Paladins don't loot.

But donating it to the poor/local church/charities is a good use of ill-gotten gains.

>>52513426
Ideally, a Paladin would try and find out whether any of these bandits, if they're locally based, had dependents in one of the local towns/villages/farms/whatever, and if so, would pass on at least some of the loot to said dependents, or bring them to the attention of those local churches/charities to do it for them.

This is above and beyond, though, but compassion for the innocent is one of the hallmarks of a Paladin, and the children of a bandit should not starve for their parents' crimes. Ideally, by providing a good example to them, the Paladin can keep them from following in their parents' path, as well.

>>52513426
> Paladins don't loot.
But enchanted equipment is expensive, which I require so I can do more good. And is it looting if the owners are dead?

>But donating it to the poor/local church/charities is a good use of ill-gotten gains.
Yes, I would donate part to the poor. Well, if I really cannot take a dime for myself I would donate everything. I just don't want to keep gold lying there because 'ops cannot grab it or you fall'.

>>52509549

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool

It's a wushu practice weapon thing so it rattles around more and makes forms look and sound cooler. Literally no purpose in a real weapon.

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You can catch the opponents weapons in the rings, like a ring toss game on your own enemies spear, then you swing both your own weapon aswell as the enemies weapons (and possibly the enemy if he's still holding on) effectively tripling your attack range.

Female anything usually looks like a sexy woman in cosplay for /tg/ stuff.

>>52508737
You know why, I know why, this entire board understands why. This entire thread is pointless.

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I would like to request a Cyberpunk character.
Cammi Winters is British, 29, has blonde rocker style hair, slight tan skin and an average body type.
She has both her hands cyberware, with the top of the hands covered by a bright green translucent plastic, that lets you see the wire bundles passing as muscles and the metal rings that are joints.
Choosing style over function, she has cyberware up to the elbow: replacing the forearm basically: molded like a sleeve, triangular ends, the gaps to show off her metallic arm muscles, little laser lights available under the triangles that can be set to react to music or a set rotation

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Requesting a character for my Star Wars game:

Obi Wan Kenobi from A New Hope, but with the shrapnel/scars/eyepatch of Punished Snake from MGSV. Also, perhaps his hair and beard are a little more full.

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Requesting this here tiefling knight in a casual, non-combat kind of outfit like the one pictured.