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You stop trying to adapt exact mechanics.

Seriously. Stop it. It never works, and you'll only hurt the experience in doing so.

Stop looking at the surface level details of how those mechanics work and consider what they add to the experience, what parts of their concepts and themes you think are valuable and could be an enjoyable addition to a game.

From there, you should have a much better idea of what you need to do.

Estus are just healing surges like in 4th edition. My healing surges were refluffed as syringes with healing juice in them. But as the previous anon said you're worrying too much about details. Focus on the lore and the setting over game mechanics.

>>52488266

Even in terms of mechanics, when adapting between mediums trying to copy over mechanics is always a bad idea. It's something I see all the time with people trying to make tabletop adaptations of videogames.

Instead of looking at the system as a whole and seeing how each element fits in with the others and adds to the experience, how it works in practice, they copy over the surface level details and then get confused as to why it turns into a clunky, unenjoyable mess with none of the aspects of the original they actually liked despite it being 'accurate'.

>>52488162
You're gonna need to expand a little upon what's been previously established about the villain's abilities.

Otherwise, just watch the recent green lantern movie or copy the comics about galactus.

>>52488162
>planet-corrupting villain threatening

I mean, if it's a PLANET-CORRUPTING villian, wouldn't it be better to drop the theatrics and instead adopt something a little more... Macro?

Like, imagine if
>CLIMATE CHANGE
Wasn't actually caused by us and it WAS some kind of pacific-rim level shit where the psychic consciousness of all the dinosaurs are pissed off because we've marginalized their existence/civilization by displaying their bones in museums and using their congealed essence as fuel for our entire civilization.

So they're slowly terraforming our planet back into dinosaur climate.

Sorry, what was the question?

>>52488162
Make another planet job to it.

>>52488057
I'd think that it's time to confiscate the GMs dice and take him to a brothel.

>>52488057
That's been the 'thing' silver and steel dragons have liked to do for a while, using their innate magic to take humanoid form. Other kinds will do it from time to time but not nearly as often.

>>52488057
I'd play this in an ERP but not a serious campaign.

Background Skills
Profession(Sailor.)

Well, that's Pathfinder. What edition are you?

You can always make up something like a Ship Navigation(Intelligence) check if you need to use it. I used intelligence since I think it's a knowledge skill, but I suppose you could use wisdom too if you thought it was more about intuition, or whatever other stat you thought it fit under.

But usually the tool/game/whatever proficiencies don't come up all that often. You're lucky if you get some use out of an extra language.

>>52487988
What edition?
Because in 3.5 there's actually a book that covers sea adventures, but the basic answer to your question is:
Profession (Sailor)

18 Charisma
combined

>>52487913

10, 2, 2, 2, 2 in order

>>52487896
Why are those four gentlemen sitting beside an ostrich?

>>52487878
If you are too lazy writing all down, don't bother to begin with.

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>>52487878
This spreadsheet might help, but its kinda hard for houseruling

>>52487878
there's a PDF form fillable charsheet in /5eg/ mega

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It's time.

>>52487443
Your race is...plant-insects?

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>>52488935
Saprolings. With smarts.

And maybe torches.

Legend of Koizumi is awesome manga and I'm grateful to the Anon who storytimed it for us couple weeks ago.

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>>52487188

I've only ever played riichi mahjong against computer opponents.

Worse, it wasn't even the Saki game. Just a regular flavourless mahjong game.

>>52487188

I wish I could get into mahjong.

First for the Ordo Xenos, suffer not the alien to live

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Xth for Tau!

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>>52487115
Where were you when Orks could have saved Cadia?

>>52485933
By what right do they revoke our sovereignty? Sheer force of arms? It is quite apparent we cannot fight them, true, but we can make occupation and control of our homeland prohibitively costly and dangerous.

Now if, on the other hand, they want to consider trade, both our people could prosper and no-one need be harmed. We could even lease a small parcel of land to these strangers and allow their missionaries safe passage, providing they agree to follow our laws, on our land. Neither of us are savages, after all.

Even the fucking British Empire never just marched in and said, "You're our bitches now;" they always had to create some trumped-up casus belli, to protect their pretense of being 'civilized'.

RIP Iain.

>>52486793
Well, the Belgians did.

>>52485860
>Thinking the Spiritual Liege can be corrupted
Trying to sow seeds of doubt, heretic?

>>52485860
Yes and no. It's a good rule of thumb for regular people and Astartes, but exceptional individuals can rape the warp and still have shiny golden cocks. See most of the Grey Knights.

>>52485860

Didn't the Emperor got his powers and made the Primarchs based on a deal, which he violated, he made with the Chaos Gods? The whole Imperium is the result of the Emperor thinking he could make a faustian deal, con some eldritch abominations, and get away unscathed.

>>52485756
Needs longer, needs more vowel.
Veraschenfelt
Grucktchenlict

>>52485756
"Alderstein" would probably be better phonetically.
"Erdfall" would probably mutate into another word given time, such as "Erdfel".

>>52485756
How knowledgeable are your players?

>>52485744
After what they gave us in Deathwing I no longer care what the frogs offer us

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>>52485744
Here's one I was working on

It's not based on any 40K RPG but it is a d100 roll-under system

Stuff in blue isn't finalized and still needs to be adjusted and balanced. Stuff in red has yet to be done.

>>52485764
I mean, yeah, but I wonder how much of it was Focus and GW's fault. It'd have been badass to have multirole shit, like fighting alongside Skitarii or speeding at 60 miles an hour as a Vindicare.

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THIS SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THOSE JAPANESE ANIMES!

>>52485525
both are actually just amulets of detect magic, marketed to different market segments, in order to fuel class struggle

>>52485525
Oh my god stop summoning the legions of hell to do your goddamn laundry that's what a homunculus is for I am going to beat you with a rope if you keep doing this shit.