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Here's a question. Why are there so few druid archetypes? Surely there's other variants than the five that they've made so far?

>>52090659
A lot of old school druids would be hard to do in 5th.

Totem Druid in 2e was amazing but a pet druid would overshadow even revised BM unless it lost a lot of its druidness like wildshape.

Oozemaster would be hard to do in the edition that doesn't like stat penalties (they lost a point of charisma every 4-5 levels) unless you made it so they can never take social skills besides intimidate.

I could probably look through 2e's complete druids but iirc a lot of kits do fall squarely under moon or land already.

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What is pic related?

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>What is a Prophet

Humanity has become a multi-solar-system Earth Empire. Prophet refers to the John Prophets, genetically engineered soldiers of the human empire. Thousands upon thousands (millions, maybe?) of Johns, ruthless and genetically programmed for loyalty, took over planets, entire galaxies, expanding imperial rule over thousands of alien races.

Until one day came Old Man John Prophet, legendary soldier of the Empire who rebelled against his rulers and war broke out between humanity and the many alien races it had enslaved, with Great Grey Grandfather Old Man John Prophet as a leader of the rebellion. The war was won, the Empire purged, the rebel warriors went their spearate ways in the peace that followed.

It's been many years since the war, and the Earth Empire is moving to rise again. Imperial John Prophets everywhere are awakening from hybernation, their mission to reinstate the Earth Empire ingrained into their genes.

How was the empire purged?

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Johns have a caste-structured society, each caste created for a specific task. For command, for scouting, infantry grunts... even a pleasure caste.

Because they can be so varied in shape and abilites, instead of coming up with classes/kits for each caste, the system is a point-buy giving players freedom to custmize their Johns.

Points can be spent on:

>stats
We're struggling on this. We're already kind of set on how they'll function. Each stat is a dice pool that you roll for whatever task your John is trying to accomplish. The GM will determine a relevant stat and target number for the roll, depending on your John's purpose. One die above target level is a success, but barely; with additional successes meaning a gradually better performance at the task.
The problem we're having is which stats should Johns have? It'd be good to have narrative/descriptive stats, like Apocalypse World's array of Cool/Hard/Hot/Sharp/Weird, but we haven't settled on adjectives that'd be appropriate for the setting.

>powers
There are Johns with extra limbs, Johns with special senses, Johns with psychic powers, Johns with superhuman strength, Johns with resistance to cold, to heat, to the vaccuum of space. It depends on the John's purpose and it'd be impossible to codify everything, but we need to come up with at least a sample list.
Powers are bought with points, in this rate:
If you have a power that functions fully; that is to say, without a limitation, it costs two points. If you buy it with a limitation, it costs only one point.
Say you want your John to have Tolerance to Temperature, that would cost two points; but if you want him to have only Tolerance to Heat, that would be one point.
If you want your John to have a prehensile tail, that would cost two points; if his tail is not prehensile, only one point; if his tail is not prehensile, but has poison-secreting glands, that would be two points again; if its poison only affects a certain type of creature, it costs one point.

>>52086814
Maybe Fallen Dragon by Hamilton? People that like one usually like the other.

As much as I adore the robots, trantor, and the rest of Asimov's stories (even the non-sci-fi stuff like Azazel or the black widowers) Foundation never hooked me. I cannot figure why people like it so much.

>>52086814
And what was that feeling?

>>52086814
The best Asimov are the books he has not written. Read the Robot City novels, they're great.

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>>52085530

My theory is that living in Michigan makes you want to see the end of the world.

>>52085530
Speeding of Palladium, does anyone play Robotech RPG Tactics?

Ain't shit to do but drown

>>52084276
You won't try and escape, or perhaps fight it?

>>52084451
I punch it.

>>52083833
I have an interest but don't know where to get 1/144 humans

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>>52083833

No. Traditional Gaming, a board dedicated to traditional board games, cards, and minatures warfare, does not like scale modeling at all, considering it travesty of the highest order, and you should be ashamed to show your face here.

I love the Renault-FT.

Bump?

Jesus this thread shouldn't be this dead. If anyone could tell me where to buy 1/144 humans that would be great, soldiers or mechanics would be ideal

>>52083487
YOU MONSTER!

>>52083487
FUCK. YOU.

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>>52083487
>drink ring
>is actually an octagon
>mfw

What's so bad about We Eat Blood? I've never read it.

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>>52082170
If a werewolf was shot with a silver bullet, but a bulletproof vest reduced all the damage to bashing, would they still take Aggravated damage from the bullet being silver?

Are mages actually the strongest things playable?

Or is this just meme talk?

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>>52081311
Man every day with this thread and this card for ants

>>52082073
Dovin is busted

I'd like just because his last name is baan

Stop shilling Strike

Why does /tg/ seem to love 4E and hate Strike?

If you're running a system and don't know how to make the gameplay interesting, either you have poor understanding of the system or it's a shitty system. Do one of the following:
1. Read the rules.
2. Play a better system.

We actually came across this problem in a game design group I'm working with, and we were struggling to find reasons why we shouldn't just make Ranger a Rogue variant. Ranged combat, stealth, two weapon fighting and a focus on skills with a degree of overlap between the two... Basing the two on the same chassis, even if we gave them different features, skills etc, made a lot of sense given how narrow Rangers are in concept.

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>>52076764
A gun-toting trophy hunter.

>>52076808
I disagree in that they should be a Rogue subtype, but they should definitely have some conceptual overlap. I see a Ranger as the Rogue of the countryside, they should be able to do all the stuff Rogues can in buildings but in the wilderness.

The other issue is that very few campaigns, by omitting food and water and tracking enemies, allow the ranger to behave they should be behaving.

are you me?

Also, just check out literally anything from forgotten weapons.

>>52069379
What do you want to know?

>>52069527
Personally I'd like to know as a new gm how to make them balanced for damage.
Not op btw

>Sign up to see what your friends are reading, get book recommendations, and join the world’s largest community of readers.

Yeah, no

>>52067086

Suit yourself. I've found it's a good way to keep track of all the books I read.

>Someone added The Black Prism already

Whoever you are, I love you

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>>52066328
I don't have anything productive to contribute.

>>52066328
I know like almost nothing about 40k. Tell me about how this rowboat guy isn't dead anymore and why that is slightly important.

>>52067222
Imagine there were 20 Jesuses, now imagine half of those fucked off to worship the devil and the other half were either dead or disappeared.

Now imagine one of those came back. That's about it.

On a scale of one to Trump, how are you guys feeling about the CID Cephalyx and our Dread Rot overlords?

>>52062553
CID Cephalyx?

>>52062582
Sorry, wrong temporary faction on the brain. Allow me to rephrase:

On a scale of one to Trump, how are you guys feeling about the CID Grymkin and our Dread Rot overlords?