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Step 1. Don't play D&D where sufficiently leveled wizards can kill gods and wipe out entire countries within a month.
Step 2. Make magic users rare. Spell tomes are closely guarded and valued instead of bargain bin crap at magical Walmart.

>>52047502
You should look into the Tippyverse setting. Basically a logical result of standard D&D rules, including, naturally, Wizards ruling the world.

Lazy solution: They are so autistic that they don't bother with things that would have any effect on society. Basically never stepping outside of their towers.

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>>52046506

I've never seen any actual hatred directed towards axes.

Personally I like them. But swords are cooler.

>>52046506
>>52046506
> So why so much hatred for the thing in fantasy settings and in this board in general?

It's poorly portrayed in media/film. Frankly an axe looks badass, but a shiny sword has more "bling", and it is always depicted as the traditional weapon of the classical knight/warrior, while usually axes are portrayed as crude, and they are usually depicted as barbaric weaponry. That, and media usually likes to make axes look fucking ridiculously oversized

Truth be told, I'm one of the few that would pick an axe over a sword everyday. It's lightweight, easy to carry and is basically a jack of all trades, you can use it for more than just hacking someone's shoulder off, and you can also throw it if you train with it (just hope you don't miss because now you basically gave your target an axe to kill you with).

And it is also devastating in combat since most of it's weight is concentrated on the bladed part.

People on this board and that autist Skallagrim argue that axes are hard to use and are inferior due to reach and weight. But those retards are picturing woodsman's axes or similar axes designed for felling trees or cutting wood. Tomahawks or Dane-axes where the favorite weaponry of many peoples all around history, even in favor of swords and other weaponry. Heck, even pole-arms have axe heads for chopping motherfuckers up.

Pratically, they are cheap and easy to use, while swords, maces, spears and etc where usually weapons of royalty (because they are expensive) or required some form of training.

But answering your main question:

> Why so few love for axes in general /tg/?

Neckbeards can't say they can cut through tanks with a tomahawk.

>>52046542
Everytime I post an axe in a weapons and armor thread I get called a peasant. Usually by a bunch of people (or the same fucker samefagging)

>>52044083
And once again the links are fucked.


https://www.reddit.com/r/SongofSwordsRPG/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2006613790/song-of-swords-tabletop-roleplaying-game

https://mega.nz/#F!S89jTT7J!ozFi9GvzaFGHfBa59Ik2-Q

>>52044121
Does anyone know why Libreoffice Writer for Ubuntu won't paste full links? I'm baffled.

>>52044166
It's because you're not using an actual editor like emacs, a tex manager, or something like kate.

>>52044006
Why is it that when my opponent does stupid shit that's against the rules and I let him he gets a warning, but when he does stupid shit that I Catch him on I get a DQ?

>>52044758
Unless you caught him by punching him in the face, I'm calling a large amount of shit of the bovine variety

>>52044006
Does copying an activated ability count as the ability being activated twice?

>>52030669
No, the High Lords outrank him.

>>52030669
The other Primarchs are just shit.
Guilliman is the only one who is actually needed to get the Imperium back on it's feet.
The other's are just beatsticks and could be replaced by Imperial Knights with their faces painted on the front.

>>52030669
>how will Guilliman fix the Imperium all by himself?

Nobody thinks or claims he will. What he can do is take command of the Imperium's armies and orchestrate a more coherent defense against Abaddon's forces, re-establishing 40k's eternal stalemate despite the recent ramping up of the stakes.

What are essential combat skills (not Skills-skills, but including stuff like Techniques and other advanced options) for premodern combat?

>>52018149

Who is the true GURPS GEN?

you or? >>52018281

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Pic related is an SAI I'm working on for a THS game, and I would like to know if I'm just doing this completely wrong. I've noticed I don't have much room for skills, because of how expensive both my SAI template and Cybershell is, and I'm not sure if I should go for a cheaper shell or not.

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>>52013335
>GM/Player
GM
>System Preferred
Covert Ops, a d100 modern action system
>Times Available (with timezone!)
Saturdays 10 AM - 4 PM CST
>Method of Play (Skype, IRC, roll20, etc)
Text based on roll20, but there's no existing character sheet
>Contact Info
Spades#3982
>Additional Notes
I am already running a game but want to open up another to have a bit of fun with guns and goons. Will provide the book(s) upon request. The campaign is set in an alternate timeline where America is under siege and counting on spies, guerillas, and civilians to aid the war effort.

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bumpiriningadong

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Bumping

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Fist 4 orks

>>52079296
Xth for literally any other faction that isn't complete garbage

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>Orks are a melee race!
>I2

>>52077745
Depends on how much traveling people do.

I mean, irl people know the Earth is round.

>>52077745
I would say in general, it would be the only belief in earth. Just look at how long it took for the world to consider Galileos studies.
On a deeper level though it would depend on the nation's of your setting. If a nation values astronomy and the study of stars, there could possibly be a split in those who believe in a spherical earth and those that believe in a flat one.

I would say that those who live mainland within great cities and those just preoccupied with surviving in general would unanimously accept the flat earth. To that contrary could be those who built their culture around navigation at sea and those who live at elevations might be able to distinguish the curvature of the earth.

>>52077877
>Just look at how long it took for the world to consider Galileos studies.

You do realize ancient Greeks had already done the math to know the world was round right? That the entire world isn't medieval Italy right?

>>52074495
>Have you ever designed a deck around a theme tangentally related to Magic (like "Mad Scientist") or even totally unrelated (like a tribute to another franchise)? If so, what was it and how did it play?

Yes. I built an Orkz deck.

It's explosive, unpredictable, loses a lot, and is goofy as shit.

I built Numot America Matters, it was boardwipes, kill spells, and land destruction. It was actually pretty good, since it's so easy to grab Sunforger (and by extension, Faith's Reward).

And funnily enough, I got btfo just as badly sometimes as I btfo of others. My roommate was playing Reveillark/Karmic Guide and had an altar of dementia out, and I was out of removal targets with sunforger. and I only had Numot. So I proceeded to keep topdecking lands, and got nicked down from 16 fucking life to a loss.

>>52074522
>>52074591
No one cares.

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Save a catgirl and she'll be safe for a while.
Train a catgirl to defend herself and she'll be safe for the rest of her life.

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>>52072682
But teaching your catgirl to fight is bad ownership. They're for headpats, belly rubs, and handholding with the lights turned off .

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So, after I finished reading up on the general information of the Circle of Magic, I figured that I could get away with creating a custom Ambient Magic. What do you guys think?

> Crafting: A form of Wind Magic, this strange Magic seems to follow the chaotic whims of inspiration and creation. A Craft Mage draws their power not from the final products of the various forms of creation whether it be art or something more practical, but from the process itself, the conceptualization and creation, and it is this magic that a Craft Mage could use to fake the gifts that other more specialized Ambient Mages have received, and only when they channel their magic through a tool associated with that craft that they themselves designed and built, this lasts only as long as they can keep channeling their magic. Things get strange however, when they channel more than one of these Craft Magics, for one thing, they could treat the raw materials of one craft as they were the raw materials of another (carving metal like wood) or combine the crafts to get a completely new result (cooking and painting to get an edible portrait).

Also, link for comparison's sake: http://tamorapierce.wikia.com/wiki/Ambient_magic

That island chain is a little funky but the rest looks alright

>>52072375
Don't ask about maps here, people here think they're geology experts when in fact they don't know shit.

>>52072375
Looks fine, other than mountains can't tell what areas are forests, plains, deserts etc.

The mountain chain middle left does looks a little odd though.

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This is all I got so far with Gift of Orzhova

>>52070541
Man, I can't do it, I can't make that fucking Jeskai Cawblade ft. Thunderous Wrath. What the fuck do I do, cut white to a splash? Throw in Thermoalchemist? Cut Mulldrifter and Champion of the Guildpact? I DON'T KNOW.

>>52070738
>Thermoalchemist
yes

Posting my campaign so far from last thread. Looking for opinions and if it's an okay thing to roll with.

Alright

The campaign just started, my players are now heading towards a city that will act as a sort of "hub." They found out from the first town they were in, about the local Lord's daughter who is having relations with a member of someone's court. That person from someone's court is appealing to the daughter with gems, so that she could get her father to do what he says.

The father/local lord found out about this, and is outraged by it. Demanding that they withdraw troops from the hub city, as that was one of the things that he was convinced to be doing.

The players are entering into a "lower quarter", an area for visitors to do their business and leave. I'm thinking about expanding on this a bit to have it be a slight more political or have something underlying beneath the surface, but the main thing(s), I want to do is to have someone feigning an excavation team, who's "hiring" freelancers to go out and map more of the western nation.

Another one, to appeal to engage the cleric, is how one of the places of worship is being controlled by a local gang.

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>>52070187
Saw this picture and I had to do it.

Drow wizard that wants to become a lich like his adoptive pappy.

Took a little bit to persuade the DM though. Surface Drow and friendly lich dad aren't exactly common things found in faerun

>>52070275
>Surface Drow and friendly lich dad aren't exactly common things found in faerun

Well there's this big fuckin fat lich with a ton of living family relatives who helps them make living zombies so they can live forever (your aging is split among all the living zombies)

He's the one with the 100s of phylacteries.

>>52069071
>not a big superhero fan
>starts a thread about a superhero RPG

?????

>>52069435
Not OP, but PbTA is as much as a GMing style as it as a ruleset and naturally the two intertwine. So playing something "for the system" would actually sense here.

I don't like post apocalyptic stuff at all and I liked playing Apocyplse World.

Though yeah, it DOES make more sense to choose a PbtA game in a genre/flavor of you choice.

>>52069071
>every hero except the girl with dyke hair and a wierd pale guy look like non-whites
i have a bad feeling about this