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>>55314865
I mean, most crafters I know make them out of thick cardboard and shit tons of hot glue. You can make one using five large pieces if you measure carefully. Two identical pieces for the sides, one for the bottom, one for the back of the ship, and one for the deck. How much detail you want to put into them after that is up to you. The bottom can be flat since the ship is probably floating in the water anyways which helps with the stability.

>>55315363
Man I'm dumb, didnt even think to use carboard.

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Guess I should have started with a pic of big E jerking off a guardsman

Savage Worlds is super fast to set up, run, and resolve

>>55314223
I'd go with a GURPS Dungeon Fantasy hex crawl. With premade characters you can get pretty far in five hours, and the random elements of a hex crawl make for very fun short games where you don't have to worry about getting though a story, it's just a chance for them to explore another location.

>>55313281
those guys who worship lube

>>55313281
>just fuck my faction's aesthetic up pham

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what does it mean?

>>55312255
It's describing the players that play those alignments?

>>55311373
Green

>>55311587
Nice

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>>55300726

I cannot be so sure that is what the writers of 2e Planes of Chaos had in mind when writing up Bast and her Dream Hunters.

>>55303484

It is not especially difficult to piece together "rules" for consistent magic given several editions' worth of D&D lore to work with.

>>55303500

I focus on the planar races for the most part. The most influential planar species are the archons of Mount Celestia, the guardinals of Elysium, the eladrin of Arborea, the modrons and inevitables of Mechanus, the rilmani of the Outlands, the baatezu of Baator, the yugoloths of Gehenna and the Grey Waste, the tanar'ri of the Abyss and their press-ganged obyrith and loumara servitors, and the various elementals and genies of the Inner Planes. (Sorry, but the slaadi were screwed over by either Ssendam and Ygorl, or Primus, depending on whom you ask.)

Humans are still a major species in the Prime, of course, and it is human souls that make up the bulk of Outer Planar petitioners and thus outsiders.

People seem to like playing outsiders, especially celestials and fiends. Across the various players I have GMed for, there is a certain primal appeal to being an outright heavenly being, or a dark and profane entity.

>>55303725

I have been running this for a few years, and I have never used a *traditionally* class-based system for it. At most, I usually use a system with "classes" that determine a character's combat capacities, but that is about it.

>>55308858
>>55308987

Not OP, bumping to irritate autistic purists, rock on OP.

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>>55311546

Again, are there any particular sci-fi-isms that you would like to see filtered through a magical, planar-fantasy lens?

>>55308838
You should stop jerking your dick

>>55308838
>Notes

I never make notes on my games other than puzzles and shit about my players background past.

Why the fuck do you need so many notes?

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>>55308838
Learn to improvGM

Seriously, all I have is a single notepad with vague notes and broad-stroke ideas, and the rest is improv.

Overplanning, can blow up in your face more often than not.

>>55308605
I'm good with it actually.
I'm about four or five years over my "nerd elitism" phase now, and I've come to realize that elitism about stuff like that is kind of a sign of someone who has almost nothing else in their life to actually be proud of.

>>55308605
What a waste of thread. Another pointless (You) farm.

>>55308634
OP here, I'm just curious. DnD is great for what it is, I just think it gets spread around too liberally. It's great for sword and sorcery dungeon crawls, which have a lot of combat. I personally have evolved past it, but I'm just interested to hear opinions.

>>55308147
Cnt.
>Gnome wizard marvels at the sheer amount of magical artifacts Valgurl has amassed in his keep
>Tiefling starts laughing maniacally
>ohshitwut.png
>activate summoning circle that Valgurl was going to use to bring Orcus to this plane
>devils start crawling out
>reveal my true tiefling form to the party, my horns have grown back to their full length
>Turns out I was a warlock all along, and my patron was a servant of Mammon
>Mammon wanted Orcus out of the picture so he could take this plane
>mfw I'm the BBEG for the campaign

>>55308147

>Beat the vampire warlock Valgurl
>Valgurl

Did she, like, totally talk like this?

>>55308513
It was pronounced "Vaal-Goorl", lol

>>55307193
It would basically boil down to a band just travelling around.

>>55307243
Is there a rock band tour RPG?

>>55306859
Then don't let them use their own dice you twat

>>55306859
Honestly I would rather have a quest thread than another
>thing that didn't happen
thread

What level/system are we talking? What kind of games do your players like (intregue, dungeon crawls, etc)? Do you have any backstories from them yet?

Do a really crazy setting, that usually gets me thinking.

How about a frozen world. A three hundred years ago, it used to be full of life, but something angered the gods, and now people struggle to survive. Also, all the elves disappeared. Are they connected? Probably.

The party could start hunting a large animal for their village's food, and defending the kill from wolves/bandits/cultists of the Frozen King. During one of those encounters, one of the baddies drops a green leaf. Then the party will look for where the leaf came from, probably after a tearful goodbye to their families/friends in the village.

Should be enough for a first session.

>>55306318
5e lvl 2. Idk, my players like exciting campaigns lmao with a cool story. I don't use any dnd lore so done mention places or factions or whatever in the dnd world, I just use the system. So far the theme is a GoT type. Kingdoms are gonna go into eventual civil war, viking raids are gonna be a big part, and there's gonna be a Hun like horde coming from the east that will eventually invade the land. I want some impending doom type situation to happen as well. Don't really have an antagonist or don't really know how to get the players involved or make them feel important in a setting like that.

>>55305840
In order:

Structured ideas and winging it are both valid.

"Subtly" dumb would be, perhaps, someone lacking in common sense. Doesn't close doors behind them, doesn't wipe their feet on doormats, carries too much stuff at once, doesn't check how much ammo they carry, et cetera.

Another way would be the "addleminded professor" angle--instead of being 'merely' book-dumb, the character is extremely articulate and passionate about a certain topic (combat, magic, religion, geography, history...), and totally clueless in other disciplines. They're "dumb", but only in a certain context.

"Intuitive but dim" would be akin to a street-smart character. Perhaps they never finished a formal education. They'd have a good handle on social situations and vernacular, but struggle to define words--or have to search their memory for a word to describe something they're feeling.

(D&D essentially differentiates street/book smarts through WIS/INT--your mileage will vary by the system)

Introducing nuance is like any other attribute to a character--observe their personality and attributes from a new perspective and see what can be adapted.

Be aware that not every group handles 'roleplaying intellect' the same way. Some won't mind a mentally-stunted barbarian solving complex riddles, others will. Take the group into account, too.

>>55305840
Intelligence only means whatever the mechanics of that system make it mean, in D&D, for instance, an intelligent character gets more skill points, is probably better at magic, and is more likely to succeed at certain (mostly knowledge) skills. That is all having high Intelligence means, the rest of the character's personality is whatever you want it to be.

>>55305762
by ressources you mean general tips on how to DM?

Maybe not for a new DM, but I find angryDM to be interesting.
http://theangrygm.com/

I got some ressources from cassus belli and J&S in french, too.

Don't sweat it, the first games won't be amazing but like everything you'll do it well after some time.

>>55305762

Honestly, as cancerous as the other D&D subreddits are, I would hit up r/DnDBehindtheScreen. They have a ton of pretty helpful resources there.

>>55305762
Ryuutama and Apocalypse World.

>>55305479
I don't know many systems that work without combat. Maybe a one-page system like The Witch's Familiars, or something like Golden Sky Stories? Really, once you found a mechanical base, the only problem is establishing tone.