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After some thinking, we decided on some principles that should be used to make a game distinct and interesting

If Twilight struggle is founed on domino principle, we suggest hypothethical game would be founded on the "controlled chaos therory" and "global conspiracy theory"

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>>55139674
Starting with second thing. Why conspiracy?
First of all, that allows to avoid simple continuation of USA/USSR debackle. USA vs Russian Federation just will not work from balanced gameplay perspective
Second, it will allow to make superpower (or former one) into one of the places where contest goes on. For instance, that would allow to model certain impeachment processes or interesting elections as events
Third reason - and it ties to the first principle mentioned before - conspiracy theories mak place for false flag operations, provocations etc. which is what "controlled chaos theory" is based on
Now, just what conspiracy should that be?.. If one side would be "globalists" - what would be other one?..

>>55139818
Now, for the first principle. We suggest, in departing from the original game's mechanic, have third kind of influence. That would represent instability. Both players would be able to use it to try and further their goals somehow, yet it would represent a danger to their eforts to control things

That is the general idea, although how can it be implemented?
One of the ideas we had was to try and steal Pandemic mechanic with some fashion

>>55139235
A majority of thousand sons sorcerers actually dispise Tzeentch for turning the legion to dust.

>>55139235
Are you kidding me, the irony is palpable. The foresighted and powerful Thousand Sons reduced to literal puppets. He's probably still crying with laughter ten millenia later

>>55139335
>>55139377
Then why do they still follow him?

>>55139090

Back in my day we called these golems.

>>55139126
And kobolds were doglike. IT'S THE CURRENT YEAR

I played a Warforged spellsword a long time ago in a 3.5e custom setting about a bunch of guilds. He was in the may-as-well-be-police guild, so "Robocob" quickly stuck.

>>55138787
Sign me the fuck up

smells like furfaggotry, and minmaxxing, your anime image doesn't help either

>>55138828
You are one bitter individual with a transparent agenda, and we all, including yourself, would be better off with you never posting again.

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>>55137607
There a reason "originull character donut steel" is a meme. Alot of the time it's because the characters are such hot garbage that they'd be too bad for even a crap-tier anime, let alone tolerated in a game where anyone gave even the slightest bit of a fuck about quality.

Playing a character is a small part of the game. I confess I tend to forget my character's stated personality quirks when they'd get in the way of defeating whatever obstacle the GM throws in front of us. It's not deliberate, I just get caught up in the game and authentic character acting stops being a priority.

Sometimes the GM is at least partially to blame. They often don't work backstory into the game and just leave it as a thing to be occasionally mentioned by the player it belongs to, with no real grounding in the game itself. That makes it easier to forget you even came up with one, though it doesn't completely absolve you of any blame for forgetting.

I never liked Pathfinder's setting because it is just there to showcase the ability to use the system for any fantasy genre. So the setting in Starfinder is just as uninspiring. Now as for the system. I have to play the game to say for certain, but it does not look very balanced nor does it look complete. For magitek go with fading suns instead.

I wonder if it could end up being babbys first sci fi role playing game the same way D&D is babbys first fantasy.

>>55138912
I don't think it will be, but I do think there's a market for that game.

Is cliche space fantasy cliche enough, though? Classic fantasy literature has a bedrock of cliche, dudes with swords killing evil magic bastards and such. Classic sci-fi is more diverse. Can the same system do Star Wars and Star Trek? What about Dune and John Carpenter? At some point the rules are going to lose their flavour for trying to accommodate everything and at that point you might as well just play GURPS.

>>55137211
>Where are you guys from?
basement

>Are there a lot of fa/tg/uys where you live?
only me, although I'm not fat

My autism stops me from interacting with outside world in /tg department. Outside I'm normalfag and nobody know what I'm lurking.

>>55137211
Bremerton Washington.

Place sucks.

>Where are you guys from?
I'm in Denver CO, it's pretty good around here. I have a coffee shop near me, called enchanted grounds. It's a coffee shop and tabletop store. I love it there, I can chill listen to music and drink coffee while working on campaigns.
>Are there a lot of fa/tg/uys where you live?
Not really I mean there are a few but like 1 out of 20.

I also started DMing at the store for their weekly encounters. I got a bunch of free bumper stickers and like 13 pages of those pop out pathfinder minis from the store on their behalf.
>Feelsgoodman.jpg

>>55136959
Forgot link

https://vronos.com/magic-story-podcast-transcripts/magic-story-podcast-ixalan/

>>55136959
daylie reminder that ixalan is strictly worse lustria

Its aztecs arent dinosaurs, its pirates arent zombies and its dinosaurs arent over the top old childrens book dinosaurs.

Also a critical lack of lasers and frogs

I don't know anything about aztec/mayans at all.
Any good places/documentaries to learn about them?

>>55136659
Somethingingreekmancer

>>55136659

All of those words have slightly different connotations, which, admittedly, the party may not directly understand.
I prefer to use:

Mage - Someone who is wise and learned, and can do magic as a result of this knowledge
Wizard - Someone who does rituals and alchemy
Magician - An entertainer, who doesn't actually know magic.
Spellcaster,Sorcerer - Any and all magic users
Enchanter - Someone who tends to use magic that confuses, dazzles or beguiles
Warlock - Usually an evil sorcerer
Witch - Usually an evil woman who uses magic

Unless, of course, I'm playing a system with classes, in which case I make sure the names are used appropriate to the system/setting.

>>55136659
Sorcerer and Man-at-Arms

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>>55136501
Second for Snakebites are the worst subfaction of any faction.

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Post dudes

>>55136144
They aren't buying paint, they're not profitable anyway.

>>55136348
>players buying models and other supplies from the shop isn't profitable

>>55136480
>Implying lazy players aren't buying their minis online
>Implying lazy players need supplies besides wal-mart super glue
>Implying they wouldn't try to play with bottle caps and bits of cardboard if they thought they could get away with it

>>55136142
Speech 0

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>>55136142
An insignificant, little man.

-10 HP

>>55136047
Oh boi, another thinly-veiled "DnD sucks" topic.

You're completely correct, however.

>>55136047
If character creation is integrated into actual play, then taking an entire session to make a character is perfectly fine.

No, I don't know any game that works like this. Except DCC, very arguably.

>>55136047

Lengthy character creation is annoying, but it's not enough to condemn the whole system if it has other merits. Don't be absolutist.

>if it is not a problem for them
It should be. Part of the entire point of an acolyte's job is to root out hidden cults. You think Ravenor's minions kicked down doors and yelled "WE ARE THE INQUISITION, GET ON THE FUCKING FLOOR" 24/7?

Prancing around like you own the place and waving Inquisitorial authority around is just asking for either a higher-up to object or some ballsy cultists/xenos/whatever to try and make an example of them. Assuming the shit they're trying to investigate doesn't just up and vanish at the hint of trouble.

>>55136026
As soon as you fail you run out of money for that session/story segment and you cannot buy anything else

>>55136090
Substitute "Inquisitorial authority" for "gigantic wads of cash" as appropriate. Roaming around, say, hive worlds and buying fancy equipment is a great way to get attention you don't want.

>>55135857
Her tentacles rippled with pleasure as she gazed upon him.

"Abs...like stone." She bit her lip and raised her eyes; dare he meet them?

>>55135857

I can't wait for the Gatewatch to reform on Dominaria and defeat Bolas once and for all!

>>55135857
Jace looks so bad in this new card.

They had to give him such a trashy haircut