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the archive has it.
Don't forget to contribute to it if you have any rare books or pdfs in your possession.

>>55305047
Oh, nice.

I'm dumb as a rock though. What/where's the archive?

Thanks!

What do you mean gambling based? Gambling as the game mechanics, or gambling as an activity in-game.

Because if it's in-game, just gamble in real life as your characters.

>>55303937
In game.
But with a master who fucks around with probability. any idea on how to apply it?

>>55304733
Suppose it kind of depends on what sort of gambles you're thinking.
If it's 1-on-1 with a cheating DM, you can have him roll more dice than needed, if it's a dice game, and keep favourable results. Say the game has you roll 2 dice, the DM can roll 3 or 4 behind the screen and choose which results he wants. Alternatively, he could just set a dice on whatever number he wants behind the screen and pretend to roll so when he lifts the screen you see what result would normally come from fudging dice.

If it's a game with multiple people like a sort of free-for-all, say a poker game with 3 players, let the player be able to pass notes to the DM before every hand, or make alliegances. Then the DM could have an extra deck of cards from which he pulls out high value cards to 'deal' to the players that have his favour.

The important thing, I think, is that everything is done in secret. Let's say you roll behind some cover and the DM rolls behind cover. Even though the DM is allowed to cheat, he won't always know if he needs to because he doesn't know what you roll.

>>55301290
What if you just deal with the mold, then give a new priming and count it as the first?

>>55301290

Scrape it and use some fine sandpaper to smooth it. It's no big deal.

Dare ye enter my magical realm of metal and badass?

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*blocks your buff*

>>55300148
This is a homebrew I've been playing ever since I got into modern, it's a beast of an abzan list. I've won many a FNM, and generally never have a worse record than 3-1or 4-1 for my lgs's modern Wednesdays.

>>55300447
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/abzan-affinity-counters/

>>55299550

Don't mention the word "homebrew"

Just say "You will be playing minor nobles in the city state of X as mysterious forces work against you."

>>55299550
Recruit online with the name of the system, and screen via voice-chat when giving a session zero primer, that includes necessary background on the setting.

>>55299739
/tread
Dont lie too. If someone asks just say "Im doing my own spin on x" or just "my own setting"

Yes and no on the complication.

Character Creation? Complicated as fuck. It's a skill point system, with points derived from stats. Skill cost is dependant on class.

Leveling Up? Complicated as fuck with aforementioned skill point system and an additional bullshit rolling for stats to see if you gained or lost stats from their potential maximums.

Actual play? Not that complicated, as its exploding percentile die versus a target number. But it is chart heavy as a motherfucker.. There's a reason its called chartmaster/ rolebastard among grogs.

If you play have players print out relative weapon charts and crit/fumble charts, it beats the shit out of using one book for everything. Oh and some splats ruin everything (fuck you aether and nether magic).

I'd look to see if there is a lets play on youtube, it's much easier to watch it in actual play, then reading about it, especially from my ass who hasn't played it in like half a decade.

>>55299207
I have never played it, but some guys in a former group I was in did. They had some abhorrent stories about the system encouraging people to steal the spotlight, one-up one another and drag everything out, because every little shitty thing gets you XP (lighting a campfire, cooking, skinning slain beasts...). Charts were supposedly exploitable as fuck and the XP rewards completely unbalanced. If I remember correctly, they said that landing the killing blow on enemies gives that character a massive XP bonus, and giving support (healing etc.) almost none at all.

Because they played this system for so long, they were pretty much ruined as roleplayers. Their idea of roleplaying is having hour-long descriptions of what their characters do in their idle time. It was fucking boring.

Since it's compe out, other games have grown much more complex, so it's not that avater of gomblex it used to be, that's just a meme.

What really sets it apart imo is that it's more consequent than modern games. Be a fighter, go into your first fight, be unlucky, lose your sword arm to a random crit. Shit: The Happening. There are generally a lot of tables that will slow down the game unless your GM knows what he's doing. The game is not really that complex in the sense that your awesome character builds take 3 times as long to make - it's more complex in the sense that the in-game randomization might have unexpected results like the aforementioned sword arm, and consequently take your character on wild rides, or just kill him.

I have fond memories of playing it while I was younger but I haven't touched it in a while. Trying it out isn''t the worst thing you can do though.

Be very clear and simple with your descriptions. Have a couple sentences ready for prime locations and characters.

Just use a voice call and use a text channel for maps and your dice bot. You'll get a lot more done if you're talking to each other live rather than wait 5 minutes for that one dude to decide exactly how he wants to type about flirting with the princess.

>>55298267
Push plots forward at 3x the rate you normally would, and adjust XP opportunities to favor exploration/social stuff or use milestones (assuming you use D&D)

>>55297505
this belongs in a gamefinder thread
/sage

>>55297505
Is that an Always Sunny reference?

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Here's an example of a Browbeat-style card. Still trying to get the balance down. And yes, I'm perfectly aware this is a Red card with a Black effect. The original Browbeat cards had the same pattern of being out of color.

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>>55296301
Huh, what do you know. I was just brainstorming forthis sort of effect.

>>55296325
I like it. Likely a fairly easy decision for the person if they have something they really want to hold onto though. I would say that browbeat-style cards are also the best place to do some color-pie bending, as long as the penalty is in color. Makes it ultimately up to the opponent if they want to give you an efficient spell in line with what you're doing already, or take an out-of-color effect that might sting less.

>>55296564
I think better wording would be
>Exile target spell unless its controller discards two cards.
Though I'd just change it to counter.

>Interrogate
Thanks.

>Huh, what do you know. I was just brainstorming forthis sort of effect.
If you're the guy who mentioned Browbeat and Dash Hopes in the last thread, I based this thread off that post. I'm a bit partial to it since Temporal Extortion is one of my favorite cards ever. I'll have to try a few more effects like these later.

>>55425267
>inevitable conclusions
Your belief that your conclusions are inevitable or that the actual results would be necessarily unfun convince me that you are confusing your fantasies of future technology with Science Fiction.
This is a disservice to all concerned.
Kindly knock it off.

>>55425267
>we can go into orbit
>therefore I am also able to teleport across North america

>>55425267
I agree with you for the most part. Think about it, we've already hit and past the Cyberpunk age. However, I would like to offer one counter to you:

Maintenance

A lot of these awesome, high-tech systems are going to break down and they will require entire industries to fix. Parts, supplies, the more you can take from an asteroid, the more you will need.


The one point I disagree of with most space story lovers is that you won't get too many Han Solo types. Every planet is going to have a !NASA certifying people who can go into space.

>>55295873
Bump for old time's sake.

Oh! Hello there.

>Burned out.
Not yet.

I believe we're pretty close to patching the holes of the heresy.

>>55295638

I played a ship's cook in a Firefly game once when I was in college. I recall fighting Reavers with a frying pan; was not super effective, but we didn't die.

Because that leads to two scenarios. The first is the party hauling all kinds of different ingredients with them, slowing them down and filling pouches that could be filled with coin. The second is dungeon meshi

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Because food doesn't do anything mechanically. Unless you are a vanillaware game.

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Wow, that kinda looks like ass, don't it?

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That's a little better, but the colors still kind of seem washed out.

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HDR was a mistake.

>>55295324
Warhammer Fantasy was originally just a world within the Eye of Terror. It's certainly feasible that eventually Chaos Marines land on the planet and then everyone learns about space travel

>>55295808
What'd they retcon it to again? I vaguely remember it now being some random Feudal World.

desu 40K always struck me more as WHFB than 'our' universe, but.