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>>51620634
>BBEG

You mean BBEGYHTKTWTG right ?

>>51620761

No, I'm not really into having homosexuality be common in my games, what do the other letters stand for?

>>51620634
Well written ones

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>>51620538

I tend to focus on world building and some sort of conspiracy lurking in the background that unfolds throughout a series of adventures. I straddle the line between big and small picture type stuff by involving the PC's back stories in the large scale plot, and make what I am throwing at them imminently relevant to the PCs. I like to leave combat to a few extremely brutal instances, it is unusual for my players to get in a fight without a PC getting seriously injured.

In my opinion, for a Cyberpunk campaign you want them to feel danger and paranoia. You want them to be forced to chose what they they the lesser evil is. Give them agency, but make sure they realize the immensity of their enemies ( gangs, corps, governments, etc) Also, the available technology should have some sort of tangible social effects that the PC's directly experience.

Also, I'm a big fan of "80s in the future" styled settings myself.

>>51620538

Various crime dramas and noir type settings with the appropriate levels of augmentations and technology.

Yesterday I had no internet, so I was forced to amuse myself with reading PDFs.

I had the PDF of the game Cryptomancer that I had not really given anythought of before.

It's Tolkein-esque fantasy world that was transformed when the dwarves discovered the "shardnet" basically a fantasy internet.

I don't think I'd run the game, but the philosophy it has is great; everything is networks, cryptography is handled realistically but still fun, there's lots of ways for players to be clever, and there's also an oppressive shadow government hunting the players. It legit does cyberpunk better than most cyberpunk systems.

>BBEG
Not once. It's a single step to reduce any plot to Saturday morning cartoon bullshit.

>spoilered magical realm
Didn't you get cast out of here a few years ago already?

>>51620446
There's nothing wrong with the plot having a villain or being kept simple.

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>>51620395

> the BBEG took a romantic interest in one of the...allied NPCs?

I can't imagine anyone except a particularly intrusive Paladin player getting at all invested in this.

As for PCs, no. Never happened. I've run and played in games where the BBEG had some kind of connection with a PC but I've never tried romance. I find that's usually something best avoided. I don't relish the idea pretending to be my buddy's girlfriend.

I'm gonna be running an AtLA-inspired East Asian fantasy game soon. If one of my players gives me a good enough backstory to work in an banished/exiled plot I might find a way to add in some spurned lover or something.

>>51620036
Harmless curses and generally being dicks to them. A bonus if they can't exorcise them.

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>the players
>not characters
Well I haven't killed anyone yet, so as long as I don't start I should be okay.

>>51620036
>one of the players isn't being haunted.
>there's a very conspicuous absence in the ranks of ghosts
>only one of the players can percieve the ghosts
>the ghosts had projects underway they want the players to complete
>the ghosts mention their treasuries and that it's such a waste that they'll be forgotten for centuries until some undeserving explorer stumbles across them... no, of course this isn't a trap, but can you risk the macguffin I had stored in it being found by another?
>the ghosts keep bickering about which one will fall to evil first

Size/Type: Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 5d10+25 (52 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 15 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/+14
Attack: Claw +9 melee (1d6+5)
Full Attack: 2 claws +9 melee (1d6+5) and bite +4 melee (1d8+2)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Improved grab
Special Qualities: Scent
Saves: Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +2
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 12, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills: Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness, Track
Environment: Temperate forests
Organization: Solitary, pair, or pack (3-8)
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 6-8 HD (Large); 9-15 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —

>>51619767
sexual/10

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>>51620332

>>51619467
I never considered it until I saw your pic and realized it would be inviting pure cancer.

I don't even know what a draph is.

>>51620239
It's a dwarf-equivalent in some Japanese fantasy game series IIRC. The species is supposed to be vaguely bovine, in practice they:
>have horns
>age quickly
>have ridiculous sexual dimorphism: females are all massively exaggerated shortstacks, males are huge buff muscleguys

Size/Type: Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 5d10+25 (52 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 15 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/+14
Attack: Claw +9 melee (1d6+5)
Full Attack: 2 claws +9 melee (1d6+5) and bite +4 melee (1d8+2)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Improved grab
Special Qualities: Scent
Saves: Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +2
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 12, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills: Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness, Track
Environment: Temperate forests
Organization: Solitary, pair, or pack (3-8)
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 6-8 HD (Large); 9-15 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —

potato mashers/20

>>51619153
He's literally just a very good gunman with a gun. You could use the average elite soldier stats with an extra handful of luck points, give him a deployable turret and you're done.

>>51619050
Well, Paizo stays in business somehow, so apparently people buy into it...

I play Dungeons the Dragoning.

To expand on the point, they're incredibly fun when done right. The important thing is to do the work necessary to keep them relatively consistent. DtD is a bizarre clusterfuck of references and anachronisms, but the genius of the setting is working everything together into a way that is coherent. Taking various different elements and plugging them together in ways that make sense and make the setting more than the sum of its parts.

>>51619050

Alternate worlds aren't strictly a science-fiction thing, it's a very old fantasy/mythology conceit as well.

Alternate timelines now, that's more science-fictiony.

I don't really care for appearance, but mages always wearing robes is boring. There are numerous light and comfortable clothes to easily cast in.
But I like the magic implemented in very complex way. I'm okay with reality bending as long as it requres you to perform a great ritual. Wanna cast wish? Make a road from the daimonds up to a mountain top, butcher 66 virgin sea elves on the summit and boil their blood in onyx gigantic cauldron.

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>>51617882

I actually like Destiny because while it doesn't have specific spells for every situation as I imagine this is the type of magic most people refer to my big draw is that the actual "wizards" of the setting actually act like scholars who go in search of knowledge and it swings both ways between being religious and scholarly.

Two big examples are Osiris who basically started his own cult and possibly found a way to become a time traveling god being and Toland the Shattered who's fascination with the Darkness and the way it works let him to get a booty call with the Hive so now he's swimming around in the afterlife exploring the Darkness

>>51617882
I kinda like how Aes Sedai in Wheel of time worked, magic cracks addicts with over-inflated superiority complexes caused by living holed up in a tower of autism and being cut off from actual social and mental development

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>>51616888
Bump

>>51616888
>during the 70s

Rhodesian or South African

>>51616888
>The next game I'm gonna play is gonna be set in "Africa" (no specific country mentioned) during the 70s.
Well, I have a feeling all of his "africans" will be just a bunch of american blacks. And given the time, it's going to be blaxploitation but in "Africa"

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>>51616469
Choppaz, dakka 'n' right proppa Orky bitz.

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>>51616469
Gotta lean back and spread the legs real wide.
Takes a bit of practice.

>>51616469

Twin Plasma or Twin Fusion are the most common configurations. If you are in doubt, magnetize them.

Generally is preferable to sacrifice flexibility for firepower, so don't mix guns except in some cases.

>>51616073
Parenting skills: 0 ranks

>>51616073

Statted for Risus:

Alpha-level Psyker (6)
A Big Guy For You (4)
Autistic Fedoramancer (2)
Terrible Autocratic Father (1)

(So if you want to beat him, you'll want to roll something against his parenting skills or his anti-religion shtick.)

>>51616073
10/10 would give up my nation sovereignty for him.

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>>51615861
The finished project better make my eyes bleed or you're doing it wrong OP.

Im not a fan of any post 2015 gw model taller than an ogre

>>51617827
what about the admech big guy?

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>>51615680
Pathfinder system as a whole is perfect for torture.

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>>51615698

>>51615680
If you're sane, any Pathfinder Spell will do. The fact that a spell like Matchmaker exists is enough to eat at anyone. Of course no one sane plays PF, so...