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>Tower of Barbs
>In spaaace!

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Warhammer.

In space.

>>51580735
A lot of rabbits would suffocate.

Small scale and multiple attempts aren't always possible.

Some stuff doesn't work small.

Also extreme hubris.

>>51580513
>extreme hubris
But he's the Socrates of 40k. "I know that I know nothing" and stuff.

Why not take the intro text from the 40k rulebook and use that?

>>51581910
I think I'll try my hand at it. The original was just kind of weird because it mentioned 1984 by name and also talked about the trenches of Verdun IIRC.

>>51582126
Ah, makes sense.

Does anyone have any advice on how to run a session(s) where players are tracking down a target?

Specifically my players are trying to track down some frost giants that had fled from an attack on Bryn Shander the day before. Like I'm not sure how to mechanically work it so it's interesting.

I get the impression that the players should encounter evidence that the giants had passed by an area, but I don't know how how to make it non-linear. In my mind, I'm thinking it would play out something like "the players encounter the camp of the giants, then they find some carcasses where the giants ate lunch, then they find a caravan which had been demolished, then they find the giants." But that seems way too linear and predetermined.

>in court
>attack cop
>get disintegrated
>wahhhh

Get Gud

>wizards obsessively study the nature of the Weave and have quantified magical fluctuations to a point where specific symbols, gestures, and vocalizations can produce a standardized, desired effect in a trained user every time
>but no one can know a greatsword is twice as damaging as a shortsword in the hands of the average person

This is fucking retarded OP. What would you even stand to gain from doing this?

Portfolio: Strife, hatred, tyranny, fear
Domains: Evil, Destruction, Hatred, Law, Tyranny
Dogma: Serve no one but Bane. Fear him always and make others fear him even more than you do. The Black Hand always strikes down those who stand against it in the end. Defy Bane and die - or in death find loyalty to him, for he shall compel it. Submit to the word of Bane as uttered by his ranking clergy, since true power can only be gained through service to him. Spread the dark fear of Bane. It is the doom of those who do not follow him to let power slip through their hands Those who cross the Black Hand meet their dooms earlier and more harshly than those who worship other deities.

>Even as a human, Bane wanted nothing more than to become the most feared, respected tyrant the wolrd had ever known.

>Bane hates virtually the entire Faerunian pantheon but holds special antipathy for Torm, Cyric, Mystra, Tempus, Helm, Lathander, Oghma, and Ilmater, in that order. He has established a working relationship with Loviatar, Mask, and Talona, but as these deities desperately fear him, the alliances are not strong.

Bane hates virtually the entire Faerunian pantheon but holds special antipathy for Torm, Cyric, Mystra, Tempus, Helm, Lathander, Oghma, and Ilmater, in that order. He has established a working relationship with Loviatar, Mask, and Talona, but as these deities desperately fear him, the alliances are not strong.

>LITERALLY STOLE THE TABLETS OF FATE

nigga you're fuckin dumb

>>51578854
if I take off those rings will it die?

>>51578524
>Thoughts?- 0 post shown.
Isekai is shit

>>51578524
Great! You just made 5e.

>>51578524
Yay, turn magic into superpowers

>>51578350
Savage Worlds probably, but that's what I, personally would use. Strike-anon would suggest Strike!, and someone else would suggest GURPS.

>>51578350
D&D

Personally I'd roll with something rules-light, like D&D Basic, which would allow me to basically add anything I need and take anything I don't need away so that I wouldn't have much of an issue with overcomplication. If you prefer crunch though, I guess you could go with shadowrun reskinned or something.

I hear Savage Worlds is good for such things too, but I haven't played it before.

>>51578331
Practice. Write. Read. Imagine.

>>51578365
Fpbp.

We could blow an hour telling you tricks and shit, but the best way to do this shit is simply to try it, fail, and learn.

>>51578916
>Fpbp.

>the best way to do this shit is simply to try it, fail, and learn.

Wow this is exactly what I wanted to here. Thanks!

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>>51578007
Depends on the setting.

>>51578007
Depends on the setting.

If it's something like Dying Earth where it's based on memorization, I'd think so. Or if it's like in 5e where it's simply a matter of having the know-how and being able to provide the spell's components.

If it's based on having a soul, then it gets really subjective. At that point, whether or not a robot can learn magic becomes a major defining feature of the setting.

But then again, Robo probably has a soul, and it can't use magic. But I think there it's based on "life-force" or something.

No, because they don't have a mana processing organ and can't possibly get one.

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>>51577957
>How can I possibly take this game seriously?
I recommend that you don't even try and instead use the system for something that spits in the very face of what it was intended fo-
>I have to play it with my sister-in-law's group of pansexual polysexual lovers who are super into the idea
Oh, wait, this is just bait.

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I mean, look at this shit.

>>51577957
Remember /pol/'s analysis of Steven Universe? Or Furry Rape planet, or the Fur-Heresy? That.

No frogposting in /tg/. Thank you.

>>51577399
Stop frogposting

>>51577399
Good thing 40k never does that, ri-
>Rouboute Guillermo
>Magnus the Red
>Leman Russ
>even fucking Abaddon the super interesting and successful is getting pushed again
Oh jeez look at that

Far too fiddly and complex for a single symbol. The main symbols aren't something a committee works out, it's what people use, and most likely somethign more directly related to the mythology or teachings than a laundry list of virtues. Christianity has the cross, Judaism the star, Buddhism often gets symbolised with the wheel. You want the [thing], not a bunch of things, and the easier that thing can be drawn or scribbled onto something, the better.

>>51577330
Fair enough, already using just the sun for mapmaking to be a church. Problem basically just comes to how early on I am in the process, I don't have a really solid idea yet, especially with this seeming particularly monotheistic and I'd like to have a few gods rather than just the one.

While belief in the existence of spirits is pretty widely held, the specific mechanics of it are fairly diverse.

The winter folk hold the belief that only people have spirits, and moreover that the spirits of ones ancestors hold much more sway over your life. This leads to a very large focus on lineage in their culture. They are also the progenators of the belief that the closer one is to death, the easier it is for them to receive wisdom from their ancestors, which leads to a couple cultural quirks. It explains why they are almost always led by the eldest among them, at any given moment they are likely closest to death. It also gives rise to a type of priest known as an oracle. These are people who willingly undergo intense torture to be brought within inches of their death, only to be brought back (hopefully with some wisdom from the otherside) many medical advancements in the setting can be attributed to this specific practice. In more modern practices the question becomes less about how close to death one can get and more about how long one can stay dead and mqke it back. Oracles are highly respected, but it isnt considered a profession.

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choppy

>>51576893
mothafucka

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baka

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>>51576883
Giving genie wishes to the PCs is never a good idea OP.

>>51576946
I mean, traditionally, they were just powerful beings who operated on common sense conventions. If you tried to get around things like that, they would probably call you insolent and turn you into a dog or something.

>>51576883
A genie is a powerful elemental being bound by magic to a container (Lamp, pot, jug, whatever). They are proud creatures that loathe being controlled or bound, and they'll help people who free them, out of gratitude. But again, they are proud as FUCK, and if you treat one as a servant or try to rules lawyer its gratitude, it can and will go out of its way to fuck with you and make your life hell. If you get a Genie, be reasonable, be straightforward, and be respectful, and maybe it'll grant your wildest dreams. Or you could fuck up and end up a crippled, deformed beggar in the court of genies.

I've played a couple of OPERATOR games, a mix of ground combat and planes&mercs. I've never considered callsigns to be that important - half the time, you'll all be referring to each other by your real names anyway.

As a matter of fact, my group's most recent DH game took a turn for the OPERATOR when the GM developed a fondness for having cunts in fortified positions lob grenades at us.

>>51576745
Read up to the point where you're the most educated individual in the group regarding operators operating.

Otherwise, this is just going to be a circle-jerk of people correcting each other with "that's not what a real operator would do."

>>51576812

In addition to this, you can brush off any attempted correction by saying "Well maybe that's how they do it today, but in the Imperium it's different".

Yes, it's a bit of a cop-out. It's also a totally valid point.