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Justice is the creation of a state of being which prevents future conflict occurring

One of the axioms of pragmatism is:
"If enough people believe in something, it's as if it were a real thing."

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somebody kindly post the screencap, you know the one

>>51362322
-2 hp

>>51361825
GURPS. You want lethal gun action, you're pretty much stuck with it, because it's about the only system that does guns with any real lethality.

>>51361825
Dark Heresy, converted for modern.

>>51361825
7th Sea or Legend of the Five Rings?

>>51361529
Go through player backstories, look for people to kill.

>>51361529


Let the rivalry happen organically. Players latch onto the strangest things. Chances are they'll become the rivals of one or more of your NPCs instead of the other way around.

>>51361691
Okay, that's fair, and I usually do try to let things develop naturally. Nobody likes a forced joke, after all.

But lemme ask my question in a slightly different way. I have an enemy that's going to be a recurring problem for my players, how do I make sure said enemy isn't merely an annoyance or, even worse, someone too forgettable to recall next time they show up to mess with the players?

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Have any of your characters used harlot sweets?

>>51361014
Like an actual chicken from the farm, or a coward? Because the latter is pretty common for my characters! The former has only happened from my Chosen One Paladin, whose familiar was a rooster from the coop that started talking to her and told her to go out killing demons for Erastil.

>>51361014
This image triggered me.

>faggot is forcing memes
wow it's like i'm back on /b/

>>51360897
Fucking trannies

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nth for the Emperor protects!

In the beginning, all was one. A singular being of true omnipotence. But with the division of mass and energy to create the universe, so did the one being divide into many.

Every God, great or small, is a fragment of the original. Some tiny gods rule over the space between blades of grass, while others command entire worlds or continents. And yet all can rise and fall, being divided or united once more. Some Gods try to consume all others, to achieve oneness, yet they are always torn down by those who fear true unification, whether mortal or divine.

Thus the world exists in a state of stable equilibrium, where the divine is neither created nor destroyed, simply changing shape and name and nature over long eternities.

>>51360504
They evolved from organic to digital to divine in the future, and because they are omnipresent they exist before their ancestors.

I've not yet fleshed out my setting too much, but I do want to keep it vague. Different cultures have different myths, some might be true, others false or wrong retellings or flat out lies.

I like Dark Souls.

Don't try to anticipate what your players will do. If you plan out too much, you'll end up painting yourself into a corner.

Instead, build setpieces that you can drag and drop into the game wherever you need them. That cave full of goblins in the woods suddenly becomes a sewer full of goblins under the city.

>>51360372
Don't have any advice to give but I'm even more desperately in need of it. No gaming clubs/groups where I live at all, and trying to start one with a few friends, but none of us have played anything beyond tabletop 40k before. Guess who's been designated DM
kill me

>>51360580
For you: https://youtu.be/e-YZvLUXcR8?list=PLlUk42GiU2guNzWBzxn7hs8MaV7ELLCP_

That's somewhere to start. Call him what you will, the advice is at least better put than with most others who try to do similar things.

And you >>51360372...

Well, you can check latter parts of the video series ^^ but a real gamechanger is the nodular play. Never make up intricate turns of events that require players to do exact things, rather build up the game from character motivations, both player and NPC. Then, with those motivations, create some basic ideas what can happen. Why does the village troublemaker find the book of necromancy? What are the past happenings that have caused them to become a troublemaker? Ideas start flowing when you start asking simple questions.

Never try to expect what the players are trying to do, plan everything around that.

>>51359929
Probably not. 5e is good at running D&D, and not much else. Theoretically you could cannibalize the d20+mod+proficiency and the Advantage/Disadvantage mechanic, but that's about all you could feasibly convert to other systems.

All that being said, someone did take it upon themselves to convert Shadowrun classes to 5e subclasses.

>>51360002
Thanks for the insight

>>51360002
>Theoretically you could cannibalize the d20+mod+proficiency and the Advantage/Disadvantage mechanic,

Well I did that for my homebrew.

But he's right, those are two separate systems designed for quite different worlds.

Also, you already have a CP2020 thread, don't need to start another one.

>>51359925
Use a system where character death is impossible.

>>51359925

Determine why killing is considered to solve problems. Figure out why this is the case. Deconstruct it.

>>51359925

Run a system that doesn't focus a good deal of mechanics on lethal combat and killing. Also settings where tone matters. It'd be pretty out of place to solve the central conflict in a game of Golden Sky Stories with a murder.

>>51359781
>Read the book pictured in the OP
>Do as the book says
Alternatively
>Kill every player related to the murder of your dog

Change the purpose of the game from "having fun" to "challenging your players until they either quit the hobby forever or succeed".

>>51359781

Well, for one thing, you need a playerbase made up of 90s comic book fans who will eat your edgy bullshit up like ice cream, like Wick had.

>>51359738
No. Too camp. This only appears a good idea because Noise Marines are an old kit and Slaanesh generally has a weaker design than the other three gods.

Board game only at best.

Do you want Come and See WW2 or Saving Private Ryan WW2?

GURPS
Ballad of the Laser Whales

>>51360469
Uh, more like this WW2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKeWY9URd-k

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If you have any complaints, feed them to me.
I do the items.
And get people to do the things I can't do. If you find an exploit, tell me so I can set terms for you using them if they're not totally broken.

Creativity doesn't mean you should be punished.

>>51360269
Personally, I find telling people to fuck off and that I'm not going to help them, telling people plans of how I'll ruin things, and more helps me prepare for the oncoming shitshow.

Also, Rigel, I know it's you.

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Are youy guys hostile against newfags?

What is scarfolk?

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>>51359086
A totalitarian English town perpetually stuck in the 1970s where pagan rituals are commonplace, laws are constantly contradictory, and the government is so intrusive that the citizens spy on themselves