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>>51357268
To justify keeping their heads on their shoulders, knights should be devoted and dedicated warriors first and foremost. After all, a knight who's not a soldier is just a privileged pencil pusher undeserving of his social status. In other words, guillotine fodder and rightfully so.

As such, their virtues should simply be the virtues of a good soldier: loyalty to either the nation or the crown not as a person or group of people but as a concept (an injust order is to be ignored or even defied), discipline and courage, and a will to battle tempered by compassion and love for your fellow man. After all, even in the most just war your opponents are just people who are trying to make ends meet and civillians are always caught in the crossfire. You're not expected to prevent this (you're no miracle worker), you're expected to make this as bearable as possible.

Add to that the virtue of the ideal noble: as counterintuitive as it may be, it is humility. The realization that you were born into a certain caste not because you deserved it or because you're better, but by chance. The knowledge that your privileged status is pure coincidence which has nothing to do with you as a person or even you as a warrior should be humbling, and incite sympathy for those who were less blessed by destiny.

These virtues also make for good husbando's and waifu's

>>51357268
They should have succeed like wicked cool armor.

>>51357268

Most noble knight, hear me and take these words to heart, for they art the truth and nothing but the truth. The most noble virtue a knight may possess is the ability to mind his own damned business and leave us lowly peasants to our fields! Now, go, get off my land! I'm no damned Serf and I've got a right to it!

>>51357142
Like the Escher painting. You know the one.

an open green field with a giant tower of babil reaching the skies that isnt bigger much bigger than the horizon so youd walk in circles if you dont enter the tower

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>>51357142
I'll tell you for 25 schmekals!

>>51356899
Semi aware ex-waifu armour.

>>51356899
Used for the intimidation factor mainly.

>>51356899
>Skull hat = Blindsight+Darkvision up to 60 feet.

>>51356377
Why is this thing half formed? It looks like an abortion.

>>51356390
Well it is

>>51356390
wow rude
not everyone has the luxury of being born fully formed, anon
check your natural-birth privilege

Ever wondered what happens to spent lottery tickets? They get handpicked out of trash by specifically chosen agents, filed, stamped, and indexed, inspected one by one by the elders of Powerball and finally shunted into large mountain vault. Why? Well, the amount of luck in the universe is constant. For every winner an equivalent amount of unluck needs to be generated and stored... And you poor bastard thought that Yucca Mountain stores *nuclear* waste - nope, it's for karmic waste.

They say there is a real Santa Claus will always appear in a Christmas Eve. For a handjob and shot of whiskey with milk he will give you a gift of magic.

>>51356552

Sounds like a Mak Attax operative with a unique way of distributing charges...

the cringe is strong here

>>51356265
I don´t know what our GM was thinking, allowing Strix or Kayal characters.

>>51356216
rly? no one around eager enough to introduce their group?

>>51355779
Sorry, anon, creativity and original content is not allowed by the Board Fun Police and your /pol/mod dictators.

>>51355779
my brother, i have been dreaming a synthwave setting for weeks
how about half-real, half virtual?
the unwashed masses live in future hong kong, clouded with smog and smoke and kitschy neon signs
the rich can be transported, TRON-style, into a second virtual city where thoughts are translated into reality, where you can program things into existence, and is bright shiny and yet just as dangerous

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>>51355779
>Did you mean Moonbeam City?

>>51355753
The trolls could always be asleep. You can give your party enough time to rest/realize what's up before they get floored.
Your idea of capture could also work, but you better have some idea on how they can escape without dying. Something like "give us our stuff and we'll go get a thing for you, big fellas!"

>>51355753
>clearly designated encounter zone

this isn't a video game

Either way there are many options.

1) The trolls aren't ready to fight. It's a feast or something, they're eating and drinking and are not watchful and thus easily hidden from
2) Copy the Hobbit, the PCs have to trick the trolls or evade them
3) Do your idea - the trolls capture the silly small people and make them work

>>51355802
>clearly designated encounter zone
Well, what I mean by that is that I've been dropping hints that there's something unusual about the area. For some reason animals and people go nowhere near the place, in spite of it being a beautiful area of bustling nature with ripe fruits and whatnot. Kind of a fae/troll thing, where the two trickster races have decided to tolerate each other for mutual benefits

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Jumpers!
Tell me about your rivals, nemeses and worthy opponents.

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>>51355745
The only one that actually came close was Horus and the last time I saw him he was drowning in a literal tide of Titan-sized mechas.

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How many of your Companions were originally human? Do you have a preference toward humans or non-humans?

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Gonna bump with an image or two

Can we submit our own content? I made this as an archive for me and my friends first and foremost but I dunno, if this is entertaining to third parties (I'm obviously bias but I think it's now pretty watchable after all the editing I did) then cool I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIP5gSU-ifg

The only broadcast campaign I've ever watched is Critical Role but it has a great GM and everyone involved is a voice actor so there's some good voiced RP by the players too.

This sunday I euthanized an Iron Gods campaign that had been running for two years.
The game was dragging and it feel like a chore, I wasn't having fun GMing it anymore. Still I decided to give my players the chance to continue so I made up a scenario with a thanadaemon in ancient temple of Zyphus that ask those who want to go further three riddles. If one riddle is given the wrong answerthe thanadaemon disappears and a high CR encounter happens.
The first riddle was not very difficult, the answer was "handwriting" but the alchemist answered "hedgehog".
Two astradaemons were rolled.
The alchemist and the warpriest died by finger of death, the inquisitor by a vampiric touch and the rogue commited suicide when she found herself surround by three derghodaemons summoned by one of the astradaemons.

>>51354189
How bad did it have to be to pull that? Were the players just being a bunch of huge assholes?

>>51354189

Damn that is rough. Sorry your campaign died like that.

I usually play squishy characters so I am not ever on the frontlines. It has generally been a good strategy for me.

His friends are being total memesters, and not the good kind. One of them, unironically, is wearing a fedora, with a neckbeard. He tries to start a discussion on atheism but is shut down by literally everyone else. He's also wearing a Team Valor shirt, which... Pokemon GO is dead, dude.
>Maybe he's the only weirdo? The others seem at least somewhat socially adjusted. I keep my eyes peeled.
>One of them points behind me and the others turn and stare. I slowly turn my head around and see nothing except a girl walking down the stairs.
>I ask, "Heh, what are you guys looking at?"
>The smartest ass of the group jokingly explains to the sheepish femanon, "Well, you see, there was a very beautiful girl that just walked past, and we were checking her out. Yeah, we're pigs." They all laugh.
>Well, hey, at least they're honest. At 6' with a steady workout routine I'm rather masculine, so I guess I'm not used to that attention, or I don't notice it. None of my guy friends in high school ever did that; it was a whole new world to me.
Anyways.
>They all suddenly, almost in unison, all pull out their 3DS systems and start playing Pokemon. No words between them.
>Nothing wrong with Nintendo games, but I left mine at home. I didn't know this was going to be a thing.
>They start laughing and bantering and carrying on about what's going on in their respective games.
>r/atheism pulls out a Bluetooth speaker and starts playing songs that were cool in 2006. What happens next will shock you!
>Everyone, in unison, starts singing along to classics like Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance and other such legends in the student lobby. Atheist dude is singing in a pitch-perfect falsetto.
>I start to think I'm being initiated into a cringe cult.
>From this point forward, I stay purely for the bizarre experience. I was too curious about what would happen next to leave now, and I felt obligated to document it.

I realize I haven't even gotten to the tabletop shit yet, but hold on. Most of this story is just about the people I met while trying to get a group together and why I will not try again as long as I'm going to this school.

>While everyone else is singing and arguing about which evolution of Rockruff is better, my old friend (we'll call him T) and Atheism Idol stand up to go out for lunch. I subconsciously register this but am too shellshocked to ask to go with them.
>I'm left alone with T's friends. They're playing Pokemon. Still.
>I didn't bring Pokemon, but I did have Fire Emblem handy. I decide to do as the natives do until the one person I'm comfortable talking to in this group returns.
>A stuttering but otherwise nice fellow named Shamarr asks about me in the second person. Smartass tells him my name. It's evident talking to goyles is new territory for our young hero.
>"Uh, h-hi, anon. Sorry, I... Sorry, I d-didn't know your-- your name."
>"That's fine. Nice to meet you!"
>"Y-you too."
That was the extent of that conversation.
>T eventually returns with his food. Never much of an eater, he gives me his fries to placate me.
>I take them. Shit, now I couldn't leave-- not after I've just been given food. It got boring without M'Lord around to lead the chorus, and I was no longer having fun observing the group.

Eventually... it's RP time.

Who are you quoting?

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The game takes place in a region known as Vimary, which lies on the ruins of modern day Montreal. At some point in the future, humanity at large has become so far removed from spirituality that the material and spirit worlds go out of wack and the spirits decide to reach out and reestablish the link between the two realms. These spirits are known as the Nomads.

What follows is a world-wide spiritual awakening where humans learn from spirits and spirits learn from humans... until the spirits start getting drunk off the physical sensations: warmth of another body, beautiful sights, sounds, and smells, feeling of a full stomach, adrenaline rush you get while fighting, and sexual lust (among other things) because spirits usually can't experience that stuff. They start crazy and forcibly hijacking people and forming cults with the end goal of giving themselves more emotions and sensations to feed off of.

Some of the spirits who didn't fall prey to this madness come to the conclusion that the only way to stem the tide is to cut off the material and spiritual worlds from one another. They sacrifice themselves to make "the Fold" which separates the two realms.

The remaining insane spirits, who by now are calling themselves the Z'bri, really don't like being totally cut off from the spirit world. They go even crazier with their debauched ways and start herding people into camps where they raise them like cattle and do all kinds of horrible stuff to them for their own amusement.

Humans in Vimary eventually make contact with 8 totally new spirits: the Fatimas. These spirits claim to have been sent by a goddess who found a way through the barrier between the worlds and have come to set things right. To make sure they don't go crazy like the other spirits, they choose to inhabit bodies made of junk and debris. They are...

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Baba Yaga the Crone- obsessed with death and secrets. Her centipede-like body body is made of a bunch of bones and corpse parts.

Eva the Mother- Chiefly concerned with life and healing. She's a giant Venus of Willendorf with leathery wings.

Magdalen the Lover- Fatima of passions, sensuality, and conflict. She wears a zipper hood and cloak covering a mechanical body covered in barbed wire.

Tera Sheba the Judge- Obsessed with law, order, and the truth. She has 3 heads (one blind, one deaf, one gagged) and a giant axe.

Joan the Warrior- All about bravery, devotion, and valor. Your standard battle angel/valkyrie made of junk parts and wielding a sword.

Dhalia the Trickster- Fatima of travel, motion, deception, etc. She's just a bunch of masks and limbs.

Mary the Forgiver- Fatima of purity, forgiveness, and all the warm fuzzy things. She looked like a big robed woman.

Joshua the Ravager- the only male Fatima and twin of Joan. Where she was about honor and valor, he preferred fury and righteous anger.

So the 8 Fatimas gathered some human followers and started waging a war to destroy the Z'bri and free everyone from the camps. While they worked together, each Fatima had their own little army and personal attendants.

They fought and fought and were still losing up until finally Joshua faced off against the most powerful Z'bri in the land (Lord Tibor) and the two actually managed to destroy one another. The remaining Z'bri said "fuck it, we're out" and retreated to the north. The Fatimas- having just lost one of their own for this hardest of hard won victories- decided not to push their luck and did not pursue.

And then Mary got so depressed about what happened that she got a bunch of her followers together and ritually killed herself so she could be reborn as... Agnes, the Child. Agnes is a giant teddy bear made of trash who acts and thinks like a spoiled little girl, but with the powers of a minor deity.

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The Fatimas and their followers then started the arduous process of building a new society. They eventually formed 8 tribe/castes not too much unlike the Tribes of Israel.

Yagans (followers of Baba Yaga) became well known as mystics, gave people their last rites, and recorded histories.

Evans (followers of Eva) ended up being the largest tribe. They became farmers, midwifes, and healers.

Magdalites became diplomats between the tribes, as well as consorts, entertainers, and spies.

Shebans became the lorekeeper and judges of all the tribes. They worked very closely with the Joanites, who produced hunters and warriors vs outside threats, as well as the watch to protect against intenral threats.

Dhalians became travelling merchants and entertainers with a penchant for larceny and deception.

Mary's followers dissolved. Those who participated in her death ritual and survived the process were reviled by the Fatimas and their followers for killing one of their own.

Agnes kind of has a tribe. She's always surrounded by a bunch of kids who the ither tribes kind of watch over, but she most just lets them play around all day until they turn 16 or 17, at which point their job is to take care of younger kids (or get busy making new kids) until they get to be about 30, at which point they either leave the tribe or get ritually sacrificed in some way.

After Joshua's death, his tribe also kind floundered about and ended up becoming the "untouchables" of the new Tribal society. They also tend to adopt people banished from the other tribes. The Fatimas have a lot of rules (Magdalen hates prudes, Tera Sheba hates liars, Agnes hates adults, etc) and society is pretty strict so people who defy the order tend to get banished and go live as one of the 8th Tribe, or the "Fallen" as they're called.

As you can probably tell, this motley crew of outcasts, lowlifes, and underdogs from all corners of Tribal society is where your PCs are expected to come from.

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>The characters you played in other campaigns have cameo roles in your own campaigns

Feels good to be a GM after being a player for so long.

>>51351854
>your players know this and kill them just to fuck with you
>no suitable reaction image on the phone

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>>51351791
>The character you played is the BBEG in your next run
He was just a jolly cleric.

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>>51351502
>Ver0.95
Still a shame.

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