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As a Swede, getting some powerful nostalgia.

>>51304931
I'm playing my first DoD 5e tomorrow, shit seems complicated

>>51304788
Ducks, the most dangerous race

It won't catch on because it lacks the prestige they already have and because computers will just be better at it.

>>51303561
>>51303598
Politics.

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>>51303561
Yes. Obviously. Within the next 250 years.

Did you need to make this thread?

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Make requests for my next Encounter list or 50 things list.

I'm already working on the kitchen level of the megadungeon one, so if you requested that one just hand tight.

>>51303373
>>How often do puzzles show up in your games?
Almost every dungeon.
Most are not very complicated, but when the dice falls on "special" I don't have anything better to put in a room anyway.

Recently I had a magic wall being projected out of a holy symbol. on the wall behind it said "only the faithful may enter".
The solution is to simply bear a holy symbol of the correct religion. Or blow up the mundane walls on the side. My players have access to gunpowder, so either solution is likely.

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And here's 50 peddlers.

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>>51303094
(filename related)

Dragonborn DM here, a new session has passed and I'm happy to announce that it went well! In it the PCs came upon the slave traders that held hostage the young daughter of a town's Mayor/Chief/Whatever, with the promise that in exchange they could get back an object of power that had been given to them long ago as a symbol of alliance with the PC's hometown.

As it turns out the object of power wasn't there, it had been stolen by some expert thieves about a year back, but with the information they retrieved from the bandit's camp they can hopefully get a read on where it might have gone so they can track the path the thieves took when they stole it and sold it.

>>51302959
You fool, we were almost free!

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I actually made a well rounded character based on Yamato Hotsuin of Devil Survivor 2.

What happens if the party leaves?

>"BBEG"

No thanks.

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>BBEG

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this is on another thread but i stole it

It's average, just okay. The entire stronghold is incredibly poorly implemented. (Six loading screens just to get a tiny stat boost when I rest? Fuck that.) Gameplay is just Icewind Dale, story is eh. The two best characters were Avellone's even after they removed him from the project and pissed all over his work, which speaks to how bad every other character was by comparison.

>>51299566
I liked the setting a lot, but I felt like the story in the second half was kind of meh. They need to let Tim Cain make Journey to the Center of Arcanum.

>>51299964
They removed a writer from the game? Wasn't it in development hell for the longest time?

>>51300722
Related to Arcanum of Magics Obscura or whatever it's called? I tried playing that one a couple years ago but couldn't get past the first stage without it bugging out on me

>>51298536
>pick bird guy, not because they fly but because I wanted to make a character that lives a very short life. for backstory reasons
>doesn't even consider the possibility of picking another short lived race or hashing something out with the GM
>proceeds to abuse ability to fly

You ARE a lying piece of shit.

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>>51298598
>playing bard.
>race of half angels that get wings and plus 2 charisma.
>live for hundreds of years
>picks bird who gets wings and claws and thats it
>birds live for 30 years. my back story is that I was found as an egg by an 18 year old girl and raised by her and her parents.
>birds mature at 3 years old
>so I leave home when my mothers only 21
>when I die of old age my mother and maybe even my grand parents will still be alive
>my characters motivation is to use magic to prolong his life

>be bird
>fly
FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT. FUCKING BROKEN. FUCK YOU.
>druid turns into bear and cleans house
Fairs fair. so what if not all classes are balanced.

There is literally no problem with that. Rallying the townsfolk with the fireworks is pretty cool actually, though I am not sure if prestidigitation can do that RAW.

>http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Ball_Projection

>http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Fire_Ball_Projection

Are you fucking kidding me?

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>>51298231

http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Mindscape_Materialization

http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Omnicombustion

>The user can set anything ablaze, even if they are non-flammable, and incorporeal matter, such as the air itself.
...ok...

>They are able to combust even conceptual entities, such as setting a timeline on fire to destroy certain historical pieces.
...get fucked.

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>>51298231
>http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Psychopotence

>http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Magical_Energy_Manipulation

MUSCLE PSYKER VS. DUCK ASS WIZARD

LET THE SHINANAGINS BEGIN

Ultimately, GURPS boils down to "roll 3d6 and try not to exceed your effective skill."

It's more of a toolkit than a system - everything can be considered optional or up for change.

If learning a new RPG seems daunting, maybe start with GURPS Lite and gradually add stuff from the Basic Set (or other sources) that you think fits your campaign.

Also, there's a GURPS general thread. They likely have more advice.
>>51243645

Generously assuming this isn't a thinly veiled troll thread, you don't need any calculus to play GURPS. If you are GM, you don't need to know any math beyond basic percentiles and basic arithmetic. If you are a player, just basic arithmetic.

The "math" is really no more complex than you would find in D&D. The system isn't particularly complex either, there is just 'a lot' of it because it's designed in a toolkit-like reductionist sense, where you pick the bits you want to use for a given campaign and either ignore or gloss over the rest. In this way, it can actually be run very light and fast (even with a very narrative slant), or you can go full crunch with super gritty detailed simulation.

It's not for everyone or everything, no system really is. It's a system where you get out what you put into it. It's very good at about 95% of the settings and genres I've personally used it for, but it's not a "pick up and play" game (though it gets close for a couple specific genres, with Dungeon Fantasy, Monster Hunters and After the End; character templates are plentiful, campaign assumptions baked in from the start, etc.).

Anyway, not saying you should run a game that you don't want to run or don't find the fun in; that's for you and your group to decide. However, the reasons listed in the OP alone aren't really valid reasons to avoid it as a system.

If your point was that you just don't like GURPS and you are asking how to tell the group, the correct answer is to tell them that you don't like GURPS or are not confident in your ability to run it, and that you want to run something else.

>>51298187
>my group wants to try out AD&D 2e
>I am mediocre at best at math and don't have a PhD in Topology

how do I let them down nicely?

>>51293414
YOU CUM GARGLING PIECE OF SHIT, YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT ALWAYS ANGRY ALL THE TIME

>>51293414
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Angry_Marines

https://www.google.com/search?q=angry+marines+predator&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLzoSx587RAhVERSYKHRXaBmYQsAQIHA&biw=1920&bih=946

You start a good project. do not stop. get it in white dwarf for the april fools edition.

>>51293414
another codex to study:
http://wh.reactor.cc/post/1256646

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>>51292852
>tfw using a 3D printed carbon nanotube katana to slay the cops and end the government

The thing is is that 3D printing is good for rapid prototypes and single use machines, but is too expensive and slow for large batches of anything. So it fits well in "this guy made a single shot gun he can bring through security because it's plastic" for cyberpunk, but not a whole lot else. It's just not a super viable manufacturing technology

>>51292852
WELL...aside from >>51292906 pooping the party on weapons consider.

drugs
>no officer, thats just a little bear statue my partner gave me
>complete with metal insert its both the storage and delivery system for some drug

Counterfeiting
>modern printers are not precise enough to match tings perfectly, so skills are needed to finish the duplicates
>some day it'll just be a matter of printing the right colors over a perfect copy pumped out by a better printer

Terrorism
>print out a housing shaped like a crosswalk button
>grenade goes into the housing
>first (or random) person to press the button gets blown away instead of a safe crossing
>works with any inane public item so no more "suspicious bags"

Smuggling
>print an aerodynamic housing around contraband
>throw or fire it from cannons over walls/borders
>drop it via drone into pickup spot

by itself 3D printing is interesting, but on it's own it isn't as powerful a tool for criminals not yet anyway

>>51287324
I have a bit of a tendency of fudging my rolls a bit, especially in dice-pool systems. In my defense, though, I never do it on really important do-or-die rolls.

>>51287324
I'm REALLY bad about giving my characters distinct personalities, a lot of them end up being more or less the same.

I recently obtained a problem with making characters then throwing them away because i found something "better" that i wanted to play.
poor Lot

Yeah, Cyberpunk 2020 is a game where you have to make your own rules.

I'd suggest grabbing a copy of Rache Bartmoss's Brainware Blowout and Netrunner, either the WOTC version, or the FFG version.

>>51284495
either do no netrunners or let NPCs handle it

>>51284495
I'm not sure if you saw it / were in it / created it, but we had another Cyberpunk 2020 just recently that might be helpful: http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/51162025/#51162025