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I know every single pubic hair of her since the day she got them and every secret thought and wish she never dared to speak.

>>51293837
broad strokes and bullet points.

it gives a GM leeway to fuck with it for best effects(like inserting old girlfriends/victims/both or past encounters like bounty hunters).

and it's usually a short enough list that I can hand it to the other players and they can assume to know everything on it got explained in idle conversation...

I tend to sort of go overboard after an old DM burned me often for not providing specific info.

>>51293723
>Are different degrees of success in your opinion necessary mechanic?
Yes. Succeeding by a small margin might only represent a partial success, whereas succeeding by a huge margin would be an exceptionally successful or productive roll. For example, while hunting game in a forest a partial success might indicate a scrawny rabbit or two, whereas an exceptional success might be a prime stag or boar.

The inverse is also true, degrees of failure matter as well. A partial failure could indicate that you merely didn't find anything while hunting, whereas a more dramatic failure might see you following tracks only to find an owlbear staring you in the face ready to pounce.

Binary success/failure is boring and unrealistic. Degrees of success are much better.

>>51293723
D&D already sorta has degrees of success with its crit mechanic; it's just kinda retarded to base it on the dice value instead of by how much it passes the DC.

>>51294572
Critical hits aren't really a degree of success mechanic. A character with a +0 to attack against an Armour Class of 19 hits on a 19 and get a critical hit on a natural 20. A character with a +10 to attack against an Armour Class of 19 hits on a 9 through 19 and gets a critical hit on a natural 20. In one case they beat the AC value by 1, in the other case they beat it by 11. The value by which they exceed their target's Armour Class does not increase the damage they deal, the only thing that determines a critical hit is random chance. Critical hits are therefore a luck-based mechanic, not an indicator of degree of success.

A proper version of critical hits as degree of success would be Pillars of Eternity, wherein your attack roll compared against your target's defence value to determine whether the attack misses, grazes, hits, or crits. The picture included is that chart; when accuracy and defence are the same you have a 15% chance to miss (grey), a 35% chance to graze (pink), and a 50% chance to hit (red). You can only achieve a critical hit (dark red) if your accuracy is at least 1 point above your target's defence value.

A tabletop game where degree of success equal damage would be Anima: Beyond Fantasy. It's a d100 system with Stat + d100 instead of roll under, and essentially for every 10 by which your attack exceeds your opponent's defence you deal about 10% of your weapon's damage. It's very slightly more complicated with armour but that's the basic idea. Weapon damage is pretty high compared to starting Life Points so taking a full hit (100%) can seriously hurt and possibly inflict grievous wounds or even instant death.

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Rumpelstiltskin

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>>51293370
Fuck it I'll bite, Rudy Mullins.

>>51293370
Todd Howard

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I'm going to play my first 40k game this weekend at LGS. What should I expect.

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Merry Slanneshmas everyone

>>51292950
Suggestions to use washes.

>>51292531
Chaotic Stupid. More often than not, the first three are just extreme characters being played by reasonable people (Stupid Evil excepted, perhaps) and can be talked into moderating their IC behavior for the sake of the game and group as a whole. But Chaotic Stupid characters are usually played by people who don't give a fig about roleplaying, and just think it's funny to blunder through the story, upsetting things with their random hijinks. You can't rationalise with these people, only put up with them or kick them out.

>>51292531
You can disown Chaotic Stupid characters to get away from their antics, but Lawful Stupid is just a hassle.

>>51292531

Oh God, the Chaotic Stupid deserves to be punted off a cliff. The others are workable within certain contexts, even the evil dude, but the CS is not only unpredictable, but has no easy way to control them like the other three alignments who are predictable enough to plan around. I say this after playing with one such person and watched as he ran screaming through the dungeon Leeroy Jenkins style and luckily only got himself killed, but nearly derailed the campaign in the process.

>>51292260
picture for ants

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>>51292266
Ok

>>51292260
DMPC

>>51292255
>a mercenary knight armed to her teeth, fully-armored and standing between her allies and certain doom with her massive tower shield
What is this? Dragon Age? Enough with the
>HURR BIG STRONK FEMALE KNIGHT

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>>51292314

FIRST

FUCKING

POST

>>51292314
>waaaaaaah

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Jumpers! Have you ever created sapient life?
How did it turn out?

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>>51291361
Oh, you know. Not bad.

>>51291361
I create the occasional AI.
Usually with them doing their Job, or moving into an artistic field.

>>51291219
Pretty good. It implements most of the new stuff from 4e very well (save for dragonborn, which I find a little out of sorts with Dark Sun's setting seeing as becoming even a half-dragon in that is a big and bad deal), has a lot of fun enemies, and brings a lot of interesting backgrounds to choose from.

>>51291254

Awesome. I can just, like, not have Dragonborns, right?

>>51291264
Hell yeah nigga, it's Athas.

>>51289242
As long as you're not skipping bills or necessities for children etc you're allowed to spend your money on whatever the fuck you want.

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>>51289264
Fresh out of high school man, i have pretty much nothing to worry about, rooming with friends in a collective cringe house, life is good.

>>51289285
Well stop complaining then and blow it all whilst you can. Eventually life will get in the way.

>>51288517
Furries is far worse, so are the sonic nintendo fan base

>>51288517
>Fanbase worse than Warhammer 40k
>Chris-Chan

>>51288517
You just grew up.

>>51287720
It's a blue lynx with a shitty attitude.

>payment in jokes

If that's an acceptable unit of barter, can they be used to pay for clown sex with harlequin sluts?

>>51291559
Yes, but you won't have to say anything, since the sight of your penis will be funny enough.

>>51287720
Yes, because this same thread was posted a day to a day and a half ago.

>>51286561
Will just sucks because it's raw physical. It's the most boring of all wells.

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>>51286902
Finally, i was starting to panic

What would a hybrid glaive + magic staff + bow look like?

I do but it's a very small niche scene here. It's like 4 dudes. Also the vast majority of /tg/ is bad at MTG so yeah. Truly sorry because you probably wanted quality discussion.

If no one plays Vintage who would play a format that doesn't allow you to even use new printings of cards?

>>51289167
People who have been playing the game since then.
People who have the patience to collect cards over a long period of time.
People who aren't poor.
People who aren't massive faggots.

They needs rugged and rough hands of a lifetime of working the land. There is no princess here.

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>>51286568

Makes me feel bad when they get raped or murdered which tends to happen. Not just the girls either. It's like that picture of the limes guy, "Why can't I save all these innocent, naive underprivileged folks?"