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As a player how do you feel about a game where you are part of a larger mercenary outfit? Under the following situation:

>1200 men
>one PC is a Major, commanding 300 men
>other PCs are either Lieutenants or Sergeants under the Major
>Above the major is commander and his second in command
>Meaning the players make up 1 of 6 major decision makers in the mercenary company

I am coming to realize likely is only working because I am running it for my friends who are much more comfortable handing over decision making power to another player

>>51263228

I feel that players should not be subservient to others but if it works for them then go for it.

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Hey all, new SoM preview up!

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>>51263150
It failed and is discontinue. Why? Because it turns out nobody wants to play some videogame/tabletop game hybrid that is not good at either. Who would have thought?

Seriously, how many times do people need to learn that the 2 media do not mix well. AR tabletop games is not the future.

>>51263593
It's been tried twice, tabletop makers learned faster than VR game designers who still think it has a big future.

>>51263150
The technology just isn't there yet/nobody has thought of a way to do it correctly. It'll keep getting tried till somebody gets it right during the appropriate timing window.

Are you using feats?
What's the level of the party?
Monks are ok at low levels and as long as there aren't feats in game, if neither of those they are pity damage dealers and their only utility is to stun. They also have problems if their stats aren't good because, unlike everybody else, they can't wear armor/shield when their stats are low. Is not as bad as 3.PF, but monk is still not great.

>>51262947
Also
Is he going full unarmed? tell him to use a spear or a quarterstaff till he reaches 8th level.

>>51262947
Started them off with 1 feat each, he took Mobile. They just became level 3 at the end of the last session, and he has a spear but for some reason doesn't use it and elects to use unarmed instead.

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Now despite being a bit taken aback by the character's decision to go full edgelord and cripple this woman, I did do some research. Apparently it is very difficult to do this sort of thing without some kind of an infection. So I have brought this into play, showing her in more and more pain. She is dying.
I should add that this character is not really a bad person. She is effectively a River Tam rip-off whose parents (the original leader of the hospital "bandits") were killed, leaving her to take their place. That said, she is certainly capable of being ruthless and cunning. I have been roleplaying her as scared little girl even though she certainly was not like that when commanding the bandits. I am hoping this is luring the characters into a false sense of security.


We are leaving this campaign be for a while (we played eight sessions over a year ago, then two more sessions fairly recently to wrap up the first adventure), ending with the doctor in the village telling the characters who severed the girl's spine that it would take a miracle to save her now (he seems oddly driven to save her all the sudden). That said I do have more plot points planned:
> They killed quite a few cultists when they tried to make the PCs leave the girl with them. The cult still wants her.

> The "deity" the cult worships does in fact exist, in a powerful alien being. It may or may not be capable of healing the bandit girl. Depends if the characters go back that way.

> The warlord that rules over the nearby refinery (where everyone gets their gas) has been overthrown. The new guy is not as benevolent as his predecessor.

> There are quite a few other factions and settlements I am hoping to introduce when we return to this game.

So… thoughts? Advice? Ideas on where to go next? I feel like the player who cut the girl's spine realized it was a messed up thing to do, he seemed a bit ashamed of it as I RPed the results more. She fell asleep crying a lot, was constantly a burden, etc.

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Anyway, pic related is a PDF of my campaign summary that I keep on Gdocs so the players can read up between sessions. I do this for all my campaigns. it might help clarify things since i am not the best at storytelling, or if you are interested in reading the walls of text.

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>this better not be the spine sever story again
>it is the spine sever story again

Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.

>>51262509
because you have a choice.

Dies to lots of stuff desu

>>51262509
Lmao git gud you scrub, you're probably a Jund mouthbreather

>>51261579
Lamenters

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>tfw these were the first models you owned
>tfw you painted them terribly and know the unthinned mess of metal and paint is up in the loft somewhere

I'd go executioners, OP. Fits the axe and their base armour colour is fun to paint.

>>51261628
You should go find him, save him. what scheme did you try to paint them? My first ever was an imperial fist i painted using some left over bits i bought on ebay, it was pretty bad, but at least I thinned.

>>51261385
I can think of a few setting-building systems, but the closest to a town-building system is The Quiet Year (but that's not exactly what you have in mind).

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>>51261385
Refluff this maybe

>>51261385
Dresden Files RPG.

Marvel is fine.
The problem isn't dropping a fattie on turn 4, the problem is dropping a very specific fattie that alone seals the game.
Ulamog doesn't spell "game over" when it lands. If replacing Emrakul with Ulamog made the deck stronger, why the fuck would people ever use Emrakul instead of Ulamog in the first place?
Banning Emrakul was the right decision.

it kinda shows wizards didn't really understand why people hated it.

people hated it because it's unfar as hell for your opponent to be able to summon such a ridiculously powerful creature, of such high cost, literally for free and only a few turns into the game.


MTG's defining mechanic is cost. it's what prevents the game from becoming yugioh, with it's 1200 special summon methods that let you fill up your entire field with high class monsters like 2 turns into a game.

>>51261387

Ulamog absolutely assfucks you if it gets out turn 4, just like Emrakul.

as soon as it lands, you exile 2 permanents. this includes lands.


if you're turn 4, that means you may have just lost half your mana pool, in addition to now having to deal with 10/10 indestructible.


also, if he attacks 3 times, you just lose. you cannot stall him out.


unless you have the cards to deal with him RIGHT there in your hands and ready to use, you're fucked. he's going to eat your deck 20 cards at a time, and you're dead in 3 turns even if he never touches your lp.


and what are the odds of you having exactly what you need to deal with him on turn 4?

you just lost 2 mana, and it's only 4 turns into the game. how many cards are there that can kill Ulamog, that only cost 2 mana?


oh, and hopefully the cards you needed were not in your deck, because, again, he's fucking eating your deck.


Ulamog is DEVASTATING early game, and aetherworks is how he comes out, just like Emrakul.

>>51261180
Why did you greentext two entirely unoriginal characters after asking a question about original characters?

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Jesus /tg/ where are you guys playing that you find people that do this

Ive been playing for 7 years now, dming for 5 of those, and for most of them played in a public library every saturday where literally anyone could walk up and join us and not a SINGLE time have i had someone who did something like this, I swear that the people who bitch about this either only play online or dont play at all and just make shit up

>>51261180
>Zero Nightgrog, the orc mercenary vampire exorcist that loves ale and his father who made him the "monster" he is now

>Inb4 poo in loo

Makes you think

>>51260413
Let's extrapolate on that. Game board on a cloth takes minimal space, yes. But you still need to carry the cloth. Why not put the game board on something cloth-like you would be carrying anyway. Such as - clothes.

As for the game pieces / pawns. Perhaps you could re-purpose buttons. Or detachable zippers.

>>51260324
Ran We Be Goblins in 5e. The goblin rogue went ahead to scout, and proceeded to silently and instantly disembowel every single horse and dog in the adventure.

...come to think of it, the dogs should get advantage on smelling. But I think even with the +5 PP the rolls were so good they would've been enough.

How do I space opera with 5E? Looking to do some Dragonstar / Spelljammer type stuff.

>>51260443
Add lasers to everything
Let people jump really high
Race of burly fuzzy people
Ancient aliens were behind everything
Space boat

>>51259227
FUCk.

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It's finished. I wish I could have added more, but I like to keep things on one page.

If there's anything you find objectionable please let me know.

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Also a version for posting on /d/ since this is way too large.

Floating continents with a magocracy.

>>51259215
Floating continents perhaps not, although I like the idea of the magocracy.

What race do you think would fit that best?

Did you just recopy the old description of the old old thread

>>51258705
he did

>tfw two good, productive threads in a row
>>51258617
There's a specific guy who makes delicious bread flavours and spices.

What's wrong with Saskia? She's a human and she can be a solider. Like Soldier, Barbarian, Warrior, and Berserker all feel interchangeable. They're just "thing that bashes other things with weapons."

>>51259364

He probably wanted her for a tribal warrior deck instead of a tribal soldier deck, which i can understand. Personally i'm building a tribal human deck around her, though i have no idea what i am doing.

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>>51259364

To me the term "soldier" implies a member of a standardized, trained, regimented, professional army, where "warrior" or "barbarian" imply a more informal, unrefined, tribal, individualistic sort of fighter.