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>>51236423
Roleplay an enthusiastic young character, who has a genuine appreciation for the shifting life of an adventurer.
This first few times the party has a really rough battle, try to RP your char. balancing fear with excitement, and incredible adrenaline-pumping rush of after-combat.
Eventually, have him/her throw out crooked smiles and a hungry attitude when violence, or a really big foe seems to be drawing close.

And level him in a way that mechanically makes sense for someone who is fighting big monsters all the time.

You've encountered packs of [CREATURE] around your [HOMETOWN] and read a ton on them. Take knowledge skills to represent this.

If the GM approves, they'll let you monster-hunt with the party, or take on jobs between sessions. That's my personal suggestion, anyway.

Roll out a mini-combat against a target. Play it like this...

> Knowledge OR Survival checks to track or deduce their location.
> Stealth OR Crafting checks to sneak up or make a trap.
> Attack, assume enemy is surprised and taking a hit from their weakness.

If the tracking fails, you don't find them. If stealth/trap fails, you don't get a free crit (and it's assumed you get injured). If the attack fails, you need to make a second attack (and receive an injury) or escape (dex save to avoid injury?)

Should only need 3-5 rolls to resolve it, and you can do it in like 30 seconds.

>>51236423
Considering that most African wildlife were considered monsters by Victorian Era brits, I would make the assumption that a monster is a scary animal you can hunt and then mount in your drawing room

All three. Viva la revolution!

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>>51235670
ALL THREE.

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>>51235670
You came to the wrong neighborhood.

>>51235505
Where you at?

If you're living in a city, you've probably got a half-an-hour drive at most to your nearest LFGS.

If you're living in a rural country area, be prepared to have to drive to the nearest city with a six digit population, which might take up to two hours depending on where you live.

Also, use this:
>http://locator.wizards.com/

>>51235619
Cirencester, about two hours out of London apparently. I haven't been there in person yet.

Europe has a huge MTG scene. Legacy Brealfast is my favorite MTG podcast, and theyre out of the UK. I dont remember where at, but they have shops close enough for weekly events, plus regular larger events within driving distance.

Wait until the hype dies down and people start trying to sell boxes/badly painted models online.

Also possibly wait for the next expansion (there's always a next expansion) to get a kickstarter. Can't take more than a few years.

>>51235433
>implying it will deliver in a few years

>>51235371

It's a shit game, so you haven't missed anything.

>>51234973
ASOIAF probably.

>>51234981
ASOIAF?

>>51234973
Only War has mechanics for this kind of thing, but it is a 40k setting. It might be good for inspiration.

It has mechanics for designing a regiment along with characters, and for requisitioning gear from the regiment, based on performance during missions and such.
Also, every PC also makes at least one assistant NPC, to give more of a "platoon" feel.

>>51234946
Poorly painted.

Also a 40k Ork.

>>51234958
yeah he was given to me, I just don't recognize the model and didn't see it on geedubs page so I thought someone might be able to identify him

>>51234946
It's a Big Mek.

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>>51234898
Give them people to care about that can't come back.

>>51234898
playing 5e?

Introduce a Coup De Grace rule: an angry vilager with a knife while you're asleep can and will drop you down to Death Saves instantly.

Also Suffocation Rules.

Death Saves are easy because players should be making a lot of them.

>>51234898
Same way you keep weight and tension when players have the ability to "just make another character".

Dying will do nothing to solve whatever conflict you currently face. Sure, you'll come back in a few hours, or even days. However that won't do anything to help the poor family who're being hunted and will likely die if you're not there to save them.

There are worse things that can happen to a player than their character dying.

>>51234822
First for 8 int wizard

And I play him cause he beats kolbold dragon hunters

>>51234843
Second for 16 wis fighter.

Shillelagh and PAM.

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>>51234822
When are we getting a new spell .pdf with all the spells that have been introduced in Elemental Evil and SCAG?

>>51234456
Depends on the job. Depends on the party. Depends on the setting.

Whatever is contextually fair.

>>51234456
Here's an idea. Always present your party with a reward that is only a little bit less fair than they deserve. If they feel like they deserve more then make it a relatively easy check to convince the reward giver to give them the amount that you first would assume is fair. Also have a much larger reward prepared that's more than they deserve in case they want to try and press their luck even further and succeed/somehow outdo themselves on the job at hand.

Alternatively, give NPCs a generosity 'stat'. Some NPCs will be more stingy with their rewards, others will be much more grateful. That sorta thing.

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But that's literally every dorf warrior character ever.

I accidentally made the stig while I was attempting to recreate the deliverator from snow crash (with less cyberpunk) in a zombie apoc campaign.

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the classic, pitfall with a gelatinous cube at the bottom

>>51234338
A corpse leaned up against a wall with an amulet around it's neck that radiates minor evocation magic. Pulling the amulet off the neck causes a spear to shoot from a hole concealed behind the corpse into the person directly in front of it.

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>>51234338

>>51234193
How would someone NOT notice this during the first session?

>>51234204
he used it sparingly, and always the least obvious pieces

>>51234193
I'm imaging a very confusing game of Shadowrun with https://youtu.be/f5glkFSCuMI playing in the distance.

>>51233930
D&D 5e all Sun Monk And/Or elemental monk.

It's not the best option, but it's there.

ran a campaign in D&D 4th with some homebrew material that worked pretty well

Mutants and Masterminds can work for just about anything except for maybe ultra low power gritty stuff

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>>51233796
What is this, a CYOA for ants?

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>>51233802
>didn't save properly
shit

does anyone have experience with hobby stores / game stores in edinburgh for 40K? i'd try the GW official store but it's rather small.

Thousand Sons bro:

1) have you tested your army out yet? how does it fare?

2) have you dared to bring the 20 point bolt pistol with blast?

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Did some work on modeling for a homebrew Chaos Daemons unit, essentially the equivilent of Slaanesh Nurglings. Promised to show them off here when I finished, as thanks for some kind anons helping me sort out rules. I'll post them if anyone's curious, but I don't want to eat up too much space.

I think I still need to touch up the details in some areas, though overall I'm very pleased with how they turned out