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>>51226549

See Burning Wheel. Basically you set your goals, muster a number of points that make up your "body of argument" and then play out a kind of rock-paper-scissors combat where you do stuff like make a point, or be evasive, or try to baffle them with bullshit. When one side's beaten down you look at how badly off each is, Unless the victor got a perfect victory, he'll have to concede to some extent and meet the loser in the middle somewhere.
The other guy has to concede defeat, though he still has the option of refusing to accept it and just escalating, like yelling "shut up, asshole" and drawing a sword. It's not going to convince anyone of the strength of his argument at that point, but hey, if he's so smart how come he's dead, huh?

>>51226784
Interesting. Does this ever feel like playing minigames instead of RPing, and/or harm player agency?

Is it more suited to a certain type of RPG than to others?

These """"systems"""" are universally terrible and distracting. Half the time they function as a boardgame so there is no point to roleplaying the conversation. Other times they try to integrate and the dice contradict the conversation. So it's basically a dicerolling minigame as an excuse for "well why does *combat* get all the mechanics?"

Because we can roleplay a conversation or argument and see who wins. We can't roleplay us fighting each other without injuries. Dumbasses.

Most chase systems are total shit, too, but that's a separate issue.

>>51226412
An all female party with an "unusually gifted" shota they raise and "take care of"

>>51226412
All female, the cat fights that occur when you bring a big manly barbarian NPC are the best..

>>51226445
Don't be gay.

All male party. It has a chance of feeling just gay, normal, or some sort of dude-bro trip.

With an all female party it won't ever feel "normal". It'll either be a grrrl power fantasy, or some kind of fetish or other non-genuine gimmick

Hi... I would like to enter in the ASL World... I renew my request made in the Historical Wargame thread:
Anyone have the ASL Rules in HTML (or chm, or any editable format - no pdf)?
Thanks guys....

What makes this one a good game?

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>>51225513
ASL gets discussed on occasion over at the /HWG/ thread

i think there are maybe a grand total of 3 of us that play it over there though. Hell I just got done with my monthly groups get together yesterday.

your not gonna find alot of ASL players here. its a game that is beyond most people.

Reminder for anyone with an inkling for running games:

Now is a great time for planning things! A ton of people are about to be rejected from 3 different games this month! This month alone!

There will be so many sad anons who wish to join a game. Don't let them down! I know I will, I'm a shit GM. So it's up to you!

>>51224987
>tfw i will be running 5 games soon
i should stop but i can never find a game that interests me to play in

>>51224987
I'm almost tempted to find two or three other people from here to play in a game based off Warcraft 3's campaigns taking place in Azeroth, to add to a party I already have. I'm highly reluctant if only because I've had very bad experiences with people from /pfg/.

>>51223277
Blam

The same thing that happens if a Guardsman found his male Commissar in a state of undress.

He gets the fuck out. And drops a hint to the psyker in Commissar's retinue.

>>51223265
Isn't that a problem with the GM being stupid rather than an issue with the system itself?

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>we're going to be making a bait thread

>in the traditional games board

>with D&D/PF complaints

>using an overused meme image

>and I have a few lines of copypasta to make the thread more shitty

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>>51223265
>every game has to be by the book, except the parts of the book I don't like

What was the most outlandish character concept you've ever seen, be it WoD or CoD?

>>51222904
First game I ever STed/played was VtR 1e. One of the players was your typical weeb with a dash of aspie. Good guy on the whole. But of course he came up with this over the top homebrew bloodline, where he was possessed by some kind of demon, allowing him Bleach-like hollow (was it called) powers. Inexperienced as I was I allowed it. After the second session I started to have regrets. I placced him in a position in which he could commit diablerie, an opportunity which he of course took advantage of. Which gave an excuse to send in the Sheriff to execute his character. He understood completely.

>that went better than expected.

>>51223269
That doesn't sound too bad.

>>51222027
Sloth.

Unfortunately slow and steady does not win the race against average speed steady.

>>51222027

It's not fallen. It's falling now.

Sloooooooooowly.

>>51221281
I've not played it myself, but this seems to be exactly the kind of thing Call of Cthulhu was made for.

>>51221281
cypher system perhaps

That or the Laundry RPG, which is based on Call of Cthulhu anyhow ,and Charlie Stross's worlbuilding is not all that different from SCPF world.

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>>51220893
Ghost gas

Infiltrating one of the glacier bunkers of the Alps

Hunting the No Man's Land scavengers

Investigating a self-expanding Rouge Zone

Using carved cartridges as money

Dieselpunk ghostbuster regiments

The Great Martian War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bERNcnaT-ko

German thaumatology division, they start summoning demons.

You've got soldiers in full outfits wearing gas masks, but when the die the clothes are mysteriously empty barring a slight smell of sulphur.

Tanks that seem to have impossibly powerful engines and the ability to never break down, but when a bullet penetrates the armour they scream and bleed.

Chlorine gas that flows with murderous intent, chasing fleeing enemies up hills and seeping through the smallest crack.

>>51220893
Dying horribly in a trench
>Inb4 HURR NOT ALL WAR WAS IN TRENCHES
Yeah, and the rest of it looked like any other late 19th century low intensity colonial conflict, making it generic and unrelated.

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>>51219731
>putting a school about magic into a scifi setting.

>>51219750
40K isn't scifi, it's space fantasy

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>>51219192
because it's the time of screeching mouths
https://youtu.be/5ZeGCIiurmk
it needed at least one closed beak and some cloth somewhere desu


the changeling got it worse anyway

>>51219192

I miss the robe.

>>51219192
You were making this same stupid complaint a couple days ago when it first came out - "the eyes are small it looks like a dumb beast".

First, that's an autistic complaint. Use more casual language, you weird fuck.

Second, the old model is hilariously dated. It's chunky, it's uneven, it's details are shite.

Third, the old model didn't look "wise", what about it communicated that? The eyes are big because they couldn't sculpt small details like that, same with its giant peg teeth. It looks exactly what it is - cartoonish, and from the early 90s.

>>51219178
Justice

Some warm pajamas.

>>51219178
The snazziest hat.

Reminder that there is no right or wrong way to enjoy the game.

>>51219122
Dubs comnfirm but I was thinking that every way is right - even a WAACfaging when you are playing with other WAACfags

Going to play tomorrow at lgs against seraphon player with my bloodbound. I know that he uses some shitty combos with them and last time someone played against him he used kroak + vortex with massive summoning pool.

I'm hoping to get some success against him with these guys:

Leaders
Lord Of Khorne On Juggernaut (140)
- General
- Trait: Dark Avenger
- Artefact: Chaos Runeblade
Bloodstoker (80)
- Artefact: Crown of Conquest
Slaughterpriest (100)
- Bloodbathed Axe
- Artefact: Crown of Conquest

Units
Mighty Skullcrushers x 3 (160)
- Axes
- Khorne Mortal Battleline
Mighty Skullcrushers x 3 (160)
- Glaives
- Khorne Mortal Battleline
Mighty Skullcrushers x 3 (160)
- Glaives
- Khorne Mortal Battleline
Skullreapers x 5 (140)
- Daemonblades
Skullreapers x 5 (140)
- Daemonblades
Khorgoraths x 3 (240)

Battalions
Brass Stampede (80)
Skulltake (100)

Total: 1500/2000

I'm going to try to drown him on those mortal wounds and use combo charging with skullcrushers. If leaves my slaughterpriest alone I'll pull Kroak from his throne and show how real men fight.

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Updated version and reposting.

Changelog-
Jumper class now gets personalised class name for free.
Witchcraft has the EX rank in it's box where it should be.
Sader drawback.

>>51217140
You can buy MEoDP for EX with Mystic Eyes. It is not purchaseable as it's own Skill.

>>51217173
You can't do custom Skills, that's the reason the Skill list is here at all.

>>51217181
Sure but it'll only be magic items on the level that Magus use and without an additional family art, probably somewhat generic without assistance from an outside source.

>>51217348
>no custom skills
Well fuck. Not sure why I thought it was an option, but I guess that makes sense to keep things from getting cheesed to hell.
NPs are still custom order right? Also speaking of Noble Phantasms the notes at the end for them don't exist. Did they get cut off?

>>51217366
NPs are custom yes.

As to the notes, apparently I forget to finish the last two. I'll add them in later since it's not too important and there'll probably be other feedback to take into account.