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>>51212570

I originally thought it was the usual things. A sixth edition MtG starter, the Bretonnia vs Lizardmen Warhammer Fantasy starter box and a copy of Heroquest, giving me direct routes to all the main sorts of tabletop gaming.

However, I discovered something much, much older than that which was surprising and delightful. We had a really old, rugged cassette player with a shitty little attached microphone. My brother and I mostly used it for playing stuff our parents taped off the radio or for recording various silly things, but a selection of old tapes reminded me of my first experience ever doing an RPG style collaborative narrative.

It was with my dad, on that stupid little recorder. Him telling us a story with my brother and I as the main characters, us making stupid jokes or mentioning our favourite TV shows (Power Rangers came up a lot), and my dad working with it to create a story, leading us and using what we gave him to make something really unique.

My dad never knew about or was into D&D or any of that, but somehow his simple little storytelling game with his sons translated into a lifelong love of roleplaying for me, and the memory of those simple, silly little tapes brings me so much joy.

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>>51212534
Anime club folks that were raised on the stuff invited me to join in high school. Messed around in a game with a barbarian and a druid+wolf companion and got hooked, fell into the abyss of older editions, then other RPG systems. Technically I played YGO TCG and MTG, but I didn't understand it as a hobby outside itself until then.

Really technically Pokemon TCG collections in elementary school might count but likewise it was Contact rather than Immersion.

Vin D.We were a group of 15 gamers and after we saw that video we tried D&D.
now its 3 tables of D&D every friday and saturday

Depends, can Zeiram defeat the Aku empowered Robot's from Samurai Jack?

>>51211189
Who?

>>51211189
Holy shit, this takes me back.

>>51210080
>netdeckers
>waa
>here are my unsolicited opinions on recent political events
>did I mention that I am a member of the alt-right?
>stupid liberals, am I right?
>this is a channel about a card game by the way but all I do is play fallout
>wotc sucks, wotc is bad, wotc are doodoo heads, ect...
>did I mention how much I hate netdeckers
>waa

every video ever

>>51210080
Hello my name is John

>>51208880
I point out that we are playing (insert system here) and not Diplomacy.

So the grotesque over-investment of energy into national politics, a subject over which we possess both minimal knowledge and control, was mostly a result of the cloying isolationist and self-segratory nature of internet echo chambers, and is not to be reflective of our daily lives, especially since, this far, the only actual usage of the unmentionable beast's pending executive authority was to admonish his party members on their priority of dismantling the already toothless ethics committee, a tweet which apparently carried enough weight to make them *stop*, perhaps we could just wait until something happens before we crassly speculate with wild hyperbole?

And would it kill you to use a fucking coaster?

>>51208880
Tell them no politics at the gaming table (or whatever table) if it's your house or you're the GM/DM. If otherwise, tell them "you won't like it" when they ask for your opinion.

>>51208880
>associating with libs

Anon, no.

>>51207273


....I have done this as a GM.


Please tell that the name 'Varnoth' means nothing to you.

>>51207321
No. Then again, maybe that's just my bad memory.
Blowing up an elven palace to help a dragon grab power?

>>51207362


No, this campaign setting doesn't have elves as a race.

Varnoth is a dragon, amusingly enough.

Anything in vampire was more coherent that the salubri. They had three or four subgroups, at least three oldifferent motivations for Saulot, plus the Tremere stuff.

>>51204911
Saulot was a mistake.

>>51204343
Sadly true. But you'll still never find a good ST dumb enough to let you play one. They go into the same folder as the Baali, the Temporis discipline, both of the expanded-thaumaturgy books, True Brujah, Old Clan Tzimisce, the Daughters of Cacophany..... I could go on.

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>>51195526

Once again not going because it's not cost-effective to go to a prerelease (cost of tournament $25, cost of 6 packs $18)

While I want to go tonight, only getting 4 packs of the new set is pretty lame.

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>>51195241
>11 Researching/documenting secrets (Warlock's patron, who Erinyes serves, is the infernal duke of secrets and lore) Business-like, dutiful, willing to interrupt her efforts to deal with Warlock.)
>12 Dealing with infernal Bureaucracy. Cool, able to spare attention for Warlock.
>13 Infernal paperwork. Irate, frustrated, grateful for interruption. Tolerant of Warlock.
>14 Infernal court proceedings, of the legal or royal kind. Politics, distraction, willingness to explain what's going on to Warlock because talking about what's happening is less demanding on her attention than answering her questions.
>15 Dealing with Mortals; summoning casters or cultists. The former particularly is ripe for use as a side thing later in game (whack this mortal who was sassing me last time he summoned me). Businesslike, slightly embarrassed, annoyed, defensive.
>16 Dealing with underlings. Possibly making unsubtle examples of them, then solicitously inquiring how warlock is doing, saccharine-sweet.
>17 I can't even read what I wrote, but it finishes, 'Pleasantly diligent, courteous.'. Needs work.
>18 Fond. May have been just about to contact Warlock. Presumably, at home, or office, or what have you with the 'Do Not Disturb' light on, ready and receptive to contact.
>19 Recently rewarded, successful, or victorious. Excellent mood, convivial and pleasant.
>20 Excellent mood, recently rewarded or victorious on something big. Celebratory, pleased, possibly intoxicated.


Erinyes ARE combat-oriented and quite capable, but also fairly 'human' looking, social, and capable of serving as good PR with mortals (or in this case, handler). I had 'watching/engaging in plots and schemes' suggested to me, and I might replace 17 with that. I think the string of 'battle' ones are boring; at least one might get replaced with 'campaigning'; out in the field but not actually fighting.

What else do you think is necessary when you have a devil on mental speed-dial? Also: post devils.

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C'mon, I would have thought /tg/ was all about devils.

The problem with the aliens is that they rely on magic too much, to the point of where EVERYTHING they use is atleast slightly enchanted.

Bump for potential

(Ain't about to see this archived without a reply)

>>51193754
What are Eldar?

cont:

So I have broken down the races into a few categories

>Usurpers: Alien races that have no relation to man nor interacted in the past. Outsiders.
>Successors: Races created by man. Organic and often human-looking with significant differences. Pic related.
>Manufactured: Machine races created by man to serve as intelligent workers or slaves. Machines tend to exhibit the extremes views of humans with some outright hating them or worshiping them.
>Uplifted: Alien races uplifted culturally or genetically by humans
>Others: Alien races that interacted with humanity in the past. Many are either allies or defeated by mankind in the past.
>Guardians: organic or inorganic races that view humanity's achievements to be sacred and thus to be protected from misuse.

So /tg/, what are the races that might inhabit this galaxy? Technology?

Scifi Pugmire

Smells like halo.

Bumping out of interest

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And why is it Lady Firehair?

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>>51183257
In all the forgotten realms, there are none more beautiful than Tasha.

FIVE TONS OF FLAX.

>>51164059

Was it a legal link team? what were the models you were using?

>>51164059
Like, two of the same starter? Boring, I'd imagine.

Also, with what little info you gave we can't tell what you might have done wrong.

>>51164059

And it is viable to start with 2 starter boxes, the imperial service starter and the wu ming box will give you 10 orders and 300 points.

You will have to check the army builder to see if you can have something similar in other armies.

>>51215741
1. Not really similar to the tabletop at all.

2. Your friends bought you an Out of Print book that goes on eBay for several hundred because retards give them those prices? Be grateful, anon.

3. It's a D100 roll under system, which means that you roll 2d10 and try to get a value that is lower than your stat. Most characters will have stats between 20-40 at the beginning of character creation.

4. Ask the 40k RPG general, they know more about Rogue Trader than I, as I own Only War.

>>51215741
>Bought the book
>When they aren't being printed anymore
Just how much did that cost you?

>Buying the book when /40krpg/ gen exists

>>51215807
is it really worth that much, its been sitting in the stores bargain bin for years. is there a more up to date version?

Oh god, d100. I am getting bad rifts flashbacks. Is there a boxing skill everyone will abuse and take somehow granting them extra shots with their guns?

Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>51214219
Shouldn't we start off with when we were first discovered by the Mon'Keigh?

>>51214640
If you truly wish to. I fail to see why their discovery of us is relevant.

An urban craftworld. Interesting. And our most popular path? (d10)

Rolled 1 (1d10)

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