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>Pathfinder
Consider transforming your game into a better one instead

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Just be a skinwalker if the GM allows it and use the vivisectionist archetype. Grab a barbarian level or two along the way and just find a way for your character to get pounce. You lose bombs with vivisectionist though, so be content with being a punchy-guy. The skinwalker gives you a natural weapon based on whichever you pick and you just rood out with extracts before the fight starts, then just charge people with mutagen and rip them in half.

>>55048247
Check out the Master Chymist PrC, it's jekyll and hyde the class. Also you'll probably have better luck getting answers out of /pfg/ (>>55030838).

>>55047132
Savage Worlds, Mutants and Masterminds, GURPS, Warbirds.

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Did nothing wrong.

>>55047149
She did do something wrong.
She didn't kill all the masters.

>>55047169
That's exactly what she did right. The peace was real.

>>55046088
One of the things I like best is non-verbal communication.

Might be posture, or even bioluminescence ala squids.

Different/bizzare reproduction methods are fun too.

Like what if they lay eggs in dead animals? Or budding, or their reproduction method doesn't result in any paternal attachment to their offspring. Then take those eccentricities and build a culture around them.

Don't hesitate to put clashing traits in there either. Maybe the aggressive militant aliens are small and cute by other alien standards.

>>55046242
I was actually going to have the gas-bags communicate via squid-like color and texture changes on their skin. They can actually detect sounds and distinguish them as well or better than humans, but they can't make specific noises without technological assistance.

These are all good jumping off points for weird aliens, though.

>>55046347
Octopus-like, rather. Or maybe squids do it too, I'm not sure.

>>55045568
>Should Nāga and other forms of magical serpent be considered distinct from dragons
show me one RPG where Nagas have the dragon type

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>>55045892
In mythology them seem to be used interchangeably with dragons. I'm asking if RPGs should do the same. RPGs either seem to either just use them as giant snakes (which could be considered a sub-type of dragon), or snakes with human torsos and tits.

All of these are more or less consistent with south Asian mythology. Some Naga are big and friendly enough for the gods to use as couches (pic related), others are monsters for heroes to slay, and still others are misunderstood snake waifus. The only really consistent thing is that they are older than humans, posses ancient knowledge or are otherwise tasked with maintaining the universe, and can transform into humans (but maintain a snake theme). All of these are similar to how dragons work in most RPGs.

>>55046028

You could go the Oriental/Dark Souls approach and have serpentines as a sort of proto-dragon. They're always seeking to advance to their final stage of life, which is a full dragon.

>>55045115
Malal's stuff is usually subverted amusing tropes of D&D monsters.

His hook horrors exist to make people like Cato Sicarius Suffer via constant cockblocking, he has firebreathing Dragon rats which are a play on the trope of PC's starting out with rats and ending with Dragons, and his Greater Daemons are like bigger versions of Bloodletters skilled in Assassinating other Daemon Princes or Greater Daemons, or capturing them for anti-self tortures. Next to the Parasitic Warp-Gear that absorbs warp energy like a sponge returning the old natural order to the Warp before Malal's displacement, they're a pretty hard to beat crew.

Sons of Malice are silent as to not satisfy the portfolios of the other Chaos Gods, but they presumably work in code or actual military tactics and partake in ritual cannibalism on slaves they capture in raids in an amusing ritual of parisitism and power gain.

You'd be interested in the like of D&D Devourer models, Infernal Models, or Malal-thrall versions of existing Daemons who have had qualities removed from them, like a depressed looking Daemonette devoid of sensation or sexual form, simplistic non-dynamic lords of change that aren't fucking rainbow birds, and Khorne daemons that look like all their gains were energy drained away from them next to skipping leg day.

>>55045347
This is the kind of conceptual shit I was after - thanks for giving me your take.

Admittedly I'm a bit of a sucker for muhreens - any thoughts on them, insofar as thematics are concerned?

In a Dark Heresy game we both felt the other had joined the wrong priesthood and subtly tried converting the other but mostly we were bros engaging in JOLLY COOPERATION

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>Could you reasonable have them fight alongside each other without autistic backstabbing?
Yes, it happens all the time with Guard auxiliaries.
>Could individual members of both organsations become friends, for example if they are working together as acolytes of an Inquisitor?
Yes.
>Could there even be love?
NO THAT'S HERESY

REEEEEEEE

The grudge between the Ministrorum and the Mechanicus isn't all that bad at all. The Mechanicus still provides Sisters with power armor and vehicles, for example, and does not sabotage it or anything. Likewise with pilgrim vessels (spacecraft) and big stonkin' power chainswords. They have doctrinal disagreements, and some Missionaries secretly try to convert Machine Cultists, but for the most part they get along just as well as any other subjects of the Emperor.

>initiative is based purely on cards with no attributes affecting it

>>55044301
>implying initiative needs to be modified by an attribute

Go back to D&D. House rule shotguns to a +1 bonus and you're fine, btw.

>>55044301
The Quick trait lets you re-draw if you get anything under 5.

>>55043731
You know how the typical wood elf kingdom is like? With the giant villages in the trees and all?

It's like that, but less gay.

>>55043731
biopunk dystopia

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>>55043731
It would be very mysterious

>>55043238
Look man I was as salty as the rest of them but it really is easily counterable if you don't autistically hold to pure time decks.

>>55044003
It warped the meta around it. Its like saying the Eldrazi Winter was counterable because you could play ensnaring bridge.

Holy shit I haven't played this in years
How is the game these days?