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>>55024530
Perhaps these items have some sort of ritual significance as symbolic armor, rather than providing a mundane defense.

Basically superheroes

Pretty much a title. It's a job that you do.

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>>55024241
It is a title, but there are a few notable individual knights and groups of knights that are prominent in my setting.

The Moon Knights - A monastic cult/religion from the not hybrid arabia/japanese region who specialize in sacred and exotic fighting styles. They mostly exist to murder the shit out of anyone who tramples on their sacred sites, temples, or ruins, but occasionally travel out to track down anything that "escapes" the duty of their purview.

The Ur Knights - The first elves, and the first "knights," created to fight off the tide of the first man in the first age. Lots of firsts. They wore armor made of living quicksilver, wielded swords made from the roots of silver plants, and were essentially less-edgy wringwraiths.

The Wolf Guard - The knights of the house of the wolf, the house of the current queen of a major nation in the setting. They effectively serve as the queen's personal guard, but function more like her personal military company in times of war, which she leads from the front. They spurn shields, and instead fight with a traditional two-sword fighting stance or with lances.

The 27th Dragoons - A guerrilla fighting company who's service was so pivotal in the last great war that each and every man was granted land rights and was therefore technically knighted. Their fighting style and role has such changed to be essentially SAS, they fight with very well coordinated assaults, wear light armor, and fight with bayonets and carbines while rappelling through windows/breaching doors.

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7th ed guide

Anyone got the 8th?

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and here's a color guide?

Got any other guides?

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Enter battlemechs ala Dragonmech. Absolutely, completely, and absurdly overcomplicated humanoid mechs. Which is perfect for what the setting wants. They don't want efficiency. They want complexity. They don't progress into electricity because going from a walking armored babbage engine to a light bulb is a severe step down in complexity.

Knights in the setting become mech pilots, with their castles holding a mech stable. Armies march with their mechs knowing them to be safe from enemy spellcasters, but spellcasters are still present in the army for when the enemy mechs go down.
Mechs and infantry fight mechs.
Infantry and cavalry fight wizards.
Wizards win when the mechs are destroyed.
You need something beyond just mechs and or wizards to ensure it isn't just unstoppable force/immovable object or a fair fight.

Mechs are justified specifically because of their retardedness.
Traditional fantasy armies still get to go at it and be recognizable as such despite wizards.
Technology doesn't advance because progress is focused on complexity not improving.

And you can even avoid guns if you're somehow fine with mechs but not guns, because they're fairly simple compared to a compound bow. As with electrical stuff, the precision (relatively) equipment desired to make them might be complex, but the actual items themselves are not.

To explain why biomachinery aka life doesn't have the Supressor effect maybe it's just complicated moving metal that does it? Or perhaps chemical complexity doesn't count, only mechanical, further suppressing advancement.

And obviously the physical laws of the setting would have to be different from our to allow mechs, but hey there's already magic. My point was to provide a reason for mechs that wouldn't equally benefit any more reasonable option.

Thoughts?

>>55022826
I like maps, I usually make somefor my games.
I've done a puzzle box I once found at a thrift store, just had to sand and reprint it.
I cook for games but it's sort of unrelated? I tie it into the game as a joke, but I just host dinner.

>>55022826
Repainted a Pringel can to be a scroll case and filled it with those joke snakes made of springs. The Wizard never thinks to check for traps beyond a detect magic. Good times asking for a fort save from the poison gas while his hands are still shaking from the surprise.

>>55023242
That's a pretty good one anon

>Sci-fi techo-magical campaign
>Playing a mage, accompanied by a teleporting rogue and an engineer
>Befriended the Archdemon of Death (who was supposed to be an antagonist) because I impressed him with a lucky nat 20
>He gives me a spell that allows me to teleport to a world full of Eldritch creatures made of metal that feed on each other and the ruins of an ancient civilization
>A few sessions later, a major city is attacked by a legion of Android soldiers from another world who are conquesting the universe
>Everyone reached the mothership in their own way
>Rogue stealthed his way, engineer raised an army of civilians and Mad Maxed
>I decide to get my own army and go to Eldritch World
>DM doesn't understand what I'm doing
>Collect small army of monsters using Dominate Beast
>It finally clicks
>DM almost shits himself laughing when I set a horde of metal eating monsters loose on a horde of Androids
>They tear apart the mothership and kill everything without us even having to fight

>>55021264

-10hp

>>55021264
Noname/10

Same breastplate as Prince of Persia movie/10

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The ancient City of the Oracle - often invaded, never conquered. Countless eons it has stood, and while each successive civilization has added to the city, somehow each successive conquest has left much of the city intact. As a result, a hodgepodge of various architectures and races inhabit it.

A mysterious curse overcomes any civilization that has invaded it, and the representatives of those vanished civilizations have remained in the city, degenerate and dangerous. All came to receive the blessing of the Oracle - a single wish.

Once every thousand years, the doors to the Oracle open to a worthy aspirant - one who can pass the Four Trials, conquer the Sleeping Kings, and find their way through the twisting, prehuman streets of the First City to the Temple of the Oracle. Whoever stands before the Oracle receives a single wish. None know now what the wishes have been, though it is known that all of the Sleeping Kings have recieved a wish.

The omens have begun - the Oracle's gates will open. Will you receive your wish? Or will you become just another lost legend in the tale of the City of the Oracle?

>>55021893
that sounds cool. so there is basicly some kind of century old forbidden city in the middle of it all?

>I want to run long games. Is it possible to run campaigns in such conditions or should I stick with one-shots?

The trick to running campaigns: start with 2-3 one-shot adventures with the same characters. Put little tiny threads that connect them. Then expand from there.

Floating is fine, just have them all part of the same organization to explain how they float in and out.

Shameless self-bump.

>>55017956
Seems helpful. Thanks.

Court-based settings such as Vampire or L5R, where the party all stay in the same location, atleast as a homebase can also be great if people float around as these lent itself to political intrigue.

>>55015939
It's trash that's hopping on the RanDumbXD scheme that CN execs are trying to force.

>>55015939
This actually went somewhere? I thought it was forgotten and canceled almost immediately.

>>55016241
>>55016005
The first few episodes are lackluster but the show is great if taken as a whole and gets better over time.

>>55015116

we have a general
>>54899989

>>55015149
ty

>>55015116
>bazookas
>artillery
>even more fucking bazookas