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>>50891419
I've done a few ACL events, so I can chime in about the kit.

You may have made a mistake already if the mail isn't riveted. Butted mail is a joke and will give you zero protection.

Mail in Bohurt is not for game purposes but protection purposes in case some asshole actually brings a sharpened weapon (russians do this abit) or a weapon snaps and becomes razor sharp on impact.

Padding is the least expensive part of kit IMO. Never gets dented, needs replaced or worked on.

Surcoat is a team thing. You only get to use the team one, so don't bother with one if you aren't on a team.

Gambesons are a dime a dozen. I can recommend half a dozen sites, KultofAthena, Gambeson.pl, AgeofCraft, SharukhanMarket, Outfit4Event, or any other site. If you wanna go super cheap, even a $50 one off Ebay will work just fine. Be aware your gonna have to make and sew your own arming points on. Its easy, but you don't do it till you have the armor and know where they need to go.

>>50891494
Don't get me wrong, I have no illusions about being able to use this in anything ACL, mostly I just want to finish the rest of the outfit. In my mind, putting in the effort to have a mostly-functional kit of armor is better than being that guy who has a mail shirt in his closet. Case in point, this stuff is textbook basement-dweller butted mail, it will probably never see combat on purpose unless our resident clown friend ever convinces me to start larping.

These websites are really useful though, thanks. What do you tend to use for legwear and footwear for ACL events?

>>50891637
I usually wore some under armor under the pantaloons or whatever medieval people called pants. Then leg padding, leg armor tied onto a body harness doublet, medieval shoes and then armored sabatons over those.

>>50890199
Wake up, eat up, fully dress up, get your tools, to chopping some wood or transport it, take a break for dinner, return working, fall asleep after the dusk.
Rinse, repeat, welcome to the back-breaking world.

>>50890199
I would imagine they spend considerable portion of their waking time jacking wood.

chop wood
deliver to town hall
chop wood
deliver to town hall
chop wood
deliver to town hall
chop wood
deliver to town hall
chop wood
deliver to town hall
chop wood
deliver to town hall
chop wood
deliver to town hall
chop wood
deliver to town hall
chop wood
deliver to town hall

>>50889968
Depends on what you mean by "cusp of the industrial revolution" are we talking like end of the colonial era or full Victorian?
>I'm retarded and don't know dick about history so I can only guess
if former, maybe spies in an American Revolution type setting + magic. For the other steam punk shadow run.
>though the latter sounds gay as hell

>>50889968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZyoFHc25Yo
add magic and fantasy races

>>50889968
>How in the world do you do espionage in a fantasy setting
clairvoyance, divination, scrying

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This was my noob cube.

http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/56543

I think I only want to use about 30% of the cards from this in my updated Cube, so it's up for criticism.

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I feel like a good cube has to be very focused. Like hyper synergized and then revised multiple times. Or maybe not, what do I know.

Start at 360 cards for 8 players for 40-card decks; adjust cube size appropriately for number of players. For typical Limited decks, non-land ratios are 1/3 non-creatures and 2/3 creatures. Find some way to provide each player with about ~6 pieces of easy-to-play land-based color fixing; this means for 8 players, you will want at least 48 dual lands; 60 is great.

Sit down and pick out what you want every color pair deck to look like. Typically every color pair has a primary strategy and some secondary fall-back strategy if the primary doesn't pan out. It's much easier if you focus on five color pairs when picking out cards; with ten color pairs one or two will inevitably be weak. Decide if you want artifacts/colorless to be a deck.

Once you know what decks/archetypes are going to exist then you need to link those decks and archetypes together using cards. Each archetype will also require some number of "anchor" cards that will be great for that deck but be careful not to include too many build-around cards that only go in one deck and are otherwise last-picks - a good anchor card that is solid for an archetype is like Tuskguard Captain - good in an archetype, not useless outside of it. "Pivot" cards are good in multiple archetypes like removal but unless you want a "good stuff" deck to exist too many pivot cards are bad for Cube.

Break singleton, it's the best way to push your archetypes by having multiples of solid anchor cards.

Multicolored Cube fucking sucks. Minimize the number of multicolor cards in your Cube and make them either anchor and/or pivot cards - never make them build-around cards because they will rot.

Don't fucking buy real cards for Cube. Buy a color printer and a paper cutter.

>>50889002
Shai Hulud.

>>50889015
May his passage cleanse the world.

>>50889479
He who controls the Spice, controls the Universe. The Spice must flow.

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>>50888834
Posting the waifu CYOA

>>50888834
Previous thread: >>50880869
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Any.

>>50888668
My friend can be a very frustrating character maker in games. Ran a campaign a few years ago were they tried to submit a character with split personality disorder with 5 different personalities each of which was a different class. Shot that down pretty damn quick. Instead they just made a murder-hobo wizard and decided they had been married to a plot essential NPC the whole time.

>>50888668
i dont like playing as halflings, dwarves, gnomes, or any other small races/creatures when choosing a race for myself

Simple. Base Mana Pool, Mana-regen each round, and each spell has a mana-cost.

I think it'd work better than all the spell-slot shit to be honest.

>>50886851
>how do you use the one system that's more bland than 5e's open slot system?
I'd make it work by using literally anything else. Physical fatigue/damage, charges, skill use, the list goes on of actually interesting and/or tactically-minded systems.

You have a pool of mana that you use for spellcasting and supernatural feats, the pool restores completely on short rests, and a mage's most important equipment stat is mana increases. Mage the class gets "Affinity", a passive that reduces all spell costs by 1 mana, meaning their maximum damage nova is largely unaffected and so will remain in relative balance (High-octane spells have high mana costs, lowering them by 1 isn't a huge deal) but a full caster won't burn through their entire reserve firing off 2-mana magic missiles. Lets the casters rely on their 'cantrips' and keeps martial-casters in balance as well.

>>50886892
Done before, turn-by-turn regen is a fustercluck of numbers tracking that still won't achieve the feel you're looking for.

>>50886142
given adventurers are likely to be rather wealthy, they would try to get as much money out of them as they can, be it through taxes or peddling of services

>>50886142
The same way Western feudal kingdom have accepted nations of Danish and Swedish mercenaries into their midst.

Retard.

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>>50887111
>Retard.

Make sorcerer more useful first
Then make psions/mystics.

I bought PHB and a friend gifted me the MM.

Is the DMG really necessary? I have it printed from a shitty PDF I found on the internet. Serves me well enough to roll the Treasure Hoards and stuff.

Will I lose anything by skipping it? I'd much rather buy a second PHB to be honest.

third for
KOBOLD
DRAGON
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HUNTING
PARTY

-4 STR?

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In most insect species with queens, all of the workers (and warriors) are non-reproducing females, sterile or not depending on the specific species. Males are called drones and are just living sperm storage that tend to die after mating but aren't too different from female workers. If the rogue was a drone, swapping genders more likely just gained her a brand new stinger. Or they could be based on termites, who don't follow the above rules.

If you want a little guy to suddenly become a big girl, a species of spider people could accommodate that.

>>50885415
Insect-brew race wasnt exactly 2 legged irl insects per se. They were meant to be semi eusocial, where a breeding pair emitted hormones which drove off other females and made other males sterile and compliant. When the male dies, the effect wears off, and the males duke it out until a dominant malet emerges. As they developed civilisation, the bug-purge was replaced by a more formal tourney-like competition to decide who gets to bone for the rest of his life.

Player was working with DM to find an excuse to compete in one of these. Now it looks like she'll have one fought over her instead...

>>50884566
Blood ravens It was a gift.

>>50884566

They'd probably want to return it to the Blood Angels or its associated successor Chapter because taking up the arms of dead brothers without intent on returning those relics is poor form.

Sons of Medusa get a lot of crap for that, which shows it's not prohibited, but frowned upon. And who says anything that's frowned upon is not permitted? It adds flavor when your chapter has a black spot against them, they don't have to be perfect and shining paragons and can have a little bit of dirt behind their ears.

Otherwise, it might be a gift for some reason or another, lost to the annals of Chapter history or recorded and legitimized by the Blood Angels or successor chapter for heroic deeds performed.

>>50884566
I would say that the overwhelming majority of Marine chapters would not let a Dread just sit there.

They'd most likely first attempt to return him to his parent Chapter, if it still exists, and THEN attempt to incorporate him into their Chapter should that be impossible/against the Dreads wishes.

Dreads are extremely revered and/or respected, if only because of their age and value. They'd make every effort to return him to his brothers, at bare minimum to ingratiate themselves into the other Chapters good standing.

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Like a filthy horsefucking cossack.

I will deck you in the schnoz.

>>50884106
There are also mighty pirates, though.

>>50884249
That's not an insult. That's a threat.

Look, mate, let's say I insult you with "You fight like a dairy farmer". How do you respond?

>>50882971
>pf dragons
How disgusting.

>>50882971
>white
>not a reatrded, 6 INT look

One job.

>>50883421
PF does - because there are a set in every Bestiary - better than WotC ever has.

Players fear dragons in PF if they're smart.

>>50882266

> That's a very tasty pic you've got there, OP... Do you have the sauce?

>>50882286
Op is clearly a newfag, I'm verily more interested in his pic than in his question.

>>50882266
Source?

>>50882266
Buy a core book, grab a bunch of friends, play together.
Or look for another group that has no hygiene problems.