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>>50791483
Right: better balance

Wrong: plays like a boardgame, not a bad thing, but not Dnd

Changes: Probably would have released it as a spiritual successor to heroquest and not DnD.

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>>50791543

>>50791483
Right: HP / Heal Surges, ORIGINAL character builder
Wrong: Fighters / Rogues figuratively have spellbooks. Somewhat corrected by using Essential Rogues / Fighters, but too little too late.

Done differently: Concept offers better balance, but little/poor testplay sank it. Epic-level combat took forever. Also, power creep to sell books.

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>"Luke did I ever tell you that we're living in an epoch of technological stagnation? It's true! Over a thousands years ago people were running around with ships like Star Destroyers and infantry like Stormtroopers. Why has technology barely advanced except for minor cosmetic differences? It really gets one's neurons fired. Neurons are good friends."

>>50775477
Storm Troopers are awesome. Fuck those rebel scum. :DDD

>>50775589
>>50776014
Wonderful thread everyone, let's pack it up and call it a day

STR 12
DEX 11
CON 10
INT 20
WIS 16
CHA 7

>>50816958
>INT 20
>his book trap was entirely designed on the assumption that the very literate children he hates would have grammar and spelling as poor as his own
>INT 20

I'd say INT 7, WIS 7, and maybe CHA 16 or even 18 (sheer inherent magical power - we can surmise it's his casting stat).

CON 10 is right, but for a guy as old as he is, Meen's pretty acrobatic. DEX 14 probably. STR maybe a bit lower. STR 12 should be about right.

>>50817028

The INT stat seems alright. I mean, he's knowledgeable enough to design an intricate magical labyrinth in a book. That sort of feat requires YEARS of preparation. I think he might have a shitty WIS or CHA score, because he lacks the interpersonal awareness necessary to deduce that children who frequent libraries might easily be able to spot grammatical errors.

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>>50816061
Please tell me they're all playing Heavy Metal and that the Clerical Choir are the vocalists. That would just be fucking perfect.

>>50816061
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7tXYOAoLPM

A whole army of bards? They would probably just play this ONE song and promptly conquer the entirety of the world within its 15 minute span. I'm talking a thousand bards ascending to a galactic-sized stage for a rock concert that even the GODS themselves would attend, and then cry out in agony as they come to the understanding that nothing shall evermore be as awesome.

The entire universe will stand at attention and weep as METAL fills their hearts.

>>50816095
Yeah.

>>50813357
The /fvgt/ and Fading Embers threads are both trying to do that. We don't do discord though. Kills ideas.

>>50813357
>>50813380
Discord is an abomination that leads into circlejerking, stagnation, and gay pedophilia without fail. Every single time.

I've seen it kill generals.

Only ever use it as a convenient way to meet up with people you're already planning to play with, and even then almost any other program would be better.

If such a server exists, I guarantee you nobody there has played a tabletop game before in their life, or even wants to, and is just there to talk about video games and anime and occasionally post elves in lingerie.

>>50814729

I had such high hopes for he JTRPG Discord... High hopes....

>>50813046
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talislanta

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>>50813046

You want Fantasy Craft, anon. Wanna be a tree man? How about a six-armed clockwork robutt? Murderous gobiln? A friggin' twenty foot tall giant (possibly with halfling buddy)? A (young) dragon?
And they're all mechanically distinct.

It's roughly equal to D&D 3.5 in levels of crunch, but well balanced with loads of mechanically distinct options for martials. (Wizards are a bit dull, they were to be fixed with the Spellbound book, which is due to come out just before hell freezes over, it appears)

>>50813066
Don't be fooled. It's a near-unplayable fantasy heartbreaker that thinks it's clever by not calling its elves "elves."

>>50813012
It works because where there's a whip, there's a way.

>>50813027
First time I have, oldfag.
>>50813030
Best song of all songs.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>50812949
>Enforcer: Working under the guise of legal private security companies, these are no more than gangers with fancy equipment and very loose contracts.

1d100 size

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>50813434

A lot of their shit is sold online, you sperg.
That said, Spartan is notorious for being eun by idiots.

>>50810786
When I say "Store" I mean their online store...

>>50810746
>>50810786

If I'd have to guess, they remodel them so often because new designers don't like the old models, or they can't figure out how to add new stuff so they keep reselling the same models and hoping that people buy them over and over again.

>inb4 4e faggotry

>>50808289
Repost from last thread: I'm DMing OotA, and my party is midway through neverlight grove, I'm having some Trouble deciding what Phylo's response would be to what the adventurers and Basidia do. I don't want them to just get Away, but after the encounter they're out of most of their spells and most of them are at half or below.

3rd for GWM is overrated

>>50806897
>We're closest to the boards that use words for game mechanics
Brilliant deduction, Sherlock.
Also, I remember threads being fastest during the summer, and slowing down as fall and winter came on. Could just be me.

>>50806897
Magic Power Players describes us very well.

Nah, threads would pretty commonly go for two or three days if they got a bump now and then. They still get dumped way down towards the bottom of the board as soon as bumps stop happening though. At the time of this post, this very thread is already halfway down the board after 15 minutes of inactivity.

>>50797744
>Which alternative materials can be used for armor fabrication?

The answer is in your pic. Armor would be most likely sourced from whatever you could find in the local garbage dump/urban area.

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Tires, scrap metal, trash cans. Id look into some of the Fallout and Madmax style stuff that gets used for weapons and armor for inspiration

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>>50798661
A bit small there

>>50781885

Equipment and Identifiers of the Cult

> Brutal Weaponry: When forced to action, the cult uses simple, direct weaponry. Heavy axes, huge mauls, and similar weapons are common. More advanced armaments follow similar trends, with chainswords, autoguns, and bolt weapons being preferred when accessible.
> Symbolic Color: The cultists show their affiliation through outfits that incorporate a specific colour to reflect their beliefs. It may be a shade uncommon among the local populace, or always worn on a particular garment.
> Plentiful Ammunition: The cult favors solid projectile weapons, grenades, and other armaments that rely upon easy access to large stores of ammunition.
> Favored Craftsmanship: The maker’s mark or factory stamp of a particular craftsman or facility can be found on a great deal of cultist equipment.


Cult Allure

> Purpose Some citizens of the Imperium find themselves yearning for something more fulfilling than endless labour to support a war machine they never see. These empty souls often turn to cults that claim to provide meaning or purpose to an otherwise pointless existence.

Rites and Observances of the Cult

> Blood Sacrifice: The sacrifice of living beings, from livestock to captured enemies, is a common way for cults to express their power. The ritual is usually symbolic, although some cults have found ways to harness the spilled life for power.

Focus of Worship

> Something Else in the Dark: The Galaxy is a place of immense scale, the Warp impossibly greater. In all that space, many other things exist to bend Man's knee and twist his mind.

>>50781893
We also rolled up our first controlled world, which has.
>Haven World
>Feral and Primitive
>Airless. Everything lives in little microatmosphere bubbles in between great gaps of empty moon desert.
>It has a Tech Mystery, probably the cause of said bubbles.
>The world is peerless in its loyalty to Bercilak and Morganna, and has some major infrastructure.
>The world is also renowned for crafting a particular type of equipment.

>>50781953
ALSO, we have our subjugated species, the mighty DRAGON-HYDRA-PIKMIN MOTHERFUCKERS.

They come from an
>Urban homeworld.
>Are omnivores.
>Reproduce asexually via budding, hydra style.
>Primary sense is smell.
>Quadrupedal, with scaled skin.
>Lack wings, are about as intelligent as those apes that know sign language, and are in the range of about six or seven feet tall.
>Can easily wield chainswords and bolters with their manipulator limbs.
>have the abilities Intimidation, Rush Attack, Gaping Maw, and Acid Blood.
>They were a bronze age civilization squatting on another civilization's ruins before Bercilak and co took over.
>Fought pretty hard against the Knights before their leader was killed in single combat against the legendary Saint George.

Now we use them as mounts. Mounts that can operate heavy weapons.

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>>50815802
Jesus Christ I'm getting way more mileage out of this image then I thought I would.

Right, let's just skip to the inevitable end, as we did with the basketball game.

>>50815802
Star Trek doesn't have cybernetics (I think they regrow limbs and shit) and while the Imperium might have some cybernetics that are better than the Empire's your average crewman will never see even so much as a bolt of 'em.

>>50815802
The Star Destroyer.

>>50815792
>art deco paladins
So, in your setting one can take up the mantle of evil without falling?

>>50815792
5E has trouble with tech.

It's simply not built to handle any setting where magic items and equivalent are common, mainly because it doesn't have a way for you to account for it them in encounter creation.

If you could fix that, then sure, sounds good.

>>50815792
Cultures that are new to one another meeting on a large scale for the first time--but even that is overshadowed by why they're meeting.

Think of all the colonies the British Empire had and how their regiments from different countries interacted.