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Minotaur

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>>50700108
Gorkan Ramsey can assure you dat orks make da best steaks. We don't get our meats frum sum diddly twats in da market. WE GETS OUR MEAT STRAIGHT FROM DA BEAST!

Den we cooks it up real noice, lil bit o' seasn'n an serve wit taters.

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>>50700155
What's taters?

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Posting some stuff I have to get started out.

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First in the name of Ariel and Orion.


How do I make my Wood Elfs look more like Fair Folk and less like elves?

I know this might be a sore point but has anyone here tried converting units from AoS to work in 8th edition?

>>50691577
Try Temple of Elemental Evil with Co8 mod. The most accurate represantation of 3.0 rules in vidya

>>50691577
>their combat is probably the most accurate D&D game ever

Why, yes, it IS tedious busywork that in no way reflects realty or genre.

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>>50691694
Hey, buddy? Fuck you.

>>50689932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsckeyktMS0

What do you guys think about Lindo's assessment of halberds here? Is he onto something?

>>50689932
Jimmy, what is Sulla's opinion on the concept of a cheeseburger?

In addition, is the CIS still in control of their equivalent of India?

>>50690124
>it's a lindy talking out his ass video

Not even going to bother watching it.

>>50686975
>Witch girls adventures
Still TF and bad end heavy?

> I’m going to need more alcohol for this.

>>50686975
It reads just like one of those villain sourcebooks from oWoD. Like I'm watching the internal perspective of the Baali or Nephandus.

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>>50686322
PF does high fantasy better. It does low fantasy just fine using the Automatic Bonus Progression in the Pathfinder Unchained Book. 5e does low and middle fantasy fine, and high fantasy okay if you don't mind being throttled back.

5e is defintiely easier to teach.

PF offers more options Core, but is also the most severely unbalanced at the core level. UYnless you go on the OGL site, in which case you're good.

PF has more optional rules than you can shake a set of dice at.

5e has better in core balance.

PF has the much, much, MUCH wider variety of Bestiaries, villains, and enemies in general (the NPC Codex, Villain Codex, and Monster Codex has use amounts of useful groups, people, and enemies for your PCs at all levels of play).

They can both be bent over and fucked like little whores by any optimizer. But that's also true of 90% of the games out there. PF has more known loopholes and issues, that's all. Give 5e another 6 months and it will be just as broken and fucked up.

>this is the most objective opinion you're going to get, and enjoy your "HAVE YOU TRIED NOT PLAYING D&D" meme, baitposter.

So this is coming from someone whos played both 5e and pathfinder and liked both. I'm not really into edition wars so just my two cents. also I've played 5e more recently than pathfinder so i may have 5e bias as a result.

>which system does High, middle, and low fantasy better?
I can't really speak to this a whole lot because as a gm i'm prone to customizing my games in the ways i like. I can say that with 5e's bounded accuracy the numbers stay closer together throughout levels which may be a benefit for low fantasy I guess?

>Which one is easier to teach to an RPG virgin?
In my opinion D&D 5e is easier to teach. In my experience 5e's rules are a little more straight forward as far as character creation goes and players trying to learn pathfinder almost inevitably find the d20pfsrd and get completely overwhelmed by options. Also 5e has an excellent "newbie" adventure in Lost Mines of Phandelver

>more optional rules system that could add depth?
They both have some, like 5e has encumbrance and madness in the Dungeon Masters Guide. Pathfinder has more for sure though. They have an entire book of optional stuff to spice up a campaign their book Ultimate Campaign.

>better in-core balance?
In my opinion they're both pretty balanced but i don't really play with power gamers or people who try to super game the system. I suppose 5e's balance is a little better because pretty much all of the material is run through playtests before officially being published but you'll find supporters for both sides.

>which game offers the widest array of entities in its bestiaries?
Definitely pathfinder. they're on bestiary 5 right now while 5e only has two. The monster manual and Volo's Guide to Monsters. 5e's monsters seem to have slightly more indepth lore in general tho.

>which game is easier for a munchkin?
In my experience definitely pathfinder. But that could be due to having more options.

I'll answer more questions if you have them. hopefully that helps some Anon.

>>50686437
>PF has more optional rules than you can shake a set of dice at.
core? or are you including splats?(the books are expensive)

>PF offers more options Core, but is also the most severely unbalanced at the core level
FUCK thats a thing I don't want to hear. cause I don't want accidental spotlight theft

>UYnless you go on the OGL site, in which case you're good.
the what now?

>>50686462
>I'm not really into edition wars so just my two cents
thats what I asked for.
I want a suggestion of which will fit my group and playstyle better because I can only really afford one set of books.

>5e does lower level better?

>hopefully that helps some Anon.
it does, thank you both.

>>50669760
Yes. More chaos, confused, and madness, that total edgelords. They laugh.

>>50669760
I fucking hate Gnolls, so yeah, I like being more justified in wasting them

>>50670176

Easy there Thom, we don't want no trouble.

>>50634760
Reminds me of Black & White

I love this idea.

>>50634760
I feel like I've seen this thread.

That said, still a decent idea. What do they fight though? What sorts of giants are there? Do they have any special abilities, aside from being large?

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But I digress: the kingdom of thieves is ruled by a single King, who is the original leader who took the land from the neighboring kingdoms. I very much like the idea presented by Terry Pratchett in Feet of Clay, concerning Nobby Nobbs - that he would be an excellent leader if he simply sidled into enemy territory and pinched castles. Thus the now-decrepit King is a near-legendary thief who somehow managed to steal himself a modest region complete with his own keep and outlying towns. The primary keep is this thief-lord's personal mansion and base of operations. However, rather than being surrounded by an outlying town, the keep is surrounded by a densely populated camp made permanent, with more permanent tents than actual buildings. The thief-king is served by his "Hands", an order of tax-collectors and judges whose service is bought, although given the state of the thief-king's health there should be questions of who will succeed him as their Lord.

Where I'm running into problems is the logistics regarding this small nation. I have no trouble developing the style or character of the people who might live there, but I need some help developing the government. Why might the cities in this nation owe fealty to the central King? How do I go about instilling some form of order, such that the entire place doesn't become some massive squalor? I've been able to develop the other locations around the region without too much difficulty, but I'm just running into dead ends with this one.

Normally I'd bounce ideas around with my brother, but he's unavailable so I thought I'd see if /tg/ would be willing to be my dart-board for ideas tonight. Feel free to share your own stuff and I'll see if I can't lend a hand, or at least comment. I won't say I'm super qualified, but whatever.

>>50720242
Well, you could have the cities act as a loose confederation rather than a unified nation state. That would mean that they would work well in times of peace (plenty of trading opportunities as well as theft), but they would chafe in times of war, with no cooperation between the various thief-mayors and thief-counts.

So, you could have an invading army from a covetous kingdom nearby seeking to restore order to what they view as "anarchy" (even though the system works perfectly well for the cities involved). The players would be people who have livelyhoods connected to the well-being of the thief-kingdom, with maybe some taking interests in aspects of the succesion.

>>50720242
Also, there's a worldbuilding general here: >>50705939

>>50719842
>Why do people play moralfags in RPGs?

Leaving aside the fact that I just like helping people...being a Good Guy tends to get you better XP, more quest options, and better treasure. Y'know, the things I play the game for.

>>50719842
Yes, of course, you are right.

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>>50719842

So here's a story about one particular session of Paranoia that I played in.

> GM has premade characters for us all, informs us that this is a mission he made himself
> Super [DELETED FOR SECURITY REASONS] Brothers
>I get the Wario analogue because I'm the fattest fuck out of all the players
> among other things, I have a narrow specialization for ordering food over my PDC
> early in the mission, I order a very large supply of sticky snack food because Free Enterprise wants me to sabotage a new transit tube prototype that happens to look like a large, flared green pipe
> roll a 1, which is Paranoia for "you have succeeded in a strange and hilarious way"
> but my food never shows up
> continue with the adventure, get killed and/or executed five times
> sacrifice my sixth clone to do a sick piledriver on not!Bowser through some bricks and into an open smelter, while screaming that R&D are commie mutant traitors
> rest of the team rescues not!Peach and heads back towards the briefing rooms
> they go back via the previous transport tube
> my food finally arrives
> in a single crate
> which is airdropped straight onto the VIP
>I laugh like a goddamn jackal as the entire team gets executed for incompetence

Months later, I learned he had also run it for an online group, and their Wario clone did the same shit.

>>50719563
Honestly, about half the excitement in my games came from the R&D equipment the clones were forced to test out. Rocket boots are never not hilarious, but my favorite was a hands-free laser. It was built into helmet that was locked in place by the R&D guys (don't want a clone losing valuable equipment by taking it off or letting it get knocked off) and operated simply by looking at your target and blinking. There was a safety mechanism, of course, but it was glitchy, and whenever the player blinked (well... was specifically noticed to blink), his clone's helmet-laser blasted whatever he was looking at.

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Golden..

I wonder why no one even sells the PDFs anymore. I know the kickstarter new version is coming out (apparently its printing right now), but hell. There is nowhere that has a complete copy of troubleshooters or xp that isn't a physical copy from amazon or ebay.

>>50718635
Cause all the blood vessels to burst in a persons eyes to burst, blinding them

>>50718659

seems a bit op but I'll try it.

Coincidentally my character is also a blood mage and therefore can totally do some synergy. Thanks

>>50718678
>seems a bit op but I'll try it.
it'd be temporary, but because it's hard to focus that detailed it could cause a magical backlash.

I assume you get "conjure water" at will?

perhaps "slosh"
>a conjured wave of water pushes small objects in a direction of the characters choosing

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>>50717647
I don't know about the rest of /tg/, but my feelings on contemporary yugioh can be summarised in two pictures.

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>>50718352
^this
>dead

They need to limit decks to only two copies of the same card and/or raise deck minimum above 40.

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>>50716994
Cleric, clearly.

>>50716994
Fighter/Rogue

>>50717064
But who would his deity be?