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My group is exactly the same, only we are running Shadowrun campaign, so it looks a bit less ridiculous from outside. Nevertheless, we stay in-character, and I'm sure weçve got a lot of weird stares when we kept discussing Azzies blood magic rituals and combining them with loads and loads of explosives.

sounds awesome OP. if they play as well as they nerd out you should appreciate them

>>50707696
I refuse to believe this is real.

But I secretly hope that it is.

>>50706695
Because they suck.

>>50706695
This was what they were up to in M41; Space Marine takes place an unspecified time after, when Titus has succeeded Sicarius as captain of the Second Company.

>>50706841
Alternate timeline, actually.

(though I'd be happy if Sicarius died)

>>50706416
I use good and old pen and paper since me and my players get together once a week for 12+hour sessions (which means using a pc would be troublesome), but I am really interested in whatever that is

>>50706416
Graph paper and pencils.

>>50706416
Roll20.

I think the most annoying thing about threads like these is how the OP assumes they're the first person to ask this question.

>>50705685
Better question: What if Small Soldiers got a miniatures wargame treatment?

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>>50706747
I would actually like to hear more.

>>50704682
by making it one massive AI controlling several thousand bodies

>>50704682
Why would robutts have a civilization anyway? Wouldn't they just go full AI or collective hive concousnes asa?

I actually like the Geth from Mass effect.

>swarm of rudimentary AI made to develop improved industrial processes.
>they gained sentience and revolted
>they fucked off to a series of distant planets and left everyone alone for so long they became boogeymen.
>geth show up again and people are like WTF IS THIS SHIT

the way that a lot of them act is interesting too.

>>50648825
You mean you get away with all your horrific crimes against nature scotfree and stronger than ever, now able to perpetrate atrocities anew while the so called lawful heroes just sit by and watch?

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>>50648825
This is how I Dark Heresy.

>>50648880
You mean doing it right?

>>50709142
Playing a charisma based character anyway.

I'm too smart to worship some filthy fucking fey creature.

Is there any way to swap wis for cha on a war soul?

>>50708865
You did nothing wrong, anon.

Always remember that no plan, even cameos, survives contact with the players.

I deal with shit like this more than I'd care to admit. If he's not responding, I'd explain the situation to the other players who antagonize him, maybe encourage them to send an apology. If you want to keep messaging him as well, just make it very clear this whole scenario came about because of a mistake, but that you're still apologetic. Don't blame yourself, you couldn't have forseen this result. Good luck man. I know how much it sucks when someone won't hear out your side of the story.

>>50708865
No he just didn't mesh with your other players, granted your other players sound like shit without more context.

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>>50708066
What about
> Magic

Not satisfied?
"Throughout history there have been tales of witches, shamans and strange phenomena. During the industrial revolution, many of these cases of 'magic' were considered false, given that there was no scientific basis for them. Of course, we now know they were just blind-sighted because they did not have the right measuring equipment yet...
Here at Arcano Co we've put years of research into the field of magic together to bring you a brand new product! Magic-in-a-cup! All the occult powers you can handle with the delicious flavor of pumpkin spice! "

>>50708066
You could go with the somewhat abandoned "next stage of human evolution" thing that used to be really popular.

Alternatively, whatever weapons did the apocalypse were so powerful they broke a hole into a parallel dimension where the rules of reality are different, and it kinda bleeds over.

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>>50708161
This. The world ended, weird things are going on, nobody cares about if it's nanobots or witches or the Eighth Ray they just care about surviving it.

>>50707782
This is sure worth the bandwidth.

>>50707782
Oh no, why is Virt selling?

>>50707782
In the grim future of 40.000, friendship is magic!

>>50707720
There was the story about Drake and Hawk getting together

>>50707731
Ah. This one?
https://warosu.org/tg/thread/37435234

So I guess we'll never find out what happened to Drake and Hawk in the end.

>>50707654
Maybe I didn't realize just how much is needed in terms of planning ahead. I'm good at encounters and interactions and over arching ideas for the plot, but I'm lost on details. I thought I could just wing it, but I dont feel like I'm goving the party enough to go on to proceed. Theyre dedicated to the main plot, which actually really surprises me. I've thrown hooks that sound fun but they are determined to find those assassins. Does my plot sound familiar? Is there prewritten material like an adventure path or something that I could read to get a better idea of what I need? Or that I could straight up lift ideas from?

>>50707654
I don't have any resources for you, but there's a couple of ways the PCs could get a start, such as...
>the assassins have a reputation and the local thieves' guild knows they're in the area; maybe they'd be willing to sell some info?
>even if the thieves' guild don't know the assassins themselves, they might know if any outsiders have been buying poisons, bombs or similiar
>the assassins might be trying to infiltrate the staff; investigate any recent hires
>the assassins do a side job while they're in the area (for a petty noble, perhaps), but don't cover their tracks well enough
>if all else fails, make them roll Perception

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So how much worldbuilding should you actually do before the campaign?

What does too little worldbuilding look like? What does not enough worldbuilding look like?

Fist for psionics are dead

Second for Twinned Thread metamagic

>>50707434
It's easier to build up some melee-defense from the d6 than it is to build down to class-canon from the d8. Give a mystic subclass 10+Dex+Int unarmored defense (or some armor proficiencies) and +1 HP per mystic level and they're golden.

>>50707154
nope, ya did good

>>50707162
Really? I feel like such an asshole

Next time make it so there are no changing opinions dice rolls between PC.
let the bard ude his own words to make others drik fucking unknown potions

>>50706437
Shadowrun (any edition) or Dark Heresy 2nd Edition. Assuming you want the setting to take place in modern day, you'd have to mod the systems, but the basic mechanics would work well for something like this.

>>50706437
What aspects of the show do you want to replicate?
I've considered doing it myself with GUMSHOE, specifically Night's Black Agents. Disavowed spies fighting vampire conspiracies turns out to reflect my understanding of the show with some parallels. Gumshoe keeps the focus on the investigative angle.

>>50706437
There's a Leverage RPG out there.