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>>50629388
>How do I account for this without also making the PCs overshadowed by other, potentially more competent groups of heroes?

By keeping the focus on the PCs and their actions?

Do you not put news channels in modern games because the players might feel "overshadowed" by the war going on in Nofuckistan?

>>50629388
Instead of showing a living, breathing world by causing things to go to shit if the PCs don't intervene, show the living, breathing world by making things progress while the PCs are gone, so things are different when they return.

Instead of "you can do X or Y and the one you neglect will get fucked," do "while accomplishing X, you encountered these NPCs, some good and some bad, and when the PCs return a year later, those NPCs have moved on in their lives and adapted to what the PCs accomplished back then."

>>50629388
>based on what the PCs did and what they didn't do
This here is where you are wrong. You base what's changening in different storylines solely (or almost exclusievly) on actions of your players. It's no wonder that it feels like they are only ones acting out.

I think that you planned out all this groups and people storylines and they only change when players interact with them. It's not only causing you problems its also highly unrealistic. In normal environment all this groups would interact with each others and change each others actions. You should not have separate lanes of story arcs that change only on actions of your players, you should have spider webs of interactions, rivalies, wars etc, that change almost constantly and in which players are only one of the factors.


You might have also problem with world building, as in the world you've built would not actually "survive" in a form you are presenting your players. Let me give you example:
>you have town, 1000 years old
>it is located near plains where orcs roam
>big group of orcs are starting to gather on plains that could endanger said town
>players are the only thing that could stop orcs
>somehow players are the only thing that saved the town from a threat that is common in its region
You see the problem here? Town would never get to be that old if it has no reliable way of dealing with orc menace. It should have logical ways of surviving.

>>50628454
>ancaps.
Why? Not seeing it.

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>>50628454
Make your own setting and post wrtiefaggotry about it in this threat.

We as anons will give comment and add shit if you can attract attention/get the ball rolling

that's one of the ways these things start

>>50628454
Because they aren't ancaps, they don't care about personal liberty, a dark elf makes good a slave as a human or wood elf

>>50627555
the 'everybody gets 1 reroll' houserule.

>>50627555
No tieflings, dragonborn, or gnomes.

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>>50627555
>What houserules are you currently using?
Modifications of UA feats because they're almost all terrible, terrible representations of how history and archeology surmise ancient, medieval, and renaissance weaponry was actually used. Also because they don't solve the problem of their being a mechanically optimal choice in arms for certain builds, which, frankly, is a bit boring.

Also, having a feat or fighting style that adds finesse to other weapons. It's not only more historically accurate, it's more interesting than having everyone run around with rapiers and daggers.

Is it a faux pas to write brief outlines of people your character knows when building them?

>>50625534
Why would it be?

>>50625596
I dont know, I've played with some spastic GMs before.

Classic books. Go to a used bookstore, or a library sale, and get him like ten or so classics that he's not likely to be forced to read in class. He's liable to find some good plot hooks and shit that he can use, get a better feel for pacing and all of that. Alternately, history books. You could make a hell of a homebrew setting based on the Reconquista, or the collapse of the Later Han. Basically, stuff that'll give him ideas that he wouldn't usually run into on his own.

Booze.

But seriously. If theres any books for your system he doesn't have. Tactical maps, initiative trackers, miniatures.

Stuff to help with organization might be good too.

>>50625439
Monster miniatures, fairly generic but prettier than little pieces of paper marked "guard#2".

>>50624700
> How much body hair do your characters have?

Copious amounts.

>>50624700
Is this meant to be a jab at the constant "haha how often do your characters go poopoo? you know, just for laughs :)" threads?

>>50624754
Have you ever had a player insist on rolling a constitution check to see if they shat their pants, failing, and verbally roleplaying the act for about seven seconds before the DM got up and left the room for 20?

Holy fuck I'm using this.

>>50623594
Looks pretty cool

Why does that reptilian have tits

>>50605401
It depends on what the asteroid is made out of but whatever it contains will go down in value.

If the asteroid contained large amounts of valuable metal such as gold or silver the prices for those would plummet and it would negatively effect the global economy.

>>50605401
Asteroid Orbit mining would receive lots of IRL backlash. You have communication companies and militaries who consider it a disruption to their satellite networks, other companies opposing the mining on various grounds to cover that they are upset that they did not get to do it first, and space-Greenpeace protesting for Asteroid and Earth Rights.

>>50605401
The big issue with the concept of asteroid resource mining is that such an endeavor would have a massive initial investment with a return that could wind up upsetting its own market just through the sheer number of kilos needed to make it a profitable endeavor, and on top of that gold is incredibly dense making the rocket equation a bitch to profit off of.

The best you could do, price wise, for a full asteroid mining mission would most likely be at least 1 billion USD (this is assuming there are no humans involved in the actual spaceflight and you're fine with waiting a while for the project to finish).

The current price of gold is roughly 37,802.85 USD per kg [http://goldprice.org/gold-price-per-kilo.html] making a 1 billion USD mission forced to mine at least 26,453 kg of gold just to break even. Now, the good news is you're unlikely to upset the market in the long run as your mission would only take up 0.050871215% of the estimated amount of gold that's still mineable with in the Earth [http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21969100].

However, since your break even point only requires you to mine 0.05% of the worlds gold supply, if you had a billion dollars to spend it might just be easier to just mine it on the ground.

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>>50597037
PART TWO!: -

Field Manual Comstar.PDF
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ja3z2n1goe12623/Field_Manual_Comstar.PDF
8604 - The Spider and the Wolf
https://www.mediafire.com/?3d9brfrkj9vnhka
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ivqhzog2wyoegxo/Battletech_35011_-_Aerotech_2_Revised.pdf
hexpacks 2&3:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/3o59kirzzz6znac/BattleTech_Hexpacks.7z
also introbox stuff:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/l22yrlkk9buzuzl/BattleTech_Intro_Box_Set.7z
https://www.scribd.com/doc/23569748/35014-Historical-War-of-3039
Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries is coming, set during the Third Succession War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz8Y1V8gy1A&feature=youtu.be

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>>50597055
Also Butte Hold.

You know, the Cyclops -10-Q looks surprisingly comfy

First for Archaon is a shit.

Reposting

>>50576946
I can give you a quick primer as a competitive AOS player

Order

Seraphon: A little bit above average at everything, but not amazing at anything. Reroll everything (including your opponents dice). Tons of options. Big dinosaurs and some of the best artillery but it is short range. Objectively the strongest army in the competitive meta with Kroak + Vortex filth.

Sylvaneth - Great defensive army, but low movement. Can spawn forest all over the map and then teleport to that forest. High variety in list building.

Stormcast - Low model count, above average saves and damage. Low movement but lots of teleport gimmicks. Very powerful when mixed with Order wizards.

High Elves - Wizards and phoenixes make a very powerful turtle list. Hunker down with bolt throwers and whittle your opponent down. They can't kill your 0+ save phoenixes with 4+ to ignore wounds, eventually you just win.

Dark Elves - Frail and average damage, but very fast. Not viable in competitive because other armies do the same thing but better. Wait for Malerion to make them great again.

Wood Elves - High Elves do it better.

Dwarves - Good saves and good melee, but far too slow. Need to mix in artillery from Ironweld Arsenal, but vulnerable to being outflanked by fast armies or teleporting units.

Freeguild - Like Dwarves with worse melee, but better shooting. Gunline lists are nothing but a bad meme, very easy to counter. Fun to play, but poor saves and low bravery make them fragile and prone to running away.

Fyreslayers - Low movement, but good saves and decent melee. Not viable on their own, need to mix in some artillery from Ironweld Arsenal. Vulnerable to being flanked by fast armies.

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>>50579899
Your dubs speak the truth. Beastmen shall inherit the mortal realms

>>50628393
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Magic:_the_Gathering_RPG

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/M:tG_RPG:_Revised

We should just finish one of the two projects we already have for this.

>>50628393
Someone was working on a dedicated MtG system, I don't know where it is though.

It was just ok from memory; Did the thing they sometimes do with trying to use the actual cards and a shuffled deck for stuff, which isn't my cup of tea.

>>50628393
Zendikar would be the obvious plane to set a campaign in, Innistrad and it both have supplements to help you do exactly do that, but the correct answer is probably not to limit yourself to any single plane. You really can't show charm of the setting without some planeswalking.

It'd be best to start in any plane you see fit and then have the players ignite as planeswalkers mid-campaign. Do it too early and it won't feel special enough.

>>50627721
Nah they realised that if you will made small numbers of box they will go sold out much faster.

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>>50627897
>Why make trillions when we could make... billions?

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>>50627981
Kek

>>50627142
Depends. Does a griffon have mammary glands of some kind?

Depends on whether or not they can breed sexually viable offspring. I assume this would have the "without the use of magic" caveat added on for things like half-dragons or tieflings.

I'm sure that magical rules involving this can be incorporated based on the in-setting reason why this is possible. For example, half-dragon/half-human characters tend to exist because their draconic parent was in human form at the time of conception, which could affect the resulting child.

There's only one way to discover that answer.

>>50627142
Griffons are actually descended from a branch of ornithiscian dinosaurs that diverged from a common ancestor with true avians around 150 million years ago. Griffons are differentiated into two main groups: The Reliquodonts (toothed griffons), of which the hippogriff is the most well-known example but which also contains many forms of terrestrial "quadruped birds", and the Edentulagriffs (toothless griffons) which encompasses the "true griffons" and also, interestingly enough, the cockatrice.

I'd imagine things like manticore, gryphon, and centaur all fall into the same Class. Named "mixed"

>>50627053
I don't know of any specifically geared for it except maybe some of the Star Wars ones, and that heavily relies on the GM.

Most RPGs, however, can be run in settings where this is a thing.

>>50627090

Well, duh. But I'm asking about games specifically geared toward that, at least in the setting.

For example: Misspenth Youth, Night Witches.

Something like Fellowship as well (it's basically an Avatar+LOTR game. Think about it: those are about the resistance againt the Dark Lord)

>>50627053
birthright

Marriage.
Loans.
Overthinking.

>>50626867
>Do you know of any traps that are more in the way of the players out-thinking it?
Puzzles.

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>>50626867