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>>50608799
Milk production for infants? Differences in the killer instinct?

>>50608840
Also, putting a little more thought into it, every single social and familial dynamic would have to be re-thought. They'd probably be pretty communal if roles are only based on individual aptitude.

>>50608799

A binary god of equality can't stand nuances in his creations and is making them as equal as possible with each passing generation. Projections are in a thousand years they will have lost all gender dimorphism, but by then they are projected to have solved that issue by inventing cloning - this is also why they're so insanely durable, because each individual killed is an irreplaceable degradation in their genetic lineage which will weaken them for the time that they have to outgrow traditional reproduction.

Women are still second-line soldiers mainly protecting homes and local territory rather than sent abroad, not for lack of physical capabilities, but because risking a woman's children to be born is seen as a seldom worth it when a single mother cut down could result in the death of six people. In spite of their fighting powers, they're willing to employ "lesser" humans in their ranks as mercenary auxiliaries for missions of attrition, as though they enjoy combat and fighting, they do not like dying, and especially do not like dying in place of the untermensch if possible.

Something much like the Eldar.

Hate to be "that guy," but GURPS Technical Grappling is great (and being GURPS, of course, any number of ridiculous powers are fully supported and easily integrated). That said, as a rules expansion they're on the crunchy side, but in the best way possible.

The basic GURPS grappling rules are also decent, just not as fun/in depth if that's going to be a big focus in your game.

>>50608280
If you want to do something over the top, Mutants and Masterminds is always good. It's also flexible without being too complicated or too shallow.

A lot of super wrestling moves can be statted as Afflictions with Grab-based, and there's also Slam attacks and whatnot, fast grab for punching straight into a grapple, etc.

Right; I know this sounds a bit mad but... I like the AD&D 2e rules for wrestling from the core rulebook.

>>50608273
Well, as for most D&D advice, I often say to try to avoid having it be all combat all the time.

But it depends on your group. They might be dungeon slog addicts.

If you go to the mansion however, you can put on some Hildegard von Bingen music for atmosphere.

>>50608273
Depends, do the three new players come from Vidjya backgrounds?

>yes
They'll want combat. They'll be keen to the idea of experience, and they'll only recognize the reward of gold, weapons and experience. You'll have to learn them that there are no solid rules for dice RPGs. Anything can and will change because you're the DM and you're not a computer. In fact, a fight and struggle is the only thing they'll think about until you challenge them. Give them a simple puzzle. Give them an encounter they can talk their way out of. Ease them into the whole dice RPG thing a bit at a time. They'll get it.

>no
Ease them into it. They'll usually have a hard time with the "What do I do?" part and the answer is always "Whatever you want". You'll have a rocky start as they literally do the first thing that comes to mind, but if they're meant for the hobby they'll curb themselves.

Of course, that's just my experience. Just about everyone I've gamed with, I've introduced into the hobby.

Encourage them to put effort into their backstories. That way you can adjust things so that the PCs have real investment in the story/campaign.

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I mentioned gnomes and he said he'd be right over.

>>50607892
The gnomes help pay the rent by making enchanted items, OP. We need them here.

Which jumps have a good import option for a single companion?

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>>50607120
wtf is this cyoa? ive seen this thread for like years and i have never opened it cuz it looked uninteresting.

someone give me a TLDR?

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Reposting.

>>50607035
>>>/v/ is that way.

>>50607074
No its a tabletop one

>>50607083
Corporation?
Shadowrun?

>>50606798
There's a splatbook for D&D 3.5 called Lords of Madness that goes into a lot of detail about mindflayer society.

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>>50606798
There's a 2nd edition Monsterous Arcana series called The Illithiad that has a lot of background on them.

Lords of madness is also dope.

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>>50607482
fuck it, flayer dump

>>50606079
Because witch hunts by their very nature are based on paranoia, irrationality, ignorance, and generally keeping women from getting too much respect. In real life anyway.

Just burn them and get it over with


Not being the usual evil witch hunter is nice and all but it's to much work to much red tape and way to much retarded potatoe farmers wanting some land

Burn the villagers and the accused witches. After all, if they've been around long enough to form a coven, there was obvious collusion. Maybe they'll recant when being tied to the stake. Heretics tend to do such things.

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First for Exorcists

>>50605833
t. Lorgar

3rd for doubling Ork wounds and hull points fixes the army

So, I saw that last thread, Mektron Zeta had problems with Reflex being the god stat, but I know some people had some home rules for that, so how did those work?

>>50607770

One thing that helped in my game was switching around how Mecha Reflex worked.

Normally, it's a penalty to all reflex rolls in a mecha.

IE, a Gundam has a MR of -3 while a Zaku II has a MR of -6.

That meant, that all things being equal, the gundam has basically, +3 vs a Zaku on everything, in addition to pilot skills disparity.

The Gundam RPG, Otoh, changed that the lesser of (10-MR) and your Reflex was your effective reflex piloting those mecha.

So you could dump reflex, then pilot a mech that didn't spend all it's points on being super nimble, but having lots of dakka instead.

>>50607770

Adding an aim stat helps. But conceptually I don't see all that much more that would actually matter for mech piloting than your reflexes. BOD will help you take things like electric shocks better, INT helps you with ECM attacks, PSI can be added to give you psychic abilities that will probably make you better than a high ref character, and the other stats will matter allot for when you are outside your mecha. Likewise if the PCS have to build/maintain their own mecha, then the person with high TECH may end up being the most powerful.

Also, your skills are what will really make your character godlike. A character who takes a large life path and has a 5 in REF, but has 10 years worth of Mecha Pilotting, is going to wreck someone who is an amateur in the skill and has a 10 ref, since one stat point has as big of affect on your roll as 1 level in a skill does.

Not specifically that but it's entirely possible. No game does fall damage right. It's always either far too tame or far too lethal.

>>50605519
Fall damage is weird for real, so no way a system can accurately represent it.

Someone could survive a free fall from an airplane with a few broken bones at worst, and then someone else would trip over a rock, fall 5 feet and die.

>>50606155

Its almost as if real people don't have an hp bar that gradually declines with accrued damage.

Just play Risus,

>>50605309
We've been playing zombiecide for the past year now, they don't want to learn a new game system it seems. I'm pretty casual to /tg/, what is Risus? And is it any fun?

If 5e is "too much work," then you might as well give up.

>>50603415
Start with checking out UESRPG, a pretty good unofficial game that's about to get its third edition. It's the closest you'll get to a proper TES system.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pTgTN2aJUoY95JtquowagfUJLL7tCQYhzJKcCAcbvio/edit

If you don't like that, there's always GURPS.

>>50603415
Just get super high and freeform it

>>50603718
Get out of here Kirkbride

Given the header image of the last thread threatening a spider bath might not be the ideal way of scaring people into submission.

>>50603082
No adventurer worth his salt is scared of spiders, try me.

>>50603127

This. A spider bath is my fetish.

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Post suboptimal theme decks

saprolings are fun as fuck

>>50602773
Always wanted to build a five color eldrazi with either Tazri or sliver hivelord at the helm