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>>50586326
So what?

Shit someone give me some quarters fucking Johnny Cage is such a bitch to fight agasint.

>>50586326
That's a lot of spikes for a 10' pit. Possibly even an excessive number.

>>50580489
1E player here. How does the current edition differ from the original one?

>>50580607
1st -> 2nd

Character pre-game generation and some appearance characteristics are not included in HMC (but could be added trivially).

HMC has an optional rule for creating characters on a point system.

The Touch and Speed attributes are removed, and Stamina is added.

Endurance is now the average of Strength, Will, and Stamina.

Players are now encouraged to select professions from a short list; the full table of professions is still available.

Easier bookkeeping and less table lookups

Magic changes

1-> gold

Detailed rules for family development
Aging rules
revised shock/injury/healing rules,
More rules on combat

You could play HM1 with Gold with little problem. HM2 there are a fair bit of changes.

never played HM3


HM2 was a attempt to make the rules more simple by columbia games, the guy who created it didn't like it, and went his own way to make HM Gold, and they fought about legal rights till he died.

>>50580781
>revised shock/injury/healing rules
less deadly?

one thing I always disliked about HM (though I love the system A LOT) is unarmed combat damage. it never seemed very realistic to me.

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Recommend me a short (3-4 hours) dungeon crawl module. Any system works, but ideally LL or DCC. Feel free to share the story of how you ran it

>>50544981
>The best parts of AD&D?
The DMG, easily.

For a more specific part, I'm somewhat fond of the disease tables. No other edition got close, I feel.

The random dungeon generator is also neat, albeit not as original - it's pretty much just an expanded version of the one from The Strategic Review #1, and I don't really like it as much since the added detail makes it more clunky.

Oh, and it's a really small thing but I really like that there's a level after Patriarch, High Priest, which helps level out the freakish name-level advancement the OD&D Cleric got. (It also lets you have Good High Priests to combat the EHPs, which is a nice symmetry that was pretty badly needed with the expanded alignments.)

what other system/games feature the dangerous combat OSR haves?

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>Wargaming Compendium
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cghxf3475qy46aq/Wargaming+Compendium.pdf
>Saga
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/alj31go19tmpm/SAGA
>Black Powder
http://www.mediafire.com/download/o5x6blwoczojmfr/Black+Powder.pdf
>Bolt Action
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/n7jmdnlv1n0ju/Bolt_Action
>Hail Caesar
https://mega.nz/#F!XsVD0KgT!twB1NWiFE3aKXK_O1EZ4pA
>Warhammer Ancient battles 2.0
http://www.mediafire.com/download/uttov32riixm9b0/Warhammer+Ancient+Battles+2E.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ta7aj1erh7sap1t/Warhammer+Ancient+Battles+-+Armies+of+Antiquity+v2.pdf
>Warmaster Ancients
http://www.mediafire.com/download/cifld8bl3uy2i5g/Warmaster+Ancients.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3emyvka11bnna1b/Warmaster+Ancient+Armies.pdf
>Advanced Squad Leader
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d9x0dbxrpjg48/Advanced_Squad_Leader
>Impetus
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/28i9gevqws518/Impetus
>Battleground WWII
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cb83cg7ays4l1/Battleground_WWII
>By Fire And Sword
https://mega.co.nz/#!jxgCWTYD!FCp52DAqIUc-EM-TsRsWv7fB92nJ3kkzKsNcD_urI5Q
>Modelling & painting guides
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7b5027l7oaz05/Modelling_%26_Painting_Guides
>Twilight 2000/2013 RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!C9sQhbwb!NVnD4jvUn5inOrPJIAkBhA
>Phoenix Command RPG
https://mega.co.nz/#F!b5tgXRwa!mzelRNrKPjiT8gP7VrS-Jw
>Next War (GMT)
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/eupungrg93xgb/Next_War
>Battlegroup
https://mega.nz/#F!SolyxarJ!GUg6zWBStfznr6BvYedghQ
>Fleet Series
https://mega.nz/#F!i1N3xZxL!C6fQ3Z8o2U0gtk5kdXuVcQ

Desired scans :
Black Powder - Rebellion
Rank and File supplements
Harpoon 3 & 4 supplements
Force on Force supplements
Hind Commander
At Close Quarters
War and Conquest

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2nd of December in military history:

1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
1805 – War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Austerlitz: French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
1823 – Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas.
1845 – Manifest Destiny: In a State of the Union message, President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
1848 – Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
1851 – French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1852 – Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
1859 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1899 – Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
1917 – World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk.
1920 – Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
1943 – World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SS John Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
1956 – The Granma reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
1975 – Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
1980 – Salvadoran Civil War: Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen are murdered by a military death squad.

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It is 211 years since the Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors; one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. Widely regarded as the greatest victory achieved by Napoleon, the Grande Armée of France defeated a larger Russian and Austrian army led by Tsar Alexander I and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. The battle occurred near the village of Austerlitz in the Austrian Empire (modern-day Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic). Because of the near-perfect execution of a calibrated but dangerous plan, the battle is often seen as a tactical masterpiece of the same stature as Cannae, the celebrated triumph by Hannibal some 2,000 years before. Austerlitz brought the War of the Third Coalition to a rapid end, with the Treaty of Pressburg signed by the exhausted Austrians later in the month.

In the summer of 1805, with threats emerging from Russia and Austria, Napoleon abandoned his ambitions to invade England and turned to deal with these new adversaries.

Moving with speed and efficiency, 200,000 French troops departed their camps near Boulogne and began crossing the Rhine along a 160-mile front on September 25. Responding to the threat, Austrian General Karl Mack concentrated his army at the fortress of Ulm in Bavaria. Conducting a brilliant campaign of maneuver, Napoleon swung north and descended on the Austrian rear.

After winning a series of battles, Napoleon captured Mack and 23,000 men at Ulm on October 20. Though the victory was dampened by Nelson's triumph at Trafalgar the next day, the Ulm Campaign effectively opened the way to Vienna which fell to French forces in November.

To the northeast, a Russian field army under Kutusov had gathered and absorbed many of the remaining Austrian units. Moving towards the enemy, Napoleon sought to bring them to battle before his lines of communication were severed or Prussia entered the conflict.

>>50596193

I don't know, man. I'm looking at Bowie's cameltoe.

>>50596193
Now sneak little bits of info their way that make their actions at least questionably reasonable. Make them start to maybe think there's a reason they became the way they are.

Just to have the BBEG do stupid petty shit to them afterwards.

Put them on a boat.

FIRST FOR THE PRIMORDIAL TRUTH

>>50595707
Fuck off Lorgar, your daddy didn't even love you.

I was hoping for chaos marks are free edition

>>50595317
>That story

But why? Like, why? I don't understand. Were they not enjoying the campaign?

>>50595317
Wow op. That sounds like a pretty neat and tied up end to your game.
We're you expecting thit to start an internet fight?

>>50595351
No idea. They called me a bullshit railroader after that, so I just dropped them. Still, no regrets.

>>50594206
>Powerful male mage of Thay
>Gets turned into a woman, becomes bimbo barmaid

Man, Baldur's gate was awesome. This wouldn't have flied in today's SJW-infested world.

>>50594267
Wouldn't they just see it as social justice, that the chauvinistic male white wizard gets turned into a woman?

>>50594206
System...?

>>50594086
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. The 5e sourcebook for The Forgotten Realms.

>>50594092
Ok, cool, thanks.

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>>50594086
>>50594092
Even better, look, a picture of it

>>50593998
>I'm trying to break into 5e, but it seems pretty video-gamey to me.

literally how

how can you come from diablo edition and think anything else is too gamey?

>>50593998
The ideal length of combat (for me at least) is 3 turns per opponent, 5 turns overall (assuming party has AoE abilities).

For more important fact it's 5 turns on a big guy, 2-3 per henchmen, 7 in general (again, assuming AoE).

So general advice is, find what amount of turns it takes for combat to roll smoothly and not be anticlimactic, then run combat at said pace. Balance for number of turns, not HP or AC, they are just smoke and mirrors.

>Should I try to focus more on roleplaying and skill checks?

I suggest looking up Ryuutama. Not necessarily play it, although it's good, but getting ideas on how to run and abstract travel. Also, combat isn't necessarily THE thing to keep your PCs on their toes, Dangerous terrain (crossing the overflowing mountain river) and even exhaustion (for example under the blaring steppe sun) can be dangerous enough on their own and be enough to remember even after campaign has ended.

For travelling rules, you can google the Ryuutama subreddit. There are Ryuutama travel rules converted for 5e. I personally didn't use them, though.

>>50594029
This. Have you considered that you don't actually need to track enemy hp, but just let them die when it's appropriate (i.e. 5-7 rounds of combat), OP? You're there to provide the optimal play experience to your playes not run an impartial board game

>>50593119
Kitsune and Catfolk, followed by the Path of War rules that really cemented the weeaboo fans into /pfg/. Everything following that is just self-fulfilling prophesy.

>>50593119
It's popular.

>>50593119
>Kitsune are common race, among other things
>Canonical Steampunk setting
>so many expansions and rules that at this point it might as well be D&D: the GURPSening
>character creation entails the same sort of discussion that crafting a magic deck does.
>Characters are stupidly broken.

Why do you think?

That being said, I'm really hoping that Starfinder is "Paizo's answer to 5e," and they cut out all the cheese from PF in making it.

quick self bump before I'm off

>>50593071
Depends *entirely* on what mechanics your GM is using for gadgeteering and for magic, plus what character options you have available and even your starting point value.

The fact that GURPS can basically do anything means that it's hard to give generic advice; we need some sort of starting point or else there's a 90% chance the advice will be worthless in your specific campaign.

>>50593071
Take into the gurps general thread. They have system specific answers for you. But as a good anon said, make sure to give them your setting parameters as well. Otherwise you're inventing the universe to make an apple pie.

Because they would lose all their money lmao

>>50592856
I don't see how charging the same price for digital armies as they do for plastic ones wouldn't work.

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>>50592851

Because they have a virtual monopoly on not just the plastic, but the paint as well. Not to mention all the other little crafting bits (although you don't really need to use GW brand as far as I know, but then again I'm not actively engaged with any of their games)

Also some people just like collecting and building/painting models, it's not all about the game aspect.

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>>50592361
Zero!

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>>50592361
For once i want a catgirl thread to not devolve into "YES, BUT HOW DO WE MAKE THEM AN ENTIRE RACE OF SLAVES ADDICTED TO COCK?"

You guys are lucky.

>>50592361
Talk to us when they're more fallible.