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>>50550100
Don't

>>50550100
>How do I play a Lawful Evil character without making the game worse for everyone involved?
Evil characters can work on "good" projects for selfish reasons.
Demand you get paid, and paid well. Protect the world not to protect innocent lives, but to protect your own home.
Fight the evil wizard for his collection of magical artifacts.
Keep your allies alive because you'll need them later.

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>>50550100

>>50549543
>Given that a top end D&D mage can do more or less anything
Only in certain editions. The easy solution is to just not play those editions.

>>50549543
Not allowing T1 classes. Those are reserved only for BBEGs.

>>50549543
I don't understand why people don't just restrict the spell book. Some spells are so powerful, it should essentially be a quest in itself to get the information necessary to cast it, and even then, there should be a good reason to seek out such power. Just divide the spell book into common, rare, epic and legendary spells, and make sure they can't just pick up the crazy bullshit ones over the weekend at the local library

>>50549079
I'd suggest Anima: Beyond fantasy, if only because Ki abilities and Techniques are real close to how nen works.
And because one of my players' character is full on Hisoka Morow, personality-wise.

>>50549079
I have no experience with HxH, but after a brief perusal of the wiki, here's how I'd handle HxH game in GURPS.

1. Use fast-paced and cinematic rules. The Action series and Martial Arts book are good sources for these. Don't fall into the trap of including rules because they're there; GURPS is not that kind of game and your fast-paced shonen-based game is going to fall apart if you get caught up in gritty realistic rules.
2. In GURPS terminology, Nen is a source, Nen type (Enhancer/Transmuter/Conjurer/etc.) is a power, and the various techniques and applications of Nen are abilities. See Powers for more detail. Psionic Powers may be worth looking at for its approach to supernatural powers vs supernatural skills.
3. Vows and Limitations already exist in standard GURPS, though ironically the names are reversed. Advantages can have limitations to reduce their point cost, and it looks like all HxH vows would be covered by the Accessibility limitation. Disadvantages can be taken to give you more points in general, and HxH limitations would be a version of the Vow disadvantage that, when broken, would be replaced with a disadvantage equal to *twice* the Vow's value. Such Vows could also be used for the Pact limitation.

Basic Set + Powers (for Nen); GM should also glance through Action 1-3, Martial Arts, and Psionic Powers for rules advice, but the books won't be necessary for players. Swing by the GURPS general if you end up going with this system, but best of luck to you regardless if you go with something else!

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>>50551483
Damn, I'm not OP but that was ridiculously clear and concise, I'm actually a little aroused.

Guess I need all the gurps books now.

Whats the discord?

>>50548480

Inferno is still two months away. This place will never survive that long, and even when it does the fact there is no guaranteed scans will really cause issues when people beg for scans that will never come.

>>50548490

I admit, that sounds impressively high-tech and thus Iron Handy.

...you are giving me a great idea for a Head of thr Gorgon list with this.

>>50547159
>billion soldiers dropping dead instantly,
>Would this be considered Genocide?
Yes.

>>50547234
How come?

>"It's not mass murder if WE do it!"
typical infallible imperialist attitude.

>>50546450
>inb4 no impure mixed-race princess will have my aryan seed

>>50546450
The evil black one is hotter, spanish/black is better than maori. My allegiance goes to whoever pays more, but since they probably offer the same, so to whoever is more likley to win already.

>>50546450
>people in the far future born on distant planets list their earth based ancestry from a millenia earlier

It's like if people today mentioned what bronze age tribes they think came from.

>lady
It's clear neither of them is a princess, but whatever.

>>50543664
You mean "selfless" good act, right ?

>>50543725

No, the girl is obviously flaunting the fact that she has flowers in front of the soldier knowing full well that he can never share in such a joy due to his ancestral failures.

>>50543725
I suppose you could call it that.

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Posting a lore edit of the paladin sheet from last thread.

Hope you have fun at the fest!

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>>50542253
>Floors will continue to be appropriately challenging until major threats have been defeated.

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Furthermore,
even as one descends, the Gaolers will pursue. But due to the change in environment upon descending there yet stands a chance at defeating or circumventing the threat. It should be noted that the advanced play displayed on floor 6 will continue to be on demand in the next one when dealing with them.

What to expect on the Next Floor:
The Realm of Goblins is an interesting phenomenon in the Floors, for this migratory tribe mines through the superstructure in search of great and rare technologies to improve their lives, they are often cut off from the greater world and some are not even aware of the Mal. Nevertheless for a group of Goblins to find their way in the Pneumaether must imply a terrestrial route and an opened way to escape or dive further down away from Gaolers and into depths unknown.

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>>50535695

>>50535078
>First
Crab to Lion actually won't have too many problems. Your character is already used to military discipline, and the Matsu are pretty rowdy in their off-time. There shouldn't be too much culture shock.
>Second
Your loyalty is supposed to be to your new clan just as if you had been born into it. "Supposed to be" being the most important part of that sentence. Don't expect the Lion to include you in any potential plans against the Crab.
>Third
Yes. Crab Berserker means double yes. Don't be afraid to get into grappling either. A lot of your opponents won't be able to fight their way out of it, since most combatants neglect unarmed combat.

>>50535146
My main concern is honor- Pragmatists start with Honor 2.5, and I took Infamous- and Lion are honor obsessed.

>>50535210
Well then, you're going to be getting a lot of dirty looks.
When applied correctly, your honor score will rest around where you actually play the character, regardless of what it started as. It's only that low because Pragmatists train dirty, fight dirty, and are usually extra rude. If your character makes a concerted effort to be more polite and "proper", then it will quickly rise up to a more respectable 4 or 5. If you keep being a dirty, rude bastard, it's probably not going anywhere, since the gains you get from being brave and loyal will be offset by losses from being rude.

>>50528299
Entirely depends on your inbuilt motivations.

All contiguous beings said to be alive have a 'reason' for why they act, even if they don't understand it fully. Music=communication=mate finding.

So, does the lovecraftian deity have some sort of 'sustenance' requirement? Does it have future goals? Is it a plot tool whose goals only reflect what the author desires the reader to feel?

>>50528299
>Poke them with a stick.
>See what they do.
>Poke with another stick.
>Get bored.
>Fly off and do super cool old ones stuff

>>50528299
If I have nothing really critical to attend to then I'd probably observe them a bit and see if I can convert them and see how much I can shape them and their world in my image. If they have existing pantheons then I'd probably try and corrupt their gods as well, either directly but most likely through tainting their creations.

>>50526064
I'm sort of surprised it's never the other way around. I mean, how many dudes would freak and run if they found out their wife to be was some bitchy old hag?
>Inb4 fertility
It would still be creepy as shit. Hell, the fact that she's desperate due to biological clock would make things worse, in my opinion. Especially if she uses magic to hide her true appearance and he saw through it.

>>50526096
>how many dudes would freak and run
But that's the thing, they don't need to run away to get away. Historically a man was perfectly justified spending his entire life on military campaigns. The woman was generally stuck in the house - unless she ran away.
With equal genders in RPGs this explanation wouldn't work anymore of course.

>>50526096
Well, actually, young men specifically seeking out old, rich widows and marrying them used to be a common thing and was a common trope in literature too - because when their wives die, they get all of their money and estate for themselves.
Never seen it in tabletop, however.

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1/?

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2/?

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>>50522030
Anything generic where you make your own setting would work with work, but you really want to find something that just has weird rules and a weird setting to go with it.

>>50522260

The problem is that normally with tabletop games, players have access to way too much information prior to the start of the game.

Like, they'll know all about the playable races, the items, the general idea of the setting, etc.

How can we go around this without fucking up game balance? I could just hand them pregens and not tell them anything about the setting, but that's too obvious. Are there any systems out there tailored specifically around this?

>>50510028
Do you remember being a teenager?

They didn't stop happening just because you grew up.

>>50510028
They've always been around, like the group girl that plays a druid with a wolf animal companion or the guy who plays a half demon who was either abandoned by or killed his family and uses a katana.

>>50510063
>>50510107
So the reason they're around in such large numbers is because this faggotry is generational? Does this mean were going to be seeing more of this type of shit in the future with different shit?

I swear if your telling me that soon were going to have to deal with Deadpool ripoffs I'm going to have to abandon the hobby for a few years.