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>>50519567
http://www.mtgcardmarket.com/
Only play Commander, pauper and draft. Everything else will eat your money and end your will to live. Buy the commander precons. They're efficient.
Buy stuff from your local shop if it's TCG player prices +- 20%. Don't buy if they're overcharging you by more than 20%. I'd recommend MTGcardmarket, above, for singles. Bulk commons and uncommons cost pennies online anyway, you can literally order hundreds for less than €10
Always be mindful of the power level of your playgroup, this is why multiplayer formats are useful. If you become too powerful and curbstomp your opponents every game in duels, they'll get frustrated and stop playing if they're fairly new. In multiplayer games this isn't as much an issue, but it still can be if you fill your commander deck with infinite combos and the like. Focus on having fun, not winning. People who focus on winning will always either spend too much on the game or ragequit because they can't afford to spend too much on the game.

>>50520629
Draft (cube notwithstanding) is arguably the most expensive format.

>>50520692
I agree, though bear in mind as a newbie it's boosting your cardpool while you do it.

???

Same thing but replace retarded science by retarded magic.
Or otherwise wait few years until we will get 90's trilogy of Mistborn.

>>50519868
What I think OP meant is that, if a character living in a fantasy setting wrote a science fiction novel, what would that novel be like?

>>50519897
Reckon it would be pretty much same kind of novels we have now. But instead of QUANTUM and NANOMACHINES everything would be explained with WIZARDS FUCK YEAH!
Also Dragonstar is closest thing we will have to hard sci fi mixed with fantasy.

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I'm really bad with suddenly losing interest over my current character and wanting to try a new one. I've gone as far as to fudge rolls to kill my character off quicker so I can make a new one.

>>50519399

Why not just talk to your GM and ask him if you can retire your character and try a new one? Not every adventure has to end with death. Some people choose to hang up their hats after a while.

Just explain to your GM that you're not having fun with your current character, and ask if you can make a new one. It's not a big deal.

I farted at work and just walked away before anyone smelled it. My coworker got blamed for it.

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>>50519246

>>50519246
For fantasy I'd go with Runequest 6/Mythras.
For Sci-Fi I like Traveller. The new Mongoose v2 is pretty good.
FATE/Gurps are good open ended systems to run anything in.

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>>50519268
>gurps
triggered

I've heard good things about Runequest, but only in that people have said "it's good". Can you tell my anything about how skills are handled in those games? I say "skills" but that's probably my d20 bias showing- what I mean is "the stuff that doesn't involve murdering things/the result of practicing a discipline"

>>50519160

Is everyone ready for the next iteration of "Will it blend"?

>>50519158
I'm putting my money on Butt Naked.

>>50518639
God no. I don't know the rules, but you seem to be describing a character that can all but one-shot a giant with his bare hands. That's powerful enough without letting him fly as well.

>>50518639
Congrats, you basically made a stronger, more violent, Hodor.

I allow anything that's rules legal short of something that's Pun-Pun levels of clearly unintended abuse.

You may however face some degree of consequences for sacrificing certain areas of your stats for others, although I wouldn't take this as an excuse to passive aggressive rocks fall railroad you.

>>50518547
Misunderstood giant wolf-bro that plot line demands be fought a la Sif.

Giant 10ft tall berserker who jumps around the battlefield, uses an oversized greatsword, and transforms into a 18ft tall black skeleton with explosive jumps.

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>>50518547
Ya know, if you avoid the bullshit insta-fall-deaths, taking concepts from this bitch could make for a really cool fight. Especially since you'll have your party rather than just being a solo chump.

>>50517529
this isn't a very fair comparison, because a Sacred Fist's core mechanic involves abusing its swift action self cast buffs.

On a pure numbers level on DPS without those obviously a Sacred Fist is worse, but it brings far more utility, healing, ect to the party.

>>50517591
Yes, but she's had no opportunities to use them yet.

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>>50517591
>putting ranks in swim

You mean like this?

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cda7c7101d/chappelle-show-internet?_cc=__t___&_ccid=f2fed4ba-4e5a-48bc-a10d-99165eaf5f2b

>>50517251
We've done this several times over with this site alone. 4chan: the Trolling, the 4chan Archipelago, and 4chan house.

I think we made -tans of /tg/-related subreddits at some point. Everyone of them was a douche, but Teej still plays with /r/MagicTCG, and /r/tabletopcrusaders is a bro, and visits every Sunday.

>the lands of baneposting
>accessible only by plane

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>>50516779
Wrath of Magnus in the Mega.
Wrath of Magnus FAQ
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2016/12/03/wrath-of-magnus-faq/

>https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Wrath_of_Magnus_v1.0_Dec16-1.pdf

>Q: Do the new Pink Horrors get Malefic psychic powers?
A: No, they do not get Daemonology (Malefic) Powers.

boy am i glad they stopped those WAAC faggots right in their tracks.

Looking forward to black legion terminator army

>>50516581
Maybe you should just not play the game

>Why isn't the converse true?
because high strength weapons and characters don't need further buffs

>>50516581
Because big guns like that don't need any more firepower.

Good for agriculture provided that there are rivers nearby. Not good for much else.

>>50516444
It makes them tend toward conformity and law, and usually attracts angels. A good landscape has a good balance of plains, islands, swamps, mountains, and forests.

>>50516444
No, it's shit. No wood, no large scale construction.

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A Bullywug Monk who learned how to do martial arts from his extensive collection of "Eastern Scrolls", thrown out of his swamp by his parents and now is roaming the land searching for purpose.

All my characters are shit so there isn't enough room to post.

>>50515165
Funny enough, I wanted to make a Bullywug warrior who survived a ship wreck and winds up in a foreign land, and desperately wants to go home.

>>50514932
Cool.
(The Khan is the best Primarch.)

>>50514932
Is it one of the new ones like The Master of Mankind? Good sir, it would be truly splendid if you posted a download link to this fine piece of literature.

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>>50515148
agreed

Long story short, we free some of the prisoners, start going on our way, when Grognard encourages us to get out of the Underdark. He’s going after his daughter. See, thing is, we kind of don’t want him to die, since we want him to join us permanently. But he’s insistent, and so we split ways, hoping to see each other again someday.

This is where the DM starts packing up, but we ask about the orc. We want to know what happens to him. The DM says that he hadn’t really thought about it and that’d he’d come up with something when one of the other players says, “Why not have him roll for it?” The DM’s like, “You know he probably has a better chance of dying that way, right?” We don’t care. We want to find out what happens to him.

Let me stop the story right here. Grognard goes to the wizard’s tower and reenacts the events of Taken. That fucker killed EVERYTHING he came across in the wizard’s tower. Fucking everything. This is apparently stuff that the entire party was supposed to take on at a later date. The DM rolled in front of us out in the open, and I swear at times he was giving far more stealth checks than necessary, but somehow, someway, the dice fell on this orc’s side.

But you know what? This morning, the DM sent us a ‘short story’ reimagining of what happened to Grognard in that wizard’s tower. I’ll let that explain what happened.

Grognard looked up at the tower, a weary look in his eyes. In all his years, he never thought he'd be doing something so clearly suicidal. Then again, he also never expected to leave his home on the surface world for the treacherous caverns of the Underdark. He tenderly rubbed the nub where a steel blade protruded from his elbow in place of a forearm. No matter how often he used this implanted weapon, Grognard was sure he'd never quite get used to the feeling of it. Still, to save his daughter Zenova, he was more than willing to put up with a little discomfort.


Letting his posture slip into a comfortable crouched position, he quickly scanned the entrance for any signs of wards. Narrowing his eyes, he could see the faint trace of arcane lines. Carefully examining the runes traced within the floor he recognized it as a ward against any males passing through the area. His surprise quickly vanished when he remembered the matriarchal nature of drow society. Knowing exactly where to sever the arcane weaves without triggering the spell, Grognard quickly did so and slipped inside, not wanting to spend any more time out in the open than he truly had to.


Once inside, Grognard quickly assessed his surroundings. A statue of a female drider sat in in the center of this main hall, almost -but not quite- blocking his view of a drow scholar sitting in the far side of the room. On either side of him was a small room which seemed like a checkpoint station for anyone entering the mage's tower. Finally, a conversation with three distinct voices rang out from the eastern portion of the room.

All of this, Gorgnard absorbed in less than a second. Rolling into the room to his left, the old orc plunged his armblade into the drow sitting there before she could even raise her eyebrows. Before the body even hit the floor, he was already making his way to the eastern room, his footfalls nearly silent against the stone floor. Just as he was about to lunge towards the next drow, she did something quite unexpected. Look up, shocked, and immediately scream.


The shrillness of her voice rang out for only a second before his blade found its mark, but that was enough. Not wanting to waste a second, Grognard sprinted out the room, flinging a dagger into the neck of one drow and disemboweling another with his arm blade. Though those two didn't have time to draw their weapons from their sheaths, their third conversation partner managed to parry a thrust from his armblade... sending it inches deep into the wooden bench beside her.


"Help!" The drow shouted as Grognard attempted to pull out his arm blade from the bench. "Intruder!" She slashed her rapier twice catching him once in the arm, though the orc was able to kick her away to avoid any serious injury. Shaking off the poison the weapon was doubtless coated in, Grognard retrieved his armblade and sent another kick at the drow, catching her in the groin just as she had begun casting a spell. Taking advantage of the distraction, he quickly dispatched of her by plunging his armblade into her chest.