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>>50442597
>I learn GURPS
>GURPS has rules capable of running anything from firefly to warhammer vermintide, to cyberpunk, to inyuyasha, to dragonball Z, to WW4, to alt history X, to DnD, to whatever, because it has all encompasing balanced rules that can be plugged in at the drop of a hat, or removed at a whim without effecting the grand scale of play
>why would I use any other system at this point?

>>50442597
Generic RP systems have 3 main purposes in my mind
1- you've come up with a setting of your own that doesn't fit into other stuff.

2- your group likes playing a lot of different games and genres, but doesn't want to learn 500 different systems. If your group has actual lives with limited free time and aren't a bunch of neet fa/tg/uys, this advantage is not to be underestimated.

3- superheroes or any other setting where the party is a diverse bunch with weird powers but you want some semblance of balance

>>50442648
>learn mediocre system
>it can do anything, it just can't do anything well
>it's a bland, awkward system that I can't convince anyone to play with me
>guess I should advertise it online

>>50441651
Tzeentch by far.

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>>50441671
At first I thought so too, but then it occured to me, wouldn't he only be invested in helping you during a bull market?

Slaneesh. You could become so alluring people will just give their money to you

>>50437117
I remind them that confirmation bias is just one of the problems from inheriting an evolved intelligence.

>>50437260

Sometimes weird shit happens anon

>have one player who consistently rolls absurdly well
>rolls aren't fudged
>dice aren't weighted
>due to medical reasons it's highly unlikely that they're rigging the throw itself
>pattern persists across multiple games, to the point where one of the GMs in our group could calculate an average handicap for them

>>50437117
Tavern Tales has 3d20-pick-average system. Maybe something like that could circumvent the curse.

>>50435920
That's not a religion. That's an origin story

What's the codified set of beliefs and rituals surrounding this tale? Religion is a specific word you're using. Have specifics.

>>50436042
Bump. I will answer soon

>>50435920
Agreeing with the other anon, that's only the origin myth.

It's also the exact same thing I used for a setting with different labels on it.

What I had was men being born of darkness, mindless beasts ruled by instincts. Then the gods gave them light, making them sentient creatures. Humans served the gods for a long time, but in the end rebelled and drove the gods away(at least from the small bit where the story took place). Now without the gods, men was caught in the struggle between light and darkness.

What's interesting is how different cultures came to interpret that origin. The more fanatical sorts believe that this live is only a test and one must purge one self and others of darkness in order to join the gods in paradise.

A collection of outcasts and lowlifes on the otherh and embrace the darkness as man's true nature, some monk-ish types see it as neccesary to attain mastery over one self, both virtues and vices.

Another culture alltogether considers it impossible for man to ever be a thing of light, but that to fall to darkness would be to forsake everything that makes us different from common beasts. Thus man are born like a flame, to struggle for each moment of their life and carve their own piece of eternity. Some take that philosophy further to whorship the dragons, the beings of fire and their endless cycle of death and rebirth.

Go think what the people of your world do with the knowledge of their origin, think how normal things like lying change their meaning with this knowledge. When you got that sorted out you can move on to symbol, rituals, mythology and all that other stuff.

>>50435912
1 >XCOM enemy within
2 >mass effect
3 unique, I'll give you that. What's it like to squeeze out a fireball at birth?

>>50435912
>There are two elements: Earth and Sky. Everything in the universe is made of these two elements mixed in varying ratios

>>50435940
Very painful, so just like regular birth. If you want, I have more lore stuff for it. I must say, though, I haven't played a tabletop game yet (no one to play it with; Have been too busy as of late.)

>>50435044
Your villains are badly written/played if your players aren't taking them seriously. It's your own fault.

Also, show, don't tell. Dispense with the threats and make your bad guy actually do something.

>>50435044

You do know a reasonable character would flee from a fight they didn't think they could win?

Blame the Marvel movies for making people think delivering deadpan quips is a good substitute for meaningful dialogue.

The mandatory:

>Breast Sense
>Ass Without Trace
>Phantom Seed
>True Peeing
>Plane Shit

>Tenser's Gloating Disc
You create a slightly concave, circular plane of force that follows you about and says how great Tenser was for creating the spell.

>Firebalm
Used to heal injuries caused by fireballs.

>Praise Dead
Often cast at funerals.

>Rat of Frost
Produces 1d8 frozen rats.

>Cone of Old
A blast of old temporarily ages people 8d8 years in a 60 foot cone.

>Palm Emotions
A spell that allows you to use your sleight of hand to steal an emotion from someone.

>Cream
This spell shapes a creature's dreams (into a wet dream).

>Bone of Truth
You create a magical bone that will never tell a lie to you (I promise).

>Fly
Summons 1d4 flies.

>>50417947
I'll start

>Did you go to FNM?
No. I stayed home with my daughter and watched Wreck It Ralph and had Pizza because my wife went out of town.
>How did you do?
>What did you play?
>What should be banned?
Mutagenic Growth, maybe Conflagrate
>What should be unbanned?
Jace TMS
>What should stay banned?
Deathrite Shaman
>What should stay legal?
Most of Dredge, I wish WotC would limit things to some number of copies but people are too dumb to keep track of this card being at one copy while this other card is at three copies, according to Wizards.

>>50417947
>Did you go to FNM?
Yes
>How did you do?
0-2 vs. Bant Eldrazi
0-2 vs. Tron
Got a bye for the third round
>What did you play?
Zoo variant that was way to slow.
>What should stay legal?
Bloodmoon

>>50417947
>FNM
fnm is only draft at my lgs but i got some games with a guy who was waiting for that. He was on dredge and had some awful draws as i won like 3 preboard games with delver. Then with grishoalbrand i killed him on turn 3 then on turn 2 so his draws didn't matter... he wasn't too pleased

>banned
nothing

>unbanned
idk about "should" but i wanna see twin, bloom, seething song, depths, hypergenesis, etc. as i never really got to play against these decks

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I was thinking of making a CSM squad somewhere between the Davy Jones' fish crew in pirates of the carribean and this concept art from Bioshock 2

maybe the younger initiates are living coral reefs while the most ancient are abyssal zone Cthulhu horrors

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>>50414789
I've been toying with these guys for a while.

Carcian 112th Legion get it? because they're cancer
An imperial colony world way out in the the middle of nowhere who got cut off from imperial aid when everything went to shit, and then never got re-connected to the imperium due to a combination of necron interference and weird warp shit happening around them for a long, long time. Without an influx of people with the knowledge on how to actually do stuff like fix spaceships and repair mechanical infrastructure, the shitty mostly desert hive world of Carcia had a societal collapse into crime and banditry, and then a societal un-collapse when a retired punk as fuck guardsman rallied up a millitia of gangers and literally berated them into acting like a functioning civilization. They end up barely jury-rigging functioning interplanetary flight and checking in on the various other planets in the system, who have all also devolved into various forms of feudalism and anarchy. They then berate the everloving shit out of them mid firefight until they surrender, and add their jury-rigging prowess into new and exciting methods of government and warfare.

Fast forward a good few millennia later and the various warp fuckery preventing leaving the system has finally stopped. The imperium finds an oddly functioning federation of planets under what is basically the military leadership of the imperial guard, and are almost unilaterally composed of angry criminals. They take to being guardsmen like a particularly surly duck to water.

This was pretty much just and excuse for me to make tank girl into a guard regiment.

>>50414871
That sounds like the absolute shit.
Would their daemonhosts be something like these guys, or more bestial?

and would they have the butt head like these guys do?

>>50385202
time, space, energy, and matter.

>>50385202
My personal favorite: The element of surprise!

the element of Bump

>>50440007

>>50439990
Halp

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Reposting from the other thread because it's about to die.

Alright I was hoping that someone here might have some ideas about a game I'm running.

tl;dr warlock player's patron isn't who they think they are. What do?

So, I'm running Out of the Abyss and one player is a warlock of Asmodeus. Over the course of the game I've been hinting that something is wrong with Asmodeus and his presence seems closer than usual. The reason for this is that the demon lord Fraz'Urbluu is actually pretending to be Asmodeus. I thought this could be cool because it'll be a surprise when they find out, and there's no harm done.

So, the problem is that I don't know how/when to reveal it to the player. Soon, they will be going to Mantol-Derith soon, and this is where the demon lord has formed his new domain.

Does anyone have any ideas about a fun way to deal with this? How would you like to find out as a player? Is there a way that I can delay him finding out till later?

Thanks!

>>50440007
>play a druid
>wish I picked a different spellcaster

>>50435196
>slowly whistles in the tank, leaning back happy
>he keeps repeating the kiss scene in his head
>he'd have a smile stretched from ear to ear

>>50435253
>The tankers are pretty happy themselves and whistle along as the Hammerhead is taken down to the planet.

>>50435196
Boss, Victus says he thinks the Eldar did it.

>>50435335
You will reffer to me as commissar, Sergeant.
And I am aware. And thus it is our duty to inspect his suspicions.

Also, you and your men where with inquisitor Wellesley the day the collars were delievered. Grab spares from Cargo. I expect you and your men with them on in less than 2 hours.

>>50422586
Go home, Poland.

You're drunk again.

>>50422586

>mish mash of Scotland,Russia,America,France
>Least "anime" looking of the infinity factions
>in a universe with AI and mechs but still use old ass technology
>muh 7.62
>and on top of it they have furries

Literally /k/ the faction

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>>50422614

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCy68CWDKVE

I would hire Kevin Rountree, make him head of the board, let him do his job and blow dividend of my shares on booze and cosplay whores.

Stab Kirby in the chest repeatedly and claim shariah reasons in court.

The new guy seems to be doing a pretty good job right now.

Aren't threads like these (and we do get a lot, you are not being as original as you think you are) a little outdated? I mean we have been clamoring and fantasizing about better management for so long, and we finally get it and you can't let the salt dilute?

>Muh entitlement, muh clinging on to past transgressions, muh wounds

Get ready for some shit. Night Vale is the worst possible choice you could've made for the OP. It's basically the Steven Universe/Gay Greek MTG Commander of /tg/ podcasts.

>>50410784
Fuck

I dont even wanna talk about Night Vale just want some suggestions

The Film Reroll is a podcast where they play through famous movies as GURPS adventures.

Archive 81, Limetown, and The Message are all sort of Delta Green / CoC-esque.

For non-fiction, Imaginary Worlds has some interesting episodes, although it's likely stuff that fa/tg/uys are already familiar with.

(Also don't listen to anybody who recommends Lore, The Black Tapes, or TANIS.)