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I'd say FATE's aspect invokes have the most "mindgamey anime fight" feel I've ever seen in an RPG. I haven't really looked into it if it has any supplements to support that though.

>>50437325

Well, you can modify abilities in GURPS with an accessibility modifier that covers whatever weird situation the plot requires. Then simply have the player try to arrange that situation in narrative.

Fred Saberhagen's Books of Swords are a good example of this. The twelve Swords of power are overwhelmingly potent... but all have very specific powers and pretty stringent limitations on their use. So Townsaver basically makes you an invincible killing machine... but only when you're defending unarmed people in a fixed location of some kind. And the sword doesn't keep you from being hurt, it just keeps the wounds you take from having any effect until the fight is over. Also you're rooted to the earth while it's active.

Shieldbreaker gives you an invincible defense against magic and weapons attacks, and will explosively autosunder any weapon used against it (and often also kill the weapon's wielder). But it will only do that on a parry or block, ie when someone attacks you first. If you try to hurt an armed opponent who isn't attacking you at that moment, then you have to try your own skill. And if the opponent is unarmed, the weapon passes harmlessly through him (and he's magically vulnerable to grapples even from much weaker enemies if they're unarmed).

So those kinds of very specific, very situational powers lend themselves to encounters where you can improvise away from the conventional game mechanics to set up the situation you need. If you can only breathe fire when coming to the defense of virgin redheaded maidens, then you'll need to keep one on hand and somehow get her to encourage the enemy to threaten her rather than you.

>>50438550
GURPS also has rules for extra effort, godlike extra effort, "stunting" powers outside their normally rigid boundaries (I defocus my lethal laser beam attack to blind everyone in the room instead!), and "ultrapowers" which take a normal power far past it's intended use (super flight to fly around the earth so fast that it goes back in time? Blowing up a planet to save a friend? Ripping an entire city out of the ground using TK?) at potentially great cost of failure.

Lots of other stuff too but these are what I can think of off the top of my head.

>>50436535
>It's a meta-campaign
>Quick roll against gaming(gurps)-14 !

You couldnt just let it go, you had to keep asking questions.

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>The leather section of a crossguard is called a chappe
>It's true purpose is sinister

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FIRST FOR DA ORKZ ARE FASTEST AND HAVE DA HIGHEST INITITIVE, IM GOING TO KRUMP ANY STOOPID SPIKEY ELDAR GITZ THAT FINK THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE DA FIRST POST FROM ME!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY6qGamu24Y

So this is a thing.

>>50435752
So smug.

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Reports in beta is a glitchy mess, too many to be worked out before release.

Enemy AI not that good

Melee class completely unviable

Everything else is pretty good when the game's not crashing or in a loading screen.

>>50435738
So you'd suggest maybe holding off until the new year? I'm trying to work out at what speed my hype train is travelling just now.

>>50435738
>Reports in beta is a glitchy mess, too many to be worked out before release.
You don't know that, fuck off.
>Enemy AI not that good
Incorrect, confirmed for not playing.
>Melee class completely unviable
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHgitgud

>>50434844
I like robots who continue their original creator's wills (which was to be awesome), but expound on it. They seem like they'd be bros.

>>50434844
They're humanities children and inheritors. They're not posthuman or exhuman, they're just human. To that effect, they treat humanity like their parents. They dote on us and make our lives as easy as possible, because ultimately they know that one day we'll all die. They go about cleaning the messes we made and taking up our philosophical and scientific struggles while we live in artificial paradise.

They were their Humanity's faithful servants and partners before some great disaster ruined the planet's ecosystem, killing all organic life but for a small fraction that the robots could save. These populations are preserved in carefully controlled, self-contained ecosystems while he robots work on a variety of plans to either heal the Earth or find a new world to call home. Several generations after the apocalypse, the remainders of Humanity have forgotten what happened outside their high-tech terrariums, and few are aware of how hard these robots work to keep them alive and safe. This has less to a variety of "conspiracy theories" about why things are the way they are.

The PCs will be the ones to rediscover the truth.

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Pathfinder is utter shit.

>>50434552
You just need to use Path of War with Expansion and Automatic Bonus Progression.

Suddenly everything is much better.

>>50434588
Why, tho? l'm about to join a group and l wan't to know what am l in for.

Will the necrons unify and decide what the hell their role in the galaxy is? Will the Ethereal Tau finally send a punishing force against the Farsight enclave? Will Abaddon get his shit together and finally take Cadia? Will Ghazghkulla Thracca actually reach the Octarian Empire and wipe out the tyranids and unify once and for all the orks? And what about the tyranids? Will their main forces finally reach the galaxy? Will they come to Terra and fight to try and eat the Emperor? Talking about the Emperor, will the Golden Throne finally break and free the emp from his pain? Will Terra be swallowed by daemons? Will the Emperor become a Chaos god or rsurrect somewhere else?

>>50434396
daemons alone are the most boring and uninteresting faction in 40k.
chaos is only cool as a colour filter applied to more interesting designs and vague metaphysics bullshit to explain magic and moral dilemmas.
prove me wrong daemonfags.

>>50434808
No? That's sorta subjective, I mean, I can't prove an opinion wrong.

>>50433921
>why aren't humans and spiders friend? Humans want to kill flies, and spiders want to eat flies. It seems that their interests coincide a lot

>>50433921
Necrons no longer want to kill everything in the galaxy. That's old fluff.

They're now trying to rebuild their empire while also finding a way to return to organic bodies, possibly transplanting their consciousness into an alien species to take them over. And they can't do that if everyone is eaten.

Tyranids might have just replaced the Eldar as the Necron's arch nemesis.

>>50433921
I suggest actually reading the fluff before you ask stupid questions

>>50433516
Before I read the spoilers I just want to say thats a fucking fantastic picture.

>>50433533
> nipple horns

>>50433571
>Not liking the nipple horns
Pleb.

Anyway sadly the leaks are nothing without the actual fluff. Some guys own writing isn't enough to draw any conclusions. Shouldn't be long till a proper leak.

It's the Electric Light Orcestra

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So, basically?

Simple, we eat the eels to add electric resistance and become blanka orcs

Not OP, but I've always heard whitewolf does guns well, is that true?

>>50433300

White wolf doesn't do anything well.

>>50433317
They do my pronouns well.

>>50433122
The 4 was missing a right angle

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>>50433122
No concrete campaign setting.
Spellplague.
Skill system made roleplay difficult at a glance, causing people to jump to Pathfinder.

Inertia. So much inertia. I mainly blame them for releasing a new edition only five years after the shift to 3.5.

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>>50432975

bumping with more gnomish handiwork.

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Airships for me will always be best portrayed in Last Exile.

And not the super rich people's either. The People's army, the one with the main characters. THOSE were fucking Airships man.

Especially loved how two big fucking airships would fight. Dudes, just fucking dudes, would run out-fucking-side with xboxhueg guns and shoot at the other ship until one side tapped out. Fucking glorious.

>>50432975
Aren't inquisitives mostly based in Sharn?

Like, do they get about much?

Either way, I remember an Eberron adventure for 3.5 I think that was set entirely on a modified pleasure cruise airship. A smaller one definitely could work, if you could somehow get all the guilds to leave you the fuck alone.

>>50432850
>we are closer to 2062 than to 1962
Existential panic.exe

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>>50432850
...and do what?

Rolled 1, 3 = 4 (2d6)

I roll to seduce

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>>50431999
Any kind of Land Druid, purely for a change from everyone and their sister playing Moon Druids! (Coast is my favourite flavour, personally)

Although, the unearthed arcana will be out later, maybe that'll add some diversity to them!
I'm expecting a warden (4e) style, similar to the Ancients Paladin. Maybe a swarm Druid, too.

>>50431999
>Sanctimonious Trips
>Thread has proper title
>OP has question and non-shit image
Thank you based OP.

Personally I like my druids to be sagacious wild men, living out innawoods/innacave, being one with nature, gathering sacred plants to cast their spells.

That being said, I'm really hoping for a Warden and/or a Natural Disaster circle in the new UA.