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>oops has been added.
Thread's dead boys. Pack it up, we had a nice run. Nothing good lasts forever I suppose.

>>50375784
>what legacy-related thing are you most thankful for?

I'm thankful that none of the retards on mtgsalvation, the source, Reddit, or even here are in charge of the reserved list, ban list, design, or development.

im also thankful for all of you in the comfiest general on /tg/

>>50375935
Don't worry we'we'll take it off for the next thread.

is that your doggo?

OVA

>>50429769
Anima, though I can't remember if that has transformations.

>>50430129

What's OVA like? I've never heard of it.

>>50427145
How does a zombie get a boner?

>>50427145
The wizard ended up hoisting himself by his own petard because his archrival (who killed his master) set him up.
Basically, the wizard made a series of grave mistakes out of pride I had banked on happening because I knew how to read the player, and he ended up in Hell down to his last two spell slots (both below 3) while said archnemesis was at full.

>>50427145

I inverse ninja law'd an encounter where the party had to escape a ship that they had just blown up.

One of the better sessions, since the environment was just as much of a mutual enemy with masts falling and random gunpowder barrels exploding and rolling up and down the ship as the actual enemies.

You Mythic Battle: Pantheon faggots ain't got got shit on KDM hype. This is how a Kickstarter is supposed to run. $2.5M pledged in less than 4 hours.

>>50386460
Thanks for that. How many sessions would a campaign typically last? And I take it you could easily replay the whole thing and get a very different experience?

>>50386499
>>what's the most money you ever put into a board game
About $120 each for Blood Rage and High Heavens. Pandemic and expansions would account for more (especially including Legacy) but most expansions were bought by friends.

>>what's the most time you ever got out of a board game
Am I supposed to keep track?

>>what's the most money you ever put into a board game
Shadows of Brimstone. Adding 300+ $ to the total right now due to new kickstarter
>>what's the most time you ever got out of a board game
If you count solo, I think SoB is up there.
No solo ? Pandemic, people keep asking me to play it. Oh, and although it's only a 10 minute game, Escape : curse of the temple has seen lots of plays and might amount to something crazy. But like >>50386580 said, I dont really keep track.

Tip 1

Dont. It will kill your gaming group. Online game is shitty and never ever feels right especially if youre used to playing in person.

My suggestion is that your group make the effort to play in person. And if that is absolutely not an option than play a system that lets you do theater of the mind so you can just play verbally over skype or something.

Roll20 is shit.

>>50429966
They're a pretty visual based group that really requires that kind of stimuli. My players are good, but the easily distracted type. By putting effort into the maps, tokens, etc I can keep them tethered and not swiping through their phones every other minute.

As for playing locally, I obviously would were we not running into too many issues regarding actually getting people all together physically. Transportation has become an increasing issue and so online is just easier for all of us.

That's why we all agreed on Roll20 in the first place.

Don't listen to >>50429966 OP, that anon's just an idiot who doesn't believe in different types of fun.

For running a good game on Roll20, the biggest thing is actually knowing how it works. Take your time, read through the wiki, and mark down any helpful commands. The second most important thing after that is preparedness. Have all your lighting/fog of war finished, have all your tokens in place and statted, and hop into the game early to double check that everything is prepared and on the correct layer before the game starts.

>>50429287
They're one of the top selling armies, mainly to children from what I understand.

As to why nothing really bad happens to them same answer as before, the main market for them is children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA52uNzx7Y4

Yo listen up here's a story
About a little guy that lives in a grimdark world
And all day and all night and everything he sees
Is just blue
Like him inside and outside
Blue his house with a blue little window
And a blue riptide
And everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
Cause he ain't got nobody to listen

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>>50429287
What's this guy even talking about?

>>50429121
Start crossdressing.
But never acknowledged and when asked just change the subject and just keep on DMing as before.

>>50429183
We meet virtually on roll20.

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>>50429121
do your players like the current campaign that you are running? or are they also experiencing burnout

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>>50428368

>>50428368
>Axis
>WW1
???

>>50428368
Such a golden oldie! 'twas probably 15 years since I last played though...

If it a) walks on two legs and b) speaks a language you could theoretically understand and c) isn't some kind of elemental/magical construct, it's cannibalism. A is kinda up for debate, but I think it's a little more intuitive for most people.

without seriously considering it, I suppose I'd adopted dwarf fortress's definition of cannibalism
>EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER:UNTHINKABLE

>>50426696
Cannibalism is the same as in the real world, consumption of members of your own species. Unlike definitions such as murder cannibalism is something that can already be extended to nonhumans (a dog eating a dog is cannibalistic. A dog eating a cat isn't, even though they have comparable intelligence.)

On a semi-related note, anything sapient can be murdered. Anything nonsapient can only be slaughtered.

>>50425721
two not awful OPs in a row?

Its a thanksgiving miracle

>>50425721
REMINDER THAT THERE'S A ROTJR IRC.
#RotJR on rizon. Take it there.

For me, I like Eagl- I mean Andoran.

I need to create about 7 more possible DMPCs for the party to recruit for their excursion into the base of the current story's villain.

They decided to go and recruit as much help as they can, and unless I can find temporary players, I'm going to have to play them all.

Right now I have an Elven Slayer focused on using a Curved Sword, a gunslinger with a multitude of weapons, and a Tattooed Sorcerer. Any other ideas that, at level 4, could create some interesting characters I could hand off to temporary players if possible?

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I meticulously detail out every path I think the players might take. My last game had 40 pages of notes for a game that lasted 5 sessions.

Then I get burned out and don't want to play anymore.

>>50423745
>Then I get burned out and don't want to play anymore

No shit.
Here's an old GM trick.
Prepare the bare minimum adventure material or use an adventure module.

IMPROVISE THE REST.


No one benefits if you are only using a small percentage of your prepared material.

I'll suggest to you what I should have done years ago: run a beginner module for your game. Not just any old one, but one specifically made to be easy to DM for. I recently ran Lost Mines of Phandelver for my group who've been playing 5e since it came out, and learned a ton about how to prep and what's important/what's not.

>>50423949
Also seconding this.

riddles are fucking dumb as shit and they challenge the player not the character so it defeats the purpose of RP

/thread

>>50421773
You're not allowed to /thread yourself

But you're absolutely right, they went the way of competitive dungeon crawling for a reason. Puzzles are almost always in the same camp as well

>>50421113
>riddles
I'm shit at writing riddles, and there are very few scenarios where they don't feel pretty forced.

>puzzles
I prefer a sort of Zelda approach. Either there's a gimmick to the dungeon that can be manipulated to do stuff (most of it optional) or there's a big dumb obstacle that the party needs to find and apply a solution to.

I might go for a logic puzzle for a big dumb obstacle, with clues distributed around the dungeon. But I'm not sure how to write a logic puzzle, and I'm worried I'd either have to railroad the party into getting all the clues or leave too many redundant clues for it to work as a puzzle if they found them all. That and the party might not even pick up on the puzzle being a puzzle, might assume the puzzle has to be solved immediately... there's just so much that can go wrong.

>>50419294
>Why does the Imperium outright refuse to negotiate on any level with the Eldar?
because they're filthy xenos.

On top of which, they keep trying to backstab you and never explain anything.

>>50419365

Humor aside, do you have an actual answer to this one or could you elaborate on the one you gave?

They're sneaky and shit but I don't seem to recall them doing a whole lot of betrayal.

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>>50419294
>1
No idea where the big E hid the blueprints. I'd imagine that they'd be in the hands of the mechanicus. Like most blueprints from millenia ago though, they're practically impossible to understand. Did he even use blueprints or did he just do it in one?

>2
Depends on the chapter. And I think you mean Inquisition, right? Because all Space Marines are part of the Imperium so it's hard to have a strained relationship with yourself. Some view the Inquisition as a bit restraining and not actually doing the right thing by not helping civilians (See Salamanders, Space Wolves), which isn't entirely wrong
>3
They're xenos.
>4
I've never heard of this until now. Has there been another GK codex? Last I played was in the reboot and I'm pretty sure it had no mention of this there.
>5
Physically they share similarities with other space marines but the mental property of a Grey Knight far surpasses that of even a Space Marine. The GK are all psykers, which is a rarity in 40k despite the massive population. Then those psykers are forced into one of the worst selection exercises ever. I think the aforementioned codex put the odds of an aspirant actually becoming a GK without being killed/kicked out/turned into a servitor at about a million to one. And to be a part of that million, you'd have to be a psyker on a black ship, selected as one of millions on it. So you'd be a one in a million of a million of a million to be a Grey Knight.

tl;dr

No one knows. Everything is true. 40k is dumb as hell but that's why we love it.