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Benefits are good, and I get to act out my impulses. Same as any minion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2PxxbJydBU

>>50394058
I am a very generic person with little ambition in life. I'm okay with a jumpsuit and possibility of being one day killed by secret agent or something. Maybe get weekends off work?

>>50394058
They've got better dental than FBI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-CG5w4YwOI

The Book of the New Sun

>>50392183
Unless you are playing an animu game, why would you use animu weapons in the first place?

>>50392183
Yes, or yes, and absolutely not. We can play "HEMAfags sperg about the relative merits of the basilard vs. katzbalger" or we can play "First Tsurugi vs Sparda sword, which is more badass", but never the twain shall meet.
For that way lies madness.

>Weapons
Full visual realism, but skipping functional realism. Only real weapons look like actual, intimidating killing tools. Animu/fantasy weapons look like plastic toys.
Also real weapons look elegant and aesthetically pleasing in many cases, while fantasy ones look like cheap shit, equivalent of rapper blings and plastic crowns for teenage "princesses"
But going into functional realism autism territory, IE, swords are useless against armor etc. is not for me.
>Armor
Much, much more liberal. Though most fantasy designs are still out since my foremost requirement towards armor is "must be believably created with pre-industrial age methods and materials" (so again, it's mostly visual realism instead of function realism, except it is more pronounced there). And your typical wow/anime armor breaks it hard. Function is not as important as long as it looks wearable (not too bulky/constraining) and seems to offer some protection. Good example would be "Vikings" TV series armor, which isn't historical, obviously, and most likely wouldn't stand against a real test of function, but if yoo don't overanalyze it, at a glance it looks okay.
>Age and Style
I'm generally more drawn towards ancient/dark age settings than to full/late medieval. Though i usually include longswords (actual, two-handed longswords, not D&D misnomer for arming sword) because fuck, I like them, and more importantly, I like swords in general so I have to have some two-handed variant.

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FFG already does something similar by giving each player a move and an action. Some of the things are solved in confusing ways, eg drawing a weapon is a manoever and not an action, but the system works and is simple to use.

I was thinking about taking the opposite approach and using Eva Borderline mechanics for making an XCOM-like.
I'm still years apart from my goal, but this is what I want to do. Plenty of people just limit their life goals to getting an Asuka. Others just want a steady job doing business applications so they can game during the weekend. Once I become a real programmer, I'm making XCOM with robots.

>>50392125
>What circumstances does the xcom 1/2 combat system not account for?
sure shots

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>>50392125
Well, aside from the d% I think it'd work okay. Strike! is mostly XCOM with a d6, and it works alright (the illustrations are shit though).

>>50392067
I'd go for it. It'd probably be a pain in the ass to get set up though. Finding someone with a decent enough rig or the space to host a server would be a hassle.

I'd go for Commander as well. Makes everyone's decks a little more unique.

Would it be a standard 1v1 bracket tournament, or something more interesting?

>>50392067
count me in

>>50392151
You don't need to host a server, passwords exist
Just do standard 1v1 or Modern
Legacy would be nice too but I doubt people are as familiar with it in general

wat

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>>50391230
>>The Drow starts to spread through your body
The Drow must flow?

>>50391230
It's class-as-race, not race-as-class, newfag

>>50391240
That's not a pun dummy and drow rhymes with cow.

>>50390685
If that's from a parody setting then it's brilliant. If it's serious, it should be a parody and the players are just normal people who travel around to watch things unfold and get front row seats to all sorts of generic rpg-setting buggery.

>dragons are always whispered about as ever-present threats, and anyone who would slay one would become a reknowned hero
>they are never actually encountered

>>50390685
>adventurers are commonplace, heavily taxed
I actually came up with a setting based around that a ways back. I called it 'dungeons and bailiffs', and it was basically 'go adventure for meagre returns or your gear gets repoed', and 'go hunt adventurers that stole their own gear from the bank that owned it'.

Woah woah woah, slow down a second.

If you're going to fluff out magical tablets and smartphones, fluff out magical computers first.

This sorta easiness to handle and distribute information changes the structures of society so deeply that it's hard to still be medieval when you have it. Most high magic setting ignore the deeper applications of magic, so you still grow crops the normal way, even if you do so in a floating field, or in sight of a magic flying city guarded by automaton dragons. You blacksmith still uses hammer and tools and even smithing automatons are just humanoids with hammer hands that smith in the tradional way rather than industrial machines...People still have horses although teleport is a thing, and non mage merchants still exist although they'd never be able to compete with magical merchants in terms of amount and speed of goods moved.

So magical tablets are a bit like that. They'd render libraries useless, and medieval equivalents of schools and universities too since you can just comune through them to find spells. Mix that with the fact that people with them also can use spells like teleport, and basically your setting is a magiocracy where anyone without magic is just...eh.

Which might work for some people but i find boring.

>>50389882
If nothing else they should have tried to refine the formula, now theit awesome terrain tIles can only be found on Ebay

>>50389916
How so?

>>50389882
Eh, the game itself was dumb and juvenile, but the tile set is the reason I'm buying up any boxes i can find for a reasonable price. It's excellent terrain for a variety of games

>Does not know the difference between horde and >hoard

Anyone else getting tired of their players acting like complete newts in heat? Seems like every session at least one of my players will "roll to seduce the human". I mean come on guys, grow up and keep your mundane realm out of the game.

>>50389786
Find yourself a blonde chick to be your mouthpiece.

Locate and find out what happened to a crashed plane (the pilot was driven insane by the artefact cargo)

Pose as bodyguards for a smuggler and gain his trust until you find where his main warehouse is, then take him out and report.

Plan a heist into a local museum/palace, officially to prevent antiques from being destroyed by the conflict.

Track a supposed traitor by decyphering his mad ramblings and following him from safehouse to safehouse.

>>50388584
Addendum,

X-stan military base gone silent. Investigate quietly as local government isn't that friendly to outside interference.

Intercept a military escort carrying a dictator's stolen goods as he flees a collapsing and rioting nation.

Intercept a military cargo plane mid-flight carrying precious artifacts found in X-stan.

Escort archaeological dig at a tomb

>>50388366
Start off with extracting a spy from a building surrounded by extremists (generic). Make sure that that the extraction fails and the mission is now to defend the building against extremists until help arrives.

Here comes the fun part; the spy has an artifact. The spell associated with the artifact gives opponents a "Tower of Babel" effect within a radius of 50 meters. All of the extremists will speak languages that cannot be recognized by anyone (players or each other) if they are inside the circle. Players may realize this if they push outside of the circle and will hear their enemies yelling about artifacts or something like that. You can either use this as an optional lead or to tip off the players about the plot. If you want to do the second one, I suggest that you make a secondary objective to take out an emplaced weapon that is helping the attackers.

Is this the kind of thing you were looking for?

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>>50388280
The time has come to unleash our secret weapon.

>>50388768
>Deus Volt

>>50388280
God I can't wait for this book.

>>50386629
We start getting secretaries that can turn undead.

>>50386629
bandits

lots and lots bandits

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>>50386629
A lot of the martials get pretty decent jobs as metal workers/blacksmiths

Most mages become pyrotechnic experts.

Clerics go work in their respective churches.

Rogues/thiefs probably go into the security business.

Question from a new EP GM about the adventure "Think Before Asking", and I suppose spoilers, if anyone hasn't done/read it and plans to.

I don't think my players/characters will necessarily be smart enough to figure out the main hinge of that adventure, that being the oracle and what not to do

Any tips on how to possibly run it and make it a bit easier for players to get without necessarily heavy handedly guiding them or dumbing it down too much?