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Nilbog

Maybe have one or two of the presumably hundreds of goblins notice something is up?

Disguise self doesnt last forever, either. How the hell are they pulling this off?

>>50381848
Though if you want to roll this in a way that lets them do this, Pathfinder has rules for mass combat and armies and player influence on battles. Check that out.

It's your job as a GM to provide the exposition in-game. Your a story*teller* not a story*giver*

>>50374767
Well pardon the fuck out of me for giving them shit that's considered "common knowledge" so I can focus on the fifty other things that I'm trying to manage in-game while planning the next session.

>>50374752
>"GM why are we being attacked by evil gargoyles in a LG city?"
>GM does not answer
>"GM why does everyone hate this cute girl?"
>GM does not answer
>"GM why are plasma weapons illegal in warfare?"
>GM does not answer
>"GM what evidence is there the moon landing was faked in your setti-"
>GM looks me weird. He still hasn't answered a single one of my questions about his shitty world.
>"GM how can this guy identify the owner of a blood splatter from a glance?"
>GM spergs and and screams "read the lore", because shouting obnoxiously is apparently his only method of communicating with the players
>He points in his autismo at the 100 page unedited bullshit he has printed out
>tfw he really excepts his players to read through 100 pages of cliché filled, childish rambling about some japanese schoolgirls killing space nazis in bikinis
>I should probably stop playing with this mentally challenged person
>tfw I was just trying to be polite to the retard and play his shit game

Remember, this is what the player experiences here. You're that GM, OP. Never run a game again.

>>50356530
Stasis

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>>50356530
Metal Fatigue. I can kinda forgive that it's an absolute clusterfuck, but the fact that the artist just blatantly copied and pasted the creatures from other cards just pissed me off.

>>50356530
It isn't even that bad

The guys that bullied them back then.

Make them run into girls who were bullied becasue they looked ugly butsaid girls all looks deformed and have badly stitched together faces whenever they meet a player they will say "DO I LOOK PRETTY PLEASE TELL ME I LOOK PRETTY" and if one of your players say she isant the bitch goes crazy with "WHAT ARE TALKING ABOUT YOUR THE UGLY ONE"

A skeleton
or
A 4'2" plastic skeleton from the biology classroom

rank the dungeon crawlers

Descent
Heroquest
Advanced heroquest
Dungeon saga
D&d basic
Zombicide
Space hulk
Execution force
MoM
Dungeon quest
Etc.

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>>50337762
>No Warhammer Quest
I hereby declare thy taste to be shit.

Anyone here played a game called Battalia?

Friend has it. We tried playing it, but the rules are a clusterfuck and so we got about a quarter through a game before saying fuck it and playing something else.

Is it worth investing time to figure it out, or should we just play something else right off the bat next time?

>>50381294
>Not wearing a Warhammer branded Turtleneck

Missed opportunity GWs

>>50381294
so the rule for this was we're only doing one take right? I'm a big fan.

>that struggle to put the lid back on
kek

Legends of the Wulin. It's weird but wonderful.

It's kinda like Reign in that you roll a pool of d10s looking for sets of dice- That is, multiple dice showing the same numbers.

Each die or set of dice is worth ten per dice in the set, plus the value on the dice. So one six is 16, two fours are 24 etc.

The neat thing about this? Every set of dice you roll can be used to make an action, with some limits. It's the only system I've ever seen which successfully allows you to undertake multiple actions on the same roll.

The base pool is 7d10, so you'll generally get at least a couple of sets to make use of, if you're lucky you might get three doubles or a big set like a triple or higher, while if you're unlucky you might get all singles.

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>dice
Ascend to the realm of diceless roleplaying with me, pleb. Don't look back.

I tend to prefer systems without flat probability. Bell curves are far sexier than flat probability.

Although, if you're going to be going with flat probability, it better be d%. D% is really great.

>>50379561
What'd you expect from Reddit? The place is so Safe-space liberal'd autism that you can't expect anything else.

We should still challenge them to a tournament over Xmage though. That'd be pretty cool.

>>50379561
I'm not really into MtG (Which I assume this is about).
That being said, he just seems like a dude who is hugely into numbercrunching statistics. How do you come away with the idea that he is angry about something?

>>50379827
Splinter Twin was a very popular deck in a format of MTG called "Modern." It was also the closest thing to a tier <1 deck (in other words, almost unbeatable) because it was a deck that had a combo kill but if the combo was disrupted it still had the ability to grind out the opponent. But even if you could disrupt the combo for one turn, the deck was so resilient that you could combo off the next turn. Or the disruption for the first attempt wasn't even good enough to stop the combo and the deck went off anyway (this happened a lot). This is not in line with what Wizards of the Coast (the game's owners) wanted a combo deck to be because it became too consistent and was borderline so dominant in the format that sideboards (extra cards to be subsituted in over the course of a match) or even entire decks were built just to beat Twin, and they still had a difficult time doing so. In addition, because the combo was so strong and easily incorporated into any deck playing the colors blue and red, there was little incentive to not play Twin if you were playing blue and red in a deck.

So WotC banned Twin to make the format more diverse, and it worked for a couple months until new cards came out and people broke the format again because Modern is inherently trash (but that's a different discussion entirely).

So basically, the Twin banning was justified and did fix some of the problems of Modern, but people got mad anyway because they'll complain about anything.

>Everybody backstabs each other
Every game ever?

>>50378984
>choose a setting that has enough famous historical people in it
>randomly divide them between assassins (good guys) and templars (literally lovechild between hitler and stalin)
>make sure that the players pump into all of them doing historical things that they're famous for
>also 50% of the game time has to be spent on modern day meta-story that no one gives a fuck about but you've to partake in between stab famous historical people in the throat-sessions

>>50378984
Blades in the Dark could work if you're willing to stretch it.

Its awkward for most people to show emotion to a fake event. Being able to do so in a believable manner is what part of what makes someone a good actor.

Anger is easy. Its not a "weak" emotion like fear or sadness. So pretending to be mad is easy and less awkward. Also anger is easier to simply induce naturally.

Fear requires a sense of danger. The players themselves are not in any danger so this is a hard mound to cross. This is where immersion and mood setting become very important. Lighting and sound help a ton. Staying on topic and not having OOC discussions is also really important in these times.

Sadness requires a mix of attachment and relatability. Murderhobos don't get sad because they don't get attached to things and are barely human emotion wise.

Suprise, make better surprises desu. If its a plot thing remember that you have way more knowledge of the plot than the player does. Something might seem like a big twist to you but if you don't properly convey the situation to the players it can fly over their head.

DM cannot ask for more roleplay. All you can do is create an environment that supports and encourages roleplay.

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>>50378668
What a constructive and helpful post.

Here, have a nun.

>>50378668

Well, I do agree. But I had players that despite online gaming (so they wouldn't really require much effort on their side as much it could had been in person), and having situations where a character legitimately could be afraid or at very least confused IC (the ground under their feet being swallowed, meeting for the first time a colossal dragon, being at the verge of a TPK, and so on), has been roleplayed with all the emotional range that a rock could have.
Even in cases where a character has a phobia, I had reactions akin to just look the object of their phobia at a distance and walk off calmly without any visible or just perceptible form of distress of any kind.

>>50377959
Old School Hack. It is fantabulous though I don't have the "awesome points" balance down right yet.

>>50377959
I played some Dnd5 the other day.
It made big improvements to DnD, but its still outshone by better games. Lipstick on a pic. Good beer and pretzels game tho, Ill give it that

>>50377959
I played (well ran) Legend of the Elements a little while ago. It's a PbtA game based on Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Combat was pretty cool, fights tended to be interesting in terms of the bending going on, sadly none of my players played non-bender combative characters so I don't know how well that goes but there seems to be decent options for non-benders so I imagine it's much the same. One aspect I'm not as sold on is its version of the fronts system which seems a little too focused on having the GM plan a linear story which clashes with how PbtA games tend to go. Other than that the strengths and weaknesses are pretty standard for PbtA games.

>>50376724
My advice is to stop being a youtuber and an attention whore.
They won't pay you.

>>50377117
I'm not attention whoring. I'm doing something that's fun for me, I just want to optimize it and provide valuable content for people.

>>50376724
I got no advice for you, just here to wish you luck.

The one we went to was set in a laboratory where someone was trying to cure zombies; clues lead to a painting with a key behind it and which gave us a uv torch that revealed mirrored numbers to unlock a phone and also reveal missing numbers for a math puzzle, that gave us a code to use in a phone that got us a code to get into the next room.

There they had a load of pages from a book which had a missing page that linked up to the final code to get out

>>50375714
You need a plot first. What kind of rooms can you book?

>>50375714
>Has /tg/ been to any escape rooms?
me and some friends did one once, there was a zombie in the room on a chain every 10(?) minutes the chain extended, if it touched you then you were out of the game. The roles we fell into
>a couple people searching the room for the puzzles
>me and one other person solving them once found
>one guy using a makeshift shield and poking stick to bait the zombie away from the gatherers
>one person making notes on all the clues found so far for easy reference
by the time we escaped it was a well-oiled machine

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Jumpers!

What are you thankful for?

>>50375647
Hey, Innistrad question: What are Avacyn's powers and how powerful is she?

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>>50375647
Opportunity, sapient decency and settings worth thinking about long after you're done with them.

>>50373231
I floss with Life Fibers. Every once in a while, a thug will fail to realize the threat I pose, and come at me with a knife. Catching and shattering said weapons with my teeth always makes for some picture-perfect reactions.

I also use my biokinesis to grow a second layer of teeth formed out of hardened Life Fibers (in front of my normal ones), but that doesn't sound as flippant as the floss bit and is nowhere near as much fun to say.

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Thoughts on this guy?

Posting again because I want to see the results of the poll after 24 hours on /tg/, and I'm getting some great insight on what makes a Blue player a blue player.

What's your favorite color on the Magic Pie Chart, and Why? So far Black is in the lead, followed closely by blue, but we most unanimously agree that Shitty Grey Diamonds are shitty.

http://www.strawpoll.me/11717375

>>50371947
possibly best artifact commander.