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These are Monsoon's stats as a level 3 PC in Strike!. As a boss, he'd have less complicated mechanics but more raw power (especially more raw defense, now that I think about it).

I decided to go with a Backstabber Rogue (because he's a sneaky git) Blaster (to simulate his smoke bombs and AoE attacks) and some mobility feats.

He's actually quite scary. Has a lot of movement options and can spam attacks from hiding, and is able to deal with multiple enemies at once while controlling the battlefield with smoke-bombs and magnetic shenanigans.

Enslaved by his memes.

>>50043192
Strike!
Is that from the same makers of Fight!
?

Beholder that can't float

Or see actually

>>50041012
South Park Robot Canadian
Multi-classing in R2D2 wannabe and xeno-/pol/ack

His feats are:
Loud Catchphrase
Too iconic to fail
&
Living storage container

In short Domo arigato/Mr. Robato.

>>50039937
Not bad/10

I mean it's not great, but whatever. It had something happen, a joke and the WORDS weren't overbearing.

>>50039937
Man, is everybody on that airship except the Captain a complete idiot?

>>50039937
Neato. I think the joke would have worked a lot better with only Blackwing's speech bubble, though.

Nobody would notice or care. Kobolds are minions, nothing more.

>>50039917
>Nobody would notice or care. Kobolds are minions, nothing more.
You ain't ever had a kobold PC, have you?

Meh, it would just be like any animalistic lizard brain in regards to not being picky about gratification and showing dominance

>>50039466
Don't know if it's cheap or not, but maybe a Nurgle themed renegades and heretics army?

>>50039466
buy secondhand from ebay
use greenstuff to nurgify badly built models as those are the cheapest.
get the stuff from dark vngeance, nurglify the dork angels
post in the 40k general

>>50039466
Pick up some moldy dirt and turn them into balls. You just got free nurglings.

>>50039282
Give up already, Fantasy Justice Warrior. You're not gonna make people believe evil cultists are good people...unless you take control of the universities and mage colleges first so that you can indoctrinate the next generation of fools.

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>>50039282
Counterproposal: Let us slay the malicious chromatic dragons and eradicate Tiamat's filthy cultists in a glorious crusade for peace and justice! Bahamut wills it!

>>50041811

Bahamut is only angry Tiamat doesn't put out anymore.

I do t know anything about quests, but I too struggle to make the players more proactive.

So far, all of my campaigns have been Be In Town > NPC gives plot hook > Go into dungeon > Kill Monsters & Get Treasure > Go back to town > NPC gives plot hook in a different town > and so on and so forth...

I don't really know how to encourage a more proactive style of play, and I feel like I'm suffocating the players under a series of adventure hooks that they can't ignore because that's obviously the content I have prepared.

I try to give the players down time or breathing room between encounters to role play or maybe decide on a different course of action - but nothing much comes of it. They're a lot more proactive during combat - however.

My dream campaign is a sandbox hexcrawl, where I just establish an engine to calculate the consequences of the players actions and prepare the sessions around it.

>>50038932
The way my DM did it was that once we had the first two-three sessions following some clues of a kidnapping we found out that something big was going on... But once we returned to town we ran out of clues and thus the GM said "So, where too next?" We had no clues on how to continue so we just had to move on, no plot hooks or carrots on sticks. Just a big ol mystery and implications of impending doooooooom.

start small.

When the party meet an npc, tell one of the players that their character knows this person, then get the player to tell you what their relationship is with the npc.

>>50038699
I'm enjoying villain of my current campaign. He is modeled in appearance after Whammu, covered in intricate tattoos that shift and move. He is a religious zealot that claims to be a conduit for fate itself. He has been showing up to harass the players, always a few steps ahead. My players are now stating to realize that his predictions are not as clear as he makes them sound, nor as accurate.

He is arrogant to the extreme, and seems to be able to form a cult of personality around himself easily. In a few months he has grown a sizable amount of followers.

My favorite moment so far was having him show up outside a meeting between the players and a wealthy patron that was going to help then find/kill him. He told the players that he was already in the process of taking their ship, but they could try and stop it if they ran now. He also told them that he has a follower about to "gift your patron a message, at the end of a blade". So they could choose to stop that. Or they could submit to him and join. Become his lieutenants, and save both the ship and the patron. They told him to fuck off and they ran to save the patron. They found him at the bar unmenaced with a note pinned to his side with a dagger shaped broach.

>>50038906
Tell more!

Oh, OP, let me tell you about how we made a deal with a FANTASTIC dragon.

Once upon a time, in sleepy Seattle, some Shadowrunners with slightly too much of a taste for collateral were embroiled in Splintered State (or at least I"m pretty sure it was Spintered State) and managed to fuck it up, triggering the optional "and here's the dragon!" encounter. This lead to us caught being between a deal with a dragon and a lot of dragon fire. Figuring we could weasel our way out of it somehow, we reluctantly agreed to Drexel's demands.

He proceeded to send us on a variety of infuriating jobs before finally setting us up to be murdered trying to fight Red Samurai. Now, for Drexel of course, this is something that started as profit and turned into fun. For us, it started as our only option and turned into a deep seated vendetta. Drexel's catch phrase of "FANTASTIC!" because the cause of twitches and gritted teeth for players to the point that any time it came up from the DM in other conversation we growled at him for it, and he wore his very best shit-eating grin.

After the attempt to merc us, Drexel continued fucking with the team until such time as he made a concerted effort to wipe us off the map. He had us captured, killed a bunch of our contacts and had the daughter of the party heavy sent to France. Once we broke ourselves out of prison (or rather, the Personafix clones of the party decker/BTL manufacturer did, a story for another time) we took a break from playing ourselves, while the DM wrote short fiction pieces about what our party did to that fucking dragon while we were 'out'. Hopefully one day I can convince him to let me share his writing in /srg/, it's really quite good, but I'll give the cliff notes.

We fucked him. We fucked him good. The aforementioned decker walked into one of Seattle's media broadcasting buildings to spread the information that the face had stolen (after playing Drexel's secretary for months) to the world. (1/?)

>>50038609
Ocean's 11 springs immediately to mind. Tony Benedict was the antagonist of that, but he wasn't a BBEG by any means. He was doing his own thing, entirely above-the-board as far as we're aware (i.e., his games weren't rigged, he got his competitors out of town simply by having better/more popular casinos rather than by force, he treated his wife well, etc.), and wouldn't have been involved with Danny Ocean or any of the other thieves if not for the fact that they were acting deliberately against him for their own fun and profit.

>>50038609
Give them a goal.
In order to do that, you'll need a tight-knitted party with decent backgrounds, a nice setting, and decent players.
I'd do a session 0 with brainstroming so everybody's on the same page.

Alternatively, mqke them encounter (and kill) the bbeg during the second or third session, so they can use the adventure to decide what to do next ("I really liked that village we saw, I want to become the mayor of it now that evil has ben banished"...)

Let the players be murder hobos. The world will take action in response.

You need a few months to grok character creation, but beyond that, I hear it plays pretty well.

>>50036243
I remember the mechanisms being decent.
Can't say about the setting, it's a blur after all those years.
Expect your PCs to play like fantasy shonen characters. You even got a specific skill to look cool while doing things, regardless of success or failure.

>>50036243
Crunch is roughtly 7/10 - has its moments, but is definitely above average, yet still nothing really special
Fluff is... well, it depends what you are looking for, really

As a whole, most spectators only come and go for only 1 session or so.

It's hard to be involved with a game where you have no stake in it.

>>50035827
I think your decision is reasonable. I've had some spectators that were fine and didn't disrupt anything, but I've had a couple that were distracting and detracted from the game. I'm fine if someone wants to sit in on a session to see whether or not they want to join, but otherwise I don't allow spectators.

>>50035827
I play a bunch of games on Skype, and we've accumulated a group of about 8 or so people who hang out in the various channels. Since there's no way everyone will be in any one game, it's just normal for us to have an open invitation to join the IC channel of a game and watch.

Generally the spectators are polite enough to shut the fuck up during game time, though, so we've never had problems with distractions.

>>50035324
undertale is shit and you're shit for liking it

kys

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>>50035930
Skub is a totally [ADJECTIVE] [NOUN] and anybody who enjoys and/or does not enjoy Skub is a(n) [INSULT]

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>>50035324
Nice thread, OP. Everyone's very confident of your heterosexuality and worthfulness now.

Would you like to step into this cage so we can all show you how much we appreciate you?

>>50034575
Probably in the Adeptus Mechanicus.

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Just get an Orthodox priest to do it. Those guys will bless anything.

>>50034575
Most Megacorps have departments who can try for that.
Just be aware you're going have to have full registration, licenses, and pay the advanced technology surcharge.
What tradition or traditions would you prefer to perform this blessing?

>>50033708
Yeah.

>>50033708
>group of low-power espers vs YET ANOTHER ACADEMY CITY CONSPIRACY
That actually sounds fun.

>>50033752
Volume 15 was basically a battle royale between the various underground factions. I think that'd work pretty well.

>>50033138
The monk'ta books that were with the damocles crusade featured them IIRC, as well as the Horus Heresy book Path of Heaven.

>>50033138
The White Scars feature heavily in the Damocles related novella.

What you should get is the Damocles anthology, Shape of the Hunt, Storm of Damocles, savage Scars.

None-Damocles related novels :

"The Hunt for Voldorius" & "Master of the Hunt"

>>50033138
Read Scars, and the sequel Path of Heaven.