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>>50075399
Probably Car Wars or Redline would be better.

>>50075399
I would tentatively suggest VeloCity. It's about non-motorized stuff more, but bikes could easily be run as motorcycles. Combat isn't a heavy focus of the system though, as it's more about racing.

>>50075399
Badass as fuck

>>50075093
I've been thinking of making a monk PC who's on a pilgrimage in search for an old legend he had heard of a wise sage named "Waldo." Do ideas I haven't implemented yet mean anything?

I once had a player who made silly characters regardless of the setting, theme, or system. I only let it slide because he was a great roleplayer, and could always seem to make it work, with thought out back stories, motivations, and character development. He was, however, a massive cunt outside of the game, so I guess it evens out

>joke PC in a serious campaign
ok, as long as you don't overdo it. as long as you aren't tone-deaf, and you know when it is or isn't appropriate for your character to be in or have their goofy traits in the spotlight, a bit of comedy relief can turn an edgy melodramatic story into a less tiresome one

>joke PC ripped off a popular character from popular media or an internet meme in a serious campaign
end self

Homebrews are pretty much universally shit. Let's talk about why:

1) Most homebrewers do not have an ounce of creativity in their bodies or brains. They are homebrewing SOLELY for the ego boost. That lovely ego boost you get from pissing off your friends as you force them to learn your shitty, autistic system.

2) Most homebrewers don't have a fucking clue about game design. They create a concept in their heads and refuse to shift from it to make a competent, functioning game. You can see prime examples of this in every single /gdg/ thread on /tg/. People who provide actual critique are lambasted and whined at for not understanding the homebrewer's oh-so-precious vision. Like most "feedback" threads, what they are really looking for is validation.

3) There is no need for more RPGs, and certainly not from untrained, inexperienced, uncreative "game designers." There is no real point to making yet-another D&D clone, which is 90% of homebrews. Most of the others either apply to shitty "genres" no one wants to play (see: Engine Hearts) or are terrible attempts at some Apocalypse World "hack" (because caling your homebrew a "hack" means it's okay that it's ripping off another system. Whereas "hack" usually refers to the designer who can't even design another system for his shitty 'brew)

Overall, I suggest kicking homebrewers out of your group. They will just cause you hours of aggravation, and get butthurt when you finally lose your patience and call out their "game" as the heap of unbalanced poorly-written shit that it is. Please make sure they know it is shitty, though. Hell, if you can drive them to suicide, all the better. One less wannabe game designer in the world.

Homebrew is good to add variety to a game or solve a problem you have with something you want to do in game but the existing rules don't cover it.

It is not good for self-masturbatory fantasies and power wank.

As for Luchador Minotaur. I tend to like my Minotaur as the union of woman and bull and blessed by the Horned King Baphomet. So a Luchador Minotaur would rather be a terrifying beastman blessed by a demon prince adorned in a war mask who eschews weapons but brutally breaks his opponents with his bare hands.

Probably not even close to what you want though.

>>50075142
Actually, that's not bad at all. When I think of lucha i think of the stereotypical good guy fighting for family and religion. My original idea was to jury rigg a cleric or monk with just a normal race, but I liked the idea of a minotaur cause of all the lucha mask with big ass horns

So a play on the baby face wrestler worshiping Baphomet sounds awesome to roleplay

something something ball of yarn

>>50074718
He put his left hand on the wall and started walking.

>>50074718
He hits the wall until the sky greets him with a breeze of victory

for da emprah

>>50074227
S Tier:
Eldar

A+ Tier:
Genecult
Marines

A: Tier
Different Marines
Daemons

B Tier:
Necrons, Admech Friends, Tau
Some more different marines.
Flyrants, that one chaos marine build.

C Tier:
Guard, most other stuff.

D Tier:
Dark Eldar, Spikemarines armies with marines

F Tier:
Orks
Non-flyrant Nids

Not 100% on this, but it's mostly correct.

>>50074974
>nids still F tier without flying circus army

I wish Cruddance would go.

>>50073913
Alpharius, of course.

>>50073966
Dubs confirm this

>>50073966
>>50073977

Dubs confirm the confirmation

Don't listen to the faggot who will recommend Dread, it's a bad game, overpriced as shit, and requires you to buy some special Jenga tower to play it.

Also, Call of Cthulu is shit. It's as complicated as GURPS for no good reason and it's mostly a horrible game with shit like Size stats and crap. Delta Green is no better, it's just a re-stirring of the same shit heap that is the reason most people use other systems to play CoC style campaigns.

OP, what you want is Dungeon World. Dungeon World can do basically anything, and one of the places it excels is in horror gaming. You see, in Dungeon World, any roll you make has consequences. This is as opposed to most RPGs where failure means nothing. In fact more and more RPGs are switching to the Dungeon World system because they understand this flaw has been part of RPGs for many years.

Basically there is partial success and when you fail in Dungeon World you don't just fail, things get worse. This is perfect for a horror game. I suggest you visit www.dungeonworld.com to familiarize yourself with the basic mechanics via the SRD.

TLDR Play Dungeon World. It gets maligned a lot on this subreddit but it is overall one of the best RPGs out there.

>>50073876
>It gets maligned a lot on this subreddit
You see, you went to far with this line. Now we know you're just putting out some bait.

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>>50073876

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bumping with some peter bonner

Not enough psoriasis.

Caiaphas Cain is more Harry Flashman than Edmund Blackadder.

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>>50073711

Superheroes are literally the most pleb-tier powerwank setting there is.

Just do freeform if youre just going to jack off to a 30s pulp cartoon where none of the supers actually die even when they are killed.

Fuck, even Savage Worlds has their "heroes never die" bullshit rule. What is the point of even playing then? You could just have your character fellate a shotgun over and over and nothing would happen. Fuck that.

>>50073936
Nice straw man. Let's break it down.
>You assume that all superhero games are just power wanks at the player characters' perfection
>You're assuming all GMs let anything go
>You assume player characters can't get killed
>You assume we all use the same system
>You assume it's a mastaburbatory power fantasy.
All of these ideas lead me to believe you are just fishing for attention.

>>50074125
Well then it's not a superhero game. By that definition, D&D is a superhero game. Which it is. Which is part of why it sucks.

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>>50072897
It's pretty Bitchin.

It was esteemed classic of the genre even before the author died.

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>>50072897

>>T1
>Swamp
>Dark Ritual
>Sinkhole my Swamp
>One With Nothing
Concede go to game 2

>>50072894
>Pre-2011
>The flavor text on Lava Axe was one word
>ebinpostm9.jpeg

>>50073092
>Catch

>>50072811
In fairness, that was one hell of an ork.

>>50072811
Well, it's a good thing all the Orks decided to get married.

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>>50072811
We don't take kindly to your kind round here, son.

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Bump

as a GM

i do a few things, but i think the one thing i do the most is never actually roll. behind my gm screen i roll a d20 but only for show, instead i throw out a number i think would best fit the situation.

combat dragging too long? enemy gets a 2 (instead of the rolled 17)
want to make a boss seem badass have his first roll be 19
was a players description of the event so fucking epic, and everyone is banking on this to succeed? look at that, a NAT 20!

making it the perfect narrative type hame

>>50072232
>combat dragging too long? enemy gets a 2 (instead of the rolled 17)
>want to make a boss seem badass have his first roll be 19
You are a god among men. The past few DM's are hard core dice nazi's. We've had encounters drag out for hours because nobody can fucking hurt nobody.

>>50070709
It's not beast people as a whole that /tg/ hates, it's the blatant Final Fantasy-like waifu-bait beast people.

>>50070709
Bloodborne was the first thing in a while to make beast people scary again

>>50070785

But those are monsters, not really playable characters.