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>>50021193
One of the top 5 best, actually. Up there with Karn and Dack.

>>50021193
More like Dack Fayden than Tibalt, desu.

>>50021193
...Are you retarded OP?

Legitimate question here. You'd have to have some kind of mental defect to not see its value.

Bear in mind that every time a psyker invokes their powers, there's a chance that they'll get sucked into the warp or accidentally open a gate into the warp. Say a team of 20, all activating their powers to go fight Not-Magneto. And that's assuming it only takes one salvo to take him down. How many times does Not-Cyclops use his beam? Because every time he does, there's a chance of ducking everything up.

Then multiply that by how many members of the team there are, add in the fact that they're probably unsanctioned, and you've got a pretty high probability that every time they go to kick ass in a group larger than 5, there's a serious risk of bringing in daemons.

A better in-universe way of making 40k xmen would be cybernetic/biological enhancements which have (mostly) gone wrong. For example, Cyclops has his laser-eyes because a magos tried out making a more-powerful version of the laser eye. It worked, but using the eye-ray on any setting higher than normal gives him a serious headache, and full power knocks him out. Beast was a genetic mutation gone wrong, perhaps an attempt to combine human and xenos DNA, and so on.

I'd stay away from the guys who couldn't be explained in this way, or where such an explanation would make no sense in the setting. For example, don't have Wolverine (at least with his healing factor) because if such a person existed with so great of a healing factor, there's no reason why he wouldn't be captured and used to make all Space Marines damn-near immortal.

Some X-Men would have to be represented as psykers, like Storm and Xavier, but you could probably get away with most of them if you stick to the bio/mechanical enhancements.

>>50021093
Oh no no. I apologize. I either didn't make my intentions clear enough or you read into the superheroes comment too much.. in which case, I'll rephrase to try and be better understood.


I realize that using conventional psyker powers bring the possibility of warping the landscape, damaging things, even if they're exceedingly careless or unlucky, blowing a hole in creation and getting pulled through by demons into the warp. Totally get that.

However, I recall at least in 1st ED (not sure if that was removed by 2nd?) there was a rule where so long as you used half of your power, you could avoid the worst fates of using psyke power. So long as you lowballed it to your willpower, you'd suffer a lot from the anathema you're committing in space, but woudn't summon demons or be yanked through.

With that in mind, the idea wasn't to make literal X-men, but imagine sorcerers/psykers with abilities that artificially bolster their stats. Strength, toughness, mage armor. That sort of thing. So some frail looking wizard guy might only be 5'0 tall, but activating a Psyker power, may add half his Willpower to his Strength rating and crush plasteel like it were paper.

So magical brutes, in other words. Kinds of guys that get into melee with orks and punch them so hard their teeth explode out the backs of their heads.

Their Psyker level and willpower BEING their physical enhancers.

>>50021213

The power you're looking for is called Hammerhand, which quadruples the strength bonus and gives Natural Weapon while keeping your hands from holding anything. Average human's attack would be 1d10+12.

As for direct 1/2WP to S... in theory, yes. But it wouldn't be anything truly terrifying unless they had a weapon. Even then, the average psyker has S30 WP40, so you'd be increasing a sword's attack from 1d10+3 to 1d10+5. It would be scarier if you made it a direct WP to S, and the boss would be something to see.

>>50020317
godzilla is like..... 10 times bigger and breathes nuclear fire.......

all of them would be beat by Elder God Demonbane.

>>50020317
Godzilla could throw the tarrasque into space man.

>>50020158
4e D&D/Strike! RPG
FF RPG 3e
Endless Fantasy Tactics
Retro Phaze RPG
RemiNES RPG

Those are just the ones off the top of my head.

>>50020561
what you can tell me about them?

also this one http://ffrpg.net/

>>50020691
>http://ffrpg.net/
The link here takes you to the FF RPG 3e so yeah...

4e gives each character a set of core powers outlined as At-Wills (your generic basic attacks), Encounter powers (usable 1/encounter, stronger than at-wills but not too much) and Daily powers (usable 1/day and very powerful, good for bosses). Strike! does similar but breaks the mold by allowing you to fluff those up yourself instead of getting a fuck-huge list of them to choose from. Lot's of tactical play in both.

FF RPG 3e is, well, what you get when you take the FF games up through, I think, FFXII and boil them down to their essentials (races, classes, spells, abilities, equipment, etc) and blend them so you can make your setting and such. Plays in combat like FF Tactics.

Endless Fantasy Tactics is FF Tactics with the serial numbers sawed off. Beyond that, I don't know much about it.

Retro Phaze and RemiNES use mostly d6s if I remember right and are designed to play like the old NES/SNES RPGs and are fairly solid and not too complicated.

Of all of them, FFRPG 3e is the most playable as long as the person running it has a very solid idea of the campaign they want to run and more than ready to block some of the classes/races. Allowing everything would be bad for most games.

>>50019886
It's dead

>>50019886
Unfortunately Tekumel is pretty dead as a setting. There's a big ass wiki for it though, just look up Tekumel. I actually think it's a pretty cool setting myself

>>50019886
EPT is dead because it's bad. Tekumel is a fucking awesome setting and I use it pretty frequently.

Vryloka Bard/Sorcerer based on Rachel Alucard from Blazblue.

>>50019663
Is the name "Alucard", whenever it's used, supposed to be ironic? Like do they ever think it's clever, or is it for comedy value? Like when you name the disguised alien Hugh Mann.

A Catachan who sacrificed himself by attaching a frag grenade to a powerfist to stop a slanneshi priestess from summoning something nasty.

The mary sue thing comes in where I apparently survived the entire thing and was able to play the Catachain in a dark heresy campaign not to mention a good half of my body was cybernetic now.

>>50019425

well I hope they're good at learning new rules, since it's pretty rule-ridden system.

40k's setting is not difficult to explain, just don't let them violate it with stupid edgemaster backgrounds.

>>50019425
Get the material you need before FFG stops selling it.

>>50019653
This.
Make sure they understand that they are members of the Inqusition and need to act so or at least play their cards right and do what their Inquisitor wants them to do.
I may have lititle knowledge about DH myself but I do think that who their Inquisitor is and what's his agenda is key to laying out guidelines on the do's and don't's.
Example: The Inquisitor is open minded when it comes to dealing with Xenos and won't mind if you do so but wants the players to keep any dealings under wraps.

A good idea for the players I think would be to have them all from planets that have just recently been joined with the rest of humanity, and so your players have a reason for not knowing enough about the setting. Maybe even feudal or primitive planets.

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>>50019024
>letting him do this in the first place
What a nice fake story you made up. Please hold this octopus for a few moments for your reward.

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>>50019024
0/10

kill yourself

>>50019024
So like, you're actually underage, or just drunk?

>>50018562
I would say The Riddle of Steel's combat / wound system is perfect for a low fantasy game. It meets your requirements perfectly, while still being a real fun, interactive way of fighting.

>>50018662

I don't think I have really looked into riddle of steel, will have to check it out.

>>50018662

Whats the gist of it?

complete overhaul of all game mechanics

>>50017246
For 40k to become good

>>50017276
So, Sigmar?

Wait, this was PF? What level was this? How the fuck did the paladin even manage to survive giving away most of his treasure?

Moreover why the fuck did you guys let him give away the party's shit? That's the point where I'd be all "oh fuck no, I'm a cleric and even closer to the Gods than you and even I'm not down with that." One paladin can't take on the entire party. That's a pretty brutal abuse of OOC circumstances that have you all adventuring together to begin with.

>>50017170
>Party has paladin who has been giving majority of parties treasure to charity or to his faith generally pissing off other members
I can't really imagine anyone allowing this. Giving away his portion of the treasure is valid roleplaying of a good and generous character, but taking stuff that belongs to your allies and giving it away is just stupid all around.

>>50017365
Typical bullshit never happened story. 80% of /tg/

Peter Watts plays video games, but does he play traditional games?
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6953

He seems to be at least passingly familiar with the roleplaying scene as he name-drops Eclipse Phase, though he refers to it as a "paper-based-open-source-roleplaying game".

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Kay Kenyon's The Entire and the Rose series could be fun. Giant physical starfish shaped universe with tons of races and such. Could be fun.

>>50016066
There are sequels to Starfish? Why has nobody told me this?

Godspeed OP

First time in one of these map making threads. I really like that map that you posted, OP. Do you have/know of some sort of guide or video on how you make terrain like that in Photoshop? I'm interested in giving that a shot.

>>50015820
In first thread OP said it was too hard to explain. In second thread OP said he was working on a tutorial video. Didn't see OP give a delivery date.

>>50014961
15. Character awaken with a minor injury (a black eye, stiff knees, sore back/neck, numb toes/fingers) as if they were in a fist fight. Only 1d4 points of damage suffered.
16. Character awakens with a moderate injury (large bruises, a new scar, cracked ribs, broken nose) as if they had taken a few swings from a club. Only 1d8 points of damage suffered.
17. Wake up next to dead body. The body is only recently dead (apparently due to natural causes), dressed in common clothes, and carrying no other items.
18. Character find self covered in blood from an unknown source.
19. Character finds their bags filled with 1d100 pieces of chalk/fish hooks/sealing wax.
20. Character finds a love letter in their bag from a “secret admirer”
21. Character opens their bag and 1d10 fairies fly out. Faries proceed to kiss the character, thank them for a great night, and say they'll send a letter when the kids are born.
22. Character is being carried by 1d6 prostitutes.
23. Character is missing 1d6 teeth. 50% chance the teeth were replaced with ivory, copper, silver, gold, platinum, or gemstones.
24. Character wakes up suffering from a random status effect for 1d4 hours.
25. Character wakes up suspended upside down, from a structure (ex. Strong tree branch or archway) that can support their weight, with their head 1d10 feet from the ground.
26. Characters get kicked awake by a team of bandits (a CR +1 encounter).
27. Character wakes up on top of a small pile of empty glass bottles (50% chance of one bottle actually being full of wine).
28. Character wakes up as the opposite gender. Reverts back to normal within 3d6 minutes after waking up.
29. Party wake up in the wilderness, with 1d8 wolves sniffing at them.
30. Character wakes up hog tied with ropes. Getting out of the ropes will require either a DC 15 slight of hand check, or a DC 17 strength check to break the ropes.

>>50014961
>>50014974
31. Character wakes up inside the cooling remains of a cow (as if it was a cool night and they decided that the best way to stay warm would be to crawl inside a recently killed animal). 33% chance that the farmer will find them, demanding repayment for the lost animal.
32. Character wakes up atop a small pile of furs.
33. Character wakes up surrounded by a ring of low burning fires (fueled by oil soaked logs). DC 16 acrobatics check to jump out of the ring.

>>50014961
>>50014974
>>50014985
Any suggestions (criticism or additional events) that you folks may have to offer me would be greatly appreciated.

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>>50014558
Obligatory.

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>>50014558
How do I make a drider good, /tg/?

>>50014669
Make Drizzt and add spider legs.