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>>49967619
Most helmets wouldn't have stopped that wound. Closed helmets aren't the norm.

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>>49967688
Look at the right top side of his head. A helmet would help.

Now with THIS wound he would be fucked either way

>>49967619
It looks like it impacted the front of his face. It might have only gone partially into his head.

Not shown: the broken ribs and smashed spine.

>>49966693
FFG usually use great artists, and I'm glad L5r will continue to look good. The picture is pretty interesting, too. I just hope they don't advance the setting too far-- the streetlamps are a little worrying.

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Oh and the Palace of the Crane has apparently seen better days.

>>49967480
This is even more ominous. Seems like we really are continuing forward from the ground AEG drove things into rather than rolling back the clock. I'm 100% more concerned about the Spider still being a thing, now.

>>49966342
Players run into a secret demon cult with a prophecy to ressurrect their master on the day of the wedding. Party must prevent it without the player getting married finding out anything is amiss.
Proceed to run a 1-day parody adventure.

>>49966342
You could just do something light hearted around the ceremony.
>Someone missplaces the rings and the party must scramble to retrieve them before the bride finds out.
>Some of the guests turn out to be mortal enemies and must be kept away from each other at all cost or they may ruin the whole event.
>The groom loses the vows he had written down and must imrpovise them on the spot in the middle of the ceremony.

>the dwarf and elf delegations won't stop arguing over literally everything

>>49965801
>I haven't played since 5th Edition
You are in for a lot of sad.

>>49965836
I started playing at 5th and I still have lots of fun in 7th. I do however play only with a few select friends and we are very casual about things and only bring fluffy armies from our own headcannon.

>>49965836
>You are in for a lot of sad.
not really

>>49965721
Share yours.

A friend of mine is running a modern DnD game soon (5th ed), so I made a two-bit detective character, a wannabe Phillip Marlowe who has to take divorce cases to get by.

I'm keen to get him going, see if he changes under the stress of a game..

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>>49965739
Can do.

My current favorite is "Claw" (not his real name), a Fetchling Sorc in a high fantasy setting. He's a recent graduate from a magic university, and looking for something to do now what he's gotten his degree.

He pretty much looks like your standard edgelord. Except turned up to 11. On top of being a Fetchling, he always swaddles himself up in black, with an equally black hooded cloak. His staff has a scythe blade stuck on it, his dyed-black hair covers most of his face, he rarely talks, and prefers to use Keep Watch to sleeping. He doesn't socialize much, and he surrounds himself with Darkness whenever he wants some privacy. Which is always.

So as a result, most people give him a wide berth, afraid he's going to kill them in their sleep or something. His party is different though. He ran into them at the graduation ceremony, when he wanted to ask the bard about the heretical music she played. The party leader, who enjoyed his five-word farewell speech, immediately jumped on him. And pelted him with questions. Totally unused to the attention, his defenses dropped like they were hot.

The party quickly found out the reason he doesn't talk is that he's embarrassed by his hick accent, and he hides his face because of the embarrassing pock marks he has left from puberty. He hasn't told them he hates crowds because he's from a small farm town, and that the scythe blade was a gift from Mom, or that he wears black because his childhood crush said it was his color.

He's actually got a good heart, and after just one session it's already landed him in trouble, associating with a summoner and her insane succubus. The party leader stole his first kiss (violently) and now he has a crush on her.

I was inspired by Blizzard's Reaper, to make the ultimate edgelord... with a twist. "Claw" (his real name is Haclawfelsgirdan) is what came out.

I'm not sure how to feel about this. My heart aches...what is this emotion!

Invite to an amusement park. Casually take it into a funhouse. Then grab it, tie it up in front of the crazy mirrors, and lock it inside. Put a "this attraction closed" sign out front so no one goes in and undoes your work.

Let it stew in front of the comically warped mockeries of its image until it snaps.

>>49965526
Beholders care for nothing but themselves. They don't even like other beholders, they think those are blasphemies to the perfect form that is themselves.

This beholder is either insane, in which case it should be killed ASAP, or deceiving me, in which case it should be killed ASAP.

That is neither an elf nor a soldier nor a vampire.

I am left confused and bewildered.

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Depends on what everyone else has.

THem is not really a game about poker, it's a game of selling.

If pocket pairs were so powerful you'd see more people going all in right off the bat.

But a 3 of a kind is one of the most powerful hands in this game, because higher hands become harder and harder to come by (str, flush, fh, etc) as you miss cards on the flop.

>>49965228
>Are pocket pairs really that good?
Depends on the river.
The prime contenders for the best pocket cards are the following:
- Pocket pairs.
- Consecutive high-cards of the same suit. On average, AK of the same suit is stronger than AA, and is roughly equal to KQ or QJ of the same suit.
- Fringe cards that complete a straight (something like 5-10 of the same suit), though they are considerably less powerful than the options above.

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>>49965209
I'd have the Gods be long-dead, their bodies hard enough that they've been hollowed out, themselves little more than a rigid container in the shape of a living being.

I wouldn't have them too large. I'd say the eye sockets or mouth should be about the same size as a space-port's main hangar bay? Still utterly colossal, but nowhere near Planet sized. Once you get too large, the fact you're walking around the corpse of a God kind of loses its meaning.
That you're walking down the path of it's removed "optic nerve" to get to the main trading hall is a lot more impressive than "oh fabled adventurers, you must quest to the left foot", or "the dark creature has carved its lair deep within the jungles of his right armpit".

>>49965209
Have each "planet" be completely different with regards to scale. Play with it a bit. Hell, nest them in layers like having the whole body of one also be the thumb of another.

Also, this is what the Astral Plane in DnD's Planescape setting is like. The Athar (the faction of god-haters) set up outposts and shit on the bodies of dead gods to study them. Although good luck finding any material on that out there nowadays.

Basically, don't tie yourself to one scale- mess with it.

>>49965209

Ymir is dead. He was slain an aeon ago, by the god of Time. Thus, all must be slain by Time.

Whatever shape Ymir once had, it is unlike any beast I have ever seen.

The system Primary is known as the Eye of Ymir. It burns with a red light, so very unlike Krynnspace. The inside of the Crystal Sphere is littered with small bones that may have formed fingers, or knuckles, or some other tiny joint. From the orbit of the "planets", they appear as stars, albeit glowing with a sickly off-white.

The planets themselves? The first body, known as the Skull of Ymir, is exactly that. A hideous superstructure of spikes, protrusions, eye sockets fortified by the occupants. Ships enter the harbour of the Skull of Ymir through the open passage of His ancient bestial nasal cavity, sailing up to the docks. Balefire torches burn green along the darkness, to guide ships home. Through the docks and the administration/warehouse district, steps lead up to the safest city in the entire Sphere; Cerebrus. Cerebrus is constructed from materials traded for in other systems or salvaged from wrecks that couldn't make a Sphere Portal in time, a glorious city of upcycled ship parts and random junk. The city is run by a council of shipping guilds, and offers several amenities; an apothecary, a small healers guild, several appraisers, "shrine row" for the faithful, and the most notorious drinking hole in 3 spheres, The Shattered Hull. Don't ask the Beholder bartender about his eyepatch. Law and Order is administered by an ancient Lawful Evil Lich, who is not above organising work contracts involving the corpses of dead crew members to pay off outstanding debts. Rumours speak of other, hidden guilds, but who can say?

The second body is a belt. Of teeth. Some of them are as large as the Rock of Bral with forests and strange creatures, some are just large enough to create gravity and atmosphere, sustaining mosses and lychens. Perfect place to hide a treasure hoard...

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>>49965169
You say "aside from China," but remember that there are more humans in China than in all of the US and Europe put together.

>>49965169
Depends on what part of China you're in OP.

And der Krauts are a pretty diverse, cosmopolitan group. For every cold emotionless Prussian there's a dozen jolly drunk Bavarians.

>>49965169
>even in WWII most people didn't shoot to kill

/k/ here, SLA Marshall was scum who made up statistics without so much as visiting the units or regions he claimed to study.

If you want realism in your setting, understand that cooperative people win war, not cruel or kind or mentally weird people.

I tried. Really, I did.

I watched the movie, and it felt like an extended teaser, touching on ideas I wanted to see explored but leaving me unsatisfied, so I went looking for the comic to read, hoping it would provide a more structured narrative.

Instead of finding answers, I just found more questions, and while there's something about the comic's style that I find intriguing, the plot is just too weak to keep me interested.

And, I love the clothing designs, because they look like what a mechanical enthusiast might design with many outfits looking best suited for robots rather than humans, but I don't really love all the mech designs, because many look like what a fashion designer would create to walk down a runway during a robot-themed show.

>>49965227
this sums up my thoughts almost perfectly.

i really like the idea of FSS and i really want to like it but the actual thing has left me disappointed.

It's a very interesting series that feels like it was made for several different pieces of media in mind. Not just a manga, but an anime series, video games, card games, etc. The way it's set up as a manga it is physically impossible to "finish". It feels like more should have been done with it.

>>49965227
>And, I love the clothing designs, because they look like what a mechanical enthusiast might design with many outfits looking best suited for robots rather than humans, but I don't really love all the mech designs, because many look like what a fashion designer would create to walk down a runway during a robot-themed show.

Now that's a different opinion. Usually I see people complaining about the skinny character designs and praising the mecha designs (other than the the Gothicmade stuff).

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The Siege of Ke’ér

The Tsolyáni General, Bazhán, speaking with Yilrána, the mistress of the Baron of Yán Kór at the siege of Ke’ér. When she refused to surrender the fortress, the Tsolyáni assaulted the place and took it by storm. Yilrána was subsequently impaled, as is the custom in Tsolyánu, and this was the sight that greeted the Baron’s eyes when he arrived at last with reinforcements

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The Wizard Nyélmu Gazing upon Princess Ma’ín in His Globe of Distant Discernment.

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Thoroughly Useful Eye

Ancient technological devices now looked upon as magical, the Eyes are highly prized, rare remnants dating from the earliest ages of Tékumel. The secrets of their construction are now long lost.

>>49963873
>Not /tg/-Related/10

>3 str, 10 dex, 3 con, 3 int, 3 wis, 0 cha
Shit sucks, would not play.

Literally who?

>>49963662
Cos 16
Str 14
Dex 10
Int 11
Wis 11
a shield as a pot, I'm triggered

>>49963662
Name: idiot weebo
Quirks: bad tastes.

>>49963896
It's actually a shield made into a pot, made from adamantium no less

>>49963631
Spelljammer's always been one of those things that I've always been interested in but never can seem to find much information on. So a new take on the concept is welcome to me.

I'm distinctly sceptical of the quality, but they're supposedly promising a cube of sentient goo as a playable race, so I'll at least give it a go.

http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5litw?Announcing-the-Starfinder-Roleplaying-Game
ok so its set in a possible future
but im unsure what they are talking about with the planet getting moved are they saying that the main pathfinder planet is moved to another solar system and they spread out from there.

if so why pathfinder already has a solar system to build on.

anyway as much as i think pathfinder is a step down from 3.5 in almost every way im kind of excited for this it will be especially interesting to see the sort of stuff that will happen with the gods when ported to space probably much moreso then any of the greyhawk gods.

i hope that the new classes get really cool shit at level 20 as thats the one place pathfinder itself was actually better then its predecesor.

in my experience in 3e a lot of the complaining that martials were underpowered was because people weren't making proper use of magic swords with a sci fi setting players are less likely to not bother bother with fancy gear and more importantly it will lead to less dms saying lol im gonna make magic equipment hard to get in my games balance be damed

one major problem though is that even in the 3e days the skill system was shit it gave wizards far to many skill points and totally shafted fighters in a sci fi setting skills are likely to be even more important.