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Could you post some examples of what they are doing? It sounds like their heart is in the right place, but I agree that they might be going about it the wrong way. Without examples though it's hard to say.


>maybe it is my shortcoming that I don't do so more often, and not the game's responsibility at all?"

It's not really a shortcoming since there is no sort of checklist that needs crossed off for what kind of characters you play. As long as your group is on board, you could play Urist McBeardaxe ever single session, and it wouldn't be a moral failing on your part.

>>49926316
Just tell it to him straight. Something tells me he's got his head so far up his own ass that he won't listen to you either way.

Assuming this is an actual thing at all, of course.

>>49926445
as of right now its all in the air. The person in charge wants to get a meeting in at some point but I think this topic is a bit of a sensitive one and I worry if I sate this I will be pretty much ostracized from the local gaming scene

Depends on the quality of loot.

No

That's when the game truly begins.

Life is just one big MMORPG, anon.

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...Ribbon?

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>>49925717
Who?

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>>49925717
Ribbon is cute, but Adeleine is the true star of the game.

>>49925698
Not unless they were playing a game where that was forbidden.

>>49925698
I wonder what sort of needs might ancient mortal gods have that could be satisfied by shifting tectonic plates...

>>49925982
Naughts and crosses played using mountain ranges?

>>49925663
>counterterrorism
Not with my players

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Stat me.

>>49925185
That's not an exotic weapon, anon, that's just early-model prototype cybernetics.

But I agree, exotic weapons are stupid and useless in 3.5.

>>49925236
NO.

Are you not dedicated, /tg/?

I bought absolutely everything with their name on it and felt like shit when they turned out to be tumblr tier SJWs. Deleted everything of theirs that I had.

>>49925105

Wait OP are those yours?

I have half of those I can take pics of right now with a time stamp

One of the top NK players of 1.0 reporting in when I was age 14/15 lol

>>49925103
Black Mages as chemists, since they can cast fire, ice, and lightning?

They don't. Disciples would be added to accommodate them.

>>49925103
white mages = doctors

>>49924274
Any time a die is rolled there should be a chance of failure. What's the point if it's just going to be hand waved and the PCs succeed at critical tasks?

>>49924359
true but the point could be made that a system like D&D avoids things such as a critical parry negating a good attack roll. also, Deathwatch RPG has a form of hero points that guarantees something will happen, even on a failed roll.

Sometimes you try shit and and it works, sometimes it doesn't. Failure's always okay. The important thing isn't success or failure, it's the context of such.

For instance. Failing a spot check to notice some goddamn obscure thing that the DM is stupidly enough using as a bar to further the story? That's bad because it's a single point of failure that the DM is going to use to restrain the story. That's bad.

The hero fails a roll and gets knocked the fuck out by the villain? That's cool, everyone loses, then they get back up, git gud, and come back harder. Ranma Saotome didn't beat Ryu Kumon the first or even second time. That's cool because the story still moves forward, it just becomes about finding the strength, inner or outer, to defeat the villain.

What's important isn't success or failure. What's important is moving the story forward in some way or another, and letting success or failure determine which way the story moves.

>>49923301
DnD 5e

>>49923451
That is exactly the opposite of what I want.

>>49923487
play 5e faggot

>>49923237

Grunt and Cuthulu by Arclight.

>>49923237
Go GURPS. It has a sourcebook for exactly that: Vietnam

>>49923237
My vote goes to CoC or the new Delta Green.

Campaign-wise, I suppose you just follow your players squad through the war, whether they are hardcore MACV-SOG operators or just general grunts. You could also run a game set during the Battle of An Lộc, so that players interested in fighting in and alongside tanks could do so.
In my own opinion, having your players be MACV-SOG would make it much easier due to the greater degree of freedom they would have, which is much more conducive to an interesting game.

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Single axis. Alignment is not a descriptor of your character's behavior per se, but which side of a cosmic war he has aligned himself with, or not in the case of neutrals.

In transhumanist settings you could either replace the law vs chaos with transhuman vs human or have it occupy a third axis entirely. Other than that though, the alignment system is okay as long as you use it as a guide and not a strict rulebook.

You could have optimistic vs cynical in a party of all good teammates. After all, usually you want to save the world or something, so it makes sense for everyone on the team to be good, so its better to replace the good vs evil with how your character views the fight against evil.

>>49923022
It sounds so tempting on the surface, but when it comes down to it, you're probably an eight-man group consisting of catgirl felinids, space wolf psykers, deamonhosts that are totally chill and loved by everyone, secret inquisitors, and a couple of regular crewmen that are played by retards and get overshadowed at every turn.

Comment based on real events.

And you probably use rolled stats too.

>>49923076
Only three of us so far, including the GM. Other guy is a Voidmaster and I'm planning on being a freeboota.

>>49923076
Sounds like a party to me.

>>49924715
I've never played Rogue trader before, but I've been wanting to try. What time do you have scheduled?

The fluff is bad. Uninspired digital art. Storyline is shit.

Go spend time with your family Mark. The set was weak. Energy and Fabricate are some of the most boring mechanics every created, the art is almost exclusively terrible outside of a few of the lands, and inventions are an embarrassing money grab. This game is long gone - I can only bear to play legacy because I would feel guilty giving actual money to this company.

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>>49922862
My tumblr followers love it!