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>>49887003
Sounds like a cool guy. Is there a problem, or what's this thread about?

>>49887003
[SMITING INTENSIFIES]

>>49887304
This to be frank family.

that looks tasty to drink

Gonna stick my dick in that.

Yup. I'm definitely on /tg/ too early this morning. Excuse me while I go reconsider some life choices I've made.

Not!Polynesians

>>49886655
Inuit
Papuan
Dayak
Sikh
Yezidi
Bambenga
Saan Bushmen

>>49886655
Any culture from not from the western world

>>49886170
Take the charge?
Yes, it's a difficult row to hoe, but not intrinsically so.
Even then, why would the king send a lesser man to do so arduous a duty?

>>49886203
when a ruler holds on to power only by force of arms, and then only barely, he better not piss his nobles off by hogging all the goodies. better let them have some pacifying profit and weaken themselves fighting the savages at the same time.

>>49886227
This doesn't imply the king is evil or ultimately self serving if he recognizes the weakness of his own position and acts to shore it.
As it is described, the neighboring islands are actively hostile, and would wage war if they could conceivably get away with it. In case of the protag, there is a very real, reasonable fear that he could be scouted out by rival nations.
Offering lordship as a vassal in exchange for betraying the current ruler is something that happened fairly often in Chinese history, for example. Unless the king is a fucking dick in other ways, yeah, it's sorta a dick move, but in the grand scheme, justifiable.

Some time around original Innistrad. Grim Backwoods had her fawning over gross corpses.

>>49886145
When the sjws demanded that anyone accused of the horrible fact of being sexy must be completely innocent of all flaws

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>>49886920
>innocent of all flaws
>a psycho magician dancing with corpses

U wot mate ? It makes a vilain with charming quirks, that's all. Next you'll say to me that pic related is a SJW product.

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>>49886009
Also help me refine my copypasta, I can only do so much in a 15 minute break

I'm essentially taking Wuxia, Crime Films, and Spelljammer with modern D&D 5e races and throwing them in a blender with a Hindu and Buddhist coat of paint for my upcoming campaign.

I'm deliberately not figuring out too much details as the story is meant to be more personal to the characters, than existential.

>>49886063
I'm in the same boat.

I'm running a high seas adventure in Legends of the Wulin and I don't want to commit to too many things because I don't know which way my players will swing.

Unfortunately most of them are forever DnD types who never want to try out anything, at least not for too long.

Though I am keeping some encounter ideas just in case, i.e. Martial Art pirates that learn their Kung Fu from a specific fish and name themselves after various parts; Fins, Blowhole, Teeth, or variations like Hammerhead

>>49885711

Time and stillness. Those with the theme of ice are all about order and stagnation so they use their ice power to impose their will upon things.

How do you keep the castle in shape? Cover it in ice? How do you keep the one you loved from rotting? Encase them in ice. How do you stop those pesky chaotic sorts and their fire of chaos? Ice.

Slowing/stasis (movement, processes), preservation, fixing in shape (as opposed to shapeshifting), mirror images, emotional distancing, ruthless logic...

Well, if you're willing to stretch it hard ENOUGH, there's nothing you can't pull off.

Ice>Stillness>Time>Causality>Future

Bang, your ice mage can see the future!

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>>49885706
conversely, they both give examples of gods who fall from power. Small Gods has deities slowly forgetting who they are (as exemplified by Om living as a tortoise for three years). Natsume has the much more interesting implication (I don't believe this is directly stated, though) that, due to the god not having enough power, the god's domain turns to less important or demanding things (going from being a rain god to a dew god, for instance). in addition, both show the god as becoming physically smaller (as physical as you can be with a god), to the point of being tortoise or tom thumb sized.

If people have actually read this far, I have become enamored with both the concept of both tutelary deities (on one end of the divine lifecycle) and the concept of gods who have taken a smaller version of their previous domain (on the other end). I especially enjoy the extremes of these, such as a god of a small clearing, or a sun god who can now only light a lantern. if I can make specific requests, I would prefer those sorts of pictures.

P.S. I realize that one could call gods so small spirits, but I think the word god is way better than spirit. also, god evokes something to be worshiped, while spirit is just something generic.

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>>49885716
starting cause this isn't /r/

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>>49885732
P.P.S.I should have said I prefer cute, but doesn't everyone? just post what you got, I don't want to be too picky.

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Looking for art of noblewomen in plate armor.

>>49885425
Everything that would not fit in rodenberry's star trek federation is edgy.
Everything slightly meanier than Mr Rogers is edgy
Wearing anything but hippy multicolor shirts is edgy.

>>49885425
Dark characters aren't bad if their is used for the purpose of the story, rather than for shock value. This is true for both players and GMs.

Ultimately, what people dislike in edgelord characters is that they do not mesh with the party, either quietly brooding alone when others get along, or doing shit that makes the rest of the party go "why are we even travelling with this guy?".

lurk moar

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>>49885040

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>>49885040
>good pictures of large elven cities

The only elven city you'll ever need.

DEUS VULT!

Depends on the god they worship.

>LG = honourable
you could play it tthat way, and should if it's a god who encourages such behavior, like >>49885020

But LG only means they seak to uphold the laws of whatever society they live in, while seeking to assist other people, whom they may or may not know.

I mean those are abhorrent to the codes of knightly valor that paladins are inspired by. Even secular knights and warriors should be hesitant to use those methods unless its against demons or aberrations or some shit.

Honor's important. As a GM I wouldn't make you instafall but if you made a habit of it expect some chiding visions from your god or your reputation to get shot to hell-people stop taking you at your word and your name stops meaning anything at court because you stab people in their fucking sleep like a goblin.

>>49884916
source of thing

>>49884916
>So how much of this gear can we carry back to town?
Sometimes I hate my players.

>>49884916
> Brother uses Reaction to take a lethal hit for my Dual-Wielding Fighter
> Dies in Glorious battle as a Warrior should.

...

> We loot his remains, take all of his trinkets, his clothes, everything.
> Decapitate his body, give his skull to our party Wizard
> Wizard makes a Flame Skull companion out of it. Lazers pew pew.

> Never talk about him again. Even after he re-rolls.

>>49883582

No because I'm not a shit roleplayer.

There are few things worse than a PC who all but says "there's no reason I should be here".

It's the preferred MO of That Guys who like to think their OC is a cut above the rest of the party and is only their for everyone else's benefit.

>>49883582
Not exactly.
Played a sorc once whose motivation was "I have no friends and you guys look like you're going places."
I had no real investment in the plot until the party became my family.

once, but that was a weird scenario where each player was controlling two characters (don't ask, we were about 14)
one guy was the brains and the other guy was the easily-distracted, well-meaning, lunatic brawns who was just self-aware enough to realise his buddy usually knew better, but didn't care about much else
and yes that was about 95% player convenience and only about 5% characterization

First for Ciaphas Cain

>>49883464
Not gonna lie, Space Wolf Omnibus is fun as hell.

>>49883464
I dunno. My favorite that I've read is Angel Exterminatus.

Fulgrim gets beaten up. Characterizes Pert REALLY good. Salamanders Apothecary, iirc. Raven Guard OC Donutsteel. Angry Iron Hands.

Pretty nice, actually.