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>>54999167
I've looked at GURPS and I do understand why everyone shills it so hard. Just a personal preference of mine but I believe a master of one is better than a jack of all, I like my systems specific and made for a single purpose/setting/style.

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Been doing Cyberpunk, Steampunk and Magepunk for decades with this and it's predecessors. Now that I have Golden Age, I can do Dieselpunk.

Why make one?

Just use World of Darkness.

Seen HeroQuest 2?

>>54999101
>How do you make a narrative-focused game?
Focus on the narrative

>>54998929
>Remember when you had to be smart to play role-playing games?
Name 1 (one) RPG besides GURPS that has complex math.

>>54998929
there is a difference between being smart and being unnecessarily obtuse.

>>54998929
Remember when you had to be 18 to post?

With your fists.

>>54998907
win an oscar

>>54998907
Find the lady of the light, still raving in the night

Very hype, though we were spoiled on lots of'em already. Hopefully the commons and uncommons are playable

>Walk the Plank and Fatal Push exist for at least another year in standard and are already good for eternal formats

What the fuck WotC

>>54999308
Is that a bad thing? It's about time WotC made eternal playable cards more often, if they won't reprint old ones at least.

>>54998790
>what's good about it
No levels. A skill and attribute system. Combat has the potential to be very lethal. There is a large amount of compatible supplements and systems available as well.
>what's bad about it.
Rules can be a little daunting at first. Like Gurps it has too many skills.
>which editions people play, etc.
I like MRQ2 or Legend. The Design Mechanism Runequest/ Mythras has an additional magic system if you want monks/ physical adepts.
>My players keep on going back to D&D all the time so I want something different that's good and doesn't have the D&D baggage.
You could try Pendragon. Knights of the round table adventures. Dice resolution uses a D20. It is also not too difficult to adapt the D20 roll high system to Runequest. Jus treat every 5% in a skill as a +1 bonus.

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Runequest is a neat beast. It's one of the oldest RPGs, and it's developed its own nice niche. The game from the ground is somewhat more grounded and realistic than D&D. People will die in two or three hits of most weapons, hit locations, armor as DR rather than avoidance, etc. Runequest 6 (now known as Mythras due to licensing bullshit) has refined this to include a lot of special effects and maneuvers to perform in combat, like impaling someone with your sword, tripping them, disarming them, etc. It makes martial combat extremely interesting yet light enough to run quickly. The focus on a grounded character includes character creation, where your stats depend on your culture and you can optionally generate your whole damn family.

At the same time as this, magic is also a very big part. The game originally shipped with the setting of Glorantha, which has a sort of bronze age myth feel, bordering on gonzo at times. There's no hard separation or class system to prevent anyone from learning magic, and so most people know a couple little charms. In modern Runequest, this means there are a bunch of different magic systems that you can drop in and out of the system, from petty magic to weird kung fu sorcery. You can run something without magic or absolutely flooded with it, and it just werks.
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The three editions most people would point to are 2nd edition, 6th edition, and the new one coming out called Runequest Glorantha.

2nd edition is simple, concise at like 150 pages total, and has a lot of great material for it. It's a bit antiquated in design though. However, it's considered a classic for a reason.

6th edition, Mythras, is a bit crunchier and front loaded in character creation, but has a lot of interesting tools to play with, like those combat maneuvers and modular magic systems. It also has a bunch of great supplements, like sourcebooks for Rome and Early Medieval Britain, a sword and sorcery setting with dinosaurs on an island, and a book called Classic Fantasy to integrate more D&D style play if you want. I really, really recommend it. You can find a free version online called Mythras Imperative that has a simplified, stripped down version of the rules and see what you think.

The newest edition, Runequest Glorantha (or Runequest 4th Edition because Chaosium is a bunch of dickbags) isn't out yet, but has a pretty promising playtest that was just released. It's being built from the ground up to include more Glorantha materials if you're interested in that setting, and also includes a few more modern gameplay concepts like personality attributes based on the magical runes that define you. Unfortunately, it steps back a bit on the modernizing of the rules that 6th edition did, and has some kind of clunky opposed roll skills and an antiquated way to determine difficulty. It's a step back to 2nd edition in a lot of ways, for good and for ill. However, you really can't go wrong with any of them. It all depends on how crunchy you want things and what kind of setting you want to go for.

you take the good you take the bad
you take them both and there you have
the facts of life
the facts of life

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>>54998777
Black and White series looked awful and played awful, but I do kind of like Ace Specs as a concept

>>54998777
I wish Pathfinder had reinstated Warriors getting a free stronghold full of (refilling) soldiers to lead at 9th level as part of their repairs.

It's really flavorful, and helps gives them 1. A way to do things your average Joe commoner couldn't with better numbers and more feats, and a kind of versatility full casters don't easily have without paying dearly and 2. It sort of forces roleplay out of a class often played as a "Are we in combat yet? No? *goes back to checking phone*"

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>>54998493
>white/blue

Run the Sliver killer

>>5499
Wouldn't this counter act the idea of using Godhead of Awe and Elesh Norn together?

That would already destroy his squishier Slivers and with other buffing monster i would over power him,

>>54998493
I'm not sure what format you're playing, so it's difficult to give advice, I'm guessing you're not playing a format, so go ahead and look at EDHREC for ideas.
https://edhrec.com/tribes/angels
https://edhrec.com/tribes/spirits

>>54998129
We already have a thread up >>54991938

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>>54998665
That's a specific setting building thread (and kind of a dead one at that). These generals are meant for general setting discussion.

For example: I'm planning on a new setting where a semi-traditional fantasy world discovers a cheap and potent energy/magical source in Ectoplasm. Considering how spooky ectoplasm is, my setting will naturally gravitate toward gothic horror themes, but also industrial themes a la Iron Kingdoms.

Because Ghost-Powered-Mechs. I also imagine the races and landscape will be altered by proximity to ghost-pollution. Is it more interesting to make the typical monstrous humanoids/goblinoids even more monstrous due to this, or have them seem to succeed and adapt in the new world?

>>54998817
Seeing them succeed and adapt, especially culture-wise, would be more interesting, I think.

>>54997783
In what setting?

>>54997783
>How should I run this, /tg/?
By getting a new fucking group.

>>54997966
Forgotten realms 3.5e

>>54997681
Not going to sugar-coat this OP, I hate all your changes. Literally all of them. Especially the Necron changes.

Tell me about the men of Iron ?

>>54997681
Tau would be cool as a coalition of minor xenos empires that have banded together for mutual protection against the Imperium. Less big suits more varied alien troops.

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>pathfinder

Ugh

>>54997613
>haha

got me :^)

"Sandbox" is a retroactive grognard fantasy to pretend that their randomly rolled dungeons they made when they were 12 have some sort of integrity that actual campaigns with an actual plot don't.

Also, it's impossible to make one in Pathfinder, since the system breaks in half if you don't have appropriately scaled challenges.

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FIRST FOR CUTEDAR

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>painting black on black

NANI?

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Patiently waiting to see if Steel Legion rumors are bullshit before I order 10 squads from Z.

I need cannon fodder for my Warhawks and Templars

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>>54997628
Counter - "There are Orks over here! Found a Chapter!" "But it'll take 50 ye-" "Do it!"

Also, what?

When were they founded?

Rolled 80 (1d100)

>>54997346
Why is dom emma so hot

>>54997346
Emma is ugly

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>>54997346
I am guilty of saving this low quality CYOA.

Sub Emma by the way. Best choice hands down.