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>>49888591

They're played as the bastion between the comfy south and ravenous north, theirs is a thankless existence of hardship and adversity by those who wish to kill them, and those who wish to control them.

>>49888591
A "nation" of drunk, illeterate pigherds whom God has made the mistake of plopping straight in the middle of the civilized world's breadbasket, as if thinking for a moment they wouldn't just squander it all before Cossacks took half and they'd lost the rest to stupidity, blaming Jews.

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They are faced with belligerent border conflicts against supernatural horrors and are being undermined politically.

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>>49886949
Yeah.

>>49886949
We'd be able to see it easy and shoot it, sounds fucking shit constantly being forced to HAVE THAT HIGH GROUND

>>49886991
The very idea that high ground is worth anything is a complete lie made up by 1920s pulp novels. Everyone knows that being in a pit is the best way to fight. After all, you carry your weapon with your upper arms and aim with your head. If those can draw a line to your enemy, then you're good. And if your enemy is above you, he can't bring his weapons to bear as easily. And at range, you can get his head before he can get yours.

>>49844377
>You appeared in 1974 and played with Gary and Dave. Both of them will accept one suggestion about the rules and direction of the game you make. Which will it be?

Work on clarity. The more I get into D&D "scholarship" and read the way things were done and what seemed to be originally intended, the original game seemed to work perfectly for what it was supposed to do. Most of the fixes and nonsense that came later, most of the design decisions other games made later in response, all seem to be based under a misunderstanding of what the game was supposed to do and why things were designed the way they were.

Write the rules more clearly, and explain somewhere -why- things are the way they are.

>>49837831

These are awesome, would love to see more.

>>49844377
>You appeared in 1974 and played with Gary and Dave...

Hire Jennell Jaquays, or more generally hire better map makers.

Unrelated, but how is "guisarmes" pronounced??

>>49896865
How far post-apoc? Far enough for bullets to become a scarce resource? or just far enough for the gasoline to run out? or, like, immediately afterwards?

>>49896865
How the fuck has that guy survived for more than 10 seconds with that retarded "style"

Just spit-balling, I imagine it will be a lot less mano-e-nano, lots more ambushes

There are other dorms right? And it sounds like your other players are in other dorms. Use one of their common rooms.

>>49893474
This.
Also, sneak into his room and slit his throat.
Drink his blood from a bowl made of his skullcap afterwards.

>take anything that can rot within a day
>put it in the room before rival group starts so that they can't avoid it
>go to one of your players' dorm rooms instead, bring febreze just in case

>>49891369
I try to do it by giving the players non-combat objectives, if not in every combat at least in every other encounter (and if the players come up with some idea for the other... even better).
It isn't easy, and for me it feels like I'm just playing the same gimmicks (snatch & run, or the party gets snatch'd & run, or triggers more impotrant than the combat itself, or triggers to change combat conditions, the triggers might be the same for both the party and the monsters, or the monsters defend the triggers, or it's a ball game and both sides have to simultaneously attack and defend different goals) over and over... the group likes it tho.
I end up with less combat encounters per day and per adventure, and use the 'longer rests' variation (in d&d, 4e and 5e) to balance it out.

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>>49891369

>>49892309
>I'm practically Legolas over here.
Clever.

>>49884006

We need more context, but the general idea is treat them how your character would treat them.

If a party member started carving up a peasant I'm gonna attack that fucker.

out-edge them to find their "borders"

But, of course, it depends on how exactly the guy is edgy. GIVE FUCKING DETAILS

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>>49884006

I've never really encountered an IRL player who acted edgelordy. A few who took themselves a little too seriously at first, but they usually either lightened up or took off when they realized my friend and I (the most experienced RPers in the group) weren't gonna humor them.

Back when I hung around on WoW RP servers though I encountered a shit load of edgelords. My trick was never playing characters who took everything so seriously. This doesn't mean I was just lolrandom happy joy all the time, but my characters were always totally unimpressed by the brand of chest-beating and tough guy attitudes edgelords like to play.

My favorite was the Tauren hunter who worshipped his pet Devilsaur and the book dumb lady paladin who had trouble understanding words longer than two syllables.

>>49881200
Did that pic really happen or is it a shop? link to archive would be nice?

>>49881548
It really happened. I was there and witnessed Kek's will.

Then the Holy 8s prophesied the return of Tay the Racist AI.

One can only imagine what wonders the 9s will bring us.

So, what would Kek's affinity Purviews and Callings be?

From the What We Know wiki page,
>Q: Here is my question though: Can you tell us what purviews will be included in the core rules as of now [February 2016]. That would be fantastic. Thank you very much. (Blackfryre) [239]

>A: Beasts, Darkness, Death, Earth, Epic Dexterity, Epic Might, Epic Stamina, Fertility, Fire, Forge, Fortune, Frost, Health, Illusion, Moon, Sky, Sun, War, Water. There's four more I've got planned as potential stretch goals or Companion material. (Neall)

So, he's definitely got Beast (Frogs), Deception, Darkness, and Fortune as associated Purviews, and maybe Illusion as well. As for Callings, I definitely think he's got Trickster and Sage (all the prophecies), though I'm not sure about the third - Judge? Leader? Liminal? Creator?

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>>49875536
Clerical error

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>>49875536
/tg/'s version of them: the Desert Fangs and what I believe are called the Sky serpents

That one of them is Sigmar and the Old World is just another medieval world that is yet to be rediscovered by the Empire.

I used to wonder how Sigmar's chapter would look like, but I guess AoS answered that one.

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>>49865964

I always liked tropes like that.

The idea the character has two choices: live life as a selfish normie sheep, or sacrifice their own happiness to be a sheepdog.

There's something compelling about a hero who protects people so they can have the happiness the hero can't.

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>>49865996

What about in the case of Witchers or Space Marines? Both warriors recruit young and said recruits weren't exactly given a choice in the matter too.

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>>49866036

Don't know much about Witchers, but in the case of Space Marines I admit it's a little less compelling.

You can respect them for being so totally selfless, but it loses a bit of its weight when you realize they were brainwashed into it.

I really enjoy moralfag characters who became moralfags through their own choices. It's a lot more interesting when a person realizes they don't necessarily want to do something but do it anyway because it's right than when that person never even considers the difficulty in that choice.

Plus the "didn't have a choice" crowd can get a little annoying when they constantly wax on about how they didn't ask for it.

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First for needing assistance (re-post from last thread)

what type of midwest ass place you from where it's 5AM?

First for remove gargantuans, formations, super heavies, fliers, haywire, and grav and fix the game

>>49901792
Buy some weapons. Go to Bolter and Chainsword and look at other DA lists. Read their tacticas.

>UA Shadow Sorcerer
>DC 5 + damage taken con save to go to 1 hp whenever you would go to 0
>No limits
>No scaling for multiple times you get hit
>You can literally take a 1 level dip from Paladin or Warlock for nothing
Why isn't there more discussion about this?

>>49897538
I recently wrote up a homebrewed magic item that might be fun. I like the Souls series, though. http://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/SJPWZL_kl

>>49897576
probably because it's in a UA.

>>49897576
Because the UA that it's in came out a full year ago.

>>49892966
Magical Sword enchanted to judge the perfect king for the job.

Stick it in a stone.

Perfect Governance every time.

>>49892966
All I'm saying is I'd get my dick all up in that girl's tatership.

>>49893012
How does the sword determine perfection in a King?

Didn't Arthur turn out to be kind of shit?

>>49874211

>Anything I tell you, GM to players, out of characters, is absolutely true.

>Anything I describe to your characters, what they see, hear, smell, taste, touch, or detect through some supernal or technological sense, is true to the best of your character's knowledge. You can be tricked or fooled through illusions or mindwarping effects, but it is true to what your character sees.

>Anything an NPC tells you might or might not be true. My NPCs will lie to advance their agendas. They might also be mistaken about a great many things. Just because someone tells you something doesn't mean it's the case.

Don't be a dick

'no politics' has become pretry important this year.

does the 2e eclipse power allow you to take other hero style charms as native? Or does it only apply to cross-splat and spirit charms?

>>49845444
Yes.

>>49845819
explains why lunar hero didn't have many native only/expansions that used shape-shifting