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>>49827530
>namefag
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>49827530

Best edition so far. Also, Leon handles the repo now, right?

>>49827703
He still handles it I think. But, so does Gaia.

>>49817669
The old gargoyle in Heroquest is the best. The new gargoyle is rubbish.

>>49817669

Minotaurs look like shit. New Raptors/Warp Talons are beauty itself

You better not be talking shit about Pumbaa. Timon can strike from the shadows when you least expect it and trust me, the guy will fuck you up.

>>49815026
The game setup was fairly simple: alternate Part 3 (Stardust Crusader) set today in 2016. I could have done something more ambitious but this was very much an experimental game and I prefered to stick, at least for now, to a simpler concept and see if I could execute it. Right away we hit a problem: who is going to be the game's Jojo? Fortunately, there was a simple solution. You see, my game only had two players: this is because I handled stands as a completely separate character, albeit one which shared the same pool of health as the Stand user. What this meant is that each player acted twice in combat: one round for the stand user and one of the stand itself. With only two players, it was decided they would BOTH be the game's Jojo as cousins.

One important thing to understand of the game is that the players didn't design their own Stands. Now the reason for this was simple: neither of them had experience with M&M. Instead, they chose how much points they'd put in the Stand, its range and its general combat role (punchy thing, shooty thing, support and so on and so forth). Beyond that their powers were unknown at first and they had to figure out on the fly how to use their Stands properly. I felt it was going to be easier on the players to not stat their Stand and that having some element of surprise could be fun. It paid off, no one complained about the stand they got, fortunately. Now on to the characters:

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>>49815056
>Joshua Johnson (Stand: Manowar): Basically? Jotaro. Yeah that's almost it. The player wasn't exactly the most creative, at least in term of making characters. Certainly creative in other areas as the story will later show, its just he like to keep his concept simple and clean I suppose. His Stand, Manowar, was a fairly typical 2meters range punchy stand akin to Star Platinum and Crazy Diamond. Not anywhere as strong, fast, precise or tough by itself, mind you, but that is where its power kicks in: Manowar can manipulate propabilities on its own actions. In game terms, it has Probability Control (a power that functionally mean you can't roll lower than the rank its at) and several feats which require the useage of Hero Points, the 'luck point' of the system.

>Joséphine Joestar (Stand: Electric Eye Act 1, 2 and 3): Short, physically weak, primarily relying on skills to trick oponents and contacts to acquire resources. Could certainly pull some near-Joseph shenanigans what with her Bluff skill, including a feat which let her bluff her oponents into hitting their allies. EE Act 1 is basically a stand that is a camera/spy drone: it has a suite of sensory powers, can cloak itself (even to other stands). Act 2 is more combat-capable (still rather weak) but its light powers allow it stun, dazzle, create illusions and cloak others. Its a very utilitarian stand. Each Act lose range but gain overall an increase in powers. Its light-based powers make it much more efficient versus vampire and zombies, obviously. And Act 3? Well, you'll see later.

I admit I will be skimming many details in this story, both because of how long it is (these games moved at a very quick pace so a lot could get done within a single session) and because my memory isn't perfect. That said, the highlights more than make up for the parts where my mind gets fuzzy. I apologize in advance for those gaps in the story.

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>>49815080
The initial setup was fairly simple: their stands awaken when DIO use the Stand Arrow to awaken his Stand (well, not quite but you'll see later...again!). The PC's parents become affected by DIO's curse. After some shenanigans on their respective end, the two meet at the hospital, realize they both got a Stand and their family is in danger. Meanwhile, their exausted family sleep. A weird, creepy nurse arrive, start stufing random shit in a syringe and goes "Time for your medicine, mister Joestar...." Manowar stops her, crit his grapple and rips off the nurse' hand, which horrifies Joséphine. The nurse goes "Wryyy...", revealing that she's a zombie. Not that the PC knows that at this point, even if the players certainly know what is going on. After a fist spamming attack from Manowar, which reduce the zombie nurse to still-moving goo, Joséphine show her quick thinking when she take the bedsheets and stuff the nurse goo into it. When the real nurses arrive, she says her parents got sick and that this should get thrown into an incinerator. Given the awful smell of decaying flesh, the nurses agree. And that is how they kill their first zombie.

Please, stop shilling your game here, Christian.
Just stick to spamming your dumb shit in /pol/.

>it's edgy, so we must talk about it again and again, despite the shitty and uninteresting rules!

>>49856204
>>49856202
To be fair, how often do we get an entire game made in prison by a by a dude that burnt down a church and killed a guy?

>>49855369
>not firbolg edition
http://media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/downloads/Volo_Firbolg107.pdf
where were you the day 5e started to power creep?

>>49855369
>How goes your not-related-to-adventuring endeavors, adventurers?
Awaiting a message from a prospector I hired to scope out the mining property I 'acquired' from a lockbox in someone's house during downtime between games. If there's an iron vein there, I suspect I'll be funding the party's supplies for some time...
Our DM has used the Mortal Kombat soundtrack a few times

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Do you often use spells for things they were never intended to do? What is the most creative way you ever used a spell?

First for something which was relevant at the end of last thread.

First but actually second for the current forced meme noone really likes but gets spammed anyway

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3rd for please rate.

Would you let a player be the mayor of a small town starting from 1st level?

>>49851129
>game where the players are the mayor and secret council of a small town
>most sessions involve them dealing with a civil issue as well as a magical bullshit issue.
>special election year two part session
I'd run the shit out of that.

>>49851094
Yes, BUT only under the following circumstances:
>Every other player has a similar boon
>Encounters are scaled to these benefits
>Campaign is carefully structured so nothing happens like a vampire walking out into sunlight at a level that would instagib him

>>49842625
^WHAT'S the appeal...Jesus, I need my morning coffee...

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>>49842625
All of the above, and then some.

>>49842625
The idea that we can, through the noble arts of theft and murder, actually carve some chunk of the pie away from those born into extravagance or who squirmed their way to the nicer scraps by being genuinely horrible people.

At least that's what does it for me.

>Rest? We were not made to rest; we go on, unflinching, unstoppable, unending in our strength. The Emperor did not make us for such mortal concerns as hearth and home, vanity or contemplation; we are his engines of war, his hammers, beating out the fabric of existence into a vessel fit for Mankind to inhabit.

Pert, and a couple of the other Primarchs, need to get their heads out of their ass about their situation. They're not people. They weren't born to do something. They were made. They're not just soldiers, they're tools. That's not such a bad lot in life, but it requires you to fucking get over yourself and realize what you are capable of doing matters more than your feelings.

>>49841832
>yo, just accept being a slave

Perty was a shithead but your approach is exactly the kind of shit that lead to the Heresy.

>>49841884
Pretty much this- I sincerely doubt they were given a choice in being brought into the world as weapons of war. Especially in the case of someone like Pert, who had a whole lifetime to begin a path down a different direction, only for Big E to show up and drag him kicking and screaming into a whole different role and berate him for not being great at it.

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Some of these Promos are great.

>>49840479
That one's actually cheaper than the covered up version

I hope the dual attribute cards get enough of a recurring theme to the color groups that we can name them like magic tribes

>>49838964
Yiff for the Emperor?

I like the first one better.

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>you survived the prison planet to see knotposting become a thing

>>49838964
Something to do with gallows?

>>49835433
I believe there is an unoficial system in existence. I also hear it is shit.

Have fun with that, and remember: Ozpin is best boy.

>>49835433
Anima is absolutely fan-fucking-tastic for RWBY-styled campaigns. There's even rules for guns that turn into swords and vice-versa.

The only real flaw is that by default the tech level is just BARELY getting small firearms to any real usable fashion, so you're going to have to figure out your own rules for more modern guns.

>>49836106
Pretty sure they have guns, it's just hidden by the big factions

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>49835025
http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Inverse-Omnipotence

>>49835059
I WIN.

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that was quick

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Alright I have a setting in mind for my players to explore and its been in the works for a bit.

Well the setting takes place upon a world that has long since passed the zenith of its golden age. An age where civilization reached such heights that commoners lived the lives of kings. As all things however this golden age came to an end. Not from an invasion from beyond, nor from internal struggle. The Old Ones ascended leaving their civilizations earthly aspects behind.

So the primitive races arose amid the decaying ruins of a race of gods. Those who can still use the technology of the Old Ones are deemed wizards and rise to positions of power in the urban ruins. Just beyond the cores of their domains lie miles of overgrown urban jungle where tribes and gangs roam looting, raiding, and simply trying to survive amid things they can never understand.

The common adventures are whats known as Pacts as the Old Ones designed all the races they also hardwired the genetic codes so that every so often a group of individuals would be drawn by instinct to work together gaining a type of psychic bond. As they adventure they uncover lost magic (technology) of the Old Ones. Using it to either carve out their own domains, aid a powerful Wizard, or simply fuel their destruction.

If an Old One awoke or returned to the settings present they would find themselves overwhelmed by the primitiveness of it all. Having never faced violence, hunger, the elements, or disease in the golden age.

Should they find their mothers corpse mislabeled in a museum they would be horrified at the barbarity of it as well as the fact it was incorrect.

>>49821705
>ancient, peaceful civ
>hardwired genetic slaves
Seems a bit incongruous. How did this enlightened people justify such a thing?

>>49821370
>>Are there ancient, fallen civilizations in your current setting? If not, what is the state of Civilization at the moment?
Yes, the Dwarven Empire of old is a long gone institution that was destroyed from the inside out due to a horrible plague unleashed by the Dwarven sorcerer kings.
>>If so, what were they like? Warlike expansionists? Peaceful, enlightened uplifters?
They conquered the world through a use of magical golems, automatons, bio-medical monstrosities, and a slave race. They were far too expansionist and self destructive for their own good.
>>What happened to this civilization? Destroyed by war? Environment? Extraplanar fuckery? Was there a plague? Did their fall happen all at once or slowly over thousands of years?
See above, the reason for this fall came about due to the Dwarven kings, who by this point managed to become increadibly powerful and terrifying vampires, had been convinced by the whispers of a Star God that they were the ones to pave the way for the arrival of the "Fallen Children", who would later beomce the Elves who'd found the second great empire through much similar violent conquest.
>>What did they leave behind? Architecture? Weapons? Magic? Successors?
Only one Dwarven Hold remains locked away deep in the most inhospitable mountain range on the planet. They still make extreamly high quality weapons and armor but have been reduced to paupers compared to their previous selves. Otherwise, the golems, robots and other creatures that they created still exist, some being more friendly than others.
>>If adventurers were to dive into this civilization's ruins looking for loot, what would they find? What element of their technology/magic/architecture/etc would make for the most exciting/daunting/lucrative challenge for adventurers?
They'd find undead, lots of undead. Many dwarves would go on to be raised by the Sorceror kings as army's that they used to fight one another in their madness.

>>49854310
Try to sound less like some member of a fucked-up personality cult.
>>>/pol/

>>49854333
What's the problem? Just asking a question about a traditional game on the traditional games board.

>>49854310
Trump is the barbarian. His response to conflict is to get mad and start yelling incoherently.