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>>49682016
What are your other riddles?

>>49682082

I'm not looking for the answer to actually be "air". Just something air-related. Wind, breath, air, sky, etc.

>>49682108

Earth Riddle: What runs around a city, but never moves? (A wall)

Fire Riddle: Iron roof, glass wals, burns and burns, and never falls? (A lantern)

Water Riddle: I always runs but never walk, often murmur, never talk, have a bed but never sleep, have a mouth but never eat. Who am I? (A river)

Oh forgot, Noose Constrictor, with its Reach, could be a good choice too.

I almost forgot. Noose Constrictor, having Reach could be a good choice too.

Nearly slipped my mind, Noose Constrictor, its ability "Reach" makes it a strong contender for the role

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>>49681347
Excuse me, Did you say the emperor is dying?

Order a new one from e-bay.

No, go away and stay away.
Stop trying to bring back your forced meme.

>>49681028
Fascist Black Lagoon? Pray tell.

>>49682538
Jimmy has posted a bit about the premade characters for Ballads introductory campaign

>Nyashny Enginsdottir carries a Weissenschwert and her twin Liberators.
>Ivan Sistene carries a Volksverteidiger and a Ritterschwert.
>Kane carries a Wellington Over-Under and a Norminster.
>Silas Black carries six revolvers of various caliber and design.

At least I think that's what's meant with the BL reference.

Last time on Song of Swords: Jimmy has no answer to the question, "why not just let /tg/ finish the game instead of procrastinating forever?"

Some people like shooty armies and mechs.

>>49680982
You seem to have most of their selling points listed. I think you got it.

>>49681020

Also, people who complain that they don't fit the setting are missing the point.

It's not grimdark enough for every side to be ancient and awful. There's gotta be a group of idealists, too young as a race to have been broken by the harsh realities of the void, fresh-faced and overconfident. It's a toss-up whether they'll last long enough for internal corruption to turn their society into a cynical hellhole, or just get wiped out, eaten, or enslaved by an older, meaner, and larger group. But either way, they're fucking doomed. And it's beautiful.

Maybe in a very Final Fantasy or other JRPG feeling game. It just seems like it'd slow things down to me.

>>49680329
Sounds like your characters "class" has nothing to do with their character and has no actual meaning in-universe. Did they apprentice for. Decade under grandmaster Twizzlebeard at the mages college in order to become a wizard, or did they just decide at the start of the adventure, "I'm a wizard now, lol."

It could be explained as the magic pulling another version of the character from an alternate universe.

It would require you to essentially create a second character. The player would have to be prepared for it. I wouldn't make it as simple as "I put on my magic hat, I am a ranger now", but a one time thing, like a boon from a God of Fate or something.

>>49679719
>it is sort of a jack of all trades master of none
No. It is a powerlevel encounter combat system that railroads heavily and has room for little else.

>Im going to try to create a new fantasy pen and paper roleplaying system!
That's pointless. Enjoy.

Read Reign, Burning Wheel, and Dungeon World. Never mind the fluff but pay attention to mechanism design. Understand those and maybe Runequest, and explain why in the seven hells we'd need a new system?

>>49682102
Fpbp.

OP, it's 2016. There's hundreds of games out there. Make up your mind and decide what you want from the game, and you'll find half a dozen systems fit for your needs.
But first of all, you have to unlearn pathfinder.

>>49679719
Figure out what you like about gaming. What's the aspect you guys have the most fun with, on the rules-side?

Dungeon crawling? Combat? Character progression through levels of power? Loot collecting? Using spells in new ways? Base-constructing? Magical lore? Maybe performing survival skills or "social combat."

Figure out what you enjoy the most, mechanically. Now find the system that handles that part of it the best. If you can't? Fine, make your own. But you won't have it playtested, and you'll be able to find something else that is, so don't make your own just for the sake of it.

Isn't that the trick tough? that the demon is old and knows 100+ ways to fuck the deal up?

assuming the devil wants you soul and isn't a complete retard who would fall to the most basic snafus and accept rigged deals.

Well without getting too specific.

The deal if fulfilled when i achieve x by means i think acceptable then you do you if you mess with me or anything about this is influenced in a way i find not acceptable you dun goofed.

Or you know old school trapping the devil (demon) with solomon's (many) tricks.

prepare to be assblasted if you fuck something up tough.

If you give me some more guidelines and how these things work i could try to adjust some shit

if we're going spells artifacts you can literaly have a spell that just says "no devil you mah bitch now"

>>49679041
Get a Jewish (or setting equivalent) lawyer

Out trick him.
>What he expects
A jewish lawyer and you to trick him
>What he doesn't expect
For you to be a total and utter moron.

>>49678718
I can't help you for noctuneal preditors, but if it's sci fi, why not set it off world? A thin atmosphere would make it very hard to go outside without a suit on- it would get too cold.

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>>49678744
The premise was that players would operate during the day and retreat from the planet entirely when night time came. Players are equipped with low-end power suits by default that help protect against the brunt of temperature effects. They also enable them to venture during the night time atmosphere but the threat of having their power suit's airtight seal compromised (ex a creature tears it open) and the general nature of night time predators heavily persuade people to get the fuck outta dodge.

Additionally, those who can't afford a power suit just generally can't traverse the night time, making night hours a death sentence to them. That wouldn't necessarily apply to players but it would for NPCs and whatnot.

I'm just kinda brain storming how to somewhat justify an entire atmosphere changing in a few hours

>>49678718
Yes, you could base ecosystem on that. Hell could do both poison and megapredators.

Just make it that there is some gas that floats high in the atmosphere when it's heated by the sun, it undergoes chemical reactions storing the energy; during the night time, it cools down and descends to the surface, megafauna uses it's accumulated high energy density to manage their active phase. They retreat to thermal vents/geysers during the day where the heat and expulsions from the depths maintain the air energetic enough for them to rest and to be able to slap a bitch if something intrudes.

As active as it is, the gas is corrosive as hell, so they need to have special toughened up shelters to even hide in during the night.

This could also open some ways for them, for example they figure out a chemical that could react with the gas, catalysing it into an explosion, freeing the local area for a short while.

>>49678598
I'm sorry I can't be more helpful, but the only way you learn to GM is GMing. Just try to make sure that everyone is having fun and try not to make the same mistakes other GM have done with you.

Also, Fate-based game means based in the system FATE of the series Fate/stay Night

>>49678609
>Also, Fate-based game means based in the system FATE of the series Fate/stay Night
No, it means based on Fate Core, a narrative roleplaying system that's widely hated here for having a different approach to rpgs.

>>49678609
Ah and I forgot to add (clicked that submit button too quickly)

I'm extremely nervous of GMing to strangers. I could do this with my friends... if none of them lived so far away I'd have to take a bus for a whole day before I could even think of opening a book. I'm just nervous that I will be judged or something.

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I sure had a lot more of these before I had to get a new laptop.

Used to have tons of this shit.

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>>49678365
I killed an orc kid's dad on accident and then just knelt there and let him beat me up as much as he could while he cried a lot. feelsbad

>>49678365

Yeah. In an all-Evil game, we were destroying a village. I was confronted by a farmboy with a pitchfork, trying to protect his sister. I looked at him, went - "You got balls, kid. I'll give you one shot."

He stabbed me in the throat with his pitchfork, a karmic end to my life of pointless violence...

Oh wait. I had my once-a-day Stoneskin on when we attacked the village. I smiled at the trembling boy and cut him in half, then stabbed his sister.

The thing about being Evil is that the meaner, more petty evil can be a blast. Boy was the GM pissed about his big character moment being ruined by game mechanics.

>>49679078
>He stabbed me in the throat with his pitchfork, a karmic end to my life of pointless violence...
Hah, did he roll a crit?

>>49678311
I don't think I ever get more than two sentences in before players start talking. Which is fine, I just make sure the important stuff is in the first sentence.

So more the first style I guess. If players are interested they'll ask/investigate.

If you want to write a novel do that.

>>49678905
Point. Lengthy descriptions wouldn't work that well.

However, I thought about it being more focused on details, as to why NPC's see players the way they do.
>You are covered in blood and standing over a corpse. The guards do not like what they are seeing.

Hm, informing players about their status and possible causes of current circumstances would be helping or ruining the immersion?

>>49678996
Depends. I usually give descriptions of the kind:
>You are covered in blood and standing over a corpse. The guards have locked their gazes on you, their hands gripping the handles of their seathed weapons.

It conveys the same meaning, but makes the scene more visual.

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That's Sir Miguel to you, fuckboy.

Think what you want about our house, but we both serve the same liege, and my lady is your wife.

>>49678152
u fuckin wot m8 i'll end you cunt

>>49678082
>Warforged and artificers in particular seem at odds with the general feeling of D&D

3.5 (and 4e) is at odds with the general feeling of D&D.

That's why Eberron was made for it. Because the way the rules work, the prevalence of magic in PCs necessitates that the world itself is more magical.

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>>49678082
>Victorian or steampunk aesthetics
Nothing about Eberron is Victorian or steampunk in nature, aesthetically or thematically.

>>49678629
Airships and a lot of clothing in some areas.