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>it's another 4e build who can do nothing but charge and deal BIG DEEPS

Bloodthirsty griffon

>>49574414
>fox
>knows it's 4e
I see you, 2hu.
Hush-hush, let me shitpost in peace.

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>>49571461
Make a character besides "muh musclegirl fetish" which is an entirely upstanding and quality fetish, which means starting elsewhere.

What's her family like? How did she grow up? Which parent did she have a stronger bond with? Some other adult that wasn't 'family'? What's her personality like? What's her goal? What kinda guys does she like? If she's the rape-and-pillage barbarian type, how does she do it without getting knocked up?

C'mon senpai, use some imagination. You can usually find it in that lump of rock you keep between your ears.

>>49571491
I guess I'm explaining things kinda poorly. First off, while I do have a femuscle kink, this isn't a character done for "magical realm" reasons.

I just... I dunno, it's tricky to describe; I wanna have a femorc barbarian without it just feeling I swapped M for F on the "Sex:___" line of the info chart, y'know?

I mean, despite the totally badass image accompanying my OP, almost all I can really find regarding most settings' typical clan roles for females in orc society is wisewoman stuff like shamans and healers, with all the strength-heavy duties typically being "man stuff".

I mean, hell, even D&D's Iconic Krusk, a half-orc barbarian like my not-yet-named character, is a dude.

>>49571461
Women in tribal societies often take up a skilled trade such as weaving, pottery, or pretty much any creative endeavor that yields something useful and doesn't require a ton of strength. In a small tribe, particularly an orcish tribe, it's not unreasonable to think that everyone, including women and artisans, would be expected to learn how to fight. Maybe your character left her tribe to hone her craft or to learn the techniques of the soft and weak civilized folk, and finds that in places less harsh than her homeland she's considered an accomplished warrior rather than a last resort home front defender.

I think it could make for great roleplay potential to have this combat monster who actually kind of dislikes fighting and just wants to make tapestries or clothes instead. Perhaps she's even from a culture that is famed for some particular goods like their leatherworking and was just smart enough to go to a civilized place where her skills would make her a fortune?

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>>49560593
It's made me watch what I say around my group a lot. I've started steering them far away from situations where we'd have to get into romance or basically anything lewd.

For quite a while I thought it made me better, but in truth it just instilled a lot of shitty habits that I've needed to change from.

Found some pretty good indie games.

I think I'm a bit more tolerant with others antics.

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Also, Guild Ball thread.

Who here looking forward to the new veterans? I can't wait to give Vet Spigot a shot.

lol memes

>>49576355
in dank we trust
>>49576338
Is he? Requires relative analysis

Get used to it, it'll always be that way now with the inception of the Jacetice League.

>>49560474
>Dainty fop Sorin
>Jace has aged ~30 years out of nowhere and is beginning to melt
>Gideon's tits
>Holy fuck nevermind that look at the size of Chandra's tits, I swear she just has soft balls taped to her chest
>Garruk taking a shit

>>49561725
>ywn grab a big handful of Chandra's tits
And this is why I masturbate before coming on tg.

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What was the last Unearthed Arcana? Anything good?

>>49579294
A ranger revision. And yes, it was pretty good.

Is this suitable for a fighting-style, got a player who wants to do unarmed fighter and doesn't want to use Monk.

Add your proficiency bonus to damage dealt with unarmed attacks.
When you hit with an unarmed attack, you may shove as a bonus action.

Between that, Battlemaster archtype and Tavern Brawler he should have plenty of options for shoving and grappling while fighting, while not falling too far behind with other fighting styles damage.

what's racist about it?

>>49582220
No one will ever have a pdf, because the only people who claim to have bought a copy are all Varg.

>>49582232
It's made by Varg Vikernes, the famous nationalist, pro-European pagan. A lot of people don't like the themes

>>49582248
He has a fairly devoted fanbase, I'm pretty sure the game is selling.

>>49577762
Good humor. Read the lore.

>>49577762
Khorne's domain is strength, which values the fiercest and most powerful.
Tzeentch's domain is trickery, which values the most intelligent and cunning
Slaanesh's domain is indulgence, which values the most depraved and luxurious.
Nurgle's domain is death, which comes to all beings equally.

You'll be rotting inside-out, oozing pus and shit out of every orifice, racked with coughs, cramps and spasms, burning up with fever, your entire body agonizingly inflamed, every joint screaming at you at the nearest movement, your head throbbing with pain indescribable, and so on and so on waaaaay past nauseam.

It's utter hell, and the only ones who can kinda hack it are those who, mostly, manage to fool themselves into thinking they like it.

Mostly.

>Page 4
RRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>49574453

To be honest, I do most of my archetypes and conversions on a whim. The Hexblade in DnD 3.5 was a d10, full BAB 4/9 caster. The Hexblade archetype I made is slightly more true to that. Where a Hexcrafter Magus is more "sword-using wizard that casts hexes", the Hexblade is a "hex-using fighter that knows a little magic". You get what I mean? I don't take offense to those criticisms, but I did this more as a quick little thought experiment.

So I'm doing some theorycrafting for an Occultist, and Jesus Christ Soulbound Puppet is a lot better that it first seems. Keep a bag full of animal bones handy and you can get all kinds of benefits. Off the top of my head or the text document nearby as the case may be:

+4 fucking Initiative (Hare)
+2 Fortitude (Rat)
+2 Reflex (Fox)
+2 Will (Hedgehog)
+1 Natural Armor (Turtle)
the ability to deliver verbal messages (Raven or similar)
the ability to manipulate or retrieve items at a distance (Monkey or similar, or Homunculus I guess but that lacks the minor skill bonus)

You can change these basically at-will by spending a focus point, and they come with all the normal familiar benefits too (like speaking with similar animals, though they'll likely be put-off by the fact that it's a horrid little zombie).

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>>49569060
Roleplay a paladin and go too far.

>>49569060
Depends on the god.

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>>49569060
Look to your sins, Lord Renly, for the night is dark and full of terrors.

Earth and air

>>49565409

Poverty.
Violence.
Cheap, dirty sex.
High temperature.
Unsafe drinking water.
Abundant cheap alcohol.
Guns.

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The same elements that are necessary for a samurai movie.

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>>49561008
Since I think that quote is taken from 4e Anniversary, this should apply. I don't think they got around to printing any advanced astral travel rules in 5e but at the same time, there's been no specific retcon.

As for living earth, you're magically shaping it, it's probably enough to make it 'altered' and no longer part of the natural world. A door is a door, not a part of the hill. But I think the Concealment powers (and MAYBE spirits' abilities to shape things, if you're the type to consider spirits a part of nature rather than a construct of the human mind-- That part was all so much easier when shamans were different) could at least hold off the majority of magical snoopers. And if they don't walk right past the spirit, you're still alerted, AND the spirit is punching them in the head.

Also, you probably want to allow for holes for air, exhaust, etc. Logistically, piped in water is probably better than from a truck, but you can probably dig a well to give yourself enough to do some. It won't supply a large farm, but aeroponics can be really efficient. But the more of that you do, the more regular upkeep is required, which isn't always gonna be simple.

>>49560886

>>49561171
>4es anniversary
Core Book of 5e, page 314, left side, before Manifesting.

Representative of Humanity here chairman. I would like to take the floor.

>>49558043
Humanity has the floor.
Speak.

>>49558024
Human production and distribution of "hfy" should be banned, existing texts and images should be destroyed. All it does is encourage terrorism from these barbarians. I mean, there's a reason we had to meet on the Dyss homeworld and not on the Shhh'trrr'lll homeworld, and that reason is human terrorism and xenophobia. They should never have joined the galactic community in the first place.

>>49549626
The deified collected works of David Foster Wallace. It means well and knows a lot, but it's just a pain in the ass to interact with.

>>49549626
Well, all the gods are dead and the party's side objective is resurrecting / replacing them.

So the most obnoxious one is probably the fragment of Tiamat hanging that occasionally nudges a dragon into trying to eat the party as a sacrifice in her name.

Mallaron/the ender of things.

The official church went super pretentious when it was time to give him some sort of villain name and it's gone to his preisthood's heads a little.

>>49549066
It's fun, as long as you don't try to use all the rules all at once. Every long-time DM has their favorite bunch of rules that they use and ignore the rest.

>>49549066
It's almost interchangeable with AD&D 1st edition.
They only made the shift to dodge Gygax's royalties on the core books.

1e has compelling explanations and abysmal organization.
2e has dull explanations and you don't need to cross reference 5 pages in 2 books to learn how each thing works.
Pick your poison.

They came from a time when RPGs advertised their "high" rules count, but despite that they're actually ruleslite.


I personally think the Basic line had TSR's best products.
Rules Cyclopedia is nice, but most people swear by B/X.

Good and bad.

The good: the rules are nearly the same as AD&D 1st edition, but cleaned up and streamlined. If you play 2e with all of the options "turned off" (and options include things like proficiencies/skills, individual initiative, and classes other than F/M/C/T), you have a game that is very simple and streamlined and playable, a lot like basic D&D (but with more spells, monsters, and magical items).

The bad: the one way that 2e doesn't play like 1e or 0e is the way experience is handled. In 0e and 1e, the player characters are *adventurers* seeking treasure. And so you get 1 XP for every 1 GP of treasure recovered, plus a pittance of bonus XP for monsters slain. 2e grants the bulk of XP as "story awards" for quests completed, deeds done, plot-points reached; or for actions taken that comport with your class and alignment. This latter method, "role-playing XP", is crazily subjective and difficult to keep track of, including such items as fighters getting extra XP for foes defeated, thieves getting XP for money stolen for themselves (bad idea!), and mages for learning spells, crafting items, etc.

Basically, 2e takes a very concrete kind of game award that incentivizes adventurers to do adventurer things, and it swaps it out for vague, nebulous "do whatever and win" things. Add to this the fact that the text is CONSTANTLY harping about good role-playing, being in-character, not power-gaming or meta-gaming, and you can tell that 2e was pretty much the point at which D&D finally disappeared up its own ass (the process started with Dragonlance and Unearthed Arcana in the 1e days).

And worst of all, when 3.0 came out and offered the rallying cry, "back to the dungeon!", did they go back to XP for gold? Nope; they went with the video-gamey "all XP is for winning encounters" mechanic which has been a cancerous blight on RPGs ever since.

tl;dr: Gee, thanks, Zeb; you went and ruined D&D for the rest of ever.