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>>49404190
By throwing them to the lions, my patrician.

Carthago delendum est.

>>49404382

Should probably throw his friend to the lions too.

He's a total /sen/tard, always going on about how "Brutus did nothing wrong".

Wouldn't it be Temples and Typhons?

>>49403730
encourage your players to have backstories that tie their characters together. If not all of them then just two or three. Establish a common interest beforehand and it makes a starting setting more unique. The paladin and cleric might be friends because they're in the same monastery. The rogue might have hired the barbarian to be his bodyguard and their looking for their next big heist.

Y'know. That sort of stuff.

I'm generally always trying to give each of the characters some plot hook that will guide them on the same tracks + encourage players to make characters that already know some of the others.

Examle:
>Character A receives letter from his uncle, notifying some trouble and urgent need of help
>Character B's player decided to roll chis char as a close friend of character A so he follows them
>Character C is authorities' secret agent covertly investigate the matter, so he needs to infiltrate the party
>Character D is Character A's uncles' trusted servant who delivered the message

Interesting. I'll keep that sort of stuff in mind

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>>49403072
i am so fucking sick of red's flavor and gameplay themes being reduced to "FIRE CRAZY STUPID GOBLINS MORE FIRE DO DAMAGE NOW" that any card that steer away from both of them and makes us remember red is also about passion and love is 10/10 in my eyes.

>>49403862
was Chandra adopted?

>>49403862

I hate that card because the effect has nothing to do with what the card represents.

>>49402329
Drinking from a dysentery infected sailor's anus.

Death by snu snu

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If you aren't interested in hot interspecies rape, then I don't know why you want to play in a setting based around Greek mythology.

>>49401941

> what happens to the people they abduct?

Slaves, raped in the modern sense, or maybe just stolen briefly as "just a prank bro"

>>49401941

They're all minor nature spirits. They are divine, but they aren't gods in same sense as the Olympians.

Think of them as incarnations of wild masculinity. They're big on rape because they have lust without having the restraint that good Greeks are supposed to have. They're all the traits that men have but were expected to control.

Less famous example: if you look at Greek art of satyrs, you'll find that they're normally drinking. That's because they're fundamentally creatures of excess and they're associated with Dionysus. Look closely and you'll find that they almost always drink from a horn. Why? Partly because horns look kind of like penises. Partly because you can't set it down without spilling it. That means they can never stop drinking.

tl;dr Greeks thought moderation and self-control were important, satyrs and centaurs are what you get when you take men and get rid of those parts.

Why not just play exalted, instead of d20 shit?

>>49402820
Because you're terrified of leaving your comfort zone.

>>49402820

as someone who's played both i can attest that exalted is more personalized and leads to more investment in the game, where Godbound is basically the FATE equivalent of the theme where you freeform until something hits back, then you just roll 1 die with minimal failure rate.

With Exalted, you roll dozens of dice and feel the scope of your power that way. When you see your character get 12 successes, literally twice as many as needed to perform an already nigh-impossible feat, it can get exciting.

With godbound, that excitement comes when you DON'T have to roll, because you're basically on a power trip UNTIL something manages to resist your shaping of the world or decimating of this army or whatever else.


Both definitely have their merit. But this is a Godbound thread.

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Every "divine" character like clerics, paladins, avengers, invokers, favored souls, inquisitors, oracles, etc.

>>49401584
No, more like being a god's avatar or prophet is what I mean

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>>49401631

AD&D 2e Planescape's On Hallowed Ground goes into heavy detail on this, and it can ofttimes work out very well for the character.

While most of the "greater proxies" in the book are high-level characters, there are also many relatively weak specimens with levels in the lower double digits. The weakest one listed is "Petra Kourakis," 2nd-level male human fighter and proxy of the god Apollo.

The second-weakest is "Banebdjedet," 3rd-level male bariaur fighter and proxy of the god Thoth, who has no apparent relation to the ram-god of the same name.

Neither seems to have been disadvantaged by their position, despite being low-level fighters.

>>49401449
Make those fuckers have to sing the song and dance a jig for the duration of the effect OP.

Why are you trying to make things you have no clue about?

>>49401449
What system are you using?

>>49400979
I'll start:

>Wisdom, Pants, Moth

It is said the Titan Mountains are formed by the remains of a fallen Titan who pierced the mountains and stood up to the gods. It is also said that within the deepest regions of this mountain range, there lives a race of insectoid, textile-eating hermits who live of the still-intact loincloth of the Titan.
These wise Mothmonks are no larger than a child and are mostly seen sitting with their legs folded, chanting to the cosmos. They live a reclusive life of peace, prayer, mental and martial training and are friendly yet complicated towards outsiders. They are content among the mountains and will remain there for thousands of years, because the garment that the Titan wore around his crotch will provide them with food for a long time.

No takers?

>Pirate, Reward, Parade

The inselladre are a species of giant waterbugs (they vary considerably; from half the size of a human to half again as big) who speak with the minds and voices of men. As a culture they are consumers, compulsive thieves and liars - they prize the theft of gold and knowledge from outsiders. Inselladre pirates raid shipping, ambushing vessels from below the waterline, or make grand expeditions in silk air bubbles to loot long-forgotten shipwrecks. When they raid they take living captives and question them compulsively about their lives and cultures: the inselladre have a great love for mimicry (they are naturally talented at mimicking voices) and they will stage a triumph aping the celebrations of their enemies after a successful raid. Though the inselladre make their homes in stark caves and barren islands they are a colorful lot - each insect fuses the trophies and mannerisms taken from their various foes into a distinct personal "act".

>>49400776
>I'm looking to avoid just doing Spell Thematics and then just refluffing melee spells
Why? That is quite obviously the best and easiest way to do it.

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>>49400815
Because sorting things like this out through use of the system is half the fun and reason for using it at all. Spell Thematics also requires using melee spells; not many of them facilitate the effect of wing-bopping folks very well.

>>49400776

Aasimar with Airstep Sandals.

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/races/other-races/featured-races/arg-aasimarTable: Variant Aasimar Abilities
99 You have a natural fly speed of 20 feet (poor).

airsteps bring that to perfect.

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>playing 4e
Play a better game.

If any of them had artificially extended their lives it would likely act as poison. If they hadn't, likely a small bonus to Fortitude saves as it acknowledged their rightful life, with a bonus if they put down undead and other entities who defy the natural order.

Also fuck this guy>>49400684

Who?

Well Baldur's Gate is pretty good and so is Pillars of Eternity but it is hard to capture the open feel of trpgs in vidya.

Oh boy.

Dorf Fortress is often shown as an example so I'll list it. I don't play so I can't say much more.

Nethack is a good one. The devs have contingencies for basically everything. For example, each item has unique descriptions for when you're blind, when you're delirious/insane, and when you're both blind and insane. You can also move while levitating by throwing objects in the opposite direction of how you want to move.

Fallout: New Vegas. I love this game and I'm biased, it's not a perfect example. HOWEVER, most quests have a handful of different ways to best them depending on your skills. For example, Guns controls your shooting, but you can also use it to talk to NPCs about firearms.

Hitman [Blood Money] is similar in the freeform element. You're given a target and a level. The only "failure state" is getting killed. The fun comes from finding different ways to take out your target.

I've only played a bit of it, but Planescape Torment is directly based on the Planescape setting and D&D rules.

X-Com is more like a miniatures wargame than an RPG, but I'd say it counts. Permadeath for your troops means every turn matters, and the mix of short-term tactics and long-term strategy gives the game real depth.

I don't know if it approaches tabletop RPG, but if you're looking for a good CRPG, then go with Dragon's Dogma.

>>49400023
Play Dawn of Worlds with your friends and just see where it takes you?

Look up a religion.

Pick a few gods.

Change the names.

Shuffle around some lore details.

Done

>Alternatively

Think of a story that you like.

The characters are now gods.

>>49400334
>The characters are now gods.
Heidi, goddess of mountains.

>>49399935
No, he's been placed on the no fly list and would have to escape the USA first.

No, but he has a flying chariot pulled by magical griffons.

I'm playing Weapons of the Gods so pretty much.

Drop what you're doing. Run. Change your name. Deny everything.

>>49399856
Challenge him to a game of riddles for your soul.

Then proceed to make one up and have the answer be completely unrelated. Insist that this non-sequitor answer is the one and only correct one. Call him an idiot if he says otherwise.

I have just assured you that
A: He will think you're too dumb to be worth killing, and may end up as a pawn in a future scheme. But that's later.

Or B: He kills you with a doombolt out of frustration, ensuring your death is quick and painless.

No need to thank me.

>>49399891
>How is a Raven like a Writing Desk?