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Honestly I can't think of any way to make an actually balanced game without either taking all his money away, which would be a dick move.

It'd probably be better if he altered the character somewhat, perhaps by making him rich but not ultra-rich. He's in charge of a successful company, but the company just lost (or is about to lose) a ridiculous amount of capital on a failed research project. So he's in desperate need of [whatever] so that he doesn't end up living off the streets.

Basically, turn it around and make it so that he has to work with the group in order to maintain his status and his lifestyle.

Yeah, I've had a similar problem in D&D games. After a character achieves high amounts of power/wealth, finding appropriate challenges can be difficult.

The trick is to stop thinking of the adventure format as: Players find an obstacle, Players remove obstacle. Instead, make the adventures about the choices they make. Do they want to save the city or kill the dragon. Do they want to back one politician or another? Can they try to play both sides or find another route all together?

I've gotten push back from some players for these kinds of adventures. Some players will be upset they can't have it all, they expect to be able to solve all problems and not have to make "tough calls". So mix it up. Sure his billions can make defeating an enemy army easy, but that doesn't mean you can't periodically have that type of adventure. The players are generally meant to win, after all.

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>>49393097
also, MYSTERIES. Wealth can aid in solving a mystery, but it doesnt replace the need to investigate, to deduce, to figure out "whodunit".

>>49393080
Before you nerf him or tell him to make something else, let him play the character as is. You might be surprised that it isn't such a big problem after all.

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>>49392969
That was a nice pasta (don't fuck with baba yaga. Ever)

>>49392793
Isn't this that game where you have to roll 3d20 and compare each die to a different target number to perform a basic skill check?

>>49392793
Why is she pointing her flaming dildo at the viewer?

>>49392944
Yes, but it's faster than you might think. But it's not as bad as you make it sound.

>>49392975
>Why is she pointing her flaming dildo at the viewer?
Because it's a German product.

Should have gone for a Portal: Trojan War set.

>>49392796
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRCteeZTrjE
this better ?

>>49392763
Gotta love how in a song called "The Gospel Truth," they try and present the titans as the bad guys.

Racist.

I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of all these tanks.

>>49392212

Hmm Classic Traveller has just the combat you described, with armor and ammo and all that, but while there are rules for drugs it doesn't really handle cyber-mods and stuff all that much. There's also little in the way of hacking rules, that that at least is an easy mod.
Mongoose Traveller may work better than Classic, though its combat deemphasizes armor types and stuff in favor of more streamlined combat. (There did away with weapon-vs-armor type tables)
I imagine somebody may have developed some rules for cyber-mods and stuff, if not for Classic, then for Mongoose (which is like 90% the same) so that might be workable.

>>49392402
Shadowrun

Or fucking GURPS.

>>49392613

Which GURPS sourcebook goes into hacking and cyberspace? I remember another anon commenting on GURPS hacking rules, but I don't remember which splatbook he was talking about.

First for terrain in the middle of the board.

No Trollkin PDF?

>>49392560
Menoth wills it?

Absolutely nothing, but looking it up, it is very strongly reminiscent of Silver Rain.
So much that I am inclined to believe F.E.A.R. just straight up stole the idea from Group SNE.

>>49392681
Silver Rain and Psychic Hearts are both Tommy Walker games though.

>>49393137
Right. Shows how much I know.

That does explain the heavy similarities, though.
Yet, I have to wonder about working with both Group SNE and F.E.A.R.
Plus, I was under the impression that F.E.A.R. were only doing their SRS drivel.

The cult can only summon the whatever on a Harvest Moon.

Honestly just pick apart BOC lyrics/song titles and use them.

>>49391759
>Honestly just pick apart BOC lyrics/song titles and use them.

Not a bad idea, I do this from time to time. I really wish Imaginos had been finished, or maybe Pearlman had published The Soft Doctrines of Imaginos, so we could really dig into the BoC mythos.

>The mirror found
>In the chamber of jade grown like a seed
>Deep within the ground

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>just bought the Fire of Unknown Origin on iTunes this morning
>load up /tg/ and immediately see a BOC thread

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Story time!

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>>49391057
I play piggs greedly.

Obviously he is upset that i am dumping pollution on his scheme.

I handle it like i handle anything. More pollution. Where do i even get money?

I out-melodrama him.

>>49391057
An idea! I'll steal it!

NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW

>>49390892
>adventure modules
>Dungeon World
You're doing doing it wrong wrong.
That's not a double negative.

>>49391185
I'm sorry that the type of fun my players and I are into are badwrong. Do you know of any good adventures or not?

Oh man knowing this one precedes the Castle Ravenloft one, that Paladin did so fucking well. They got to the very final point before they died.

>>49390138
what
WHAT

I get it but
>THIS IS NOT A RETROACTIVE CHANGE.
Good job buffing white and nerfing white and red further in the future, then.

This image makes my dick indestructible UEOT.

>>49390138
So? Seems fine to me. Indestructible is a lot easier to understand than regeneration. I just hope green gets some of this too.

They seem to have phased out damage prevention too.

My concerns for the future of Magic are less mechanical and more about how they're increasingly censoring the game, like that Garruk rape card and the GP playmat they banned from going out because it was too sexy.

Now, when we had left off, Keane, Peterson, and Miles had just slain a Spectator by the name of Cahvurn, and were about to place down the first of three "sensor" devices given to them by the "harmless scholar" Lucas. Of course, Lucas was the nerdiest death mage to ever live, but only Keane knew that.

>Keane wipes some spectator blood off his brow
>Places down the clockwork sensor which starts going abso-fucking-lutely bananas as it approaches this big piss-yellow vein of crystal
>it gets louder and louder and then stops
>the light inside it changes
>Keane gets ready to find the other 2 crystals and get back to town
>Peterson is still on a bloodthirsty rampage trying to find the rest of those Kobolds that murdered that kid
>none shall be spared on this day
>Miles is just along for the ride, still pretending to be Peterson's prisoner
>they head down another branch of the cave
>DM was a little rattled we went for the mini-boss of this prologue dungeon first
>as they head down this one, they come across a Kobold waving frantically as it yells to its buddies about the paladin that beat one of their comrades against a crate until he died
>he's describing him as a 15 foot tall man made of metal and fire to a very unimpressed hobgoblin in lieutenant's garb
>CLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANG as Peterson memes his way into the chamber
>Kobold actually passes out

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>Peterson rolls the highest initiative, walks up and stomps on the Kobold's head until it's paste in front of all of its buddies
>Keane isn't missing out on this one
>Miles heads on over too, sneaky-like.
>this was a fuckin fun fight
>a kobold starts winding up a sling, spinning a stone really fast, firing it backwards and ricocheting it directly into the back of his head, knocking him out cold
>about now is when the Hobgobbo, who had been peppering us with arrows was sneak-attacked by Miles, who did a really impressive backflip to wall-run to jumping stab in the top of the head with his orichalchum dagger
>of course he was promptly stuck in the stomach by a Kobold
>said Kobold was hit with a leldritch blast and exploded like a bowl of chili with an M80 in it
>Peterson grabbed 2 of the Kobolds and picked them up by the head
>stares at them through the slits of his helmet with Len the butcher eyes
>one Kobold says "oh shit" in raspy shitty common
>Peterson smashes the 2 of them together headfirst until he's holding bloody stumps at the end of kobold torsos
>it was pretty funny

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>after a brief heal-up (Peterson gave Miles a "you go, champ" ass-slap) Miles got up to go take a piss (J did too) and Keane laid down the second sensor, hearing ringing in his ears all the while
>the next thing that happened was in all my years of playing tabletop easily a top 5 moment
>the gods blessed us to help the new kid have a good time
>a kobold rounds the corner holding a faun corpse on his shoulders
>Peterson, who had been "chatting" silently with the other two spins a 180 instantly
>DEUS VULT: ENGAGED
>the Kobold only manages a grimace of fear before his soul and flesh is annihilated
>O Fortuna is playing as Peterson covers 100 feet in 3 steps and 4 seconds
>full-body windup on a kick directly to the Kobold's withered little nutsack
>the light of Pelor blesses this strike
>a nat 20
>by the gods
>i mean yeah sure one that was plot relevant might have been useful but this particular crit was really fucking funny
>Peterson crusader-punts this poor Kobold and the result is just fucking One-Punch Man level shit
>the kobold is blown through 300 feet of solid rock, through the roof of the mine and off into the distance
>Keane is absolutely dumbfounded, like utterly beyond words
>miles is buttcumming uncontrollably
>sploosh
>sunlight streams down through the hole in the roof
>Keane realizes if this guy figures him out, he's probably True Fucked.

>>49389383
Whatever you want it to be, baby.

>>49389418
>>tee hee you caught me sir now punish me

Yeah sure that's their true form

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>>49389442
Yeah the ancient evil definitely looks like humans with bat wings