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>Get invited to 4e game
>Nobody tells me when first session is until last minute and can't make it.
>DM made my character and NPC and used up all my dailies and half my encounters.
>A few sessions later, have to miss because I'm sick and about to throw up waiting for game to start.
>DM tells me if I miss one more, I'm out for good.
>Has my character get kidnapped and tortured to explain my absence
>DM and his brother (the host) start flaking out and canceling game last minute semi-regularly.
>DM fucks off to join the army on a bet, nobody saw him again for years.

You're better off getting kicked. You don't want to play with people that would ban you over one missed session.

>>49413375
>internet troubles
That's a pretty flimsy sounding excuse. Even if it was completely unexpected reliability is important for RPGs and if you're internet isn't reliable than clearly you can't reliably make online games.

>>49413834
fuck off GM

>Forever-PCs
I'm currently DMing, but I am typically a PC. Campaign just got underway, I know where I want to take it, but due to some shit going on in my life I'm finding it hard to focus on writing. Wish someone would run LMoP or something so I can chill and stab some goblins instead of drawing dungeon maps.

>>49412290
>To the Forever-PCs that want to DM but can't cause reasons, how are you doing? How is that trove of awesome adventure/campaign setting ideas you have prepared but can't run a session with it cause of some reason?

I'm doing well, I've usually just wanted to run actual adventures that were printed, but have recently been working on expanding the Innistrad setting so that it has enough info to roleplay in, and I've been working on a sector of space for sci-fi shenanigans.

I've honestly run into the problem that I keep getting autistically in-depth about setting notes that probably won't be used.

For instance I did a lot of research on different calendars, and how to implement them in my game. I made a custom lunisolar calendar (A rough one, at least), that would make sure that every three years there would be a thirteenth month because I felt that would open a lot of plothooks in a setting where the fear of the number 13 was iconic enough to be a card in the latest innistrad set. Silly little things, you know?

But I have a good number of adventures to write up in-setting, and actually have a campaign that spans several of those in mind. I honestly haven't been able to find the time and a time where all my players would be off at the same time. I've tried to get around this with a bunch of plug and play characters for the group to use if they're only around one or two sessions, but its been too great a difference in scheduling to do it at the moment.


I'm somewhat salty about it, I even had a few ideas about them going to other MtG planes and even fighting Phyrexians.

Starting off with some homebrew shit-
Barbarian Primal Path- Witchdoctor (or Voodoo man, or whatever the fuck) a spellcaster barbarian achetype

DC= 8+con+rage damage
"Concentration" is your rage, and is maintained the same way rage is maintained. You cast spells while raged/raging, or cast rituals with the normal costs, plus a blood sacrifice of (1d4Xspell level)+(prof? str?)

EK spell progression, pick from druid cantrips, spells are either transmutation or have the ritual tag.

3rd level features- spellcasting, of course, plus the ability to cast a spell as part of the same bonus action you use to rage. This is to overcome a round where you use your bonus action to rage, action to cast, and leaving asshole DMs to just not attack you that round and make you immediately lose everything. You could also spend a round bonus action raging, action attack, then the next round casting but that would be convoluted and take time out of concentration.

6th level- action to cast, bonus action attack. Encourages casting multiple times while raging.

10th- sacrifice a small animal to immediately give an ally one of your hit die. (debating whether you should roll the hit die, take the damage, ally gets what you rolled+their con+1 from the small animal?)

14th- nothing yet.

The damage taken for rituals/potentially for healing allies is to go with the sacrificial theme I associate with voodoo shit, as well as utilizing the high HP the caster will have compared to other casters.

Thoughts? Would people take this for a 3 level dip to get any casting as a bonus action? What if I specified you could only use spells you got from that barb level while raging, and you could only cast those spells while raging? I think I would have to anyway to make an exception to "no spells while raging" rule.

>>49411580
More like the people from the planet he landed on fucked him over.

>Bitches about being a slave
>Rebels against his masters
>Emperor shows up
>Yo lets go we got humanity to save
>No papa I have to fight and die with my friends!
>Yeah nah these are all nameless faggots what the fuck do you care
>Teleport him and get him aboard big E's pimp ship.
>I HATE YOU PAPA!
>Yeah whatever faggot keep throwing a tantrum. Get to fucking work.
>Child proceeds to simmer down
>goes on to conquer worlds yet still pisses and moans about slavery
>Decides to make his whole legion a bunch of pissy children with nails in their head just like him.
>time passes bullshit continues to happen
>Decides after some persuasion to rebel yet again
>Becomes a deamon prince of khorne
>low and behold now and forever will be a slave

What a fucking retard.

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>>49411580
>Angron did nothing wrong
>he called himself "Angron"

>>49411183
Deckard, except not replicant.

>>49411183

Already been done by Neal Stephenson. He named the guy Hiro Protagonist, the cheeky bastard.

>>49411183
Tragic backstory he can't remember because of cyber-amnesia

>>49409609
Chess is fun, but I'm shit at it.

>>49409609

I'm a roughly 2000 FIDE chessplayer.

I'll take anyone on at 5/2 time controls if they're up to it.

https://lichess.org/SyLoLFUc

>>49409609
>no actual traditional strategy games like Chess, Durak, Go or Liar's Dice that span several centuries
If you can't find a thraed then make it you fucki
Oh wait you did.
Carry on then.

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>>49408615
Sci-fi flesh golem

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>>49409873
YOU HAD ONE JOB ANON.
ONE
JOB

>>49408701
In a world gone mad, one mother will do what it takes to protect the child she loves. Including but not limited to:
>Shooting a thug in the face
>Shooting a police officer in the face
>Shooting a wizard in the face
>Shooting a whizard in the face
>Shooting a dragon in the face
>Shooting a black hole in the face

Melinda Jones is...
PISTOL PACKING MAMA

Please excuse my autism

>>49406480
>Another thing...how the fuck does the whole ego backup/transfer thing work? If you die, you die. At least in 40k it can be different since souls objectively exist in the setting. But a backup of your mind is just a copy of you, not some kind of videogame save-state.

Have you tried >>>r/luddism? It seems like that board would be more your speed.

>>49406480
>Another thing...how the fuck does the whole ego backup/transfer thing work? If you die, you die. At least in 40k it can be different since souls objectively exist in the setting. But a backup of your mind is just a copy of you, not some kind of videogame save-state.

Mental gymnastics.

>>49406480
Nova Praxis

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>49405851

Rolled 4 (1d10)

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>>49405867
WE WERE FOUNDED TO COUNTER A SPECIFIC THREAT EVEN THOUGH IT TAKES LIKE A HUNDRED YEARS AND EVERYONE IS PROBABLY DEAD BY NOW OH WELL D100 WHEN WERE WE FOUNDED

>>49405880
LETS MAKE IT FUN AND SAY WE WERE FOUNDED TO COUNTER A SPECIFIC THREAT VIA STRATEGIC PROGNOSTICATION. BECAUSE IT'S MY THREAD AND I FUCKING SAY SO

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More gun.

>>49404714
Mostly existential depression and magic.

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>>49404777
How do you solve a problem with depression?

>>49401547
Very loud.

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>>49401547
Why ask for the guidance of a saint when you can service a GOD?

>>49401547
Browse /k/ and report back. You'll get your answer soon enough.

He's just one man. On a galactic scale, almost nothing changes.

Is he immune to psychic power shenanigans?

>>49401316
he gets mindraped immedately

> without randomly inserting Shaolin temples right next to your knights and castles

I feel like you are implying this is not the superior option.

>>49399504

The power of Christ empowers my fists.

Is there any class in DnD and Pathfinder that gives you martial arts prowess without being tied to a divine.

>>49398523
>I told him not to buy that creepy daemon mask from that obviously shifty salesman that disappeared immediately after, but he wouldn't listen.

Of course he wouldn't listen, he's an Elf.

Also, reposting this because it looked good and deserves some love or discussion

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Alright, so WFRP is percentile system. Roll a number of times equal to your attack score, every roll under your Ws is a hit. Roll for damage. Enemy can roll to dodge/parry. It just feels like a lot of unnecessary back and forth.

So the idea I'm tossing up with is both combatants roll Ws. Whoever rolls the highest while staying under their score wins. The tens digit is your margins of success, the ones digit is your damage.

That's the base of the idea so far. Shit I've been tossing around is;
1. Spending margins of success to change the hit location, going up and down 10 per margin.
2. Using the Attack stat to either make multiple attacks against different targets, or re-rolling your attack roll (either the tens or the ones dice or both)
3. You can still dodge, but you give up your opportunity to attack on your turn.

Still a work in progress, ideas and shit.

>>49398533
He's also an edgelord and his player uses the same character in every game. Whether he's human, elf or even skaven it's the same guy but in a different body.

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Just getting started with this really, but I'm also thinking about what kind of custom archetypes I could cobble together or how I'd refluff some of the classes to fit, such as turning Paladin into a sort of holy samurai or "Blessed" warrior-monk of some sort.

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I'd take a look at the 3.5e Five Rings stuff, referring to the conversion guide (https://media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/dnd/DnD_Conversions_1.0.pdf) for figuring out how to make it work in 5e.

>>49392035
Do note that one difference between samurai and the European knighthood (which the Paladin was based off of) is that the latter had a whole lot more religious implications than the former, in no small part due to the Crusades. The samurai were just a class of elite warriors. Nobunaga Oda's infamous self-description as the "Sixth Heaven Demon King" (a title properly belonging to Mara, the Buddhist Satan) spawned a figure of speech that persists to this day and means "powerful or prosperous man significantly lacking in spiritual development", and Oda is hailed as one of the greatest warlords in Japanese history.

The warrior-monk thing would work a lot better as a Paladin substitute, as many Buddhist monastic brotherhoods in Japan were outright martial orders and would stir up trouble for the nobility. In fact, when Christian monks first came to Japan from Holland and Portugal, the local authorities actually went, "Holy shit, pacifist monks? Yes please!"

So I was thinking about how to handle Pokemon as separate entities and not as weapons, maybe there could be a form of the bond system between Pokemon and trainers that is separate from the humanxhuman bonds? You could roll for nature to give the Pokemon more personality too.

Do you think the combat should focus more on the PBtA side or the Pokemon side?

>>49390618
>Do you think the combat should focus more on the PBtA side or the Pokemon side?
You should start by elaborating on this question. Right now, it is so vague as to be useless.
What exactly does combat "focused on the PbtA side" mean according to your understanding?

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You should stop wasting time on these inferior systems and do it all in GURPS.