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>>49255212
Very likely AFAIK, since surface water serves to stabilize temperature fluctuations, which is good for habitability.

>>49255257
That and water is pretty abundant in the Universe.

>>49255212
Extremely likely.

>>49255026
>What went right?

It never caught on or made a splash outside of people going "Look, that white supremacist murderer made an RPG. Huh."

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I never knew Varg-chan made a game.

>>49255035
I was going to say "nothing", but you kinda of have a point, and thank the gods for it.

>>49254924

Legacy
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Manaless Dredge
Mono-Black Pox

Casual
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Jeskai Wizards
Azorius Turbofog
Grixis Bolas Theme-Deck
5-Color Slivers
Mono-Green Oath-Control
Esper Affinity
Mono-Blue Storm Stiflenought
Mono-Red Burn
UG Tron
Mono-Red Fling-n-Pyroclasm
Mono-White Angels
Mono-Blue Equiped Stalker
Mono-Black Skeletons
Bant Flagbearer-Control
Mono-Black Istvan Theme-Deck
Orzhov Zombies
5-Color Incarnations&Bringers
Rakdos Copper-Tablet

Ancient
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Esper Thrulls

EDH/Commander
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Sheoldred - Black-Good-Stuff
Niv-Mizzet - Combo-Control
Ulrich - RG-Werwolf-Aggro
Archangel Avacyn - White-Good-Stuff
Galina - Blue-Good-Stuff

EDH-
Meren, who I've put money into and is my one and only.
Newzuri, who my brother bought me and is just small unblockable creatures.
60-
An atarka red deck that has mutagenic growth and bolt. I love this deck and plan to foil it out eventually.
A temur ramp/aggro deck. Love savage knuckleblade.
A mardu dragon/control deck.
WIP-
Building a budget version of oliver tius grixis control that won't be legal in standard by the time I finish it.
I've also played and taken apart werewolf tribal, minotaur tribal, g/w heroic, r/g monstrous, abzan counters, and mardu tokens.

>>49254924
I don't have a lot of money but I have one Modern Casual deck; RG Innistrad Werewolves

I built it while heavily focusing on flavor, so no non-Innistrad creatures, no vampires, no spells that a werewolf wouldn't use. It turned out pretty good and I plan on doing a RB Devil's theme deck next

If they're characters want to rebel, let them rebel.

Then crush them. Really break their spirits.

Alright, crushing might be a bit harsh of a word. Make it tantalizingly possible to win, and allow it if they do, but stack the odds against them the first time. Make the other slaves doubt them from failure. Give them rivals and enemies in their captors. Only kill npcs that helped.

When they do get put into their place, though, give them a story; a quest to do in their capacity of slaves. Carry the momentum forward. Finally, give them a chance to run, but not take down the captors. Make them flee into the night while still powerless. Give them a struggle to become powerful enough again to return and take down their slave drivers and retrieve their things. Let the overall master escape, and become a recurring villain, or person to hunt.

tl;dr: Let them rise up, put them down fairly, don't kill them, and give them another objective as slaves.

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>>49254895
Hint that they have to wait and watch for an opportunity, until then shut down everything that they attempt.

Don't drag this on for TOO long though. It makes for a rather boring game if you have the players spending multiple sessions accomplishing nothing but being victims for some kind of despair-porn fetish realm.

>>49255143
well, I had planned for every female player character and every male player character described as pretty to be brutally raped into submission if they ever attempt some shit and get caught. I have a flow-chart of the areas of their body that get raped depending on severity of transgression.

>>49254799
Perception, Investigation Persuasion

>>49254899
How does Persuasion help?

>>49255163
Slowly steer the conversation about the topic until somebody inevitably steps onto it .

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>Blend of scifi and fantasy

Why is this a thing? And why does it always make even less sense than Steampunk?

>>49254287
Eat shit, faggot. Magitek is and always will be the hypest shit.

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>>49254287

Are you serious? That's like saying Starwars is cut from the same cloth as a genre where you put fucking cogs on a hat and say it's powered by steam and come up with uselesslly obnoxious names for a ray gun.

The only good thing to come out of it is porn.

Players are space roadies for a space rock star, they have to deal with groupies n shit and they still get to travel

Space call of cthulu? I can still see players getting scared by eldritch horrors in space, especially in tight enclosed corridors of a derelict ship

>>49254387
This. Even if you don't go the full on wacky route this idea has potential for I think it would be cool to see more things about weird mundane space jobs, like that one anime about the trash collectors in space.

>>49253895
They're both absolute shit desu senpai

>>49253903
Mind offering criticism that's constructive or offering an alternative then?

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>>49253903
Seconding this. Both doctrines sound like pointless depressing Nihilism, and neither is really that fun or interesting to interact with.

If I HAD to choose one, I'd choose the second because there's at least some string of reasoning to it... but it still sounds really close to being "chaotic-evil randumb". The only way it possibly works is if the character has something resembling morals and a sense of right and wrong (even though morals don't match up with those of society) because otherwise the character is really hard to get invested in or care about. What happens when becoming a "free and developing agent" means killing everyone who disagrees with you and becoming a dictator-like entity? See the problem here?

It depends onw what you're going for. If you want the quiet emptiness of space, put on some ambience or space ambience. If you're trying to make it feel like an opera or epic, put on some rousing orchestras. If you want to feel like a trucker hauling ass through space or some sort of gunslinger, put on some blues and a bit of rock country.

tl;dr - Your "space music" relies on the tone you're going for.

"Space" is an incredibly varied setting, but the fun thing about it is how you can cram basically anything into it.

Judging from your music choices, you're looking for something that sounds alien, but in a human way, if you get me. Use of actual instruments (or at least, the sort of sounds they make; not going to bash instrument synthesizers) instead of the sort of electronic synth you'd find in, say, a high tech space science fiction.

I'm a basic fucking bitch when it comes to music, but I've always liked the mix of music Cowboy Bebop has; the differing music for each setting helps make every place that much different.

For example, you break out the tribal mystical stuff for the wandering of the cosmos and when you drop into the cantina that orbits around the moon at just the right speed to constantly be viewing an eclipse, you find some smooth jazz.

Really it depends on how unified the culture of said space is. I find the most fun ones to be ones where there's all sorts of shit smashed into every nook and cranny, makes it feel more real. Even in boring nothing towns there's always a chinese restaurant, if that metaphor makes sense.

Cowboy bebop has a good soundtrack for that (well some of the songs)
The 2001 space odessey soundtrack could be cool, all that classical and the spooookyyyyyy vocal tracks.
For space/sci-fi settings I like to play IDM and brain dance music when in large metropolises, mostly ambient music when in space and I love using Sunn O))) for " forbidden zones"

>>49253622
What's the mission and opposition?

Rocks.

Mining equipment.

Monsters.

>>49253628
they are going to be heading to a mining planet thats tithes have been low and several high ranking magos have gone missing
the opposition will be rebels trying to disrupt general production and such on the planet the long term plan is to have this linking to the planetary governor trying to gain power through any means necessary

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>>49253130
English version

>>49253130
Needs more V-fin.

>>49253130
>Mecanotitty

>>49253009
Eh, I've spent my free time watching much worse, but I wouldn't exactly call it "good".

It's okay. The voices are pretty good.

>>49253009
It's good background noise

>>49252524
Define "thief". Also, while we're at it, define "best". I'm not entirely sure what you want here. Do you just want to be able to steal stuff reliably?

I had one player do amazing with straight rogue with no alterations. Another took a higher magic route to the thievery goal and went arcane trickster. Yet another went straight wizard and used magic for shenanigans. In a slightly more powerful game, I saw a pair of players playing an ur priest and illithid savant, literally stealing magic from their opponents and the gods themselves. More information is necessary.

>>49252687
Stealing, pickpocketing, some points in social skills as well to weasel your way out of situations.
You know, stereotypical thief stuff.

>>49252524
Can't speak for 3.5e but for 5e I had a character who resorting to thievery for quick,easy cash to pay for his lifestyle of laziness and glamour. Outside of that, however, he was very lazy and had an interesting take on the flexibility of the law, doing everything from forgery to thievery, but never murder.

He was raised in a village known for skilled mercenaries and cutthroats, but due to some circumstances he was quite pacifistic, determined to injure but never kill. Using throwing daggers to disarm and disable and destroy, caltrops to slow and hamper, dust to blind, and even bear traps to immobilize, he'd weaken foes to the point of surrender or easy dispatching by the party.

tl;dr lazy pile of pacifistic shit resorts to thievery to make quick cash, gets wrapped up with an adventuring party and helps by throwing a metric fuck ton of objects

Half of Tolkien's characters would be that guy.

Hell, half of most authors' characters would be that guy.

Technically, Golem did know the answer to the riddle. It wasn't exactly difficult to simply think of what wasn't present.

>>49252510
It ain't cheating if the opponent's so dumb they think it's an actual question instead of mumbling

If anything, the blame lies on the GM for making it too easy

>>49252485
>C4
Because you'll need an explosive start.

whip out the king's gambit

>>49252485
I station A7 pawn on top of A8 rook