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>>49252369
Are you talking about D&D?

Depends if wizards can project a magical barrier versus the psionic's attacks, and vise versa if the psychic can transcend to a plane out of reach of the wizard's spells. But most likely, stalemate.

You're using words like end-game, so do you have a particular setting or game in mind?

>>49251835
1d8>1d6

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>>49251835
I prefer polearms.

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Spears are nice for their range but I love the versatility a sword provides. Especially a good longsword or a bastard sword.

Longsword you can stab, slash, bludgeon, puncture armor with the cross guard, use the hilt to smack somebody across the helmet, half sword it to stab the weak points. Just a great all around weapon.

>>49251822

Look up Carbon Based Lifeforms, ambient trance that makes great background noise for sci fi.

>>49251822
http://music.gravitasrecordings.com/music

Some of the DEF CON soundtracks have some pretty good stuff, which is unsurprising considering the culture. Razorgirl from DEF CON 24, if nothing else, is relevant.

Almost anything in the Synthwave or Outrun genres.

I would start with Gunship, Lazerhawk, Timecop1983 and the Drive soundtrack.

self bump?

Traveller springs to mind as a go-to for sci fi games, especially if you're looking for something on the harder scale. I've also heard good things about Stars Without Numbers, which is apparently in a similar vein, but I haven't played it personally.

You could do generic systems of course, but you're not here to get told to play GURPS.

If you don't mind something that comes with its own setting there's Eclipse Phase, which is very transhuman-focused. You could also do any of the Warhammer 40k games (rogue trader would be the one to look at if you want to be flying a ship around), but 40k doesn't translate very well to generic sci-fi, so it might not be what you're after.

Many sci fi franchises have their own rpgs. There's an official Star Trek I believe, and Firefly, and even an unofficial Mass Effect game all of which you should be able to find online without too much trouble.

Hope that helps. If you post more specific details of what you're after I can give it a look in the morning and see if I can help further.

If you don't mind D20 variants then Stars Without Number is actually pretty good, and Far Trek is outstanding. If not, maybe give Rocket Age or Degenisis a look.

Well, Doc there had Tuberculosis. It did eventually kill him.

>>49251117
Right. That was the closest example I could think of, but Doc really shouldn't have been out of bed for most of that movie. He definitely wasn't performing as well as would have without the deadly illness.

>>49250995
The mysterious Japanese Cold.

Alignment: LE

>>49250848
Literally did nothing wrong.

Biological filth should be wiped out.

>>49250848
Fart/10

>>49249734

"X-card, fuck yeah! Take it to the edge."

I've never x'd my own scene before, although I have been known to push an early scene hard to that an x-card actually happens in front of a new player.

>>49249734
I was seriously thinking of adopting them as a red cards for plays about to attempting min max bullshit.

>>49249734
>What reactions did you have towards this?
"Oh man, I bet there are going to be a ton of shitty bait threads on /tg/ about this"

>>49249599

There are a few established faiths in the setting but the PCs are free to create one of their own as, such in real life, there were any number of cults and religious movements even if they are forgotten or merely personal interpretations or different views of the main faiths.

I feel that making too much emphasis on certain gods focuses to much story detail to them unless your game/setting involves dealing with them specifically but I prefer distant/no-gods (or at least overt ones anyways)

>>49249599
The Party members are all oddly charismatic and need a quick buck.

>>49249599
We mostly avoid religion at my table because of the diversity which only ends with us having a bunch of ooc arguments. I've done a bunch of worldbuilding about it, but never get to implement it much.

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Manlets because shortstacks is my magical realms.

>>49248826

SECONDED though short elves tread into tiefling territory and I'd take tiefs over elves any day.

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>>49248859
Tieflings are not small in any D&D edition.

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>>49248322

“And here I thought you’d want to want to go out for dinner since we’re both in the city.” the blue armoured figure says as she flicks open the cylinder of her weapon, calmly shaking out spent casings from her weapon before grabbing a speed loader from an opening that slide open on her wrist. “I’m not sure we’re going to be doing it fast now though. All of the warehouse must’ve heard that explosion and I’m pretty sure so did the Night Ravens... Or whoever is hired to guard this area at the moment.”

“Hooded Executioners, and I bribed the guard captain of this area earlier, they won’t be a problem.” the Silver figure says putting the Kusarigama on her side before placing her hand on a katana that’s hanging off her hip. “I just don’t see the reason to send both of us when one of us alone is easily enough for this entire warehouse.”

“Intelligence suggests a Dragonblooded is on the payroll of this group, possibly a large number of demons or Elementals to go along with them.” The blue one says, giving a quick spin of the revolver before loading it into a small container on the side of her thigh.

“Still doesn’t change anything.” The Silver armoured figure as she glances around the warehouse, seeing the large array of cargo containers and wooden crates lined up. “Whatever, let’s just get this done and over with s-”

AUTOMATED DECISION ASSISTANT ONLINE
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- Pow: Have Blue Jade unit advance as a bulwark towards enemy group to draw fire, have Moonsilver Unit Stealth and flank targets.
- Eff: Have Moonsilver unit Scout for Blue Jade Unit, Blue Jade unit scales warehouse and provides covering fire via Sniper Rifle from roof while Moonsilver Unit makes Surprise Attack
- Other: User Input, be aware life signs are detected approximately 150 meters in front of you.

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“Why is Ada coming up now? Are our own systems trying to mock us!?” The “Moonsilver” unit says in disbelief.

“Relax. We had a firmware update a little while ago remember? It was just probably a minor glitch that Ada turned back on by default.” The “Blue Jade” unit says as she looks over the options. “Certainly been awhile since I’ve seen it though.”

“Whatever. I don’t want to go through the hassle of shutting it up, and quite frankly I highly doubt anything in here will be beyond it.” The Moonsilver unit says.

(Yes, you can actually vote on the options presented to you)


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Hello and welcome to Alchemical Blade: Prequel Quest: The Prologue! Normally quest runners don’t start talking openly after the introduction bit but after hearing some feedback from my friends I’ll make this informational post.

One of these two lovely characters here will be the protagonist of the story and at the end of this prologue you will be able to vote which one of the two will be it. In the meantime, this prologue is to help ease into the setting and be more of a showcase involving the two characters themselves.

Cool, but I think /qst/ is a more appropriate venue.

I hope iron man here >>49248352 wins the vote.

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Counter Monkey

I've been watching Office Hours done by Adam Koebel. The guy looks like a fruit, but he's got some good GMing advice, and gets in depth with 3 questions per episode, with each episode being about 50 to 60 minutes or so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-YZvLUXcR8&list=PLlUk42GiU2guNzWBzxn7hs8MaV7ELLCP_

At the pace Ser Wil Deschain was riding Boulder, he suspected it wouldn't be until nightfall before he reached the Dancing Dragon Inn, let alone King's Landing but frankly he could care less. The sun was high, glob of orange that seems to be growing larger and larger like a wine stain wiped the wrong way, but it air breeze was constant and soft. Spring had just arrived and quite frankly, Ser Will was determined to enjoy it. Three long years of Winter got a man to appreciated a nice heat. Especially one as soft and pleasant as this one.

“Can we please go faster my Lord?” Daeron Frey asked, wiping sweat from his brow. A lanky, chinless little lordling, naming him after a dragon apparently did little to add gumption to his disposition. Wil wonder how Set Holster Frey ever got him to agree to squire his little shit of son, friend of his father Roland or not. “At this rate we'll barely make it for the tourney, and the squire's melee is formally a day before...”

“Daeron, you best soak up the sun all you can. Spring might might mean sunshine and bright skys in the Riverlands, but after tourney we head back to my home in the Stormlands. And Spring in the Stormlands means rain and dark clouds if your lucky, thunder and lighting if your not.” Ser Wil said, smiling before taking a swig from his waterskin “Besides, I've been over this, your not ready for the melee or the lists yet we'll discuss again in a year”

“Not anyone near as big as Daeron's Memorial though” Frey sulked as he trotted along on his big black courser, oh so cleverly named Midnight. Thankfully, as far as Wil was able to hear, he stayed silent after that though.

Not that he wasn't right. Rumor was Aegon IV had every intention of outdoing himself this year, and it was said it was known for being open handed when it came to celebrations, feasts, and festivals. The king loved a party and there was no bigger one possible than at a joust. Knights, lords, ladies and singers alike all looking to puff up their chests and show off what they had to offer, honor those brave or foolish enough to do so, or at least make coin pretending to so. A type of geneosity Wil's father, Lord Roland would have looked down upon no doubt, but one Ser Wil had yet to develop an opinion one way or another. Wil never took the sept like his father had, and quite frankly outside of battle, didn't share much an opinion or liking or even skill for what he believed.

After what had to have been at least a couple of hours, Daeron spoke again his voice losing it's usual inflection of a child's loud self pitying tantrum and a suprisingly flat and matter of fact voice.

“Ser Wil….is that smoke?”

It took Wil a minute or two to focus his eyes, but sure enough the Frey boy wasn't wrong. Off in the distance a little hovel of a house was emitting a thick black inky smog. Outfront a wagon was overturned with a man sprawled on his belly. Wil wasn't a clever man, but he was smart enough to put two and two together.

>Investigate
>Go on your way

Well, messed up the thread title. Will continue on, even if it's goofy looking as hell

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> In the very beginning of the campaign, the party was recruited by a rich merchant to cross half the world, find a guy and two his children and escort him back to the merchant.
> Said guy? Bard. He's also a carpenter.
> We didn't ask many questions. In fact, we didn't ask any questions at all, but simply headed to our destination.
> Somewhen along the way we meet an archfey that offers us some vague and potentially very dangerous contracts with vague and very poetic prices. DM thought we’ll end up making one or two contracts, we ended up making twelve.
> So, twelve contracts, one agonizing megadungeon, seven levels, a few deaths of our party members and many in-game weeks later we finally reach our destination.
> We stop at an inn. Since we just went through this setting’s version of Moria and robbed a dwarven treasury, we have some cash to burn.
> The innkeeper, a guy called Greyhair, sees the murderhobos in his place and immediately leaves.
> We suddenly realize that we have no idea where to look for the bard, what he looks like or what's his name. We just know that he's a bard and a carpenter.
> The party splits in three pairs (except for the sorcerer who went on his own) and each goes on it's own way.
> Me and the ranger decide that the bard is not really that important, so we end up trying to establish a dwarven civilization instead, but it’s really not that interesting.
> Adventures of others, however, are quite amusing.

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>>49247616
> The barbarian and the blackguard first visit a blacksmith, where the blackguard leaves his armor for upgrades - except for the helmet. For the rest of the story he’s walking around in cheap clothes and a bucket helmet.
> Then they decide to search for the bard. First, they ask around to find out who’s doing carpenting around here.
> They decide to go on a tour to ask all of the carpenters if they can sing or play musical instruments.
> Surpisingly, one of the carpenters does, and he even performs so well, they give him money. But he’s not the guy.
> Meanwhile, the monk and the warlock are interrogating our insane dwarf NPC, Dorri, about where the bard might live or hang out.
> Since Dorri has been a completely useless nervous wreck for the entire campaign, it goes about how well you can expect.
> “Bard. A carpenter. Made toys. Children very happy. Gave me one.”
> They realize that the bard must be at the summer fair, so they head there at once.
> In the beginning of spring.
> Eventually they do realize that those events don’t happen every day, so they continue interrogating Dorri.
> “Bard. The carpenter. Made toys, very well.”
> Suddenly the duo realizes that “Bard” is actually the guy’s name.

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>>49247629
> The detective duo starts asking around about a guy named Bard, but for some reason people are uncooperative. Eventually they do persuade an old lady to tell them that Bard is a nice guy, who lives with his family in a beautiful house nearby.
> Bard, makes toys, has two children, checks out - he’s the guy.
> They ask for directions and receive them - but they’re warned by the old lady that Bard is not at home right now, he’s taking a walk somewhere, so they probably should come to him at the evening.
> The most succesful part of the party decides that fuck this shit, they didn’t come so far to wait until the evening. Also, an evil druid and his werewolves may or may not be coming to eat Bard and his family, so they should really get moving.
> So they do - they come to Bard’s doorstep, knock on his door and get no response. “Well, he really isn’t home” - they conclude - “We should watch his house and approach him the moment he comes back.”
> They take a secluded position they can watch Bard’s house from and wait.
> Suddenly, city guard comes by and politely asks them to get out and stop being suspicious. Monk will not be bullied - he succesfully intimidates the guard into backing the fuck out and leaving.
> Some time passes in peace and quiet, when some more gentlemen visit the dynamic duo - a very diverse group of people sharing exactly one thing in common - they’re all well armed.
> One of the polite gentlemen tells the duo that they should have been more covert - and now they’re paying the price for their sloppiness.
> After this, the group attacks - at first the duo holds their ground and tries to fight, but very soon they crunch the numbers and realize that each and every one of polite gentlemen is actually a level 5 rogue, and there’re many of them.
> After realizing how utterly fucked they are, the monk grabs the warlock, runs up the wall and disappears without a trace, while the gentlemen are watching in awe.

>>49247270
Check Ebay

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First, you need to understand pauldrons...

Pick the models that you think are cool.

Hobby stores should be able to let you know what's up with paint

You gonna want an exacto knife and one of those really tiny brushes. Also a base-coat spray, forget what those are called

>>49246279

This is an oddly specific question, does the Wizarding world even have insurance policies?

>>49246430

I would like to think so, but I don't know for sure unless I suddenly grow a pair and ask JK Rowling on Twitter, which I don't see happening anytime soon.

>>49246676

It would make sense for them to, magical accidents and all that business. It's something that has always bothered me about the universe is the Wizards have a strong vibrant community that you only see the surface of but in order to have that surface there would have to be a larger population of wizards than what is stated in the books doing all the other implied jobs to keep the system moving forward