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>>54961897
In order to preserve the martial might of the nobility as a military force, the King decreed that all young heirs must have accomplished one great deed to their name in order to inherit land.

Failure of a family to meet those requirements means the house is deprived of its noble status and its land given to someone with deeds to his name, and his family didn't have the money to bribe enough people to make up a deed. So it was a bit of a family duty.

>>54961897
My character was forced into it, had to turn to adventuring when being a peon for a shitty gang wasn't making enough money. Gotta pay the bills somehow

>>54961897
Set off to conquer the world (for the good guys)

>>54961788
I never have. All of my games in Golarion are way further north and west, so I get seduced by closer nations of humanity

>>54961788
>Vudrani
Where the fuck is this even

>Start at 1st level
>Have to deal with orc bandits surrounding the starting city
>TPK because orcs have falchions and GM crits a lot, orcs also survive first drop to 0 hps
>Next group also has to deal with that shit
>TPK once again
>Next group also has to deal with that shit
Nope, I'm out

Run it using Pokemon Tabletop United combat rules which are based off D&D 4e.

Abilities are at-will, n-times-per-scene, burst N, blast N, Line, etc.

Items give you bonuses to your rolls or additions to your attacks.

If you want noncombat then do it however you want. Honestly I'd just freeform this.

Bump

i love the end of summer, we can go 6 hours without archiving now

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When doing these kinds of things, I've found that it's best to avoid attempting to replicate video game mechanics and instead just go for the story and the feel of the game.

RoR is a perfect example of this because the core gameplay is a fun, action packed side scroller, while all the text in the game paints a bleak struggle for survival on a hostile world. If you read all the descriptions of the Monster Log you can get an idea of how it would look from the player's perspective. An example from the Imp Overlord's description:

>Oh, why me? My heart stopped when this great Imp manifested in previously empty space. So many horrendous eyes. With a gaping scream the Imp lets out a deadly red vapor. Some type of laser also trails me.

The gameplay would not translate well into tabletop and that's why I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't even bother.

If I were to run a RoR game (and I actually might, now that you've put the idea into my brain), I'd pick a system that's harsh and crunchy (like GURPS), resources are scarce and the world is hostile, rushing in without a plan will get you killed, and even small injuries or damage to equipment can prove fatal. Items would be scarce but powerful. You wouldn't be getting 20 Goat Hooves, but a single Tough Times can save your life. I'd avoid replicating in-game effects and instead focus on the item's concept. I'd also play up the item's corruption effects.

Most importantly, I'd find a group who was into all that before running it.

>>54961640
This stuff again?

Sage.

>>54961640
The former sounds dumb but the latter demands narrative weight and can warp a campaign premise or tone, and steal all the attention away from other players if allowed.

>>54961640
DJ Racemixer at it again with the white guilt.

What can i use to run a game where the players are hobos? that isn't that one VS the illuminati?

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My friends and I had a blast playing this. I just traded the the hacking status for a everything else stat.
So you have Fast, which governs anything driving related, Furious, which governs anything fighting related, and & which is the catch all roll.

>>54961379
>A goblin tribe wants to occupy the Queen which will rip a hole...
Ohmy

>>54960932
As long as they are officially recognized.
I mean Australia is just a city and a few towns and it's a goddamn continent.

>>54960932

Not at all. IIRC some Italian medieval city states branded themselves as duchies.

>>54960932
Luxembourg was a medieval duchy and it wasn't much more that what you described. I think they key is the duchy was more prestigious at some other point.

>>54960003
>How could a realistic "mordor" look like?
A weirdly dark plain on pluto.

>>54960003
Have you ever been to Detroit?

>>54960003
I wonder if a tidal locked planet could have a moon permanently at the same place between it and its sun.

>>54959835
Slaanesh is only a rape god if you're not willing to receive Hir gifts.

Ynnead was a half-aborted fetus that was taken out of the womb too early. It's nowhere near as powerful as it was supposed to be, because it was not woken properly, and it is a fraction of a fraction of the power of a Chaos God.

Ynnead cannot in any way kill slaanesh at this point. It's too weak.

>>54960517
Good thing there was a timeskip.

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>>54959826
First for Brayherds!

Death deserves to be spoiled more.

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>>54959838
So how do you do guys in GHB2?

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>Guys, I've tricked a paladin into falling, look how smart am I, how do I punish him for trusting me, the DM?
>In 5e, where paladins fucking falling is not even a thing unless they want to

>>54959702
No, it was the players idea this time, i know how to do it in the lore, but not in technicalities

Change him to oath breaker?

Or convert levels above pally 2 into warlock

>>54959594
>USA and USSR exploded in a space race across the Orion Arm

>The Cold War got a whole lot colder once the space fights began.

>>54959594
Transhuman technology is possible, but not popular for ideological reasons in both polities.

>>54959381
Superpowered and superspecial NPCs like Elminster are cancer of DnD settings, and nowhere it is more obvious than in Dragonlance, where everything important is already done, and all adventures are already had by canon characters.
Which is why Dragonlance is dead.

>>54959381
He has a good point though. Once you reach level 20, if you aren't part of an order dedicated to messing with other Wizards, Wizard duels are essentially MAD. Either you go nuclear on turn 1 and they don't have contingent magic, or they do have contingent magic and you need to flee.

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>>54959439
You forget that Elminster is a MASSIVE piece of shit who won't stop showing up in Dungeon, Dragon and Polyhedron magazine articles with the intention of telling people of horrible threats like cannibal Doppleganger ex-mindflayer slaves in the mountains, immedaitely scouting out BBEG lairs and telling people about them, or even fucking disclosing the like of horrific doomsday spells whenver he's fucking interviewed, and everyone knows where the cunt lives, and he even fucking belittled an apprentice for touching minor necromancy who then later got stuck in his fuckign closet until said apprentice had no choice but to become a Lich, who was later freed by use of divination onyl to be destroyed by that stupid martial bitch who accompanies Elminster because he could only turn his spellbook into a Phylactery.

He's also a piece of shit who turned down his birthright to rule a kingdom and fuck off to practice magic as he had subsequently being Tranny pozzed by Mystra who literally turned him into a woman to check his privilege, and was prevented from stopping a fellow mage from inventing the worst fucking cult ever to plague all of toril, the Cult of the Dragon, because Mystra wanted the ritual to be invented.

Despite it being so nonfunctional that dragons couldn't even rejuvante in the same manner as regular liches because of how their souls work, staying at the highly exorbitant ritualized standards of 2e with the only benefit of using non-dragon corpses that are lizardlike to alleviate this. Despite the fact that Transmutation is a school and not one of these dumb flying scalie fucks thinking to turn corpses into adult dragons for said Dracoliches to use.

Someone needs to throw him into a fucking sphere of annihilation and end his menace, he's a failed transsexual deviant ammoral old man placeholder for a violent perverted child molesting hobo fantasy writer.

>>54959257
>Uhhh, okay, sure, I'll get to it, I guess
Lmao i really hope this is made up and you aren't that beta.

Fuck off, frogposter.

>>54959308
I'm trying to be accommodating, games are a group effort, are they not?

>>54959042
When did this happen

>>54959042
This is almost totally unique to that shitheap of a "game", DnD. Really speaks to the brain damage of its players.

>>54959081
Nobody cares, Ron.
Your website sucks, your theories are trash, and your games are even worse.