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>>49209414
There's really only one thing I don't get about Trudvang.

Why the fuck can't they translate it? Jesus christ.

Swedes, like the rest of the scandis, are more than proficient in english. it's not that fucking hard, and this has led me to believe they fear wiards of the coast TM. Drackar och fangselshold or whatever.

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>>49211653
They ARE translating it. It's right there in the OP.

>>49209282
>I was told that casters are no longer master race in 5e, was I lied to?

Yep.

>>49209282
Yes, casters in 5e are still master race. Wizard and bard are probably the strongest but cleric is still up there.

The strongest non-full-caster is probably the paladin.

In fact, casters are at their strongest throwing one encounter at you per day, because it means your can blow your entire load in that fight.

Meanwhile, warlocks, fighters, monks etc are left hanging, because they expect to have several short rests a day.

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>>49209495
Done in two.
Bard is simply the strongest class, IMO.
They get Jack of All Trades, Magical Secrets, Inspiration, Song of Rest, and Expertise, plus some of the best spells in the game, proficiency in some useful weapons, three skills of choice, a d8 hitdie, and two of the better saves available (Dex and Cha), all on top of being a full caster that types off of CHA in a game where Half-Elf got a giant buff (the best race if Variant Human is barred).

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When he begins doubting in himself and his actions, he starts losing power. This has a side effect of producing single-minded zealots, who don't believe they can do wrong, while any insecure or overly analytical paladins are unreliable - who knows when he starts questioning his actions for a bullshit reason?

>>49208868

When they stop caring about the negative side effects of their actions.

>>49208868
Shouldn't this be the general case?
After all the person is imbued with the alignment. Not the action.

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>>49208034
Bumping with some interesting things in my folders.

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>>49208124

>vehicles for birds
Are you high, motherfucker?

>>49207939
Incredibly

I was watching planet of the apes, and of course apes can just use human stuff cos we're about the same. But African Grey Parrots are among the smartest animals on Earth. If they could think like us, how would they build things?

>>49208105

>letting a bird drive a car

Are you HIGH, motherfucker?

Additionally he'll debunk any threat that comes their way. I described and sort of hyped up a bugbear to be the main boss of a dungeon, and he immediately downplayed the threat by saying to the rest of the group "Oh that's not a problem, bugbears are easy to deal with". Even though I artificially inflated its stats, hp, and abilities during the encounter to try and make it seem more challenging, I feel like it's taking away from the experience of Y & W - that they're not being challenged at all because S seems to just asspull his way through each situation and the fact that I don't know what's applicable means it feels like he's just bullshitting his way through.
Because of his extra game knowledge he's also being doing things like rolling to figure out what armour the enemy is wearing and flat out demanding the AC value that enemy had - something I wasn't happy with telling him.

B has been rping his barbarian character and trying to encourage Y & W to tackle the objectives to learn more but it almost feels like they're playing second fiddle to S.

I don't want to discourage S's behaviour because this is simply how he is. This is how he wants to play, and I want to be accomodating of it, but I don't know how to entertain him and his character separately (if I should do that at all), I don't know how I can give his character adequate challenges without overburdening Y and W.

Should I add harder challenges that are specifically catered to S and encourage B, Y and W to do the other challenges?
Or is this just something that will get easier with more experience?
I just don't know how to make something interesting for all involved considering the gap in experience between the players and me, the DM.

TL;DR: I'm a novice DM, S player was a novice player, played D&D hardcore for 2 weeks and became an expert, his newfound advanced knowledge means I can't provide decent challenges in the campaign, how do I provide decent challenges that accomodate S but don't disconnect two novice players from the campaign?

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>>49207720
It sounds like he's making shit up and being That Guy. Be rid of him.
>Demanding to know AC
No, he's just walking over you because of your inexperience.

Give him two choices.
Either he uses his greater system knowledge to run, or, he fucks off.

>>49207146
Ryuutama and Apocalypse World.

>>49207146
Beyond the Wall.

fatal

Someone has to say it

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There once was a time when gods and people walked the earth together. Your clan traces its ancestry back to those times. Your clan history begins when you joined forces with the storm god Orlanth. Back then, Orlanth was simply one of many upstart, rebellious gods bent upon conquest of the world. Orlanth's unique contributions at that time were personal honor and a close kinship to the other deities who seemed to be on the winning side.

Praise Orlanth

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After many tribulations, adventures, and discoveries Orlanth proved himself worthy of marrying Ernalda, the Earth Mother. The two of them created the Marriage Ring and established great harmony in the world through this sacred bonding. Your clan took part in the wedding ceremony. Most clans either whooped with Orlanth, or learned a secret from Ernalda. A few clans stood with Elmal, God of Horses and the Sun as an honor guard.

How did you prepare for the great marriage?

1. Your men and women donned gleaming armor and stood guard with Elmal, to protect the celebrants from Orrlanth's many enemies.
2. Your men whooped with Orlanth and drank the Eight Known Drinks, so that their heads would hurt during the ceremony.
3. Your women withdrew with Ernalda, and learned a List of Names, which they promised not to repeat to the men.

d100 vote.

>>49206902
>Aurelia's Fury
Apples and Oranges
>Narset
Narset was nice, and did see a fair amount of play in Esper / U/W control lists.
She had a lot going for her, like the very high loyalty, and the fact that you can rebound wraths and untap on an empty board as a control deck. However, as soon as the more traditional control lists died down, and the only real control deck in standard was Esper Dragons, Narset became irrelevant.
The sort of deck that she slots into doesn't exist anymore (except random Shaheen Soorani brews), so she doesn't see play.


Torch of Defiance slots into a lot more decks, mainly because she follows the "how to become a relevant planeswalker in constructed" guidelanes :

+1 creates card advantage, and pressures your opponent / their walkers
- 3 protects her, and works the turn you drop her without depleting all loyalty
- 7 is your typical pressure ulti that forces your opponent to waste all their resources removing her, or losing the game
second +1 is just gravy and works with her main +1 in the way where you can both either draw new cards when your hand is weak, or accelerate your hand when it's strong


She will definitely see ton of standard play, considering how she is better than Flamecaller. Not in powerlevel, but being a 4 drop is way more relevant than being a 6 drop. The simply fact that you can play her on 4, kill a creature, and have a Chandra left is a huge tempo-swing.

I'll most likely try her in various modern decks, see how she plays there.

God I want to smell her sweaty, fiery bush so bad

Both +1's suck turn 4. Her second plus +1 is only a rebate if you have something to cast and actually cast it. Her -3 really sucks turn 4.

>>49207210
Exactly. If I wanted to play a walker on turn 4, I'd stick with Nahiri or Gideon. New Chandra is a hype meme, just like Sarkhan, Narset, and Arlinn before her.

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You're welcome.

>>49206383
like a bag of holding or that beard growing belt

>>49206383
A single Boot of Striding or Springing.

>>49205777
It's good.

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Bump?

>>49207117
I just don't understand why people on this board find it so difficult to bump a thread with actual content instead of signaling to all of /tg/ "This is a dead thread! Don't bother coming in here!" by writing "bump".

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Dunno generally, but when I think of MtG artwork, stuff like this pops up:
>Copper-leaf angel
>Alpha Dark Ritual
>Susan van Camp's Hymn to Tourach
>Greg Staple's (hue) Serra Angel
>All of Rebecca Guay's artwork
>Mirage lands

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>>49205533
>Post pics of your inspiration sources.+ 0 post omitted.
I mostly world-build, campaigns that I host are kind of a sideproduct of it and allow me to actually flesh out the settings even more when I see players poking holes in and exploring it.

My main source of inspiration are these:
http://mangafox.me/manga/shuna_no_tabi/v01/c001/6.html
http://www.mangareader.net/nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/1

The rest is mostly historical and anthropological research on East-European, Middle-East and Central Asian settings. I'm particularly fascinated by steppe and high-altitude environments and cultures.
For actual storylines, I borrow quite a lot from Thousand and One Nights and some short stories by a name called Borges.

>>49205533
Is it just me, or is talking anything creative just really difficult around /tg/. With the exception of storythreads, which seem to work fine, discussions about creativity, inspiration world-building threads and the like don't really work.

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>>49206899
Yep, people will sometimes talk about how they like their elves or similar things, but they won't talk much about why they're attracted to certain parts of the hobby/game for whatever reason.

For me I draw inspiration from old structures and environments, weather it's visiting an old wooden grain mill on a river, or exploring abandoned buildings, or places that look like medieval ruins, being in these places make me want to run games.

>>49205266
When a mummy bad spess muhreen and a daddy bad spess muhreen love each other very much they do a special hug.

Prett much the last one which is why the csm codex being shit tier is true to the fluff

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Didn't the Iron Warriors try and make some new space marine babies in one of the novels and they were all born without skin or something?

And then what happened?

>>49204616
ok

Feeding the cranes explosives has finally paid off I see.