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>>49095366
>All dice that fall off the table count as the lowest possible roll

>>49095871
Thanks god I'm playing a roll-under system!

What defines a "careless roll"?

>>49095003
What are the conditions of the enslavement and what are the standards of living they have?

>>49095044
wow, like that even matters?

What the fuck would that even power? What in that inn requires mechanical power?

Pretty sweet, I'm a huge egyptboo

>>49094813
I am sorry friend, but WotC is about to piss all over something you love. And then they're going to fuck up Egyptian mythology too.

>>49094845
But I liked Kamigawa and Theros

I dunno men, I really loved community's take on DnD.

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>>49093688

let's be honest though, the botch/crit rules are the only narratively interesting aspect of D&D's dice system but also the worst statistical element of the system to the point where they have to not exist in the skill mechanics.

>lol guys let's go play a dungeons & dragons
>play a wargame wearing larp costumes
>lol we're so nerdy

Interesting way to bring a party together:

http://fusion.net/story/339018/facebook-psychiatrist-privacy-problems/

A take on the idea of the sort of hive mind of interconnected cyborgs that's usually not done would for the government to either be neutral or opposed to human hives as individualism is popular among both the general populace and the political landscape.

Gangs of cyborgs come together to link themselves over networks to strengthen their unity. Many of the punks doing this still keep their punk aesthetic and ideologies, but they often act and feel as one.

religous and social enclaves that do this as a means of solidarity and unity. Not well taken to on Earth mainly because you have some groups trying to get the privilage of being an individual in some instances while being a group of individuals in others for various legal purposes.

But this goes in degrees: in some cases the link is just to strengthen their bond with each other, they are still individuals and view themselves as such where others require conformity of indentity making you assume a new name ( and even apperance).

>>49093151
>A street urchin runs up the party, hands them a note, and then runs off. The note is a scribbled request to meet someone named "Fig the Fingerless" behind the temple at midnight

>A dog trots past the party, with a jewelled crown settled on its head at a jaunty angle

>A street seller is selling muzzled dragon babies, insisting that they're birds from a distant, exotic land

>A drunken gang war has broken about between two taverns on opposite sides of a busy street

>There is a fire in the upstairs window of a brewery, and the workmen are rolling barrels of beer out into the street to keep them safe from the flames

>A quarrel between two barmaids has turned into a vicious knife-fight in an inn's courtyard. Bystanders are hooting and cheering, making no attempt to seperate the two

>A jester sprints down a street towards the party, pursued by a dozen town guards

I swear if i have to encounter another fucking bear, you would think there are more of them than trees in the forest.

>>49093151
I hope they encounter a better weaponsmith.

Yes.

>>49092714

Provided the life support included an atmosphere, yes, of course.

>>49092714
Yes. Obviously.

This needed to be asked?

>>49092449
Try your luck in 5e general.

>>49093031
>>49092449
Also, break up your posts into paragraphs. Walls of text are a pain in the ass to read.

>>49092449
>hello dear /tg/. I come hear seeking your ideas as you are immensely creative as a group.

Okay, but we're also assholes. I don't know if you're going to like this.

>Im working on a D&D 5e adventure for my group. I taking inspiration from two sources.. The Black Company series and Berserk. What i mean is that the characters will start as low ranking soldiers in a mercenary unit hired to maintain peace in a large city (just like at the start of the Black Company first book).

What level are the characters starting at? When you say low-ranking, they're Corporals / Lance Corporals in modern terms? Or they're low-ranking NCOs, with a few much lower ranking men under their command?

>They need to bash some heads in and make sure people fear the company. And then they will have to deal with something big (im thinking a displacer beast) and see many of their comrades killed.

Heads up - give something stats, and PCs will find a way to kill it. Or kill themselves trying to kill it. What level the characters are will matter here.

>Then... after the Lord who hired them is killed they can decide to keep the city and take care of it as their own. Maybe the captain decides he had enough of getting dangerous assignment in random places on the continent and he want to appoint himself as lord of the land and administer it.

An important point - if the players are low-ranking members of the company, THEY aren't deciding shit about the fate of the city. Instead, I'd have the captain of the company decide one thing, and perhaps one or two of his lieutenants decide another - a brief bit of infighting in the company, and the players decide which side (if any) they want to come down on. Make it a close thing, whichever side they pick, who wins - maybe they stay with the captain, and just barely put down the revolt; maybe they side with the "let's go back to doing our fucking job" lieutenant, and just barely avoid being called traitors and killed.

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>>49091242
Thanks for giving me my new phone background. Here's some Lilliana fanart for you.

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>>49091305
Lilliana is worst girl

I cant wait for her to give up her powers to protect her friends fighting the last demon

>>49091242
I don't think she's very imba, -2 is pretty OP but she's pretty frail unless your board state is ass anyway.

>>49090639
The way I was told, Khorne was first, and existed when the first man killed his brother in anger, or as the Mongols began to claim their empire. Nurgle came from the black plague. Tzeentch was born from the Machiavellian era. Slannesh is from the eldar empire, but historically probably the 60's.

>>49090821
You mean "awakened".

The Chaos Gods always existed in the Warp. That's how Be'lakor contacted them before any of them "awakened". The Harlequins also state that the Primordial Annihilator aka Chaos has been waging war on the universe since the dawn of time.

>>49090639

As concepts they've always existed, it's only when the warp was tainted and corrupted by the war in heaven that 'Chaos' as we know it came to be.

Khorne as a god was probably born in that time, as was Nurgle. War tends to breed hatred and despair quite well.

Tzeentch was more than likely born during the same period, but a little bit later. More than likely he was fueled by the desperate hopes of all the species caught in the crossfire when the Kork, Necrons, Eldar, Old Ones, and C'tan all decided today was the day to fuck some shit up.

Slaanesh also existed as a concept, but was more than likely spread out over many different fertility gods, gods of happiness, ect ect. Basically any god that thought with his, or her, dick/vagina first and brain second if at all

When the Eldar started to redefine what the word Perverted meant then the distaff parts of it coalesced using them as a focal point, then boom, Fall of the Eldar and birth of the new Chaos god.

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i'm basically looking for help finding cards or mechanics that let you use your opponent's cards. the terms for this can be really different and hard to search for, and i keep finding new related cards randomly even though i searched for very similar card texts and phrasings over and over. stuff like word of command, which lets you control an opponent and force them to pay for and play a card. hope someone has suggestions for quirky and particular cards like these.

>>49089377

You sir just gave me a card idea

You're Next Move Is
UUU
Sorcery
Target opponent reveals hand. ~ becomes a copy of an instant or sorcery of your choice revealed this way. You may choose new targets For ~.

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>>49089408
You mean like this?

Blue is the color of choice, mate. Redirect and Misdirection are good choices as they let you turn your opponent's spells back at their own things, as well as a multitude of Clone creatures that come into play as copies of other creatures. Might I recommend some Stunt Doubles? Flash clones are the best.

TLDR; I took utility feats and abilities specifically to find innovative solutions to scenarios as well as flesh out my character, and the lolbard got rewarded over me, leaving me with nothing for my troubles.

Sounds like you found a clever solution to a problem that (for no reason) the DM didn't think was hard.

>>49089360
You never mentioned the bard got a reward.

>>49089209
He had to make sure. He didn't want to be right.

>>49089209
>loss.jpg

>>49089209
Pretty sure he mentions that there are loys of trick rings in the world with minor enchantments and didnt know for sure about bilbos.

Jack the Ripper (or equivalent serial murderers), werewolves, diplomacy over tea, overbearing kings/queens, disputes between kingdoms (whether war or backstabbery), espionage, quests for grails, bands of merry men (can be archers as well as knights), secret orders of men sworn to silence, meetings in sleazy bars and dark alleys, interludes on foggy nights, cloak and dagger, witchcraft, the fear of God.
A lot of these things are associated with Britain, but I don't know enough about Spanish, French, Finnish, Belgian, Swedish, etc. folklore and legends to even begin to touch on such examples.

>>49089399
Don't stop there, go all fucking out.

Have snooty nobles and upperclassmen in big, stupid outfits. Have superstitious peasants scared shitless over everything. Have people shouting, stabbing, and flinging shit at each other over their clay. Have the cold north be a frigid bitch year round, filled with bitter people who always have to deal with her shit.

The leadership is basically this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-WO73Dh7rY

>>49090212
the early modern period seems so quintessentially "european"

why is that?

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Or is this a bayonet kind of device?

>>49088593
Ask /k/. They love these questions.
>>>/k/31164241

>>49088593
I think the needle is like a... bayonet? It has a, what.. is it a flash suppressor? That can't be a needle launcher, surely. It's a pistol stubber with a syringe taped to the underside.

I mean I know we're nogunz here but surely we know the basics, and that you can't fire needles like bullets.