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>>49095081
Moloch's Horny
yellow
Jews
Israel

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>>49095081
Russia, Petr Ivanovich
D. Green
E. Orthodox
St. Petersburg

>>49095081
Swedish lumber
Vikings
Red
Norse pagan

>>49090144
I like the OSR threads, because they tend to be more calm, constructive and mature. I be lying if I said that nostalgia wasn't a factor in my appreciation for OSR games. Beyond that, however, I appreciate D&D's place in RPG history and find it interesting to trace its influence on other things and to really see the foundations of role-gaming. And because of its influence and continued popularity, D&D can serve as a lingua franca which allows people to quickly and easily communicate.

If I start talking about an entirely homebrewed game, I have to explain a good bit before you're on the same page as I am, and you might not want to put for the effort for something that might turn out to be shitty, or at least not your cup of tea. If I'm talking about a retroclone I'm working on, however, you already have the basic context. So if I just tell you what I'm tweaking, you can readily give me your opinion.

And old school D&D is a done deal. It's time has come and gone, so we're not trying to navigate shifting waters. We have the perspective of hindsight and plenty of time passed, and can reflect on things without being overly emotional or plunging into flame wars over the newest book released or how the current edition betrays all that is D&D, or whatever.

At the same time, the OSR movement is a developing thing, building on the "done deal" that is old school D&D. So there is some life to things. And the combination of the unshifting foundation of old school D&D, and the living and breathing OSR movement gives you a unique set of advantages.

On top of this, the more minimalist approach to old school D&D--especially the Basic line and the core OD&D stuff--makes it really easy to get a handle on, and really easy to tweak without worrying that the changes you make will have some unforeseen and possibly game-breaking consequence.

>>49090888
And here's where things get really interesting. Some of old school D&D's very weaknesses--particularly its ad hoc nature--can turn out to be strengths. Because it's not perfectly balanced, you don't have to worry as much about the changes you make screwing everything up. You have a little bit of leeway. And because not everything is necessarily done it the best way, there are things for you to improve upon, things to capture your interest that are begging for your attention.

I'm not solely devoted to OSR by any means, and I'm not sure if I would be a part of the movement if it didn't serve as a conduit for me to communicate with others, but it is an interesting phenomenon from many different perspectives.

>>49090144

"Old School" design like a lot of things is an ideology that has its flaws and its virtues.

It's typically characterized by a very narrow mindset of "your character is your character and you only have as much influence as what your character can do" with giving player agency over things like objects in the immediate vicinity or setting elements something that it'd never consider as that's meant to be entirely the realm of the GM. Along with a focus on "punishing" characters under the assumption that it's still meant to be fair although fairness isn't quantifiable.

If there was any real flaw I could find with Old School roleplay (having experienced it as well as more modern looser types of narrative roleplay) it's that I do think old school roleplay limits actual narrative based roleplay in some ways. First of all because it (or more accurately D&D) emphasize a game of managing resources and imposing harsh penalties on failure or poor decision making (early game anyway D&D has a fucking wierd difficulty curve where actions just become objectively easier to do) players start to control their characters more like avatars in a videogame than actual characters that might have flaws or issues that're brought up in game that influence action or dramatic scenes.

For example: Bungril the Orc fighter might 'hate elves' but in play this'll just be a spat between him and the elf archer during downtime or in non-serious situations because the moment enemies and the threats of characters lives are on the line everyone stops thinking of it like "I need to express my character in a way that might harm us but will make the scene interesting" and more "what's the best course of action from an objective, impartial standpoint?"

>>49082176

If he's fucking giving you three castings of wish, quite honestly he deserves to have his game wrecked.

>>49082176
Is your character clever enough to come up with that plan?

>>49082254
To be fair, I drew it from a Deck of Many Things.

>>49079232
Man, John Constantine in WoD would be pretty damn awesome, now that I think about it.

>>49079232
The Witchblade universe? While it's not about vampires and werewolves, I feel that it nails the whole "Supernatural shit hides everywhere" pretty well.

I guess I'm obligated to say the Dresden Files comics.

>>49078283

Thanks for the update guys.

Glad they were able to get an updated Bretonnia out before you did.

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Maybe we'll get sisters in a video game too.

>>49078651
>Sisters
>In anything
>Ever
Loving
Every
Laugh

> The portals are shaped like giant gaping butts

>The majority of the world is green and full of flora

Apocalyptic far future where medieval societies have just resurfaced and ancient technology is a very rare and sought after commodity (weapons, robots, etc.) and elite knights pilot giant super rare symbiotic mecha suits a la Escaflowne.

>>49060387

It looks very, very good. The visuals are great, and the theme of it matches 40K, if not EXACTLY, then pretty goddamn close.

The voice-acting could definitely use some work, though. The Inquisitors voice does NOT match his body at all, and it's pretty grating.

All in all, given that it's basically a dudes pet project worked on by three people total rather than an actual production done by a studio, it's 8/10

The inquisitor looks and acts like a cocky piece of shit. How the fuck did he get this position? If he doesn't turn out to be an imposter/chaos worshiper, then 1/10

We had this thread before, and what I saw was such mixed reviews that I get the feeling somebody is shilling this shit.

>>49030195
Bayushi was tricked by Shosuro every goddamn time and made the call to bring Yogo in even knowing his curse. He'd make the worst Emperor.

Best would be Shinjo. She was always the one that gave the greatest fucks about the common people and she was proactive in finding out things that could threaten the Empire.

Most interesting one would be non-corrupt Fu Leng, maybe. Least interesting one would be definitely Doji since it would just be a name switch to the Cerulean Empire.

Is that the suicide where you cut yourself open, bandage it up, go and berate your lord and then pull the bandage off and spill your guts as a mark of protest? Doing it 3 times seems like overkill

>>49030195
Hida would have been the best.

Unbreakable will
Physically strong
Wouldn't have gotten merked at the battle of White Stag
Would have won the war with the shadowlands by year 100 anyway.

Fu Leng is a faggot.

>>48993087
Yey!

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>>48993087

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Psst, hey
when is he going in the flake sheet?

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(Experts only)

>>49087255
Lets say bronze level city states are noticing that a hive has grown to large and is sending large groups of ants to clear entire miles of woodland and several small villages have been wiped out. How would they stop this?

>>49087363
All types of ants or just a regular warrior ant with or without acid spit?

Depends how you stat them and how tough you make their skin.

If that shit is plate mail then pretty big threat. Equivalent to lesser metals might not be too bad.

Really the big problem comes from their reproduction rates. If they are comparable to real ants I don't see how the setting could survive.

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>>49083993
Since I made the thread this time around, I was a bit selfish with the edition, I'll admit. But I am still looking for feedback on my black uncommons (now updated) and my red uncommons (recently completed), so I hope you all can forgive the heavy-handedness!

First up, black.

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>>49084149
And second, red.

The threads have been slow lately, so I'll probably bump with other random stuff from the set until things pick up, unless it becomes absolutely clear that no one's around and that I should let the thread die.

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Damn, this is slower than I expected. Well, bump number one.

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>>49084428

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>>49084530

Huh, most of my mapping stuff seems to be world maps rather than dungeon maps. Well posting anyway.

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As you wait, the only thing you can really do is go over your systems to make sure nothing is wrong. A single malfunction this deep could prove an instant trip to the bottom of the ocean. God, you hated this underwater operation garbage. The Avenger, the wonderful Cancer Coffin, was no amazing acrobat out above the water, but it was a hell of a lot less anxiety inducing in comparison.

Your HUD wasn’t even able to display much of what was outside, the pressure and depth sensors having covered the majority of the cameras leaving you almost all alone in the deeps.
“Fischer. I think he’s trying to climb back up again. Hear it?” Foss whispers. The throat mikes on the fortified suits are rather sensitive, and as much as you wanted to shush him there wasn’t much chance that Ivan Ivanov would be able to listen in.

“I think.” The faint thrum of props was barely distinguishable from the typical ocean sounds – and even better, there wasn’t even a backdrop of BETA activity you’d usually expect closer to the channel. Perfect for keeping your ears on the target.

>[ ] Drop some buoys, back off a bit. Let’s see what he does next
>[ ] Keep up the pursuit. Ivan isn’t getting away.

Aw yiss, we back!

>>49083383
Chase

Go back to your own waters Ivan.

[X] Keep up the pursuit. Ivan isn’t getting away.
Fuck off Ramius

>>49083185

Terrible. He doesn't even eat and looks down on the habit as something disgusting lesser species do. He wouldn't be able to cook anything, and there's a non trivial chance he'd start a fire trying.

A what?

The secret ingredient is flesh of celestial being.
My recent character isn't nice people.