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I brewed an R/U "prowess deck" with 2 of bedlam reveler and stormchaser mages being the highlights, can do 20 damage on like turn 4 or 5 with god draw which is beautiful

I call it Prowass, I wish Liliana was seeing less play because watching her drop with my homunculus buddy on the board feels like so bad.

>>49017541
I would run Homunculus mainboard only if I was sure the meta at the event does not contain Lili. It's a strong card but getting 2-for-1 hurts a lot, especially with a dedicated burn deck that lives on 1-for-1 trading.

Oddly specific question, but what is the best deck in standard right now that:
>plays emrakul
>doesn't play red

Is the colorless list worth trying?

Commander is best and only format worth playing.

>>49017002
I guess the first thing to determine is how competitive you want to be/why you want to play, and how much money you can throw at the game.
It also helps to know if you have a group of buddies who can keep powerlevels at around the same.
No one wants to play against(or be) the dude who brings a top tier legacy deck to casual night.
Commander can be super fun too, but if your group doesn't communicate what they want out of it, it can degenerate into a mess pretty fast.
May I make the suggestion that your group puts together a cube? Cubes are fantastic fun for both powergamers and beer and pretzel people.
Where else can you play show and animate tinker against a mirrrari's wake deck.

>>49017080
OP here, see I don't really understand what your saying, but I really want to! Haha I should do more research

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Were you kicked out of a game or did Gary Gygax come from the heavens and disallow you from any dnd related system?

You said anything.

>>49016848

Why are you That Guy and how do you live with yourself?

Alternatively, why is everyone else That Guy according to a series of events that totally happened, that you're going to describe for us using green text and meme arrows?

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>>49016848
Where you kicked out because you're a /pol/fag?

Gandalf, who is based on Odin.

>>49016291
Wizard comes from the old English Wiseard, which means "Wiseman", as in that one bearded coot living at the edge of the village who knows every kind of herb or shroom that grows around the place and occasionally answers life questions younger folk bring to him

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>>49016291
"Pussy? No, thank you, I have thousands of volts through my cock for that."

>>49016040
A couple but it was mostly circumstance and not what the system was meant for. Basically a couple not-so-noteworthy things were out of place just enough to strike a nerve, and then something perceived as unexplainable would happen and then everyone has the chills. At least that's the jist of it.

One of those things that if you planned for it to be spooky, it wouldn't come off that way but having practically zero insight to the matter goes a long way to getting to PCs.

>>49016040

I managed to completely creep out two of my characters during a game of Call of Cthulhu. It was their first time playing CoC, so I ran the Haunting because everyone has to play that one shot at least once. Really the party was about as weeb as it could have gotten.

> We had one player who wanted to be a socialite sociopath with a canesword, hailing from a murderous underworld with all sorts of contacts to get video game-esque cool weapons. At one point she asked for a wrist-blade, and I gave it her because frankly I didn't want to bother arguing. It's impact on the game was incredibly minimal.
> Another player wanted to play an Italian Mobster. I was a relatively seasoned player, but this was my first time GM'ing, so I said sure, why not.
> And then we had the other two: A detective on leave from Boston PD, a relatively nice guy and the Call of Cthulhu equivalent of the paladin. He kept me from going nuts.
> And the oddball, it was a guys first time roleplaying and he rolled up this character who was the son of a hunter from some village (In 1920's America), and left for adventure (In 1920's America), taking with him only his name: Stein McJoy (In 1920's America).

You can imagine the shitshow that could happen, yeah? Frankly, it didn't. I put on some good spooky music and we investigated the house after some preliminary investigations in the area. The downstairs area went by relatively easily, Player 1 found Corbitt's Diary and wanted to read the entire thing then and there. I gave her some highlights and said to get anything useful she'd have to spend a few hours on it. She immediately wanted to summon a Dimensional Shambler.

They continued through the house, and I pointed out the crosses and rosary beads in most rooms, until they got to the children's room. At which point I cranked up the music a notch, and one player is repeatedly saying "Fuck you it's children" over and over. He can't stand ghost children, so I just smile and shrug.

>cont

>>49016040
you can't make someone feel scared who doesn't want to, evoking an emotional reaction from a story is reliant on the audience engaging with the material and lowering their suspension of disbelief so that they can care about it (if you don't care about anything you can't get scared). If a player doesn't want to be scared then they just disconnect from the story in order to avoid it, and once a player is disconnected from the game they usually start joking around OOC.

Find players who enjoy horror stories or don't play horror games.

>>49015038
You could try battlegroup or rapid fire, or crossfire.

Ostfront is coming out soon too which is a very quick and effective game for tanks - no morale checks for vehicles, just damage, and each vehicle is free to do its own thing. the full rules and all 5 army lists will be released in the next week.

>>49015038
>morale

the problem is that is a thing that happened quite a bit with tanks, at least in WWII.

Hell, there were Jagdtiger crews (the most heavily armored tank of the war) that panicked after being shot at by 75mm shermans. Granted these weren't very well trained soldiers but it's hardly the only instance. Especially tanks known for weak armor or that were prone to fire (or in the russians case exploding)

>>49015788

I'm well aware tanks bailed out a lot, but the way most wargames represent it is awful

A tank crew doesn't just suddenly freeze in fear when they take a hit. If their morale breaks, they bail out of the tank and run for their lines- the tank is now inoperative, and will likely remain that way until the battle is over.

>>49013607
It's pirates. If that doesn't do the trick, why are you even gaming with these people?

>>49013607

Busty brown pirate girls with fat juicy asses.

>>49013607
My group has had two pirate campaigns that never got off the ground, and got kinda burnt out on a lot of generic fantasy since that's most of what's been played.

I'd just have to say "yo I got some pirate shit about to start"

>>49013335
I haven't seen one of these in a long time...
Please don't hurt us, OP.

>Race
Dark Folk
>Location
City Underbelly

>>49013335
>Merfolk
>City Underbelly

>>49013335

catfolk

city ruins in the jungle

>>49012940

Teach them to be horseman

Make them be good horseman

Good horseman unstoppable on battlefield, master of all

good horseman so good he use horse to capture warship in ocean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_the_Dutch_fleet_at_Den_Helder

>>49012940
What system?

>>49013163
this, baka op

make them value entertainment as a whole more? make them jaded to a point where escapism and avoiding reality are considered normal rather than mental issues, then show them this garbage?

>>49012757
Violent, hyper-aggressive conquest, where we supplant the local society and cultures with our own personal interpretations of our home culture.

This has never gone wrong before.

>>49012848
yes it has. every time we do that, we feel bad vote away the strong central govts, which then leads to catastrophic social turmoil and mass death

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>>49011934
Might work in Dark Sun but with water.

You could go independence day style. Creatures from another plane/planet show up in giant floating crafts and starts sucking up resources. Not out of evil but for the same reasons we cut trees down (destroying all the life that depended on that tree to make a nice table, we need the wood so we take it).

These craft could be manned by drones/golems, having a single artificer who made them to carry out his planet munching needs. He/she/it could be obsessed with logistics, more concerned about meeting quotas even when confronted by a party, confused and slightly annoyed that these lesser creatures are putting him/her/it behind schedule

>>49011934
You could go the easy/Avatar route and say "look at this evil industrialist who is taking over nature, stop the civilization!" which is kind of cliched and preachy as well as overdone,
OR
You could do something else- make the character actually evil instead of just taking things from the ground. He's planning on destroying the planet for its resources- literally collecting enough material to build a doomsday weapon, than cracking the planet Dead Space style and murdering everything on it just to get at some nice, shiny metal at the core to craft another sword out of. Something so ravenously greedy it will kill indiscriminately for what it wants, up to and including the destruction of an entire species. If you really want to go with the "we don't know why", you could always have them steal something REALLY vital, like air or water, knowing full well that they're killing things, and either not caring or actively desiring the organisms to die so they can harvest ores better.

How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real?

>>49010848

Yes, that's what happens to Yarrick and why he's never defeated.

Orks meme things into existence

Orks are coincidentally green like Kek

>>49010848
he wouldnt, strictly speaking be invincible, but he would lead a successfull WAAAAGHH!, and always seem to miraculously escape arm

like Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka
that asshole is still alive despite constantly messing with the imperium and being on their grade A threat list

>>49010439
I petted a squig, once.

I once krump'd one'a dem spiky boyz.... wif'out using my choppa

I pay wiv m'own teef

>>49010179
Because the Reptilians demand it.

>>49010179
Some people dislike having control of their characters taken out of their hands.

>>49010239
But only if it involves sex?

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>>49010119
I have some space opera pics I could dump. Also some great space elves.

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superior

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>>49010119