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>>48972406
>Skellingtons and undead might exist in this universe
>I still get arrested for desecrating every corpse I can find
Are people crazy or what???

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>>48972406
Perhaps destroying the body can result in a ghost instead of a skeleton

>>48972406
Why desecrate the body when you can just put a blessed item on the corpse?

Shadowrun maybe?

>>48971910
Cyberpunk 2020 with the Deus Ex world.

Song of Ice and Fire Role Playing Game.

>>48971818
>Any good house rules for Catan
Use a leash.

>>48971937
>he needs a leash for his table

You are not very monumentous.

>>48971818
>>48971937
>BYOT
Bring Your Own Table

No but seriously, I got nothing.

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>>48971401

Probably a quaddie, for functionality. Hands > Feet in zero-g.

>>48971401
A disc, because angular momentum.

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>>48971445
Why have a skeleton? Why not a giant monocellular creature with a thousand cilia?

Plasma is hot.

If the end of the barrel gets very melty, the end of the gun would probably just splatter all over the place.

Which could be a funny feature as well, just rig a plasma rifle to turn into a one use shotgun that just sharts liquid metal and plasma in a cone.

>>48971068
Plasma dissipates insanely rapidly. Like at an exponential rate. If the magnetic field generator that focuses the blast failed then you would be lucky to burn a piece of paper four feet away, much less have a viable weapon.

>>48974296
Why do I get the feeling there's a rogue trader out there who uses a modified artefact plasma gun as a hairdryer now..

>>48970791
>perpetuum mobile
>someone presumably has to manually open/close the bag and fix/unfix it to the ceiling
i don't think it will work anon

>>48970914
No, it would work with a set of clips and releases - when the BOH hits the top, it would hit a clip that allows it to enter, but not exit. The "small" weight hitting the top would trigger a lever that would release that clip. The same could be done if needed for the other weight.

The main problem with this model is that while it does have the potential for 'perpetual' motion (at least until the parts wear out), it would not have constant or steady motion - there would be a pause in every cycle while the bag fell down, making it less useful for a lot of "engine" purposes.

Also, this assumes that constantly stuffing a weight into and out of a bag of holding won't cause wear on the bag and eventual magical failure.

If you've got magic anyways, just use it to put a heavier gravity field on one side of a drive wheel (weights around the edge would make it faster), and attach a shaft to the drive wheel. The heavier side would go down, the lighter side would go up, and you've got rotation until the gravity field is cancelled. Much simpler mechanically, and less likely to fail due to parts breaking or not being lined up properly.

>>48970069
That a valid way to run them, just don't actually put them any where your players have to deal with them and keep them as a lore only thing because it would be a rather no-fun instant-lose scenario.

>>48970069

Attack the DM. This dimension is just as valid as the story one, but in this one you can actually hurt something.

The same way as the 2D can beat a 3D creature: Just cut them in half. If a 2D creature runs sideways into a 3D it can just cut a part off with ease since 2D is perfectly thin, so there will be no resistance or whatsover. Same way shall 3D work with 4D.

>>48969590
>Still running the game after being compromised as shitty MG
>Twice
>In a row
How does it feel to be full of shit?

Nation Name: Warhost of the War Wizard
Race(s): Mutants, monsters, goblins and orcs. The scum of the earth
Color: Gray
Fluff: http://pastebin.com/2SJCkk0W
Pop: 33 (+2/turn)
Food: 84(+2/turn) (+4/turn Farms) (Military -2/turn)
Power: 22 (+6 /turn)(-4 military)
Metal 8 [Mine I; +2 ore/turn]
Tech: 5 (+1/turn)
Currency: 24 (+2/turn)(-3 Military)(+3 Trade Route)
Blatrek +2
OGT +1
Defenses (Capital): 1
Territory:23
Wonder: Scorch 1
Military:
Orc Warband 1.2x {-1 food/turn}
Alpha Orcs 1.4x {-1 food/currency//turn}
Skeletons w/ Pak36 1.6x {-1 ley-power/turn} [Bombard: 1]
Skeletons w/ Pak36 1.6x {-1 ley-power/turn} [Bombard: 1]
Pak36 Unit 1.6x {Bombard I}{-1 currency/turn}]
Pak36 Unit 1.6x {Bombard I}{-1 currency/turn}]
Skeletons 1.4x {-1 ley-power/turn}
Skeletons 1.4x {-1 ley-power/turn}
Tech: [Infantry I][science III][slavery I][Chemistry I][Metallurgy I][Siege I][Mechanical Design I]W[arhost Old World Ballistics™][Armor I]
Magic: [Necromancy II]
Resources:
Bloodfruit Farm I
Library I
Eccentricities:
[What's a city?]: The warhost is exceedingly good at conquering, less so at building. They can take more territory before they need to stop, but building structures is more costly and time consuming.
[Varied Host]: The Warhost is home to many 'evil' things, of all shapes, strengths, and sizes. Depending on the recruitment (roll), the warhost might end up with a towering giant, or tiny goblin
East Leyline Improvement 3/6
Tools 1/4
Forge 3/4
Logistics 3/4

1 turn in reserve

>>48969683
>Letting shitty people stop you from doing things

Rolled 3 (1d10)

Turns out the vault is totally empty and was abandoned immediately after construction.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>48968796
There are no clothes

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>>48968796
>Lel, this lore talks about social experiment!
>Let's turn it into circus!
>Hey, remember that old game?
>Let's make it even bigger circus!
By F4, there is only title left

>>48968253
Can't I just go out and smoke instead?

>>48968253
I decline but go sit in another room and pull out my DS and play monster hunter in the mean time.

>>48968253
I shit in the box while my character is unconscious.
"It's in character! I'm knocked unconscious, losing bowel control is entirely believable!"

>>48968186
For number 1, perhaps by using the caps to exacerbate the conspiracy theorists the antagonist helps to further spread misinformation to hide their own, actually true conspiracy? Alternatively maybe some of these conspiracy theorists get so paranoid that they begin to actually act out against the individuals/groups they believe are part of these conspiracies, thus adding some chaos into the mix. Don't know exactly why a villain would choose this method though, seems inefficient.

>>48968242
>actually true conspiracy?
I'm trying to steer away from the "conspiracy nuts turn out to be correct" troupe that often comes up in these subjects. I suppose I could see them wanting to get them so worked up that they start acting on their delusions, just to what end has got me stumped.

Maybe as a diversion? as the Nutty McNutters go about causing problems everyone will just assume evil guy's own actions are part of that debacle and not look too hard into it?

Maybe Evil Guy himself is not quite right in the head either and his actions don't entirely make sense either?

Hmm... I don't know...

>>48968890
I didn't say that the conspiracy nuts were actually correct, that's my whole point. The point is that they're not correct, but because they fill the media with their crap it helps the antagonist by diverting the attention from them and their conspiracy.

>>48968041
>check out my original fantastical creature
>it's a squirrel

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>>48967560
>how do you game-balance a race that is magically powerful but NOT physically weaker than others?

One usable hand. Their right hand touches this world, their left hand touches only the spirit world. They're magically powerful and always have one hand free for casting, but they can only use one-handed weapons.

This can be either physical (left arm fades into a ghostly outline) or a cultural taboo (to use the left hand for a physical task taints it and grounds out all your magic power.)

>How do you make the "species that is physically weak/frail but magically powerful" trope interesting for a new setting?

Make an interesting race that incorporates that design element. It's fine, doesn't need a revamp, as long as the race is creative in other ways.

>>48967560
they're actually stupid and incompetent, not wise like yoda. they are very powerful but use their power in retarded ways.

Why would you say that it, as a premise, is not interesting in the first place?

>>48967109
We're in complete agreement, those would be awesome bad guys.

>>48967109

They aren't entirely unsympathetic; if they were, they wouldn't be able to form mobs in the first place. But yeah, it's great that they'll do something entirely shitty and not try and justify themselves.

They also make good PCs.

I've always liked the premise of the game Freedom Force, where aliens decide that simply conquering Earth is too boring, so they decide to grant the worst of humanity superpowers. Some cunt sabotaged the plan, but plenty of scum, a gangster included, did become supervillains.

>>48966421
Kill them all, God will sort his own, etc etc.

>>48966421
Find out where it started and go from there.

We have his name. A name is a powerful thing, the essence of a man... And since we possess it, we can divine the necromancer's location. But for that, we must find a powerful diviner, which is a quest on its own among the dying embers of this cursed world.