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What are some /tg/ approved animu?

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So my whole army is heavily converted. Just looking for opinions, if you want the rest i will put it up.

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Howdy folks,

A couple of years ago, some fa/tg/uys developed a skirmish wargame about battling industrial crawlers (pic related). There was some really great discussion, and even a few ruleset PDFs, but then things seemed to peter out.

I thought the whole concept was awesome as fuck, and I'm interested in resurrecting this project. I'd like to use this thread to get a discussion going. I'll bump with some ruleset PDFs.

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Are there any actual writers or authors browsing? Ones who've actually had published books and had some sales?

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Why DO wizards live in towers anyways?

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Darkness Starter Deck spoilers.

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Sup /tg/. I've been DMing for about five years (mostly 3.5/PF, but recently I made the jump to 5e). Despite switching to 5e, we kept the rule that paladins have to be lawful good, and I cannot stress this enough, the players said it was fine to keep that rule, including the player who decided to play as a paladin, and who seemed really excited about it.

Now we're a few months into this campaign and I'm getting a little bored. It occurred to me that the paladin should fall. It would be really dramatic and a good opportunity to really roleplay the character at his lowest moment. So far he's been the best roleplayer in the group, and he was really excited about the chance to play a paladin, so this should be a great roleplaying moment.

I know the difference between railroading and having a story in mind is whether the players notice, and whether I can trick them into thinking they have a choice. So how do I trick my paladin player into falling? I don't want it to be as obvious as presenting a situation with two options, and then retroactively deciding whatever he did was the wrong one, because I think he'd see through that.

I also don't want to pepper him with lots of chances to fall where the "evil" or "unlawful" choice is really tempting, because I think that would be too obvious.

How do you recommend I pull this off?

tl;dr I'm a DM, want to make a player's paladin fall in the most dramatic way possible, without players realizing I made it happen. How do I do it?

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I need pictures! Pictures of paladins and knights! Particularly of the young, fresh-faced, possibly scrappy variety.

Lady knights are also welcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOwfrniZYyE

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So /tg/ I might have a problem.
I'm currently playing an LG paladin that is part of a religious peacekeeping order but is also responsible for conducting investigations, like a somewhat nicer inquisitor.
Recently the party's rogue broke a prisoner out of the Baron's jail. the prisoner was an Orc and claimed to be held there for defending himself, however he had still broken the law and was legally imprisoned.

I have a feeling I will be tasked with investigating the crime while going about my other task of finding a fiend that was sensed nearby.

I'd rather not arrest/kill the rogue, but it wouldn't be in character to just ignore it either. How should I go about this?

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Does anybody even still play LotR?

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Just for fun, I'm looking to create a list of silly and semi-serious magical textbooks for when players inevitably ask about the contents of a bookshelf. I was considering also giving some of the books minor enchantments, but I haven't come up with anything like that yet. Here's what I have so far:

Popular Prestidigitation: Volumes I-V, James Gary Wizard-at-Law
Everyday Necromancy, Franklin Nebuchadnezzar
Silverthorn's Magical Almanac, Folsom Silverthorn
Easy Explosions for the Enterprising Explorer, Erik Elston
Advanced Explosions for the Experienced Adventurer, Erik One-Eye
Expert Explosions for the Extremely Reckless (Restricted Printing), Erik the Insane
The Alchemist's Cook Book, Paul Cohen
Backyard Enchantments, Benjamin Fernglow
Jaw-Dropping Illusions, Hastor the Magnificent
An Idiot's Guide to Illusion, Hastor the Magnificent
The Definitive Guide to Illusion, Hastor the Magnificent
What Illusionists Don't Want You To Know, Hastor the Magnificent
Sleight of Wand, Fizzle Panaxim
Salacious Summoning: Succubus Edition, Richard Strong
Practice Safe Summoning, Richard Small
Common Safety Spells, Leomund
Advanced Protective Magic, Leomund
They Are Coming to Get You: How to Stop Them, Leomund
Extraordinary Enchantments for the Discerning Craftsman, Jefe Stuss
Keeping Your Fighter Happy: Basic Enchantments for Armor and Weaponry, Anthony Yellow
If I Cast It, A.J. Sampson
Field of Dreams: Constructing and Maintaining Hallucinatory Terrain, Phillip Alden
An Expert's Guide to Enchanted Blades, Jeffrey Dweomer
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Planar Travel, Cosmo Kramer
Verbal, Somatic, and Material Thinking: An Introduction to Inventive Incantation Formulation, Tenser

Also looking for some Pratchett-esque wizard titles if you guys have any good ideas.

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Is Mouse Guard RPG worth playing? I'm not a fan of the comic but I love the concept of little cute mice fighting real, giant predators.
That being said, I'm not convinced. Does the system bring something new to the table?

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http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/opening-ceremony-worlds-largest-tunnel-bizarre-occult-ritual/

http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/23376-satanic-switzerland-new-tunnel-opens-with-bizarre-occult-like-ceremony

http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-performed-a-fake-human-sacrifice-at-cern-for-some-reason

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a22429/cern-human-sacrifice-prank/

Why do your cult-hunting parties never hunt the blatant cults in plain sight?

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>>48914879
>Uncommon races are just a roleplaying crutch

Maybe the players are just sick of the core d&d races.

I can get behind that.

I'd rather play as hobgoblin, Githyanki, or non-op half-dragons, or more monstrous things like minotaurs, centaurs, and fauns, then yet another goddamn core race, because for the most part, I've just gotten sick of them myself.

I don't need to be a race that's super rare in a setting. I'm just sick of the stock races. When I gm, I often drop most of the stock races and dont allow them at all (as in this setting has no Elves /dwarves /half Elves /half orcs /halflings /gnomes) instead picking a different set of less commonly used fantasy races that havent been so done to death and over-troped.

Tl;dr: change which races are common and then your players can play a "common" race without it being the humdrum same old shit they've seen a thousand times.

>Tiefling?
The Hells and abyss have established major *countries* on the continent, and the true demons/devils tend to be at the top, whereas demihuman blooded fiends tend to be the average citizens.
Done.

>Hobgoblins?
Hobgoblin warmongering expansionistic empire, perhaps with a propensity for selective breeding based on desired traits, with a highly rigid social structure.
Romans+china+andromeda nietzcheans.
Done.

>Orcs
MongolHunVikings, or maybe VikingNativeAmericans.
Done.

>Want more variety than existing d&d races, but don't want to make something up?
Lift something from another setting/game.

Include a medieval version of a mass effect/starwars race. Or lift something from a different fantasy setting, like vedalkans, or phyrexians, or gorons, or worens, or whatever the fuck. Etc.
Done. Problem solved.

Suddenly it's not all the same tolkien goodguy races again and again, but something different. Variety is a good thing.

I can see how a player who has to go for "rare exotic races" to get variety is likely to do so.