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>>54877814

With Sidisi and access to blue, I can afford to run discard mechanics and compensate with Damia, Sage of stone, or even run artifacts and use Glissa, the traitor to pull them to hand. Basically, she lets me turn my deck into my graveyard, which becomes a library that I can pluck what I want out of at any time. I'd get to use mechanics people don't usually see, like Emerge, and I can use cards like Meren of Clan Nel Toth to pull more resources out of the grave.

>>54877912

And I suppose with a Sultai deck I could run the standard golgari Hapatra strategy in it so that I have the best of both worlds.

Meren is fucking boring my nigga

Play Shattergang

Gimme the lowdown, OP. Yes, spoonfeed us. If you want us to care, that's your job.

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>GOAT card game

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>>54877746
Pokemon/Magic game, you build a team out of 3 of 3 goats and select a shepherd

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>>54876197
>be perturabo
Ew no.

>>54876197
Well,
No one is forcing him, but now instead of having a shit boss he can't talk to. He's stuck in bad company and has to be on constant alert at all times.
It's just another type of prison.

Always, yes

>>54875974
Nice artwork, Francisco.

>>54875974
>A thread died for this
Why tho?

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This was Legendary.
But they the universe has 2 mana and this, and died, it had no chance

>>54876379
When I was a kid, One of my dreams was being an artist for magic cards, part of the reason I love the cards was the art. Then the dream died when I was forced to be an engineer.... And I'm not really a good one at that...

>>54874871
less demand. Almost every model will want some kind of earth tone, but hardly any will want violet.

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>>54874896

>hardly any will want violet.
Maybe you forget Chaos?

>>54874871
It's easier to mix shades of a primary color than to get a specific shade of brown.

Thanks for turning the catalog into a meta-battleground.

>>54874152
>instead of just ignoring things I don't like and making threads about topics that I enjoy, I'll complain about other people's threads

No racecars, lasers, or aeroplanes for you today.

>>54874105
SurprisinglyGoodReboot/10

MadeWebbyAGenuinelyInterestingCharacter/10.

Seriously, they did a good job giving everyone interesting personalities. Donald is his charming self, the nephews have distinct personalities instead of feeling samey, Scrooge's relationship with his family will be an interesting point, and best of all, Webby is a likable, well-written character instead of being the Cutesy Pwecious Widdle Girl, without feeling too SJW.

I think the theme song would've been done better by a male voice, but that's just me.

>>54873833
>but I'd like to have some more options in terms of mechanics and theme considering they have 0 RPG experience.

You want fewer options with beginners. D&D 5E is just fine for beginners. Later you can introduce them to Pathfinder, lol.

>>54873990
What I mean by "some more options" is systems other than D&D 5e. I get that 5e is fine for starters, but maybe they want cyberpunk or superheroes and I'd like to have more than one system at hand.

>>54873833
I'm in a similar boat to yours. I'm looking into translating and adapting Dungeon World and see if they have interest in it.

>>54873710
Detailed questions too long for OP:

>How do I ensure they're invested?
I'm big on always letting the pcs fuck off and do something else if they want.
Threatening NPC's doesn't always work.
The only way I can thing of is to pull the tired bit of accusing them for a crime that they must prove themselves innocent of or compelling them with a geas, which raises more questions like:
>"Why aren't the ones in charge (or forcing the PCs to investigate) doing the investigating?"


>How do I make the mystery good, interesting, challenging, but not too hard?
I might have to steal from a another source and file serial numbers off.
Which leads to...

>How do I run a mystery investigation using characters and setting not intended for it?
The setting is not-medieval fantasy, so let's say I'm running a fantasy game like D&D 2nd AD&D, or a low powered D&D 3.x game.
If I would be better off translating and transferring to another system for the mystery, which one?

>How do you run an investigation mystery in a setting with medium to high levels of magic?
Speak with dead is a definite factor and psychics of all kinds exist but wouldn't necessarily be a problem, I don't think.
But dealing with those kinds of powers is an interesting related question.

>What kind of mystery to run?
My instincts are either:
1. Convoluted murder mystery by a sneaky wizard covering their tracks with deception and subterfuge. (cheesy goodness)
2. Political assassination/attack with multiple victims with the motives and true target unknown. (My pick)
3. Reverse caper trying to catch a serial thief. (Easiest and least interesting, imo)

>How do keep them from guessing the answer immediately and what do you do if they do?

>How do keep them from never guessing the answer and what do you do if they do get stuck?

Thanks for reading and any help you can offer.

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Read a bit.
Stumbled upon Gumshoe.
Anybody familiar with it?
Do you think it would work for what I'm intending?

>>54874165
Gunshoe is both great and terrible. It does a goid job of teaching players to manage resources for role-playing benefit and not juat combat but it's almost too simple and turns players into having about 4 specific "keys" to just try in every lock until they find one that fits. It keeps the plot moving but if they are experienced roleplayers it is pretty constraining. It's like Call of Cthulhu with training wheels.

You can learn a bit about designing mysteries from the system though. Basically you work backward and create "links" between scenes by placing key clues to find and supplementary clues that point towards the key clue to help the players decide what to look into next.

>>54873263
>Game will be sold at Gencon before any backers rewards are fulfilled.
Only preorders though, and will ship after backers get theirs.

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>>54873263
>expecting any kickstarter to stick to its original timeframe
Cry me a river. At least Poots is being open about the delay.

>>54875966
Meh. For me, Poots comes off as really pretentious and unprofessional. A lot of people suck Poots dick for having "quality minis" but that's really more the work of the great sculptors and artists he commissions. Hell, almost anything with concept art by Lokman sells way better than those without

>>54873242
The magic wizard's tower, where mysteries are revealed and directions set.

>Why 3 and not 4 or 2?

>>54873332
Well, you can mix them all in a long game, but for a common story pattern (call to adventure - tests - showdown) you don't really need more.

also, How could I forgot about the tower!

>>54873242
I can think of several others, like:
>The long treaded path; tests of courage, rights of manhood, and trials pass through here

>The Moving City; Military encampments, nomadic tribes, etc.

>The Monument; Ruins, Ancient Cities, etc.

Those are just off the top of my head.

>>54873015
I had such an idea, but I've never put it into effect. A character would enter a stance and gain momentum. Each stance would have an at - will power, a minor power that costs some momentum, and an 'ultimate' power called a Finale which burns all the momentum and ends the stance, requiring a minimum amount of momentum to use.
It could even work as a casting system, with magicians building up magical power before unleashing a fireball.
Switching between or ending a stance could cost some or all the momentum gathered, depending on how the stances are related. It would be a resource game based on now-or-later decisions.
Obviously, characters should have access to multiple stances, if not all at once.

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>>54873015
http://valorousgames. com/

Valor RPG. Each round of combat all participants gain a point of Valor, though it can also be gained through heroic acts, character options that have you Start a combat scenario with additional valor points and probably a couple others I don't recall off the top of my head.

Techniques and abilities can be keyed so that you need to Have or Spend a certain number of valor points in order to reduce their standard resource (stamina) cost, and can also be used to add bonuses to offensive, defensive, and skill rolls, to recover stamina, maybe some HP but I'm not as sure of that.

from what I remember Iron Heroes had a system where you could gain tokens by doing various appropriate actions in combat and then spend them to get super attacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aQ-TC4x2fA

>>54872731
Oddly enough I use music a lot to get inside my character's head a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRg55iT1QoQ
Is for my Paladin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_5unoZTpoQ

Is for my rogue in a horror game.

Still working on a few characters, and listening to music that might help me get into that mindset.

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>>54872731
My next character is going to be a dhampir vampire hunter who I am intentionally trying to make go MAXIMUM EDGE, as a joke. So, probably...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3472Q6kvg0

Or possibly...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9OhYroLN0

But most likely...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxaaGgTQYM

I've heard good things about it.

>>54875488
Thats nice I guess. It seems to be wildly unpopular on /tg/ though.

>>54872452
Ive never played it but i really really want to. Id kill for a Stormlight RPG to play a Surgebinder tnough

>>54871963

No, they are free from woman's taint.

>>54872007
Someone post that one oglaf comic, you know the one.

>>54872007
FPBP
Il the grim darkness of a far future, there are only autistic and asexual bulky mens

>>54870449
>Playing orks while being a loud negro
>Playing dark eldar and let out moans of pleasure each time your characters are wounded
>play tau and bring your pillow waifu at the store

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>>54870528
>letting out moans when your characters are wounded

I literally laughed when I read that.


>riding your bike to your FLGS to play white scars

>never finishing your Emperor's Children army because its never "perfect"

>giving every single one of your dudes names and then RP giving them "orders" when you move them on the table, changing voices if your warlord dies

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>thinning your paint with holy water when painting ecclesiarchy