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I hope it was never explained, I do not trust GW to come up with something compelling or badass.

>>48863066
The world getting blown up for no raisens is a lot worse.

>>48863086

Not really.

I can ignore the time periods of a setting and such when it comes to running a game (also I personally love the idea of Skaven ruining everything because of conflictary doomsday plots)

The characterization of a character though? That stuff hurts, man. That cuts deep.

>>48862981
Off the top of my head I'd say....a Grudge?

>>48862981
They're butt buddies so I don't think they can

A series of unfortunate events.

>>48862219
1. I want enough lore to have context for the rules I'm reading. Make sure to make clear what is fluff and what is rules, though.

2. Of course you can have living family. Just don't force it on anyone hellbent on playing a loner and it's fine.

3. Last week I figured out what kind of game I want to make. Now I'm spinning my wheels, jotting a few notes down when I get an idea but no clear springboard for getting down to business.

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>>48862219
>1. Rules can be dry reading. Does fluff + lore grease the wheels of a game / RPG system for you when you're learning it, or does it get in the way of the information you're looking for? Which books handle this best?
Lore is needed to make the mechanics feel like anything. FATE shows what happens when the numbers are just numbers floating in a void; I've seen multiple FATE GMs come to the realization that they have no idea why they're assigning the difficulties that they are, other than that it had some relation to the skill of the character making the attempt.

>2. Most RPG characters are loners before they join the group. Is it possible to include living, active family (perhaps even wife and kids) into character creation and not ruin the fantasy? Does being a hero mean being a solitary rolling stone type?
I actively incentivize against loners where I can. People with families and real relationships are way healthier spiritually and literally more alive than people going it alone, in at least one of my projects, but I've also seen making them more easily persuaded ("someone who doesn't stand for something will fall for anything" and all that) or just having social ties be more powerful than an equivalent amount of resources spent on personal improvement.

>3. Also how's the game designing going? Any podcasts or resources you find interesting about game design?
Slowly but surely.

>>48861727
If your story is actually true you're playing with a bunch of unawakened LARPers.

>>48861754
Only one way to find out.

OP, hold an orgy and invite them.

>>48861771
>>48861754
Also make sure they never discover Vampire.

>>48861562
It's impossible to not railroad the players.
The best you can do is let the players think they had a choice.

The players don't want to investigate those missing villagers?
Cool, they "randomly" find a dungeon with hapless villagers imprisoned by orcs.

And I'm sure better GMs can be much more subtle than that.

>>48861562
Do not plan any details.
Have nothing more than a general outline.

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>>48861605
>Do not plan any details.
No, not that.

The trick is that you have to put them on rails for there to really be a purpose or story, or any kind of action at all most of the time. Some players can just come up with their own shit to do, but they are rare, and you probably won't have them.

So, you come up with what they are going to do, and you put down enough information about how it happens, what obstacles they face, and who they interact with, that you can run it. You also keep it modular, like >>48861591 suggested, so you can still lead them to what you want in via other paths.

But to avoid railroading, you don't say no to their solutions. You create the problem, they come up with a solution, and you arbitrate fairly and impartially whether it is successful. Tell them they need to go rescue the princess from the tower is not railroading. It becomes railroading when they come up with a plan for HOW to rescue the princess, and you shoot it down and force them to follow the plan you had in mind. Let them handle things how they want. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't.

Are her large breasts symbolic of currency inflation?

>>48873278
I enjoyed it, but I ended up with a wealthy of like +20 on a brand new character. We took my private jet everywhere. Kinda ruined the adventure aspects when we got to stay in 4 star hotels everywhere we went.

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>>48873314
they are big because they represent macro economics

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>>48859430
Why isn't there a volcano cannon that uses this instead of the normal shadowsword cannon?

>>48859430

Because need to go in close.

In close where close-combat can wrekt the baneblade.

>>48859430
Because there isn't a melta baneblade pattern so it is tech heresy to try to improve or change. whenever they do make something new they have to lie and say they found some old blueprints.

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Download Out of the Abyss. It's 5E, but there are plenty of cool ideas you could steal.

>>48859170
Why is the party in the Underdark in the first place? I don't exactly imagine it as a hot vacation destination. Telling us what they're there for might make it easier to come up with encounter ideas.

>>48859170
Memepost. I remember you from That GM thread.

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>>48859099
For those we cherish, we die in Glory!

>>48859099
what the fuck is his problem?

>>48859851
He's a wank marine made by marine wank writers.

Remember when Space Wolves were the Emperor's Executioners? Well some derp at hurrworld decided that was a cool idea and attached it to his special snowflake chapter instead because he was intellectually bankrupt..

Also see Red Scorpions for another derpworld snowflake army.

help :D ?

Boxes from return to rav, gatecrash, dragon's maze are rather cheap, you could get a lot of drafting in with sets like those. So much depends on your play group, if you are looking for card value, you would draft different sets than if you were looking for straight up fun interactions.

>>48859440
I would like fun interactions more then value.

why another thread

>>48858769
>Invisible Sun is a special game because it lets you schedule one on one sessions with your GM between group sessions!
And you can't in other games because...?

Fuck I was in an Ad Eva game that averaged like 3 of those a week over a full year.

If invisibility is a mind-affecting spell, I will kill myself.

>>48858559
Being at least on par with the average for normal eye sight, comfort, and ease of being cleaned.

>>48858607

I would think that's a given.

If standard sorts you give to people who've lost their eyes or just simply replace them that should be enough although I would include some means of connecting to an external device and able to display a hud of sorts with AR functionality as well.

Military and use by non civilians could vary from specialization (i.e. the ability to zoom in and see fine details) to military and governmental applications (like the scene in GitS where the diplomat is reading an encrypted paper document).

In which case the eyes couldn't be easily taken out without surgery at least.

>>48858559
>For the purposes of practicality what functions would you consider essential for augmented eyes?

Obviously, high definition of the image and accurate colour capturing. The first thing I want from my eyes is for them to see clearly. Only then we can go into secondary things like zooming, seeing in broader spectrums, focus assist or augmented reality.

The most obvious limitation is our natural limits. Augmented eyes need to transfer all that information to brain, and a brain can handole only so much of it before the brain itself needs to be augmented.

In TT terms, this can be represented by eye implants having either more specialised but stronger benefits or weaker benefits but with a bigger array of those at once. If you want to have both you need to start upgrading the rest of your body or installing additional processing hardware.

>>48858080
You don't.

>>48858080
you present it with cold, calculated logic and hard facts as to why you should fuck

>>48858080
There are plenty of pleasures aside from sexual pleasures, like narcotics and liquor.

Or appeal to greed. Who can say no to a pile of jewels and gold?

>>48865462
I was reminded of this last night.

Back during OG Mirrodin standard or extended, Tron was a deck. And Mindslaver was a card.

And once, in a tron mirror, I remember being mindslavered turn 4 or 5, and they just used my turn to manaburn me for 14.


Honorable mentions would include the time I was up against someone competing for a top 8 slot, and I was playing a fairly controlling deck, can't remember exactly what. Our game was the last one up at the time so pretty much everyone was watching, and the other guy made some kind of minor misplay, got flustered, and fairly quickly tilted himself from a game that was just about even to a painful to watch stomp. By the end, his hands were shaking and he looked slightly ill. I felt like I didn't so much win the game as stand back and watched him beat himself.


Another time was the prerelease for m10, right after the rules overhaul. I was in the final round, and my opponent scooped due to a misread of a card. We decided to redo the third match, and ended up in a situation where we had both misunderstood the new wording on lifelink, and it cost me the game.

>>48865615
Look up original Mindslaver from Mirrodin. Read the fine print.


Playing Commander, my general was Thraximundar, turn 1 Island, Chrome mox>cast Demonic Tutor, turn 2 Mountain, cast Show and Tell, think I'm hot shit for landing Blightsteel Colossus, guy to my right puts down og Ulamog. He won about 6 turns later with no player offering meaningful resistance.

>>48865615
>I remember being mindslavered turn 4 or 5, and they just used my turn to manaburn me for 14.

You were robbed.

>>48857696
Paladin who was separated from the rest of the party deciding to eliminate necromancer that had taken over a village, with over a hundred undead at his command between him and the Paladin. Because someone had to save those villagers before the undead got to them.

>>48857696
Dropped an entire ceiling on a daemon after sending down the elevator filled with explosives

>>48857696
The last campaign I ran was full of daring-do.
>The party stumbles across a tiny cave entrance on a beach. It's full of water, and it's uncertain where it may lead. Party Ranger dives inside and retrieves an ancient magical gauntlet, only to find afterwards that his suspicions of deadly traps were right.
>After spanning the subterranean sea, the players single-handedly fought off a demon lord and his army of mutants, barely surviving as they saved several maidens from the monsters' clutches.
>Next, they descended the tomb of an ancient abhorrent tentacle creature. Its' massive limbs where as thick as tree trunks and ripped anyone they caught to shreds. The maidens they had saved earlier were now food for the beast, but one member of the group stayed behind to distract the beast while the other fled to the next floor.