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>>48749572
30 years ago this would be a picture of the slums but during Great Awakening New Strutter saw the starving artists of New Strutter create wonders. The end result is that the old Slums house philosophers and Mage princes that build out...rather oddly.

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>>48749666
Picture sorry

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>>48749572
King Killah rose to power extremely quickly by caving in heads of assholes, and there were loads of assholes. He doesn't seem to be much nicer than any other Red King he brained to get the spot but he also doesn't seem to be too interested in giving out orders that aren't "Dat thing you got, where you get it?"

Rumor is the last answer was Ricki Lord's crown because the Red Kings are bringing the party north.

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Consider these my credentials.

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Requesting a better version of this girl. She is basically the Kwisatz Haderach of my story, the genetic gifts her family has are greatly magnified due to the weird circumstances of her birth. As a result the vaguely-realistic gun combat of the story is punctuated by her uncanny sniper rifle shots. To that end I gave her the in-world equivalent of an AWP rifle and Tec9 pistols as an homage to Counterstrike. I would love if someone could draw a better version of her. Maybe jumping while firing a rifle, or shooting from behind a tree, or just posing with a rifle or her pistols in the forest. Or just your own interpretation of her. Thank you in advance to anyone who tries it. I have been trying to do requests myself but seeing as I drew pic related, they are not particularly good. But, free art is free art, I guess, and I definitely need the practice. Someone asked me to draw them a female version of Kael'Thus Sunstrider (?) from World of Warcraft which I fulfilled but I don't know if it was being used for an RPG character or if it was just a random request.

Requesting a drawing of Derry Hopsmith, my Stout Halfling Monk. I'll just post the backstory I wrote for him cause it paints a pretty good picture. I like to imagine his clan has that super long Kender hair but done up in a kung fu braid.

Also we've decided that since Dwarves are all for some reason scottish, Halflings are Welsh.

Bio in the next post.

>>48748803
Fuck you I'm stealing that idea for my next character, A dwarven Druid who goes by the monicker "The compost man"

>>48748803
You might get confused for an otyugh.

>>48748832
I can't blame you. I really need this character in my life.

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>>48748647
Cont.

So I come to you for advice /tg/:

#1: How many quest and plot hooks linked to revealing the main plot would it be best to have around when starting out in the first city? I have total of 5 quest hooks, 3 of which are plot hooks for the overarching goal, and 2 for if the players find the first three not worth looking into and can be tied into the plot later. In short, how much material should I prepare in advance for this sort of campaign? And should I cook up more plot hooks after one has reached it's conclusion, even if others are still unexplored?

#2: How do I connect it all together without severely limiting player choice and also keeping logically advancing at a satisfying pace? For clarity and completeness sake, the ideal goal of the campaign (as no plan survives contact with the players) is that PC's find out that the king of the Elves, Orius Starlock, eldest of the three kingdoms, is conspiring with the Formians to open portals to Feydark across the continent. With the lands tie to the physical plane being shakey enough as it is, will eventually be pulled in and merged with the Feydark thus expanding the realm of King Thrumbolg, First Lord of the Formians. The players of course must stop this from coming to pass.


If you guys have any advice along those lines, or anything else to add that would really be appreciated! And apologies in advance if my writing is rambling and/or confusing, I'm a bit scattered brained when I'm nervous. I just want to create the best possible campaign for my players, present and future.

>>48748659

5 is plenty. Usually I start games with all the players having a single objective they are all already there to do and just let them go wild. Giving 5 to choose from is plenty.

Only answer to number 2 is git gud. Usually you can make connections by having them get jumped or find the remnants of the evil forces at work. Like, no matter what the quest is you can find some way to slip in a goon with a tattoo of the evil, or wearing the clothes of the evil, or even just finding note that the evil dropped.

#1 Seems like a decent number of quests to start off the campaign, the important bit would be making them seem different enough from one another so that your players don't realize they all lead to the same plot except in retrospect.

#2 The way I've handled this during my games is by making a conspiracy pyramid. Essentially there are separate levels of a conspiracy that goes from proxies to underlings to bosses. You have the characters defeat a part of the organization at the lower level and then leave breadcrumbs too higher parts of the organization. It could be an accounting ledger that leads to a shipping company, a stone with markings that makes magic portals work or a signet ring that has to be identified by the family insignia on it. The point being is that one clue points to a different part of the organization.

When your players want to be distracted and run around for a session or two that's fine but try to make it so that their actions tie back to the conspiracy. For example, if they run off to the woods so that the druid can commune with the wild, have it tie back in by stumbling across a broken portal from earlier in the scheme. Eventually your notes should look like the ramblings of an insane conspiracy theorist.

One problem that I have encountered from this type of game is a lack of iconic villains to fight. I haven't really got a good solution for this one, I've tried enemies they could meet but not fight but that seemed somewhat unsatisfying, but this is something that varies from person to person. Then again you could keep one note villains interesting or possibly turn them away from evil as a way to keep a fun character around. I dunno this is one area that my conspiracy style games need working on.

Note that if you have the conspiracy retaliate don't just be a dick to your players, make it so that the players can retaliate back themselves and win decisive victories against them.

>>48748173
>an RPG based on being rescue personel
Intriguing.

>>48748173

>A large cargo ship is stranded in space broadcasting SOS
>Was struck by an unknown object that has caused extensive damage to the engines and life support
>After putting out the fires and restoring life support and gravity you find out the ship's sensors were tampered with to prevent it from detecting and avoiding objects around it.

>>48748173

I think I saw a game like this in a LGS though I don't remember the name.

I think the big reason is that fighting fires and emergency rescue can't really be part of a grand narrative as it currently exists in our popular consciousness, you'd want to tack on some CSI elements to keep things engaging.

Now that I think about it, it's the custom pact boon I could use the most help with, and the accompanying invocations.

Suggestions?

So here's the problem:

If you put in a race that is invincible unless you destroy their head, why wouldn't everybody be them?

Also not sure how close you want the lore to be to the source material but from what I understand wouldn't it make more sense for them to be a class?

One thing we need to note - beyond their healing factor and extreme strength, their combat prowess comes from training, its not something they're born with. Hell usually picks the best soldier of a generation for a hellspawn, to compliment them winning the super power lottery. It's naturally be overpowered to model this in the system, so we're going to mostly ignore this and just give the warlock class some nifty bonuses.

Another option though, is making it a prestige class that a requirement for is changing your race to hellspawn. That way you stack your fighter levels with your hellspawn levels. I think that might be a bit too difficult.

Perfect modeling Al Simmons would probably be a gestalt Fighter/Warlock with a custom pact boon for the suit.

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>>48748023
No.2
This one from a dnd i was running a while ago.

Epic level fighter that simply refused to die.
Was originally LG, but when killed decided his task was not yet finished, fought his way out of his eternal reward and has begun subjugating the kingdoms for some unknown end.
Good luck keeping him down.

>>48748023
And a third, others will have to wait until later, work calls.
Another dnd camp.
One of the players.
Was a magic low setting.
Secretly 40k feral world.
One of the players sold his soul to a waifu slaneeshi daemonette in exchange for magic powah.
Of course he didnt realise it at the time, but the daemonette never lied to him, he just didnt ask about the details of "pledging himself to the Prince", just signed the metaphysical line so fast i had to scramble to keep up.
Shame it fell apart.
Another was using a daemonweapon of tzeentch and buying into the hallucinations telling him he was the "true heir to the throne", and urging him to "retake his rightful place" and shit.
The way it was going it was going to end up a daemonworld by incompetance rather than design.
Would have been fun when the sword wielding one shanked the inquisitor/regent by the daemon he was letting puppet him though.
"Wait cant i fight it?"
>he asked for control and you gave it m8 kek

>>48748023

I could see the lich being interesting for a lighthearted start for low-level characters. You really want to pay attention to lich lore though in terms of "more nuissance than a threat"

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>>48746898

>The primary disadvantage is the condition known as longing where the pilot will begin to experience mental and emotional degradation from being outside their original bodies.

If you've got the technology to do shit like this, and also clone human body parts, couldn't human clones be outfitted with cybernetic bodies that they can be plugged into that allow them to experience humanity more or less the same as a human body?

Potentially, you could actually incorporate such a cybernetic body into the pilot's chamber itself, and it's jettisoned in case the craft gets damaged. The pilot can now act on their own or even be outfitted with an armored combat morph body to continue their fight on the ground until they can be recovered or even just to cause as much havoc as they can behind enemy lines.

>>48747342

The black box can't carry a spare body. It's literally just the brain and spinal cord and a few cybernetic organs to simulate certain body functions needed to keep the brain acting normally. Not only that the Black Box needs to be plugged out of the craft and into another unit so while you can eject the black box you're pretty stuck until serivce personnel can pick you up and stablize you.

Worst case scenario you can be put sleep to stave off the effects of Longing but doing so with no guarantee of pick up is dangerous as you can't disengage the process once done.

>>48746898
I really do love the look of the Longsword, shame we never got a Halo level where we get to use one

And for something relevant to the topic at hand, a few months ago after watching pacific rim I was toying with a similar idea to yours, only instead of one person it would be two or three different people, maybe more, hooked up together to create an amalgamation of there minds, a brand new 'Gestalt Personality', to pilot combat vehicles or ships, with the new personality ceasing to exist when the pilots disconnected and its memories being held by the pilots or in a computer system when it was on its down time, only to be re-uploaded when the pilots came back together.

I then began to wonder what happens when the pilots and the gestalt personality have disagreements with each other, or if the amalgamation of the pilots didn't want to be disconnected...

what

does the fighter want to look mangled or something? what is his intent here? assuming he wants to look like a fucked up corpse, that's something simple goddamn polymorphing could do, no?

>>48746838
could be. he wants em to be fucked up for morale reasons. it's the husband of the bbeg, and we're gonna bring him to the last fight looking completely fucked up in order to break her spirit and also use as a bargaining chip, the whole "i can make him normal again if you give us what we want" deal. desu though i'd need to ask his reasoning, i'm just the guy with the ability to do it.

>>48746838
ah fuck my opening statement completely forgot to mention it's a prisoner he wants to mangle. god this must've looked stupid without that.

>>48746361
>strengths
DM section. All new DMs should read it, and not in the snarky "what to do wrong" way. It's great advice.

>weaknesses
-combat that is neither fast nor tactical
-separate attribute scores and modifiers when there's no reason
-attributes that don't fit for a PbtA game
-the bonds do nothing
-experience, as compared to Apocalypse World
-probably other things I'm forgetting

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>>48746361
The GM section is good. Some of the flavour text is decent.
Everything else is schizophrenic, badly designed shit.

>>48746361
It's decent as a Babies first RPG, MAYBE?

I don't know. I've heard both great and terrible, and great but terrible, things about it just like every other RPG on the market. Hell, I didn't even know about it until I started watching one of the live games Adam runs on Twitch.

It's just an example of the battle brothers rules. They are fighting Tyranids, so it's best to be fighting together.

>>48746010
That picture actually is not official 40k art.

It's made by the same guy who does the Horus Heresy novel covers, but it's something he just made up as a fan picture, so there's no actual official reason.

>>48746026
Is as good an explanation as any. When the nids come calling, it's wise to fight together.

>>48746026
Except the Astartes has a Tau jump-pack? on his armor.

I'll kick it off of course with the first session.

>I have two players, we'll refer to them as ARJ and ROC.
>They're a Spell Slinger and a Wronged, respectively.
>Wanting to test the game, came up with something simple for all of us. "Monsters here, kill them."
>Not the monster they thought of course.

They went in thinking it was a brain scrambler, basically a monster that controls people with psychic powers and then scrambles their brains.

>One contact for this, Sheriff John McCoy, former Hunter who went out of the game after having aforementioned brains scrambled.
>McCoy is a bit rusty.
>They meet at a diner to chat after visiting a hotel and booking rooms quickly.

>McCoy knows the address and gladly heads off, forgetting to pay because he's not quite all there.
>ARJ pays, while ROC casually walks into their car. ARJ gets in, and I get an idea.

"You hear a particular squelching noise."

>>48745937
What system are you running it in?

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>>48746029
Powered by the Apocalypse.

>ARJ is confused, so is ROC.
>Slime all over the chair, and it changes color everytime they look away / blink.
>What is it you ask?

I came up with a creature called a Squelcher. It eats light, converts it to high pressure paintballs filled with scentless excrement and it always changes color once you look away. Everyone sees colors different.

>Pic related, it's the Squelcher, it became a mascot of sorts.

>Players head to the location, and abandoned warehouse.
>McCoy is parked out front, but doesn't seem to be at his car.

>Goodie, he's inside.
>Players go to follow.

Cont.

>>48745775
my fetish/10

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>>48745775

>Name: Farlyn
>Race: Human/Dragon
>Class: Cleric
>STR: 8
>DEX: 10
>CON: 16
>WIS: 18
>INT: 12
>CHA: bestgirl

>>48745775
Race: Best girl
Class: Waifu 20
Str; Yes
Dex: All
Con: Enough
Int: erested
Wis: Very
Cha: The best

>>48745456

>Thrown urine
>Sonic attacks
>Becoming ever more normal
>Endless waves of frogs
>A zombie made from the body of Eliot Rodger attacking them.
>A chicken tenders shortage
>Not having enough good boy points to buy them with the inflated prices.

Think like a stalker. What do they want? What's their fantasy world? Even though they're crazy, they obey the same rules of logic as most people, except that they [believe Beyonce will fall in love with them].

So then have them work towards that goal. They'll probably notice the PCs protecting this person, so it's only reasonable that they'd try to figure out ways to lure the PCs away.

Second, you can have things from the other side. Celebs who don't want the inconvenience of allowing the PCs to protect them properly. "Stay out of the basement" or "don't ever be in the same room as me."

Then find ways to make that complicated, either by having the stalker or a confederate get involved, or by having the ol' 'President's Daughter' routine that all the Disney live-action movies in the early 2000s did, where the VIP actively tries to escape and leave, which eventually opens them up to risks.

screwdrivers.
thousands of screwdrivers pointed at your eyeballs.

and ballerina-remakes.