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>>48738822
See, this confuses me.

Is it trolling to point out that one of the creators of 40k wrote the first Space Marine Codex which explicitly states they are the greatest?

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>>48738856

>Love games
Okay
>Like Dark Souls
Nice
>And Dragon's Dogma
Patrician tas-
>But dislike Elder Scrolls
Okay I can understand disliking the Skyrim hype but if we look at them honestly and objectively they were all fun games and-
>Baldurs Gate
So they hate fun and love struggle. Run a Sandbox campaign like Elemental Evils, or a turbo-difficult campaign like Tomb of Horrors.

I know that 5e has hardcore rules where essentially a short rest is a day and a long rest is a week.

From there just say 0 hp = dead and you can confidently say that you are running a game that is hard as fucking balls and making mistakes is bad news bears.

Bonus points for including creative encounters in environments for them (and their enemies) to use.

>>48737857
Maybe they just like the atmosphere and aesthetics of the first two. Very little else will transfer between the two mediums.

>>48737665
Do you have a LGS? If so, they likely already have a wargaming scene which you can tap into. If they do, you can boost appeal by helping the owner set up a tournament in one of the game types and spreading it around on Facebook. If you have a LGS and there isn't a wargaming scene start a Facebook group for wargaming in your town, and then ask the owner to put people who buy wargaming miniatures from him to direct them to your group.

IF you do not have a LGS you're going to face an uphill battle. There'll be a local community center somewhere which will allow you to rent a room on weekends, get some trestles and you and your friends go down for a few weekends, see how you like it. If it's good, you can reach out over community noticeboards and the internet to find new players and induct them into your group. At some point you might want to broach monthly membership (something like $5.00) to help cover the cost of the hall, or selling cans of drink from an esky, but your mileage may vary.

>>48737665
>Also, would picking a skirmish level game help keep prices down?
Hahaha... The fewer the models you need, the more expensive each model is.

>>48737665
I believe that Infinity and Dust are more skirmishy-type wargames.

Battletech is definitely a skirmish.

You grow a scene by playing the game, having a good time, and when people wanna join in you let them join.

Shops tend to be pretty nice about ordering stuff so yeah I'd ask them about it. Usually it's just good business for them to get people in the door having a good time because that shit is infectious when other people come in to just shop around.

Also
>>48737924
Is true.

From my experience the most "bang for your buck" in terms of wargames is Battletech. The starter box is literally everything you could ever want for a good and long fucking time before you even think about getting more shit.

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>>48737061
A human with 10 or more PC levels.

>>48737061
The players

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>>48737061
Currently one half of the main antagonist duo, a former PC, who is a cybernetically enhanced monk channeling spiritual energy from another dimension with an unhealthy desire to fight gods. He's kinda like the hulk mixed with a disco ball and a rave light show. Currently no players or pokemon in the area have a direct answer to him.

So, basically, yeah, what the others said.

>>48736522
That he's a grognard and you shouldn't play with him.

>>48736522
He's wrong. It was after 1999, when Hasbro bought WotC that it stopped being real,

> anything after 3e isn't real D&D
That translates into
>I AM A HUGE FAGGOT PLEASE RAPE MY FACE

Avoid that guy. Or rape his face.[/SPOILER]

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>>48736499
Multilasers are better than both, and we should mount them on everything.

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>>48736499

>>48736499
Not only that, but lasgun's laser tavel instantly making it impossible to miss. Meanwhile bolter shell is affected by gravity/wind.

I propose lowering SM with bolters BS by 1 and upping guardsmen BS by 2 to reflect that. SM with multilasers are BS 6.

>What a piece of shit gun how many bullets it can hold? Six?
To reflect that everytime you shoot bolters you roll a d6, on 1 you ran out of ammo and skip shooting phase.

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>>48736109
I think my current PC might actually be an atheist, so probably ignore them.

Granted, he also can't read.

>>48736109
my current squad would be completely immune to them

Is that the name of their band or something? Are you sending christian rock groups after us?

look for more goats to start a herd and harvest some more timber and stones from the local area.

>>48735806
The males leave the confines of the cave and begin scouring lower in the mountain where plants are more abundant, the same large goat heard is spotted below grazing on a large flat piece of land. Kal and 4 other males carefully climb down the slopes attempting to get closer. Mean while the other 4 males scour the area around the cave, harvesting berries and mushrooms while others snap branches off for firewood and gather logs and stones. The smoke plume from the eastern side of the mountain has subsided and the snow has all but stopped for now leaving crisp morning air. Meanwhile back in the cave Mek has scratched the word for Dream into the wall and left under it the Thin mushrooms, while the word for food is filled with the Fat Mushrooms

>Attempt to kill Goats RollD100
>Attempt to herd Goats RollD100
>Attempt to Kidnap Goats RollD100
>Other

The Gathering party returns with more resources

Current Supplies - 4 Goat carcasses (16 food) Berries (7 food) Fat mushrooms (4 food) thin mushrooms (4 food), 13 Logs, rocks, firewood

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>48735854

Herd Goats

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here's a courtesy/pity bump
>Sister is resurrected (hopefully without any downsides/consequences)
>Cutie Elf was a budding necromancer all along(?)
>two month wait for next chapter

>>48735485

Not sure if D&D goes too much into it. Last I heard it was negative energy though I think 5e got rid of that but I don't know.

At the end of the day it's about what you find the best for the story you want to tell.

>>48735485
Dump it fag.

>>48735122
The most common game modes for wargames are "Kill everything until they're literally all dead", "kill enough of everything that they're functionally worthless", "kill more of them than they kill of you within the turn limit", king of the hill, "reach the far edge" (Opposed by "prevent them from reaching the far edge"), "kill the VIP", or scenarios that combine multiple objectives in succession.
Roleplaying isn't usually a Thing. Games like Battletech that support campaigns complete with in-universe downtime for maintenance, reinforcements, and travel time between strategic objectives can support role playing, but it's not part of the core gamespace.

>>48735122
KoW has 6 scenarii (modes) in its base book
1- Kill, where you get points for killing enemy units and that's it
2- Invasion, when you score points for every of your units on your opponents side
3- King of the hill, where you score points by having your units within 12" of the middle of the table by the end of he game
4- Pillage, where you have to hold 5-7 objectives at the end of the game by being 3" of them at most and not being contested
5- CTF with 3 flags (loot objectives)
6- a mix of 1 and 4

There are more scenarii in other books but those are the ones played in tournaments.

>>48735243
Oh, and the reason why roleplaying isn't usually a thing is that you need a third party to arbitrate it if you want it to really have any meaningful impact on the game.
You can banter all over your opponent, but you can't exactly influence NPCs or implement strange plans that the rules might not explicitly cover without someone to run those NPCs or work out how you could go about doing it.

Never mind how easy you're making that all sound let's think about that for a minute.

Make every human more psychic with a hybrid alien virus. What can go wrong?

>>48734477
By the emperor, this is just retarded.

>>48734477
Is this picture a meme or something

I keep seeing it

>>48734354
Serious response is the 3.5 DMG. It's Gynax approved. I'm not joking.

Most of the threads we have here about bad GMs, bad adventures, how to GM, tips for GMing, etc., etc., are all answered by reading that book. Things like
>I fudged some rolls/used NPC interaction or other GM control to save a player from a pointless death. Did I do okay, or should I avoid this blatant railroading?
Answered by the section on player death, with the example being a PC who gets run over by a carriage while crossing the street because he failed a roll or two. Do you fudge rolls or otherwise do something to keep him alive? Yes, because that's a shitty way for your level 10 PC to go. It serves no narrative purpose, and he didn't do anything dumb. He had some bad luck, and that was that.

So on and so forth.
They didn't make it one of the core rulebooks just to move more books. There's good information in there.

>>48735859
>Gynax
Fug. You know who I mean.

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So i would replace computers and tech with say chainmail a la fullmetal alch and tunes and crystals in place of computers.

The gun list would need to be poured over and such say everything is handcrafted so clips cost more and full auto and such would be way more restricted.

Though i dont know what to replace the deckers pad with. Drawing a blank

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Blah runes not tunes

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If you can swing it, try Deadlands. While the crunch of the generating stats is a bit clunky it really does fit in with the Western theme with chips, poker cards and all that.

>>48733247
wooden chair attack

>>48733285
>counter with "uncles fat ass"
>your pathetic chair splits in twain

>"I am no mere man, I am a proud dwarf!"
>The short but sturdy creature heaves a recently-emptied ale barrel over his head, and upends it over his diminuitive body.
>A muffled battle-cry comes from within the dripping cask:
>"Barrel-chested bum rush!"

>>48732586

Honestly these days I prefer systems that move as far away as possible from vidya style progressive crunch. I don't even play DnD any more (for many reasons, this being one of them).

Just use a craftsmanship system
Inferior, Common, Better, Best.

Inferior inflicts penalties, Better has a small bonus, Best has a big bonus.
For armor, that's
>a movement penalty
>no effect
>weighs less
>weighs less and blocks a tad more damage

Why haven't you read your GURPS anon?

Depends on what you are your players are looking for but that being said I'm pretty sure D&D already does exactly what you describe.