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>>54780597
That should work. If you play a martial, you're nothing more than comic relief anyway.

If this is bait - good job, if not

Well you could just make something simple - an old guy farmer who went out to adventure just because he was bored and didn't want to see youngster die for no good reason

>serious group
> Wants to play meme pc

you havn't even said what dnd it is.
point buy or array?
whats the group got?
what type of game is it?

talk to the gm. ask him all this stuff. ask him to help make you something.
If he wont help then it may be a shit group.
If he is too busy to help then look up builds online.
Or use hero lab, it makes building a pc easy.

No?

Yes, it's almost as good a card as One With Nothing

>>54779644
I'm not sure if they were telling the truth, but I remember some Anon saying that One With Nothing was used as anti Owling Mine tech back then.

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>>54777314
You're gonna have to give us a little more to go on here, OP. Why are there no wizards? Are other types of magic verboten, too?

>>54776849
The Codex Alera books are basically about this

>>54776849
I figure it would mostly differ in that "spells" would have a degree of intelligence, and could be trained to better do their job. Like with your example, if you had the earth elementals reinforce you often enough they'd eventually learn what parts of you need the most strength and optimize the effect, maybe even learn to preempt the physical trauma and harden before the blow even lands.

>>54777140
>preempt the physical trauma and harden before the blow even lands
But this is already what happens.

>>54776638
But I already like it

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>>54776638
you need a yugio7 g0sh trip. get on that

>>54776921
not enough

go buy cards

>>54775189
https://youtu.be/Ta2akHVbepo?t=11m41s This video of a Urealms campaign shows off exactly this. Cannons needed to be loaded and manned, the ship needed to be steered. It's a long video but you can see this throughout.

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>>54775189
I suggest looking at the rules in Rogue Trader. They are spaceships but the "ships of the line IN SPACE!" kind. Its rules have the PCs get involved in different aspects of ship combat and voyage.

A "hold" was historically measured in tuns, which is a barrel containing about 1.000 liters of water or 1.000 kilos.

You also could have a position of someone repairing the ship and/or making sure the crew does as ordered.

http://imgur.com/a/yZDSn
This album has mostly real ships images I collected.

>One thing I've always been kind of weirded out by is the fact that large vehicles are often considered...living, in a way.
You might have no idea how much this is true.

>They need an engine, or some method of propulsion, from sails to slaves with oars to internal combustion.
There are more options if you wish. The chinese had paddlewheel ships moved by their crew instead of oars.

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>>54777221

>What is fist wizard

>>54775686
Oh now this site fucking works on this computer. Aight here we go then cause I am NOT letting you hang anon-senpai.

>Literal Bear Russian Druid
>2 Gnomes stacked on each other, both fighters
>Skeleton Necromancer with bone armor
>Capioera Bard Drow
>Literally 20 goblins
>Orc Barbarian
>Ork Monk
>1000 year old elf monk
>Dwarf Lore Bard who insults opponents into submission
>Half-Orc pacifist cleric and tag-team Gnome barbarian partner
>MinMaxed Half-Elf paladin who is babyface
>Dragonborne Dragon-bloodline Sorcerer who is heel
>One of the announcers is a Half-Elf cleric who is a part-timer in the ring
>Mute Drow is an eldritch sorcerer with tentacle grapple
>A gorgon
>Giant Enemy Crab
>Not!Terrasque
>Nobleman who legals opponents into submission, is actually the plot hook for the next arc
Cont.

>>54775774
>Literal Demon
>Literal Succubus
>Human Ranger Warden with humans as favored enemy, followed by any non-Elves due to his self-race-hatred
>Literal Gorilla
>Gnome in a mech-suit
>Dwarf paladin that tries to smite everything no matter what
>Min-maxed human Commoner
>Anthropomorphic Alchemist that "cheats" to victory
>Actually Hulk Hogan
>Unknown race Ninja that's a bit too lethal for this contest
>Just some guy
>Who apparently has a gun?!
>Golem and its Wizard coach
>Old dwarf fighter and spouse coach
>Elf Coach wrestler and his orc wrestler coach
>Young half-orc wizard with slippery magical companion
>Santa Claus half-orc rogue that reverse pick-pockets random crap during the fight
>literally an Imperial Fists Space Marine
>Literally an empty tank
>There is a demilich inside the ring that acts as a new combatant or a quirky referee, the role switch can happen mid fight
>one of the referees is a drill sargeant dwarf
>old wizard referee that just fireballs for any rule violation, of course no one really knows what the rules are, or cares
>The tournament organizer is a poor dude trying to make some cash by giving up the magical belt artifact
>It's not actually magical so he makes a contingency to win it himself at the last moment so no one ever finds out
>Belief in the belt is what ends up giving it power
Cont.

I really like the magic from through the breach. It's done in a cool way where you can build your own spells by adding or removing mods to get a variable difficultly to cast.

>>54774930
On paper, Call of Cthulhu. You're not supposed to have many powers, nor use them terribly often, and the magic system is understood to carry incredible existential and metaphysical implications (even though I don't like the interpretation of those implications inherent to cosmic horror). That said, in actual gameplay, I'd probably go with the Savage Worlds power system, because it's a solid, mechanically versatile option that doesn't require quite the same kind of fussing that many other power systems do.

>>54774930
Ars Magica 5e.
It's freeform.

what if they're THIS galaxy's Orks 2.0?

>psychic hive mind becalms the Warp forcibly
>actively seek and destroy anything that could disturb the Warp
>big ol' reset button
>coming from undetermined space outside the galaxy, possible out of fucking nothing via space magic since nobody's managed to reliably put an age to the oldest organisms encountered
>guided by a singular intelligence

what do we even know about the fate of the Old Ones? we only know that they're not around any more plus a lot of non-canon shit from old dexes

>>54773884
>>54774000
I still like to think there a Old One creation due to there striking similarities between there psychic abilities and the Orks

>>54774031
The nids were invented by Vulkan and Dorn who are known to be chilling somewhere.

>>54773332
>Thread Question
Not really sure. There are some great designs like Ramos, Taigam, GW Baracat Swordsmith, Mirri and the Wandering Knight, but nothing is really making me go "Yes."

This might sound autistic as fuck but I'm honestly hoping for Mardu Vampires to feature a Knight subtheme. I need an excuse to slot in my foil Haakon without jumping through fifty hoops.

>>54773332
>What commander from the 2017 comander decks are you excited to build? why?
Exactly nothing. Ramos is sweet, but I don't want him as his own deck, instead wanting him for my "5 Color Matters" deck where I can cast a Conflux and instantly use Ramos's effect to cast my commander (Progenitus).

>>54773332
>Tribal themed commander release
>no goblins yet

Give me a reason to spend dosh Wizards ill do it.

Im still struggling to trim fat from this Wort spell-slinger/conspire deck;
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/goblin-parade-1/
>what do I take out
>what should I put in
top considerations are; Impact Tremors, Increasing Vengeance, Howl of the Horde, Parallel Evolution/Second Harvest, Ezuri's Predation, or tempt with discovery

>>54772608
>armor penalty to speed.webm

>>54772608
*strips naked*

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>>54772608
Heh. Try to keep up... Kid...
*unzips katana*

>>54772454
wushu

Superhero settings I would guess

Your places seem to have rather relaxed work ethic.

>>54772104
Yeah. It's chill as fuck.

>>54772104
It sounds like a retirement home since the "normie" seems outright senile

>>54771227
I dont think you can make a *scary* tabletop game without some really extensive prep work but then again, I'm a noob so I wouldnt be surprised if there is a way.

>>54771227
Yes, they can be, but in a different way and they require a lot of prep work. It also has to be a system dedicated to horror (Call of Cthulhu for example). I've run a few games where I genuinely scared and unsettled my players, but it's usually pretty difficult.

It works. Ran a lot of horror, usually with WoD mortals but anything not too complicated is fine. You absolutely need people who want to be scared, though. Also, I recommend groups of 2-4 people, and clear up limits beforehand.

>Be ominous
Not everything needs an explanation. Do not worry about the 'rules' of the supernatural. Let them know the source eventually, but not its means. Do not show the 'monster' for more than a tiny bit at once, or it will become a 'character' that the players will attempt to manipulate.
>Let them feel powerless
>Let them feel unsafe
>Do not show mercy
Hurt them. Cripple them. Physically or mentally. Do not make it impossible for them to act, though.

> the emperor focuses all his efforts on Duster, repeatedly freezing time and unloading all he can onto Duster
> Unfortunately for the emperor, I had built Duster to be as difficult to kill as possible
> high AC, tough feat, levels in barbarian, and a fighter ability that gave him regen when below half health
> the emperor literally never attacks anyone but Duster, but he still survives
> we go through several rounds loading shotgun round after shotgun round into the emperor, but he seemed to be largely unaffected
> GM explains how the emperor had traveled here to attain godhood and that he was effectively immortal
>well that sucks
> we come to the conclusion that the only way to kill the emperor was to shove him off the platform into the black hole
> Duster ran up to the emperor and proceeded to kick him back, slowly edging him back toward the edge
> Duster ends his turn standing in front of the emperor who is literally teetering on the edge of the platform
> Druid's up next
> she has the gust of wind spell, which pushes creatures in its area
> the emperor would be knocked into the void, but so would Duster
> Duster tells the druid to do it
> he knows that today is his day to die
> Druid casts the spell, Duster voluntarily fails his save and flies into the emperor
> he somehow makes his save, despite having disadvantage from having a 200 pound dwarf slamming into him
> Duster grapples the emperor, attempting to wrestle him him off the edge, but the emperor resists
> up comes Bother Seamus the Monk's turn
> he has an ability that can push at range, which he refluffed into the Kamahameha from DBZ
> he also hesitates: Duster is still grappling the emperor

Continued

>Duster shouts at the monk
> "Do it, Send both of us to the void"
> monk launches the kamehameha
> the emperor crit fails his save
> both he and Duster and knocked off the platform
> Duster rides the emperor Dr. Strangelove style into the black hole
> the remaining party takes one final bong hit in Duster's memory

And that was the best way the campaign could have ended

>>54771059
>>54771090
>>54771114

Sounds like fun, was this your first campaign?