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>>48466013
Anarchy Online,

the greatest.

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All things considered not the most original setting perhaps but I do like it.

>that mold line

Well it used to be that the tonk would have to hide behind its own infantry or hope to stop them with firepower before they could charge it with krak grenades, I guess that's gone.

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Lascannon walls.

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Ten fun facts about goblins:

1: Horse Hate: Goblins excel at riding animals, but they don't quite get horses. In fact, their hatred of all things horse is matched only by their fear of horses, who tend to step on goblins who get too close.

2: Dog Hate: Although goblins raise horrible rat-faced doglike creatures to use as mounts (and ride wolves or worgs if they can get them—goblins are quick to explain that wolves are NOT dogs), their hatred of ordinary dogs nearly matches their hatred of horses. The feeling is mutual, so if your dog's barking at the woodpile for no reason, chances are good he smells a frightened goblin hiding in there somewhere.

3: Goblins Raid Junkyards: Garbage pits, gutters, sewers… anywhere there's garbage, you can bet goblins are nearby. They're weirdly adept at crafting weapons and armor from refuse, and are fond of killing people with what they throw away.

4: Goblins Love to Sing: Unfortunately, as catchy as their lyrics can be, goblin songs tend to be a bit too creepy and disturbing to catch on in mainstream society.

5: They're Sneaky: An excited or angry goblin is a noisy, chattering, toothy menace, but even then, they can drop into an unsettling silence in a heartbeat. This, matched with their diminutive size, makes them unnervingly adept at hiding in places you'd never expect… stacks of firewood, rain barrels, under logs, under chicken coops, in ovens, etc.

6: They're A Little Crazy: The fact that goblins think of things like ovens as good hiding places reveals much about their inability to think plans through to the most likely outcome. That, and they tend to be easily distracted, particularly by shiny things and animals smaller than them that might make good eating.

7: They're Voracious: Given enough supplies, a goblin generally takes nearly a dozen meals a day. Most goblin tribes don't have enough supplies to accommodate such ravenous appetites, which is why the little menaces are so prone to going on raids.

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>>48442544

8: They Like Fire: Burning things is one of the great goblin pastimes, although they're generally pretty careful about lighting fires in their own lairs, especially since goblins tend to live in large tangled thistle patches and sleep in beds of dried leaves and grass. But give a goblin a torch and someone else's home and you've got trouble.

9: They Get Stuck Easily: Goblins have wiry frames but wide heads, and live in cramped warrens. Sometimes too cramped.

10: Goblins Believe Paintings and Writing Steal Your Soul: The walls of goblin lairs and ruins of towns goblins have raided are littered with pictures of their enemies. They never draw pictures of goblins, though—that's mean. Writing steals words out of your head. You can't get them back.

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Pathfinder goblins are the worst thing period.

>>48441115
WHY would you pull it off?

You don't

In order for this to work you'd need to take away control from the player over his character.

If the player is "good" at RPing he will let himself influence from the weapon though, so you just have your weapon whisper ideas to the guy and hope for the best.

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[P1]: "Advancing on the new hostiles. Getting some odd readings from that weaponry, it's---

[P1]: !!!!!!!!

[P1]: Something ripped clean through my reactive armor, I don't have control over auxillary banks-- what the? Everything smells like bacon. Oh

oh i do not have any legs

3: What the? This isn't clear at all!
4: Stay down, we'll get them.
1: On me, move up--- argh!
3: That was a BOTIS shot! Is this a UNCC kill team?

Assault group, what's your status?

A3: Took a shot. Holding. Quit panicking, these people aren't that well armed. Concentrate fire and move up. We'll hold them.

You people spook too easy.

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A5: Uh, t-this is Alpha-Five! Something compromised our turret controls!

A2: Say again? Oh bugger.

3: Assault team, report, what's taking so long?

A5: Assault team compromised! 1-3 are down. Who are these people?! I'm rebooting the turret controls, we can't move out of this garage with the parking barriers up. Fall back to me and we'll hold them here.

3: You people have rocket pods, Assault! You're wearing 20.000 credits worth of contraband combine tech!

A5: It's not helping much!

3: Oh grey star this - this is Harvest-3 to Moon. Moon, we've got party crashers on to the premises and we're bleeding people fast. We're pulling back to the main garage for a holding action. Get us some support over here! Huh? No, they're not Buccini's men - the dreammakers people all fled the moment things turned weird. Probably gave us away.

Bring up the contingency. Yes, both of them!

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3: I'm not going to pay them /not/ to get me out of this mess, am I? If the UNCC want to try to stop us, then they'll need more then legion armor and rifles. Get it done

P1: Woooh everything's spinning i have lost a loooot of blood. wieeee

3: And activate the emergency self-det on P-323-Sparrow.

3: Do I really sound like I care?

3: - You, 4! Stop 'em here!

4: W-why can't I have the briefcase?

3: Your hands are too delicate.

[Player Phase]

[Crew on Call]
1 ???
2 Azir
3 Dandy
4 Tatiana
5 Cub
6 Wraith
7 Bones

Mandatory Discord Server reminder: https://discord.gg/FpVfNKp

Come voice chat with faggots.

How do you fight necrons?

>>48362035
By sending someone else to do it.

>>48473559

Like I always do, just ignore the pain and have some fun to forget about it. Besides, I'm getting born laying up here and thinking anyways, even with all the depressing thoughts firing off in my head.

"Buuut" I sigh as I rock my head back and forth as I stand up "there's really not much to do out here now is there? Just a bunch of grass and old bones"

"I'm Here!" Alith says desperately and cheerfully.

And I just can't help but laugh, cause she sounds like a little kid, or me when there's sweets around, like Icecream or Iris

WHat do I do?
[] Mess with the fallen angel/ pamper her
[] Go back into the rv and watch a movie or something
[] Bring the whole losing her soul thing back up with Iris
[] Look for some monsters or beasts to feed to my master/ Kelly
[]Hmm, wait whats a bar doing out here?
[] Fly through the clear sky and forget about all my problems.
[] Go to the distant beach
[] Mess around with magic to pass the time.
[] Get bored and start causing mischief.
[] Go to hell for awhile, maybe its more exciting down there than up here
[] write in

>>48473568
>[] Mess with the fallen angel/ pamper her
We did promise we'd get her carrots and brush her every day
>[] Look for some monsters or beasts to feed to my master/ Kelly

>>48473568
>[] Mess with the fallen angel/ pamper her
>[]Hmm, wait whats a bar doing out here?

Obella a best.

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“Lords and Ladies of the realm! It is my esteemed honor, no privilege to introduce to you your Semi-Finalist!”

You stand amongst three other men in the center of the yard, the herald not to far off from the the four of you whipping the crowd into a frenzy again. The sound reaches its peak and is softly waved down by the man who places a finger upon his lips for quiet.

“Four men of the Realm. Knights, Lords all! Truly we are blessed by divine light this morning, this day so graciously hosted by the Lord Paramount of the Reach, Lord Mace Tyrell!”

Again they cheer and clap, though to no person in general, the rest of the herald’s words being lost in the cacophony. Lord Tyrell hadn’t made an appearance as far as you know. Just various members of House Tyrell had attended in his place, most prominently to you, Ser Olymer Tyrell, his wife Lady Lysa Meadows, and their two young sons. Ser Arlen Hunt was now sat with him in the high box, both of them acknowledging you with nods and waves.

“...introducing first the green bracket! The Lord of Hammerhal, winner of no less than five contest of bow within the last three years, one of which here in this very field. A man of the Reach, a man of prowess, and the favorite to win it all, Lord Robert Cordwayner!”

A surprisingly large ruckus kicks up at the name, you were surprised to have never heard of the man prior, five victories was nothing to scoff at. Lord Cordwayner stands in place, waving a single arm in response, a stoic look worn upon his face. Likely all Reach contests, but the Tourney in King’s Landing a year past was not out of the man’s Reach, perhaps you had been blessed in not having to meet him earlier or at all.

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“...and his opponent, a man of Dorne, the Knight of Bloodgrove, sworn to House Martell. The darkhorse of our competition having no titles to his name but has rode into the semi-finals with resounding ease. A contender for heart-throb of the contest, and Lords and Ladies watch your daughters, a bachelor no less. My personal pick to win, Ser Rycas Ordarlic!”

The voices that cry out in response are higher pitched, smallfolk and noblewomen alike crying out in favor of the swarthy dornishman who still wore that dark smile as he twirled about the field raking in their applause. You cast eyes towards the dornish entourage that had gathered to watch, surprisingly few had reacted to his announcement. He pauses for a moment, flashing the two fingered salute had had prior towards the rest of you, pointing his recurve towards you each in turn, the crowd, ‘ooooo,’ing in response.

The herald attempts to gain control of the crowd again as Ser Rycas walks back to your line up, finally coming to an acceptable hum when he began to speak again, “And second, though certainly no less important, the gold bracket! Introducing first, another man of the Reach. A common sight about Highgarden’s Tourneys, whether it be amongst the lists, the melee, or here upon this very field. A man of unquestioned loyalty, esteem, and honor, favored by smallfolk and nobles alike. The swornsword of Lady Alerie Hightower, Ser Corey Graves!”

Perhaps the lightest reaction of the three thus far, though most of it came from the smallfolk that had gathered to watch the contest and the high box. A woman with flowing gold silver hair, tall, slender and handsome stood, clapping her hands lightly, she wore the colors of House Tyrell, but above her stood the coat of arms of House Hightower, a surprising spectator. Ser Corey Graves bows deeply in the direction of the high box, the woman nodding back for him to rise, which he does with a few waves towards the smallfolk crowds.

>>48429032
>Heroes have unlimited potential to be villains
Yeah, about that, how much is this getting edition changed? I have the vague impression that it was supposed to be true in 2e as a social commentary on how Power Does Not Equal Goodness, but in 3e they shifted towards the Exaltation picking good people, not just skilled people. But I don't have any specific quotes I can point to.

Reposting from last thread:

I'll be starting a game 3E soon and I need some input. I'm keeping things simple and gave my Zenith character the motivation to restore the cult of the Unconquered Sun. Now, while the GM has admitted he's going to play a bit loose with the setting overall, the UCS will remain as he was in canon. So what exactly would a cult of the UCS be like, or at the very least some religious philosophy (think Buddhism) where Sol Invictus is at the center? I was thinking some 'way of life'-style mentality where individuals are expected to live as virtuously and heroically as possible and basing things off the four Virtues of previous editions (as I recall UCS had max virtues).

Is that too simple/generic or does it work just fine?

>>48429521
>but in 3e they shifted towards the Exaltation picking good people

Yeah, nah, not a thing.

The "righteousness" of the Solar Exalted gets mentioned in the text, just like it always is, but they still have a Charm that makes "I dislike them" a sin worth of burning and torturing someone, sooo.

First for Cyrodiil best province

Is the godhead canon

>>48457801

The Godhead is ANU. ANU is love.


Shittiest lore ever made btw.

>>48451234
fucking furries

Are you worried about offending bulls? I mean, if there is a bull in your group, maybe don't do it.

>>48451234
Why not both?

>>48419125
In Fate I played a political officer type character with minor magical powers. Most of his skills went into martial prowess and utility support (High Will and Notice, decent fight, shoot, physique and agility, low magic) while magic was used as a utility skill, pushing opponents around or settting zones on fire so that they are no longer safe to inhabit.

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Mechanics-wise, there are only two practical methods of enabling "gish"-type characters that have meaningful diversity in build options.

A. Designing spells expressly for such characters, such as spells that upgrade weapon attacks. Entire gish classes with spell selections tailored to such a playstyle also work. D&D examples of this include virtually all of 4e's non-martial weapon-users (e.g. artificer, avenger, paladin, swordmage, warden) and 5e's paladin.

B. Having the price to improve martial prowess and spellcasting abilities simultaneously be reasonably low, under the logic that such a character has split their focus and can do neither as well as a specialist. D&D examples of this include the 2e fighter/mage, the 3.X abjurant champion, and the 3.X and 5e bard.

Pathfinder's inquisitor, which is extremely well-designed, has shades of both A and B.

Any "gish"-type that satisfies neither A nor B inevitably does not work as advertised and forces one down extremely specific builds, and veering away from those builds results in a mediocre character. Prime examples of this include Pathfinder's magus (which has a shockingly, no pun intended, low number of optimal builds) and 5e's eldritch knight (keep to abjurations and do not even think about casting a damage-dealing evocation).

>>48419399
You're forgetting spells that aren't designed for gishes but benefit them anyway, such as buffs for martial types that can be also cast on ones self, and control effects that change the local battlefield whether from far away or with you in the thick of it.

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Dreadnoughts should be cheaper

In all of the shitposting about fandexes in the last thread, did anyone ever bother to raise a single actionable criticism of SpaceOdin's fandex?

>>48468648

Nah, buff them. Either better armor, HP and durability, or faster and better platforms for deploying, especially w/r/t assaulting.

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>>48468320
Do diseases count?

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Alright, so i listened to anon and scrapped the old shitty magic progression for a point buy progression instead. The spell costs follow an exponential curve so higher level spells are much more expensive. Furthermore all spells can be cast as subtle spells for double the spell point cost starting at 7th level, and cast as a bonus action for triple the cost starting at 13th.

Thoughts/feedback?

I just checked and is the August UA seriously just some premade characters?

There's better players than this.

>>48450940
This anon's right

Also, when you have players who are intolerable, you can simply stop inviting them or kick them. It's a question of how and with whom you want to spend your own precious and limited free time.

>>48450926
There are, but most people who are involved with this hobby are absolute dregs.
You'll have a better time with getting friends, classmates, or coworkers to play. And for the love of god don't advertise in game stores.