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I'll consider it.
But has it got space lesbians and science babies?

>>48419136
And School Girl Insurance Fraud because they, in the proud tradition of their parents, are actually kind of inoffensive, so much so that it's easier for the ships they accost to knuckle under because everyone sort of knows they are genteel and won't REALLY cause that much trouble, probably?

>>48419167
The schoolgirls were getting insurance fraud contracts through the broker dude, mind.
It seemed to be a pretty common scheme amongst all the pirates.

Or, privateers. They were licensed? That's privateering, right?

I made a bunch of decks with the mechanically simple cards and gave them to the FLGS to hand out to kids interested in the game.

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just donate it to new players.

>>48417907
Hold onto bulk rares and trade them in to a vendor at a GP. They'll give you like 10¢ per card. Adds up fast. Commons and uncommons are trash, though

>>48417190
I actually made and played him at my local store. He was a crossbow/knife master and was cross between thief and ninja with just a little bit of warlock and techno wizard.
all in all he was fun to play.
If a bit underpowered

"non lethally" as in give me a TBI and leave me to die of a subdural hematoma?

>>48417190
Such a disappointing game.

>>48417062

I don't mind how they handle Social Combat in Fate.

As for social combat as a thing...it have mixed opinions of it. It depends on the group - if you've got players who enjoy getting into character and can really roll with it, it can be fine.

If you have players who enjoy playing roles rather than their characters, it can be useful as a tool to make social manipulations and interactions more abstract.

It can also be a useful tool for GMs on the fly if they aren't prepared for dealing with the ramifications of the stupid shit their players are saying.

If I have to spend an hour debating liberal politics to get something done instead of just hiring a hobo to go stab someone with a broken bottle then it's being done wrong.

>>48417062
I've never seen a social combat system that didn't ultimately come down to "I take away your ability to roleplay your character because now you agree with me."

Reavers from Firefly.

>>48416966
Came here to post this.

Also the Borg are basically zombies in SPAAAACEEE!!!!!!

>>48416966
>>48416977
Don't the Reavers steal all their ships? Does that really make them qualify as space-faring?

Catacommander

>>48416811
skelly+

>>48416811
Saint Bones

>>48416762
>Epic
Two Steps from Hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWsWvGNnuJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sDiHhENegc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPe4G9BiIc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gkBmgpAb9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abjE9Qx0O60

https://youtu.be/4vXkI1zYyDo
https://youtu.be/YYfOFUZZX2o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGUL71cyK4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQS4o_bYA_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_PXTGdlGw

Also check out this guys stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuBF41rnKl4
He has alot of stuff that fits perfectly in a dungeon.

Call of Cthulhu.
Tone down damage/ make deaths 'concussions' etc.

Good luck anon, always wanted to do something like that.

>>48416601
I'd suggest you to try the FATE system. It's really versatile, and allows many degrees of action, mystery and horror, all while keeping the rules simple and clean. The only downside is that you require +/- dice to play.

You can find the whole thing for free here
https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjDy_DKwInOAhXEbxQKHTCRAasQFggpMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffate-srd.com%2F&usg=AFQjCNH6q72wNV-dLVMJ8IWvwc2FVSdRoA&sig2=JuQPQ_R7zeATHGl0X0hnxA

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>>48416601
Right.

Stranger Things and Gravity Falls are different things entirely. You can't mash them up because a few of the themes overlap (childhood, mystery) but they have different interpretations and narrative function in either.

The Stand By Me, Super 8, Stranger Things route is interesting and certainly a trove of ideas for roleplaying. Try MaOCT without monsters. Take special care to give the kid PCs and any kid NPCs depth, inner conflict, and something to grow up over. Adults can be more flat, and creatures should be well polarized.

For Gravity Falls I'd try Fate. Simply throw out a lot of hooks and work with what the players do. Have a great secret in the background, but approach it slowly. It should be foreshadowed but not central until the showdown. The PCs have to find allies and an arsenal first to be able to deal with it.

>>48416490
If they were disciplined, they'd be angels.

>>48416495
Or Devils. Because Devils are inherently Lawful Evil.

>>48416490
Demons are chaotic, that's why. It's the devils you want, they're lawful evil.

>>48416263
Smash a few keys, add or substract letters until it's readable.

Learn Greek, Latin, Italian, English, etc. work roots and structural devices and combine them to form names.

>Dion
>Arachimachus
Thrasimedes
>Peloleon
>etc.

It's not hard. Language is literally just a formula of sounds and syllables.

>>48416263
>How do you guys come up with your names?
I have a very old name generator, an .exe that runs under DOS and win95.

>>48415958
The big reveal could be that there is an alien government controlling everything behind the scene. Or at least trying to.

Those surface anomalies on the moon really are ancient listening posts. They were set up back in the Mesolithic era.

The aliens have not been interbreeding with people. They have not been causing mutations for any experiments. They have not been selectively breeding humans for certain traits. they are not famous world leaders in disguise.

The only abductions they are aware of consisted of catch, tag and release missions.

They set foot on Earth once just after discover humanity. The landing mission lasted for about 3 hours and they realized they were allergic to damn near everything on the planet. After that the interest of their people in Earth dropped drastically.

They never got closer than high orbit again until the 50s.

They are as baffled with some of the genetic abnormalities in humans as we are.

The Roswell incident was not them. It really was a Russian weather balloon.

Why are they interfering? Because they don't want us all to die another World War and as such are trying to make the whole world one nation. Their efforts hindered by the leaders of the big corporations they are trying to use to do this who are just in it for themselves. The aliens are somewhat naïve when it comes to shit like greed and selfishness.

They never set foot on Earth in historic times until the 50s when they found the right combination of drugs to let them survive on the surface. Still can't eat the local food.

On the whole they don't like Earth that much. The air smells weird and is too thin, everything is trying to kill them, it's too bright, it's too dry and the inhabitants are weird.

>>48415958
The X-Files milieu has a bit of a credibility gap after Snowden. That's not a game-killer in itself, but you should probably be straight up with prospective players - tell them outright that you have in mind an X-Files inspired game, rather than trying for the element of surprise. The mystery in the X-Files is not that there is a conspiracy, but what exactly the conspiracy conceals.

>>48415958

Consider playing the UIU in an SCP-inspired game.

>>48415876
You can give it harsh restrictions by means of some transdimensional policing organization or simple laws of the universe.

Or some setting-specific counter, as with anything else. It's fairly easy to balance if you look at it like a speed modifier, or there is only a limited amount of time for the caster to act in while time is stopped.

>>48415876
I liked the way Life is Strange did the whole Tell Tale your responses in conversations will affect the outcome of the game but you can view the direct response, then go back and choose another option. Until I discovered that at certain key moments (the parts where you would probably most what to try out several different decisions) the game takes away your rewind powers for no reason. Plus I would have probably enjoyed it more if Max was more cynical of all the hipster bullshit in the game.

>In a PnP RPG?
Unless used as a one time "get out of shit free card" or as an overall plot device then I personally don't think it's doable.
Time magic would drastically reduce the weight behind player decisions and their consequences as you could always redo them.
In combat being able to say re-roll a die, shift your initiative or even redo a turn would be interesting but I'm not sure how much you could do with it.

>In a board game?
I've still not seen anything that has actually done true "time travel" really. There's obviously Time Stories and Tragedy Looper but their more like the Lone Wolf books with replays.

>In video games?
I think Life is Strange is a good example of how to do time control here. Taking a sort of standard game yet allowing the player to go back and try another option (or perhaps moving forward to see the ultimate results of those choices).

>>48415876
>infinite reset buttons
>y/n

No.

>>48415762

I cast Enlarge Person and let the DM try to figure out how to account for oversized tokens on non-identical map cells.

>>48415762
>How hard to you tantrum?
Hard enough to bring us to a sub-dimensional space where the battlemap is penrose tiles.

>>48415788
Note that groups of four pentagons on the map make up a hexagon together. Large-sized creatures would simply treat this as a hex-map.

>>48415085

The warp was calm back then specifically because the gods had not been awoken or born yet. It's in the fucking name. They're called Chaos. You might as well ask why something called Murder isn't peaceful.

>>48415090
You can have a peaceful murder, though. Like a quick killing and painless poison. Or "humane" killing like a spike through the brain whilst sleeping.

The Chaos Gods do have positive attributes to go with the negative in WFB. I can see Chaos being, fluffwise, built around freedom of choice, the decision to do whatever in accordance with the Chaos Gods, instead of being part of a stunted Imperium lead by a Corpse God. It could be pretty cool; I always preferred the idea of Chaos Gods that weren't all terrible.

>>48415064
Guilty Gear.
Ah, you're about the ttrpgs? Deathwatch.

>>48415064
Is that a real game? Google leads nowhere

>>48415277
It's a reference to Netflix's Stranger Things.