> medieval setting
> instantaneous communication possible through magic
> fast travel possible through magic gates
> horses basically hay powered cars
> dwarves bust out steam powered gear shit
> infinite rations/magic remove all supply problems
> total racial/gender equality
> fully automatic crossbows are a thing
Why would you even bother to make the setting medieval at this point?
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>>48381977
swords are cool
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>>48381997
...that's a valid point
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>>48381977
That sounds fucking awesome, though.
>high-speed horse chases with steam cars
>magical walkie-talkies to help coordinate heist on bank
>Medieval SWAT sweeping rooms with crossbows and swords
>racial/gender equality because sometimes you just want nice things in your setting
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SPESS MEHREENS! TODAY, THE CUSTOMERS ARE AT OUR DOORS! WE KNOW OUR BURGERS, AND WE WILL COOK THEM! WE FRY FOR OUR HONAH AS BLUD REVENS, AS SPESS MEHREENS, AND WE FRY IN THE NAME OF THE EMPRAH!
IF WE FEHL AN ORDAH, WE WILL MAKE IT AGAIN AND GIVE A DISCOUNT! BUT WE WILL NOT FEHL, NO, IT IS THE CUSTOMER WHO WILL TASTE OUR DELICIOUS GRILLED MEAT.
AS YOU KNOW, MOST OF OUR BATTLE BURGERS ARE STORED IN SPESS, PREPARED TO DEEP FRY! OUR LARDERS HAVE BEEN PREPARED SHOULD THE CUSTOMERS BE SO BOLD AND FOOLISH TO COME BACK FOR SECONDS! WE HAVE PLACED MULTIPLE FRYCOOKS ALLOWING FOR MULTIPLE, SIMMULTANEUS DEVAHSTATING DEEP FRIES.
THE CODEX CLOGGEDARTERIES NEMES THIS MANUVAH HEART PAIN! WE WILL DESCEND UPON THE BURGAHS, WE WILL OVERWHELM THEM, WE WILL LEAVE NONE UNFRIED! MEANWHILE, OUR CASHIERS WILL ENSURE THE DEFENSE OF OUR HEADQUARTERS!
WE ARE THE SPESS MEHREENS! WE ARE THE EMPRAH'S FRYCOOKS!
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>>48380456
THEY HIDE THEIR FOOD IN CARDBOARD BOXES!
THE COWARDS, THE FOOLS!
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Just a moment more, damn you... yes, it is UPON US! BEAR WITNESS TO MY PROMOTION! GRAAAAAAAH!
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>>48381175
Good one :D
Does anybody here know anything about pauper edh? My shop is running a one-off event and I was hoping someone can give me a hand.
I was thinking naya aggro.
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>>48380434
My suggestion. Puresteel Paladin deck. Gets so much value and draw power off dropping equipment and then equipping for free onto a chump.
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>>48380434
I have imperious perfect and sludge strider built; tribal elves and artifacts, respectively.
Its definitely a different game from regular edh. While you can still sometimes do some whacky things, it really comes down to creature heavy boardstates.
Naya might be fun, but I would go with Wolly Thoctar at the helm, cheap to get out, effective beater.
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>>48380521
Puresteel is a rare, not an uncommon.
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so I know there are people who look for DM's on Roll20, but this is the first time I've ever got a message from a group wanting ME to run THEIR game. I pick my players, I don't let them pick me.
Is this a thing now?there was probably a good reason why your DM left, is my thinking...but maybe I'm just paranoid...
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I've had a similar message in the past.
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People feel entitled to being players and genuinely scared of the work GMs put into their role. Usually what I do is accept the role and then proceed to take 0 suggestions and runs what I want to run because if the players wanted their little pre-planned adventure they would have DM'd it.
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>that lack of punctuation
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Sup /tg/, I need pictures of lizardmen, preferably ones that look like barbarians.
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>>48379907
I like this! Bump!
If this thread is up by morning I'll post shit.
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>>48381679
Bump
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I may have one or two things.
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Times you were proud of your party
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>Party enters town
>Barren
>Survivors hiding indoors
>at night demons attack
>PCs determine that demons are coming from an ancient tower in the middle of town
>tower has portal on top floor, no windows, one door
>No one in group high enough caster to close portal
>Alchemist scavenges for a day, and DM lets him build a bomb. Rolls a 45.
>DM thinks Alchemist will use bomb to blow up the portal
>Alchemist uses knowledge engineering to find weak spot on tower while party fights demons
>DM catching on
>Alchemist throws the mega bomb at the weak point
>Natural 20
>Alchemist reduced to -5 HP leveling the tower.
>Demons killed, portal closed, party survives with single digit HP.
>Town upset we destroyed ancient ceremonial
>We leave in middle of night, sneaking out before mob justice can attack us
>DM tells us later that there was a wizard trapped one floor down from the top to help us, and we murdered him
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I really want to tell a story but I also want to go to bed, so bump and I'll do it in the morning.
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GM ended the campaign a few sessions early because he was expecting us to screw up and release some sealed ancient evil.
Instead we screwed up in a different way.
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What would a Space Marine chapter be like with Guts as their Primarch?
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The World Eaters, probably.
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>>48378830
Very poorly animated.
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>>48378830
Cursed founding, with little helpers like the DA only they're loli witches
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ITT: post pictures of shipwrecks and other ocean stuff
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So I was reading the Silmarillion and this bit about the Ringwraiths caught my attention
>Men proved easier to ensnare. Those who used the Nine Rings became mighty in their day, kings, sorcerers, and warriors of old. They obtained glory and great wealth, yet it turned to their undoing [...] one by one, sooner or later, according to their native strength and to the good or evil of their wills in the beginning, they fell under the thraldom of the ring that they bore and under the domination of the One, which was Sauron's. And they became for ever invisible save to him that wore the Ruling Ring, and they entered into the realm of shadows. The Nazgûl were they, the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terrible servants; darkness went with them, and they cried with the voices of death.
The Nazgul are supposed to be a mix of Black Numenoreans and Easterlings, which had rather warped perceptions about the setting they lived in to say the least. Except for the few that remained faithful, the Numenoreans degenerated into a borderline death cult and later were rused into downright Morgoth worship by Sauron, believing Middle-Earth to have come from darkness, thinking the Ainur to be evil spirits and Iluvatar to be a fabrication of the Valar to keep them in line. The Easterlings are seen to think Elves are demons at several points, most likely due to Morgoth's meddling back on the First Age. The one i can recall right now is from Children of Hurin
>But they dared not yet lay hands on the Lady of Dor-lómin, or thrust her from her house; for the word ran among them that she was perilous, and a witch who had dealings with the white-fiends: for so they named the Elves, hating them, but fearing them more.
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This is similar to what Gollum has to say about Sam's elven rope
>‘It hurts us, it hurts us,’ hissed Gollum. ‘It freezes, it bites! Elves twisted it, curse them! Nasty cruel hobbits! That’s why we tries to escape, of course it is, precious. We guessed they were cruel hobbits. They visits Elves, fierce Elves with bright eyes. Take it off us! It hurts us.’
The original Elves also were convinced that Orome was an evil spirit and the leader of some sort of Wild Hunt
>Yet many of the Quendi were filled with dread at his coming; and this was the doing of Melkor. For by after-knowledge the wise declare that Melkor, ever watchful, was first aware of the awakening of the Quendi, and sent shadows and evil spirits to spy upon them and waylay them. So it came to pass, some years ere the coming of Oromë, that if any of the Elves strayed far abroad, alone or few together, they would often vanish, and never return; and the Quendi said that the Hunter had caught them, and they were afraid. And indeed the most ancient songs of the Elves, of which echoes are remembered still in the West, tell of the shadow-shapes that walked in the hills above Cuiviénen, or would pass suddenly over the stars; and of the dark Rider upon his wild horse that pursued those that wandered to take them and devour them
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This caused many of the Elves to remain in the East, and those became the Avari. A good chunk were turned into orcs, but they're still around into the second and presumably third age. They even had some contact with the Edain when they were going westwards, which is one reason why the Elves at Beleriand quickly grasp their language. They NEVER find out what the hell was going on in the West during all those years, and are presumably the least powerful Elves since they never saw even a reflection of the Two Trees nor received any of the knowledge of the Valar. They're essentially a blank slate. One early version of Eol made him the only named Avari elf, though he was later changed to a Sindar. He's notorious for being one of the only evil or at least very morally ambiguous Elves, regardless of Easterling superstitions
We also get this bit from the Rohirrim about Galadriel
>‘Then there is a Lady in the Golden Wood, as old tales tell!’ he said. ‘Few escape her nets, they say. These are strange days! But if you have her favour, then you also are net-weavers and sorcerers, maybe.’ He turned a cold glance suddenly upon Legolas and Gimli
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>>48378292
I had more stuff in mind, but to cut to the chase before my connection goes to shit again:
There could be a campaign based off Easterling perceptions about the setting, with the players being some of the nondescript Nazgul before they're completely corrupted. How do you think this would work out?
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Hey /tg/, I've been homebrewing a humanless setting for 5e, and I have encountered a problem. When making the tiefling civilization, I intended to make a society of philosophers, clerics, and wizards that also practiced slavery (genasi, inspired by tales of wizards with djinn and elemental servants) with hellenistic, byzantine, persian, arab, and jacksonian american influences. Somehow I ended up with a society that almost entirely revolves around a brutal system of racial slavery, who are also wizards, instead of a society of wizards who also practice slavery.
I wanted each of the races in the setting to have civilizations with a morality and system of values different from modern day, but I know that race-based chattel slavery will be like hanging a "Official Evil Faction: genocide for sweet loot and xp" sign in the minds of your average player. I want to put my players in a strange, foreign setting, where people think and act differently than they do here. I don't want there to be anything they can easily reduce to some cliche to cling to, or re-wage the American Civil War.
Ideas I have so far to take the rougher edges off the tiefling civilization is to make slaves able to purchase their manumission, forbid the separation of families, mandatory emancipation after certain periods of time, different classes of slaves (some nicer than others), or religious traditions that encourage manumitting slaves on holy days.
Is there some way I can make their society less galling to modern eyes? What are some alternate systems of slavery that have existed? What are some protections or rights some civilizations have granted slaves, serfs, bondsmen, and thralls?
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>Ideas I have so far to take the rougher edges off the tiefling civilization is to make slaves able to purchase their manumission, forbid the separation of families, mandatory emancipation after certain periods of time, different classes of slaves (some nicer than others), or religious traditions that encourage manumitting slaves on holy days.
Do that.
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>>48376985
Slavery as you have been taught (assuming burger or bong) is the niggerwhipping slavery that actually was the spaniards faults. Any way, shape or form of owning a person is slavery, so use your fucking imagination.
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>>48376985
What a coincidence, I'm working on a setting where all of the player races are just phenotypes of humans.
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>play Magic online
>scan opponent's hand with Inquisition of Kozilek
>nothing but counterspells and white exile spells
>mfw
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>his hand is full of countermagic
>he somehow lets the IoK through
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>>48376899
No mana to play them yet, homeslice
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>needing mana to play spells
was this modern or something
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How do you do monks?
I prefer arbiters of the peace types, sort of like a spiritual police who will decimate demons and deamons who dare enter their protected village.
In my campaign, they carry cloth wrapped rods of wood, which they use like chimes to signal where they are, and to dispense holy water. When confronted, this allows me to do a couple of things.
First bulshit what ever they had to be whatever manuever weapon i need it to be, and secondly, to deal non lethal blows so as to not tpk my players, who are all on a evil campaign.
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>>48376699
How does wood wrapped in cloth chime?
Second, what the fuck are you even saying? proofread before posting, please.
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>>48376699
Eastern Orthodox (Pravoslavnyj) Saints.
Who are mostly Slavic folklore heroes slightly repainted to better suit the new faith.
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>>48376771
He said "like chimes", not that they literally chime. Presumably they clack when shaken or banged together.
The rest of his post was easy to understand. He's saying the wrapped wood is easy to bullshit (i.e fudge, improvise) as whatever weapon he wants for that combat, and that it delivers non-lethal blows that won't kill his players.
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Players: Does your GM do voices? Are they good at it? Do you think it adds to the narrative, or is it just a fun thing within your expectations?
GMs: Do you do voices? Do you think you're good at it? What motivates you to do or avoid doing voices?
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>GM
Yes, and I'm pretty good at it. It's good for adding colour and making NPCs memorable. The main thing is to put emotion and character into it, even if it's a little bit hammy (as long as you don't go crazy with derpy falsettos for female characters). Accents are useful, I can do a good range of different anglophone accents plus a few foreign ones, they're not vital though. I throw in some body language and facial expressions that players can associate with the voice for that character too. Sometimes I'll even use a minor prop like a hat or shades. It all contributes.
The absolute worst GM voices are when the GM just mumbles or ums and ahs a lot - or worse, reads out prewritten dialogue in a flat monotone. I've had GMs who did one or both of those things and it makes it a lot harder to get immersed or even pay attention. Players have a harder time remembering characters when they all talk in the exact same way. If you can't do voices at all then it might be better to narrate in third person rather than read dialogue (e.g "the captain angrily asks you where you're going" vs "Hey you! Where are you going?").
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>>48376096
I do a lot of voices, but I'm semi-shit at it. But that's ok because we mostly use edge of the empire as an excuse to drink heavily. I think it adds to fun though and makes NPCs more memorable so I would recommend GMs at least give it a try
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>>48376096
Recently got into a game with a GM who actually does voices. I'd say it's a bit of both fun and helps the narrative.
I do voices to make the world feel more populated, and for immersion. No old woman is going to sound the same as the young guard down the street. I've never heard complaints so I guess I'm okay.
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How can infantry players compete with tanks players? You've got more armor, better speed and heavy weapons on the field.
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Well, it depends, do Monstrous Creatures qualify ans infantry?
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>protip: If you are a guard player take a 50 man blob with 5 lascannons, a psyker, and a command squad. During the psychic phase cast prescience on the blob. During the shooting phase issue the order: Bring it down! ...profit
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>>48375877
Affix bayonets.
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>Have player who hates RP when it's not related to main story/quest
>Have a part where group eats, drinks, and interacts with NPCs for 30-45 minutes
>Later
"So you guys have fun?"
>THAT player: "Yeah but I hope we don't sit around rolling to get drunk anymore, I'd rather do my taxes"
Yeesh, is it really that dull for some people to RP mostly inconsequential things?
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Classic situation.
What this player wants, and what the rest of the group (and you) want are two different things. Imagine if you had written it from his perspective:
>be me
>really love dungeon exploration, killing dangerous monsters, generally being heroic, etc.
>rest of group just wants to sit around roleplaying how drunk they get at the tavern in the starting village for 45 minutes at a time
>later, GM asks us if we're having fun
>THOSE players: "Yeah, but can we stop focusing so much on combat and do more slice-of-life stuff?"
Everyone would tell the player to just leave the group because they're obviously not a good fit for him.
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>>48376927
This.
I've had this happen to myself before. Its an awful thing to feel that you're the odd one out, but most of the time its better to quit than try to hope for the best.
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>>48375620
>rolling to see if we get drunk
Yeah, 45 minutes of that is a bit excessive.