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>>48341602

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bimp for interest

Jaya Ballard
Ashling (lorwin edition)
Akroma (planar chaos edition)
Ib Halfheart
Hidetsugu

They are a racing team doing some kind of wacky race around the planes on a giant madmax style veichle

Music theme is Nights on Fire by Niko

>>48341597
>Daxos
>Melira
>Jhiora
>Gisa
>Jalira

Daxos has a harem fauning over him while Elspeth looks on in horror from the underworld. Its basically Tenchi muyo

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Turn 1 and no action. There just moving there dudes.

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Turn 2 and my nephew brought his sister unit down to 4.

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My neeses take half of his squad down to 5. 1 of 2 of his squad is now pinned.

>>48340927
People will not let others in their games because they're; a different colour, a different religion, use characters that they dislike the general theme, concept and idea of, play in a way that they don't like.

There are people on this board that will argue some, or all of those are valid, life goes on, people have their peeves and think everyone else's are bullshit over theirs.

That being said, I once had a GM almost flip out over a few of the male players playing female PCs, it didn't quite destroy the game itself but it led to a lot of conflict that just had the whole thing dissolve away. Thing is, until you encounter these sorts of things, the usually seem relatively normal.

>>48340927
What did he not like about your character's appereance?

>>48340927
Can I ask what the original gif is suppoed to fucking be? Did someone splice a bunch of dancing together or was this literally a surreal moment on one show? What is it?

Stupid sloppy editing on first post.

This Inspector Lin is a tallish, willowy sort of man, but his shoulders are broad and strong-looking, so you guess he can swing that sword around well enough.
His clothes are a simple black outfit and white pants over leather boots, and his wide straw hat shadows his face but for dark hair and glinting, intelligent eyes.

"I'd like to ask you a few questions about a body you supposedly found just now," he says cooly, apparently undaunted but your earlier proclamation of identity and unimpressed by your martial skills.

>WDYS?
>"I can answer a few, sure." [Diplomatic]
>"I can show it to you if you want." [Helpful]
>"You probably think I'm guilty too, huh?" [Defensive]
>"What in hell is an's 'Imperial Cormorant?'" [Confused]

>>48340943
>>"What in hell is an's 'Imperial Cormorant?'" [Confused]

>>48340943
>"What in hell is an's 'Imperial Cormorant?'" [Confused]

>>48340266
Necromancer cast raise skeleton on someone's skeleton whilst they were still alive.

It tore and peeled the screaming flesh from the bones.

>>48340266
One of the characters in my group witnessed his best friend and longtime sniping partner suddenly explode and have a demon crawl out of the corpse.

>>48340266
The party was a collection of civil servants sent to investigate this derelict house on the west bank of the river. Upon entering we found each room contained dozens of large sacks stitched together from burlap, leather, fur; whatever was available it seemed. Most of the were suspended from the ceiling, with a few tied up to holes in the walls.

Each bag was stained with blood, puke, and urine. A lot of the burlap was festering with moss and rot. We decided to cut open one of the bags to see what was inside. A mixture of rotting sewage, blood, filled with fly maggots and eggs came pouring out. It was the temperature of mud on a cool autumn morning. Mosquitoes and horseflies came swarming out as well. We used our torches to push most of them away.

After everyone had calmed down one of us heard something shift inside the bag. We cut it down and peeled the sack back, revealing a tangled mass of lacerated flesh. They were children, between the ages of eleven to fourteen, tied together into a large clump with string and hemp rope. Several were still alive, their eyes searching the room in blind terror. They were covered in signs of torture, open sores and knife marks, burns and bruises. Some had even had what looked like animal teeth and nails shoved into their skin and eyes and ears.

One, a girl about the age of twelve, was actively eating the necrotic limb of another child.

We opted to just set the whole clump on fire and get the fuck out of the house.

It didn't work out that way.

>>48339215
Personally, I find the whole pages-of-rules on cards and the lack of rotation are pretty much death for accessibility. If you want to learn the game, then you have to wrap your head around a staggering amount of cards with very niche effects and synergies, not helped by the general predisposition to the Old Vanguard school of cards which only work in a very narrow niche. Archetypes help to remedy this, but even then there's a staggering amount of support and staple cards to consider in a limited deck space, not to mention the Extra Deck's myriad contents.

I think it does come from me not having played since original Gladiator Beasts were meta, but right now I don't even know how to begin to play the game and frankly it feels like to produce a constructed-ready deck you need to do weeks of reading and testing to grasp the function of the game.

That said: I do agree that Yu-Gi-Oh has a certain charm to it. Text in 1.5 point, arbitrary thousands and knife-fight gameplay aside, I remember having tremendous fun tagging in and tagging out a Gaoidiaz into a Hoplomus.

>>48339805
Dunno, I miss it back when the Extra Deck was just the Fusion Deck.

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>>48339215
>But Yugioh has a soul and style that will never be matched
Season Zero is the actual Yugioh though. The Yugioh that everyone knows was literally made as a cashgrab from day one. An extremely effective cash grab, but a cash grab none the less. In my opinion the game does not have a soul, because they do things like release intentionally broken cards to help a set sell. Pic not related but what comes to mind most is something like Soul Charge.

Because writers don't want players trying to kill gods.

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>>48339151

This 1e book was expressly designed to let high-level parties go around godslaying.

It still vastly overshoots gods' abilities compared to their mythological versions, but their power level is much lower than the gods' 2e (no statistics, unbeatable) and 3.X (impossibly strong statistics and magic with Alter Reality) incarnations.

>>48339123
>4e gods are level 34 solos at minimum
Those are the ones that survived.

>>48338894
Depends on what your definition of cheap is and how serious you want to get with it, but i'd say that the X-wing Miniature game is pretty good and not too expensive.

Historical war games are way cheaper since no one makes the officially licensed whermacht miniatures line. Doubly so if you use 1/72 scale plastic minis.

>>48338894

Fantasy Rules! is pretty great, Star Grunt is a sci-fi game that's free (as in beer), Full Thrust is an awesome spaceship combat game that might be harder to find but has a whole range of excellent miniatures for it, all of them very cheap.

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>>48338376
>30+ Saving Throws
>500+ Skills
>Hobo is a legitimate class

>Slave Girls and Tentacles on the cover
>75+ books to understand the setting
>Kevin Siembieda

Okay, now let's list all the BAD things.

> that image
> glitterboy
> the setting
> cyclops in a bowling alley
> the rifts guns sourcebook

Bad things?

> autistic overcomplicated rules
> autistic overcomplicated rules
> autistic overcomplicated rules
> autistic overcomplicated rules
> autistic overcomplicated rules

>>48339450
>>48339466
All of these sound great to me.

Man, sure is a lot of GURPS today. Wonder why.

>>48338254
>good
Only need 3d6 to play
Sourcebooks for everything
Flexible point-buy character design
Can adjust power levels at character creation simply by changing the amount of starting points
Steve Jackson Games isn't a shit compnay

>Bad
The sourcebook you want is out of print
Character creation takes forever and minmaxing often results
Combat is cumbersome, actually any action resolution is cumbersome
Sourcebooks aren't meant to be universally compatible with each other, often leading to contradictory or bizarre results
Nobody plays GURPS

>>48338254
Is this the hot new meme?

>>48337917
Gurps does operators operating operationally extremely well.

>>48337932
What edition + books?

Champions complete (Hero system)

>>48337888
>Mad Science
>Mutation

not really a fan of "all these are available to everyone" and Psionics plainly saying mind control/reading is possible
Unless "all of these" implies to the 0-3 options I picked, and not all the six options. If the latter, we're cool.

I will figuratively suck ya dick if you post Evil cyoa. I finally have time to read it all and write/imagine my plans.

>>48337888

I choose none, because every single option would make the world a worse place than it already is, and gaining a "moderate aptitude" isn't enough to stoke my selfish desires.

I mean, who wants to be in the middle of the food chain in a world filled with mind controllers, for instance? Just enough talent to catch the attention of someone with much more than "moderate aptitude", thanks fucking bunches.

>>48337888
Can someone explain to me why you would play a cyoa like this where everyone is potentially empowered and you only have "moderate aptitude"?

Not saying it's necessary to be the strongest but being average is a long, long shot from that. You could barely keep yourself safe in some of those settings.

>>48337639

Tell us about the games you've run, and how many have run to story completion versus how many have ended in disinterest, poor scheduling, or complete chaos.

>>48337639
post wrinkles or GTFO

Character death likelihood over the course of 30 years. Were you too soft in the beginning? Did you get maximum lethality for a year or two?

>>48337413
Is your halfling able to cast magic?
What are his relations with his parents and the first in line to be the head of the family?
Is there something that could disrupt his family's schemes, like a rival noble house?

>>48337413

He is the henpecked husband of an absurdly domineering wife, he ran off to get a couple months away from his woman and hopefully die before she finds him.

It's funny, it's Halfling, it gives the DM a potential NPC.

>>48337475
>He is the henpecked husband of an absurdly domineering wife, he ran off to get a couple months away from his woman and hopefully die before she finds him.
Excellent.

Halflings, especially if they're noble and should be "living the life", have to be reluctant adventurers. Kinda anti-hero but with a brave heart.
It's cliché and it's what Martin Freeman did (pretty well I'd say considering the dire circumstances he was in) but it's great.