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>no cell reception
>no wifi
Why would anyone care?

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>>48276260
This should clear out most rooms inhabited by heavy monsters quite nicely.

For the basics:

https://www.mec.ca/en/ideal-for/climbing/products/gear/c/gear

>>48276345
Large amounts of money generally works.

Captain of the Blindwing Scout Company reporting for duty!

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I friend of the chapter sent me this depiction of myself. Only now I understand what was that heavy thing that I've been carrying in my left hand for many years.

>>48275901
LO Brothers! behold! For i have found a wrench!

1st for WORDSWORDSWORDS.

>>48274946
Possibly the first time the Thogs may make less sex jokes than the actual strip

>>48274946
>Doing it on a mountain of platinum coins
That sounds like a great way to get bruises and coins stuck where they shouldn't ever get stuck.

>>48273381
Unknown Armies

>>48273381
Talislanta.

Books are available for download on www.talislanta.com.

>>48273381

Planescape.

Knight Captain Katherine Drake is your fleet's Wing Commander. She is busy commanding your more mobile assets. Along with Mike they're chasing down cloaked ships with a special detection array while also trying to combat enemy raiding units and harass their few fixed positions. They're stretched too thin but won't have to be for long you hope.

Knight Captain Kim Yu Chung led the minelayer units in the recent battle. They've exhausted most of their stockpiles and will need time to rebuild them. For now he plans to re-equip his cloaked battleships to carry their heavy torpedo launchers.

Uyi Rna is the General of your Army.

Wiremu Tama is the admiral of your Fleet.

Fadila Saqqaf is your leading diplomatic adviser.

C.F. Vanderwal is a former House Erid noble now serving with your intelligence division as part of his parole.

Chide Dlam'ard, the Governor of Rioja has been preparing Rioja for a potential siege.

>>48244459
For house and dominion

For House and Dominion!

Finished catching up on about two years worth of threads last night, my thoughts: Viola Davis plays Winifred in the movie adaptation. Foss is a better husbando than Darrow. You guys got played real hard when you recalled the raiding fleet a few weeks back. Considering slagging the two disabled Megas to show them we mean business.

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I don't even play, but the smugness of order can be seen from here

>>48280002
I'm actually kinda surprised Death managed to come back so strong in the battle for the Living City. For a time it looked like they were BTFO, but now they're fairly strong.

I can't belive that 40k is a worse game.

I attempted a short dungeon crawl campaign using Savage Worlds a few months ago. I quickly ran into an unforeseen problem - Dungeon crawls are heavily reliant on killing monsters for XP, getting treasure (sometimes for XP), and obtaining gear upgrades. Savage World's system is shitty for all of the above. Individual monster kills don't give XP, so my players ended up avoiding all conflicts when possible. Gold and gear upgrades mean jack shit to Savage Worlds characters as there is very little difference between damage and gear stats. The die mechanics (exploding die, wild die) allow someone with a dagger to potentially one-shot a dragon, so really the only way to improve a character is by ranks.

Maybe you'll have a different experience, but I just found it didn't work well for dungeon crawling. It might work better for your game though, if you really push the horror aspect. I was just running a pre-written OSR D&D adventure.

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>>48274547

Thank you for your thoughts.

> Individual monster kills don't give XP

Yeah, that's why I figure I'll grant them XP as they progress through important stuff, killing bosses and subbosses.

> my players ended up avoiding all conflicts when possible.

That's... actually something I like. I wouldn't like to encourage killing everything in sight anyways; the parts of castle inhabited by sentient-ish creatures have an "alarm meter" that rises as the players boink around and causes unpleasant side-effects when it gets too high. Players' best hope should be to sneakily get to bosses, come down on them hard and reach the Bad Guy's tower ASAP.

> Gold and gear upgrades mean jack shit to Savage Worlds

They won't have too many chances to spend the gold anyway, and most of the items are supposed to protect players from certain opponents' powers or open more areas of the castle/ make them easier to explore.

> The die mechanics (exploding die, wild die) allow someone with a dagger to potentially one-shot a dragon

Now, I admin that that worries me. Have you had bad experiences with dice funkiness? Any ideas on how to mitigate it?

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Don't do it OP. Savage Worlds is a shit system that tries too hard to reinvent the wheel. The exploding die and raise mechanics make any form of encounter balance/planning impossible. A rank 1 novice can one-shot a dragon with lucky die rolls using his fist. The system boasts that bennies are used for "cool things" like players changing narrative or pulling off impossible stunts, but players just horde them for use as extra hit points. The chase system (any iteration of it) is an absolute shit storm of retardation. The 3-wound limit is just plain bad game design. The community is full of sad 40-something-year-old zealots who foam at the mouth at any notion of house ruling the assy mechanics.

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>>48238231

Warlord: "You people shouldn't underestimate my boys, especially when... hmm?... what do you mean 2/3s of the tanks are gone? and my cobras? Dammit Carl how can you miss a shot like that!?"

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>>48238252
Warlord: "You know what? Fuck you guys! I am not gonna be hauled to some smug IF tribunal then tossed in a cell to rot. Me and my armored mega-goats will take at least some of you to hell with me! BULLET HELL!"

Declare your actions, you have until tomorrow 9am GMT +8

>>48238278
Wait, him and his armored what-was-that? Boats? Moats? Goats? Shoats?

Malign murderous mountain mayhem, someone get me a visual on this enemy armored mega float.

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Long, flat and wide valleys with smooth terrain and uniform geology under it? Perfect for horse-mounted warriors and lightening fast raids from all angles.

Sounds like a perfect place for going unnaground. The exact opposite of the Mongol stye lightening raid.

>>48278005
Pic VERY related. You makes steppes more interesting by adding hot steppe princesses to them.

Think "The Revenant"

>>48272754
Since you seem to be allergic to good design, you are safe.

It's a bit more rules lite, but I really like it. It combines the best bits of 3e and 4e. It goes back to its much more RP/DM-fiat roots and the goal is to make things easy to resolve and that everything is dangerous at every level - i.e. you wont just roll your eyes at a goblin at 20th level, it can still fuck you up if there are enough of them. If you liked the munchkinning/optimisation of 3.5e then there's still lots of room for that.

I like it a lot.

Firstly, in case it actually needs clarifying, /tg/ is not a hive mind and there's lots of different opinions on here.
Secondly, one upside to 5e is that it's so comparatively easy to pick up and learn that it requires almost no real effort so if you decide you don't like it then almost no time is wasted at all.
It's much lighter in rules and the "deck-building" style of character creation where you look for the optimal combination of feats and skills is nonexistent however, so if that's what you liked most about 3e you might find it not to your linking.

It feels mechanically like a cross between 3e's unified mechanics and 2e's simplicity and emphasis on modularity in terms of "this could go into the game IF YOU WANT" rather then lots and lots and lots of hard rules covering absolutely everything.

>That "Yay!" when the Ordo Xenos said they were gonna kill genestealers.

>Lion for life, dogfucker
>That gasp

>That copypasta rage from Russ
I just want that in webm form.

>>48241866
Yeah we were pretty disappointed when our group finally got a copy of the book, back in the day. We dumped the fluff pretty quick and just made our own version.

Fomori are funny though, Freak Legion is one of the most gleefully tasteless reads you could ask for.

Good thing you didn't get into the Players Handbook with the weresharks and werespiders and so forth.

Behold!
The prophecy is true!
The lord of Slowpokes has arrived!

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>>48241904
>Fomori are funny though, Freak Legion is one of the most gleefully tasteless reads you could ask for.
When I first read about Fomori they seemed, conceptually, to be more akin to Chaos Spawn and the Possessed of warhammer 40k. That seemed all fine and dandy. The I read about Throwbacks and Normalite...

>>48241907
Hey well, not my fault I was playing better RPG until I decided one day to take a look at this to see if it was as bad as I had been told.

Its worse.

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>>48240949
>Join the heroic Planeswalkers of the Gatewatch
Uh. Can we just not? Maybe introduce a new setting without the Scooby Gang?

>>48240985
no fuck you it worked for marvel

>>48240949

>The Jacetice League liberates not-India from the oppressive hand of the Magic Apartheid, which hunts and segregates all magic inclined people by sending them to concentration camps.
>mandatory browns and blacks as the majority of the population
>evil doers are white
>Mage Lives Matter

I need info on breachers now!

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COME BACK LEAK-CHAN

DONT BLUE BALL ME

First for based new apothecaries