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You ever been kicked in the face by a deer? That shit still hurts.

>>48270740
Is it more powerful than what a fit human of roughly equal mass could deliver, though?

Also, kind of interested to see if /tg/ has thoughts on any other adopted features like the ones mentioned.

>>48270688
>Obvious stuff would be that spider-people can usually walk on walls and ceilings like a spider, or a snake-person being able to spring out rapidly from a coil like a snake, but how well would these things really work when you put them to human scale?
In general I wouldn't worry about it. I mean, if you're going to have people with prominent animal features, what's the point if they can't do the associated animal things? It's like why giants don't just collapse under their own weights as the square-cube law demands; it would be pretty lame and pointless if they did.

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>>48270647
Pathfinder has a different cosmology than DnD, but in DnD, the souls of all children of all mortal races are protected by Zaphkiel, who leads the Celestial Hebdomad and is basically anti-Asmodeus.

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>he doesn't know

>>48270647
Not as interesting, seen as kind of a bitch move by the other devils
Sure you get the soul, but you'll be that guy who has to take children's souls because he's shit at deal making.

Have a sit down and discuss to him how to better flesh out his character, and how to discard particular things that ain't all that great in the manner of working with the group, while not just turning him into the groups dress up doll. If he objects, ask him why he objects, why a piece of his character is so important that it shouldn't be removed/vastly modified and work with him then to make that one aspect more matured out, while remaining true to his original intent.

His concept sounds workable the way you put it. Immortals/Long Lived characters becoming kind of nihilistic is a viable characteristic, using sarcastic comedy to keep their spirits up, and usually just theirs up. Perhaps inspire him to then develop his character to maybe gain hope with the group he's with and overcome their fatigue of being so damn old to give a shit as they adventure together and become a team.

Talk it out, and work as a team irl too.

>>48270024
Go to /b/, save every image in a cringe thread that applies to people who generally think of themselves as edgy and cool(everyone with a fedora and/or katana and/or trenchcoat applies). Show him those images and tell him what makes his character different from them? Is it because he's handsome and well built? So then he's only different on the outside but inside he's an edgy aspie?
Make him question his choices the way you do.
Showing him the first episode of saiki kusuo might help if he's into anime... it just came out and it's about an esper who goes through daily life. He has a classmate afflicted with what they call ''chuunibyo", which is just moonspeak for 1337edgy555666777me. Show him how these characters just look like self-absorbed children.
Tell him how really scarred people try to go on through life showing interest in shallow talk and superficial relationships because they shield them from deep intrusion in their selves. Take him to the ER and let him talk to a doctor(if you're friends with one, otherwise don't bother them in their workplace), he'll see that someone surrounded by dead and dying every day is more chatty, just a little jaded and full of black humour.
You can even use the argument that this kind of character doesn't work for players because in the media it's usually featured(anime) they don't appear much, and since his character will be present most of the time it will get old fast.
Fuck, I mean, even videogames only let you play the edgy, cool, mysterious, mightier-than-the-protagonist dudes after you finish with the lamer characters(or after an installment or two, I'M LOOKING AT YOU ZERO, YOU MAGNIFICENT BLONDE ROBOT).

>>48270024
So why's this character with the other PCs? If he hates everybody, working in a team is just asking for trouble. What can working with the group give him that he absolutely needs enough to break his antisocial behavior?

If he's pissed that everyone keeps dieing around him because he's so long-lived as an elf, why does he keep living in places without any other elves? That's a simple solution: just live with other elves, who are gonna have the same kind of lifespan as you.

it's called Pillars of Eternity and it's p good

>>48269867
Isn't that a kickstarter game?

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Bumping with art.

>>48269088
>I was thinking on reading Moorcock and his Elric saga since apparently it was an inspiration for OD&D, but I've heard that only the first book is worth reading.
That's not at all true. The original saga is, overall, pretty strong (Elric of Melniboné, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, The Weird of the White Wolf, The Vanishing Tower, The Bane of the Black Sword, and Stormbringer). Note that the books are composed of various stories ("books") that tie together to varying degrees and which vary in quality as well. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, for instance, starts off a bit weak, I think, but gets better after its first "book".

>>48269088

Book of the New Sun, although it's not easy getting into. It definitely nails the exploration and mystery elements though.

>>48269088

Fritz Leiber's short stories about Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser have great old-school atmosphere, they're collected in 2 doorstops called "The First Book of Lankhmar" and "The Second Book of Lankhmar".

Jack Vance's Dying Earth books also have a great feel (dunno if it's precisely what you're looking for, slightly more whimsical but still excellent), they're collected into one doorstop.

>>48267956
Give us lots more details on the player and setting and quest.

>>48267956
I can tell you 2 obvious solutions: make something so fucking expensive that they care, or put them up against something that can't be bought.

>>48267956
Give them a problem that wealth wouldn't solve, but don't cut them off or keep them from using it altogether.
Have something in mind that will actually make them benefit from not spending their wealth, or have it be a resource they will need to spend with caution, and have their reputation at stake.

If it makes sense in context and the GM is fair about it, it's fine.

If the GM is an arse and uses it as an excuse to trot out a parade of overpowered DMPC's, they can go fuck themselves.

It's all a matter of execution, not the idea itself.

>>48267893
I'm currently playing a sci-fi homebrew with a custom setting with a few friends, and all the players are humans. So far it's gone great, partly because the players being humans doesn't restrict the variety of characters they can play and partly because the setting is based around having humans as separate from most of the other intelligent alien species in the setting.

Nothing wrong with that. If orcs are the main antagonist, you aren't playing one. If ents are extremely rare in the setting and you don't have a good reason to play one, I don't care that it's in the rulebook.

When I start a game, I let players know what races are most common in the region, and if they want to play anything else they need justification. If I'm running a viking game, Tom, you can't play an aboriginee.

>>48267783
Continue...

>>48267783
Rogue Trader's player takes the sheet from me. He looks at it. "He's right, we did get those."
>Those wouldn't help you.
Our resident space geek pipes in. "Actually, they'd have to be positioned like so, " he points to the spots on the model where they would go, "so if you output thrust here and here you could easily roll the ship"
>Even so...
"I'll burn a fate point"
Everyone stops and looks at me.
>That's your last one. If this fails you're done for.
"If this fails we're toast anyway."
>Fine. It's going to be a -60 Hellish test.
I cast my dice. The fate of thousands rests in this dice roll. The dice bounce. Once. Twice. Then they roll to a stop. Then I grin. A chuckle bubbles up in my throat, then exploding out of me into full blown hysterical laughter.
>001
With a skill born of desperation, my character grabs the controls and rolls the ship around it's central axis. The metal groans and shrieks at this abuse. Finally coming to a rest after a 180 degree roll. The emperor's will be manifest, the guns fire, scoring crits on his munitorum and warp engine. The enemy ship, having already taken so much abuse, succumbs. A cascade of explosions flows up and down his ship. Massive amounts of atmosphere are vented, bodies and ejecta float freely. His warp core destabilizes, and his entire ship, explosions and all, are sucked into the warp.

Silence falls on the bridge. No one can quite believe what we pulled off. At last a cheer starts up. Soon congratulations are passed around the gaming table. But it is a somber affair. We always agreed that if any of our characters burned their last fate point they would be retired rather than continue playing as essentially a guided NPC. A pyrrhic victory. A battle won, but a valued crew member lost. The win was bittersweet.

>>48267783
>>48267959
I refuse to believe even a setting as retarded as 40K wouldn't have ships with the capability to barrel roll. Hell, that's practically your bread and butter in zero gravity

Every male is a barbarian.
Every woman is a serving wench.
All rape all the time.

>>48267493
I feel like I remember something like this already existing. The FABIO system, or something.

>>48267515
This

Dead enders and poorly paid soldiers looking for a way up, that's how I've always started.

>>48266745
>How did your D&D or pathfinder game start out with its first adventure?
In a tavern.

>>48266745
Just think the campaign in L-M-S scales
>Large
Think about the setting and things that are actually going on in the world at the moment, about your gods, magic, etc
>Medium
Think about the situation at nationwide scale, here's where you think about your BBEG plot.
>Small
This is where the PCs affect the plot, try to think how their own decisions present the world and get related to the BBEG. This is also where you design the dungeon and immediate plot.

Try to keep preparations to a minimum and don't fear improvising the plot: You don't always know what to expect from your players, so you should be ready to come up with ideas and keep the narrative flowing.
Try doing some exercises with tarot cards: Take 5 cards, read their meaning, and build a story with that in less than 10 minutes.

>>>48266669
So close!

>>48266669

and then OP was the demons

One of my worlds has people worshipping servants of the illithid god (who is a Christ expy, long story). I plan to have the two show up eventually and make people realize "oh, we were all just pawns for something that wants us dead". It's far easier in worlds where the gods don't show their presence often or at all, making misunderstandings much easier and deadlier.

>>48266554
Nothing happened to BroQuest.

It was Idea Guys: the project.

>>48269097

And even the ideas were bad.

>>48266378
Paladin.

For when life is scorned and damage done the Pact is VENGANCE!

>>48266378
>I need to go back and bury that guy at some point.

hate to tell you this but two of six dire wolves left alive means that body is moistening droppings right now

Any class from any system or D&D class?

My favorite D&D class would be Warblade. Focus in Diamond Mind and be an honorable samurai with cool ass sword techniques.

Astral Herpes?

Dire Pubic Lice?

>>48266382
Hahaha, that's an interesting choice.

Wtf would dire pubic lice do to a man?

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>>48266362
Have a stronger angel come from the heavens and rape him to death? A big fiery angel like this one.

>>48266302
Do you mean right-wing death squads in general or something more specific.

>>48266331
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Hua_Yuan_Exterminators

>>48266302
Fluoro, meth, rave parties, and a general we like to bring the party while we bring the storm to the enemies of the emperor.