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>>48265251

>the lying bastard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDyn9mxlbUo
You name it the Whale.

The Weatherless, The Nebula Bounty, The Tyrant, The Farsighted Whore, The Tradeship Lawless

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>>48265034
The blonde haired man has somewhat of an accent, maybe he picked it up after spending so much time around the Krauts? He glances over his shoulder again, scanning the surroundings for something, or someone. After he’s seemingly satisfied he turns to you, giving you an uneasy smile.

[x] Nod, take whatever ‘book’ he has for you
[x] German? If that’s not a dead give away to who he really is then you don’t know what is
[x] Make small talk with him first, see if you can’t get him to divulge any information
[x] Write in

>>48265048
>[x] Make small talk with him first, see if you can’t get him to divulge any information

"You're unpracticed at this. Stop looking around so anxiously I and other agents already scoped the area out, you're only drawing attention to yourself."

>>48265147
Seconding

That young woman looks like she's really faking a good time.

>>48264856
>A society where ritually eating the flesh of the fallen is the standard burial rite.

I DM'd a game with a guy who claimed this once.

It was fun for a one-off.

I ran it for some random people I vaguely knew on the internet a few years ago and now we have a pretty stable couple of DnD games going. MAID created the bond that persists today, ever since beating Godzilla at yu-gi-oh.

>>48264091
>Is MAID rpg fun?
Yes, if your players are ready to perform shenanigans. It's a rules-light slapstick comedy game, you have to be able to run that kind of game and the players have to be able to run with it too.
>How do games normally go with it?
Depends on what you want, really.
>About how high on the creepy anime bullshit spectrum does it go? I'm thinking about grabbing it for my group.
Depends on how hard you want to push it. There are seduction rules, but I've never played with them, and I've ran many one-shots of MAID and played in a campaign.

>>48264127
>>48264234
Sounds good. Probably going to pick it up then. I was a bit worried that it would be too weird for some of my group. We all watch anime and whatnot, but the power levels range from one guy who only watches berserk/jojo/etc to the guy who collects figurines and tried to learn Japanese.

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>>48263996
>>Let's resume our date, Madeleine.
>>Let's just go find a place to eat, this is enough.

>>48263996
>>Let's resume our date, Madeleine.
>>Let's just go find a place to eat, this is enough.
Hello Announcer! Good to see you! This is the first time in a while I've been around for a thread in ages.

They read about it in books. Try it sometime.

From the beating of dead horses.

>>48263361
It depends. A necromancer is a specialization, not a methodology.

Wizards generally get their power by understanding how the world works and manipulating the laws of reality.

>>48263246

By keeping them in the background, little more than moving scenery.

bump for interest

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They are not characters. The players do not talk with them. They do not explain things. They do not consider mortal viewpoints. They do not sit down and have a chat.

They are forces of nature. They do, and the world shapes itself around them. It cannot but. They operate on a level completely divorced from what the players operate on.

I appreciate the thought, but it's really not that interesting.

>>48262696
I'm game, anon.

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>>48261501
>I know DnD4 gets stick for 'wow like' design but I'm not sure what that entails.

It's generally by people that didn't really play 4e and are parroting some shit they heard on /tg/. This post will probably start some sort of edition war but 4e is a fine place to start if you want to get into some real crunch and heroic gameplay. If you're looking for something easier to pick up and play I would recommend any number of retro clones (games that recreate the feeling of oldschool gaming with more streamlined mechanics). I recently played Shadow of the Demon Lord which was fun, as well as Ambition and Avarice which was good as well. Personally for retro clones I enjoy Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. It has a nice mix between crunch and roleplay but it can be overwhelming when you look at the magic section and it's like 300 pages. The magic system is a bit bloated, I will admit, but it's not nearly as intimidating as it seems on first glance.

If you are looking for something basic, you might just want to start with, well, D&D Basic (Moldvay edition). That or Basic Fantasy RPG are both great for new players.

Avoid 5e and 3.X D&D, and Pathfinder, although the cult will show up soon enough to try and convert you. Not that they are irredeemable but many new players get trapped into playing these systems because they are so popular when in reality they are just nothing special and in my opinion leave you with a skewed idea of what TTRPGs are. D&D is uniquely D&D at every edition, and while that's fine, there are so many good and simple systems out there that you should explore first.

>>48261802
>avoid d&d
>except the one I like
lel
In all seriousness 4e is alright for what you want. Everyone has powers they use and the at will / encounter / daily makes them a bit easier to manage than long and short rests which can be somewhat arbitrary.

>>48261802
It wasn't my goal to start an edition war about anything, I'd just like to hear the merits and shortcomings of the generic high fantasy systems and decide from there. I've played quite a few other RPGs so I'm not particularly afraid of being glued to a new system at the expense of others.

I'm not exactly looking to jump into the deep end when it comes to Crunch. While I get that almost ever RPG has some barrier into getting into it, I'd prefer the barrier just be at the start rather than a constant obstacle. Basic Fantasy RPG looks pretty decent but it seems (I've not got a pdf of it just yet), but it seems like it only has a few classes? I was hoping for something akin to prestige classes or feats or something, to represent the Specialisations that players can adopt in WoW to further distinguish their class.

I was under the impression that Shadow of the Demon Lord was more akin to WFRP2, rather low key Fantasy? I'll have a look into it. I've seen 13th Age and Fantasycraft get kicked around a bit too, are either of those suitable?

>>48261117
>inb4 some edgy 28 year old 14 year old decides to spam the thread with 'nigger nigger nigger'

To be honest any continent has enough interesting about it to warrant a setting. What area specifically would you set your campaign? Would you allow actual magic? What's the history of this world?

>>48261117
This guy >>48261181 has it right.
OP, you described 90% of human history and every continent except Antarctica.

Far Cry 2.

>>48261106
Fiasco.
Shadowrun.
Cyberpunk 2020.

>>48261106
Traveller.

You remember how the backstory for the A-Team was that they robbed a bank in Hanoi, but their CO died before he could confirm their orders when they got back? The team could be a SF team doing daring behind the lines shit that mostly involves stealing enemy shit / munitions / secret prototypes / NAZI GOLD or whatever.

>>48261725
I thought shadowrun was cyberpunk fantasy or something, I'm not very familiar with it. The other two I'll look into

>>48262031
I like that premise. I'm realizing probably straight up criminals might be a little harder to do. Maybe special forces running crime ops or something would work better

>>48260204
>Washing food

Fucking soft Cadians. This shit wouldn't fly on Catachan. Now are we gonna eat this thing or not?

>inb4 you find a second one and a sanctioned aquila guitar
>GUARDSMANQUEST BEGINS

>>48260237
>eating
Fucking pleb. Get on my Armageddon

>>48259992

Monster Island.

I dunno, maybe in Exalted you can polymorph into one

>>48259992
GURPS.

>It has been estimated that as a few as two dozen Traitor Legionaries survived the comprehensive retribution that followed in the wake of Horus’s defeat*. Those that did were the most craven and cowardly, who ran first from their failure at Terra. The Traitor Space Marines that you may see today are a pale shadow of the Legionaries of that era.

Chaosfags, are you even trying?

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>>48259106
Their codex seems to fit the description.

>>48259136
>While some Traitor Legions and their Primarchs did side with Horus, these were, without fail, the weaker Legions, jealous of the success of noble and uncorrupted warriors such as those of the Imperial Fists, Ultramarines and Blood Angels.
It's over. Chaosbabbies are finished.

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Sorry for the Grammer you guys. I'm posting from my phone and at work. So sorry if I don't get back to this thread soon enough. Stay cool my dudes.

>>48259022
a class pyramid.....that is entirely in stat calculation?

Who even cares? The important difference in classes are theme and function, not die sizes.

>>48259051
The theme and function of each will come out of what they are mechanically good at. This pyramid decides those mechanics.

Thus, the theme of the fighter is fighting and martial combat. As we move down the pyramid from fighter more and more to the bottom right we will have a mix of mage and fighter which is a spellsword. The themes of each class will be different for each non-shaded triangle.