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>>48182310
One way would be to challenge the player to a legit game you're good at--like chess or whatever. Alternatively, fuse the combat/wit elements together somehow (like those boxing/chess matches?), or use one end to support the other (like a Last Crusade-style lottery of weapons/armour with deceptive appearances, and you choose which to go into battle with).

Are you expecting foul play? Is cheating/fudging/favouritism/poisoning a possible outcome?

>>48182643
Considering that it would be a single player at a time vying for the position, I think that taking a player out of session to play chess would be a little disruptive, though I guess I could just say that we'd play after the session was done and take it from there.
I like the idea of fusing them together the most. If you can think of a way to introduce a test of intelligence or tactics into arena combat, I'm open to it.

If they bring up any form of deception or bluffing, I'd have them make a check for it. It's totally reasonable to think that anyone could try to game the meritocracy to win, and would be rewarded accordingly if they were good enough at it.

5e is such shit. Why are you playing it when Dungeon World is so much better and available for free? Oh that's right, there is no good reason, except "w-w-well it's popular"

Shit reason desu, give Dungeon World a try and you'll see how much DnD has been holding you back.

Kill Ribbon, rape Chibi-Ribbon.

>>48182056
Hentai Cestree

>>48182092
Don't cut yourself on that edge, anon! ^_^

>>48181982
GURPS.

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>>48181991

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>>48181779
So the one fucking building you won't bitch about my life choices and it's the one building with a 4 hour wait time and everyone else is bitching?
Great society you have, ass.

why would I deposit my clothes into a bank? Gnomes are weird man

>>48181779
Will my gnomes grow if I put them in the bank?

>>48181586
a wesley crusher and fuckugly day wankfest

>>48181586
Basically buzzfeed for people that like games

Very occasionally makes decent stuff, mostly cringeworthy and every now and then truly dreadful.

thoughts of ways to add skill to a table top game?

Theirs turn timers, games like darts use the physical skill of throwing....

Eventually dice seem like a very base way to add variance to a game, but what about a game where the end is clear and skill determines, or at least gives you better odds, at your goal..

Like who rolls 3 sixes first is not a good way to measure skill.

>>48182279
Well, you can consider some games to be a skill competition of combo building, max-min-ing and rule lawering...even so, it doesn't make those games any better....

And there is also dungeon fighter where you have to put your throwing dice in weird ways with precision up to test.

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>>48182279
I'd really like to see a system that incorporates Go as a resolution mechanic. An rpg that rewards strategy more so than luck.

What, exactly, is a "bardic focus"?

>>48180478
Spellcasting focus for bards, you know what I meant.

But yeah In the SRD it says any instrument a bard is proficient in they can use as a focus, and my bard is proficient in wind instruments.

But I'm wondering if playing the pipes automatically casts the fear spell or if the bard has to activate the item. If the bard can play the pipes without casting the fear spell, could he use it to cast other spells of his own?

This is important to me since my bard's side instrument was lost and his main instrument is a bit unwieldy, so having access to a spellcasting focus while in a tight spot could make or break a future encounter.

>>48180319
Viridius broke up with you didn't she

>>48181411
You didn't hear? It was awful.

>>48181461
Yeah, but that is like, the third time that happened. They'll get back together soon enough, in a decade or so.

>>48180215
I think 'Everyone Is John' does everything off 1d6

MaidRPG

>>48180215
Strike!

>>48180060

It depends on the changes you want to make. I am all for tweaking a system to better suit your play style, but there are some changes that are going to make things much worse or unbalanced as fuck. The latter point there is especially likely when it comes to make custom races or content for your own use. Few people custom make a race just so they can play something weaker than what is normally available, as opposed to giving it free shadow powers or fire immunity or something.

>>48180060
Honestly, do whatever the fuck you want.

Is your particular kind of fun badwrongfun? Of course.
Does it matter? No.

I give zero fucks how other people do things, and shoving standards into others' throats isn't something I consider a good use of time.

Listening to others' advice and taking it in account? Sure.
Actually doing things according to multiple, often contradictory, advice? No thanks.

>>48180124
We were just going to fuckaround mostly, since noone of us had played this before, we just wanted to have fun in our own way.

>>48179790

Media res opening perhaps?

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>>48179790

You use this, or something similar. Beyond The Wall has a really slick way of making the world with the players and getting everyone into it. Characters start by building their village, basing their histories off each other. Even if you're not using that system or fantasy, its worth looking at.

Helps to have opening discussions about tones and themes everyone wants to work with so you don't have too much clashing aesthetics.

>>48179790
Paraphrasing Hitchcock, it should start with an earthquake and be followed by rising tension.

It doesn't have to be mystery or intrigue or murder, it works for any story. Give your players at least one 'wow' moment, then let them explore for a bit, adding new threads and elements constantly. Hopefully this will lead the story to a satisfying climax in later sessions.

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>>48179572
Boyz in da Hood?

>>48179572
>TEETH AREN'T HORSES!!!

>>48179661
dead
>>48179678
dead (gotta roll nigga)

>>48179392
>implying Durden wouldn't go fucking bananas just to prove that the system is broken

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I think he would play a LG Paladin.

>>48180078
Explain

>>48179091
Name generators, mythology, occasional memes...it takes all sorts.

Artistic plagurism. We've had Dangalf, the wise wizard. Lorax, the ent. And Parnald Almer, an STD where you piss half and half for the rest of your life, doesnt hurt until your 40 or so, kills at 60.

>>48179091
Find lists of babynames, preferably from a country that fits the setting and character. Sometimes I'll take a name straight from the list, sometimes I'll combine parts of multiple names, sometimes I'll create an original name inspired på something from the list.

D&D 4e or Strike! would work for something with a tactical combat focus. Fuck, Savage Worlds does tactical combat extremely well too, if you don't mind it being a bit more low-key and lethal.

>>48178578
Those figures creep me out. Why do they have such weak cores and so powerful limbs?

>>48178631
I didn't know about Strike! I've been looking into Savage Worlds and it seems really nice for tactical combat, so I may well go with that. Thanks for the recommendation.

>>48178736
I don't know why they chose to make the characters that way, it's pretty odd indeed.