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Fate Core, it also has the advantage of weeding out anyone not worth running for in the first place if they whine.

Don't Rest Your Head. Best resolution mechanic in any horror system out there.

>>48119524
MAID

>>48119469
Make it about star fighter pilots. Ace Combat/Macross: Star Wars edition.

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>>48119469
I've had the best luck with FFG's Star Wars systems. If your campaign is going to be more adventurous, go with Edge of the Empire. If more military, go with Age of Rebellion. If more mystical and focused on the Force, go with Fate and Destiny.

So how bare bones are we talking?

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Rip off the shitty parts of the EU (that are no longer canon) and try to make them better.
Such as including Trioculus and Triclops, who both are three-eyed mutants.

A few tips.

>make them roll perception.
Never tell them why.

>Make something they can't kill but can escape chase them.
But never let them lose it.

>Use Fatigue effects and enforce them.
A tired adventurer is a weak adventurer.

>Conspire with one of them.
About nothing. Just convince the others that he's fucking with them on purpose or ruining their plans.

>Make the guy you're conspiring with fail.
In small ways, once in a while. To back up their paranoia.

>Make someone Crazy.
Don't tell them about it. Just ask everyone for will checks once in a while.

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You could try making the world like some kind of pale shadow of the real thing, like everything has been drained from it. It's populated by near invisible monsters of fog or something. There could be implications that everyone was shaped into something else, something Other, but there aren't nearly enough of them for that. Maybe one person doesn't equal one monster?

Otherwise the place is simply empty, with the occasional attack by some shade of the world that was.

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>>48119258
here this should help a bit

Dual-Bloodline Sorceror.
Make your first bloodline Elemental so can automatically change all damage spells to a second element.
Make your second bloodline Draconic, in a color that matches your elemental bloodline, giving you a boost to all your element-converted spells.

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>>48119081
Blaster mages are pretty weak compared to support/debuff magic builds, unless you're spending alot of time fighting large groups of enemies. That being said, they're not awful, and there are a few ways to about this.

Sorcerers: Do what the previous poster said and mix elemental and draconic bloodlines. It's not a huge boost, but it's also not a huge penalty to take the Archetype (-2 will saves) unless you're facing alot of charm/illusion enemies.

The other option for Sorcerers is to simply take the Arcane Bloodline and spam meta-magic feats. The ones to look out for are:
>Maximize Spell: Max damage
>Empower Spell: Adds more hit dice to spells
>Quicken Spell: Cast a swift
>Dazing Spell: With area spells like fireball, this makes everything that fails it's save lose turns, making your damage incredibly supporty.


You other options are to pick a Wizard or an Arcanist, as wizards get a Specialization School and Arcanists have an Archetype and an Exploit to get a Specialization School.

It may sound contradictory, but Evocation is actually NOT what you want to specialize in here. Actually the best schools are as follows:

Conjuration (Teleportation): You get a free teleport that you can use as a swift action. With Dimensional Agility Feat, you can essentially do this with no downside. This gives you, as a swift action, a way to disengage from melee combat and grapples without provoking an attack of opportunity, and pretty much skip concentration checks. It also gives you a way to get on roofs and other highground without having to use flight.

Divination (Foresight): All the prepared rerolls, all the saves passed.

Elemental (Void): Reveal Weakness absolutely shreds your opponent's ability to make saves. Although this requires allies who can take advantage of this.

Beyond this, load up on Metamagic feats, same as sorcerer.

>>48119081
If all you want is truly damage, crossblooded sorcerer with the orc and draconic bloodlines and the bloodline mutation for blood havoc. That gives you 2 bonus damage per dice on every spell with one extra damage per dice when dealing damage of a chosen element. Then you take varisian tattoo and bloatmage initiate to pump your caster level, and use intensify spell whenever possible because you'll have some dead levels where you have spell slots but no spells known to use in them.

This isn't a great build, but it does a lot of damage.

>>48118440
Something rules light and universal.

My group, I can guarantee you, would be Gene Starwind, Sailor Moon, Guts and Char.

I don't know how to make that work.

>>48118440
i don't know about the system, but the character would all be gay because 90% of anime is gay.

>>48118562
So then wouldn't 90% of the characters be gay, assuming a large enough sample size?

>>48118150
I backed the kickstarter and ran a game with for a bunch of people I met in med school. We were all happy with how it went.

>>48118180
How's the balance on the system? I seriously have done 0 research on this bad boy, but am drunk and wanting to spend some money.

>>48118208
Generally you can run a game out of the box without needing houserules or worrying about causing a TPK like in previous editions.

>>48118098
It's really not that bad. Like, it's bad, and it's pretentious, but it doesn't deserve to be compared to FATAL, at least based on what I can find.

>>48118189
Oh? At least FATAL can be played with dice.
This? All of the crazy charts for everything, but you need the token to make heads or asses of them.

>>48118267
So? There are plenty of games with proprietary dice. You can't really play Warhammer without their weirdly printed dice, and technically it's harder to do FATE without FUDGE dice.

>>48118070

Excited? They keep running the last few stretch goals down.

>>48118070
man i just want to play

>>48120610

Same, the waiting is the hardest part.

Still, I'll probably have it by Christmas if shipping doesn't take forever. My birthday at longest, I should be able to have a group ready by then so I can run it for them.

It's alright, our group played a campaign of it recently and had a good deal of fun.

Great system, great mechanics, don't use mass combat rules because they stink.

I've tried a couple of times to get a game running in my area, but they've always fizzled out due to lack of interest. Should be fine for an existing group, though.

>>48118323
The trouble with everything in this game is that it all seems sound of paper but clearly hasn't been play tested enough when you use them.

It's a shame because if they just got around to tweaking it a little bit would be perfect.

>>48117796

Tolkien actually wanted to write about his experiences in the war, WWI and possibly throwing some intrigue in about WWII. Ultimately, he wanted to write a book about war and the human condition in war, about hardship, horror, courage, and friendship in the darkest of times, much of it based on his experiences at the Battle of the Somme.

The thing is, he didn't want to be just one among many war memoir writers of the time, so he used the language and narratives of fantasy and mythology to cloak his war story. That's where we get the Hobbit, and later the LotR from, and potentially why they're so enduring; there's an undercurrent of real-life experience coloring these fantastical events.

I can't speak about Martin because I don't know what his process is behind writing his books. I do dislike him for not knowing what the fuck he was talking about when he shit-talked Tolkien's works, but that's ultimately beside the point of what motivated him to write his narrative.

>>48119533

Okay, and I'll add an aside here;

Martin shit-talked Tolkien because Tolkien didn't portray war as "realistic." You know, without the shock and horror (and rape) and stuff. This guy says someone who fought in THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME in THE GREAT WAR doesn't know what he's talking about when he writes about war.

Point is, fuck Martin in my opinion.

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>>48117796
Story that serves as an excuse to give opportunities for world exposition, instead of a world that serves as an excuse to progress the story. World should service story. Story should not service world.

If it doesn't need to be a novel, let it be a short story or a novella. Don't turn 50-100 pages of quality storytelling into a 500 page novel by adding 400 pages without adding any substance. A novella is a good thing. A collection of short stories all set in a unified world is a good thing. Filler is filler.

I am a fan of neither Tolkien nor Martin, however both wrote excellently overdescriptive text-books on how to turn their visions into satisfying screen media.

>>48117373
No.

>>48117658

Do it, faggot.

>>48117373
>Owlbear.txt

>>48117352
Nightmare raped by a female BBEG... this means your character has to become a lesbian rapist who rapes other women (to regain the feeling of self-control she lost) and her main goal in life should be to rape the BBEG who nightmare raped her.
Once you start introducing rape into games you've got to go all the way or else it'll just feel cheap. So, from this point forward, rape everything you get the chance to.

>>48117352
i'm gonna assume that this isn't bait because you seem genuine and interested in pulling this off correctly and maturely

THAT SAID, this is the last place to ask this. there's just going to be ridiculous arguments that will deviate almost completely from the OP topic, you're probably gonna hear some shit tossed around like basement dwelling nerds who have no experience with this shit irl trying to project their limited experience on the topic ... etc

you're better off asking elsewhere.

has no place in games, even games that are story only. is sure to tick off at least one player.

OP here.
Getting new starter pics would be nice, so could someone put up the gdg logo as its own file? Unless the original creator wants to keep claims on it, of course.

I tried to crop and separate it myself, didn't go too well. A master of photoshop I am not.

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I have a new health system brewing, does someone care to comment?

The idea is to have three separate damage bars for Physical, Social and Mental damage, and then have one health bar.

The idea is that when someone attacks successfully, the opponent receives X damage, where X is something like 1 for small weapons, 2 for medium weapons, 3 for heavy weapons. On non-physical health types, the damage depends solely on the roll, unless they use magic.

These damage bars (I'm probably gonna just make them like pic related) are cycling, meaning they fill up again and again. When your damage bar is filled, the opponent gives you nasty status effects.
>Physical: Wound, Disarm, Trip
>Social: Anger, Confusion, Aggravation
>Mental: Depressed, Disheartened, Afraid

If you rack up wounds, you start rolling to stay conscious, and then to not die.

The design idea behind this was to make combat something where you can engage in multiple ways, such as making your opponent angry to have them make mistakes, rather than just applying a metal bar until death.

>>48117652
Those status effects are just examples, of course there are more.

>>48116882
>CSMfags are beyond pathetic

says the guys that's so butthurt about some fanwank on a garbage blog, he had to post it on an anonymous image board.

>>48116882
I'm a CSM fag and even I think this is pretty lame. He is literally asking for them to mirror SM, in addition to shit SM don't get like Assault Marine or Termie troops. Its just silly.

The way to make CSM good is to make their unique options more efficient for their points and to make getting to close combat less of a chore.

>>48116882
>What must be remembered is first and foremost is that CSM are after all Space Marines, the majority survivors from the Horus Heresy era.
Are you delusional?

>>48116189
Get rid of the wizard and cleric.

Replace them with a Knight, a Barbarian, an Archer, and a Rogue.

Fill a randomly generated dungeon with deadly as fuck horrors and traps and see who lives.

>>48116340
Knight:Swords
Barbarian: Axes
Archer: Bows
Rogue: Knives

I just though in making it competitive instead of team oriented, like see who can take more treasure and live

>>48116189

Diablo does not have clerics, so that's one problem right there. Even if you insist on a 4 player composition, you could have only three categories, but allow 2-3 splits for each class.

For example, warriors can go barbarian or knight, thieves could go assassin or archer, wizard could go battlemage or some kind of debuffy status type caster.

Whether or not you include a support type caster like the cleric, a good way to enforce mandatory cooperation is to provide buffs from each class. Warriors can lead their party with powerful combat boosts, for example. Also require traps that take 3 or more people to solve or bypass, or enemy boss mechanics that require all players to do a job.