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>>48107293
define "going native". This is a phrase that has no meaning on its own without proper context

>>48107293
Brutally murder everyone and everything they so much as begin to care about.

>>48107359
Probably means settling down and becoming like whatever NPCs live there, because it seems too cozy not to. Like, say you travel to some place where there be elves and they seem to be chill with you just hanging out. They treat you like a guest, give you free food and you get to oogle elven waifus all day long. Why would you move? It's safe there and you're set for life. (To elves, one human lifespan is like nothing.) No point in being an adventurous murderhobo when you can just life off elven welfare for the rest of your life in comfort.

Anyway, easiest way to avoid this is to make everyone dicks, but that sometimes sort of ruins your setting. In other settings, it's just how it is baseline though, and so wouldn't be a problem in the first place.

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>>48106746
>my waifu
>that girl
get >>>/out/

>>48106692
>It seems so under powered when compared to 3e.

Welcome to magic in general in 5e, and thank Pelor for it. All the magic classes are weaker now, and this a good thing because they no longer completely overshadow everyone else by level 6.

As far as building a decent necromancer... meh, honestly you're better off just going for conjuration and making deals with demons and the like. Warlocks in particular tend to lend themselves to this well.

>>48106808
>demon deals

this kind of interests me, what benefits could this lend me?

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>>48106808

You are completely and overwhelmingly incorrect, as 6th-level is precisely when necromancers attain a tremendous power upgrade.

D&D 5e's "bounded accuracy" makes a swarm of generic human skeletons with shortbows exceedingly vicious, particularly if the mob rules from the Dungeon Master's Guide (which occupy an odd space between "default rule" and "optional rule") are in play.

This is all the more the case for a 6th-level necromancer wizard, who can add their proficiency bonus to their created undead creatures' weapon damage rolls. I would go so far as to call a 9th-level necromancer who uses their 3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-level spell slots on nothing but maintaining a force of 22 skeletons to be overpowered combat-wise.

>>48106505
1. Dickwolves
2. Sonichus
3. Landwhales
4. Genderqueers
5. Fairies

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Feline kemonomimi (housecats, great cats)

Canid kemonomimi (dogs, wolves, foxes)

Rabbit kemonomimi and rabbit-fauns

Scaled sinuous lower body monsterboys/girls (nagas/lamias, merpeople)

Harpies

Bonus sixth race: Arachnes

Would you play in my world?

Aarakocra

Not widely known but fun to play

>>48105449
>Check out the server pop graph to see when people are playing: http://www.ss13.se/servers/2284/
it seems this link died, here's one that works: https://www.ss13.se/servers/2926/

OH shit a new thread, are any of you nerds on?

Busy right now. Maybe i join you later.

>>48105063
Did this really need an entire thread? just go to the AoS general, most of the people there are pretty happy with the newer releases, particularly the new Ironjawz and Sylvaneth. The points being added in also did away with a lot of the shitposting about AoS not being a real game. however, everyone has opinions, you will have people who will hate anything AoS comes up with simply because they think GW destroyed their setting and they can't play with rulebooks that came out 3-5 years ago

>>48105063

/tg/ hates AoS. But they make some great models. And some really dorky models.

AoS was a total shitshow but GW is at least attempting to fix it now with the general's handbook and adding back in point costs. Still doesn't fix the weird ass setting though.

>>48105063
>What does /tg/ thing of this shit?
models are cool, opinions still mixed on everything else

Scope out local shops, decide for yourself. Online communities are an awful judge of how much you'll enjoy a tabletop game.

All ideas sound stupid and pathetic at the start.

That's why you write them down, so you can work on them.

If Gygax and Arneson hadn't thought "let's upend established war games and make them more complicated and granular at a smaller scale for fewer players with more necessity for an impartial third party referee and (eventually) uncommon dice not sold in stores and also let's play make believe and act like elves and fairies (in front of an audience of adults) as we do it by combining sixty influences in a haphazard way" we wouldn't have D&D and arguably wouldn't have RPGs as we know them. Certainly they would have taken longer to evolve and who knows where we'd be on that track by now.

Things that seem like nonsense the first time you see them written down on paper aren't necessarily without merit. Hell, some things never really look any better when they're reductively described in note form no matter how many times you see them.

Work on your idea. Add, tweak, and don't be afraid to take away. Maybe it won't work out. But then again, maybe it will.

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>>48104903
>>48104903
>Have idea for game
>It's based off a debatably /d/ game
>Still a pretty good idea minus the (not my) magical realm
>Sounds alright! Let's note it all down!
>End up writing two pages of extra rules on top
>Sounds better on paper, run it by a few players, get positive reviews
>Group of 7 with 5 potential DMs suddenly craps out
>Spotlight on you
O-oh.

>>48103856
Because 40k lore is retarded

Tyranids are like infrared instead of visible light in the warp.

>>48103856
Emprah's too Powerful for chaos gods, sort of. it's hinted at that his Manly-nesses warp-presence is crazy strong to the point that any one chaos god trying to go after it might be doing itself more harm than good.

Also, the tyranid hive-mind's Psychic presence is fucking CRAZY huge, not neccessairly brighter, as its not as concentrated as the emperor's, but because its just a fucking gigantic flood of psychic activity from what is essentially the whole hive mind talking to itself, it causes disruptions in the warp for light years around the hive mind. this has the added Benefit to the 'Mind of fucking shit up for any planet it drifts by. (Normal citizens get migraines, psykers get bleeding eyeballs and coma's, and daemons stay the fuck away.)

Depends on the setting.

>>48103012
They're my go to these days. That said, there's a shit ton of variations, even with humans. You wanna play a midget or pygmy? Go ahead. Wanna play a 7-8ft tall beer chugging behemoth? Feel free. Fuck it, it's the age of sail, go ahead and play a Cherokee pirate who survived the pox.

>>48103012
I like it. When I made my setting for my first game, I made no restrictions, so players came up with all sorts of wacky races. Had to keep adding more bullshit to explain where all these places are.

Also, some of my friends try to use race as a character trait rather than writing an actually interesting character.

Try to defy fate by preventing the future from occurring while acting very edgy

Had a guy who was attempting to do what amounted to everyone being in pain forever. The world still functioned, everything was the same, just everyone was in just shy of crippling pain. Every new person born as well.

>>48101300
The concept of the Heat death of the universe

>>48101588
>everyone in pain forever.
For what purpose?

>>48100989
His only mistake is assuming that humanity draws faith solely from religion and dogma.

>>48101092
pretty sure he spoke of faith as something about religion and only religion

>inb4 fedora tipping

>>48100939
No alignment, or neutral

>>48102798
The answer is No alignment, or neutral

>>48102798
I've only played MLPFEMTO and with the right group its really an ideal marriage of roleplay and crunch.

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>>48100874
The ghost of HPL is elected by the Local Nyarlathotep's Union for the position of Galactic Overlord as a lark. He will destroy the Earth unless you can show him one work which proves that his legacy is not a cargo cult of superficial imitation. What do you show him?

>>48101035
A Colder War.
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

You mean like Strike! or Fellowship RPG?

>>48100618
Not familiar with either of those. Care to give me a quick rundown?

>>48100605
It can work sometimes, but I prefer a chance for outright failure.

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Dumping cool pics.

>>48100268
Is this supposed to be Dishonored the RPG?

>>48101311

With the serial numbers filed off, but basically.

Could be used to run any number of dark, low-magic fantasy settings, though.