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word bearers a shit

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>Orks are a melee race!
>I2

>>47893009
Indeed, because they are heretic scum.

>>47889081
Sorry, I don't feel like reading an entire novel right now. Ask me again later

>>47889081
I don't have ADHD so I'm fine.

Pendulum killed the game for me

Its just so retarded. Oh you set two pendulums and now can just dump your hand on the field? Great. Once they're destroyed they go to the top of the extra deck where they can just be dumped again the next turn? Fantastic

Fuck that shit

>>47888417
>I'm considering buying it
Don't. It's mechanics are a clusterfuck in myriad ways.

>>47888417
>I'm considering buying it, and based on what I've read it seems quite good, I just figured I should get some first hand opinions+ 0 post omitted.
It's late in the primary timezone so this thread might go well for the next five hours.

Opinion: Don't. Get this instead:
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/156677/CthulhuTech-V2-The-Shadow-War-Open-Beta?manufacturers_id=3225

It's the 2E playtest.

It actually >>47888425 works.

>>47888417
Stop lying, you just wanted the monthly CTech bashing thread.

Trapdoor right under his feet.

setup a trap where either he kills a priestess of his faith inside a temple of his god or a city of downtrodden gets killed

>>47886646
Go through daily routine till the leaves turn orange and everyone suddenly has a heightened disguise stats

Human cleric named Clerance MacManara
Short and scrawny little guy scared of his own shadow

Dick-ass rogue in 3.5e, switched to Pathfinder shortly after starting. I regret the inter-party squabbling/thievery I did but at least I got my That Guy shit out of the way early.

Years later I made the same-ish rogue in 5e as a smooth-talking party face instead of a dick-ass and had a much better time.

Dwarf Cleric named Thorvald. He tried to give a purpose to the party of murderhobos, but it ended up with him being turned to ash.
Well, atleast the warlock collected his ashes and gave him as proper dorf burial as he could.

>you're turned into ash.

Well, atleast my Dwarf Cleric saved the party with his sacrifice.

>>47880479
>playing Nechronica
>spend the whole battle rolling nothing but fours
>achieve fuck all, get my legs fried off and a whole fucking bunch of chunks out of my torso
>flee like a bitch, dragging myself away with my arms
Whe the DM doesn't reward you a gorillion Favor Points and free repairs to let you become broken, Nechronica gets pretty fucking brutal.

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I played an old grizzled fighter that would use every dirty trick in the book to kill someone. He ended up joining an arena during the game and actually did pretty well since most of the competition was well below his skill level. Didn't even have to play dirty to beat them.

He earned a shot against the champion, who was the prideful sort of savage that wants a good fight. I knew he was good after watching a few of his fights and asking around. I tried to use that pride against him, thinking I had that figured out. I was fucking wrong.

Long story short, I had hidden a blade in one boot along with a small satchel of blinding powder in the other. I thought I could convince the guy to toss his arms and armor to the side and settle things hand to hand "like a man", then I would Chong Li his ass and shank him. The fight started, I proposed my offer and he refused. I didn't have a backup plan, because I figured he'd play right into that sort of thing. He absolutely fucking mauled my character. Died horribly without landing a single significant strike on him.

>>47863639
I was rolling in the Wild Magic with a Paladin that held Unicorns as the ultimate holy presence. We ended up locked in a mansion trying to escape some goons breaking down the door when, sure enough, my magic fucked up and the random effect table temporarily popped a Unicorn up next to us. The pally was basically frothing at the mouth losing his shit in joy, but the Unicorn was a cool dude and helped us out with preparing our escape. I hope that guy ends up with a Unicorn mount, it's a good motif.

>>47863639
>How do you play LG without being lawful stupid


I don't know why people have trouble with this. I know a literal aspergers player who can RP Lawful Good properly. You can avoid Lawful Stupid by not being stupid. I guess the important thing is play a character, not an alignment. I hear good-intentioned people say "roleplay your alignment!" but that's the wrong way to go about it IMO. Create the character according to the alignment, then roleplay the character. Important distinction.


>What about in a party with CN? CE?

CE is always going to create friction. You'd better hope that the player with the CE PC is doing it for legit roleplay reasons (i.e those beyond "lol i raep teh king XDDD") and doesn't want to go against the party just for shits and giggles. If they fail the That Guy test then make sure you have an optimized character, or optimized allies, so you can kill That Guy when they pull their That Guy shit. Otherwise you have to go by ear. Edgelord Paladins will show no mercy and smite at the drop of a hat. More measured Paladins may try to redeem Evil characters, or bring in appropriate authorities for great justice.

CN isn't automatically more of a problem than other non-Evil alignments, though unfortunately it is the go-to alignment for That Guys (on the grounds that Evil PCs are often banned). Sans That Guy bullshit, a CN doesn't have to be some amoral derplord. You can do CN characters that are no more extreme examples of the alignment than an average Dwarves are of LN. Overall I'd say you handle it the same way as CE - play along until they step out of line, and gauge your response based on your judgement of the player's motivations.

>>47863881
OP, never played before but going to be playing a NG/LG pally on Thursday, made this thread to get ideas. I get anxious about stuff like this for some reason.

With Automatic Bonus Progression giving you +Xs on your armor and weapons, are you allowed to trade some of those +Xs in for special abilities? Flaming, etc?

Spirit Whisperer Wizard 5 / Cleric 1 / Mystic Theurge 10.

Then 2 more level of Wizard and 2 more of Cleric.

Is this a good plan? The end result is 9th-level Wizard spell and 7th-level Cleric spell. But I don't have early level weakness of normal MT.

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How do I necromancer? Is the best option just to roll cleric? Dirge Bard seemed neat and i really like the whole dancing the dead to life thing but waiting until level 10 to duplicate a 2nd-level spell by spending performance seems not great.

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>>47888108
>expecting realism from Warhammer 40k
>not giving in to the rule of cool

>taking game abstractions as your reference of scale because you hate 40k that much
wew lad

A squad of space marines can topple entire planetary systems. Thunderhawks are flying bricks that can not only keep pace with, but destroy space cruisers that reach dozens of kilometers in length. Landraiders can drive along ocean floors by design. Terminator armor can survive orbital re-entry without assistance.

>>47888167
>A squad of space marines can topple entire planetary systems.

How? If the planetary system has like 50 billion people then how do they do that?

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>>47886627

>>47886627
For Xenagos.

When double faced cards get flickered they come back as their sun side, correct?

Rolled 9 (1d20)

I roll for if it's a good season for crops.

>>47878824
Yields are slightly below average, but you still have enough to satisfy the local lord and to feed your family. You will likely survive the winter.

>>47878858
Can't even eat without crops.

>>47872299
What is love?

Zelda, Resident Evil, and old school adventures have a lot of good examples of how to do puzzles.

They typically break a certain level of the suspension of disbelief, because they're ornate and no one in their right mind would seal their military compound/mystical temple with puzzles a ten-year old could solve, but all a puzzle really needs to be is a short challenge that tests the mind a little.

Do not use puzzles.

Ever. EVER.

All they do is cause the game to come to a screeching halt while players beat their heads against a wall because they're too stupid to figure things out.

And they get mad, and you get mad, and no one has a good time.

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>>47872192
First for nomads.

Skreeonk skreeonk skreeonk skreeonk

who's ready for some sweet Skorne chat

No, but i can bitchslap her face for shittalking to her elders.

>>47871625
She might actually be a 500 year old demon. This is Japan, after all. Do you want to take that chance.

Was anyone disputing this?

>>47871517
start hitting on men
start hitting on the players, and no I don't mean their characters

Yeah, you should quit it, the "bards = sex" thing is a stupid-ass meme

I really hate this forced "bards are sluts" meme idiots are trying to press.