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>>47783009
>viraling an old, free game that markets itself on using any minis you happen to have
Nice kneejerk, you fucking retard. Carry on, OP.

>>47783009
viral marketers dont give away the product you doofus

>>47782875
Looking at it now I can definitely say i am not interested. A model has 8 different stats+special rules, and weapons have 7+special rules on top of that.

Its depressing to see so many of these games come out designed to be used with whatever as people search for alternatives for 40k or whatever, and end up falling in the same game design traps of 40k.

I'll pass.

Maybe sit him down and explain as best you can how to balance his world :)

>>47782486

>cannot mindlessly slaughter, must roleplay

oh anon you are unworthy of this first-time DM

>>47783187
Nigga, they're playing DnD. I am pretty sure they do plenty of roleplaying, but they also, ya know. Want to fight Monsters.

There's a reason why the Fighter isn't called the Workthroughourdifferenceswithwordsandfeelingser.

>>47782432
Is the story/plot to escape this dungeon, or delve deep enough to escape?

>>47782432
Where do they get food?

>>47783287
The foundation of the ecosystem is chemosynthetic bacteria and other microbes feeding on thermal vents. From there you just travel up the food chain. It's also possible to just have wizards or other magical phenomena create light which enables photosynthesis.

>>47781901
So it's Shadowrun without the Cyberpunk aspect I'm taking it?

>>47781962
Hm. Sort of. I'm disappointed to say I'd never actually thought of it like that.

Amethyst seems to me like it's more of a typical fantasy setting thrown on top of our modern world (because by 'modern day' in the setting, our world is basically completely replaced by fantasy stuff). Shadowrun claims to be that, but really it isn't.

>>47781901
Some other relevant info, for those interested:

Amethyst was originally a 3.5 (or 3, not sure) setting. It was recreated for Pathfinder, and again for Savage Worlds and D&D 4e. Overall the various versions got pretty solid reviews, though I haven't seen any info on the 5e version aside from what's on the DTRPG page.

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>>47781699

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>>47780813
Man, that's a hell of a misleading cover...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI0Vp5aELZg

>>47780813
Also, I don't really get your question, do you mean a campaign based around the metagame M&M or a gurps-style campaign where you play as a demented nerd?

>>47780813

Probably not. Mental Illness: the Game doesn't really appeal to me.

Plus there's only so many times I can kill a Gorvil and then get told it was really a bum

>I've never exactly gotten into tabletop RPGs

Yeah, we can tell.

>>47780699
>how do you get past these things and really pick up something you end up sticking with
Simple: you don't. Playing one kind of character all the time is boring as paste. Variety is the spice of life, and specialization is for insects.

I've been playing TRPGs for 10 years, and I've never used the same character build twice.

>>47780856
This. It's the people who play the same character every single time that get annoying.


Though you do need to be able to stick with a character for a full campaign. Or at least until it dies, so you might find that you prefer a high lethality game.

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Ahem.

Cybersix, anyone?

>>47779720

Because I don't want my soul to be buttfucked up the ass in a six dimensional fashion.

Also because I refuse to become the slave of some creature that has the gall to call itself a god when it truly is nothing more then the psychic manifestation of an obscenely large amount of certain emotions.

I will not bend the knee to the psychic equivalent of a ball of shit that has congealed inside of a fetid sewer.

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>>47779720
>infinite pleasure and happiness
Horrific mutations and numbness to all that is.

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>>47779720
I have actually.

I worship Nurgle, and Nurgle only.

>>47779305
yes

>>47779305
Maybe, but if you're going to start doing that, you need to account for everything that could possibly provide a bonus or a penalty for grapple, and it'll inevitably spiral out of control.

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>>47779305
>giving enemies bonuses to grapple PCs with long dicks or loose vaginas

Is this fair?

>>47778911
Currently running an AdEva based on Norse Myth. Angels are Gaints, the Evangelions are called Úlfhéðnar, The Magi Super Computer is instead The Oracles, and a few other various things. I even have the Nerv HQ based in Scandinavia. It's been pretty fun so far, as the pilots are trying to stop the coming of Ragnarok.

>>47778911
Samefagging, but whatever.

Why using 2.0? Version 3 is out, ya know?
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Adeptus_Evangelion

>>47779132
I'm using 3.5 but I'm looking for the Redacted Supplement so that I can have ideas for possible scenarios, the tv tropes page mentions several interesting ideas that the supplement has that I might implement at some point

>>47778468

Without knowing what your campaign is like, I couldn't say.

If you're, you know, an adult with half-decent social skills then you could just ask him "what can I add that would interest you, because you seem a bit bored and I don't want anyone to be bored"

>>47778468
Clearly you must make the Guards a recurring pair of NPCs that the group runs into, as clearly there has been a breakdown in communication. Clearly he expected to see the impact the group had on the two, and took your half-assed answer is an affirmation that it would happen. And now, he is no long invested because his immersion is 'broken'. Maybe have those guards be part of a band of bandits and have the fight be averted because the ex-guards remembered the group and they try to negotiate their way out of being killed, or maybe have them be guards at the next town and have them do the 'oh no, not you guys again.' reaction.

You can save him anon, so do it!

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>>47778551
I asked him and he said "It's fine, I'm not bored." so I asked him if he was interested at all and he said "on a scale from negative 10 to positive 10, I go between a -1 and a 1." This gives me a pretty good idea of what I should do, but I don't want to just quit after 15 or so sessions.
The campaign is basically them trying to start a cult and become barbarian kings, but they keep getting sidetracked and doing other stupid shit that has nothing to do with that.

>>47778591
Hm... I suppose I could do that. They're going to go to a town close to the guards town soon, I could try to reel him back in there.
Maybe they could join his cult or some shit.
Thank you for the idea, I was almost ready to give up.

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The "long version" of Darren's story is actually fairly simple to shorten. Though Dyrus and Laurise's mother had been betrothed since birth to his son, the late Dyrus Sr., and he made a point of being a large part of his future daughter-in-law's life, the pair... Wasn't particularly close in childhood, the teenage Hauteclere particularly preferring to sneak away into nearby cities and disguise her nobility. This changed rather drastically when she wound up impregnated by one of these trips.

Though she never shared the finer details of her conception with anyone, she looked up to her future father-in-law for advice. Having dutifully served the Imperial army according to tradition since the THEN-current Emperor was a princeling, he insisted that this daughter would spell scandal and ruin for both of their houses, that the best thing for everybody would be to leave her behind, on top of pushing her to get closer to his son. Among many of his past actions, he came to regret this immensely upon the passing of his son. Speaking of him, though, when Dyrus Sr. learned of what happened, he was the one who good-naturedly informed Rene's sentimental adoptive father of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV81QawP2g

But enough of the family drama of nobles you've barely met once or twice, and aren't even there to learn about! You're Samson, and you have your own familial issues to be griping about! The people holding your father hostage haven't been heard from in some time, and if something happened to them, you're... Well, quite frankly, you're going to be pissed. You suppose it would be a convenient out for your coerced alliance with the Dories, but it would also mean your fight with the Empire is far from over.

>A. Spend time with [specify]
>B. Immediately Advance Plot

>>47778039
>A. Spend time with [Millicent]

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>>47778171
You and Millicent look out to the sea as you sail, trying your best to take in the vastness and majesty of the open water instead of the grim circumstances that have kept you in the islands for so much time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1SJNhIXIq8

"I... Did always dream about going beyond the shores sometime," Millicent says, laughing slightly sadly. "I guess there wasn't any way I would've ended up out here..."

"What makes you say that?" You ask "You could've just... Gone. I bet you even coulda talked me into getting off my butt to see the world if it meant hanging around you more."

"We can't all afford to just drop everything and travel, Sam," Millicent says. "It was already pushing it just learning how to dance like I did. If Norman wasn't so in love with hunting, I don't think I even could've taken time to do that. And, uh, even then, just in case that fell through, if Norman was injured or one of our parents got really sick, that's why I learned..." She looks away, still as embarrassed as ever with the odd thievery-related talents of hers that were integral in the uprising in Fort Dalshin. "I was prepared to keep us fed however I had to, anyway."

"That's not why you befriended Raleigh and I, is it?" You ask, intending it as a joke but immediately realizing that it's kinda mean-spirited once it leaves your mouth.

"No, of course not!" Millie answers, obviously slightly offended. "I can't believe you'd even imply that."

"Sorry, sorry," you say, hanging your head low. "That wasn't very funny."

Millie sighs, obviously forgiving your slight rather quickly, taking on an amused tone as she gets in retaliating jabs of her own. "The hero of the Southern Islands and Holmstead resistance, maker and writer of history, is still completely incapable of keeping his foot out of his mouth."

>A. She's got you there
>B. You're working on it...
>C. It was a one-time slip-up!
>D. Write-in response
>E. ...

>>47777643

I went in with a group who all thought it looked good, but ultimately we found it too simplistic and progression unsatisfying, having come from DnD 3.5e. In the pursuit of trying to streamline the game, a lot of the mechanical complexity we found engaging was lost.

Like a peanut butter and fluff sandwich, only you fucked up and got extra smooth and creamy peanut butter so now its just overly sweet with no real crunch or substance. Seems like a nice departure from PB&J but ultimately doesn't add too much and you get sick of it pretty fast.

>>47777643
I only experienced character creation and the start of an adventure.

My impression was that it was trying to integrate elements of d20 and FATE, to the detriment of both.

Character creation was incredibly unsatisfying. After picking one of 3 classes you chose a couple of aspect-y/feat-y things from a finite list that used a largely meaningless adjective and gave some kind of limited mechanical bonus. I also think there were three or so attributes. I think they were randomly rolled.

If I was in love with the setting I'd try running it with something else.

Too be fair rack ham was slowly shooting themselves in the foot in terms of gameplay.

>>47777470
I think people wholly abandoned confrontation for wrath of kings or other games, it's a shame because there's a lot of models I liked that I'll never get

>>47777780
So much this. The models were top notch, the designers generally knew what they were doing. It is a shame that most of it being OOP, you have to resort to Ukranian recasts or CMoN who sells only a small number of figures for extortionate prices.