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>>47751852
The players in the typical roleplaying game are already better than the normal person... so all you have to do for hireling is make them normal people. They're not the heroes because they're too incompetent, cowardly, weak, or have an actual sense of self-preservation ect. A DMPC is a DM character who's actually on par with the players. A hireling is just meant to be some schmuck normie the party paid to do something for them.

>>47752046
This.

>>47751852
PC class levels.

11-foot pole.

Because you never know when you need that extra foot.

I always make sure my characters have

>pet treats
>megaphone
>lubricant
>tongs

>>47751680
Rope.
Lots of rope.
A grappling hook, some pitons and a hammer too.
Just too damn useful.
Lock a door by nailing a piton on the inside of it.
Rescue people from pit traps with rope.
Trip pursuers with rope.
Take down riders with it too.
Climb shit
Swing over chasms
Tie up prisoners
Hang That Guy.
So many uses from three common items.
Dont forget that tieing the rope to a rock can be used as a makeshift weapon and trap tripper

>>47751172
Well, considering its the seat of an incredibly powerful entity in the center of his domain in a plane of existence where the laws of physics don't exist except at the whim of beings inside of it, I'd say its perfectly comfy.

>>47751267
I see gravity.

>>47751172
I'm pretty sure the throne is metaphorical.

I highly doubt Khorne is sitting on anything, much less having any physical form to do so with.

>>47751041
Write a book. It'd be difficult to run as a campaign.

>>47753933
Players wouldn't be the gods

Been written before, a few times.

The question becomes, where do players fit in? Why does this elaborate backstage reality make a difference to the PC's? How would they even interact with these gods? If they can't then why do the gods matter?

>>47750689

Swords & Planets genre (like A Princess of Mars)

Robinsonades (desert island stories/survivalist fiction)

Are there still enough people who'd play a sword and planets game?

>>47751012
I'm currently running one, so yeah.

>>47750373
What was your first race pick?

>>47750470
Probably a homebrewed special snowflake race.

:^)

>>47750470
Ifrit

>>47749989
A morose otyugh that is bitter because he was exiled from his culture for having a piss fetish instead of eating poop

>>47749989
Old DM of mine had one double duty as a chef on a ship and the ships waste dispossal.

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>>47749989

>>47749047
what is that?

>>47749047

I don't care. /pol/ probably will though, so expect the usual angry "muh norms" shitposting.

>>47749055
>Crossplay (the term is a portmanteau of crossdressing and cosplay) is a type of cosplay in which the person dresses up as a character of a different gender. Crossplay's origins lie in the anime convention circuit, though, like cosplay, it has not remained exclusive to the genre.

if it's the only thing someone does, concern

otherwise don't care

Assuming this is not a bait thread:
I've never tried it so I can't offer any tips, I will say though that whatever you do try not to annoy your DM or fellow players.

Instead of specifically trying to think of gendered traits, think of how being a girl woulda changed your character growing up in the setting. For example, if you're playing a female fighter in a setting where most fighters are men, think of what attitude she'd develop about that. Like, maybe they are overly aggressive to prove themselves. Or maybe they are more meek and reluctant to show off their talent in front of people. Then just mark that as a character trait like any other and stick to it.

That show is terrible and hasn't aged well at all.

>>47748834

In Shadowrun my players were hired by interests trying to stop Aztlan from taking over a chunk of northern Amazonia. The players were supposed to work in conjunction with a bunch of mercs fighting for Amazonia, with the player team doing wetwork, espionage and sabotage. Unfortunately they derped two missions hard (one ambush, and one base infiltration), mistakenly leaving enough of a trail for Aztlan spec-ops to track them. When they made a break for it, one was killed and the rest barely got out alive. The players enjoyed the whole thing but it ended in abject failure, with the Aztlan military wiping out the mercs and massacring thousands of people.

>>47748834
They got blasted to bits by Tiamat in a pocket dimension that had made to imprison her, essentially.

I planned it, though, and let them think session was over for about 5 minutes before I deus ex machina'd them for the actual fight

Yep. My players let themselves get carted off to an alien prison cell when they were the only hope to stop the invasion force from killing everyone they knew.

Both approaches solve the problem, same exp

Bonus if they roleplay either well

I don't do EXP, I level everyone up at appropriate plot points.

A, mostly because B yields 0.

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While Rene and (most of) her crew gets used to the terribly cold mountains of Tordo and head for its nameless capital, Cicero's investigative mind is put on looking over what they've learned so far about who could've stolen the last pages. To him, he points out to Rene, it's quite clear that whoever did this is someone seemingly-loyal to the Empire. No one else could've gotten INTO Xerxes' room, let alone defiled his personal artifacts without anyone learning of their existence. But who could've done such a thing..?

Dyrus and Laurise, meanwhile, help their mother wrap up the battle of the mountain pass, driving away the remaining Imperials and doing a headcount of those who have been lost. Biff and Byron are nowhere to be found, either miraculously among the living or identifiable among the dead, leading some to hold out hope, but others to doubt immensely. Regardless, they can't exactly afford to spend time searching for the Noban knights, and Hauteclere, having recently declared herself queen, steers her men forward to claim her new home, soon-to-be-formerly known as the Gerxel capital.

Samson and his pals ride towards the island hideout of Oswald Dory, Adelais pointing out that, even if weather and any number of things that could've gone wrong on their way to contact her father went wrong, they absolutely SHOULD have been back by now if they're not dead. And if they are dead, then it goes without saying that something very, very wrong has happened. None the wiser are they to just how late to the party they will be, but even still, none of them are terribly optimistic about the chances of finding a pretty sight on the isle of Oswald's hideout.

>A. Be Samson
>B. Be Dyrus

>>47747294
>B. Be Dyrus

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>>47747335
You are now Dyrus, and you must say, you're already feeling your new position in life immensely! Your mother is a historic revolutionary turned queen, making you and your sister royalty as well.

The nature of Felix's heritage causes more than a bit of a stir, even catching his aunt Fortune off guard. Still, though, knowing that the Empire will be after him from now on, she swears that... Well, that that won't happen. Felix, to his credit, shows no interest in being an evil emperor or anything of the sort.

You're still more than a little upset about the demise of that kindly Imperial healer at your own hands, but what Via said rings true in your heart. Even in this very battle, he's certain there were Imperial agents he would never know the names or stories of who could have been veritable saints, and you've been chugging through by telling yourself it's selfish only to mourn the one you knew.

As you ride towards the capital, your mother and Via help you and your sister grasp the theory behind staff usage, saying that it's something you MUST be proficient in as future leaders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQtiSjGb74U

Learning this... Honestly, it helps you feel like you've overcome the rut you recently found yourself stuck in, like you're ready to start growing and getting stronger again now that you and your sister have the future of Teege on your backs!

>A. Spend time with someone (specify)
>B. Skip to the next relevant event

>>47747036
Don't create NPCs that are your pet characters that will hog the spotlight. These are called DMPCs and they generally suck. Let the PCs hog the limelight.

Don't do that shit where you overthink your story because you've read people's accounts of shitty, boring, uninspired, bland sessions. If you want to deliver a cliched story straight up from an 80s dungeon crawler and make your world derivative, do so. The players will form the tone of the story themselves and will play out those segments themselves. So steal.

If you really want to literally run A New Hope in a fantasy setting for your guys, do so. Maybe they will play it straight. Maybe they will murderhobo the whole thing and Leia will end up sold to slavery while they take over Han's ship and decide that they now want to become mercenary smugglers themselves. Maybe they will fuck up and will have to concede Yavin and you'll have to change the story up. You don't have to be ashamed that your session looks like it was written by Christopher Paolini. It's okay.

If someone told me that when I was starting out, I wouldn't have fucked up so much and I wouldn't have had anxiety about that.

Don't be afraid to kill your players off. The game isn't meant to be about you raping the players' orifice, but you have to make them realize that the risks they take are very real.

One thing that tabletop does that computer RPGs - a common avenue to tabletop - often neglect is that killing is not the #1 way of dealing with encounters and that even the precious XP points can be gotten through other ways. Encourage them to sneak around powerful enemies and negotiate with people.

Of course, if your group wants to mostly be in it for the action and want high kill counts, make sure to provide it for them and you might want to fudge some rolls (in secret, that's what the DM screen is for) if it's dramatically appropriate - nobody likes to die on the campaign's first session because of a dire rat's lucky crit, and making a new character so soon again is just busywork nobody needs.

But overall if someone fucks up they will die. And that can be a nice plot hook for a future session to get that player ressurected.

>Dragon Age

Well, in that case, throw anything at him. It's going to be awful regardless of what system you play. Hell, throw the Dragon Age RPG at him and enjoy the sadism/masochism inherent in trying to run it.

>>47746866
I've never tried the Dragon Age RPG as I'm not into Dragon Age. What's wrong with it?

>>47746988
Anon is probably just some fag from /v/, they like to hate everything. Dragon Age isn't that bad.

Not often enough.

>>47746804

Between runs. It's covered under the rules to near autistic detail.

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>>47746804
Yes. We drink strong beer and chill in a nice park or golf course.

Then we get kicked out and run before the rent a cops cause a scene.