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> I'm a man with a plan - to drink all I can
> Life's like a rock - Hard, and in the way of a rich mineral vein
> I'm short, yes, but that only means my head gets more blood as I don't have to waste it on long limbs like you.

Take normal proverbs and change them to feature ores&stones, heh

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Justice and love will always win.

>bbeg

Bleh.

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>>47735183
They have mutated themselves with soul intention of going faster than the speed of light and thus end the universe

>>47735199
>Im too cool for board slang of b/w morality

*tips*

>>47734824
Those were tournament modules meant to be like that, not how it he usually played. He made them because his players (mostly Rob and Ernie, I think, IIRC) complained his dungeons were too easy, so he created a killer dungeon to kill them off. They both got through Tomb of Horrors solo, first time, with no problem. Basically aced the killer dungeon. The full story was on here some time ago. So, yeah, RP was more masculine back then, especially the badass players, so you needed the killer dungeons to keep them in check.

>>47734824
It's important to remember a couple things when considering Gygax's legacy
>Gygax's play style didn't just pop up whole cloth. It was designed around players who would purposefully exploit the game.
>Most of the incredibly deadly modules written by Gygax were designed for tournament play not normal campaign play
In relation to the OD&D in general
>While most rules were pertaining to traps and combat the players were mostly meant to occupy themselves with roleplaying problems and puzzles. The rules where mostly intended to move parts that were to variable for common sense along.
>The reaction chart meant that many encounters could be solved with talking
>While Gygax is the most well known contributor to D&D, Arneson formed most of the core concepts for RPGs as a whole. He was much less focused on tables and mechanics than Gygax, tending more towards story telling and Player and DM rulings.

This isn't to say Gygaxian role-playing is or is not more masculine compared to our contemporaries but I think these things should be kept in mind from the get go.

>>47735230
Daily reminder that Robilar walked on the ceiling upside down while invisible and using a scrying orb to see the future.

>>47733730
I'm more in favor of letting your own luck decide. You are already rolling dice, let fate decide.

>>47733730
From Pathfinder, and more specifically its SRD:

Bonus

Bonuses are numerical values that are added to checks and statistical scores. Most bonuses have a type, and as a general rule, bonuses of the same type are not cumulative (do not “stack”)—only the greater bonus granted applies.

Bonus Type: Luck
A luck bonus represents good (or bad) fortune. Multiple luck bonuses on the same character or object do not stack. Only the highest luck bonus applies.
Can Affect: AC, attacks, checks, damage, saves

So basically the simplest way of rendering luck mechanically is a simple bonus, or minus, to a roll.

>>47733730
Depends on the system/setting but you could make them roll a smaller dice size.

Keep away from static modifiers would be my advice. They're boring, hard to carry, and your player will look for a way around them.

Pripyat van Haffenstachen's got this. She's a hardass cleric of Pharasma who can clear a room in 2 turns. She doesn't have selective channeling though... ;>_>

Well, the one time I played a super hero system we made God-tier characters. Mine was a telepath capable of casually mind controlling dozens of people at a time, so I'm pretty safe. The rest were in various editions of D&D and a few sessions of runescape before I dropped the system.

>>47733428
>One of your previous characters at peak of power
>Peak of power vs 5 Latest Previous characters

Idk who's stronger, my max Level Anima Witch with void and time subarcanas, My Archmage (MTA) of Time with mastery of Death and Space, or my Scion Demi-Godess of Osiris and Neith who one punched a Titan.
against my 5 previous:
10 Year old Fairest Changeling (Coyote Kith moved to Fairest)
23 Year old Revenant
N/A Year Old Tech Demon
20 Year Old Cheirion Group agent
Something Old Goblin Pyromaniac that likes to burn allies that have fur

>>47731938

I was unaware anyone thought there should never be any nobility NPCs.

>>47731955
fucking hell I'm an idiot I mean PCs

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>>47731970

I know. I just like ribbing people.

To answer your question, no I don't think it's a bad idea. Nor do I think it's a limiting option.

It all depends on if it's something the players really "deserve" or if you're just pulling it out of your ass.

>>47731795
Possible Names:
>Blooded Hands (OP’s favourite)
>Iron Sovereigns
>Steel Gorgons (Seemingly the most popular)
>Iron Dragons
>Hands of Vengeance (OP’s third favourite)
>Blood Hounds
>Iron Hounds (OP’s second favourite)
>Brazen Bulls
>Iron Rocs
>Steel Ghouls
>Brass Sphinxes
>Silver Wyrms
>Centaurs
>Iron Chimeras
>Steel Titans
>Iron Giants

Okay, so we're an Iron Hands successor, founded in the 40th Millenium, on a Crusade. We hate Heretics and have a tendency to destroy everything. Being an IH descendant, we have a fondness for bionics but we’re not as manic about it as our predecessor.

Our Occulobes are oversensitive, which gives us 'night vision' but makes it hard for us to see in 'daylight', but are otherwise fine mutation-wise. Because of this Bionic Eyes are the most common augmentation to be seen in our chapter.

One of our old Chapter-Masters was a fucking badass who led many glorious campaigns and slayed countless foes of the Emperor... until, for reasons unknown to us, he was slain along with a significant portion of our chapter by the Officio Assassinorum (it might have something to do with our tendency to destroy everything when we fight, however), leaving us understrength.

Our Homeworld is a Feral Desert world, called Kerakion, that we really only bother with when we need something/something important happens, otherwise we let the Planetary Governor run it for us. Most of our Space Marines come from Kerakion, but we use some other feral worlds for recruitment too.

We diverge from the Codex Astartes a bit, but not too much, and specialize in Terror tactics. We have a special fighting style (general consensus is that we use dual chain-axes, though that could still change) which helps us with that, possibly helped along by our buddies in the Admech.

We venerate the Emperor above all, like any good Imperial Citizen should, and have an immense hatred for the Emperor's Children, especially one particular EC-led warband, called the Scions of Lust, that we slaughtered at one point. Unfortunately enough members escaped to reform the Warband with new recruits - most of the survivors were Emperor’s Children, who are much more resistant to our terror tactics than the mortal cultists.

TL;DR We’re a loyalist Iron Hands descendant whose tactics are kind of a mix between the World Eaters’ and the Night Lords’, with a hateboner for the Emperor’s Children.

>[Still Unnamed Chapter]'s Tactics

>The [Insert Name Here] are a lesser-known descendant of the Iron Hands, known primarily for slaughter of the Scions of Lust, a Slaaneshi-worshipping Chaos warband led by some Emperor's Children traitor marines, during the Battle of Mytus V.

>The [Insert Name Here] are usually recruited from Feral Worlds, especially their Homeworld of Kerakion, a harsh Desert planet that spends half the year locked in day and the other half locked in night due to it's rather bizarre orbit around it's system's star. Because of this, their armour is often decorated with primitive trinkets, such as the remains of their enemies, with the purpose of intimidation.

>While the trinkets probably help, the primary reason the [Insert Name Here] are so effective in inducing terror into their enemies comes down to their habits of forcing their enemies to fight them in the dark where they have an advantage, their brutal fighting style, their relationship with the Adeptus Mechanicus usually allowing them to get bionics specifically crafted with intimidation in mind and other associated tactics that were definitely not inspired/taken from records of the Night Lords, because that would be heresy..

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The person in question.

Something about the phrase "all RPGs should be grown up like this" strikes me as...as...well...I don't know, off.

>>47816530
Sounds like a fourteen-year-old trying desperately to sound like an adult.

What on earth does "grown up" mean in this context?

>in b4 a bunch of comments saying HURR I PUNCH HIM XD

>>47730205
Sometimes my ST demands blowjobs and/or handjobs in exchange for providing magical loot in game.

I don't know how common that is at other tables though.

>>47730205
Depends. Depends on who is the DM. Is it that delicious BBW right there? I'd touch her if you know what I mean

Never, apparently.

>>47729701
you see them everytime you go to bathroom and look at what you dumped

They're probably going to wait even longer this time to build up the tension before releasing the set symbol and everything. I honestly think they're waiting so long because they heard the collective groaning sigh everyone made when they realized it was going to be Emrakul, so they're desperately renaming mechanics and recomissioning art. They changed Kozilek's art with like 5 days notice, so I"m sure they can redo a set like this with as many months as they've had.

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I'm okay with that, robot dragons are pretty cool.

>Implying that I wouldn't model my fuck robot after a dragon in the first place.

>>47728806
I fail to see the issue. Hell, I could actually use that one in one of my games. On that note, what's the source of that? Is it an actual model? I could use more things to do on nights off.

My characters are always rather weaboo.
Big sword if I can get away with it, monk if I can't, and my character's theme song is always from some anime.

https://youtu.be/KpuvajowCdg

Daily reminder that playing martial classes is fine, but it is objectively suboptimal.

>>47809800
Good luck getting to the point where casters outshine martials without any martials in the party

I've always wanted to run a game where the players take on the archetypes of rogue, wizard, fighter, and cleric, and do their best to pin down what each of those classes should aspire to be like, while going through classically designed adventures that culminate in saving a princess in a tower from a dragon.

Pirates of the Carribean-style hunt of a ghost ship, with the players becoming its crew with its old captain tagging along as advisor/bound power source.

I got as far as doing all the preliminary research, but it just never materialized.

Always wanted to do an incredible journey themed game.

Whole party are awakened animals who were friends of a druid in a small village. Each took a character class based on their species (cat who slept in the mage's tower became a wizard, the loyal dog became a paladin, the owl became a cleric, and the wolf and former animal companion of the druid became a druid, etc etc).

Then a fire hits the village, and the druid goes missing. The animals now must travel across creation to find him.
I got as far as planning a wolf pack who would have to be negotiated with for help or destroyed in self defense.

>>47728372
Write an angry e-mail to GW, tell be sure to take your concern to heart.

I don't understand the mindsset of someone who would play Age of Sigmar.

What is appealing about it?

>>47728372
GW still sell most of them under weird names like how dwarfs are now "Dispossessed" like:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-EU/Longbeards

But you should never buy GW stuff direct from them ever you can always get better prices elsewhere, like
http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/dwarfs/
or whatever


>>47729542
Sigmar is a more streamlined 40k with Fantasy trappings, it's only about as bad as 40k and plenty of people play that.

>>47727405

I don't exactly follow what you intend to do. First of all, are these guys supposed to be Loyalists, Traitors, or simple renegades?

If they're cut off from the rest of the Legion and particularly if they haven't campaigned with the Word Bearers, then it's definitely possible that they maintain a semblance of brotherhood and don't fall deeper into Chaos (otherwise they wouldn't survive very long alone).

The best course of action I can see would be to fluff them out as renegades or Blackshields (if you want to change the heraldry). Have them slip anchor and desert after the Dropsite Massacre, having seen first hand how fast their Legion and the Traitors are disintegrating.

Since they can't exactly run to the Imperium without falling under serious suspicion, they turn to piracy and raiding, perhaps even eventually carving out a chunk of the void for themselves as a base of operations.

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>>47727405
Either paint them as War Hounds, to signify they've cast off the World Eaters shackles on them, etc. or something like having them be led by a Librarian or somesuch. Blackshields, Loyalists, either could work.

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>>47727479
I think they would be anti-emperor as they want to be 'free' but not give up that freedom by serving chaos. So yeah some bros hanging out being pirates and shit would work
I'm not massively sure on what i want them to do so sorry for not explaining it well
I'm open to ideas
They could be trying to just pretend nothing changed (or be unaware of it) and keep heraldry etc
They could be trying to prove that their primarch was justified and keep up traditions like hatred of psykers and the nails
They could be trying to distance themselves from the heresy and abandon the nails and return to brotherhood and War hound traditions
I'm not sure which narrative i prefer
Which do y'all think is most relalistic or cool or whatever?