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Why would I be mad that the author of D&D 5e signed my player's handbook? It just increases any resale value the book has.

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>>47698269

Would depend on if it's with a pen or a marker. Also if any artwork is covered vs one of those extra blank pages that sometimes happen on print runs.

As far as game books go I can't remember the last time I've been in a FLGS.

How many of you folks still go to brick and mortar places to buy RPG books?

>>47698269
Quite. It means they didn't sign it for me, but for their own amusement.

We got a TPK because of a fucking sword
no, it wasn't a magical animated sword, neither it was wielded by the enemy, it was just really damn heavy

Playing a vampire game, one of the players insisted on trying to carry a huge-ass sword that was meant for characters with strenght 4, while he had strenght 2 only. The poor idiot pathetically dragging the sword with him was so funny that it made us fall prey to an ambush and got completely fucked over

>>47698178
This was caused mostly by stupidity on my end
>doing test game for JoJo /tg/ homebrew system
>version of the rules were sparse at best, so had to make a lot of calls myself, which lead to dumb results.
>two players are put into an arena and told to fight with their stands
>let's call them John and Ted
>at some point in the fight, Ted finds an extremely heavily reinforced door
>Ted decides to start ORAORAORAing the door
>decide the best way to resolve this is to have him roll against the door
>two crits and five minutes later, he almost has the door completely destroyed
>Ted goes for one more punch
>crit fail
>door rolls crit success
>ohfuck.jpg
>"Anon... What just happened?"
>"Well you see Ted, do you know the difference between plastic deformation and elastic deformation?"
>"Uhh... No?"
>"Neither does your character, one of the indentations you made while punching sprung back and smacked you in the face"
>his character gets flung away though several walls
>almost dead
>lands next to John's character
>manages to run away just long enough for the John to corner him
>John then proceeds to punch Ted in the dick until he dies

Needless to say, I don't let inanimate objects roll back anymore

>>47698178
>Playing Dungeon World
>Druid wants to fuck the ranger animal companion
>the ranger gets mad but cant do shit because the Druid transformed into a bear
>in the kobold lair a bunch of kobolds attack the druid, the ranger and his eagle want to take revenge so they attack and kill the druid
>The reaper says that if the Druid wants to live he is going to stay in the form of a mice until X condition
>as a mice a player grabs him and throws him away dying again
>The reaper tell him that now he cant talk
>a kobold eats him minutes later

>>47698126
>force org chart

Ouch... salt in a wound

Been really looking into anvil strike force lately. The idea of a tank and dread division arouses me.

>>47699056
Especially since the new FAQ that says you can buff Blessing of the Omnissiah to the point of being an auto-pass.

There are evil forces that want the clock to stop working. And a holy order of watchmakers repairing the damage they cause.

There's a race called Coggets living on Twilok at 9:12. The males are tall and fat, the females short and skinny to the point of looking emaciated by human standards. The males wear thick, rusted bronze armor covered in moving gears; the females wear a curved, thin strip of metal that covers their dainty bits, as if someone fashioned clothing out of springs.

They are not born there, but are instead grown as a slave race in the Ozymandius factory at 12:08. They are then sent to mine metal, mostly at the massive ore field of Twilok.

Nobody actually knows anything about the true creator of the universe. A creature existed in the darkness before everything else, but it did not know anything about itself or the world it saw suddenly come into existence. At some point, the creature shattered itself and the beings who collected the fragments became the current gods of the setting, who are given credit for making everything.

>>47696655
You can always incorporate environmental factors into the fight. Be it a big firepit, a geyser shooting steaming water, a poison cloud or lasers flying about a mad scientists lab. Give them a separate turn on the initiative roster.

Another alternative is to have multiple statlines for the Boss, and use each one for a different 'phase' of the fight. So as the boss gets beaten down he gets more desperate and stops casting magic and becomes more frantic, wielding a giant blade and trying to cleave the heroes apart, with different stats to represent that.

>>47696726
Ahhhhh. I never thought about incorporating environmental hazards. I like it.

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gb2 Arcadia

OWL- 4 points
BEAR- 4 points
TIGER- 0 points
WHALE- 0 points
LION- 0 points
ANTS- 0 points

>>47696364
I'm curious, what's a Tiger Ant like?

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>>47696335
uh-oh

>>47695783
Your friend was cheating. Cheating in points, cheating in game mechanics, and probably cheating in any way possible.

We didnt need a second thread about this. Learn the rules so you can call him on his bullshit. Because if what you said was true, your friend is a tremendous faggot.

>>47695959
Can I at least get an explanation? Don't get me wrong, I am learning the rules, but there's a lot of rules anon.

>>47695977
well... most of the others are right... the Stormlance Battle Demi-company DOES allow you to disembark from a rhino, shoot, then run/reembark if you end your run within 2" of the vehicle access point. Source: Angels of Death pg.58

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Me.
>playing tiefling like a succubus slutty
>not playing like a proper heir of Asmodeus, luring people into moral traps that could make any paladin "lol-u-fall"

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lets post pics

well this is where that one oc pose came from

>>47695100
Any pirate campaign worth its salt needs rum, lashes and sodomy (not necessarily in that order)

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>>47695194
>sodomy
>lashes
Ya just can't not shit up stuff with smuttery

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>>47694124

>On a ferry, going down a river towards a swamp town or whatever.

>Attacked by spider things that crawl up on the deck and corner the bard

>Rogue and I start hacking away, more spiders pop up.

>"You're outnumbered! You can't keep up this fight"

>Rogue is fine and I pop a healing potion. Continue to hack n' slash.

>'rescued' by one of the ferry goers. Joe, who proceeds to hit spiders with his eyes closed and one shot them.

>This NPC proceeds to follow us for this section of the campaign and continue to 'rescue' us when we're in 'trouble'

>>47695242
Forgot to mention that the big reveal was that he was basically a demigod in the game (custom system and setting, he was actually a dragon)

>>47695242
>>47695411
did you kill him?

>>47693786
She's a government/church secretary, possibly a liaison between the church and crown, the sole breadwinner for her household, and legitimately wants to keep her job.

>>47693786

Refuse to just deal with the cognitive dissonance of killing enemy combatants like they're not real people too. If your character is really a pure-hearted healer she probably wouldn't be too understanding of just killing the enemy because they're the enemy and even if they're obviously deserving maybe she's more focused on reforming than punishing them for their sins. Especially since the "evil" part of the government is probably the heads of the state and not the cops you'll be fighting along the way.

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>>47693786

Some ideas.

Make her pure-hearted and kind, but go the Charlie Brown route. She's genuinely a good person, but she's like that because she thinks she has to be, not necessarily because she wants to be. That's why she went off and learned healing arts, because she felt like it was the right thing to do and the world needed it. She's always thinking of other people first, even when deep down she just wants to act selfish like everyone else. Ideally, this would best manifest in a situation where she has to either put her life on the line and probably die for others, or have the chance to walk away scott free.

Give her some kind of mental issue relating to her job, or at least start her down that path. Paramedics/EMTs--IRL "healers"--have some of the highest rates of PTSD of any career. As a cleric who's focused on healing and attaching herself to adventurers, she's making a living to dealing with people on the worst days of the lives. That gets to someone. Have her start turning to her god(s), and be left wondering why if they're so great and kind they always let such awful things happens.

Put some kind of angle on her role as a cleric. I always liked clerics because they open themselves up as great paranormal investigators. By virtue of their job their surrounded with myth and lore about all kinds of weird ghosts and demons. Maybe even though she's a good person, she's obsessed with finding creepy stuff and it gets in the way of her better judgement.

Have her totally be unable to reconcile reality with Good vs Evil. She's not a smitebot, but she's monumentally confused by things like an Evil person being out in the daylight. After all, the Sun is your god, right? And it's a Good god. So how can Evil walk in his light? It doesn't make sense, guys.

And above all, above fucking all, don't do the basket case healslut shtick.

>>47693783
The whole "redeemed succubus" meme is pretty close, and equally as retarded.

>>47693783
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j81RVf3xeJ0
This shit right here.

>>47693874
He is a very civil anti-paladin isnt he?

>>47693595
Our group has mostly played d&d (4e & 5e), & I have experience running d&d for 3-4 people.

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Probably not the answer you wana hear, but...

Don't.

Seriously, after about 5 players, it becomes nearly impossible to keep everyone relevant and engaged with the plot, let alone keep gameplay progressing fast enough to keep it from it being a tedious slog where everyone sorta loses interest and stops paying attention until their own turn comes up.

>>47693699
I was thinking about breaking them into 2 groups. The only problem with that would be schedualing, but I guess it would be better?

>>47693175
Just treat him like you would yourself if you were a player.

Depends how bad his autism is.

The autism spectrum is very, very broad. Gauging what they have difficulty with is important. Also, don't let them get away with being an asshole just because they have a diagnosis. If they screw up or do something rude or offensive, gently explain to them exactly why it was wrong and ask them to avoid it in future. 'Gently gently' is a good way to start, although there's a point past which you need to call them on their shit.

I say this as someone with a diagnosis. I struggle a lot in social situations and have to work hard to keep the various rules and expectations in mind. When I screw up, I appreciate people telling me so I can try to improve, but I've met people in the past who attempt to use it as a catch all excuse to be a thoughtless dick and never have to improve.