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>>47624572
Ok

Times change. All order is fleeting. Adapt or perish.

>>47624601

Not really. This shit is cyclical: The roaring 20s was the height of sexual freedom. Then there was WWII, and everything went back to normal. After that, there was the Summer of Love, which became the Autumn of Discontent and the Winter of Selling-Out Big Time.

We're just waiting for the next war.

I think getting down to subatomic particles is overbaking it. I've made that same mistake before, trying to overthink worldbuilding. I realized that players simply don't notice or care. Better to use broad genre conventions, even better, ask them what they want to make and fit their ideas into the world. If someone wants to play gun-alchemist, great. If not, then something else. But if you already make the world into Gun-Alchemy Land and the players have different ideas, they are going to be board and you run the risk of make cool Gun Alchemist DMNPCs and ignoring the players.

Not a bad mystic bullshit explanation. Not necessary, IMO, but if it's the sort of thing you and your group enjoy, go for it.

>>47624289
>electrons are spirits
>using this only to make black powder
Lame. Be a necromancer instead. talk to the spirits. enforce complete molecular control of matter, using your own power to catalyze chemical reactions.
Have a particularly difficult enemy to deal with? simply transmute all the oxygen in his lungs into ozone.
Lost in the woods without food? Find a stick, and transmute the cellulose of the wood into sucrose/starch.

If you have such a powerful control over the very laws of nature, why would you use them only to make guns?

>>47624283
The chances of getting shot by a lost bullet are affordable considering the superior tactical view you get sticking your head out. This is the IG, son.

There were actually small view ports in the cupola just so that in a serious firefight the commander could still have some vision. That's just our tanks though, IG might not care if the commander gets shot up a bit.

Raising your head out improves your awareness fucking lot because the view ports that vehicles have have small FoV. In combat situation it is not adviced because dead commander means dead tank. But you can open the hatch a little and peek out. Those gem like things on IG tank are the view ports btw

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Necrons are such bullshit, all of their army is designed to create tears, regular units can glance vehicles to death, glance a baneblade, and then there is that massive fucking thing with no flaws, I'm in the middle of an autistic sperg worth of Godzilla mid climax.

HOW can guard fight these smug fucks, pic related.

>>47623479

Use a Paladin Knight.

>>47623448

Judging by looks, it appears to be a pokeball.

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>>47623198
That Lindybeige is *full of* shit, rather.

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>and I'm also a audio-visual kind of learner

In that case I'd recommend some background music and a few books.

Alan Williams, The Sword and the Crucible
Alan William,s the Knight and the Blast Furnace
Edge & Paddock, Arms and Armor of the Medieval Knight
Oakeshott, The Archaeology of Weapons
Oakeshott, European Weapons and Armour
Hall, Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe
Waldman, Hafted Weapons in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Fiorate et.al, Blood Red Roses (somewhat whitewashed such, they don't like saying "massacred prisoners")
Capwell, Armour of the English Knight 1400-1450

Videos... sadly often not that great. Lindy certainly being one I don't care for. The Weapons the made Britain documentaries aren't terrible at least, maybe try looking for those. On the made of youtube side Tod Todeschini has some neat bits on crossbows at least, and TheRealGaldiatores have a few neat looking demo videos from the HEMA side of things. There's also this one that I've found rather interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMkGF3EqUjU

Lets get the ball rolling.
Tell us why Skallagrim, Schola Gladiatoria and Lindybeige are bad sources, along with any other youtube channels you feel the need to inform people of.

>>47623190
>Humans
The same as in the real world. Dishes differ from nation to nation / culture to culture.

>Elves
Either more refined as humans, or they are vegetarians, or living plants that can drive roots in the earth to "eat".

>Lizardmen
Purely carnivores, including bugs, insects and worms.

>Kobolds
Giant mushrooms, roots, and bugs.

>>47623190
I've been poking around OSR, but I'd like to hear some shitty opinions about it.

What's good about it? What sucks about it?
Is it even worth a shit?

>>47623783
I'll just repeat what I've said before...

D&D is a lingua franca that enables you to easily communicate with a lot of people. If you say "I made a new RPG, what do you think of it?" chances are not a lot of people are going to go through the trouble to read over it. And why would they? It's serious investment of time just to learn the basics of what you're doing, and that time may be wasted, as your system may suck or just not be the sort of thing the reader is into. But with D&D you have already have a foundation, so that people don't need to learn things from scratch. So you can present a game that's D&D except X, Y and Z. Everybody's up to speed on the D&D part, so they just need to examine X, Y and Z. And they have a pretty good basis for judging those things you changed or added because they know the context well and can be like "X seems a lot more powerful than the rules as written, and would probably make clerics too powerful."

Why old school D&D as opposed to new school? It's simpler and more base-level. This makes it easier to work with. It also has historical significance in that it underlies and informs newer editions of D&D. So ultimately it's a better universal tongue. Plus, it's dead and buried, at least in its official, commercial form. This means that the rules aren't changing underneath your feet and there's been enough time for us to have some perspective on it (and not be in the middle of edition war shit-flinging).

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>>47622888
A mysterious overly-American alien travelling from far into the cycles of the universe's incarnations appears and warns the party of a eldtritch horror waifu, a brilliant but criminally insane scientist, ego maniac, and galaxy wide merchant who is equivilant to space-walmart, and a Teen boy from CCC city who is currently being argued amongst the gods to be assinated before he can arise to godhood himself.

He basically warned us that we had inadvertandly antagonized a galactic civilization so old and organized that we would be forced to fight a losing battle for the next several decades before getting annihilated.

To that end he sent us to quest for a couple of Macguffins, a magic mirror for the space-jew, a legendary weapon made from the armor remains of the universes' most powerful hero of legend, and a hyper powerful fertility icon for the eldtrich horror waifu.

God help us she's got local terraformed moons teeming with unholy spawn. pls send help.

>>47622888
Heretek was experiementing with a fragment of Necron mind-upload tech.
He couldn't get it to work right, but his experiments needed bodies.
Lots and lots of bodies.

>>47623119
I have to ask: what system?

Coward: 100
Bully: 100
Cad: 100
Thief: 100

>>47622805
I'LL BE THE ROUNDABOUT

THE WORDS WILL MAKE YOU OUT 'N' OUT

YOU CHANGE THE DAY YOUR WAAAAY

Chapter of Blood ravens

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>>47622803
>Elf

DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>47622811
like this guy for example.

>>47622803
Its because elves in most setting tend to be spend all their time bitching about shit, expecting special treatment and being insufferably smug with nothing to be smug about.

And this often attracts a certain type of player and so all elf players get tarred with the same brush.

I've been in your situation before.

It gets better

But you gotta put in the effort

I'm 100% sure you're groups are cool with you. If they weren't, they'd make it obvious. It's probably just low self-esteem making you think everyone hates you when it's usually never the case

If you like tabletops see if there's a boardgame meetup group in your town. Check meetup.com, there's probably at least one group for an activity you like

Try to get some exercise in and eat well, drink lots of water and meditate. Look up CBT exercises and self help forums for folks to talk to for motivation

You will pull yourself out of that rut eventually. Just take it one day at a time.

As for me, im tired after pulling an all nighter. Having a smoke out in my backyard while browsing tg, drafting up a new rp group for some friends on my tablet and playing hearthstone on my phone.

Bout to go to sleep soonish i guess but if you need someone to talk to I'll be online later

Keep cool, man.

>>47622639


Do as this>>47622749
anon says.

Good sleep, food and exercise are what were most important for me, as well as a sleeping schedule.

4chan does not help with this.

I got a free pizza after a hard night of work and get to come home to my two dogs.

Could certainly be worse.

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Don't bother trying to salvage your old social life and ways.
Make a cooler one, a better one.
Change your name, treat yourself well, be outgoing, do make that move and chat to that guy/girl at the nearest bar. You have seemingly lost interest in your life, so why not do all the crazy stuff that you could not before. Nothing to lose, everything to gain.
But always remember this key phrase.
You have felt hardship and pain. This however has made you aware more of life. The world desperately needs people like you, wants people like you. You do not burden another when you talk to them, but impart valuable information of a different view of life.
Don't kill yourself, we need guys like you.

>>47622579
We only have the pdf in shitty cellphone format.

>>47622721
Yep, dunno why

>>47622730
I'm still grateful we still have some scananons that delivers, but even I wonder what happen.

Scans are delayed, come in strange formats and some never come alltogether.

I think we lost some of the old scananons.

>>47622182
Castle Panic

>>47622182
Settlers of Catan
Agricola
Ticket to Ride

I feel like it's not very popular (no real evidence) but I like Power Grid.

>>47621647
Would animal cruelty laws apply to humans in a campaign setting as they (humans) are animals, it seems like it would be playable with regard to regions.

>>47621708
Whats "it"? I'm a little confused.

>>47621647
Have you tried not playing D&D.

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>>47621633
>Star Wars setting
>Easy to mod
>Incredibly flexible
>No boring franchise game

StarORE

>free
>fast
>excellent

To appreciate what it can do you should have a look at Reign, A Dirty World, Better Angels, Wild Talents, Monsters and Other Childish Things, and the ORE Toolkit. But you can play out of the box, the mechanics are very easy.

You won't find better mechanics, or a game that scales and mods better than ORE. Fluff with anything you like, from OT to Rebels, and may I suggest the Ultimate Visual Guide?

Star Wars d20. Or Savage worlds with the sci-fi companion

>>47621633
the d6
FFG's Star wars RPGs
or >>47622029

Take any contract-binder devil and you'll be good.

>>47621609
Con-Dead
Dex-Dead
Wis-Dead
Hp-Ticklish

>>47621609
does DnD have a stat block for Mephistopheles?