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>>47572219
Because it appeals to casuals.

Because they were too lazy to make a not evil Lizard race, so we got Dragonborn.
>Same goes for tieflings.
Why though. It's literally the same thing as being a sorcerer, but with fiends, but your physiology changes.

What's your problem with it, anon? Is it just that its new? Because lizardmen have been a thing since for-fucking-ever.

>>47598230
"None of that should be possible," Vert muses, the older woman's voice sounding somewhat skeptical. You muffle a snort; oh, she ain't seen nothing yet. "But as long as Mojang and the rest are alright..."

"Exactly! Just- just sit tight, okay? Big sis is coming to help you!" Goddammit, you can't deal with the sheer good-heartedness gushing from Estelle right now. "No more splitting the party! We'll get our adventuring group up and running again!"

"Except for you, Lady Vert," Rokko interjects smoothly. You'll never get used to how /smooth/ her mental voice sounds without all that static gumming up her mechanical vocal chords or whatever. "It would be best if you stayed put. Leanbox needs you now, more than ever."'

"We'll see you in Planeptune, Urist!" Estelle chirrups, talking over Vert's protests. Before the connection cuts, you catch a bit of CPU Green Heart bellyaching about wanting to see her Mojang again.

... with a sigh, you lower the cellphone-slash-Key-Fragment monstrosity you'd been using to contact your friends. Right, well, at least you've got backup coming. Armok knows how long it'll take for them to get to Planeptune from Leanbox, but you can't help but feel a weight lift from your shoulders.

You turn to re-enter Neptune's room and nearly bump into Nepgear, who yelps and... just sort of hops out of the way, dodging you with ease. Sure, she was literally /just born/, but with that agility? She's definitely a freaking goddess.

"Oneechan!" The littlest Nep pokes her index fingers together, ignoring how that makes her ever-present immolating flames spark and sputter. "Sorry! I was trying to get your attention, but you were really wrapped up in your phone call, so..."

(Cont.)

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>>47598254
... shit, you can't even chew her out for standing so close behind you. Poor girl's got this aura of kicked puppy-ness or something. You shrug and look past her- where's everyone else?

"Um, oneechan and her friends left already," Nepgear replies, referring to her /literal/ big sister. "They're waiting down at the Sharicite node. So..."

It takes you a moment to process why she's holding her hand out to you. You blink at her big, guileless eyes before gingerly taking the taller girl's hand. Honestly, you're half-expecting the flames to leap over and turn you into a !!dwarf!!, but they're as harmless to you as they are to Nepgear.

Yeah, speaking of which- as you walk through the Planeptune Basilicom's halls, you take a moment to study Nepgear. It's surprisingly hard to get a read on the fledgling goddess; when she's not emoting insecurity or embarrassment or absolute horror, she tends to look... serenely cheerful, in a low-key sort of way. You don't know how much of that is because Nepgear is Nepgear, or because she's just too young to have a fully-formed personality. That little smile could be hiding anything.

Not for the first or last time, you pray desperately that Nepgear doesn't turn out anything like her big sister.

>CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
[ ] [NEPTUNE] Ask Nepgear's opinion of her big sister. Er, y'know, her actual literal big sister, not whatever-you-are to her.
[ ] [PLANEPTUNE] Ask Nepgear's opinion of her home country. She's one of the goddesses of this place, right? How's that working out?
[ ] [PLANS FOR THE FUTURE] What's Nepgear going to do once you get her synced to her country? She's not seriously thinking of coming back with you to the hyperdimensional void, right?
[ ] [ANSWER HER QUESTIONS] Nepgear's bound to have something on her mind, right? Offer to hear her out and answer her questions, now that you've got some temporary privacy.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>47598284
[ ] [PLANEPTUNE] Ask Nepgear's opinion of her home country. She's one of the goddesses of this place, right? How's that working out?

0-4

Creates holes, fills in holes.

You may use it to dig holes in reality.

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You can dig trenches in frontal lobes

The Pickaxe is the true and proper weapon of the Dwarf, being both tool and weapon fitting for their underground mining lifestyle.

Other than that it's pretty much down to personal taste.

>>47595684
This
War pick or mattock are true dwarf weapons

>>47595724
i guess. then again hammers are also quite useful for dwarves more interesting in smithing than mining.

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>>47593539
Gaft mutters something under his breath. It's clear that Wren is not one of his favorite person. You narrow your eyes at him and he shuts up and presses his cloth closer to his face.

"With or without you," Amelia says. "I'm going to help my countrymen."

"You should be focused on helping the world." Gaft says.

"I will kick you myself if you keep talking old man." Amelia snaps.

> We need to help Genesis, let's go to Naahma.
> Let's end this. We'll do a run at OLYMPUS.
> Ray's right, we should set up an ambush to rescue Wren.

>>47593565
>> Ray's right, we should set up an ambush to rescue Wren.

>>47593565
> Ray's right, we should set up an ambush to rescue Wren.

Thematically, they're all very animey. Heavy influence from JRPGs and such.

Mechanically, 90% use d6s only and they're often VERY gamey. Not necessarily crunchy, but very "rules centric" if it makes any sense, even the rules-light systems.

>>47587253
We have d20. They have SRS. Both are shit.

As for differences, it's rather difficult to evaluate, since only a scarce few JTRPGs have been translated.
From what I can tell, there is more of a focus on structured sessions, with less emphasis on player agency and more on everyone fulfilling a more or less predetermined role. So it's less about the "what" and more about the "how".

The JTRPGs we have are all very different, so it's hard to find any commonalities.

Tenra Bansho Zero has a very out-there setting, in-depth rules for various character archetypes and mechanics for going through an entire character arc in a single session.
Golden Sky Stories is diceless and eschews adventure completely in favor of solving little everyday problems in a quiet backwater Japanese town as animal spirits.
Ryuutama is another feelgood RPG. It's about regular travelers instead of adventurers and heroes and makes travelling just as dangerous as fighting a monster. Its special feature is a GM character with clearly defined ways of influencing the PCs' actions.
Make You Kingdom is a very game-y and wacky dungeon crawling game with Kingdom building elements. Rather formalized gameplay.
Maid RPG is... Maid RPG. It's a lot of madcap nonsense and never intended as a "serious" RPG.
Double Cross, Night Wizard and Log Horizon are all SRS games, if not in name, then in spirit. They each try to be different, but they all have poorly thought out rules, hyper-specialized characters and a power selection with plenty of repeats.

Not played most of these games, but I've read most of them.

Tenra Bansho Zero - Set up sort of like a kabuki drama and has an interesting thing that if you care "too much" about something, you go full on Darth Vader and turn to the Dark Side. So eventually, you're going to want to decide to "not care" about getting revenge on someone who killed your father. Meant to be OTT super anime awesome bullshit. I'm into the world, not so hot on the rules. One Shot did a game of this that's meant to be great.

Golden Sky Stories - I have a hard time thinking many people on /tg/ would be interested in playing this "properly". It's basically "My Neighbor Totoro: The Game". Probably great if your group was into anime and/or you might run games for kids and wanted something "safe".

Ryuutama - My personal favorite of the translated games. It's specifically created to help newbies learn to GM/play, so if you have friends who want to learn to GM or are turned off by your standard fantasy games, this would be a great one to introduce them to. Though it's "kid friendly", it's not a "kiddie" game. If you want to emulate something like Spice and Wolf, Final Fantasy (Crystal Chronicles and FFX are particularly on-point), or even Oregon Trail itself, this is perfect. The game is absolutely brutal in that sense. It's nicknamed "Miyazaki's Oregon Trail" for a reason. Even assuming you're not really into anime or JRPGs, it has no set-setting, so you and your group can build something more fitting of your taste - even if that ends up being grimdark.

Maid - Pure slapstick anime bullshit. (Lewd optional.) Random tables 5ever. Fun if you're in the mood for it, but it's generally KEK oneshot material. Pitch it as such.

Meikyuu Kingdom - Lots of random tables. Don't expect pure player agency, but if you don't mind the tables taking away your agency, it's somewhere between a parody dungeon crawl and a kingdom sim. Fun, but you have to know what you're getting into.

Tactical Marines are now 10 points each, for:
4 4 4 4 1 4 1 9 3+

What gun do they have, and what do you balance the other basic troops to?

>>47598002
Thats the stupidest idea Ive ever heard, unless you want to kill the game by the making the armies even bigger than they already are and we all know how that turned out for WHFB.

>>47598037
If you're rebalancing the entire game, it doesn't matter what points value you balance around. If ratios and rules stay the same, people will just play at lower points values.

>>47597903
Alright, I'm here. Let it begin while I work on the Rook.

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First, though, you have an extremely important decision to make, and I won't close this poll until the time comes to archive the session.

Soon, perhaps very soon, you are going to have the chance to play briefly as one of two women. These two are Red Siren and Clemmy. Whichever wins the poll will be the perspective character for some upcoming events...but be warned. The loser of that poll will be the antagonist when that happens, and just as you've seen these two people at their best, you can also see them at their worst. Both are good girls (for a given definition of "good") and both have sincere feelings for Roarke, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will like or be kind to each other.

http://www.strawpoll.me/10390803

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So Wong, Best MILF when?

>>47595246

Neutronium Golem.

>>47595246
Do you mean fantasy? Sci-fi? Actual historical golems? Physically strongest or most capable?

>>47595254
/thread

>>47595241

cont

BOSS FIGHT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC17mcFE1eA

Johnyy doright! 21,000,000 beli bounty, holder of the hade hade no mi, the loud loud fruit captain of the Rip solo pirates.

AND

Unknow woman, ????? bounty, Works under the lass family, and Bellary in particular. Rude.
_

A sea breeze flows past us, as we just keep on eying each other, waiting for our shot at the others.

But, I have Jack and Ochamu to back me up...but that would kind of ruin this duel right here...and they could help the other marines out. But then again, it would be a whole lot easier with them to have my back here.

I frown, as I put my back to the cracked fountain up the street, water spewing out of it. The sun just so happens to catch it just right, and makes a rainbow behind me.

What do I do?
[] Whistle for jack and ochamu 2d100
[] Team up with one of the other duelists to try and make this 1 v 1 2d100
[] Start firing, and running towards them 1d100
[] slide under the woman's legs and try to trip her 1d20+speed
[] AKUMU AKUMU NO SUMMONS 1d100
[] AKUMU AKUMU NO SHIELD 1d100
[] Fear forge a lasso 1d100
[] Devil's glare 1d100
[] AKUMU AKUMU NO LOCK 1d100
[] AKUMU AKUMU NO PRISON 1d100
[] Cover ajax's ears
[] get ready to parry 1d100
[]AKUMU AKUMU NO LOCK SHOT 1d100
[] Bounce a shot into one of their backs 1d100
[] Distract them by firing into the air 1d100
[] write in

>>47595241
yay time for a boss fight!
>[] Cover ajax's ears
>[] slide under the woman's legs and try to trip her 1d20+speed

Rolled 80 (1d100)

>>47595243
>[] AKUMU AKUMU NO SUMMONS 1d100

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Demons a shit. Djinn all the way

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>>47593767
Ma nigga.

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>>47593640

With magic

>>47593033
Without much success.

Drawing down the Moon.

>>47589885
THE ENEMY DOES NOT KNOW I INCINERATED HALF OF THEM!

>>47589885
No that's dumb.

>>47589885
Rule zero is written.

>>47579533
Do you think he'd ever break his ribs or spine so he can bend down & suck himself off?

>>47580190
You dare imply the loincloth of Sigvald the Magnificent is not already, and indeed always, sucking him off.

>>47579533
Slaanesh doesn't favour those with problems fucking, OP.