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>The societies conspire together under the overall leadership of the Dwarven society, which is led by a cousin of the Dwarven High King.
>After decades of plotting, the societies succeed in engineering a plot by which they manage to lure all of the Highlords, except for the High King himself, to a meeting, at which they are all assassinated.
>This means that the only true Dracovorian remaining is the High King himself, said to be the most powerful of them all, locked away in the deepest vaults of the Dwarven capitol, atop his throne carved from the skull of the once dragon king, in possession of the dragon king's heart.

>The other races are aware of this situation, the societies having sent their agents to spread the news of the assassinations throughout the lands

>Still none of them are yet willing to move openly against the High King, knowing that should he eat the heart, he would surely destroy them all in the year before his eventual death.

>Think of it as a sort of fantasy nuclear stand off mutually assured destruction situation

This would be the point at which the players in this world enter the story.

Do people think this sounds retarded?
Suggestions are welcome also, if people have any cool ideas of things they think might be good to add to the sort of framework of the setting?

Any advice would also be welcome, like if I'm leaning too heavily on bad tropes or anything like that, or if its too cookie cutter
Le bump

>>47516971
The original games had a good setting, though I only really remember the first two - and the first one was the good one. Just difficult ancient structures, traps, sand monsters, and big tittied supernatural bitches.

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>>47516971
Especially the 2008 reboot.

It was pretty shitty gameplay-wise, but it flawlessly captured the spirit of a fairytale that Prince of Persia always was about, and the setting was fun. Shame Ubisoft canned PoP franchise and switched to soulless Assassin's Creed yearly releases.

Even more funny is that they tried to replicate the success of the Sands of Time trilogy by releasing the Forgotten Sands, and the only acceptable version of Forgotten Sands ended up to be the Wii one.

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I'm always in favor of fantasical Arabian Nights style settings.

>>47516714
>Those empire soldiers.
It sucks that it's not possible to upgrade Empire soldiers from unarmored all the way to heavy armor. Is this official artwork?

Chaos specifically would still be a big challenge for Imp despite the technology differences, because Imps are still very prone to corruption

So probably several chapters/hundreds of thousands of Guardsmen

>>47516714
Very few. Chaos in Fantasy is an entirely different animal to that in 40k, and isn't nearly as corrupting or freely powerful. Chaos really doesn't have any defense besides extremely powerful wizards of Tzeentch if Guardsmen bring out the artillery.

>>47516648
I'm just gonna say Barbarians of Lemuria. Not because I think what it's what you're looking for but because I can't help you in any way other than just bumping your thread since it's almost gone.

>>47516648
DCC RPG because they're releasing a Lankhmar box set with modifications to the rules to make it more Lankhmar-y. (standard DCC Magic is already pretty dangerous and Spellburn + Patrons means it's highly likely for magic-users to become monstrous)

Otherwise i'd probably say Crypts & Things (Remastered version coming up) or Savage Worlds: Lankhmar.

>>47516648
If you really want to drive home the nighmarishness of the monsters i'd say exalted. One of the best games for super powerful monster stuff. Though at this point only core is out so it requires more homebrew work

You sound beta OP

>>47516360
Sounds like that guy has game, and you're just pissed you didn't get some. If she didn't like the rape jokes, she would have said something. Let it go and enjoy the game. You do remember its a game, right?

>>47516360
Well I won't say you're beta but I also won't say both of em were dicks.
You thought the rape jokes were inappropriate and said something about it, that's all that matters m8. At least you got it cleared up that she's fine with the jokes.

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>>47515906

>>47515906
The southern Devil
The one who appears to trade your soul for something.

>>47515906
GOD, THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY GHOST.

>Ready for the (yous) of salty heathens and pagans.

>>47515529
the cutest pic in the DMG

>>47515379
0 in all stats.

100%

Size/Type: Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 5d10+25 (52 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 15 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/+14
Attack: Claw +9 melee (1d6+5)
Full Attack: 2 claws +9 melee (1d6+5) and bite +4 melee (1d8+2)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Improved grab
Special Qualities: Scent
Saves: Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +2
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 12, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills: Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness, Track
Environment: Temperate forests
Organization: Solitary, pair, or pack (3-8)
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 6-8 HD (Large); 9-15 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —

'Ere we go Burva!

With the other creation thread going, doesn't seem there's much interest here. Ah well.

Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d3)

>>47515289

He a good boy

>>47515184
It was clearly in self defence

>>47515184

Magnus was the one wearing a psychic hoody. He's the one you should be looking at.

>>47514734
I feel you are completely in the right and applaud you for being sensible. There are somethings you can fudge as a DM, but never, ever go against the rules of a class ability. That is literally taking toys away from the player and it is never fun.

>>47515495
My biggest grip was the retconning player decisions but the ignoring player actions also got me.

The last example of this was when a player used color spray on an human thug that attacked up. He said that he was not going to roll the thugs saving throw and just ignored the spell effects. This was pretty low level and the character was not exactly a combat monster and was in an ambush.

Years ago, we were playing a 3.5 game in the abyss and threw a pretty serious fight at us. After the battle, I started using wands to heal the party and he ruled that they no longer worked, telling us the plane was draining power from magic items, but not casters. I started using heal spells and he said I suddenly lost 3/4 of my spells.

This caused me to quit his game years ago, with neither of us handling the argument afterwards very well. I am feeling like I am about completely done with this on the new go around and I might just stop playing under him at all. Just feel like it would cause some form of drama or a complete group split due to the groups composition and lack of anyone else to invite to sessions as we live in a mountain community.

Would you actually be in the wrong? No.

Would you be practically in the wrong as far as the group is concerned? Maybe, depends on how much any of the other players agree with you and want to square up to the GM.

>>47513917
Let's see how long it takes everyone to notice what's wrong with pic related, OP...I noticed it almost immediately.

>>47513953
pls tell, I'm not good at searching pictures

>>47513917
HP is an abstraction. HP was always an abstraction. HP will always be an abstraction. That means hitting 0 HP can represent anything from the last blow that finally brings down the wounded ogre, the PC's hammering on the dragons thick scaley hide until they get lucky and finally find it's weakspot, or the duelists luck finally running out and taking a blade through the chest. It is purely limited by your lack of imagination. This is why so many people complain about it, because they're autistic shitters who need everything handed to them

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>>47513672
Pretend to be a pilgrim, visit some shrines, hope they have food, then go from there.

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>>47513672

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>>47513779

>>47513137
Long history of mutual aggression.

Xenophobia on both ends, although one's out of declared superiority and the other's more pure anti-alien zealotry.

The Eldar ain't saints and suffer not the alien to live.

Maybe the Nids will change it, fuck it, in the face of the nids i feel like they could maybe even convince the Orks to go after the "stabby gitz", but that's then and this is now.

>>47513137
Generally, the Eldar believe the Humans are them in reverse, where the Eldar gods had a steady incline to a fast death, to the GEoM having a massive start and now a slow decay. They're more or less thinking along the lines that Humans are (relatively) soon to end, and that they'll last longer on their own. They also think of the Tau and Humans as little more than meddlesome children.

Humans, on the other hand, have the exact opposite view, thinking they're soon to be rulers of the galaxy, and that xenos 'helping' them would just be acts of begging for mercy.

Tau are even more hardcore than both on this matter, as humans and Eldar tend to look down on the Greater Good.

>>47513137
The cheekguards make Satsuki look kinda chubby there.