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>>47512772
Without TTS I couldn't ever have played KDM or Cthulhu wars. It also helps if you want to get into reviewing games on a budget. This has been the best way to try before you buy for me and play old games that are out of print. The downsides are the learning curve and some games are inferior without the physicality.

>>47513263

I'd also add that it's tough to get to play more obscure stuff, because the casual player doesn't want to play a 2-3 hour games.

Finding someone to play Tikal was hard, I'll tell you that much.

>>47512772
Has anyone tried 40k on it? I know there were some mods that ripped DoW models for pieces, but that's about it.

>>47512019

A world where the pure Empire of Man (White) constantly mans a wall against the subhumans.

>>47512059

Its name: Trumpvania.

The most generic fantasy world ever. Knights fighting dragons, goblins, zombies, etc. Mostly creatures, a few equipments (equippable only to humans), some tribal instants/sorceries (that can only be cast if you have an appropriately-typed creature), no enchantments, no magic. No races other than humans and the 4-6 monster types. No multicolored cards. Avaricious Dragon and Fiendslayer Paladin are the duel deck cover cards.

Imagine how fun the drafts would be.

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"My, my, it's been awhile," Marduk remarks at the sight of Dyrus and Belle. "I didn't realize you two were acquainted. Small world, huh?"

"...hello, Marduk." Belle responds, rather tersely.

"Hear you two were around Rene awhile," the eldest wyvern-riding sibling says. "She mad at me?"

"Enough to lash out at Omar a little," Dyrus responds.

"I see..." Marduk shuts his eyes. "Understandable after I literally put a spear in her back, I guess... No turning back now, though. Know I wouldn't for the world..."

Samson, meanwhile, continues doing as he has been doing: doubting himself and his worthiness as a commander. Still, though, he's set to meet up with Adelais Dory. "Play nice" with her certainly means his fleet will be turned over to her in all but name, and he still has no idea what to expect out of her as a person.

You are now Samson, set to arrive at Eyve Island, an isle about as far Southeast from Briggid Island as one can get without being considered outside of the subregion, in a few short hours.

For your father, you tell yourself, for your father...

Fabrice is keeping to himself belowdecks, planning plans, Edwyg and Dinah are training together, and Adam is regaling Millie and Norman with a seafaring anecdote.

>A. Talk to a party member (specify)
>B. Skip to arrival

>>47511933
>A. Talk to a party member (Fabrice)

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>>47512061
You seek out Fabrice, figuring you could stand to either brainstorm or act as a sounding board for his ideas, whichever works out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83X7HGHIGWU

"Ah, Samson," he says, "hold a moment, I just need to reapply my face... I said don't come in!" He glares, in the midst of applying something or another before a hand-mirror. At a table below him is a map of the Coastal region at large, coupled with one of the Briggid subregion. Tiny flags, pins, markings made in some sort of makeup or another...

"Relax, man, I've seen you in prison locked away from all your pretty-making things," you say, a bit snappier than you might have intended. "Now, I'm here to talk longterm plans, not bother you about-" Your eyes widen as you finally become aware of the aroma of some very strong perfume. "Gods, man, these ships have windows!"

"Sorry, sorry... I did warn you not to just barge in when I'm not yet beautiful."

"Can we move past this now? Alright, cool, what're you puzzling out here?"

"Merely weighing out the pros and cons of this little... Venture you've set us on. Setting my biases for getting onto the mainland quickly, we need to anticipate just how long Oswald Dory intends to hold his hostage. Certainly, the earliest will be the signing of Hera's death warrant, but he may improvise any number of reasons to prolong Lazare's involuntary visit..."

>A. Not much you can do if that happens
>B. You won't let him squeeze more demands out
>C. What would [Fabrice] have us do about it, huh?!
>D. Write-in response
>E. ...

>>47511465
That REALLY depends on the culture, society, their wealth, and the fertility of their land.

What you should ultimately be looking at is professional warriors, and how many men are required to serve their lords in militias.

>>47511511
Thats what I have been trying to find, but lots of different sources differ vastly, what do you use in your games as a general rule?

>>47511536
Go by the fluff and what works for the narrative you're trying to tell.

Bamp

>>47511448
What is this?

>>47511758
looks like Age of Empires with better graphics
Wololooo

>>47511213
Shadowborn apostle

>>47511213
B/W allies deck with lots of ETB effects on low cost creatures? Suicide attack with them, opponent can either take the damage, or block them and have to decide if he wants to deal with their ETB effects next turn or pay the 3 life so they don't come back?

>>47511213
Try it in Martyr Proc.

Nah, just a dwarf.

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>>47511198
What would you even need such a thing for?

>>47511198
I chuckled way to much upon seeing these words and that picture...

>>47510778
They noticed how shitty japanese trpgs are and moved on to Pathfinder, a real trpg.

No clue, but I've been itching to read it ever since I heard about it through Quick Start!

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>>47510778
There's a work in progress (see pdf attached).

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>>47510634
I have to say, killing blow for 2 points on troops is a bit too strong, nor really even imposed by fluff.

Malal represents infighting and in a certain way creeping all-consuming fear (considering its choice for the types of daemons), or at least this is what I'm led to think.

So, why don't play with the possibility of malal's mark to give a leadership related rule? something involving terror? or perhaps negation of ranks bonus or to stay more in line with the suggested rule:
>mind-creeper: unsaved close combat attacks from a model with this rule that rolled a 6 to wound count twice for the purpose of combat resolution.
it is not much but can provide an edge without being too relevant, especially against daemons now that I think abut it

>>47510634
Bumping for interest.

Also what would Beastmen of Malal look like? What kind of bonuses would they get?

>>47512703
Let's see, what's a really nihilistic and untaken animal

Maybe hyenas

>>47509910
>How much work do you put into describing the results of attacks and actions?
I describe carefully only things that are important, cool or noticeable in other way.

Killing a creature, a lucky shot, maybe some action with a recently find new weapons/power, etc.

>>47509910
I fucking hate being a forever GM we played another players campaign for a whole 20 minutes before it was so fucking terrible that we went back to me GMing its so fucking shitty that we stopped playing all together after I ran like 7 campaigns in a row and was so fucking tired of it.

who can relate

>>47510285
I feel for you, Anon. I've been pretty much the go-to GM of my group since just after high school. It got to the point where I was running 3 campaigns simultaneously and was burning out on all of them. One of my players is a great ST/GM and we always enjoy his campaigns, but it got to the point where I had to almost blackmail him to actually get him to run. Sure enough after he started he enjoyed it and made a good campaign. Though I still feel like a shitter for pushing it on him. But I can finally play as well as run.

>>47509621
"So, they know about the hole, though it IS a tad bit hard to MISS it when a gout of fire and molten rock suddenly bursts through a rock-face. . .Can anyone here use invisibility magic?"

Welcome back, Chem!

>>47509715
I have no bloody idea how this household managed to chew through the satellites data cap in one week, but they managed it. Last month was suffering.

>>47509927
Well, fuck. Sounds like it.

>>47509067
>TL;DR
>but do you actually play, anon?
No, because college + fulltime job + some family shit. I get to shitpost on /tg/ every once in a while and that's it, presumably for the next two years.

Yes. I run a 3.5 game every tuesday and play in a 5e game when everyone manages to get together.

I got lucky enough to have 2 friends that really enjoy tabletop and stay up late as fuck.

The other 2 refuse to use roll20 so we only play every so often.

>>47508949
>As We gear up for the release of v2.5, we wanted to share some of the thoughts that went into it v2.5 with our community. Our Dragon Ball Z RPG isn't just a combat simulator, like other imitators, it is a revolving system with more than just smashing bad guys. We felt, players shouldn't have to pretend when it came to non-combat skills and situation. Intelligence and other like minds aptitudes should be just as important as Strength and Stamina. Right?! Dragon Ball Z is about something other than fighting. DBZ is about the adventure, the story, friendship and family. Our aim is to bring those aspects to v2.5

>>47508960
On one hand, they're right. You got people like Bulma and Briefs who were fucking geniuses that contributed more than half the fighters. On the other, they got tangled up in things before by trying to expand on DB. Like status effects, equipment, and the breakdown for alien species.

Overall, I'm just not a big fan of their style, but don't wish them any ill.

>>47509086
I understand their intent but I feel it is somewhat superfluous. Wanting to adventure in the DB world sounds great, but you have to bear in mind that not only does it literally have predatory dinosaurs and saber toothed tigers and shit, it also has hostile aliens that show up ALL THE TIME.

Even in DB, having a skillset isn't nearly as important as being strong: just ask chiaotzu or krillin.

Their goal is to let the fights happen in the background while that guy wants to rp as gohan "making really good grades".

>I was thinking about Succubi becoming like manipulators and spies due to their supernatural abilities

They actually do perform this role in the Planescape/D&D setting, mostly because their ability to disguise themselves is rarely surpassed anywhere except at much higher levels thanks to their obscene charisma score. That, and they tend to be terrible at direct combat, so they wind up having to fulfill alternate roles.

Personally though, I would like to see more succubi that transform into legitimate physical threats, rather than just ladies with demon bits whose main ability is magical compulsion. Succubi, or succubi-like demons, that actually turn into monsters worth fighting (rather than breaking like pinatas once their trick is revealed and the proper defenses are taken), would be far more useful and versatile to me as a GM.

>>47508731
>How to expand on a Succubus?

Happily and multiple times.

>>47508982
As in the rip'n'tear variety?

Agreed, and their war-forms should be as powerful as they are monstrous and only used as a final resolve when anything brains-related ceases to work or simply won't work at all.

Also would add that since Succubi would enjoy manipulating people's desires and look attractive for that, then they wouldn't like turning into a scary close-combat monster and do so only when everything else fails.

Angels are positive energy plane elementals that generally appear as shimmering, variegated geometric forms and shoot lasers.

Angels are manifestations of the thoughts of God. Despite seeming like independent beings, they're really fragments of a greater whole. A conflict between Angels is an internal disagreement in the mind of God, an entity so vast and complex its existence, through the lens of our world, can only be glimpsed in fragments.

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>>47508668
Sacred homunculi used like tools.

One such sacred church has an ezekiel's wheel style one that was sent by their deity with it's wings ripped out, eternally dribbling blood that the church uses to heal the sick and wounded. It's in their basement.

The angels aren't really intellegent in the same way as a person, and are much more akin to divine semi-organic robots, with very basic minds that are designed for obedience. The one in the basement of this church was commanded to fufill this task, and though it does so dutifully, it has been chained in agony for so long that it has steadily grown an atavistic response, and hopefully when the party encounters it and releases or allows it to become released, they're going to have to put it down like a rabid dog.

I want to heavily imply that the angels are essentially the domesticated version of "alien" races that exist outside the known world.