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>>47497361
Let the half Orc fill the ship with rum

>>47497361
It's probably got to focus of mystery of treasure, uncharted waters where ghosts/mermaids try to lead them astray.
>Starting the players off as crew, then let them lead a mutiny against their cruel asshole captain and become the new leaders of the pirates.

>showing them how dickish the not-British-Empire is and making them want to sink the basterds.

>slamming filthy harbor prostitutes and getting into barfights with plenty of chandelier swinging and swashbuckling.

>massive seamonster that the players lose their first ship to, but eventually get revenge against when they upgrade to their newest ship.

>Read/listen to an audiobook of seafaring classics, my favorite is 'The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym,'

>rewatching PotC

>>47497361
Put on british accents
Bad guys speak in spanish
However you all speak in broken french.

You're interested in a hobby but worried you won't fit in because GW targets teenagers?

Lots of companies have a younger target audience. They do that so they can get them hooked at an early age and have them purchasing things sooner.

Remember that people who starting playing Warhammer and 40k in the late 80's and early 90's are older than the kids you saw in the store.

Talk to the manager sometime. Their job is getting people to purchase, paint, and play and they'll be able to get you started.

Also ask questions in 40k generals so you get more attention.
>>47497312

I wish my External Tech job payed decent, maybe I wouldnt feel so bad about spending money on Warhams. Im hoping it'll atleast look good on a resume and get me into a proper IT company.

>>47497338
Get out while you still can. It's called plasti-crack for a reason.

>>47497063
one thing I'm thinking of doing is having the parents put into stasis, and not slain. the would-be assassin will lift the curse if they gain magic items of power. the point of which is to make the party realize that their parents course of action is wrong and will actually doom the realms (hunting down all dragons, but the dragons are the only things holding back the Far Realm)

>>47497063
>3.5 gestalt

Well, there's your first problem. Don't do that, even without main casters it quickly becomes a bloated, overcomplicated and overpowered mess that honestly isn't worth the effort of keeping track of, unless you're a freak who jerks off to bookkeeping - at which point just get an accounting job.

>>47497106
as far as places they'll go. First I'm thinking if a jungle. Not one found on any map, but only found when one is lost... basically, it has 'openings' in every forest, and people who get lost in the woods can get stuck there.

while in there, all the creatures inhabiting it are clockwork constructs, because of the oozes and plants hunt down all living creatures (much to the dismay of the party).

they will find the creator of the clockwork creatures, and he'll be a jovial tinker (read; santa) with a shield golem protecting him. Come to find out, the golem is actually the tinker, and the fat man if his masterpiece.

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A darker green version of a Dark Angel, obviously from the 2011 SM Game.

>>47496683
Raptors might seem reasonable, but when you push them their fatalism prevents them from efficiently working with others, and can even lead to a nearly suicidal disregard for their own safety.

Which when you're talking about a resource as valuable as an Astartes, and in Kill Teams which require the Battle Brothers to know they have each other's backs, that's a pretty fucking big inconvenience.

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The blue kind of defeats the whole purpose of reconnaissance, but whatever...

>>47496615

Depends. The easiest way to make "less necessary" is to ask your players.

If they're cool with you just ditching maps, just be prepared to reiterate ranges and stuff should combats get complicated.

If they'd prefer you do maps, work on ways to simplify your drawing. A grid helps a lot, so the best I can say is 'be subtractive'. The fewer lines you have to draw, the fewer lines you need to erase.

Easy. Just don't do it.

Alternatives, make the players draw them. Give each one a setting before the session and make them do it. Would probably increase their connection to the game.

Go digital. There's 1000s of maps online. Print some. Or just download the pics. Put it on your phone /tablet/monitor/tv/projector. If it's just visual reference any of those are fine

>>47497139
Huh, I'd never thought of making them do it. I'd wanted them to contribute a bit more, next time they want to know something silly I'll just give them the marker. Thanks!

>>47496255
I don't care about the bag, show us more cat pictures

>>47496274
This desu

>>47496274

I second.

>>47496255

Fuck your walmart purchases, POST CAT.

>>47496227
deeper than your mum

>>47496227

Layered.

Mundane shit the players do might have ties to something deeper, but it's on the surface. There's a deeper history only hinted at that can be discovered, or read up in books, or investigated more thoroughly firsthand, and then really deep shit that starts getting metaphysical and surreal. Nearly all of it is copped from other literature and modified as needed in the moment most of the time because writing all this shit out beforehand would require either years of work of pre-cogniscience in order to write exactly what the player will run into.

>>47496227
All of the lore.

>>47495497
There is nothing wrong with giving it a shot.
If the group is actually worth a shit, you would be able to talk to at least the gm about your concerns.
However, there is a point where you need to accept that maybe your "red flags" is just something in your own head.

>>47495497
Yes. Just make sure you can safely bail (don't give them your primary email, prone number, or god forbid your address)

>>47495559
Thankfully this is a online group
>>47495532
>in your own head
I would love to follow this advice but... well.. lets see if you can point out what I'm worried about
>DM wants rolled stats (ugh)
>800 starting gold
>Other players post mythwavers links to characters
>Not one character has a stat lower then 15
>despite 800 starting gold, one player has 30 platinum pieces with a background story of them being a wounderer

>>47495463
Because no matter how shit one is, they will never be as shit as you.

Romulans started out as essentially refugees, probably took them a lot of that time just to establish decent infrastructure and grow the population enough to support getting back into space, by which time they have to relearn the whole thing from scratch.

Vulcans are disinclined towards technical advancement, exploration and generally indulging the spirit of curiosity and adventure. Romulans did plenty in the name of scientific advancement, but their priorities were political thus cloaking devices, memory-scourers, that crazy RC drone-ship, thalaron weapons and so on, technical superiority means nothing to them without superior intelligence means. They prefer the cloak and dagger over the noble cavalry charge as it were.

Objectively shit opinions.
Here's your (You).

>>47494892
>kill your parents.
>kill your parents.
>kill your parents.
>then, kill yourself.

>>47494928
How are they shit?
For a skirmish game it doesn't lend itself to small troop interactions (except heroes) since everything is priced like in warhammer and combat works in such a way getting through 3 dudes stabbing each other takes the same amount of time it does to get through a single larger combat in 40k.
True scale is tiny, flimsy, and just doesn't look good.
Everything is just wrong.

>>47494683
>The ring would cancel itself out, wouldn't it?
A ring of spell storing allows you to store a spell in it, then cast that spell out of it later. They're talking about storing an anti-magic field spell in a ring of spell storing... once cast, the anti-magic field would prevent you from casting anything else out of the ring of spell-storing until the anti-magic field ended, but it wouldn't cancel out the spell that had already been cast.

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>>47494683
My understanding of the ring of spell storing is that the spell is not active until it is cast.

It's possible for a high level fighter to beat a high level wizard, but canonically it's difficult because of the amount of thoughtfulness and planning involved in being an experienced wizard is far greater than that of being an experienced fighter.

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>>47494683
first off, i quickly searched up the rules for antimagic field on d20pfsrd, and they mention this:
>it prevents the functioning of any magic items or spells within its confines.

>Sorry, but last time I checked, magical items (sic - did you mean AMF or something?) don't turn off gear. They make them non-magical, but they all still be used.
what the fuck did you think he meant by 'turn off'?

>Do those even fucking exist? The ring would cancel itself out, wouldn't it?
they do, http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-spell-storing
it specifically lets you cast the spells as if you had them, but without spell components
the only problem is that it can only store 5 levels or less of spells - antimagic field is level 6 at the minimum, so it's not legal at all unless your DM fudges some stuff for you.

but assuming you managed to get AMF into a RoSS then you can cast it whenever you can spend a standard action, but THEN all your magical items become ordinary items until the spell wears off or you leave its area (but leaving the area is impossible since it's centered on the caster and follows them for the full duration) - so you won't be able to cast anything more from the RoSS, and you better hope you weren't using, say, a belt of giant's strength to help carry your gear

This has got to be some elaborate, determined bait

>>47494625
Seriously. How anyone could like PF after playing even a little bit of 5e is beyond me, but this is coming from a guy who almost got burned out on tabletop entirely by running a PF game (with a good group!) for two years.

>>47494677
Yeah, no. Pathfinder has huge holes in it, but it's skill system and combat is overall better imo.

>>47494473
Bump.

>>47494473
Talk to your gm
Not us
Him

>>47494723
Alright, that sounds pretty sound.

>>47494415
>A wageslave, working for a nondescript company, in a nondescript office, at a nondescript cubicle.

>>47494605
Sorry, moved to qst. Just realized there was a board for these.

>>47494725
yeah, or not. Turns out /qst/ is a ghost town, so i'll just be posting here.

>A wageslave, working for a nondescript company, in a nondescript office, at a nondescript cubicle.
I mean, it could be worse, after all. At least you’ve got a job, unlike those vagabonds you see in the alleyways and the scrapyards around town. You’ve got a decent amount of money saved up, and that promotion you just got is pretty nice. That being said, things are just...boring. You’re friendly with your coworkers, but you can’t exactly rely on them if you need help. They’ve got to look out for themselves, after all… Screw them, anyways. One of these days, with a little luck, you’ll be the one signing their paychecks. Speaking of which, what’s your name?