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>>55396318
Well, they wanted to know what would happen if the wizardhobos were at max power at the beginning.
Turns out some spectacular things happen like accidental planeswalking and the occasional maurgarite pandemonium.

Of course, I don't expect you to see the genius in GAME COMPANY's decision to do that.
Scream Wizards is almost perfect now.

>>55396437
Being MAX POWER at the beginning was a mistake. Now they've effectively made a power cap, and breaking it would send the entire community into a frenzy. They're basically guaranteed to fail really hard sometime soon.

Also, can we discuss the Coswald Shipmaster? Why is he so fucking dull and mediocre in power but has such a sweet model?

>>55396318
Dude they brought their hit die down to a d3. That's good enough payment for the buff and then some. Scream wizards should be at least as strong as bloodragers after 5th level...

>>55396267
>and not an attempt to be brooding and edgy
Brooding and edgy doesn't exclude being tragic.

>>55396359
True, but bad tragic backstories are sometimes used as a cheap attempt to make a character "deep" by giving them a reason to act like a sulking teenager or an iredeemable edgelord
You know what i meant fucknuts

Speaking as a DM of... I want to say 13 years, now? Difference is context and execution.

I've seen good and bad backgrounds use some of the same events (usually a victim of fate, chance, a parent, life, etc.), with my acceptability of them varying on how they've fit into the narrative of the character, and then how they're handled in-game. I'll try my best to explain with two different sort of tragic elements.

>Player Character is an orphan, because abandonment
I mostly see this background with characters trying to be some sort of "I'm alone in this world, and I can only trust myself" mentality. Many have used this one singular element to define appearance, behavior, and interactions with other players. They're not playing, say, Olefeir the Blade for example. They're playing a victim who has a knife. This is the narrative aspect of why this is bad.

But in execution, Victim will be making attempts at roleplaying by actively being foreboding, describe their actions to a very redundant degree, and interaction with other players is strained at best. It would be like watching stereotype of hot topic kid circa 2007 LARP their DeviantArt OC. Bad execution isn't necessarily a role player who could use improvement, bad execution is trying to role play how unique and special the character you've made is.

But on the flip side, I have had players who have had that same background element, but used it as an element, rather than as the entirety of the background. The child who ran away from home and was found by an elderly woodsman in the forest, who took up the same practice. The child who was left at the door of a church, and grew to be one of the most devout and helpful healers of the faith. The child who was left behind by his parents and had to hone his performances to get by, becoming a talented and beloved local bard. In all of these, including Victim with a knife, they are abandoned and have to rapidly grow up. But unlike Victim, it's not the defining aspect.

>>55393325
This implies I had a plan to begin with.

I often do campaign things entirely for the lulz and then use what the players came up with.

>>55393325
He threw an army of androids at us.

I summoned monsters that eat metal, exclusively.

Convincing your GM to let you outsmart them is still outsmarting them.

FIRST FOR CHAOS

>>55392206
did something happen with slaanesh?

>>55392251
He was briefly retconned out of existence.
But she got better since.

>>55391141
Pic related is a decent card in Inalla.

My first deck was a no-format U/B counterspell deck that topped out into Harbor Serpent. It was awful but I loved it.

MtG wasn't my first card game rodeo so my first deck was a rakdos aggro in RTR/THS that won a GP and costed around 50 dollars including shocks.

That UR precon with Scornful Egotist.

>>55389060
Sounds like you just need to start playing hearthstone if you hate the lands aspect so much of magic.
That being said, I feel like its vanguard 2.0 where it'll be popular for a bit then die to the "new hawtness" of tcgs

>>55389060
It's a really fun game, and the biggest cancer rotated out of New Frontiers (Standard). Plus, you're less likely to deal with elitists.

>>55389095
Hearthstone's a bit TOO simplistic due to lack of coloured mana.

I've played Yu-Gi-Oh and while Link Format is a breath of fresh air in that it slows down the game and makes OTK's harder to do, it can't undo the years of fuckery Konami has done to the game.

>>55388982
Giant sea serpents are vital to the global fishing economy

There is no Iron in the entire world.

>>55388982
Cats are made of glass.

Well anon, sadly we are a small minority, I'm sure plenty of people on the internet will agree with you but magic has become more and more about mainstream appeal. I mean take the gatewatch story and the upcoming magic movie. You think they care what the oldfags think? No, because you'll keep buying your cardboard crack.

>Want the old art with the new border

Where does that put me?

Isn't new lightning bolt also hand painted?

a little shameless self bump

>>55387499
I like the sound of this as a thread. It can be hard thinking up one-liners. I've been doing a great deal of this lately, as the party in my game has a hype-man/helper of sorts named Jeremy. He's a gay badger-man Bard/Barbarian multi-class with a Bronx accent, and serves as meat-wall, heal-bot, and buff guy. I try to break it down by what he's doing with his words.

A buff spell gets cutesy quips and limericks:
>"My favorite renewable source of energy is man-power!"

For Bardic Music, I pick thematically-appropriate songs I know that I can quickly convert to be setting appropriate on-the-fly.
>Favorites of mine and the group's include Freebird, Turn The Page, We Will Rock You, generally stadium rock favorites are what he goes for
>My table gets into it and joins in most times

>Playing DH1
>Crazy Slaanesh Cultist pulls grenade out of my characters hand
>''FINE! I ONLY WANTED THE PIN ANYWAY!''

>>55384068
>How do you feel about Roleplaying games becoming pop culture?
It'll go the same way as videogames, so prepare your fucking anus for /v/'s dick.

>>55384087
I kinda like the video game scene right now. Autists screeching around in their teens buying EA 'n shit, hipsters in their twenties having their own, slightly more expensive games and the 30+ crowd has a full library of their favorite systems library from one to two generations ago.

Replace EA with D&D5, hipster games with Pathfinder and favorite system with oWoD, Cthulhu and aD&D

>>55384153
Great comparison, thanks for reminding me why I want to stab my friend every time he discovers some new piece of Steam-powered crap and tries to goad me into playing it.

>>55381174
Are there rules for having other wizards join in a magic ritual? Do those Wizards also have to fit the Magic Level, Arcane Language and other restrictions? Is each one individually affected by Tzeentch's curse or are all of them affected?

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Was CL Werner the best Fantasy writer?

>>55381174

I'M
FUCKING
BACK
LADS

Emigrated, haven't had internet for 6 weeks. What have I missed.

Also, I've seen those bloomers before.

I am in the process of coming up with one. He is based on a guy I work with who fucks or fumbles mostly everything he touches. On the occasion that he does get something right, he takes a really long time to do it. I have nicknamed him Dingus Fingers, because it's like he has penises instead of fingers.

>>55380728

Theon is one of my favorite fantasy characters. It's clear that he's just an experiment by GRRM to make a character absolutely irredeemably hateable and then test to see how much he needs to punish him before the reader is forced to feel pity.

>>55380874
So the experiment was a double failure?

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>>55378211
Technically you can play him, but it would be cool to have a fps or strategy experience as a psyker, especially with his voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpmiq8sTH0k

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>>55378211

>>55378211

So you want to play a fat ugly bitch whose only 1 step away from being a SJW?

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Why isn't the unknown ranger nearly as auto-include as a veteran Kazak? I know SSL2 is amazing but does that outweigh chain of command or a molotok specialist so much?

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Asawira is full of shit.

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>>55355569

So basically what you're saying is Fatties exist in the Infinity-verse.

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>>55355813
I want at least one playable robot. Not fucking androids, because those are actually bioroids - I want straight up mechanized individuals.

How do I Raiden, The Rain Transformed?

I'm having a bit of trouble coming up with a character for an upcoming Starfinder game, maybe once the book with all the new races comes out I'll get more inspiration, but for now I was thinking of porting one of my old Pathfinder characters with the story reason being that he was basically Han Solo'd in Carbonite for however long it's been since it became the future.

The problem there is that mah boi was a Dex-based Catfolk Paladin, and unfortunately from what I've researched there aren't many options in the new classes for me to properly replicate that kind of thing, so obviously the next best thing would be to port the Paladin class. Only problem THERE is that Paladin's numbers are waaay out of sync with what Starfinder tries to do, and the Starfarer's Companion book didn't exactly impress my DM.

Any suggestions or should I just scrap the idea and try to move on to something else?