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I've bought two for less than RRP on ebay, just open them already

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>>47318227
>I can't bring myself to open them

I can kinda sympathise. I couldn't bring myself to pay $90 for $6 worth of models - I'd feel like I was paying an $84 fine for being stupid.

Were you actually retarded enough to buy into the hype and shilling? Holy shit.

I'll start:
In a dystopian future at the heart of the sprawl, Henry Thomas is one of the shit-eating proletariat. His family driven to starvation and desperation by a lack of work, Henry signs onto a Corp human experimentation program, wavering away his rights.

As it turns out, the project is a proof-of-concept data set for the development and sale of biologically altered and cybernetically enhanced Private Military Contractors; to the highest bidder, of which there are many in the South African sprawl's vicinity.

After testing and modification equivalent to months of horrific torture of the body and psyche, Henry is given a new identification and a callsign: H4-NK ("Hank", as his technicians jokingly called him), or "Tempest".

Eventually sold off as a prototype, he finds himself in the care of one Dr. Plath, of Lazarus Enterprises. Henry's family is supposedly well compensated for his sacrifice, but Henry is now an owned piece of property; serve, or his family will pay.

With no other option, he follows Dr. Plath's every order. Interestingly, Dr. Plath does not seem interested in using him for traditional PMC duties; rather, Dr. Plath has some kind of a personal vendetta against the other PMCs which he intends on using H4-NK to aid in fulfilling... something about the Contractors in relation to Dr. Plath's daughter has him seeing red.

Dr. Plath receives a call. He turns to H4-NK and speaks; "It seems I have your first mission. Are you ready?"

"Anything for the cause, Doctor."

And so our adventure begins...

Song, as imagined during his sign-up and following genetic alterations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV1v6FmB4P0

After seeing so many horrors, wars, atrocities, and after taking countless lives (to the point where he has begun enjoying it, though he realizes how wrong that is and how evil he's become), the last immortal travels far and wide for literal ages, seeking only his own death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSkb0kDacjs

Any Only War campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJd0RTOW1Y

So alone

>>47317858
Yes, thank you for making a thread about the parody power metal you found.

>>47317873
No problem babe, I try to keep up with the times.

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>>47317858
>Playing a caster because you want ultimate power
>Not playing a caster because you want to be the naive inexperienced student character who secretly (or not so secretly) needs the rest of the party to keep from getting killed in terrible terrible ways by the first thing with actual experience and intent to kill.

Sorry, I thought "sapient" meant bipedal for some reason.

>>47317495
Astro-oats and multi-squats.

Duh

>>47317495
Centaurs might be omnivores or herbivores.
Dragons are carnivores.

>>47317259
I narrate it indirectly, but it sucks.

>>47317276
Yeah that quickly becomes "he says she says" for long conversations the pc'so might want to listen In on.

>>47317259
Summarize it in a couple of sentences, adding the PC's impressions of what is happening and their emotional reactions whenever possible or appropriate.

>"You turn around the corner and see Ratner and Atopia in a heated argument about the Malavine Gem. Ratner is almost apoplectic as he demands that Atopia destroy the jewel to aid in the rebel army's quest for legitimacy."
>point at player 1 who is somewhat charismatic
>"He comes off a bit rough and unhinged to you."
>"Atopia coolly rebuff's Ratner's demands and tries to rationally explain to him that the gemstone's political significance is of far more importance to the Satrapy Dukedoms than the rebels' trivial concerns, and that keeping the artifact preserved in amber by forest druids is the best way to harness its power."
>point at player 2 who has some Diplomacy skill
>"You have a feeling Atopia's been playing politics behind everyone's back after that exchange."

>>47316840
D20 is getting shelved?

and?

>>47316869
If only we could be so lucky.

>>47316707
Yeah

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>>47316725
I think you forgot the rest of your post.

>>47316707
>However i'm not entirely sure how the rep at my local store will take it
Have you thought about discussing it together like two mature human beings ?

>>47316503
The only particularly coherent group is the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints and their associated space empire.

The majority of the faiths in the setting are based on regional folklore and superstition.

I run a fantasy setting with cults to gods that actually exist as characters. No, we don't care about originality at all. Hail Gygax.

>>47316873
Regional folklore and superstition such as?

>>47316503
The not!church is giant worldwide operating organization, that actually doesn't hold much power over how rituals should be done and the gods should be worshipped. They represent the only true gods, a pantheon that in the former ages came down to earth, most of the time to fix something or save some races. Though you get a lot of freedom on how to worship god x in your tiny village, there may be a point when the local priest will contact one of the big ass centers of this not!church to investigate if you didn't got this all wrong. Because demons are fucking everywhere and you'll never know if this is just a disguise for something bad.

I can't say I do, because no one I play with is socially retarded enough to cause any issues. We've had the occasional salt at the table over a ruling, but nothing disruptive came of it.

>>47315767
>Does /tg/ have any interesting house rules that try to enforce civil behavior
What kind of shitty groups do you play with? Civil behavior shouldn't be enforced.

>List of rules
Aaaand I'm guessing you play D&D. There's a meme about not playing it, and I'm sure it would help you with your problems.

>>47315767
>house rules for civil behaviou

Nope, because I generally try to only play with people I know are decent.

KLAN.

ZOG FREEBOOTAZ!

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>47315697

KLAN CULLA IZ PURPLE!

WE IZ SNEAKY GITZ!

>>47315379

Gurps?

>>47315379
>My group is looking to start a game with a clear premise: the characters would begin as simple peasant scrubs with no skills and no significance, but through many years of adventure and hardship they would grow and advance into heroes and finally something a bit more than a regular mortal. Basically the longest possible character arc.

Please come back when your campaign dissolves after three sessions so i could tell you "I told you so".

>>47315379
Runequest, Burning Wheel

>>47315360
I can't say much for that, but as for lascannons.

What the fuck happen to this gem?

>>47315381
Well, Image doesn't upload but the storm tank with the rotatory lascannons.

>>47315360
Lascannons are overkill. Autocannons will do the job just as well for less points.

>>47314193
well, the nurture versus nature argument exists. It would end up being cheesy, but it helps if you make it the paladin or cleric due to the diametric opposition in alignments.

>>47314228
and unless you have a divyath fyr deal going on, its unlikely that there is a gender difference. On top of that, if you use multiple pcs as clones, they would have noticed the similarities.

>>47314193

If that's the BBEG I think my character would have noticed, being a human male and all.

>>47312326
GURPS. Build your characters with Dungeon Fantasy, then play Seals in Vietnam. Or just a generic TL 8 world.

>>47312326
Tribe 8 is based on the real world-falling-into-postapoca-fantasy, so that maybe works? It uses the Shilouette system.

>>47313329
Or just steal from Technomancer.

Exist.
Forever GMing sucks after a while.

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>>47311669
More magical realm

>>47311669
Better quality-control of the players he lets into his game.