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Couldn't even drop him to P&S 16?

He actually needed to keep P&S18 and 5 focus in an army with shitloads of access to Dark Shroud?

>>47315327
He wasn't even too strong before and they nerfed him significantly in many ways, so no more upkeep casting, his healing is significanty weaker, he can't get souls.

>>47315327
Because 23 points for P+S16 would be garbage

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>>47311557
>My character is a potato given sentience from all the magical radiation we released at the end of our last campaign
>Also he found a green dragon egg and thought it was a big green potato and kept it and hatched it and now he has a green dragon as a pet

This is a genuine character one player tried to pitch to me. I vetoed that shit instantly.

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>>47311749
>"okay. My dude, he like, has two chains on his arms'
>riiiight.
>"And he can, like, whip people with them. Grab them with the end of the chain"
>kaaaaay
>"..."
>and what his name? Who is he? Why does he have chains?
>"I dunno. I just thought it was cool"
>facepalm

OP, just offhand, what do you imagine having friends and playing RPGs with them is like? Genuinely curious.

>>47305654
I can't even imagine it.

Sometimes, late at night, after I've finished working on my campaign that no one will ever play, I gaze solemnly out the window of my mom's basement, and think how great it would be to actually have people to play with...

>>47305614
>>Being Forever GM for so long, that when you finally do get to be a player, you can't enjoy it.

This is my life now.

Luckily nothing else on that list ever comes up.

So what exactly are the "angels" that show up in the Lothric Castle lore? Are they Primordial Serpents? Are they Pilgrim Butterflies? Neither of those fits with the feathery wings the golden winged knights have, or with the feathers scattered all over Gertrude's (?) cage. I feel like I missed a crucial piece of information.

>last hour for board game stretch goals
So Beatrice is basically in at this point. Almost no hope for 4m, but its nice to pretend; what-re the hopes for the new add-on?

Why is there a crab in the skeleton ball?

Lamentations of the Flame Princesses' historical setting takes it away by far for me. Shitty guns, strange spellcasting and the wierd world of the 1600's just makes me a happy camper.

Alright OSR, I have an...opposite question.

I'm only versed in OSR. LotFP, B/X and DCC are the only systems I've ever run. OSR is my preferred style of choice, but my group of players (who aren't tabletop gamers normally) I feel like they're going to feel restricted after a while if every fantasy themed game we play is the same 7-Class option. And I know for some of them, their character permanently dying all the time is off putting. They wanna create a PC and build it up over time. They want to be a Ranger or a Gnome and short of homebrewing rules for that into my LotFP game (and causing the one RAW-autist to explode), I can't provide.

What more 'modern' system would you recommend me? 5e? Pathfinder? Shadow of the Demon Lord? I need something that's relatively just as easy for a beginner to pick up as B/X or LotFP.

>>47267406
>They want to be a Ranger or a Gnome and short of homebrewing rules for that into my LotFP game (and causing the one RAW-autist to explode), I can't provide.
Specialist. And tell the autist to check his autism, because houserules are what makes the game fun.

>More exploration
>Eventually becomes clear that the Johnson isn't an Aztechnology guy at all, but a madman who is hiring Shadowrunners not to kill the monsters, but to feed them
>They later stumble upon the demolitions expert fending off a wave of enemies, must save him
>He joins the party, and they learn about a structural weakness towards the back of the facility
>They make their way there, and have to fight through another horde to reach the back wall and blow it open
>They can then storm the Johnson's mansion, kill his men and him and pry the reward money from his cold dead hands

My question is, how can I make this more accurate to Shadowrun lore and/or spruce it up? Alternatively, general feedback? I'm nervous.

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And here's a partial screenshot of one of the combat maps.

>>47313591
Go to /srg/, they'll answer all your lore questions.
SR is an EXTREMELY lore heavy game (arguably the one with the heaviest still in modern publication), so bear with them.

>>47312768
Playing an evil character, huh? Is it an evil campaign? Cause if it's not, it might be tricky. A lot of DMs don't even entertain the idea of evil characters in their game simply because of how potentially disruptive they can be for the rest of the party. I would ask your DM first, and maybe the other players too, before devoting a ton of time to it.

Also, what edition are you going to be playing?

>>47312825
Well this is what I'm trying to figure out. I'm not really interested in provoking petty fights.
I'm just really trying to play some character that us truly looking out for #1 and any other alignment seems lacking.

Playing someone that can't decide to take a slave here and there or engage in some "off screen" torture seems very limiting.
Edition is probably 3rd.

>>47312970
Talk to the other players first before you decide to go full evil. If someone is playing a paladin, or any character that strongly opposes evil, it's going to devolve into a petty shit flinging contest.. And you're gonna be asshole for bringing an evil character.

If you absolutely want to have the freedom to do everything without having to worry about anything, there's always Chaotic Neutral, but once again, it has a rather nasty stigma attached to it.

The big problem is, by their very nature evil characters tend to clash against a typical party. Now, if you're all just mercs looking to make a buck, evil character will be fine! But if it's a typical, heroic, adventuring party.. Not so much.

If it's 3.5, from a mechanical perspective, bards aren't the best. However, I'd recommend sticking your skill points into social skills (especially diplomacy).

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>>47312545

This Gas'n'Go is set in the New Mexico desert out in the goonies, where the "towns" are trailers huddled around gravel road intersections and it's easier to get a loan from the patron than the bank.

When Brent, the baseball loving cashier, and Cleatus, the gentle redneck gas station attendant-cum-wrench monkey, arrived the usual dust storm kicked up once they clocked in, stripping away the smooth yellow of the desert and replacing it with burnt ochre sand and a fertile, fiery red full moon hanging fat and low in the sky.

The first few hours went fine--the Gray Man made an appearance and got his candy bar.

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>>47312571

At around 11:15 PM a short bus full of Cub Scouts showed up.

The troop leader, Mr. Jim, stumbled out of the bus with baggy, bloodshot eyes and asked Cleatus to fill 'er up. Cleatus, being a gentle redneck, delegated this task to the small children.

Once Mr. Jim entered the Gas'n'Go with a gaggle of hyperactive Cub Scouts trailing behind who immediately scattered through its bigger on the inside interior. He immediately purchased a red steering wheel lock, left his card with Brent and $60 on the desk for the kids to pick up snacks.

Mr. Jim asked if Brent and Cleatus would mind keeping an eye on the kids while he used the restroom. For some reason he took the lock bar with him to the bathroom.

By 11:35 Brent had put the fear of god into a few children attempting to pocket candy bars and Cleatus was amusing himself by telling the children stories of gasoline ghosts roaming the desert goonies. The cashier had also had to turn away some children attempting to buy a few age inappropriate items, including:

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>>47312582

>Hustler magazines
>Hand of Glory
>Obscene Justine, the inflatable companion doll
>Hunting bow

At around 11:40 Brent a wave of convulsive coughing fits hitting the kids, though his attention was mainly focused on a poorly maintained chest cooler filled with the strange meat the skeleton fishermen delivered every Tuesday. A handful of scouts had opened it up and were eating handfuls of raw meat.

Outside Cleatus decided to check in with Brent about Mr. Jim, who he hadn’t seen return, while the cashier was fondling his baseball bat. They both decided it was about to be one of those nights and while Brent was given the task of clearing out the children Cleatus went to check in on the troop leader.

>Cleatus knocked on the door, "Y'all right in thar?"

>"Occupied!" Mr. Jim shouted through the door.

>"It's been twenty minutes, fella, you fallin' in or what?"

>"Uh..." Then came a telltale click-click-thunk of the anti-theft bar being extended and set against the handle. "You guys might want to hole up in the break room or something, it's about quarter 'til midnight."

>"God fucking damn it, Mr. Jim! I ain't yer fuckin' baby sitter!" Cleatus futilely attempted to unlock and open the door before deciding to drop it and catch up with Brent.

>>47311972
Do you want us to stat Barry or other Barry?

>>47312017
God damn it, beat me to it.

>>47311972
Class: cyborg
Alignment: always asshole
Perks:
>Major cybernetics
>Enhanced senses
>unnatural strengh and speed
>origin: international spy
Flaws
>Talks to self
>delusions of grandeur
>Single minded
>heavy weight
>murderous intent
>sociopathic

>>47310681

The exact spells-to-creature ratio kind of depends on the colour you're playing - green needs creatures more than blue, for example - but a good rule of thumb is that your deck should be about 60% creatures/spells and 40% land to ensure a consistent mana curve.

>>47310681
Just netdeck

You're new?, did anyone tell you how much this cost beforehand?

>>47310611
It's not even close to the worst. The Palladium/Rifts system for instant is both clunkier and has even more imbalanced. It's just that d20 is everywhere. So anyone who doesn't like it can't escape it, and ends up hating it.

>>47310611
Because D&D caters to too many people wanting everything to be jammed into one system that was never intended for most of the shit people run it for.

It's designed by committee for a product that was only meant to do one thing, these choices affect almost every in every game that uses the d20 system, and the ones that don't suffer from the d20 systems problems are so far removed from it that it would have been easier to start from scratch.

>>47311450
>i literally can't stop shitposting and need medical assistance

>>47310608
Yes, and they are called city based campaigns. Check out Ptolus and Vornheim for ideas/inspiration.

>>47310608
Jojo is shit, desu senpai.

>>47310659
There's also Slumbering Ursine Dunes, which works on a landmark system.

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Right here are some good catachan analogues, but a little expensive.

>>47308810
ok Games Workshop

>>47308810
Based chinaman ltd.

>>47308166
I usually write out short stories and then pass them around to the players if they are interested. Sometimes it's something the player knows and the character doesn't, but usually I try to find an excuse for the story to reach their character in-universe too. Either by a video recording or something like that.

>>47308209
OP here I used to do that, but turns out I'm not a very good writer. How long were your short stories? Mine were like 4 pgs

>>47308249
It varied. If I just wanted to write out a brief meeting between two characters it might only be a few pages. If it was something more dramatic or drawn-out it might be closer to twenty or thirty pages. I tried to keep it as short as possible since I didn't want to pressure my players into reading a book. They seemed to really enjoy it, though.

>>47307979

If we're talking The Elder Scrolls, you either figure that shit out or you realize you're impossible and that the universe has no underlying order or natural state and disappear due to apathy.

In my own, there aren't true absolutes like Immovable, Unstoppable, Omnipotent, and the like outside of the theoretical, and all beings or forces have limits, though some of them may be beyond the physical. Being or forces claiming such titles do so mostly out of vanity, and while their power may be immense, it's absolutely not absolute. Much of what could mess with the universe's laws is either self-regulating in its manifestation, sensitive to interference and so dispels under adverse conditions, or otherwise resolves through interaction with opposing or interfering forces, rarely it does so violently.

>>47307979

Reality is breached in that area, and the chaos between realities leaks in, causing mutation, psychosis, monsters, suffering, and other phenomena.

Too many breaches could cause one of two outcomes:
>One of the infinitely vast Elder Gods drifting between realities takes notice of the reality in question, dooming it.
>The boundary of the reality is strained beyond its limit and breaks, thrusting the entire reality into the space between realities, and everyone is mutated, driven mad, killed by monsters, and generally has a bad time before/during dissolving into the chaos.

>>47307979
>>An unstoppable force meets an immovable object

The force is deflected but never stops.