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Forgot the Edition Edition

>>47276989
No, it's this new troll we have who likes to fuck up parts of the OP and omit the edition to shitpost.

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can't help you too much with mechanics, but here's a weird elephant and a website with a bunch of wayne barlowe paintings https://waynebarlowe.wordpress.com/

it's kind of hard to do a story for that kind of thing without making it super video game-y. it'd be helpful to know a little more about what kind of tone you want. hunting down giant monsters could be anywhere from really goofy and cutesy to bleak and miserable. there isn't a huge difference between pikmin and shadow of the colossus or dark souls other than tone, really.

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>>47276415
Get Mouse Guard.
It was made just for you.

My advice: remember that fighting giant monsters can be so much more than just introducing a monster with "huge" in his title.
I did a Dragon's Dogma game in Mouse Guard and It worked.
Big monsters should be like big questlines. Divided into stages. So the first one could be about circling around the beast, dodging It's attacks. You prepare some stage hazards, perhaps a whole table for them and once in a while, you just throw them at the players.
Not only they need to somehow avoid the stone walls of X, sometimes they can use them for their advantage.
That's plain forest vanilla. You can prepare whole scenarios, hunting the same monster can be completely different close to the cliff's edge, a lake, a bog or some ruins.

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>>47276415
Ive been working on a campaign with a similar setting, its was inspired by the eldritch horror in nature thread that happened about a month ago on here.

The idea is that basically mankind has been industrializing and nature is striking back with strange creatures and nature spirits that are spiteful to man, i've been looking at the shadows over Esteren books as what i might run it on but its been slow reading having to separate mechanics from the fluff.

lawful good

>>47276282
This is not starting out well for me

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>>47276267
Incompetent lawful evil.

>>47276111
Did he bring Cheetos to the table?

>>47276136
>>47276136
no

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>>47276111

You know what to do.

Depends on the setting

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>>47275650
Answer in the form of a question please Anon

>>47275622
>you know it is name

>>47274847
I'm pretty sure intelligent prey have tastier brains.

>>47274847
In monster manuals i guess its just a hook to use it against players

In real life as far as know. By tasting human flesh/blood an animal learns that a human is edible and tasty. Therefore it can be hunted/attacked just like any other prey. So the next time it is hungry and sees a human it will try to eat it. I guess thats why they kill it. Because you cant make them forget the taste of human. You might be able to suppress their instinct but not totally get rid of it so the chance of that animal attacking you or anyone else is still there

>>47274882
Well, I was thinking about that too. Would human flesh have less of a "Gamey" flavor?

>>47273933
Counterpoint: No.

>>47274201
Rebuttal: Maybe

>>47273933
Works better for smaller games. Big ones like DnD and Pathfinder have way too much variance in the playerbase.

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Have some of mine, agnome.

>>47272487
Just need a cursed bracelet of strong handshake and I'll conquer all job interviews.

>>47272487
Not bad at all

>>be me at a concert
>>the electric violinist plays this amazing set solo
>>i literally start crying because he's putting so much passion and energy into it, everyone else is just sort of jamming out
>>he's alone on stage until the front man comes out and stops him to do start a song with more "pop"
>>i realize that there's some inter-band tension between these two
>>meet his eyes from the audience, give him an unwavering stare, he realizes i understand as everyone else in the crowd is cheering for the frontman
>>share an intense moment of human connection for that one moment through the power of unwavering eye contact
>>avoids eye contact with me for the rest of the show

it's about 50/50 desu it has a bonus that gives me +5 on sense motive which is ok

They're a pretty big deal in our shadowrun campaign.

>>47272082
Would you like to know more?

Had a Worm That Walks that was a gestalted Vermin-Lord druid and Wizard with a focus in Necromancy. One of the most intimidating opponents I've seen in Tabletop.

>>47272043
25

I had a 4e game reach into the late 20's.

3e always seemed to fall apart in the teens.

I vaguely remember some higher level shenanigans in 2e but was a long time ago.

>>47275063
Yeah 3e/Pathfinder starts to fall apart in the teens because of how ridiculous shit gets.

>>47271601
A USSR spybase.

>>47271601
pirates who ride subway trains

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>The subway tunnels both coming to and going from the station the PCs awaken in appear to have been walled off with concrete and steel, making the arrival of the PCs and their train worryingly mysterious. What's even more worrying however is the fact that the stairway leading up to the street has likewise been sealed.

>The PCs find themselves followed or perhaps stalked for a time by the figure of a man bearing a very bright light like a miner's lamp on his person. The figure always keeps its distance, but projects extreme feelings of disquiet and menace whenever he is spotted.

>Eventually, the PCs reach "Deep Downtown," a large, populated station that acts as the capital of the Urban Underworld and is a place at which the PCs may be able to hire a guide to lead them back to the surface.

>>47271040
I dunno, realize that we're all here for fun and 40k is so over the top it's hilarious?

>>47271040
we change the op and the way the op reads the universe

>>47271079
>>47271081
/thread

>>47270229
Gods don't just need prayer, the nature of gods is changed by prayer. What is believed by the majority of a god's worshipers to be true about a god will become true. Godly personalities can be entirely rewritten this way.

>>47270229

All I can say is that in regards to point 2 I really can't see any other good reason than for nurishment that a god would care about people worshipping him.
The only other reasons I can come up with is that they want people to worship them because they are extremely insecure or two or more gods are having a competition about gaining the most followers/praise for some reason or other. Both of those seems a bit silly tho.

>>47270355
I think you're kinda proving the point, because your "fix" has just made it worse.

Step 1: convince majority of your followers that you're the most powerful god
Step 2: convince majority of your followers that your nature is now fixed and not changed by majority belief anymore
Step 3: profit
(optional step 0 preparation: reduce your followers to the most gullible)