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>>47253765
Usually all talk on the game is done on /vp/ but they are afraid of physical cards over there.

>>47253765
This board is mtg AND gtfo

Most trading card game discussion is done on other boards, because as soon as a non-magic card game thread starts on /tg/ magicucks REEEEEEEEEEEEE until the thread is deleted/dies.

>>47253603
Savage Worlds is cool. GURPS want to get things right in terms of being realistic. Savage World wants to optimize for fun. But in terms of its mechanical outlook, it's fairly conventional, unlike Fate and it's narrativist approach to things, where the players have their hands in the meta-aspects of plot.

>>47253603
Cool, thanks.

The group at my LCG is open to new things, but they mostly do Pathfinder and 40k, so I think they'd number grind the shit out of GURPS and just shake their collective heads at Fate.

I'm thinking of springing a Weird West one-shot on them to see how they react to Savage Worlds.

Any weird quirks I should prepare for? The Bennies stuff and the Initiative Deck looked like they might take some adjustment.

>>47253811
Init deck can be removed easy, just roll a d12, 12 is an ace, it's close enough.

Benny management is kinda integral.

I like to strip out even more of the system, personally.

of gurps? nothing really
of math? everything up to and including differential equations for multiple variables

>>47253475
Start off with just reading the basic set. You can skip the (dis)advantage/skill lists for now.

Use not everything without restriction, for along that path lies madness.

Use not only the barebones essentials, for that shit's pretty boring.

Figure out what you want to play using GURPS, and get the associated books. They usually have premade advantages and character options. Also, most of the stuff in the main expansions (Magic, Space, and the like) can be useful in any system, so you should get those anyways. GURPS general has most of the books.

>>47253494
Not OP, but that's good for me. I just finished that class.

>>47253178
I played in an Eberron Mutants and Masterminds game and had 1 ton of fun.

Make sure that players understand the setting before building things. It's great.

>>47253178
GURPS?

>>47253238
the idea is to make something akin to the world of works like MGQ or Blade Play, for a reference

>>47253269
pls no

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>>47253157
On this world, (nearly?) all humanoid races are from other planets and arrive through the Tower, which I’ll cover to get this party started. This covers all your 3.5 vanilla races and bullshit but feel free to jazz up your own and make this interesting, since we’ve all seen the vanilla bullshit and a lot of us are clearly sick of it. Also I’m not 100% on how I want to mess with magic functions but so far I’m sure that Raise Dead and similar magic might work without a hitch, or might produce highly unpredictable and truly horrific results. I was thinking maybe ley lines or areas of instability which produce random antimagic or wild magic zones. But I guess I’ll leave that to you folks. Side note: I haven’t restricted any books to my players for this, so I don’t see why we should start now. Also here's a book that I used for a few things on the planet so far.

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The Tower of Broken Worlds
The highest floor of this giant circular tower on the northern side of the inland sea is where all new species arrive. They always must proceed with the same ritual of descending the tower to see the stories of those who came before, and meet the gatekeeper (Hunefer, CR25 who may or may not have an 18HD mummy buddy with optional floor-based puzzles/traps) who explains they must build a new floor of the tower before they are allowed to leave. The highest floor is the 198th and is mostly completed, but the next arrival will be building the 199th.

The gatekeeper was the result of the 2nd resurrection attempt on this planet, and was cursed to never leave the tower but to ensure its continued growth for unknown ends. Every floor depicts various languages and many pictographs featuring natural and supernatural disasters on an apocalyptic scale, and almost always some suggestion of a portal or planar magic. Each floor is of slightly differing materials, construction and craftmanship but to the same specifications, and always leaving a staircase exposed to the roof, which will be the floor for the next newcomers. The tower manifests building materials for this purpose that are similar to what the new species is most familiar with.

Near the base of the tower is home to a large colony of mobile cacti that shoot boiling acid out of oozing sores and creep around and up walls but generally leave the tower alone. These cacti share a symbiotic relationship with a swarming bee-like poisonous insect that resembles an orange gem cut like a d10 when at rest.

Daham
Arabic-flavored city of arid plains, sitting atop a large hill crest overlooking the coastal valley and the Tower of Broken Worlds. Created by the most recent newcomers to the planet several centuries before. There’s a Formian hive somewhere in the hill beneath them. I’ll leave the rest of those details up to some other anons. Needs much more awesome.

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The Scarlet Jungle
Second to last newcomers were a Druidic people and settled near the lake in the middle of a big jungle. They may be alive or dead but everyone else assumes they fucked up because now the entire northern half of the jungle is made of meat and very few things there are cannibalistic.

Animalistic trees, creeping toothed vines, carnivorous sundew plants, fanged roses; it’s nothing but miles and miles of a bleeding jungle continuously eating itself almost silently. Almost. No one has tried or even wanted to go in to see what else might be there. Because FUCK. THAT.

Also, feel free to come up with new locations entirely. On a planetary scale that's even laughably small realistically but good enough for game terms, those hexes are at least about 50 miles across so there's plenty of room. In fact there would realistically be far, far MORE distinct features of the map so go ham. And feel free to post world art also. Alas I do not have many images for fantasy.

I also favor stuff like pic related, but wanted a horrific welcome mat for the players.

Both major religions count the Credenda Pola among their holy scripture, though it is the significance of what comes next that splits the two religions.

The Maian religion believes that upon her death, the widow (Pava Pola) was chosen by the assembly as the perfect human and was struck by the stone to kill her before her eventual disgrace. In death, Pava Pola ascended to lead the Assembly of Heaven, combining all spirits that came before and would come after her into one cosmic entity. Her daughter, now her prophet, was to be protected by the 100 sons so that Maia could spread her mother (and later, her own) teachings. The Maian religion's other sacred texts are the teachings of Pava Maia and the laws she imparted to her brothers, stating that the daughter is the embodiment of the widow's spirit on earth. All major leaders of the Maian religion seek to trace their lineage back to one of the 100 sons or, in the case of the Great Mother, to Maia herself.

The Atlan religion includes no mention of the widow unifying the assembly and instead seems to focus more on the idea that the stars represent wise beings that look down upon the world and seek to guide and aid humanity. Atlans believe that only by observing and understanding the movement of the stars can their will be divined. The firstborn son, Ibhan ik-Pava, would lead his brothers to catalog and identify hundreds of stars and constellations, believing that each held domain over various aspects of the universe, and to invoke the correct spirit was necessary to receive guidance or blessing. This knowledge, as well as the wisdom of both Ibhan and Maia, was collected into a holy text known as the Night Atlas, a text that is both religious ideology and well studied astronomy. As the Atlas grew in length and importance, the spread of this knowledge and the protection of the faithful became the goal of the 100 sons, known as the first members of the Crusade of Stars. Even in modern times, the Crusade is an important part of the Atlan faith, serving as warrior-scholars intent on understanding the will of the stars and spreading Atlan influence.

>>47253285
>The Maian religion believes that upon her death, the widow (Pava Pola) was chosen by the assembly as the perfect human and was struck by the stone to kill her before her eventual disgrace.

That was misworded. ignore 'upon her death'

I like to imagine that she knows how to use a weapon, that she understands what she's doing is so terribly wrong.

But the cameraman won't let her look right.

He's not looking for "Grandma is going to kill someone." he's looking for "Grandma is a total retard."

And they've been fighting for like 20 minutes as she insists on taking more natural poses that make sense, and he keeps telling her "No, look stupider. Look like you've never held a gun before."

And she's just fucking pissed, and she's starting to wish the pistol was real.

>>47252964
I like to imagine she's used one before back in her heyday as a hot, international spy/assassin.

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>>47252964

enemy forces in our perimeter.

>>47252693
WEAAAAAAAAAH

>>47252739
Southern quadrant, but they are on the move. Current location unknown.

>>47252561
Fantasycraft.

>>47252561
2e or 5e might be a decent alternative. 2e is more straightforward and it's easier to say no to splats. 5e hasn't had time to really bloat out yet, and has plenty of rules that say 'the DM can totally say no to this'

>>47252561
Isn't that pretty much exactly what 5e is?

Not much, really. Even without that, large parts of the Bible already are propaganda in favour of the Abrahamitic kings.

>>47252183

Is this just a cuck joke

>>47252230

But most of the kings, even those once regarded as champions of god, end up fucking up and dead in a ditch

Is everyone asleep or something?

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>>47252015
>Classic Z-95s

Some guy got mad that a maiden refused to marry him

So he became a Lich and vowed to destroy the world

1) He really doesn't want to die
2) His immortality spells requires him to be a massive dick, at all times. The more suffering he causes, the longer he lives.
3) Otherwise a nice guy. But hey, he's going to have to murder your family now, okay?

>>47251746
Undead lord who has been secretly ruling the realms for centuries has decided that the farce needs to come to an end. Starts turning his powerful puppets into things which can spawn more undead under their control (bodaks, shadows, wights) which spread his dominion at an exponential rate. The undead retain their personalities but are evil. They demand to be taken just as seriously in the senate/wizards guild.


Alternately, a fallen Druid "blighter" who uses natural energy as fuel for his spells and controls hordes of animal undead

>>47250560
>Ay, kids. Want to buy some fungus?

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>47250560
Scrouging

>>47250917
You find an abandoned campfire, there is a pot of stew above the embers. It's still warm.

>>47250031
Well I think that depends. Has big boss already lost or had to retreat from the SM one or more times?

If so, BB wins.

If it's a first, or even second or third encounter, BB loses.

>>47250031
If Big Boss and Venom work together, game over.

>>47250031
I think he has enough crafty tactics to take a few down. He's the stealth master, he could rig up some semtex or something. But if he's caught he's fucked after maybe one stinger launch.