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Undead and monsters aren't always everyday occurrences, or even things people have previously dealt with in settings where they exist.

Yeah sure let's just not put people to rest and have a shitload of banshees and ghouls and ghosts and shit running around. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Presumably it happens in waves.

Some necrofucker wrecks a bunch of shit with undead hordes, and for a generation or two, everyone burns corpses, so potential necromancers can't get off the ground. Then enough time passes and people start doing burials again, and another necromancer fucks everyone's shit up with a horde of the undead and the cycle repeats.

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>>54846939
I like Hero Points in Mutants and Masterminds 2e. You, the player, get a Hero Point for intentionally failing a save (and thus going along with the GM's story, though the rules clearly say you don't HAVE to), when an enemy rerolls an attack or save, or when the GM introduces one of your Complications, which are basically plot hook generation devices that let you the GM do things like throw old enemies at you.

You can use them for a bunch of things and you're better off reading them from the book.

Essentially, I like when metacurrency is something the GM gives for certain actions, and not something the players can give each other.

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FATE is garbage, as is anyone who plays it.

If you're catering to that sort of audience, go for it. Make the currency super valuable and significant. You're playing utterly broken-ass games anyway, might as well have fun with it.

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>>54846939
I think it's a superfluous immersion breaker.

I dislike attempts at bribing people to do roleplaying.
I dislike players conjuring events, objects or people out of nothing.
I dislike mounting doom or fortune points that try to impose a dramatic arc as if the game where a preplanned book.
I dislike giving critique or praise through a layer of mechanics.
I dislike introducing mechanical power differences because one person roleplays more pleasing.
I don't like mechanically rewarding dishonest praise (because awarding points for bad roleplay can make the group stronger).
I dislike managing a resource that has nothing to do with ingame reality.
I dislike the zero sum game that can unfold between GMpoints and PCpoints.
I dislike the incentive for controlled mitigated failures in order to gain success at a point that has been determined as critical by metagaming at a later point.
I dislike the imposition of mechanics on narrative that was unrestrained before.

Overall one of my least favorite mechanics.
And its inclusion in more recent rules lite games is like the one step backward to the forward steps.

>>54846827
We have been using these maps so far. I feel like they'd make a good starting point for different areas of control

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First for Shimye-Magalla, the divine two for one.

>>54846775
>How cute is your character when casually dressed and out of armor and all?

Extremely handsome, put him in a noble event and he'd be the duke of the dance floor!

Triaxian - Are they just like the Yuuzhan Vong without the warrior culture?

>>54846420
You will be disappointed.
Doubly so since Mortarion is the one they can both kill and keep

>>54846420
You silly goose, Yvraine will rush to save her husband and with the combined power of their love banish him for a thousand years.
This sets Isha free somehow and triggers a massive chaos invasion, again, on Bobby G. to get Nurgle's waifu back. But she will heal the emperor and together Ynnead, Isha, and the Lord of mankind shall destroy the warp rift.

>>54846420
Fool, you cannot pierce his plot armor.

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>>54846284

>>54845484
He has no point, most major magicians were men. If you wanted a thematic [if not necessarily historic] division of magic along sexual lines, there is always the idea that there are certain female genetic lines where a kind of natural magic passes from mother to daughter [witches] whereas academic magic is open to both sexes but is overwhelmingly male.

>>54845484
Unless you're gonna make men better at nonmagical stuff, then it's SJW shit. And even then if the system is 3.x it's ALWAYS SJW shit

>>54845484
This seems like the sort of thing that would vary enormously depending on the culture and time period involved, to the point of not having a generic answer.

Did your friend provide any examples more concrete than "mythology and folklore"?

Did your own research touch upon something more specific than "matters of the occult"?

>>54845357
Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
Hit Points 59 (7d10 + 21)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
20 (+5) DEX
12 (+1) CON
17 (+3) INT
3 (-4) WIS
12 (+1) CHA
7 (-2)
Skills Perception +3
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages -
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Keen Sight and Smell. The Naked Snake has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight or smell.
ACTIONS
Multiattack. The Naked Snake makes two attacks: one with its beak and one with its claws.
Beak. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 5) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage.

>>54845357
GURPS

>>54846798
>17 (+3) INT
>3 (-4) WIS
Just what sort of owlbear are we dealing with here?

>>54845169
It depends on the setting. In SOS the elves are mostly stupid basques who eat people and alcoholic sailors who also eat people.

>>54845280
Aren't those just ogres under a different name?

>>54845280
Archetypes transcend settings.

You can't get away with the "depends on the setting" meme.

>>54845026
Get rid of that fucking discord link right the fuck now.

>>54845026
>thread question
The Scarab God. It kept turning into either zombie tribal or UB goodstuff. I just want having fun with it.

why is zada tier 3?
she is so much stronger than that

>>54844936
Have you talked to your DM about how much this bothers you, or nah?

>>54844936
>implying you actually have people to play with

>>54845071
I DM and play in a club and these are just 4 very very common traits that new people have to some varying degree with out fail when they join.

had a game today of a guy who was all four which was a shock. it's annoying to play a character sincerly and then have a guy fuckin around as you're trying to figure out a problem within your characters limited or expanded knowlege or relay a complexed concept to the party or figure out what would convince a person or what is the moral approach your character would take in a situation.

it's not even being a murderhobo out right it's being a deranged lol so random non of my actions matter because it's a game faggots that just cause as much conflict or complications as they can.

>>54844534
Faster than light communication is not possible, however, faster than light TRAVEL is possible, though not instantaneous.

>>54844577
FTL travel is done via jumpgates that propel you through hyperspace at a given straight direction for a given time. These gates require enormous amounts of energy and need to be far from gravity wells.

Messenger probes and courier ships sent through these gates are used for interstellar communication.

>>54844674
Hyperspace does not always appear the same on each jump through it, with the environment something changing dramatically. There have been rare reports of people seeing "monsters" while in it.

Whether this is true, that they're hostile, or anything else has not yet been conclusively proven.

>lifespan
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>>54844235
What's the average lifespan of a Magos' Waifu?

>>54844922
beep boop beep boop

speak Gothic, motherfucker

>>54843684
>Ask your friends if they are interested in playing
>Find a flgs and see what nights they have D&D groups
>Most colleges have /tg/ clubs
>If desperate enough, put an add on a local forum, like craigslist.

Yeah most of the players and groups you will find will be shit, but most D&D players are. Keep contact with the good players, and keep looking till you find a group that works for you. Unless you are in a rural area it really isn't that hard.

>>54843684
Ask a few friends individually. Ifenough express interest bring them together and see how it pans out.
And hey presto, you've got yourself a group there pardner

>>54844173
>>54843893
Seems fair enough!