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>>47216803
fiend pact warlock, pact of the blade

>>47216803
Absolutely Heretical/10

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>>47216803
shit friend destroying parenting/10
but what should we expect.

Presumably it would also be without a sun, meaning everything is frozen and life can't exist

>>47216301
There are computers that exist down to 4K, and anything purely mechanical doesn't much care about the temperature (so long as it doesn't break). Hydraulics would even still work, you'd just need to use helium.

In theory, robots could colonise something at 4-6K. As for how you'd power them: Combust solid hydrogen and solid oxygen or fuse hydrogen.

As for how navigation would work in a lightless area, they'd use sonar or vibration sense.

>>47216301
>Presumably it would also be without a sun, meaning everything is frozen and life can't exist

What about deep caves or the deep ocean?
No sun, and yet, not frozen.

>>47215872
I once played as a really pissed off Witch Hunter who had a monumental beef with a Knight of the Inner Circle

So what I did was I went to his Quarters at a village we were housed in and made all kinds of checks to write perfectly in his hand writing in his journal and forged several pieces of evidence of him wanting to claim the Skaven are real to the entire Empire.

I then decided to dig a tunnel in his floorboard through the basement of the housing that was provided, I ended up cutting through some stone with a helpful dwarf that I hired and crawled hands and knees.
While also doing that I asked the Dwarf if there were any Skaven colonies nearby and he dug into a portion of it which I planted a long-fused explosive into the ground to wake up the Ratmen below hoping they would see the tunnel above.

After that I waited about 4 days or so for the Knight to come back before I traversed the tunnel into his room and went up stairs carefully and tried to not wake him up as he slept on the second floor, I opened his door and shouted "THE SKAVEN ARE REAL!" and immediately the other hunters and masses that didn't want the villagefolk to know this came knocking at the doors in the house as I covered up the tunnel I came through with some stones I roped to the ceiling so I could cut it beneath the grounds even if it did look suspicious.

As I crawled through I lit the fuse about half-way and let the Skaven do the rest of the work that was needed until I ran out of Town and reported it to my fellow Middenheim Witchhunters

>>47215872

>Evil wizard puts castle in middle of burned, flattened plains
>is currently trying to summon a demon lord, then control it with an artifact mcguffin he uncovered
>PCs are tasked with leading the charge of the kingdoms army
>the Wizards got like a million skeletons, and a couple of Giants to protect the walls
>the basic idea is that the army will charge, and the party will slip in in the chaos
>instead The fighter with magical items to increase AC and health instead says he can charge, and distract the undead army
>thatsretarded.jpg
>he's RPing a goodie goodie who doesn't want the army to get itself slaughtered when his idea could work
>he explains that while he's riding around on a warhorse, party could use the Druid to move the earth and tunnel under the walls, even destabilize them and then let the army charge through the hole
>fuck it, could work
>he charges out holding a lance with the countries flag on it
>immediately starts getting shredded
>giants working like a trebuchet, skeles shooting arrows
>fighter is just getting nailed with arrows, eventually makes it 3/4 of the way, planting the flag as a signal
>we charge out, a Druid, a barbarian (me), a ranger, and a wizard
>we get half way before the skeles notice us, and some are shooting at us
>a few volleys in, I catch a crit arrow
>still alive, say half OOC and half IC "Would've been great for some fodder for all these arrows"
>laughs were had
>we get to wall, ranger shooting back, wizard doing some illusion to keep us hidden
>Druid earth shapes, I dig with shovel
>we're under the wall, and actually get through to other side
>meanwhile the fighter just took a fucking Boulder to the everything, is making death throws
>player says that his goodie goodie finally got the death he wanted, up to us to signal and finish the charge
>oh balls we forgot to pick up the flag
>ranger is still out ranging the skeles, grabs flag and throws it at the wall, signaling army to charge
>we keep digging
>cont

>>47216179
>manage to destabilize a small part of wall with Druids help, him using spells me a pick axe
>fighter meanwhile has rolled a nat20, awake with 1hp
>he has no fucking clue what to do. Getting up will get him shot, but he doesn't want to stay down. Decides to wait for the army and find a medic
>we come up in the middle of the "castles" courtyard
>health potions and charge to the inner area
>after a 1 hour battle (IRL time) we kill the wizard, the fighter ended up being forced to the back of the charge to be healed, and try as he might, only got to us in the last round of combat
>ranger died in battle with evil wizard
>the fighter says "I fucking told you it would work" as he manages to get to the alter and stop the summoning by breaking random shit

We were all relieved it actually worked, though kinda upset that our ranger died. I skipped the battle in the story because it really wasn't interesting. Just a bunch of "you fools are too late" bullshit from the BBEG, and a fairly normal battle.

While green text doesn't convey it, we were seriously worried the entire time. We thought the damage we took from arrows was gonna fuck us over with the wizard battle, but we managed to hit him a few times while he desperately tried to finish the summoning.
The fight was a little anticlimactic.

>>47215164
>what should I do?
Give up
>what should I not do
GM
>What's an appropriate first mission for (mostly) new players?
The sample mission at the end of the core book.
>How much detail should I put into NPCs?
None, they're a name with a funny accent that will get ganked

But seriously, what game are you running? Do you have a general idea what you want to do at least? We can't give more than generic advice/trolling knowing so little.

>>47215164
A lot of this stuff depends on the system. It's also worth noting that storytelling is an artform. As such pretty much any piece of advice you receive will have some situation and way where it's better to go against it. Though there are some common sense things. Secondly: Everybody does it differently. Don't be afraid to experiment. Find a way that works for you and your group. Thirdly: All advice will be given on the assumption that you have a good group of players who aren't shiters. Sometimes a party is just bad and the rules don't necessarily apply to them the same way. With all that being said:

>What should I do?
Have fun and make sure the party has a good time.

Try to spread out the spotlight but if somebody just falls into a passive groove (and enjoy it) don't stress out too much. It's natural for some people to come into the foreground. As long as everybody is having a good time it isn't a problem.

Communicate like adults. If you have a problem, don't get accusatory but do bring it up. Ask players what they enjoyed and what they didn't enjoy after every session. Don't be afraid to let your players have a peek-around-the-curtain every once in a while when relevant. Every group plays differently but in some situations it's more fun to know that a scheme is being made against you. Try to get a grasp over the game your party wants to play.

Improvise. Planning is all fine and well but you probably shouldn't be planning anything long-term. Plan with the mindset that your plans wont survive first contact with the players. GMing is less about planning out and masterminding player actions, but much more about knowing the world you're running to the point where you know how it will react to player actions. Learn the setting rather than drawing out a whole bunch of maps. Planning and prepwork is fine and you'll probably have to do a little, especially if you're running a premade but you do have to be prepared to drop those plans.

>>47215463
Running D&D 5e for now. More specifics on the kind of game I want to run coming in a few minutes, typing.

>>47215476
Thanks. I've known those fuckers for years, so I'm not expecting too much shit from them.

I can't be the only one who thinks then gauge on the side of his chainsword looks like a smiley face.

>>47214397
Yeah, and Judge Death deals better with crime than Dredd.

>>47214469
For there is happiness within the cleansing flame

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There is also a series of lore videos:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwPnwSysDK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzZT9_0iZlo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ZYk4x2yuQ

They summarize a lot of the main facts of the setting, but they are by far not complete.

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The old "Realms of Arkania" games (Blade of Destiny, Star Trail, Shadows over Riva) as well as the Drakensang games and Satinav's Chains and Memoria as well as Blackguards are also all set in Aventuria

oh, additional info that may help

- the plant has been known to basically eat magic, when it comes into contact with magic it is absorbed and becomes stronger
- system is Anima Beyond Fantasy

be back in 4 hours to answer any other questions

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>>47213954
the only way to beat it is to hit its small, bandaged weak spot, which it only leaves open after it runs its head into a wall

it does this because it cannot see

>>47213722

The Emperor desired to have Humanity be reborn as a fully PSYKER race.

Nice try, but Psionics are several tiers lower than the Big E and his Extinct Psychic Frogmen peers.

>>47213722
>Reborn
By turning humans into mountain dew.

My emperor decided to make mankind immune to prescience, so no one could track down humanity all at once, ensuring the survival of the species.

In case kurfuffles arise over order:

Strength
Constitution
Dexterity
Wisdom
Charisma
Intelligence.

Or play point buy and actually have fun when you don't have to fight the system to play the character idea you wana play...

Rolled 5, 2, 4, 4, 3, 5, 3, 4, 4, 1, 3, 6, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 = 54 (18d6)

Rolling for crazy cat lady.

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>>47213125
No. Tell the player to stop being lazy and actually put the effort into making their own character. You're the DM, you're already making the entire world and plotlines within it, if someone can't be arsed to even do THEIR OWN CHARACTER, don't let them play.

>>47213164
That seems a little extreme

Here's what ya do. Ya makes a backstory like ya nermally would, cuz it's stuff that actually happened, then ya say "but me dude don't know nona that, cuz he's amnesiac"

>>47212805

Horus was corrupted by Chaos by not 1, not 2 but 3 separate means.

>>47212805
I mean, just step back for a second.

Is the emperor a good person?

NO!

He is a fucking monster! He is everything that is wrong with humanity. He represents our pride, our selfishness, our arrogance. He is incapable of empathy, incapable of love, he places his own ego and his own self interest above everyone and everything.

He encourages genocide, fascism, war, tyranny, and endless, unfathomable HATRED.

He is the incarnation of order run amok, overbearing and uncompromising authority shitting over everything that is good and pure in the galaxy.

If the emperor had his way, not a single flower would grow without his say so, not a single child would laugh without his permission. He has no sense of humor, humility, spontaneity or mirth. He was the corpse emperor long before he ever ascended to the golden throne.

>>47212805
The primarchs had EVERY fucking reason to rebel, every part of them that was good and decent and human knew that they had been inducted into his cult of personality and that he was not humanities savior, but in fact its damnation.

He was not a just king, he had no right to rule save that right by which he took by force. The people never loved the emperor, but in fact, feared him, loathed him, spat on his name and cursed him in their dreams.

>>47212779
Which creature has it's name in the title?

Hint: It's not Dungeon

Well, if we're allowing third party content...

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Neutronium_golem

Otherwise, probably something from Elder Evils? That, or Ao from the Forgotten Realms I guess.

>>47211939
Quite often the themes of the songs are related to rpgs or similar. The lone hero with a sword hacking away at monsters, or the lone monster with a sword hacking away at heros is somwthing rap and pop rarely feature..

>>47211939
wellp i know what my next BBEG is gonna be
>you hear wailing guitars as you charge the lich and his devil ally

>>47211939
Because metalheads are __NERDS

Maybe try toning down Eclipse Phase?

>>47211683
Normally I'd say Traveller, but someone should have the bebop pdf.

>>47212266
>Modern
>Eclipse Phase
That'd take a little more than some "toning down", hombre.

>>47211683
Traveller is the archetypal Cowboy Bebop system.

>>47210980

It's more alive than it has ever been since the start of 6E.

>>47210980
>The lore is at a standstill, the meta is utterly stagnant

Are you serious? The meta has changed a billion times in the past year due to all the new broken shit and monthly releases.

>sales are dropping off
>10% drop = dead

You wanna see dead? Look at WHFB or AoS. Or any other wargame that's not Warmachine/X-Wing.

>>47210980
Well, the lore has more or less been at a standstill since the great Eye of Terror campaign, when Chaos won and GW decided they were kind of terrified of change.
As far as the company declining, well it's no secret that GW has management problems and was operating on a rather bizarre business model for a long time. Add to that the fact that miniature wargaming is a very niche hobby, and wouldn't surprise me to hear that the company is in a bad way.
Still, the IP will be around for a while and so it will live on as video games even if the company completely tanks.