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EMPEROR DELIVER US.

We need to dominate today to get up our goal difference.

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Let the spam begin!

>>47232822
Also, we got meme wrasslin on stream right now. Check it out.

Ubermensch Tier Grappler:
>Aarakocra
>Roguex(Swashbuckler)
>Athletics Expertise
>Barb1
>Unarmored Defense or Studded Leather Armor
>Tavern Brawler

In combat:
>run up
>tavern brawl strike, grapple
>sneak attack (Rakish Audacity)
>fly straight up (movement and cunning action haste: 50ft)
>repeat for four turns (200ft)
>drop (20d6 bludgeoning + 4*SA)
>repeat

Alternatively, Mastermind Rogue:
>misdirection using your grapplee to absorb ranged attacks while you're in the air

>>47232786
How are you getting sneak attack? Neither your unarmed strikes or improvised weapons can deal sneak attack damage since both lack finesse. Also you cant use the grapple feature unless you use an unarmed strike or improvised weapon. You would be much better off going bardx/barb1 or bard3/barbx. you may loose sneak attack but gain spells.

>>47232829
I never said that the tavern brawler strike would yield Sneak Attack damage, retard. In fact, I even implicitly specified that the TB strike would not count for sneak attack damage when I stated the total damage as "20d6 bludgeoning + 4*SA". Wanna keep exhibiting your poor reading comprehension?

Regardless, it easily could: kitchen knife, spearhead, generic metal shard could easily be implemented as a dagger.

>>47231836

Night fell without ceremony, but you suspect that few people in the Dragon's Head will be sleeping soundly. For one thing, the stillness of the night is occasionally pierced by the crack of rifle shots, the military hunting down the last of the cultists. Every one of those shots marks an act of resistance, a pilgrim who had chosen death over surrender. Was there cause really worth dying for, you silently ask the night, or were they just forced into a corner? Faced with his plans – poorly thought out as they were – crumbling around him, Manabu had taken desperate action. Why should his followers be any different?

There will be no answers for you – not tonight, and not here. This wasn't some scheme years in the making, this was a blind and foolish attack, driven by desperation. Having abandoned the Seer, Manabu had wagered everything on this. He wagered everything, and he lost.

“Tea?” the voice from behind you snaps you back to reality. It's Toraji, a clay cup in his extended hand. As you take it, he sits beside you on the temple steps. “I've, uh, I've been looking for you.”

Well, he's found you. You're sorry, you add with a wry smile, about his speech.

“Probably for the best,” Torji shrugs, “I don't think it's going to matter much now anyway. We've been summoned – you, me and Sunao, I mean. Lord Lapis has, uh, requested our presence. Normally, this would be when he gives his judgement, but...”

But, you repeat, but what?

“Well, I suppose I've, uh, accepted it. Failing, I mean,” a calm smile, slightly sad, touches Toraji's lips, “I'm alive, so I don't mind if I spend the rest of my life sweeping the floors here. No matter what happens, I've got you to thank for that.”

>Not just me, Sunao and that bird of his played their part
>You think you've failed?
>Come on, let's find Sunao and meet with Lapis
>Other

>>47231843
>You think you've failed?
Toraji, without you pointing Manabu out to me things would have been a lot worse. So thank YOU.
>Come on, let's find Sunao and meet with Lapis

>>47231843
>Not just me, Sunao and that bird of his played their part
As did you. Don't sell yourself short.

>Come on, let's find Sunao and meet with Lapis

if(fauna.isTasty && !fauna.isPoisonous)
consume(fauna)
else
sell(fauna)

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>>47230514
I'm afraid of going into detail with my setting, because I don't want my players accusing me of injecting my major/profession into games

Otherwise, I would be mapping full Fantasy trophic webs, do research into Fantasy niche diversification/speciation, and include all manner of creatures from soil macroorganisms to essentially Xenoblade style phylogenic headaches

Because since its High Fantasy, I should either go big or go home

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all IRL living species + the ones from the monster manual

when you try to go original it just feels so wrong (sadly)

>>47227244
I once had to leave my character's cousin behind. She had been crit and turned undead. She was my squire, a promising swordswoman.

We had two choices. Leave her body intact and risk letting her rise to kill again. Or decapitating her to end the undead curse.

Every member of my party said "You're a Paladin, you can fix her, right?" But no one knew. They pleaded and begged. "We can save her, there has to be a way."

Her body wouldn't have lasted long enough for any accessible revival magicks, and my Paladin knew that. Questing for powerful enough magic would have endangered my party. Even if I could have saved her, I couldn't save her from what she'd have done to us and others along the way.

I dragged her out into the fields where the party couldn't see me, and I struck her neck twice. With her gone, her branch of the family lined ended. I would be held responsible for her death by my father and uncle and I would be stripped of my name, and I was.

I dug a grave and I said a prayer, marked the grave with her sword. The party hasn't spoken of her since, but each morning, I take another hour of prayer for her.

>>47227244
>not posting the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCMNWAJiz5Y

>>47227348
Holy shit what the fuck.

If that actually happened, then kudos to you for top tier roleplay.

>>47226061
I wish to be happy.

>>47226061
How would an unlimited wish even work? If i wish for money, will i get unlimited money and break reality?

>>47226061
Wish for a world that's exactly what I would want, leave this world for that because I'd rather be there, cut off access from this world, I get everything I've ever wanted with no problems.

>>47223409
It's when you n your girl blaze up and put on funny outfits and do the voices.

>>47223409
Do you want the English Literature degree definition or the more common definition?

>>47223453
Not OP, but I do wonder what the academics would define it as.

>>47222052
Yeah, I think so. She looks fairly reasonable, not particularly grim or angry. I'd assume she'd show mercy, in the right circumstances. Why? What am I asking for mercy from?

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I'm so glad quests are gone. Now we have more room for threads like these.

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>>47222052
...Yes?

First for Agonizers.

>>47221770

I care and quite enjoy the new changes

>>47220548

Wold guardians hit hard (and auto knock down stuff) but they're limited by being only fury 3, not having reach, being able to sprint 4 inches and not having access to a lot of living warbeast buffs.

They're still good mind you, and with 1" reach they'll be better. It's just you can trivially get a stalker to Mat 8 Pow 20 + whatever charge bonuses you can fit, not to mention ghetorix can get Mat 11 Pow 21 before you even feat with eKromac.

Wolds have their place though and I love putting them down on the table

what armies do you play (not just own but actually play)

http://www.strawpoll.me/10138678

When you say charge system do you mean like skipping an attack turn to do a multiple of your normal damage the next round, or like you can only use your pistol three times in a row then it must recharge?

As far as the armor/health system works, I would imagine you would have to do a trade off; Say you start with the 20 flat health in your basic suit, but you find a shadow damage resistant helmet that lets you block or reduce all shadow damage by half but takes away 2 or 3 health.

I would think the most complex thing about the setting is the elemental damages but I could be over thinking it.

>>47220924
No, you're right. The elemental thing is a bit harder to do. Like, the stats and everything in the game itself are really, really simple.

And yes, skipping an attack turn to boost damage. And I completely forgot pistols had to reload. So there's another mechanic.

But one thing is that you can always move+action per turn. Like, your move might be reduced while charging, but you always move.

For movement I would think that you would have to do an action points kind of system where an attack might be four points, then a tile movement on the grid would be two points each, so you could dash in, attack, dash back out or fire a shot move a bit and fire again.

I usually sketch random blobs on a peice of paper, determine which ones will be sea, continent, or archepelago. then overlay the details, read a book on geography for that shit. Then i split it into a 3x3 grid, buy a white poster board from wallmart (22 x 28 inches or something) and just scale it up square by square

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>>47220649
Here's a pic of my map so far, not finished obviously.
Sorry for the potato teir camera my phones busted to shit

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Here's a map I recently made for a campaign

>>47216427
>Mirror's Edge
>Enemies literally have guns
>You take said guns from the enemies

But seriously, just do a setting where firearms are illegal (without getting into /pol/-tier arguments about whether legality actually stops guns from being around or not. It's a fantasy game, so the law just works here, OK Steve?).

>>47216427
Illegal possession of firearms, life in jail without chance for parole, shortening, or pardoning. Selling or smuggling firearms is instant death penalty, government controls production and distribution. Permission to own or carry firearm virtually impossible to acquire.

Deus Ex Hong Kong had a good system for it.
All over the city, there are microphones that are tuned specifically to pick up the sounds of gunfire and immediately alert police fast response teams to its exact location.

>>47210252
Sounds like the scum got what it deserved. Real life had more draconian ways of dealing with thieves and murders.

>>47210252
>she'll lose her character.
Yeesh.
Alignment change I get, but that's a bit much don't you think?

>>47210338
The Star Wars Saga edition had it where if you got too evil, AKA got a ton of dark side points, you lost your character. The GM now plays him as a villain and you get to make a new character.

>>47203143
I've heard good things about this game, about 4 out of 5 people enjoy a good game of gangrape.

Seems like a messy affair; I'd rather not.

Fucking swedes.

2E has a bunch of great campaign settings published for it, but in terms of rules it's subdued compared to 1E (until you start adding in splats and Player's Option books) and overly complex compared to the Basic line.

If you want to count the whole of all material released specifically for 2E during its tenure as counting for the whole edition, then I'd say it's probably the best overall, but the caveat lies in the fact that almost all of the good extra stuff can be used with 1E or even Basic with little conversion, and they have their advantages in core over 2E.

>>47201354
It's a good system, but you need to know what you're getting into. I found it a bit less intuitive and math heavy, which is to say that its a system you need to learn as opposed to just jump into. It's fairly restrictive in terms of class and race, which some will find obnoxious. It doesn't lend itself to massively powerful campaigns. In 3.5 you can get into dick measuring bullshit on who can do billions of points of damage a second, 2E doesn't scale that high.

There is a lot of good material out there for it, handbooks, compendiums, etc, and if you're willing to put the time into it it can make for really fun sessions.

If you found 4E and 5E too like a video game, and want to try something other than 3.X then 2E isn't a bad way to go.

>>47201354
It's not without its flaws and incongruencies (bard fireballs for one). Not much material was playtested because of dumb late-TSR policies.

However, the old D&D experience is something special. There's less caster supremacy.

It also produced many really interesting campaign settings.