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>>47200419
A Mermaid Sea Witch.
I charmed her. We made all the sex. I tricked her into marrying me. We saved the Cleric on the process. And now I need to carry her around my back strapped in a jury rigged custom made baby-carriers.
The good thing is that she can cast druid spells like a fucking champion out of the wazoo making her a very reliable henchman that is always with me.
It is fucking beautiful.

>>47200419
Lots and lots of blood. Very little of it is actually from enemies.

>>47200481
So you used magic to trick a woman into marrying you then keep her as a prisoner in a place she can never escape from? Fucked up, dude.

The Grendel shoutout was one of my favorites.

>>47195962
That was pretty good. I'm also kind of a fan of the Scintillan Fusiliers.

>>47182480
what kind of board game is? how is the gameplay?

>>47182505
There's a gameplay demo on the kickstarter page which shows off two players vs the Dancer of the Frigid Valley. Short version is that it's players vs (card based) AI, positioning is important (better to evade attacks than tank them) and the more stamina you use the easier it is to get killed.

I've gone in for it, partially because backing now gets you a load of extra stretch goal enabled stuff, and because at the very worst it should be good for a few games with my fellow Dark Souls loving friends.

>>47182480
Backed it.

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How would you use the basic creep factions as a true power in the world and threat to both Alliance and Horde?

>>47179340
By forming a confederation of mooks tires of being exp farmed.

>>47179340
Intense Enthusiatic Breeding

I prefer to not have ability scores and instead things be based around skills. Derived numbers from attributes naturally create a disparity for their usefulness. I.E. Charisma.

Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Charisma
All the rest is skills

>>47229081
I think skills are a bit too granular to use without broad abilities as a back-up.

Example:
A player may not invest in the Balance skill if the character archetype doesn't warrant it, but any character should be able to have a go at sidling along a narrow surface. Lack of skill or experience doesn't really stop you from putting one foot in front of the other. You could just have everyone take the same 'unskilled' check, but I think adding a little variation through Dexterity offers the players a welcome bit of control over their character.

>What is the highest amount of damage you can possibly do in [System of your choice] without cheesing hard

?

>>47221487
D&D 2E, 3.finder, 5E,
Shadowrun
WoD
GURPS

Any game you want, as long as you have an answer.

I can also condense it into highest indisputably rules legal damage possible.

>>47221413
Well, technically speaking you can do infinite damage in any system with exploding dice.

More importantly, I need to know how the fuckle you can pull that with Shuckle.

Terrible art, too. 90% of it is washed-out grimdark bullshit. And what's with the character "options"? Lel you can be a human from this shitty part of the world, or a darker human from this other even shittier part of the world.

>>47219389
>Alright, we get it, WWI was a bit too political. You didn't have to go full edgelord with the sequel

"Edgelord" doesn't even begin to describe it. I mean, sure, there is a lot of edge. The bombs that work by converting rare handwavium into pure destructo-force are edgy bullshit, and the genocidal maniacs with LITERAL SKULL SYMBOLS all over the uniforms are damn edgy, and they evolve into Ow the Edgehog when they backstab their former ally to start a two-front war because they're Just That Evil. But so many other characters/places are also bullshit in so many miscellaneous ways.

You have mister "true man" leading the superpowered good guys late to the fight showing up with a superweapon developed just in time that ends the war almost immediately, and mister "man of steel" in charge of the Token Evil Teammate nation that murders more people than SkullNation McEvilGenocide ever did, and gets away with it because they're protagonists. Oh and Token Evil Teammate also annexes Poland which is what the good guys were supposed to be fighting to *prevent* in the first place. I suspect one guy wrote the leadup to the war and another wrote the aftermath and they didn't talk to each other.

And then there's Ike. Democratic societies do not work that way. Presidents do not get elected for having been successful generals invading another continent unless you're some kind of interventionist militarist state verging on junta, but the writers have been beating it into us over and over again that America is a democratic isolationist society that's slow and unwilling to show up to this war and then pulls out early next time and soldiers get spat on when they come home from Vietnam.

Speaking of America, they really need a better editor to sort out the naming mess that is the two continents called America, the country called United States of America, and the other country called United States of Mexico that leaves us with *no* unambiguous short name for the middle one.

>>47219767
>mister "man of steel"
Still better than the leader of France-expy called "the gaul" only pronounced with funny accent so it becomes "de gaulle".

And the high level adventurer-scientist-polymath with a billion skill points in everything called "fine man".

And the encryption code called "enigma".

And the encryption-breaking machines called "bombes".

How many players?
How long does a game take?
How hard is it?

>>47206387

2-12, most I've had so far was 8, at a game night a few months ago.

Standard game takes between 45 minutes to an hour and a half.

It might look complicated, but it's really not. The same process repeats over and over. During a players turn, they can

- Roll to move
- Draw an Event card, if they land on an orange space
- Cast 1 spell
- Attack a player with their Melee/Ranged weapon, and a Siege Engine.

Those can be done in any order, or none at all. (With certain cards, skipping a turn actually benefits you) I've offered a lot of freedom of choice in this game.

looks cool

Chrome Domes- a group of Raiders that believe that by grafting metal and chrome to their faces and bodies in order to become closer to their "god", a military ai trapped in a bunker

Post-apocalyptic is such an overdone genre. It's synonymous with "I'm not creative enough to create a new setting, but I'm not adaptable enough to reconcile my creation with the real world, so I half-ass it and create a lackluster setting that is mostly the same grey-metal grim Mad Max motorcycle crap that has been done over and over, and a couple semi-creative tidbits will not inject nearly enough originality to save a genre that is so mainstream and cliche that it has been overdone to the point of death from exhaustion.

Post-apocalyptic is literally the same tier as heroic fantasy now, in terms of being plebian garbage. Pick something else.

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>>47224469
You dropped your hat.

My current character is likely going to train a Batman equivalent with the stupid amount of money I am amassing due to in game investments in trade. That character will be used in the next relevant campaign.

As much as he would love to, he can't go back to being a farmer, nor can he really settle down. He will wander, doing what good he can and carrying out his god's will.

>>47222891
Well, my Fighter is going to slow burn his way from a shittier Arthur Dent from the worst family in the kingdom to a respectable hero.

He'll probably be employed under the king as a problem remover.

also, 6 other mtg threads, no standard.

>>47220464
werewolves suck

>>47220498
it's typically how it is here

Gotta go to goldfish or salvation for standard discussion. Faggots here would rather have 360+ posts about the lore or waifus.

>>47219160
Over The Edge / WaRP is pretty good for what you're describing. Very quick and dirty, new skills can be acquired in a straight-forward way, existing ones can be raised but get exponentially harder past a certain point (e.g. karate above 4, time to go find a kung-fu master).

Very freeing system, and does guns quite nicely.

>>47219256
Oh, and it's great for weird tech/psychic/supernatural abilities too, if you've got PC's who are gonna have those.

>>47219276
Sorry, one last thing: XP in WaRP is great. You get extra "experience dice" to spend on things whenever as long as you can justify it (e.g. "jeez, this is like the third knife fight I've been in this week!" /throw in experience die); however, you can "cash them in" for permanent ability/skill acquisitions. It's really cool.

>>47218576
Are they?

2 warlock, 18 sorcerer:

Quickened Spell Eldritch Blast, with the invocation, and 20 CHA

That's 8d10+40 damage, 48-120 damage per round, average: 84 damage, and you can do it more times per day than action surge.

Without quickened spell, you deal 4d10+20 damage, or 42 damage on average.

Is there a non caster build that can beat that for damage, both peak and sustained?

Do you plan to lv 20? Should you?

>>47218728
Ooops, sorry, I neglected Hex. Add in an extra 8d6 damage on the quickened spell, and an extra 4d6 damage on sustained.

They're Tomb Kings in spess

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>>47218008
Presuming you know the basic lore of the necrons at the time of dawn of war, judging from the used picture, the major changes are
-no more pariahs
-the necrons are not slaves of the c'tan, instead the necrons broke the c'tan into shards and imprisoned/weaponised them
-instead of exterminating life to feed the c'tan, the necrons have the intention of rebuilding their empire to its former glory, conquer the rest of the galaxy and exterminate/enslave anyone who fights back
-the biotransference into metal bodies didn't kill off individuality the more you get up the in the hierarchy: normal warriors are almost if not completely mindless, immortals can have and follow memories/protocols of their former lives and lords can be as varied as one can imagine, from silent murderer to megalomaniac artifact collector
-more color schemes, aesthetic additions and unit types like manned vehicles


they're less terminators and more egyptian undead

They were "EXTERMINATE ALL LIVING THINGS" faction. The only interesting thing about them were hints about how they set up a setting for others.
Then, Matt Ward made them Tomb Kings in space: undead, soulless, but still willing to communicate... sometimes, when they don't feel like reclaiming the galaxy from lesser species.
I like this change. Many others don't. Skub must flow.

Baby chain swords, and awkwardness between the owners.

>>47217679
They grind against eachother in an impressive display of sparks until one backs off and ripostes

>>47217679
Some metal looking imagery fit for an album cover.