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God, I love how Joseph could have solved the entire plot himself if he actually bothered to train himself and not be a dramatic as hell asshole.

>>47031744
>Jojoshit
I thought we had gotten rid of you faggots

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>>47031744

>Go check on the heir to the kingdom, where they wait in their cell.

>>47031191
>Go check on the heir

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>>47031244
>>47031304
You leave your throne. Ascending many a sinister stair. Perhaps too many sinister stairs.

One trek up the northeastern tower later, you see her, reclining in her cell.

"Oh, hey dad," she says.

>Dinner is almost ready.
>How are you doing?
>Check on her school work.
>Other/Write-In

Never played pauper before, considering trying it in MTGO. Does this look like something that's not absolutely awful?

Its based on a custom standstill deck for DOTP2014 I found and really liked.

>>47032232
also, it's crazy how cheap most things are on mtgo, but are there any super budget replacements i could put in for Ninja of the Deep hours? That card alone makes up about 75% of the cost

>>47032232
What is "this"?

Can I have the body for my amusement?

>>47030768
>she's too weak to kill a grown man, or too weak to kill even a large child

She's no princess of mine, throw her to the dunes.

Like... why? I mean, my amusement is mostly dependant on her bouncing on my dick, so what does the kid have to do with anything?

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>>47030271
Better yet, what about Templar from Vault of Glass?

What're his stats?
Also what space marines would be bold and ballsy enough to go to Vault of Glass?

>>47030271
Well, we don't actually know all that much about the Vex, they're still very mysterious.
They do seem to fall into the typical 'crazy OP aliums' trap though, given how they are effectively fought against by the Guardians and Cabal in spite of being able to time travel.

>>47030766
>they are effectively fought against by the Guardians and Cabal in spite of being able to time travel
they've already won
it just hasn't happened to us yet

I thought wizards were tier 1 gods?

How the hell did you let your spellbook get stolen?

I'm not sure what system, but check if your class is allowed to use any ranged weapons. Usually darts or slingshot should be kosher. Get some on nearest opportunity.

>>47028979
Not when we use all our spells, get knocked unconcious, have our spellbooks stolen, and then only get them back when combat starts.

>>47028710
>variety and breadth of systems
>DnD AND Pathfinder
Throw out Pathfinder, buy 13th age, 7th sea(Pirates, swashbuckling, Zorro stuff) and Battle Century G (if you dig giant robots).

>>47028781
>Pathfinder
Bought the PDFs four years ago, if I had physical books I would have traded them in.

I'll look into your suggestions, I haven't heard of the last two. I'm more interested in games with fewer rules or more general rules than stuff like 3.5 or Pathfinder. Are 7th Sea or BCG similar?

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Additionally, anyone played Fantasy Age? What's it like? Is it good? Is it worth buying?

How about Ryuutama?

I got the Infinity N3 rulebook set from them and the cardboard slipcover case thingy that holds the 2 books was slightly dented, everything else I've gotten( X-Wing miniatures, dice, Pathfinder and Rogue Trader books) has been fine though.

>>47028241
Interesting; I bought paints and brushes from them before as well, and everything was good except for one brush (which, again, was decent and serviceable enough to not bother returning)

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Bumping

>>47027824
I'll kick the thread off then.

What do you guys do for aquatic life in your settings?

I've gone for some variants of real world sea creatures.

>The Pirate Crab
A large hermit crab that uses sunken ships and vessels as a home. Young pirate crabs are about the size of a large dog, and might use wooden washtubs or wooden crates as homes, but they grow larger with time, and they must compete with other crabs for more living space. At maturity, they can be as large as cargo vessels or war ships. If a Pirate Crab manages to get one of these as its home, they often attack other vessels in nearby waters, closer to land. Any new ships it brings down will act as a safe place to lay its eggs, where other smaller Pirate Crabs come to fertilize the eggs.

Locals often mistake these wrecked ships, drifting eerily along the water's edge as ghost ships, and any attempts made to attack or remove the ship are often met with the giant claws of the ship's host, seemingly adding more dead to the ghost ship's numbers.

>>47027994
I haven't thought about my aquatic life yet.

I have land monsters, but I was just going to go with giant sharks, giant squids and giant crabs.

Any other ideas?

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So, I wrote in a magical roman-cthulhu empire that existed before the main setting just so I can use it as an excuse for weird magical bullshit and so I can cut the amount of history I need to write in half.

Here's the explanation:

>Long ago, before the Gargans(giants) sailed from their stormy coasts of Fathalahm and prior to Man's march south, their was an empire unimaginable.

>A kingdom ruled the cruel will of a gifted few: the mysterious God-Men. Privy to the machinations of the universe and learned of the secrets of cosmic law, this race wielded untold power granted to them by dark forces.

>But one day, when the primordial ancestors of Man, Gargan, and Elzan(elf) woke to the morning, they found all the world void of their oppressors.

>None could guess, and not a soul even now knows, what fate befell the masters of the world. But the progenitors of the three races did not care.

That's all I got. It doesn't really affect anything in the setting, but I'm using it as a starting point for the *actual* history of the setting. From their, it's many centuries of tribal life, then a millenium of ancient/bronze era, then a millenium of medieval stuff, then half a millenium of "pike and shot" stuff, and then, a couple centuries of Napoleonic warfare.

Then...

I dunno, fantasy WWI?

>>47027443
>spawn
>suddenly cats
>die

Dwarf Fortress Stay

>embark
>dig safe lodgings before winter entombs me
>swarm of giant lions
>everyone dies apart from one guy, who spends half a year farming and drinking wine on his own in a sealed off cave before merchants manage to kill the lions
>he later dies during a cave in
such is life

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>>47027302
inb4 massive shitstorm

>>47029212
What? Why would this be bait? This is just straightforward world building.

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>>47029694

because someone is going to mention a real world ideology or religion. Then everything will be Godwin's Law/Taqiyya/Protocols of the Elders of Zion/911 is an inside job/Deus Vult/HERESY

>>47026801
Good as in well-written, or not evil?

>>47027001
Not evil.

>>47027010
>>47026801

What makes you consider the current white/blue factions as evil?

Gen Con Indy 2017, that's when they've said they're going to be introducing a new era.

Until then, we know nothing other than that they're changing the CCG to a LCG.

>>47026414
So should I hold off from trying it out then? I sort of figured I should probably hold off but I wasn't sure on if there's any information on if the old stuff carries over. I really have zero idea about the game but if I can try it out before then, and still get to use my stuff that'd be cool.

So, uh, general l5r thread too? Don't think there's been an l5r thread in a while

>>47026057
I highly recommend Ticket To Ride: Europe. It's the first thing that pops into my head when I think of new-age family board game.

>>47026057
We have a thread for this New Friend, look in the catalog for /bgg/

Cards Against Humanity if they're open to that kind of thing. There's even a UK edition (assuming you're British).

>>47026032
Once we no longer have needs to fight over, war will truly be the domain of values.

>>47026032
>It's post-modern,
I suppose you mean either futuristic, or post scarcity. "Post-modern" means something different.
The problem with post scarcity setups is always creation of conflicts. The idea of post scarcity settings in general is that it provides such a distant and difficult to imagine scenario that making any kinds of speculations about the nature of such society is going to be wonky.

As for conflict between people awaiting digital immortality vs. biological one is again pretty difficult. There is no reason why these two groups should be inherently at odds. Hell, even the distinction between the two seems very blurred to me.
Since there is no inherent conflict between the two groups, you are quite literally free to make up any. But as anyone with a bit of world-building experience probably knows now, freedom is actually usually your biggest enemies, and creative constraint your best friend.
Maybe you should think of other aspects of the settings first. What are the most important ideologies and philosophies of your world? Religion? Ethical doctrines? Technical limitations? Identities (how do people indentify themselves as parts of some bigger group - where does "us vs. them" mentality come from in such a world? Nationality, race, religion, class-based/wealth-based (the two aren't necessarily the same, keep in mind)?
Put more principles and constraints up, and maybe the conflict will emerge on it's own.

>>47026032
Well, as for conflict, I would point to religious or philosophical groups, as they'd most likely question the idea of if uploading yourself is the same as death, while biological immortality is more 'wholesome' or 'natural'

As for society itself, you'd be looking at very low birthrates, and general pushing towards utopia in general. As long as immortality is widely available enough, and since it's into the future where robots are doing most mundane labor, you'll probably have a lot of people working most of their hours online, and a smaller number of them at that.

Thus, people have more freetime for leisure and hobbys. Basically it becomes Renaissance 2: Electric boogaloo.