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Speaking of which, is this any good?

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This is all the rebranding Dust needs.

Go away Paolo, stop ruining something I like.

>>46836494
What do you like about it?

>>46834649
Is it wrong for animals to kill innocent animals?

>>46834673

Animals kill animals for food.

Adventurers kill animals for XP. They have rations in their packs.

>>46834649
Is it adventure for wrong animals to kill innocents?

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best random table ever.

Rolled 5 (1d20)

Let's see how often I use them in my game.

As long as we are on the topic of random tables, does anyone know some good systems with random character generation? Right now I have WFRP, Gamma World 7e, and Shadow of the Demon Lord. I know of Traveler, but after character creation I don't like the game that much, and I also know of Palladium, which is basically unplayable but it's character creation is kind of fun for being nuts.

Anyone else know anything, or fan made conversions for randomly rolling characters in existing systems?

>>46834175
Shield Champion in PF actually

It's pretty awesome so far, but mostly because GM banned full casters and summoners

>>46834175
>Playing a Sword and Board knight in DnD
>Ambushed in a tower fight against Drow, knocked out by the poison
>Rogue manages to drag me away and get me back on my feet with antivenom
>can't get to sword
>Grab my shield and begin to batter my way through the Drow
Almost considering to drop the sword entirely

>>46834175
Because the game is called Shovel Knight

You'd think that a rule of thumb would involve less words.

The author is great at building tension. Nothing like an at-length conversation complete with smarmy quips during an action sequence.

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>points at half the army
>"You, Red Team."
>points at other half
>"You, Blue Team.
>points at efl-slave
>"You, Popcorn."

Build a bunch of arenas and host gladiatorial matches until they're all dead.

>>46833590
What king refuses a free army?

>>46833579
okay, that greentext was reasonably entertaining.

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>>46833579
Oh god, I didn't blow up that image enough to see the round ears.

>>46833579
"You meant roll Initiative, right? Because that golden staff looks like some sweet loot to me, and I've also been needing a new sword, soo..."

Depends on the setting.

>>46832718
Boring old FR.

>>46832698
Only elves actually take that long to master anything. They say they're better than humans but the numbers say otherwise. Half-elves, of course, get their Mary from their human side and the Sue from the Elf side so they can do whatever the fuck they want apparently

>few states over

I'm assuming the game is online, because there is no way I'd do this in person, but

I'd play as the most OP blatant power tripping expression of my favorite fetish imaginable. Basically a magical nanny with all the powers of Aladdin's genie. Spankings, punishments, and diapers ahoy! Yes I realize I'm a horrible person and my fetish is awful. Fight me IRL. It wouldn't even be just for the lewds. Mostly just because I'd find it hilarious punishing and condescending to what are surely a bunch of mary sues like they are schoolchildren

Sentient swarm of bees.

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>>46831509
SUPERHOT protagonist, maybe with mild overtones of Hotline Miami. Basically a perfect mindless machine of destruction that is controlled by a hivemind and whose body is expendable.

I think that I can make a fun setting around that character - basically, there is an Operator hivemind which is calling random people and uses their minds to hijack other people via phonecalls. They operate perfectly, like killing machines, because hivemind is computing all the actions they take, but they are just as fragile as any other human being, and ultimately expendable.

Removal does not help you win, it only helps you not lose.

If you build a deck that turns dudes sideways to win, then you will be able to just win by attrition unless your deck sucks and has a bunch of things that are not dudes to turn sideways.

Counters to removal are plenty and various. Even if a single creature is vulnerable to removal, all you need to do is either force the enemy's hand, deny them the option.
Or just enchant your damn creatures. Hexproof is readily available.

>>46829548
>I don't know how to counter X, so the entire game sucks because X exists!

We did a Flash Gordon with the serials filed off sort of short campaign last year in my group. We used Savage Worlds. I forget what extra book(s?) the DM used but I can ask him tomorrow if this thread lasts.

It went really well though and felt/sounded right, and the system didnt get in the way at all. It's my only experience with Savage Worlds though so I can't claim to be an expert.

>>46829511
I know Slipstream is designed to be a sort of pulpy, Flash Gordon-esque setting complete with animal men.

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>>46829208
Fate Accelerated Edition

There's a bunch of nifty space settings for Fate, from hard and gritty to utopian spess magic, but you don't need that complexity. FAE is universal, but it works especially well in a space opera because it depends on what everyone brings to the table.

My space opera isn't vintage, more dark Star Wars sans Force. Could be though, really depends on where the players take it. Space is vast and not empty. Everything has been discovered or invented countless times. Species have evolved in the most fascinating niches. Everything is colorful, exciting, and often overwhelming. Hugely differing scales is a big theme. Technology is functionally magic and merely themed, not explained.

I believe the only thing you only really have to think about is where Earth and humanity stand. Are humans a dominant species? Is there or has there ever been Earth? Does mankind live the frontier life in countless cultural facets on and around countless planets, moons, and asteroids? Or is there no need for casting actors and the universe is filled with and infinite variation of species, few of which are even humanoid. Maybe humans exist, but is being human a central theme for the players, or would they rather go all Henson's Creature Shop with only one John Crichton and no Sebatians? Or not even a John Crichton? Once the players can all agree on that, everything else really falls into place, from Flash Gordon to Planetes.

If you instead want crunch firmly themed with retro space then there's a German Perry Rhodan game based on Midgard rules which are pretty crunchy. You could simply refluff Traveller. There's Cosmic Patrol, Rocket Age, Ringworld, Buck Rogers, Dune (several), Star Frontiers.

If you want to go even more retro there's Forgotten Futures, Space 1889.

Also look at Lady Blackbird.

If you want to make your own there's nothing better to base it on than ORE.

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180 revealed cards from elder scrolls legends

http://imgur.com/a/3nATj

You can train cards or something. Not sure, but you can upgrade them.

>>46829134
Why would I not just play Hearthstone? Its a digital and watered version of MtG just like Legends professes to be... Except Blizzard have been making games far longer than Bethesda and it's third party developers. Look that the flop that was ESO.

Magic is still far more complex and diverse than Legends has the potential to be.

>>46829134
Shovelware appreciation thread?

>>46829129
No idea who they are, but I'm really tempted to make some kind of /pol/ level joke upon seeing your pic, OP.

You know what they say, Wu Tang Clan is not a group you want to annoy or pester.

I win by choosing not to annoy or pester them, preventing a conflict entirely.

>>46829129
>atomic bombs that are so indescribable that philosophy and rationality cannot describe them.

No. Their skills are too great.

>>46828971
I always use my real name for PCs because fuck you.

For random NPCs I have a baby book of names and I just flip through it.

I use misspelt names of obscure historical writers, artists, heroes and villains for plot relevant people. Sometimes it relates to their characters, sometimes it's an ironic name, and sometimes I just liked the sound.

>>46828971
>Go to UESP Elder Scrolls Wiki
>Look up race closest to the race I'm playing
>Scroll through the list of names from that race
>Tear pieces that sound cool and re-combine them into character name

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Altmer_Names

I string together sounds.