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>your GM suddenly declares that this session you will be facing aquatic opponents
>your entire campaign thus far has taken place on land
>you will not be receiving anything new, and must make use of what you already have
How do you handle this session?
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Craft cement shoes. I roll to strap them to the DMPC and throw him off a bridge.
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>>46702519
Sounds like that ring of sustenance is going to pay off yet again.
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Basically like this. Kill things with what we have, reverse engineer their weapons and use them.
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How to create a good dark fantasy setting?
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>>46699895
Don't
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>>46699895
Have a good reason for the darkness of it.
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>>46699895
By keeping magic from becoming commonplace and by keeping large civilizations on their back foot.
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So, 5e's classes are pretty close to balanced! Not perfect, of course. But it seems like the only ones that need real help are Monk and Ranger.
What's the simplest way to fix those guys? For example, would:
>Monk: increase die type of all weapons and unarmed attacks by one step
be enough?
Any other houserules people use? Personally, I don't use feats. That's not a houserule, really, they're supposed to be optional. But my players are new, and it seems like more fun for them to get a little better at lots of things will stat boosts than to become increasingly specialized. They're enjoying the roleplaying, anyway. The one guy who loves playing with rules has plenty to do messing with spell selection.
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The Monk is bad meme is shitty and you should feel shitty for believing it.
>I don't use feats
I give up actually. If you're a new GM fair enough, disable feats until you're comfortable, but giving players more options that are clearly optional and easy to get is not a bad thing, and at some point a player will want to use feats and will be annoyed it's not allowed.
Also at least go to the correct thread, how do you not know what generals are >>46689138
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Rebalancing classes isn't what I user house rules for. My house rules are for falling damage, xp distribution, and NPC morale. Character creation stuff is just restricted to things that make sense in-setting.
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Animal companions become NPCs. Falling is dangerous after certain conditions are met. No charisma skill is going to make up for you being on obvious jerk, unless that's a part of your tactic.
>I think sense motive/bluff are useful and also poorly-designed workarounds for people who can't act
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A while ago I had an idea drift into my head at work - HFY normally revolves around humans being the best at X because "Human" and it's normally because of our ability to wave our dicks around in galactic themed fiction.
What if the reason we where damn good at something was due to an ability or effect utterly out of our control?
I'll set out (and expand upon) the idea I had as an example.
Humanity are addicted to exploring the stars. Not because of our original abilities or drive to explore - but because of an extreme side effect that FTL travel has on the human brain.
We could never have predicted it because our drones and live animal tests never picked it up, nor did it have the same effect on Extra Terrestrial races when we eventually found them, but the activation and prolonged use of FTL drives (of seemingly any type) jams every single pleasure receptor in the human brain into overdrive and then locks them open - causing an unrelenting urge to keep moving, on a personal and galactic level.
Human beings are jittery, overenthusiastic creatures who cannot stay still - always moving, fiddling with their hands or replacement items such as trinkets. In space they keep moving ever outwards - their compulsion to "Jump" or "Boost" again means waves of scouts moving outwards in every direction, but few colonists.
All human colonies are developed using generation ships or seed AI's developing embryos on site - as to make sure any humans in the colony actually stay on the damn planet.
The fact Auriga III keeps jumping from place to place on the frontier is testament to that - an entire world with a 3 billion strong population devoted to building and then using planet sized jump drives.
Ironically they call it a "tourist world" - the "Planet with a thousand suns" but only aliens can visit it. Any humans who set foot on the planet and stay through a jump get hooked. Just like everyone else.
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At this point, it's probably best not to go anywhere near HFY.
And your idea is really just the same problem most HFY has: an extremely juvenile attempt to classify humanity and ultimately just creating a new race, in your case the "ADD race", and calling them humans.
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Is The Last Question an HFY story?
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>>46696815
I don't even understand what you want from scifi
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I see some new faces here, who am i? Why, I am Grim, A Semi-freelance detective in the Old Paradise. I got a lot of cases under my belt. I am here to tell you a story, My story.
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and i picked the wrong image. Great. at least my heart was in the right place. While we are at it, this case is longer than usual, i might break it in two thread.Might.
Case II: Bullet full of love
I always hated running calculations for the bills and what not. Many hire goblin accountants just for these tedious chores. I could make Pesk do all the work, sure. but i would rather do it myself.
I wasted a lot of greens on that Saturday:
-30$ went for the Cab...i really should buy a car.
-5$ went for that kid.
-20$ went for my spider friend
-50$ went for my faithful Imp
hmm, that is quite a lot ,115 $ to be exact. 985$ are not bad. Now what should i do with my not-so-fat stack of greens? it is not like another case would hop immediately after this one....
>Buy yourself a new suit, pick up Vanzula and pay a visit to your brother, Brim.
>Go to Golden & Hert bank, deposit some of your income
>Go to Ugrog's Ugly gun shop
>Go to Eles Mansa's trove of trinkets
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>>46689035
>Go to Golden & Hert bank, deposit some of your income
We gotta save up for a car someday and have some emergency stash.
Do working skeletons retire at some point in their life/death?
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>>46689093
>Go to Golden & Hert bank, deposit some of your income.
Still reading through the suptg, but that seems like the best choice.
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Post Apoc Megacorp Remnant civ quest 2 2016-04-14 21:34:19 Post No.46675227
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last time a civ was chosen and thus a megacorp remnant has finally awoken taking action in a much changed world. There some light scouting was performed and discovery of that they were not alone to have survived. Some tech was rediscovered but much sadness was felt at the realization of lacking resources meant that even with blueprints they wouldn't be able to make goods that compared to the old world. In the new world however their goods could not be beat unless you found a Think Tank remnant. A hero was discovered from our number the one in fact who came up with the idea of building a megatower into a mountain that was now your home.
Good luck your going to need it.
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Pop increase is due in 3 turns.
>>Turn 7
>>>>>A. Scavenge.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve Armaments
>>>>>D. Research technology
>>>>>E. Build something
>>>>>F. Scout
>>>>>G. Explore
>>>>>H. Your choice
>>>Points: 5 Resource.
>>>Pop 400 (100 bot)
>>>Military 100
>>>>>Food: Good
>>>>>Water: Good
>>>>>Morale: Good
>>>>>Medicine: Good
>>>>>Health: Good
>>>>>Armaments: Good
>>>>>Fuel: Good
>>>>>Tech level: Good
>>>>>Reputation: Juicy Target
>>>>>Infrastructure: Meeting Room. Fish Farm. Hydroponics Bay. Medical Bay. Vehicle Bay. Science Bay. Industrial Bay. Corporate Cells. Storage Center. Corp Construction Center. Water Treatment Center. Corp Recycling Center. Logistical Center. Command Center. Processing Center. Gym. Armory. Server Farm. Factory. Nanite Beds.
>>>>>Defenses: Fortified Superstructure. Auto Defense Network. Trenches. barbed Wire.
>>>>>vehicles: Cargo Hover Haulers 4. VTOL Cargo Flyers 2.
>>>>>Power: Nuclear Reactor. Fast breeder Reactor. Emergency Generator.
>>>>>Weapons: Corp Sidearms. Batons. Tasers. Riot Weaponry(limited). Thunder Firearms(limited). Primitive(plentiful). Explosives(limPited).
>>>>>armor: Armored Vest. Riot Armor(limited). Power Loaders. Thunder Full Body Armor(limited).
>>>>>communications: Corp Comm Center.
>>>>>Materials: Supply 6
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>>46675249
and I forgot last thread...
archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/46530066/
Not much happened besides a crit and creation.
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>D. Research better recycling
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Lost my SoI draft finals with a total of 4 lands. I'm super fucking salty.
So anybody got a good topdeck/mise/bad beats story?
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>>46706148
I get manascrewed in mono-green.
MtG for me is never-ending struggle between me and manabase.
Cheer up, OP. You got it easy.
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When I drafted Gatewatch/ BFZ I drafted B/W allies, I Drew retreat to Emeria then 10 lands in a row.
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>>46706395
I know some of these words.
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>be 40k universe
>the governors of a civilized tech level society are trying desperately to think of a way to keep up with their psyker quotas for the Black Ships
>one of them stumbles across fragments of the Harry Potter novels
>said governor uses the fragments to re-write the Harry Potter novels to fit the 40k universe
>novels are now about a young boy and his friends who travel to Ancient Terra and learn how to be Sanctioned Wizards at a Magic School run by the Emperor!
>the novels are as big a hit with 40k children as they were when we were kids
>soon children are queing up to be tested for psychic abilities, hoping that they too can get to go to wizard's school on earth
>the governors never have a problem meeting their quotas for the Black Ships again
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Do they have video games in the 41st millennium?Is it all F2P garbage?
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>>46705085
The Imperial Guard and some Space Marine chapters probably create video games like the US army does in order to help boost recruiting.
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>>46704793
I bet some planets have IG Joe Comic books about a DIVERSE TEAM with soldiers from every regiment of the Imperial Guard and their own wacky personalities and Codenames.
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There are chainswords, and I presume some form of light saber type weapon, and there are power weapons.
Are there any high frequency/vibro blades in 40K? Owned by the Imperium, the Eldar, Tau or other?
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>>46701133
in the first Horus heresy book, the combat blade used by the protagonist is described as having a button activation that causes it to vibrate white hot or some such
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>>46701133
Almost certainly somewhere.
Default, in the RPGs 'mono', as in monomolecular edge, can be applied as an upgrade to any primitive weapon and they're even cheaper than chainswords.
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>>46701133
Yeah, but they're not all that great. Case in point, Tona Criid has a vibro-knife in Necropolis. Considering she's just your average ganger, and they have trouble getting nice things, it's far from a power weapon -- if you know what I mean.
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i need ideas for villains in a superheroic campaign
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>>46701014
Try a Hitler-esque figure. Doesn't do any dirty work themselves, doesn't engage directly. It'll force the players to actually work to get at him, plus he'll be plenty scummy so they'll be motivated to. If your players are aligned with evil in some way, though, the villain could probably be another band of adventurers hell bent on stopping the group's reign of terror.
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Flynn Butresse, the living cathedral! Possessed by the zealous spirit of a 19th century priest, he seeks to stamp out the stain of Protestants! Has animated gargoyles and other statues as minions. Can mysteriously replace other buildings.
The Reclaimer, the redeemed lumberjack! Once a foreman at a logging site, he was drenched by mystical sap and transformed and welcomed by the dryads. Now he seeks to advance the borders of the forests by any means necessary. Uses repurposed machinery to clear the land.
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A cowardly and neurotic telekinetic who performs robberies with elaborate schemes and Rube Goldberg nonsense to keep himself far from the action.
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The Big Three CMs VS The Four Chaos Champions 2016-04-16 02:57:29 Post No.46700830
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The Big Three CMs VS The Four Chaos Champions
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Who wins crunch-wise and fluff-wise?
Marneus Calgar, Dante, and Logan Grimnar
VS
Ahriman, Kharn, Lucius, and Typhus
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Why are these guys the big three, again?
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>>46700830
you need azrael in there too, since dark angels are part of the big chapters
and the loyalists win because ap2 storm bolters
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>>46701831
What's up with Jugal, Shrike, Hagen, and Tu'shan? Just fuck those guys?
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Would anyone happen to have some manual art of those dog-like kobolds from Japan that only exist because of a translation error? Everything on the boorus/pixiv is maximum anime.
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>only exist because of a translation error?
What?
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>>46700896
more like
>>>/r/
or
>>>/d/
if we are being realistic
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Why do you hate him so much, /tg/?
Every other place on the internet that discusses MtG loves this guy and as always you have to be the contrarian and shit on him for no valid reason.
Why?
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>>46698673
Because he is poorly written and given too much spotlight. The reason why alot of other people like him is because "hes cool" or "is cute", those being only a couple.
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>>46698876
He's actually written alright in Uncharted Realms, it's his smart ass 14 year old flavor text quotes that get on people's nerves.
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This is the best Jace.
Discuss.
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How big are space hulks?
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>>46697702
hulking
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>>46697702
Big enough for nasties of all sizes.
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Anywhere between a single ship to a Jupiter sized object. Not really, I am mean, there really is no limit to their size.
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These Guys are the incarnation of "Implementation is more important than original ideas."
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>>46697573
Some background for those of us who aren't up-to-date on all the latest vidya?
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>>46697573
Yeah, it's a good game. Did you have anything you wanted to talk about?
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>>46697670
That's Lothric and Lorian, collectively one of the main Dark Souls 3 bosses. Basically, they're two princely brothers who were sacrificed to maintain the integrity of the world, now risen from death for the purpose of doing the same thing again. Only they've fled their duty, and the player character has to hunt them down.
Lothric was/is a sickly child, and was bedridden his whole life, while his brother Lorian was a proud and glorious knight, but damaged in mind to the point where he lost his voice and the use of his legs. The second phase of the boss battle has the two of them fighting the player together, Lothric draped over Lorian's shoulders, casting spells while his brother attacks with his giant flaming sword.
It's pretty cool.