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>>46608552
Bummer. This ship was so sick, we should gift them ours and keep theirs.

>>46608552
Oh, good. I was just about finished with last of the books I brought with me.

>>46608552
>with a smug smirk he flicks through a pamphlat on void safety.

>>46608320
I recon this accounts for 2/6 chance of 0?

>>46608338
Yes indeed.

>>46608320
You can probably calculate this in anydice, anon.

>>46607709
Watch any movie with clones in it like The Island or Star Trek Nemesis. There could be a law or the clone's expiration date that will urge it to kill the original.

Sometimes it's pride, sometimes it's an alibi or it's paranoia.

>>46607709

Maybe the clone thinks it's the original. Or wants to be.

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I played a magical girl game once where a player had a marionette power (basically made a copy of themselves that they controlled like a puppet.).

As the game went on and the stresses of magic and life-or-death monster battles went on, the ability began to "mutate"... the character's mind began to shatter, and pieces of her personality went into the marionettes. At first this would just show up with them manifesting with slight differences from the original. Different hair color, eyes, even gender on time.

Then one day, they gained enough sentience to avoid being dispelled and re-absorbed... and had this idea that if they could kill another magical girl (not necessarily the original only, so they were a threat to the whole party) that they could somehow absorb their souls and become "real". They ended up becoming the final BBEGs of the campaign.

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>Did the weaker party members find their own ways to be helpful or was it just one or two guys carrying the team?
Yes.


How would you make a campaign where certain player characters are weaker than others by design?
Make a campaign where Combat isn't always the best, or even a viable, option for resolving conflict.

True story, whenever I play wizards in DnD/Pathfinder, despite how broken they are in such systems, I always play a character who's alot weaker than the rest of the rest of the party, even the melee fighters. I'm useful because those melee fighters are smashing things with a magic lightning hammer that *I* made. I'm useful because when we're fighting a monster nobody has ever seen before, I'm the one who researches it's weaknesses. I'm useful because, even though I can't take much of a hit or put out much damage, I know what to do and say to make sure everyone else can take a ton of hits and put out a ton of damage.

Of course, support-mage isn't the only option for weak characters being helpful. I've also been involved in all-thief games and Shadowrun-esque things where stealth or charisma or skills with certain types of technology are just as important as combat... where combat still has it's uses, sure... but it's something that has to be used and planned around carefully. If you have a guy that's a walking armory, for example, it's easy to overwhelm half-trained security guards at a museum, but you're going to have 5 minutes tops to finish up your heist and get out before the SWAT team shows up... maybe 10 minutes if your tech guy can delay the security systems.

So yeah, it's easy to do... just make combat not always be an option for resolving conflicts on it's own.

Current game we're playing, there's another race in the setting besides humans, which is incomparably stronger than them. As in like, not even a hundred humans could defeat one. It kind-of poorly balances out though because the other race seem really poorly adjusted to average tasks and living, so us human characters ended up being skill monkeys and have a general competency as well as much better socially. There are still cased where there's a massive imbalance like in fights (which have proven to be extremely lethal) and my character for example always just runs away. The DM though has done a really nice job of mixing gameplay up to have lots of things like puzzles and problems that require clever or quick thinking and skills, which is similarly unbalanced against the other race in our favor. Overall it's kind of janky and takes getting used to, but has proven to be quite interesting and fun, and great for role playing.

>>46607303
Any GURPS game. Particularly superheroes.

You always have a dude who just makes Hawkeye and another dude who is practically invulnerable to physical harm and shoots laser beams out of his eyes that melt tanks.

GURPS is the best.

I'm confused with the question. Do you mean a tradeback? You sell your soul for rad instrument shreddage, and then request to give the rad instrument shreddage back for soul? If that's the case, I'm sure you could ask, whether or not he'd agree to it is up to the demon.

>>46607119
the "No Refund" policy comes to mind here

>>46607119
Because you're trusting a demon with your soul you dumbass. Even if he has to honor some kind of code you still pissed off a demon for wasting his time.

Just take a long ol' break

>>46607055
Terminator Librarian. I forgot about theses guys.

Have a huge army of old metals, space marines pre-fall thousand sons.

Once tried playing at a games workshop shop with them only to be asked if they were fakes because they look so different from the current editions.

I had to show him online the original models.

>>46607055
Really, OP, it depends on your community more than anything else.
I've played 40k off and on for 20 some years. I quit playing for a handful of years after 4e came out and, to me, everything I enjoyed was butchered even worse than 2e->3e.
However, at the tail end of 4e and going into 5e, I found a shop that had a strong mix of crowds, some vets like me and people who had the same mindset when it comes to 40k as I do.
I don't need to worry about someone spamming jetbike Eldar in my shop, just like they don't need to worry about me rolling in grav cheese. The people who don't toe the community line are shown what is expected of everyone, and if they don't modify their behavior, are turned away.
Find the right place for you, OP. Don't trash years of good times and investment because some people don't walk to the same beat you do. The fun people are out there, if you go find them.
Good luck and godspeed, anon.

>>46607001
Easily one of the upper half of chapter tactics, Bolter drill helps almost every unit that has chapter tactics. Plus Tank Hunters for devs which is amazing.

>>46607001
Your doing the Emperor's work anon, that is all that matters.

Bolter Drill is baller, just like everything from that chapter. My best mate has been playing Lysander since literally 4th and takes a 4 Heavy bolter squad of devs and a bunker these days, no matter the matchup. Its surprising just how effective those Heavy Bolters are, always underestimated. And Lysander is a badass no matter what.

HAH I LAUGH AT YOUR QUESTION

We of the Iron Warriors are clearly more superior than you loyalist dogs

Has the Fists fallen so low that they feel self conscious about their tactics?

Pitiful...

>magic power is based solely on their level of love and friendship
>also give them a stat for plot armor and deus ex machinas
I don't think anything else really matters

>>46606986
I wouldn't. I'd just play Magicians.

>>46606986
Pretty much this >>46607028

If you're going to play an RP about magical people, tear out all the Harry Potter stuff except for maybe the relative power level of magic and start from scratch.

I'll just write them all myself... too much easy money involved.
And Gurlyman will be shitted on days and night, and will probably end up killed by a random chaos cultist, or stepped on by a allied titan for the lols.

>>46606261

Dan Abnett, Timothy Zahn, Victor Milan of Dinosair Knights, Bran Sanderson for lore coordinator, and ADB.

>>46606532

>Zahn

Oh god I wish. He'd literally be the only one who can actually make Horus look like the Warmaster he's supposed to be. One of the worst parts of Vengeful Spirit was McNeill trying to bullshit Horus' strategic genius and failing miserably.

>>46606111
Depends. What kind of game are you looking to play?

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>>46606111
>Barbarians of Lemuria,Mythic Edition (current edition) -- https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7llc83r2xf8bg/Barbarians_of_Lemuria_-_Mythic_Edition

>Barbarians of Lemuria, Legendary Edition (earlier edition, fewer details & more minimalist presentation makes it even easier to learn, but the rules aren't as refined) -- http://www.mediafire.com/download/p5w885sa9a869ma/Barbarians+Of+Lemuria+-+Legendary+Edition.pdf

>Barbarians of Lemuria, House Rules / Patches for Legendary Edition (if you want the bare bones minimalism of Legendary, but with the rules tightened up a bit) -- https://mega.co.nz/#F!CtQR2bST!y_awB-GHCiL3CdK4iLCV7A

>>46606122
Well, we're pretty open minded on the subject, the only thing we're looking for is for it to be easy to pick upin order to get more "casual" classmates of ours to play.

(REMOVE EVERYTHING IN PARENTHESES. NUMBER 2 IS OPTIONAL)

1. What is your name? (Include any nicknames or titles)

2. What is your domain? (Most demons are attributed with certain powers or realms of influence)

3. How did you come to be "trapped" within the gem? (This is only semi-important)

4. What is your plan for the host? (Are you trying to escape the gem, etc. This is to give me at least some kind of direction when coming up with ideas)

>>46603272
1.>Tenazel
2. Dreams
3. We snubbed Eris.
4. To make all the world our domain.

who Gem TD here?

>He hasn't tried Savage Worlds yet

Put down what you're doing and go get the book.

>>46603111
Shadowrun is pretty lethal. Most of the times I've played, damage was either "your dermal plating absorbs the hit" or being spaghetti on the walls.

I'm afraid I've not played many other dangerous systems beyond that. I've heard that RuneQuest is quite lethal, for example, but don't have firsthand experience.

>>46603172
Savage Worlds is a bit of an interesting one in that a single bad roll can outright kill you, but you can do much more with the same kinds of success.

It also lacks a lot of mechanical depth sadly and the whole quick death usually makes people go combat focused as much as possible I find.

>>46602869
Who the fuck cares m8, not Elves, that's for sure.

Dwarves are shut-ins who don't care unless MUH GOLD is threatened, and hobbits are bumfuck manlets that are barely even known to exist.

>>46602869
AFAIK, dwarves were busy digging, both greedily and deeply, while hobbits just didn't really care about life outside the Shire.

>>46602150
They should attempt to be as authentic as possible, like how Kamigawa was more Shinto than anime bullshit.

Egypt was a black land, and the cards should reflect that.

>>46602204
Just like how Persia was all blonde hair blue eyed Nordics before the Arab's took over.

>>46602150
I believe it had to do with it being one of the highest voted potential new planes in that poll that MaRo did.

>>46602204
>black land

THAT OHRASE REFERS TO THE FUCKING SOIL, TO CONTRAST WITH THE SHITTY "RED LAND" OF THE DESERT

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS WERE SO NOT BLACK THEY HAD THEIR OWN WORD FOR BLACK PEOPLE - THE NUBIANS WERE CALLED "MEDJAY" AMD DEPICTED AS WHOLLY DIFFERENT FROM THEM

>>46601139
Unlimited range and linear movement vs single stock movement pattern? Gimme a bishop any day.

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Too stupid for chess desu.

>>46601139
Most relative valuations place the bishop as slightly higher in value than the knight, though they are admittedly only generalizations.