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>>46461023
The sight and the environment of the metro have become a bit unnerving for you now.
Having basically spent most of your time awake in the asphyxiating underground system of this world probably equates spending a day in prison.
Except that the people in prison are probably a tad more agreeable.

A bit further down the wagon, a guy is loudly having sex with a girl who’s just as loud as he is.
The Priest is plainly pretending not to notice, but the stupidity coming out of their mouths is too much for you to ignore them.
It’s like they’re uttering profanities and obscenities for the twisted sake of just uttering them.

Normally you wouldn’t have a problem with that, or with sex in general, but this… this something else.
“This is something else”, the Priest echoes your thoughts.
“Hm?”

“See, they’re hentai characters”
“Hentai?”
“Uh… porno cartoons”
“Aaah!”, you nod. “So… chicks with dicks”
“Y-yeah, well it’s not the case here. This is just a rape”
“A rape? But the girl is begging for more, I can clearly hear her”
“That’s not how rape works in this world.”

To stunned to reply, you just nod again and crawl back inside your thoughts.
‘A warrior whose heart is pure. I am sure the guy at the tavern will do just fine’.
Speaking of the tavern, you’re reminded of the fact that reaching it at night can be potentially dangerous.
The Priest ignores it, but there’s at least one powerful ‘heretic’ roaming the streets at night. Granted, one that wasn’t exactly hostile at you, but nevertheless an enemy.

Who is your enemy in these circumstances? At least one group here is lying. It’s either the Priest and his Goddess, or the black-robed witch who cornered you a few days ago. There’s no way to tell who’s is who, especially because the fuckers down the wagon are so goddamn noisy.

>>46461038
It’s becoming so unbearable that you can hardly hear yourself think. The Priest is shrinking on his own seat, by now walking the narrow line between sanity and madness. You, on the other hand, have other plans.

>Stare the idiots until they get uncomfortable
>try to talk to the Priest to help him out of his embarrassment
>get out at the next stop and wait for the next metro.

>>46461076
>>get out at the next stop and wait for the next metro.
Staring won't do anything, and talking just has us taste the foul air.

Sup Author. When do we get the token love interest?

Janrael is focusing on her sword-fighting techniques, with the help of Groundskeeper Answick. She's been trying to use her wings to help her deliver some pretty flashy moves; you'll just have to wait and see how effective those are in a real fight.

Safire is learning to fight, under the expert tutelage of Master Telgether. Initially she made little progress, but became really focused when Kittrane started training with her. Master Telgether asked Kittrane to schedule her general workout at the same time as he's been teaching Safire and now the little gem-girl is really in track.

Nataline is working with Sister Mary to develop her powers. It might be a while until she's ready to go adventuring but the other girls really like her and listen to her – whoever she is helping becomes more focused and motivated.

Anlanesa has been practising using her magic when doing her own training, but much of her time has been spent coaching and helping the other girls.

Calluna has displayed the ability to summon creatures that ...resemble elementals and maybe even angels. But they're also so different from either that they could be classified as a separate class of extraplanar creatures entirely. Maybe something from a very far realm. The things she calls don't stick around for long, do whatever she tells them and haven't hurt anyone yet, but you keep a close eye on them just to be sure.

Chame has been trying to gain the others girls trust back by behaving, but she's looking a little stressed. She's also been bringing her new friend with her a lot – that one is no trouble, she just sits quietly and watches what is going on.

Cleya is being a dedicated and sensible girl and studying things that are going to help her be very successful in the adventuring club and in life – namely wizardly magic. She's also become your unofficial assistant: she fetches you coffee, gets scrolls for you and even writes notes for your lesson plans as you muse about them out loud. It's good to see such a dedication to learning.

Evrumine is working out a lot and trying to match Kittrane and Syphoebeus in strength. She has a long way to go, but when she loses her temper she is something else. You wonder if Chame paying a lot of attention to the newcomer has anything to do with it.

Kittrane has been...getting along with the other girls more. Maybe she's mellowing out. Or maybe she just doesn't have much time for picking fights, or perhaps the club provides all the outlet she needs for her more violent nature. Whatever the reason, you've had almost no complaints about her.

Nevyn has been working on her unarmed combat skills with the help of Master Telgether. She has also spent a lot of time hunting with her pack and training them.

Phaysis is excellent with spear or bow and that damned elf even compliments her. You'll need to steer her towards a less primitive path if she wants to make anything of herself.

Phoebe's strength – physical and magical - is increasing as she starts to push herself. You wonder how powerful she will one day become.

A knock at your door startles you out of your reverie.

“Professor...?” says Cleya, standing in the open door “Are you coming to the club meeting?”

“What?! Oh yes, just let me gather a few things” you hastily pile up all the new rules and follow Cleya out to the club house.

XXX

“And those” you finish your speech “are the new league rules – any questions?”

You stand in front of the girls, all sat on hastily arranged chairs and benches, a sea of faces showing varying amounts of confusion, fear, contempt and anger.

There's a drawn out silence. What? no one has any questions, you certainly have questions: like which bunch of drunken idiots wrote the rules so that a club might not qualify for the finals, but a team in that club still could.

Nataline is the first one to raise a hand “Ah, Professor, I might have misunderstood but it seems to me that these rules give an unfair advantage to the schools with larger clubs, after all a club can have multiple qualifying teams in the final rounds, so a large club stands a greater chance of winning the championship.”

You open your mouth to explain, but Chame interrupts “actually a club fielding only 1 team would be able to maintain a perfect per-match score by picking their matches carefully and qualify, and with only a single team the clubs point average per team would be top as well, automatically qualifying them. If the clubs point average is too low, then only the team qualifies and-”

“They can't change their lineup to deal with changing scenarios” Anlanesa finishes, speaking quickly over Chame.

Evrumine wrinkles up her face “that makes no sense.”

“It's bureaucrats makes rules for rules sakes” Kittrane says with a huff “making no sense is the point.”

“Makes perfect sense to me” says Calluna quietly, but you barely hear her as the girls all start to debate the merits, and many flaws of the rules out loud.

“Girls, girls!” you raise your voice to be heard “the upshot of this is that we need every team to win and earn points, not just one: we're going to need some of our novice members to step up, form new teams, and start winning.”

Several of the newer girls look worried as you say that, so you moderate it by adding “and the more experienced members of the club will, I'm sure, help with that, and also join as reserve members.”

Nods all round indicate agreement with this line of thinking.

Cleya raises a hand “Professor, are we picking a new team now?”

“Not permanently” you say “let's try something else first, follow me.”

>>46460043
We don't talk about it.

>>46460043
>but I never see these people talk about the alternatives.
(you)
(you)
(you)
(you)
Here, have your (you)s and fuck off, you cockgobbling hypertwat cuntbadger.

FATE
GURPS
Reign/ORE
Torchbearer
Dungeon World
Earthdawn
Ars Magica
7th Sea
Savage Worlds
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Wayfarers
Over the Edge
d6
The Burning Wheel
Dragon Age/Fantasy Age
Warrior, Rogue, Mage
BareBones Fantasy Role Play
Basic Role-Playing
Tavern Tales

Jesus Fucking Christ, just TRY SOMETHING ELSE.

>>46458254
A group of raiders some how breach the vault and lay siege to it and the PCs must drive them off. Afterwords they need to figure out how to fix it or build a new home for their fellow vaulters.

what do you/your players like about fallout specifically? give us something to go off of.

Okay so, they're in a vault.They get out of the vault. There's raiders and shit. And a town. The town is being attacked. They get key info on where to find the macguffin that'll "save the wasteland." The macguffin is behind a large winding path designed not for fun but to show off the world.But they can just go straight to the macguffin if they knew where it was. Then, when they get there, they have to make a choice. Save one not-well-established faction, but destroy another, or vice versa.

Boom, Fallout plot.

>>46457592
>They take the long way round and discover that, if you speak the right words with just the right pronunciation while making exactly the right gestures with precise amounts of specific items, you can get the universe to do things yourself.
...Who was the first person to figure this out?
Legitimately. Who thought it would be a good idea to carry around a bag of random shit and practice hand-waving until the universe started to do their laundry?
Seriously, the whole idea of Vancian casting is absolutely ridiculous unless you want to interpret the Weave of Magic as some sort of computer console anyone with enough INT can read and write to, and then you have to deal with people who don't actually 'know' magic figuring out commands that makes things happen the way they want.

>>46457592
>Are the greatest wizards a bunch of socially-crippled super autists?
Was this ever in question?

>>46457758
Probably somebody who was really jealous of a sorcerer.

OP's mom? More like OP's woman who should have aborted him.

>>46456243
>X?
>More like DnD

Engine Heart? More like Engine Fart!

>dieselpunk orcs

So, Fury Road?

>>46458523
By making everyone a brutal orc you're taking away the fun thing about playing a brutal orc: sticking out like a sore thumb among civilized settings and characters.

I don't see what the upside is from a normal setting or how you'd make it interesting if you can't even get started without the fa/tg/uy brigade.

>>46458523
Orcish homeworld? What're you talking about, Warcraft?
>dieselpunk
No.

>>46458081
You returned to the bodies of your old friends… intent on burning them to keep them from ever returning home themselves… when you saw your cousin across the field.

Stepping out of the tree line, calm, collected… he was probably there since the start. You wanted to make the bastard suffer, and you were the best at what you do.

But as the world already knows… he cheats.

He doesn’t kill you immediately after cutting your hand off. First he cuts off your other hand, then your legs, then your arms at the shoulder. After he’s done making you incapable of harming him, he starts to gloat, saying this was the most fun he’s had in a long time but that he’d hoped you would do better than this. He debates to himself whether to burn you, or keep hunting you down every time you return. He tells you he’s already killed your father, and does you the “service” of starting the fire you had prepared for your friends… his pawns… since they've outlived his use for them..

He’s underestimated you though. He left Your Dagger too close to you… and isn’t expecting it when you fling it at him with your teeth… isn’t expecting you to cheat too.

He’s dead now… but he’ll be back… and so will you… it might take a while though, humans that share your body type don’t typically make use of your talent… while for your cousin, humans cheating is going to give him an early and quick refresher on life, he just has to wait for old age to return home and take over… you hope the body you possess isn’t too willful… it could make shutting him down difficult...

(cont.)

>>46458094
Your name is Lucy Cook.

In the back of your mind you can see and feel yourself standing up and wiping blood away from your mouth where you bit your tongue, starting to dig through the dirt and mumbling something you can’t quite catch.

You’re pretty sure you aren’t doing it though. You feel more immediately like you’re floating in some black void… with another girl… one who has to be Mary with her pure white features… staring blankly at you from 5 meters away. She has an ornate dagger in her hand, and seems to be clutching it tightly.

What do you do?

>>46458120
Speak to her through the void, "you're Mary aren't you?"

1. slow metabolism

2. see 1

3. they do

>>46457579
1: Usually semi-magical.
2: Low birthrates.
3: Because their minds don't work like ours.

>>46457579
Oh look.

Another fucking elf thread.

>>46456865
>11th of August, 1095

As you roll over in your bed, you find yourself missing Francesca’s presence. Even though it’d only been half a day, having her around eased your mind a lot more. You sighed, sitting up in your bed. You’ve woken up numerous times in the middle of the night. Each and every time, the same nightmare caused it. Otto’s last sounds, and the sight of his lifeblood streaming out of his mutilated throat. You shivered, trying to shake the thoughts away.

As you got up and got dressed, you heard the door closing. Edward left for the church. You guess that it must be around nine o’clock now. Slowly and quietly, you move over to the living room, grabbing whatever food you could find before sitting down at the table. You tried to eat. You really did. But you just didn’t have any appetite. Something was wrong, and knowing that upset you quite a bit.

You just decided to get on with your day. There wasn’t much to be done, as William and Michèl wouldn’t be back until tomorrow, or if the winds were unfavourable, the day after. You had to ask Francesca’s father if he’d let you marry her, too.

>Go to the shop.
>Go to the Boboni estate.
>Go to the docks.
>Find a physician.

>>46456871
>>Go to the shop.

>>46456871
And don't forget to grab some nice wine

>>46455829
They UNBANNED cards? And one of them is BLUE?

Where the fuck did that come from?

Will topter sword be a viable deck?

So I don't play Magic, but this whole banning/unbanning thing... is it just a way to patch broken rules?

>>46452127
Wild Talents

HERO system

>>46452127
what was your experience with BESM?

>>46439604
Ok, so what needs to be added further to the sector?

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>>46439604
Posting this here so Anons can make more worlds for the sector

>>46439702

More Gue'vesa, and Pivole recommended one more civillised confederate world to round them off.

>>46457208
If it bombs, it'll be because of the writing.

Only if we get scenes with the players too

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>>46457510
Probably.

>>46457533
>producer of The Lego Movie

We can only hope.

>>46454618
>moral choice
Don't make present them as such, and, for the love of god, don't make them binary.

Just describe a situation and see how your players/characters deal with it.
Don't call them out on their murderhobo antics OOC, and just incorporate the consequences in-game.

>>46454649
Pretty much. Don't make them choices, make them fields.

Only issue with moral choices is the risk of disruptive party infighting.
That can be avoided with a reasonable amount of backstory at creation and giving the characters bonds so they have reasons to stay together.

Otherwise, what >>46454649 said.