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>>46434141
I don't know, nor do I care.

The only good Eldar are grown in vats, anyway.

>>46434141
Given the evidently involved nature of their reproduction cycle, and how anti-hedonism their culture is, they probably take time off specifically for reproduction and don't initiate it otherwise.

No because Eldar did not have traditional nuclear families. A chaos god was born from their collective degeneracy. They all have multiple partners and orgies were the norm. No one got cucked (great meme there) because no one was committed.

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Doubtful. She hasn't exactly been showing signs of recovery. The most recent depiction of her shows her ballroom dancing with a corpse like in Interview With a Vampire.

They didn't even try to ask her for help because they knew she wouldn't give it. Why would she help? What would she personally have to immediately gain? She doesn't care about Zendikar, she doesn't care about the safety of the multiverse, she doesn't really care about anything other than herself.

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>>46417237
>They didn't even try to ask her for help
Actually, Jace did. She told him to fuck right off. See: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/catching-2015-07-22

Looks like she's telling him to fuck off again this block, based on the fact that she's now attacking him with the Chain Veil.

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>>46417459
>Liliana still has the chain veil

So is Jace totally fucked? Last time she used it it totally ruined Garruk's whole day.

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>>46433947
I cast Detect Evil.

>>46433947
well... alright. But uhh... If you consent then how is it rape?

>>46434020
You detect the evil in yourself.
You fall down a trap door

"Thing is, the war was never about gnoll rights..."

Ya, there's no way trolls would be the Union.

>>46433793
You mean 19th century?

>>46434464
Why not just trolls on both sides?

>>46431956
The Emperor probably just rolled a D20 and went with that.

>>46432002
The Absolute mad man!

>>46431956
Because GW decided how many basic styles of Space Marines they wanted to fluff/sell, then doubled it to have an even split of chaos and loyalists, then added two mysterious/undisclosed ones so that people could homebrewwank.

Final number was 20.

Maybe grox get you a really good return on investment? That's why we farm cows instead of say, deer or horse, because they give you a much higher amount of meat relative to the time and resources required to raise them.

>>46431465
Apparently their meat is very nutritious and they can eat a shitload of different foods, so they can be reared on many different types of worlds.

>>46431505
>>46431523
But it's still xeno meat, surely for the Imperium that would have been a big no no.

>>46414081
>>Leave harpy here.

>>46414168
>leaving it to bleed out in the woods.
At least have the decency to kill it yourself.

Wrap her up in the robes and take her with us.

>>46414081
>>Leave harpy here.
And we're back!
Still going to vote to leave her. I know we tried to save the harpy, but to what end? There's probably only an execution waiting for her in the Kingdom.

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Decima is actually already engaged. She is nobility however, so despite being 14 its normal, she's been taken since before she was concieved. On the other hand she is shy and autistic and a bit of a pyro, so not sure on whether or not she is wife material.

>>46431079
My LE necromancer is married. Playing him as the mobster-style LE so his family is what he cares most to protect. He is a pretty good spouse.

My current PC would be an amazing spouse, if it weren't for his devotion to the party leader. He's loyal, cautiously ambitious, patient, a good cook, and chased after an elven lord's ghost with nothing but an unattuned magic shortsword and rusty chain to save his boss by himself. He's a bit rough to look at, in a potentially ruggedly appealing way, and could afford to lose a few pounds, but he's a good cook and takes enough care of his horse to make local lords envious.

>>46413539
Remember that anything the players haven't directly experienced doesn't actually exist. Feel free to move around ideas for things they can encounter.

If you were planning on having them go to a lava temple and they decide to go elsewhere, make it an ice temple and just switch the descriptors.

Reskinning monsters can make the players think they're a lot more bad-ass than they really are.

If you're using a D&D system (sounds like you are), have some pre-made statted characters that you can drop into a scene if you need an NPC. Otherwise, don't bother writing down full statblocks for every single NPC, because you'll never need 95% of them, and the remaining 5% can just be layered over the premade statblocks.

Keep the action going. If you have to ask the players "what do you want to do now", you're doing it wrong. Give them a sense of immediacy. Start them in a situation where they need to act in a heroic manner. Force them to react to the world around them.

Keep your cool. Remember that it's a game, not a novel in progress. If you think you made a bad call or something else should have happened, don't be afraid to see if everyone is OK with rewinding and saying it happened differently.

>>46413539
Personally i would recommend that you run a module for your first attempt, it really helps you learn to build encounets.

>>46413539
-throw dices and keep statistics behind a shield/cover so they can't see you. this allows you to cheat to avoid unfairly killing players or to add hp to monsters if the encounter ended up being too easy.
-you should be able to read anything you have prepared within 10 seconds. printed stuff or everything in one PDF on a well charged laptop is good.of course you will keep track of stuff like hp of monsters on pencil+paper.
-if you tell us the system you are using and what characters your friends made we might be able to tell you what balance problems you might find
-speak clearly, ask players to focus, remind your players of what they are doing. you are the one to blame if the party loses interest, there are dead times, some player lose focus or doesn't know what the group is doing.Feel free to ban any activity not related to the game, decrease rule search
time by forcing players to print their spells.
-try to not interrupt the gameflow. Inventing a rule or asking your best player if they remember the rule might be better than spending 10 minutes searching for it. Unfortunately players who are new to a system might invent something really awful for game balance. as long as players don't die it's ok. at worst you will modify the rule the next day you meet.
-You should be the one that set the standard and the example for roleplaying. if someone doesn't talk much or doesn't roleplay you should encourage him.Describing your actions in combat is the first easy step for people who don't know how to roleplay.
-you are not the enemy of the party. you are the one that collaborate with them to let their character tell a good story and you can do anything in your power to make it sound cool for everyone.
-if someone knows the system more than you ask him for help sometimes.
-Players that feel discriminated against might get angry if they see someone else get rewarded more than them. try to be comunicative and fair to everyone.

why do you have to roll an actual character to make a monster to fight ree

Exalted 3E

I adore it and the setting, but it's got far too many fiddly little rules that are hard to remember, and if people aren't really on top of remembering their charms and dice pools, each turn is a long slog. Only with a very high level of competence (compared to other systems) do rounds stop taking a damn half hour.

3.5.

I think it is fair to call out people trying to shoe horn every fucking thing into it. I use it for dungeon crawls when the group is in the mood and I shoot down any attempts for other dms to use it to run something outside of what it can do.

>>46429549
The rise of the Aztec empire an dater galatic civilization causes Khorne to rip from the newly made eye of terror, and the return of Moctezuma to be a Daemon prince.

>>46429549
Nuclear weapons dont make your tributes, your gods feed on blood, not ashes and cancer.

>>46429549
>How does the Aztec Empire expand into space
They don't, realistically speaking. After using nukes on the scale, MAD (because other countries *will* have nukes, no matter how badly you want to deny it) would have destroyed any human civilization.

>>46413519
>9th of August, 1095

After a long night, you finally wake up. It must’ve been around 10 o’clock. Did you really sleep for eleven hours? You groggily get out of bed, wondering which outfit to wear. Deciding that you should save your expensive set of clothes for a better time, you settle on the black & gold jerkin with a white tunic underneath. Last night exceeded your expectations, as you may have found yourself a possible wife. To top it off, she agreed to a courtship.

However, it wasn’t up to her. You figured that you should visit her father’s estate today, to personally ask for his permission to court his daughter. It was destined to be an uncomfortable conversation, as you’d have to convince him that you’re worthy. Today was also the day that you’d get to spend a lot of money. You still owed the tailor a 100 ducats for the flags, banners, surcoat and your outfit.

You notice that Edward already left for the church. You hadn’t seen him in a day, now. As you step outside, you wonder what to do first.
>Go to the tailor.
>Go to the Boboni estate.
>Go to the shop.

>>46413527
>>Go to the tailor.
Pay off dem debts first

Have to decide if new clothes can impress Sir Boboni.

Let's not and say we did.

>>46428504

I disagree. We should say we did, but actually did not.

>>46428504
How about lets not and then never mention it again, more of a salt the earth approach.

>>46428259
Usually just appearance, personality, and notes on the interactions the PCs have had with them

>>46428281
This. You want just enough information about them so they feel complete without making anything feel scripted or boxing yourself in.

>>46428259
Give each NPC atleast two personality traits, no matter how small a character he/she/it/C̹̪͎̯̘̬̫͠t̠͉̕h͖̜̙ųl̫̟̙̫͕̺̗ṷ̮͙̜ is.

If they're an Elf, don't just make their personality arrogant or cock-craving; Maybe make them overly-secretly curious about Human culture or orderly.
If they a Tiefling, Drow, or other Special Snowflake race, don't just make them brooding about how "everyone is racist against them"; make them hunger for the secrets of good Hobbit cooking or surprisingly fatherly.
If they're a Cleric, don't just make them religious and religion-abiding; make him greedy or paranoid about displeasing their deity.

No character should be completely one-dimensonal.