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Session with an overweight crossdresser with delusions of femininity, an autist who thought screeching at the top of her lungs was good roleplaying and a DM whose idea of a good time was chucking AC 25 300+hp guards at us until someone died

Hey, I'm probably late to the party with this, but does a lvl 3 bear totem barb get damage res in heavy armor?

There doesn't seem to be the same stipulation as with the eagle totem, which means it should work. You do lose out on the other features of rage tho.

>>46356570
It was in Edge of the Empire. A player kept derailing the action so he could PvP. I have nothing against PvP when done right, but this event made no sense and was just to be a dick. We ended up losing a player permanently because of that session.

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I sometimes wish Blizzard would remember that some of their mount species are sapient or near-sapient sometimes.

Just to see how they'd react to this insanity.

>>46356659
Yeah, wyvers, raptors, and gryphons are all at least semi-sapient. Most of the drakes are fully sapient, of course. Not sure about the rest.

I think sabers, horses, and worgs are fairly intelligent, but not as much as the above.

>>46356659
>all those drakes eternally bound to someone's will because they had good RNG in the right dungeon

do you even know what power creep means?

1 requires no colours, 2 requires a single colour, 3 requires 3 colours.

Colourless into mono into tri. The more logical frame for the next step would be a five-coloured Rhino of Alara..

>>46355730
>>Follow the sound of the cart
The best decision right now. Can we also check what kind of equipment we're wearing and have? Any weapons?

>>46355730
>Investigate the woods.

>>46355730
>Follow the sound of the cart

>>46314267 → = First Thread
>>46336164 → = Second Thread

Stats:
>U.S.S.R. (United Scaly Skinned Reptiles)
Thunder's Bane
>Population: 341+30 per turn (90%/10% Kolbold/Lizard-Folk)
>31 Fire Shaman
>Food: Croc Meat, Plants-Stable, Fish-Stable
>Water: River-Stable
>Resources: Stones, Wood, Leaves, Crocodiles, Iron-Stone
>Technology: Stone Tools, Fire, Crocodile Herding, Tree-walking, Simple Scriptilian, Advanced Scriptilian, Classes, Saddles, Taming
>Weapons/Armor: Iron- Stone Spears, Bows and Iron-Stone arrows, Kinda Croc Scale, Poison-coatings, Shields, Guerrilla Militia
>Magic: The Breathing of All Lives, Fire Blast, Magic Training, Heat Beam
>Buildings: Tree-huts, Decoy Camp, Quarry
>Defenses: Spear Traps, Crude Camouflage

Question the little one; try and get what we can from him as to why he needs a place to stay, why his scales are blue and why Gup's pissed.

>>46355535
Interrogate the freak. See where he came from, why he's here, and who he is. Also ask why the hell is he blue.

Also hi. I'm usually too late for your civs. I like what I see. Keep doing what you're doing

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>>46355526
>> What's your favorite game base solely on the quality of the artwork or components? (Bonus points if the rules also kick ass.)

Euro Games - Archipelago & Terra Mystica

Ameritrash - Gears of War & Specter Ops

>> What are you playing / looking forward to playing soon?

Anything! Though hopefully some Citadels and 404 Law Not Found soon.

>> What (if anything) is on your buy list / KS incoming list?

I got a parcel...
with Fury of Dracula...
from Florida!...

HATE MAIL!!!

Actually it has been a really good week or two for new games at my place. ;)

Strong Hold 2nd Ed.
BattleCruiser
Eminent Domain Exotica expansion
Fury of Dracula
7 Wonders Duel
& Mission Red Planet.

> What's your favorite game base solely on the quality of the artwork or components? (Bonus points if the rules also kick ass.)
404: Law Not Found. There are chits with monkeys on them.
> What are you playing / looking forward to playing soon?
I'm going on a family holiday soon, which will coincide with two meetups - sucks, but what can you do? To make up for that, I'm planning on taking a few light games to teach the pleb-tier in-laws - Gemblo, Love Letter, Wildlife Rescue, etc.
> What (if anything) is on your buy list / KS incoming list?
Nah, I'm good right now. I might get a second-hand copy of Corto from Noble Knight Games, if I definitely can't get it any cheaper. Either that, or the new Star Wars Risk, I've heard good things about that.

>>46355526
> What's your favorite game base solely on the quality of the artwork or components? (Bonus points if the rules also kick ass.)
No comment. Neither artwork nor components matter that much as far as I am concerned.

> What are you playing / looking forward to playing soon?
The usual. Some power grid and chaos in the old world. I am looking forward to a game of arkham horror, which should be played this week, with some expansions I haven't tried. I don't particulary like the gameplay in arkham horror at all. It will be interesting to try it with something different than base game + dunwich though.

> What (if anything) is on your buy list / KS incoming list?
Conan: Monolith. I haven't really checked anything about it. I am curious though as to how it will turn out, considering that I enjoy Conan.

>>46355043
Depends on the person running the game.
In one game, our group as a whole opted to kill the mayor's daughter that we were sent to rescue (and blame the orcs that kidnapped her) despite my scout shooting her in the back with his shortbow...and us running her over...twice...with the wizard's carriage.

Beyond that...perhaps killing one or two PC's in 'accidents' would work to derail things as you learn more about the group.

Kill yourself.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Peasant_Railgun

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First for Rebels S2 Finale tonight.

Wonder if this'll influence any future F&D stuff.

So does anyone else think that lightsaber duels in the current system are kind of lame?

I have a player character who is a runaway inquisitor and will get her hands on a lightsaber at some point so I've been putting some thought into the Inquisitors that will catch up with her eventually, how to stat them so that they're threatening without being overpowering, and I keep coming back to the problem that melee combat is just too damn D&D for this setting.

I have a Lightsaber skill of GY and my opponent has a Lightsaber skill of YYYYY. Because of how melee combat works, we both take turns rolling against a dinky PP difficulty, which is unaffected by our respective sills and can only be increased by special talents (Which PCs don't get).

So I started thinking, why not have lightsaber combat be opposed rolls? Instead of GY vs PP and YYYYY vs PP it's GY vs RRRRR, then YYYYY vs PR. Combat becomes a constant exchange of blows in an extended and dramatic duel rather than "I hit you, you hit me, I miss you, you hit me" and then because Lightsabers ignore soak one person is dead in 2-3 rounds tops.

Of course this still runs into the problem of lightsabers being super lethal, unlike in the games this sort of back and forth melee combat is descended from--so I thought of a second rule. Success/Failure doesn't deal Wounds, but Strain--when you run out of Strain you're unable to continue the fight, and your opponent can disarm you, knock you unconscious, maim you, or kill you as is appropriate. You can still wound people by rolling Triumphs, which then inflict Wounds equal to the number of net Success in the roll on your opponent. Two Triumphs and you get to add the Lightsaber's damage rating as Wounds. Of course if you roll Despair the opposite happens and your opponent deals Wounds to you the same way.

Haven't stress tested this other than rolling dice on my phone yet but I'm looking forward to seeing how it holds up in the wild.

Thoughts?

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Just going to quietly repost this question:

just want this cleared up for me once and for all:

so on Pg 400 of F&D the rule with minion groups reads:

"-the minion group has a single would threshold, shared by all members of the group. This wound threshold is is equal to the sum of the wound thresholds of every member of the group... Each time any member of the group suffers wounds, the wounds are applied to the group's wound threshold. Individual members of the group are defeated one at a time, each time the total wounds suffered exceeds that group member's share of the wound threshold..."

When I first read this in the AoR corebook (which as far as I can tell the verbiage is identical in both) I interpreted this as meaning "after subtracting for soak you deal damage and for every multiple of X, where X is the total soak of each individual member, that many members of the group die off" I.E. if you got a squad of 4 storm troopers takes 15 damage, 2 will drop dead from the attack. (15, -5 for soak, leaves 10 damage left).

However, when I started running the game, a player, who claimed to have more experiance with the system said "no, that's not how it works".

According to him the group takes damage until it matches the soak of one individual in the group and then that member drops dead and no more damage is applied to the group, so according to this it doesn't matter how much damage you do to a minion group because the most you will ever drop in a single attack is 1.

So, SWG, which interpretation is correct?

I actually really need to know this because I'm going to start up a new campaign soon and want to run it correctly.

>>46353663
Aashenpreet watches you from the bed as you gather up a length of her shed skin and crush it into the Soulshape cauldron. You also pull together some of your old clothes that got ruined by her blood and after a moment’s deliberation, a few Quedeshi shrikes. The brown coins sink into the concoction with a slight hiss. The reaction is already taking place.

You aren't going to mess this one up either. You need to show Aashenpreet your dedication and give her some proof that you can still be trusted. And so you slave away for over two hours with your focus shrunk to just the cauldron in front of you and even as your arms begin to shake, you refuse to let yourself break or relent.

The Soulshape is beginning to coalesce, a small form coiling within the cauldron as the brew congeals to something more solid. A perfect body for the result of your companion brew.

Have you added any physical potions to the Soulshape to influence the physique of the resulting homunculus?


>No. You haven’t made this one for war.

>Skinshedder only.

>Skinshedder and the same basic combat package you gave Hom.

>A different variety of potions (Specify)

>>46353674
>Skinshedder and the same basic combat package you gave Hom.
Plus potence and champion because why not

>>46353674
>Skinshedder only.

First order of business is that we really, really need something not called Sky Knights.

It just doesn't...inspire.

>>46352812
I don't like the idea of there being floating "lands" in the sky. If we do that the environment of the sky itself will suffer. Slow moving flying machines and stuff made of "hard" clouds will help show the immensity of the blue and white void that is the sky. Floating continents will not.

What do you think? Should we have landmasses in the sky? I think the idea of "cloud gardens" will be more than enough. They're unique enough visually with their focus on visible roots and their smallness and location -inside- clouds won't detract from the immediate power of the setting.

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>>46350946
>>46350766

>Are Groundlings Human?

Yes, and can breed with Flyers. How else are we supposed to get a Flyer/Groundling romance?

>Feudal society?

I'm tempted to make something weird and strange, but this setting revolves on the power difference between Flyers and Groundlings. A simple feudal relationship works. The Flyers are gentry, they just control the Sky AND the land.

So wait, does this include the other places in the world or just these psuedo-European sky knights?

Why don't we get any cool powers?

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>>46352925
Waiting for HFY-fuckers and /pol/ to come in and talk about superior races

>>46352974
as long as they writefag well i say let them go for it honestly.

Act like I'm going to give him the sweetroll, but at the last minute throw it in the air, hoping that they'll pay attention to it long enough for me to get a shot in on the leader.

>>46352951
Drop the sweetroll and step on it. Preparing for a fight.

>>46352919
>How would your last character respond?
That's now my Paladin's origin story. She gave it to them.

Chronicles of Fagness

>>46352665
Anyone have any good DM stories from nWoD or cWoD

>>46352562
Well, the Srizaku make slightly more sense now.

I prefer them to be tall, with muscular hunk bodies and a knack for both swordsmanship and metallurgy.

Treefondlers!

>>46352785
always check knotholes for chipmunks.

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>>46351909
Ironic thread name

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>>46352285