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>>46348927
Its.....wednesday....right?

>>46349011
Maybe where you live.

it's also not really the weekend here either.

>>46349011
It's the weekend for someone somewhere.

A journey...to the game store. For more players.

Or ERP.

>>46348786
World Conquest. Any decent Villain can take over the world single handedly... you know, by making his NPC minions do it. Don't have need for any weak partners/competition/backstabber.

>>46348786
Lone mercenary/bounty hunter/adventurer just doing what he wants or deems worth doing

>>46348605
Oh no.
That creates hot new meta.
Forcibly creating bad conditions for yourself actually help you with the Lucky feat.

>>46348662
Not only that:

>You can choose to spend one o f your luck points after you roll the die, but before the outcome is determined.

So imagine this situation:

>DM: okay anon, you and the BBEG are on the edge of the cliff with the pool of lava underneath, you have your swords locked and you're trying to push each other off into the lava
>DM roll an Athletics roll of 17 for BBEG
>DM: okay roll your Athletic, now because the BBEG is a large creature you get disadvantage
>You roll a 20 and a 1!
>DM: too bad, you fall into....
>You: NOT SO FAST DM! I use my luck point!
>Roll a 3
>You: I choose to use the 20 result, you push the BBEG into the lava pool instead

>>46348605
>>46348662
This is one of the problems with narrative mechanics. Many of the stories they try to encourage only work because of the "mechanics" of the world. The point is that they're ~exceptional~. Giving them mechanical encouragement not only creates an odd dissonance where the way the game works is directly at odds with the world it's meant to represent,

For example, think of the trope where a heroic underdog defeats an overwhelmingly powerful foe. Giving the foe a hidden weakness that a clever hero/player can take advantage of is fine. But a "story-driven system" might try to encourage the story by giving the "underdog" so many bonuses that it's statistically unlikely for him to actually lose. He's not at a disadvantage anymore, so the trope doesn't even apply; the result is a story that superficially imitates what the game designers want, while actually being the opposite.

>>46348218
I have always been interested in RPG systems made specifically for playing characters with moral values completely different than the average person. The only ones I know of would be from White Wolf's systems.

>>46348218
>Blue and Orange Morality
blue and orange what?

>>46348356
It's a dumb TVTropes term, but it basically means "this dude's got some weird values when it comes to ethics and morality".

It's good for over the top stuff and everyone going in is powergaming, including the DM. Only reason to still play it. Other than that it's pretty shit for vanilla flavor D&D.

It's good for non-casters too, if you're using Tome of Battle (ie if the DM isn't a retard).

>>46346396
Just about everyone still playing 3.5 these days allows it at least. Now psionics, on the other hand, still triggers DMs for some reason.

use army men

>>46346275
Play Dawn of War. It's not perfect but modders do amazing things to the game.

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>>46346275
Buy used ones. Get cheap chinese models.
Find someone who uses Vassal.
I just read about warhammer on imageboards and play related vidya.

>>46346033
>ygh

>isn't that a girls game?

>>46346054
damn has the game really gotten that mouch more progressive since i've been gone

>>46346033
>not bitching about the quest threads
Get with the program.

The Bro: Hero; typical dudebro, though he's always there to help people out when they need it. Has some fairly generic super-enhancements (mildly increased strength, endurance, etc) that he can loan out to other people, plus has something along the lines of a D&D Paladin's Lay on Hands ability (touch someone and they feel better / their wounds aren't as bad now) that doesn't work on himself. Also has the ability to swap his location with that of one willing person instantaneously, though he typically holds this in reserve until it's needed to save someone's life by him taking an attack for them.

He'll likely have some kind of evil counterpart with the opposite of each of his powers (he powers himself up by taking strength/etc from others, he steals life from people with a touch, etc).

Name not yet determined: Villain; a somewhat pudgy guy who wears a yellow tracksuit and half-mask (the kind that only covers the top half of your face). He has some kind of extradimensional second stomach that can hold a huge volume of stuff without damaging or digesting it, and he can spit items back up later as needed (though this typically takes a moment). He can also eat an item (destroying it in the process) in order to gain some of it's properties (for example, eating a piece of metal makes him more durable temporarily), though these only last an hour or two and he can only have one active at a time. Scared of ghosts.

Headshot: Villain; fires powerful energy blasts from the top of his head. This obviously gives him problems aiming, though he has fairly significant practice with it that mitigates this somewhat.

Name not yet determined: Villain; has a magic sword and shield and a shitload of consumables (his favorites are grenades and small incendiary bombs).

Name not yet determined: Non-combat character; looks basically like a succubus decided to dress up as a stern librarian. Works as a defense attorney with her encyclopedic knowledge of the law, and is famous for getting people off on technicalities. There are a lot of people who are completely convinced she's doing something illegal, they just don't know what and can't find any evidence.

Bat-man: Hero; basically just a dude with a bat and fairly minor enhancements to strength/endurance/etc. Dresses like an old timey baseball player.

Souperman: Hero; sprays soup at people. He can control the type and temperature, though he can't (or won't) spray types of soup at temperatures other than approximately what is standard for them (ie: no hot Gazpacho).

The Flash: Hero; can emit brief bursts of bright light (approximately a camera flash, though with the potential to make them brighter if need be).

Melvin: Villain; a bumbling alien with a tendency to monologue about his plans to conquer the Earth, looks like a black guy in strange armor.

Names not yet determined: Villains; they have various remote-controlled robotic vehicles that they send in to banks or jewelry stores and the like and basically threaten to open fire unless someone puts valuables into an obvious compartment on one of the vehicles. They tend to use vehicles along the lines of APCs (but with more firepower, also they're amphibious) and aircraft along the lines of fighter jets but with the ability to hover. They have various hidden bases, but tend to show up in a submersible aircraft carrier from which they launch their remotely-controlled vehicles. They have a tendency to put too much time into choreographing their driving into and out of their heists (they want to look cool, you know).

Crisis Man (working name): Villain? Mercenary? A fairly ordinary (though highly skilled) guy with a military background who somehow found or invented some kind of super suit that can give him super strength, super speed, super durability, or near-invisibility, but only one at a time. Later on he'll probably upgrade the suit so he can have two at a time, then three, and so on. He'll probably have some kind of jetpack or something so he can fly places (though it's fairly bulky so he doesn't like to wear it in fights), and he tends to use guns as his primary method of attack.

Wraith (working name): Villain; a fairly young woman who works as a courier for other villains and criminal organizations. She primarily parkours her way across rooftops and the like, and has some enhanced strength and reflexes and the like to support this, as well as being invisible to digital cameras and the like (not sure if I want her to be visible to film-based cameras, but probably not).

>>46345042
>walking through the woods
>me(fighter) and the pooladin are the only ones who have horses
>moving pretty slow so the dorf and elf can keep up
>we see some orcs walking down a hill toward us but they haven't seen us
>pooladin jumps off his horse and screams "RUN"
>slaps his horse purposefully into the orcs
>they hear him yell and kill the horse literally instantly because there is like 15 of them
>pooladin gets mad when 10 surround him disarm him and grapple him
>screams "come on guys help meeeee"

>>46347724
I know English can be a bitch but really? Pooladin? As in a paladin to the poo gods?

>>46345042
>>46347724
>walking through the woods
>we come across some house and enter it
>spooky wall painting comes to life
>pooladin wants to set it on fire but when the dm hints that it will end badly he metagames into making another party member do it
>spooky wall painting summons up some crazy undead things that grab the pooladin the other pc and the cleric
>"cleric you can go you did nothing wrong"
>monsters about to curse us when the other pc says "ill take the blame for all of it curse me and just me instead!"
>pooladin says nothing
>cleric hops in and says he will take half the punishment too
>pooladin says and does nothing
>lets us get cursed
>never says thanks
>never apologizes
>says he didn't wanna get cursed or hurt
>his vows dictate he place himself in danger rather than let his friends and innocents
>sees nothing wrong with this
>>46347749
no,"pooladin" as in he is a shit player who doesn't follow his vows and metagames.

>>46344175
Honestly, I think I might just stick to the Mars color scheme, as it's nice and simple enough for me, as well as there being a video on how to paint it.

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the base for Dominus Maniple is 250pts. and with max points put in to upgrades, it's a around 650pts.

>>46344231
and yes it is vanguard only, but vanguard are much better than rangers, despite not looking as cool

>>46341694
Main advantage of 5e is that it works. Very little you have to house rule to enjoy a dungeon crawl, so you can just tell your players to show up with a PC or two and you'll be okay.

Wizards and Clerics are still strong AT HIGH LEVELS, but they NEED a party to reach them. New magic rule means they can't stack buffs.

Wish the Magic Fighter and Rogue got more love instead of just pulling stuff from the Wizard's you box.

>>46341781

Yeah, I've found that I've had to institute a couple house rules for DnD 3.5 for very specific instances, such as when someone tried to use Iron Heart Surge in a weird way.

Clerics have always been super strong ever since the beginning... It's because they have the power of the Gods!

>>46341694
It's just simpler. You can't stack too many spells.

Plus, you can throw a pile of orcs at a level 20 party and not Have to adjust the stats

>>46339930

Give your creations free will

Ever wonder why bad shit happens for seemingly no reason? It doesn't happen for no reason. It happens because those all-knowing, omnipotent beings have orchestrated the ripples of fate just to fuck you over for no other reason than the fact that it amuses them.

The gods are a blight! Throw off your shackles! Today humanity rises against it's supposed "masters!"

by either figuring out a way to stop being bored using their all knowing or else removing their ability to be bored by being all powerful

>>46339883

Question is if a really good fake punch is seen by this person do they feel a regular punch?

If people can cum just from sound(exotic hypnosis)
Then yeah. Probably.
Mind is Damn powerful at deceiving our body.

What happens if they see someone violently die on a extremely high definition TV-wall?

Could you reword your post as a question.

>>46338272
what are some good useless magical items i could give my players to mess around with to try and find utility with?

>>46338078

Plates of Adhesion

These are bronze circular plates about 20 cm in diameter and carved with strange symbols, with a large spiral symbol in the center. Placing the plate against a surface and tapping the spiral symbol causes the plate to stick hard to that surface, requiring ten strong men to pull it off by brute force. Tapping the square a second time cancels the effect. These are reusable.

>>46337418

Reign, forever and always. (it tends to play fairly quickly, so it's fairly decent for convention play.

>>46337418
>Lamentations of the Flame Princess

That's kind of a snowflakey name. Does the quality of the game justify it?

>>46337507
Well I haven't played it but what I understand so far is this:

It's an auteur game very much colored by the sensibilities of its creator who didn't like the way DnD modules relied on unconnected empty tropes. The name is his personal label apparently derived from a bad breakup, it is not a descriptive title but a lyrical one.

The idea is a fantasy world that doesn't present hollow concepts but that actively tries its best to grind the characters to a bloody pulp. If Tomb of Horrors is a baseline, LotFP is the Heavy Metal cartoon version. Visually it is exploitative to a fault. The art is violent, sexual, and offensive in the best way.

Structurally it comes out pretty close to CoC where players don't get to 'win' scenarios but the way they fail tells a story constructed around grim flavor and mysterious threats.

It's a DnD where goblins eating your family isn't shrugged off as backstory and wielding a cursed item is bound to screw over your entire party eventually, even if it may come with temporary advantages. It's so gritty that to be a hero you have to risk everything every day. TPK is the default. The players have to be careful and inventive to avoid it.