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>>46305551
I think there should be one change to your setting.

The man on the left is hitler and the women on the left is sarah palin and that structure is something built by nazi's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKPwtDjzJMI

>>46305688
Goddamit.
>Next time, I check where cool images I found came from
Though it's not my setting, just something with a somewhat similar theme.

Could your great great grand parents have imagined smart phones?

>>46301467
>Shouldn't they have to make difficult SAN checks when a sorcerer invites them into his house made of yellow and offers them a glass of time?

Doesn't the Cthuluh RPG simulate this pretty well?

>>46301467
Sounds like you're playing freeform. There's your problem.

>>46301158
no

get your shit together or stay out

>>46301158

Any D&D game you can just drop in and out of isn't a game that's worth playing.

See: all the "organized" games like Pathfinder Society

The closest I can think is the Fabletop website, where games are simple and short, and can be pretty fun if you can find a good group. You gotta work on your commitment though.

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>>46300608
I need to know too, good sirs.

>>46300608
Everyone is John

>>46300991
something more cerebral, lots of violent action, and possibly investigating why you're attacking, and slowing the crumbling of your psyche

>Player
>System Preferred
FFGs 40k RPGs with preference to Black Crusade
>Times Available
UTC+2 on Weekends
>Method of Play (Skype, IRC, roll20, etc)
Mainly voice
>Contact Info
Skypes: Jaso111111/Jason Kordelis
>Additional Notes
Very experienced with the 40k systems (especially BC). Willing to adapt to new groups and work with the team.

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>>46292069
>GM
>shadowrun 5e
>noon, sundays, EST
>skype/roll20 text
>skype: spyros.kotteas or skype: fucking.fuck45
>currently just doing practice sessions to catch everyone up and fuckers keep flaking.

>Player
>Vampire the Requiem 2e or Shadowrun 5e
>GMT-7, no Daylight Savings, 10am-pm on pretty much any day except thursday and sunday
>Skype/Roll20
>skype: rats808
>I am a massive homo, and I tend to make gay characters.

>>46288250
High stakes poker game run by the criminal underworld.

God of gambling is hot shit in this setting, people gamble to jockey for position in his church, his clerics are treated like a rich guy in a poor suck-up town.

>>46288274
This is the only correct answer

http://forum.bloodbowl-game.com/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=7455
Blood Bowl 2 matchmaking update info.

>>46178461
Also norse in a week and undead in 2037

Reddit is so fucking slow.

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how's this for surgery?

>>46179136
Jesus christ how horrifying.
I love it, you did gud.

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>>46179136
i like it. makes ghetto surgery as horrible as it should be.

first for seraphon being google safe now

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Reposting, Ushkar Mir!

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>>46177928
Really?

>>46177945
Ushkar Mir!

Funnily enough the Trump board game is actually a slightly improved version of monopoly so its not actually 100% terrible.

Answering to my own questions to get the party started.

> What did you play this week? Describe in detail.
We played StarCraft twice on Sunday. A friend rolled his own scenario and much fun was had. I'm probably going to number-crunch it more so that it's balanced but we had fun. It was a 3v2, sides and objectives are imbalanced (but a team always loses when of of their team mates loses)

> Recent purchases or purchase plans?
Not actively looking for anything right now. Might grab a couple of expansions to the games I have, though.

Imperial Settles got stale and I think the Atlantis expansion could help.
Kemet - well I like the base game so getting an explansion is no brainer.
Neuroshima: Hex - getting a little less love nowadays so trying to reinvigorate it.
> Ask a bgg related question.
What's your group like?
> Answer the question of the guy above you. Even if you don't know the answer. Especially then.
N/A

>>46176411
Improved monopoly isn't setting the bar high, though.

>play
Most recent play was 4 rounds of Memoir 44, two Allied and two Axis wins. My favourite was as Axis in the Liberation of Paris scenario, the chokepoint in the right section managed to beat back any Allied units trying to pass through there, letting me get a 5 - 0 medal win pretty quickly.

Post game I found out my friend didn't know how to use/wasn't willing to bet on the special cards he had though (he only had one normal section movement card in his hand), so after teaching him a bit, we had a rematch playing the same sides, and he won at 5 - 4 with a "if this happens I win, if not you win" situation.

Setup for Memoir 44 is still a pain though. I've written a point system using Battlelore 2nd edition as a guideline for unit costs, and modified a terrain placement thing from bgg, maybe I'll try that next time.

>Purchase plans?
I've played Jaipur with my mom so much we've basically lost interest in it, so I've been looking for similar games.
Archaeology the New Expedition(?) seems pretty similar to Jaipur, and lets you play for 2p+ too, so definitely waiting for that.
Arboretum also looks solid for 2p, but I worry if the scoring might be too complicated.
Still waiting for my FLGS to get Cthulhu Realms, hopefully the symbols and stuff wouldn't be too confusing for a senior citizen.
Have had my eye on Roll for the Galaxy for a while, so getting that once it's in stock.
Blueprints for a lighter dice game, though again scoring seems somewhat complicated.

>bgg question.
Do you have games that fill particular needs or niches that your group may have? If so what are they?

>Answer above
>What's your group like?
They're old friends, and although they're not too crazy about the whole board gaming thing, they're pretty willing to try any of the games I have when they have time. Thanks to that all of my games have been brought to the table atleast once, so I'm thankful for that.

>>46163105
You mean sci-fi civ? Because the trappings of cyberpunk don't usually lend themselves well to a civ thread.

That said, explaining that the races come from sci-fi instead of fantasy is just dressing up really. They're still animalgirls and Illithids regardless of whether they're genetic experiments or fantasy races.

>>46163243
There'd probably be corrupt megacivs and we'd most likely be in race based clans underground.
Although a SciFi civ sounds interesting and fresh as well.

i was thinking of running something that will eventually lead to spess civ. I'm planning of running some short civs as a worldbuilding experiment and to decide the space races and their pro/mals.

Hit me up with ideas if you've gor them. I'm about to hit the sack but I'll gladly read them tomorrow after work

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I contributed some to the last one, allow me to continue.

>>46132164
why did you guys stop using the pdf image for his thread?

Looking for The Clay That Woke.

YES
STORYFAG REPORTING
I MISSED THIS THREAD.

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>>46094895
seems like longer that two weeks since the last one, doesn't it. Which doesn't make sense as actually, it's only been nine days since the last one 404d

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Some ideas to make exciting encounters... (the system I'm GMing now are Pathfinder/dnd 5)

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Exciting encounters (with combat)

>Random X-men Power
In my campaigns, to make the battles interesting and unexpected, I improvise some of the abilities of the monsters.

The systems I've GMing are Pathfinder and DnD 5, so, I choose via "random page" of this wiki (http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Powers) and put it in the monsters sheet as spells, abilities or etc, all improvised (sometimes adjust the CR like the mythic creatures do: more powers, more CR...);

I've always indicate one of the enemies as "special" (so my players know of the presence of a "superpower"), so the rhythm of the battle isn't determinate on the beggining and giving the chance of the GM improvising, the monster tatics will be different too.

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Exciting encounters (without combat)

>"Encounter" Traps/Haunts/Hazards
In dungeonscape (of the 3.5), there are methods to make "encounter traps" - in the essence traps, but they have iniciative and the trap will be continue attacking round after round unless the PCs discover the weak point of the trap. The book says this "weak point" in general will be a skill check, but you as GM can determine this weak point as a enigma, logic puzzle or what shit you like! With the answer, they win the encounter. In the end, the PCs use nothing more their our brains!

You can go beyond and make haunts or hazards that use the same idea. With this in mind, you can make entire campaigns of investigation that relies in the inteligence rather the general "dungeon crawl" strategy or make hazards in the way of the travel of the heroes to the BBEG castle (like have to escape a magical storm created by the BBEG to delay their journey).

>Hero's dilemma
Use some of tropes of movies (like isolation, moral choices and so on) and add to the adventure plot. The choice/discussion It's the encounter! It will be more improvising than planning of the GM.

Politics, example saving an accomplice from being assassinated by talking it out, or stalling. Just a thought.

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It's all about the characters man.

If the players play characters that doesn't fight for a living or even practice combat abilities, then they will want to seek other solutions to the campains conflicts.

But that is also dependent on the system you play with, since many systems like DnD leaves few options for that sort of group.

Choose a system that gives the players options to create "peaceful" characters and make the conflicts of your campain such, that it can be resolved either through roleplay or non lethal competition.
Like if the players were all owners of a company that made the newest cybernetics, but were pressured by a close competitor on the market.

The players can then through their influence, money, social skills and guile investigate and defeat their competition without ever rolling for initiative.

>>46306394
Put it on Tappedout or Deckstats or something, then give us a link.
Or even better, post your question in the EDH/Commander General.

>>46306394
You have a lot of spot removal that only takes care of 1 creature at a time, which won't help too much to keep multiple players in check and you'd be better with spells that can wipe the whole board of creatures, like toxic deluge. Some way of helping you get the cards you need would also be good, like the tutors you mentioned (mainly just vampiric and demonic, but diabolic is fine too) and cards to help you draw like phyrexian arena or greed. Discard cards like despise and duress are less effective against multiple opponents too and could probably be removed.

>>46306519
Yeah, that's why I might put in Black Sun's Zenith and Life's Finale. But, I play both single player commander and multiplayer as well.