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"But Sister! What will the Emperor think?"

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Alright, hopefully making this thread earlier in the evening will get more traffic.

Making an animal-based cardgame. Not a TCG, a game that comes prepackaged in a box as a set. The cards will be in a pool available to both players like monopoly money. Maybe about 20 of each card, perhaps 1,000 in total?

Here's a quick rundown of what the stats might function like.

>Durability
Simply health. Damage taken = (Strength of attacker - Endurance of receiver). Animal is sent to the discard pile if it dies. If an animal successfully defeats another, that defeated animals total Durability could be added to the attacker's health or something maybe?

>Strength
Attacking power. Must be a higher number than opponent's Endurance or that animal cannot damage that animal.

>Endurance
How much gets subtracted from your opponent's attack damage.

>Speed
Highest number goes first (tiebreakers then compare Agility, a tie in Agility, compare Intelligence).

>Agility
I haven't thought of exactly what Agility might function like. I was thinking how easily an animal is hit, like the further apart an attacker's Speed is from opponent's Agility, would determine the likelihood of a successful hit. This stat could be dumped entirely, I was just playing around with ideas.

>Intelligence
I think Intelligence could function towards support cards or weather / environment cards. Like if there was a "Drought" action card, "Kill all animals with an Intelligence less that 10" or something, smart animals could survive and adapt, I dunno.

Thoughts? More in next post.

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>you enter the alchemist's room without knocking
>you find out how he makes his healing potions
well?

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Talk about Go, professional Go games, /tg/'s Go tournaments, and how to git gud at Go. Newbies welcome; most of us suck anyway.

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Problems:
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Youtubers which can help you get gud;
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>Learnin' how to quest. This will be a oneshot, probably.

You look up as the Lieutenant walks in, still swiping away at the palmtop tablet. The other tank commanders perk up as he arrives at your table, slapping the dataslate down.

"Heads up, we got marching orders."

One of your sergeants smirks. "Since when did armored cav march, LT?"

"Around the same time tanks grew legs, Ray." The Lieutenant snapped back, giving him a sharp look that quickly dissolves into a good-natured smirk. The four of you share smiles as you clear the desk before settling down to business, crowding around the little rectangle of glass and light.

It showed a map of the city just south of your base, long since abandoned by civilians. You follow the Lieutenant's finger as he marks out one of the highways and marks two parking lots for big malls, before tapping a third - a former hardware megastore. The terrain was variable; you'd be dodging in and out of parks, choked in through business centers and plowing through former residential suburbs.

"We're linking up with two 'toons of hardsuits. We got a run sweeping through these checkpoints here, here and here, before pushing through to secure or destroy the FOB they set up here. Other elements will be approaching from different directions, so watch your fire."

"Enemy composition?"

"There's speculation of at least one AAFV element, about the same as ours, as well as conventional tanks. They've got infantry, powered armor... the works."

"Fuck."

"No shit. That's why we've got the whole battalion coming in on this one. We're the hammer on this one."

"Support?"

"There's two batteries of arty that can cover most of our objectives, but they're tasked for counter-battery fire until

You nod, turning around to grab your headset and stepping away from the table to go brief your crew.

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http://mtgcardsmith.com

You know you want to...
I'll dump a few. I chose comic book heroes as my focus on the subject. I hope to see a wide variety of creations!

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1- Choose a faction;
>Imperial Guard - Very Required
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/igpbeta2.php
>Space Marines - Very Required
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/smpbeta.php
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/tsmp.php
>Sisters of Battle - Minor role but welcome
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/sisterp.php
>Eldar - Really really minor role(1-2 different groups at most)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/painter.jsp?i=38
>Chaos SM - Minor role but welcome
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/csmp.php
EXTENDED EDITION
>Knight background story(individual knight or knight house)
>Mechanicum Forgeworld(Specific forgeworld YOU created - use robed SM painter for reference)
>Inquisitorial Minor Ordos(Without getting over your head. EX: My Ordos controls the Emperor's corpse!!!)
>Individual characters, background or characterization(Ex: Sergeant X from the Amazings regiment)
>Ecclesiarchial groups, priest armies & religious groups/religions.
>Planets
>Ideas(Anything about everything)

2- Use the coloring books to make your own faction, DOW/SM painters also welcome.

3- Name the faction(I suggest googling it for doubles)

4- Fill in some lore(Optional but appreciated)

5- Post it(Post a name or alias if you want to be credited, otherwise it is credited as anon)

6- Wait for months(literally) while I put them all together in my brain that fairly lacks cognitive capabilities.

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What mythologies or folklore do you incorporate into your setting?

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I've just been invited to play d&d with some friends of a friend. I've not played in like a year, so I'm in, no questions asked. They'll be playing 5e competitively, and all my experience is with 3.5. So I have until 10pm Pacific time to get acquainted with the system and build a level 16 character with 2000 gold plus starting equipment. I was told, half-jokingly, to "minmax as much as possible"

I'll be reading up on my own in the meantime, but I'm looking for advice from /tg/ on how to be somewhat effective and not make a fool of myself in 5e specifically.

Picture is unrelated, my uncle's bird.

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Borderlands corps in Shadowrun.
What happens?
For clarification, I mean the gun manufactures specifically.

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This is how I lawful good.

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Do gargoyle are made of rock r they turn into them, and how? do they even fly? can they drain heal?
Just wth is theyr lore?

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Is it possible for a group to be friends on very good terms with each other, yet incompatible as a gaming group?

I think I am a reasonably experienced GM. Due to a schedule involving multiple six-hour sessions per week, I have logged about ~180 sessions (according to my logs) since December 2014.

During those sessions, one player ("Player X") has been in all but about half a dozen of them. Furthermore, there is another friend I have been GMing for regularly ("Player Y").

Players X and Y were the only two players in two of my recent campaigns. One ran for 24 sessions before we agreed that nobody was enjoying themselves, and another ran for 17 sessions before my players told me that they were not having fun and that I should end the game.

Those two campaigns were fraught with, as my players said, poorly handled GMing. After every session, I would ask how I handled that session, and there was:
- A ~67% chance that one or both would complain about my GMing in a way that implied they disliked the session. I would engage in a several-hour-long (not an exaggeration) argument to clarify what they wanted, and then capitulate to their requests.
- A ~33% chance that everything went relatively fine.

No matter how much I tried to improve, there was always a ~67% chance that I would greatly fumble. I would always try to cater to their requests, but doing so was often met with "You catered to our request, but not in the way we had in mind." A few sessions down the line, I would then receive a request that was mutually exclusive with a previous one.

This makes me consider that my two players do not know what they want and are inept at expressing their preferences. It also makes me think that I am incapable of discerning what my players truly want, seeing how I have attempted to cater to them across many sessions, yet fail to please.

My players now refuse to explain what I am doing wrong with my GMing, because apparently, I am too dense. What can I do to rectify all of this?

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This thread is to expand on the loyalist successors of the Alpha legion, convinced they're Imperial Fists, with tactics involving stealth-defense and trap setting

>Founded in the 34th millennium, our chapter were created to crusade against the Imperiums enemies(allegedly), however it is unknown to the Imperium and indeed the chapter itself as to who our progenitor is, though they vehemently believe they are succesors of the Imperial fists. In truth, they were created with the Gene seed of the Alpha Legion who paraded themselves as elements of the Imperial fists third company whilst forming the chapter, a belief the chapter holds dear aand true from the hypno therapy and harsh indoctrination they use in recruitment. For unknown reasons, the Alpha legion made them in the guise of the fists.

>They believe in purity above all, and yet their own gene seed is flawed hyper-stimulating the Omophagea of many brothers and leading to the creation of their strnge and esoteric and mysterious Chapter culture. In legend, the former Captain of the fists third company slew a Daemon prince and led the chapter through many harrowing battles, in truth he was one of the Alpha Legion masquerading as an Imperail fist, as all the founding members were.

>Their homeworld is a feral ice world, which they only distantly 'rule'. Perhaps their mysterious creation is to blame for thei somewhat divergent chapter organization, their focus on ranged combat lends them specially modified bolters unique to their chapter. Their chapter badge involves a creature who features heavily in all their iconography.

>Currently, they are an endangered chapter, only a handful remain after(TBD). They are allied with a Navigator house and have a fierce hatred for the Chaos marines of (TBD)

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The opposing IS continues to fly straight at you as you continue to evade the closing in laser beams. You take out Gram and return fire only to see 4 laser beams intercept and deflect all of the projectiles. She continues undisturbed by your attack to fly straight at you. Close enough to see her without relying on your sensors, your next shot connects as the active protection lasers didn't have enough time to deflect your projectiles. But that came at a price, as your shields spark against her rifle's laser beam. You turn your body slightly to let the rest of the beam pass by you.

“Reinforce, that was close.” you mentally comment.

“The enemy IS is using as advanced ECM suite making targeting and information gathering difficult.” Reinforce telepathically replies.

You are John Smith, only know male IS pilot, currently fighting against an unknown IS. You were about to fly your Maeve around the Fairy Arms and Manufacturing testing airspace before you were fired upon. Forced to defend yourself, you return fire with limited success. This fight is going to be a lot different that what you are use to.

The opposing IS mirrors your action as you blast past each other. In the instant she is directly in front of you, you look your enemy in the eyes. A woman about Iris or Natasha's age with sandy brown hair with a rather fit body. Her IS reminds you of something like the Morgan you once could have chosen at the start of your school year but with quite a few differences. You'll have to figure out those differences later as you break left to get around to re-target her in a high-g turn.

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