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>>46086611
What do I look like, a GM?

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They're doctors that specialize in brain surgery?

>>46086611
I'm assuming they're some manner of good aligned.
Brain eating: animals less nutritious but will sustain them. Alternatively they summon bind and consume evil beings.
As for recruiting: Either they let the humanoids that recruit with promises of psionic power keep their personalities through the transformation and/or they have some sort of arrangement with local settlements to harvest fresh dead and/or go on periodic crusades to capture evildoers to convert to their cause.

Maybe the place draigo ends up in after he dies in the warp? Maybe even the location of the star child. Or maybe even where Vulkan resides, waiting for the day the Imperium needs him. Who knows (Tzeench), who cares.

>>46086306
Maybe a powerful C'tan shard?

Daemons do call the Emperor Anathema though.

I'd prefer to know what the Hadex anomaly is.

>>46086306
With Geedub's number of emprah returning hints that get abandoned probably maybe not.

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Right, okay. One final update. If no one sees any major problems, I'll upload it to the drive.

Changelog:
>Realized I goofed and completely forgot a companion section, so I added that
>Added Pick a Name, Any Name
>Lowered Dual Disciplines to 200 CP
>Replaced Good Ol' Fisticuffs with The Lowest Form of Wit
>Added more drawbacks

Alrigth so I get that powers have their own compartment/box and that perks have a pool

Magic from setting A doesn't mix directly with setting B.

Strength perks all add up, even if the origin is supposedly different, like railgun pyrokinesis, marvel telekinesis and teen titans pyrokinesis.

But what about stuff that depends on things affected by other perks?

Say, Soul eater's Madness and Evengelion's Waveform physiology, by all means, the fact that your soul is like that would mean that you would look like a monster, let alone how a Hellsing vampire would interact with it.

How does it work for you? or is it a jumpchain thing that keeps these kind of stuff from tearing you apart metaphysically giving you a different plane soul for each power?

>>46086474
Fanwank it.
That is to say, decide for yourself how they interact.

Personally I treat them as different powers, but that's my choice.

>>46176526
I can find 8 instances in that image of the number 13.

Blood drops, wall panels, ceiling panels, hanging utensils, rivets on the barrel, broken plate shards, stones in the arch, and pieces of firewood.

Did I miss any?

>>46176526
i am really fucking bumed they didnt just make it the 13th card in the set... like fuck the system give into the meme

>>46176774
im pretty sure there are 13 links of chain

>>46167649
>their aesthetic
you know, most DMs let their characters choose what they wear

>>46167684
I'm talking about their abilities being music based

>>46168766
For a while I played a bard whose "songs" were spread through uplifting speeches to his troops. Refluff it.

>>46167238
Feels hard to make it right, but damn it if I'm not a sucker for heaven vs hell scenarios/settings. You get a thumbs up/10

My homebrew; creatures of scandinavian folklore* live in a forest realm, and can no longer reach the world of humans

*not norse mythology, but including talking animals

>>46167238
D&D but with only five stats and we make everything up as we go along

>>46167238
pretty metal OP
>>46167739
intrigued/10, tell me more

>>46166900
Dude, beyblade was the shit, don't even.
>launch super heavy defense centric dracile
>Newby friend launches
>bounce once, second time top explodes, chunks pelt his face.

Any kiddy game you play were you run the risk of scars and shrapnel is badass.

There's Electric Katana, except
1) it's one of those micro-RPGs
2) it's like someone specifically tried to capture Nuzlocke in tabletop form.

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>>46167158
>it's like someone specifically tried to capture Nuzlocke in tabletop form.

In a bad way? Or in a good way?

>>46164808
I wouldn't. At all.

>2e Fighter
>3e Fighter
>4e Skirmisher ( = Fighter with Sneak Attack)
Fighter?

>>46164931
I feel like, with his charisma, he might be a Fighter/Rogue, with combinations of Battlemaster and Swashbuckler. That's why I'm bothering to ask in the first place. Where does the Swashbuckler start, and where does the Battlemaster end? I feel like he'd be close to level 17, but I can't tell where he would stop Rogue. I'm tempted to think:

Rogue 7/Fighter 10

But I'm not entirely sure.

Present them the same problems you would as if they were a balanced group. Let they be creative for once, as they weren't while doing their characters.

Obviously the BBEG has to be an evil rival band trying to take over the kingdom.

all encounters are solved by performing music routines. messing up part of the song or dance results in the opponents gang banging you to death

>>46161686
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFPVWv7X0c4

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>>46161686
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTW30Q4B3Go

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>>46161686
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ab8BOu4LE

>>46159995
Time to stop the shitpost and begin reformatting then

You roamed around the city, without a real purpose or destination. People seemed to not really mind you until you donned the necklace. Then they started giving you dirty looks.

What was it, was the necklace out of fashion? Was there something on your face?
Was it a national sport?

You couldn’t tell.
You were almost annoyed at how invisible or otherwise shunned you were, until you felt what it was like to be noticed.

A man wearing strange clothes spotted you from the distance.
His eyes grew in size several times over, so much that the expression “Having eyes larger than the stomach” transcended the metaphorical to become literal.

Then he literally rushed at you, his arms wide open as in an embrace.
You dodged him at the last minute, causing him to crash on an innocent bystander.

“Sorry”, you coldly stated. “I am not the hug kind of guy”.
While the bystander was still on the ground, rubbing his head in pain, the guy you supposed to be the priest crawled to your feet and gripped your ankles tight.

“YES, YES!” he screamed, overjoyed. “20 years! 20 long years of fasting and praying I have endured, but now the Goddess pays it all back! HAH!” he rose to his feet again, just to point his admonishing index finger to the onlookers that had gathered around.

“HAH! CHECKMATE, ATHEISTS! There you go! Here is a real Outer! What now, huh? Will you still spout your nonsense?”

Most people just ignored his ramblings, some others seemed pissed off enough to prompt you to grab him by his robes to make him stop.

So now there you were, the Outer and the Priest, one in total amazement, another in total confusion.
Maybe it’s better to take advantage of the situation to the fullest.

>What’s written on this necklace?
>What is an Outer?
>What kind of drugs do you take and can I have some?

(betcha nobody saw this coming eh)

>>46160018
>What is an Outer?

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“Excuse me holy dude, while we’re at it, what is an Outer?”
The Priest gives you a puzzled look. “Odd question, coming from an Outer. But let me elaborate.

Outer is the name we give to beings like you, that exist outside of our dimension. It makes sense, does it not? You are not inside our world, therefore you’re Outers”
“Flawless logic so far. Go on”

“There are two kind of Outers. The ones of the Rising Sun are by far the most potent, as well as to be rumored to be the ones who created this Universe. As the Outers of the Setting Sun became more and more interested in the creation of the Outers of the Rising Sun, they started watching over us.

It is rumored that the Setting Sun Outers were the model on which the Rising Sun Outers modeled the denizens of this world, but it’s just speculation and apocrypha. The Setting Sun Outers are also considered on average to be more lenient and benevolent towards each other, so citizens more devoted to the Setting Sun than to the Rising Sun are not unheard of”

“I see. I recall the Goddess talking about something like that, but it’s not like I was paying any attention to her whatsoever”

The priest nods, then rubs his chin pensively “Forgive me for the abruptness, but tell me, do you possess your powers still?”

“Powers? Which powers?”
“But the power of naming of course!”
“You’ve lost me there, buddy”

“Hm, how can I explain?Well, let’s see, denizens of this world don’t go by a name. We embody a concept, and a concept is merely a mix of stereotypes and archetypes. It’s instead proper of the Outers to be able to give names to people. So I ask of you, what name would you assign me?”

“The Priest”, you respond flatly. “There are many arguments I could mention in favor of my decision, but I suppose the fact that you’re a Priest is probably the most important one”

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RuneQuest of some variety?

Would you be willing to go for a generic system?
Savage Worlds works well for a grittier fantasy setting.

>no classes
>magic is an option but it's more a versatile tool than something purely superior to other options
>no d20s except for random tables
>decent bestiary and ways to (roughly) scale encounters
>wound levels mean you hurt when a hit gets through

>>46159623
Ooh, this might be fun too.

>Taking damage/wounds actually has an impact besides your HP going down
There's two ways this can go. Wound Penalty/Death Spiral and Narrative Tags.
The former means that as your HP reaches certain thresholds, you take a penalty to some or all actions. This makes combat very "rocket tag" and a race to put the other guy on penalties.
The latter is often either compulsory to win because the game is built around basically requiring you to "tag" the enemy with "wounds" and such to bring them down, or pointless because those actions you spent tagging the other guy with "wounds" could have been spent bringing his HP down, and when his HP reaches 0 he's dead anyway.

>Isn't a d20 based system (please)
There's a lot out there. You know what I hate? "I'm running X, it's a homebrew addition to 3.5/PF and you'll love it."

>Doesn't need to be a class based system, just picking and choosing abilities for your character is just as fine as something class based
Good, good, let the non-d20 flow through you. Character-defining abilities are good things to have, though.

>Magic/magic classes exist but aren't overpowered and can't do literally whatever they want
Here's where you'll have a problem. Magic being Not Overpowered basically requires one of two things: prescribed lists of spells, or a GM being on the ball. If you have narrative freedom in what you do, mages have an easy way to say "I can do X because magic".

>Has a decent bestiary and scaling information
This narrows it down some. Do you prefer a big set of "these are the stats for a tiger, these are the stats for a young drake, these are the stats for a goblin fighter and a goblin warlord, there are the stats for...", or are you OK with "This is how to put together stats on the fly, based on criteria"

>>46159024
It's basicly up to the questmaster (OP) that detrimens the rolls and scenarios, etc

>>46159253
So all the numbers and shit like populations, military, wealth etc are basically just the OP winging it as he sees fit?

>>46159283
more or less. I see them more as guidelines than set rules

>>46158986
the best song in the world, or he'll take his soul

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>Litch

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>>46158998
>mfw Tiefling Bard.

>>46158971
>speak to the servants
Discretely ask them about their masters and their interests; if one of them is fascinated by the occult, we know he'll be interesting is buying our cheap grimoire knock-off (which we claim is genuine).

>>46159059
we are only here to buy and sell the stuff at a higher price somewhere else.

right now we only have 10,000 gold.

also hello anon.

>>46159089
In that case, I say we talk to the nobles to find out their interests (to see what they might out-bid us on), then talk to the auction owner to ask what's for sale.

Hello OP.
What are you practicing for, by the way?