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>>46118550
Barely a minute has passed since you finally found a comfortable position in the tub, your rear appendages makes it a bit awkward to sit against the edges, Gerwine the vice captain of the knights enters the small secluded outerlying area of the courtyard where you are taking a bath. Acting like a child might have been a good defence for protecting the fact that you are an outsider, but these knights seems to be fully aware of this and you figure it might be better to drop the act and start figuring out where you are and whats going on.

Gerwine approaches the bath and looks down on you
"Oh, your much cuter when you aren't drenched in blood, well.." she drags out and touches the fat leathery tail that is currently bobbing in the water.
"I dont think I have ever seen one of those outside a book before, Manticores are not a naturally occurring species"
"Then again those who summon outsiders illegally often try to find strong bodies to host the souls, tend to make more valuable slaves if they possess magick rather than knowledge. It's not unheard of creating artificial species for a summoning"

"Before we continue this little chat, first hold out your right hand for me, and secondly, are you ready to give me your name yet?"
"Alex.." you mutter slowly, slowly dropping the pouting face Genderbender friendly name got chosen from last thread

As you hold out your arm you once again feel mana being manipulated, it flows from Gerwine into a small orb she is holding and out into your arm.

2/5

>>46118593
"Ahh, that feels nice"
"It does doesn't it, this is an state of the art fully contained healing device complete with bone setting, suturing, disinfection, accelerated healing and so on. The guild responsible for crafting these only make one every 6th year. And I am the only one trained in it's use amongst our knights" She seems awfully proud of herself, her nose is for some reason pointing upwards
"That's impressive, does that make you a priest? Or maybe a paladin considering you guys are knights?"
"No, i'm just a regular mage just like everyone else"
"Everyone else? Like all the knights?" That's awesome, you might be in the company of battlemages
"No, like everyone else, literally everyone else. Mana flows trough every living being and everyone who put their mind to it can use it, we are all mages"


> [FREAK OUT] Stand up and shout, fear in your eyes
> [FREAK OUT] "You are telling me there are reality bending psychopaths all around me!?"
> [FREAK OUT] Crawl together in a fetal position, "There is no magic realm! There is no magic realm! There is no magic realm!"
> Write in

3/5

>>46118615
> Welcome to Manticore quest
> Rolls are of the roll below type, counting degrees of success or failure. Best of three and crits always counting.
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4/4 whoops it was 4 all along

>BBEG

No, thank you. I prefer to use the term "villain."

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If you deny the tree, does the tree vanish?
If you refuse to acknowledge the sword in your bosom, are you immortal?
Truth does not heed the faith, or the empty follies, of mortals.

So too is it with the forces of the universe. Naming the interpretations of your observations has some power, as do all Names, but it's not going to make a dragon sit there and look at you like a retard for five minutes while you wave your academ-dick around. You'll just wind up as a digesting pedant.

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>>46118123
When observations disagree match theory, theory has to be revised.

Peter is about to revise many of his theories.

>>46117909
ogres are usually very hungry

Regeneration.

Troll ogre is a trick you teach dogs.

>>46117227
Run JoJo, duh.

>>46117227
Jojo campaign.

>>46117227
Run a Bizarre Adventure?

>>46116961
>B
>C

>>46116961
>A. Ask about the case you're going to investigate

>B. Ask why the three of you are bothering with this instead of tracking down whatever killed your families

New Som quest? Interesting

So, as the title suggests, this is a practice thread for a quest I will begin running near the end of May.

Same set up as a lot of other quests, each update ends with options, and you get ten minutes to vote on them. In the event of a draw, I will either combine the options if I can, or simply have a tiebreaker vote.

Writeins are, of course, allowed, but I do reserve the right to veto them.

When it comes to investigating the paranormal in this quest, I'm going to assume that a lot of you anons are going to be googling things to figure out what you're dealing with. If you find some information, feel free to post it here, and I will devote an update to main character doing research and finding that information.

This is a thread to test the waters, and feedback is encouraged.

Hope everyone has fun

You have been marching for over an hour, following the stream cautiously. The sun is now just starting to poke out and more of the local animal life seems to be waking up. Choruses of birds screech above the tree line as you descend deeper into the underbelly of the forest. Muggy and Thick, if your skin weren’t deadened and your lungs stopped, you would be very uncomfortable. But you hardly feel it, and the Goblins don’t seem to care. For such small creatures, they are miraculously durable.

Soon, you break through the trees and you stand at the foot of a massive pyramid. As you enter the clearing, you hear the sounds of fighting, metal clashing and arrows whizzing past. The whole area, hundreds of yards in a perfect circle around the base of the pyramid is smoking and black. Up at the pyramid, there are a group of roughly ten people of various races and professions fighting...something.

It looks like a dragon, except it is made out of stone. Animated rock given life and desperately curled around the top of the pyramid. Though it has wings, it doesn’t seem to be using them or it can’t. It has formed a barrier, and though you can see some of the Adventurers trying to scramble past it’s body, it refuses to allow anyone to get by.

Do you
>Go try to help the Adventurer defeat the Dragon
> Try to pick off Adventurers
>Stay hidden and do nothing

>>46116852
>Try to pick off Adventurers

>>46116852
>Try to pick off Adventurers

>>46116012
>Blae: Sword
>Trono: Thunder
>Arius: Wind
To cut gods like so much grass.

>>46116053
Works for me.

>>46116012
>Flamyn: Fire
>Arius: Wind
>Glam: Axe
everyone uses a sword let's try something a little different

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>>46115933
We should take their souls while we're at it! I hear they're very chewy! All that protein~!

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It's not funny anymore guys.. Who took my phylactery?

>>46116557
Not me! It's not like I drink phylacteries like soft drinks or anything. I do not do that/

>>46115580
What's this DINDU NUFFIN trash?

>>46116134
Just Googled it. Yup, OP was right. Completely lifted Shadowrun with eye rolling DEYDINDUNUFFIN overtones.

>>46114863
Yes. Next stupid question. Is the sky blue?

>>46114863
Not really no.

>>46114863
>Old thread

Consensus: 86% No.
Why did this topic need another thread?

You mean like EVO?

>>46114479
Shadowrun Orc or 40k Ork?

>>46114479
Ask the Ork Freeboters. They got pretty big smuggling rings, so I imagine there's some modicum of quality control "Moi space drugs is best, so's I get mor teef!" type mentality.

But in short: donald trump

>>46113325
Social skills don't need to be made more useful, in most cases.

If social skills aren't useful in your campaign, I can almost guarantee you that it's an issue with your GM, not with the system you're using.

Making it so a high skill means the GM gets to railroad you into the right response seems like a really shitty solution either way.

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Personally, I'm fond of adapting the Apocalypse World 'Read a Person' rules.

Depending on how well you roll, you ask either one or three questions from the list:
• is your character telling the truth?
• what's your character really feeling?
• what does your character intend to do?
• what does your character wish I'd do?
• how could I get your character to __?

If you get the advance for it (basically a feat) and you roll very well, you can ask any three questions you want.

The GM tells you what that character is trying to get out of the situation and what their levers are, and you figure out how to pull them in-character.

>>46113407
/thread

>>46113325
>told what you should say, or the direction you should be taking the conversation to and things to look out for when speaking to a person?
There is a perk like that in Shadowrun. It's called common sense.

>>46113112
two ugly peasants fucking in a haystack

>>46113139
OP here.

This. So much this. i'm fully stacked with encounters and relevant PCs and stuff like that, but I want to toss exactly such stuff at my players. Show them world is not just monsters and loot.

>small chest half-buried in the dirt and weathered by time. it has an intricate lock and still seems sturdy despite its age.

>a young dragonling harassing a herd of livestock

>a veteran warrior training a group of teenagers and young adults

>a tax collector whose carriage has a broken wheel

>a group of various goblinoids hosting a small wrestling tourny

>an unconscious elven noble with a bloodied forehead lying out in the fields

>an ancient stone golem sitting against a tree, covered in vines and shrubs

>reformed bandits trying to pose as villagers after a successful heist

>an old peddler woman with valuable goods but is a hag in disguise

>ye olde werewolf/vampire/ghost infestation

>a circle of stones engraved top to bottom with runes

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>>46112708
Given that being a woman is easy mode, why would anyone choose to be a man? You'd have an entirely female society with only a rare few man (like one in tenthousand) which would create such a shortage that elf women would be forced to go out and hun- oh... I see what you're doing!

They could control their demography by adjusting the percentage of females in the next generation.

>>46112773
Wonderful. One post in, and you've successfully shattered the illusion that this has anything to do with traditional games and is instead a thread for idiots to mouth off about their bizarrely inaccurate interpretations of sociology.

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I don't know much, but have a bump picture because it interests me

>>46111994
I feel they'd have some contempt for space marines

> after 10 thousands years of fighting daemons under the Palace

the golden thrones keeps the warp rift closed

They're just feeling overly pompous and pass the time with good hearted bloodgames fun