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really? I am the only one who has read (some of) this?

>>46039380
If your criteria for an interesting setting is "waifus" and meta bullshit, then I do not value your opinions or your taste in writing.

>>46040532
that was more for an eye-catcher. I just like the idea of beings battling and then evolving. It is like fantasy pokemon

>>46037709
by working out what's wrong with it to begin with

>>46037709
Make some angels that look like men for once.

Don't buy expensive cards, don't play in expensive tournaments

>>46034432
4 AIM-120 AMRAAMs, 6 AIM-9 Sidewinders, twin M61 Vulcans with a max capacity for 1.3K 20x102mm rounds, and 4480kg of fuel.

Being a condescending asshole, with the use of humor of poor taste.

>>46034432
He now has the power to consume other people for powers. Waiiit....

I remember when that picture was mildly amusing, and not just a banner for the worst kind of faggots to wave. It's kind of gross when people on /tg/ try to emulate people on /r9k/.

I almost feel sorry for the picture, because there's nothing wrong with it, only that it was chosen by a group of fags as their choice for mindless spamming.

Exalted 3E, though a large part of it is a deep love of the setting. I enjoy the mechanics, but teaching them to others is an absolute nightmare.

I'm not a weeaboo, but I absolutely love samurai stories, so my answer is Legend of the Five Rings. You just have to avoid the people who take it autist level of serious and it's great.
The mechanics are solid but simple, the lore is exceptionally plentiful, the character possibilities are giant, and all the plots the gm can have are limited only by his cunning.

>>46033053
>Favored enemy: trains

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>>46033053
Some kind of strength-focused monk, but only in a system where monks aren't garbage. Dude's got some strong abilities:
>can heal allies with Mantra
>huge single-target damage with Pummel, Suplex, and Bum Rush / Phantom Rush (depends on the translation)
>can use fire and wind element area attacks
>single-target holy element attack
>can self-sacrifice to heal all allies
>strength score through the goddamn roof
>wall of hit points

>>46033053
Going by 40k stats :
WS 5, BS 2, S 7, T 6, W 4, I 4, A 5, Sv -/4++

Wargear:
none

Special Rules:
Eternal Warrior
Fearless
Furious Charge
Hatred (Trains)
Preferred Enemy (Trains)
Rage

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I often worry in roleplaying games, that I stay "in-character" too much. By this, I mean I enjoy playing flawed characters, who can and will make choices that anyone with out-of-game-knowledge (or even the cool and balanced perspective of an outside view) can clearly see are bad choices... but I do it anyway, because it feels "right" for the character in these situations.

Now... this would be fine if I were a writing a book or something, but in the confines of a group-based roleplaying game, I'm constantly fearing that having my characters make these bad choices is going to piss off the rest of the group, no matter how in-character it is. Just last session I got chewed out by the one of the players in the party because my character, a support-mage, got grappled by a werewolf-thing and started getting mauled. Now, I had several spells I could have used to escape this situation, but in-character it felt like the right thing to do was panic and start whaling on the thing with my staff. With my low strength, this was pretty much a complete waste of my turn, and put my character in considerable danger... but I did it because it FELT RIGHT. Like, that's a fucking scary situation (especially when you're not used to physical combat), you don't sit there and calmly cast a spell while something has you off the ground and is mauling you. You panic and start flailing with whatever you can grab.

Unfortunately one of the players disagreed and the others just sorta seemed to give silent consent that I was actively hurting the group by doing this.

>>46028294
I can definitely identify with that. There is a fine line between 'my-guy-isms' and staying in character. A way to help that is to try to reduce (not eliminate) the amount of stupid things the character does. Early in the campaign it can make for some entertaining moments and good laughs, but the farther you go in your adventuring career the less likely such things should happen. To use your werewolf mauling incident as an example, it might be a good idea to have a better reaction if something like that happens again, or perhaps your character might realize this is an issue and could ask the party to help him get used to such things once everything has calmed down. Being in character and being stupid works well, but it just becomes a damper on the whole game if there is no growth out of it. If you're not sure how your character could grow out of one of their bad decisions, perhaps talk to the rest of the group about it afterward in a pre- or post-session chat sometime. Then at the very least your table will understand you're not just falling to 'my-guy-itus' but you're just playing your character as well as you can.

Just make sure if your character ever goes full retard and you go along for the ride that you have a really good reason to do so, and preferably do it in a really big way so we can all enjoy the storytime later.

>>46027994
>I'm currently playing a game that I have many issues with the themes within the setting, primarily due to my beliefs and due to my experiences in life. This is an inability to comprehend and adapt to certain extremely heavy features of the setting, not an issue with it as a whole.

Can you get into details? I don't really have the frame of reference of that Order of the Stick character.

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Here's some art.

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You glance at the tactical plot - and see Naresuan is flagrantly disobeying orders; turning eastward to link up with Sendai and Jintsuu, who've just come into visual range of the fray. You cede to the inevitable - they're determined to fight their ships to the last, at least while there's friendlies on the field. You switch frequencies. “Hate, you hear me?”

“HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Hate damn near yodels into his radio, his voice quavering like he's riding a school bus hitting bumps. “HOLY SHIT SKIPPER DID YOU SEE-”

“I did,” you confirm as the ops personnel kindly redirect a camera to find Hate's PT squadron; the full-sized boats weaving and winding as their triple aero engines scream through the mist and smoke, circling Naka and Harder like wary dogs. The abyssal cruisers are lost somewhere beneath a thick smokescreen they've been laying for long minutes now - you suspect they deployed smoke floats at some point. It's fairly opaque even to infa-red; but it seems what's left of them have decided to turtle.

The Indonesian F-16 pilots are still making their runs, their FACs screaming in almost suicidally low as pom-pom's probe for them amidst the nasty black puffs of flak bursts. They're firing phosphorus rockets, nailing their targets directly from almost point-blank range before screaming overhead and climbing away on full afterburner, the shock-diamonds in their exhaust vivid against the dark sky. The strike craft, their Kedge's spent, are circling overhead.

The tactical plot updates - new little blue circles.

“Who's that?” you demand.

“Malaysian Hawks,” Ops replies. “They're slinging iron bombs.”

[ ] Clear a path north for their retreat.
[ ] Find that fucking battleship - and sink it.

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>>45968578
>[ ] Clear a path north for their retreat.

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>>46038070
I will never not see pic related with that image.

Rolled 2 (1d100)

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>>46038070
II, XI are missing legions. I will now roll for missing legion II's chapter.

I keep my wife and children away from them

>>46036268

I give the musicians crossbows, just in case.

>>46036268
By the gods I'm sweating!
Stewards!

Bring in large rats and release them into the castle dungeon I've heard this will keep them from killing innocents and fucking my queen

>>46035711
I've heard that it's basically WFRP but worse.

Who's right? Who knows. This is the internets, not a scientific survey.

Hell, I could be talking to myself here, I dunno.

>>46035763
That is interesting. Game is not very popular so It's hard to find decent opinions. RPG.net gave it two 9/10 but these retards can't be trusted. It has 8 votes on RPG geek, and 7 on Amazon. I don't really know any other places where I could find good RPG-related opinions.

It's basically WFRP but D&D. The setting is generally worse, a bit heavier on the puerile humor. It has some cool playable races like the clockwork dudes.

I like how you can hang any combination of classes on the basic advancement scheme and they'll all give you some neat abilities. I don't like how it's heavily biased towards magic if you want a decent selection of neat abilities, and I REALLY don't like how some extremely basic build-defining abilities are gated behind Expert and Master Paths, so you need to be level 6 or 7 (out of 10) to get your basic shield bash or improved aim ability.

I would rate it ahead of WFRP 2nd edition, on a par with WFRP 1 and behind WFRP 3, which will probably cause anyone who would be interested in it to disregard my opinion.

>>46034594
>Ask Shalra to do something paladin-y
>Yeah necro them to death!
>We need some awesome battle music!
>Use your sword, dumbass!
>Scratch them

Best plans.

>>46034594
>Separate from Shalra
She needs to grab that artifact for us.
>Yeah necro them to death!
>Use uh...what spells can you use again (?)
>Song of Discord (R)
>Heroism on Anlia
>Use your sword, dumbass!
>Destruction Gem Golem

>>46034594
>>46034672
Seconding

Kill him.

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>>so it's only a disappointment for me

Welcome to being a DM. You're job is to make it fun for the players. Your own fun in coincidental at best.

>>46034306
This never happened.

In all the things that never happened, this happened least

that being said

If it's not meshing with the game, if it's grinding the game to a halt, if it's making it unfun for you

either THE GAME NEEDS TO CHANGE

or THE PLAYER NEEDS TO CHANGE

decide which.

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YOU FUCKERS!!! READ THIS!!!!

>>46031488
>>46032032
a) you're on the wrong fucking board, idiot
b) shitt animoo story about god-like alien superintelligence turning AIs into humans isn't anywhere close to hard scifi.
c) fuck off back to your containment board, weaboo

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>>46032095
At least you read the first story. For that I am grateful.

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>>46031201

“Ra, I'll leave the details in your capable hands,” Sho Tatsuhiro says lightly as he struts back to his palanquin, already growing bored with this subject. As his masked servants lower the platform, any hope of guessing their expressions or their true thoughts defeated by those blank masks, the Emperor hops onto his seat and raps one heel against the floor. Rising, the mute servants turn and bear him silently away.

“I really must apologise,” Ra says eventually, when you can be sure that the Emperor has departed completely, “I thought he would have a medal for you, a ceremonial sword at the most. Not... this.”

You had no idea what to expect, you tell him, and you still didn't expect this. Does this mean you're a member of the nobility now?

“Technically, yes... not that that means much these days,” Ra forces an apologetic smile, “The Emperor has more or less absolute control over the laws of the land – as you might be starting to realise – so you won't be required to vote on matters or make your voice heard at court. Your opinion might hold a little more weight than it used to, but I wouldn't expect too much. On the bright side, this doesn't really give the Emperor any extra leverage over you – at worst, he can strip you of your lands.”

Maybe, you reply, that wouldn't be so bad. What are you supposed to do with an island, anyway?

“If you wished to sign stewardship over to someone else – your temple, say – I can arrange the appropriate documents. Or, if you wish to keep hold of it for now, I can have a boat chartered to take you there – in case you want to look things over,” Ra shakes his head, tiredness slipping through his usual composure, “Of course, there's no need to decide immediately.”

>Get the boat ready – I want to visit it again
>Send the appropriate documents to the Nameless Temple – I'm returning there as soon as I can
>I'll decide this matter later
>Other

>>46031209
>Send the appropriate documents to the Nameless Temple – I'm returning there as soon as I can
"I'll iron this out there."

>>46031209
>Send the appropriate documents to the Nameless Temple – I'm returning there as soon as I can