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I'd say it's fine to have some good ideas every now and then, but there's a limit where you are trying to negate a drawback to your character through roleplaying.

It's the same reason I get iffy when some guy has zero social skills but tries to roleplay himself as being more sociable and charismatic than his scores would suggest.

Consider language to be a technical skill.
Consider that int also determines how your character reasons, including higher concepts.
If low int is something like 8, those two elements can be here, or only one can be here, or none at all. So conversation could be a functionnal or even pleasant, as long as you don't go philosophical, put him outside his knowledge zone, or dump too much info on him in a short peroid of time.
If it's 2 int, howevr, I don't see any of those elements working, so yeah, retard speech (and logic).
More than grammatical errors, insist on limited vocabulary and short sentences.

>>45961733
So roleplay something no representative of their stats?

The low skill scores take care of themselves by mechanically representing low Int. If you're not going to roleplay stupid or dimwitted to show the more abstract side of the Int stat, why bother?

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The last few rays of sun ebb from sight, fading below the lip of the landing platform. Heart pounding out of your chest, you tentatively approach the landing pad's access door. The hiss of the automatic door nearly causes you to jump out of your skin.

To your relief, there's nobody waiting for you behind it. Ahead lies the most fabulously opulent staircase you've ever seen. The floor is carpeted in some lush red fabric, so deep that your feet begin to sink as you tread downwards. The walls and ceiling are made from some pale white stone, threaded with golden veins that shimmer in the low light that emanates from crystals set into the walls at regular intervals. You reach out with your mind, trying to discern what lies ahead. A lobby of some kind, wide and round, with wide beds of lush foliage spread around the outside. Although your vision is hazy, there are three figures waiting at the far side of the lobby. Two are boxy, utilitarian, and armed with blaster rifles but the third shimmers like a silver statue. Droids, then. Beyond them, a pair of elevators are set into the wall - one golden filigreed, the other plain and unadorned. The silver figure seems to be berating the other two, fussily throwing its arms to and fro.

You turn to Choni. "There's three droids ahead. I think two of them are security, I don't know about the third. Should I blast them?" The Twi'lek looks grim. "Can't we sneak by? Or maybe we can talk them out of blasting us? I've worked with my dad's droids. They're pretty stupid."

You press your spare blaster into her hands. "Just in case, okay?"

>Sneak
>Attack
>Bluff
>Other - write in

>>45961512
>Sneak

>>45961512
>Sneak

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>>45961326
What a coincidence, me too!

Do....Do all gnomes not wear pointy hats?

>>45961354
Sometimes they wear pointy helmets.

My bad, i meant to type Foyer not Foray

>>45961243
I assume you've read Castle Ravenloft. If not, you have homework.

>a cheesgame with death
-roof
-some kind of underground sea or
river
- a souvenir shop
-crematorium
-prison
-doghouse (with helldogs)
-an inside graveyard
-an oldschool cinema

>>45960811

They fuck a character's waifu.

And she LOVED it.

>>45960825
Fuck you man, i almost choked on my coffe while laughing.

Made my day tho.

Read the Draconomicon

>>45960209
There's a creak of a heavy door opening, someone's running on... stone floor?

"They'll be here any minute, are you done on your end?" Someone sounds exhausted... huh, wait a moment... that's not a language I recognize, yet I understand it perfectly

"The soul has settled. With the catalyst spent they should have little reason to risk further casualties, gold can settle this matter now. I will negotiate with Druzag, peasant knights are easy to deal with once they feel they have failed their sense of duty." He sounds pretty calm about things. I'm not sure what they are trying to settle, but going by the increased strength and proximity of the base I'm starting to suspect that I'm not listening to someone's poor choice of music.

"You may assist the supplicants shackle the mind, I'd prefer that you get it over with before it hatches. It's easier to drain memories when they are all docile."

Wait what! Shackle! Hatching? Am I inside a goddamn egg? It makes sense of why I'm constricted like this... But again, shackling? What the hell, are they talking about me, what are they going to do to me?

> Panic, [Despair]
> Panic, [Flight]
> Panic [Fight]
> Write in

>>45960214
>> Write in
Keep calm. You have moment of surprise on your side. Wait for the right moment to sucker-punch whoever is coming.

>>45960209
>Panic, [Flight]
Despair does nothing but condemn us, and fighting will go poorly when we know neither ourselves nor our enemy.

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>>45960191
Mountain lifter.

>>45960191
Chaotic neutral dragonborn paladin

>>45960294

Chaotic neutral paladin?

You're basically a cult leader who's the only member of his religion.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>45959972

>>45960016
We fought Under the Banner of the Triarch and our Silent King against those who wished to see them fall

Roll a d1o for what C'tan we follow

>>45959806
"Did you hear about the circus coming to town? They have something very special planned they say!"

And then i get to flipping through the book to see what manner of monster they got drugged and is going to start murdering people so the party can kill it and find out who released the beast.

Make up another story about a guy who feels wronged by his community and tries to sell it out to the outsiders. That seems to be the only thing I could come up with recently.

>>45959806
A player character gets mugged and robbed.

Look what I found guys. A creature that doesn't actually try to murder everything!
https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Healing_Goo_(3.5e_Creature)

>Doctor

Lich, "I beat death, how many doctors can claim that?"

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>>45959760
>What monsters would be best suited for these professions?

>>Doctor
Jew.

>>Chef
Jew Doctor.

>>Captain of the Guard
Jew Gnome

>>Shopkeeper/Merchant
Gnome.

>>Lawyer/Judge
Half-Ogre Jews.

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its the all mythic deck

>>45959407
by playing a madness list with flip jace, which will be the actual best deck in the format.

>>45959428
>implying that stops people

Thanks for bringing my attention to this. Wishlisted.

What's a classic RPG in your interpretation? I was interested when I saw it in Steam suggestion the other day, but I don't want to jump in just now.

>>45959667
Somewhere in the whereabouts of Fallout 2 / Diablo 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu7ddmL6Vfs

>>45959215
What the people of the fortyfirst millenium consider hymns, would probably be experimental vaporwave hardcore grind-rap by our today standards.

>>45959215
You know how /tg/ always gives that non answer, 'It depends on the setting?'

When it comes to 40k, that answer is 'It depends on the Planet'

You can literally encounter anything and everything in the IoM, depending where you go, from historically accurate or anachronistic fuedal worlds to fagballs Steampunk mechanicus style to scifi baroque

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>>45959101
>a
I agree with your sentiment, failing a stealth check should raise the "alarm level" by one point, giving someone sneaking around at least a chance to fix it up.

Also remember that in d20 systems rogue type are supposed to tricks like silence and invisibility, having ranks in stealth is just ranks in stealth that are unlimited use.

>>45959101
>>45959370
Aren't stealth checks and similar checks always context sensitive?

If you try to stealth in combat you probably don't vanish completely, it is more about distraction and DM could still allow dodge bonuses or free movement around battlefield even if your smoke screen fails a bit.

Out of combat it depends on situation. Maybe the rogue notices that the guards are suspicious and doesn't try to sneak past them meaning that he loses time or an angle of approach. If trying to hide in a dark nook there most likely some bonus to roll and any failure would have to be a catastrophic blunder.

>>45959101
Because if you have a balanced game people will complain that it's not crunchy enough.

>>45958453
Silicon-based life is one of those things that sounds plausible on the face of it (silicon has four valence electrons, just like carbon), but in practice probably wouldn't work. Silicon's a lot less reactive than carbon is, it doesn't form nearly as wide a range of compounds as carbon does. Now, what sort of weird biochemistry you could get is carbon bonding with things that it doesn't in terrestrial life. Arsenic, for example, has been proposed as a possible replacement for sulfur, and there's actually some speculation that early terrestrial life may have used arsenic-based compounds. There's also some interesting stuff with alternate solvents than water, ammonia is considered fairly plausible by exobiologists. And of course there's the (comparatively) simple way of making exotic biochemistry by just shuffling around what sort of CHON-based compounds do what. It would be simple enough to have a biosphere where genetic information was coded in peptide chains instead of DNA, for example, and there are a wide range of things you could make cell walls out of other than phospholipids.

Well silicon dioxide is soild below 2000K so just replacing carbon with silicon would result in you breathing sand.

>>45958606
That's only if you directly swap the atoms in an already carbon-based life form (which would have a lot of other problems, too). Presumably a creature that evolved in a silicon-based biosphere would have separate organs for taking in oxygen and expelling silicon dioxide. Probably drop it off in some membrane that it would periodically empty. So it wouldn't be breathing sand, just constantly shitting it.