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>>45958319
Is this copypasta or a new meme?

>>45958327
I'm going to take a wild guess that the original version was about a weeb using katanas and insisting on being called a samurai.

>>45958319
>He's always talking about how Germany has the best culture in the world.
Well, he's not wrong. Better than the Irish at least.

>>45958154

Fuck, my first thought was Orpheus.

Okay, so there's an MMO where you wander a ghostly hellscape and fight specters and lay ghosts to rest. Lots of kids are playing it.

The thing is that the technology actually allows the player to project, as Skimmers. Hence the rumors of people dying from 'overplaying' turns out to be the truth. Also, some people have gone berserk and become Jasons when they were possessed by Specters.

Ultimately, the game was distributed by a Malfean in order to harvest souls for the great war against Grandmother to come.

Combine Minecraft, unreal tournament, and Corruption of Champions with a ridiculously in-depth and user-created item crafting system (if you can define it with the game physics, you can make it) and exploitable magics.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you GURPS.

This thread was right next to the Gurps general, so I thought of that and a western setting.

I guess the anime kiddos keep trying to bug the GM to let them take certain advantages and superhuman stuff? One keeps trying to make things cinematic and rules-lite while another goes gritty and follows all the optional rules. Meanwhile they make a bunch of fanny jokes about popular movies. Man now I just want to watch Trigun.

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>>45957831
and this one

Let's go!

>>45957881
Trying dice again...

Depends on the order you do stuff, DC and SS both have a map and you basically have to kill every other faction, some of the specific capital killing missions are hard, other then that it is just tedious.

>>45957305
WA is kind of the red headed step child. I really like the IG Commander in that one and it's a shame he didn't return, thiugh

>>45957362
>WA
>hard

C U C K
U U
C C
K K

Gangbang

Burn her at the stake for being a witch.

>>45955773

Quite lewd of you sir, she's a gnome! She can't handle that much high impact sexual violence.

>>45955784

Oh, but the warlock gets a pass. Sure.

How do you feel about non-standard names for common mechanics? Pretentious, nice to have, mandatory? Does it make a difference if the mechanic is being used in a surprising way?

For an example of that last question, I'm working on something that's mechanically feats, but each feat contains both mechanical bonuses and plot hooks. I'm leaning towards calling them Steps and feat chains Paths, because of the weirdness.

(But I'm more interested in starting a discussion than actually talking about my system.)

What do you think about this?
>>45953137

>>45955681
RPGs are a mix of improv theater and boardgames. Usually with the theater being a frame tale so you can play some boardgames. There's tons of material to plunder among modern boardgames. And by all means, pick silly, tactile games. I recommend Catacombs (again), String Railway, Dixit (or Mysterium), and Bunny Bunny Moose Moose as wild enough starting points. Also Bandu and Tok Tok Woodman are Jengi-likes.

And I'll raise you one - improv theater where you have to react to your actions succeeding or failing at the roll of a dice is one thing. But there are a lot of improv comedy games out there. Can any be twisted into an RPG?

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>>45954302
This was literally the best CCG/TCG I ever played. Everything about it was fun, and every mechanic was interactive regarding all players. And it wasn't afraid of RNG when appropriate.

>>45954302

The Harry Potter card game was pretty sweet.

>>45954302
Arcadia: The Wyld Hunt. Fucking Amazing

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2169/arcadia-wyld-hunt

http://arcadiaccg.blogspot.com/

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>>45954262
Shit/10
now do mine

>>45954295
Two dots in (Squid)
Three dots in (Kid)

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>>45954295
woomy/10

>>45953985
except having no sense of style

>>45953985
I like how nobody can figure out whether Magnus is Egyptian-influenced or Aztec/Mayan-influenced.

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>>45953985
Well...... Not intentionally.

>>45953868
>stillnotanavenger/10

>stillnotinthejusticeleague/10

.stillhasagreatass/10

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>>45953868
Special rules: Roll a D6. On a 1+, your uncle dies

Risus + Aspects
4 The Amazing Spider Man
3 Backup Scientist
2 Photographer
1 Lady's Man
A - Wisecracking Superhero
A - Luckless Civilian
A - (temporary) Borrowed The Captain's Shield

>>45953137
It's a cool idea but needs to be carefully balanced. For example, having a player solve a little puzzle to represent their character solve an in-universe one may not make sense if the player is pretty smart but their character is a dull, uneducated brute. Or having the player perform a minigame that requires a steady hand needs to reflect the dexterity of their character in some way, too. etc.

>>45953342
That's the thing though. As long as it draws the player in it's still better than a realistic simulation.

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Puzzles are a good point though. I'm usually not a fan, but if done right they can deliver exactly that immersion.

Don't make your players solve substitution cyphers. That's tedious. Unless you want the players to feel how tedious their character's job is for hours, don't.

You could give the players a ball to roll through a tilting maze to solve a dwarf puzzle that opens the ancient mountain home.

You can have the mad scientist's journal handout spell out the solution in the first letter of every paragraph.

But even a mere Vigenère code is too much to demand of players who don't happen to be total math geeks and enjoy such things.

>>45951727
Alright, so you've got Space Marines. They're the protagonists of the setting, so it's only fair that they have the best units, rules, and backstory. You'll love them. They're HFY with a bit of Dune.

After them you have the Imperial Guard, which are the bootlickers that support the Marines. They have tanks, so they're okay.

Moving outside of Humanity you have Chaos, which, true to its name, is mostly RNG units, and orks. Which are mostly grey.

The good aliens are the Eldar and the Tau. The Tau are known for being close combat samurai and ninjas, which is probably even cooler then the Mariners. While the Eldar are Space Elves, which why they have such big tits.

The evil aliens are the Tyranids and the Necrons. The Tyranids are mindless bugs, so there's no real strategy to them, while the Necrons are evil robots that enjoy eating their enemies souls to power their shard batteries. So you'll want to field as many of their units as possible.

That's all of the factions, I'm pretty sure.

>Space Marines: Smaller amounts of stronger dudes
>Imperial Guard: Very large amounts of weak dudes and/or Tanks
>Grey Knights: Even smaller amounts of even stronger dudes, compared to SM
>Sisters of Battle: a weaker version of the Space Marines
>Tau: powerful at range, weak in melee
>Orks: lots of cheap dudes that fire many inaccurate shots
>Tyranids: many very weak units backed up with strong giant monsters
>Eldar: Generally excel in every area currently
>Necrons: Tough to kill, but slow
>Chaos Space Marines: a weaker version of Space Marines

I was thinking about Tau, with their strong range

Bump.

I've got equipment and the like covered, just need the stats.

>>45951368
What kind of stats do YOU think they should have?

Standard soldier stats with maybe some extra CON, short fly speed, and a limit break that raises all thier stats for a short duration.

Fluffed as the whole assuming direct control thing.

>>45951290
I wouldn't use the Elemental Chaos, because I think that was a terrible decision and the old Planar Cosmology worked a lot better.

Hell, throwing the entire Great Wheel into the garbage can was one of the most annoying things about 4e for me.

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>>45953876

4e had preserved a surprising amount of planar lore as pointed out in the opening post, but I understand your concerns regarding the Elemental Chaos.

How would you make Limbo distinct from the Deep Ethereal, then?

>>45953953
A lot more chaos and change, and a lot more in the way of finished results/complicated structures. You're more likely to find trees and chunks of land/structures/buildings/natural environments in Limbo, and it's a lot easier to create things there (though they end up falling back into chaos a lot more quickly). It should also be clear that the place is chaotic, so descriptions should make note of the fact that the fire doesn't quite behave like real fire and so on.

Joined up in the medicae school.

FOR THE FEDERATION I WILL GIVE MY LIFE

>>45951106
Shot a heretic in the nuts.