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>>45078533
>>How much better would they be?
What criteria are you going by?
>20%?
What the fuck does that number even represent?

>>45078795
>What criteria are you going by?

Performance?

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>>45078533
This is just my uneducated opinion, but I think in pure effectiveness the difference would be minimal. Where we'd see the biggest difference is probably durability (things like stainless steel) as well as ability to mass produce (meaning that instead of only the knights, pretty much every soldier would have full plate, which would mean handbows and swords would be abandoned in favor of crossbows and maces or axes).

Lore as an in-game thing.
I know various versions of the game have various ways to do it (Skills, a Background, etc.) I'm trying to come up with a way to do it viably as a background.

I wonder if it's worth putting together a list of things at Easy/Moderate/Difficult difficulties, and you can have access to it (or be able to get access to it) if you have a dice pool high enough.

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>>45077740
I don't like the thought of the God-Machine existing in a big way before the industrial revolution, so its influence is incredibly minor.

However I've got a plot device coming up where a wealthy man found a "novel" about the concept of a time traveller (well before H.G. Wells). It was in fact the diary of a genine Time Traveller jumping between worlds and cataloguing his findings. He noted many things about a great many confusing futures involving the God-Machine, but most specifically details on a ritual he participated in which summoned one such Angel.

The reader thought it would be great for a lark, and performed the ritual as it was described. A (weak) Angel came out, God-Machine is quite frankly shocked that someone has created infrastructure for it, and WANTS THAT BOOK.

>>45077740
>>45078115
>I don't like the thought of the God-Machine existing in a big way before the industrial revolution, so its influence is incredibly minor.
I honestly don't even treat the God-Machine as a single entity. More of a big web of cultists who think they're worshiping the *true* god, and Angels who've been summoned for one reason or another and are managing their lessers. It's just that everything related to it has a technological twist.

Gonna be running a Demon game, soon, so I've been watching Person of Interest to give myself inspiration; it's definitely helping.

Which of the dark heresy scenarios are worth playing??

>>45066311
related to that, what are anybody's motivations to play scenarios rather than self made stuff?

>>45066392
Lack of ideas and/or time to make your own stuff?

If they live deep enough that they can't see the difference between "day" and "night" they may track those times based on the migration of other sea life. Many zooplankton move to deeper water during the day and towards the surface at night.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diel_vertical_migration

>>45057225
Lunar annual cycle based on the tides?

Alternatively, why would they be interested on measuring the passage of time? Do they harvest something on the spring like surfacers?

Society based on aquatic transhumance, they guide herds of whales and shoals of fish.

>>45057225

Tide? But why would you want mermaids that live in depths that are damn hard for adventurers to even reach?

>>45107518
Not in GURPS.

Because warriors and archers are necessary for the survival of mages at low levels.

>>45107518
mages are few in number, require a great many years to train, and depending on setting, run out of juice quite quickly.

Think about it like this.

Say a mage can take out 100 pikemen by himself.

Well with the same training cost and material cost, you can produce 1000 pikemen.

>>45100165
Yeah sure lets do slime.

Bump, someone bring out your GMing keyboard

im new in this tipe of thread? how do we do this?

I've never actually played a TTRPG before.

>>45097835
Well time for /tg/ to take the survey once again. Poll: http://strawpoll.me/6676372

>>45097767
>constantly gets into arguments with the other girl
>can't into rules
>moralfags at us but is totally willing to commit regicide after walking by an execution
>aggressive vegan
>thinks "being lesbian" is somehow an interesting character trait IRL or in game
Lesson learned: People with bad grooming and hippy slogan shirts need to be kicked posthaste.

>>45095968
I see you rolled a crusader who fought in the war against the heretic pizza people.

>>45096009
Fucking Saucies got what was coming to them.

>>45096040
CHEESIES GET OUT REEEE

>>45095535
>Check that first bridge! Onwards into the sun!
SPIDER.
PUSSY.

>>45095535
>>Check that first bridge! Onwards into the sun!

>>45095535
>>Check that first bridge! Onwards into the sun!
THE BUS WILL MOVE WHILE THE PASSENGERS ARE ALSEEP

>>45090031
>Roll poorly (10, 16, 12, 11, 10, 12)
lolwut, those are good rolls.

Sounds like you're That Guy. DM is always right. Don't like it? Leave.

Who the fuck still rolls stats in order unless you have no idea what you want to play ahead of time?

>>45087653
You started your post like you may have been moving to a point but then you suddenly switched to rabid weaboism

Maybe anon left the room in the middle of writing a post and some weed came into the room and added his shit and hit post

>>45087685
You know it's the first time I have seen a genuine hardcore weeb in months although this guy might just be a troll

>>45087653

> treats other races as second class citizens

Citation needed.

Then again, they suffer from the 40k problem that there really isn't a single 'canon'. It's retcons upon retcons and varies from writer to writer. When I was into the game, the Tau were respectful of their auxiliaries as long as they acted in line with the ideals of the Greater Good, and the totalitarian flare was subtle and insidious.

And now I hear about the Tau making gulags and sterilization camps and I don't even know. Apparently they turned into total mary sues in their latest book, too, which is annoying when Tau players have been defending that they aren't for years. GW had to go and make it true.

>>45086460
It involves both a feeling of security and PCs actually putting down roots and not being total murderhoboes. It's not even something a Paladin or Cleric will feel at the heart of his fortress stronghold, nor will the Wizard in his tower. It's that thought that nothing could possibly happen here, far removed from any battlefront, and that it's safe here.

For someone who intends to obtain disproportionate power by kicking in the doors of Team Monster and looting their pad for cool swag, it's kinda dangerous.

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>>45086460
The most important thing is making something feel like "home". In a Christmas themed setting I had, I did this by having all people in the starting town know and greet them, and invite them to come in and drink and stuff.

Also important is the "home" being way better. For example, if all of the country is frozen wasteland with storms and shit, it helps a ton if the hometown is completely decorated with cozy lights and fires burning everywhere to keep everyone warm.

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>>45087132
This basically.

A "comfy" RP will feel safe and welcoming... almost like a cartoon. Even when the fate of the world is at stake, it won't carry the tension or emotional highs of the characters actually being afraid of failure, it won't address the horrible futures that could happen if the party fails, it won't focus on or even bring up the darker sides of humanity or reality as a whole.

Basically what you're looking for is a slice-of-life game. Better off just cutting out the adventure part and letting the players be school girls dealing with things like crushes and tests...before they become Magical Girls and get torn apart by an uncaring reality that they're now responsible for protecting, because if /a/ is to be believed, Madoka Magica is the greatest thing that ever happened to anime >__>

Enlightened self interest.

Being an Evil character doesn't mean being a dick. It means looking out for yourself first.

I played a Lawful Evil bard who never had any conflict with the rest of the party. Outwardly, he was a kind and heroic person, always fighting alongside the party for whatever good cause they were currently pursuing. But he always made sure his name was first and foremost in the songs and stories, always made sure that his fame and good reputation was spreading the fastest. After all, it's so easy to fool people when they're already predisposed to trust you.

When I've described him before, people have said 'He doesn't sound evil', but there's one story which encapsulates his personal brand of evil. The party was low on supplies as they crossed a mountain range, and he was scouting ahead. He found, by the path, a crying child and a traders wagon of supplies. The boy told him the horses had started and his father had fallen off the cliff, and begged him for help.

When the party arrived, they were confused but thankful for him finding the abandoned wagon of supplies, which made their journey across the mountains significantly easier.

When they arrived at their destination, he tracked down the wife of the merchant, informed her that they'd found the cart abandoned and that her husband and son were likely dead, and paid her a sum of gold that would keep her well taken care of until the end of her days. To him, it was pocket change, but the story spread like wildfire.

And to clarify, since the last time I described this someone didn't get it, yes. He murdered the merchants son, ensured the old man was dead, and stole all the supplies. And then twisted the tale to make himself a hero for doing so. He was one of my favourite Evil characters to play. Of course it's not the only way, but it's just an example of Evil which isn't disruptive or edgy-stupid.

I once played a Banite ranger whose profession was hunting down escaped slaves with his boar companion. He was pretty much a true believer who would.pen treatsie about how democracy eventually led to the erosion of social and moral values and how top down absolute authority was inherent to humanities social nature. He believes in the future, when Bane was the lord of all Gods, the world would be at peace and there would be no want. Subsequently there would be no need for ruthless, sometimes cruel men like himself. He would make a paradise that would have no need or place for him, and then fade into oblivion

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>>45085269
Play in a game without alignments because alignments are a retarded concept that don't work when you play actual characters with depth and complexities instead of cardboard cutouts.

Alignments are the worst thing to come out of DnD and need to be abolished entirely.

>>45084089
Nevermind history. How does this affect organic chemistry?

>>45084089
magic guns that cast a low level spell when fed concentrated magic in the form of a pill or bullet or whatever. guns that shoot magic missile or fireball one at a time that require no casting time and made to be usable by even by the mundane

>>45084089
So combustion doesn't exist?