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>>44909070
Can we ride Gryphon like a pony?

Rolled 36 + 30 (1d100 + 30)

>>44909070
Demons can rebel even after they are added to the phone? Loyalty system?

>>44908618
Yes.

>>44908618
>>44908706
Yeah at least one exists.

>>44908618
That's stupid.

You're stupid.

>>44908464
"Stand out of my sunlight."

>>44908464
"420 blaze me!"

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>>44908464
"Kill the murderers"

>>44908293
I wouldn't put the percentage that high. You don't even need a group full of people with their own vision. You just need one person with both vision and the charisma to get everyone behind him on it.

But then you get groups full of people who think all RPGs are JRPGs. And yeah, then you need some wide gauge tracks.

I wouldn't say railroading is appropriate for 99% of groups. I'd say railroading is FUCKING MANDATORY TO PLAY FUCKING RPGS.

If you think otherwise, it's because you're one of those inbred player-centric "everything has to be a freeform sandbox hug group where everyone is a special snowflake and any form of narrative or story completely invalidates player agency and games should only ever be be plot-free improvfests where the DM just sits back and shotguns adventure hooks at the players because they are contrarian enough to fuck with any sense of a plot because it conflicts with their idea of freedom" faggots.

Sandbox games aren't a real thing stop pretending they are jesus fuck how long will it take you people to realize this?

>>44908293
Railroading is appropriate for most groups.

What you need to do is make it subtle though.

Give them the illusion of choice, and have it impact shit when appropriate, but never just let them do whatever. That means you've failed to engage them.

To use a really shitty metaphor, you guide them to a crossroad, and then no matter if they head towards "Leftville" or "Righttown" the city will still be plagued by bandits.
Half the challenge is not letting them notice this.

>Space Marines wield lightning and defend eight galaxies instead of one!

Only 8 Legions, 4 traitor primarchs got possessed by each Chaos god to be personal avatars, the rest of their legions are possessed by demons.

>>44907950
>Adeptus Astartes Chapters are 100 strong each, Astartes are all alpha psykers grown in vats and can throw starships.

>>44907721
hai

THERE IT IS

>>44907721
>[] Hide the puppet: Safety in shadows: Time heals
Can't let it be seen with it's skin hanging off and fungus growing out of it.

>>44906289
A big red flag I feel is when someone appears to be going against the tone of the group/what the group is considering to be fun, so Not Cena might be a concern if everyone is going for a more serious game and he's being overly comical/memeish. Edgy guy might be a concern in the opposite direction. the other two seem reasonable enough for now (and really the first ones might not be a problem depending on how they are played.)

Possibly trying to fudge stats is definitely a concern though, it means he's likely going to be focused solely on what he wants to do and is going to bend and lawyers rules until it is done.

>>44906289
Red flags

> CN allingment
> kender race
> anime is referenced at all
>waifu is mentioned
>"my character is gay"
>" I already rolled my stats"
> "can I use a katana?"
> " my character was raped"
> " my tribe/family/(x) was murdered!"
>" I want to play a druid "
> "catgirl"
>" I am half(anything)"

Any of the above, and they'll ruin a group.

>>44908013
I agreen with this anons analysis.

I think its worth mentioning that rules lawyers in my experience are far more poisonous than memesters. If he wants to powergame it will fuck with everyone who isnt him.

>>44904663
About four levels higher than a level one wizard should just about do it.

>>44904663
Depends.

It radically depends on which edition of D&D you're talking about.

>>44904424
hype

>>44904424
Awww yeeeee

Time to cause some very sexy international incidents. Will we get to spar Lee, I wonder?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8rQ6JFZ4hQ&list=PL4C928EAF7AA5B906&index=16

You wake up bright and early, ready to leave as the sun is still rising. Without waking your Uncle, you take your things and leave the room. You head down into the kitchen and grab a quick snack, eating as you head for the door. Before you can leave, you find Sasuke awake as well.

"Thought I'd see you off." Sasuke remarks. You two leave the house and keep chatting as you walk. "Don't you worry about things here. I'm sure my mother is enjoying not having to cook, so your uncle will be just fine while you're gone. Kiba's been making little headway with nature chakra, so he's been begging me to help him out. He's gotten himself all hyped about being part of what he calls 'The Three Sages of the Leaf'. Can you believe it?"

Sasuke chuckles lightly to himself. "Between that and clan duties, I think I'll be tied down for a while. So you just go out and do what you need to do. Akatsuki is still out there somewhere. My brother says he may have a lead here in the village, but... anyway, good luck, Kon."

Sasuke turns to leave as you arrive. Han and Roshi are at the village gate, accompanied by Tenzo.

"Morning, Kon." Tenzo yawns. "Looks like you three are ready to go. Knock 'em dead, kid."

Tenzo shoots you a thumbs up which you return before heading out of the village with your two guests in tow.

A few minutes into your trip, Han speaks up.

"So Kon, you wanted to learn more jutsu, right?" he asks. "I have plenty of them you could add to your repertoire. I could teach you how to use Fire Release too."

"A bit eager there, Han." Roshi speaks up. "Wasn't Kon the one that asked to learn? Not that I mind helping him out."

"Well, bit of a new lease on life now, I suppose." Han replies. "Plus no one ever asked me how to do anything before."

>A.I want to learn a new jutsu

>B.I want to learn Fire Release

>C.Actually, I want to learn Earth Release

>D.I changed my mind, I don't need lessons

>E.Other

>>44904289
Yes

>>44904289

I wonder where these protesters are now.

Do they have families? Are they still out fighting? Are they in a ditch somewhere?

>>44904289
It was never meant to be more than an abstraction, but after lots of revision, the point got lost, and now a disconcerting number of the people that play it are min-maxers whose abilities to find and exploit loopholes would be better served as lawyers rather than as attempts to keep an aging system alive.

>>44904219
But I'm a Monk

I told you the solid gold armor would pay off!

Once again spellcasters come out on top

>>44903875
I want my squats man :(

>>44903875
Everything in the HH series

>>44904218
This isn't a thread for sadness. It's a thread for stark defiance!
My squats still exist! Damn what GW says!

>>44903865
>The art of branch-felling. Armed with sharpened stone tools and strong arms, your family has developed the skills necessary to turn a pile of branches into almost anything. From baskets to firewood, you specialize in both the cultivation the the evergreen branches and crafts involving them.

chop wood nigguhs

>>44903865
>The art of branch-felling. Armed with sharpened stone tools and strong arms, your family has developed the skills necessary to turn a pile of branches into almost anything. From baskets to firewood, you specialize in both the cultivation the the evergreen branches and crafts involving them.

>>44903865
>Elkvar hunting. The elkvar, a staple species in the diet of your tribe, live in large nomadic herds. Your family is adept at pack hunting, and works daily at physical training and hunting technique.

remove elk

Your magic training has been going fairly smoothly. Angie's slow hinting and mentoring at night combined with your own experimentation has led to a few small explosions around the school yard in the dead of night, one mutant cat and a crude telekinesis spell that only moves things to the left, relative to your perspective. It needs work, but it's your first rune magic spell that hasn't blown anything up, which makes it a solid basis for future work. The secret, you've realized, is in over-analyzing every last detail to the limits of what you can consider, all the possibilities your mind can conceive.

History class has been particularly fun, mainly because Catherine is coming out of her shell a bit. The pair of you have been working together in class to get everyone else in character for the roleplay events, as well as exploiting people who aren't taking things too seriously now to establish a broader power base later. Catherine continues to deny any sort of deviousness on her part, citing examples from novels that she's basing her tactics on.

Every evening you've been playing games with Athena and Meliora, when they aren't off patrolling the school or dealing with various issues. Falling asleep in the same bed as Athena felt a little off to you after spending the last two weeks on and off sleeping beside Sammy and Jennifer, but her love of her pillow fort led to her sleeping inside her comfy castle after being tucked in and read a bedtime story. You just told her your favorite one two hours ago, one your dad used to tell you when you were younger. She liked it a lot, and made up an extended ending for it.

The vampires haven't been making much fuss lately, and have been giving you the cold shoulder a bit, which you guess is to be expected. You haven't had much to worry about in terms of supernatural shenanigans, although Presence has been nagging you on and off about hunting down the vampire who killed her. You've yet to come up with a suitable strategy for picking out her murderer and eliminating them. You'll probably have to pull a vampire-level manipulation to pull it off.

You look at the glowing circle on the floor and check your phone. One minute to midnight. You brace yourself for what's about to happen, your hands starting to move on their own. You grab the knife you brought with you and slice into your palm, just deep enough to get blood flowing, and you let the first drops fall into the circle as you chant. The spell comes from somewhere deep inside you, pouring out through your mouth and into the circle before you.

The air around you begins to feel thick and heavy, and the floor beneath the circle turns black as the symbols you marked out turn pale, and then stark white. The drops of blood form into a single black lump that begins to swell and twist, and you take a step back. With a single word you can cancel the summoning and send the devil back into the pit, and in an hour that word will erupt from your mouth on its own, so you sit back and watch the lump twist, writhe and swell into the form of a brutish figure, nearly eight feet tall and clad in a drab black clock and sections of ruined armor.

“You have great skill to have summoned me, human. Tell me your desires, and I, the mighty Velkinshar, will grant them to you. Do you desire a nation to bow before you? A worthy foe destroyed? Or do you wish to make war against the heavens themselves?”

You know that he can't leave the circle or interact with you unless you wish it, but you also know that dealing with devils is risky business. You take a moment to collect your thoughts before proceeding.

>Character sheet
http://pastebin.com/YMGdCy7Q
>Rules
Same system as Become The Dragon Quest. If you don't know what that is, it's best of three d20 rolls. I name a stat that sums up what you're trying to do, and if I don't name a relevant skill, you try to fill in the blank based on what you're trying to accomplish. “Break open the door” might be Strength based, but if you've been playing baseball after school and there's a lead pipe nearby, you could apply your Baseball skill to the roll. A 20 on the die is a crit threat, and if either of the other two rolls is 20 or higher after mods, it's a critical. A crit fail is when you have two or more 1s. So far this system has worked out well enough. We'll get into combat rules as needed, but in basic terms you have wounds, not HP, and the worse the wounds, the more penalties you accrue while doing other things.

Most Important Rule:
Have fun.

>Kick back for an hour, let Tellarie ruin his shit and be done with it.
>Negotiate with Velkinshar, maybe you'll get a better deal here
>Reveal Tellarie's plot to seize power, earn brownie points
>Other (write-in)

>>44901859
Thighs-sensei, here we cum.

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>>44901859
>>44901859

>>44901859
The Lancer Wars: Thighs vs Bulge