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You wake up to a trashcan falling over down the alley you're parked in and a scream from the same direction. Immediately you recognize the silhouette of a man holding a knife, and he seems to be threatening somebody you can't make out. This might be a chance to try out your new costume, so you slip the robe from your backpack over your clothes and put on the mask. With a click, the mask switches to thermal vision and you can see the victims, an old couple, and the purse that one of them has.

Experience with others wearing it has taught you that knives won't pierce nanoarmor, so this guy couldn't possibly hurt you. Unless he's also a Super that is. Which case he could shoot you with his mind or something like that, but he can't be a high rank otherwise he would be doing more nefarious stuff. He doesn't look like an experienced mugger either.

The old couple seem to be cowering behind a dumpster as the mugger holds them at knifepoint. There is one advantage to sleeping in alleys, your ink blends into the darkness perfectly.

>Draw and animate something
>Snake ink through the shadows to attack the mugger
>Try to sneak up on the mugger for extra fear factor
>Write-in

>>44839208
>>Draw and animate something
Bring up our good friend, Balto the Wolf

>>44839208
>Draw and animate something
then
>Try to sneak up on the mugger for extra fear factor

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The next day, Gryffindor plays against the Slytherin. The game starts quite fast with both sides scoring against each other. In fifteen minutes the score is 50 to 30 for Gryffindor with Alba scoring most of the goals. You can clearly see that she is a very skilled player. Probably the best on the field actually. The beater, who tried to hit you with a Bludger last year, Malus, is also playing. He tries to knock off Slytherin players with his usual dirty playstyle. You also see Rachel Rosenfeld, joined the team as a Chaser for Slytherin. The weather is cloudy with distant claps of thunder can be heard from the field.

As another half hour passes, the score is 120 for Gryffindor and 70 for the Slytherin. Gryffindor, especially Alba, plays very good...but the Slytherin has their secret weapon ready. The seeker who caught the Snitch last time you played against Slytherin even though they have lost the match. The fifth grader Picar Aquila, dives suddenly very fast towards the bottom of one of the keeps. You are sure that he saw the Snitch. The Gryffindor seeker is completely oblivious to this. Not too long later the whistle is heard. Slytherin wins the match with the score of 220 to 120. You are sure that Alba would be crazy but instead she looks calm and simply lands with her broom and heads to the changing rooms.

The Slytherin students cheer and shout chants. They are in complete frenzy. Some say they care more about defeating Gryffindor than winning the cup. You can certainly see some of them are like that. Then you catch the glimpse of the Professor Snape. He is standing between the cheering students. You are not sure because of the distance but it looks like he is smiling. He raises his hands and claps slowly. He is clearly happy with this victory.

>RIP DARK PRINCE

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The next day, Monday, you start the day with your common class with Gryffindor which is the Potions. Professor Snape seems to be in a better mood than his usual. He walks around the classroom explaining how to slice kidneys properly. He stops behind the desk of Bill Weasley and smacks his book on his head. "Since you think gossiping is more important than what I am telling, Mr. Weasley, you might as well tell us what is the difference between brewing a Forgetfulness Potion in a silver cauldron and a copper cauldron?"

Bill, looking completely terrorised, says "Umm...it tastes better with the copper?" Snape just sighs and declares, "10 points from Gryffindor. It is good to see the prestigious magical education of Hogwarts was chosen to be given to the likes of you..." and walks off to continue with the class.

You are requiered to prepare the ingredients first to brew a Shrinking Solution.

Roll 1d10

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>44839222
Lets gooo

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>>44838970
A little cliched, but the saddest I've ever made a character's backstory as I tend towards the more well adjusted in terms of characters.
>Half-elf, who are discriminated against in the DM's homebrew
>His mother was some higher up in the Elvish government, his dad was a adventurer of some description.
>Mom forced his dad to take the baby, he dumped it at an orphanage, orphanage didn't want it either and just left him in the street
>Imperial Library Keeper is out on a nighttime walk because he's a fucking weirdo and takes the baby
>Raised in the deep stacks of the library, abused by the library keeper and forced out of sight whenever someone is around
>Has zero outside contact besides the Library Keeper until he's about 12 when he discovers a "talking book"
>Talking book is actually the contact point for some sort of Outer Being/Elder God, becomes a warlock by accident by being in contact with it
>Elder God is an okay guy actually, but Library Keeper is still an abusive asshole and regularly beats the kid
>At age 19 a group of looters break into the library looking for shit to steal during big riots outside (this actually factors into another characters backstory)
>End up killing the Library Keeper in a scuffle
>Kid is pissed, blasts them with eldritch magic
>More people show up after sounds of a scuffle, kids hands are basically still "smoking"
>Assume he did it, as he's some kind of rogue elf wizard they've never seen before and there are five dead humans at his feet
>Chase him out of town, but not before he grabs the book
>Becomes adventurer/mage for hire because he has nothing else he knows besides what he's read about and polite circles want nothing to do with half-elves

It's all panned out alright for him in the long term though. So that's good.

>>44839364
Seems like a better use of cliche. What all happened campaign-wise for him?

>want to hear the good end, or alright end, whichever

>>44838970
Why was the mob after him ?

So /WoD/ if there was a Century of humiliation as a dark ages book what line do you think it would be?

>>44838982
>Century of humiliation
What's that?

>>44839073

The Western (and Japanese) influence and colonization of China that lasted till the end of World War II. Off the tip of my head, I guess I'd say Geist could work, because Geist works best when there's cultural tensions going on since they're all about fusions and cultural blending. Demon could work too, as would Vampire and maybe even Beast.

>>44838384
>There was a misprint. Edin was in the castle looking for some means of weapons control. He was last in the back of the meeting area at the foot of the stairs.

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>>44838384
Here

http://pastebin.com/EJHa0MrP

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>>44838384
>http://pastebin.com/6bRRY3MP
>Present

>>44837866
They're not polytheistic. They're henotheistic.

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>>44837866
>I mean, characters seem to chose a deity, and follow that one and only that one. And even though the information is mostly vague, it seems that even common folk tend to worship only one chosen deity.

That's not the case in most D&D settings.

Players choose patron deities, but they still worship the rest when appropriate. A fighter who hates undead and worships Pelor still offers Fharlanghn a prayer before he sets out on a journey, and a wizard that considers Mystra to be her patron still praises Tymora when she wins a game of cards. Even clerics dedicated to a single god respect the rest, as long as their church's dogma don't come into conflict.

This is explicitly stated in the rules books.

>>44837909
But that makes little sense(with the exception of clerics and monks), as the gods are extremely thematic. Henotheism was an early form of monotheism, where the worshipped gods gave a lot broader portfolio, so to speak.

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You wake early, something gooey and warm dropping itself heavily into your lap. You startle awake, staring down at the blackish blob thing now sitting on your knees, little yellow eyes peering up at you.

“Bo-bo!” It squeaks, bouncing a few times, before leaping out through the window, hurrying off through the grass towards another series of blobs.

Seems the baby Digimon are entertaining themselves, even if it’s at the expense of your sleep schedule. And, of course, Jeff’s snoring up a storm in the front seat, and even after a solid half hour of trying to curl yourself up as comfortably as possible, you can’t get any sleep with that going on.

The sun’s just peaking over the horizon, as you slip out of the car, clambering a short way up a tree, you manage to rustle around blindly in the leaves for some food, fingers closing around something, you tug it off the branch, coming away with… a steak? How?

Oh well, you’re not complaining. You drop to the ground, angrily ripping into the meat, before even forcing yourself through a morning exercise routine, collapsing in a sweaty heap in the grass as you finish up, breath ragged.

You can hear more of the baby Digimon giggling among themselves nearby, laughing about something or other, when lights flick on in the two houses owned by Miss Kelli and Witchmon. Seems both are awake for now.

>See what those kids are up to
>Figure out a way to stop Jeff snoring
>Visit Witchmon
>Check on Ms Kelli
>Meh, call Aru, see what she’s up too.
>Write in

>>44837630
>>See what those kids are up to

>>44837630
>See what those kids are up to

>>44837303
>Left quickly to change for work

>>44837303
Forgot your subject line

>>44837467
My apologies for that.

Nobody? Is it really that hard to pull off?

I don't know if I'd call it "done right" but I ripped off some Lovecraft dream stuff for my fantasy campaign.

Instead of D&D's astral plane, most teleportation and astral travel relies on the dream realm, a realm-between-realms where the dreams of conscious creatures take shape and form into bubbles. This means that astral travel is easier at night because more creatures are asleep -- it's like a navigator at sea having more stars in the sky.

What makes the dream realm unique is that there are a few "fixed" dreams that act as landmarks. Some of these have been identified as originating in the tombs of heroes or ancient slumbering dragons or old crypts, but most are unexplained. The greater the creature's intellect, the larger its dream bubble is, so these landmarks are reliable as navigation points.

The big one, though, is the Dreamer Below. This is an absolutely enormous and vast dream bubble with its source deep beneath the ground that looks the same no matter where your entry point is from the physical world. With certain magic, one can even enter dreams and see or influence the course of a dream. The Dreamer Below's dream is just as vast inside as outside, and travelers have become lost inside, never to return. Others report a bizarre landscape unlike anything they've ever seen, full of strange but benign creatures that defy explanation.

>>44837231
The important thing is to keep the characters in control. If what they do makes no difference it's not a game. That doesn't mean their guns have to have an effect, but if they run the situation changes, and where they run to has an effect on the outcome.

I don't think you can just replicate a successful game. A lot depends on the players and the right mood.

My favorite session was A Cold War. But be warned, this one is definitely KEEPERS ONLY! If you read it you can never play it. And that would be a real shame. The setting is modern cultists. It's a one-shot and a bit of a sandbox. I wouldn't call it classically structured, and you can't use it to make your own because it is very specific.

>>44837878
Been trying to post it for half an hour now. 4chan suxx. You can find it in TUO #11.

>>44837056
A setting that lets me play psionics without my group considering them overpowered

Asked this just as the new thread was getting made:

Let's say I want to play a blaster in the same vein as Iron Man, as in I can just shoot scaling energy beams from my palms (amongst other abilities) all day.

How do I best go about doing this, in 1st and 3rd party?

>>44837073
But they don't even have spell slots, how can they be anything but overpowered?

Would greenstuff badass beards/10.

Given how fucking often "Fire Attacks!!!" appeared in Romance of the 3 Kindoms, you could model them after his classical green-and-gold with red trim and run them with Salamander chaptacs, especially given how bro-tier they are.

And fucking seriously, roll with a bazillion fu man chus on your helmetless dudes.

>>44837016
For anything China-based, Guan Yu and Zhang Liao have to compete for conceptual space with Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao. And that's just in that era, and not at all inclusive. You could easily fill out a full eighteen legions from ancient Chinese concepts and not repeat yourself once.

>>44837111
Yeah, I do love me some manly fucking beards popping out of power armor. Never even thought of the Salamanders.

Was originally going with Imperial Fists, but now that you mention it, Salamanders are pretty bro-tier, especially if I'm going for the most brotherly kingdom in the Three Kingdoms Period as a motif.

Imagine the troll doll head I'd have to de-attach to make Zhang Fei's wild beard lol. Really good idea.

>>44836889
Name: Clarissa Green
Age: 12
Gender: F

Did you make before some Russianboo quest?

>>44836940
Sounds good

>>44836940
You write down your name, age (12) and gender and scribble down the other basic information required. Handing it back to Dr. Pendleton, you feel like you have to ask.

"Why are we taking a carriage up to the school?" You've been wondering for a while now. "Why not just take the car?"

"The owner of the property doesn't like motor vehicles on the estate," he replies with a chuckle. "I don't think she likes the noise very much. She's provided this carriage and driver for any business between Rookstone and the town."

You nod. Looking out the window, you can see how different life at Rookstone will be from the city - there aren't any houses around, let alone cars, just fields and the trees beyond.

"Ah, I do believe we're coming up to the statues. We should be there soon. Take a look!" the doctor beams. You watch as they come into view - first a stone statue of a child running, then a horse rearing up a few feet behind. "We're nearly there, then?"

As if to answer your questions, the hoofbeats begin to slow and you hear the driver calling "Whoa!" Before long, the carriage comes to a halt and the door opens. The carriageman, Roy, is a youngish fellow, no more than 20 you think, with mussed brown hair and a warm smile. He's got your bags in hand.

Stepping out of the carriage, you look up at a vast stone mansion, almost like a castle in size, far bigger than you had imagined it. A large double door is surrounded by tall curtained windows and at least three floors in the main section alone, to say nothing of the towers - there are towers! - on the ends of the building.

A huge, grumpy-looking man in a brown coat comes over to lead the horses away as Dr. Pendleton walks over. He hands you your papers and looks up at the building.

First for Apathy is life

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>>44836653
DESANN

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>>44836690

we started researching Alien materials from last thread, it will take a week to finish.
>Start Research
>Start some projects in the workshop
>Contact Exalt
>Visit grey Market
>Lay low for ____
>Establish contact in____
>Wait for certain opportunities around the globe
>Ask for an advice from _____
>Visit training school
>other

>>44836318
>>other
Look into getting more engineers. Either through recruitment or Defection/extraction.

>>44836318
>Contact Exalt
I want to know if they've started encountering these Faceless, and Chryssalids. Also, pass along to them info about the cloning facility in Portugal; it's in their interests too that better Advent Captains don't come online.

>>44836132
Small Category:

>Sarharan Martial Eagle: Ranging up to 9 feet body length and 27 feet in wingspan. Carnivore. You can fly and easily pick up entire antelopes, halflings or humans alike. You are not very intelligent, but your senses are heightened. You are rideable by light folk. (STR:4, CON:2, DEX:5, INT:2, +2 to Perception and Survival.)
>Kratos Beetle: Ranging up to 9 feet in length, 12 with horn and 5 feet in width. Omnivore. Your chitin back makes you very resistant to all sort of attacks, but your unprotected parts are vital. You can gain a burst of speed to ram things for a short distance. You are rather intelligent. You are rideable.(STR:5, CON:4(6), DEX:3, INT:3)
>Steppe Wolf: Ranging up to 10 feet, 11 with tail. Carnivore. You posses keen sense of smell and loyalty. Your hunting skills are superb and you are vicious in battle, not willing to run even when facing huge threat. You're quite intelligent. You are rideable.(STR:4, CON:4, DEX:5, INT:4, +3 to Perception, +1 to survival)
>Blue Ape of Kokodo Forest: Ranging up to 12 Feet and 5 feet in shoulder spread. Omnivore. Your humanoid body grants you massive advantages in battle. Your blue fur also has very minimal defense against all sort of magical attacks. You are quite intelligent and learn fast. You are rideable when on all four.(STR:4, CON:4, DEX:4, INT:4)

(cont.)

>>44836140
Medium Category:

>Sarharan Lizard: Ranging up to 13 feet, 17 with tail and 7 feet at your hunched back. Carnivore. You can walk on all four or on two legs, you also swim well. Your thick hide protects your back, but your stomach is soft. Your claws are hooked and let you scale even the most vertical walls as long as you can hook them on the walls. You are rather intelligent. You are rideable.(STR:5, CON:3, DEX:3, INT:3)
>Dwarf Bear: Ranging up to 15 feet with 5 feet at height. Omnivore. You are built of pure muscle and thick hairy hide. Your strength is absurd and can compete against the biggest beasts and your claws and teeth let you penetrate most materials or natural armors. You are rather intelligent. You are rideable.(STR:6, CON:5, DEX:3, INT:3)
>Cave Hydra: Ranging up to 16 feet and 6 feet at height, 10 with the necks. Carnivore. You have 3 heads, but you are the main one which controls the body, you have a reasonably thick hide and tunneling is easy for you. You are rideable. You have varying levels of intelligence.(STR:5, CON:6, DEX:3, INT:2-4)
>Scorpiones Rex: Ranging up to 21 feet, stinger being 7 and pincers 5 feet long. Carnivore. You are docile, but once agitated you do not rest till you remove the reason for your anger. Your stinger is humongous and slow to move, but if you do hit, the poison will take all beasts down, even if they require multiple stings. Your claws can crush stones without much trouble. You are not very intelligent. You are rideable.(STR:4, CON:5, DEX:4, INT:2)
(Cont. again.)

>>44836154

Siege Category:

>Mammoth of the Everwinter Mountains: Ranging up to 19 feet in length, 28 with tusks and 15 feet in height. Herbivore. You are very docile and usually avoid aggression but you are not afraid to fight. You can gain burst of speed to ram your tusks to topple over walls or impale threats. You are quite intelligent. You are rideable.(STR:7, CON:5, DEX:2, INT:4)
>Carcharodontosaurus: Ranging up to 22 feet in length, 42 with tail and 13 feet in height. Carnivore. You are the apex NATURAL predator, while you are not nimble or fast due to your slow gait, your massive jaw breaks most if not all non-magically enhanced defenses. You are rather intelligent. You are rideable.(STR:8 CON:4, DEX:3, INT:3)

Well, I didn't expect it to take 3 posts. Oh well. Welcome to my new Quest. The rolls are 1d20, best of three, the usual.