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>>44750239
>proxy
An important clarification: Proxy cards are substitute cards created solely by judges in sanctioned tournaments. These substitutes are allowed when authorized game cards become unplayable during a sanctioned tournament because of damage or excessive wear. Unauthorized reproductions of our game are a type of counterfeit, and we want business partners to help us in discouraging counterfeit Magic.

>>44750432
I said proxy because that's the way those counterfeit vendors call them

bump?

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>>44749732
The Call of Cthulhu Investigator's Handbook from earlier editions had the most comprehensive description of 1920s living.

In general CoC has the most detail on this era as it's the default setting.

>>44750060
And good luck Romancing the Stone.

>>44749732
Odds are, you'll be getting many things wrong even if you do your best to cram about the Roaring 20's in short order. At best, it will be an amateurish attempt she'll see right through. Just GM Changeling as you know best, man. Better yet, coach her in GMing the 20's game if she likes tabletop RPGs, if you want to bond over that.

soap.
A ROCK TIED TO THE END OF A LENGTH OF ROPE.
Crowbar.
a decent hammer.
a magnet/lodestone.
a ball of reasonably strong twine

>>44749626
Bag of flour for anything invisible.
Jar of marbles for anything with legs.
Smoked goggles for anything bright.
Climbing spikes for anything steep.
A lantern for heat and light.
A spare lantern.
Canary in a cage, pay attention to it.
Helmet.

>>44749626
A simple spring coil powered toy.
A pocket watch.
Salt for bad food and upset stomachs.
Spirits if they exist in the setting.
Breathing rod.
Hourglass.
Candles and torches.
Caltrops.
A bag of cobwebs or poultry down.
A hatchet.
A knife.
A pot and pan.
Spork or two.
Rat traps.
A grappling hook.
A really long pole.
A stethoscope.
Chalk.
Timber and a few logs.
Blankets.
A trusty Kalashnikov.
Spare clothes.
Lots of cord or string.
An iron wedge.
Small glass bottles.
Blank paper and charcoal.
A book to keep you sane.

>...cont

Bastilla

The Main Player's spouse. She has been RPing for so long that she feels she knows everything and tries to lead the group to her decisions as she seems to think she know's best even though at this game everyone is trying to make sure the Main is having a good time seeing as it's first RP experience. She can't have that, she has to be in the limelight, SHE has to be the most important one and throws the most hissy fit of all hissy fits to try and get her way, heck the GM just goes with this and she can't believe she has to be responsible for her actions so on the story goes.

T3-M8

This guy, is the one at every RP but he doesn't RP much... more of a skill monkey and there for the fat loots more than anything, prefers to 'roll-play' instead of 'roleplay' but he doesn't bother anyone and hearing him beep and boop at the table can actually be pretty humorous.

Canderous

So here we have the wish-fufilment, this is the guy who hasn't always been the most popular and probably rejected more times than not, but here in RP land? He decides to be the most bad-ass merciless gun-totin mercenary there is... unfortunately he just comes across as a bit of a dick and you can't call him out on it because you know he'll just whine about 'thats my character!' so you all leave him to it. Though having him and the 'Bastilla' character interact can provide quality entertainment.

HK-47

This is the guy who brings the beers and the snacks, he enjoys hanging out with his mates and doesn't overall know how to RP much but he's social enough that he picks it up fairly quickly. He decides to just have a right laugh, he isn't overly invested in the story, he just wants to have a good time with his mates. So here he is, making the most evil and ridiculous character there is, but he allowed himself one rule... he HAS to follow orders so he doesn't ruin the game for anyone else, so instead of shooting up all the orphans he just smacks talk everything and anything he sees.

Just my observation of these characters and what their players might be like, so /tg/, my question to you. Have you ever played a game, read a book or watched a movie/show and thought to yourself what the players would be like if the media you were engrossed in was a tabletop RP?

Do tell if any such ideas have came to you!

I actually really like this idea, OP. Not a complete faggot for once. Screencapped if anyone's interested.

I'm gonna do a twist on this and break down the major Fire Emblem protagonists as PCs.

>>44748725

So the party travels east to Drellin's Ferry together and defeats a hobgoblin ambush on their way. The ranger leads (well, more like he doesn't stop the party from going) to Avarthel, who then shares the vision with the entire party.

Now the cleric doesn't trust the ranger for "keeping secrets" and the two characters more or less won't talk to one another. The ranger player is fine with it, the cleric player is starting to whine to the DM, and at least another player is getting annoyed by it. The DM, to his credit, is keeping everyone in line and is even trying to use RP to bring cleric player around.

But ultimately, what do?

Also share facepalm worthy moments in campaigns.

>>44748739
Turn to the cleric and ask him a dumb question.

"Hey Mr. Heals man, want to hear about this dream I had last night? You weren't in it or anything."

Then tell him about a suitably dream-logic non-story about how there was a Circuis made of meat and the acrobat would die in water, but he had to take his father's mind to grow huge.

And he'll probably check out half way through.

Ask him if he cared about your dreams.

If his answer is "no", then ask him why he cared about the ranger's dream so damn much.

>>44749445
>Circuis made of meat and the acrobat would die in water, but he had to take his father's mind to grow huge.
Psychonauts was a great game

>Currently ranked THIRD among cartoon blocks
>Current BUX: $78,000

>First place CartoonTV continues to dominate ratings based mostly on its 9-10 block of a Japanese import show, Great Greatest Robot Tiger
>Second place Toon Platoon is currently airing a kid-friendly variety show
>You have conceded the 9-10 hour and are running mandated educational programming in the 9:00 slot. The current known schedule is as follows:
8:00-8:30: Spook Hunters, a relatively spoopy show that is making some waves with critics for prominently featuring a female co-protagonist. You are pushing merchandising hard for this program, leaning on a "collect 'em all" mentality.
8:30-9:00: Brock Eagleson, the Red Dead-er. An anti-Soviet propaganda cartoon featuring a lot of violence and patriotic messages. This is getting you subsidy money from the government.
9:00-9:30: Mysteries of Science, an educational program. You are forced to air some sort of educational programming to comply with state regulations.

The camera zooms in on a huge metal vault door, which slowly spins and unlocks, releasing a torrent of gratuitous dry ice fog.
Professor Xanadu: Well good morning, children! Welcome to another mysterious episode of Mysteries of Science. Hope everyone is having a terrific morning and eating a healthy breakfast!

>How does Mysteries of Science hope to compete?
>CELEBRITY GUESTS. This will cost you a little extra money but might gimmick hard enough to keep kids from changing the channel (++Viewers, -$5,000)
>LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE. This will help kids feel more involved in the show by featuring volunteers and interviews with actual children (+Viewers)
>USE OLD GOVERNMENT FOOTAGE. Repurposing old educational films produced by the government could be used as a cost-saving measure, getting you a little money back on the initial $15,000 put into the show, but it won't really affect viewership one way or the other (+$3,000)

Tentative bump. I'm working from home so I'm willing to run this for the next five hours or so, but if nobody is interested I'll just save it for an evening or a weekend.

>>44748823
>>USE OLD GOVERNMENT FOOTAGE

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>>44747922
Also why I don't hear much about construct mounts?

>>44747922
Talk with the GM. Take any construct stat block, let's say a stone golem, change the required materials to make it, and call it a robot. Problem solved.

sounds pretty straightforward desu

I would do it like this:
>daughter of a wealthy but minor noble family
>learns to play the lute or whatever the fuck at a young age
>brings her family great honor with her growing talent and fame
>her beauty and nimble fingers attract the attention of a lecherous old nobleman during a concert
>by the time she gets off stage the parents have already married her off
>runs away with her instrument in the night, cuts off all her hair, and changes her clothing so she can't be found (cue punk rock music montage)
>spends the rest of her life adventuring and playing music for her daily bread

>>44747159
>fetishbait
Fuck you, you pathetic D&D simpleton

>>44747159
have you tried not playing d&d?

>>44746800

is this pathfinder? Format looks like pathfinder format. Also stupidity looks like paizo stupidity.

>>44746800
>>44746842
Even Paizo isn't this dumb. Is this third-party content... it looks like third-party content.

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>>44746800

>>44746777
checked. Death Guard are better though

>>44746777
Dark Angels

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>>44746777
I don't agree with you, but trips can't be wrong.

>>44746700
Actually, GURPS is pretty good for cyberpunk (even got an entire book for it, although in 3e).

>>44746700
>>44746764

Like the man said, GURPS. Unless I'm in the rare mood to really go for Shadowrun.

Is Interlock Unlimited any good? I've heard that it's a fan made successor to 2020 but I don't know much more than that.

>>44746693
Currently playing this and it's fun as fuck. Might be because we have good party dynamic.

>>44746693
Bump for interest.

>>44746693
>https://www.scribd.com/doc/237502918/Ryuutama-RPG
If I've never played a tapletop in my life would this be a good jumping in point?

>>44746598
Hounds of Abaddon marines from the Black Legion maybe

The Sanctified maybe

idk brazen beasts use a lot of daemon engines

Overall, not really. Lots of chapters in 40k dedicated to khorne seem to wipe themselves out and leave daemons in their place.

>>44746598
>Yet apart of these elements, Khorne came up with every single tactic imaginable, so he would not only be the patron of warriors, but also patron of leaders, generals and everyone who combines all the other things he's associated with along with leadership and tactical/strategic thinking.

War was a thing long, long before Khorne was born OP. Khorne is a manifestation of rage, hatred, bloodlust and martial pursuits, brought into existence by the minds of mortals with any sort of psychic sensitivity.

However, saying that, he's also shown to be a master of martial strategy in his purest form (see: Daemons), it's not his fault if his mortal servants can't handle direct injections of rage-induced Immaterial energies.

>>44747266
>>44747305
Darn. And I thought that there would be actually a Khornate Warband that would focus to much greater degrees on tactics and using both their skills and what they have in the smartest ways possible while being led by a Chaos Lord that wants to become a personification of Khorne's tactical capabilities and leadership (like a Khornate Creed).

>>44746179
It is. It's great fun.

It's playable and not an unbalanced mess, though anything beyond that will largely depend on how much you like 40k, since that's where most of the fluff is drawn from.

I'd play it over any of the FFG 40k games, though.

Has jank balance/rules problems, but if you canq get past those it's a fun tool for setting up a game. I never use the given setting though, too jank.

>>44744784
There was a good DnD4e version floating around some time ago.

>>44744784
I know there is an RPG system out there, but I just don't have the PDF.

>>44744784
I like 4e, and using 4e for Avatar, but the version that>>44745124 mentions is not great in my opinion. I've had more success by simply using some of the common feat-tax-aleviating house rules, then adding one feat for each elemental bending.
>Earthbending: whenever you use an attack power, you may change the damage type to force, and add the force keyword.

Firebending: whenever you use an attack power, you may change the damage type to Fire, and add the Fire keyword.

Airbending: whenever you use an attack power, you may change the damage type to Thunder, and add the Thunder keyword.

>Waterbending: whenever you use an attack power, you may change the damage type to cold, and add the cold keyword.


Start adding secondary feats for firebending-lightning, bloodbending (thought that might be better as a paragon path,) water-heal-bending, metalbending etc. Only The Avatar can take all 4 feats, though they have to take (or GM fiat earn) each feat separately.

I don't like the idea that all earthbenders must be defenders, all airbenders must be controllers, all firebenders must be strikers, and all waterbenders must be leaders. What about all of those armored firebending soldiers? What about... well... Toph, isn't she a Earthbender striker? Etc. With the level of abstraction/refluff normal to 4e, having bending be a free and optional "tack your elemtal type onto an attack power, and get to refluff it as bending" seems to work just fine.