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>>44729986

>guy acts like jerk to everyone
>"anon we can't handle the bantz, can you tone it down?"

>>44729986
>be cranky about players behaviour
>"I'll make a shit thread on /tg/ so that everybody can vent with me"

>>44729986
>Guy tries to kill anything and everything that moves
>"I can't help it, my character's int is only 8."

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As a contrast, here is the devil that's supposed to cover the sloth devil's melee weakness, but which can't do much against ranged attacks.

>>44729797
Loss of a healing surge is way too much for an at-will

>>44729853
It would otherwise do ~44 damage, which is about the same as a surge is worth. It just felt better for a sloth devil to not roll a lot of dice.

In which ways would losing a surge be worse than just taking ~44 untyped damage?

[ONGOING]
-Neural Nexus (15 days)


Intel:

-Secondary bases: (Potential base in U.S.S Aegis)
-Established contacts: Egypt [1 FO, 30 ROK], France [1 FO, 5 ROK]
-Chance of being detected: 20%! [Advent is investigating the organized attacks on its structure as of late.]

Grey Market Contacts:
-Jolt.clnt [Have intrest in Mechanical Wrecks]
-AF.Mrc [Mercs]
-SA.Mrc [Mercs]
-Exalt.clnt
-01101111 01101110 01100101.clnt [A.I?]
-_____.clnt


Mission Log:
Arms factory raid in Argentina [Success]
Raid on a containment Facility in Austria with Exalt Forces [Success]
Termination of a press in the united states [Success]
Raid on Clone Facility in Yemen [Success]
Extraction of Field operatives and recruits in North Sudan [Success]
Raid on an air base in Brazil [Success]
Destroy Advent surveillance project in France [Success]
Rob a bank in Madagascar [Success]

Research:

>Alien Materials [Requires 10 Sci,10 Eng 100 Alien/Advent weapon fragment, 100 Alloy, 100 Elirium, 2 Mil, 1 Month] Our understandings of these alien materials were lost twenty years ago, to fully uncover their potential, we need to thoroughly research them, commander.

>Advent weapon fragments II [10 SCI, 10 ENG, 150 Advent weapon fragment, 1 Mil 2 weeks] Commander, we believe we can take a step forward, we can assemble these fragments to create weapons of our own. we will still use conventional ammo but its efficiency is ten folds better than our current arsenal

>Advent PSI Captain Autopsy II [30 SCI, 3 PSI Corpses,2 Mil, 6 days] There are more secrets to be uncovered with this specimen commander. We must win this race at any costs.

>Advent Shield [20 Sci, 20 ENG, 20 Shield Shard 2 MIL, 2 weeks] Commander, While we can't make shields of our own, we can incorporate these shards into our scatter grenades. they will prove to be deadly to both light and heavy armored troops

>Advent Armour II [Requires 20 SCI, 20 Damaged Advent armour, 20 ENG, 3 MIL, 2 Weeks] Commander, Our breakthrough can be ever better with Moddable Armour. This opens a new route for protecting our soldiers

>Project MELD [1000 MELD, 100 SCI, 100 ENG, 10 MIL, 1 Month] With the recent autopsy of the grunt soldier, We discover that they have been heavily altered with MELD. Should we finish this project, we can genetically modify our soldiers.

>Psi Advent Armour [20 SCI, 20 ENG, 5 MIL, 1 PSI Advent armour, 5 days]: This suit is a marvel of science commander. I think...I think it was keeping the subject alive with its various life support modules.

>Inject Soliders with Z0-1 Serum? (10k+ per soldier)

>Psi shield? [80k per soldier, negate panic attacks, equip-able]
Research Archives
>Advent weapon fragments
>Advanced Ballistics
>Z0-1 Serum
>Advent Captain Autopsy
>Psi Advent Captain Autopsy
>Advent Grunt Autopsy

Workshop:

>Arm Skyranger [10 Engi, 300k, 5 LMG, 2 Rocket launcher, 1 week] i think i can rig the skyranger, commander. It is not an ideal answer but it is better than leaving big sky defenseless. Plus, our boys can use some help from the skies if things got too rough

>Build a training school [Requires at least 5 trained tactician OR 5 Simulation programs, 5 power 10 Engi, 1 Mil, 2 weeks] Let's face it commander, most of our men aren't even solider. They lack proper training. we could decrease our casualties by having more trained soldiers

>Damaged Advent Advanced processing unit [10 ENG, 750K, 1 Week] It might look like a burnt crisp but i have a supercomputer within my grasp, a crispy one...but we will get over it. Nothing has been fully fried.

>U.A.R Chip [500k, 10 ENG, 1 turret wreck]: for better targetting and/or automated Shiv/Raven/Skyranger

>Build containment Facility [20 ENGI, 2 MIL, 2 Weeks, 5 Power] This facility will keep Ishmael's pet subjects at bay. Be it Psi shit or Brute force, nothing is coming out of my cage, commander.

>New Aircraft? [2 MIL, 20 ENG, 2 weeks 200 Plane parts] Our boys can do wonders, commander. Bring us more plane parts and we will glue it together. Not as sufficient as our Ravens or our Skyrangers but i will do.


>Build gene labs [2 MIL, 50 ENGI, 1 week] I don't like tampering with our soldiers commander but we can build this facility designated with toying with god's creation.
>Process (So far)
1 Damaged Advent armour= 20 Alien Alloy
1 Undamaged Advent armour= 50 Alien Alloy
1 Mech Wreck=100 Alloy
1 Turret wreck= 75 Alloy
20 Alloy fragment= 10 Alloy

>Mod weapons with fragments? (50k+ 50 Fragment per weapon)
>Mod Body armour with Alloys? (50k+ 50 Alloy per Body Armour)
>Advent Armour [100k, 2 damaged Advent armour or 200 Alloy per soldier]

Project Archives:
>Reverse Engineer Mech wreck
>Reverse Engineer Turret Wreck
>Advent Armour

>>44728318

It's not difficult, you're glad to say, to slip across the perilous gap. One by one, the others follow you across. Elliot is the first to brave the trip, scuttling across with a haste that borders on desperation, while Leon takes it with an expression of resolute boredom. Joseph and Petra follow, creeping across with light steps and cautious speed. Other than a few extra tiles crumbling away beneath them, nothing particularly goes wrong.

“Well!” Elliot says lightly once Petra has rejoined the group, “I shan't complain too much – since we all made it – but I'll be happy if I never have to do THAT again.”

“Listen,” Joseph speaks up suddenly as you're about to take the next flight of stairs up, “I've been thinking...” He pauses, here, as if waiting for someone to make a cruel joke. “You see,” he continues after a moment, “The last time, when we fought Chernobog, the forest dissolved after he was defeated, right?”

Right, you agree, but what does that have to-

Wait.

“We are quite high up,” Joseph confirms, “The highest place in the entire fortress, in fact, if we assume that the Intoxicating One is really there. So what I'm saying is, how do we get down?”

“I would have thought,” Elliot suggests slyly, “That would be obvious.”

“Safely,” Joseph shoots back with a weary sigh, “How do we get down safely?”

You've got to admit, it's a good question. You might have a few moments to get as low down as possible before the constructed world collapses completely, but you have no way of knowing exactly how long. Of course, it'll only start to collapse once the Intoxicating One is dead, so that gives you a degree of control. Even so, you might need a plan for this.

>We'll worry about that later
>You guys start running once the Intoxicating One is wounded. I should be able to blink to safety
>I wonder if we can draw him out...
>Other

>>44728323
>I wonder if we can draw him out...
Though I really don't have an idea on how to do that. Just start vandalizing and shittalking? Maybe he has some prized artifact/statue/art we can break.

Worst case though we can still
>You guys start running once the Intoxicating One is wounded. I should be able to blink to safety

>Some notes, while I remember:

>Leon has his phone back, so he can summon again
>We'll be using the dodge mechanics discussed last thread starting today. Success requires rolling OVER a certain number.

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I'm getting paranoid about the CYOA I'm working on. In pic related is 2/8? pairs of characters done so far. If my boxes for future characters are placed vertically beneath each one, would it be annoying to the eyes seeing the same color scheme for the box and fonts over and over again?

nice
always wanted to do it with a midget, so many new possibilities.

>>44727249
>singlelineofgreentextshitthread

>>44727249
That is the worst thing that's come out of 5e

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>>44726850
I'll start:
Instead of Wurms or dragon-snakes
>giant centipedes

>>44726872
Fucking horrifying.

>>44726872
Yay if the legs work like hydra heads.
Nay if they are anatomically correct.

Can you survive the Hunted drawback in Pokemon? Is it actually possible?

>>44726480
If you build a team around running away, sure. You'll need speed, endurance, and all-terrain capability of course.

>>44726521
I'm looking at having a teleporter, a digger, a pokemon with Future Sight in the hopes they can see my imminent death and I'm not entirely sure what else.

The legendary in question is Ho-oh.

>>44726012
Well, my favorite is indeed the Witcher's universe. Got to know it like 15 years ago through a Polish friend who was a great Sapkowski fan and occasional DM.

>>44726297
Hope the upcoming RPG is good and has a big emphasis on preparing and not on the fly potion drinking and oil applying.

>>44726012
I love world of Westeros and Essos, but no magic, monsters and cool witchers, so yeah, inferior.

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>>44725611
gonna need more info about your setting and system

>>44725611
A lot of the creatures from numenera make for great aliens, just use them rarely. Make aliens the thing people aren't entirely sure of; most people wont know if they are real or not. But once in a while a city or ship experiences a horrible incident that people can't explain. And between the masses horrible inhuman infiltrators lurk.

>>44725620
>gonna need more info about your setting and system
Seconded.
> "let's not have em because how could we think of what they're like" is often lazy.
Also disingenuous. Are they living in the same reality as us? Do they lack psychic powers? Do they have civilization? Yes?

This means they have
-A means to move and grasp at the same time, otherwise building things becomes nearly impossible
-Some sort of way to store information beyond a generation
-Some sort of social structure, even if it's just "we agreed not to be dicks to each other"

A lot can be done with just those three.

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Some good'ns that I've found.

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>>44724618
I don't have hands, but my party consists of

A plant monk/dragonfire adept
A flying jelly warmage/bard
The reanimated mind of the paladin/warlock who had to reroll stats and ended up as a crystalline shard shaping itself into a human form which is functionally an aegis/artificer

>>44724150
Traveler
There's a system for Firefly
Savage Worlds

>>44724282
Would Traveler work? Whats it like?

I'll check out the Firefly system, We're a bit fatigued with SW right now though, I'm not fond of the shaken mechanic with combat.

>>44724381
Traveler is made for what you're doing. I recommend checking it out first.

>>44723925
Well I prefer my serfs not to act like they are part of my illustrious heritage, and thus not deserving of what I possess.

Tch, filthy peasants.

>Freeform stat dump with archetypes like shadowrun?

Given that I'm currently running Shadowrun, this is probably what I'd go with. I don't like systems with classes (my favorites are GURPS and Shadowrun, go figure) in the slightest. They're inevitably overly restricting.

I like Pathfinder's system just fine, with a bunch of base classes, and like a thousand different archetypes that define entirely different designs, functions, and niches for those classes.

Of course, the fact that they're not all mechanically useful is a problem, but I don't mind that part.

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>"You have all your stuff with you, right?" I ask.
>"Huh?"
>"At Kevin's place, I mean."
>"What, like my games and DVDs and computer and stuff? Yeah, it's right here."
>"It is?"
>"I'm lookin' right at it," she grumbles. "Why, did you want to borrow something?"


"'Cuz I have tons of stuff that I'm not playing right now," Gabrielle says.
"No, that's not it," I shake my head. "I was just calling to make sure you were doing alright."

The line goes silent for a few seconds.

"Umm, did something happen?" Gabrielle asks. "Shary said that's kind of a weird thing for -you- to be calling us about."
"Yeah, I guess it is..." I sigh. "You haven't heard of a guy called 'Faceless,' have you?"
"I kinda remember that name," she replies. "He's some kind of wannabe kaitou guy, right?"

Great, so she knows about him. This should make things easier.

"Yeah," I nod. "He broke in here and stole something of mine so I wanted to make sure the same thing didn't happen to you."
"What!?" Gabrielle shrieks so loud that I have to pull the phone away from my ear. "He didn't hurt you, did he!?"
"I'm fine."
"Does Charlotte know!? I'm gonna call her and then ma and Shary're gonna come over there ourselves so don't go anywhere, alright?"


>tell the gabrielle that she can stay where she is
>let her come over

>>44723411
>let her come over

>>44723411
>>tell the gabrielle that she can stay where she is

>>44722384

Help her, obviously.

>>44722384
Try to sing along, forget the words and fuck up so bad the world is saved.

Tell their grandmother.