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>>44551898
I did the "magic is science" thing, so "mages" are just scholars, machinists, and alchemists making use of fantasy chemicals and technology that muggles just can't understand without the same number of college credits. Much of the setting revolves around applications of monster blood, such that it's the primary ingredient of my fantasy black powder and critical to all explosives and firearms. It also factors heavily into miraculous potions and alchemical concoctions. Some mages are fusiliers and grenadiers, some are medics and doctors, and some try to do both or something different entirely.

Respect, fear, hatred, and training conventions all depend on location in the world. Some countries don't trust or like magic, some love it, and most are selective about what sciences they approve of and what they don't. Magic plays a very important role in adventuring and monster hunting due to monster blood being so important to scientific progress. Mages abuse their power just as much as anyone else. Some go to great lengths to achieve scientific marvels beyond the status quo, while others are very responsible.

So, as far as your standard "read a book, shoot fire out of my hands" wizards, no I don't have any of those.

>>44551898
>What are spellcasters like in your campaign? Are they respected? Feared? Hated? Are they trained centrally or by individual apprenticeships?
Yes to everything.

>How much do they abuse their power?
All the fucking time.

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>>44551898
>What are spellcasters like in your campaign?
Subby little casterslut bitches

>Are they respected? Feared? Hated?
Ha ha no

>Are they trained centrally or by individual apprenticeships?
Varies, but most of their training is at the hands of the first martial to defeat them

>How much do they abuse their power?
No but they get plenty of abuse

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Okay guys, help me out.

I plan on introducing my group to the gameworld by playing. My idea is an adventure similar to In 80 Days around the World. Something about a rivalry between two Neolybians wich involves lots of traveling. But where do they start? What are the objectives of the players? How can I involve them?

Any ideas are welcome.

Been reading the rule book sooo good. I want to play so much. Thing is half the people I play with are D&D players so they don't understand subtlety and other half are shadowrun players .

I want too run a short campaign thats basically a Scrapper gathering people to find an artefact. A group of angry Neo-Lybians are also aiming to get the artefact. Its a race against time, Neo-Libyans and other scrappers. Its supposed to be quick and introduce the players to the world.

>>44545564
A point to point race around the Mediterranean coast could work. The players are gathered, by one route or another, in Gibraltar and are paid to race between pre-arranged checkpoints that take them all around the coast till they get back to the other side of the Gibraltar land bridge

With cygnar, i imagine seige would be top, with stryker2 (assuming our S tier being haley2/3 and caine2). If you count seige and stryker2 as top/S tier (a stretch I think), i dunno who'd be up there. Nemo3 or Haley1 maybe?

Will Darius be the Battle Engine Caster for the Swans?

Whats this about errata I keep hearing about

Is it sometime soon?

>>44543526

In truth you are Mikage Chiba, second year highschool student fifteen years old. Formerly you were the third woman to carry the mantle of Sailor Moon, after your mother and older sister. Now you secretly support the new magical Guardian of Love and Justice, your younger sister Koyomi.

“The undefined ones probably the projection type, but the specialized ones have a chance of being fully transformed civilians,” Captain Osaka reasons once your explanation is finished, “We can’t just go in with incendiaries or close the accelerator off and turn it on,”

She hums to herself a moment as you glance to either side, at both your Nephrite Knight and Jadeite Knight.

“We can use expanding foam rounds to keep them all in check and contained for transport,” she reasons, “Or we can remove the sample they’re attracted to and lead them into a containment ambush or an ambush into the Senshi once they arrive,”

~The other Senshi are coming?~

“Cooperative protocol, and we’ll probably need Sailor Moon’s purification powers for this operation one way or another,” she sighs.

“I would advise against trying to contain them inside of the accelerator. They’ve proven capable of forcing their way in,” Dr Chou comments while pointing to the entryway area you didn’t explore on the schematic.

You consider your opinion on the matter.

>Containment within the accelerator
>Lead them into a PIT Ambush
>Lead them into an Ambush of the Senshi
>Offer for you and your team to go in, seal the accelerator, and clear the whole thing out
>Write in

>>44543543
Good morning! One moment please.

>>44543543
>Lead them into an Ambush of the Senshi

>>44469372
I love the thread image. Good choice.

I should have some pictures to share later tonight. I'm just about done with assembling a Team Yankee demo kit for my FLGS.

>>44469372
>Not RIP sweet prince, Lemmy Killmeister edition

YOU HAD ONE JOB

>>44470596
He can have the next one

>>44584137
How are minmaxing and netlisting not legitimate? One of the things that makes them so bad is the fact that they are legitimate.

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>>44584137
I love it when my players do this. I always make them not the only people who have discovered this power. Or, if they are, they begin attracting adherents. Disciples who want to learn the skills which make the PC so powerful

Imagine that the Sith was started by some power gamer
>holy shit, if I combine these two feats, I can draw on my anger AND use telekinesis to choke someone to death
>fuck yes

>>44584154
Netlisting I'll agree with; it's making the best of what there is, often with the goal to win prizes/money.

But TTRPGs? You're basically playing cooperative make believe. Most people grew out of the "nuh-uh I have super special anti-bullet shield I can deflect anything" by 5th grade. Minmaxing is like inheriting a fortune, then berating all your friends for being poor. Like sure, you got the money through legitimate means, but that doesn't excuse your behaviour.

>>44582659
"Good luck yourself Captain, I'm not sure who'll need it more."
>Alice sighs and continues walking, rather preoccupied with her current dilemma to pay the Captain's own much mind.

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>44582735
>Decides to rather try to sneak past her than to face a punishment before she can even help the Somerians out.

>Preoccupied with setting up defenses in the square
>Further away tanks and stormtroopers are fighting furiously against the heretics

>>44577934

I like the Bodyguard -> Take the Blow featline, since you already have Combat Reflexes.

You may wish to take Seize the Opportunity from the PoW:E playtest, but I think my reading of things is that you can already use most combat maneuvers (trip, disarm, etc) as an AoO.

If you're going full Intimidate, then I suggest taking Signature Skill (Intimidate). Combine that with Grim Guard's Laughter and you stand a decent chance of making your opponents run away while peeing their pants.

>>44578262
Which Skinwalker heritage is best for Magus-ing?

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I want to marry a drow!

>>44577621

Unstoppable juggernaut? Fuck no.

Depends on the time for level of protection.

But generally you would be lucky to have armor. Mistakes are not as deadly, and you are invulnerable to blades in most areas. Maces hurt you the same, but they are slow weapons compared to the sword you would probably carry, so you still have advantage.

>>44577621
You're asking in the very wrong place. Try /his/ or something, instead. That said, full plate armour was effective enough for knights to reliably survive on the front lines of battle. Nobles sons and hiers would vie for glory by participating in major battles, and the plate armour they wore give them very little chance of actually being wounded or killed.

Really, the effectivness of plate armour was the primary influence for people adopting bludgeoning weapons, and the rise in popularity of long, thin, straight swords in the late 1600s, such as the estoc, rapier and the smallsword.

Basically, all parts of your body covered by the metal are totally impervious, except to powerful bludgeoning attacks. You still have to watch out for bladed weapons finding their way into the gaps in your armour, however, but as you can see in your picture, armour became very proficient at preventing that.

>>44577621
the crossbow thing is untrue>>44578670
fuck yourself with a oddly shaped stone penis this is the correct place

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It's translated.

>>44577034

storm only plays two spells in a turn on the turn they go off, triggering this only once

>>44577034
>4 mana for something that doesn't do anything the turn it comes down unless you have extra mana
>only counts for the second spell for the turn vs every other spell triggering it
Not really making the cut for storm, but are there more "second spell matters" cards coming out? Could be cool

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Reposting this

Alright fuck me I'm having trouble figuring out what to do with the Manifestations.

I wanted five Unlocks for each Key, but even ignoring the more difficult Keys, that seems harder than expected. Meanwhile I could do like Werewolf and each one is one and one, but that seems a bit too low, since most of the Manifestations couldn't be covered in just one power.

Maybe I should scrap the existing Manifestations and try to break them out into different ones? Werewolf has like 20 Gifts with 5 powers each.

The other option is some Manifestations with two or three powers each and some with six or seven.

>>44575353
>What would you want to see out of a World or Chronicles of Darkness video game?

Focus. As much as one splat varies from another splat, the goals and methods of a video game for that splat should also change. What genre best supports the themes?

>>44575164
>One of their cult has to make the ultimate sacrifice and be ritualistically murdered. Their body becomes the Arisen's new Sahu, and the sacrifice's memories and mindset integrates with the Mummy's. This can be a problem in future risings.
This happened with one of the PCs in Dave's AP before the game began, IIRC.

>>44575346
>knees on wall, no foot support

Shit climbing desu senpai

>>44575346
FELLOW AESTARTES! MY SENSORS HAVE PICKED UP A HERETIC AT BEARING 129! RANGE 20 METERS, ON THE WALL! OPEN FIRE!

>>44575346

I snipe her down for interrogation.

You're a strange, strange anon.

None of us like DMing. It's just the "choice" of last resort.

>>44574289
I love everything about DMing besides the prepwork. I'd love to just wing it with some premade stuff, but I feel like that'd give a poor experience. Also materials cost money, even if I am on roll20.

>>44574289
Man I love DMing
>>bard learns dance of ruin and two shots the final boss of a three week adventure. She's not evil (yet)
>introduce cute paladin and her npc adventuring party who have turned the party's dead paladin into a saint and wrote fanfiction about him
>going to hand them the low level characters and throw them into an alien scenario

>>44571804
and then I saw there was already a thread about monks.... shit.

It seems like monks tend be shitty at low level but get progressively better as they level. Another thing, they substitute magic weapons and armor for abilities. Which the dm can't hand out freely so they can't get any sort of dm fiat going for me.

They are worse at the sheer damage output than fighters, but they're more mobile and have a few more combat options, and less equipment reliant. Additionally, at level 17, Open Hand monks get the only player-available save-or-die that is also an extremely heavy damage spike even if they save. Though that is a late game blessing.
Plus the very first level, they get two attacks a round, a d8 and d4 (versatile quarterstaff + martial arts), without having to lock themselves into dual wielding.

Also pendulum magician decks are good right?

1.- Yes you can, synchros are special summons.
2.- Yes. But I don't like pendulums.

>>44567956
Your friend has no idea what he's talking about, as long as you have a tuner and another monster whose levels add up to the synchro monster's level you can synchro summon. That monster is considered to have been special summoned.