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>>44451614
The first one

Swords aren't even used now, under what perceivable circumstance would they be used in a setting where technology has advanced tens or hundreds of times what we have available currently?

>>44451614
The latter. I feel like it's easier to make low tech weapons fit into a high tech setting comfortably than the reverse.

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#1, because #2 owns.

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>>44451532
>>Have you ever met your father?
>Does he even know you exist?
>How long have you been in Gallete?

>>44451532
>Have you ever met your father?
>How do you know this?
>Does he even know you exist?

Be a rapper.

>>44451423
Read a lot of poetry.

Spout it at apporiate moments.

>>44451423
Write down events that happen in a journal. You're going to be making a saga about this if all goes well, you want to remember how it went.

Quote the Edda or saga of your choice when appropriate. Or when it's not.

>>44440908
M&M.

>>44441018
This.

If you don't mind playing something rules light, you could also go the FATE route.

>>44441018
>>44441045
Well then. Looking at the M&M quickstart, this is promising, and currently my first choice! Just wanted /tg/'s opinion on if there's anything else to try.

>>44450628
For starters, perhaps it could involve a roll for 'Force Potential', if you will. And a character's Force Potential determines how difficult or easy it is for them to learn the ways of the Force.

Example w/ something like a D6 system: Han Solo has a Force Potential of 16 on the d66. Rolling under that to use or learn a Force power is grossly inefficient, and means he's better of as a smuggler. Rey has a Force Potential of 66, the highest value. As a result, she has absurd strength in the Force.

>>44451260
As for Force powers, they ought to be broad to allow for a wide variety of creative uses. For example, instead of having Push, Pull, and Thrust, you could have the broader 'Move'. And as you level it up, it grows from having a saber fly to your hand to lifting an X-wing out of a swamp.

Neutral Powers
>Move: Move things with one's mind.
>Enhance: Accomplish amazing feats of acrobatics.
>Sense: See beyond sight and perceive ripples in the Force.

Light Side Powers
>Affect: Influence another's mind.
>Serenity: Last for long times in periods of meditation, heal yourself.
>Ward: Protect yourself and allies from harmful Force powers and other attacks.


Dark Side Powers
>Grip: Choke or crush a foe.
>Unleash: Attack a foe with blasts of energy.
>Rebuke: Block hostile energy attacks.
>Seize: Wrack a foe's mind or draw forth information from it.

>>44451260
>>44451410
This sounds very close along the lines I was thinking.

What if I used a d100, and we have certain known characters mapped out on the d100 chart.

Example being Anakin being in the high 90s, Luke in the 70s, etc.?

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>the wizard brews a potion imbued with the properties of smegma

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>the wizard brews potions with the properties of food coloring dyed water
>They look pretty in the light

>>44450456
I drink it. What happens.

>>44449303

Its mechanics for emotionally entangled circumstances in a game made for interplayer drama. You don't have to use them if people are more interested in shooting things though.

Were there specific complaints or just talking about sex getting awkward?

>>44449303
Firstly, nothing dictates your players MUST play the same gender that they hold. One or more of your dudes could have female characters.
Second, nothing dictates that your players must play the same orientation as they are, so two of them could just "play gay".

Thirdly, the sex moves do not, by default, require that the sex be with a PLAYER character. Many have no effect against NPCs, but you could change that with some basic homebrew. The moves care if you have sex with a CHARACTER.

Fourthly, and getting to the actual meat of your question: Because it's a chosen theme by the game designer to explore in this world. Apocalypse World is a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where everyone is fighting to survive. Where there are plenty of scarred, hardened, guarded characters. Sex indicates a waste of time and potentially resources, and exposure of one's self to another. It's showing a level of intimacy and trust with another character, and therefore there are notable repercussions to the act.

Personally, I think it's more thematically appropriate in Monsterhearts, where the idea is that, as hormonal CW teenage monsters, sex is an important milestone in their development, and has a power in the culture.

If you want to change it, make it purely a matter of intimacy/emotional connection, above and beyond the physical. If the Gunlugger confesses to the Angel that they used to be afraid of guns, because (CHILDHOOD TRAUMA), and so that's why they use them now, and the Angel reciprocates, explaining that they're secretly happy that the world's fucked up, because they feel special when they help people, and now everyone needs their help, Boom, both trigger their move.

>Were there specific complaints or just talking about sex getting awkward?

at first the battle babe rose some eyelids not because sexism (James Bond is technically a battle babe depending on the movie) but because of the tonal whiplash how are you supposed to get a Walking Dead or The Road vibe when you have naked amazon chick with a sledge hammer. this was just exacerbated by the sex moves.

but like I said interpersonal drama isn't something we're new to we've had sessions that had maybe like 30 min of combat and the rest of the time the party was just learning about each other while waiting for extraction. Two players hooked up as did another and an NPC on a separate occasion. We're good with emotionally charged situations. I think just the whole "if you fuck you get history and that equals xp" rubbed everyone the wrong way also the way certain archtypes view sex seemed kind of restrictive toward that characters personality.

buying booster boxes is a shitty way to expand your collection.

instead you should draft so that you get better at the game at the same time and you have some amount of control over what cards you get.

>>44451096
Is this the new meme?
Seriously everyone says just buy singles.
Have you ever opened a box? It's fucking fun. If someone wants to drop 100 bucks and get a playsets of ever common, almost every uncommon, most rares and some mythics and foils. Let them.

If they want to tear the packs open, cool. If they wanna draft it or play sealed. Great.

Nobody gives a fuck about just buying singles like a boring spike faggot net decker.

Press button, get 4 Gideons for 100 bucks in the mail in a week. So fucking fun.

>>44449066
If you wanna buy a box, go for it anon.
It's even better if you have a friend or someone to do it with it play/trade with while doing it.

Don't just buy some overcosted crap from scg. It's boring as fuck.

>>44448982
>SJWs began demanding
any anyone would listen to this human garbage because?..
get out and take your shitty thread with you, faggot

>>44448982
Bro wizard fraternities? I dunno man, this doesn't seem like a topic with a great deal concepts new and unique enough to talk about.

>>44448982
Take any character, make them female but don't make them a hideous lesbian.

The d20 license meanse you can copy and paste everything, including (and this is the key) exact wordings, provided you include in the book the copy of the license.
Mechanics are not copyrightable, but the wording is.

>>44449900
Right, thought so. So how come the how come retro clones didn't really become a thing until the open gaming license? Was it simply there was no niche to fill that ADN D hadn't covered already

>>44450189
Might be that having Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, etc. together was some kind of copyright violation? Or maybe specific terms like "attack roll" and "armor class" were trademarked?

I think it was a gray area but the OGL made it definitely OK all of a sudden.

>>44448373

/tg/ has already established that it's because the Emperor's history is a lie meant to legitimize his rule.

>>44393077

ought to screencap it.

>implying corruption without is not indicative of corruption within

Mutant sympathisers out and stay out.

>>44448373
Without the Imperial Creed, Mankind would've fallen to Chaos a long, long time ago, too many people forget this fact. Logic and reasoning doesn't get you anywhere as a Human in the Long War for the Materium, because in the end your goals are emotion-based, Chaos is pulling at your very moral core, it is the makeup of everything you strive for.

The Imperium seems horrifically incompetent at first glance, and it does make genuine mistakes a lot, but most of what it does at its core was designed with a practical purpose, whether intentionally or no.

Chaos space marines got fucked over and need a new codex

Daemons are using an outdated codex and also need a new one

If you're playing chaos you're going to get fucked but anything that isn't orks or sisters

>>44448317
No. Don't even bother.

>>44448317
>demons
>competitive

Let's get ourselves some Centaur.

In the desert.

>>44448149
1 for centaurs in the desert.

I don't think I've seen that combo before.

>>44448201

I've seen it. But that was on /b/. And years and years ago. Though, looking at faun, it might be even better that way.

Just a hint: Make sure there are really noteworthy characters. And I'll be happy. Just want me some nomadic civ.

Poor b8 m8

>>44447780
Wow op you're pretty spot on

>>44447780
>Okay, Gue'vesa, you're now apart of the Tau Empire in the service of the Greater Good. We'll get you set up in a caste in no time.
>Alright, how can I serve you until then?
>What? Serve me? No, Gue'vesa, we're all equals here. Well, except the Ethereals, but I never said that.
>Equals? I'm sorry, I've never done that before. Just tell me what to do.
>Whatever you want, Gue'vesa. As long as it serves the Greater Good.
>Is that anything like serving the Emperor? Because I think I can do that, yeah.
>You people are hopeless.

Not the Tau's fault that your average human has been a serf his entire life and only knows how to serve the Emperor.

>>44446476
Marduk, also a Word Bearer?

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Bitch please

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>>44446476
ELIPHAS! YOU TRAITOR SCUM, THE LASH OF THE BLACK LEGION SHALL TEAR YOUR FLESH APART!