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Why doesn't Tezzeret's Gambit see any play?

Drawing 2 cards for 3 generic mana seems decent and proliferate can be useful for planeswalkers or some shit.

>>44384822
What the fuck is this shit.

>>44384830
A question?

>If it isn't in a tier 1 deck it can't be good

qlippoth a cute

>>44384270
Why is this a meme?

Noob to PF here, but not to D&D
I have a friend who is running a game and will only let us use the Core Rulebook, Advanced Players Guide and Advanced Race Guide
How would I make an effective Alchemist build with just the basic stuff like that?

I can tell you the one on Kat.ph does NOT open on my iPad. I guess I'll have to wait to see if this is worth not getting anything decent this Advent.

Last two Advents were very good to Chaos. I guess GW went quantity over quality. BUt maybe there is something good in this supplement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAneGta2ros

>>44383945
>Have any of you bought it yet? How is it?
It's disappointing to say the least.

>>44386555
Why so?

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They play warmachine, infinity, or X wing.

Anyway, I'm responding to either b8 or idiot for trying to competitive 40k

>>44382820

Like >>44382858 said, I'm not sure if you're being serious or not. But in the off-chance that this is a serious question, the answer is that - frankly - 40k is a shit game. Now don't get me wrong, there are reasons to play it, but most of those reasons are the ones that you specified: the models are among the best, and the fluff is highly-developed and familiar to most of us.

The game itself is a vehicle to sell models at increasingly greater prices. That's it. Compared to most of its competitors, 40k plays like absolute garbage. What's more, GW routinely mauls the game's balance through relentless power creep and new editions. This isn't done to rebalance or reinvigorate the game, but - again - to sell new models. There's really no reward for investing lots of time and thought into upping your game, because the game is a low-stakes ass world. That doesn't mean people don't make attempts to play super competitively, but they come across as idiots because what they're doing is the equivalent of a jack knife into an 18 inch deep kiddie pool.

>>44382820
The kind of people who prioritize gameplay play better games.

>>44382290
>Infinity has anime cyberpunk covered

Not-anime cyberpunk.

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>>44382359
So what were you thinking of then? Max headroom? Neuroromaner?

For what it's worth Infinity is less anime in general and more just outright a whole sale rip off of Ghost In The Shell. Which is actually pretty cynical no-nonsense stuff by most standards

It doesn't follow usual anime troops of kung fu giving you superpowers and letting you dodge bullets at all.

World of Darkness

Witches, hunters, werewolves, vampires, homuncli, and more all in a big throw down.

>>44381994
Go play as krieger from archer and the game will play itself

>>44381994
You can have him be Magos Biologis. Have him be obsessed with xenobiology, vivisection, bonedrills and general gory dismemberment and you can't go too wrong.

Say "fascinating" a lot when tearing someone in half.

>>44382158
OP here, and I gotta say, that sounds pretty fucking great

>>44381474

Palladium System (AKA wot RIFTS runs on) is best because of the Mega Damage subsystem

>>44381474

GURPS.

>>44381474
Just free form it. It's supposed to be erotic and fun right? So just sit down with the other people and tell the story you wanna tell.
What is the purpose of making sexual mechanics? If you can't come up with a satisfactory answer to that, you don't need to do it. Just run whatever game you want and stick the naughty bits wherever you want.
Strictly speaking, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but games like FATAL would probably the best conceptually because the designers envisioned sex as a part of the game and presumably could answer that important question from before. Would I play that game? No. Do I think it's a reasonable answer to OP's question? Yes.

>>44380022
I have never once been in a game that centered around the PCs in a dramatic sense and has been any good; and I've lost track of how many groups I've been in in close to 15 years.

Maybe, just maybe, if you've assembled a dream team of mature spotlight sharers, this can work, but the overwhelming majority of the time, it either peters out into nothing happening, or descends into the party killing itself.


DO make the parties choices matter, and have very visible effects on the world, but you'll get way farther casting them into the reactive role, not the proactive one.

>>44380232
Well, I consider myself lucky then. I've had a very good time with group.

>>44380265
And, pray tell, what is your current campaign about?

>>44379754
>The fuck

Shortstack lewds.

>>44379754
Working the land and being ignored.

>>44378741
The premise is just a bit unimaginative is all. Nothing to overreact to. Maybe you could speak with the GM and the other players about a plotline deconstructing the "designated good guy"-ness of America IN SPACE, or something.

Again, the setting seems pretty generic to me, but is there anything you know about the plot of the game?

>>44378741
>Thinly veiled Muslims IN SPACE
>Thinly veiled Muslims

Dammit Carlos!

>>44378741
Sounds like every sci-fi setting ever.

Erotically.

>>44378699
which system?

>>44378721
any system you want

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Some reference material for you

>>44378068

Film Noir-style detective who uses a katana instead of a revolver, perpetually smokes, drinks and swears and had lost his faith in God because his family got murderer.

Katana can be a setting thing or a result of some character quirk. Maybe insert some Jetstream Sam in there.

>>44378135
Actually, give Jetstream Sam a disguise that's him in a trenchcoat and fedora. If you'd ask him on belief, he'd say he never bothered.
You could go really anachronistic and set it in the 20s as well. And take nothing too seriously.

There. Fixed.

>>44377658
What are the most important books for playing Planescape in 2e?

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>>44380278

Ironically, the core Planescape Campaign Setting boxed set is not particularly vital to playing or running Planescape. If anything, it is rather unpolished and unrefined.

The single most important book for Planescape 2e is the "Planewalker's Handbook." It is the most up-to-date summary of the entire setting, useful for both players and GMs, and everyone who intends on using the setting should read through it as much as possible.

Following up from that, you will want "In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil," "Factol's Manifesto," and "Uncaged: Faces of Sigil" for running the City of Doors.
"Planes of Law," "Planes of Chaos," "Planes of Conflict," and "A Player's Primer to the Outlands" will acquaint you with the Outer Planes.
"Inner Planes," "Guide to the Astral Plane," and "Guide to the Ethereal Plane" should cover the remaining planes.

Those are the primary books you will want. If you wish to emphasize fiends and the Blood War, you should also download "Faces of Evil: The Fiends" and "Hellbound: The Blood War." Likewise, if gods and other divinities are supposed to be a focus, "On Hallowed Ground" should serve you well.

>>44380413
Thanks, i already have the boxed set and planeswalkers handbook, just wondering which ones I should go for next, that's incredibly useful.

>>44377429

Dantioch dies. The last chapter is the Tyranids seeing the pharos signal.

>>44377429

Cautiously optimistic. But the HH Series has been very hit and miss recently, and honestly more miss then hit.

Now, is there a DL or Torrent link for this somewhere?

>>44377429
Me, but for unrelated reasons.

>>44376449
In Ian Watson's book, (not sure how cannon that is, seeing it was trying to advance 40k's plot) one of the calliduses recieved a cutting-edge surgery, so she could turn into a genestealer. She became unable to turn into anything else, which hit her hard. However before that she could took the form of an Eldar, so I am guessing any humanoid goes, as long as it doesn't diverge in mass (read: no marines)

>>44377053

She couldn't make the upper claw arms, she had to impersonate a damaged one with just the human lower set.

There's an old john blanche picture of her in the original printing of Inquisitor, but I can't find it.

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>>44376449

One attempts to kill Shadowsun impersonating an Ethereal. She figures out that something is wrong because "he" doesn't have the scent or presence.