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>Tolkien
>Chainmail with Fantasy appendix
>Folk tales of the time and earlier

There's a reason people are sticklers for a generic middle age time when it comes to Fantasy and it's not that they're hacks, it's an established set of things to go together.

Nobody is stopping you mixing it up, stick Dragons in space or equip Cave Men with laser guns from one of these "Strange Aeons".

Just keep a bear in your mind that combining two unoriginal ideas does not make a fresh new idea, it creates a gimmick.

>>44339890
>Nobody is stopping you mixing it up, stick Dragons in space or equip Cave Men with laser guns from one of these "Strange Aeons".

True, but there are SO many other eras that one could draw from. Caveman/native american style, futuristic, bronze age or roman, victorian or early industrial, modern day, etc. I'm just surprised there isn't more of it and people still like sword and board fantasy so much.

>Just keep a bear in your mind that combining two unoriginal ideas does not make a fresh new idea, it creates a gimmick.

Being original is always a step in the right direction, even if its shitty. Because now you have something that isn't boring and cliche, and if you make it less shitty then it could start being good.

>Being original is always a step in the right direction, even if its shitty
Oh god no.

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>>44338591
Frozen islands are the best islands.

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Esper Lands probalby my favorite art, especially the swamp

>>44338508

Use google you stupid ass motherfucking nigger. This shit is literally spelled out for you if you weren't so fucking stupid and inept that you don't even know how to not be a raging motherfucking faggot ass cocksucker.

>>44338523

What this cock-garvling Shitskin-fucking Swedish girlyboy said, you fucking queer.

>>44338508
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Gene-Seed

It's the collection of cells that grow into the various organs and systems that a man needs to be an astartes.

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>>44337926
>Commissar Holt challenges you to a duel!
>How does your character respond?

I can just see the GM's face.

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>>44337926

This is the same guy, right?

Louie needs to back the fuck down.

>adorable pyromaniac soviet speak

I know she won't live.
Then again, who does.

>>44337717
I live 15 yards from a river in Florida.

On the news some local guy here had a dungeon.

Turns out he was trying to get into the human trafficking industry but the first person he talked to was an undercover FBI agent.

>>44337717
Getting a liquor license may be tricky.

>mfw drunk neckbeards swinging foam swords

They're relee weapons.

>>44336839
Hey is it pronounced MEE-LEE or MAY-LAY or MAY-LEE or MEE-LAY?

Or MEH-LEH?

>>44336869
Which one sounds the most french?

It's basically first edition D&D, with a pinch of smug elitism

Old school games tend to be run by "Judges" as opposed to "narrators".

Also, encounters tend to be more lethal, and quests are usually more quest driven, rather than story or "objective" driven.

There is a bit more ambiguity in the rules, and room to dispute certain things like skillchecks and the exact effects of combat or criticals.

There also happen to be more tables used during play.

OSR games aren't better. They're just different. I've enjoyed every tabletop game I've played to one degree or another, but the systems I've had the most fun with are old d20 based homebrews where characters usually have to fight for each magic item and spell they obtain.

>Source: An old grognard.

Old school D&D rules, New Weird fantasy setting.

Dice books a decent attention span and some creativity. Paper and pencils, modules for the first few games.

Well with the SRD, you don't really need books, but yeah
Dice are good, you need pencils and papers too
I would recommend you stick core only while getting a hang of the game.

>>44335982
>Well with the SRD
>recommending people 3.x instead of 5e
Why do fucking grandpas still act like their version of D&D is the current one?

That shit is 15 years old now and the new, current edition is both drastically better and more popular.

>>44335851
OP you should pick up or download the D&D 5e books. The Player's Handbook, Monster Manual and Dungeon Master's guide are the necessary ones - everything else is an extra. You will need dice of various types - from 4 to 20 sided - which you can easily pick up online or at your local gamestore. You'll need paper for printing things and pen and pencils for writing on them.

You MAY want to consider a module, which is like a pre-packaged adventure. Your best option for 5e is probably Lost Mine of Phandelver. Hoard of the Dragon Queen gets good reviews, but is likely to be a lot harder for someone new to pick up. You can also just decide to not use a module and run the game entirely from the rules and your imagination. You will need someone in the group who is willing to DM, essentially be the guy determining the plot the players are working through.

ALTERNATIVELY do not buy the current edition of D&D and instead buy/steal/borrow one of the much older, simpler editions of D&D or a modern remake - called 'retroclones'. Some prominent ones are Adventurer Conqueror King, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Castles & Crusades, Dark Dungeons, there's like a million. These tend to be a lot simpler and a lot more testing on the players than modern D&D but there are tons of modules you can tap which are 1) easier to run and 2) actually good.

In D&D, remembering shit is Int.

Knowledge, or KNO

Depends whether you are communing with the hypercosmic gods or directly trying to tap into the memory of the world-soul tbqh family.

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That sounds a bit harsh and rather passive aggressive.

Some people simply have a hard time learning games, especially when it comes to things like learning from books. If he's a good member of your group otherwise, having patience and helping him along is the nice and mature thing to do, even if it's difficult and not as immediately satisfying.

Maybe he just needs a cheat sheet? Just a page that contains the basic info he needs, like attack options during a turn or what different abilities do, to serve as a quick reminder in case he forgets. You can put one together, or you can ask him to put together one not just for himself, but the rest of the group so everyone has a quick reference sheet.

>>44335516
>Some people simply have a hard time learning games, especially when it comes to things like learning from books

Then they shouldn't be playing table top RPGs. Computer RPGs would be more their speed.

>>44334934
Kill him. Not the PC, the player. Let his death serve as an example to others. Once per session, defile his corpse in front of the others. Make them understand that each player is responsible for learning the rules.


Or, work with him on them. Either is fine.

>>44334629
It doesn't sound too bad. If she had become the leader of a mercenary band or secretly the child of one of the fallen kings royalty, THEN that would be bad, but really slave-turned-mercenary is actually kinda generic in a not-bad way.

But just for a frame of reference, what are the other player's characters?

>>44334739
*fallen kingdoms royalty

>>44334739
They're mostly just a toss-up between people born into this particular mercenary band with a rather uneventful/normal life of training and fighting, and some who were once in the military, but left during the peace times to join a mercenary band.

One of the guys who complained has a character who was from a Noble House in one of the Fallen Kingdoms, but fled when the capital fell and then became a hobo living off the streets of a small-time fishing town until he signed up to join this mercenary band that the campaign is centered around at first.

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"I have lived no cloistered life and hold in contempt the wise man who has not lived and the scholar who will not share. There have been many wiser men than I, but few have traveled as much road. I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope."
- L'Ron Hubbard
As a devotee of the way of the cowl, you have had special training in both hiding your intents and reading those of others. You are good at faking emotions and passing whatever you say off as truth, as well as seeing through falsehood and reading others like a book:

You also showed special interest in a certain part of the way of the Cowl's teaching:

A: The Prince: "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." (Bonus to intimidation and blackmail, disadvantage to "good cop" tactics"
B: The Commodre: "Certainty, not data, is knowledge." (Big, blatant deception and lies have more of a chance of working, but if it does backfire, it's far worse)
C: The Warden: "The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces." (You understand how evil and people tick very well, but this familiarity causes people in general to distrust you all the more)
D: Top Gun: "When you're enlightened, you see life, things, the way they are, in all its glory, in all of its perplexity, and the more you know as an enlightened person, the more you become overwhelmed by it." (You're extremely charismatic and good with people, but you have a hard time thinking outside the box set up for you by your teachers.)
E: I was always more of a generalist.

>>44334611
>A: The Prince: "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." (Bonus to intimidation and blackmail, disadvantage to "good cop" tactics"

>>44334611
A: The Prince: "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." (Bonus to intimidation and blackmail, disadvantage to "good cop" tactics"
Though the warden is interesting.

Let him, just let him know you'll take it away/tone it down if it causes a problem.

As a GM I'm inclined to try to avoid catering to specific player demands in situations like this.

Does it fit with the themes and setting?

>>44333568
"I'm not comfortable with all these modifications you're making. If there's one or two major character traits you want reflected mechanically that's fine and I'll work with you to make it work, but I'm just sure I can balance all these changes and ensure everyone has a fun game. Go over your character and decide what you can just fluff out, what's just unnecessary and what you really want to be influenced by mechanically. Then come back and we'll go over it again."