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>>44266698
Ruby sounds neat. Why not?

>>44266698
that would be shit armor either way
can I just get steel or something?

>>44266739
Sure, if you want to be sodomized by the magnet-wizard.

I'm a novice to 4e, still playing in my first game, but I'm loving playing a Bravura Warlord. We're not super worrying about optimization but I'm having a blast mostly building around theme and concept.

Being a big damn hero, taking stupid risks and only getting more dangerous when bloodied is amazingly fun to play. My Warlord is a heroic Dragonborn, surprisingly hotblooded despite her natural cold breath. In addition to fun Warlord stuff I'm putting a lot of feats into her Dragon Breath, aiming for the Draconic Blade Paragon Path because spamming Dragon Breath with action points and enabling frostcheese seems potentially hilarious.

Dragonborn Monk can be pretty fun.

>>44266602
depends on the style of game im playing.

when its a more lighthearted adventure i like to play a melee bard and play it as the charismatic swashbuckling type.

in a more serious game i dont have any favorite build, so long as i can make it work

usually gonna be some kinda marking or mutation somewhere, so its probably not a bad way to do things

Yes, if they like the examination, they're most certainly some sort of deviant.

Well there are some that you could that way through the markings and mutations, but it's not a sure thing that all cultists have them. In fact I think that only a very small number could be identified that way.

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>>44266167

Internally I went into panic mode. This was the reason why I maintained being Forever GM with the kids, because they all can easily go from zero to complete asshole in one second and I use my role as GM to guide them to make better choices, or give them consequences for their stupidity. However, since I wasn’t GM this session, I had to use my character to dissuade the druid kid from being an asshat who attacks a city of mice people. “I try stopping Druid Kid from attacking the King…”

“Don’t worry,” said GM Kid “I know what’s going to happen.”

So he lets Druid Kid roll his dice and determine the damage, but in a twist of fate, a mouse wizard shields the king with a spell and the Thunder Wave spell is redirected at us. We’re knocked the fuck to the ground as more mice people come up to fisticuffs with these two jackass adventurers getting up in their shit.

Druid Kid picks himself up and casts Fog Cloud, but then we found out that this mouse wizard is this ridiculously fucking old wizard who can fuck shit up hardcore. The Mouse Wizard summons a bullette who practically pile drives the Druid kid unconscious.

My cleric more or less gestures “I apologize for my idiot friend” and the King was like “you’re cool, but you’re friend is going to have to be put on trial.”

At that moment, I realized this session was going to be kick ass. “My cleric is going to represent the Druid Kid as his defense attorney. This is happening.”

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>>44266182

We drew out the tiny, mouse people sized court room, the defense table too small for my warforged cleric to really sit at. The chaotic stupid druid kid was stuffed in a hanging cage, sapped of his abilities through a potion. We skipped the arraignment all that other bullshit and went straight for the trial.

As GM Kid, started setting up who was who of the court. Druid Kid and I found out that the Judge was the Mouse King and the bailiff was his daughter. “Dude,” I whispered to the Druid Kid “I think we’re going to have to seek a plea bargain, since the person you attacked IS THE JUDGE.”

The Druid Kid was charged with two things:
1. Property Damage
2.Attempted assault against the crown

If found guilty of property damage (which apparently happened, because the Thunderwave Spell hit a guard tower), he would be fined for 60,000 blocks of cheese.

If found guilty of attempted assault against the crown, he would face 16 cats in prison. I thought the GM Kid meant cat lives or something, but he literally meant cats, 16 very angry cats. He started explaining to us how the cat prison system works, but he started losing me on the finer details.

After a discussion of how court proceedings worked, we brought to the stand the first witness, The Great Mouse Wizard of Fucking Yo Shit Up. The Mouse DA asked the Wizard to recount what had happened and why he felt it necessary to subdue the Druid. “He casted an offensive spell against the person of the highest standing within our society” was the witnesses key point.

I had no idea how I was going to present my defense. Do I stick with a not guilty and question the authority of the witnesses? How the fuck am I supposed to discredit the fucking wizard of fucking yo shit up? Do I switch to a plea of insanity? Is that a viable route? Wait no, I’ll make some shit up about use being sent on a quest by another king.

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>>44266201

Here's a pic of our hastily drawn courtroom.

>>44266029
>>Taunt him, lower his guard
"No, it's my luck. God just delivered you to save me the hassle."

>>44266029
>Taunt him, lower his guard

>>44266074
>>44266098
Annandale seems even less pleased with the world than usual, and you notice him resist drawing his weapon.

"I have spent my life watching this city rot away from within because the house of black would rather succumb to their rampant hedonism than dirty their hands sewing and reaping the fruits that our great first king passed to us."

"Better hands sticky with sugar than blood! You would cut away anything you perceive as ill, to fulfill some twisted sense of perfection!" Roland exclaims. You can feel a great heat coming from him. "You've slain your own sworn brothers, those who swore themselves to-"

"They swore to accept adoration and praise in return for parading and pompous superiority! I could swat down any of them like flies! When I finish, the orders will be reborn and remade into what they deserve to be!"

"When you finish, this kingdom will be a smudge on a merchants chart!"

Annandale draws his sword, scowling.

>Attack
>Wait
>Ask/say

>>44265923
A week has passed since your fight with the slavers - who now are YOUR slaves - and nothing much has happened. A number of huts now surround your lair, one made from the bones of the Jungle Behemoths that house the hunters and their gear. The Lizardfolk elder, Yaotl, drew you a crude map stretching from their former camp all the way to your hill in the jungle.
According to him they saw nothing of interest along the way, but they were tired, hungry and chased so who knows what they could have missed. The Slaver leader only now shows signs of regaining conscience and his men have been hogtied together in the hunter's hut. They refuse to speak, instead just cowering and murmuring to themselves before you but making them talk should be an easy task.

You are somewhat... content with you current situation. You've got a mate, a small horde of goods and some subject for you to command however you'd like. However a slight issue appeared, you ran out of food for yourself and your people!


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>Population: 1 Blue Dragon Chief, 1 wyvern mate, 7 Salamanders (2 injured), 25 Lizardfolk (10m/10f/5y), 3 Slaves, 1 Slaver Leader (crippled)
>Army: 5 lizardfolk hunters
>Food: None
>Knowledge: Primitive Stone tools, Crude speech
>Magic: Electrical surge (deals damage and stuns ALL the creatures around the Dragon for a turn)
>Social: Basic Clan ruling (people answer to elders whom in turn answer to you)
>Items: Petty Horde, Golden Arm-band, Jungle Behemoth Bull skull, Hand Ballista (damaged), Scrap armour (5), Scrap weapons (6 spears and clubs)
>Buildings: Cavern, Dirt Wall, Salamander warrens, Lizard-folk hamlet, Hunter's Hut.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>Scout (1d20)
>Gather (1d100)
>Build (1d100)
>Research (3d6)
>Craft (3d6)
>Write-in (1d100)

Bump! THERE STILL IS HOPE

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>>44266388
Come on thread you can do it

>>44265717
Fluffy.

>>44265717
Carnegie, it kind of sounds like their latin name.

Prick

>>44265281
Well, I've had to do it a couple of times in my gaming career. The easiest way to do it is to schedule games without that individual knowing, and explain to everyone else why you don't want that individual coming. Don't be a dick about it, just say, "I feel like games would run smoother without so-and-so." If there's a reason, then your players will understand.

>>44265281
You stop being friends and go back to being a lonely fuck.

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>>44265312
Go fuck yourself.
If you don't want somebody there just tell them you goddamn sperg. Lying and doing secret shit is just gonna stir drama dumbfuck.

“Just so my lady” says Lorkua gravely “they were supposed to work only with humans and much of their design was beyond even our most skilled technicians. The spell that allows them to affect the beastfolk is the closest we have come. Of those that emerge alive, one-half are insane, and the remainder are usually deformed, or damaged in some way. A tiny handful of stable Primals and Chronos have been created, and each one that we made was quickly taken by the forces of the King.”

“What is he doing with them?” you wonder aloud. Your mind is working through the description he's given you of what he's done. You think you could find a way to corrupt even the two most powerful activation chambers, maybe. Although if you fail, you'll most likely break them irreparably.

“I do not know My Lady” answers Lorkua, even though the question wasn't addressed to him.

You suppose that you'll find that out another day “who do you report to?” you ask Lorkua.

“The Lord Ialos” he responds. You look to Kaelyn, you're not an expert on the fae nobility.

“One of the generals” says Kaelyn “known to be corrupt, lazy and a coward, but a capable administrator, he'll report to a higher-ranking general, who will answer to the General Staff, who answer to the King.”

Ok, so at least its not Kae's father himself.

“What else are you are the fae here?” you ask “I mean, besides making beastmen?”

Lorkua gives a small shrug “going through the facilities records for anything of note” he says “assessing this locations viability as a military base – it still has some manufactories in good order and might even be used to build power armour suits and other weapons.”

“Any spaceships?” you ask him, thinking of what you saw in his mind.

His brow furrows “No” he says “building those is beyond this place” then his eyes go wide in understanding “ah you mean arcane ships, yes, with a little encouragement, we might be able to get the more powerful beastfolk psychics to create Arcane Ships.”

“What are Arcane Ships?” you ask him.

He gives you a rather condescending smile “something like a spaceship” he explains “but alive, made from a living thing, and so much more capable than a clumsy mess of wires and metal.”

That's when Lirael and Rainya come back, both covered in dust.

“A living ship?!” says Lirael “really? can I? I mean, I heard of Arcane Ships but they're rare and we always avoided them because they can sense magic and...” She babbles on about her travels with her parents.

What's next?

>Go home, the leaders obey you, that's enough (exclusive)
>Take control of the rest of the fae
>Loot the place, take whatever you want
>Go see the Serec in the freezer, maybe they'll be useful
>I want to make a living spaceship (ask Lorkua how)
>Other (what?)

>>44265288
>Loot the place, take whatever you want
>I want to make a living spaceship (ask Lorkua how)

>>44264694
Depends on the setting, really, and where they stand in it.

>>44264725
Okay
>What is the maximum power a player character should ever have in your setting? How does this compare with the rest of the setting?

>>44264694
Well it's a 50/-25 game, so 75 points of power, I guess...?
Probably more and more as we play.

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You wait in the bay for around half an hour as a few other pilots arrive and join the slowly assembling squad, eventually you hear the sound of someone clearing their throat and turn around to investigate, instead of the usual unmarked light or mesh favoured by Hanse you find yourself staring at an unsuited man sitting behind a small desk.Once he is sure he has everyone’s attention the man pulls out a small file and begins the briefing.


“Northwest of here lies the main base of a group of unaffiliated raiders, originally they were just a small group of pilots supported by non-suit combatants using looted military equipment and thus the AC considered them a small and unimportant inconvenience. In the last few months however they have had a sudden increase in the quality of their equipment and if rumours are true a large number of their non-suit using forces have been seen wearing what appear to be Tin Men armour. There are also reports of their previous equipment being upgraded and that they are now able to pose a threat to pilots.”

“Understandably this has caused a deal of concern and increased their threat level enough that we are commencing an operation to investigate the source of these improvements and either take it out, or find a way to convince the raiders to stop their hostilities and join command. Having a force of combatants that already control a large portion of the nearby area will make the reclamation if Britain a lot easier and will save on resources.”

Looking up from the file the man sweeps his eyes over the assembled pilots, “Now do you have any questions?”

>Cont

There will also be a “take 10” system in effect for this mission. On non-stressful situations(if you can find them), you can automatically be 30 away from target, and roll a d20 to modify it closer to ‘target’. Taking 10 will make it easier to succeed in most cases(easy rolls will be pretty much impossible to fail even), but you cannot use it for dodging, attacking, while being attacked, or if the action would end up putting you through danger.

Basic actions (moving, communicating, observation) will all be success only, so basic actions will happen successfully almost always. There will be three major categories for non-basic actions, DEXY, COMBAT, and TECH. You can only perform ONE TYPE OF ADVANCED ACTION per turn. Rolling DEXY for dodge is NOT an 'advanced action' cost or use unless it is stated otherwise.

Basic actions include just moving around not caring about stealth, releasing out drones for activation, activating camouflage(not the stealth roll), using suit abilities such as bullrush or celerity, and reloading(Hah, who does that anymore...)

DEXY refers to actions such as melee or dodge rolls, and other checks towards maneuverability, agility, and so on. DEXY uses a 'closest to 1' roll on a D100.

COMBAT refers to the act of shooting ranged attacks (NOT melee attacks), plain and simple. COMBAT uses a 'closest to 100' roll on a D100.

TECH refers to anything else really, mostly it's using or fixing your suit's systems. Tech uses a 'closest to 50' roll on a D100.


>Only pilot stats will apply in this mission. That means only faction and cyber brain +es.

>Mission start

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>>44264633
Maureen, who also had a fondness for sitting in the dark to appear mysterious. (And also to look like you knew what the hell you were doing, but that's beside the point) Felt quite at home in the hangar bay. She'd been listening to the debriefing for what seemed like less then an hour.

Which was a nice change, considering that every Hanse Agent and their mother would talk your ear off with how discrete you had to be, or how you shouldn't do this one thing and going into details why. Completely missing the fact that most pilots just want to murder things.

"No questions, but you may want to zimpify our objectives"

>>44264601
Current Character Sheet: http://pastebin.com/maynXK2P

>>44264601
>"I think I could use a bath."
>"I'm a little hungry. Dinner would be good."
If we suspect we could do with a bath, it would be polite to clean up before eating.

>>44264601
>"I think I could use a bath."

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Posting what I've got!

No cause all the good ones go to blue.

>>44264280

She'll see plenty of Standard play. Especially considering how Madness and Flashback will be the mechanics of Shadows over Innistrad.

Other than that, I don't know, probably not.

>>44264280
>or isn't shittier than Tibalt

isn't shittier than Koth, you mean. Tibalt's already the shittiest redwalker.

>>44263662
PCs are not average.

>>44263662
How does this contribute to players having fun?

>>44263662
Is there a point to this other than explaining why women have nice curves that make my dick hard?
Because restarting the -4 Str argument won't do jack shit.