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Mechanical differences between male and female characters.

It's not even an SJW thing, I just don't want even more reasons for the grognards my GM allows in his group to play female characters EVERY FUCKING GAME. If there are any mechanical differences between genders, even if females are worse, they'll come up with some reason why their character build NEEDS to be female because they're all a bunch of Magical-Realming faggots.

Someday I'll find a decent online group.

>>44239081
>Someday I'll find a decent online group

Not with your attitude you won't. Or at least you won't keep it. You'll just meltdown over the most petty crap and ignore any fun going on, if this thread is any indication.

>>44238953
Not a fan of the term "engine" either but you have to admit Powered by the Apocalypse Engine sounds cool

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Shameless self bump. /tg/ still likes quests, right?

>>44238648
Human Paladin, male

>badger
>badger

>>44238226

The mind of a dolphin in the body of a bear.

>>44238239
This.

Anyone can do it, but hardly anyone has the patience and introspection it requires.
Which is why those who do are invariably obsessed with it.

>>44238036

Still, that implies a factory process could work where you just set up some schools and churn out (shitty) Wizards, right? Like, sure not many people have it in them to become ARCANE MASTERS but like, level 1 Wizard? At some point as baseline education and literacy levels go up, there's got to come a point where you can pretty much go to Wizard School for five years and come out a level 1 Wizard. At which point, you've got a mega-saturated Wizard market because who wouldn't want that.

>>44237900
Magic and life-force are semi-finite self-replenishing resources. Two mages cannot coexist in the same space for extended amounts of time because they'd use up the mana at an accelerated rate. Druids and the like have an easier time with it because they use less power so to speak and it regenerates faster. Necromancers are really bad because raising the dead uses really excessive amounts of life essence, and drains it from the surrounding area. You can tell when a Necromancer is about because plants shrivel and people/animals start getting sickly looking.

>>44237752
Some tribes believed that dance and celebration were innately spiritual acts, likely attributing what we know as positive psychology to magic. Festivals were specifically held to lend the power of the tribes people to the local shaman so that he might perform magic for the community's benefit.

Also there are beliefs in small tribes in the sub sahara that believe hyenas are in fact beast man hybrids, like werewolves, and that their bestial form is derived from magic and that rather than a curse they are in effect wizards. They also believe blacksmiths are wizards. So in effect they believe blacksmiths are wizards are werehyenas all interchangably. Also there are superstitions of a whole town populated by hyenamen in disguise. So a town of wizards. So a town of blacksmiths.

>>44238589
Some bantu tribes believed that shapeshifting monsters like werehyenas inherently have the soul of the creature they shift into.

And that eventually their natural compulsions come out so one day they begin to eat people,

Many africans distinguished between ordinary predators and the really smart ones. Very clever maneaters were considered shapeshifting spirits with the intelligence of men.

One tribe in Tananzia claimed that a handsome youth who was not of their village came to court a young girl. He seduced her and took her to the bush to make love, then came horrible screaming and silence. The villagers later found her mutilated corpse that night up in a tree hanging by her intestines and bone. They set up many traps which were evaded, almost like the predator was mocking them. Multiple hunters went into the bush to confront the creature and were devoured. So they all consulted the village witch doctor who cast a spell on an arrow. Later on a hunter noticed a leopard stalking him from the trees, he turned and shot it in the shoulder with the magical arrow. The leopard screamed like a human and fled. Later that day the mysterious youth came into the village with an arrow wound in the shoulder claiming to have been attacked. The villagers slew him and burned his corpse far away in the bush so he couldn't come back as one of the undead.

Many west african tribes considered blacksmith s to have powers because they spent their time alone at a hot forge taking raw nature and turning it into something useful for humans. The Yoruba have a story about a mortal blacksmith who saved a goddess from the wrath of the thunder god in a great battle. The epic of Sundiata is a conflict between a freeman and a blacksmith who became too big for his britches.

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>>44236285
>1.

If you wanted to get at the mages as quickly and easily as possible, that meant making a beeline for them while avoiding the heavy knights. You’d do what damage you could on the way in, but getting out would mostly be a matter of Malaine and his knights flying everybody out. The last thing you needed was to get boxed in.

With the moon scarcely a day short of full it would be hard to sneak up on the watch, so you decided to do this the fashionable way. Your archers fell the guards where they stand and then the onslaught begins. Fire ripples through the camp as you lead the charge, screams and shouts echoing from around you. Magical bolts ripple around you and you respond with magical lances with a wave of your hand at times. There are a series of tents trying to block your path forward, and you remember they had fences behind them too to try to funnel you away from the centre.

You spot a half-dozen flying mage knights swoop overhead and then a thunderous crack greets your ears. Dirt, gore, splinters and the blazing remains of the tent canvas ahead of you are flung into the air. Your ears ring at the closeness of the explosion but at the very least you have a way forward. Enemy mage-knights try to rally on the other side, caught unaware by the sudden explosions. You won’t have any of it and charge them head-on, your own mage-knights joining you with magically enhanced shouts.

[DC62 Combat]

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>44236311
Oh god
They killed bob

>>44236311
>With the moon scarcely a day short of full it would be hard to sneak up on the watch
Shit, nightwalkers. I'm not sure how, but they have to have nightwalkers that they're planning to use tomorrow night.

Playing epic level Pathfinder as a Barbarian. That thing is fucked unless it can block 1100 damage per round with a hella magic huge sized greatsword.

WW1/interwar (intentional anachronistic technology) era magitech of a shitload of countries just found a target that isn't each other.

Just call it a villain like a sensible person.

>>44235699
Dude, if I were your friend, I'd be pretty pissed they made you so uncomfortable that you straight left.

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>>44235699
That shit is fucked man.

>>44235953
i would've asked if she told them anything but i'm really not willing to ask her about that day

i think it's better that i don't know where she met those people anyways

>>44234800
"Sure"

>>44234800
Life uh uh uh finds a way.

>>44234800
If it can handle being perpetually bathed in radiation, why not.

So it's not quite what you asked for, but I have one of those GW carrying cases, and they're actually really nice.

>>44235714
This.
Best case for the money. Unless you're using a lot of bigger models.

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>>44234089

I make my own cases from plano boxes and foam I order off the net.

>How do I get started!?!?!?
Just suggest two actions at the end of the IMMEDIATE CHECKUP. All choices' success will be determined by a 1d20 roll that I will do on my desk and tell you guys. (Rolled 15,2)

Intro was too long so that last part will be squeezed into the update post


IMMEDIATE CHECKUP ENGAGED
>Power supply: bretty gud
>Drones:19 advanced grabber drones, 9 gunner drones, 3 maintenance drones, 1 eye drone, 1 #6, 15 inferno drones
>Machines of Burden: 2 regular Machines of Burden
> Humanoid Machines: 4 multi-purpose machines (these can be changed with upgrades and research)
>Turrets: 1 Heavy Machine Gun Turret
>Special characters: Drone #6
>Moral: Ready to fight (#6 rocking the can can)
>Allies: Gnolls (suspicious)
>Building facilities: 1 steel mine, 1 machine builder, 1 drone builder, 1 generator room (barely average)
>Memory files: Pretty good (this can be fixed with dedicated research which will unlock lore and blueprints)
>Locations unlocked: Home base (well hidden), Outside world, Village, Troll lair
>Locations that we have heard about: The elves to the eastern forest, The Orcs to the northern plains, The Crabmen to the south that apparently live in some fortified, seaside fortress
>Inventory: 3 spears, 2 shields, 40 steel, 5 copper
What would you like to accomplish now (2 actions)?

>Discussion Point: Attack Plan

What are the merits of utilizing rolling large logs down into the cave, perhaps flaming, to delay troll movement, then utilize Inferno Drones to increase the oil side of their mixture to create a stream of flaming oil to cover the cave floor.

>BURN THEM ALL.
Ahem... use the gunners as suppresive fire to try and keep the trolls in place or force em back if they get too close while the inferno drones stand at the top of the hill and fire down into them, lead by the machines armed with flamethrowers. The other machines should make use of the spears we got to also hold back any that get too close/maybe take down the alpha with them.

Not sure what to ask the gnolls to do but stay back and fire arrows.

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>>44231406
Because people like to have fun. Sorry to break the news to you like this

Idk, the more the merrier I guess? Why not just throw everything in bc whythefucknot

biodiversity

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more daylight runners

Secondary thread topic: Has anyone had luck running Shadowrun in non-Shadowrun systems? Asked in the last thread, didn't get any responses. I've heard about FATE, but I'm really not a fan.

Also, day-one errata for Rigger 5 confirmed, someone found where Wakshaani fucked up within 20 minutes of the book going live

>RENRAKU DOVE (PILOT AIRCRAFT) A Renraku product, the Dove is licensed exclusively to GOD. It flits quietly around major sprawls, searching for illegal wireless signals. While the Dove is, in general, an unimpressive design, the radio-snooping technology is top-notch, while the software can alert GOD operatives to activity, drawing attention from support operators who then call in larger, more combative drones to deal with the lawbreaker. Standard Upgrades: Radio signal scanner (6)


>MITSUHAMA MALAKIM (PILOT AIRCRAFT) The standard response drones for GOD, the Malakim are quad-copter drones that pack non-lethal weaponry and high-level jammers, released in support of agents on foot. The Malakim’s job is to block off communication, keep updated via reports from Doves that are scattered around watching potential escape routes, and serve as a last line of offense should a takedown be needed. While well-armed and armored, the Malakim’s larger size prevents it from entering some areas, so if you’re being pursued, move from building to building and never get caught out in the open; if you do, it’ll drop you. Standard Upgrades: Standard weapon mount, area jammer (6), directional jammer (6), Targeting autosoft (4)


>NEONET AVENGING ANGEL (PILOT AIRCRAFT) The last of the GOD-specific designs, the Avenging Angel is the Thor Strike of drones. No muss, no fuss, the Avenging Angel is a multi-MACH milspec drone that carries a single fuel-air bomb, capable of leveling an entire city block, for when you absolutely, positively, have to make sure that decker nest is rooted out. Officially, none have ever been used. Officially. Standard Upgrades: Heavy weapon mount

Holy shit, GOD is going HARD in Rigger 5.

What books do you guys want to see for D&D in 2016?

I'd like to see a multiversal Planescape-like mega-adventure. Doesn't have to be Planescape per se, but something that's interdimensional and taking in classic lore would be cool.

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>>44230541
more flumphs

>>44230652
There are no evil flumphs just as there are no good goblins.

>>44230414
First for the Krogandogs being surprisingly not shitty.

>>44229207
>>44229469
>>44230307
You know, I think a lot of order spam problems could be solved if there simply was a 15+Lt orders hardcap. Maybe not count Irregular towards the cap.

>>44230414
Wonder how many pages of special rules they will have? I mean, Tohaa rarely do things the easy way.