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>>44159283
Alien races are the easiest kind to make. Do you have no creativity?

>>44159283
Just watch Space Dandy

>>44159283
A species native to gas giants made out of metallic hydrogen and transition metals. When leaving their preferred environment they have to wear heavy pressure suits to keep themselves from explosively decompressing.

> implying there has ever been good MTG art

Nah. There's only old-ass cartoon paintings, and new 3D CGI bullcrap.

Pokemon has the best art of any CCG, Magic art can't even compare. Of course pokemon as a card game is shit, but the art is frankly objectively superior to that of any Magic card.

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>>44159264
>pokemon has the best art of any CCG

How did you misspell Yugioh so badly?

>>44158782
The sword is always at the hands of its owner when they need it, literally. If they are disarmed and thrown into the dungeons, it will just be there, under some dirty blankets or a bench, or even their goddamn pantleg.

Their faithful ally, always at their side, and always trustworthy.

Have you considered something like an adaptive blade? Nothing particularly impressive. but something like it lengthens to give the fighter some distance when wounded, gets a couple of blood grooves after a couple of fights. It sharpens itself quietly while resting, it heats up on a cold night.

The blade is truly a companion, and wants to be helpful, loyally changing itself to help the fighter, no matter the odds.

>>44158836
Might be a bit abuse-prone if the sword literally appears anywhere. But I've always liked the idea of a special item that finds its way back to its owner, no matter what, possibly at the time of great danger.

Like, instead of just inexplicably being there in the darkest, grimiest, deepest prison hole, it will find its way into your hands when you stage a daring escape. Possibly carried by a guard who stumbles and falls, or just sitting on a table you run past, or otherwise within your grasp.

Maybe it'd be cool to have an item that's generally "lucky", in the sense that things always seem to go a bit more towards your way when you have it. Like, in game terms, the player can ask a number (whatever feels good) of scene-specific questions, like "Is one of the guards that attack me actually drunk off his ass" or somesuch opportunate, plausible things that could be true and could help the character.

In a campaign I played in, there was a blessed dagger that ensured that no wound caused on the character would fester or otherwise slay the person afterwards, only through direct, immediate damage. Like, no matter how badly you were bled and gutted, as long as you wouldn't outright perish from it, you would persist and get better. Bleeding and infection, mostly. I don't remember if diseases and the like were also included.

Of course, that's only useful if the game system actually has distinct wounds and complications thereof.

>>44158524
You don't have to DM the same game, do you?

That's fucking awful.

My story is not as bad but I think it's interesting in its own right.

> be me, running 5e game for friends
> one player wants to play a tranny character
> "wahhh the book says I can!!"
> okay whatever as long as it doesn't get in the way of the game
> person playing is also a tranny wannabe, though no hormones / self-mutilation yet
> stopped cooking dinner because of this fucker because he/she/it puts KETCHUP on the pasta I make for everyone and also slurps it in the most disgusting noise ever.
> used to cut himself until my friend made him stop
> is into homestruck and all that shit, tries to CONSTANTLY insert it into the game
> interrupts game at one point to make us all watch Steven Universe trailer of some black chick transforming into a man, because it was "soooo relevant" (it fucking wasn't)

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>>44158761
What?

I'm a mid-level wizard that needs a reliable way to incapacitate two ~5th level hirelings (both rogues) simultaneously. Ideas?

Not simultaneous, but I was going with command person, get one of them to grapple and pin the other, then cast hungry pit underneath them.

Post pictures of witches and/or shamans.

>>44158221

Fireball.

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/metamagic-feats/merciful-spell-metamagic

The weather's cleared on this new day, the once dry and dusky haze that fell over this camp is now replaced with the smells of wet earth and the warmth of full bearing down, casting an enchanted mist over the freed labor camp. You've been resting, catching up on lost sleep from traveling through the camp.

You're within the quarters of the recently departed clerk, though pacted he had proved weak. His sword rests with him now in a shallow grave beyond the palisade, a bloodstain still lingering in the masonry of the floor.

“Speak to me.” You whisper aloud to yourself. Your face, the Reaper has been quiet since the night that the Scourge fell and you let the Danhor go free. It's become more difficult to move with agility, and you can feel him resisting you. The others have been told that you're simply weary from the battle considering your age, and they've let you alone... Yet.

“We are not finished here. We must go to the Manor and see that the Guisi are safe, why won't you-”

A knock upon the door snaps you out of your introspection. “Reaper, I've brought you food and water. Are you awake to eat?” The voice is from a Guisi girl that's been helping you. Since the scourge slayed all the rebels in the wood, Mira's closed up, confining herself to a room that's sinee been called hers and not speaking to anyone, especially not you. Valce barely escaped with his life, still asleep and being treated by Eko. The other Guisi seemed wary of the Protean at first, yet she's been of such help that they allow her to stay.

Gaffer and Cornel don't blame you, for what happened, though they have their own mourning to do. No one's seen Odette recently however, and that worries you considering what happened with her... Her family.

>>44157835

Some of the Guisi freed gave you strange looks when you walked the previous day, you've been told that their elders would like to speak to you when you are feeling up for it.

>Eat, then...

>[Visit Mira, even if she doesn't talk much, she may appreciate you being there for her.]
>[Seek out the Elders, you can't fake your current condition much longer. Might as well speak to them.]
>[Find Odette... Hopefully she hasn't done anything dangerous, or perhaps too drastic.]
>[Remain in seclusion, enter your inner self and force the Reaper to speak with you. ]
>[Head out to the woods alone, if anything has taught you anything, one of those twins will find you, they'll know what to do.]
>[Write in.]

>>44157903
>[Seek out the Elders, you can't fake your current condition much longer. Might as well speak to them.]
Time to come out.
Seems that keeping the face wasn't the greatest idea

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>>44157817

I'd be heresy

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>>44157637
You shut your eyes, trying to drown out the loud, droning music. You really weren’t used to clubs, and it wasn’t exactly the best place to have a serious conversation. Still, your brother’s life could be on the line. It was too important for you to get distracted. What were you going to do? Kaufman was too dangerous to talk to on his own, especially considering you were just some nobody. You had no other leads, unless you could find something else... and then it hits you.

Kaufman’s daughter. She had the most connection to this out of anyone. If only you could find her. You open your eyes, and glance at your friends. “We need to find Alison Kaufman. Do you guys have any ideas?” Rahne chews on her bottom lip before nodding. “Aye. If you could find me something of hers, I could probably track her down. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s something.”

Match shrugs, “Or, uh, we could ask some people here if they know what she’s up to. Apparently she hung out with that drug dealer guy over there,” he points towards a blue man. Someone you recognize in fact. Jazz. A lowlife wannabe rapper that used to push drugs for Zapruder, before apparently switching sides. He tended to know a lot about everything that was going on, and conveniently, he was a massive coward.

You go over the options in your mind. Lewis might have kept something of hers back at home, and Rahne could use that to track her down, maybe. Or, you could just investigate the old-fashioned way, and have a chat with Jazz.

> So, what do you want to do?
> Find something Alison owned.
> Talk to Jazz.
> Other.

>>44157650
>> Talk to Jazz.
Hey Xfag! Hype!

>>44157650
>> Talk to Jazz.

>>44157295
I think the assumption for most Von Neumann swarms is that they were originally made for something else but are malfunctioning. Like you said, they're meant to be able to do more than just make more of themselves, but something broke in their programming so that's all they do now. Endlessly running the self-replication loop and disregarding any commands to build other things.

>>44157295
>but if you encounter a machine that simply self-replicates for the sake of self-replication
There's a good chance that they're not JUST Von Neumann machines but also have other functions, perhaps.

Like providing exploration data, or mining and sending back raw materials to a particular spot, or fighting against another von neumann probe swarm.

It could even be an intelligent Von Neumann swarm.

I thought the idea wasn't "they do something else" or "why invent them" but that the creators built things, like say, an ai, which then due to improper coding, hacking, magic whathaveyou, that they stopped doing what they were supposed to be doing and turned into Von Neumanns.

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>>44157077
I don't know about cowards but I've got a few that don't look too heroic.

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>>44157905

Class: Dude
Race: Weed
Alignment: LMAO

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>>44156961
That's my stat block!

>>44156938
+20 Ruin (Everything)

Gee Billy, how come your mom let's you produce two anuses?

>>44156927
Mark Tedin > Mike McDigital

changing the borders with mirroden was a mistake

>>44156746
Okay, I just skimmed that thread. What.

Save the Queen, I guess.

>>44156983
>Confirmed
>I take the elevator down to the shopping mall and begin sprinting into the sewers
>My two rat sons guide me faithfully
>Things seem hopeless. It took me months to make it from my Queens chamber to this mall
>How can I make it there on time?
>What is next?

>>44157013
Dig through walls by spinning at super sonic speeds

>>44156359
hype

>>44156359
HYPE!

>>44156359
Unleash Kon "Silver Tongue" Karagowa

As the light of dawn starts to bring natural light to the expansive cafeteria in the Circle, Quissonce finishes her story about the time she was chased out of town by a group of particularly superstitious villagers for devil worship because of a simple card trick. You laugh about it as you finish your cheese, wiping bread crumbs off the wooden table the two of you are sitting at.

“So, what's the plan for today Alan?” Quissonce asks as she finishes her water.

“Rowe and I are going looking for some missing members of The Fighter's Guild today, might try to capture a live orc. We'll probably be out in the field for a few days.” Quissonce nods.

“Well, good luck. Don't get yourselves killed. All I'm going to be doing is reading through some books. Maybe experiment a bit. See if I can come up with any spells on my own.”

Well, it's not like you'd be interrupting any major plans of hers if you wanted her to tag along.

>Invite Quissonce
>Don't invite Quissonce

AND

>Go invite anybody else (specify)e

AND

>Any last minute preparations?

>>44156240
>Invite Quissonce
It's still her choice to continue research or come along. Call it application of theory.

>Go invite anybody else
Gabby and Kyra. Also Eve. Since this is a mission that needs stealth, I'm unsure about Dolah.

>Any last minute preparations?
Get in that daily 1 hour of prayer, check up on Father Calloway. He might need protection while we're out.

>>44156367
>>44156240
Seconding. Maybe Dolah can protect the Father while we are out sneaking.