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>>44061813
>would snore
>except you know.

>Looks down at melted cornetto and gestures to Saharduin to grab the reusable plastic bags so they don't have to pay the 5 throne bag tax.
>Points at bag and shrugs
(Anyone want anything from the shops?)

S-so...

What now?

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>>44061783

>>44061783
Depends on the setting, er... GM.

>>44061783
pathfinder.
We survived the campaine boss last night with only one (our rouge) standing at one HP.
The flipped the fuck out after it was over and we somehow pulled through. Luckily, we don't have to ressurect anyone... but we are now officially out of health potions and healing spells... and days away from the next tavern

“Aww, you can't even speak. Has my beauty stolen all your words away? Or are you just concussed from passing out and hitting your head on a rock? Probably the second one. Well, I'll leave you to it. Have fun with your nightmare monster thing.”

Angie vanishes and the world around you loses all cohesion. You fall into darkness, your fear creeping at your back, and drift.

-

New stat acquired: Spirit. Spirit is your magic stat. When activating or controlling spells, this is the stat you'll be using. Due to a mix of a sheer dumb luck and your choice in how to speak with Tellarie, your starting Spirit is 2.

-

You awaken slowly. You're warm, which is nice. Warm is better than cold. The smells are familiar, but you can't quite place them. You can see a purple blur, a curtain perhaps, and sunlight beyond it. Someone is touching your hair, stroking idly, and you lean into the touch slightly. It feels nice, and the sensation helps you to focus your mind on something as you claw your way through the haze and into wakefulness.

“Good morning.”

You yawn softly and pause, opening your eyes fully. Jennifer is sitting on a chair next to you, reading a book and petting your hair softly. She glances at you, her expression neutral, and goes back to her reading. You look around for a moment to take stock of the situation. You're in Sammy's bed, there's a bandage around your head and another around your hand, and you're naked under the sheets. Jennifer, on the other hand, is wearing a black silk robe of some sort, tied at the waist, but with her body turned slightly away from you you can't tell what else she's got on. Your eyes fall on the book she's flipping through. It's your hemomancy tome.

Fuck.

>Character sheet
http://pastebin.com/WWUrXQiH

>Rules
Same system as Become The Dragon Quest. If you don't know what that is, it's best of three d20 rolls. I name a stat that sums up what you're trying to do, and if I don't name a relevant skill, you try to fill in the blank based on what you're trying to accomplish. “Break open the door” might be Strength based, but if you've been playing baseball after school and there's a lead pipe nearby, you could apply your Baseball skill to the roll. A 20 on the die is a crit threat, and if either of the other two rolls is 20 or higher after mods, it's a critical. A crit fail is when you have two or more 1s. So far this system has worked out well enough. We'll get into combat rules as needed, but in basic terms you have wounds, not HP, and the worse the wounds, the more penalties you accrue while doing other things.

Most Important Rule:
Have fun.

>Good morning, Jennifer. How are you today?
>Whatcha reading there?
>Why am I naked, and where are my clothes?
>Where's Sammy?
>What happened?
>Other (write-in)

>>44061710
>>Good morning, Jennifer. How are you today?
>Why am I naked, and where are my clothes?
>What happened?

>but I'm not a fan that it comes attached to the D&D system.

I'm sorry, but the only system that I could recommend for someone as gay as you is GURPS, and that's a horrible system that I wouldn't want to inflict on my worst enemy.

Not OP, but can we have more Castlevania discussion?

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>>44061563
So because I'm not a fan of D&D, I have shit tastes?

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aww shieeet, thanks for delivery anon
fucking loved the tank police animu back in the 90's, I should rewatch it later tonite

>>44061463
I should also apologize for the huge filesize. 120MB is a little big for 167 pages... the scanner gives no option with what quality you want to scan

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>>44061519
Now, somebody got to deliver the Demon City Shinjuku RPG. Same company, same system. The anime was pretty shit if you compare it to the awsomeness that is Tank Police but the internet needs this fucking game for completion sake. I mean, we have a fucking filthy frank homebrew but no scan of an official Demon City Shinjuku RPG? What the shit

>>44060344
A big black dick

>>44060344
Darth Vader.

>>44060344
...it was an ancient Pepsi Clear!

>>44060249
No.

This thread is now about cats and their roles in your games.

How have you used cats /tg/?

In my last game, the Goddess of Luck preferred using cats as her agents.

>>44060310
Get bent and go make your own shitty post. I'm reclaiming this as a try to defend games workshop thread.

>>44060351
No.

This thread now belongs to the cats.

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The peaceful serenity of the death defying mating dive is broken by your collision with the ground – neither you nor Izulu gave up and together you slam into your roots, vines and leaves. The impact snaps Izulu back to conscious thought, and she morphs back to human form. The surprised bird smiles and embraces you, you catch a glimmer of happiness and pride as she tucks a feather into your plant based clothing. She then goes in for a rather clumsy kiss, you feel in her mind the times she’s watched and she tries to replicate what she saw with a bit of desperate vigor.

“Now as the others - we are one,” Izulu says after breaking free. Her face flushed with desire, you can see that she wants more.

“Why are you smiling master?”Ayla asks, “We are totally lost there isn’t even a path through the forest.”

Ayla complains after trudging miles through the forests of Alfheim, this is after telling her several times that there is nothing to be worried about. The scattered enchantments you’ve discovered designed to keep people lost, and in a few cases be returned to their plane of origin are easily avoided since the very trees that hold the enchantments guide your way. Ayla knows that you are a plant now and has even tried channeling your power to speak with the plants herself, but she doesn’t get the same loving adoration that you get when speaking with them. You feel that the plants don’t like her impulsiveness, even those willing to speak to her are turned off since she doesn’t even wait a few minutes for them together their thoughts and speak back.

As for the coordinates, you have absolutely no idea. The invitation has them but nothing else to reference how to orient yourself in order to use them. Even if Hestia creates a map of this entire plane the coordinates are worthless, not that you should have expected more from a trickster. Instead you are headed to the nearest gathering of people, hopeful they are friendly.


(2/6)

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Hestia you notice has finished her construction project, only to begin two more. She is keeping tabs on your progress in the new plane and is filtering through myth and legend to try and find any information of use. At the time of her compiling her reports however nothing new has been discovered.

Completed Research

>Shield modification – A simple modification of a force field’s power source enables it to drain whoever it is protecting. Draining the health and mana of anyone can be dangerous and doesn’t increase the shield’s protection however. Hestia indicates that the lower power consumption makes these shields good for stealth since there is next to no energy signature.

>Psionic sensors – Knowing already how to jam psychic abilities has made it a simple feat to create a sensor modification that enables tracking of any psychic power use, psionicly gifted individuals, and even pick up individuals that have high psionic potential but have yet to awaken it. The internals have already been ousted by the jammers and thus no new individuals have been located.

>Psionic amplifier – The amplification comes in two packages, the first Hestia can construct chambers that vastly improve psychic powers in a similar fashion to magical empowerment. The second is a minor application that the researchers come up with, an amplification implant. The implant only increases psionic output by about 10% - far less than Hestia’s chambers, but the implant has the advantage of being mobile. Further refinement may increase its potential while remaining non-harmful to the implantee.


(3/6)

>Neural control override – The researchers had no desire for aesthetics when creating this thing. This sickly green worm appears to be a heavily modified barbed version of the mutation suppressor. They indicate that the pain is severe when the creature imbeds itself into the flesh, but it excretes an unusual substance that reinforces neurons and the nervous system as a whole. This parasite is somehow able to differentiate between its host’s normal neural patterns and forcibly changed patterns. It is able to prevent neural compulsion by destroying the previously created neural control parasites, there has also been limited success in this parasite from blocking psionic compulsion.
Ongoing research – Hestia’s research is currently suspended

Detailed void studies
Dragonbane and protection from draconic power
Psionic inversal
'Negative' shielding
N-dimensional construction
Tslah examination
Aquatic demon corpses
Scales of balance
Lantern of souls
Hell battlefield corpses
Sapience induction
Realm of death items


Completed special project

>Final reconstruction - Hestia is loathe to leave a job half done, so she is finishing up rebuilding the city above to her standards. The richest folks dislike the obviously superior outcome due to the now free handouts and freedom of the ‘lessers’ to be allowed to go wherever they want within the city. Due to their tireless work Both the casino gang and the goblins are becoming respected members of the community.


(4/6)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKftOH54iNU
Behold, a Spirit of Social Media!

>How do new Werewolves choose their Tribe? In fact, how do Tribes work in the whole Pack structure?
Werewolves choose their tribe by showing an interest in its philosophy and proving themselves to its totem enough for that Firstborn to welcome them into its fold. Or they're brought up by members of a tribe. Or the Firstborn comes to them (which happens to a lot of Cahalith and Bone Shadows).

>How do Tribes work in the whole Pack structure
Well, they're not really formal organizations, so there's also not really conflict between Forsaken Tribes as such, usually. Your Tribe is a set of beliefs and priorities that you share with other members of your tribe, and you're a follower of a minor god who also considers itself your spiritual cousin. Tribes work together quite well in a pack, and tend to defer to the packmate whose tribe specializes in whatever the current issue is. A problem being caused by humans would be handled by the Iron Master in the pack. When your pack is on a war footing, or is preparing for combat, you turn to the Blood Talon. Got somebody you need to chase down into the dark places and never, ever let up until they're dead? Turn to the Hunter in Darkness.

2e adds Favored Prey, which leads even further to the "a member of this tribe specializes in this particular field" thing.

Don't get too confused by the Favored Prey thing, though. All werewolves hunt all kinds of prey. Whatever threatens the territory is dealt with by the pack as a whole.

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>>44060308
What even is going on there? "If you twitter it will ruin your life"?
I mean, it sounds good, but the actual message is just really dumb. It's very "kids these days" and reminds me of this:
https://youtu.be/LD0x7ho_IYc

You were confused, wounded, tired and furious…but it was all worth it, was it?

Your descent towards the guts of the undercity gave you nothing but more questions. You had been the objective of a botched assassination attempt by a group of miners that was lead by Petra, a teenager psyker that apparently could glimpse the future in her dreams. This was the second time a seer told you that you were the cause of a future catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions. In both times the ones that saw that apparently unavoidable future tried to kill you in a desperate attempt to avert that destiny.

What were you? Were you special? Why? You didn’t wanted to be different, all you wanted now was to kill the two bastards that turned you into a monster, meet once more with Liwet and take care of your daughter Alaria. It was time to get answers; it was time to end all this nonsense for once.

After returning towards the academy you saw the entire building covered in debris and bullet holes. Even if the Nox Vox tried to kill you your hatred towards the Magii Coven made you wish that they had made more damage and killed more members.

>>44059958

“We have managed to kill most of the attackers, their leader has run away. They won’t bother us again.” You told to the eccentric Magus that was waiting for you.

That was surely a lie as the possibilities of them attacking again were incredibly high. You knew that, and without a doubt many others did too. It didn’t matter much that people were able to see thru your false words or not, all you cared about was discovering the truth.

“So, when I am going to meet the Benefactors? I am pretty excited about it.”

“It will be soon; very soon. Tomorrow possibly, let us prepare the ground first, such high meeting needs the necessary rituals to do so. Our main Benefactor is also wishing to finally meet you.”

Those words reverberated on your ears as they were pronounced. A cold chill crossed your metallic spine. You were so close to your objective that what once was impatience now had mutated into utter fear. With a simple reverence you left him to work on his chores; you too had things to do.

>Rest for the day. You need to be completely fresh for tomorrow’s meeting.
>Go to the infirmary to check on the rash that the toxic waste had formed on your stomach.
>Contact with your Generals, see if they have made any new discovery.
>Try to find one of the black slabs that Walthari found. Investigate about it.
>Return to the underground and try to search for Petra on your own
>Return to the underground and recover the recordings of Axsiselios and Hellenica. Study them.
>Write in.

>>44059972
>>Go to the infirmary to check on the rash that the toxic waste had formed on your stomach.
>Contact with your Generals, see if they have made any new discovery.

>>44059694
I don't know. You're the one who made this thread to talk about whoever this is.

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>>44059708
Well, I was kinda banking on /tg/ having read PKNA.

>>44059694

Well, we're not Evronians, so as long as we don't piss her off, we should be okay.
If we've done something to piss her off, we're boned.

>>44059872

Currently reading it now. Holy shit, this comic is good. I just recently read Carpe Diem, and now I SO want to run a time travel game, even though I know that's really hard to DM.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_NYNuAdIv0

Get into holiday spirit.

>>44059352
This, plus the Shadow Hearts OST/the battle themes from the SH2 OST.

>>44059352
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4hFUBGYUvY

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here, have this...

>>44059551
This is pretty great.

Is it from something specific?

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>>44059742
the SCP files.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-series
the first 1000 or so entries are pretty good. not much else on the site is except
http://www.scp-wiki.net/reddawn

if you're looking for a sliding scale for hazards you may also look at the Parahuman power scaling system in the web-novel Worm; 10 categories ranked 1-10 that basically cover all the kinds of powers there are..

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The PCs go on adventures that let them instigate changes in one reality to ripple over to the other.

Maybe in the fantasy realm, a raging great wyrm red dragon is terrorizing the countryside in a fit of grief. This is too strong for the PCs to overcome in the fantasy world, so they find a way to get close to the dragon and discern the dragon's identity in Earth as a high school girl angry and depressed over a breakup. They can help that girl overcome her negative emotions, and the dragon in the fantasy world calms down.

Or perhaps in Earth, the PCs want to help a mutual friend get through a rough financial patch. Pooling together money in Earth simply will not be enough, so they discern their friend's identity in the fantasy realm as an elven king whose kingdom is also suffering from an economic crisis because a legendary thief looted the treasury. (A student in Earth and a king in the fantasy realms obviously have very different levels of wealth, but both can suffer financial misfortune relative to their "baseline.") The PCs can track down the legendary thief, bring back the riches, and watch as both the king and their friend in Earth have their finances restored.

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There are a few problems I see here though:

1. It is going to get very complicated if both worlds are equally real, and what happens in one reciprocates in the other. Would this not mean that nothing anyone does ever matters, because everything is simply a chain reaction of ripples and reciprocations guided by each reality's fate? Even adventures and interactions with/against other "single-minded" would logically be completely irrelevant in the grand scheme due to both realities' essences echoing against one another.

2. How could there possibly be long-lived (if not immortal) sapient creatures in the fantasy realm if none of Earth's sapient creatures can live past ~122 years? That would also cap the effective lifespans of sapient creatures in the fantasy planes to ~122 years.

3. What is the incentive to alternate between both lives, instead of sticking to one (probably the more exciting and magical fantasy life) and leaving the other on autopilot for everything? What is the incentive to care about both equally as much? Should PCs have a limit to their consciousness-shifting that makes living out both lives mandatory over the course of a few days?

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One solution to #3 I can think of myself is that the PCs do not shift their consciousness from one reality to another at-will. It is not under their control.

Instead, the Earth-reality "runs" for 24 hours before going into a timeless stasis for another 24 hours. During that time, the fantasy-reality "runs" for 24 hours before going into a stasis for 24 hours, which is when Earth starts to "run" again.

The PCs, then, would experience life as alternating between these two realities every 24 hours, like so: Monday in Earth -> Monday in fantasy -> Tuesday in Earth -> Tuesday in fantasy -> Wedesday in Earth -> Wednesday in fantasy, and so on.

Would this be a more ideal setup?

DOes that mean that they charge more to peole who look wealthy?

>>44058849
>The inn employs "creative pricing"
>The inn burns down
>40 witnesses claim to not have seen anything suspicious

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>>44058849
>guests must pay with their bodies