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Pauldrons are too small.

>>44056590
Not too shabby.

Keep practising and you'll do even better.

>>44056590
I'd give it an A too.
A for abomination.

>>44056559
Ive been interested in it for a while, but im afraid that it'll be too railroady for an TTRPG. From what I've read at least (which isn't a whole lot mind you, only like a few pages at the start and some character gen stuff) it seems like theres one ending you always work towards.

>>44057561
Railroady isn't a problem I've had with it, care to elaborate?

>>44057600
Idk i just felt from what i read which if u read from my earlier post was like a few pages of story and character gen that the ending of every story would be the same. Like you find the mystical place and then your done. I didn't go into the gm section since i would want to be a player if i ever played the game.

>>44056530
Despite all the preparations around you however, you yourself have little to do other than issue the occasional order to one of your lieutenants, and walking the camp occasionally to crack some disobedient heads together to remind your warriors why you're still in charge. Right this moment though, you're dealing with your newest slave, the centaur Cyl...something, you think you'll just stick with Cyl, who seems concerned for the fate of the rest of her adventuring party.

“Jada can go to a single master, it'd be a waste of a strong female like that to leave her in the communal pens anyway,” you grunt, folding your arms.

The centaur's face lights up, her front hoof tapping on the ground.

“-but, I'm not going to pull her away from any orcs who're still having fun with her right now, so it can wait until Za'ria shuts her away at the end of the day,” you continue.

Cyl's smile falters a little, but she nods all the same. “I- I see, please make sure she goes to a kind master.”

You snort, since Juk'ruk's tragic and completely unforeseen hunting accident, you're not sure you've got any orcs amongst your commanders who treat their slaves with any particular brutality, though who knows what these other races consider to be kindness, they get emotional about the dumbest things.

“As for the rest of your party. I promise nothing, but provided they behave they'll be treated no worse than the rest of the male slaves. It's not like anyone's looking for revenge, since you didn't manage to kill a single member of my clan,” you smirk, the centaur's brow knotting at the amusement in your voice.

“I suppose that's the most I can ask for... thank you, master,” Cyl bows her human half, brow still creased with concern, or frustration, or something.

>Well, since she said she'd do what she was told now, have some fun with her
>Good, you're done here for now

>>44056532
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>>44056532
>Good, you're done here for now

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>Wakes up with the worst hangover in human history.
I... had the weirdest... dream...
>Notices she's in the bunk.
>It was not a dream.
>Screams internally.

Reminder that we have a steam group and a 1d4chan page now. If any wants to join the steam group give your profile name to gary when he shows up and he'll add you to the group after a friend invite.

>>44056492
>Alice is already up, taking a break from working on her leg armour to toss an injector at Lix.
Hm? Was it the dream where everybody actually gets along? I have that dream sometimes.

I-I...
>Blushing.
More like the dream of hangoverland...

W-was there any word from Amelia...?

“Better out than in, they always say.” She laughs, thumping me between the shoulders and shunting me for a step.

She’s got her eyepatch back on today, along with her drawn on scar, picking up her wooden cutlass and swiping at the air as I lay out to dry.


I watch her slash back and forth for a few minutes, the other villagers that walk by rolling their eyes and ignoring her as she yells to them, before she suddenly twirls, pointing the blunted tip in my face. “Say, boyo, you ever actually had any proper fighting with that stick of yours?” She asks, nodding to your staff.

Come to think of it, the only advice the spook gave me really was, ‘smash them with the heavy end’. Then again, all it really needs to do is hit most enemies I’d be fighting and it’d hurt them pretty badly. I glance up at the sun, the afternoon is wearing on, and the spook had asked me to buy groceries while I was in town.

>Wanna spar?
>I’ll pass, got things to do.
>Write in

>>44056359
>Wanna spar?
Just a quick one, then we go get those groceries. Wouldn't hurt to get a little practice.

>>44056359
>Wanna spar?
First to land 3 hits? That shouldn't be too long.

>>44056023
Size/Type: Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 5d10+25 (52 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 5 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/+14
Attack: Claw +9 melee (1d6+5)
Full Attack: 2 claws +9 melee (1d6+5) and bite +4 melee (1d8+2)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Improved grab
Special Qualities: Scent
Saves: Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +2
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 12, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills: Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness, Track
Environment: Temperate forests
Organization: Solitary, pair, or pack (3-8)
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 6-8 HD (Large); 9-15 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —

>>44056023
Gehrman isn't the final boss though.

>>44056023
Not the final boss though

Take movement speed, divide it by a certain number to come up with hex-distance moveable each "turn"?

Come up with an amount of food or supplies the party consumes each "turn"?

Fill the map with areas the party can harvest for these resources, either once or repeatedly?

???

PROFIT?

Try... Traveller? Which I actually misread your title and how I got here. Massive world-generation rules in various editions, with city, continental, and world map creation aids and rules. There is a 'bootstrap' type supplement for TNE that talks about guiding fledgling colonies into profitable, surviving places, too.

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>>44055825

This is a big trope in OSR games, so dig through the Trove in the OSR general and see how some different systems come at it.
Labyrinth Lord, Adventurer Conquerer King, Swords and Wizardry, and plenty of others have rules for this, ranging from fairly simple and straightforward to somewhat complex.
Have some resources, too.

>>44055333
You find an ancient dwarven gold coin behind a bookcase!
Unfortunately the mint that made this coin was incredibly prolific and it's worth around only one and half gold, due to how common they are among numismatists. Someone probably just dropped it and it rolled there.

>>44055333
Lubricant and gay porn.

>>44055333
You find an old wine bottle, empty and long abandoned. However, on the hand written label is some absent minded writing about magic. It might be worth something to a magician.

I would find it incredibly refreshing and interesting.

>>44055218
Holograms or Hallucination?

If you can make someone hallucinate sight, sound and smell you can make them think that something is solid.

Oh, and a neat idea. Let's casters do interesting stuff but with hard limitations. Can't unlock doors, fly, teleport and stop time. Can distract, turn invisible, terrify and manipulate.

>>44055218
Sounds like a decent idea.

>>44055057
Most of them are more or less the same and even though i did not play any yet, the all seem like they would become stale after a few games.
Except Grimdark Racing, i was grinning like stupid reading this and someday I'll manage to get my local group to play a round.

>>44055057

>21 pages

>>44055057
utter shite. removes the interesting fluff part of the same,is way oversimplified. only played by deficients

>>44055030
Right now control as we know it does not exist in standard. Everything is either a slow aggro deck such as Jeskai, or a midrange deck such as Abzan. That is unless you include the absolute abortion that is "Atarka Red", also known as "Pile it all on one guy and hope they don't have removal". Sure some decks splash a 4th colour, but that doesn't change the core. The last 2 years of standard can be summed up by Siege Rhino for a reason.

>>44055328
>Right now control as we know it does not exist in standard
I was wondering why Standard seems to be fun right now which is weird because I've never ever thought this before. Guess that's a reason.

>>44056730

The problem with control is that it is fundamentally about telling the other player that they don't get to play the game. Cycles where control is 'viable' from our perspective really means cycles where control wrecks your shit. There isn't a lot of wiggle room for control decks being effective, you either lock down the game and win or you don't and you lose.

A cycle where control is viable almost always means a cycle where control is the ONLY deck that is viable, because the non-control decks will get BTFO by control unless they control harder back.

For the vast majority of players, its much more fun to have a game go 'we both play creatures with different powers and effects, and then have them fight to see who wins' then 'I play a creature on my turn and leave two mana up. On your turn I counterspell that thing you wanted to do, GG so back to my turn now right?'

I don't really see 20 as the ultimate end goal. Seeing it as such is a very gamist mentality. Levels, while important to games like D&D, do not represent the narrative's advancement. This is true in any game where on can not simply rely on where they are in the character advancement to judge how "complete" they are as a character.

>>44054239
This post
>>44054253
speaks the Lord's words. The campaign dictates the ballpark ending level.

>>44054253
This is true.

The older the get, and the more experience I have gaming, the less important "levels" (and classes for that matter) seem.

>>44054230
Depends on what level your character is starting at. If it's 1, Houston we have a problem. If he's like level 4-5 to start though, or even as low as 3, it'd be perfectly fine and anyone that says otherwise is a dolt.

>>44054265
30 years is a long time, you could completely forget how to fight properly if you didn't keep practicing. Also, he probably started adventuring in his late teens to early twenties, at his youngest this man is now 45-55.

>>44054230
I could actually see this as a level 1 character; he may have been a career soldier who never personally went toe-to-toe with enemies (or did so, but not enough to level). You could also fluff that he may have been 2nd- or 3rd-level once, and has forgotten a fair bit.

Besides, anyone trying to shoot down a concept that obviously isn't disruptive flavor-wise or abusively high-op needs to stop running games.

>>44053791
1M
3HG

Hello, and happy threads.
If Jonas is a rifleman that covers a bit, and a marksman will likely be necessary. Other than that indulge the dakka.

>>44053791
1R
1M
2HG

>>44053791
1 rifle man as Jonas fireteam partner
1 Marksman
2 Heavy Gunners

So I am pretty bad at deck building, but I'm trying to get better. I used to try my hand out in specific formats, but I realized it wasn't worth the trouble, since I have the most fun in multiplayer games.

I built this, using whatever cards I liked (I'm a big fan of Delver), in hopes to put a more personal but still usable spin on the archetype. What do you guys think? Please be nice :)

4x Brainstorm
4x Dismember
4x Mana Leak
4x Memory Lapse
2x Murderous Cut
1x Undermine
2x Ponder
1x Preordain
2x Thoughtseize
3x Treasure Cruise
4x Dismal Backwater
8x Island
2x Nephalia Drownyard
8x Swamp
4x Deathrite Shaman
4x Delver of Secrets Flip
1x Pack Rat
2x Tasigur, the Golden Fang

>>44053677
It doesn't look terrible... Why memory lapse?

>>44053834
I don't have much money for more interesting counterspells, and I decided against the original counterspell because I wanted to mess with their card supply, as well as it's easier to cast.