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>>43987344
Not a book, but Garret from the original Thief games (you can just watch them on YouTube) is perhaps the best Neutral-aligned Rogue example EVER.

He steals from people because he likes it and because it's a job, he's a wry-minded outsider who makes dry humor comments on all the hypocrisy and bullshit he sees in The City, he looks at all the various factions and their stuck-up sermonizing and recognizes their bullshit for what it is, tries not to kill people because it's sloppy and unprofessional, and occasionally saves the city and/or kills a god or two by outwitting them and stealing all their shit.

>>43987413
>you can just watch them on youtube
is the game crap or something? im looking at reviews and theyre all saying its ok. for 19.99 USD would you say its worth it?

>>43988290
Well... Do you like stealth games? Because they're not going to do anything for you if you don't like the genre to begin with. There's no cross genre appeal.
But if you do, they're pretty much the codifier for the genre and classics in their own right.
Just be a little gentle. They're old, and show their age at times.

>>43987333

Everything is better without elves.

Everything is better with Horatio.

Horatio makes everything better.

He makes things more...Horatio.

Horatio. Horatio. Horatio. Horatio. Horatio.

>>43987333
>playing a highly vain and egotistical illusionist who wakes up early in order to spend hours, multiple, each day messing around with various outfits before settling on one
Bitch, I'm fabulous.

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>>43987333
In a similar vein, would you ever want to play a campaign where your character is Horatio?
Would you ever play a campaign set in the Endless Universe? If so, which setting (The Death of Auriga? The events of Endless Space? The Crashed Ship of the Vaulters?)
Which Endless Game faction would you like to see most in your campaign? Which would you like to see least? How would your setting be affected by the introduction of one or more race/faction, such as the Harmony, Sophons or Horatio?

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Self bump because I forgot to post one of mine. I'm homebrewing a bunch of classes, for my Darkest Dungeon inspired campaign.

Occultist

>Raw Abilities:
Will 4, Health 4
>Skills:
Fighter 2, Arcanist 2, Lore Master 3, Scholar 2, Ritualist 4, Theologian 2
>Trait:
Born of Darkness — Cast out from your homeland for practicing dark rites. The pact you entered has bound you to it’s call. This tainted ancestry makes you haughty dangerous and suspect.
>Wises:
Choose one of the following: Demon-wise or Poison-wise; take a second wise of your choice.
>Starting Weapon and Armor:
Dagger and focus OR Staff
>Starting Spell:
You start with a random first circle magician spell. If Chaos, you may instead invoke one first circle Chaos prayer.
>Weapons/Armor:
You may wield daggers, staves and short swords, but wear no armour.

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Also dumping pdfs because why not.

Starting with the new death rules.

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Town Sheet pdf

>>43987160
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>>43987160
>>"Kindly ask it to stop."
Because the cats are morons and probably never thought to ask.

>>43987160
>>"Kindly ask it to stop."
>>"What is that slamming sound every time it goes in?"

goddamn it cat land

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>>43987072

“Your previous method of entry was unorthodox,” Zahn tells you. “This should provide a smoother transition, should you find the need to return. Take heed: it will only admit those properly initiated into the Totemist's Pact.”

You accept the rock with a grateful bow.

>>[[Artifact Obtained: Azeo Sicros Portal Stone.]]

The Archway hums to life once more at Zahn's side. You can see the seams of reality beginning to unravel within its depths.

> Depart. You should get back to Grisoch.
> “About the pact...” (Write-in)
> “Before I go, I have a question about Azeo Sicros.” (Write-in)
> Write-in

---
You are Osyki, journeyman Totemist and first line of defense for your village against the rabid Behemoths wandering the land. Your master, the previous Totemist, fell in a battle against a terrible Behemoth, leaving the duty of defending your settlement to you. You have returned home to Grisoch after a lengthy trip abroad. After stepping beyond the veil surrounding your workshop you have met and treated with Hesheza Zahn, the spirit of the first Totemist. Now you depart his sanctum for home.

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Quest Twitter: @TotemistQuest]]

>>43987094
> “Before I go, I have a question about Azeo Sicros.” (Write-in)
"You said Ayren took one of the Forge's tools. What was it? It may turn out to be in one of the caches he left behind."

>>43987094
>> Depart. You should get back to Grisoch.

>>43986873
>How do you make mazes fun for players instead of just immensely tedious?
I would also like to know this.

The only realy way is if your players are just into it, and know what to expect.

Have outside portions of the maze, and lots of variety inside, as in not just stone walls and floors the whole way

Also if they dont map it as they go, they will never enjoy it

>>43987416
This.
One of my ideas was a sanitarium of sorts, with the corridors twisted and blocked by the insanity of the residents, and some rooms scattered with mini-bosses that are supernaturally representative of their mental diseases.

Well considering that a basic epic scale space marine battle company clocks in at just over 1000 points and that their transports are all included in that price for free, AND that a typical game of Epic is anywhere from 2000 to 5000 points... You'd need to
A) be a drug dealer to pay for all your plastic crack and
B) Have an additional house to use the floorspace as a gaming table.

>>43987081
>A) be a drug dealer to pay for all your plastic crack and
>B) Have an additional house to use the floorspace as a gaming table.
Regular 40K is getting there.

>>43986845
You do not have enough space for that, sorry.
If you try to cram it all on a regular size table you end up having the same problem 40k has.

But let us say you did, I think it would be a "fast play" way to enjoy apocalypse games.

>>43986596
You and Sebastian stay stock still as silence greets your response. Seconds seem like hours until finally...

"Roger, all sectors. All sectors clear for old Mother Goose."

You two wait a while longer, but there's nothing from the house or anything else to indicate you've been had.

>That was too much. Kill them now.
>We wanted to interrogate them. Let's do it. [Make suggestions]
>General Write in

>>43986712
>>That was too much. Kill them now.

>>43986712
>That was too much. Kill them now

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>>43986517

As usually we need to go over a bit of obligatory paperwork. It's amazing how often contractors forget what can and can't be requested from the depot.

Make sure you familiarize yourself with the information on the left.

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>>43986594
We'll be assaulting the high ground so we need to hit hard and hit fast.

Command is supplying mechs from Landsknecht Heavy Industries and Exo Terra for the mission.

Feel free to load them out however you like, all expenses are covered so don't worry about price.

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>>43986660
Supplementary equipment from GGA, Exo Terra, Apex and LHI is also available for use.

Mount what you think is needed and again; don't worry about the cost.

>cont

>>43979197
>What supplements are you talking about exactly?
What do you mean? If you're referring to 1e then I'll take any and all. If you mean supplements ported to 2e, there are a lot, starting with Plundered Vaults but including many others. IIRC the main campaign is from 1e

>>43981165
I'm not certain that Night Goblins employ Doom Divers considering that they're a subterannean race and DD rely on wide open spaces. If you're including those then you'll have to find a fluff reason. You could even say that this is a NG warband that's moved to the surface on a raid and started accumulating surface knowledge/gobbos. That could leave you open to including savage orcs or other such units in small numbers later on.

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>>43981389
On top of the expense and rarity of health potions they, like all other potions, have a fairly high chance of doing nothing or even proving fatal.

My group does not have anyone with the Heal skill or any kind of magic so they rely on Shallyans and physicians. I made a home rule that just because you've been sewed up does not mean you're healed, so even though you regain the wounds you're still in danger of ripping your stitches and losing the wounds again if you do anything too drastic. Plus I use a fan-made supplement called Herbalism and Pharmacy in the Old World which has great rules for infections, which are something the party has to test for every time they're healed, modified of course by the environment and circumstances.

Thus far they're really really paranoid about getting injured.

Depends on the setting.

>>43985977
I'd go with intent. It's about a characters core beliefs and motivations. Public opinion is just opinion. Just because no one knows you burnt down that orphan doesn't mean you're not evil.

I'd go with intent.

A very evil person might have wanted to do a very bad thing but can mess up so badly that he actually saves millions of lives from a bigger imminent threat. Like wise, actions of a saintly, but a very rigid person, in his zealous quest to destroy true evil could decimate the whole world. This should all be a part of a great story.

As alignments go, about which we don't talk about too much for a reason, I surmise that lawful/chaotic should reflect one's attitude towards organized society, while good/evil should gauge one's empathy with pure evil being compared to a dedicated sadist.

So if you go and rescue a starving homeless guy on the street...Congratulations! You preformed a good deed! You can continue on, blissfully unaware and in line with your character preforming many other good deeds, never learning that in fact you saved a dangerous murderer who would, in the following days kill thousands of innocent civilians.

There is no divine alignment Geiger meter that would kick in a few days later, when the massacre occurred beeping "DANGER! YOUR ALIGNMENT IS SHIFTING TOWARDS CHAOTIC/EVIL", and you screaming: "Why!? All the deeds I've done are good! What did I do wrong?"

Although the spell "Detect Evil" mechanically only tests alignment, it, in actuality, attempts to find evil intent.

>>43985969
>Alice

>>43985969
>Johnathan Hosser

>>43985969
>Adam Cartright

>>43985791

there are really not enough civs happening at the moment. what happened to ghouls?

also, am i the only eurofag interested?

>>43985993
I'm not sure.

>>43985615
All of the Emporer's to be destroyed

>>43985683
No Abby, you've been a bad boy. You'll only find warp stone in your powersocks in the morning

>>43985615
GLORY TO THE GOD EMPEROR OF MANKIND!!!!

>>43985588
Nice doubles.
Never used it as a setting, but it opens up a wide variety of possibilities and could be used in just about any system for any angle.
Band of prison-free fighters on a quest to kill shit? Sure.
Sleuths searching for the source of the rubbery men? Sure.
Stealing shit? But of course.
Bandaged gentlemen looking for their next target and wooing them at a ball? Got it covered.
Shit for the masters, always an option.

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>>43985738
>>43985588
I think Blades in the Dark might be what you are looking for. Attached is one of the early versions.

>>43985588
I've been in a play-by-post game once, technically still am. It's on infinite hiatus, though.
We used FATE, which works well, but it isn't all that mechanically interesting to me.

I would probably just use Paranoia. It's easy enough to adapt, as chaotic and opaque to the player as the Neath, you can keep most of the cheap death and conspiracy stuff, and the players don't need to prepare.