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More of a brown-tinted gust than a shitstorm.

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>>Time: Rewind

>You lost 0.00 C. EXP

“Oy, oy! Dammit Takashi, wake the hell up! Fucking hell, are you even listening to me?”

You hear the sound of fingers snapping. Then the rough movements of hands grasping the scruff of your next and shaking you about.

“Um, Akikazu, I think that’s enough. He’s awake now.”

“Who’s awake?” You gasp out.

“You are!” Akikazu snarls.

“To elaborate, Takashi-kun, you stopped in the middle of the road and fell into a trance.” Celeste explains. “You were stuck like that for fifteen minutes. We were getting kinda worried. So we tried to snap you out of it.”

You groan and stretch your arms. For some reason, your body feels unnaturally stiff. Then you notice it. “Why is there dirt down my back?”

“That was me.” Akikazu replies, without an ounce of apology. You glare at him. “Don’t give me that look! You were the one who went AWOL on us. Aren’t you supposed to be our leader?”

“Leader, huh…”

“So, what were you daydreaming about?” Celeste asks.

“I was…” There are images clouding around the insides the brain and they disappearing, fast. You try to grab hold on one of them. You fail. It’s like trying to spot a particular oxygen atom in the vast sky. “I don’t know…”

You do know this. Whatever those dreams were about, they weren’t anything good.

“Where are we going next?” Akikazu asks.

“The r—no, middle path.” You mutter. “Yeah, that sounds good.”

“Are you sure you’re feeling alright?” Celeste asks. “It’s not too late to turn back. There’s still eight more days on the clock.”

"It's pointless to go on if he's sick or whatever." Akikazu grumbles.

“No, I’m fine.” You give Celeste a reassuring smile. Even though she’s been by your side this entire trip, you seem particularly glad to hear her voice again. Same with Akikazu. “Let’s go.”

As usual, Shadows impede your progress. The team deals with them. How does it go?

>Roll 3d20 (Status, Macca, Loot)
>Best out of three.

Rolled 3, 12, 13 = 28 (3d20)

>>43920691

HERE COMES THE PAIN

Old Thread >>>>>43858922

"But why GURPS?"

1) The splatbooks/worldbooks are universally written by people who know what they're talking about. The Fantasy book is written by archaeologists and historians, the Space book is written by astrophysicists, the Guns book is written by gun experts, etc. The factual mistakes are few and far between, and almost always acknowledged later. They give great advice on how to make believable worlds, how FTL affects society, how magic changes warfare, how real supernatural elements change secret societies... or how to ignore all realism and make whatever setting you want in a way that players can't take advantage of. They're great reads, even if you don't use the system.

2) GURPS has rules to handle anything. You don't need to use them all (why bother with rules for asphyxiating in a vacuum in a game about biker gangs?) but they're there. So if a game doesn't go where you expect, and your party of adventurers buy a wagon and start managing a merchant caravan company, there are books to support that style of play in a systemic way, integrated with the core rules in a way that makes sense. This also makes it great for crazy blends of game. Dungeonpunk with automatic firearms? Yes.

3) GURPS by default uses "heroic realism". This is when the odds on the heroes' sides but reality doesn't bend for them. Two bullets will knock a human unconscious (but not immediately kill him - this is fairly realistic) but hitting a moving target more than 100m away in a firefight is hard as hell. It suits games that go for a realistic or gritty feel and gives a break from the slightly cartoony damage sponges in games like D&D but can be customised with optional rules to change the feel from "Fuck You, There Are No Heroes and the World is Shit" right up to "The Heroes are Good and Always Triumph Over Evil". Incidentally, what makes it heroic realism also makes it the best game on the market to play a game about Operators Operating Operationally.

Suppose I take DF templates and cut some attributes, like it was done in the 'DF on the Cheap, down to 100 points total. Assuming players won't necessarily raise the attributes back to their 250p counterpart (when they get enough points), will there be any issues (balance-wise or similar)? So there will be a 250p barbarian, but instead of 17ST he will have 15ST+some advantages/perks/higher skills.

I just want a dungeon crawl lower in points, and I don't want to use Henchmen. And I will be using community Bestiary, not DF Monsters.

>>43922281
I don't think that's the best route, at least not universally. While high attributes and the universal competency they produce are certainly a target for reduction, don't ignore stupidly high skill levels and expensive advantages.

Maybe use the multi classing lens with a base template? ST and IQ 10, DX and HT 11, the 25-point lens, then 20 more points designated for attributes of the player's choosing and the remaining 25 points towards whatever they feel their PC still needs.

The safest and easiest bet is to just use a pre-existing codex and add 'flavour text'.

For Skaven, I'd recommend using IG. Shitload of conscripts. Tanks can be the stats you use for Screaming Bell/Doom Wheel.

>>43920134
Ratlings or if you want to get interesting use the 30k Cults and Militia army list.

>>43920134
not sure if ruse... anyway, count as Tau

My most recent character was an Arch Master of Time and Fate who was on the verge of Ascension at Gnosis 10.

So just Magnus 2.0 I guess.

>>43920024

I dident read the fluff, was he suposed to be jesus at one point in time? I know he was suposed to be alot of leaders over the years.

>>43920024
Omegon

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Taking a seat on Charlotte's massive king-size bed, I try my best not to be too obvious in my admiration of the sight of Charlotte in her underwear as she walks over to the dresser.

"You don't have to wait for me to get done here, you know," Charlotte says as she picks her phone up from where I left it. "I'll get back to you after I call back home."
"It's fine," I reply, shaking my head. "Just pretend like I'm not here."

I'm also just a little bit exhausted from all the exertion I've done today (both good and bad) but I think I'll keep that to myself.


>ask the charlotte to put it on speakerphone
>don't interrupt the lady

>>43920015
>ask the charlotte to put it on speakerphone
It does kind of concern us.

>>43920015
>>don't interrupt the lady

Its kind of the same as SS13 and Elder Scrolls being on here.


That is to say, I have no idea.

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>>43919736
Because /tg/ fetishizes dwarfs and DF is needlessly complicated, yes, it will always belong. Dare not mention the unholy intersection of minecraft and dwarf fortress, though.

Of course dorf fort is /tg/. Anyone who says otherwise both sucks cocks and is wrong.

Fiasco.

>>43919681
None. If they're a buncha post-hippy stoners, they fail at everything they attempt anyhow.

>>43919755
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>>43919496

Right now I'm just fucking around, setting up the star map and such~

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>>43919525

They're a dime a dozen nowadays.

>>43919142
Meh. Fantasy is heroic, horror is not. You can have horror flavored fantasy, although Victorian steampunk appears more popular atm. But fantasy flavored horror? Scifi flavored horror is a more natural fit.

I know Ravenloft, I wouldn't call it good. Played it to death when that Photoshop Dracula came out.

There's Invictus, but beyond the Mythos stuff it really tries to portray Roman times historically accurate - not really fantasy.

>>43919142
Does Hellboy count? I feel it'd be a great setting to play in.

MTGO prices are kept cheap due to a constant source of drafting pouring cards into the market. This on top of one player only ever needing 4 of a single card to fit all of their decks means that prices will always be way cheaper than paper Magic.

Pucatrade is also pretty useless now that fakes have begun to circulate their way into the market.

>>43918769
I think fakes only truly affect high value rares. It's not like $5 rares are being faked at high enough rates to drive prices down or anything. They'll just make fake FoWs.

>>43918809
True, but the biggest advantage of pucca trade was trading up your standard stuff and low cost cards into legacy staples and opening you to a wider potential of people willing to trade those staples rather than the 1 dude at your FLGS

>>43918677
Once had a player who was VERY into the setting, asking questions about how societies and religions worked, about how things tangentially related to the plot worked, because he wanted his character to act as if he had grown up in the world. He helped me drag the other players from playing nothing but PF and D&D into playing other games like DH and stuff.

He also brought food & drinks all the time.

I miss you, Greg.

>>43918677
I got a guy who bring free beer to every rogue trader session. He's a swell individual.

A GM of mine had a 3.5 houserule that there was a limit on the number and total power of enchantments you could heap onto one unit at once. As you approached that limit, the likelihood of unforseen side effects increased. It really did a lot to help balance things out.

>>43918436
Summoned creatures of all types disappear, standard ones (everything not summoned) just keeps functioning (though you'd have to be a retarded Lich to stick around in an Anti-Magic field).

Though, of course, depends on the DM and Setting.

>>43918436
I would make it to where regular undead are destroyed. Intelligent undead would act as if they were turned by the caster. Liches are made of special dm magic so are unaffected.

>>43918436
I.T. D.E.P.E.N.D.S O.N. T.H.E. S.E.T.T.I.N.G.

Hypocrisy and bending things to suit your needs regardless of whether it makes sense or not is practically a universal trait of any REAL religion.

So yes, you could do it. It wouldn't even be hard to justify, just make up some imaginary reason why the imaginary rules don't apply anymore.

>Tips fedora

>>43918406
You seem lost. Try >>>/his/

What you could do is say, and attempt to either convert her or turn her into a servant adherent to the Lord. Failing that, you could say that by making her your wife, you are effectively pinning her down and preventing her from her foul pagan practices and spreading the pagan faith. Basically containment.

Either way, you are pacifying and conquering her through marriage and faith (though I'm not sure it could be a proper "marriage" since it wouldn't be fit in the eyes of God). Or with your dick, though that would be frowned upon.

This thread is aligned Lawful Suck.

I usually describe it to new players as Good/Evil = Selfless/Selfish and Law/Chaos = Honorable/Dishonorable. It seems to get the idea across pretty clearly.

Good and evil are the ends, law and chaos are the means by which you achieve those ends.

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>>43918392
Alignments are fucking retarded. You can't boil all the complexities of human behavior down into a nice 3x3 grid and expect it to actually work in any kind of way that isn't going to reveal how poorly designed and autismal your system is.

4/10 because I'm pretty sure this was bait to begin with.

>>43918351
Passion for your hobby is always autistic unless it is socially acceptable.

>Sports
Okay
>Model Trains
Weirdo

>>43918351
Personally, I'd start with a base concept; you CAN frame it from a contemporary religious perspective, but most people, in today's world, would sniff out the religion in question pretty quick and then you're drowning in either Religion-fags or Atheist-fags.

But that's besides the point. Start from a point of philosophical interest: did the GOD create the world, or did the WORLD (in a manner of speaking) create the god? The former is useful for omnipotent gods, the latter, for limited ones.

>>43918645
Intredasting

Like the difference between Greek and Norse legends about chaos breeding the Gods vs Semitic creator deities