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What the...!?

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I was born with a special power. Growing up, I was always stronger than all my classmates at the fighting academy.

I took part in a huge war, were I lost part of m ear, and... during the final battel, against our greatest foe, I was turned to darkness, and killed my best friend.

I stare out over the ruined city, thinking about all the things that are best in life; bein badass, motorcycles, killing, death, punk rock, skulls, darkness, hot sluts with big tits, nine inch nails, and, of course... purple.

I light up an e-cigarette, because smokers are jokers, thinking back on my fondest memory, when I killed Kevin Robinson. What a fucking poser.

I even had a snappy one liner as he lay, screaming at my feet, while his blood stained by shoes a wickid red. "Why?" He'd begged me to know.

I just kicked him in the head, snickering to myself, "Psssh... nothin personnel... kid." I'd told him. But that's enough reminescing... that shit's for megga ass-faggots, no matter how hardcore it was. I gotta jet.

I take off down the hill, got places to go....

>I’ve gotta meet my girlfriend
>I’ve gotta go kill some losers
>I’ve gotta kill my girlfriend
>Gotta meet my new best friend
>I've gotta kill my new best friend

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So my character is establishing his own thief guild in a major city, its outside the main walls in the less that prosperous areas, but it means that there is only minor competing guilds around to contend with.

Plan is to build up my forces and muscle in on the other minor guilds turfs and in the end take them over.

Due to the guilds current size aswell as a very strict and harsh law in the city, I have been focusing on providing a illegal gambling den and brothel for merchants and middleclass. Its somewhat safe and pays the bills. The laws are rather draconic so if you get caught pickpocketing you loose an arm, so anything worse or similiar activities is quite risky for a small guild.

Any suggestions for a "safe" way to get some income flowing in? I am considering fencing, loan sharking (might work well with the gambling I provide inhouse) or even a protection racket (could be risky though, having the locals turn against you)

Other than that, any other ideas is apreciated. Secret handshakes, call signs.

The other characters only think I am running a lowly tavern and would not deign themselves to drink at my establishment.

Reminds me that I have not cone up with a name for said establishment.

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I'm homebrewing my own LoZ RPG and would love some ideas from you.

Main Points:
1. Heavy focus on grid, combat-as-puzzle type of game. The GM puts the map much like A Link to the Past on the table, with moving traps, pits, switches and crates alongside foes.
1.1 Because of that, I envision a combat similar to D&D 4E, with maneuvers that pushes, slides or have AoE.
1.1.1 This maneuvers are learned through the game, either by leveling up or by sidequests.
2. Group can be of any "major" race from the franchise.
2.1 Each race is governed by a Virtue (Power, Courage, Wisdom) and each race can choose from 3 archetypes, each archetype ruled by another Virtue. So a Goron (Power) Alchemist (Wisdom) is different from a Zora (Wisdom) Guardian (Power), even though both have 1 Power and 1 Wisdom.

My main concern is that I haven't chose the resolution mechanic yet:
1. I could keep myself in the safezone, d20 (or 3d6) + modifiers vs Target Number.
2. I really wanted to do something that recalls the Triforce, so I thought off:
2.1 With 3d6, but each d6 represents one Virtue (Power, Courage, Wisdom) or;
2.2 Using d4, since its pyramidal shape remembers the shard of Triforce. This way I could go on dice pooling, one d4 for each Virtue.

I'm having doubts about skills. I could go almost freeform (call a Virtue and how it can be used to fulfill the challenge - you could use Power/Courage/Wisdom to jump a pit based on how well you can convince the GM to allow it) or allocate skills to each Virtue (Athletics to Power, History to Wisdom...).

About weapon and armor, everyone can use anything, for simplicity and since I never saw Link learning the basics of anything - only advanced maneuvers, that are already covered on the main points.

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Hey, /tg/, I'm thinking of opening a game store, but I want to do something unique, offering things that nobody else does in my area, like airbrushing supplies, not-GW games (rare as shit around here) semi-obscure terrain (laser-cut buildings are near-impossible to find without ordering online here, for example), an RPG section with all the goodies we see here all the time, a big central gaming table for everyone to use for whatever they want.
Painting workshops could be organized, Game nights for anything from Warhammer to FoW to RPGs and so on; plastic modeling could be not just limited to gaming models, but I could also offer historicals and photo-etched improvement kits, that kind of stuff. Hell, I could also offer cosplay stuff for the occasional project.

Basically, what I want to ask is what you want in your LGS? What is the ideal store that you would visit just for the pleasure of seeing all the nice stuff, meeting nice people and playing games?

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I new to Warhammer.

Do I buy metal stand or do figure come with?

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Have you ever had to do something in game that you didn't want to do out of character?

I have a pretty solid group. Been playing for years now. Like the gang quite a bit. In our current campaign, we are similarly bros, and my character genuinely believes in their character.

Then I found out from an NPC that when I was sleeping one night, they went out and committed genocide for loot. Legitimately cut the throats of every man, woman, and child in their sleep. For whatever gold they had on them. And never told a soul. I even verified the NPC's claim magically.

In character, I can't overlook this. Not morally. In fact its my public responsibility to administer the law. Obviously death is the only option. They're too powerful and too dangerous for exile- or even direct confrontation. But I'm absolutely sick about it... I believed in you guys... and I've known you long enough OOC to know you aren't That Guys... so I don't understand why... I thought I knew you.

Its just surprising because it actually upset me IRL. Like I'm genuinely sick to my stomach at the thought of killing my IC friends. One of them even spent hundreds on a present for an NPC... I don't understand.

Anybody had experiences like this?

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You encounter an inchling cavalier guarding a bridge. She demands you just for the right to pass!

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So my Dungeon Master, through several strange events, replaced my Human Fighter's right arm with one made of Black Adamantine. It's basically a blank canvas and I have no idea what to do with it. Looking for some suggestions/related experiences.

He also replaced my leg with an Umber Hulk leg. Just because he could.

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Tell me a bedtime story, Cthulhu

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So, can we get a thread for first timers or your first time gaming experiences? I'm just starting my first pnp RPG. And my god is this shit fucking confusing. I had thought "it's just imagination, can't be that hard", but holy fuck I don't know about other systems, but Pathfinder is rough. I've got feats out the ass with no idea what to pick, skills and ability points, various ways to determine ability points, it's just a mess for me. Thank god I've got a dude helping me through this shit.

And looking through character sheets for other systems, it looks just as complicated to me as this one. Pic related. It's how I was just trying to comprehend this shit. And for pathfinder I was just going by the core rulebook. Much less all the third party races, feats, and all that shit.

And people think Path of Exile is complex? Fucking character creation in this game is more complex than the entire skill tree in that game. I was spoiled by video games and I'm really fucking feeling the burn trying to get through this.

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>a person born with the ability to instantly regenerate any lost blood is discovered by the hidden vampire world

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lets get a Yu-gi-oh fan created cards thread going
ill post mine, please r8 and tell me if they are fine or broken as if they were tourny legal.
also post yours

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How do you feel when the DM uses abilities outside the rulebook?

We fought a villain who has the power to kill anything. Including concepts, such as the possibility for defeat as it pertains to him. He also killed his own death, so he was immortal, and could not kill him.