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I hate to break it to you but I don't think there's a game for this specific concept. I'd recommend a light-hearted generic superheroes system, like Mutants and Masterminds.

I hope you end up doing this and having a blast, because that sounds like a badass campaign.

Reign

Have you taken a look at GURPS?

>>43831433
I posted some FAQ comments on the tail end of the last thread which I'm pretty sure got missed, so here's a repost.

Not bad, I can think of a few areas that need work.

- Emphasise near the beginning that Crusade Legions is a different army from 40K Marines in a similar way to different non-Codex chapters, or the two types of Eldar. Certain models can be exchanged between these similar and related groups but the majority should keep in their own lists. This needs spearheading into the naive audience so they'll take the time to read the specifics (take rhinos, don't take Mk 7) in the small print, whereas they can easily skip the understated point at the moment. We're talking people that can have an answer five times in a thread and miss it.

- I have maybe once, maybe never seen someone actually discuss homebrew legions. It might have come up as a point of conversation but not the centrepiece. I've not seen any newbies talking about it either. Seeing that near the top of the FAQ might give some of them the wrong impression, so I'd remove that.

- The financial aspect is tangential to the winnowing of newcomers in these threads. The saving presented by Battle of Calth is what has drawn so many new guys here, but not the reason why people who have been around longer are testing and poking them. The answer is that people are making lazy and frivolous assumptions about the game and system that we didn't make when we took interest. The first thing we did was look up the rules, take some downloads, pour over the changes in the system and read a few summaries on 1d4chan or elsewhere. We didn't get involved in the conversation until we knew what Volkite meant or why Rites of War were such a big deal. There's an attitude among a vocal segment of the new crowd that thinks it IS the conversation, and that's cancer for a general thread. To all the non-vocal newcomers who are researching and learning before they talk, good on you. You're goodposters.

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>>43831433
- "But I don't like Forgeworld" should be it's own question, and the answer should be tough. Forgeworld is the reason why everything about 30K is good - models, rules for fun, rules for balance, fluff, presentation, tone - and the reason why many of us are here instead of 40K. If you're interested in the Horus Heresy as just another avenue of 40K, you'll have to adapt, and that includes stuff like prices. Forgeworld is crucial to 30K and if your first reaction is "Ugh but why", 40K is the game for you.

- People aren't asking what units are good/strong/cheap. Furthermore the excellent advantage of 30K over 40K is that it's much more balanced within itself, and this should be stressed before any other response on balance. Lastly, there are very specific duff units that aren't worth taking in 30K, and linking to an entire complete army analysis doesn't help this. Duff units should be listed in the FAQ precisely because people don't read the long summary or think about prices and values before they pick their units - then they expect them to be at least equal to other armies and get a nasty surprise, 3 large units of Justaerin suck balls.

So this is the better question: "I'm not looking too heavily at the rules before I get into this but I don't want an army that completely sucks/is unsalvageable, are there any units I should avoid?". We then list Justaerin, Recon Squads, Company Champions and so on.

With those adjustments, the FAQ will be perfect.


And on an irrelevant note:

>>43829291
Those gay faces, who the fuck is GW appealing to now?

Why don't marketers realise that if you don't appeal to the core group that made a company, they leave?

USE GOOGLE BEFORE YOU ASK YOUR QUESTION UNLESS IT'S AN ADVANCED QUESTION

>>43831422
Do you even tuckers kobolds?

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Make your DMPC the main protagonist of the story

>>43831422
Make the first handful of sessions really good. Get everyone's hopes up, appear dedicated and like you intend to see the game through to the end. Then start cancelling sessions. Run less and less often. Eventually just leave the players hanging and stop running entirely.

>>43831239
Benjamin Mcwalsh

>>43831239
Liam Matherson.

>>43831239
Sonny Valentine

>>43831031
>What weapons does your fighter bring when he goes to battle?

Sass.

Pally> sword, shield
Fighter> polearm of some kind
Barbarian> dual axe

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>>43831181

Rolled 1, 4 - 2 = 3 (2d6 - 2)

yes sir

Rolled 1, 2 + 2 = 5 (2d6 + 2)

>>43830913
Fixed

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>>43830913
About fucking time they fixed that glitch. A month ago it wouldn't have shown the total output!

Oh, what the fuck- is that a 3? This piece of shit "PLANET" is probably no bigger than Mercury. Surface gravity approximately one-quarter Earth standard... are you shitting me? Less than five thousand kilometers diameter. Great, we found a fucking space rock.

Well, we're here to scout this piece of shit, let's do it. I need an atmosphere scan. Command code is dice+2d6-4.

>>43830601
Depends on which ORE you mean.
Wild Talents is just all around insane with custom power building and Better Angels comes close with it's over the top super villiany.
Reign has it's magic and martial paths/esoteric disciplines which do all sorts of crazy stuff.
Monsters and Other Childish Things has it's monsters.
A Dirty World is very not insane but it's a detective noir thing so not made for insane anyway.

Even sticking to pretty generic ORE rules and sort of abillity that gives you "(action) doesn't lose dice for performing it multiple times" is fairly crazy in a system where splitting actions lowers the pool per action attempted and you can suddenly use every set in a full roll as an attack/dodge/whatever

>>43831648
I meant in regards to dice economy. If we have Mr. Demigod who has 20 dice on an action from his pile of bonuses, how does he burn through the 10 dice that he can't roll in the pool? Even he can only perform at most five simultaneous actions(if he gets five pairs).

>>43831891
Penalties subtract form extra dice first, so someone with a pool of twenty dice can perform at full capacity under some truly insane conditions.

For context, it's a high-powered supers game where the player characters and all other supers are average schmoes who are suddenly given the chance to slowly accrue godlike power, but none of them have any idea what to do with it. This will become relevant soon.
I killed a player character tonight.
And not just "Oh, you're dead but they can resurrect you/your immortality kicks in during the funeral and it gets wacky!"
Like actually 100% dead for realsies, no take-backs.
I'm a bit angry.
Partly at him, but also at myself. I'm normally a very lenient DM, because I work with players who are more interested in narrative than crunch.
So, he has an alien symbiote that gives him new powers in response to situations.
He noticed that it gives him new abilities especially when it feels threatened.
So he started putting himself in ever more dangerous situations.
Some of them were reasonable, and worked.
Some of them...
He teleported to 10,000ft and hoped he could develop the power of flight.
When he realised it wasn't working, he tried to teleport away, flubbed the roll, and hit the ground at terminal velocity.

That wasn't what killed him.
The alien symbiote makes him tough as nails.
He broke most of his bones and spent several hours unconscious trying not to die.
The symbiote healed him up, and he eventually managed to teleport away and he started recovering at abnormal speed because of his symbiote.
So today he declared he "wanted to teleport to the turtle the elephants that carry the world stand on."
And I was like "You know this is Earth, right?"
Yes, he assured me, he did.
"You know that the Earth isn't on elephants or turtles, right?"
He assured me he did.
"Your character knows this, right?"
He assured me his character was aware of this.
"You know what's really under the Earth, right?"
He nodded.
"Instead of being a flat disk with a turtle under it, it's a sphere. To be underneath it, you'd be well inside the planet."
He grinned like an idiot.
"Are you going ahead with this?"
Yes, he assured me, he was.
"You teleport to the closest analogue to your intended destination and proceed to eat shit in billions of tons of molten iron. You are dead. Congratulations. What did you fucking expect was going to happen?"

I made it clear in previous sessions that while this setting has the capability to be fun and goofy, it is ultimately a game of childish and capricious gods who have no idea what they're doing, and awful horrible no good very bad things will happen around them and to them, and if they intentionally make fucking terrible choices, those awful horrible no good very bad things will happen right the fuck to them extremely hard.

Am I the asshole here?

some kind of battery with infinite energy

boom handheld world destroyer

>>43830535
If it explodes, the moment you heard or felt the explosion, the matter/energy of that explosion would cease to exist.

Though using it as a fuel cell might work so long as the energy were contained and transformed first... explosive energy would be out, but contained, steady stream power might work.

>>43830484
Wait, so it's when people touch it, or when anything touches it?

Couldn't I create an engine that combusts infinitely and never produces any waste product and use it to instantly solve a huge amount of problems for humanity?

>>43830481
>Why even bother living?
we don't

if we had lives we would be here on 4chan

>>43830481
What is this game?

>>43830481
Feels good man. Earth is a better setting.

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You're really not so certain about all of this.

Une's been in the group for all of a couple days, and already she's being sent on a mission with you and Leigh. You're just... Going to keep your mutual distances, though. For all that's wrong with her, you're reasonably confident she won't start any shit. If anything, you're more worried about Leigh making your opinions very clear.

"Ah," Kneil says to your new coworker's Bael as Une brings it out, "is this thing tame? My man here and I once encountered a settlement in the Noba-Tordo border mountains that rode wild bael..."

"What're you asking questions for, pretty boy?" Une asks him somewhat snappily.

"My man means no disrespect," Tomnus explains, "he is simply in awe of your unusual mount, and wished share an anecdote about it."

"You talk funny," Une remarks in return.

"...so we do!" The friends both say at once, sharing laughter.

Yone, chuckling while standing by Calof, asks the three of you, "aren't they just a riot?"

Calof just sort of blinks in response, not sure what to say.

Yancy and Yulea are still getting their horses ready, as an aside.

>A. Hilarious (sarcastic)
>B. Hilarious (not sarcastic)
>C. You guess?
>D. Not your style of humor
>E. Write-in response
>F. Be silent

>>43830436
Vote time renewed.

>>43830436
>D. Not your style of humor

I usually see morning stars and maces being used by clerics and warrior priests in fantasy settings. The whole "it's okay if I murder people so long as I'm not using a sharp weapon" thing that originated in the crusades seems to be a pretty common trope in fantasy settings.

Maces are common as long as they aren't gimped by the ruleset

>>43829975
wait that is a thing. i just thought it was because a mace is simple to use compared to a sword

>>43829693

YOO SHULD KALLZ IT "MAKROZZ"

>>43829693
>we can paint it all red ta make it da zippienst too!
Next game I play that can conceivable have a paint shop in it.
I would like an Ork to be running the place, and making coloring suggestions.

>>43829733
>I would like an Ork to be running the place, and making coloring suggestions.
>all his suggestions are green or red

>>43829286
That depends entirely on how any times you have failed to return their dice in the past.

>>43829286
See that incomplete set? That's why. No way I'd let someone handle my dice after losing some from a set like that.

>that picture
Every time I begin to wonder if autism is real, I can always turn to /tg/

>>43829276

This room, part of the vast Temple complex, and one of the many rooms you have never seen before, is dark save for a few candles lit around the room. Resting in meditation is Master Duon. When you enter he speaks out, "Approach, Disciple."

You draw closer and sit before him on both knees, resting on your heels. He stands and looks over you. You have only seen Master Duon once, and he is just as tall and intimidating as he was those years ago. His beard is sharp and bushy like a plant, and his eyes are constantly ablaze with an inner fire.

"It has been many years since you arrived, Disciple. Tell me, are you happy here?" You nod, and answer, "Of course, Master." He nods in return and asks.

"Disciple Yao, what do you wish to do once you become a Monk?" Your heart picks up in its beating, though you struggle to keep it restrained.

>A) I want to become a Pilgrim, travelling the world and defending the common man.

>B) I want to become a Guardian, defending this temple that I love so much.

>C) I want to become a Master, achieving new levels of understanding of the Path.

>D) I want to become a Consular, serving and protecting the nobles of this land.

>C) I want to become an Exorcist, hunting down the wicked Yaoguai.

>>43829288
E

I'm pretty amped about this quest.

>>43829288
>>A) I want to become a Pilgrim, travelling the world and defending the common man.