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>>43822228
Okay.. I kinda like that

>>43822228
WE GHOST BUSTERS

>>43822228
When will they release Italian States ground forces?

>>43821269
I used to think they were a crutch for bad GMs. Now that I have a lot less time on my hands, they're great. You just have to be careful that your game doesn't start going on rails

>>43821269
I fucking hate 5e but blizzard are fairly good at making adventures so there probably not to bad if you insist on playing a shit system anyway.

>>43821269
They can be restrictive, but are quite good for DMs without the time to make their own adventures or NPCs. Like people with jobs, families, and hobbies other than roleplaying.

PotA is pretty good as a dungeon crawl. I mean, it has zillions of dungeons and a fairly decent plot to tie them all together. Depending on how much you and your players like elemental-themed stuff (elemental monsters, elemental cultists, elemental spells, elemental magic items, etc. ad nauseum) you may or may not get tired of all the fire/water/air/earth related stuff. It does get a little predictable and boring after a while.

But the dungeon locations are great, with all kinds of cool combos, scenarios and NPCs in them. Ending's a bit weak IMO but YMMV.

You literally just described Android: Netrunner and similar LCGs.

>>43821527
not sure what you mean, i haven't described a game at all

>>43821795
>I want to make my own game using a standard set of cards that everyone can build a deck from (maybe 100 or so).

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>>43820782

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>>43820782
I stopped playing GW games 15 years ago.

Where I went, we did not need codizes anymore.

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>>43820782
This is my World now Ward, MY WORLD

Base your dungeons off of the corporation or institution the PCs are infiltrating.
>Japanese biotech corp
It's a giant garden shrine defended by mythological beasts.
>Heavy industry and shipping
It's a giant intelligent machine with moving parts that the PCs must manipulate to gain access to different sections.
>Arms manufacturer
It's a 1940s military bunker with code phrases and stoic virtual security troopers.

Ask them what it is they see when they jack in, work with what they give you.

Personify the sort of programs that are in the system, into 'living' entities or scenery:

Daemons that are hard to see, cleaning up things\carrying stuff around.
Warehouses full of memory, or a library, or a messy office.
Hunter-killer robots that are anti-ICE security.
A bloated mass of fat and tentacles managing all the other programs.
Trains\railguns\satelites for network communications.
Super helpful and polite UI stewards.

>Enter a system
>It's literally 4chan
What now?

Are you trying to tell me a morality system with 9 categories, in a setting that has owlbears and beholders, is unrealistic? My mind is blown!

>>43820186
>Sentient
>Has no choice over it's own morality

Those two are mutually exclusive, so no, it is not possible.

>>43820186
Probably, though I personally wouldn't bother. I prefer to leave races basically neutral and have massed generic evil mooks be such because this particular mob is, say, from a dickass organization or influenced by a dickass supernatural power.

>>43819970
they can be pretty good as a base but they will need some work there perfectly fine to play with out of the box at first though.

in fact I still use them as a basis for my decks sometimes

>>43819970
No.

Also don't start if you're not prepared for:
-hyper-competitive jackasses with a twisted sense of 'having a fun time';
-Spending 300+ on a competitive deck found on Internet and having to adapt it or scrap it and start another one entirely every other month to remain competitive, or otherwise, losing miserably every game;
-People of age 30+ who will gladly strip children of their best cards in exchange for some flashy shit;
And so on.

If you don't want to keep up with such stuff and don't have a group that plays non-competitive games for actual fun (in which case intro pack are as fine as anything else if you like the flavor), MTG might not be the game for you.

>>43820137
i was also thinking of buying the deck builders toolkit., but i think thats better to play with a balanced deck instead of builidng one from scratch.

>>43820176
i know a group which plays casual games from time to time

>>43819453
Their ability to process dopamine is still largely intact, allowing them to enjoy themselves without having to go to greater and greater lengths to feel like they matter.

>>43819487
>dropping 300$+ on lands instead of getting a tier 1 deck for 20$
>not going to great lengths

At least I get to keep Mana Leak, Elvish Mystic, Doom Blade, Ponder and a large etc :^)

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Bump

Personally I'm a fan of playing younger, more inexperienced casters, as opposed to old and wise wizards. My last wizard character was a student at a state-sponsored magic academy and got assigned to the rest of the party as an "adviser" on magical matters (the leader of the city owed the party a political favor). The character's main goal was to survive the shit the party got into and graduate magic school. Yeah, it was kind of a "boring" backstory, but it worked. Remember, the meat of the game should happen within the game itself, nobody wants to read 3 pages of stuff that supposedly happened before the game even started.

>>43819408
Well, I was mentally batting around the idea of playing a Dwarven Wizard with an insatiable thirst for exploration/knowledge. But I don't want him to seem like a snowflake kind of thing either, but I do want him to seem like an outlier to the rest of his clan.
He's the weirdo who wants to go to the surface and trample across fields, paddle a boat across lakes, and climb mountains instead of dig into them

>>43819451
Just have them plainly state, "We had differences of opinion", leave it at that, and if anyone cares enough to ask, let them.

>>43818422
Psion in a level 15 D&D 3.5 campaign.

>>43818422
Mutants and Masterminds PL 10, the one I'm in now

>>43818518
How is it going so far?

>>43818420
I don't see why not

I don't actually have lords of madness though so I don't know.

>>43818420
No.
Mouth Pick can only be applied to melee weapons.

>>43818420
Remove gazer, gazer is worst girl.

>>43818236
He let me live despite failing five save rolls in a row.

>>43818236

He let me live despite completely failing combat against a giant spider. Turns out it had paralyzing poison rather than >>43818236
any other kind.

>>43818236
The GM knew I didn't want to keep playing my character, even though I hadn't said anything. Guy reads people well.

So he put us in a situation where only I could save us and only through self sacrifice. I got to go out like a champ and start a new character I was more interested in.

>>43817835
>Generic Orks
>No Tau
>NO SISTERS
Not interested.

Kill self.

The way you see it, there's three options. One would be to wait for this fucker to just leave on his own. Another would be to try and shout him away from the comfort of your own bed, but that might let him know there's somebody actually IN the apartment.

Alternatively you could... try... to be a somewhat reasonable person and answer the door.

From there, you could decide whether or not to slam the door in their face, bite their head, or continue to put on your best impression of a sane but tired and extremely irritated person politely attempting to tell someone to fuck off without actually doing so.

>Wait him out.
>Shout through the apartment.
>Go the the door

>>43817520
>>Go the the door

Mutants and Masterminds, possibly? One sheet for your pilot and another with a higher power level for your suit?

>>43817369
Everyone would be British, for starters.

>>43817889
Also really feeling it