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Hair being a magical focus is a pretty common idea in fiction, especially those that involve curses.

In Vance's The Miracle Workers, almost all of the jinxman take extreme care to make sure that they don't allow one of their hairs to be lost, by either wearing caps or shaving themselves bald, since even a single hair is a powerful focus for casting curses using hoodoo.

In D&D, one example of the use of hair is that it is a requirement for the spell Simulacrum, which creates a duplicate of the creature.

>>43773628
Compared to most other skin, hair actually has an excellent blood supply, meaning at any given time hair can contain a short record of the blood and consumption of a person within a recent range.
For settings that use blood as a type of identification, hair makes a quick, relatively subtle substitute.
And as >>43773823 stated, hair is a common focus in curses throughout myth.
In fact, a caster having possession of a lock of hair gives a target a massive -10 penalty to saves against the Scrying spell in 5th edition.

>The world is covered in ancient paths that never need to be maintained

That they have some sort of monster that shits out paved roads?

>>43773586

What if the road is alive and ever-shifting?

Because memes

>>43773551
It's because they are popular

I think it's less that ppl hate Ultramarines and more that ppl hate Matt Ward. Personally I love their Roman theme, and I also love Guilliman cuz he's actually not that strong physically but is overall a good dude and the only Primarch I would wanna be friends with.

Also Invictarus Suzerains in 30k are awesome.

>>43773376
>GM narrating how gifted the dragon is

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>>43773393

Doesn't that happen in person, either? I'm not looking to *play* on IRC. Just hang out.

>>43773175
Right now I'm working on a world where the three major races come down to dragon-like desert people, bipedal beetles, and essentially really slim yeti's.

The dragon people are held up in large cities across the northern desert and can rapidly cool themselves down by breathing fire. They also have some pretty neat steam tech that abuses how fucking hot it is where they live.

The beetles are mostly barbarian tribes with a few major cities across the central expanse of the world. They can't fly, but can use their wings to quickly dash from place to place. They have the lowest tech level and are more akin to the common notion of how Mongolian tribes worked.

The tundra to the south west doesn't allow much for the way of the yeti-like people to do much tech wise, but they are able to use some magic to turn the ice and snow into their little villages and way-points across the snowfields. They enjoy their isolation as it gives them a chance to focus on their own Buddhist-like culture.

There's also a great jungle expanse to the east, but I have yet to fully do up the sentient creatures there. Same with a vampire-like species to the western islands.

>>43773175

Yep. In my world there are only giants and elves left after the goddess killed herself to save her world from the beings between the stars.
Today the corrupted giants, ancestors of the titans that ate the bbts, try to release them from their prisons that are guarded by the elves.

>>43773175
Yeah it had _______ponies_______

>>43773154
Twilight 2013.

>>43773154

Rogue Trader

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Sadly I never played any tabletop RPG because absolutely no one played RPGs in 40 mile radius. I think I could pull it of online but no microphone and shit.
I am here for the meems

Everything about magic is garbage.

Its business model, its term bloat, its constantly changing rules, its broken card pool, its flawed resource gain for play. Pretty much everything about it is bullshit by most modern gaming standards but people still cling to it because they are familiar with it even though it is a shit game.

The same way people only really associate board games with garbage like Life, Monopoly, and the like. Those games are shit, just shit we are familiar with and they taint the overall opinion that games have on others.

If you play MtG, you are contributing to cancer.

>>43772958
You seem upset

It really only affects EDH, since legend rule interactions in constructed and limited rarely come up.

It's annoying in EDH though since combined with the changes to how tucking affects generals it's become really annoying to deal with really dicks generals like Rafiq or Azami. I get the idea was to make sure that guy playing Omnath and 99 forests wouldn't get immediately hosed, but it's given already good generals even more survivability.

>>43772883
>How would the supernaturals fare in a Fallout/Wasteland style world?
I'm interested to see what new Vampire Bloodlines we'd get.

In a post-nuclear apocalypse world, there are at least three more Zeka.

>>43773277
heh. and one of them is a construct made from the divine fire settling in a pile of wood and metal that had someone shadow Burned into it.

His name is Mandus.

here but woke up late

>>43772856
hey how are you doing? guess we'll wait for a bit to see if anyone else shows up.

What are you reading now that Overlord is up to date and no more volumes are out yet?

>>43772929
>What are you reading now that Overlord is up to date and no more volumes are out yet?
nothing really just watching old movies

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>>43772453
“So, who all are we dealing with here?” you ask, craning your head to spot anyone nearby who may be listening in.

“Kurosaki, Arisawa, Yasutora, Ishida, and Ganju,” Yoruichi explains succinctly, allowing you to work out that the fifth name is likely Shiba Ganju. So she did get help from your sister... you hope that won't come back to bite the Shiba in your collective ass later. Yoruichi's involvement in this whole mess can be written off by the Shihōin clan in the event that damage control becomes necessary later, but the more Shiba get involved the less able Kaoru will be to do the same.

Three comets, but five names... that means that someone's alone.

“Yasutora is the one who is alone,” Yoruichi informs you, seemingly guessing by the look on your face what you were considering. “Your one-time student Arisawa is with Ishida.”

“That's good,” you nod. “Between the two of them, they should be fine. Where do you reckon Yasutora came down?”

“I taught them how to hide their reiatsu,” Yoruichi admits, “so they may be difficult to locate that way. I'd imagine that when it's someone like Yasutora, thought, we'll be getting reports about him all day long.”

"Why's that?" you ask Yoruichi quizzically.
>2/4

>>43772479
>August 3rd, shortly after sunrise
>8th Division territory

Yasutora Sado steps over the body of an unconscious shinigami, one of the handful who seem to have been stationed nearest where he fell after the cannonball designed by Shiba Kūkaku exploded. It seems he's alone for now.

The giant young man stoops low over his opponent, carefully examining his frame and uniform before glancing down at his own clothing: jeans and a tank top.

“Too small,” he determines, leaving the man where he fell. Someone would probably be along to collect him eventually.

Yasutora begins running towards a large, oddly shaped hill in the distance with a tower adjacent to it. He sticks to the alleyways where he can, and when he encounters one of the many dead-ends scattered around the neighborhoods of the Seireitei he merely punches his way through the obstacles.

If Ichigo is after someone named Rukia, who was apparently taken prisoner by the shinigami, he'll be trying to find her. And that hill and tower look like the execution grounds mister Yoruichi mentioned. So if Ichigo is trying to find this Rukia person, that's where he'll go. If he wants to meet up with Ichigo and the others, then that's where he should be going.

“I apologize,” the powerful boy mutters as he steps through a hole in yet another wall, “to whoever ends up repairing these walls.”
>3/4

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>>43772522
“So it seems one of the invaders has been encountered on Eighth Division's turf?” you ask, looking up from the brief written report Mirai has brought you, interrupting your morning coffee.

"That didn't take long."

“Yes, ma'am,” she bows slightly. “At least, they believe so based on the number of walls that have been mysteriously destroyed there.”

At the same time, you can tell there's trouble brewing elsewhere in the Seireitei even as your second pot of coffee bubbles away merrily across the room. A large number of spiritual powers are in the midst of a battle, with any individuals among them almost impossible to distinguish from here. It's entirely possible that one or more of Ichigo's group are being engaged there. Yoruichi, who has been lazily splayed across your desk, seems to perk her ears up as she feels the clash as well.

>I'll go investigate. Maybe I can tell where that invader is heading.
>There's a large engagement going on. I want you and Kai to investigate.
>Head out to the 8th Division. I'll see what that other fight is all about.
>Other?

If this isn't bait, which I'm sure it is, just use a mixture of World of Darkness and Vampire: The Requiem rules. They're both White Wolf publications, designed to work together, and more story-driven, which is likely to appeal to people interested in Twilight.Humans can easily take out a vampire as long as they're resourceful enough, and if its just *one* vampire, or if they happen to have special anti-vampire weapons.

>>43772457
Not bait, I wish it was.

And the only way I can think they could kill one is tricking it into a building and firestorming it.

>>43772421
You could always try GURPS, it's pretty good for modern-day games. Would also give your players many vampire-killing capabilities if you delve into High Tech a bit. Like silver tipped incendiary bullets.

I haven't played Bloodborne and I know next to nothing about it, but the answer is Lamentations of the Flame Princess.

>>43772208
This is probably actually correct.

>PC release: never

Firefly and Cowboy Bebop below fucking DS9.

Shit-taste status: confirmed.

Oh look, it's this image again.

No (or at least consistent) recoil.

>>43772016
The capability to use both spaceship friendly ammo and regular one.

Also putting DS9 so high but not putting Babylon 5 next to it is just intellectually dishonest.

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Scaled-up dollhouse (also known as a house) riddled with traps.

It would be pink and have a Jacuzzi.
It would also be between 50% and 90% a walk-in closet.

In a dark corner, all by herself, a little girl who's a bit chubby will be crying.

Plastic husbands handsome men standing around unmoving, in silly clothes, always smiling weird fake smile. They eyes are begging you to end their torment and seems always follow you.

>>43771729
Make them use horns.

>>43771729
Proper grammar is "None of them use their horns in combat," not "Neither."

>>43771729
>humans have teeth
>they don't use them in combat

They have better options anon.