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> All the party had to do was go to a nearby system, enter a nebula, and scan it.
> They go there.
> Tell them that there's massive interference around the location. The further they keep their ship from the location, the safer they would be.
> Of course they decide to land the ship RIGHT INSIDE THE INTERFERENCE.
> This of course is right after they decide rolling double 1's should constitute a critical failure.
> Ship nearly destroyed.
> They proceed to complain that the job was only willing to offer 6x the price, or another faction was only willing to offer 10x the original mission reward.

I really hate my core group.

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>>43760547
>>43759344
I literally just cant even. More.

> They're offered free repairs (normally 1million credits) if they bring a alien back to its ship.
> Proceed to send someone who can't communicate with it to accompany it onto the 1 man ship.
> Person proceeds to shove his way past it and sit inside the ship.
> Alien tries fervently to get him off.
> Welp this planned encounter would of occured right after the alien got on its ship so I guess here it goes.
> Space pirates attack and demand they give them access to their computers.
> Crew proceeds to shoot first, causing space combat to begin.
> Their crewman gets stuck on the alien ship as they disengage.
> Alien proceeds to release repair drones and leave orbit.
> Alien planned on leaving to find its people on its ship, so it warped out of the system. With the player on its ship.

I don't know, I just think my players are trying to put themselves in the worst circumstances possible.

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it keeps happening

I have a friend that wants to run a WFRP campaign, but he didn't like the look of 3e. But I don't want to screw with the earlier edition's percentile. So, I have a few questions.

How's the 3rd edition? Does it really casualize it to a board game? Or just streamline it? Do you HAVE to buy all the components? Does it still play like a typical tabletop RPG, such as being able to use imagination to attempt anything? Or is it really restrictive? What he wants is the Warhammer feel, does this deliver?

If 3e isn't the way to go, would we HAVE to use an official Warhammer ruleset? Maybe there's another system that can give that dark fantasy and lethal feel and just port in the setting? Any recommendations if so?

How much 9th age have people played and whats the general consensus on the changes? Is it to much like 8th or has it got its own flavour?

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>>43759022
What non-warp madness do you speak out of?

The last "Favorite Chaos God" thread had tons of Slaaneshnis

>>43759076
I must have missed that...

>>43759022
My favorite god. I wish GW would give Slaanesh more lore, and models. The farm equipment stuff was just kind of confusing.

>>43758888
Well, you could pretty easily combine the trappings and organization of the jedi with a more esotoric CHIMy philosophy, but I'm genuinely not sure you could feasibly combine Jedi and CHIM philosophy.

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The whole Jedi thing is pretty vague in the original movies, and then in the rest of the Star Wars material things aren't always very consistent, but often quite stupid.

Then there's Kirkbride's stuff which is, well, there's quite a lot to it. Open for a good amount of personal interpretation. And most importantly, it's all bout the cosmology of that one setting. If you're not playing in the Elder Scrolls setting, then a lot of shit is going to be very different. (If you do, then you're a Buoyant Armiger I guess.)

So take a few steps back here, don't start with just trying to smash these things together, instead think about what exactly it is you like about these two things. If it's just "says spiritual sounding shit" then you might want to rethink the whole thing. Otherwise take these elements, put them together within the setting you're going to be using (really important that bit, don't do it in a vacuum), kill a few babies, add some more stuff as suitable where there's gaps, kill some more of your babies, and there you might have a good starting point.

Then to spice it up marinate your brain by reading Dune, Brad Warner's books about Zen, watching El Topo an Holy Mountain, adding a few intentional inconsistencies, or whatever.

>>43759065
>... combine the trappings and organization of the jedi with a more esotoric CHIMy philosophy, ...

That's what I'm talking about. But other ideas would be appreciated.

As I said, the idea is in a primordial stage at the moment.

>>43758747
>No
>It's a metaphor, blood is the currency of the soul, vampires metabolise life force
>Yes
>A progenitor vampire comes about only when a great leader falls to an impossibly profound despair, betraying their followers and drinking of their lifeblood in order to escape their fate. The more people, the more powerful the newborn vampire. Power is diluted as a bloodline progresses.
>There are a few different varieties of similar creatures, but only one actually holds the name 'Vampire'.
>As intelligent as who they were before they turned. They don't have to feed at all, if they don't want to. Results in extreme lethargy, requiring to sleep up to 23 hours a day.
>Vampiric magic is fuelled by blood, but not blood which has been ingested. They usually keep a few vials on their person for these purposes. For this reason, not very exhausting at all.
>Human food and drink turns to ash in their mouth.

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>>43758747
>Do they need to breathe?
No

>They're not usually alive, and can be brought back from with their ashes and blood, so- If they're undead, how do they metabolize blood? Magic?

The blood a vampire absorv in his sistem is changed (Magicaly or biologically depends on your flavor) if by magic the act of the bite can be interpreted as a magical ritual for the vampire convert the victims blood once he drain it. Biologicaly works maybe a special organ or the vampires can be like people who have low iron in they're blood (Look it up it's a real disease) and they need to ingest high amount of blood iron, so they wouldn't need to drink blood but would need to eat body part with high iron concetrations like a liver or stuffs.

>Does vampirism stops the body's growth?
This depends to you want your vampires to be a cursed race? Super evolved humans? Or just humans that need to drink blood to survive because their boddy can't produce it? For magical or cursed i like to leave it as stopping body growth and ALL body functions so a female vampire can't bleed when she hits her period. With you want they as a separated evolved part os humanity i don't see the need to restrain that.

>Who was the first vampire? Can vampires reproduce through other means than turning someone/something? If so, how does that work?

Nobody knows it's shrowded in mistery one for the passage of time other for ancient vampires wanting to develop their own power and sometimes shrowded in a vampires culture if you ask a vampire priest of death he would problably sai that he was a god choosen. One thing is certaing what or who ever was the first vampire is or was he's truly powefull. Reproduce for other means again falls on the varient if you want then as cursed demons or a group of humans that evolved in a different way.

>Are they all the same, or are there different vampires?
Vampires are physically the same but with different powers, same way a warrior is different from a mage.

>>43758932
Wait, hold up. If there is both the possibility of a bloodline and a halt of body growth, it means it reaches a ceiling point, then how is that ceiling point determined? Also, vampires can still learn new things, so their brain isn't "frozen" in the state it was when they turn, right?
Can vampire control who they turn? Are there different degrees of turning?
Are vampires virtually immortal by virtue of not growing old? Can they change their physical form?

>>43758671
Dungeons and Dragons and its legacy.

pseudo-Tolkien-esque race-kingdoms

Medieval swords and sorcery with elves and dorfs.

You recall the last fight between those two didn't go so well.

Once the morning madness has finished, what powers will you be experimenting with first?

>Psychic powers (which?)
>Gifts (which?)
>Your locket
>Allies powers (who? which?)
>Other (?)

Please pick only 1, you can choose others later.

It is assumed you are trying to learn new stuff, if you want to boost existing ones, please say.

15 minute vote as OP of new thread.

>>43758562

The body of water created by Oceanic Reality qualifies (just big enough).

>>43758633
>Your locket

Enchanted guns that give a bonus or design to kill certain supernatural creatures.

>>43758374
A radio that lets you track supernatural creatures

A key that unlocks any door, including cardlocks, computer passwords, fingerprint or even retinal scanners. A highly valued artifact for sure

Sunglasses that let you see in the dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_HlTGzkKeE

A quarter that always falls to the change receptacle but is always counted. Soda machines, self-checkout stands, phone booths, etc.

>>43758374
Curses over e-mail.
Protection charm firewalls.

>>43757990
The shitstorm was hilarious. Some people just don't get how these lands can work, and there are some legit concerns, but a lot of people are just going full retard about it.

>>43758161

And how do they work? Is it just a new color for mana or a colorless symbol?

>>43758338
It's pretty much a new color I'd mana that counts as colorless.

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Rolled 3 (1d6)

>>43757948
I'm bored let's do this [6]

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Rolled 3 (1d5)

>>43757978

Pics of people with guns to their heads are more than welcome. [5]

Rolled 2 (1d4)

>>43757986
Eh, I have nothing to live for. 2

Honestly first of all I would ask myself how much time you and the party are willing to devote to this kind of transactions. I mean, if everyone is onboard it might be fun to pòay merchants for a session, but if the prospect of having one player take up two hours of game time haggling while the rest of the party dies of boredom I'd solve it in a couple of rolls to decide what kind of profit he might turn up. It all depends on what you (as a DM and as a party) are willing to invest.

Have him roll Profession: Merchant skill

I've always wanted to play in a campaign like this (less Record of Lodoss War and more Spice and Wolf), but your player might just be slowing the game down for everyone else.

Just give some 5% or 10% increase depending on the next city. Is it near the mountains? That iron won't be worth much. Does it have a surplus population? Those chickens and the booze are going to sell well.

Although I always took the D&D prices for trade goods to be almost standardized prices. Merchants would barter and swap 10 pounds of wheat for 5 chickens.

Maybe check this out:
http://regia.org/research/misc/costs.htm

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>>43757874
>Try to remind her about Asai.

>>43757874
>Try to remind her about Asai.

>>43757702
[2/2]

“We can’t.” You put your hands on your hips, looking to everyone. “At least not without a fight.”

“That many Neuroi will surround us,” mutters Rascal. “They’d have to airlift us out, if that’s even an option.”

“As much as I want a fight with these dastardly black devils, I have to agree. We must pick our fights carefully, and I say we should run while we still can.” Greta, not you too. Come on! You take another look at everyone. You’ve never been more disappointed, not in them mind you. You’ve never been more disappointed in yourself, looking at them fear the enemy so.

> “Well, you guys can run. I’m staying.”
> “Fine. We’ll run.”
> “We need to stay.”
> Other

>>43757709
> “We need to stay.”

>>43757709
> “Well, you guys can run. I’m staying.”

I flare the skin folds of my neck, hiss, and begin a series of head bobs and lunges to assert dominance.

>1000$ deck

Fucking peasant.

>>43757696
>communicates in grunts
So he's low-functioning autistic?

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From the end of the last thread:

The assembled gang marches as one into the school's main lobby and around through the maze of vines towards what was once the gymnasium. Everyone follows your lead, both out of fear of being left behind in the office where they would be left to fend for themselves, and out of excitement to see Ms. Grimwood banish the evil demonic force that has nearly demolished their school.

You hold a nozzle attached to the tank of herbicide that Iggy is carrying a few feet behind you, while Sibella is carrying Elsa's brain for the moment. Elsa is the one to give the order;

"Iggy, THROW ZE SWITCH!"

He does so, and the hose in your hands coughs fitful spurts of the noxious chemical at the bark-encrusted gateway to the gym. It goes to work immediately, chewing into the chemical bonds that make up the Grim Creeper's defense, then splattering onto the wooden floor and eating that, too.

"Elsa, that's not herbicide is it?" asks Sibella.

"Echhh, it vas simpler to just make molecular acid."

"It's not stopping!" Sibella protests, leaning over to look at the hole the fluid is making in the school's floor and clear through into her basement apartment. "ELSA, IT'S EATING MY COUCH!"

"Ahhhhh!" Elsa's brain screams as Sibella gives the canister a firm shake.

"THAT CAME FROM ROMANIA YOU TWIT!"

Meanwhile, the bark seal breaks down and drops off the door in large wet chunks. The door opens...

Inside the gymnasium the normally wide open floor is covered in writing vines, many of which end in eye-stalks that perk up to peer at you as you kick the door in. All the vines trail back towards a pedestal of living vegetable matter atop which perches the "weird potato" that Iggy described earlier. It's single baleful eye glares at you, and the many mouths growing from it's extremities rise up and screech in collective warning.

It's the GRIM CREEPER!

Haha I loved this movie when I was a kid.

>>43757680
Good to see you back