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Eventually. Initially, you'd have variance in ruleset as well as various card lists which might not be considered balanced by one anothers rules, but assuming the core principles of the game remained you could recreate a 'standard' ruleset, while also maintaining planetary variant rules.

>>43624140
>you could recreate a 'standard' ruleset

No need to create new rules.
Just use the Earth rule-set. It has retained its purity.

>>43624211

That's a very terra-centric worldview. The Colonials might have some disagreements there.

>>43624040
Possibly, if the system made it obvious that every member of the crew contribute to how well the tank operates. Overall gunner's the half of it. He'd get bonuses based upon how well the commander is at spotting and giving out commands, then pluses or minuses based upon what the driver is doing. Can't fire unless the loader does his job, loader would probably have the worse of it. Other crew members vary depending upon the tank.

>>43625146

It would he difficult to give every class something to do that's both relevant to running the tank and gives them meaningful decisions every turn, wouldn't it? If the loader's only action every turn is "load cannon" while the gunner chooses targets, the loader isn't really getting to do shit.

I've often pondered this, constructing a system around the idea of every player being a member of a crew of something, whether it's a Power Rangers style mecha, a starship or a tank. I think it could work, but it'd require a huge amount of good design to make it really fun.

[Realm of Zagrom]
Color: Yellow
Race: Albino Goblins [led by a dragon]
Racial Description: Zagrom the Insular has developed something of a reputation for sloth and aloofness during his formative years, but as he grew older his desire for things became insatiable. Eventually, he assumed nominal control over a series of small tribes near his cavern; this cemented his entry into the underdark.
Dark Energy: 1 (+1 a turn)
Population: 86 (+6 a turn) [Breeding Pits][Brood Mothers]
Favour: 5 (+1/turn: Shadowrend)
Buildings: [Goblin Forges: +15]
Military: [Fireballs+Bow Squadrons];[Military Tactics];[Goblin Knights];[Metal Arms/Magickal Weapons];[Handbangs];[Duegar Mages];[Crude Cannons];
Goblins: [Warped Goblins]
Zagrom: [Magic-Resistant Steel Plating]
Geography: [Dark Radiation Pits][Dark Energy Ore, Irradiated]
Misc: [Shadowrend][Artifact Skull:+1 Hex/Coordination]
[Adv] Might of a Dragon: Anytime you're involved in combat, the enemy may elect to flee rather than face you.
[Dis] Drunk with Power: Sapient races perceive you to be a threat best dealt with permanently. Diplomacy is difficult for you.

--
Actions [Attack the mutants; develop better cannons]
--
1. "Begin an assault on the mutant holdings. I will lead the assault. The stupid creatures have territory I desire." [attack the mutants]
2. "Begin developing better cannons and ranged weapons. We must have some capacity to defeat heavy fortifications -- these cannons are awful." [upgrade cannons][Goblin Forges?+15]

Rolled 98, 3 = 101 (2d100)

Rolls

Rolled 98, 70 = 168 (2d100)

Nice, shame I'm at work tonight

>>43623905
1. What with concrete researched last turn I might as well use it - build a mighty fortified gate on my boarder with Zagrom's territory, complete with lava moat and cannons
totes jealous of the bone gate

2. Dig along the south side of the river to the fork

Colour: Orange
Race: Dwarf
Racial Description: [omitted for length]

[Adv] Industrious: Build things quickly! You may create 2 things in 1 action.
Extreme Steam Mining Apparatus: +20 to Digging, may dig three hexes at once, may re-direct the flow of lava\build magma dams
Boats: +5 Traversing River
Dwarf Darkmagma Forge: +30 to craft metalworks
Powersphere and Grid: +5 to all rolls dependent upon machinery using the grid
Alliance with the British: mutual +5 to researching things, mutual +5 to production of buildings\works
Trading Post: Great economic contact with the mountainhomes. With their trade they bring their politics.
Research Institute: +6 to all research rolls
Arsenal: Increased siege engine production

Full Combined Arms Force
Dwarf Ironclads (with big guns): Enemy Fleet 3d8 casualties
Cannons: 40 to take Drow and 60 to take Deep Dwarf cities
Dwarven Defences: No siege roll of less than 75 after bonuses will crack these defences, stationary positions with guns get +15 to any combat roll
Mobile Artillery Unit: lowers the to-hit number of a siege entity by 15.
Mining Boat
Dark Energy Technology.

[Dis] Fairer Cousin: the Deep Dwarves around here don't appreciate mountainfolk muscling in on their turf, and will seek to subvert you in the most Dwarfish way possible.
Dark Energy; 24 (+1)
Population: 37 (+1)
Favour: 3

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>>43623598
You blink your eyes at the sleek black dragon with its sapphire arm, ruby right talons, and burning eyes given power by the Sun herself. Your tail curls over itself and you look into those gentle, fierce, burning eyes without fear, because your master will never hurt you the way your family did.

Your name is Ryuu Yui, and this is what you see.

>Yui may chose any one option+any write ins. Her fourth option will always be one of three options relating to whom she is dealing with and can be added to the other choice.

[] Yes, aniki, I am all right.
[] I'm worried about Akari-chan, aniki.
[] ….uh huh. Nothing bad is happening.
[+] Do you need something?

IT'S HAPPENING! YUI POV!

Yay!

How are you, XS?

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Twitter: @XsQuestmistress

Previous Thread: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/43502283/

Interlude: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/37879167/

Threads in Chronological Order, including writeups by XS : http://pastebin.com/Z53TyK0N
or search for Title: Ryukuza on Suptg

Barrier Combat Guide: http://pastebin.com/rZLwzvGx

>Ryukusa's Treasures

Eight hundred and sixty-two cat youkai live in your aura

Nyoi-ju, the Wishing Jewel.

Matagama-no-Shitoki, a kami in it's own right that protects Ryukusa from inimical magic.

Ame-no-Omukade-no-Musume – Ryukusa's mukade possessed wakizashi; a kami. “Daughter of my Centipede of Rain.”

Gendai-no-Muteki-no-Buki - Invincible Weapon of the Present Age, a secret kami-blade given to Ryukusa by Wakaba

Ryukusa's Family.

>Talismans:
Akari – Centipede
Er Yin – Scorpion
Kiki – Toad
Kiku – Lizard
Yui – Snake

>>43623527
Man, Morke sounds like the stereotypical nerd.

>Fourteen years later, Exalted enters it’s Third Edition, ready to take the gaming world on and bring to life all the drama and intensity that has made Exalted a dominant force in table top gaming,

Mmm, intensity, dominant. Keeping up the heat there...

>>43623527
Reminder Holden and Morke are liars.

Hehe

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>>43623654
Howdy. Waiting for the rest to show up

>>43623820
Dairiseki's art is great.

>>43623281
and this is a problem because......

Hail!

>>43623281
And the problem is?

>>43623086

Are you kidding? I can't beat my pet cat at Go.

>>43623227
According to the paper the network is ranked at approximately 4-5 kyu

I've been playing this network for the past 42 minutes and now I fucking hate Go with a passion. This was my first time playing.

Hello, we will run for about three hours. Next thread will be a Cont. for sure.

You and Anglo spent the rest of the day running away from the thorn. You shared one cram with your friend just in case, you slept with a growling stomach and shivering body.


You woke up from a terrible nightmare. You couldn't remember it in details but the cries in it felt so real. You just shook it off and continued.

The snow had a greenish tint. It wasn't like that yesterday "A radstorm....She is coming." Anglo stared at the perturbed skies. it was snowing green snowflakes.

>[Say nothing, Move onwards]
>Come on, we survived worse.
>Just a day or two Anglo, come on
>other

>>43622798
>>Just a day or two Anglo, come on

>>43622798
>Just a day or two Anglo, come on

hi snow

>>43622655
There are three Shinigami present in the building, their black uniforms setting them apart from everybody else. You don't recall their names. None of them are instructors from the academy; they've just been assigned in charge of your group for this exercise.

Two of them are discussing something between themselves, gradually getting louder about it, while one is wandering around the students, chatting with them. The girl's dark hair is tied up in a neat bun and she looks kind of nervous, though the people she speaks with seem to cheer up a bit.

You catch the Shinigami girl glancing your way. She seems to be finishing her conversation with the female students. She's already spoken with the rest of the boys, so she'll probably head your way after that.

...

>Wait for the girl to approach.
>Move to listen in on the debate the other two Shinigami are having.
>Sit down next to the other guys. You can't really join their conversation, but you can still listen to it.

>>43622665
>>Wait for the girl to approach.

>>43622665
>Wait for the girl to approach
Nice and polite!

i always liked hexographer and dungeonographer.

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>>43622618
i also used gimp to make tiles for my dungeons once upon a time. then i realized that i was going to all that effort for nothing really.

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>>43622648

>>43622262
How heavy we talkin senpai?

>>43622262
Does it have access to whatever material they need to equip heavy infantry?
If so, yes.

>>43622262
Kataphaktos were a thing in quite desert countries. More heavy cavalry than heavy infantry but yes. Moors/Arabs/Whatever you want to call them used to wear chainmail. Better to be a little tired than a little dead.

>>43622036
It's a warm morning in the Great City, the bustle of guild traffic echoing up through the shutters even in this out of the way street. You stretch with a groan, amusing yourself watching what you have decided to dub Valia's panic dance. It involves the flustered sorceress attempting to move in a half dozen directions at once as her brain works itself into a frenzy of conflicting priorities, all without actually managing to achieve anything.

“You doing okay there?” you ask at last, as Valia makes a sudden lunge for a shoe lying on its side under a bureau, bumping her head against the wooden edge with a yelp.

“Y-yes, completely fine, um, I- I have to, I should...”

You chuckle to yourself, hopping up off the bed and walking over, wrapping an arm around Valia's shoulders as she rubs her forehead.

“You really in that much of a hurry to leave?”

“I- um, well, no, but- but my mother will be wondering where I am, um, I- I don't want her getting suspicious, and- I- well, since we did this once before already, I-”

Sometimes you forget that Valia's a couple of years older than you, still panicking about what her mother will say when she stays out all night. Though you suppose you aren't a stranger to overbearing parents yourself.

“It's already morning though, I doubt those few minutes you'll save running about will make much difference.”

“Well, maybe, but, but I really don't want to worry her...”

>It's fine, now come on back to bed
>Okay, we'll grab some breakfast then leave
>Alright, guess we'd better not worry her

>>43622043
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>>43622043
>>Okay, we'll grab some breakfast then leave


Sup dude.

>>43622029

Stomping onwards, you rub your eye as a sudden stinging pain flashes through it. Just a twinge of pain, nothing really, but it's enough to fill your eye with tears. You swipe them away with a callous flick of your fingers and press on, but it's not long before another lance of pain hits you. This one causes you to stumble as the world around you shifts, growing flat and somehow lifeless. You could be staring at a damn oil painting, for all you know. Then, as you're clutching a hand to your aching brow, everything drops away from you.

You feel like you've forgotten something very important.

“Bloody hell, Red,” the man behind you snaps, some vague mixture of concern and amusement in his voice, “What's gotten into you? Swaying about like that, you look as drunk as a lord.”

A snarl forms on your lips as you lurch round and seize him by the shoulders, staring hard at him. The words bubble up from some dark recess of your mind, each one overlapping and forming a wild chorus – Liar, cheat, thief and degenerate. Those are just the first ones that reach you, there's something else there, hidden beneath countless layers of thick deception. You can just about see it now, if only you could get a better look...

“Bloody hell!” he repeats, stammering with sudden fear, “Your eye, what's wrong with your bloody eye?”

Nothing is wrong, you hear yourself murmur, but... that's not quite right, is it? Once again, the thought strikes you – there's something terribly important, something you can't quite remember.

>Try to remember. This is important
>He's hiding something. You need to know

>>43622032
>>Try to remember. This is important
Figuring out this eye thing is more important than whatever Elliot's hiding. For now. I assume will have more chances to use Dominion's eye on him.

>>43622032
>>Try to remember. This is important

>>43621442
bump

It's really, really not good. It tries to sell itself on the gimmick of playing yourself and your friends during the apocalypse, but in practice there's very little in it to help with it. Character creation is (over) simplistic, but it still ultimately runs on a perfectly standard pool of points to ensure that everyone is equally capable (yes, there's a voting phase in which the players all agree on whether or not to raise or lower the attributes of their fellow ones BUT you get a point back/lose a point if they decide to lower/raise it so effectively you're still balanced). You cannot have the game balance cake and the real simulation cake. If you are a fat neckbeard whose greatest skill is rote memory of the rules of D&D 3.5th edition and your pal is a fit, coolheaded ex-Ranger who's won medals in Afghanistan, than in a real situation YOU WOULDN'T BE BALANCED. They even invalidate whether or not each player is "prepared" for the apocalypse in real life because the rules are the characters/players start with "what they have around, right now at this moment" (yes, the assumption is that the apocalypse literally starts the moment you sit down to play The End of the World RPG. There's even a funny little rule that says the GM has to be the first one to die, to save him the trouble of playing himself.), so what gear you'd get depends entirely on whether or not the player hosting the game is currently keeping shotguns around his pizza tables, not on whether Colonel McBadass has an entire arsenal at home (unless he's the type who always carries around his bug-out-bag).

So it completely fails to do that. The mechanics themselves are very uninspired, lots of descriptive, freeform advantages and disadvantages that add dice to your pool (so depending on whether or not you're playing with assholes it's either insanely gameable or just boring). It doesn't run fast enough to really flow, but far too simplistic to be a simulation.

(cont.)

>>43621849
The "Stress" mechanics are pants-on-head, managing to somehow be both a poor representation of the genre, unrealistic, and wonky (in the sense that poor rolling could lead to bizarre situations where characters rip through a horde of monsters with a toothpick while only spraining their ankle near the end, but then stumble on a pebble and break their necks - and not even the grimmest of apocalyptic stories are these stupid about applying character death. It's supposed to be either dramatic or tell something about the story, even if that something is that the stakes are high and everyone can die, not literally be pointless). It's also got this kind of holistic system treating mental and emotional damage the exact same way as physical, which really doesn't work.

The scenarios are bad. I'll get to that in a minute, but the important thing is that is REALLY BAD since you don't get anything else. The End of the World prides itself on replayability because you get a whopping 5 scenarios with each book, but what they don't sell you on the back cover is that THIS IS IT. There isn't even GM advice on how to create your own scenario, no nothing like that. Five scenarios, that's what each game can do. Pre-Apocalypse, Post-Apocalypse, yadda yadda.

And the scenarios are bad. Most of them range from banal to stupid, they fail to cover the breadth of the genre they're meant to (I guarantee you that there are more than 5 ways of doing zombies, even if you stick to the iconic, and infinitely more ways than that of doing something like an "alien invasion". When your entire game relies on 5 scenarios meant to cover the entire "Alien Invasion" genre, can you really afford to "waste" one on something as pointless as "giant radioactive ants"?).

(cont.)