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It's just that my setting is more aesthetics-based and would be better off as a webcomic, only I cannot draw for shit and by the time I would have learned to draw at a satisfactory level it would have been years and what little spark I have left would be long gone.

>>43585769
I haven't even started yet. And no, it is not that setting.

>>43585769

Yeah, I'm going to shelve my current nano project and work on a more straightforward story. Doubt I'll hit the full 50k for the month so I'm toning it down to at least a thousand a day to keep things reasonable.

Next year I'll try it again with a ton more prepping. My prepping was fucking insufficient for my concept.

>>43585636
Scales might make good armour or luxury material, and claws and teeth might be sellable as novelty items. The big money would likely come from whatever gland or sac is responsible for the creature's fire breath, though.

Ten percent over standard wealth by level. It sounds like they're being creative, so give them a bonus, but you don't want to break the game.

Isnt dragon blood worth something for its magical properties? Would scales retain elemental resistances to the breath weapon of that dragon?

So is Google Tzeentch? Or are they Slaanesh?

>>43585346
Both.

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>>43585080
I'm under the impression that anything as logical as math is heresy. Please report to your local commissar immediately.

Son, you need to take all those silly numbers and multiply them by 40,000

>>43585123
The Imperium has only shrunk since the Heresy.

>>43584865
Why would a pyromancer be immune to bullets?
They have nothing to do with fire.

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Only one way to settle this.

>>43584879
MAGIC

>>43584371
If it's a plane then either furniture is alive and runs around fucking, to make baby furnitures. When they die they become fossilized and remain in a static position and collected to be used in brawls.

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>>43584396
I love it.

>>43584371

The actual bar is basically like the equator/Midgard Snake and runs from one end of the plane, all the way around to meet itself. The floor is hardwood, except for the deserts of sawdust.

20% of all inhabitants are designated as Bartenders; 10% active, 10% off duty, so they can switch in order to sleep.

The End of Days is known only as "Last Call", and many speculate that it will happen any day now (but never has)

So, what happened to the PACYOA threads? Did it just disappear, like the Monster Hunter CYOA threads?

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>>43585151

The feeling when your the only guy who plays tomb kings and brings chariots to a knife fight

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I present to you the only GW image of dwarf miniatures on round bases that i could find, and they werent even painted by GW. This is from visions 19. It depresses me that there is not even a single image of duardin minis in any of the AoS books or battletomes. I looked everywhere. Kinda makes me worried about their future.

>>43584045
I like that brownish-red & metal scheme, but yeah . . . that is a little strange now that you mention it . . .

SOUNDS LIKE MY KIND OF THREAD.
Okay so first, given that they probably have never run a guild, business, or group of people and nor have you, you should have them join one instead.

Depending on their level of commitment to the nitty gritty, you may end up just throwing them into the deep end if they're running it.

>>43583887
>It appears most guilds were for artisans or merchants. How would a mercenary guild differ?

The mercenary guild would need to be in a region that had demand for hired killers - like a kingdom in the midst of a years-long civil war. A quiet peaceful kingdom has no need for mercenaries. The guild headquarters would probably be located near, but not in, the most active area that wants their services.

>Did guilds ever have legal "trade exclusivity"/a monopoly in their town/city? How much did government get involved with guilds?

Yes, this is the definition of the guild. They were the only people who were allowed to do 'thing' and you got in big trouble if you came into their turf. Their monopolies allowed them a bunch of wealth. The amount a government got involved is case by case, sometimes they weren't involved, sometimes they were. Its up to you to decide how much the local government has their fingers into things. But realize that with the advent of guilds, a middle class was formed for the first time in European history - so they had a LOT of power. They took power away from the nobility and the crown, and generally speaking so long as they paid their taxes had autonomy (for the most part, but again, it depends on the region and the guild in question).

>In an empire, how common would guilds or mercenaries really be? Would imperial law try to squelch the mercenary trade, especially if officiated through a guild, out of fear of local nobles exploiting it?

Again this goes back to demand. An empire retains its power most likely through a set of people who swear allegiance to a recognized ruler - each one capable of fielding a small military force (like the holy roman empire, and like Game of Thrones Westeros). If this is the case, why would they need to PAY anyone to fight something for them? They have men-at-arms who can already do that for free (they are paid in other ways and not directly out of the noble's pocket). A mercenary is someone who -

>>43583924
That's a fair. I was getting excited about a sort of hero-trade simulator/fantasy baseball type of game, but maybe I need to hold my horses before I get too far with it.

In the grim darkness of the far future war... has changed.

>>43583765
I feel like WH40k would come back even more grimdark. Somehow.
With more eastern references.

>>43583765
It would release one half-made edition then be cancelled forever.

>>43583612
>40K RPGs
Wounds on the head location are limited to your modified Toughness Bonus.
Wear a helmet.

>Pathfinder
Use the spells and magic rules from 5e, including multiclassing rules.

>>43583612
Free tax-feats at each odd level except first.

>>43583335
Binary.

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>>43583335
1. Shit's expensive
2. Don't tell me how to do my job, meat.

They do invent new technology

You just have to be an arch magos and be extra careful with each step so your tech doesn't burst into demons

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As well as living cultures the party will discover the remnants of old ones. Destroyed cities, abandoned hives and tunnel systems. These ruins will be where the party finds scraps of more advanced technology(still primitive to the humans, but more advanced than the natives current level). Using this technology the party will have hope of repairing their ship and give them direction as what their goal should be. In exploring these ruins the party will come to realize all of these ancient civilizations seemed to get wiped out in cycles. Every thousand or so years something happens that wipes the crater clean of life. What the party does with this information is up to them.

Now I want the environment to be hostile and alien as well. Due to volcanic nature of the planet outside the crater there would be a shit ton of ash in the atmosphere. I was thinking that during the nights the crater would be hit by heavy ash storms and during the day somehow the sky would be crystal clear and sunny. Giving the landscape an eerie stillness, like fresh fallen snow. The native civilizations would have obviously adapted and live underground or in complex structures. I imagined one species that ingests a parasite to form a symbiotic relationship and eats ash to feed the parasite, which in turn feeds the alien, however there would be some pretty horrible side effects.

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Most strange of all, and a driving force of the campaign there would be a titanic creature that lives in the crater. I'm talking 600 meters tall. This leviathan would barely even be conscious, it simply wanders slowly through the crater. To the natives it's not even seen as a threat, simply a fact of life like the weather. Its wandering patterns are well known and the locals know to clear out like nomads when the creature begins to enter their territory. However the creature would be invisible. It can only be seen through the disturbances it makes in the ash storms, the winds whipping around its invisible form. During the day it is still. Now this creature, unknown to the party is actually the telekinetic projections of a species of fungus that lies in the dead center of the crater. This fungus is more like a cosmic horror if anything, and is what caused the crater in the first place. Millions of years ago a meteor containing the fungus hit the planet and the fungus sprouted inside the crater. The staggering amount of organisms also living on the meteor is how I plan to explain the crazy variety of species within the crater as opposed to natural paths of evolution. Anyway this fungus would be a telekinetic entity that feeds off radiation. This is why the crater is clear of ash during the day, it suppresses the winds that carry the ash so that the sun's rays can bask the valley and feed it. And during the night it allows the winds to resume and instead probes the crater which creates this invisible titan.

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Now I'm sure you've figure out where I'm going with this by now, obviously this fungus is what has caused the disasters that wiped the crater clean of life in the past. And the reason this happens is every so often in the planets life span the volcanic activity increases in such a way that the fungus can not hold back the storms, or the storms go so high into the atmosphere that it covers the telekinetic bubble it would have created. When this happens the fungus begins to starve. Instead of feeding off the sun's radiation the fungus stretches its roots wide and deep into the planet and beings to feed off the radiation of the planets core. In doing so it also drains all the nutrients from the land inside the crater. So the land dies and there is no sun causing the eco system to collapse and all the societies within to die. The climax of the campaign will involved two alien civilizations that have reached a point of tension and are preparing for war. One of them will have found a more ancient civilization's work on some form of bomb or weapon of some sort that can cause massive devastation. They will use it and it will cause enough tectonic activity to work up the volcanoes on the outside of the crater causing the ash to cover the crater and trigger the fungus to being feeding off the planet's core. This will be very obvious, the fungus will spread all over the surface of the crater, huge tree like clusters of it will climb walls and ridges. People will have horrible psychic nightmares. It is at this point that the party needs to be ready to do whatever it is they are planning.

By if bothering for the stealth option is done solitary for scouting purposes. Hiding during combat to do an attack from concealment. Or the entire party goes stealth (monks, rogues, ranger etc)

>>43583217
Your issues aren't arising from the system, they're due to the rest of the group both not wanting to be stealthy and not wanting you spending time alone being stealthy.

Find some way to make them stealthy, and all sneak around together. Problem solved.

>>43583250
This is the best way to handle it. There's nothing wrong with the occasional stealth check on behalf of the tank.

>>43583016
>http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?768985-Exalted-Why-is-Everyone-Praising-3e&p=19548177#post19548177
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Oh fucking god.

>>43583244
The damage control downthread is...perplexing to say the least.

The reaction from theoretical backers has been on point.

>>43583336
Though I found this post to be very insightful.
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?768985-Exalted-Why-is-Everyone-Praising-3e/page98&p=19549180#post19549180