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>>43560742
Stop the game, unless you enjoy a lot of "Wait, what's going on? What are we doing?"

>>43560742
In combat you keep playing until it's their turn/they get attacked.

Out of combat you wait unless the party is split.

But jesus what kind of player can't wait until a breaking point to go pee?

>>43560742
Yes.
Skipping their action until they get back is rude.

Oh my, are there more chapters now?

To check my pockets, of course

>>43560529
I don't have time right now to post the whole thing but yes, and it's been translated and everything.
>>>/a/133312155
>>43547993

Frostgrave has rules for neutral/ai monsters.

You could run that, it'd play more like a squad based D&D than a wargame though.

you could also just "script" the AI side of the wargame, with semi-random movement.

Like knights and knaves (free rules at http://www.hisentco.com/) has random troop reactions for being out of command range.

So you could have a huge army against the co-op team and just use the random decisions with some simple overarching commands from the enemy side (like hold bridge, attack gate, etc)

>>43560869
I'll check out those free rules you've linked, thanks man

Now that I think of it, what if the 'evil' player, or whatever the hell faction he's controlling could advance too? Maybe treat it more akin to an RPG than a wargame, so both teams have to create a story together, therefore the "GM" has infinite resources at his disposal, but has to create challenges for the players, who command a few troops each, and a hero who gets advancement and all. The GM could command a few heroes as well, but always in fewer numbers than the players, and get advancements for them too.

The villains could be recurring characters that get stronger along the player's heroes, and there could be other non-recurring enemies which are killed off to win the scenarios, protect the treasures, or whatever

>>43560470
There's a whole bunch of examples with historical games and dungeon crawlers, but the one that comes to mind for me most prominently is how Force on Force used multiple players against the GM to run Rhodesian Light Infantry vs whatever acronym of the week the insurgents were being without having to really fudge the troop quality disparity (which is gigantic to the point that the IRL casualty ratio defies belief over and over).

But programmed scenarios are an old staple of solo gaming and historical mismatches.

You haven't really made it clear which general is doing the torturing or killing.
Regardless of alignment bullshit, as long as the king isn't evil/ in a truly desperate situation I assume he'd get the moron locked up/executed.

>>43560338
Give Sir Smite&Cleave a promotion. Damn fine work out there.

>>43560488
>You haven't really made it clear which general is doing the torturing or killing.
>Regardless of alignment bullshit, as long as the king isn't evil/ in a truly desperate situation I assume he'd get the moron locked up/executed.

The zealot was the killer.

>>43560165
>Summoner when?

Personally, I hope never. Most of the time they are either OP as fuck, drag on combat as they look up those rules, or both.

What's the consensus on bladesinger? Good, bad, or alright?

>>43560165
This isn't Pathfinder
>>43560423
Good. Probably below Diviner/Abjurer but above the rest

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This song basically sums up the Dark Eldar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg

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>>43559976
And this is fitting for the Haemonculi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwMjLjB2Hlw

Inb4 someone posts that awful Dirge of Slaneesh shit for Chaos, as if Slaneesh would be content with some retardedly simple WAUWAU BOOM BOOM CHA keyboard shit someone cooked up in high school.

There's a 5e starter box that's exactly what you need.

>https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/rpg_starterset

You can actually find it cheaper at some places, but even at $20 it's a pretty good deal, considering it comes with six dice, an adventure specifically written to help you learn the game, quick start character sheets, and simplified rulebooks.

Read this.
http://tabletitans.com/comic
Focus on the character of GM.
Avoid those things he's doing.

>>43559901
>Read this.

It's better to just avoid that comic in its entirety. It doesn't even work as a bad example.

Bonus question to avoid the adept shitstorm:

Top 3 spells that aren't Heal or Increase Reflexes?

>>43559860
Adept's broken in that it's too good. On the other hand, you do have to go for specific stuff to be "too good" (they have the cheapest Initiative boost in the game) and if you abuse adepty things you can be sure the GM is going to throw background counts at your ass.

Adepts have the advantage of being able to stack a single dicepool extremely high with all sorts of magical modifiers, even more if you sacrifice 1 point of magic by burning out. Simply gauge the upper limit for dicepools in your group (usually by talking to them), hit that or a little less, and you're set.

Mystic Adepts would be the real problem, since, unless you're being absolutely retarded, you can't 'tone them down'.

Oh shit is that from Redwall? fucking dope as fuck book series, did anyone ever get round to reading the mattimeo books?

also Redwall general

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>>43559816
Close, but no cigar.

im so happy this shit's actually made. a damn good show too!
>>43559816
nah, man we Mouse Guard general now

>>43559582
Magic is in the form of crystals that can be harvesed/collected from magic ores underground

The dwarves dwell in cave citadels in underwtaer mountains, with each mountain forming somewhat akin to a city state.

>>43559608
Raw, nigh unusable, magic flows from whatever is "Above" the world, and flows towards the "Below".

A lot of it gets caught in various materials underground, forming the Crystals of various types and strengths.

Gold is a material magic can get stuck in.

You were knocked out by a smack to the head. Everything hurt; your midsection, your bleeding shoulder and your ears.

.

You woke up feeling heavily disoriented. the slavers put a black bag on your head. you weren't sure why this was necessary. What mattered more was the new shackle around your neck. The bomb or slave collar was silent yet cold and unforgiving. It wasn't exactly your size. You heads were tied well as well as your feet.

you were somehow moving, yes, it had to be a cage. You could feel the rusty iron bars.


>[Say nothing]
>[Try to break free]
>[Try to bargain with your slavers]
>Anglo, are you okay?
>F-frost? you here?
>other

hi Snow

>>43559570
>Anglo, are you okay?

"Y-yeah...how are you holdin'? " Anglo's voice was raspy and weak.

"It is like a fucking deja vu." you admitted, you never thought you would wound up like this.

"Shut the fuck up!" you and presumably Anglo were zapped with a cattle prod.

>Try to bargain with your slavers
>say nothing
>ignore them
>say something to your slavers
>other

>>43559685
>>43559685
hello anon

Talk to her about it you goober. That talking over the other players and especially dm is not cool yo.

>>43559432
I wouldn't blame you for kicking her outright. Judging from your green text, I wouldn't have invited her in the first place.

If you still want to let her have a chance, though. Sit down with her and talk about it before the game, point out that she's going to need to read the handbook, stop trying to talk over people, put some effort into roleplaying, etc. And then if that doesn't work out, or if she can't handle the conversation like a mature adult, then put the boot to good use.

>>43559468
This

She has to realise that shit wont stick if she wants to continue playing, after all we put a lot of work into our games, why compromise it for one player who by the sounds of it doesn't want to be there anyway.

Honest suggestion? Use dice anyway. Otherwise there will be accusations of ''YOU JUST HATE MY CHARACTER'' if you have to kill off someone because they did stupid shit. Beyond that, I would reccomend rather Skype but either way will work, Ive done it myself

Shameless bump ;(

>>43559347
>>43559418
Question, are you really RESTRICTED to facebook? Because dice are a fairly integral part of RPGs to allow for a level of randomness aswell as challenge, if the game has no dice it's just "This lock is strength 4. None of you have strength 4 lockpicking or doorbreaking so you can't break it down." OR it becomes freeform, which can be fun, but it's just roleplaying and has alot of problems.

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Are Eldar Corsairs any good?
I want a taste of the Wild Side.

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Scions+Inquisition+Assassins, good idea or bad?

>>43559171
They look like they're going to be pretty potent from the leaks so far. Lots of variety in how you make your army too (prince loadouts and abilities, whether to go with craftworld/commorite weaponry or a mixture, stuff like whether to have a jumping force or a force in void-hardened armour or...) which is always good.

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>>43558866

>Bring almond cookies.

The most critical choice in the quest so far! I don't drink coffee though, so I don't know which is best with coffee.

>>43558866
Starting with the tough dilemmas I see.
>Bring butter cookies.
>Bring sweet toffees.