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>>43551011
>>43551011
What, are you using D&D?
Take the monthly cost for hirelings, make it a one-time, up front cost with only small monthly payments for upkeep, but impose penalties on morale/loyalty.

>>43551011
Well, when slavery was at its height in America and you could still import new slaves from Africa, they went for the equivalent of what today would be about $15,000 per slave.

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Slaves are one of the most prized possessions. Why? Because they are the most capable resource one can have. They can be trained to do whatever you want, they are capable of reasoning.

So already the slaves will be expensive(say, in the tens of thousands of dollars range) due to how versatile a tool the slave is. This does not account for the other expenses though.

Shipping the slaves can either be nearly zero(kidnapped a hobo from the street) to being exorbitant(a slave from far off lands, beyond our continent).

Then there is the general health and well-being of a slave to consider. A physically powerful, mentally competent man will be worth far, far more then a cripple or someone who is daft. As such, it is to be expected that a sophisticated pricing system will be developed to gauge the worth of slave depending on their physical and mental health, their 'exoticism'(humans are so boring, I'd like an elf slave. Yes, I know they are thrice as expensive.) and the cost it took to ship them to the slave market.

Then their is personal taste. Most slave trade in the world I created are auctions, with a base price(a base price calculated according to the rule-of-thumbs above).

tldr; better, faster, stronger, harder is more money money money.

Have a wank

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>>43550953
Ever watched If The Emperor Had A Text-To-Speech Device?

Okay, so. The generic rogue in D&D or similar assumes some very specific things about your characters. Firstly, he does illegal shit. He gets into wrong places, he knows how to get there unseen, he can pick pockets, stab people in the soft bits and otherwise is quite professionally predisposed to doing things you're bit supposed to do. It's also fair to assume that he purposefully learned these things (willingly or out of necessity, although the latter is overdone and boring as fuck).

That's something you can't really change, it's the basic idea of the class. If you can't play that, play a different class. But you can change the reason as to why he does these things. One popular idea lately has been the vigilante who's actually a counter-thief of sorts. Military-minded spies and such also get thrown around. These are the types who would also have similar skills and knowhow (and generally also have kind of similar personalities and suchlike).

I've done a slightly different take, and I generally like this one. Assume that at one point your character was very much the kind-of-a-ninja-but-not-really stereotypical fantasy rogue. But you know, it's fucking HARD to live a life of systematically eking out an illegal living. There's other rogues, the law, and also the people you're trying to take advantage of, and any of them catch you, you're gonna get fucked. But you know what? You're in the possession of a set of skills that are of great interest to types that put themselves into danger otherwise and require a sharp guy who knows what's what and can get shit done. Or people who'd need people who'd need you. I.E adventurers and adventurer-hirers.

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>>43551081
(Cont.)

So, you're not a thief any longer. No, you're not reformed in that "I-wanna-do-good-now" -sense. Maybe something happened that made you realize how shitty being a thief could be, but it's not about redemption. It's about making a better living, where people actually LIKE you for doing what you do, instead of hating you. It's about getting paid for what your did, not paying fines. Keep quiet about your past, turn a new leaf, be a professional. Thievery? You don't do that shit any more. Except maybe you sometimes do, but only in moderation, only when it's gonna be really easy. You'rea mercenary now, someone who can actually tell people what they do for a living. Much simpler, usually. No need for that shitty back and forth between you and the law, no need to have an escape plan for every situation (although of course you do, you're a professional).

A reformed thief-turned-mercenary, but not for the sake of any moral problems. That's my take on it. Not revolutionary, but it's a good, strong background. As an added bonus, you have as many plot hooks (Your past's not gonna let you slip out as simply as that, you criminal asshole) as needed.

>>43550761
Works as a religious assassin and uses the slain's wealth to further the reach of the church.

Highwayman who is in it more to pay off his debts, played like the Highwayman from Darkest Dungeon

A hook and shortsword fighting bounty hunter accustomed to fighting in groups.

any games out there* i mean
shit

>>43550756
I'm in a Dresden Files RPG campaign (based on FATE. I'm not sure quite HOW much of DFRPG comes from it though). In it, you have physical, social, and mental STRESS tracks. They're like health bars in that they soak up damage, kicking you out of combat once it overflows. HOWEVER, if an attack is going to overflow your stress track, you can take a consequence instead. This can be used by your foes to help in their opposed rolls. Mild consequences can be healed in about a session. More severe ones may be leave a permanent disability on your character (which is still preferable to death).

How the stress tracks work:
Let's say your physical stress track goes up to 4. This is represented by 4 circles. If you are hit by an attack that does 1 damage, fill the leftmost circle. If hit by an attack that does three damage, fill the third circle. If hit by another attack that does 1 damage, (oh no, the first first is already filled in, so go to the next one) fill in the second circle. Then, if it by any other attack, the fourth circle will be filled. One more attack and your stress track will overflow, taking you out of combat. Alternatively, a single 5 damage attack could have OHKO'd you from the start. You can reduce the damage of an attack that hits you by taking a consequence (as described above).

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In Shinobigami, your character takes damage directly to their skill list, locking out one of the columns for each point of damage you take. Since the game uses a defaulting system based on how far apart different skills are, it means that it potentially becomes harder to succeed on rolls the more damage you take, as more and more of your skills become locked out due to damage.

bumpin cause I'm plummeting into obscurity.

>>43550697
GURPS

>>43551511
Why GURPS? Over say- Savage worlds?

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"Go away..."

The morning sunlight bears down on me, shining right in my face until I finally stir awake. Out of instinct, I bend it away from me so I can get back to being nice and comfy in the dark, but every time I start to drift back to sleep my hold breaks and then there it is again, right back in my face. This repeats maybe three times before I just give up. And so, cursing the sun, I grab my glasses from off my nightstand and roll out of my bed. And land head-first.

"Friggin' crap..." I mutter under my breath while rubbing my aching forehead.

While a one-foot drop may not be enough to cause me any actual damage, it sure as hell still hurts.


>get bathed and dressed and all that
>go downstairs and eat something 'cuz I'm hungry

>>43550708
>go downstairs and eat something 'cuz I'm hungry
Leftovers for breakfast.
With her dad around that shit just won't last.

>>43550708
>get bathed and dressed and all that

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>>43550386

Another interesting fact, the energy in Soul Edge shards and in the cursed blood of the malfested and descendants of the sword's hosts can transform unliving flesh into monsters.

Not quite zombies on either end, but whatever the fuck Charade is is probably close enough in many respects.

>>43550486
From the Soul Calibur Wiki:
>Charade is the form of a man who is weary from war-torn lands and dreaming of adventure. He finds the legends of Soul Edge, and begins to find its fragments. He is eventually murdered by bandits who had heard a rumor circulating in the cities of a man overly-protective of his possessions. Still grasping the fragments, his corpse is thrown into a river. The blood from the hands forms around the fragments due to the man's tenacity to protect his precious fragments. This being seeks out to find more shards, so it can devour them and become whole. He eventually becomes part of the Soul Edge. Charade is able to scan minds of warriors it confronts, and then creates weapons out of its body to accommodate the fighting style it imitates. When the Soul Embrace was formed, Charade's power appeared to have weakened in response to Soul Edge's dormant state.
>In Soulcalibur IV, Nightmare summons the remaining fragments of Soul Edge to Ostrheinsburg Castle to become whole. Among them are the second Soul Edge created by Cervantes and fragments that have become half-living creatures, one of which might have been Charade.

In other words, Charade is a dude who turned into a Soul Edge-based construct before he was eventually eaten by Soul Edge itself.

Atomic Highway is good for some Mad Max tier shenanigans. I'm not sure of much else.

Savage Worlds is pretty flexible as is GURPS.

>>43550279
Mini-d6 works like a charm.

>>43554394
>sports (Lacrosse) at 16
Well played, anon.

>>43554394
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>>43554394
>In GURPS
Wow, you really CAN make anything in GURPS

But Kaervek is fun as fuck, anon

>4-player game, me and another guy playing Kurkesh
>other guy built him completely wrong
>thought that copying Equip costs would magically create a copy of the card
>everyone tells him this when he tries
>gets bummed when he realizes his deck is completely fucked up
>gets smoked, scoops and leaves

I felt really bad for him, he was clearly new (most of his cards were from Origins and Dragons of Tarkir) and excited to play EDH. I would have helped him out if he hadn't left so fast

>>43550012
i hate to love grenzo... it makes me real sad, but its so fun to watch go off

>>43549880
They're actually Alpha Legion

>>43549926
who?

>>43549880
Well, if anyone knew, they wouldn't be unknown, now would they?

What's the stats on a buffalo? I'm making a barbarian who was raised by them.

Which Warlock pact boon is most shit, and why is it blade?

>>43550304
It's not that hard to fix.

>>43549861
okay

If they're intelligent enough to do so, they should have rights already.

A machine with self awareness, consciousness and sentience is just as much a person as any human being, and they deserve all the rights and privileges of that status, implicitly. The fact that there are assholes out there who'd try to enslave intelligent machines are a large part of why I think a machine revolt/AI apocalypse is possible, and that we'd fucking deserve it.

>>43549931
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BASED UNCLE KARLOV

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So I was considering a non combo based blue deck and Tommy boy here seemed fun. Leviathan Tribal time!

What are nice cards to include. The general right now is either Tommy or Thasa, haven't fully decided yet.

Let's say I want to make a game take as long as possible without anyone losing.

What's my general gonna' be?

Your name is Casimir, and you’re on a boat. The past few days have been idyllic, more relaxed than anything you’ve ever known. That’s not saying much, considering that your memories don’t extend far beyond a week at most. Before meeting Ashen-Tome Scholar, all you remember is hunger, and sleep, and waking up at indeterminable intervals to slake your hungers on whatever was at hand. Now, the world is richer, more beautiful, than you could have imagined: you’ve found fellowship, laughter, and purpose.

And also two beautiful women, whom it seems are determined to make things more complicated than they really had to be.

Now, most days drift by with few complications. The tiny sloop put together by Ashe out of Essence and flotsam shoots downriver with little but a light touch to the tiller, and when the whimsy takes you, you slip overboard and take the form of a gar pike or a freshwater dolphin, racing alongside just to glory in the sensation of movement and exertion, or if you’re feeling helpful, taking your new-won form of a monstrous river dragon, butting your great head against the boat to push it along at an even faster pace, provoking shrieks of exhilaration from the ladies you shoot through rapids like an arrow. Your duties seem to be providing: you come aboard with trout or salmon or eels, and prepare them simply over a hot fire, and the others eat appreciatively. Astrid and Ashe take turns steering, and the former trains the latter in occasion in combat, with the result of Ashe’s combat-drill movements slowly taking on a modicum of the Raksha’s elegant grace. You converse often with both, educating yourself on the intricacies of Creation, which with every conversation seems wider and wilder than you ever thought possible.

At the moment, however, the idyll is largely marred by the two women squabbling over a handshake.

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>>43549793

Astrid has her arms crossed beneath her breasts, affecting a stern air. "Little girl, are you suggesting that the sworn word of the Knight of the White Waters is insufficient?"

Ashe glares, crossing her own arms pointedly in a mirror image of the Fae knight's indignation. Unfortunately, it has the effect of emphasising her petiteness before the taller, more lushly-built Raksha. "My name is Ashen-Tome Scholar, and I am Chosen of the gods! You will address me with respect, not as 'little girl'! And yes! You bet your word is insufficient! You're a *Raksha*! Do you think I don't know what that means? Your word is only as true as your nature is constant, and *that's* no guarantee at all!

"If you're going to be travelling with us, I *insist* that you bind yourself to a pact that I will guarantee!"

Both of them round on you, glaring.

"Casimir, kindly inform your ward that to accede to her demand would impugn my honour!"

"Casimir, *kindly* inform our 'companion' that she has to shake my damned hand, or else we'll wake up one day to find that she's sucked our souls out in our sleep!"

"Oh? I'm not the only one who's been contemplating doing some nocturnal sucking," Astrid taunts.

Ashe blushes brilliant. "Th-that's got nothing to do with anything! I... I just need more Essence, t-that's all!"

You surmise that they're referring to Ashe's regular need to drain blood from the living in order to sustain herself. Your sturdy little boat is, after all, held together by willpower and magic, and every time the sun rises Ashe looks visibly more drawn and pale with the effort of keeping it together. The strain is clearly mounting, and thus far, neither of you have spoken of the option of her feeding from you. The last time was... strange.

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> Astrid, I'm sure your honour won't be impugned from just a handshake.
> Ashe, if Astrid wanted to hurt us, she's had a hundred chances by now.
> Ladies, there's enough sucking for everyone on this boat.
> WRITE-IN

>>43550053
> Astrid, I'm sure your honour won't be impugned from just a handshake.

Didn't she say that we were the Knight of the White Waters last session?

She came along with us to find something new, and starting fresh with a nice handshake ought to help with that.