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>>43086207
Life insurance is probably just different. Like, you pay the premiums and then if you die they cover the costs of resurrection.

High Fantasy Doc Wagon

>>43086207
Really?
So from a pathfinder standpoint, raise dead, the lowest level res spell, costs 5 thousand to cast and puts 2 negative levels on the dead person.
Average person makes what? 2 gold a year. So any life insurance policy that paid 100 gold would be a pretty big deal.
What I'm saying is, the cost to cast the magic would probably always outweigh the benefit from any "insurance". Also, you have to find some one powerful enough to cast that spell, who also gave a fuck about money.

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>>43085819
King of Tokyo is pretty fun, and it's simple enough that you can play with children and normals. It's basically combat Yahtzee.

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>>43085840
How's King of New York?

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>>43085862
Haven't played it, but it seems to be just KoT with one or maybe two additional mechanics.
Oh, and if you get KoT, you should get the Power Up! expansion that actually makes the monsters different.

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I love me some Heroes IV.

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>>43085748
>2015
>Class based systems

I found your flaw right there.

>>43085748
>Fighter
>Specialist
>Cleric
>Magic-User
>Elf
>Dwarf
>Halfling

There you go.

>>43085056
>Or more to the point, what should I provide them with in order to facilitate their success
That's the point. You DON'T. Maybe you include in the lore the bbeg's weakness to silver or something, but you don't specifically help them plan to defeat an OPBBEG

>>43085056
honestly it depends on if they actually come up with a plan to kill it or just go with the old fashioned stab it to death plan. perhaps have hints of other stranded units in the area they could link up with to give them numbers for the assault? it may not be much but the ability to have meat-shields to soak the inevitable one-shots of the BBEG would be invaluable. Plus have perhaps hints to a weakness yet undiscovered, perhaps one of their armies magic casters found close to death searching for the last scraps of that knowledge in a ruined library currently occupied by one of the BBEG's lieutenants who is either trying to destroy said records or take them for its own use to usurp its boss while its weakened.

>>43085069
>Maybe you include in the lore the bbeg's weakness to silver or something,
I realize that was just an example, but the reason a weakness in the lore is tricky is that the army that defeated him did not know about it, and they are in enemy territory.
Having peanuts being banned from the land because the demon lord has an allergy or somewhatsits, seems too obvious.

How to I present clues like peanuts, silver, and kryptonite, without it seeming like I'm saying, "Here. This is what you need to do."

My best idea was to steal a bunch of ideas from y'all and then seed the territory with them until the party picks a plan.
Their plan now seems to be, get close and think of something.

>>43085126
>a ruined library currently occupied by one of the BBEG's lieutenants who is either trying to destroy said records or take them for its own use to usurp its boss while its weakened.
This has potential.
I made it very clear that there was no point in looking for other survivors, but maybe the magic user teleported a squad a great distance away at risk to themself, hence the close to death part.

>>43085002
>without overpowering the villains

No, don't do this. Make the villains incredibly powerful, well over the PCs level. If they die, they're already in hell. They have to use cunning to escape.

Have them run a gauntlet. A series of encounters, varying between just below level appropriate and kinda easy. Then have them encounter your choice of either the bbeg (who should be able to give a weakened party a run for their money) or a giant fuck off demon. I would also suggest running the low level enemies akin to Tuckers Kobolds and maybe even forcing the party into a confined space, perhaps to escape an encounter they can't win. Remember, its a big world, not everything is gonna be at their level

Ok cheers, really like the confined space idea.

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>>43084995
Like with almost all sandbox games, run a few missions and see what happens. THEN figure out what the main 'story' is.

>>43085191
You mean think of something from what the players did ?

>>43084963
No.

Because I don't play with shitty editions.

Locate City nuke doesn't work. The area of the spell is a circle, not a 3-dimensional sphere, so at worst everyone affected will jump a couple feet in the air. Using Fell Drain, however, kills anything with 1 HD (and leaves all the buildings untouched, ripe for looting!). You might want to find a way to deal with the wightpocalypse, though.

>>43084963
Because when you try to abuse magic too much, it short circuits and you get hit by the backlash.
Coincidentally, the backlash is directly proportional to how much you need to abuse rules to get the intended effect. Anyone trying to Locate City Nuke anything would be struck dead on the spot.

>>43083339
I want in, but I´m only interested in big scale battles with plenty of space for tactic bullshit.

The closest thing I know is Warhammer, but I arrived too late and nobody plays anymore.

I would gladly get a spiritual successor, but small skirmish games just aren´t my cup of tea.


Following that, I wouldn´t look twice at big miniatures.

>>43083339
I don't care about size, I care about availability and what I can do with it.

For example, I got into Ronin a while back and was on the fence whether to go 28mm or 20mm, since both scale kits existed. But what pushed me to 28mm, even though it'd end up being more expensive, was that I hate rubbery plastic minis, hard plastic or metal samurai stuff in 20mm is very limited, 28mm offers waaay more options to choose from, and I can convert 28mm stuff much more easily with other stuff (made tetsubos from lizardmen clubs and used Zulu War Brits to make Boshin War soldiers). If 20mm has offered a wider range of minis in non-bendy plastic, I might have gone that route.

>We all know that Inquisitor failed because it wasn't compatible with the existing GW lines.

What exactly stopped people from just buying 28mm inquisitor models and using them? We played Inquisitor with 28mm models without any problems or changes to the rules.

>>43084270
>What exactly stopped people from just buying 28mm inquisitor models and using them?

Nothing, but ultimately the game tanked because GW didn't support it as 28mm, no one bought the figures because they didn't work with the existing lines and since figures weren't selling it was axed.

>>43082700
>>43066738
>>GM/Player
Looking for 2-3 players
>>System Preferred
Dark Heresy 2ed
>>Times Available (with timezone!)
GMT+2, the exact time we will figure out with doodle
>>Method of Play (Skype, IRC, roll20, etc)
Skype for voicecall, roll20 for rolling and maps
>>Contact Info
Skype:rykenn
>>Voice or Text
Voice
>>Additional Notes
Making a new campaign with no plot in mind. Players write backstories and we play that. There is a huge setting to be played in, which i have been developing for 2 years now by DMing it. Its basicly a sub-sector in Calixis, almost in Halo stars.

Players are free to travel where they want and do what they want, as long as they somehow still act as inquisition.

PM me for more info, i am a friendly sort

>>43082706
There are two rykenns, are you the French one or the one from the illustrious town of Asdsafds?

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>GM/Player
GM
>System
Ryuutama
>Times Available (with timezone!)
Sundays. (Probably)
>Method of Play (Skype, IRC, roll20, etc)
Skype for the bulk of it, Roll20 for the combat and stuff. (Probably)
>Contact Info
[email protected]
>Voice or Text
Text.
>Additional Notes

Still need people, email me if interested.

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It was worked on roughly two years ago, pretty much by one anon (though I had a good hand in it). Here's what came of it.
>Core
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xCdK8cps-tu1B89HQAessLfjZ1nsoImJk4KPS-xVjZI/edit
>Custom creation
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c6F_SnivgEt-bdej0t5gdAP5zyKBM31o6-Be1ZI80Fo/edit
>Class Psynergy gains
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1so7SYpkyeMdwVhDFewwrbC68peZH5iviEXZhxIyh4Gg/edit
>Character sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SOojefFIRym_LNpfCn0TOgWxprJNXBcNkIw7V5rn9XU/edit#gid=0
>Consolidated Psynergy
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MUqfz6GMhIm4Oti4kjlJynEJUsgJS2jkFBZR7yTDPVM/edit
>Psynergy balancing
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IyFDws-8OsYrmmp5GeOv9wJCCO1FJgghL_hABbPGqGU/edit

>>43082119
>roughly two years ago
Was it really that long ago? Wow time sure does fly!

>>43082147
For what it's worth, I really like how absurdly flexible the abilities are, how you can craft skills, equipment and djinn unleashes all from the same base system.

>>43079465
So how are you going to tap Eater of the Dead again?

Combine Eater of the Dead with Phenax for an actual shitty combo worth posting about

>>43079465
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aegP8j5al0

>>43080095

it doesn't need to be tapped. you just fire it off as "0:do nothing" over and over.

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>>43079726

I've been GMing for... Throne, 9 years? Seriously?

I've been having a lot of fun running my current Only War game. Because who doesn't like hellish urban combat that tends to leave at least one character in Critical Damage per combat?

I'd say my most important discoveries GMing were that planning is only good in moderation and that cheating is okay if it makes the game better. Too much planning leads to inflexibility, which can lead to railroading. Too little leaves things disjointed and confusing. And as the GM, if a situation is harder than it should be, fudge rolls, remove undiscovered components of the situation, whatever. Too easy? Fudge rolls, give the boss extra HP, bring in enemy reinforcements, and so on.

>>43079039
I've been GMing for about 30 years now (jesus!), with large gaps in there of non-activity. I pretty much make my own systems these days.

It's kind of hard to give advice to somebody without knowing anything about them. It's sort of like me asking you how I could improve my basketball game without telling you anything about how I play. But with that said...

Talk to your group beforehand about the tone and etiquette of your game to make sure that everybody's on the same page. How serious or silly is the game? How much table talk and joking around is okay? How much are people expected to actually role-play their characters? What's the focus of the game? Is it okay to try to kill other players or leave the group (hint: no)?

You can save you so much heartache and trouble if you do that, and it's something that it took me decades to figure out. I always assumed that people would naturally pick up on things like this, but it's not all obvious, and some people are completely oblivious.

I started GMing around 8 years ago. Since then, I've run the wide majority of my group's games, my latest being a 1 on 1 with a close friend. Savage Worlds has been my favorite at the moment.

All of >>43081009 is very handy advice that I have only recently been putting to work. Having a list of appropriate names for NPCs can help alot when you need to create one on the fly. When needed, slap like two characteristics on them quick (kind, eager, greedy, cowardly etc), think of their profession and you'll have something to work with in a snap.

>>43078875
More likely they'll just assume you're making some social commentary by making Hell like a twisted version of our world. Making the jump to "this is the future" is unlikely.

So Hell is our modern world? Hmm, that would explain all the invasions Hell commits to the material planes. The question then becomes why the heck are the material planes not nuked to oblivion?

>>43078939
Hell is post-apocalyptic, and nuke knowledge is lost?

Well for what it's worth OP I just probably wouldn't have let you without a pretty compelling reason, so take what you can get I guess. I'm really not a fan of warforged

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>>43078902

Good reasons, you say?

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>>43078956
>transform into dildo
>finally understand the strange human emotion you meatbags call "love"