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>>54473078
Hi!

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For those of you having trouble getting to bed.

>>54472687
Corn is a word that means any cereal grain. Wheat, barley, rice--all are corn.

Thee and thou are informal and you would only use them when speaking to people you know well. You is formal.

Something awful is something that fills you with awe, like a breathtakingly beautiful woman? Awful.

"Nice" is an insult. It means that someone is stupid.

Being naughty means that you are poor.

Meat just means "food."

>>54473196
A bimbo is a young boy.

Cute means perceptive.

A matrix is a pregnant animal.

To decimate something means to remove 10% of it.

An apocalypse is something that was covered, but isn't any more.

A cheater is a person who takes property from dead people who have no one to inherit it.

A girl is a young child of either sex.

>>54472687

"Boner" in that context used to mean "a goof" or "a big, embarrassing mistake".

>>54472385
Ideally, that's how it should be.
But I'm a fan of the idea of scaling in pretty much all areas, but at different rates.
Ie. A high level tank still has some very good DPS and even a little healing utility.
Or a high level healer can still hold their own in pure combat as well

Proper progression is the name of the game.

>>54472385
This is literally just D&D 4e. It exists and is extremely good as a skirmish scale wargame, highly flexible and enjoyable in that area. I heartily recommend it for this purpose.

>>54472385
Since you're describing DnD 4e, we already know the answer:

/tg/ almost unanimously hated it until 5e came out, and now some contrarians are hopping on board with the handful of people who actually liked it to pretend like it was the best version of DnD the whole time.

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>>54471169
>Thread question

Pic related. I miss it at times but it doesn't cripple the deck, especially since it's not combo.

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>>54471169
>What cards so you avoid out of principle? Does it hamstring your deck from its highest potential?

Anything over $40.

>>54471320
What commander(s) are you running?

>>54470988
Pretty cool if done right, but tend to end up being played as edgy edge lords.

Really fun.

>>54471039
Why?

The game's flavor is shit.

>>54470685
People hate things that are different. Everyone seems to be forgetting how polarizing DoW2 was at launch. The reduction in scale, greater emphasis on squad-based tactics, the gutting of multiplayer, and the RPG campaign did not sit well with many people.

Of course, a few expansions and DLC packs later, people discovered that it's a great game in it's own right. I suspect this will be the case with DoW3 as well.

>>54470685

Marines play like Starcraft marines and have really weird late game synergies that aren't super intuitive and have odd micro

Also the campaign isn't particularly well balanced and eldar suffer from a bizarre power shortage in their late game missions that leads to 10 minute wait times between wave wipes

Orks are fun though and knights play like legit super heavies

You have no idea what an orc is and have come to this conclusion through only experiencing orcs the n a memetic level

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>>54470663
I prefer them in Conan-style swords & sorcery settings, myself.

No hybrids, though. Just horrible rape and eventual devouring.

>>54470663
>the n a memetic

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>>54470156

The art looks badass.

>>54469484
It's the first RPG I ever played, which was also the first ever time I GM'd. I absolutely love it, and went through a mad collecting phase a few years ago. I own all the alternity and Star*Drive books luckily.

Star*Drive is one of my favorite RPG settings.

It's a great system, and remains my favorite, probably partially due to nostalgia. It has a few flaws but nothing worth dropping it completely over.

They recently did a 2.0 rule set over kickstarter, but in reading the test documents I wasn't a fan of some of the changes, Like the new initiative system is stupidly complex, and I have no idea what possessed them to change the names of the degrees of success. I am good with my old books.

What actually introduced me to the game and system was the StarCraft RPG box set they released back in the day.

>>54471281
Nice, I just finished reading the character creation chapter, and I think I've got it down. Looks unique and fun.

Strawpoll wants me to register to comment, and I cannot be arsed, so here's my "Anything you'd like to see not mentioned here?" comment:

I want a system that truly excites its own creator, based on his own passion and ideas rather than on market research. People do not truly know what they want until you give it to them, and they cannot tell you anything that has not already been done. Entrepreneurship is about venturing into the unknown and staking your reputation on your ideas, not ours. All this poll-taking will do more harm than good to your game.

I suppose it'd need to offer me something I don't get in any other easily-available system. There's a big glut of RPGs out there. Realistically I'm capable of enjoying any genre and most design philosophies, as long as it's executed well.

So uh... make whatever you want. I can't tell you if you're excited by a game built for epic fantasy or a rules-light generic system. What matters is that it plays well and isn't hideously broken.

>>54468626
My comment: rules and storytelling shouldn't even remotely be in competition with each other.

Strike!

>>54468567
4e and Legend.

>>54468644

Could you elaborate a bit on what exactly sets Strike apart? I've seen it mentioned and looked it up but I don't really have a strong grasp of what makes the system unique.

>>54468680

4e might not be a bad idea.

>>54468497
The NPCs playing sensibly is not wrong.
Moreover, if the paladin and monk both totally lacked ranged combat options, that's their fault and they should fix that.

>>54468497
The monk is a dipshit.
You were only wrong in your choice of system.

>>54468497
>Monk is whispering to me that it's unfair that both Oni's aren't attacking the Paladin even though they're both right next to each other
What was his rationale for this?

>Monk says I was making the game completely unfair, too difficult, and that I should account for the player's class into account because the Warlock/Rogue were the only ranged characters.
I don't understand what this is supposed to mean. It sounds like he's suggesting that only half the party being ranged makes them weaker, and therefore unable to handle the encounters you're throwing at them (eg tanks are useless and/or he dun goofed picking monk). I suspect this was not actually the intention.

Oh crap...Dragon...are you seeing this?

>>54467330
My last character in an urban fantasy setting cut away every aspect of her normie life when she found out how fucked up everything was, used mundane and supernatural methods to destroy any evidence linking her back.
It was one of those settings where just knowing about the supernatural put a huge target on you and everyone around you. Rest of the party gave her shit for it until the one guys GF nearly got sacrificed by vampires to summon not!Satan

>>54467081
>What would European society return to?
Extinction. You literally would not have enough people left to maintain population growth though common hazards of the era (wildlife, disease), so people would die out in couple generations.

Some centuries later South American cultures develop sufficiently advanced sea-faring and claim the new lands for their bloodthirsty gods, wondering briefly where the strange ruins come from before razing what remains of them and erecting their own temples in their place.

>99.9%

The hell kind of apocalypse is this?

And the other guy is right, the population is not high enough for that.

>>54467188
>>54467233
What about say 99%

That would mean there is still a family sized unit left in a typical village of 500 people.

>>54466998
I like the way Chris Perkins handles firearms in his various streams that he DMs.

They're still bare minimum basic hand canons, and extremely uncommon, to the point that he'll describe it to the characters with things like

>"One of them points a strange metal wand at you and the end of it explodes. You don't know what it is, but you take (x) piercing damage."
>"The man has what appears to be a hilt tucked into his belt, but there's no blade."

>>54466998
They are just refluffed bows with zero mechanical difference.
No point to isolating the player for punishment nor derision nor pandering to his retardness.

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>>54467176
Isn't atmosphere as important as mechanics?