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>>54407053
Describe on the fly if you are able. It's much more evocative and you can the cadence much better.

>>54407053
Prep a few major descriptions in advance (Such as cities or other important set pieces, major NPCs), the like, but in general, it's best to play it by ear in order to maintain the momentum and play to the player's expectations.

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>>54407053
Newbie GM Question

Can you give me advice on how to find more experts on the system I'm running a game in? In this case Mutants and Masterminds 3e.

I would like help stating up custom monsters and enemies without spoiling them for my players.

Two my players have played and GM'd the system before. They taught me how the system works. They browse /tg/ and the roninarmy forums.

The other 2 players browse /tg/.

>>54406900
no

>>54406900
It could happen but no has bothered since no one likes the guard

I think the book Redemption Corps mentioned the squad was from different regiments

>>54406959
I can vouch for you

being right

being almost right

being right in a sorta morally ambiguous way

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I like the idea of bringing Illithids to their natural conclusion

they use their psionics to turn other species into thralls, so wouldn't it follow that there be a central mind enthralling all of the illithids?

In a sense this makes them a hive mind, a single mind controlling many minds, each in turn controlling even more minds, until all of creation is under its control

it might be a little too close to the borg's "you will be assimilated" cliche, but still a new take on it.

>>54406718
I always find them rather boring because they replace interacting with multiple different entities with only a single entity.

>>54406718
I sort of wanted to make a society of a parasitic hivemind that farms its host like you would cattle overtime the host and parasite would become genetically linked to the point where the parasite is only able to latch onto this particular population

>>54406017
>How many board wipes do you run? MLD? What influences this decision?
>If you don't find MLD acceptable, where do you draw the line on what counts? Are any of Blood Moon, Wake of Destruction, and/or Rain of Salt MLD? How about Strip Mine with Crucible in the deck?
depends on the deck but between 1-4 with the notable exception of my casual esper control deck that runs 6
>mld
In a deck that wants MLD I tend to run Armageddon, ravages, hokori and winter orb as an absolute minimum

>>54406017
>Thread Question
Ruination is normally enough for me because I always play a lot of basics and it always reaps the most salt from the table.

>>54406017
I tend to avoid MLD because I play with a wide range of players, and I don't want to completely scare off the newer/more casual guys.
However, Blood Moon/Back to Basics is completely fair game because it hurts the players with expensive decks much more than the casual guys running mostly basics.

Extremely. The good news is Mantic and North Star are right next door to that, so you don't need to get ripped off by geedubs.
Still regretting not going to those instead earlier this year.

>>54405609
Ignore this tit Mantic are a load of unprofessional fuckwits.

Its a great place, will be able to pick up a game of 40k pretty much whenever. Do be warned though that Nottingham itself is a fucking hole in the ground.

how disappointed you are depends on how idealized your image of england is

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First for Ulthuan!

Second for Hotel Lorien.

2nd for Fimir.

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>>54403138

These threads aren't /tg/ at all, since most of you doesn't even try to change the /v/ related filenames.

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>>54403147
>VtM isn't /tg/ related
Full retard.

>>54403018
>*(base-building, resource gathering, army building)

Added for clarity's sake.

>>54403029
Don't see why not.

Take however many Resources you want.

CandC for example would use Tibernium and Base Power.
Warcraft is Gold. Wood and Population.
Etc.

Decide on some basic buildings.
>Need A to build Workers to gather whatever Resources.
>Need B to build more workers/buildings for workers or more people in general in A makes workers.
>Need C to build more peoples.
Peoples can either fight or maybe build as well or do whatever.
Give them basic stats like
Move 3 Damage 1 Armour 0 Maybe a leadership or something or whatever else you want.
Have buildings to get upgrades give the base people bonus or equipment.

>>54403029
Risk, SC, A&A.

Classic RTS had its time to shine, but its failure to return despite many efforts show the reason why it disappeared in the first place: it gets old fast.

AoE had a bunch of game mods and more focus on different resources to get around this, while WC and SC added micro to single units and heroes to keep things interesting, while having an enjoyable SP experience due to variety of goals and situations during missions.

But C&C and its clones really offered very little to the whole "spam some units and lead the blob" apart from the odd "defend here" or the stealth missions.

>>54401849
1. The rats are way stronger than the PCs expect, and they are not let in on this detail.
2. There are so many rats. Tens of thousands of rats. Potentially infinite rats from the elemental plane of rats. They must enter the Rodent Gateway and stop the Rat God-Emperor within.
3. There are no rats.
4. The rats are ghosts.
5. "Rat" was figurative speech to refer to unsavory individuals who hang out down there. They really don't need killing, just some talking-to about life decisions.
6. The rats have an entire civilization down there, and are clearly sapient.

>>54401978
2,4,and 6 are hilarious to me
i would definitely use these concepts

>>54401849
The Rats offer to pay the Adventurers to get rid of the innkeeper

>>54401835
>Big Bard Evil Guy
ugh

Really depends. Bards could have any sort of motivation, potentially something as simple as political reform. Maybe he's from the beaten underclasses and is inciting the kingdom's populace to eventually overthrow the monarch in bloody rebellion. The players would be the disposable thugs hired to keep the crown's hands clean of it all.

>>54401835
He seeks the Ultimate Chords, which together will form the Primeval Riff, which will allow him to bend the world to his will. The ancient lich-lords known only as the Metalwrights discovered them eons ago, and, fearing that they may be used against them, secreted them away beneath their mighty volcanic fortress. When at last the Metalwrights were brought low, they were flung screaming into the depths of the volcano, taking with them the knowledge of the Primeval Riff they had tried so desperately to play in those final moments. And there it has lain for these eons past.

I think I have a campaign to write.

>>54401835
To rock a hole in space and time so he can visit heaven and jam with God himself.

>>54400847
By making them all knife ears.

Just have them always show up a few steps ahead and just about to leave? I don't see how a DMPC situation would happen.

>>54400847
First recommendation: Don't FORCE the player characters to interact with them. (This should actually apply to just about any NPCs that aren't enemies, but here in particular.)

Second recommendation: Don't make them be around a lot, unless the players clearly like them being around. Let their encounters with this other adventuring party be sparse, and for goodness sake, think twice before planning for the PC party to go on a dungeon raid with the rival party.

Third recommendation: Make sure this other party is well balanced, and at best roughly equal or even a bit weaker than the PC party. Have some of them injured/recovering from injuries when you have the PC party encounter them, at least once; that should give at least the subconscious impression that these guys aren't invincible, Mary-Sue DMPC types. Giving them some character flaws couldn't hurt either.

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Hey Yekka small little bug to report on 5193169:

Choosing the "Wild Hunt" Mentor Spirit crashes Chummer.

>>54392376
>How powerful are governments in your games?
Depends, some are equal, some are more powerful, and some are just tools.
Yet the ones that are "equal" are so heavily influenced by bribes and donations from the corps that you can hardly call it being equal anyway.

>>54392450
Jesus I misquoted first post instead of OP. I suck.

>>54391704
no

>>54391704
Not seeing the point. 4e had hundreds of constantly errataed powers, so e-tools made sense. 5e is both more light and more stable.

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tfw general so dead thread is archived

>>54388114
Kill off burn.

It would bring a new era of shitposting.

kill off abzan
btw i have b/w token im thinking upgrading this deck but i dont which steps should take to make it stronger (esper morph maybe?)