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>>54149259
>Woke up in a riverbed, uncertain of where I am
>Eventually gained my bearings and got lost in a wood, but eventually found an overlook that helped me spot smoke in the distance
>Wandered east for a couple days, basically hiding under logs and shit for shelter when I rest
>(I lucked out because later I would come to find that there are bears and monsters and shit in these woods.)
>Eventually come to the edge of town
>I can't understand their language, it sounds sort've Scandanavian or something
>But they are outright hostile towards me at first, holding up farming tools at me defensively
>One of the village elders seems to tell the people not to harm me, but not to welcome me either.
>I spend a couple of days begging for work. Most people can't even make out what I'm trying to say through simple gestures
>Eventually, an old woman gives me a job working on her farm
>I perform basic labor on her small, 3 acre farm. Milking chickens, getting cow eggs, that whole thing.
>She pays me a couple copper pieces a day, and I manage to "borrow" a chicken egg on occassion, which is just enough to get by
>Stay in the local tavern's stables for a copper a night. It's summer, so it's not unpleasant
>Continue this for a couple of months, gradually learning a few key words of the language
>Spend each of my off days with the old woman, learning pieces and parts of their culture
>After every five days of work, I would roll to see if I could gain a point towards my physical ability scores, once I had enough points to surpass my current Strength, I could increase it by 1

>>54149264
>Then it happens, up until now the random events have been mundane or insignificant enough that they are dealt with by local guard before I even see them
>One day, I am having dinner with the other farmhands, when a figure stumbles into town from the north
>We race over to see it is a traveling merchant. He's been badly beaten and can hardly move
>I can't understand what he's saying, but the others say he was attacked by brigands on the road
>A small crowd is gathering around, seeing what all the fuss is about
>I realize that this is my chance, I might be able to seize gold, fame, and renown for this "quest".
>I immediately set out, all of the villagers basically call me an idiot.

>In my downtime, I didn't have time to scavenge gear, so when I get to the scene of the attack, I carefully scout the area and manage to piece together some equipment
>I basically have a leather jack and a spear, and a bag slung over my shoulder.
>I spend the next four days scouting out the area surrounding the town of Pimerden
>My first kill is some sort of wolf-rat creature, I build a small fire and cook it that night, contemplating the situation I'm in
>Eventually, I find a small ruin to the northeast that looks to be a likely hideout
>there looks to be a watchman's fire, but when I sneak up, I realize that there's no one on guard
>Sneak around for a bit to find that they weren't bandits that attacked the merchant's caravan, but some sort of mind-controlled thralls
>Just as I'm about to leave, I find a room with a few caged slaves, I immediately let them free and try to convince them to follow me
>Out of the dozen or so of them, only one wants to stay
>A fat, elderly man named Edwin. He seems to have a neutral opinion of me, so it must be his curiosity that leads him to follow me
>Armed with simple weapons, we go deeper into the ruins

>>54149270
>Carefully, we sneak around and dispatch the thralls, one by one.
>One manages to stick me pretty good in the arm, but we wrestle him to the ground and tie him up, before putting him in the cage back on the first floor
>Eventually, we come to the entrance of a large room, I get that "Boss battle coming up" feeling, so I tell Edwin to hold on
>Together we set up a couple of primitive traps in the hallways, covering the floor in flamable oil, and a tripwire, using rope and tension to thrust a spear
>Once we're ready, we enter the room
>Inside is a big naga/lamia/medusa like monster named Sorag, she immediately attacks. She tries mind controlling Edwin, but he's already negated it once in the past 24 hours
>She tries it on me as well, but I barely succeed the check.
>She slashes and attacks as we run back for the hallway, where she sets off the tripwire and we light the fire.
>After taking fucktons of damage, she back up and waits for the fire to subside
>We charge back into the room, and start layin' it on her. She scratches both of us all up, but at last we manage to wrestle her to the ground
>We tie her up and put her in the cage with the thrall and with the help of the escaped slaves manage to pull her back to town
>The village elder sends aid from another town to send a priest, and I am compensated for my troubles
>I make a few handfuls of silver, and Edwin trades some of the treasures we found in the ruins
>I ask him if he wants to join me in becoming an adventurer. He basically says I'm stupid if I think he's not going to take his newfound gold and buy a cottage where he can live peacefully

Now I'm contemplating whether I should scout out more areas or just head directly to this town in the north, it's apparently a couple days travel by road, and the road was previously safe. But how safe can it really be if caravans are being ambushed by monsters and shit? Just taking a peek at the random encounter list, it could be a liesurely walk, or death.

>>54148959
It's coming along
wrote most of the minor stuff and will now finish up the the big religions and schools of magic. Thing are a little slower now than when Ibegan writing it.

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>>54148959
Pretty good. Even with a hard edged map, with no extrapolation of the outer continent, I have a handle on what's going on in the inside.

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It sucks bro. I can't seem to figure out where I want to go with it past like a high concept - in an alien and post monster-apolcalypse world formally illegal magic pulls a bunch of Vikings back from the afterlife to do battle with said monsters.

>>54148807
Fantasy war? High level demon summonings leading to MAD make sure that's never a thing.

>>54148807
>Is there or could there be some kind of magical arms race?

>What is MTG backstory.
>What is D&D Backstory (Greyhawk, Eberron, Points of Light, Everyweek in FR)

>>54148807
>What uses could magic have? Artillery, transport, healing, etc. in a battle?
all of those and more at the home front if magics common.
If you've got deities with magical power backing you up wars are likely to get bigger and more intense.

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Now, that's one of three down.

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leftover post from last thread
>>54147381
>1 week after our "break" in the warehouse began, we were summoned to the Velvet Room, or some new version of it. I was still in chains, but at the defendant's chair in a courthouse. The jury seats were taken up by my friends, Philemon seemed ready to speak as my lawyer, and the judge... Jump-Chan

>The embodiment of mankind's goodness was in a heated debate with our captor, something about CP budget, whatever that meant. They seemed to reach an agreement when Philemon turned away and handed me a briefcase.

>"You'll get the rest once things have started" The moment I touched the briefcase I began to slip away

Panic and splendor, the feeling in the pit of my stomach saying terra firma is well and truly gone

>>54148502
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>54148502
Yay nice.

I can never tell what's happening in these comics, but then again I only see them when people post them here

>>54148369
Basically, the guy in the cloak is going through a ceremony that might make him explode so he can heal one of his teammates.

Then demons happened.

There, that explains how we got here.

>>54148369
Goblins get character sheets. MinMax and Fumbles are best Characters. It's pretty edgy, but not Re:Monsters Edgy.

Read By The Book if you want to see the same concept if the target audience was /pfg/(it's 60% fan-service)

Read Rusty and Co. If you want to see the same concept done in a super comfy, light-hearted manner. Madeline is my Paladin Waifu.

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>>54148113

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>>54148119

suddenly I like assault marine models and I really don't know why. It terrifies me.

The current assault marine kit was a kirby era kit with kirby era prices. Please help me.

>>54147257
That's a lot of raptors about to crash down on a lot of people looking the wrong way. Why does it look like the night lords did something correctly?

https://mega.nz/#F!CVkVTDqJ!qQfT1437iEAZ5ufmEdG4sA

Linking one last time - PDFs with errata commented in.

>>54146014
Nope, you can only activate planeswalker abilities whenever you can use a sorcery, and Hexmage can be sac'd at any time you could use an instant.

>garruk enters with double counters
>sac's vampire hexmage
>no more garruk

>>54146014
I'm not a judge, but you should have been able to put his ability on the stack before priority passes to him, assuming it was your turn.

>>54146039

What is priority dipshit. Diaf.

Op ignore this retard. He comes into play, you get priority as its your turn and can choose to activate garruk immediately. Instants can only be cast when you have priority, it always defaults to active player after the stack clears.

>>54145140
It doesn't because princesses can't hold land or authority. Invariably, either we wait until a male heir is born, or dredge up some side branch child with royal lineage to marry the firstborn of the triplets.

>>54145140
depends on the succession laws

Three different princess, split the kingdom into three separate parts.

This inevitably leads to civil war. Glindara the Good Princess and her holy knights battling against Ethora the Evil Princess and her demonic sorcerers, all the while Netura the Neutral Princess sells weapons to both side and takes over through cutthroat business decisions and clever investments in the private sector.

>>54144906
>magic isn't real, all the rituals are just make-believe
There.

>>54144906
>All virgins possess potential for magic. However, magical abilities only truly manifest after thirty years of age.

>>54144906
>Psionics, on the other hand, are fucking OP. Everyone has at least a small amount of psychic power and can lift, say, about 5 pounds with their mind and move it at a walking speed. The most powerful psions can kill a yak at 200 yards away...WITH MIND BULLETS!

i-im running fatal...

The Mahabharata

>>54144797

Group is hyped for Tomb of Annihilation but super unfamiliar with the lore so we're running a literal pre-game in 3 phases to get ready.

Phase 1 is LMoP for 1-5 to help our two newest players get the hang of things, then running Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan and the Doomvault for Phase 2 with a certain Demi-Lich taking over as the main villain for both.

Then Phase 3 is a multi-character sealed envelope event codenamed "Assault on the Tomb of Horrors." Each player is getting a stack of sealed envelopes with a premade character in each one with all their play aids like reference cards and tokens, but the characters are deliberately underpowered to represent a D-Day style assault with multiple characters invading simultaneously with a real-time clock that triggers events. When a character is killed off or too crippled to continue that sheet is getting swept into the "chum bucket" and the player is going to rip open their next envelope with their new character joining the party and the card for how it happens. My goal is 1 character death per player per hour of play and I think I've got the numbers set up to be at least close.

After that, my players should be fully hyped and ready to swim to Chult, find a zombie-spewing T-Rex, pick it up by the ankles, and beat Acererak to back to death with it. So "Phase 4" is going to be running Tomb of Annihilation with fresh characters as the small, deep-cover expeditionary force sent to finish the fight.

This is the largest, most complicated "adventure" I've ever undertaken and I am ridiculously looking forward to it.

>>54144410
WFRP 3rd edition

>>54144410
You'll be mad at me if I tell you.

>>54144410
hackmaster is a work of love

>>54143843

I've never been able to conceptualize what a CSM 'administered' world looks like or how it functions outside of LMAO RANDUM DEATH AND RAPE :^)

maybe some novels cover this

>>54143886
If I remember they mostly just sit around and do nothing. Or they get ready to organize and go on raiding trips.
In the Siege of Castellax book many of the Iron Warrior CSM had government positions IE managing slaves, administration over the space port, production quotas and economics, security etc.
Since they have the most power out of the followers of Chaos they pretty much run the gov and what not
Pretty interesting desu

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Khorne? Probably chat on the glory of their greatest kils, clean their weapons, engage in blood sports, plan the next invasion.

Nurgle? I honestly think they would be trying to talk the non-converted into supporting Nurgle, be it slaves or other marines. Possibly playing with their "Pets" AKA smaller daemons that they're befriended/ infected animals.

Tzeentch devoted probably discuss ideas and plot with and against eachother, they no doubt read a lot, both fiction and non-fiction. Test out new spells and collect the supplies for making rituals.

Slaanesh devoted more than likely groom themselves. Eat, drink and party. They get high and just chat about their greatest feats, probably resulting in a few brawls. No doubt some sex mixed in there, Then they go do their obsessions e.g. Guys who like smithing go try to create the best sword EVAR and etc.

Undivided more than likely do a combination, or just chat with eachother on their opinions of the chaos gods, and which they like more/less

In his quest for the ever increasing extremes of sensation, a Champion of Slaanesh, at some point in his like, has probably tried to shove a dildo up his nose.

>>54142579

> Ork's build this piece of shite
> Unlike for Nigerians, the Ork's believing it is a flying, amphibious wartrukk actually works, due to their psychic ability.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QEppLYm5CQ

a space marine and an ork form a begrudging
mutual respect due to their mutual respect for the capability of smashing enemies

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>>54141982
I mean I can do that, but there was a character art thread up. But sure, I'll help you out.