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>>53845246
this question is very difficult to answer

basically, anything goes in casual play. you don't need to worry about the best color combo.

In competitive formats the best colors vary. In legacy, blue is uncontested, but can't really stand alone so the most common decks are blue/black or blue/white, and most often splash a 3rd color like red or green.

In modern, it's the same story, black is basically the best color but it can't stand alone so it's most commonly paired with green. Blue and white are generally considered the worst colors in modern but they're fine as splash colors.

In standard, who cares lol


if you've no interest in the competitive side of mtg, literally whatever works, just have fun.

>>53845489
I'm trying to learn as much about the game as possible, and make a really cool deck. Ive made a list of cards I wanna buy to help me out, with planeswalkers, and a few ledgendary creatures

There's a local game store that I want to play at with some regularity, but I dont wanna go in with a shitty deck. Also, my friend has an Eldrazi deck with endless one, Emrakul, Ulamog (ceaseless hunger and infinite gyre) and a kozilik. Ive beat him and his brother (red deck with 2 Chandra), but I always lose when 1 on 1

>>53845621
Casual magic is pretty much incomparable to any sort of sanctioned event, so don't take your experience with your playgroup into consideration. You can either build your own deck, knowing that it's 100% garbage and intend on building into something useful or look up a cheap list online (G/R pummeler has the best value to power ratio of any budget deck). Here's a few mistakes that I notice that new players make.

>putting bad cards in your deck
It's probably a good idea to ask an experienced standard player whether or not a card in your deck is bad. Card evaluation is a learned skill, but a good rule of thumb is to ask yourself "Would I like to draw this off the top of my deck if I'm losing the game?" If not, then you need a very good reason to include it.

>playing too many expensive spells
In a 24 land deck, having 5 lands by turn 5 is seriously unlikely. Good deck's are built on cheap spells, and you really shouldn't include many 3, 4, or 5 drops in your deck.

>playing x's monuments
I don't know why every new player plays one of the shitty Amonkhet monuments, but just don't. None of them are playable.

>caring about budget
It's sad, but there's no way to avoid spending money if you want to have a record better than 0-4. You don't have the collection to build decks off the cards that you own, so don't try. People give away shitty draft chaff for a reason.

Also, be wary of bad advice. Most standard players are shit at magic.

>>53844970
>Sooner or later he'll fail enough armor saves.

Sounds to me like it's worth its points as a distraction.

>>53844970
It's 40k you retard, the less guns you carry the harder you are to shoot.

>>53844970
>How is walking pestilence even a threat?

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>>53843569
I really want to runa campaign where players are not only different races and classes, but different levels. Kind of like in LotR, where there's one level 10 cleric, a couple 5th level fighters, and a few 1st level rogues.

Has anyone done anything like this? Is there any advice that you have for running a campaign like that? How do
would you imagine class makeup affecting it?

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Which is a better combo. Broken Blade+Riven Hourglass, or BB+Thrashing dragon?

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>>53843463
Whaddya think? Rakdos Control or B/R Wither Aggro?

>>53843463
I can't quite remember the cards that would go with this, but I think "Nest of Scarabs" was one of them, and I think that this could lead to an infinite draw engine in Grixis colors.

EDH of course,as the cards you'd need to set this up wouldn't be all that great in a Standard/Eternal format deck.

>>53843463
Why the fuck doesn't it have a name?

Why doesn't it work like the other gods? What about this creature makes it be a god?

Since when does Rakdos get a a 5-mana 6/5 with no downsides?

Bumping whit a list of more ff like games:

8 bit dungeon
Retrophaze
ffrpg 4th edition

>>53843444
Super Console.
It actually considers playability at the table, rather than trying to closely copy mechanics that are not meant to be calculated manually.

>>53847312
What was your experience with other final fantasy games? is there a better one?

>>53843423
like, /tg/ related? or just, in general? I listen to like 40 podcasts, but only like 4 or 5 are /tg/ related

I just like RPGs mainly (though I am interested into getting into 40k, I just don't know where to start), but the only roleplaying podcast that's really stuck to me is Monster in my Podcast, they go through, I think, the AD&D2e Monster Manual, monster by monster, 2 or 3 times a week. Short episodes, 5-10 mins each, they often sidetrack if the monster is really shitty.

I liked Critical Hit for a long while, but they subbed some people out around episode 300 and the people they got in were really boring and also had terrible audio quality. I really liked the Yogscast's old podcasts where they play D&D, but that was more the jokes than the game - that said, they started doing it again with a new DM and some new players and it's really great, though they aren't podcasts, just a video series.

I've also tried the Achievement Hunter one Heroes & Halfwits, I liked the cast but it just didn't grab me, also they swapped out players every week which was weird.

As far as general fantasy goes, I really love the Radio Westeros podcasts, where they look at individual characters and plotlines from the ASoIaF novels.

I would love to find a quality game of Cyberpunk 2020 out there, but it seems to have nothing

>>53845534

I meant just /tg/, though now that I think about it I might listen to a Batman podcast too.

Thanks for your list, always good to have something new to try.

At a glance, here's my list in order of 'most recently updated'

Roundtable Live
Giant Bombcast
GM Word of the Week
The Allusionist
Dragon Talk
Paranormal Podcast w/ Jim Harold (lol)
Song Exploder
Myths and Legends (Jason Weiser)
99% Invisible
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Super Best Friendcast
LORE
Hello From The Magic Tavern
My Brother My Brother and Me
The Lightforge
CoolGames Inc
Bad Publicity
Install from Heap
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Samurai Wild West. Katanas and six-shooters. Ronin cowboys. Names like "Jonny 'Dynamite' Tsurugi." Inter-clan politics and dusty frontier towns. Quick-draw duels of both varieties.

Preddy gubb so far.

>>53843325
Gritty gothic campaign set in a Greek Bronze Age inspired society. We're all a bunch of scrubs trying to earn the favor of the gods and other patrons by slaying monsters and men.

Last game I got drunk and bedded a woman. Now I'm trying to track her down because her kiss left a parasite that ate half my tongue before the others ripped it out. According to the party scholar, she was probably a Synomeer, basically the settings Vampires. Apparently they all have these parasites inside their mouths and to make another of themselves they rape your mouth and leave a baby.

So yeah. Oh, I'm also unable to speak now. I can scream and shit, but elegant conversation is a no.

>>53843325
High level Anima campaign. Matthew Gaul, aka Magical Trump, has razed their favorite hangout, Lennard(in Not!Switzerland), in a warning against the prince to not interfere in his war to make the Empire great again.
Players are now fighting border skirmishes against Gaul's troops, giving Imperial tacticians time to formulate a battle plan for the big battle that's inevitably going to happen.
The players are also 3/5 of the way through breaking a series of scrolls they believe are the key to summoning a dragon that will herald the apocalypse.
What they don't know is that the scrolls are the only things keeping the Antichrist locked up, and that the dude who sent them on this errand is either Space Hitler or his former subordinate, Millennium. The fourth scroll being broken will provoke an attack by an angel, when they're used to demons showing up.
And a certain crow-controlling demon will contact them and ask "dudes, wtf are you doing?" Aforementioned super dragon is currently crashing at said demon's pad.
Cue panic.

Most editions of D&D people are familiar with operate on the function of a certain base-starting statline, usually at least 16 if not 18 in your primary stat. A 10, or even 14, is just not enough

>>53843235
Point buy reflects the baseline around which the game is balanced (at least as far as D&D is balanced). Going for an average of 10 results in underpowered or nonfunctional PCs in 3rd edition and beyond -- and since low stats hurt martials more than casters, exacerbate already existing balance issues.

I do agree that it's gotten out of hand though.

>>53843235

You're talking in terms of RP and campaign tone but the players you're talking about don't really care about those things except in the most superficial ways. What they do care about are optimizing mechanically and/or their own power fantasies.

Depends on the setting. Can we make this a mandatory rule yet, that OP has to state the setting, or settings and systems?

>>53843002
I like them, mainly because they're bara bait but still

>>53843002
In my experience they're generally the least popular among men as well. Nearly all the orc or half-orc characters I've ever seen are ones I've played myself.

>>53843459
>she itches the ditch to Squad Broken

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>>53842298
>Demon fairies: they suck the life force out of you during sex and then replenish the forest with it.

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>>53842298
Budgy Pill
Budgy Pill is the ape of greed. If you hold a party or cookout, Budgy Pill is sure to be there with a plate at the ready. You must feed him or he will feed himself.

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Felilissp
Born in a normal litter of cats, it will devour all of its siblings before slithering off into the wilderness. If your veins feel cold, it is a sure sign that one is nearby.

>>53842139

No, because the entire point of the chapters being divided up was so they could go solo. There are a couple chapters who always work with the Inquisition, Sisters of Battle, IG, etc, and most Ultramarine successors work with one another at least once in a while, and Imperial Fists always gather for the Feast of Blades tournament, but only Chaos has near-permanent allies.

>>53842139
Yeah, the Dark Angels are essentially a pseudo Legion they are so intertwined.

>>53847059
I wouldn't go so far. Certain detachments of unforgiven chapters will work closely to hunt down the fallen, but even if Azrael is running the whole show behind the scenes, they keep that shit on the down low and operate totally indepedantly so long as there's no fallen about

>>53841852

Nurses. Sexy nurses.

>>53841852
It really depends on character backstory. SH2 and 3 all have monsters generated based on core motifs from the protagonists fears and psychology. With the exception of Pyramid Head and Valtiel, who are more symbolic in deed as opposed to image.

>>53841852
Download any of the 9999 professional tried and tested illustrated 1000pages long call of chuutuuluu campaigns that 61year old role players play while smoking pipes in musty cottages.

Mindlessly mine the book for the scenes, riddles, mood and clues. Neuter the coc mythology to fit the meme silent hill world.

Insert philosophical subtext from that one pretensious Dostoyevsky book that truly "changed my look on life, no really I mean it."

. . .

>"Wow we've been playing this horror campaign for 6 years now and it still feels fresh how do you do it? You would be a great author!"

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>>53841627

Apart from the ones that already exist? They're called Deathless, they were introduced in the Book of Exalted Deeds and expanded upon in Eberron.

>>53841655
There were lawful good undead in AD&D.

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>>53841268
Add some Perun and thunder and lightning & shit.

Amber-based magic: you break open amber pieces that have some creature or item locked inside them to activate magical effects.

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One bump before work

Hopefully this thread is around after

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>>53841268
read LOTR