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>>53701039
What is this?

>>53701116
Weak bait that relies on its "victims" not to do any research or an OP that didn't bother to read the synopsis and leapt at the title. The novel is about the Fall of Cadia.
http://www.blacklibrary.com/coming-soon/september/cadia-stands-ebook.html
Though according to the 8e previews, Cadia is still around and the Imperium wants it back.

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>>53701039
Poor Chaosfags.....how will they ever recover?
13 Black crusades, and in the end the Imperium btfo's them anyway.
Serves you right for betraying the Emperor

>>53700683

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>>53700683
First for storm kings are chumps

At least no one was killed by the blast.

It appears that,before the Vox cut,something tapped into it and spoke.Did any of you get the credentials?

>>53697383
There was a quest thread that had a better setting. We should have more quest threads on this board.

>>53697383
Dark souls 3 is a terrible setting. Geography is just "lol time and space are convoluted, here's a city that spontaneously grew a mountain under it", the lore is "copy dark souls 1 but worse, and forget that everyone forgot everything in dark souls 2", nothing makes sense and a fucking painting is apparently where we all need to escape to to prevent entropy or something.

Ds1 was a great setting. Ds2 could make an interesting campaign. Ds3 only works as a nostalgia roadshow.

Now Bloodborne. Bloodborne is where it's at.

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>>53697438
>quest fags

The sound level never rises above ASMR status.

>>53697314
>frigid land with snowcapped peaks where even death is a painless drift into nothingness.

>the main method of transportation are giant pterodactyls

>>53696860
I have troubleshooters but never got to play it, I’m interested in the new edition because I’m a fan of Paul Dean and I want to see what his designs are like.

>>53696895
I have never played Paranoia before, and think I may start with this one. Everything I've read about running a game seems to openly encourage discarding most of the rules, so these newly physical elements might help my boardgame group ease into the experience.

>>53696932
if I remember correctly, the rules in troubleshooters were basically “the dm secretly rolls a d20 and does whatever he wants”
the price point holds me back.

It's yet to come.

>>53696745
Primordial Evolution. It was a screaming choir of madness involving a rotating assembly of GMs that lasted over 4 years on /tg/, and still the embers flicker.

Everyone was a borrower living on an island in a lake,with a city built in an overturned rowing boat and up the side of an old split open oak tree.

There was a rough electric fence powered by an ancient old car battery, and when it broke all manner of foxes and badgers and rats attacked.

The quest was top take a boat (a toy sail boat ) and head into the storm drain ,make their way into the city and find a new battery before the small cities defences gave out.

It's still my favourite campaign setting, But it was ruined by a fucking edgelord shitbag of a player who couldn't into team roleplay so i had to kill her.

>>53695780
>Do you ride the suspect hard, or try to use a soft approach?
>I dunno, apply a bit of pressure, but not too much.
OK
>Do you search for traps, or try to make good time?
>We search a bit, but don't take too long.
I...
>Do you try and defuse the bomb, or just get out of there?
>I'll try and defuse it, but if it takes too long I'll run.
GOD FUCKING DAMN YOU COMMIT

>try to intimidate every npc not directly working with them
>automatically suspicious of every npc working with them

Every fucking game. It is either they automatically assume anyone that is on their side is out to kill them or they do shit like threaten to skin shop keepers and informants.

>>53695780
My group switched from 5e to PF over spring break, against my advice.
I decided that hey, I know this system inside and out, I'll help everybody build characters over spring break. Had the GM send everybody my contact info with an open "anytime is fine".
Nobody took me up on it. Ok.jpg.

First session of PF, three people have to make characters on the spot, one winds up playing their 5e character unported. DM bitches that I have a +24 to stealth at level 4. Am told to change my character. Ok.jpg.
Third session of PF, two people in the group have complained to me about balance because they don't like their character. The rest of the group is complaining about the Summoner. 5e character still not replaced with a PF character.
Most recent session, two months of play. Person who was playing a 5e character has another player help make a PF character. I'm utterly unsure why I wasn't asked to help TWO FUCKING MONTHS ago. Rogue player is bitching to me about his inability to fight gud without blowing all his feats, still doesn't want to do chargen with me. GM runs a 4-hour combat that we don't even finish because there's four (FOUR) NPCs, a dozen enemies, and half the spells the NPCs are casting have to be looked up.

I just fucking wish people would call on me for help with chargen, because I can actually help DO shit. I don't know if they all thought "Oh, 5e character was easy, PF will be easy too oh shit" or if they're just lazy or what, but it's pissing me off that nobody's using the resource I'm offering.

>>53695102
Dwarf fitted platemail with heavy fittings = DR 8
Armor supremacy = DR 10
:fitted + feat = defense penalty/acp -2
One step ahead = DR 11
Fortunes of War 12/13/14(or 13/15/17)

Then for defense, the soldier has an average score, +5 from a tower shield (shield supremacy), +1-5 from armor use, and then portable cover at levels 10 and 20 for a solidly good defense score

(certain priest domains, like metal, can make this even worse, as can the metal elemental bloodline and the paladin expert class)

So, how can a DM or player overcome this?

If it weren't for the shield mastery benefit of decreasing AP by your # of melee feats (even worse on a fighter soldier), you can get high AP or high damage (assassin + stilletto, a large-scale maul or warhammer on a large character with hammer basics, a rune knight with slicing rune; certain priest builds can have extreme damage bonuses) and maybe sprawl the soldier and go to town, but the shield things kinda negates a lot of that. Armor supremacy also negates using sneak attack to beat his DR. And you can't just use called shot, because his defense is also very good. So I'm thinking you'd have to sunder his shield (can't if he has the metal path maxed out), probably with said large character and hammer mastery. You could try using acid damage to destroy his armor and shield, if you have a source of it.

I'm still not sure how you get to target a shield, exactly.

>>53696269
From page 206:
"An object’s Defense is equal to 5 + its Size modifier (if stationary), 10 + its Size modifier (if moving), or its holder’s total Defense bonus + its Size modifier (if carried)."

You just attack objects like you can attack anything else. Even if they are carried. It only seems weird because it's a special 'sunder' action in most 3.x products. There's also the Sundering Chop trick from the axe feat tree, which allows you to deal the damage of your attack against both your target and one piece of gear that they are carrying.

>>53696269
Damage reduction has no effect on falling damage! Which can be a nasty surprise for players who are used to not taking damage.

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>>53694846
But the Third Kingdom was betrayed. The Endwar was begun before the Seven Seals were broken and humanity, still ill-prepared for the Apocalypse, was obliterated. In the ensuing conflict it was Hell that ultimately triumphed over Heaven, some say thanks to the direct intervention of the Horseman War. Now the Earth is the Destroyer’s Kingdom and home to the demons of hell, monstrous creatures of the Abyss, and other, stranger beings. Heaven’s army, the Hellguard, who were exiled from the White City for their part in the Endwar, continue their doomed crusade, hoping that the last of the White City’s shame might die with them. And, in the ruins of the Earth, the last, desperate humans cling to survival on the periphery, knowing that Man will not see out another century.

The Apocalypse touches the realms far beyond earth: The Kingdom of the Dead is overrun by billions of lost souls but suffers under a ruler who cares little for his subjects; The Forge Lands teeter on the brink of destruction, threatened by the engulfing power of the Abyss beyond and unholy Corruption within; and from the Shadows ancient beasts and mad lords emerge to exploit the chaos. At the centre of creation The Charred Council sees all; it still sends forth its most fearsome agents to find those responsible for destroying the Balance and punish them, be they Sons of Man, Lords of Heaven, or the Dregs of Hell. Perhaps the Horseman still stand with them, perhaps they do not. Few would dare ask, even if they knew where to find them...

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>>53694877
Campaign ideas and plot hooks. Could use some work.
>Set after The End War
>Other Humans survived The End War like The Hunter, others could have made deals with different Demons (including Vulgrim, Samiel or the Chosen), Angels (like Uriel), or one of the many Old Ones (like Ostegoth or Ulthane), allowing Heroic Human characters.
>All the Horsemen appeared during the end war and were accused of starting it early. Stay have since gone on the run to prove their innocence and may have even split up to cover more leads / make harder to track.

The Charred Council are recruiting capable and power warriors from across the realms, Angel, Demon, Old One, Undead.
>Hunt down the traitorous Horsemen.
>Find this mysterious Destroyer, determine how it was able to turn the Horsemen against the balance and lead the hordes of the Abyss to crush the armies of the White City.
>Patrol Earth, stop the depredations of the Demons and unceasing fury of the Angels, find any surviving Humans and protect what's left of the Third kingdom.

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>>53694907
List of known realms:
>The First Kingdom: Heaven, including the outpost of Lostlight.
>The Second Kingdom: Hell, including the outpost Shadow's Edge.
>The Third Kingdom: Earth.
>The Veil, realm of the Crowfather.
>The Abyss, primordial darkness from before creation, home to countless monsters.
>The Far Fields, realm of the Horsemaster and Phantom Horses.
>The Forge Lands, realm of the Makers and their Constructs.
>The Kingdom of the Dead, realm of the Dead Lords who shepherd the deceased to be cleansed of their past lives so that they may return to the Well of Souls, also home to a variety of Undead. (may include Argul's Tomb, but it greatly resembles Crowfather's Veil)
>The River Styx, A place existing between the Three Kingdoms, the Styx is a river filled with wrathful souls that became lost rather than making it to the Well of Souls and thus to the Kingdom of the Dead.
>The Charred Council's Realm, from this unknown place the Charred Council uphold the balance and send their enforcers to carry out their will.

Dead worlds:
>Eden
>Kothysos
>Ravaiim

Know methods of traversing the worlds:
>The Tree of Life/Death (exists in every realm except for earth)
>Serpent Holes, can potentially connect to every realm, requires powerful entity to manifest them (Vulgrim, Azrael, Samael, Crowfather, Archon Lucien, The Charred Council)

>>53689181
Have you considered Mouseguard?

>>53689181
FATE?

>>53689181
Why do special snowflakes want to play obvious NPC's. Its bad enough with vampires and shit but how would you even roleplay a spider?

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>>53685616

>>53682950
>Do you have a favorite weapon, or type of weapon anons?

The "humble" shotgun. Light & cheap with cheap ammo. Has a really low DEX penalty of 4 and a relatively low DEX advantage of 9. Good at short & medium ranges. Good against jack armor, not penalized too much against mesh. 4D6 damage.

Mega's addition of different loads made the shotgun even more attractive IMHO.

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>>53683830
the obligatory gif related

>>53682950
Shotgun, revolver and a sledgehammer for when people come into your engine room unannounced.

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Oops, previous >>53611418

Anchor Post

>>53679604
>Bottoms Up Edition
Kick-off: Requesting Charlotte with her bottom up.

>>53679604
Actually, the previous thread was >>53611418

>>53545336
>>53545336
>>53545336
>>53545336
This is the link for previous thread.

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What we have so far for the Persona homebrew

Do you have any character cool ideas for Wild Talents?

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>>53645504
Salum would probably assist the Gatewatch. None of the flakes would probably assist Bolas.

Fuar Linn is blatantly a ridiculous meta joke and a plot device, so obviously he'd be an archenemy. If he wants to make planeswalkers fight one another to prove their worth so he knows that they are worth fighting, then he surely could get himself into a problem where he has to fight a few at once.

Here's a Scheme that I brewed up for him.

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>>53645504
Reposting invicibird from last thread.

Actually made before Amonkhet was released, and I was super worried that my idea for an egyptian birdwalker wouldn't fit with it, but it turned out fine.

>>53645611
I want to repeat how much I like this. I like this a lot.