>>97399719
Yep.

>>97399701
Not everything weird needs to be from the Wyld.

>>97398997
I think that they were shooting for Investigation but it turned into someone from out of Castlevania.

>>97396906
>Shitting over the side just feels so unmagical

Making shitting magical is how you get a Harry Potter rocket slide downward in quality.

>>97396721
>How rare are flying mounts.
They have no flying mounts, but a plot hook has Mt. Metagalapa has been raiding their southern borders, so they're looking for people who can transport them there so they can beat them down and steal some of their eagle mounts/eggs in the process do they can make san/ata-beasts out of them.

>>97399817
>Not everything weird needs to be from the Wyld.
I didn't suggest that everything weird should come from the Wyld, anon. I suggested that in the case of this specific country, the one with the ground inhabited and ruled by raksha, Wyld influence would be a pretty logical explanation for weirdness, and also that the mortal inhabitants of this specific country harnessing that Wyld influence to their advantage would be cool and make sense.

>>97400080
While it post-dates it significantly, they already pulled that trick with the wolves in that one place in Across the Eight Directions. Also, raksha don't need to be in the Wyld all the time; they go hunting on the floor of the forest exactly because they aren't in the Wyld, so they eat Virtues and Willpower of those they find to keep on. The Wyld Zones in question would also need to be conducive to the oddities in question, and the realms of the three fae nobles who were in there don't really seem tuned to it.

>>97400129
While not everytjing weird needs to come from the Wyld, weird things coming from the Wyld definitely shouldn't be, and isn't, a single location's special schtick, either.

>>97399638
Thank you

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>>97399638
Pretty good prompt set yeah

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>>97399638
Wonderful style prompt

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>>97399638
>>97399925
Neat!

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>>97384993
>>97388439

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>>97399499
We need more Japanese IPs then. I'm sick of looking at Chandra with a fucking masectomy and ugly old brown cunts. I want Nier Automata, Xenoblade, and all the other pretty girl games. Fuck WoTC for what they did to their own IP. Fuck those fucking puritanical fucking cunts who hate beauty. FUCK THEM!!!!!!

damn I just played standard in arena... How anons put up with that bullshit? Why turn 3-4 wins are the norm and not the exception?

>>97400110
what are you used to playing?

>>97399855
>i always have it: the post

>>97400110
least ESL arena player

>>97394962
Humans will have to be forced to live in family housing.

>>97399350
>not avoid or ignore any butterfly events.
Right, so no masquerade bullshit keeping the world from learning about magic.
>A real worldbuilder tries to make a coherent timeline,
So what's the problem with having a coherent timeline for an alternate earth?

People make medieval worlds with original histories all the time. Why is it suddenly a problem if the world is modern? What's wrong with wanting a modern setting with original races, cultures, religions, geographies, or whatever?

>>97394601
The same way God did. Brains and genes.

Historically, a woman might have given birth to six children only for three to reach adulthood, with most deaths occurring during the first year. It was common for 40% to 50% of children to die before reaching puberty.

Maternal mortality was equally prevalent. It is estimated that the number of women who died in childbirth rivaled the number of men who died in wars. In many peaceful eras, childbirth was actually more lethal to the female population than combat was to the male population. Before modern medicine, roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 150 births resulted in the mother’s death. Because women had multiple pregnancies—often six to ten—their cumulative lifetime risk of dying in childbirth was as high as 1 in 10 or 1 in 20. In many cultures, children weren't named until they were a year old.

Because the risk was so omnipresent, many cultures treated pregnancy with a solemnity that reflected the possibility of death. In many European traditions, women would go to confession or take the Eucharist before labor, often settling their affairs and drafting wills. If they survived, it was celebrated with a formal ceremony of thanksgiving.

How would a fantasy setting tackle it? Let the childhood mortality be as high despite the presence of magic? Have healing magic be rare? Perhaps magic not having figure out how to deal with childbirth because of the two souls problem? Have magic solve the issue with the resulting population explosion? Have monsters/spirts that target children and pregnant women? Have lethality much higher than real life because monsters actively hunt humans?

All reasons for why magic is considered evil by the "Science Side", ie the modernists who follow modern liberal principles:

1. Magic is anti-humanist. It's derived from the power of what's basically Satan, a primordial god that tried and failed to take over the universe. Whenever you use magic, you're basically channeling HER will.

2. Magic is anti-meritocratic. 99% Mages are just born with their powers, and their ability is hard capped at birth. Hard work and effort don't matter, only your parentage does. It inevitably creates aristocratic clan based systems.

3. Magic is sexist and gender essentialist. If you were born male, you can use magic but you can't "create" it or pass it on. If you were born female, you can pass on the gene to your kids but can't use it. So it inevitably creates patriarchal systems.

4. Magic is inherently zero sum. All Mages are basically drawing from the same pool of power. Killing other Mages actively makes you stronger. This system can't allow for peaceful cooperation, it will incentivize Mages to kill and enslave each other.

5. Magic is irrational. You can't really study it to get stronger, you can just hope the true masters of magic (Satan and his followers) just beam the knowledge to you because it helps their plans. The existence of magic makes science impossible.

Wdyt?

>>97398597
i didn't know mia khalifa played chess...

>>97398597
RIP Anna-Maja's beautiful arm hair. Just proves that even smart women can be dumb.

>>97398994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iunUKjvCI0w

I found the video where it happened. That fucking idiot.

>>97399151
damn, nice find

chess sucks too many draws. White has too big of an advantage over black. Shogi is superior

>>97399522
you can't deny it, custard lore besides "emperor has body guards and they wear gold" was invented in the last 10 years, thus it is nulore

>>97389797
I kneel

>>97398861
>But Anon, we're ALL Autistic Losers here!
Damn it, anon! Don't you see what this means? We need to be the ones writing the lore!

>>97389672
kill yourself faggot.

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>>97399968
BUT THEN THE CHAOS GODS WOULD ALL BE CUTE ANIME GIRLS!!!

>>97397055
Fake.

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>>97399036
Ok retard

>>97397237
on the contrary, the kind of people who would fly that flag are the kind of people i would not want to play with or be allowed around children

>>97397470
My LGS sells warhammer shit at the exact same price as from GW's online store, not the lower amazon price, the actual warhammer store. I never buy SHIT from them other than non GW paints

>>97396826
did you learn about history from Game of Thrones and than just stop there?

>>97398056
The vast majority of the Black Grail stuff but especially the diseased pigfucker, that one Church of Metamorphosis short story where a captured Faithful refuses to tell them of how their defenses work so they just decide to crack open his skull and read the information from the spasms of his dying brain, Sin-Eaters conceptually, etc. I think the more freaky or gross out shit hits harder for me than the more overtly dark stuff.

>>97398056
That people are born into a world where a common fruit that people eat essentially melts them, where cannibalism is so commonplace these there are open air markets for it, and even worse things and they still choose to support that way of life.
The total disregard of human life in the hell controlled lands is the most banally horrific aspect. I love it

>>97391717
>greentext
Americans are really stupid when it comes to religion.
As for your army, the problems really come to bear against particular armies and after a few battles in campaign. Lions are eh, but jannies remain solid throughout.
Assassins really lose shine once your enemies start getting more numbers or better gear all around. Worse, they are vulnerable to shooting, and most armies can get good shooty down the line, and assassins are, at best, trading blows with other elite units.
That said, what is your list?

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>>97389727
TC hate was always just culture war tourists.
The first "Lol do people play this woke cash grab shit" post was made the literal day after Arch got kicked from the Discord for /pol/fagging, and it never stopped because those people literally have nothing better to do in their lives than brigade people for enjoying things that they can't.

>>97396367
based, thanks!
I will post the painted result here!

>>97397854
>Is it a neutral realm with Roman style slavery or an evil realm with chattel slavery of the Arab/African world?
I was thinking more northern european thrall system, but for sake of argument what would be the major differences?

>>97399876
for starters Elf slaves in a Roman system would inevitably result in the rise of a freedman class, there were famously some very powerful freedmen and presumably that would be compounded by Elf longevity allowing for centuries to accrue assets and power as well as magical aptitude, wisdom, y'know typical Elf traits.

I imagine Elves to have Irish accents. I don't know why, that's just where my mind goes.

>>97397736
They already have that, they're called exodites.

>>97397815
Ideally, slavery would almost never happen, but if it is to happen, I imagine elf slaves usually see it as a temporary humiliation that they'll find some way out of.

>>97392980
>Cpl Dwayne Biehn
cute

>>97392941
>>97395220
>>97399732
I'm Gen Z and I want to jump off a cliff after reading this.

Then again, my younger brother's schoolmates who are in college right now, claimed I talked like a millennial so I'm probably a part of the problem. Guess I can't judge too harshly.

>>97399895
umm aschusally >>97393014
Seems the shame is on the other foot now

>>97392969
Holy crap.
I completely forgot about this one. I did an edit years ago adding a sixth panel where the kid looks down and says "....dad?"

>>97400037
I'm gen Z in college and I laughed at some of the ones in the thread.
But this is also the only place I regularly communicate with other people so I'm hardly a good judge of taste.
I do reread DM of the rings once a year or so, it is a childhood favorite.

>>97397120
I don't mean to imply that WW1 disproves christian theological doctrine (which is largely irrelevant to the average person's understanding of christianity anyway), I'm just pointing out what historically happened in Europe at the time. WW1 was largely the final nail in the coffin of christianity at a societally relevant scale.

>>97397135
go back in time 100 years, murder 20 people, and see how many were carrying tearjerking letters from their children in their pockets

>>97384224
I like to establish human and demihuman enemies as at least being as smart as the PCs and will use all the tools in their repertoire as any party might while more monstrous encounters will more stringently adhere to their statblock and descriptor for their behavior. It sells the idea you're fighting a person.

>>97388492
Would Valar-aligned Orcs even be considered Orcs, or cursed elves?

>>97397915
Ah classic. Christianity is not relevant because bad things happen in the world even though the religion itself rose precisely because of all the bad shit happening to them. Christianity becomes more and more relevant, the worse things get.

>>97399262
thats why its so hilarious it never started it was suppose to start after the new year but no one ever shows

>>97399101
3rd/3.5 was written by an unapologetic mage fanboy and it shows in basically every aspect of the game.

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My friends wants me to play a 1-shot. Does anyone have any suggestions of good one-shots for 5.5e?

>>97396650
So this boils down to one of two issues from either side of the table, player and DM

Player: they are new and have not/can not/will not move past the fact that game is in the title. A gamer is looking for every advantage, every resource, every edge they can have against the enemy (the gm). They are too used to extraneous npc dialogue, sidequests that can be completed in 5 minutes, every character having intimate knowledge of the situation at hand to some degree. It takes some experience to divine when the DM is describing the scene in order to help the imagination and when a description is a key to a puzzle or a clue to the story.

DM: The worldbuilding has taken place of actual prep. The world around is too much. My players know that my motto is that anything I say, no matter how inane, random or small, has meaning to the campaign. They know that if it doesn't matter, I won't say anything. Conversely, if they want to deviate into a back alley or shop and create a dialogue or interaction, I will easily blend it into the story in a meaningful way. A lot of times when describing places or areas, to avoid word salad that might confuse, I will say to imagine several things combined like the party at one point ventured up into one of the Three High Cities which I described as a combination of the layout of Edoras, terrain of Skypeia and the building styles of Sanghelios. Visuals achieved, no word salad, no getting hung up on details that can be misconstrued as something important.

>>97399747
Use one of the Dan Coleman adventures. Bad Apples is a good one because it's 3rd level, the recommended starting level. It's basically just going around a spooky orchard. Some puzzles, exploration, combat. Some RPing in the village at the start if you're into that sort of thing.

I enjoyed a wild sheep chase as well. Depends on how much your party will enjoy terrible puns.

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I have been spending the past couple days getting my ass beat in Master Duel trying to make a slifer deck work. So what did your Jumper do in Yugioh (Any Yugioh Jump)

>>97398865
I was fighting wars in the Duel Terminal jumps

>>97398865
Ragebaited Atem with the Yata lock combo before a serious duel.

Here's a meme Agenda Piece jump
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G0yIH2VEFZUYfK_hwNuqOfr0fCR2cTY9/view?usp=drivesdk

>Here's a meme
Take note, DriveAnon. It goes in the Joke Jumps folder.

>>97399973
I don't have an answer to your question OP but
>you can't ask meta questions on /qst/.
Damn, they really set that place up to fail. They should have just made it a /tg/ 2.0 for the generals and quests. The fags from the generals could at least help populate the quests.

>>97399973
>>>/qst/

>>97400031
>>6229596
>Therefore, only those people willing to put in the effort to be a quest author should post threads. If you do not intend to run a collaborative story, do not post a thread here! This includes meta-threads
I can't

>>97399973
As someone who ran a few quests way back in the day, I'd say no system that exists is really made for quests. You need to make a system that suits your particular quest and is easily understood by whoever is coming and going at any given time you are running things.

From what I understand of Daggerheart, you have two meta-currencies to juggle. Hope, for player characters to use many of their abilities and fudge rolls, which would be a pain in the ass to resolve in a thread format. Imagine every action players asking to perform needing to then go through whether or not to use tags or activate abilities or whatever.

Then there's Fear, which is the GM's meta-currency for making things more dangerous, escalating problems, giving baddies extra attacks, or whatever. Again, everything that happens in the quest needing you to decide if and when you're going to activate an interrupting interjection while you are already juggling one or more player characters being controlled by several random assholes.

This would be a bad way to try the system and a not especially successful quest, in my estimation.

>>97400042
Thanks for the input, what systems were you using back then? Has anyone ever shared a system made for quests specifically?

can't wait for the puckee cocksucker to come in and tell us we are nogames.

I dunno, i dont play games. Is there a game where i can play a goblin? If so, i wanna roleplay a barely-verbal goblin whos only concern is to steal even from the party. Doesnt even care for riches, the mere act of stealing is its reward

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>4 p*ckee threads in the catalog

>>97388940
Because he's been a janny for almost a year now.

>>97387812
I know this is a spam thread, but it's funny this gets brought up now of all times, since I'm in a game where this applies. As a member of the city watch outriders (which is something my GM made up for our game who venture beyond the thin slice of civilization that are the walled cities), I constantly get myself into trouble after trouble, mistake after mistake. Often times, I fully know that this is a retarded decision, but also know that my character is a reckless adrenaline junkie that only got into the city guard in the first place because he is really good at hiding it.

Sexy prostitute in the middle of the woods? Probably a succubus, but there's a 1% chance she's real. Suspiciously large chest of gold in a dungeon? Probably a fake, but the rewards are worth it. Nigerian prince in the mail? Likely a scam, but the rewards outweigh the risks.