>>97401827
>>97401841
Another two dyels triggered. If you want a muscle girl your best shot is to lift yourself. Lifting is also good for you for the health benefits.

>>97403352
Its S6, the fuck do you consider a light vehicle? Spartans?

If you want to be funky. Brutal 2, rending, Ap3, drop the unwieldy. If not? Make it a brutal 2 power fist.

>>97403354
Already married, so that's out of the question unfortunately. However I do think doing more than just regular exercise is good, although gym culture is complete cancer imo

>>97403339
yeah, but I'm looking for the artist

>>97403298
wtf i like night lords now

>>97400350
I played the shit out of the 3.5 psionics back in the day. It's definitely more balance than the core magic system, and it is way more balanced than 3.0 psionics. I agree, the attack/defense modes from 3.0 are really cool and flavorful. If you want that in your 3.5 psionics, look into Hyperconcious:Explorations into Psionics. It's by the same guy who did the 3.0 and 3.5 books, and it's basically an unofficial expansion of the 3.5 rules. It has an options to bring back psionic combat.

>>97401475
>I agree, the attack/defense modes from 3.0 are really cool and flavorful
I can see threads of what they were going for
>You don't know exactly what attack is coming when you pick a defense mode
>So partly it's feeling out the enemy
>Partly it's rewarding IC knowledge or OC mastery by knowing what attacks enemies will have
>What mode they use tells you what disciplines they have
But the guessing game / knowledge reward stuff is at odds with the attack and defense mode costs varying between 1 and 9 for attacks, 1 and 5 for defenses, and the way they key off five ability scores so you're probably just using your one attack mode forever.

Either have it be a spending/bidding sort of minigame where you're guessing how big a spend the other guy risked and therefore how large a defense to use, or make them have similar costs and be a knowledge / luck check.

Also the fact that all psions learn five at lv1 and have learned the rest by lv11 means there's not much decision-making to do.

It's like they have several competing ideas at once.


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>>97401571
An all psionics game using the 3.5 rules and some 3rd party supplemental classes/powers from Dreamscarred press is super fun. The rules to manifest powers from other minds combined with the telepath power Metaconcert turns your adventuring party into a cooperative psionic blob just rolling through encounters. Super fun.

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>expect 3.5 books to be worth a bit now
>they're the same price now I paid for them over a decade ago

>>97401068
>That's a conjuration effect, not magic

>>97403360
>>97403474
where are the cat n rabbit from?

>>97403531
Cat is from Goon Master
Rabbit is from Bite The Bullet
Both are on MMF

>>97403360
>"Mom can we have redwall?"
>"We have redwall at home"
>Redwall at home

>>97403538
thanks

>>97403184

So, Gliwiceanon, what war/skirmish games are you into?

>>97400159
You mean like you did making this thread

>>97403392
>Hybrid changes would let every r/g deck play Manamorphose

Should Odo have changling?

Given how annoying and stupid UW defenders are I'm glad UB is taking over and I hope it does push every UW set out of the game.

>>97403555
Who asked

>>97402501
A kind of bottom-feeder vampire that doesn't have the support from a sire and their clan, often because of a flawed lineage and/or a vampire that is truly "clanless", without a clan's weakness but also the distinctive Disciplines.

Looking back, I think I've fit the many definitions of Caitiff.
- I'm "built different", to borrow your expression;
- I never knew my sire;
- I was "swept in" as if I was part of a Sabbat mass embrace;
- A Tzimisce found it funny to fleshcraft me into a musclebound amazon worthy of a 20th century superhero comic book, but in those nights only a Fiend would find that form pleasant, for a woman that was a bigger weakness than our allergy to the sun, a social death sentence - I'll never forget that night I first saw my new hands, he made me what was then a complete circus freak;
- I fled the Sabbat as soon as I could with the help of blood bond malfunctioning on me;
- I led my unlife as the outcast of an outcast and enjoyed no support out of any clan on either side of the fence;
- At long last I fell into the good graces of clan Ventrue and for that I am thankful to this night.

Combine all of that with the territorial disputes over the Netherlands before WW1, country being a hotbed of spies during WW1 whose territory was violated repeatedly by both sides, and being one of the last countries to be liberated from the Germans at the end WW2 after all that devastation, and you'll see that I had plenty of opportunities to die.
I was quite lucky, blessed even. Too blessed to be called "an inspiration."


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>>97400542
>Never in my twenty-eight years of unlife, and if all goes well I never will be. Come to think of it, I don't think I've even seen many Gangrel Kindred here. Presumably because of all the fucking werewolves making living here somewhat complex.
If they have no reason to seek you out, you often won't notice they're even there. And if you ever find yourself on the bad end of my cousins? Avoid water and thick groves.

>Easily done. The caern proper isn't quite safe to make dens in, the soil is alive and not very happy if you dig at it, but there's plenty options nearby.
No doubt, all the land is alive but it usually doesn't make itself known. Then again, I'm the odd one who always asks before I 'Dig.'

>Whatever compliments your Malk gave were well-appreciated.
She's sweeter than she has any right to be.

Come nightfall we should meet-up. Promise I won't sneak up and scare you.

I'll leave the ball in your court. For reference, 'H0T_G4R0U3S' is a Koldunist with a variant of the Way of Earth, lacking offensive abilities in exchange for better utility. It was how she persisted in de-jure Garou country for decades. Also has a broad skill in native languages around the great lakes, and if she gets flustered the maratime accent comes out. Mèo-Mèo on the other hand is an open book for influences and is always low key under the influence of Haunting. Thick Hooser accent and can be pretty brutal if need be. If you need anything just ask, but the leads are yours to do with as you want.

>>97402725
>No doubt, all the land is alive but it usually doesn't make itself known.
God, it can't fucking stop making itself be known here. Way north from the caern there's some other abandoned or semi-active ones, weaker ones, with what seems to be a living mountain walking whenever it's foggy enough. Steer clear of that place.

>Come nightfall we should meet-up. Promise I won't sneak up and scare you.
Aw, and here I hoped for a true Gang experience. See you soon.

Gotcha. H0T and Meo are going to be meeting Lavender and HSE as their immediate guides. Lavender's outwardly a pasty twink, ballet dancer build, looks mostly normal, discounting his still dyed, because he's yet to figure out it's a HSE ploy, hair and an a whole lot of Lichtenberg figures on his skin. HSE's a shortie freak combining goth and a witch aesthetics because she thinks it's funny, and because the huge boots and hat give her a bigger presence. Lavender's practically brimming with Levinbolt, HSE's got a hodgepodge of various seer-y enough Thaumaturgic paths, plus artifacts and rite tools. Turn her upside down and shake and it'll rain charms, bones, little blood vials and shit like that. Their auras have slight abnormal tidbits to them, not much at all, but it's faint little traces, fitting their niches; even patterns in HSE's, sharp, jagged streaks in LL's. Hard to see them, even, it's something you have to actively seek to spot. The 'chantry' compound is more or less an old, recently rebuilt manor, in no small part still fucked with bold old damage and very fresh. It's clearly meant for a lot more people than there'd be - four Tremere, counting LL and HSE, and several ghouls. Some rooms might be hidden with typical old Tremere tricks or just only accessible if you can swim through the earth. The other two Tremere are other LL/HSE siblings, with different, less fun Thaumaturgic niches. The compound's some distance away from the caern.

>>97403439
H0T and Meo actually got a decent chance at figuring out what's up. On top of Meo's Malk stuff, the eyepatch can let H0T see ghosts with relative ease, and there'll also be some scattered ghosts of some exceptionally upset, recently-deceased kinfolk. They were part of a large, multi-tribe, Toreador elder-manipulated war party that attacked the manor during the Week of Nightmares and basically got slaughtered, even if they killed LL's sire and razed the manor. Their gripe is that they died in droves, got used by a leech, and don't even get to be laid to rest properly; H0T can prolly help them by getting their scattered remains out of the soil and burying them right, that might give her some info. All in all the ghosts are haunting the woods and the manor, and at least some of them will be willing to talk in Great Lake languages, being from there. Overall, the ghosts will hint towards that the caern used to be Croatan property, its patron spirits greatly miss the chosen custodians of the caern, and the ghosts are convinced the spirits are tormented by captivity vampires enforce upon them. Only, they're not actually tormented - that one will take more effort and time to figure out, but with some spirit-chatting practices and Malk tricks, H0T and Meo would be able to spot Incarnae Spirit claws deep in every Tremere in the sorta-chantry. They've all got non-Wyrm Spirits wanting something of them, being metaphysically connected to them, as a result of the dead Sire's fuckery. LL's tied-spirit is Thunderbird, hence his thunder obsession and it manifesting before him to scare the shit out of him - it's testing him the way it would a Garou. The Tremere don't notice it, having been mentally and magically conditioned out of it, and HSE's the most aware, while still denied the option to put it all together. Your call how much, and how, Meo and H0T figure out; the Tremere are mentally blocked from connecting the dots, they're of little use.

>>97401254
>They can stay on me the easy way. Venus' bloodline is built different and we retain haircuts, dyes, and basic body modifications.
Oh, that's remarkable. There's some types who would consider this a sign of the coming Gehenna and bemoan it, but it sounds exceedingly useful a trait. I'll keep this from Tats, lest she really starts insisting you get some piercings, since for her every single new one is a big investment and she'd like to at least live vicariously through you.

>The nostalgia is getting to me, but the next lady I'm gonna date in Boy Toy's stead is from your clan! A Blue Blood FFS!
A patrician's choice. And a choice of a patrician.

>Tats' gonna kill me!
Tats nodded in agreement and said you're very sharp. For this she grants you a one percent discount, an honor she expects you, a bourgeois, to appreciate thoroughly.

>we train away from the mansion.
I'll help your new teacher pick out a sufficiently abandoned warehouse and get the necessary training supplies, Cauldron-Born excluded. We're honestly running a little short on those warehouses, waging a war on the Palatine meant most of that sort of locations got occupied and subsequently leveled, but there's got to be one or two still, thanks to America's deindustrialization.

>>97401263
>Ask an old Caitiff anything.

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>>97403135
Pathfinder 1e

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>>97403062
Hard not to look down on a species yours remembers as shit wallowing cave dwellers. Imagine if humans were in that position and IRL there was a younger sapient species trying to live for itself or even one that looked up to us. All humans would do is dunk on them for every reason under the sun or just try to exterminate them entirely. Only a few outliers would embrace them, just like elves in fiction.

>>97403497
>or just try to exterminate them entirely
Elves are much more classy and benevolent about this

>>97403497
This is a pretty common reason in a wide variety of fantasy settings, games, and stories.
>We lived for thousands of years and mastered art, music, magic, and everything else while your people were still figuring out "fire" and "pointy stick"
>Aren't you so cute, pretending to be our equals now that you've figured out clothing and language and metalwork?
>Okay, you short-lived mud people are getting pretty uppity just because you've started "industrializing" We are not equals!
It's cliched, and personally I don't like the idea that immortality, or near-immortality, means total stagnation and lazy arrogance. If anything, having people live long enough to witness the outcomes of centuries worth of mistakes and incorrect assumptions would make Elves extremely dangerous. However, lazy arrogant elves are the tried and true cliche that most fall back on.

...so is this guy the artist, or something?

some of you lot seem to know what's going on. explain?

>>97397048
D&D doesn't have limb damage.

>>97387856
>diferent

>>97388962
This.
>Firearms are now core in the 2024 PHB
>Artificer can make guns, armor, potions and even magic items using their class features, RAW, and the GM can't do anything about it
>2024 also has crafting rules for various items baked in, with Artificers having tools to craft and lists of what can be crafted RAW


>>97390980
2024 Artificer can make magic items at will by level 2. No materials, no feats, none of that bloated 3.X bullshit.

dont like this class

>>97398167
>2024 Artificer can make magic items at will by level 2. No materials, no feats, none of that bloated 3.X bullshit.
That sounds stupid

>>97402288
>It's smaller than the right lung
Wow I had no idea about this. The more you know.

>>97402314
Be careful about how it interacts with things like lack of sliding rivets, masterful tailoring, and weapons which reduce the penalty to hit chinks in armor.

>>97402797
I'll give a review of low tech to see all the minor rules I'm forgetting before using in my campaigns.

Is Serendipity overpriced? You can do the same thing and more by spending 5 points to get one Impulse Point.

>>97403181
Yeah but if you read the explanation of Impulse Point you'll see it has a requirement that the player be a homosexual. You aren't one of those, are you anon?

>>97403170
That guy aside that's the main reason why i don't put bending reality powers without clear limitations in my games. Imagine having to throw in the thrashcan two fucking years of games. Closest solution if i was in that GM place was to rewind time back up to the point the pc fails to seduce the demoness, ask for TG character sheet and say to the table "we're going to start a new game that take place from this point forward but because of the butterfly effect A LOT of stuff is going to change. Your PC have their memory intact from their previous iteration but i will need some time to write a new fucking campaign from scratch" and, while keeping eye contact with TG, "...at least this time you won't have to deal with a fucking retard"

>>97391428
If only there was some way to play online...

>>97403170
I certainly wasn't prepared for that solution. I really want to know the train of logic there.

>>97403373
Online play is not for everyone, which is fair.

>>97403479
>I really want to know the train of logic there.
Think it's pretty obvious if you think about it purely from a selfish point of view. It's clear that guy was thinking that this would basically just mean the Demon Queen would immediately get over her husband's death and thus have no reason to be mad. The cosmic implications or how this affects anyone else didn't register to him one iota, only how he could get out of the situation he got himself stuck in IMMEDIATELY without giving an inch to either the DM or to the other players.

>>97403365
Yeah it was pretty dumb of the GM to put something with that kind of power in the hands of a playoid.

>>97403516
Brave to advertise on 4chins. I could do that time, but
>house ruled game
What are the house rules?

>>97403183

Yeah, if anything this thread makes me want to play something that is original.

>>97352571
>Magic is nanomachine tech
Better than magic just being programming.
I'm fine with magic just being a language, but there's something about making it a programming language instead of a spoken one that just turns me off.

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>>97352860
behold the baka

>>97403367
The only thing I can think of is a manga, Samurai 8. It's the Naruto author's attempt at a new series that flopped. In Samurai 8, it's revealed that in their fucked up space-faring society where people can undergo mystical rituals to become full-body prosthetic cyborgs and earn the right to weird program licenses that give them even greater powers, that the God of their universe saved all of reality and ascended to become the underlying programming of reality, creating cybertech so advanced that it functions as magic, governed by the will and rules of an omnipresent supernatural entity.

Shit got axed, but as a setting, it was wildly cool, even if the execution left a lot to be desired, but it's a hell of a foundation to build off of.

>>97355856
>>There are no genes for attractiveness or intelligence
Confirmed retarded tabula rasa believer. Kill yourself immediately.

>>97388146
Writers aren't very creative and players aren't very willing to experiment when they feel they've found something that works well enough.

>>97395854
L5R is more an issue of the ownership rather than any issues with the IP or cultural restrictions. FFG L5R was going pretty strong until Asmodee did a reorg that split up the team doing the IP among the company's other divisions. The team given the RPG had no idea what to do with the game and so listened to a group of loud non-Japanese Asian-American influencers who tried to turn the IP into a Chinabo D&D 5e setting.

>>97388554
he hyperbolic, I guess. I wouldn't say it's nonexistent but is a rather niche thing compared to shit like dnd, star wars and anime.

>>97388379
Dude admitting he never talks to women

>>97388146

If we're taking the easy way (victorian era): steampunk is a thing, while it generally is more an aesthetical small part of the whole. Per se it's a very shallow premise, mind you, is't more or less like using togas for a scifi setting. Togas are cool, but if you want to do space Rome that's... not enough.
Even something like Blades in the Dark with ferocious class divide is a step in the right direction.

Gothic setting proper would be both more difficult and easier. Easier: WOD is arguably already THE gothic setting of RPGs, even if the system doesn't strike me as doing good service to the core themes (interestingly, for all their trappings vampires are less gothic than shit like werewolves, changelings and of course prometheans). Harder: people would probably like 1800s and even 1700s scenery, so castles, cemeteries, innocent maidens, classical monsters and all that "basket of things that were overused when motherfucking Dracula came out". And that's probably not the hardest, mind you: gothic fiction is all about transgressing the boundaries of society. Are we gonna use THEIR boundaries (which to us now seem at very best charitably silly) or OUR boundaries?

>>97402522
>causes DNA to unleash a supervirus that wipes out most life on earth in the Weaver Ascendant apocalypse scenario!
While the virus is extremely effective, it only targets Fera and their Kinfolk and it's actually too effective. It kills off any Fera community that it touches too quickly for it to spread and often burns out before it's able to be spread by carriers to another community.
With the exception of Ratkin, because they just laugh and say 'fuck you' to literally any sort of disease, the Reaper Virus included.

>>97402577
>>97402590
So every singular individual spider of their Crawlerling is capable of making Ananasi-blooded spider

>>97403331
spiders?* This was meant as a question.

>>97399764
Nephandi
Akashic
Celestial Chorister
NWO blacksuit
Hermetic
Verbena

>>97401752
Injuries aren't that much of a problem, given that they can use blood to heal like vampires do? Aggravated is admittedly a bitch but still doable, and there are gifts that offer a less resource-intensive option.
The more experienced ones have ways around aging, too, with the possibility to just hijack a fresh body.

I think the OPs only problem is that the thread is presenting this guy as a campaign main villain instead of a side villain that is still important to deal with.

Otherwise, the way the OP’s premise is structured is the best way I’ve seen on /tg/ to posit a game system agnostic hypothetical that easily dodges the “my setting/game setting doesn’t do that/this is above or below my setting/system” contrarian fags that would rather complain in a thread not meant for them rather than just ignore the thread entirely.

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>>97392676
>the next BBEG in your campaign is a coomer that goes around kidnapping and mind controlling women for his harem
Abduction, sexual assault/ rape, enslavement and mind control are all serious crimes
>literally that’s it
What do you mean "thats it"? Its already more than enough for him to get on the kill list

>Does your party even care?
Yes, the party is aligned with the local kingdom and shall punish one who abducts and mind controls the kings subjects
>Does your setting/game system even care?
Yes. Most settings care about kidnapping and enslavement
>Basically is this guy a problem you and your crew would want to fix in whatever game you’re playing.
Yes, he shall be killed and his victims freed

>>97402169
You could flavor it however you want. Use Radiant Idol as the template.
A good one might not go after women of influence and instead save the doomed and incorporate them: sick wives, damsels in distress, lame beggars and whores. His charming aura might be making them compliant, but his intention is improving their lives and humanity in general.
An evil one might take those he deems as the best stock, using flat out domination magic to enrapture them and purloin them for his self centered utopia.

>>97402719
have you considered that we could use less system agnostic survey threads

>>97403318
Maybe, but those other guys format theirs in a stupid way that invite criticism or teardown.

The only thing that can be criticized in this OP is the actual taste of the faggot original poster with his shitty magical realm. The way he asked people to engage it is actually pretty cool.

>>97403349
Cathay in the game has male and female only units, which ties into the harmony mechanic. All your regular warriors and stuff are dudes, but everything firearm related (crane gunners, the dragon shotguns, grenade throwers, ...) has female models. I think in the fluff the moon empress was involved with gunpowder or whatever, so they became associated with femininity and Yin, in-gamd (iirc). It seems like gw hasn't really bothered with all that and made both regular and firearms related units mixed gender. Although I think the new peasant might be all male I don't remember.

>>97403388
>which ties into the harmony mechanic.
I thought it doesnt exist.

>>97403401
I'm talking about the TW games, since the op specified he didn't know how they handled cathay there

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>>97392413
DOOT DOOT

>>97402525
GW also released the marauders as all European paint scheme instead of doing the regular forced diversity in their other systems. I think we will be ok, considering they have called us the historical setting.

Also using AI to write questions for you is shameful.