>>97276298
No.

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>>97341123
Yes.

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>>97325229
I tried, quite a comfy exercise

>>97344760
This is good! Nice work anon

>>97344806
hey cheers, I''ve always had a fondness for pretty much any horselord culture that once roamed the pontic and caspian steppe, perfect for inspirations regarding centaurs

>>97336205
Speaking as a perma-GM I’ll just do players
>Can pay attention for several hours at a time and remember things not just from today but from weeks/months in the past in reasonable detail
>Possesses critical thinking skills and a basic level understanding on how things work in reality (they don’t need to know the fictional stuff, that can come later, but you should know things like “water flows downwards”, “smoke will fill a room if there is no opening for it to escape”, etc.)
>Has curiosity and asks questions about the things they encounter in the game. I swear there’s little worse as a GM than to present something, and just be met with dumb silence
>Sucks for autistic people but it really helps if you’re able to read the tone of conversations, the situation, as well as the room of players itself
>Is not a narcissist
>Hygiene and manners when in another person’s house.

>>97336368
> not politically brainrotted
Unfortunately a huge problem in current year. I do not care to seethe about what trump tweeted nor about gay people I am here to have joy when you find the safe key I placed taped under the toilet tank’s lid

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Good GMs run fun games that instantly deliver on a premise:
>"we will be running a game where the players are high-end art thieves in the 1980s"
>first session cold-opens to a giant mansion with masked security goons where the party must decide how they're going to steal a priceless statue in the foyer

Bad GMs run campaigns that struggle to find their footing and waste time:
>same premise as above
>first session is about the players meeting an NPC who will pay them to steal art, also the players get attacked by bandits
>GM runs out of steam before the giant mansion heist because they planned three sessions of prerequisite plot beats

>>97344439
Mmm you’re presenting things poorly to help push your argument. Often a lot of the fun in heists comes from before they actually begin in the recon, resource gathering, and planning stages
An in medias res cold opening removes the opportunity for that, and vastly limits the amount if approaches the players could have taken

>>97344484
>Mmm you’re presenting things poorly to help push your argument.
both of those examples are things I experienced

>>97336416
>There's people that always comes late, or doesn't read the group chat, or says they're not coming at the last minute "because they're tired" (while they work 20 hours per week and I can touch 60)...they don't have the balls to say they don't care, or they don't even realize it, for them the game night is just something that is there, if there's something else to do they deem better, they do that without a second thought.
I've had to explain this to quite a few gamers, mostly in the context of them being annoyed at not getting invited.
Our most serial flake is the kind who will bang on about 'not having the spoons' to sit through D&D, but will have a miraculous recovery when he wants to play video games ordinary something that just so happens to be less effort than a 20 minute drive.
Fuck those guys, calling your time and energy 'spoons' to garner sympathy doesnt mean it automatically gets priority over everyone else's. The 'spoons' of the four people you messed around and who's now have to make other plans are never considered, naturally.

>>97343404
What's between her "legs"? A mouth or a pussy?

>>97343588
I don't. I make sweet, consensual love to the uwu spider-girls.

>>97343404
The ideal is to have something that isn't just going to get treated as a human with pointy ears or horns.
If you're gonna go through the trouble of including monster races, they should feel distinctly inhuman in some way. Be that culture, behavior, mechanics, etc.

>>97344600
I assume giant spider legs count?
>>97343905
The the veil rider game that have their reproductive parts down there.

>>97343404
Its easy to look at this character design and see advantages: wall climbing, presumably increased carrying weight on those legs, perception bonus from multiple legs, etc.

What would the downsides to a spider-taur be, ignoring for the moment any social ones? What would such a spider person actually be worse at than a human? The two that come to mind for me are "armor becomes a problem, making them squishy in a fight" and "have trouble fitting into small spaces". The former is significant, the latter mostly isn't. Spiders are actually really good at squeezing through cracks and stuff, so I imagine that a spider-taur will be able to get through a human sized doorway or hall just fine, even if they will look weird doing it.

>>97344673
Kurita nuked Edo themselves to poison their populace against the idea of surrendering to the Clans in the hopes of better treatment

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>>97344787
>I also am not sure wtf this is,
You need to read No Limits, bro. Solaris is way crazier than Blakists.

>>97344799
Fukkin sold.

>>97344809
Battletech fiction I am not aware of? I am quite literally shocked. Is this a whole series?

>>97344826
Just the one book. It was made as a tie-in for the pod arcades, kinda like the Firestorm TRO.

>>97344056
Adding to this, every support wave makes D/D/D easier and easier to play to the point it's not even in the top 10 hardest viable decks from the past few years anymore.

ddd was unironically never hard
it had 3 different starters that you just put together to make little ghengis and do the same combo from there
it was literally always the exact same as every other deck, it doesn't even have any locks to worry about

>>97344670
>it doesn't even have any locks to worry about
>You can only SS fiends
>You can only SS D/D
Those seem like pretty big locks anon.

>>97344691
as in something like raidraptor having a core link monster in a deck that xyz locks

>>97344774
The only RR card that xyz locks is a rank up magic you search using a link monster. Its totally irrelevant.

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>>97343081
dang

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some players enjoy living dangerously

>>97343525
YOLO

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I MADE A BRILLIANT MOVE
followed by a blunder in the next move
I love being hard stuck at 300 elo

>>97344396
Happens to the best of us, I had a game yesterday where I was up on material all the time and then missed the opponent setting up mate in one I could have easily defended
just keep at it

>>97344509
its just really bland

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Netrunner fags, I found some MtGgers to play with, how meh are the starters for Nisei? I played lightly years ago so it's no problem with the teach, more trying to avoid drowning them while also not boring them

are the following ruling for a card game good or they're too unfair or silly?
>you can destroy a card in the other player's mana zone ( so he has less mana)
and
>you can chose to draw a card or put it in your shield zone ( so you always have life points/shield)

>>97344749
Please play One Piece or some other Bandai slop just once hell the DBSFW client is f2p

>>97344496
I would play this, but it has to be scalable to 1p

>>97344199
If I was Steve Jackson, I would do what Steve Jackson is doing, because I would be a hopeless boomer who is trapped in the late 20th century, unable to grasp that the world is changing.

>>97344485
(Unironically, this would save significant amounts of money on layout.)

>>97344485
>>97344549
this would make it impossible to print-on-demand doe

>>97344603
Reminder: An EPUB file is just a zipped HTML file. You can print it just fine.

>>97344723
If you want it to look like shit from poor pagination, sure.

paizo, just make a generic class archetype that can turn any fullcaster into a gish like battle harbinger ffs

>>97341265
Impossible because classes gain proficiencies at different levels.

>Battle Harbinger
>gish

>2e
So i was invited to play season of ghosts with free archetype, as i am not wanting to spoil myself i was wondering if anyone could help me settle on which class to play
i was thinking a orc base dragonblood. im torn between going for a dragon barbarian for the full dragon theme or going a str melee ranger.

With the Draconic codex stuff it would likely be sovereign dragon with the barbarian focusing on unarmed bites/grapples. but ranger also seems easy to fit and slot in narratively

>>97341408
can't the just say "You have such and such starting proficiencies instead of your base class ones. You don't gain class features that increase your proficiency in saves, perception, weapons and armor. Instead you gain these features..." or something?

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>>97337341
>Lost Omens: High Seas -- PIRACY! Tied into the Hellfire Crisis storyline, so likely there will also be full naval combat rules.
Oh my god we're getting more pirate lesbians from the Firebrands.

>>97340540
Anon...

>>97344111
Kys leftist shit

>>97331492
Isolation for divergent populations can happen even in the same continent, why wouldn't it happen in an entire planet?

>>97344555
Get fucked, bootlicker.

>>97330394
It ain't that deep. The many flavors of Spess Muhreens are just cool themes to make them stand apart and sell codicies. We have and entire chapter of mongolians, a whole chapter of vampires and even had a whole chapter of Africans. We have Knights Templar in both Crusades and Davinci Code flavors. We even have an Admech chapter. Space Wolves were the vikings, it stands to reason they should probably stay distinct in their themes and general look instead of just being Ultramarines that swapped laurels for pelts. But hey, I'll probably just continue to ignore it and the dindu heads can remain on the sprues

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Prefer Vaults of Vaarn.

>>97340263
He's a great GM the way that John Wick insists he was a great GM. Long-term palladium loyalists also tend to be the most retarded faggots imaginable. All the worst aspects of the BrOSR, but for a system that is objectively fucking terrible and a guy who is genuinely one of the worst assholes in the RPG industry.

>>97340488
The difference is that the only stories we get about John Wick's prowess as a GM are dubious accounts from himself. Several people have written glowing accounts of Uncle Kev's games back in the day.

>>97340739
And others have said that he'd just railroad people and shut down any ideas that weren't part of his plot, and treated all players with contempt, as if they were trying to ruin his game. Not that his own writing in his own books doesn't already paint a pretty vivid picture of the exact kind of jackass he was at the table.

>>97340263
>>97340488
>>97340739
>>97342098
He has also freely admitted that he doesn't use his own rules as written, yet refuses to update to a 2nd edition because "It's not needed/is perfect the way it is".

If it's so perfect Uncle Kev, why don't YOU use it as written?

>>97343023
IIRC Wookiee food is mentioned to often be spicy as hell, to the point of potentially causing damage to the human digestive system, because they have a far higher tolerance of spiciness than humans (or possibly are unaffected by some spices entirely, like how capsaicin has no effect on birds because they lack the specific taste receptors it affects).

>>97344057
I bet some scummy Corporate Sector MedTech company would experiment with drugs to keep geonosian larvae from outgrowing their larvae stage. Or some dark jedi/inquisitor would meddle with sith alchemy and make chrysalid version of geonosian larvae

>>97344236
They could.
But I think they’d hit the same core problems that prevented their ever being a geonisian Jedi or Sith:
1) no Geonosian hive would ever willingly give up its larvae, not unless it benefited the hive in some way. Jedi weren’t keen on tying to stage some commando raid into a hive to get a force-sensitive grub. And I wonder how many times a slimy “totally not umbrella” corp is willing to throw away on failed raids to get Geonosian Larvae before they deem it a waste of funds.
2) questionable loyalty: Geonosians have a hive mind. Well, each Geonosian colony has its own self contained hive mind. So even if one were to genetically alter a larvae so it never matures into adulthood, there’s always going to be a question of whether or not the grub is following your command, or it’s original hive’s

>>97344530
Good point. Guess I'll just have to stat up a my own Mind Worm critter

>>97342516
Here's the ones I have bookmarked
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/using-the-force-made-easy.62952/
>MC is a jaded former pawadawn making youtube-guides on how to use the force. He gets noticed very quickly
>NOT a SI
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/fell-off-the-back-of-a-freighter-star-wars-si.1243190/
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/starflung-wanderer-star-wars-si.1246883/
>the second is based on the first
>both are about SIs who get a full catalogue of everything in the SW universe and can both sell and buy stuff from it at-will, with instant shipping
Dogbertcarroll also has some decent SW snippets written across the last 20 years, the only one I remember escaping the snippet hole was
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12407092/1/A-Long-Walk
>BTVS season 2 main cast (plus Dawn) turn into their Halloween costumes and wake up in the centre of a deserted Death Star

>>97343808
Go bother >>97341711

>>97343794
>>97343840
>One thing I always thought was cool was the ability to "analyze" an enemy for many rounds
Yep, nothing similar to that and longer than a full action aim seems to be a default option in DH-related systems.
>I also really like the many different mundane methods for characters to work together in combat
Something similar might be found in the Inquisitor's Handbook for DH1E (and maybe in OW too), but it's not likely to be as much.
>When I look through the rules, it seems like there are more ways to get bonuses to hit during combat than for bonuses to noncombat skills in peaceful situations, which feels backwards to me.
Indeed, more effort was put into disassembling combat into separate modifiers than into disassembling non-combat activities the same way (as opposed to simply giving a range of total mods and telling the GM to pick).

>>97343946
>Something similar might be found in the Inquisitor's Handbook for DH1E
Alright, I'll look into it and see if I can recommend anything to the soon-to-be GM. Thanks.

>>97337478
No. The Emperor said none of those.
The "Burn the Heretic, Kill the Mutant, Purge the Unclean" is the result of ten thousand years of setting brainrot.

The idea it's anything else, is just fan circle brainrot, supported because BL are too hack-ish to write anything not about Astartes killing bad guys, or remembering that 40k motifs weren't common in 30k.

>Alien.
Permitted if they're amicable. Issue was, Dark Forest theory answered itself in that most aliens encountered weren't amicable. The politest regularly encountered were the Craftworld Eldar, who were still used to the idea of being a galactic empire themselves, and were pirates as much as anything else.

This got flanderized down into "All aliens are ebil, and must be killed on sight or you're a sinner."

>Heretics.
Literally weren't a thing. You have some marines arbitrarily using the word (because the writers forgot what the word means), but what you had were hostile factions, or traitors.

'Heretic' would only be adopted wholesale around m36 with the official adoption of the Imperial Cult.

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>>97344527
You're arguing with someone who got all their lore from fuckin bluesky or some shit. They have bad opinions and they refuse to change them because it gives them a sense of smug moral superiority, and they probably tell their friends "oh I wish I could like 40k but it's just so full of evil people being evil" or other such faggotry. They're probably an athiest and thus dig for literally any reason to hate Big E because he vaguely resembles the abrahamic god.
In short, a retard and a troll. Don't feed 'em.

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>>97335859
So that was what you meant by 'high-caliber' boots. Gotta say, you wear yourself better than the rest of the wannabe blood mages I've met in my time.

It was good.

Enjoy the knife, one of my better antler pieces. And don't let anything Mèo-Mèo said get under your skin. She stares at the sky like that and mutters ominous portents of doom only... Semi Regularly? Ever since I got her out of Marquette she's been doing better but the seer curse is still pretty strong in her.

>>97337991
>>97338126
you know maybe he had an idea there, maybe it is our purpose to bring misery to the kine.
maybe I'll find him again and ask him about it and see what he has to say about it

>>97343474
>One of the human dolls had her first period and got scared, I called the ghoul nurse.
Context: children victims of supernatural agents and forces are cared for in the Dollhouse until they reach puberty. Then they continue their rehabilitation while helping as trainee mansion staff members.
>We'll talk which puppet plays to pick for her graduation ceremony later, I just wanna call dibs on an evil queen role.
Nope! We're performing our adaptation of Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio - and you know why.

Voice actors:
Assoluta as Pinocchio
Blue Fairy as herself
The Devil Wears Me as Geppetto
Mercury Lamp as The Talking Cricket
Venus in Furs as Ms. Mangiafuoco, Ms. Coachwoman and Ms. Ringmistress
Man of Florida as The Cat
Princess Charming as The Fox
Scarlet as The Terrible Dogfish

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>>97344335
>Pinocchio
Yeah yeah we got a puppet who wanna be human.
>Blue Fairy as herself
>Ms. Mangiafuoco, Ms. Coachwoman and Ms. Ringmistress
>The dolls as the children of Toyland
I see what you did there
>Scarlet as The Terrible Dogfish
Challenge accepted, I ain't even mad, my current mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dfxaGFBtsk&t=114s

>>97343953
>So that was what you meant by 'high-caliber' boots. Gotta say, you wear yourself better than the rest of the wannabe blood mages I've met in my time.
I'll be honest, trawling through snow in all that was a bit of a bitch. Absolute ankle-twist central. Worth it though. You two were pretty sharp, too! Especially with your new eyepatch and Mèo-Mèo with her new hat. Don't tell her, but it's just a hat. Isn't even Garou fur, even if SOMEBODY who likes guyliner too much kept suggesting that.

Oh, and a bit of advice for the eyepatch. I'm pretty confident that the best way to acclimatize to seeing with all the ways it can see, would be to keep several ways active at once. It's mentally straining, but you should get used to it eventually. Should eventually be able to on the fly go from thermal sight, to auras, to ghosts, to visions, to movement, to danger, to whatever else it'll be willing to do for you.
Just don't get too cocky with it. There's some creepy shit out there on the plains, especially on the highways at night. Don't openly stare at strangers through the more esoteric view-modes - the creeps drop the human act if they can tell that you can tell what they are.

>Enjoy the knife, one of my better antler pieces.
You bet I will, it's lovely!
>And don't let anything Mèo-Mèo said get under your skin. She stares at the sky like that and mutters ominous portents of doom only... Semi Regularly.
Oh, she's actually mostly right this time. There's definitely something up there in the sky, spinning little webs for me to see, all while dancing me along a bigger web, and all that other stuff she said, especially about Lavender's forest fire fuck-up. But she's being pessimistic. Just a bit. Others in my coterie don't quite yet realize what's up, mostly don't want to accept it, but I've accepted it, and I'm making the situation work for me. Helps to have friends on the other side, I think!

Even if they have a very specific definition of friendship.

>>97341326
Is it really dead? I've had trouble accessing it, but the site seems to still be up.

I know some people prefer more comfy games, but why would anyone without a tragic backstory, greedy personality, or simple neglect would ever want to become adventurer? No one with a happy home life goes on to hunts dragons except if they are idiots. If you have a happy family with a estate, you have an obligation towards your family to run that estate and no reasons to risk it all on adventuring. In happy family, only spare, superfluous and inconvenient sons would be allowed to go to something as dumb and risky as going to an adventure.

>>97344587
Necessity. Or rather, you don't need to want to be an adventurer to end up on an adventure.
That's particularly the case for those sorts of comfy/cozy games, where you basically can have an entire campaign revolver around the hometown of the PCs and their efforts to defend it from encroaching threats.

>>97344587

Driven by idealism are fine and admirable if they know the world is a bad place and want to improve it. People who are pressured due social obligation too. People who become adventurers for fun are dangerous thrill-seekers or sociopaths.

>>97344587
There only needs to be a desire strong enough to drive someone to leave.
A tragic event or disruption to happy life is easy to drive someone but there are non tragic reasons someone would leave.
>A mystery that needs to be solved
>A ritual or rite of passage that needs doing
>A call by a higher being to do a task
>Sometimes you can simply seek fame and glory
>Not sure if we want to count characters thrown into adventure by being in the wrong place at the wrong time