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Why did they eve try this marketing gimmik? How could this ever work?
Are there any good ones?
Do you wish one in particular existed?
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>>96534680
it's really cheap as far as movie marketing goes and will probably get noticed in the nerd market segment. Quality doesn't really matter.
Personally I'm mad the rebel moon RPG got canceled because the retarded company that was hired to make it broke the NDA right before the movie came out.

>>96534846
oh yeah this is fucking phoenix command isn't it?
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>>96534680
On the whole, license IP TTRPGs are garbage due to a number of issues. In many cases, a lot of it comes down to the fact that the IP owner often has too much input and control of the creation of the RPG.
That said, there are a few standouts that did create a great game; WEG Star Wars, Serenity, and Dragon Age.
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>>96535163
>oh yeah this is fucking phoenix command isn't it?
Yeah, they also had the rights for Lawnmower Man and made a game that was strangely close to the sequel in terms of setting and tone. I didn't bring up that one because they kinda made it work and there are like 3 Lawnmower Man videogames so the IP seemed tempting at the time. A wargame adaptation of the 90's Dracula movie on the other hand...
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>>96534680
How does it work? Does it use Tri-Stat, since it's by Guardians of Order? I guess technically they count for several BESM books with licensed settings.
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>>96535396
pretty much
the big pitch is that it was made for a single player and GM, but I'm not entirely sure what it does to achieve that besides telling you to do that. I guess only stating the main character of the movie?

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How do we stop it?
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>>96533387
How about you find a bitch and lair?
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>>96526227
That’s much more of a gen X thing in my experience.
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>>96525754
____ ___ ____ ___ _______ _&_?
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>>96532540
The fact that you are too obtuse, obsessed with purity and a dipishit even for OSR general and you are forced to post here your dogshit opinions is hilarious.
LMAO at your entire existence.
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>>96533955
>NOOOO YOU CAN"T DISLIKE BECMI!
BECMI is garbage, deal with it

At my wits end with the torrential downpour of baby blue femboy tieflings in my games. To heal the world I made a table to create fucked up tieflings. Roll and let me know what you get. tiefling hate thread otherwise
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>>96528435
>red
classic devil color
>purple
relatively close to red, associated with wealth, probably some crossover dna from dranei in there
>blue
no idea really, maybe dranei? i think they’re blue sometimes?
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>>96528435
I like them different colors as well.

Also, OP, you still here?
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>>96531744
yeah anon, im checking in every few days. Did not expect the thread to stay up this long
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>>96531923
Well, that just makes it clear how interested people are in new roll tables. And/or tieflings, lol. How are things going for you, BTW?
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I have millions of ideas for roll tables, but I’m afraid of dice curves.

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>I want to try to convince the guard that letting us pass is in the best interest of the whole village.
>Alright, what do you say to him?
Nigga, I don't know, I don't have 18 charisma, my character does. If I roll and pass the check she should be able to come up with some bullshit to tell him, why the fuck do I have to come up with it myself?

Immersion ruined. Fuck off with this gay shit.
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>>96535160
nta, but Mutant Year Zero outright gives mental attributes like Wit (intelligence) and Empathy (feelings) their own equivalent of hitpoints, confusion and doubt, so that certain careers like Enforcer can use abilities like Intimdate to essentially "attack" their Empathy aka threaten someone so hard you temporarily crack their willpower and do what you say out of fear. Not the most elegant system, but it at least is consistent with the other mechanics.
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>>96534558
Let me give you a hint, OP. GMs play favorites based on who jives with their style best. Your GM? He likes a little roleplaying. He's asking you to give him more to work with here and engage with the scene directly.

You ain't a fan of that, so either accept that you are gonna be a useless wallflower NPC, or find a different group before they get tired of you acting surly when you're forced to do something other than roll dice, and eat the food and drink the beer that someone else bought..
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>>96533762
but how is your quest in the best interest of the whole village?
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>>96535417
Well it makes sense to kill the demon that keeps demanding virgin sacrifices to keep crops plentiful, duh. Failing crops are probably that demon's fault to begin with, so if we kill that hellspawn we don't need to keep sacrificing virgins anymore.
[this is just some shit I made up on the spot to provide an example of such an interaction as suggested in the OP]
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>>96535014
Only if you like pouty twinks.

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For discussion of D&D 3.0 and 3.5e

> Tools
https://srd.dndtools.org
https://dndtools.one/
https://d20srd.org
https://www.realmshelps.net/

> Indices
> 3.5
https://archive.burne99.com/archive/4/
http://web.archive.org/web/20080617022745/http://www.crystalkeep.com/d20/index.php
> 3.0
http://web.archive.org/web/20060330114049/http://www.crystalkeep.com:80/d20/rules3.0.php
> Book PDFs

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>>96533679
How does an emanation that can't turn corners or penetrate cover fly up your asshole?
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>>96531948
warforged not dying to dysjunction is no sovl
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I could have sworn I read somewhere that there are alternative forms for spell trigger or completion items.like having communion wafers instead of potions, or baubles instead of wands. Im looking for alternate forms for a staff. Also, can I make a magic staff thats sized for like, a fairy?
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Power Attack was a huge part of what 3.5 made martials better than pathfinder martial
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>>96535612
The fact that they need power attack in the first place is what made them worse.
In most systems you could just pump your strength, get a big weapon and that's enough to deal solid damage. In D&D you must have power attack and then preferably to also have ways of offsetting the attack penalty. Mind you PF isn't really better in that regard.

Work in Progress "Ha-Ha! Time for Piracy!" Edition

>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebin
https://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD

>WIP Tutorial Images Mega
https://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw

>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno

>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s

>Paint thinning 102

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>>96535510
But like I mentioned, I don't have printer, nobody I know have printer and when I checked local printing services, they all assume you want to print few hundreds pieces instead.
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I am using picrel. I guess I could try parchment paper instead.
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>>96534733
solid base coat of a desaturated orange brown, reddish brown wash (I like army painter's dark skin shade), mix in some off-white/ivory for highlights/chips and wear
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>>96535618
Well, they're probably using something with some sort of wax I guess. At long as your paint doesn't dry up, you're good.

High Adventure Edition

>RPG Rulebooks
https://rentry.org/40kRPGLinks
>Homebrew Collection (Feb 2025)
https://rentry.org/40RPGHB
>WANG/Imperium Maledictum News
https://cubicle7games.com/blog/warhammer-40k
>Bestiary, armoury, weapon quality and NPC database
http://www.40krpgtools.com/
>Dark Heresy 2e Character Creator:
https://apps.ajott.io/dh2chargen/
>General 40kRPG Encyclopedia
https://www.scholaprogenium.com/
>Offline Combined Armory (v6.48.161023)

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>>96531953
Nice.
During the The Greater Good's work.
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>>96533321
If they're acting contrary to what is normally their patron god's nature, it is to further a plan for even greater purpose later. Yes, that includes khorne, he can actually plan.
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>>96533706
No. You don't even get hand-holding, because fuck you I guess.
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>>96534817
Except for cases like Skarbrand, but that still involved a different chaos god planning around it and it being part of the great deceiver's deception.
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>>96535637
Ignore me, I'm retarded and thought you meant contrary to the god's wishes, not their nature, and that was about daemon princes not daemons.

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5e < PF1 < 3.5e < PF2

Shrimple as that.
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>>96506828
>only 4e
I love how 4rries cannot help give themselves away while they are trying to gaslight you about what 3e can and cannot do
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>>96524846
>These days I prefer 13th age nearly removing skills. Skills were always a vestigal system meant to compete with glorantha's variants over time. Outside of trapfinding I think fantasy games run better with participative skill encounters and implicit class skill lists.
You can always counting on the 13th age fag to have the most dogshit opinion that would eclipse an OSR cultist
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>>96534710
those game mechanics predate 5e and my 6 month year old son will beat up your third grader with a gurisame . you cannot advance.
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>>96534949
2e is good beacuse of the depth of the different settings it offered. I find the rules to be pretty mid, though the metagame was healthier than later editions and that is worth a great deal.

>>96535007
Skill list are retarded 90% of the time. 3/4/5e type games have one players Autosolve the encounter most of the time, or feel terrible when they roll a 3 and someone who just dipped the ability rolls a 20. Without pedantic skill lists you get far more players engaging with a social encounter or dungeon room and I get to reward and punish my players appropriately for nonlinear thinking or general idiocy . I often finding myself saying 'you need to pick a lock give me int or dex' instead of ' who has trapfinding?'
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>>96534947
It didn't say it was bad, I said it is one of the traits of 5E D&D that the FFXIV RPG kept as it evolved out of a 5E setting hack into something a little more of its own thing.

>>96535090
You're retarded.

Itt we help each other find a system that fits given setting.

I'm looking for something fitting Blue Archive lore. Expectation:
>combat-focused
>handles gunfights well
>has cover system
>hitzones unwelcome
>crits should do extra damage, but no additional effects
>can handle vehicles, combat robots, artillery
>can handle big bosses
>allows for some gun autism
>no magic
One guy suggestes using Cyberpunk 2020, but I think it's a bad idea.
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>>96530757
https://2d4chan.org/wiki/Diceless_roleplaying_game has a short and unsatisfactory list but i'm posting it for posterity
Also I swear there was a marvel diceless system however i do not know where it is.
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>>96530757
I found a better list https://rpggeek.com/rpgmechanic/2109/diceless-does-not-use-dice-or-other-randomizer
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>>96530757
>Diceless
Christ what an awful concept. How do you resolve anything with uncertainty with garbage like that?
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>>96531821
>>96531849
>The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game
maybe this? was on page three of the second link. thanks for the ressource anon
>>96531866
>how do you resolve anything
that's what i want to find out
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>>96531849
>>96531821
Thanks, both of you!

Vampire Edition

Tell us about your horror settings, games, etc. Share inspirational art, prompts, etc.

>List of games:
Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Cold and Dark, Degenesis, Delta Green, Don't Rest Your Head, Dread, Esoterrorists/Fear Itself+Book of Unremitting Horror, Fall of Delta Green, GORE, Into The Shadows, KULT, Little Fears, Mothership RPG, Nemesis (free on Arc Dream's website), Nights Black Agents, Silent Legions (Mostly for the tables), Stalker: The SciFi RPG, Symbaroum, Ten Candles, Trail of Cthulhu, Unisystem (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft, Conspiracy X, etc.), Unknown Armies, The Whispering Vault, Vaesen

>Inspirational stuff:
Caitlin R Kiernan, Castlevania, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Doom Watch, Fear & Hunger, George Romero, Ghostwatch, House of Leaves, I Am In Eskew, John Carpenter, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Laird Barron, John Langan, M.R. James, Nick Cutter, Old Gods of Appalachia, Quatermass, Ramsey Campbell, Remedy Series (Alan Wake, Control), SCP Foundation, Scarfolk Council, Shaun Hutson, Silent Hill, Stand Still Stay Silent, The Evil Dead, The Magnus Archives, The Secret World, The Stone Tapes, Anatomy, Thomas Ligotti, Twin Peaks, Vault of Evil forums, toomuchhorrorfiction

Other News:
"The Sutra of Pale Leaves: Carcosa Manifest" coming later this year
https://www.chaosium.com/blogcoming-in-2025-for-call-of-cthulhu-the-sutra-of-pale-leaves-carcosa-manifest/

Current Book Club Topic:

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But anon, vampires are all about mundane characters thrown in with a disturbing sexual "stranger".
This is way they are almost (AH!) dead to us now. We generally accept every kind of sexuality, or at least people that actually read books are.
Let the Right One In is a good example, having to resort to irksome kiddy matters or even paedophilia, that are the big execptions.

That being said I didn't read this one, so I can't make a comparision.
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>>96499601
Why do all of them look like skinwalkers.
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CoC 7e
One of my players just rolled a character with 25 sanity.
Which creates a situation where their temp and indef sanity threshold is the same.
How is that best handled? Trigger temp and indef at the same time?
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>>96505853
>But it's not available yet.
>Kind of a shit move
Thank you chaosium, very cool.

Also skimming it, what's up with having the main characters be in a manga-ish style and having the other half (and pregen PCs) use realistic portraits?
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>>96533602
Each chapter has a different art style depending on what the current version the sutra is being presented as.
The first chapter is in the version of a direct translation of ancient japanese into modern day parlance, so it has the classical illustration Tale of Genji style.The second one is about a manga adaptation so it turns into that style
The third ones a little weird, it sort of looks like Patrick Nagel? I guess that's because it's infiltrating the club and yakuza scene through extensive body tattoos. Either way it's not a terrible design decision, kind of fun.

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Average Day in Lustria edition

>Resources:
WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwh
WM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgeba
WFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6
Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H

>TOW:
https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXS
https://www.warhammer-community.com/the-old-world-downloads/

>Warhammer Chronicles:
https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip
>Time of Legends:

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>>96535574
Damn, where can I find it?
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>>96535586
https://assets.warhammer-community.com/fre_sept25_whtow_dawn_of_the_storm_dragon-uccgsbzbcc-yjs7dgbmgd.pdf
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>>96535589
>Just the Cathay rules
I wanted to see the Multiplayer and campaign stuff but thanks anyway. Do the French really get their rules for free on Warhammer Community?
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>>96535600
I have absolutely no idea, I only know that the most prolific scanner is french
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>>96535606
https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-old-world/
They do, change the language to French and they're all there in the first section

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Murder edition

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>News & Reminders
Through the Omenpaths coming out September 23; preorders are now available
Last day to complete Yargle achievements is today
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-september-8-2025

>Useful Links
https://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA

>TQ
Thoughts on Through the Omenpaths?
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So which omenpaths are gonna actually be important cards to the meta?
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>>96535339
School Bus
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>>96535339
If this doesn't become cancer in Izzet it will only be because the rest of the deck is even more cancerous
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It's shit
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>>96535339
Multiversal passage (the land), Kraza, the Swarm as One; Ademi of the Silkchutes; Borys, the Spider Rider.

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Trench Crusade General - /trench/
Weird love Edition

>What is Trench Crusade?
An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.

>What Trench Crusade is not
TC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.

>What's the QRD on the background?
The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.

>How do I get started?
All the files are free online, but are split between the website and the discord. They have all been collected here for your convenience:
https://mega.nz/folder/70QH0BBa#Eg-blxYQKkY_C02wErnFTQ

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>>96535040
Responding to myself because I don't think I was clear: the attack just has a -1 dice modifier because you are downed. E.g. if you attack with a downed model that has +2 dice in melee, it would fight at +1 dice while downed.
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i have not interacted with anything trench crusade related since the beginning of the year, but i have have read that the IP and the new lore has been infested with insufferable lefties.
This is the only place i can ask, how truth is that ?
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>>96535213
>muh leeeftiiists!
>btw guys I dont really interact with the thing but muh leeeftiiists!
Fuck off you goddamn culture war nigger. If you are only gonna interact with it because you felt some culture war calling you can turn around and go back to whatever shitpit of beelzebub you came from.
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What is the point of the warwolf being artificial? The keywoard doesnt come with inherent benefits or drawbacks according to the keyword section. The witch, lions and bulls also have artificial in their abilities (artificial life/body) which causes different effect and the lion and bull arent even subject to the artificial keyword (which doesnt do anything anyway?). Seems like something that needs cleaning up.
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>>96535608
Tuomas can add things later that impacts Artificial creatures.
Alternately you can come up with some stuff to make it into a real keyword for flavor. Maybe certain objectives that require not being artificial too capture etc.

These are the most hit or miss aspect of my games. How do you run them? How do you deal with misseable clues and dumb player derailments?
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>>96525384
GURPS really does work well as background material for other systems.
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>>96512895
>you aren't writing a novel
>railroad a bad ending if players don't follow your plot
So which one it is?
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>>96509801
So far I know only three distinct models:

1- BRP Call of Ctuhlhu: you roll to check if you find the clue; this is also the norm for most games out there
2- InSpectres: Roll high enough and you get to narrate the clue finding
3- Gumshoe: You automatically find the clue

Are there any others, and how do they work?

Also, feel free to expand on any of the above if you want to.

I post this not only to see what other games there are, but also to try and find alternate solutions for the problem "if you fail to find the clue, the game dies".
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>>96532766
>3- Gumshoe: You automatically find the clue

Actually not. Core clues are what you find automatically*, but you do spend for, well, point-spend clues. For finer details and more clarity, basically.

*=technically you don't spend for zero point clues, incospicious clues or simple searches as well.
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The Aztec ACKs campaign report that was posted to /osrg/ is worth looking at. The structure of the campaign involves investigating different leads in order to track down the location of something.

https://mega.nz/file/id51UZqa#9pZoBcVtOF3vssbZ4kON2WN9XAbGvSi-TStiB9nKTxY

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The military should show up more often in cyberpunk settings/games. There's something really cool about corporation lackeys or street thugs getting BTFO by a whole other level of tech
>but cyberpunk is about when the government is weak
Yeah but there's still going to be some kind of military and they ARE going to be way ahead 99% of corporations.
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>>96535454
Dodging the law doesn't mean the law doesn't exist. The legal ramifications of the gear they try to acquire for their jobs is very real and a constant source of potential trouble if they accidentally buy from undercover cops or a regular they buy from gets arrested and snitches on his customers to cover his own ass. Military-grade is still a meaningful distinction even in these cyberpunk settings for that reason, it means you're leaving the civilian market and either buying things that will get you thrown in buttfuck prison forever or you're shifting enough bills to buy whatever it is that it represents a massive investment for your team.
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Problem is the usual corpos vs state idea is not really believable, so this kind of question is not even wrong.
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>>96535493
What I always find so difficult with suspending belief and immersion is the fact that they are still walking around everyday with these "military" grade upgrades.

I suppose if it doesn't visibly turn you into something like Adam Smasher then going to get coffee from a cafe doesn't look as weird with your weaponized body unless it's all conveniently made so you still look like a person but built like a tank.
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>>96535290
when people say military grade they're usually implying its more durable, like cordura stuff
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>>96533216
>they ARE going to be way ahead 99% of corporations.
Not really. The premise of Cyberpunk is that corpos have insane amounts of power. The megacorps are the ones researching all of that fancy tech that the government would be paying contracts for.
And because the government is weaker, that means they don't have unlimited funds to buy the best bleeding-edge tech from every corp.

If they did, then you wouldn't have a cyberpunk setting, because any megacorp that tries to go against the government wouldn't be able to stand up to a military cyborg raid.
Which is precisely why the megacorps don't sell their best stuff to the military in cyberpunk, so that they can continue to do shit with impunity.


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