>>96535564
I wouldn't call getting a perfect score in art or literature, and then average scores everywhere else the best grades overall. It could be a tie breaker between two otherwise super smart builds, I guess?

>>96535605
Yeah, not a dominant factor, but more than "shouldn't help in the slightest".

>>96535610
Yeah, you're right.

>>96509762
Hey, Itsuki anon here.
He has two life events leftover. Does anyone want to match life events or something? I want to make him a little less miserable.

>>96535605
Art requires decent math so it should benefit related subjects.

>>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.

>>96530757
I found a better list https://rpggeek.com/rpgmechanic/2109/diceless-does-not-use-dice-or-other-randomizer

>>96530757
>Diceless
Christ what an awful concept. How do you resolve anything with uncertainty with garbage like that?

>>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

>>96531849
>>96531821
Thanks, both of you!

>>96535514
The difficulty of producing antimatter are totally irrelevant compared to containment lmao. I simply don't want to sit on a bomb that could go off if someone sneezes the wrong way around it. Pretty sure nobody ever wants to. Containment is a real problem, unless you enjoy being scattered across the solar system. Even if you COULD produce bountiful harvests of antimatter, it's still spooky as shit to be within a million miles of.

>>96535124
>Please note that this was written in 1961, before videogames were even a thing.
Neat.

>>96535538
>I simply don't want to sit on a bomb that could go off if someone sneezes the wrong way around it. Pretty sure nobody ever wants to.
Anon does not understand the dangers of automotives.

>>96535571
Gasoline is nowhere even in the same magnitude as antimatter. It is extremely fucking stable and safe. I can hand a jerry can full of it to a child and tell them to fill up a lawnmower with it and not be worried.
Lithium batteries aren't much worse despite their bad rap for exploding when punctured.

You do not have a shred of a chance with antimatter containment failure. Fractions of an instant of failure is instant, certain death. There is no way to make the "fuck everything" atoms safer. There is an acceptable level of spiciness. Even fission reactors are several orders of magnitude safer than antimatter. And most people are (needlessly) spooked about that. I can shoot gasoline with a gun a thousand times and it will never go up in flames.
Gasoline is arguably safer to handle than a literal horse.

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>>96535594
>It is extremely fucking stable and safe
Gasoline has a flash point of -45f. You are retarded.

>>96520987

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.

>>96499601
Why do all of them look like skinwalkers.

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?

>>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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My girl did nothing wrong.
#FreeLurrus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2nH-DC88o8
new aids just dropped

>>96534563
strong not broken, this is what the broken cards from 2020 have become

cards like oko don't have the explosive power shit like vivi has and shit like winota is way too slow for the current "die in turn 3-4" AHEM "meta"

this game isn't cooked, it's charred

>>96533167
>Johnny watching as the 8000th splashable value engine/wincon gets printed, widening the gap between expressive strategies and value piles

when this game will allow non-aggro deck to be playable? since thunderjaction the level of red cards has been pushed to the skies, are they not aware of this insufferable situation?

>>96535574
Damn, where can I find it?

>>96535586
https://assets.warhammer-community.com/fre_sept25_whtow_dawn_of_the_storm_dragon-uccgsbzbcc-yjs7dgbmgd.pdf

>>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?

>>96535600
I have absolutely no idea, I only know that the most prolific scanner is french

>>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

>9anon permabanned a dude for crossposting a Cliff rant
Based

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What's a good jump to acquire frogs in?

>>96535537
Generic redneck or Floridaman.

Well I guess I'm world building steppe people now.

>>96535531
It looks like the vpn he was using being popular with pedo spammers was also a factor.

So which omenpaths are gonna actually be important cards to the meta?

>>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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>>96535542
It's shit

>>96535339
Multiversal passage (the land), Kraza, the Swarm as One; Ademi of the Silkchutes; Borys, the Spider Rider.

>>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.

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 ?

>>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.

>>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.

>>96535424
I don't know but I miss them.

>>96533538
The trigger type that affects you is based on Harmony. So for the moon trigger set you've got the Specific trigger of the scene being in moonlight. The Common trigger of seeing your auspice moon. Then the Passive trigger of your auspice moon being in the sky.

At 5 Harmony none of these matters but the further you drift the more you get. So at 3-4 and 6-7 the Specific one is the only one you need to deal with. At 1-2 and 8-9 you add in the Common trigger too. Then at 0 or 10 you add in the Passive. You only need to take extreme steps to avoid it if you're off the deep end already.

Kuruth isn't a guaranteed thing either and it's also fairly useful as a tool too.

>>96535162
Thanks! It's set in Victorian England and I'm planning on playing a Farwalker Ogre of the Autumn Court. He's a working class cockney bloke, served as an attack dog for his keeper before his escape, now he prowls the east end for criminals to terrorize, because he knows the posh cunts would just fuck things up if they tried to handle it their way.

>>96535401
It's also an illness that afflicts oWoD.

>>96535293
>but physical changes can't
Pfft. You don't even know what you're supposed to smell like.

>>96535533
>It's also an illness that afflicts oWoD.
Not nearly to the same degree, I'd argue.

>>96525384
GURPS really does work well as background material for other systems.

>>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".

>>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.

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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>>96527879
>Instead plate was something that first had to be developed and once developed it had to be available and affordable
Yeah but plate is a thing from the Mycenaean period in the 1500s BCE.
And small, shitty, individual plates have been used for just as long. A popular example are how the Roman conscripts often armored themselves with a metal chest plate.

It's not hard to make. If something only has studs, it's probably not armor, and it's definitely not stand alone. It might be an archer's brace, or given the bas reliefs it's probably meant to go with Mail armor, since the only depiction of the armor you described is of a guy wearing it underneath mail sleeves.
Oh and, needless to say, we only have bracers and nothing else.

>>96525394
>being able to dodge sword swings is anime
>evading an attack you can see coming is anime

>>96515791
I tend to prefer damage reduction since making it a defense value ends up leaving no mechanical distinction between being a dodgy fuck or a tanky fuck, and if you're not even bothering with that distinction how am I supposed to expect any other distinctions?

>>96527259
shadowrun actually does do this, with the difficulty of actually landing the hit being its own dice roll, followed by evasion as an active defense that uses your combat pool, and then you roll for damage resistance vs. weapon strength minus your armor value.

>>96527879
>They consist of leather backed with five non-adjacent steel strips each attached by a profusion of rivets.
Except that's not what DnD's studded elather is. That stuff is just the leather and the rivets, no internal plates. So nope, no redemption for DnD there.

>Depictions of studded armour with much larger diameter studs or discs, not always backed with metal strips, have been known about for a much longer time.
Yeah, interpreting artistic shorthand as exact realism is where we got a lot of the 19th century armor nonsense from.

>Studs or discs with gaps between them ...
You're trying to make the case for studded leather when the Estonian find you mentioned is right there to show you the truth? (I guess you're too busy wanking off over your own magnificence.) It's the metal splints that are the star of the show, not the studs.

>>96528663
>I was mostly joking, I prefer maille when referring to "chainmail" and "mail" when referring to scale mail or other kinds of mail because autism.
Dude, that's stuff nearly as bad as the studded leather. Mail is mail, that's it. There's no need for "chain-", since there's no other types to differentiate it from. Scale armour is not scale mail. Plate armour is not plate mail. All of that nonsense comes form the same latrine-adjacent well that Gygax got his studded leather and ring mail and banded mail and so on from.

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>>96535563
>Except that's not what DnD's studded elather is.

>>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.

Problem is the usual corpos vs state idea is not really believable, so this kind of question is not even wrong.

>>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.

>>96535290
when people say military grade they're usually implying its more durable, like cordura stuff

>>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.

>>96533571
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-A-q-uzBJ4

>>96525880
Yes

>>96525880
Yeah, and they had a good, if strict, relationship. My character is the eldest in the party and passes on some of the wisdom he inherited from his father at times to the younger folk who respond with mixed levels of interest.
He was raised well enough, came of age, became a member of the clergy, took some time to care for his aging father, and was there for his end and oversaw his funeral service.

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>>96525880

Bout half of them have some kinda paternal parentage. The rest are some flavor of orphan with various relationships related to a teacher/student situation or a power structure, being the ward of some keeper or the experiment/creation of someone that developed a paternal relationship with their creator/researcher. I think only one or two don't have any father figure in their life.
pic unrelated

>>96525880
Most of them did, though not all.
One was a magical abomination that escaped (wizard + monster + accident = them)...not much in the way of parental figures, though perhaps some of the wizard rubbed off on them?
One is a street rat orphan type, who has a chance now and loved ones to care about; they're struggling a bit with it, but it'll likely work out.
Some of the others had father figures, but they were lackluster or effectively supplanted. The manipulative tycoon-type girl with the older sister was even more that, would have only left so much room for her actual father to be a father figure, but she still did grow up in a household with one.
Others presumably had them, but it never came up.
Others definitely had them, and some were referenced in game or discussed with the GM on character ideas/backgrounds/etc... very few if any got any real screen time in any of the campaigns directly.

>>96535129
it is extremely sloppy but i find it far from boring. Most of their funky custom rules come from 20+ years of experience and I found everything easy to implement.

>>96535148
In my west marches I take the players 8 points for backgrounds and I have them spread them in a 5/3 split. Each one is a short sentence, usually one includes their race and one includes their class. This emerged both to prevent the problems you list and because when I was having players generate their characters they would often pause and become hesitant at this step and this made it very simple. I have players generate their characters before I send them the SRD by giving them a list of talents and spells/powers/maneuvers/whatever and telling them to pick what sounds cool, and noting if there is a core class identity feature in the list like shadow walk or a core healing power or something. My rule set up specifically exists to stop players from abusing half-elf. No one has ever even mentioned half elves.

Maybe Heinsoo and Tweet put in those hyper optimization abilities as a trap option, so players could trap themselves into ruining da game instead of playing it. We do tactics on the table not at character select. People complain my combats are too difficult lol

>>96535148
like, a background is not a single thing you can do. It is not lockpicking. A background is ' i was part of the bewley burglar gang for 10 years when I lived in the alleys of axis as an urchin' and lets you do like 10 things.

People play the skill system wrong in lancer too and its hilarious. They take the list labeled ' example pilot triggers' and ignore the word example and just use it as a 3.X skill list. Skill lists are neoliberalism.

>>96535530
My background is that I'm batman.

>>96535518
>My system is so dogshit I need to carefully control every single thing my players can do to make it work.
LMAO

>>96526231
Brain damage in action.