>>96465741
The opportunity to better himself and the worlds.

>>96465741
The lesson that comfort and happiness are not always the same thing, and sweaty dog girl panties.
These are related.

>>96464400
They mostly take people in desperate situations and trade off favours. There's mention of long-term arrangements/covenants, where a survivor is invested with power in exchange for a long-term partnership. Going by the cards, they feed on the survivors themselves or receive blood sacrifices in exchange for their support. No sign of old-fashioned written contracts, it seems all they run on is a handshake, drop of blood and a promise.

>>96465777
>Google docs says 38.
You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.

>Thanks! I figured it'd serve well as a more traditionally Xianxiaish outfit once the cyan/cultivation markings starts to set in. Could be his sect robes in the third stage.
They’d work well for sect robes, yeah.

>Thinking about a scene a bit where the mindscape/dreamscape is starting to properly get formed and how much that alone could change ones perception of themselves. Or just how they see sleeping in general.
You’d probably start cultivating Divine Delusion while sleeping.

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>>96465817
For context, I'm wondering what Adyseach might request in exchange for temporary companionship and ten years worth of knowledge from him, if I don't want to actually offer him a ticket off of Duskmourn.
Maybe 200cp's worth of jumper power is enough to pay off the whole debt, since that's what it costs to take him as a companion by default. To something planebound like Adyseach, 200cp's worth of power might be an equivalent exchange in its own right.

Just wary about making deals with demons, you know?

>>96465662
yeah, like dreadnoughts

>>96465620
>>96465708
why are you lying? on the frickin internet for that matter??

>>96464919
The only interaction they can get is negative. The only way they can get into "slightly harder" cool game is to dumb it down.

>>96465611
You see how this special rule specifically contradicts the normal situation of models which join units neither conferring nor receiving special rules?

how it's very specific about that?

>Note that in all cases a Special Rule overrides a Rule - meaning that if the Rules state one thing, but a Special Rule contradicts them, then the special rule is followed where applicable.
>p325

so either you show me the part of Infiltrate (X) is conferred onto Models which don't have Infiltrate (X) when they join the Unit, or you show me the part where Cumlad Cooze's special rule specifically confers Infiltrate (X) onto him, or you have no incidence of a Special Rule overriding the Rules on Deployment, joining a Unit, or the applicability of Special Rules to Models which join Units and vice versa

fucking mong

>>96465797
>how it's very specific about that?
I see how it specifically states 'all models in that unit gain Hatred (Traitor)' and is identically worded to the way >>96464017 says 'all models in Terror Squad units gain Infiltrate (12)', so why you think these two rules worded exactly the same way don't interact exactly the same way, granting ALL MODELS in the unit the ability.
Notice Sedras also doesn't have Hatred (Traitor) are you going to argue Sedras doesn't give himself Hatred (Traitor) despite him now counting as one of the models in the unit upon joining it? Same logic applies here pretty clearly.

>>96465547
They really dont like AI

>>96465430
I think you just might get your wish anon, SPOODERMAN looks like an outright disaster

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>>96465580
/ccg/

>>96465476
I was gaffing about urspider including a human in the art for the typing

>>96465826
I forgot the sacrifice. It's not like I was trying to fix Black Lotus.

>>96458347
I think in addition to the actual problems with the core rules, dislike for 5th gets - justifiably IMO - amplified in groggy circles because it's also the edition that began GW's modern embrace of named characters. They had tried mostly dropping the "opponent's permission" prohibition on specials already, but the community largely continued to enforce it themselves, and 5th was GW saying
>Oh you won't get on board of your own accord? Fine you ungrateful fucks, now all your subfactions fun flavour rules are tied to a specific dude, howdya like dem apples piggies?

>>96463665
>>96463763
Yep we knew modern terrain rules where ass, but this level suck assery was not expected. The few times we played at my place I live rather far away so the carless folks have a hard time getting here there is very noticeable difference to how games are played. Than when we played at the local store that has the shit ass 10th terrain.
The random sandbags and bushes change a lot how the game plays

Alright, i've been struggling with stuff outside the thread for a bit so i have to drop working on the daemonhunters book.

Who wants to pick up that one and transcribe it? preferably someone who actually played them back then.

>>96447020
Awesome.
Question has someone made the Witch Hunter and/or Imperial Guard?
I'm not seeing them anywhere in the thread

>>96463940
That’s a good point. While I don’t mind the mini heroes like the totally not Rambo characters, I don’t wanna see Calgar in every game. I’m not super well versed in 3rd ed but I do know that in the core rules it mandated that you ask about special characters. They took that out in 4th Ed and it’s one of the only changes I can think of that is for the worse.

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>>96453156
>>Vampires are repelled by perpendicular lines
The virgampire FEARS the CHAD of Tindolos, his natural predator.

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>>96453156
>Vampires are repelled by perpendicular lines, which crosses happen to look like
I feel like I would respect that more if they fully commit to it.

>>96453206
This was a decent enough explanation but it got old fast when it exploited by objectively evil faiths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fo_eiaOKII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWeyYro1FI
>flashing a symbol so evil that vampires are hurt by it

I hate the secularization of vampires so I wanted to make my twist on vampires so I modified VTM to fit a different lore.

Only Christians or people aligned with Christianity can become vampires. If a non-Christian especially an atheist gets embraced, they become a mindless vampire beast. Crosses work on amplifying Christian guilt. This doesn't work if the user of the cross isn't Christian with faith. The reasoning is the curse is meant to corrupt Christians and lure people away from God. This also leads to people blaming Christianity for the vampires.

>>96453156
>vampires are not actually weak to any holy symbol
>they do recoil at the name of Christ and are revolted by the presence of religious paraphernalia.
>the idea that they are weakened by faith is more attributed to the idea that it takes colossal conviction and faith to even consider challenging such a monster.
I hate the “you need faith for your holy symbol to work” idea as if just being very convicted puts stronger energy into an otherwise dead and mundane holy symbol. If that were the case then belief itself would be powerful enough without a cross to channel it. I personally like
>can’t cross water
>counting grains of rice
>hates garlic
>destroyed by sunlight

Faith isn’t something that should be reliably measured since it is literally the idea that you believe in something regardless of all contrary evidence. Giving that a score is completely counterintuitive.

>>96453174
>my “belief in god with no guarantee of good outcome” stat is high!
>my superpowers work I can do miracles with guaranteed results!

Come on.

>>96453348
Interesting so surely you have a quote from biblical scripture that directly mentions vampires to back your statement right? Assuming you arent just spouting a bunch of baseless bullshit.

>>96459688

Offense: SSS (what even is the max?)
Defense: C
Control: D
Support: D
Sabotage: D
Special/Unique: SS

Sayaka's stats are fucked up

>>96465805
>>96465717
>>96465696
>Its another episode of everyone wants to be super special with a SSSSSSS Stat

Anons please. PLEASE.

Also special/unique is a unique/special stat for your character, youre supposed to name it. Like Weebery: S or something.

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>>96464560
I've got progress

>>96465842
Uh sorry I guess? I invested basically everything in the Destruction category to make Archie as tanky as possible so I personally think he deserves it but oh well.

>>96465849
Good shit anon, nice

>>96465557
Bumping inactive threads is normal, the problem is that on /tg/ there's one specific guy who's spent years doing it constantly in the same types of threads, never accepts that threads should die naturally when the discussion is over, and he never attempts to actually discuss anything himself because he only cares about keeping his pet threads on the board.

There's three threads up right now where the OP happened to include one of bumpfag's trigger words ("element", in this case) and he took that as an invitation to necrobump them for weeks. You'll notice that all of his threads usually get bumped around the same time of day with similar zero-effort bullshit posts for the sole purpose of keeping them from expiring naturally.
>>96314431
>>96315518
>>96422465
That last thread is mostly actual discussion at the moment because it's only a few days old, but when people run out of worthwhile content he'll still keep bumping it for the next month.

>>96465617
It could also be AI training using a bot to keep the thread alive. If that is the case, then it makes simple prompts and logs the presumably human responses and discussions. All it would need to do is disregard its own bumps from the dataset.

>>96465694
NTA but is it actually that big of an issue if, as you say, noonr but the bumpfag is in the thread anyway?
Won't new threads and people posting on the newer threads fix things naturally?

>>96465437
antibumpfags just use bumpfaggotry as a cudgel to attack what they actually hate: people making threads about personal settings or general fantasy and scifi concepts or tropes outside of established settings or games
I have no skin in the "debate" myself though since I don't read those and am just here for /mtg/ and /acg/, just what I've seen

>>96465684
>ah I get it, so bumpfags are ostensibly the OPs keeping their own threads alive?
A common and obvious theory as to who is doing it, but one that I can disprove from experience because I've made threads only to have them kept alive against my will by bumpfag posting.

> That being said, I've literally never seen any board have people that complain about that except on here.
/tg/ has a higher degree of autism than a lot of boards, we are better at pattern recognition so bumpfag posts stick out like a sore thumb

>>96453503
1. Only matters if you're doing Republic City era, and is a useful way to display time advancing.
2. Is just a different part of the dumb twin spirit thing. Pretend those two episodes don't exist.
3. Realistically necessary for air bending to exist in setting as anything other than a bunch of incest babies.

>>96460985
>Having played this and DungeonWorld immediately after, I'm firmly in the "PBTA is shit" camp.
Dungeon World, as its name suggests, is an incredibly shit implementation of PbtA. PbtA is good at player-driven stories with potential intra-group conflict, not dungeon diving with a party. The problem is that it's relatively simple to make a PbtA hack so they're mostly dross by people who don't understand its basic design.

>if there's no listed roll-failure effect, does nothing happen or are we obligated to make up our own?
Case in point. Never played or looked at the ATLA RPG, but this is a very basic part of the Apocalypse World structure: on a miss, make as hard and direct a move as you like. In AW, there's a list of MC moves:
• Separate them.
• Capture someone.
• Put someone in a spot.
• Trade harm for harm (as established).
• Announce off-screen badness.
• Announce future badness.
• Inflict harm (as established).
• Take away their stuff.
• Make them buy.

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delicious chocolate (but caucasian) ladies are my weakness

>>96463157
>Never played or looked at the ATLA RPG
As someone who has (and isn't that Anon you're responding to), I'll tell you that it does. The GM moves are as follows:
>Inflict fatigue or a condition
>Reveal a hidden truth
>Shift their balance
>Twist loyalties with tempting offers
>Escalate to violence
>Offer a risky or costly opportunity
>Threaten someone
>Shift the odds, suddenly
>Exploit a weakness in their history
>Provide wisdom in unlikely places
>Turn a move back on them
And in addition to this, each different era that you can play in comes with a page that discusses the themes of that time period, and provides additional GM moves that are thematically appropriate to the progress and struggles of those times.

>>96460985
>"My GM was a useless shit who didn't know what to do!"

Adding onto >>96465559, a GM technically has the 11 GM moves that are always available, plus each era gives them 15-18 more. If your GM has approaching 30 options for what to do, and they can't pick one, that's your fucking GM's fault.

>>96463817
Can you put on a trip?

>>96462567
Genocides happen in faction braunsteins bruv

>>96465239
>t. Austrian painter

>>96465239
>faction braunstein
Oh, I see. Carry on then.

>>96465759
It's just helpful because it allows automatic post filtering.

>>96029345
Anyone ever read Mistborn? Imagine boneless monsters that scavenge corpses to build skeletons for themselves. That’s a mistwraith. I plan on taking the idea and tweaking it, maybe making them pseudo-undead.

>>96250996
idk ask the guy who made Skibidi toilet

>>96455121
I've read it, and I approve this message.

>>96054522
>INT 22
>WIS 18
>doesn't want allies
>just wants to fight everything
>senseless rage
>doesn't care about self preservation
>master tactician
>attacks directly only
>doesn't think about tactics until it's getting its ass kicked
So intelligent

>>96029345
Imagine a cross between a snake, centipede, and dragon. Oh, and they live in hives like ants.

>>96464045
What game

>>96464045
I want my milf monarchy. Knight me mommy

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>>96465577
My man.

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>>96465577
for me it's loli-centric theocracy

>>96462046
I've been thinking a lot about the red economy but I'm not sure if I actually posted anything. Going Metal makes borging seem easy and gives an idea of what the actual 2045 economy is like. There are enough FBCs in Night City to have developed their own culture since 2020 (when FBC was just gear, now it's Harley Davidson), and some boosterganger boss is able to casually drop 30,000eb to get an FBC. Also Gemini and Alphas (aka skinless Gemini) are considered expensive (the 100eb price category despite being x100 that) so anyone can source one without paying a fixer (but it's interesting that the biopod essentially costs 12,000eb and always requires a mega fixer/midnight market). Perhaps this random party gonk is a hardened boss because they get unlimited cyberware funding (according to Danger Gal NPC guide). Also the Gemini's lore has them being so ubiquitous that many FBC just add them to their collections, implying a closet of FBC that could cost dozens of Fort Knox level runs (but again in the core rulebook a 2000eb job is called a suicide run but quite a few of the bunny slope jobs in TotR pay that much).

Red in 2045 seems more like Fallout New Vegas (I haven't played anything past that) where people have money but nobody wants to spend it on infrastructure so you have power armor goons, a clinic that can implant cyberware, robot armies, random wasteland junkies with military grade laser weapons... But not one paved road.

tl;dr I think the gutterpunk angle Mike wanted was quickly scraped when he left. It's really hard to keep using it as a frame of reference when everything else in the lore contradicts it.

>>96465340
I truly am not sure if cyberpunk is made for high level characters it truly seems like its mostly grunt level play.

>>96465470
If you're the ref, you can homebrew payouts and progression to boost your players to whatever level you want. If you're doing high-level fixer gigs from big-name corpos, maybe they don't mind dropping 20k eddies spread between a group of 4 or 5 runners. You do a 4 or 5 gigs for them a month, and a single player is sitting on a nice pay package when they close all those gigs.
>"Dangerous jobs, but militech pays well for good wetwork."

>>96465710
Yeah true but working for a corpo cripples your humanity in the game mechanics or did i missread that.

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>>96465776
Well, with the new ERMK, you can balance that out with other stuff.
>do wetwork during the week.
>party with your chooms at the club on the weekend.
I think most people cope in Night City with drugs, BDs, or some occasional joytoy visits if they can't find an input/output. As long as you have eddies to burn and aren't super unlucky, it seems like it'd be easy enough to boost your humanity. The ref can also offer up humanity for doing "good deeds" if the alternative for a gig outcome was a less moral but more lucrative path to eddies.

I was really unlucky recently since we'd gotten a prize of 4d6 humanity gain, but I got nothing but 1's. Another player got more humanity with one die than I did with 4. Given their windfall, I may be more stingy with luck points (we can use them in shared instances courtesy of our homebrew).
>"You got plenty of humanity, I gotta save my luck for when I really need it. Unless you wanna spare me some humanity..."
I don't know if the ref will allow that, but I'd give up a crucial luck point in exchange for some extra humanity from another player.

>>96464895
May I recommend Jesus instead.

>>96465264
I've tried. There's not an ounce of faith in my body.

>>96462232
>"hard-core blood and lasers sci-fi mech game"
>"we are so sorry we touch upon these bad things, please forgive us. Here's a safety system to use incase the aspects of war make you feel bad vibes"
God's, that's pathetic.

>>96465641
True, if an "ugh, can we fucking not, please?" doesn't fix the problem then you're either at the wrong table or you're at the wrong table and either way you oughta fuckin leave- Either you're a fuckin pussy or the other players/DM are faggots

Unfortunately, if you pick up a game from Pilot.net, you've already forked over $25 a week two months in advance before you find out this is a transbian dilation campaign.

>>96465854
Why would I even bother playing a game that's pussified slop from setting to mechanics?

Sometimes inspiration can strike at random.
Just cooked up a black tokyo henshin hero who transforms when the girl he screws tells him to say her name.
Lifted from the ultraman z transformation sequence.
Wish me luck, black tokyo is a harsh place

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Games for this feel?

>>96465697
God that is sad. Those had to be some extremely under-equipped pirates. Did they just not have any bows or something?

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>>96465697
>>96465723
Actually pretty neat. They apparently were quite adept in melee if they could actually get stuck in, seems like they just didnt have the ranged weapons to complete with muskets and artillery.

>>96465723
That's not how the specs read on wikipedia anymore. The Spanish losses numbered there don't include native recruits who died, for example. The Spanish forces are also now counted at 60, which doesn't include their native recruits either. Also the word "ronin" has been replaced by "wokou pirates," of which it now reads that it's less than 1000 of them. Which is to say, the information in the previous picrel isn't considered up to date, and potentially misleading.

Cagayan battles are a mess. The Wokou actually repelled them back to their ship initially, but started losing out when the Spanish employed good formations to defend and take advantage of their men using firearms. They ended up sieging the Wokou fort too, outdoing them in artillery.

Long and short of it, they had more effective use of gunpowder weapons. They were using them so much that by the final stages of the battle, they were running out of gunpowder. The Spanish had good use of pikes too, but the Wokou faction was so good at taking their pikes away that the Spanish started oiling their own weapons at one point so they'd be harder to grab.

>>96461243
definitely stuff like that over being all writeups. i'd like to see some attempts to weaponize unnatural stuff

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>characters wake up in an odd situation without memories or events happen while party is split
>ask NPC a question in character regarding an event they aren't aware of, due to the above circumstances
>other player, out of character: "bro, remember x, y, z is what happened"
>happens multiple times in a session
Fucking kill me

>Drug cartels have been in the cultural and political zeitgeist for about ten or so years now
>Arc Dream has done nothing regarding the War on Drugs and has instead shelved The Disciples of the Worm and Tiger Transit
>Meanwhile FoDG just released a campaign about investigating the heroin trade
It's amazing how much Arc Dream bragged about bringing DG to the modern day and has done absolutely nothing interesting
>Hey guys do you want another scenario about a cult in an isolated town or what about scientists researching some sort of anomalous formula

>>96463216
They use Christian cultists way too much.
If we got some kind of religious cultists why not Islamic ones?

>>96465035
They did that in Iconoclasts