>>96469752
Ok in that case
>Room dimensions: 40'x50'. a treasure chest hangs 10' south of the north wall on a 5' chain, 15’ above the ground. The floor beneath the chest is dotted with a grid of slim holes. 20’ to the south, a large metal block hangs from another chain of similar length. Removing the chest or its contents causes the metal block (a counterweight) to drop, lowering portcullises over each door to trap treasure thieves. Lowering the chest causes spikes to eject from the holes, dealing 1d6 damage to anyone standing over them.

>>96469752
>culture war shit
*definition war shit
which is more autistic, especially since the people who don't like the OP definition could, you know, make a thread for their systems of choice instead

>>96469677
The ways of the 2efag are inscrutable. However, Anon is right: it is known that they shit settings everywhere. No reason to think they'd spare the basement.

>>96466330
>>96469807
Trap makes perfect sense to me. As a player, I'd try to solve it by switching the treasure in the chest for stones or the like.

>>96469629
>Are you capable of understanding jokes?
Yeah except the wasp in the jam is that everyone knows you're not joking.
See https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/93133530/#93135615
>Over a year ago the guy that posted his campaign gave a screenshot of the set up for it
>Retarded abbo-oids immediately shift gears from 'Shill, shill, shilly-shilly-chilly-willy' to 'Wow, I guess they're giving shills fake screenshots now'
Maybe you meant it as a joke, in which case, fair enough anon.
But you have to acknowledge that there's some subhuman that insists on shitting these threads up who actually believes the things you're joking about and people are sick to their back teeth of dealing with his bullshit.

>>96469760
Traditional games though?

>>96469784
I guess, yeah. It's probably the same issues of social/online memes infecting thinking that lead to op's pic. But this whole thread was honestly off-topic from the start and will likely be pruned.

>>96465400
>indoctrinated kidnapped child soldier
thats 99.999% of all astartes who have ever lived
does this faggot not realize that basic chapter trials include throwing dozens of 8-12 year olds to their deaths against inhospitable elements and massive wild animals? Aspirants go through the fucking wringer to make sure that the geneseed isn't going to waste on them

man onions scum are really raping 40k huh.
Looking at the entire thread.
>space marines are le bad and le kill people
at least in the classic lore it was conveyed as rumours of such and such chapter killing civilians and this was always portrayed as something dark and terrible and not what the Imperium wanted or a normal chapter did and would get the Inquisition investigating them. Which could end up getting the chapter excommunicated and destroyed.
>>96465624
you sharty fags need to be all snuffed out
>>96469567
its literally a sharty schizo

>>96470289
yeah, I'm sure the 1000-strong fanatical genocidal superarmy vanguard with next to no logistics of their own and literally 0 civilian accomodations makes sure to leave plenty of room for surrendering and would NEVER even consider bending the rules of the geneva conventions and risk mistreating a prisoner when p̶u̶r̶g̶i̶n̶g̶ liberating seceding planets of many billions or it'd bring eternal shame upon their family line. anything else is obviously just 8th ed zoomers compulsively voicing their political extremism

>>96470053
>I wonder if it goes back to which Nationality of Zhell mostly settled which worlds.
It was kinda like that for Dune and it's entirely believable various nation/groups sort of did their own small colonization projects separately. Not to mention the near-human species which are probably radical evolution from the base humans (whether developed naturally or artificially).

>>96469113
>moisture farming allowed locals to make profit domestically
Was that just because there was local need for water?

>>96470129
pretty much, yeah.

Does anybody here run or play in games using the old d20 Saga Edition rule set? I'm struggling to figure out what the exact effect of a particular talent is:
>Believer Intuition
>As a Reaction, when an opponent successfully attacks you, make a Use the Force check and compare the result to your opponent's attack roll. If the check equals or exceeds the result of the attack roll, you can add your Charisma modifier to your Reflex Defense.
As far as I can tell, this applies all the time. If you're asleep, it applies. Awake, applies. Surprised, applies. Flat-footed, applies. Flying a ship, applies. As long as you can take a reaction and aren't prevented from doing so, you can use this if you are successfully attacked.
The catch is, reactions apply after the effect so as written the ability only activates after you've been hit anyway? Or is it only when an opponent successfully attacks, not successfully hits?

It also doesn't say how long it lasts after it activates. Is this just really shitty wording and it's meant to be like the Deflect ability in the same system?

>>96470053
There's also Ghorman which is French.

Imagine playing this SEXUAL activity alone.

lol. That's it, not even an lmao

>>96469366
Are you gonna cry now?

>>96469822
m-muh-MAYBE
*shits and cums

How's you game sessions going, Anon

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>>96455066
Finally home, here are a couple.
Different environments that aren't always fantastical, but do just enough to get the juices flowing.

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>>96455066
Here.

>>96455323
>Yeah, not really sure what this is all about but bot or autist, I don’t really care.
As long as the questions are interesting, I’ll see about answering them.
Best of luck with that OP. His questions rarely are.

Just to chip in and not be too negative though >>96372820
Inuit culture is obviously the primary thing to look at in terms of people who live on ice floes like that. Obviously that places a large emphasis on hunting for sustenance, since there really isn't any greenery. Which in turn lends itself to a lot of Inuit beliefs about animals. They have some rituals regarding the proper treatment of an animal's remains so their souls depart peacefully, for instance.
Also notable is that igloos are surprisingly really, really good at keeping people warm. Way better than you'd think.

Based on the writeup in the OP, I think that sort of culture fits well with the idea of 'beauty is survival' you wrote. The people that took up this sort of lifestyle on the fringes could even be a sort of extreme of that philosophy, where compared to the artisans who live in more tropical waters, they've chosen a harsher struggle for survival.
Because polar regions have whales, narwhals, and walruses, that could also make it a tempting resource for materials. Bones, horns, and ivory could end up in high demand. A pristine white pelt of a polar bear is also probably a rarity.
Auroras are also probably something people might travel just to see, and then attempt to replicate in their own pieces.

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>>96462324
I've seen players play scared before, even without mechanical implementation, but that was in games that really leaned into the horror elements and tropes. Whereas with mecha games (or Werewolf like that other game I was in), the assumption is often that your character is a hot-blooded badass, ready to go teeth-first against bigger and meaner mechs and monsters. So when you introduce a horror scene, it can be hard for players to square that previous concept with the requirements of the scene.

>>96462336
I confess, I haven't checked the server in a while, but have you managed to do any more Mekton games or try playtesting some of your game's potential rules?

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>>96459491
So that's what these creatures are for?

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>>96467646
Those creatures are called Mother Courage. They're Night Shift units that deploy to acquire fallen cyborgs for recycling. The pic I posted is of a mech called Toothy, which is designed as a combat medic unit to recover wounded soldiers and keep them alive until they can be brought to proper treatment. The issue is that Toothy can also power itself using its patients' bioelectricity, and for some their programming has gone a bit off, making them rogue monsters that hunt down people to power itself.

The process itself is depicted on picrel, it's spoilered because this is a blue board.

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>>96467672
That's pretty metal not gonna lie.

I've been obsessed with the idea of mecha werewolf. Something like Gundam Barbatos meets Eva but eating other humans absorbs them into it's biological components and preserves their personality

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>>96467522
You're spot on. I should have clarified I was talking about mecha pilot badasses. I've run and played in horror games where yes, roleplaying being afraid -- and running away -- are part of the fun. But for more action-oriented games, you kinda need some sort of "horror factor" rules. I mean, how many D&D players have ever RPed their low-level characters as being afraid of undead skeletons? At least the first time they encounter any. They should be scared, logically, but.

As for the game and its testing, I'm getting to the point where I need people to playtest it. However, I think I should learn how to put people under NDA, because I'm paranoid about people swiping it. I haven't run any Mekton games lately, but I do want to. Scheduling on the server has proved very hard, sigh!

My friend is really into the books and got all the RPG stuff as early as possible. Personally I think the art in the book looks like the absolute blandest slop imaginable, all of the worst aspects of modern DnD, just completely dead and soulless. Also every time I have been around him listening to the books, which is quite a lot, they sound like YA novels, and I just really don't care for it. But I don't wanna make him sad, so I'm gonna play the game and actually take it seriously, since he usually does the same for me, besides that I think playing a game where I am not interested at all in the setting could make me a better roleplayer

>>96468688
Well at least you know you'll be miserable going in.

>>96468688
Luckily for you, prose of the source material and art in the handbook is in the top 5 things that almost never matter when you're actually playing a game, because those are usually substituted with whatever the GM comes up with or has on hand. Have you found anything of interest in the mechanics?

>>96468688
The audiodrama versions of the books definitely save them for me. I don't think I could get through the fucking thousand page books or whatever if I was reading it and having to lug it around by hand.

Do you have to have some le quirky mental illness or can you just play a normal character.

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Just need the arms and shoulder pads for this guy, not sure if i want to add a chest emblem or something.

>>96464779
The jump pack shield is too big and would turn him off course

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Matted and various smaller details finished.

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I need to paint about 1000 18mm miniatures like pic related but printed smaller
I have an airbrush and I hope to paint the eyes by touching the eyes gently with black ink but idk if I can a paintbrush that fine
What would you do?

>>96470318
Give 'em a wash and call it a day.

>>96469945
>HeroBBS
>Origin: Active Hero, F, 18 -100 900

>Perks: Magician, Exchange BBS, Sage of the Forest -600 300
>Items: Magical Map, Magic Box -100, Magical Index -200. -300 0

I am absolutely not hero material, in any way, shape, or form. I still somehow got summoned to be a hero. Thankfully the hero summoning didn't break my connection with my apartment, so I was able to immediately freak out and vanish back to safety, before lucking into discovering my BBS connection and managing to beg someone else to solve things.

I'm gonna have to reveal the nature of the reality virus and my own bad/good luck powers which make me incapable of acting in public to convince people, but it'll be fine afterwards. Plus the reveal of my Archive Magic and magic internet is gonna get the attention of the BBS's Admins, who are gonna borrow my magic knowledge to do a really big upgrade to the BBS to add music, image, AND video support! I'm gonna get to be a VTuber to a bunch of isekai'd people now~

If a jumper's only form of harem management is Scathach training him to be a harem protagonist and harem management skills from Wisdom of the Haunting Ground how big of a harem could he likely manage before pursuing more serious harem perks?

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>>96462194

The secret world
Drop-in

300cp - The Buzzing
000cp - The Truth Is Out There
000cp - My Neighbor Bigfoot
100cp - “Reap what you sow”
200cp - Smiling Magus
300cp - Anima
300cp - Of Another Age
100cp - Way of the Fist

300cp - Agartha

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>>96470010
The one thing Scathach is definitely an idiot about is her own emotions. If Scathach has taught you how to run a harem, you are probably worse off than if you went into it blind.

>>96470320
Honestly she might just offer lessons on kidnapping women when asked for harem building teachings.

>>96469835
>played it because one of our friends (who is a Critical Role fanboy) bought it
>he's thinking about reselling it
lmao it writes itself

>>96469835
>It was mid.
Do you care to expand your critique?

>>96470079
He offered it to me. I said no and asked him why? His response was "Im not sure about it. I was expecting other thing. It feels like it needs something else."

>>96470090
It doesnt innovate very much; its more focused in the narrative, improv and interaction between characters than in other aspects (making them just "and thats it"); the Fear and Hope is overused and after a bit loses the "uuuuh" effect; extra stepes just for the sake of complicate simple things; terms and mechanics very open to interpretation that leads to confusion and debates; the combat is slow; and the players have more power than the enemies (by mechanic and not very good balance of the classes) so the risks are low.
It gives me the feel of an easy role game for acting players that want to be the center of attention 80% of the time and "yes DMs".

>>96470252
>"Im not sure about it. I was expecting other thing. It feels like it needs something else."
He should try not playing d+d

>>96469800
I've run a mix of voice and text oneshots, and currently running a text campaign. I'm enjoying it way more than being stuck in eternal 5e hell, and it's going to be a handy tool to get people to step outside of 5e because if they weren't going to do it of their own accord they're highly likely the type that, even if they're not CR fans, they know the name and would try it because of it. It's not as big a shake up to the expected D&D as they tried to make it seem like before release and whatever, fine.

The books consistently harps on about players having to be awake and proactive and contribute to the game instead of having the DM do 99% of it. The physical cards are nice for when I run tables for teens and kid in OOSH, I already make my own cards for them but the core set came with one already. The main hurdle I'm coming across is people always trying to find a mechanical outcome for a thing instead of playing for the story, this also happens when I take an action as a monster and only make narrative/environmental changes instead of rolling to attack a PC, it's been fun working on that and seeing things click into place for new players.

tl;dr more flexible than 5e and faster to run, shame CR shot it in the head and went back to 5e lol

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>>96468765
first time?

>>96468546
Starting at "metalbending police" and working out really would explain a lot, if that's the case. After all, Toph as the police chief is one of the least sensible things that happened during the time between series. Toph has all the needed skills, but an entirely bad temperament for it. Her deciding to start a metalbending police team happens entirely without given explanation for how she came to that decision, and it's very hard to imagine how it happened. It's not like her arc in AtLA particularly directs her towards this, even if matters of trust and care do get better for her.

>>96412723
>Zuko and his uncle
Wake up sleepy head, wrong show, people are talking about The Dragon Prince.

>>96469226
Pretty much. It's very much a case where it feels like they worked backwards to justify it.
It'd be easier to buy that Toph was the one who started Pro-Bending inspired from her time at Earth Rumble.

>>96443887
I don't no if your 907 is enough to bend her with your cock.

>>96453011
You can see where they sawed into his skull to remove the brain

>>96463284
I don't think it's a warping of signals as much as it is the loss of a system through which to interpret them. The same fundamental conflicts are at play, concerning society, ethics, nature, time, suffering, human essence etc., but we no longer have a way to frame it. So people cling to the first thing that offers some ideas-structure, whether that is liberal idpol obsession and democracy-jerking, or altright ideas of stagnation or whatever. It would be religion, but most now grow up with no connection to or knowledge of it besides your weirdo mlm aunt and your frigid grannie who rants about satan in vidya, and to acquaint oneself with it requires a level of effort and erudition, where others are not only immediately accessible but forced onto you and rewarded socially. But those others are not constructed to serve that purpose, but are basically accidental, or economic or for some direct material or political purpose, and so always lead to severe contradictions for those who would offer themselves to them.

>>96455190
One of many limp-wristed cartoonists propped up by imgur, reddit and whatever else.

I almost have trouble believing these kinds of "artists" become organically popular but I remember how stupid millenials were in their teens and twenties, and how easily they gobbled up everything on social media, no matter how insipid.

>>96463284
The CIA is too busy trying to spread dissent and support for the US in Greenland to force-feminize people.

>>96455190
Lions have the ability to work together.

>>96462617
So play it.
>>96463174
>Can't
Crybaby says wha? Buy the books. Run a game. There absolutely are not any badwrongfun police to stop you.

>>96463489
>are not any badwrongfun police to stop you.
I'm not so sure anon WoTC might hire some Pinkertons to come over to his house and rough him up.

>>96460844
You can always try the old adventures in dark sun if you feel like it. And slavery is never just a one time thing under the burning glare of the dark sun. As long as the sorcerer kings rule there city's nobody is truly free even if they do not live in bondage.

The sorcerer kings love to run near constant slave raids in there own city's whenever they have a new idea pop into there heads and it needs tons of free labor to complete. New, bigger, grander temples to themselves and there own egos need to come from somewhere after all. So why not from the broken bodies and souls of massive temporary work forces you can whip into line from your own citizens. You can after all be dragged into and dumped out of slavery many times in your life. As soon as yu are done with whatever pet project your sorcerer king wanted done he will most likely just have you dumped back onto the streets where he does not need to feed, water, or keep you caged anymore.

Afterall the lifeless sands of the endless wastes are more than enough to keep you trapped behind his city's walls and under his control.

>>96460146
We've been running a Palladium Fantasy Dark Sun campaign for awhile now, and it's pretty fun setting. Our DM has gone above and beyond and basically has a little compendium of each city state with hooks, so we're focusing on creating a little roving trade caravan/mercenary group. Raam is full of all sorts of conspiracies and strife between revolutionaries, infighting between guilds and nobles, and secret police. Our start was as slaves in the Draj arena that won our freedom, so that might be a good start for you.

>>96463174
I think it's the slavery and race war themes. I don't hate trannies but I hate that media has been trannied.

>>96469069
They home in on your luck.

>>96469564
How so you explain beefier PCs tanking frienddy fireballs then?

>>96469431
>GM and players could game the system by describing HP loss as "oh it nearly missed" "oh it nearly missed" thus invalidating visceral and realistic feeling of the game.
First, how is that "gaming the system"? The HP is still lost.
Second, if you don't want to describe everything as a near miss, then don't do that. Nobody is stopping you from describing things however the fuck your group enjoys it.

>>96469194
>assumes everyone on tg has played D&D
>claims everyone else is the problem

>>96469069
>bathing in acid drains your luck

>>96470095
Adopting that kek

>>96466533
>40K
>one of the greatest fantasy franchises of all time
>my_sides.jiff
You should do stand up or something...

>>96466285
Magic completely sold its soul. Warhammer has to grit through occasional woke retcons, but nothing completely earth-shattering

>>96470178
You should learn to read.

>>96466670
>>96467335
The funniest thing about races of Magic is that they make no biological sense. Arwen is white, but her grandma Galadriel is black. Eomer is white, but his uncle Theoden and sister Eowyn are black. Do kids on Magic Middle-Earth just get a random skin color at birth?