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>Join open table night for 5E
>Playing a monster expert ranger
>combat starts
>pull out monster manual and read the stats
>DM accuses me of meta gaming

This is a DM skill issue right? It’s a roleplaying GAME. Why is he upset that I’m just using all the tools of the game to be a better player
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>>97820340
knowing about what kinds of monsters and creatures are out there (especially ones that aren't specific individuals) is not the fucking same as knowing exact layouts and secrets of specific places and how NPCs will act
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>>97821181
Maps exist. People research other people. Knowing how somebody will react and what their weaknesses is exactly how spies work
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>>97820328
All monsters have a label that floats above their head listing their type, level and faction anon.
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>>97818555
It’s an OOC resource being used to know stuff your character wouldn’t necessarily know. If he was smarter, he might ask you to roll a Knowledge check as a free action, and give information based on how well you roll.
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>>97818555
>Join open table night for 5E
I stand up, turn 360 degrees and walk away

The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!

Magnificent Panther Edition

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>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFs
https://battletech.com/qsr/

>Rookie Guides
https://tinyurl com/ydtr589e
https://pastebin.com/HZvGKuGx
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>>97828154
This is how I spend my work shifts I have a book or podcasts etc going instead of music as I drive my route.
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>>97828257

I'm looking it up and I might have got my wires crossed somewhere. Nevermind.
On the other hand, there's still the Fighting Uruk-Hai.
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>>97828158
That would require Russ Bullock to allow people who know what they are fucking doing to work and he can't have that.
Just like MWO he never had any clear thought out plan for MW5 and just threw shit at the wall to see what stuck. Now PGI are back to life support mode and doing what they can to string out what remaining assets they have. I am frankly amazed they have survived this long as a company.
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>>97828257
>tomboki
https://mg.wiktionary.org/wiki/tomboki-
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>>97828377
All they have to do is make VR support native and more robust. The community already did 99% of the work. Just make it easier for them and 10/10 stars.

And make speaker-portraits toggled in options. Fucking stupid reason to need a mod.

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Need A Light? Edition

Sprues and instructions
https://starcraft-tmg.com/downloads

How-to-Play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBsIPVIOHw&t=3s [Embed]

Art of War Battle Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR4tT_UTlBc

Play On Tabletop Battle Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fImg1-vXX8

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>>97827655
I support more big Protons titties, no matter how they get in the game.
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>>97827655
I'm pretty sure Vorazun knows why Zeratul had to kill Raszagal. And likely agreed that death was preferrable to being infested by whore-igan.
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>>97827897
Protoss having tits is so silly. They have no mouths, what possible reason would they have for tits? They really ought to be flatties but I guess Blizzard modellers had their dicks do their thinking for them when they were designing the protoss ladies in SC2.
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>>97828165
>Blizzard modellers had their dicks do their thinking for them
Back when they made good characters
>kerrigan
>protoss gals
>inquisitor white mane
>year 1 overwatch
>all those great HoTS models

Man i miss those days
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Post art, stories, fanfics, minis, animations any OC you like depicting this pairing.

No seethers.
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>>97822210
>using an eldar-waifufag reaction image for Imperial-fag self-insert garbage
Delete your eldar folder.
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>>97827441
I bet Guilliman would step on it for extra measure and turn that disgusting freak into paste for extra emperor points
if she doesn't abort it before that for being an abomination and an affront to everything eldar
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>>97827986
This better?
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>>97827200
No, she's just 70 solar years old, which makes her the eldar equivalent of a 13 year old girl. That's why she's both infatuated by the human (because she's young and dumb and doesn't know any better) and shorter then him.
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>>97828033
You may continue seething if you wish, but you will not stop me from finding this cute.

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>What is /awg/?
A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.

The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.
This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.

>Examples of games that qualify.
A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,
Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,
Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,
Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,
Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics...
...and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.

>Examples of companies providing rules and/or miniatures for alternative wargames.

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>>97826761
>>zelda
>>monster hunter
>>super smash bros
Strange pulls, none of these significantly feature armies.
>marathon
Soon-to-be radioactive brand whose lore mostly boils down to "and then the hero killed the bad guys," "and then the AI went crazy" and "and then everybody was blown up with a really big bomb." Does not exactly lend itself to large scale engagements.
>street fighter
This might be the worst pick of all. A series entirely about 1v1 fights with fluff no one cares about.
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>>97827820
>armies
You don't need to be a mass battle game to be a wargame.
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>>97826761
>warcraft
mfw this is an even worse idea than starcraft, and yet because of starcraft's fake success it's practically bound to happen now
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>>97825359
To be fair there's a good number of kits sold on the internet, vinted in europe has some sweet deals sometimes.
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>>97825575
Always hated the damn Lutheran triad, their aesthetic turned me off something fierce. They look like a bunch of hobos who just crawled out of the St. Vinnies clothing donation bin. Fucking awful. But I don't have a better idea for what their look should be, so fuck my worthless bitching.

Glad to see some warzone talk, ended up cancelling yesterday's game that I promised to report on, couldn't pin down a scenario even after pinching ideas from Chronicles back issues and 40k2e mission cards and just stressing over it left me feeling burnt out and not wanting to play. So my mate and I have pushed it to next week instead. I did some painting today to clear my head and I think I'll just focus on hobby stuff this long weekend instead. Paint some more corpo soldiers and build some terrain.

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How high would you rank the riding skill of the average Comanche Warrior in your system of choice? Explain your answer.
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>>97827828
How would you play traditional games? Explain your answer.
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Robert E Howard's last story was about a comanche guy
I got nothing else to add to this thread
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>>97828006
They were fucking badass
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>>97827828
Low because I'm racist :/

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Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade, Gygaxian D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere.

Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons played as intended by its creators from 1974 to 1983 — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching metaplots and a greater emphasis on player agency.

If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started. We also have two excellent beginner guides created by Anons with feedback from the thread that you can check for help:

>n00b DM's Guide
https://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B

>n00b Player's Handbook
https://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0

>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:
http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128


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>>97827306
>There's a problem with pic related and it's not that the blue-grey spinosaur is featherless. What's the problem?
Just guessing here, but some possibilities:
>the parasaurolophus was a swamp/shore dwelling animal and wouldn't be fucking around on a dry plain of some sort
>I think it's supposed to have a ducklike bill rather than a deer muzzle?
>for all I know the two species were separated by millions of years and/or existed on separate continents
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>>97827395
They probably did, there's a lot of pushback against feathered dinos on 4chan as part of the whole anti-modern-[blank] thing. /an/ in particular has a schizo who thinks that it's a secret plot by the jews, trying to turn dinosaurs gay, lol
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>>97827395
Great question. Carcinsation doesn't apply as they both shared the theropod body plan of claw footed biped, those are inherited rather than convergent traits. However, increased size, enlarged skulls, and having at least some forelimb reduction are convergent evolution.

A time line might help
Genus Allosaurus lived 155 to 145 MYA
>65 million years pass
Tyrannosaurus rex lived about 80 to 66 MYA
>63 million years pass
As a taxon, Homo appears about 3 MYA
>3 million years pass
You today

Early hominids lived closer to T. rex than T. rex lived to the last allosaur. T. rex is at the midpoint between you and the allosaurs.

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>>97827882
I didn't call you a schizo, you seem to know what you're talking about. I'm just mildly suspicious of claims of "no feathers" due to being harangued by a actual lunatic about it on multiple occasions.
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>>97827932
No one said you did call me names so that's a moot point. What you did was tell that other anon that I was probably wrong about allosaurs being featherless and insinuated it was because I was being contrary for the sake of being contrary. With no other reason offered for saying this, only lumping me in with the no-feathers crowd despite me having listed multiple taxa I know to be feathered, I deemed your reasoning irrational.

It sounds like that /an/ anon's posts, or more likely your thoughts about the posts, are causing you some distress. I'd sooner use this site less than feel harangued on it. Touch grass is used as an attack but it's also good advice. I'm going to do it myself, not because I'm feeling harangued but don't want to derail the thread more.

>>97827407
As the only player so far, and a very good one, I am putting the final answer before I off and touch grass. I doubt I'll be back in this thread before dies and it wouldn't be fair not to give you an answer.

The carnivore is Baryonyx walkeri. Its jaw is a long and slender piscivorous jaw, unsuited for hunting large terrestrial prey, excellent for fish or scavenging. Spinosaurus aegyptiacus also had a long jaw but it was much larger than B. walkeri so could easily predate adult hadrosaur-sized prey. It's not a big thing in itself but it stood out to me when I saw the photo.

Long time MtG player (17 years?) and with what's happening to the game rn, i don't really have much interest in any of the new sets.

Sorcery looks like it could maybe scratch that itch. The art is fantastic and reminds me of legacy MtG art. Anybody here play?

I watched a few overview vids, but I'm curious how the actual gameplay goes.

For someone who plays mostly EDH, are there any similarities?

Is it usually a 2 player match?
How long are the matches usually?

Is it as much of a money pit as MtG?

Convinced a few of my MtG friends to give it a shot based off of the art alone. Just need an idea of what I'm up against in terms of learning curve.
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>>97821727
If you don't mind a dead game, Mage Wars Arena is pretty dope and you can usually get the complete thing for a decent price.
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>>97821717
The water decks are pretty dominant right now, but there's still a lot of competitive builds, also people are still trying to figure out what works in general. Cards like Atlantean Fate can be pretty brutal.
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Sorcery is based just for printing these two cards alone.
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>>97820622
play it. It's good, very intuitive. just get a precon set and jam it with a friend. it's good, polar bears and pudge butcher are still my guys.
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>>97820809
Considering every piece in this game is hand made (so not digital slop), that is great art.

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GURPS is a modular, adaptable system, capable of running a wide range of characters, settings, and play styles, with a level of detail varying from lightweight to completely autistic.
Optional rules allow you to emulate different genres with a single system, or even switch genres within a single game.

A nearly complete archive of GURPS books can be found by using the image. Never post direct links to the archive anywhere in plain text.

If you're wondering where to start:
- The Basic Set covers everything, including a lot of optional rules you probably won't use.
- A genre guide can be found in the archive, under Unofficial/GURPSgen. It tells you what extra books and articles you may find useful for many common genres.
- How To Be a GURPS GM is a good read even for players.
- GCS (gurpscharactersheet.com) is an excellent character-builder software, with page references to all the books and the option to export to both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.

TQ: what's your least favorite disadvantage for a player to take?
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>>97823845
The issue is that GURPS is a turn based rpg and doesn't really represent how difficult it'd be to carefully aim for the head or even retaliate against someone foaming at the mouth and wailing in you, which would be quite overwhelming. Except AoA just gives you a +4 to your own hit chance and in turn you're completely defenseless. The opponent just parries or dodges your AoA and easily attacks back.

Ye olde zerkers had shields and defended themselves, they weren't completely careless and easily headshotted.
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>>97824281
>puckee spamming his commission again
https://www.reddit.com/r/ReasonableFantasy/comments/1s9p7et/vivienne_cruft_peasant_woman_by_dennis_fr%C3%B6hlich/
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>4 times since April 2026
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>>97827991
There's this document that lets you update 3rd characters to 4th but I don't know if that'll work for vehicles. Check it out.
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>>97821720
Has there even been a single GURPS supplement written by a woman, real or otherwise?

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Recently I found some Humanity Fuck Yeah YouTube videos that use AI voice narration on my feed. After using them as background noise while cleaning my apartment I found that that most of them are more or less the same. Humans are the only ones who know how to fight/love sex/survive/etc. How can we save the genre or reinvent it so it isn't so stale?
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>>97826746
how tf is Avatar anti-human?
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>>97828229
the idea that the reception to Avatar was bad is also something that only exists because of extreme vocal minorities

the most common thing people took away from the first movie is that it was gorgeous, people might not have liked the characters much but they did like the world and how it was presented
and yes that means even among the general moviegoing audience there was a lot of sympathy for the Na'vi, mostly because the world was so pretty and the corporate dickbags in that movie were trying to destroy the pretty world

Quaritch was badass sure, and most people took it away like that, but he was also side-by-side and for most of the movie taking orders from a corporate slimeball with exactly 0 fans
And it's not like villains being badass has ever stopped them from being villains
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>>97828248
it's not really, it's anti-corporate and pro-environmentalism so it's only anti-human if you're one of those people who believe you should be a mindless slave to corporations, in which case I would urge anyone to check the early life section of their article
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>>97828249
Oh yeah, I wasn't saying that the reception was actually bad, just that most people I interacted with considered a fantastic spectacle for the eyes with a mostly forgettable plot about nature good
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>>97828248
The main character choose to become permanently a 9ft tall blue furry and fuck catgirl pussy instead of remaining a cripple office worker with generational dept so he's clearly a race traitor.

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Best CYOA wuxia just dropped the new chapter, Asian, Xanxia/Wuxia thread.
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Does he have plans to ever replace the ai slop with actual art?
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>>97828302
yep, he's stated he'll swap to a commissioned artist once he can find one.
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>>97828306
Even little doodles would be better. It’s so distracting, I know it can be turned off but still.
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>>97828309
The current stuff is done by fans to fill the gaps until he can find a proper artist. I don't like it either, but like you said it can be turned off.
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>>97828298
Traditional games?

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This thread is dedicated to all kinds of solo games, systems, tools, and campaigns.

MaxTac edition.

TQ: What keeps you coming back to solo RPGs? Want to tell stories, pass time between group games? Tell us all about it.

>Last Thread: >>97445556

Resources:
https://rentry.org/srpgg
https://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkit

More threads:
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/
or

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>>97826728
Such a system could be made in principle but no one has and no one would want to use it if they did. So the equivalence is meaningless.
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>>97827841
How can you make that claim, people are willing to try anything if it works.
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>>97828233
Firstly: no they aren't. Most people aren't even willing to try a different system once they have one they're comfortable with.
Secondly: no such system has been made despite the ideas being widely known, which suggests no one is interested.
Thirdly: using a lot of simple but laborious number crunching for the sake of not having to pick up two dice at a time would be a bafflingly terrible tradeoff.
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>>97828299
All this tells me is that you're not going to invent it. Useless.
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>>97828343
You aren't either, and I'm not the one that seems to want it.

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>Perfect setting don't exi-
Tyranny is perfect in vibe, aesthetic, tone, lore, and history. I might port it into GURPS Dungeon Fantasy.
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>>97826301
Yes but I mean, is there some mechanical thing unique to VOTOMS that prevents you just playing using Mekton? Not familiar with the show.
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>>97826313
>An Elder Scrolls TTRPG would be grand
Intoxicating, even. The big hurdle would probably be XP of all things. You could go to a generic XP system because any sensible designer would take one look at TES experience and say "FUCK doing that without a computer", but it's so damned iconic that it just feels horrible to remove it.
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>>97828272
Dude, cyberpunk 2020 had "the more you use a skill the faster you advance it" decades ago.
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>>97805833
Maybe an adaptation playing as basic robots during the last war?
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>>97828272
I'm pretty sure its not that rare overall. I know call of cthulhu kind of does it.

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He did nothing wrong.

Everything that he ever did was for humanity
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>>97777202
if he was better written i might agree with you but unfortunately he was written by a gaggle of retards attempting to portray a super genius so yeah he did some things wrong
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Who gaf the Emperor was an outta control bioweapon who fucked up his universe beyond repair end of
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>>97808357
Whole reason Erda did that was because she was convinced he'd be an even worse dad if he had the opportunity to raise them by hand.
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>Stuck in his capital
>Spends more time scheming than fighting
>A cripple
>Rules over a massive empire
>Worshipped as a god
>Has nine most favoured servants
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He had untreated autism and did a poor job.

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A thread for everything Dragons.
What is the best kind of Dragons for a game. Just the standard, firebreathing scally Dragon? Or is it better for a game to give your players variety?
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>>97812133
There are creatures that prey on dragons, no mortal has seen one in recorded history
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>>97815720
christ you're dull
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>>97816897
You aren't missing out on anything desu
It only gets shilled by unironic 12 yr olds on here
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>>97827453
isn't that the target audience
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>>97827304
Any names? Sound interesting!


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