>>96634995
It's fabulous provided your players treat it as RP rather than sperging out like they're at a 40k tourney.

The rules aren't tight enough to be conclusive in every situation, and they really aren't balanced for the competitive mindset.

What you do get is a fun game with lots of opportunity for narrative and against the odds moments of awesome.

>>96637334
Imagine thinking art school is only for being taught how to paint

>>96637334
all good artists had a mentor of some kind

>>96638042
Tutor ≠ School

>>96637657
Going to art school as a result of failing at something else is perfectly valid and reasonable.

>>96638681

They're no-shares for a reason, and have nearly cost us /tg/ more than once.

>>96638530
>fine let's see what this forbidden system is about
>surprise surprise - it's disappointing

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>>96638733
Now you can use it as toilet paper

Seriously, why are some systems verboten from being mentioned? Some nolifers are lurking in every RPG forum trying to stop people from trying out before they buy their systems? They're garnering notoriety?

>>96636474
Perhaps the artist was just desperately trying to make him remotely interesting?

>>96636832
It just hit me, without logar, corax has nothing even remotely interesting
At least Ferus Manus has a stupid pun
The raven guard are legit the most forgettable loyalist legion

>>96636474
>>96636832
There's general background suppositions that Corax perusing Lorgar into the eye post heresy has resulted in further mutation and shadow walking capabilities for Corax, part of why Lorgar stays locked up in his tower.
Don't recall any specific citation of it being so if you want to do the lore source required to have an imagination thing.

>>96634165
>some "who/10 drama about people" thread
That's the perfect midwit filter

>>96636846
>The raven guard are legit the most forgettable loyalist legion
That means they're good at their job honestly. They're the stealth-ops after all.

>>96630689
Alignment can sometimes effect race/class access and alignment effects how factions view your character. The faction/alignment/fate system is a way that player character actions reverberate throughout the game world, from the local region to the great continental domains of the world map

>>96630760
The brewmaster also has a fun rule that says when you roll for initiative you can take a -4 penalty and drink before your first turn - this could be beneficial if you are surrounded or want to use your quick action on a rune or a potion

>>96630657
Muh high fantasy game also includes the class 'Occultist' whos spells primarily work as interrupt actions

bump

>>96630657
I'll bite.
Fighter.

>>96637415
I have never heard Death Troopers hyped in a positive way, everyone talks about how terrible and obnoxiously gory the author's writing is.

>>96637370
I mean, yeah? I want communism for whites, essentially. Capitalism is cancer and the reason why you got wokism in the first place.

>>96636920
anything post S1 is shit, 2 gets glazed as "good" because it has a bunch of cheap cameos but was the first time they did it so it gets excused for some reasom

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>>96637987
>cheap cameos but was the first time they did it so it gets excused for some reasom
At the time, we thought Filoni might actually produce more quality episodes.
Cameos were thought to be like they were in teh early MCU, where they'd flash a character to tie things together into an overarcing story.
Disney, of course, had no skill, no clue how to tell a story, hired idiots and proceeded to make Mando S3, Kenobi and BoBF while insulting their own cast, their fans and random bystanders on Xitter.

It's like the whole story of the sequels. It could have been good, if it had been handled by competent people. But Disney, KK, or whoever decided to make it shit and throw various cool ideas, characters and actors under the bus for no reason.

>>96636951
As someone who runs a boardgame shop, Bullshit.

Star Wars merch is a big seller. Yes, people bitch about the franchise, but the moment they release a new Star Wars related game, those people who bitched are the first people through the door yelling "I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!!!"

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OP here

>>96637329
It's amazing how they managed to build a propserous, orderly society against in an isolated, somewhat barren land of volcanoes, tsunamis and earthquakes

>>96636671
I meant historical samurai, not anime.

>>96636548
Interesting approach. RPG pundit also does ritual "magick" based on actual Western esotericism in his games. I notice you didn't mention buddhist priests though, is there a reason? THey make fine exorcists.

>>96638483
>>>96636548 (You)
>Interesting approach. RPG pundit also does ritual "magick" based on actual Western esotericism in his games. I notice you didn't mention buddhist priests though, is there a reason? THey make fine exorcists.
I assume you're referring to Osho. They would be the highest order of Bhuddist monk, of which a Shohei is already a brother in oath. In essence, you take the young monks with fire in their blood and give them a spear or a naganata and let them do battle with those that threaten the harmony of the spirit; samurai or tengu. Then when they've matured they can take more dignified positions in the order.
As it stands, I give the Shohei bonuses in both detecting oni and tengu and a bonus to combat against these opponents. If they are high enough skilled, they can use their ability to influence the kii of another person to remove malevolent kami. Given I already have two other classes for dealing with evil spirits, I kind of just let it hang there.

I didn't really go over it earlier but one other thing I have baked into my magic system is the concept of feng shui. The core idea is that physical space can influence the flow of kii and if you understand it you can harness it for different effects. With this in mind, a practitioner of mystic arts can build a structure, plant a garden, do stone carvings, etc that can give various effects. In particular, Torii serve as mystic gateways that will open with the right ritual. If you're thinking Japanese folklore magic Stargate, you're picking up what I'm laying down.

>>96638483
Then your best bet is to read up the actual history. Otherwise look up the Zatoicihi films or the tale of the 47 samurai, cause a lot of good recommendations for Kurosawa films like Yojimbo and Sanjuro were made already.

Which system are you using? Do you have "honor" mechanics?

>>96638692

Is there a japanese feng shui tradition? There should be since they have ki. Where do the torii open into?

>>96638641
>>96638660
Nobody gives a fuck, also stop samefagging your shitty bait

>>96637002
By baldy you mean Vince Venturella? Because he shills his own line of paint at pro acryl quite a bit

>>96638700
He also shilled the new AP range on release like everyone else

>>96637516
>a youtuber said so!

>>96638764
(you) now go back.

We can’t trust a woman’s math!

Politically or magically? There’s a difference. Both?

>>96638245
>specifically hating bag building and not deck building sounds a bit weird to me
Why? You like bag building more than deckbuilding so you obviously dont like them the same. Whats weird about it?

>>96638108 #
What are the best deckbuilders?

I only played Orleans. The only other that I can think of is Quacks.

>>96638507
>>96638583
Phonefaggotry.

I went to the board game bar with my parents. Mom won all four (4) games. I'm washed...

>>96638108
You don't have to shuffle bags.

>>96635100
Good thing War of the Ring doesn’t have dice overtake skill
>b-b-but
No you’re just bad

>>96638242
I still don't get how
>nun in black with guns is no no
>nun in white/blue with a katana who is still explicitly said to be an assassin with the moves is a-ok

nobody show bandai that one hitman trailer, they might realize the decision to memory hole noir is retarded.

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Wait a minute why didn't they just incorporate the cage frame in the art instead of adding another frame? Would have been creative and unique frame with cute art, I mean it's already fucking there?

>>96635671
What's the setup and is it reliable enough to be more worth running than the new Drasil to give everything Rush anyway?

>>96638490
future proofing because they could reprint the card with a different frame

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>>96629648
No, but they should.

>>96630139
>that's right elf, come outside of your guarded forest
drow hands wrote this
>>96634825
>I wonder if he bit off more than he could chew converting it into 3.5e on top of adjusting for player stories/requests.
Definitely feels like that. Especially because I read a couple of 5e adventure books and they tend to be very bland when it comes to environment and interaction with said environment outside of some basic effects like getting lost/cold in the blizzard. Me and one more player believe he is sticking to the book too much because he's kinda scared the game is gonna become too unbalanced (not unjustified, though), but that ends up forcing us the players to become more stale and bland too which is bad. Especially for our table where the characters have vastly different ways to interact with the world.

let's draw some elves today fellas

>>96637095
does stable diffusion count as drawing?

>>96638219
that's more like commissioning

>>96638281
Noted. Ive got a friend in kaliningrad, I wonder if I can get her to mail it to me. Somehow...
>>96638101
The Atlas is named something along the lines of "World Bearer" and the Firestarter something like "Fryer" or something to that extent.

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>>96637750
>AC/20 and 4 medium lasers.
I mean you could bracket better...

>>96638253
>does anyone have any visual examples of how they actually supposed work in lore?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G88ZTO1RXRs

>>96638465
Do you have any images or idea of where to get them? I'd love a slightly less mini awesome

>>96638696
Sadly no. I just remember he was talking about it in like October or November last year.

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>>96615106
So you are telling me ACKS isn't just a bad game by itself, it's also run by literal schizoid that tries to pretend it's bigger than it is?

>>96589415
>DnDrone weaning off DnD
From the top of my head:
Barbaren
Critical!: Go Westerly
Barbarians of Lemuria
Broken Compass/Outgunned
Torchbearer
Tiny Dungeons/other Tiny D6 games
The Shadow of Yesterday

Pick your flavour here, and then go from there

>>96636057
>1972+140 (the backers who bought the revised edition through the treasure tome kickstart)
I guess you'd prefer the statement to be revised to "barely 2000 backers" since you actually think that +140 is such a big deal, and I see no reason not to oblige.
We're still talking about incredibly tiny numbers, especially considering how valuable you thought some loose change was.

>Given the piles of cash for it all
Considering that he had to resort to using AI art, that either means the costs have gone beyond what he projected, or he's genuinely grifting the people who bought the game. The fact that he managed to get whatever money he did get out of so few people kind of helps explain the cult-like behavior that seems to have infected the game.

>>96589415
>Okay, I'm done. I'm done with DnD. Discord retards broke me.

The biggest retard is the one looking you in the mirror, boy.

>>96638287
>If they try different edition of virtually the same game
Alright retard, back to the soft play area with you. If you're too stupid to have an adult discussion without resorting to 'You're a drug dealer but for editions of D&D' then you're too stupid for anyone to take your opinion seriously.

>>96638363
>vegan doughnut

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Thus do we resume the tale of the Techpriestess, continued from https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/96534664/#q96543298

>For weeks, the fleet of the von Nassau-Mendoza dynasty had hung in orbit above the world of Sarnath, a backwater garden planet at the edge of the Segmentum Solar. Only one jump now separated them from Holy Terra itself. Yet for all the grand parades and religious proceedings that surely awaited upon the throne-world of Mankind, it was here, far from the prying eyes of the masses, where the true climax of this affair was fated to play out.

>Upon the bridge of the 'Argentum Omnipotens,' the Rogue Trader contemplated the extent of his triumph. Invitations had been sent to the aristocracy of every corner of the Imperium, bidding them come celebrate his Techpriestess' triumphant return from exile. Yet those who would answer his summons knew well that it was but a pretext. In truth, this would be the glorious debut of a dynasty that had too long languished in obscurity. And more than that, it would be a celebration of the absolute power of wealth. With sheer weight of coin, he had bent the scales of justice until a mad heretek could be hailed a saintly hero. He, Cassius von Nassau-Mendoza had done this, and in a few short hours, the foremost notables of his generation would heap praise upon him for it.

>Ten thousand kilometers away, on the bridge of the 'Pitiless Blade,' Salafié gazed upon the same vista. Perhaps their eyes met somewhere out there in the void, which grew more crowded by the hour with the ships of arriving nobles, but while Cassius was fixed upon his cynical politicking, Salafié cared only for the ships. Not since her youth on the orbital ring of Hydraphur had she seen such a display of naval majesty! From diminutive sloops to colossal battleships as ancient as the Imperium itself, her bionic eyes drank in every detail of their designs, and she basked in a delight that few outside of the Adeptus Mechanicus would understand.

>>96638363
Oh!

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>>96638504
>The Priestess was recalled from her reverie by the telltale sound of Lady Mirabella's palanquin of servitors shambling onto the bridge behind her. She did not turn from the view, but waited for the girl to speak.

>"I have been called away to a meeting with the Navis representatives. It seems I was declared dead in my absence, and they must restore title to my holdings."

>Salafié idly studied the Navigatrix's sullen tone. "I would have thought it pleasing to reclaim your fortune, as taken with luxuries as you are."

>"The Lord-Captain seems set on me missing the festivities."

>"Well, what did you expect, Mira? You grow less presentable by the day."

>And it was true: For all her finery, Mira seemed terribly changed of late. Pallid and tremulous, skin slick with cold sweat and eyes smoldering with unwholesome luminance, the dark tears of condensed Warp essence that stained her cheeks only added to the picture of corruption.

>"It's your fault, Sala," the Navigatrix murmured, "It was you who let the Geller field fail."


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>>96635495
It wasn't an issue of the players not having enough resources to keep up in gear, since I made sure that as far as normal pf items went they had enough to afford all the math fixers necessary for the core stuff they were all doing. It's just that even being able to afford all the items they needed up to anything level+1, it was all still boring dogshit.
For the record, when I describe the homebrew items as "overpowered anime bullshit" i mean it:
>boots that lets you replace your move actions with teleports of equivalent distance
>ring that lets you use slightly modified versions of vampiric touch, vampiric exsanguination, and blood boil, scaled to the player's level, and the first two heal instead of giving temp hp, but they can't heal by any other means
>belt that lets you convert damage you take into increased damage dealt
>bracers that, for lack of a better way of putting it, basically turned the monk into a jojo character with a stand
>mask that made the character completely immune to any non-divine magic, whether positive or negative, including making them unable to use magic items or cast spells that weren't divine
>"Lucky" amulet that turned all their successes on any actions they dealt (saves, attack rolls, skill checks etc) into crit successes, but also did the same for any failures (enemy hitting them, failing a save, etc)
and the relative encounter difficulty was around the same at each step of the power level creep - people were getting downed, burning resources and consumables etc at a similar rate all throughout.

>>96636305
Yes. But you can crank the DC to hard for pc level and it's fine.
If you make their use too frequent it means players will just spam the same one, which is boring. They should be rummaging through their collection and passing them around, which is more fun.

just finished making a bunch of sewer maps for my players
looking for some vampire or vampiric themed creatures to fill a worn out temple of zura.

>>96635596
>>96635624
>CONSOOMS MEDIA
Outside of the fact there are several games that abides to the classic Vancian Magic-esque (as some pedants will say it isn't even REAL Vancian Magic) like Final Fantasy 1 & 3, Wizardry and similar descendants like Class of Heroes 1, or Lords of Magic, Vancian Magic is a staple of the d20 fantasy space because it provides casters a very structured sense of flow. Whether you are prepared or spontaneous, it helps keep you flexible and caring about how each spell rank matters, not just the top-level options. Systems like MP, while more flexible, can just be too unrestrained and hard to work with, either as GM or Player. Having your top-level magic start coming at the expense of low-to-middle tier can really provide more pressure to players into not using their resources at all. It's why even AEDU struggles to be found in the modern day (beyond 5e's flirting with the ideas with Short/Long Rest abilities): you just need to create more a gradient in your player abilities to make them comfortable using them in less-than-optimal circumstances. Having your most potent stuff all competing in their respective slots really does hurt various forms of player and developer expression.

You also have to acknowledge you aren't playing those forms of media. For as derivative of fantasy games like Pathfinder can be, they still are their own form of fantasy at the end of the day. You approach on their terms of how they handle certain concepts, not how they "should" be compared to something in an entirely different medium. Especially when you are playing with 4 other dudes.

>>96636531
While your ideas probably wouldn't fly too well in a real book, even in a far less restricted game than 2e, I do think 2e can afford to have far more impactful effects for its magic items. Especially if they will stick with the once-per-day limitations on them.
Many of them don't even match the average spell slot.

>>96637571
I dont know what about it but i find Vancian to be very lame. Thats why despite me liking pf2e, i usually play martials and get my hands on cantrips and focus spells. Slots just feel so unfun to me, i don’t know why.