>>97133568
I had a GM who would always add a rider effect to every one of his monsters' attacks. Stuff like:
>Almost every bludgeoning attack will either force a STR save vs. Knockback, DEX save vs. Knockdown, or CON save vs. Stun for 1 round.
>A bite that also grapples on hit. If the target doesn't escape by next round, then the monster usually uses a devastating follow-up attack.
>A slashing attack that causes bleeding (represented by necrotic damage equal to the original wound) every round until someone makes a Medicine check or uses healing magic. CON save to resist. Further attacks cause the bleeding damage to stack.
>A massive barbed javelin that impales the target for piercing damage, knocks him backwards (STR save to resist), causes further bludgeoning damage on collision with a nearby surface, and restrains the target to that surface (takes an action and a STR check to escape).
Those are the ones he seems to love most. It can get a bit overwhelming when a monster has Multiattack and has a different rider effect on every one of its attacks.

>>97133568
>Do you think that most enemy abilities in D&D 5e lack variety?
No.
Mostly because I don't play D&D, so I seldom think about it in general.

>>97134306
Why do you think combat is separate from roleplaying?

>>97133568
My monsters use Adaptation, Alternate Form, Animal Control, Animal Empathy, Animal Mimicry, Animation, Armor, Astral Projection, Attuned, Aura, Banish, Blast, Blending, Blind, Blind Fighting, Blink, Boost, Buff, Clairvoyance, Cloud Minds, Communications, Constructs, Danger Sense, Darkness, Dazzle, Deflection, Density, Detection, Determination, Dimensional Travel, Dispel, Drain, Duplication, Elemental Control, Emotion Control, Energy Absorption, Ensnare, Evasion, Extra Limbs, Flight, Force Field, Energy Form, Liquid Form, Solid Form, Gaseous Form, Gestalt, Growth, Healing, Hyper Breath, Illusions, Immunity, Invisibility, Irritant, Languages, Leadership, Leaping, Life Drain, Light/Effect, Lightning Reflexes, Luck, Machine Control, Martial Arts, Master of Disguise, Matter Chameleon, Mind Blast, Mind Control, Nullify, Phasing, Plasticity, Polymorph, Portable Storehouse, Possession, Power Absorption, Power Mimicry, Precognition, Preparation, Psi-Screen, Psychometry, Radar, Regeneration, Resistance, Running, Separation, Shockwave, Shrinking, Slay, Slick, Speak with Dead, Spinning, Star Gate, Stretching, Strike, Stun, Summoning, Super Senses, Super Speed, Swimming, Swing Line, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Teleportation, Time Stop, Time Travel, Total Recall, Tracer, Transformation, Transmutation, Tunneling, Two-Dimensional, Vanish, Ventriloquism, Wall-Crawling, and Weakness Detection.

>>97134306
Why do you think combat is separate from roleplaying?

>>97153070
>vocagram
What? That's not a word, anon.

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Something I’m I’ve been working for a week

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I hope I worded this shit right. I wanted to merge Joey tendency to steal his opponent's card to use against them, the ability to make a beeg red-eyes extra deck monster, and red-eyes zombie stuff. And if you can get a red-eyes garnet into the grave you get access to novel type of removal. I might just be smoking too much though.

G2 on the play, was playing primite odion and went Lode before Man with the Mark to bait Ash and got Drolled, bad beat or should I summon Man first even though it gets hosed by more hand traps? I assumed every deck has 3 ash but not every deck has Droll and also most people don't play Droll against Odion to begin with. I consider the purpose of the Primite engine to tank hand traps so my Man combo resolves

Leoni!

>>97153398
>be mean
I doubt it most people going to public events are pretty good but there's always the chance assholes show up just like anything else in life.
>what to expect
Expect a fairly diverse pool of decks this format as well as it being locals level. There's always gonna be someone who's on something meta so expect to job to them if you get paired but take it in stride and just get through the game. Dont make a big deal out of it and just know you'll clear that bar some day.
Pro tip
Do not give every takeback if they ask to more than once or twice in a match and especially mid chain resolution or a previous play. You give those people an inch and they'll take a mile. You don't need to be an asshole about it, but have a bit of spine. Like if they discarded a "wrong card" and it's past the point of adding the card to the chain, they've commited to that cost. IE they pitch TTT for something, you Ash in response, and they now want that TTT back. Stand firm and don't let them. This will go for you too, do not expect them to let you take back every play. Go in with the expectation that the answer is no by default.

>>97154938
Get the cum out of your C key bro.

>>97149191
I tend to find the best stuff for solo, at least for me, are the stuff that you can get MEGA autistic about, because when you're playing solo there's no need to worry about boring 4 other people at the table while you handle fiddly bits for 40 NPCs and 6 Party NPCs and then send that off to your accounting department (also yourself) to crunch the numbers and file the reports with, etc.

So I would just find THE most heavily autistic thing you can find around and run headfirst into that.

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>>97147783
>yeah its what I said. Basically it becomes just flat terrain where you just shoot at the other guy until he dies.
>A lot of the memorable fights in Gundam are on the ground when they actually make use of the scenery and gravity to have good fight coreography that uses the humanoid body in a cool fight
You kinda contradicted yourself with these two statements, but anyway...
>A huge reason I hate space and air battles in Gundam is that it's 90% just MSs shooting and missing.
Wellllllll I dunno about that. For one thing, they often have asteroids, colony wreckage, and debris that they use as cover and such. And for another thing, most mecha battles in most shows generally are mostly missed attacks, ended with lethal damage. Partial damage (like severed limbs, etc) is rather rare.
>I think the mecha genre has not caught up to it yet. A lot of "hey look at this intricately designed robot", but barely a bit of "ok but how does it fight in a way that creates interesting stories, and doesn't look like a slow walking target or a DBZ character?".
I fundamentally disagree with this. Have you watched original Macross? Or, say, V Gundam?
>I think that's the issue a lot of people have with mecha
Nah, can't say I buy that.

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>>97148940
>Newbie here: I've been in the mood for something mecha related recently and had a curioisity. Are there any games out there that demonstrate or showcase the technological superiority of the mechs vs non-mechs well?
Mekton Z!
>I'm not necessarily saying it HAS to be "Oh my god, the mechs are SOOO powerful and they just autowin every battle cause they're so cool," but I want the setting/rules to demonstrate WHY it's so devestating to have a mech on your side.
If you're playing Heavy Gear, the deal is that they're multi-terrain, multi-purpose, multi-duty, and maneuverable. If you're playaing WH40K, well, Titans have void shields. If you're playing Battletech, uh... um... I dunno, Battlemechs seem like they wouldn't be any more effective than tanks, and maybe less so.
>Something like Heavy Object where they demonstrate how warfare has completely changed with the introduction of the HOs. It's even fine if a tank or a foot soldier COULD potentially beat a mech, but I want it to be a clear distinction like a level 1 vs a level 15 in another game.
I think that would be in how you stat out the mecha. In Mekton Z, you can stat out everything however you want. Make all the mechs x10 Scale, and they're be close to unstoppable by anything less than a battleship.

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>>97149067
>isnt that the premise of zeons initial rebellion in UC gundam? They develop the mass produced mobile suit first which gives them a huge advantage until the federation comes up with the GM and then they go even until the federation gets a hold of a gundam.
Yes and no. The Zeons made the first MSs and it took most of a year for the Feds to catch up. Initially the Federation had the Gundam, a Guncannon, and a Guntank on the White Base assault carrier and that was IT, they had no other Mobile Suits at all. It was several months later that the first GMs were produced, and then the war really started turning.
>if you can tolerate production values of a ps2 cutscene then gundam requiem for vengeance also kinda has an element of why a force with a superior mech technology is so devastating.
I was surprised how much I liked R4V, and how faithful to the spirit of Gundam it was.
>in pretty much every setting i've seen where the mecha becomes immediately dominant, the mecha usually also have a secondary movement system to help the shortcoming of just walking everywhere. jetpacks, boosters, rollers, etc.
I chalk that up more to it being easier/cheaper to animate the mecha zooming around than to animate them running. However, there are still mecha settings where the mecha do just run around. Dougram is a good example.

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>>97149138
>I really just want a mechanical impact on the setting that demonstrates that there is a clear gulf between someone with it vs someone without it that makes it so that being without it is a huge disadvantage.
I appreciate this. Mekton Z can do that for you, in that you can spec out everything yourself.
>>97149138
>Mekton spooks me a little cause it's very clearly Gundam theme'd, and I've watched very little Gundam. Feels like I'll attract the Gundam fans and be crucified for not knowing things.
It's Real Robots in general -- Macross, Votoms, Dougram, Gundam, Patlabor, Orguss, etc etc etc. It make nods to Super Robot fare too, but isn't ideally suited to it.
>>97149067
>All the above said, I should probably get into Gundam at some point though.
Yes you should. Watch the original Gundam TV series, then Z Gundam, then the Char's Counterattack movie. Gundam ZZ happens between Z and CCA, but you can skip it if you like simply because it's not very good.
>The problem that I've run into is the media I've been watching has been Giant Robot vs Giant Robot/Kaiju, and ultimately what that winds up looking like is a Cyborg vs Cyborg/Monster fights since the scale is always super zoomed out, and I don't "feel" the impact of the scale or the dominance of the technology.
Have you watched much Super Robot fare? I might recommend Zeorymer, The Big O, and of course the masterpiece that is Bang Bravern.

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>>97134262
I once played a rogue named Gimikis.
One player figured out the wordplay.
Nobody got an actual reference.
Fucking zoomers.

>>97134262
I once made a bard named Elvan Priestley

>>97134262

I've got a few names on my list. What do you think?

Goa Tse Tung
Dick Pippel
Peter von Weltheim
Hans von Küggelügel
Roland Runkenberg
Dieter Knullare

Pretty clever, huh??

>>97150101
The guy was constantly distracted and struggled with mechanics so I figured this would give an in universe explanation for that. He wasn't totally blind or deaf, just short-sighted and hard-of-hearing, but he used a combat style that relied on automatically retaliating against attackers and bodying their hits rather than actively attacking them so the massive penalties didn't matter in combat.

>>97134262
Yeah, I have a few character names that are references to me, things I like, or something I thought might be funny. Though will be honest. You don't need to have something over the top or deep. Just something more than on the nose and all.

>>97144376
Three games is nothing. It also depends on how you lost, if you were winning the whole game and then lost to a simple knight fork you can hardly blame that on the opening.

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lada is so hot

>>97151433
that's a man

>>97150493
>>97151223
I fluctuate between 800 and 1100 in a couple of days sometimes. When playing a lot of games, some I just half ass it, I know I'm going to lose, I kind of just want to see what the other player will do with the mess.

>>97151223
>Three games is nothing
I meant the overall ratio, it's more like 60 games

>>97152529
It's a quite simple d100 space horror game with working stress/panic system. Very easy to play, very easy to run and my first choice for anything space and/or horror related.

>>97152529
Overrated, overhyped, but with the right mindset and the right adventure written by someone who didn't work on the game, it can be pretty decent.

>>97152529
The rules didn't really do it for me, not light enough or granular enough in either direction, but some of the modules look fun as hell to port over to something else.

>>97152529
>rules are easy to grasp, explain or keep track off
>chars are fast to generate and have enough whitespots so you never feel like it's holding you back in terms of roleplay
>stress mechanic is narratively and mechanically solid
>generally rules don't get in the way and don't bog down the pace
it's perfectly fine for oneshots and short campaigns
I really enjoyed the ones I've played

>>97152529
Yeah, it's basically kind of going for that COC/DG in Space vibe. I would change a few things but I don't think it's a bad system. Though I will admit the Modules are the star over the system itself.

>>97142163
>>97146313
Still doesn't make it an official D&D setting. Just a licensed third-party setting.

The only official settings are: Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Darksun, Planescape, Ravenloft, SpellJammer, Birthright and Mystara. All of which were published by TSR.

If it wasn't published by TSR, it wasn't official. Otherwise, every single third party setting that came out for 3.0/3.5 would be an official setting since they also had a license with WotC (the OGL).

>>97133885
I just swap Forbidden Realms adventures in Greyhawk.

>>97150114
>Al-Qadim is not an official setting
>Jakandor is not an official setting
>Red Steel is not an official setting
>Council of Wyrms is not an official setting

>>97147539
Surely he just forgot.

>>97133885
Idk, ask /mmg/

>>97142800
>>97142840
it subverts your expectations (in the way you expected them to be subverted) which means it's good writing

>>97148027
>It's not like Gorum is actually dead
That's not really the core of the complaint. The complaint isn't even "really" that "The God of War hated war and killed himself." The complaint stems from general exhaustion people have towards Paizo and tabletop fantasy in general where they do, "and then the MAN dies and a WOMAN takes his place."

>>97150489
The whole thing is just a spin on what happens to Morpheus from Sandman.
Read more fantasy, these are well-worn story beats.

>>97150523
I respect your reference, anon. And I do agree that reading fantasy will help you appreciate your Howards and Moorcocks. This is not new ground for me.

But I am speaking of a more generalized annoyance. It is one thing to make reference to older works, but if the overwhelming response is, “that’s gay and I don’t get it” then you’ve failed as a writer, The story must land on the story’s merits, know your audience and know how they feel. Which rounds back to my original point, that we did not go through a decade of, “men suck” just to suddenly be comfortable with a “men suck” story. People are starved for modern plots where men aren’t treated as these misshapen things that must bequeath power to the zeitgeist.

To use another example which is also from Pathfinder, consider War for the Crown. It is, in a vacuum, an utterly conventional retelling of Queen Elizabeth’s rise to power in an era where the English weren’t yet comfortable with the concept of female rulers. There is nothing wrong with this.

But it released in 2018 and had such lovely quips like, “make Taldor great again” or how the antagonist was clearly modeled after Trump, and the Queen Elizabeth analogue modeled as a Quirk Chungus Hilary Clinton (it’s her turn!) This turned what could have been an excellent AP into just this mire of social politics and contemporary (for the time) gripes on how stories are told.

>>97084503
Hades didn't realy like being the god of hades either, he jsut pulled the short straw

>>97131386
Shrek?

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>>97152892
Separated at birth.

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Princess Charming blew my mind. My original plan was to get a different kind of action, though.

She said that, whenever a kindred or kine speaks or act, I have to think about what could be the motive behind the words or actions, and used HalfSeeingEye's investment advice as an example. The advice was given because, were Princess Charming to act according to it, HSE would have profited from it.
Then she added: "But did I ask for the cards' opinion? No. I never asked for a reading, for this product. As the say in Silicon Valley: if you're not paying for the product, chances are that you are the product."
And she gave me examples like TikTok hosting videos for free, which are often too short to add advertisements to them unlike the longer streams on Twitch or videos on YouTube, but the users could still "pay" in other ways, like with their own data, which is a resource the TikTok staff could use, and profit from.
"Don't stop at what the words mean, discover what the person means, and wants."

When I told her about Boy Toy playing me like a fiddle at the club, she taught me this thing called mimetic desire.
He positioned himself as the object of desire, me as the mediator who first desires said object ("You smiled at him, right?"), and the subject in this model would be the current kine woman that sees me desiring him, and starts to desire him in turn, and would be driven to compete over him against me.
She used the Bible as another example: the serpent (mediator) offers Eve (subject) the fruit of knowledge (object) promising her to become like God, which is something he wants, too. Then Eve becomes the new mediator as she offers the fruit to the new subject, Adam.
"Why do you think ads have testimonials?"

She gave me a book by Renée Girard which discusses this model, but said that even though Boy Toy was using it, he disagrees with the author because he does not believe all human/vampiric desire works like this.

Whoa. Are all Ventrues this intelligent?

>TQ
This is a hard one for me, because my kids are all from different Clans, as is my girlfriend so if I don't pick one of theirs they'll get all sorts of bothered over it. So I'm going to do the fool thing and pick none of theirs. Lasombra, specifically the Kiasyd. I exchanged letters with a lovely guy from said Bloodline back a little over half a decade ago and he was whip smart and would pull the most obscure facts and details out in the middle of unrelated conversations, stuff that only barely related to the topic but would send you spiraling down rabbit holes for months or longer. He's in torpor now though so I haven't had the pleasure of talking with him in a while sadly.

>>97143587
Glad to see at least someone outside of the Clan can appreciate us. I know we're hard to get along with, but having a Thaumaturge on your side is always handy.
>>97145997
If you don't mind me asking, what are you doing to the Vitae you're feeding Lavender with? I'm always looking for ways to improve the blood I drink and if it's feasible to do en masse it might make my bags go a lot further.
>>97153806
Reading this has made me appreciate not being one of the more social Clans deeply. I would so much rather spend a decade reading than have to deal with interpersonal politics.

>>97149574
>Do their sires realize their bloodline is more fragile than kine? Talk about being cursed.
I have a hypothesis. The bloodline is not born fragile, it's made that way, unintentionally so.
What if there's a neonate Tzimisce that wants to practice Vicissitude, but they're awful at it and impatient, and because your average kine is too squishy to be an ideal Guinea pig, they have to embrace their test subjects first, because the living simply couldn't take that sloppy reworking of their bone density or whatever?
I'm just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.
>>97153806
Beloved, just imagine if you were as precise, fast and lethal with your head as you are with your feet: you'd be the Queen of the Damned in the East Coast.
>>97154014
>Reading this has made me appreciate not being one of the more social Clans deeply.
But they all have some relatively more aloof kindred that you should find easier to relate to. Even the Clan of Kings will occasionally embrace people that aren't the usual suspects, ranging from bodyguards to cryptologists.

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>>97151345

I also did a Leviathan, but it's kind of hard to get the legs look good and I fucked it up pretty badly.

>>97133891
Generals, like you, are cancer.

>>97149931
You could glue a Power Claw or Thunder hammer on instead.

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>>97137162
I'm partial to the goofy French pre-dreadnoughts.

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Crimson fists forever!

>>97139704
My character was doing this constatly, till GM didn't place homosexual ogre bodyguards in every tavern that my team was visiting.

>>97139704
This looks like AI.

>>97151901
Your PC IS the barmaid?

>>97151389
Puckee is the AI, since he clearly lacks a human soul. So yes, AI commisioned would be the right term. Keep in mind the "A sta

>>97154765
ctrl+enter be damned
*the "A" stands for accidental.

>>97154192

Well, what can I say. To me they're as different as Axis and Allies is different from Power Grid.

The only one that has any similirarity is the draw's enemy attention.

>>97153456
Yeah. There are lots of bad PbtA games made by indie devs who saw an easy formula to make a game out of their ideas, but didn't have enough consideration for what was worthwhile about it or how it to implement their ideas.

It's a lot like the immense swath of d20 RPGs built on the bones of DnD 3.X. Not only is there a metric fuckton of it, but a number of those games really should have been built differently instead of just copying someone else's homework thoughtlessly.

>>97154419
>To me they're as different as Axis and Allies is different from Power Grid.
To clarify, I've never read 2d20. It's why I've been trying to avoid relying on it as an example. When you say that the list I posted is in line with 2d20, when I already see that list as being in line with the one you posted from PbtA, then you're just telling me that A = B = C. And then acting surprised when I conclude A = C.

>The only one that has any similirarity is the draw's enemy attention.
There's a reason I listed specific comparisons earlier.
>Well, what can I say.
You could start by actually addressing what I've been posting, instead of trying to compare everything back to a game I never brought up.

>>97154605

No, I meant that 2d20 and Genesys look very similar - not to AW, tough. To you, it does as well.

>>97154696
>No, I meant that 2d20 and Genesys look very similar
And because Genesys and PbtA look very similar to me, the only conclusion I can draw there is that PbtA is very similar to 2d20, because I've never read it.
Hence, you are telling me A = B = C.
> not to AW, tough.
And then acting surprised when I conclude A = C.
>To you, it does as well.
To me nothing, because as I just finished saying, I've never read 2d20. I am taking you at your word that 2d20 looks very similar to PbtA.

>>97145044
But do they send royal family or just aristocracy?

>>97145044
Your cards are great! Cant wait till you wrote the remaining text!

>>97142573
Are the leaves like clothes? Or more like a cloak? And does she got a half monocle or is this just her lower eyelid?

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>>97153670
She's hiding behind the leves, and its more of a half-monocle.

Also someone doodled this and I can't help but picture it now.

>>97154326
Thx for the clarifications.

>that pic
Lol, good one.

>>97150178
Theoretically the same in paper, in practice VG is much less combo centric than YGO; there is skill in areas like when to take damage or denying the opponent damage so they don't have a resource to work with on their next turn, and in Premium there are loops and infinites alongside an extra deck that's more strict than YGOs, but it's still less complicated after picking up what's put down, particularly in Standard.

The pair of cards in the responded post is called a Legion, which can be summarized as the following
>a G3 unit (unless the ability is copied, which it can by a tiny number of cards) with the keyword
>if this unit is the vanguard and the opponent is also at least grade 3, it can Seek Mate exactly once during the user's main phase
>after activating Seek Mate, you must ride another vanguard, even a copy of the current vanguard, before you can perform Seek Mate again
>Seek Mate first returns four cards to the deck from the drop, usually at least 3 triggers and potentially a copy of the Legion Mate
>Seek Mate then has you search your deck for the listed Legion Mate, then places it on the vanguard circle without riding it next to the Leader
>the vanguard is now in the Legion state with a Legion Leader and Legion Mate, effects will usually activate here depending on the cards
>the only aspects of the Legion Mate that need to be considered is its power, effects and if you boost it or the Leader
>drive checks and criticals are based on the Legion Leader in addition to power and abilities, like normal
>attacking multiple front row doesn't do anything to Legion, the Mate is not liable to being attacked
That's the gist of the Legion mechanic, which isn't relevant for Standard outside of two, soon to be at least three, decks, where it's a little scuffed.

Where do you guys look for card prices? I want to sell my collection and I need to have an idea of how much to ask

>>97150353
the difference here is that the D version of Legion says you can only put back up to 2 triggers and those triggers can't be heal or over triggers when using Seek Mate, and if the mate is a grade 3, it loses Persona Ride.

>>97153453
card market

>Nao still irrelevant
Nao is the new Megumi. Can't wait for a humiliation ritual lyrical fantome for Varga.