Anarchy spreads!

Morocco rolls to destroy the anarchists

The Bolsheviks refuse to allowing anarchists to destroy the glorious revolution brought about by the proletariat, these anarchists wish to destroy all the gains the people have made! Death to the insurgents against the dictatorship of the proletariat!
(On a side note, will this destroy both the anarchist sections that have popped up in my territory? Because otherwise won't the surviving one spread the next turn, and then the next turn, and then the next turn and I'll never actually get to roll to expand my territory again?)

>>25497
Angry Marines raise their middle finger to the world and roll to attack the Illuminati in North Carolina FOR THE EMPERAH!

Tasmanian Australia rolls to continue it's conquest the north of South America

>>25498
Only one will be destroyed but they won't expend as they are attacked. I have decided just now that if you get a 9 or 0 you will destroy 2 or 3 respectively.

>>25478

Some people just aren't meant to be GM's, yet people put up with them. Your GM should step down before your group turns into a shit blizzard.

I would GM but one person refuses to because I killed his character in self defense in my first game
the guy who runs it kinda wants me to
the other's are "well have you DM'ed/GM'ed before"? which they are my only group, which brings me to the "need a job, get experience, need job to get experience" cycle

>>25482
Maybe you should start by part timing, do an off week thing so they can try it, as a compromise, that gives you plenty of planning time in the early weeks and people the chance to give you a go without completely shelving their existing campaign and arrangement.

I've been watching Chris Perkins on youtube. I don't really know anything about D&D but this guy is awesome.

>>25412

I disagree, actually. I've DM'd a bunch of games (Pathfinder, D&D and a system I built myself) and I've only been playing for the last three years or so. The only things you need as a DM are the ability to think on your feet, a general outline of a campaign and a solid understanding of the game's mechanics.

That said, the best DMing I've experienced comes from ALL the players, DM included, knowing that the rules are really just a framework for a story. SO: tip time:

1: In starting a campaign, ALWAYS have a story hook. Give the characters, and by extension the players a reason to care about the story. Don't just drop them in a sandbox world and tell them to have a good time. Whenever you end a session, always make sure they have something left to do or something more to explore to keep them coming back.

2: Run your game like clockwork, come hell or high water. If only one person shows that week, do a solo adventure within the story, like a dream sequence or something. He'll get something cool in-game and everyone else missed out on it. Tough noogies. If your players have half a brain they'll show up, and on time too.

3: Remember, you don't have to use EVERYTHING the books give you. If there's a mechanic you don't understand or want, just don't use it or write around it. I scrapped Pathfinder's entire magic system once because I was running a game with entirely new players and I felt like explaining spell preparation again and again detracted from the story.


tl;dr: Make up your own story, make it interesting, set a precedent for running games on time, remember it's a game about storytelling and don't take the rules too seriously.

Some people call it railroading, I call it "making sure the players have a halfway decent idea of what's going on and don't ruin the day for everyone."
When you start the story, don't just say "you're in town, what do you want to do?" You gotta force some action on the players, yo ugotta know what you want to be happening.
So if you say "you're in the town plaza/market, getting supplies for your trip through the mountains. That is where the mythical Orb Of Wishes is rumored to be." This gives the players some direction, they're shopping, and they're headed to the mountains soon, and ultimately for some reason or another, they want this "Orb of Wishes" thingie. How they get there, how long it takes, what happens on the way, what they want with the magical quest thingie, all of those things are up the to players (and you). You gotta have some bones to the story though. When it's time to leave town, you don't say "where do you want to go?" You say "the party heads west. There's a fork in the road, both paths lead to your destination. The left path heads through the marsh, rumored to be haunted. The right path is the most often used, but word of bandits and goblin raiders is on the rise." Your party is still on its way to their destination, they have no choice to abandon going to the mountains, but they get to make a choice of scenery, and you've just added a few hooks. They can go through the marsh adn get to the town on the other side, then continue through the mountains, or they can double-back and clear the other road of raiders. Maybe in the marsh they find signs of necromancy, and they can investigate the necromancer, taking them off-course, but ultimately they still know and are still going to be after your mcguffin.

You CAN'T just have breadcrumbs and tasty bits of quests/side-quests hanging around and let everyone do whatever, because you're going to spend 5 game sessions in the town while one guy tries to fuck all the bar maids, one guy tries to pickpocket all the merchants, one guy talks to EVERY NPC and compiles a list of possible quests, and one guy just leaves the town to wander the wil…

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1. It's ROLE PLAYING game for a reason
   

I stress this point with any group I play with, and I reward them for good role playing. I'm not an asshole who penalizes them for making jokes and things, but I do make it a point to point out before a game starts (usual the start of a campaign) that if you put the effort into RP it'll be more fun, and I'll give them some XP for it. Also it tends to cut back on them using player knowledge.

2.House Rules
I have my own house rules that I take with me to every game I DM. It's nothing really that major, just that I make a point to tell my players I want them to role play, and that they'll get XP or other bonuses for RPing, and that I don't allow digital dice rolls.

3. Be prepared for anything
It's always good to have a rough idea of where you want your games to go. If you're starting a new game, having a rough idea of what that initial game should be is good, but don't get mad if it doesn't go exactly as you plan. If you're players aren't taking the bait, throw them a curve ball. Also, be ready for the curve balls they'll throw at you, because they will. Basically, don't hinge anything on one NPC or on one specific route the players have to take, because if you offer them a left and right path and you want them to go right, they may want to go left. You may have planned for Jimmy the Bartender to have the vital piece of info they need, but they don't talk to Jimmy because they don't give a shit about him. Always, always always plan for this by shaking things up. Let the players go left, and adapt the story for that. They don't wanna talk to Jimmy, give that same info to another NPC. It'll happen, and if you have the good sense to change and adapt the game as the players make decisions, you'll do fine.

4.Mechanics/Rules
Yeah, you may have someone who's read the PH cover to cover and knows all the rules like the back of their hand. More than likely, none of your players will know every rule of the game letter for letter, so you can fudge things if you need to. I never use the encumbrance mechanic because I don't care about it, but I added my own house rule that if PC's didn't sleep within a 48 game period it would start putting them at a -1 for everything. The best rules to know are how combat works, because combat takes for-fucking-ever (at least in 4E D&D it does), it's good to know how it works and how to make it flow. Sometimes you can fudge combat rules if you need to, but it's up to you.

5.NPC's
Get ready to improve motherfucker. I never write dialogue for my NPC's. I may have info that the players need that an NPC will give, but other than that, I don't write dialogue for them. If you keep the NPC conversational and if your players are willing to actually RP and talk to you as their character, it makes the NPC interactions more natural. Yes, you'll need to break the dialogue periodically to explain if the NPC is doing something but like I said, if you play into the NPC a bit, it'll be good. Don't worry about accents or voices, unless you're good at that.

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>>25494
meant Improvise not Improve

This whole time I was thinking OP's card is completely shitty, but I just realized it can be used with this to put infinite +1/+1 counters on everything

>>25457
woah

>>25457
It would make a good sideboard card to have for extort heavy black/white decks.

DICKS EVERYWHERE

>>24218
Fixed this one.

Oh, and there's an unused soundtrack to The Exorcist.

There's also the unused Exorcist soundtrack.

There's also an unused soundtrack for The Exorcist, to go with the unused Alien and Hellraiser soundtracks.

There's also unused soundtrack for The Exorcist.

OH GOD DAMN IT
I get error messages every fucking time I try to post and now Taimaba just blows them all over the thread like a blocked drain? CUNTY BOLLOCKS

There is no strategy when dealing with dark forces and elder gods, 100% accurate lovecraft simulator.

anyone tried Mansions of Madness?

>>25354
Yeah, it's pretty fun if you can get players in the right mindset for it. It's a bit like Clue to be honest, except the clue-hunting is broken up by fighting the occasional maniac/cultist/shoggoth and so on.

There is actually one.
Burn everything before reading it, dynamite every cave and tomb opening, and when in doubt, fire until the barrels melt then run away.

>>25329
This is a fucking awesome co-op game, but you have to know how to play co-op games. You can't just run around and do your own thing. You have to say "Holy shit. Okay, guys, we're running out of time, if we don't do something about these gates soon, our shit is fucked."

And then the game throws something at you so that your shit is EVEN MORE fucked.

This is one of the few games that's great fun even when you lose horribly.

But if you want to win, you have to plan as a team, and plan well. The #1 priority is to close gates. I know, sounds simple, but the game throws a lot at you to distract you, and it's easy to grow complacent, especially at the beginning. Never let down your guard, and stay focused!

Salve of Embiggenment
Potion of Erectitude
Scroll of Bigby's Oscillating Fist
We accept real gold for World of Warcraft gold.
Imitation mithril, even a Dwarf can't tell the difference!
Orcish women want to meet YOU!

>>25442

You may have already won a scroll of Wish!
See inside for details.

These are amazing guys!

>>25442

>Orcish women want to meet YOU!

I laughed my balls off. Here's a good one for you, OP:

Alchemists had recently figured out how you, too, can age like an elf! Details inside.

>>25306

I'd say it's just a matter of finding how the three colors fit together, and aim your deck in that direction. Really, the best I've been able to do with this is White-Black-Green (Junk) Re-animator. I started with the idea of, "How can I play cards like Avacyn and Griselbrand efficiently? Unburial Rites!" Then I picked out more high-cost creatures I could cheat in from the graveyard, as well as ways to get them there. It was a given that I wanted the large creatures and digging cards of Green, and I NEEDED White and Black to be able to cast Rites.

Eventually, I narrowed it down to creatures that do something when they hit the field: Angel of Serenity exiles up to three target creatures, Craterhoof Behemoth has haste and gives all your creatuers a P/T boost with trample. I cut out Avacyn and Griselbrand because they take a turn to get going (unless you have a lot of health, and can -7 life with Gris right away).

With the Shock Lands and Tap Lands available, it's easy to fix your mana for three colors. Just bear in mind how much you need of each color to cast your spells, and adjust the number of each land card accordingly. It may also help to play a three-color Commander deck, to get a feel for how to make three colors work in harmony with more room to experiment.

Hey guys, I need some suggestions on a deck i'm building. I want to bed a red white blue deck, and i'm wondering if theres some good cards that can work in conjunction with this. Basically I started building an izzet deck, and saw this blaze commando and im like wow, that would be real cool in this deck.

So yeah, any other white cards that could work with an izzet themed deck? I'd like to keep the deck as standard as possible, but I play in a very relaxed group and we don't really care whether or not a deck is 100% standard or not.

>>25401
Also, heres a cool story to go along with this post. Basically me and my 2 friends each go 1/3 on a box of every set together, to make sure we get what we want. So we go to the store to buy our box, which is incredibally busy at the time, and the clerk ends up giving us a korean box on accident.

So I now have a korean Ral Zerek, Tajic, Melek, and various other rares, and Korean has to be the coolest language for magic cards.

>tldr cool story for anyone who throws some ideas for my patriotism deck, haha.

what about her?

>>25401

sry, i meant this bitch

>>25425
I've never found a decent way to do them, there should be an online calculator or something.
Really I just make it up and roll the battle the way I think it should go and whatever's most exciting for the players.