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Star Wars is applicable, I think, over the course of the series, but I feel this is a somewhat more general trope.
I mean, Darth Vader is clearly a Cleric ("I find your lack of faith disturbing"), his Death Star gets blown up in A New Hope, and he says "join me" in The Empire Strikes Back.
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241. the dark overlord has order you to stop 13 dwarves, a halfing and a wizard from stoping his plans while recovering his ring from an insane creature.
kinda easy sorry
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242. You must thwart and defeat Kensuke Rashomon, the dreaded single-classed CW Samurai 20 that has been terrorizing the border villages of the shogunate for three days.
241. the dark overlord has order you to stop 13 dwarves, a halfing and a wizard from stoping his plans while recovering his ring from an insane creature.
kinda easy sorry
You're mixing the Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring.
243: You are the chief of police for a peaceful, but magically advanced, race that has moved beneath the surface of the earth for safety reasons. When a surface dweller both learns of your existence and kidnaps a notoriously troublesome officer, how will you respond?
244: You are a single freedom fighter (the class) in a society dominated by totalitarian tippy Wizards. Can you defeat the vast resources of this tippyverse government using only swords, secrecy, intellect and your fast healing racial feature?
245: You are a low-level mage who does a normal, if boring, job in a standard fantasy society. But what will you do when a strange group attempts to convince you that the world around has been implanted into your mind via Mindrape and reveals a real world more terrible than you could have ever imagined?
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246. you are apart of a small town's cult who have got ahold of the girl you need to being about a new age and now it seems her father is tryng to stop you
edit: yeah i am not very good at this
edit II: i just realized this is almost impossibe to get so just so you know silent hill
edit III: the first edit is me realizing that i can't quite get the idea across.
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247. You are the leader of an underground civilization that has never seen the sky. However, an upstart youth and his gang of minions are constantly causing trouble, attempting to break through the dome over your heads.
248. You are a restaurant owner who had distant ties with political figures who staged a coup and now run the largest nation on the face of the planet. Using this tenuous connection accrues some fame for your restaurant; however, in the face of an unnatural disaster, the common folk are violently turning against the young leader and pulling down statues.
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245: You are a low-level mage who does a normal, if boring, job in a standard fantasy society. But what will you do when a strange group attempts to convince you that the world around has been implanted into your mind via Mindrape and reveals a real world more terrible than you could have ever imagined?
"So, you're telling me I can dodge Magic Missiles?"
"I'm telling you that when you have the Shield spell active, you won't have to."
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"So, you're telling me I can dodge Magic Missiles?"
"I'm telling you that when you have the Shield spell active, you won't have to."
Can I use that In my sig?
Also I already did the matrix.
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Rogue vs. Dog. (The new Cat vs. Commoner, only not amusing!)
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You are making the assumption of rational planning. After 37 years of dungeon crawling, I still have zero evidence that the average dungeon was designed by the sane.
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249. The Formian Empire has conquered the world with millions of colossal constructs on every single continent in existance. Bring them to their knees.
250. The nobel of Alkerhoth has been caught spying for Hagernad. He has been arrested. Run the guillotine.
You did? I just went thread diving and couldn't find your characterization.....
Regardless, my 244 is actually from another source. It's not just made up...... it fits DnD perfectly though.
251. Just as your character is about to die, two strange men teleport in and give you an incredibly powerful artifact that, after keeping you alive, will change your life forever. As it turns out, these men are part of a de-facto government for a highly magical world. It is up to you to stop them, but your only allies are a talking frog and a young girl.
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A note on using my Fire Emblem rules:
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I'm mostly retired from Fire Emblem PbPs, and indeed the PbPs in general at present. So if you wish to use my character creation rules, I would appreciate a PM, but feel free to start the game before I respond, as it might be a while.
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Originally Posted by Kallisti
"Reason itself is fallible, for logic must account for all the crazy **** wizards keep doing."
252. In a land that once boasted freedom and equality after the abolition of slavery and aristocracy, a group of selfish human merchants are using their wealth to end all government involvement in the economy. In this completely "free" market, those on top of the heap will reign supreme, ensuring the gap between rich and poor grows ever wider. In effect, the merchants will create a new de facto aristocracy. Stop them or rule them. The choice is yours.
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253. Vampires around the world have not only lost their weakness to sunlight, but they sparkle in it! These vampires are now spending most of their time complicating the lives of teenage girls around the world. Investigate the cause of and put a stop to this atrocity.
254. You are a con-man you has just been hanged for his crimes, but instead of being dead, you appear in a room with a rich man you wants you to run a post office, because his board games keep being interrupted. Failure to due so means being kicked down a long and fatal drop. Also, a corrupt business man is trying to stop you and there is a golem to keep you from running away. Good luck.
255. Something has stolen the sun! Cross the Rainbow Bridge to recover the horn needed to wake the gods, and get the sun back!
(Note: I am getting sick of winter over here in Alberta)
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256. your best friend is the chosen one for a ritual that will take her around the world activating elemental temples and ascending to become an angel. This is part of a multiple world spanning religion which is just a cover for a godlike angel who believes he can bring his sister back. Best stop him from killing our friend to resurrect his sister.
257. You are an elementary school kid, and suddenly a meteor falls from the sky. You must go to it to find a tiny monster and do battle with your firiends who have also found these tiny summonable creatures, before taking on a threat to the entire world with nothing but the power of friendship and determination to make your little critters grow to be about a third the size of japan to defend the world from a giant space fortress here to destroy us all.
Cookie to anybody who gets these amazingly obscure references. Hint: they're both for the Gamecube
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254. You are a con-man you has just been hanged for his crimes, but instead of being dead, you appear in a room with a rich man you wants you to run a post office, because his board games keep being interrupted. Failure to due so means being kicked down a long and fatal drop. Also, a corrupt business man is trying to stop you and there is a golem to keep you from running away. Good luck.
Going Postal? Someone's a Discworld fan, I see.
My turn to come up with one!
258. SW d20 - Darth Malak's fleet is growing, and seems unstoppable. While his arch enemy, Bastila Shan, is roaming around the galaxy with a crew of random drifters, your task is to help the Republic buils a fleet of ships and prepare an assault on his giant space station. By doing all the legwork, you're sure to really show up that Bastila and the slackers she's hanging out with by receiving the credit you deserve and humiliating her at the same time by being hailed as the true hero of the Republic.
Well, I more than recognize 256. I've beaten the game twice, and am working on a third time, since my data was all erased by data corruption.
Is 257... a Pokemon game? Gale of Darkness, perhaps?
Basicly 70% of "summoner" games, you are an elementary school kid, or at least that age.
259. There are seven sages with powerful wands, each of six a master of a single element, and the seventh one of balance. You've been seperated from your parents in an attack by monsters, raised by a witch, and been given a wand by someone resembling your father. Fight and recruit monsters in an attempt to defeat the seventh sage, who is stealing the other sage's wands and mind controling them.
260. Your town has been attacked by giant tanks. Considering that (including you) your town's population was 101, and is now reduced to 1, go rescue the other 100 townsfolk, by using a humongous tank of your own. Also, every one in your town is an ooze.
cookies to those that get these obscure DS references.
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261. You live in a world created by fusing two worlds together. You're town is attacked by someone very famous. You wind up at your aunts, when a strange girl with a gem in her head and her floating dog show up, taking you on a revenge quest, where you team up with the famous guy's old teammates, temporarily, are constantly assaulted by a bad smell, collect gemstones called cores, and, also recruit monsters. Again. And, eventually figure out that you are actually a demon trying to destroy the world, that the famous guy did not attack your town, but that that was an impostor to frame him, since he came from one world before the fuse, and the people from the other world hate this new arrangement.
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261. You live in a world created by fusing two worlds together. You're town is attacked by someone very famous. You wind up at your aunts, when a strange girl with a gem in her head and her floating dog show up, taking you on a revenge quest, where you team up with the famous guy's old teammates, temporarily, are constantly assaulted by a bad smell, collect gemstones called cores, and, also recruit monsters. Again. And, eventually figure out that you are actually a demon trying to destroy the world, that the famous guy did not attack your town, but that that was an impostor to frame him, since he came from one world before the fuse, and the people from the other world hate this new arrangement.
^: Tales of Symphonia 2. That was one of the more interesting games I've played because I loved the story, but found a lot of gameplay aspects mediocre or downright terrible.
262. The king has been kidnapped by ninjas, are you a bad enough party to save him?
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257, Is Gotcha Force. There done.
Also my matrix thing was really well hidden, I put it from the agents prospective and every one is a martial class with high ranks in jump
263: Your are transported to a strange island full of highlevel magical creatures, the rest of your party has been turned into pigs. You must sruvive well keeping your name from the witch that wishes to take it and form a new party with her son, a masked man, and a water spirit
264:You have found a mysterious cave which no one else can see or enter. After going in you are gifted with an amazing power that is slowly trying to corrupt you to be free of its bonds
264b: The earlier creature has been destroyed but its shards must be collected to be purified completly an evil group is collecting them for there own means. You must defeat them and there mysterious leader
264c: The mysterious leader from earlier was one of the lands rulers. The evil group has escaped and plan to enter his inner sanctum to corrupt and destroy the world
265: An evil witch from centuries past has come back. You and the rest of your party must defeat her and save your sixith memeber
266: A Warforged army is advancing using the new powers of crystals you can now take new class levels and prestiege classes so to destroy them
267: Your old powers are gone and you must now harness the power of giant mechanical carriages to do battle against a evil pirate
268: You and your party travel the world to collect different ingrediants and foods to make the ultimate dishes and make your perfect full course meal
269: You must travel to a new land to destroy the evil pirate, warforged army, and witch from earlier with a new ally and airship. They have a powerful Pit Demon, Samurai, and Sorcereress to add to there ranks
270: You've been informed by the king that you will join a special military group to defened the country from powerful invading demons
271: Your party has been sent back in time to fight a escaped convict. The only one who can let you use your class features is your dead fiancees ancestor.
272: The world is threatened by a army of Orcs with class levels you and your allies must use your druidic magic tied to one animal to destroy them
273: Your are part of a party of ninjas at ninja school. Your senseis brother has destroyed your school turned your sensei into a gunei pig and your only other ally is his son with levels in samurai
273B: You got new allies in the form of a pair of ninjas with some storm elemental template
273C: You got another ally that son with samurai levels gain a +10bonus to all stats and got 5levels
274: Your are to harness the power of behemoths/dinosaurs using crystals to amplfy your class features and stats to destroy the much higher level evil empire of lizard folk and other reptilian races
275: You must use the power of miniature virtual cubes to do battle using 10inch tall robots. Using this you must defeat the evil group trying to show the world the truth and destroy an all-powerful war-machine
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You're a frickin' ninja below me, too!? You got mad skills, Vknight.
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Rogue vs. Dog. (The new Cat vs. Commoner, only not amusing!)
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Originally Posted by Jay R
You are making the assumption of rational planning. After 37 years of dungeon crawling, I still have zero evidence that the average dungeon was designed by the sane.
"Sleep is optional, just ask Vknight" Someone I Forget but thanks... I don't
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