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>>43820641
Oh, a new thread's been made. How do I delete the one I made?
>>43833445
So are we running through the wastes or playing a spanish guitar?
>>43833468
If someone tells me how to delete the wastes one we can play Spanish guitar.
How can I kill an army of venerable dreadnought and terminators with necrons
Alsoare ctan shards worth it
YOU CAN'T DESTROY THE EMPEROR'S FINEST.
FOR THE EMPEROR AND THE IMPERIUM
BLESSED IS THE MIND TOO SMALL FOR DOUBT
>>43832889
>How can I kill an army of venerable dreadnought and terminators with necrons
Shoot them with guns
>>43832889
Literally the worst possible marine list you could make. Even a bunch of vanguard veterans and assault marines would be better.
Hello sweet child, he who chose the light rather than the darkness. One who thought the world would bend to their will, that the reeds of a thousand nations would sway in the storm of your passing. Thousands of men and as many years have venerated your name as the bringer of the torch of enlightenment. From atop the summit of the world you look down upon your creation, and find that it is good. Before you a single people, a single purpose, a single sharpened blade of society reaching for the throat of that which holds your tomorrow. The final secrets may soon be within your grasp, so close as to brush your outstretched fingers. Dawn may finally come.
Will your purchase your meeting with god?
Rolling over, Eobard tried to ignore the dull pounding pressing against the inside of his skull. His sleep the previous night had been disturbed, half heard voices shouting at him, and more a few times he had woken up in a cold sweat. Yesterday morning had been payday, his small purse filled to the brim with rounds and weighing him down far more than he had been able to endure. Weak willed as he was a more than a few coins went down a short drain in a gin sink.
A shaft of sunlight lay across his face, forcing his eyes open and worsening his headache. Sitting up in bed, he pushed himself onto his knees and stood up. Around him the other men in the dormitory slept, snores and grunts emanating from piles of filthy bed sheets. He stepped lightly among them, laying each foot down carefully so as to ensure he would not wake them up. In the corner the distinct cocoon of Yelvin hung from the ceiling, a pale face peaking out of the bottom as it rotated.
In the corner of the room a cracked clay basin sat, it’s misshapen sides leaning hard to one side, and from a tap set into the wall a drip replenished the pool. A grey tinge permeated the water, brought up from various run offs, and leaving a dried sooty streak on the clay.
>>43832670
Looking up, Eobard stared at his face in the mirror, too blurry to actually see many details. A wadded up sleeve scrubbed it, trying to sharpen the lumpy features into something discernable. Grey.
His eyes were grey.
First Choice [Species and Ethnicity]
Species:
>Humans are biologically similar to those you see around you in our world, but their cultures have been shaped by hardship and dread. Instead of being born free, and living in their world as it’s masters, ever man and woman for a thousand generations were born into servitude. Beneath the heal of the Kreen they existed, as pets and toys, as soldiers and labored, as concubines and entertainers. Though theirs was an easy servitude no less was the yolk against them. Then came the pure, and the world changes, and now humanity live in the bones of what was before.
Ethnicity:
>Orthrian, pale skin and fair hair mark these people as descendants and inheritors of seat of Orthron, the pale spire of salt guarding the end of the world. Nearly albino, they are forced to wear heavy clothing in any conditions that could cause sunburns.
>Forlish, what marks the Forlish are their diversity. Not of hair and skin, but of body. Deformities permeate the people, manifesting as extra fingers and double jointed limbs. Said to have been twisted by the passing of Kreen in the time before the pure.
>Thilidine, an empire spanning since the pure’s founding. Their speed glacial and their vast networks of offices and clerks stretching as a spider web back toward the old world. One of Thilindian descent enjoys the sharp features and olive skin stemming from the capital.
>>43832689
Species:
>Yelvin
Ethnicity:
>Yelvin do not have creed, nor culture. They merely exist as expressions of the world around them. One may be working one day, and think how their job would be easier with someone to help, and someone will thus appear. Their skin range from slate grey to parchment white, and their eyes black as pitch. Little is understood of their coming and going, and unless killed they will not seem to age, merely exist till their disappear. Though their emotions are similar to humans they are stunted, dulled to the world around them.
Species:
Pek:
>Pek, like man, were creations of the Kreen. However they did not exist as moving servants. Instead the Pek lived as art pieces. In cages they lived their lives, twisted and bent into what ever shape their master chose. Many Kreen existed purely as aesthete, creating ever more decadent expressions of their craft. Now however, the Pek live free, taken from their cages. However that which binds still exists. Physically they come in a variety of shapes and sizes, as during their adolescence they may shape their body to their will, most choose to be roughly human in stature.
Ethnicity:
>Crovian descend from he who first sought freedom, Crovar. In their legends he is said to have taken from his cage a stone, and won his freedom in three trials set before him by his masters. As such the Crovian try and emulate his form, however different sects can not agree on what this form is. The only agreed upon features are bulbous heads, and a disproportionately muscled left arm.
>>43832712
> Aesthete do not exist as a single culture, instead an ideal. Unlike their fellows they do not seek to emulate humanity, and change themselves into new forms. Some go so far as to render themselves incapable of movement, planting their feet in the ground and swaying in the wind. One can normally find at least one Aesthete in the city, marked by their delicate beauty.
>Greveir pay homage to a Kreen who is said to have taken pity on the Pek and hasten their rise of civilization. This Kreen, in their legends, died long after the pure arrived, hidden away from the world to guide the Greveir people. The Greveir as such take on forms more similar to the Kreen than humans, their features somewhat insectoid.
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I want to play a wrestling tabletop. As in with a legit wrestling federation, fighting for titles, making gimmicks, interviewsfighting demons and aliens to defend humanitythe whole shebang.
Any system you guys would recommend? Perhaps an established group I should seek out?
I hate to break it to you but I don't think there's a game for this specific concept. I'd recommend a light-hearted generic superheroes system, like Mutants and Masterminds.
I hope you end up doing this and having a blast, because that sounds like a badass campaign.
Reign
Have you taken a look at GURPS?
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So what's everyone working on?
>>43831433
I posted some FAQ comments on the tail end of the last thread which I'm pretty sure got missed, so here's a repost.
Not bad, I can think of a few areas that need work.
- Emphasise near the beginning that Crusade Legions is a different army from 40K Marines in a similar way to different non-Codex chapters, or the two types of Eldar. Certain models can be exchanged between these similar and related groups but the majority should keep in their own lists. This needs spearheading into the naive audience so they'll take the time to read the specifics (take rhinos, don't take Mk 7) in the small print, whereas they can easily skip the understated point at the moment. We're talking people that can have an answer five times in a thread and miss it.
- I have maybe once, maybe never seen someone actually discuss homebrew legions. It might have come up as a point of conversation but not the centrepiece. I've not seen any newbies talking about it either. Seeing that near the top of the FAQ might give some of them the wrong impression, so I'd remove that.
- The financial aspect is tangential to the winnowing of newcomers in these threads. The saving presented by Battle of Calth is what has drawn so many new guys here, but not the reason why people who have been around longer are testing and poking them. The answer is that people are making lazy and frivolous assumptions about the game and system that we didn't make when we took interest. The first thing we did was look up the rules, take some downloads, pour over the changes in the system and read a few summaries on 1d4chan or elsewhere. We didn't get involved in the conversation until we knew what Volkite meant or why Rites of War were such a big deal. There's an attitude among a vocal segment of the new crowd that thinks it IS the conversation, and that's cancer for a general thread. To all the non-vocal newcomers who are researching and learning before they talk, good on you. You're goodposters.
1/2
>>43831433
- "But I don't like Forgeworld" should be it's own question, and the answer should be tough. Forgeworld is the reason why everything about 30K is good - models, rules for fun, rules for balance, fluff, presentation, tone - and the reason why many of us are here instead of 40K. If you're interested in the Horus Heresy as just another avenue of 40K, you'll have to adapt, and that includes stuff like prices. Forgeworld is crucial to 30K and if your first reaction is "Ugh but why", 40K is the game for you.
- People aren't asking what units are good/strong/cheap. Furthermore the excellent advantage of 30K over 40K is that it's much more balanced within itself, and this should be stressed before any other response on balance. Lastly, there are very specific duff units that aren't worth taking in 30K, and linking to an entire complete army analysis doesn't help this. Duff units should be listed in the FAQ precisely because people don't read the long summary or think about prices and values before they pick their units - then they expect them to be at least equal to other armies and get a nasty surprise, 3 large units of Justaerin suck balls.
So this is the better question: "I'm not looking too heavily at the rules before I get into this but I don't want an army that completely sucks/is unsalvageable, are there any units I should avoid?". We then list Justaerin, Recon Squads, Company Champions and so on.
With those adjustments, the FAQ will be perfect.
And on an irrelevant note:
>>43829291
Those gay faces, who the fuck is GW appealing to now?
Why don't marketers realise that if you don't appeal to the core group that made a company, they leave?
USE GOOGLE BEFORE YOU ASK YOUR QUESTION UNLESS IT'S AN ADVANCED QUESTION
>>43831422
Do you even tuckers kobolds?
Make your DMPC the main protagonist of the story
>>43831422
Make the first handful of sessions really good. Get everyone's hopes up, appear dedicated and like you intend to see the game through to the end. Then start cancelling sessions. Run less and less often. Eventually just leave the players hanging and stop running entirely.
This is the beginning of another pawn
Another chess piece to move in the grand scheme of the struggle.
Between human and ghoul; whilst a sinister third force lurks in the depths.
But you must first be given form, make your name known.
What is your name?
>>43831239
Benjamin Mcwalsh
>>43831239
Liam Matherson.
>>43831239
Sonny Valentine
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What weapons does your fighter bring when he goes to battle?
>>43831031
>What weapons does your fighter bring when he goes to battle?
Sass.
Pally> sword, shield
Fighter> polearm of some kind
Barbarian> dual axe
Alright, you little shits, wake up. I don't care if you've still got cryotube shakes, it's time to get to work. The powers-that-be are paying you good credits to scout this system, and you're going to earn it or I'm throwing you out the airlock. It's not like it's hard work, the computers do all the heavy lifting.
Somebody get over to the sensor board. The ship picked up a planet of some kind near here. First we need to figure out how big the bitch is.
You, over there by the sensor board! Put dice+2d6+-2 in the Options field.
Rolled 1, 4 - 2 = 3 (2d6 - 2)
yes sir
Rolled 1, 2 + 2 = 5 (2d6 + 2)
>>43830913
Fixed
>>43830913
About fucking time they fixed that glitch. A month ago it wouldn't have shown the total output!
Oh, what the fuck- is that a 3? This piece of shit "PLANET" is probably no bigger than Mercury. Surface gravity approximately one-quarter Earth standard... are you shitting me? Less than five thousand kilometers diameter. Great, we found a fucking space rock.
Well, we're here to scout this piece of shit, let's do it. I need an atmosphere scan. Command code is dice+2d6-4.
Since dice pools in ORE games are capped at 10 dice normally, what kind of feats do people with truly insane bonuses perform?
>>43830601
Depends on which ORE you mean.
Wild Talents is just all around insane with custom power building and Better Angels comes close with it's over the top super villiany.
Reign has it's magic and martial paths/esoteric disciplines which do all sorts of crazy stuff.
Monsters and Other Childish Things has it's monsters.
A Dirty World is very not insane but it's a detective noir thing so not made for insane anyway.
Even sticking to pretty generic ORE rules and sort of abillity that gives you "(action) doesn't lose dice for performing it multiple times" is fairly crazy in a system where splitting actions lowers the pool per action attempted and you can suddenly use every set in a full roll as an attack/dodge/whatever
>>43831648
I meant in regards to dice economy. If we have Mr. Demigod who has 20 dice on an action from his pile of bonuses, how does he burn through the 10 dice that he can't roll in the pool? Even he can only perform at most five simultaneous actions(if he gets five pairs).
>>43831891
Penalties subtract form extra dice first, so someone with a pool of twenty dice can perform at full capacity under some truly insane conditions.
Hi there, /tg/. Long time reader, rookie commenter. I have my first real That Guy story, and I want to share it. It's kind of weak compared to the greats, but it's just so fucking absurd I need to share it before I go insane.
Give me a moment to type everything up, and I'll tell you the whole thing.
For context, it's a high-powered supers game where the player characters and all other supers are average schmoes who are suddenly given the chance to slowly accrue godlike power, but none of them have any idea what to do with it. This will become relevant soon.
I killed a player character tonight.
And not just "Oh, you're dead but they can resurrect you/your immortality kicks in during the funeral and it gets wacky!"
Like actually 100% dead for realsies, no take-backs.
I'm a bit angry.
Partly at him, but also at myself. I'm normally a very lenient DM, because I work with players who are more interested in narrative than crunch.
So, he has an alien symbiote that gives him new powers in response to situations.
He noticed that it gives him new abilities especially when it feels threatened.
So he started putting himself in ever more dangerous situations.
Some of them were reasonable, and worked.
Some of them...
He teleported to 10,000ft and hoped he could develop the power of flight.
When he realised it wasn't working, he tried to teleport away, flubbed the roll, and hit the ground at terminal velocity.
That wasn't what killed him.
The alien symbiote makes him tough as nails.
He broke most of his bones and spent several hours unconscious trying not to die.
The symbiote healed him up, and he eventually managed to teleport away and he started recovering at abnormal speed because of his symbiote.
So today he declared he "wanted to teleport to the turtle the elephants that carry the world stand on."
And I was like "You know this is Earth, right?"
Yes, he assured me, he did.
"You know that the Earth isn't on elephants or turtles, right?"
He assured me he did.
"Your character knows this, right?"
He assured me his character was aware of this.
"You know what's really under the Earth, right?"
He nodded.
"Instead of being a flat disk with a turtle under it, it's a sphere. To be underneath it, you'd be well inside the planet."
He grinned like an idiot.
"Are you going ahead with this?"
Yes, he assured me, he was.
"You teleport to the closest analogue to your intended destination and proceed to eat shit in billions of tons of molten iron. You are dead. Congratulations. What did you fucking expect was going to happen?"
I made it clear in previous sessions that while this setting has the capability to be fun and goofy, it is ultimately a game of childish and capricious gods who have no idea what they're doing, and awful horrible no good very bad things will happen around them and to them, and if they intentionally make fucking terrible choices, those awful horrible no good very bad things will happen right the fuck to them extremely hard.
Am I the asshole here?
So say you were given the ability to create any object you can imagine. The catch is that the moment the object is seen, heard, or touched, it vanishes in its entirety.
The only particular use I can think of for this ability is traps. Use a piece of illusory string as a detonator. Once it's observed, it stops holding in the spring. Throw down a cloth over an illusory bridge. Once someone steps on it, they touch the bridge (even through the cloth, it would still require some tactile feedback), which demanifests immediately.
Can you think of any other uses for this power? In particular, can you break the game with this?
some kind of battery with infinite energy
boom handheld world destroyer
>>43830535
If it explodes, the moment you heard or felt the explosion, the matter/energy of that explosion would cease to exist.
Though using it as a fuel cell might work so long as the energy were contained and transformed first... explosive energy would be out, but contained, steady stream power might work.
>>43830484
Wait, so it's when people touch it, or when anything touches it?
Couldn't I create an engine that combusts infinitely and never produces any waste product and use it to instantly solve a huge amount of problems for humanity?
>tfw you will never, EVER explore all the 4 corners of Faerûn
Why even bother living?
>>43830481
>Why even bother living?
we don't
if we had lives we would be here on 4chan
>>43830481
What is this game?
>>43830481
Feels good man. Earth is a better setting.
>You are a young man named Lloyd from the frozen Northern mountains of Tordo, on the continent of Teege. After a youth spent learning magic, you and your girlfriend spent some time as bandits after your home was destroyed, but have recently taken a chance to escape that life into a legit one... As sellswords, admittedly, but it's better than nothing.
>Your exact goal will change from thread to thread, most likely involving some job or another you've been sent on.
>The questmasters are Octoling (myself), and Grandflaw. There's no particular rhyme or reason to who posts when, and sometimes one of us might not appear all.
>Character Death is always a possibility and sometimes an inevitability (this is Fire Emblem after all), but your actions can very easily influence who lives and who dies.
>Voting periods will last an average of ten to fifteen minutes, but this may be increased, decreased, or generally changed at any given moment based on voter turnout.
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You're really not so certain about all of this.
Une's been in the group for all of a couple days, and already she's being sent on a mission with you and Leigh. You're just... Going to keep your mutual distances, though. For all that's wrong with her, you're reasonably confident she won't start any shit. If anything, you're more worried about Leigh making your opinions very clear.
"Ah," Kneil says to your new coworker's Bael as Une brings it out, "is this thing tame? My man here and I once encountered a settlement in the Noba-Tordo border mountains that rode wild bael..."
"What're you asking questions for, pretty boy?" Une asks him somewhat snappily.
"My man means no disrespect," Tomnus explains, "he is simply in awe of your unusual mount, and wished share an anecdote about it."
"You talk funny," Une remarks in return.
"...so we do!" The friends both say at once, sharing laughter.
Yone, chuckling while standing by Calof, asks the three of you, "aren't they just a riot?"
Calof just sort of blinks in response, not sure what to say.
Yancy and Yulea are still getting their horses ready, as an aside.
>A. Hilarious (sarcastic)
>B. Hilarious (not sarcastic)
>C. You guess?
>D. Not your style of humor
>E. Write-in response
>F. Be silent
>>43830436
Vote time renewed.
>>43830436
>D. Not your style of humor
Do characters in your setting always use swords or do they use morning stars or axes. when and why
I usually see morning stars and maces being used by clerics and warrior priests in fantasy settings. The whole "it's okay if I murder people so long as I'm not using a sharp weapon" thing that originated in the crusades seems to be a pretty common trope in fantasy settings.
Maces are common as long as they aren't gimped by the ruleset
>>43829975
wait that is a thing. i just thought it was because a mace is simple to use compared to a sword
