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In 3rd edition D&D (and by extension Pathfinder), was the inclusion of "touch AC" a mistake?
Touch/Flatfooted AC added a sensible new layer to combat that made certain abilities range from not much better than an ordinary ability to extremely useful, depending on the opponent.
Anything that encourages players to analyze their opponents is good in my book, and using touch attacks on slow enemies and avoiding using them on fast ones makes sense.
The issue is that there were few non-spell touch attacks available to players, and there were a few of them with fairly wonky math.
Overall, it's a good design direction, but not one without its flaws.
>>43806108
Yes.
>>43806204
>adding an additional defense that was a joke to hit, but it was ok as long as only Wizard could target it
being 3aboo is suffering.
So, recent BL publications pretty much confirm that Sanguinius was corrupted by chaos and was basically a ticking time bomb. Who do you think they'll ruin next?
Its hard to ruin garbage.
>>43805527
>confirm
Nigga where the fuck do you think the wings constantly leaking blood came from
Santa Claus
>>43805527
>confirm
Nothing is confirmed until it comes out, anon.
That said, no shit, he's goddamn straight up mutant.
What are good systems for Warhammer Fantasy und 40K if you do not like the official systems (Dark Heresy and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay)?
>>43805466
Orks,check. Elves. Check. Dragons. Check. Sci-Fi. Check. Shadowrun.
>>43805466
Burning Wheel can do low-powered Warhammer Fantasy pretty well.
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I guess we have super colorless now
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So /tg/ I just had an idea for a fantasy setting.
Basically, elves and dwarfs were precursor races who were locked in endless war due to their differences. Both races were taking heavy casualties, so the elves decided enough was enough and magically created a warrior race. This new race was more physically imposing than the elves, they were sturdier, stronger and more aggresive. Their name was Humans.
With humanity as their front line, the elves pushed back the dwarfs to their deepest strongholds. And as the end seemed inevitable, the dwarfs came with an answer. From captured humans, through the means of alchemy, they created their own race of warriors. They distilled qualities such as brute strength and aggression and unleashed the orcs upon the world.
The battlefield equal again, the two new races thrived in the war they had been born to wage. It wasn't long before neither of the precursor races actively participated in the war. As time passed the dwarfs retreated deep in their mountains and the elves disappeared in their ancestral forests.
Now, millennia has passed and the precursor races are nothing more than a myth, a faint memory of times long past and gone. The known world is split in the Empire of Man and the Orc Khanate. The war continues, as it always has, as it always will.
Is it good/bad/terrible?
Would you run/play this setting, and if yes, how?
What system would you use?
>>43805257
It's alright.
>>43805257
It's fairly interesting. It wouldn't get me to play the game just because of the lore, but it's not turning me off the idea.
Would be cautiously optimistic. 8/10
OP here. Glad to see some you folks like it. I was wondering how a campaign in the setting would look like. I was thinking that perhaps the 'end goals' would be finding the precursor races and putting an end to the war, or something along those lines.
Alright you lazy whoreson bastards! On your feet! Scans show an inbound Tau strike force, prepare to take defensive positions!
>>43805235
>wakes up and pushes herself to her feet next to 'Battleaxe'.
They're here already? We might not even be able to get the second Chimera down at this rate.MY MAD MINUTE IS READY.
>>43805277
I wouldn't worry too much. We'll get fire support from the ship.
I am here fellow human. What do you command me to do in order to repel these honorable Tau scum?
I've been thinking /tg/, and this is the kind of thinking that watching Fist of The North Star, and reading up on Warhammer 40K fluff leads to.
I'm thinking of a Sororitas order devoted entirely, if not mostly to melee weapons, maybe this is to satiate my weeb fetishism for close combat weapons or because the only notable female centric faction (Well, apart from the Eldar, dark and craft-world, though they're to a lesser extent), should get as much opportunity to brain a cultist with their bare fists and/or a thunder-hammer as the marines do.
And yeah, there are the Sisters Repentia, but they're not looking to survive their berserk charge in any fit state.
Anybody got any ideas rules wise? Or even better, how this would work out in fluff?
Hmm, check out the death cultists, they have a nice mix of religious zeal and focus on pointy sticks.
fluff proposal 1) : Order is designated keeper of cathedrals/relics/library/whatever... Their duties are mostly ceremonial (plus a bit of security patrols). No need for guns, but since they have to stay fit (idleness begets heresy after all) they do a lot of martial art training.
Eventually bodyguard duty with emphasis on crowd control, no need for guns either, just put your power armor between the cardinal and any threat, and gut anything that comes to close of his...
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>>43805161
I was actually thinking of something more classical, well, number 3 sounds good, but I was considering that their library contains some old earth stories, perhaps of medieval heroes and such (St George, King Arthur etc), and they happen to have quite a few power weapons or similarly useful melee type implements, not just chain-swords, and fight using the standard shield/hand-weapon combo, perhaps operating alongside a group of unarmoured sisters providing fire support from behind the lines.
Alternatively it...
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>>43805161
>easily inflammable
*flammable, dammit.
any practical reason that prevents weapons from being used will do. Fog, underwater, corrosive spores, angry sentient flora ala Avatar, magnetic field pertubating the Bolters machine spirit (resulting in omnipresent jams), liquid prometheum rain, etc...
Also, while I'm at it.
fluff proposal 5) : Imposed penance for the whole order. The order botched a very importatn assigment once, but the Ecclesiarchy, in its infiny benevolence,...
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How's troll lifestyle, economy and governance affected by the inability to go in the sun? How do trolls grow food? How do they interact with other cultures? What do trolls trade, and when? What do they do with all the inevitable statues popping around every morning?
Trolls don't trade, they hoard gold. And when they do offer gold to humans, the gold turns out to be an illusion.
And in folklore, it seems they're predators, and thus don't farm.
>>43805019
Than where do they keep the troll cows and sheep?
>>43805031
Ah, I forgot about Norway, I was going after Swedish folklore. The thing is, in Sweden, there's a distinction between trolls and giants. Giants tend to be much more like humans, and have cattle and stuff. Trolls are magical, tricky creatures, kinda similar to the Faerie, living underground and messing with people's minds.
In Norway, trolls and giants are kind of the same thing. Bigger and dumber, less tricky.
