I'm wondering, is there any Tyranid organism that can actually evolve all by itself?
As in, it starts small, and then, the more it eats, the bigger and the more intelligent it grows.
Basically, Tyranids evolve collectively, the evolution is made by digesting something, assimilating the DNA, and then spitting out something to counter a threat.
I'm looking for somehting that is akin to a single spore or small organism that grows exponentiallt.
>>43738937
Nope. Most Tyranids lack the necessary organs to live more than a week, much less do what you're describing. Tyranids are not Zerg comrade.
>>43739278
Okay thanks.
Hunter-killers. It's an old assassin organism sent to kill Kryptman. It started about the size of a dog and consumed wild animals to grow and evolve enough to infiltrate the fortress Kryptman was in, killed and ate more guards, and eventually was shot to death by Kryptman.
Though, I think it was driven by the hive mind from the start rather than gain intelligence
Uh, are there more games like this?
Not the reddit-tier humor, but the fast, fun pace of card game play for two players without all the bullshit cost of ccgs.
There are literally thousands of non-collectible card games.
If you go into any game store, any game store at all, you will literally trip over hundreds of great games, with most if not all better than that thing you are inexpertly trying to shill.
>>43738903
Ugh, I don't want some autism level netrunner shit, I want something easy and fast, and for two players. You'd be surprised how many traditional games completely shit the bed when they're only played by two players.
>>43738864
I played a nice one about exploding cows. The premise was ridiculous but the gameplay was quite good. I think there's a free printable version on cheapass games.
It's 40,000! Why do xenos and heretics still exist?
Because despite your being space Romans, your entire race is still just a bunch of plebes.
It's 40,000! Come on!
>>43738604
Space heroes like yourself spent 38,000 years making Warhammer threads on the internet instead of doing anything productive.
Tell me, /tg/, what will happen once we delegate almost all of our jobs to robots?
You know, in all sci fi humans apparently stay relevant despite all those super advanced robots that coexist with us. Meanwhile what we see now is that soon enough the robots will truly spell doom for our race just by making us obsolete.
How will post-economical society look like?
Will we all just spend our days shitposting on a Taiwanese quilting mailing list?
>>43738595
For one, all the poor people we're already not paying will get no paid more and then we'll have a bunch of burger flippers and janitors mad at us. But assuming we use robots for actual practical jobs like shit that gets people killed on a regular basis, then we'll also have disgruntled police, security, bomb squads, construction workers, and fire fighters all out of work and looking to do something with their gratuitous beef that we previously could only make use of by throwing them at shit in hopes they'd die less quickly that other people.
In a sci-fi setting I worked on, I theorized a future for a humanity who would be otherwise irrelevant compared to the superintelligent AIs and automated systems that could fulfill all their basic needs effortlessly.
With prior notions of worth and value discarded, uniqueness and reputation become key. Sure, everyone can just mass produce a chair. But what chair do you pick? Hundreds of thousands of people might be designing a variety of them on a publicly rated marketplace, but choosing the most popular ones might be seen as gauche, just going with the flow. If you're really hardcore, you might even get a unique, hand made chair- Perhaps less efficient or optimal than a manufactured one, but given value purely because it was made the old fashioned way.
Which leads nicely into reputation. Wearing the best clothes or having the best design of body markings? That's a reputation. Being the belle of the ball, the top of your sport, a compelling writer... That's reputation. And below the top level will be hundreds of thousands of people in every creative industry struggling and striving to rise up, to reach an audience.
This is where I see the future of humanity after being made irrelevant. Either mastering unusual and inefficient ways to do things purely becase we can, or becoming utterly committed to a creative infrastructure.
>>43738616
Don't worry, mate, soon your job will be as irrelevant and automated as a cashier's or driver's.
Happy Friday, /tg/. Let's talk Frostgrave.
Would appreciate it if someone could please post the links for the the general, don't have them and I'd like to change that.
Alright, been reading through the rules and I'm ready to start putting together my warband. Has /tg/ figured out optimal builds, at this point? Or is everything balanced enough that there's no real "superior loadout?"
>>43738523
Since wizards get extra exp for kills, one of the more fighty types might have an edge (enchanter, elementalist, etc).
Personally I'm hoping to get it for christmas, and maybe go for Summoner. Demons and possess seem good for a close combat fighty wizard.
>>43738571
Good observation, thanks. I've also been talking to people about how they handle snowballing. The popular solution for our local campaign is for the player in the lead to just assemble a new wizard/warband. What solutions have you heard/seen played?
Is there a game where I can play as a Taequan Jarvis, level 4 crack dealer, high bandit of the blood clan
>roll for streetwise
>new alchemist in town selling product in your territory
>mfw
Cyberpunk
Warhammer Fantasy, Second Edition
>>43738335
This actually reminds me of Dead Island.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSZoQABZEs
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Once again, you've found yourself wading through deep snow while a bitter winter wind stings your exposed face. Still, as terrible as this weather is, you can't deny that moving forwards like this feels good. Better than moping around, anyway.
Your name is Cassandra Einhart, and not so long ago it felt like your world was collapsing around you. Ever since Amelia appeared before you, waking those long-dormant memories of your other life, you had been waiting for the day that you would see him again. Cu Chulainn, your beloved knight. Strong, honourable and charming, he had won your heart once – despite the very different walks of life you originally came from. You had spent so long dreaming about this meeting, fantasising about every little detail. Then, when it actually happened...
Maimed and broken, his face a mask of blood and his martial pride dragged through the mud, it had taken you a long time to even recognise him. When you finally realised, something had come close to snapping inside your mind. You wavered on the precipice of despair for what seemed like a long time, and only recently began to see the light again.
So to speak. There's not much light to see out here, with the constant snow swirling through the air. This weather is truly awful.
>>43738108
Still, weather aside, you're feeling pretty good about things now. Cu – his name, he told you once, meant “Hound” - will live. In time, his wounds will heal, leaving him with nothing but a set of new scars and a story to go along with them. Truth be told, you always liked his scars – you'd let your fingers wander across each gnarled crease in his otherwise smooth and perfect flesh while he told you the familiar stories of how he got each of them. Sometimes he'd twist the details a little, turning the same encounter into a heroic conflict or a comedic farce, depending on his mood, but that was okay with you. It was the act of telling the stories that you liked, not the words themselves.
Suddenly, you wish he was here with you. He could stand at your side, just like old times, and you could fight together once more. Certainly, he'd make a better companion than the one you currently have. Cu wouldn't let you fight alone, with the only excuse offered being a wardrobe malfunction. Honestly – Elliot isn't a bad guy, and it was admittedly nice to have him around while you were grieving, but he's certainly got a long way to go before you'll forgive him. You're glad that he's walking behind you and can't see the grimace that crosses your face. He'd probably say something like-
“That's not very ladylike,” Elliot calls out to you, a faint note of humour in his voice. You turn, shooting him a dark, accusing glare. “Hunching your shoulders like that, I meant to say. Someone might think you're having a bit of a temper tantrum.”
Gritting your teeth, you take a breath and force your face into a more “ladylike” expression of composure and speak to the foppish young man. About last night, you begin...
“Yes?” Elliot replies, his voice suddenly becoming guarded.
>You owe me some damn answers
>I'm willing to put it behind me. Just don't let it happen again
>Other
>>43738110
>You owe me some damn answers, faggot
>>43738110
>I'm willing to put it behind me. But we are putting our lives on the line, can I trust you with mine?
I honestly don't know which would sting more
So, everything I read about Tyrannids seems to point out that, if the Universe was a human body, the Nids would be akin to a cancer slowly eating away any healthy cells it could find and growing because of it.
Now, we all know its the Nid Hive-Mind that controls, manages and dictates how this growth is gonna happen. What traits are gonna become usable, who is gonna evolve into what, etc.
What if an individual Tyrannid happened to "be born defective" and unconnected or rampant/indifferent to the Hive-Mind? And what if that Nid started consuming enormous, indiscriminate amounts of mass and growing in a chaotic, unorganized fashion, assimilating both positive and negative traits of whatever it consumed? The more it eats, the more it grows, and eventually it's able to consume anything. As in. Anything.
Eventually you get a Nid so large and so ravenous that it represents a threat even to the Nids themselves. Now you got a cancer withing the cancer, eating away everything including the cancer itself.
Picture a planet-sized rampant Tyrannid organism. A blob of flesh randomly spazzing out plasma and eletrical currents into space. Travelling through the galaxy, eating moons, space-debris, ships, hive-fleet and even whole planets themselves. It's so fucking large and so fucking "anomalous" that it is even capable of creating a warp signature that dwarf the Astrominician.
Now I got 3 questions.
1) How interesting would this thing be for the lore.
2) Given the whole "Nids are fleeing from something", could this thing be a viable candidate.
3) What would the Imperium, and all the sentient races of the galaxy, do to combat it once it started eating the Milky Way?
>>43737946
1) The Imperium would just Exterminatus it. It is a blob of flesh, not that hard to kill in a space battle with guns and such.
2) The "Nids fleeing from something" is just speculation and the dumbest piece of lore for them. Completely takes the threat off of the Tyranids and makes them seem secondary to the thing they are fleeing from. It would be like if the Chaos gods were just eating souls so they could power up enough to fight the Super Chaos Gods.
3) What is it with everyone wanting Tyranids to break away from/ have different Hive Minds? It's like the Tyranid equivalent to female Space Marines.
4) How the fuck would there be a defective Tyranid from birth? They are genetically engineers, Tyranids can't really make mistakes. Mutations like that occur AFTER the Tyranid has been born, like the Ymgarl Genestealers
Varying degrees of unlikely to impossible. Most Tyranid bioforms have a lifespan of a week at most, after which they're broken down in digestive pools and recycled for new ones. Big ones like Carnifexes and Tyrants probably live longer, but they all eventually throw themselves back into the spawning pool eventually. Giving them a digestive system in the first place is useless and counterproductive.
>>43737972
You gotta admit the concept is interesting, and presents a different idea than just "I'mma kill these Xenos and Heretics over here".
Besides, it's speculation, chill, it's not like GW is gonna read this thread and put it into the lore.
> 1) The Imperium would just Exterminatus it. It is a blob of flesh, not that hard to kill in a space battle with guns and such
It's eating planets and ships. It wouldn't be far-fetched to assume it ate a few hulks along the way or eldar craftworlds and assimilated void shields and the like.
>2) The "Nids fleeing from something" is just speculation and the dumbest piece of lore for them. Completely takes the threat off of the Tyranids and makes them seem secondary to the thing they are fleeing from. It would be like if the Chaos gods were just eating souls so they could power up enough to fight the Super Chaos Gods.
I digress, it doesn't make the Nids any less terrifying. All it does is make the thing comming after them incredibly scary (These badass motherfuckers are running from something, what the fuck could it be?)
Making it that they are running from their own species only creates more "WTF NIDS".
> 3) What is it with everyone wanting Tyranids to break away from/ have different Hive Minds? It's like the Tyranid equivalent to female Space Marines.
Uhm, what? I didn't say anything about a separate hive-mind. I spoke about One individual of the species gone rampant. One mind is hardly a hive-mind, even if it's a giant one. This planet-eater thing isn't making more nids, it's just growing.
And I'm pretty sure that the lore already stablished each Hive-Fleet has it's own separate mind that works in harmony with the other Hive-Fleets. An individual Hive-Queen that controls the Fleet. Much like different Ant-colonies working together.
I am excited! Excited about stuff! Edition
>Snippet:
>What is Android: Netrunner?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAslVfZ9p-Y
>Android Netrunner Official FFG News & Spoilers:
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?etyn=1&ecan=197&epn=0
http://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/24049/netrunner-spoilers
>Floor rules
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/9/24/install-new-security-measures/
>Official FAQ, Compendium on rulings, and common mistakes
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/android-netrunner/support/FAQ/Android-Netrunner%20FAQ.pdf
http://ancur.wikia.com/wiki/Project_ANCUR_Wiki
https://www.reddit.com/r/Netrunner/comments/2f8qj8/netrunner_beginner_faq/
https://www.reddit.com/r/postalelf/comments/2sm1d2/welcome_to_netrunner/
>Netrunner Card List and Data Pack Details:
http://netrunnerdb.com/
>RIP onosendai.com
http://acoo.net
http://www.cardgamedb.com/index.php/netrunner/android-netrunner-card-spoilers
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/147101/android-netrunner-lcg-setlists/
>Deckbuilding Resources:
http://netrunnerdb.com/
http://netrunner.meteor.com/
http://www.cardgamedb.com/index.php/netrunner/android-netrunner-deck-builder
http://www.littlechiba.com
http://acoo.net
>Articles and Blogs:
http://www.strangeassembly.com/tag/netrunner
http://netrunner-math.blogspot.ca/
http://teamcovenant.com/blog/category/netrunner-lcg/
http://stimhack.com/
http://www.cardgamedb.com/index.php/index.html/_/android-netrunner
>Podcasts/Videocasts:
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/157566/android-netrunner-podcasts-metalist
https://www.youtube.com/user/ANRBadPublicity?feature=watch
Try "Why I run", great for prospective Runners looking for a hands-on demo on how Running works (replace the spaces by dots):
www nagnazul com/whyirun/whyirun.html
Just when I was looking for it, a thread appears!
So critiqe my deck
Bad publicity brain damage (non core-set elimination)
Jinteki: Replicating Perfection
Agenda (12)
2x Clone Retirement
1x Fetal AI
1x Hades Fragment
1x Philotic Entanglement
3x Profiteering
2x The Future Perfect
2x Veterans Program
Asset (10)
3x Cerebral Overwriter ••••• •
1x Chairman Hiro
1x Edge of World
2x Jackson Howard ••
1x Psychic Field
2x Shock!
Upgrade (4)
2x Hokusai Grid
2x Tori Hanzō
Operation (8)
3x Celebrity Gift
2x Defective Brainchips ••
3x Mushin No Shin
Barrier (4)
1x Ashigaru
3x Himitsu-Bako
Code Gate (2)
1x Pop-up Window •
1x Yagura
Sentry (9)
2x Fenris ••••
1x Grim
1x Komainu
3x Pup
2x Tsurugi
15 influence spent (max 15)
20 agenda points (between 20 and 21)
49 cards (min 45)
Econ is celebrity gift + scoring profiteering. That and some ice gives me bad pub. Vet prog and clone retirement takes away the bad pub.
Deck is all about brain dmg and maybe rezzing chairman hiro to give the runner the smallest of handsize. That and some net dmg ice should slow the runner and keep him/her fearful. A flatline would be hillarious too but it's not the aim.
This is for a tourney so I can't use core set cards.
There is a mod for Shadowrun Dragonfall to play the original Neuromancer. It's pretty good too.
That got me thinking. Would something like this be possible to feature some aspect of Netrunner? Or would Netrunner be really hard to translate into Dragonfall?
Where can I get a good overview of the world of Mystara? Like, 20 pages max, so I can understand what it's about and the major nations/races/conflicts?
>>43737551
try this - its 28 pages mind but it'll have all the info you need.
>>43737734
Fantastic. Thanks a lot!
>>43737551
>Orange people
>Boyish-faced bodybuilder
>Blue panties, silver bracers that look like garbage, blue booties
>Woman who is probably his girlfriend with a string bikini, matching tard bracers and red boots
>That dwarf's helmet
>Holy shit that helmet
>Sleeveless green tunic, someone figured out what a shirt is, clearly dwarves are the only post-stone age society
>guess those swords and bracers are dwarven craft
>But guess what he has no pants it seems
>Also thjat axe has to be either hollow or ceremonial what the shit
>Dragon has downs syndrome, looks like he didn't want to be in this picture
>I don't blame him
The technique in pictures like this is amazing, but so many of them do these kinds of stupid things and it makes me cringe pretty damn hard.
Useful links now here: http://pastebin.com/JtFH682q
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Last thread: >>43654304
Looking forward to zine edition.
>>43734690
> And they'll have exactly the same mechanical weight as just rolling dice with no description
That's not how it's supposed to work at all. The whole point of having lighter rules is to allow players to respond in creative ways without being bogged down by the system. The DM is supposed to arbitrate on the fly when they want to do something that isn't covered and their actions should always have an effect on the world around them. In my game players are regularly making use of cover and the environment, tripping, disarming, setting ambushes and traps, getting off called shots, diving off of ledges, and all sorts of crazy shit. Our last session had them going full dragon's dogma on a giant ogre, with the rogue climbing up its back and cutting the straps to its piecemeal armor.
You can get more out of this than about any other setup, but you have to have a DM who both knows how to adjudicate on the fly AND sets up encounters so that there are reasons to handle them in other ways than "I roll to attack. I roll for damage." Once you have that, you then need the players themselves to realize that they can try anything and won't be punished for coloring outside the lines.
>>43737531
Need to convert monsters from ad&d to lotfp, ¿can i just use 20-Original AC?
Has anyone actually seen this so called "caster supremacy"? There's endless theoretical situations whew a wizard would be superior but has anyone actually seen it happen when playing the game with a group of people?
I once played a game with a guy who made a really broken wizard, and it definitely made the game less fun for everyone else.
A month later, he made a really broken barbarian, and it definitely made the game less fun for everyone else.
I've never seen it. We have one powergamer in the group, but even he never went full cheese with casters. When I played a caster myself, all the "ends an encounter in the first round" spells people keep talking about in this context were only moderately effective.
>>43737476
The utility gap is real, and it is the most clear and obvious example of caster supremacy. That spellcasters can emulate the function of almost any other class, plus having a huge variety of options that go beyond that, makes caster supremacy in 3.PF inarguable.
>Using the map of Europe as your fantasy campaign's world map
>>43737484
>Using the map of Middle Earth as your fantasy campaign's world map
>using an inverted map as your world
What are some signs that you've entered a Druid's forest?
>>43737452
Two words
Talking. Plants.
Near-instantaneous disembowelment upon stepping on a flower.
the clovers in the grass spelling "GET OFF MY LAWN" tends to be a foolproof sign
Stat yourself in 40K as a civilian.
>>43737364
Dead.
WS - 25 //No real experience other than fists
BS - 15 //Never used one outside games
S - 37 // Lift
T - 34 // Play football
Ag - 39 // Free Safety in football - can run 4.55 40 yard
Int - 38 // Mechanical Engineering Student
Per - 26 // Gotta read those QB's eyes
WP - 18 //Not confident
Fel - 25
Skills: Awareness+10 <Football/Degree>, Dodge+20 <Football>, Logic+10 <Degree>, Operate Surface+0 <Can Drive>, Tech-use +20 <Degree>
Talents: Catfall, Leap up, Precision Killer, Thunder Charge.
Armour: 40K Blood Bowl Armour
Weapons: Blood Bowl spiked glove I guess.
>>43737387
4:45 minutes? You can live without a pulse longer than that.
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