A super genius and the very person who introduced supernatural cards on a global scale are on the same team? Can't get more intriguing than that.

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>>93257146
>Leave Sybilt to me

>>93256754
That also annoys me. Like, literally nobody I've ever known plays like that.

Hikari just wants her brother to be happy.

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>>93257555
I wonder what her endgame here is, it does like they're being controlled or will be.

I've had an idea for a while of a cyberpunk game set in the Russia but I haven't had any particularly good plots for it.
Current iteration is the players being shanghaid in Vladivostok and needing to either make it back to night city or into the launch facilities in Kazakhstan to make it into space, depending on if I want to run my space casino scenario or not

>>93255478
They didn't "get lucky". They used the tools they had, and didn't play by the rules.

>tools
When you defend your territory, you have the advantage. You know the hidden dangers. You can pick and choose your battles to a much greater extent than the enemy. The enemy has to spend time and effort to scout. You, in theory, don't - you have a willing populace, which the enemy has to compel by force. And when you know weather is going to be more shitty than usual, you can lure your enemy out with a feint so the enemy's caught in the open and hit much harder than you are by the same thing.

>rules
Russia does not consider human lives valuable. This is something western countries only kind of account for but don't really get. Western armies treat soldiers as expensive investments, competent components of well-functioning machinery. Russia treats them as meat. This is just one of the things Russia finds "acceptable" in a war. If you roll up to a fight with Russia assuming Russia will keep to your rules of war, you're in for a rough awakening.

In Napoleon's case, specifically, he was under the assumption that taking the capital of a country will make them capitulate, winning him the war. He really could not imagine Russia burning its capital to the ground to deny him both victory and winter lodging.

But it wasn't just the cold that killed his retreating army. Russian forces harassed him from the flanks, forcing his depleted troops to march along their previous, already looted path. So while Napoleon assumed his army would be able to gather supplies in its usual manner, he was stymied both by the reality on the ground (far-flung villages, lack of infrastructure and development) breaking those rules/assumptions, and the Russian forces utilizing the tools (weather, terrain) better than he could.

>>93253129
You could do Stalin's research institute for human development, situated in the siberian wilderness, experimenting on people swept up in the purges

>>93256679
Was that the one where they tried to make human gorilla hybrids?

>>93256684
I meant as a setting for a hypothetical Soviet Bioshock, not as a real historical thing. Though you could take inspiration from what actually happened with the guy behind the Soviet space program.
>work as a low-level rocket design guy under a boss
>boss gets swept up in purges, executed
>guy gets "interrogated" (tortured), jaw broken (never properly heals) among other things, sent to gulag
>WW2 breaks out. Stalin realizes rockets can be fired at enemies, but doesn't have rocket designers
>Release? lolno comrade, we're gathering you survivors into a "work from gulag" research institute
From there all you need is one bad accident and suddenly you're getting dispatched from Moscow to Siberia to find out why the superweapon camp is no longer talking.
Soviet space program stalled and died because the above "guy" had complications during surgery in the 60s. Doctors couldn't intubate him properly because of the way his jaw was broken 30 years prior, and he died on the operating table.

If you want a taste of "Soviet 80s Fallout" you should play Atom RPG (on Steam). It absolutely nails the vibe of late Soviet Union. Some things will certainly be lost in translation, but as someone who grew up during the fall of the Soviety Union I assure you it's as close as you can get.

>>93256679
>In Napoleon's case, specifically, he was under the assumption that taking the capital of a country will make them capitulate, winning him the war
Except... Moscow wasn't a capital.
>>93253129
Thats too narrow point of view. We had (and still have, but to lesser extent) so-called "Closed Cities", tasked with various research. Like, a special cities for nuclear weapon programms (Ozyorsk and Snezhinsk, for example). You can freely set your game in such city, with "Automated Communist Utopia Experimen gone wrong" or whatever.

>>93257362
>paranormal
Paranormal, and supernatural are both illogical terms that shouldn't be used.
Everything that occurs and everything that exists does so within the confines of the laws of nature.
Any instance of a person claiming to have observed a paranormal/supernatural event/object is either confused, lying or unaware of the laws of nature, in extreme circumstances this could mean the entire human race is incorrect as to the specifics of the laws of nature.

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Are there any mechs that give anybody particular grief when painting? I've consigned my Nova to the simple green jar for what feels like the fourth or fifth time in the last few days and if this keeps up I'll get through the rest of my pile before I feel satisfied with the thing. It's definitely the cockpit that I keep screwing up on, too - and I think one of the windows is either gunked up with paint that hasn't come out, or I've scratched and deformed the actual plastic while trying to degunk it the last time.

If it's the latter case, I wonder if it'll be more interesting to scratch or cut the thing up some more and play it off as battle damage.

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>>93257260
footfags GTFO

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Fox has mech if you have coin

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>>93248678
Where can you look and what should you do when creating the outfits your men and women of the cloth for your religions wear, since just copying what the Catholic Church or Japanese shrines do is cliche and unoriginal?

>>93256933
Look at other religions or ceremonial garbs, then? Maybe take a look at the values of the religion in question and think up outfits that aligns with those? Did your thinking stop at what you didn't want to do?

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>>93256976
I was hoping to get others talking about their own choices and what their process was.

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>>93257307
Just steal from the catholics and anime. It's good shit.

>>93257307
>>93257609
That said- I think islamic veils is also an underutilized motif as well.

>>93222714
You are not a good magic player or a good rules lawyer.
Shielding Plax creates a restriction (opponents cannot target enchanted creature with spells or abilities). Nowhere to Run allows you to bypass Hexproof specifically.

Your reading of "Creatures your opponents control can be the target of spells and abilities (for example,) as though they didn't have hexproof." is both grammatically incorrect (and also incorrect MtG syntax) and also would not function within the rules. When it comes to casting/targetting permissions, global abilities that say 'can' are superceded by global abilities that say 'can't'. See, for example, two players who each control a Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir.

>>93214560
I think he means Star Wars.

>>93215229
the average and vast majority of commander players in fact, are retards.

>>93222714
Rules lawyering does not exist in mtg. Nice try tho casul.

>>93214388
WotC considers Mtg's identity to be the color wheel. Let's all thank Nosewater.

>>93256676
They’re good on parking lots where you can actually get the range to take advantage of them, but generally there are better options. You’re mostly going to be in the 18-42 inch bracket, which means they’re S9 5” blasts which means you can actually do some real damage despite their lack of AP. If you can get in the 42-72 bracket they’ll rip through anything. They’re very good for killing HSS that have set up on a vantage point. Your board will really determine their effectiveness though. I play a lot of city fight where they’re not great, but on 40k newfag standard 4-6 pieces of LoS blocking terrain boards they’re pretty damn good.

>>93257261
>laughing Archimedes dot pcx

>>93254290
>for an Allied Detachment
Uh oh. Better check the book, anon. Page 293
>"An army whose -Primary Detachment- and Warlord has the Legiones Astartes (Ultramarine) faction may make use of the following right of War if the Warlord has the Master of the Legion special rule:"

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>>93257261
In theory, a bayonet turns a rifle into a short spear.
In the practice, you are left with an unwieldy rifle and a cumbersome short spear.
Me, I'm rather more puzzled about soldiers not being able to shoot and charge. Like, they don't need to switch weapons; they are already equipped.
I wonder if Reach 1 will make Tacticals better than Despoilers? You tell me why Reach 1 instead of S+1

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does anybody have the measurements/a size comparison for the krios?
for something that's been out for a decade there is deceptively little info about how big it actually is other than a side shot with a rhino

i want a couple to mess around with for militia but the actual krios kind of clashes design wise with the russ and the rest of my infantry
figured making a militia assault gun using a chimera or rhino chassis as the base would be a fun project

>>93248171
Power of the dark side. Which is a broken card that should be banned. It is the single most direct card locking the meta into aggro vs control, which is boooooribg

>>93253534
Rocking the boat? These sets were made years ago, nothing in them is reactive. I will say that after playing some proxied set 2 decks, it really makes it feel like set one was the tutorial of a digital game. In a good and a bad way. The game desperately needs more interesting features.

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>>93256627
I actually just picked up a game on clearance that uses this in a traditional deck building type game, called Phase. Haven’t gotten a play in yet, but it reads as made by old magic fans, and claims to replicate broken ass CCG bullshit plays

>>93256596
>>93257356
Everyone can see through your act, advertizer-kun.

>>93255669
I sleeve all my cards I intend to play with so I wouldn't mind if a game did something like printing random fullart tokens on the back of common cards so that I would maybe have something to do with all the commons that I get more than I need of. Might be some people who go after specific tokens on the back of specific common cards, that could be fun for them to collect.
Of course it's not like a new game is gonna have a large enough variety of tokens to need something like this. And even then they can just print normal token cards. After typing this I realized it only causes problems.

>>93257549
I'm presuming you're aiming for Vanguard when you do play? Having play with my guys a few times, the Hive Tyrant is pretty boss, and yeah you could use both of them an in army (though I don't think most people would). Winged counts as VI so it'd fit with the Deathleaper more.
If you can find some plastic insect wings you could also try to substitute those for the normal ones for a more bug-like look. But giving the wings vein-like patterns would also be pretty gnarly. If I had any big winged Nids I likely would try something like that too.

>>93257545
https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/demo-collection

There are better alt minatures than what that comabt patrol offers. Go to the alternative war game thread and ask for more recs.

>>93257582
kys

>>93257585
uh oh gw piggy meltie

>>93257568
Yeah aside from deathleaper and a neurolictor, all my tyranid models come from the leviathan box + the christmas battleforce. So when (if) I get to playing sometime this century, I should have a good enough mix to be able to try out all the different detachments, starting with Vanguards.
Sorry, no 3000 points of gaunts for the endless swarm here.

Taking Demon Lords to coretcg regional tomorrow and fully prepared to go 0-3 drop. Anyone else gonna be playing?

Why is Luce a 20 dollar card and the AA a 70 one.

>>93253722
>TQ
The Tamers cards for my Sakuyamon and Rapidmon (it won't fix Sakuya)

>>93257306
Because it's a key card for both 7GDL (which is actually meta-relevant) and BT18 Lucemon (which might not be but looks fun regardless).

>>93257306
probably a lot of people going for max rarity cuz if you make that deck max rarity its gotta be nice

>>93241230
I like Burning Wheel. It's based off stuff like Tolkien, Le Guin and sword and sorcery, and combat is very lethal. The core idea of the system is that the players drive the story with their characters' personal motivations and ethics, and the GM's job is to make scenarios that challenge those beliefs instead of entirely dominating the game's direction. If that sounds appealing, I'm pretty sure there's a .pdf in the Share Thread.

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>>93241230
Is that Caelid

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>>93241230
Warhammer Fantasy RPG 1st edition is all right, but I'd recommend second, it is simpler, with a d100 system, and the book is more modern in its' layout. 2nd ed is 1st streamlined, and aligning itself more with the tabletop game than being a darker tone of Pseudo-Europe. The 1st ed book has a way better starting adventure than the 2nd edition book, that's an excellent starting scenario that show them how they're not the 'hero' type like in D&D, they're nobodies trying to make it.

Setting can be changed at will of course.

I am biased, having played 2nd alot more than 1st.

>>93253502
This is stupid. You are stupid and should feel ashamed of yourself.

>>93257394
1st Ed is better theme wise but 2nd is better for rules.

>>93252039
So let me get this right, 2 chaos god make me better at fighting and I can either become a muscle bound rage machine of pure fight or something that makes trannies seem normal that will fuck everything and fight when not being a disgusting freak?
A complete nonchoice.

>>93252039
because Khorne is the most straightforward god, the god you rely on when you want nothing more than to rage against the various oppressors you live under and just snap their necks, sure you will probably become like said tyrant but at the moment that doesn't matter, khorne is also the least demanding out of all the gods since your end goals is always the same of just killing more unlike nurgle were you have to make a new disease since the last few ones aren't cutting it anymore, unlike slaanesh were a senseation is just no longer enough so you need more extremes, and I don't think I need to specify how complicated it is to please tzeentch, with khorne its just killing more which is easy as shit once you get the ball rolling, and while he also extremely apathetic to you even by chaost standards, that can also help since he is the least likely to just randomly fuck with you unlike the other gods in relative terms

>>93256007
>something that makes trannies seem normal that will fuck everything and fight when not being a disgusting freak?
thats not slaanesh

>>93256007
>2 chaos god make me better at fighting
All gods make you better at fighting to be honest.

>>93255995
>Remember Nurgle literally loves you.
In very abusive and toxic way
>Nurgle's "paternal love" for his followers manifests as disturbing levels of physical and emotional abuse tactics, encouraging his followers to slowly destroy themselves and become completely dependent on him. When he's angry with them, he'll inflict untold suffering upon them before returning to his same jolly, paternal demeanor.

>>93255231
Yeah, and? If there's a 1 in 100 chance that you'll instantly die to a finger of death in a campaign, are you gonna be happy about being dead because it was unlikely? Christ it's like the last 50 years of progress in game design completely missed everyone on this site

>Another autist tries to make a copy of an already bad game and angrily shouts down all opposition
Never change /tg/

>>93257294
Who am I shouting down, exactly? I have already taken input I consider to have merit. It would be wishy washy if I change everything someone brings up. Shows a lack of vision.

>>93256276
Read it again. I said ends up having it on the sheet. The chance given is for one to come up and be removed.

>>93255525
People play GURPS all the time. Flat curve systems are too swingy. I could just as easily turn it back on you.

>if rolls are going to be so random, why invest in character skill at all?

>>93256503
He talks about having to perform rituals to maintain physical form/magical powers in later chapters

>>93256503
>if you fuck up the transformation into a lich, you'll die a painful death
>become super autistic and a psychopath focusing only on gaining power through arcane knowledge
>cutting ties to most if not all your other former mortal desires and relationships
>alignment automatically shifts to evil
>doomed to become a dusty skeleton due to the second point you'll eventually just give up on keeping up appearances since it's a waste of time that you could spend researching
Of course if you're a shut-in wizard who resorted to lichdom in the first place these probably don't bother you anyway, so here are the real downsides as he gets into later as >>93257049 points out
>your one-track mind focused on gaining more arcane power eventually results in performing dangerous power rituals to increase your arcane prowess which can and have permanently destroyed lesser liches
>you still need sustenance (less than a mortal or vampire though) through a ritual that takes hours and involves sacrificing a living sentient creature, during which time you siphon its life essence by basically smoking heart dust, and the lich is distracted and weakened during the process
>you're an undead, holy magic and other anti-undead methods become stronger against you

>>93257488
There's a good reason why the foremost lich of Ravenloft, Azalin, considers lichdom a poor substitute for true immortality like divinity or some kind of immortal xian deal where you're still living but immortal and powerful. Vecna would probably agree to some extent since he also aimed for divinity after lichdom.

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>>93257540
They hate us cause they ain't us

Llichdom is the coolest shit ever. Why play into boring tropes of immortality when you can represent someone denying the ravages of time as creatively as rotting into a literal skeleton obsessed with gathering magical power, becoming antithesis to all life? I don't give a shit about xianxia or gods, their immortality is boring, it has no story to tell.

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>>93256652
I mean are they really dumber then rats?

>>93256886
Rats are surprisingly intelligent

A rat once whispered in my ear and told me how to brew a potion that lets me fly

So, I have a genuine, legitimate question for the rest of you. Is it true that some domains keep a set of stocks in Elysium to hold malcontents and punish minor infractions?

I heard this claim from an Ancilla who seemed genuine, and who did not have much of a reputation as a comedian... but it sounds completely absurd. My inquisitiveness is getting the better of me, is this really something they have in some domains?

>>93253104
I got embraced in a cave. I'm pretty sure my sire lives there, I was just checking it out at night and then bam. I hadn't even been in town two days, so I don't know what it was about me that made me a suitable target, aside from getting kinda lost and finding my way out again.

>>93257572
I hear "embracing" is better than sex. At least, to most vampires it is because for some reason a lot of us don't care for sex. I honestly believe you guys just think you're "above it" for some reason.

>>93255605
There hasn't been in a long time. Last year was the first year in a long while I hadn't bought anything during the holiday sale. I wanted to get Beware the Ides of March but I've been snake bit by John Theissen games in the past.

>>93256017
After Russell trooned out he made being the "quirky" wargame creator/publisher his entire identity.
I think I remember seeing a thread on BGG where he almost seemed upset that Horse & Musket made more money than 10 of his weird games combined.

What would you guys recommend for solo war games, Idk anyone else into war games who'd be willing to try them out with me

>>93257065
The Mission is one of the best solo games I've played, period. It's a pretty good Christian history lesson wrapped in a game without being preachy.

If you're looking to dip your toes in the wargame waters, I really recommend playing on Rally the Troops. It's always better to play a game meant for others with others.

>>93257065
Seconding what >>93257314 said about Rally the Troops. There are more than enough games to discover there with genuinely the best online system I have seen to date (fuck BGA). However, if you're still interested in solo wargaming, I'd check out The Mog: Mogadishu 1993
I'd recommend waiting for Fields of Fire Deluxe but despite the excellent tutorials the sheer weight of that game would scare a lot of people off lol