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>>97826729
how many improved medium lasers can you pack onto that thing?

>>97827041
Are we assuming mapscale or mechscale

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>>97826605
Many mechs make better 'mook' / 'militia' mechs. Urbie is for retarded warcriming.

>>97826871
Battletech staple. Majesty metals, interstellar explor- whatever, all the mech factories and so on have their own forces under arms and or mercs they pay to either protect them or go raid other companies.

>>97825756
Yes It's fine since it is my idea for "tottaly not WoB mercs I swear on Blakes bushy beard".

>>97826308
Squares.

Mostly because the main time I make maps its of interiors to places.
So squares work better imo.

I don't really do the hex craw thing. No shade on it, I am sure they are good fun, just ain't the style of game I run.

>>97825933
I can't do that. Magic isn't strong enough anymore.

>>97825870
Pre-USSR Russia?

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Been thinking about roads again.

>>97826060
>Any good ways to explain the difference between a mortal and a monster in your fantasy setting?
I have three different types of soul, the aetheric soul of mortals, the elemental animus of elementals (elementals that have become self aware/distinct "races" essentially) and I forgot what I called the liminal/fae version. So "monsters" would be different from mortals on a fundamental level. Although mortals can become corrupted or otherwise changed into monstrous forms so I guess the distinction isn't so clear cut in all scenarios.

>>97826360
Thing is, if Maxtac is in charge of security, it means that only key assets are protected, like energy lines. Maxtac is responsible for the whole city - if 2d10 hits them, it's likely an area without anybody claiming responsibility.

>>97826897
don't trick yourself into thinking it's intentional, a different table has you more likely to run into a gang boss than a gang member

>>97820620
I always took radio host Mike as a conspiracy theorist and a way to cram in references to non canon table top adventures not anything to be taken seriously as lore.

>>97827052
Is tales from the forlorn hope not supposed to be canon? it was first party wasnt it?

>>97826762
Wonder why.

>>97826904
Yeah, pretty good. Bear in mind, though - the goblin ambush might drop the party if they're not on their game.

>>97827091
Pretty old school

>>97827091
And serves as a powerful lesson to players and DMs alike

>>97826904
it serves as a really good scaffolding too if you wanted to add a little bit of your own stuff in also for fun

>>97827140
I would add Dragon of Icespire Peak, it has a map of phandelver

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>>97826888
>MirrorSeeker
Pretty sure I inadvertedly doxxed the guy; I know his name and what he looks like.
Also, he was a mod of a dead subreddit where only he would post.

>>97827046
>threatening the safety of one of Reddit’s only good authors
Do fucking kill yourself

>>97827077
>threatening the safety
lol He is not a celebrity, who the fuck is going to threaten his safety. It's not like I shared photos or name.

>>97826807
Why is this the OP? April Fool's was yesterday.

>>97825763
What were they doing the entire First Age?

>>97826736
Going to designated Lunar social clubs to mutter uneasily about how unsure they are about how much agency they even have, getting caught in Wyld experiments and being forgotten about by their own Solars.

>>97826736
being riden by solars in every way you can imagine.

>>97825763
It's still kind of funny to me that Sidereals didn't get nearly as mistreated as Lunars during the First Age, and by all accounts were treated about as respectfully as a First Age Solar could treat an inferior. You would think there would be at least one or two accounts of Solar and Sidereal hubris clashing, but nope.

>>97827086
Out of universe answer; Sidereals weren't part of that version of the first age, and/or the devs didn't want to stain their real golden boys.

In universe answe; Sidereals are distant mentors and advisers.

>Why do most children kill their sires
WELL IF YOU WERE EMBRACED WITH A SUNBURN YOU'D UNDERSTAND

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>>97826539
based
Trying to get my next VtM game together and I wish I had someone pull something like that. My main guy would just make Heisenberg.

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>>97820254
Sack up, Cainite. You're a fuck mothering vampire. YOU EAT PEOPLE! Dive into the power of your Vitae, and if that isn't enough you have THUMBS. Get some kevlar and a big fucking gun.

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>>97823503
Mmmm tummy. Midriff is best riff, asides from The Ocean by Zeppelin. On the checkered suits though, he might shoot you in the head. Pretend to be dead for a bit. When he sees you again in a few months, you’ll scare the shit out of him. Saw it in a game once. Got a cool gun out of it. Pic related.
>>97826739
Seriously. I’ve probably one of the most “adjusted” kindred I’ve met, as conceited as that sounds, but we eat people at the end of the day. Just what we do. Does the eagle bother itself with the worries of the lamb?
>>97814951
>>97817054
Don’t worry. She sucks dick harder than she punches.


Well Houston went to shit. There is no bishop. Just a dozen different packs all trying the best power play against distant princes to establish themselves as bishop. It’s so stupid. Explains the mass shovelheading. Well that was all disapponting. Such is life though. Now onto San Antonio. Stop by and Remember the Alamo as all good texans should, living or undead.

>>97825238
Actually Nïa I've got a favour to ask of you. Do you have any contacts or means to gather intel on what's going on in Winnipeg these nights?
If not, no worries, but I am looking north now that all the 'business' I've had is settled.

>>97826591
God I can't wait to get a new group together. Still not sure what sort of Chronicle I should run but I want a mix-up.

>>97826947
>>97826739
Predators we might be, we still possess minds and very human components. The Bald Eagle isn't a few drops of vitae away from the lamb is it?
No. We are removed from that. Especially when most 'eagles' don't have the decency to tan their prey and butcher the meat.
Also neat gun.

>>97826784
The comparison was for contrast anon. I'm not trying to sell you on Roll for the Galaxy. I wouldn't buy neither Roll or Splendor if I had to start my collection all over again. It would get dull quick if I only talked about games I would keep in my collection. That's a short list these days.

>>97825383
>what game from your collection would you say are you the best at?
Washington’s War, and while I own the game physically most of my many, many plays have been on Rally the Troops.
I have like a 80% winrate, though to be fair a lot of people just flatly do not know how to play.
>dice or fixed values for combat resolution?
I lean towards dice but it’s a difficult conundrum. Deterministic combat doesn’t feel like combat to me very often, it’s far too mechanistic. However actually mitigating the problems of dice combat usually require a significant amount of rules overhead that most people don’t want to deal with.
>>97825524
>Dice should either have marginal impact or there should be some serious luck mitigation mechanics. Most times when people cope that these mechanics exist, the mitigation mechanics are the marginal part, not the core dice luck aspect.
Making dice combat *acceptable* is actually a very simple calculation: you need a wide variety of possible outcomes while also tightly controlling just how many of those outcomes are actually possible within a given dice roll. In other words, you need a humble wargame CRT. The problem is that CRTs are a lot of extra complication and not practical for anything but wargames and their autistic fans.

>>97826884
Knizia is the Rumplestiltskin of board game design. He's sitting there spinning gold out of straw. You could tell me that he invented Klondike and I'd want to believe you. lol

Ok I've won a few games of Splendor now and I don't hate it anymore

>>97826883
cute snake waifu

>>97826662
competitive is fun in games where you don't have to buy in. I really enjoyed legends of runeterra as someone who had like 20 EDH decks before atraxa was in print, had the blue double breaker for american duel masters, raigeki and mirrorforce and xyz dragon i think i left ygo by set 5 or 6. I liked emulation programs like cockatrice , whatever the early 00s ygo duel simulator was. Competitive games are janky BS when you have to buy in. 150 dollars for a gemini elf at frank and sons. Compete at capitalism rather than the card game.

I don't think i would want to be playing digimon in person because this game is so ruthless.

why do you want a truly competitive card game experience? When these games were new this was novel- now we have seen many large scale e-sports. starcraft and magic were early outliers. CS picked up steam. then we had melee and halo. Now we are post league of legends. People have moved away from that esports mindset and largely prefer the older formats in ygo and commander in mtg. People want every archetype to feel finely tuned and to be able to play what they want. People want complexity and fairness. Thats what true competition is, not spamming metaslop and going 8 and 1. 40k is an interesting game to look at, they are probably the main community that truly wants competition. Even then they are largely held back by budget and build/paint time.

>>97826721
>why do you want a truly competitive card game experience?
Because I enjoy it! I enjoy improving my sequencing and learning to pilot a deck. I enjoy learning counterplay to different decks, the correct plays to make, I enjoy going into game 2 having a clearer idea of what to do.
>People want every archetype to feel finely tuned and to be able to play what they want
And they're wrong. Wanting "every archetype to be good" is like playing LOL and expecting every champion to be viable. It's a ridiculous thing to want and makes no sense, and dev teams trying to pursue that goal has actually killed games. Some archetypes are training wheels. Some archetypes are high skill, and for them to be high skill they have to be better, they need to have a higher ceiling (otherwise they aren't high skill). Some archetypes are more suited for fighting others. In MtG, you will die if you try and bring a mill deck to face off against a dredge deck, because the very concepts of these decks make that happen.
>People want complexity and fairness. Thats what true competition is, not spamming metaslop and going 8 and 1
It sounds like you don't understand what a competitive environment is.

>>97815302
Pretty much this. If you don't know how to play every meta deck then you won't know how to counter every meta deck. It's like Fighting Games or the Art of War or some shit.
"Know your frame data and know your opponent's frame data or you're going to get fucking exploded" - Sun Tzu.

>>97826827
Sun Tzu is for elementry schoolers. White people read clauswitz

>>97826780
nigger i am from melee . Card games are a shit genre for competition, even more so tcg/ccgs . From my perspective you are trying to make kitchen table games retarded - complexity and balance are not a zero sum equation against competitiveness.

>>97827108
>Nigger I am from melee
Not that anon but that is an unfortunate thing to admit to.

>>97818367
Traditional games?

>>97820110
I like that, I have a semblance of a setting with all of 1 drawing where flying mobile suits almost completely replace infantry and most other ground vehicles in high speed high tempo combat, but smaller nations and colonies make do with foot infantry and small mecha.

>>97818379
>"JSN"
>Anthony Scroggins
Idiot

>>97825222
Your political obsession is not "the problem"

>>97826090
He wasn't talking politics, dipshit. He was referring to bumpfag and puckee. Sounds like you're the one with /pol/ on the brain here.

>>97826606
nta
Nothing about those threads prevents you from making threads. The board isn't fast enough for anything to fall off.
Play games, post about them. Shit's not complicated.

>>97821560
>For 1.6 to come back into stock so I can buy it and play the damn game
Well aren’t you in luck today son

>>97822193
Wait for real? Why did I sign up to their newsletter if they won't send me news fuck
good thing I just got paid so I can spend it all ;w;

So is Lion Champion a survivor or is it a enemy of some kind?

Does anyone have cool references to paint dark eye (gce narrative sculpt)?
I swear I remember a pro painter doing it, but I can't find it

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>>97822604
There's a few good ones in the gallery thread of discord

>>97827019
I think we should just vaguepost with an image to recreate a live reaction.

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>>97827104
Why does this guy remind me of Bobby?

>>97827111
He has a trustful gaze. You know he would never lie to you.

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>>97820126
So, I've deliberately included things that happen at tables which- when corrected for- actually produce roleplaying.

Here's the mistakes (and how to roleplay instead)
>Player: "I'm going to cast a cure wounds spell, I think. DM can I cast and move second?"
The mistake is that the player should know these rules. If they don't they learn them. Failing to learn the rules is not considerate of the time of the GM and other people at the table. Instead of naming what they do, they should describe what they do, roll the dice (I, as the GM should be able to trust you to know your rules and not cheat... this is called high trust tables). "My hands glow blue with the holy energy of my god, shooting energy out to Anazar (Eric's character) to heal 9 points".

>"Who has the fewest hitpoints?"
This isn't something that a character would know. If you are trying to find who is most injured structure it in a way your character would learn this information, "I scan the battlefield for my allies to see who is most haggard" "GM: You see that Anazar is particularly wounded"

>"Okay eric, I'm going to cast on..."
Needless mechanical description. Describe what the other players see and feel. The only relevant mechanical detail you need is the 9 hitpoints.

>"Cool, thanks"
Does Anazar say this? It's fine to talk during combat, but it's all in character

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>>97826614
Here's what this same post looks like with roleplaying.

Alarain: "I scan the battlefield to see who is most haggard."
GM: "Anazar seems particularly wounded."
Alarain: "My hands glow blue with the holy energy of Chastain, shooting energy out to heal Anazar." "9 points
Anazar: "Grunting, "Thanks""
Alarain: "I then move behind Gortruk, hoping his shield can defend me from any incoming hostiles."
Gortruk: "I motion to your belt, "Potion. You. Now"
Alarain: "Oh, yes, I quickly down a sour, burning potion" (Marks the HP recovered without having to mention it out loud)

Gortruk goes next. Unprompted, because everyone knows the order of initiative and turns take 20 seconds at most.

>>97826589
Wrong.

>>97826614
holy fucking CRINGE

>>97826614
>Instead of naming what they do, they should describe what they do
precisely

>>97825806
I always assumed those are the same thing up there.

>>97826419
>up/down
Absolutism/Wingdings
>left/right
Progress/Tradition
I checked :^]
Let me reveal higher mysteries to you my friend :^]
I have such secrets I could share :^]

If I copy paste a vaguely hyperborean steampunk story here, will anyone read it?

>>97827065
Go for it, I dumped some chapters of Moorcock in here once. If you're feeling generous it would be kind to put it in a png or two to avoid creating a big wall of text

I have a distinct memory of doing a reading at U.C. Irvine, where Avram was teaching at the time, to find him sitting in a front row, holding a frisky helium balloon in one hand, and a pretty young student’s hand in the other. After I finished my gig (somewhat distracted by performing in front of one of my major heroes, old friend or no), Avram came up to give me a hug and to inquire, quite seriously, “What do you know about feral camels?” As it happened, I did know something about a tentative attempt by the American Army, in the days after the Civil War, to introduce a small force of camels into the deserts of the Southwest. The attempt was soon abandoned; but for many years afterward, soldiers and nineteenth-century tourists alike would report having seen impossible ghostlike creatures materializing out of a sandstorm, and vanishing again just as swiftly.

I happened upon this while flipping the story I'm aiming for. It reminds me of the oldlore of saurs being introduced to the west like these camels. It makes me wonder if whoever came up with that knew this story, or if it's just such a perfectly natural idea that strange animals should be introduced to the deserts of America.

>>97826491
That doesn't seem very done to me. You don't really seem to have a handle on things squirt

>>97823551
yeah you are :)

>>97826698
Ironic.

>>97826955
Well that's lame, I guess I shouldn't expect anything else

>>97826554
I don't care about railroading, I care about you getting the fuck back in your hole. Get gone.