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>>97264017
pic related

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>>97240164
star wars aliens are around the sweet spot for me. my limit is somewhere between the original trilogy and prequel trilogy. a player can be a guy with a weird lizard head like greedo, or a big hammerhead. they can have a set of arms or extra legs, maybe tentacles instead of arms, but they should be mostly humanoid. a theoretical actor should be able to fit within a costume of the alien. i wouldn't want a player to play a wacky prequel trilogy alien like sebulba or that cunt with the long neck

>>97243545
also GURPS: Aliens for 3e

>>97265078
You should see Farscape

>>97265308
yeah, that's about the goldilocks zone of alien-ness i'm more inclined towards. though in all RPGs I run I prefer a human or human-like majority party which leaves room for one oddball that pushes it

>>97264841
>It is like totally honest hooking on drugs.
People do not generally pay you to take drugs, and indeed the problem is people like taking drugs too much. It is actually just analogous to totally normal sex work/surrogacy/arranged marriage/etc.

>Modern mentality killed all the thrill. "We are friends with everybody now, even if they normally want to kill us" or "that's your typical alienated lizardman whose mental processes are the same as of an American basedboy".
You think the only two options that exist are inimical to human existence and American basedboy because you are an ideological xenophobe. You are cringe and retarded. People with autism or schizoid personality disorder have significantly different psychological processes from the norm, they are not evil, and it's perfectly possible for them to work together with other different people. The idea that people who are very different from you naturally must be your enemies is a product of your tiny walnut-sized brain.

>>97265100
>There is no self-interest with Deep Ones because the end point is destruction of humanity.
Literally what the fuck are you talking about?

>So why did they destroy the town
They didn't.
>and killed the people in 1846?
Half the people. As in half weren't killed. Sounds like a civil war.

>Then there is nothing alien at all. The Alien from the Ridley Scott's movie is just a typical predator, you can find them all around the world. Just your typical crocodile.
The Deep Ones don't act as predators preying upon humans. If they did, you might have a point. Unless you don't find crocodile psychology alien.

>And yeah, Aztecs and Spanishards were pretty alien to each other
Now you're equivocating. If your standard for alien psychology would apply to other humans, then how does it differ from an "American basedboy"?

>>97265179
>People do not generally pay
People generally make money on your habits, and especially those habits which could cost your life or health. That's not win-win situation for both parts.

>because you are an ideological xenophobe
No, because you are an uneducated basedboy. Read some books about actual history and actual social interactions between different cultural groups. If you make a basedboy pseudo-historical setting, when even nowadays in your fucking country people kill each other because of some ideological and alienated hatred, then you are just stupid. I didn't say that they are evil, maybe you are evil (but no, you are just stupid). When you eat your fucking chicken on dinner that doesn't mean that you are evil toward chickens, idiot.

>>97265278
>People generally make money on your habits, and especially those habits which could cost your life or health. That's not win-win situation for both parts.
Then it sounds like the humans are the ones who are taking advantage of the Deep Ones, as they are the ones receiving the money (gold) in exchange for indulging the Deep One's habits (fucking human women).

>No, because you are an uneducated basedboy. Read some books about actual history and actual social interactions between different cultural groups. If you make a basedboy pseudo-historical setting, when even nowadays in your fucking country people kill each other because of some ideological and alienated hatred, then you are just stupid. I didn't say that they are evil, maybe you are evil (but no, you are just stupid). When you eat your fucking chicken on dinner that doesn't mean that you are evil toward chickens, idiot.
See, this is exactly what I am talking about, you are an ideological xenophobe. The alien could have literally any trait but it's different so it's intrinsically bad. You're fucking retarded. Americans and Japanese engage in mutually beneficial trade today, and have for the past 80 years, but that doesn't count as "actual history" because that's only when different groups are violent, not when they cooperate for mutual benefit.

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Pictured: an African buffalo and some oxpeckers. As they are so fundamentally and psychologically different, they are incapable of engaging in mutually beneficial actions. The oxpeckers are clearly about to kill the African buffalo.

>>97260926
> Should I put the Half-Husk Gunslinger and the Undertaker directly in, or keep them as mercenaries?
No reason not to add them, we added the torero to the spanish book.

>>97260994
>I'm not sure if we need to make individual books for the mini-factions.
The only 3 I have in mind myself are the Abolitionists, the Lost Men and La Ombre, the last 2 exists but have not been polished enough in my opinion to warrant uploading.to the TTS mod (soon, I put some time on La Ombre as well in the last 2 weeks). The unifying thread to those 3 is that they are small groups with increasingly higer concept goals, from the mundane to the metaphysical, and having made pacts with fell powers in order to do so. Way I see it, Napoleon is the least relatable anti-hero imaginable. Every encounter with him needs to be made into some sort of Hoffmanesque scene. Malcolm is a lot more relatable, but he is still fighting a nationalistic revolution that we can't really see him achieving anyways. Abolitionists would be a more relatable way to showcase a deal with the devil made on good intentions. Anyways, that was the general idea behind the three being "put together"...

>>97261624
Since we're on the topic, I had some ideas rattling around to dump out. I never managed to piece them together into something I liked though:
>Tubman was living in New York (State not city) at the time of the raid
>New Mu takes slaves as seen with the Morlocks, probably human ones too, maybe several Americans
>Tubman had served as a scout/spy during the Civil War and led troops
>Confederato forces are running around in the 4th layer as part of the golden syndicate too, the same layer New Mu mainly lives on
>Also Atlan exists
Napoleon semi-accidentally on purpose unlocked his powers by shooting himself, Malcolm (was nagged by his GF) sought out the Shadow Palace on the 8th (I think), so my view is that someone/thing went to the surface and offered Tubman her deal. She was retired with a family at the time of the New York raid so unless someone went out of their way to get her going I don't see her moving from civilian life to a millitary one again. I kept working over the idea of her joining the long march on her own to help free captured Americans, but by the 1870s I think it would have been more likely she would have worked to raise money instead unless some mysterious force gave her cool powers to help guide the long march.

>Stage Coach as Renault
Like the War Wagon from that one film or a more classic wooden one? Considering the US' mobility gimmick I vote for the latter.

For lost men, do you want any polishing assistance? I wrote some of the current ones and can try to elaborate on what I was going for in the case of clumsy wording.

>>97264800
This is shit. Explain why it takes longer to cast gold than to cast iron.

>>97264872
Sorry anon, let me correct myself.
>CINEMATIC CRAFTING RULES
>Your man-hour is worth $10.
>Your man-day is worth 75$
>Your man-week is worth 525$
>Quick Gadgeteer: If you have the quick Gadgeteer advantage, multiply your man-time by 100.
>You must have 20% in cost of the raw materials, then keep adding man-hours and man-days until you got the full price, then make a skill check.
>If you have materials worth more than the minimum 20% you may use those to reduce the amount of time spent with man-hours.
There, it's fixed.
So weird how GURPS players seem to forget that their GENERIC UNIVERSAL RPG has cinematic rules.

>>97264916
'It's CINEMATIC, so anything goes' is even worse than 'it's magic, I don't have to explain shit' or 'rule of cool, don't question me'. 'Cinematic' doesn't mean 'bullshit'. We've all seen films, and we're perfectly aware that there is no cinematic convention of more expensive materials taking longer to craft. It's just simplifying things to make them more convenient to gameplay, but there's no real reason to simplify crafting that much because you're dealing with something that takes hours or days of character time, so there's little pressure to rush to a quick answer.
More importantly, it doesn't actually satisfy what OP asked. He wanted a system which had less reliance on item price, but your system is totally dependent on it.
Unfortunately, all the published crafting systems are very reliant on prices. After the End 2 and Monster Hunters Power-Ups 1 have a version of crafting using existing items which works well for gadgeteers, and the latter and Meta-Tech have a method of converting advantages into $ value.

>>97265087
cinematic rules doesn't mean "only movies" dude.
it applies to converting things from other media, like video games.
>More importantly
If it was "more important" you'd have mentioned it in this post.
>>97264872
If you did, I would have replied that he asked "less gm fiat AND less reliance on $ value"
What I offered had less gm fiat. You just pick item and craft it, no gm fiat involved.

Furthermore, you're only bringing this up now to have a real complaint about the system that isn't about your inherent "feeling" that gurps should be realistic.

>>97265252
>cinematic rules doesn't mean "only movies" dude.
>it applies to converting things from other media, like video games.
Sure, but your rules aren't emulating a convention from any media. They only make sense in terms of an RPG, where simplified rules reduce the work-load of the GM. So they are 'easy' or 'rules-light' not 'cinematic'.
>If it was "more important" you'd have mentioned it in this post.
That was a different poster. I can't put content into other people's posts.
>Furthermore, you're only bringing this up now to have a real complaint about the system that isn't about your inherent "feeling" that gurps should be realistic.
This is completely wrong. I am a big fan of GURPS rules which emulate the conventions of different genres, including cinematic ones. I just recognise that they should serve a purpose, such as encouraging certain behaviours or maintaining pacing, in order to tell a specific sort of story.
I guess your rules can be said to do that, in that they encourage minimal focus on crafting by providing a quick answer in order to engage with things which you feel are more important.

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>>97260193
why though?

I see people are having a hard time having fun with brawl
I would like to share my list https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mtga-bant/
I have carefully tuned this deck to a specific power level where I don't play against shitters at all but it's also not THAT bad of a deck.

>>97265215
Honestly going as high power as you possibly can and playing exclusively in hell queue is the only time I've ever had fun. And even then the format is an absolute shit show where players can just win on turn 1 or 2 without you being able to do anything about it if you didn't mulligan into your perfect answer. The whole format is just inherently flawed because it's a format balanced around multiplayer but only being available as 1v1 on arena.

>>97265253
>win on turn 1 or 2 without you being able to do anything about it
wut?

>>97265253
>balanced around multiplayer
Actually, making it 1v1 is the balancing factor. Duel Commander is much more competitively viable than cEDH for a variety of reasons including architype viability and actually being able to score an event.

>>97265050
Tiletum is a new game that plays like a game from 10 years ago. I think it's also the best of the T-series fwiw, but I'm also a dice drafting slut.

>>97265138
Came out in mid 2024.

>>97265142
Tiletum was 2022 and that year there was a lot of b-tier big games.

>>97265142
I've played Tiletum.

>>97264035
What will be the "Tiletum" of 2025? Shackleton base?

This is now the elf attraction denial thread.

It was always traditional games denial thread.

more settings should have brown dark elves. Can't believe this is so rare. Not interested in D&D shovelware either

>>97264977
The brown elves in my setting are the wild ones.

>>97265076
they better not just be noble savages

>>97261112
Hell yeah! Sombody used my shitty Juicerchad

>>97261738
Anyway I could beg you to post just the Metal Head OCC? Or some of the TW gear?

>>97261648
Thanks, anon

>>97173634
What are the strengths and weaknesses of Rifts? What about some of the other games like Heroes Unlimited?

>>97264750
The strength is being one big huge never ending game with a ton of source material, no new editions or shit like that.

Its also a flaw because not everything has actual rules. & sometimes those rules have been updated or changed in another book somewhere down the line.

But another strength is being a dimension spanning menagerie of 80's heavy metal kitchen sink scifi & fantasy

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>>97258524
So, how do 2e and 3e Infernals compare now that the dust has settled a bit? And what do you think of the 3e Signature Infernals compared to the 2e ones?

>>97264783
3e is more constrained in a lot of areas, at least in terms of how you interact in a practical manner. Like if you go toe to toe with a Solar, he's more than likely going to beat your ass at actually achieving the goals you set out to do. However, you do things in a weird, wacky woohoo way that tends to inflict collateral (literally or figuratively) in place of sheer effectiveness. You do have a few really interesting trump cards that are harder to deal with, but you're no longer changing the type of game that's being played.

I don't remember any of the signatures

>>97262566
>"Well it'll give mortals a way to attack long distances" which honestly how do you even argue
You remind the retard that bows and other ranged weapons already exist.

>>97264668
Some people from the Realm are obviously irreverent, similarly to, say, how people in the Middle Ages weren't always good Catholics and might outright war with the Pope. Catholic Church was still a big deal in the Middle Ages, though, as is Immaculate Order in the Realm. A Solar appearing on the Blessed Isle and trying to get people to help him would be like Satan walking into a medieval village and going "Hey, I might be Satan, but I'm actually a good guy".

>>97264674
Immaculate Order offers education, charity, protection from rogue spirits, spiritual certainty and comfot - which actually does matter to people - rules and social pressure that keeps the worst excesses of the Dynasty more or less in check, and also monks frequently demonstrate against behavior of the ruling class thhey find immoral, inappripriate and un-Immaculate and sometimes side with peasants during peasant rebellions. The Order does plenty, and the setting in every edition is written with the assumption that people on the Isle do, by and large, take their faith seriously. As I said, it's obviously fine to change that if something else fits your game better, but it's a big change, and the default setting is still one where people, inlcuding Dragon-Blooded, genuinely believe in what the Immaculate Order teaches. Go read the sidebar "Constructed Belief" on page 70 of 1E's Exalted: the Dragon-Blooded

>>97264723
Realm's peasants obviously have a raw deal compared to modern-day Western world, but they're no worse off than peasants anywhere else in Creation. Which is not great because peasants in general aren't in a great position, but it's not like the Realm's an uniquely or even particularly terrible society for its own. Now, with social Charms a Solar obviously can swing pretty much any mortal to his side, but just starting glowing golden on the Isle and expecting peasants to decide that this guy is cooler than their current lords wouldn't work in the canon setting.

>>97264945
Given that exalted are duper strong they could make crazy compound bows with absurd ranges too

>>97260896
No, you need to answer my question before I murder you.

>>97254699
Why do you think it's incoherent?

>>97260896
>Jesus christ dude you need to seek emergency psychological help.
Thanks so someone else noticed he is having a schizo breakdown

>>97238257
You’re an alcoholic

>>97254699
Why do you think it's incoherent?

>>97258391
I don't think there's very much truth to this. From GW's perspective, it's a great thing if you kitbash vehicles, because then they can sell you two kits instead of one and then even better you'll buy kits that aren't even for "your faction". People often attribute this kind of thing to malice when it's really a case of you can't please everyone.

>>97251250
The Black Legion's first novel came out in 6th ed. It mentions the traitor primarchs bowing before Abaddon.

>>97244028
That model on the right got me into this hobby. There is a charm to the old models.

>>97261503
Whenever monsters rise up into being good, they see play. 40K is a competitive game after all

>>97264727
>BL

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My fellow fiends, I have come up with an ingenious idea to combat the tremere. If you would please consult the graph...

>>97264947
I've got to report this back to my sire, who will report back to their sire, who will report back to their sire, and so on and after several years one of the inner council will see it and spread the word of this dastardly trap to the rest of House Tremere.
The pyramid is on to your schemes!

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>>97264921
>Owl is one of the good ones and still more detriment than help
Someone, preferably a mage, put the woofs out of their misery.

>>97264947
>Not using Path of Conjuring to instantly summon & dismiss your shades...

You wouldnt last a day in the pyramid

>>97264921
This is why “why don’t the woofs ask ancient spirits what they need to do to fix everything?” doesn’t work, those are too autistic and absent minded to help them in a coherent way. Cryptic prophecy is the most straightforward form of communication most incarna and celestines are capable of. Also remember that Gaia had to make an entire changing breed (the moloké) to be able to remember stuff

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Killing Jedi is good actually.

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>>97263710
Must not...consume...necksproduct....
lol sike, I'm to lazy to consume necksproduct

>>97262215
The only victory the heroes/rebels achieve over the Empire in ESB is escaping.

>listen to ROTS Audiobook after finishing Labyrinth of Evil
>The Entire battle of Coruscant arc (from introduction to anakin's controlled crash) is 4 hours long
>after dooku's dead the Jedi Council and Palpatine immediately start plotting against each other
>The Council (namely Mace and Yoda) are somehow even more retarded than their clown wars counterparts
>"Palpatine can't be Sidious, he already rules the galaxy" is something mace himself says
>even after he spent the past week investigating the tunnels under Coruscant in LoE
>Obi-wan chats with padme, telling her he knew the whole time but didn't care because Anakin is his best friend
>Anakin acts more irrational and more unstable, to the point where Palpatine easily manipulates him into thinking that Padme is cheating on him with Obi-wan
>Palpatine himself is the smartest guy in the entire story
>grievous is willing to retreat when things get too hot for him but he's no jobber like in the clown wars
>Dooku is a human supremacist for some reason
I can see why the Novelization is considered the best the old EU had to offer, and I haven't even reached order 66 yet

>>97265208
All CWMMP novels are the best of the best of the EU. Sure the RotS novel is good but I wouldn't take it over Labyrinth of Evil or Plagueis or Dark Rendezvous. Plus it technically isn't totally canon since it has shit from older scripts
Also Council aren't retarded, they're arrogant and foolish which Palpatine points out. Too comfortable sitting on their little ivory tower to realize how the galaxy would completely support the Empire at that point in time.

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>>97259986
They make my dick hard

>>97259986
Alien interface organism.

Basically, aliens use custom printed biomorphs instead of space suits, when you come to a new planet its easier to simply copy the template of the existing local life forms and use whatever THEIR evolutionary optimizations are for the local environment than it is to try and solve all of those problems yourself on short notice to keep your true self alive on a planet wildly different than what you were evolved for. If you are a methane-ocean jellyfish creature, life on the surface of the Earth is never going to work very well without massive life support systems and robotics. So instead of that, you whip up a human/jellyfish creature hybrid thats human enough to survive on Earth but jellyfish alien enough that its compatible with your brain patterns and then download yourself into that to walk around on Earth and talk to humans with.

if you are going to do this anyway, you naturally would also design the interface organism to be as broadly attractive as possible to the species you are communicating with, making it more likely that you will be accepted and treated favorably. There are almost never downsides to being considered hot.

So what do aliens talking to humans end up as? Different varieties of space babes. Space hunks might *seem* like an option, but male humans are more likely to feel intimidated by a sexy space man, so that's counter-intuitive to the purpose of the interface.

>>97259986
In that specific example, it's implied they project a mental effect that makes them attractive to whoever is looking at them (since different aliens claim they have traits humans can't see). Tho even in that it's implied they mostly humanish

>>97261670
>we can thus conclude that these are in actual fact sexy clam girls.
FUCK YEAH!!!

>>97260139
That's definitely going in the thread simulator

>>97264110
>Honestly, before destroying an old miniature for conversion, use everything at your hand to plan.
If you really cared about the conservattion of old miniatures then you would know recasters exist.

>>97264418
Not for everything.

>>97264660
Just because you don't have their emails doesn't mean they don't exist.

>>97264669
I dont think that they recast every old mini. Some sculpts are probably lost since they dont got their hands on unassambled parts.
Or are so rarely ordered that it doesnt make sense to have the molds for it.

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>>97264780
There are very few oldhammer miniatures that haven't found a recaster yet. There a decent amount that even have the stuff that was never released by GW but got passed around by ex staff. Again, just because you haven't found a certain mini yet doesn't mean it doesn't have a recaster selling it.