>>97354566
>What are these radical ‘fixes’ then? I’m genuinely curious. Worst-case scenario you give us all some pointless well-worn platitudes, at best you save some lives from waste.
NTA and not that radical, but here are some roughly verified platitudes that might help:
>you don't need motivation, you need discipline
(Motivation is an ephemeral thing and a shitty goal for the depressed, but discipline is something you can actually work at and plan. Plus being able to see what you achieved makes life feel a bit less shitty.)
>you are what you are with
Fix your environment, get into regular contact* with something/someone nice/good/that makes you feel better. Don't actively hang on people though, or it will make you feel like shit about being a parasite. And yes, there's a major gap between basking in external glow and active parasitism.)
* (If "you don't feel like it" - see point 1, this is unfucking your life, work at it)

Thanks for reading my blogpost, I now return you to your regularly scheduled shitposting.

>>97357922
Are you retarded? French are fucking OP as fuck in the book, Germany is Britain tier, good luck destroying those French tanks oh and good luck trying to stop their multiple 2 gun batteries that function as a 4 gun

This is simply the best box set I have ever seen. I was blown away with the contents, especially the pamphlets they include, the effort and attention to detail is unmatched. I genuinely don't know how other companies compete.


That being said, does anyone know what RULES I should use for the actual skirmish? It's 38 Spanish, which is a mix of line infantry and guerillas and 27 French, which are mostly elite companies, ie. voltigeurs. Is this enough for a game of Sharpe Practice?

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>>97362063
Forgot pic of course

>>97362063

it would be a smaller game but Sharp Practice should certainly work

>>97361406
>TQ
Not much, really. I have a tiny collection of Rogue Trader orks, so that I guess. Right now I'm too busy with my fantasy greenskins.

>>97362111
Thinking of starting with Sevens, I hear some people prefer it to default BB.

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>>97361998
Orange, red and white, start dark go brighter, ensure you didn’t prime black.

>>97362343
>>97362093
Yeah I think there’s terminal shitposters, they infest every thread and derail it so I stopped going here for 6-7 months, I then turn up for a few weeks to see how it fares. Disappear into the mists again. Bit of a shame really.

Here’s my test scheme stormvermin, batching 20 is a moral trial. I had to stop today and paint some terrain as a palette cleanser, and then I still couldn’t do it so I touched up and rebased a secondhand corpse cart. Now I feel rejuvenated to do another step or two of the batching.

>>97361406
>TQ
bit of everything really, my experience with HH3.0 has got me anxious over the future of TOW and it's hard to explain to the people I play TOW with, but lets hope lightning doesn't strike twice. Been coming back to WotR recently which is always a fun pick up game.

>>97362834
Same here anon, I pray to fucking god that we don’t go on the 3 year cycle and get customisation nuked. They’ll do something like say magic banners don’t have a model so they should remove them

>>97361131
>bikini armor
>giant swords with spikes on them
>building-size monsters
The holy trinity of "making realsism tardlards spontaneously seethe and shit their pants"

>>97361131
>Different people like different things
Shocking. You've got a table and friends. Pick the things you like. There's plenty out there for everyone, and there should be. But what you pick will alienate people who are different from you. Accept it or, if you wanna be inclusive to those people, change.

It's not complex. There's no "right" answer to any of these questions. People aren't all the exact same, and that's fine.

>>97361611
Gigantic woman in a bikini with a giant sword with stupid decorations

>>97361330
>safehorny performative pearl clutching
Yeah yeah we get it. You're Different™. You're one of the Good Ones™.
>chain/plate bikinis was just there to pretend at the tiniest bit of legitimacy.
Or, get this, people like the look. Crazy, huh? cloth/leather/gowns/body hugging leather/nude don't look as cool as chainkinis or plate underwear and pauldrons

>>97361131
so how is this relevant to traditional games anymore than any other given media.

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>>97362623
At no point did the pdf say the squad had to have the same gun, don't get your info from retards. There has to explicitly be text saying that everyone has to pick the same option for it to be a mono gun loadout.

>>97361913
Share the load

>>97361212
You should read FW black book Prospero if you want more lore, but not about webway war specifically.
The old visions of heresy artbook have some pages about it tho.

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>>97362617
>>97362691

>>97362862
SOVL

Is FoW good? Is it fun?

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>>97362613
It's pretty good for a "Magic-but" I'd say. Fixes the land problem, but doesn't particularly innovate too much elsewhere. My friends and I enjoy it casually. No idea what the meta looks like these days.

>>97362369
Yeah I was talking to a vanguard friend recently who keeps up with it better than I do and I just don't get why there's an energy system?

It's barely vanguard now and it just didn't seem that fun, not feeling bad that I quit.

Bandai games are typically better managed (only certain ones though)

>>97362613
I picked it up towards the end of last year to play with some friends and it's pretty fun. There's a lot of interesting deck building you can do and I think the art can be pretty great. I'm not a fan of the card frames and the font feels kind of cheap to me. But like >>97362667 said, it's not doing a lot that's "new". I will note I tried Grand Archive around the same time, which does innovate a lot more, but I ended up like FoW's gameplay more.

>>97362405
Essential for set design, imperative for the diversity of the game. Show me a game with zero archetypes and I'll show you a boardgame.

>>97353480
Fucking hell is she is almost bald.

>>97362791
as above so below

>>97362829
if her home is clear cut so must she, I guess.

>>97362775
>still trying to make this a thing

>>97362853
what Paladin shit tests? Yeah not a good idea

>>97362660
You sound like a yes man, honestly. Talking about what you don't like about something is also valid, and if we didn't waste time on stupid fucking shouting matches based on what you think are misconceptions, those COULD turn into cool content. Instead we get weird autists trying to challenge people for having opinions and not accepting their reasons or justifications for having them. I'd rather have 100 homebrew lore and mechanic discussions than any more purist debates

>>97362687
I have my fair share of complaints about the game, too, and I have frequently made them in this thread. Nobody has said that people shouldn't be allowed to talk about things they don't like, nor had anything said anything that could possibly be taken to imply that. Complaining about the incessant negativity in these threads is not the same as trying to shut down criticism, and in all honestly, you thinking that bemoaning that negativity and actually overall liking the game is enough to make someone a yes man makes you sound exactly like the kind of poster I was talking about, someone who complains just to complain rather than out of any genuine interest in discussing the game.

>>97362582
I like a lot of things. Most of the Exalt types are cool. I think a lot of factions are based on really cool concepts. Sorcery is dope and so is MA and Crafting (in theory). Having incredible powers is great and so is being the heir to a superhero legacy. It's just a lot of their "Elitist Jerk" stuff falls flat for me. It doesn't feel good, it just doesn't get any simpler than that. The Great Curse just doesn't feel good for instance

>>97362732
I think the incessant negativity is good because it takes that energy to make the game better. Let the dissatisfaction boil over and then turn it into something better. The problem with the threads as they are is that it can't get to that part as there's always a guy saying shit like you can't dislike a part of the game because some book quote justifies it, and it becomes an argument. That part is the negativity I don't like, complaining about the game is good.

>>97362804
You'd have to be outright delusional to look at /exg/ and think that the negativity here is a good thing, or that people telling other people to stop disliking the game is the problem here. Negativity can be good, sure. It can be constructive. That's not the kind of negativity we have going on, though. Negativity here is stale and pointless, with same complaints and arguments repeating ad nauseam, with few new ideas or fresh perspectives. There is neither energy nor inspiration here.

The Cynocephali (The Dog-Headed)
Based on the legends of St. Christopher and the accounts of Marco Polo.

Sub-Race: The Saint’s Kin (The Orthodox Variant).

Trait: Bark of the Word. Their barks can carry the weight of divine authority, capable of frightening demons or "howling" a prayer that bolsters allies.

Sub-Race: The Desert Raiders (The African Variant).

Trait: Carrion Sense. They can smell blood or decay from miles away, making them the ultimate bounty hunters of the Silk Road.

Social Status: In the East, they are seen as noble guardians. In the West, they are often caught in a theological debate: Do they have souls? If they can pray, the Church allows them; if they only howl, they are hunted.

>>97339873
Look at some of the more obscure yokai, like samebito.

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>>97335858
A race of sapient constructs is always a possibility.

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>>97339873
Monopods are fun too

>>97335858
Fighting-Man
It's like the male version of Amazons

>>97362742
>Crafting is based because it's the epitome of HFY in a single skill.
no it isn't. Dwarves and elves are better craftsmen than humans in most popular canons.

>>97362788
Dwarves and elves are just quirky humans.

>>97362793
no they aren't. they're different species.

>>97362507
>I have never seen a player actually dedicate time and resources into crafting
Not-homebrewing-it-yourself issue. Book writers always overcomplicate crafting when ripping of Terraria is hands down the best method.

>>97362507
>and I have never seen a player actually dedicate time and resources into crafting
I'm playing in a D&D 3.5e table where one PC is a crafting specialist.
Shit's starting to get wild with him crafting things like prosthetics arms (effectively grafts) to replace the perfectly working arms of another PC.
He's also slowly turning himself into a sort of half-golem.

>>97349486
Try playing traditional games for starters.

>puckee spamming his commission again
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/v9he6h/calloway_pierce_highwayman_art_by_indigo_jenar_art/
https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/oYACxsqx5QYwSnNxrb1AcQ/
>43 times

>>97360175
Done. Now engage with the thread topic.

>>97361883
you first.

op should specify in what system he is playing so we can be on topic and actually offer suggestions in regards to his particular game's limitations and capabilities.

>>97360967
My money is on the Painted Tribe, Dancers. The others wouldn't survive long enough to become an actual threat or would otherwise be bound. Even then, the Pictii are a much broader threat and their rogues attract monsters like flies are attracted to a corpse..

Hm. I've passed on the information. Let's see if my friends have anything to say about it.

>>97362279
Probably smart, going by some files from an old caper, Wereblood is a nasty mix with Vampirism. Course it only mentions Aboms, Licks taking regular ass Wolfy vitae and assurances that it wouldn't mess with the boss' pet project that shouldn't be relevent here. Apparently nobody at this unethical pharaceutical/peteoluem shell company had the bright idea to see what drinking Abomination blood does. Or did and the fallout was so bad they scrubbed all records of the results. If that's the case, Boy Toy may get worse before he gets better. Assuming he doesn't split the difference.
How's his Aura look?

>>97362385
>Boy Toy may get worse before he gets better.
It's why we all voted to get rid of all the abomination's vitae with the erythroexchange (hope I spelled that right, damn the Greeks) and plasma exchange, pretty much all the blood inside him is human now, and a couple drops from mom's foot, I guess. We gotta pay staff some extras this month.
>How's his Aura look?
I don't need an expert to know it looks like shit. Colors change between gray, green and brown, almost like a dancing camouflage paint really, and there's this like, inner layer, and it's orange and silver and black.
At least there ain't any black veins and for what's worth, the colors are still "vampire pale."
I asked my man if he's under some kind of transfixion or shit. He said: "I don't know."
Fucking hell.

Assoluta knee-clasped me and kissed my hand, and Blue Fairy kowtowed. I surrendered, and let Blue Fairy be in the same room as Boy Toy with nobody else.
They're haven't even said a word, she's just crying her eyes out.

Oh, he's crying too? I'll wait some more and have Assoluta sing the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde in there, then we go with Princess Charming plan.
>>97362334
>Hm. I've passed on the information. Let's see if my friends have anything to say about it.
Thank you.

>>97355111
I have a feeling that OP (if this even real and not a larp) is acting like an obnoxious 1d4chan Dwarf-fag, so it's nothing but "knife-ear" thing and "book of grudges" that, so his players just can't take Dwarves seriously anymore.

Doesn't help that its very rare to see people move away from Gimli-likes.

>>97355111
Because dwarves are based and cool and should be respected like the chads they are, not reduced to a cringy reddit meme like "digslop"

>>97355111
OP does not have a game or friends and is just a retarded shitposting faggot.

>>97355151
>so his players just can't take Dwarves seriously anymore.
But that’s the best part of playing a dwarf imo, not having to take the beards on legs so seriously

I prefer beardslop, personally. Dwarves don't have to diggy diggy hole or even live underground, but god forbid you introduce a clean-shaven one.

>>97354865
Other Hutts generally use humanoid women as trophies, prizes, attendants, but that's about it. Jabba is actually attracted to them, which was considered extremely degenerate.

>>97347793
Now as a proper CYOA
>>97361614

>>97361621
>YT-1930
>Girlfailure Chiss Mechanic keeps our hunk of junk flying
>Mysterious Mandalorian Gadgeteer is our muscle in case things goes sideways
>Shifty Zabrak Entrepreneur finds us deals and jobs

I'll be the pilot and try to keep this gang of misfit outcasts alive and functioning so we can make those sweet sweet quasi-legal transportation credits

>>97361621
New version of the CYOA up.
>>97362707
>>97362720
>>97362731

>>97357584
>>97359671
any kel dor minies recently/currently printed? want to grab one and try painting it up for my game

Funny emoug, in his early drafts, Tolkiactually used the word "Gnome" to describe Elves, not Dwarves.

The "Wise" Gnomes: Tolkien liked the word because it sounds like the Greek gnome (intelligence/wisdom). In his early Book of Lost Tales, the Noldor (the most intellectual and craft-oriented Elves) were called "Gnomes." He eventually stopped using the word because popular folklore (influenced by 16th-century alchemy and Victorian garden gnomes) had turned "Gnomes" into small, earth-dwelling, often comical spirits.

In general folklore, the lines between dwarves, gnomes, and kobolds were very blurry. Both were earth-spirits who lived underground. However, Tolkien specifically moved his Dwarves away from the "gnome" archetype.


Almost every dwarf name in The Hobbit (Thorin, Fili, Kili, etc.) and even the name "Gandalf" was taken directly from a list called the Dvergatal (Catalogue of Dwarves) in the Old Norse poem Vöouspa. The idea of dwarves as master smiths living underground, associated with stone and mining, comes straight from the Norse dvergar.The "Greed", The "dragon-sickness" or obsession with gold mirrors the Norse dwarf Andvari, who guarded a cursed hoard.

What he invented (The "Modern" Dwarf):

Tolkien gave them a secret language (Khuzdul) and a deep internal history. He famously compared the Dwarves' history dispossessed of their homeland and wandering among other nations to that of the Jewish people, which added a layer of solemnity and tragedy not found in most folklore. Before Tolkien, dwarves were often portrayed as ugly, maggot-like, or purely mischievous. Tolkien made them brawny, honorable, and formidable warriors. He intentionally used "Dwarves" (plural) and "Dwarvish" instead of the then-standard "Dwarfs" to distinguish his "elder race" from the "dwarfs" of nursery tales and Snow White.

>>97353846
>What would a "Dark" equivalent to gnomes be like?
A normal gnome?

>>97353846
I mean, D&D already has Deep Gnomes, svirfneblin. They're paranoid, greedy and solitary master-trappers.

Maybe explain why you're looking for something else?

>>97353846
Svirfneblin exist, fucking newfag child.

Disintegrate gnomes, behead gnomes, gut gnomes, crucify gnomes, destroy gnomes, disenfranchise gnomes, discombobulate gnomes, eviscerate gnomes, shred gnome flesh, rend gnome corpses, shatter gnomes, defile gnomes, slice and dice gnomes, burn gnome homes, hit gnomes with big stones, fucking end all gnomes, kill gnomes and stab gnomes, prod gnomes with sharp sticks, throw gnomes in a dark ditch, bury gnomes alive, starve gnomes for fun, harm gnomes for sport, end the lives of gnomes everywhere, total gnome death, crispy tender flayed gnome flesh is a delicacy to some but breakfast for me, butter up gnomes and strike when they least suspect it, trifle with gnomes, gore gnomes, cleave gnomes in two, crush gnomes with oversized gnome-crushing mallets, send gnomes into dragonfire, cause all gnomes to expire, burn them all in fire, wrap gnomes in rugs and suffocate them, hurt their stinky gnome feet, spear them, pike them, impale them, cut gnomes, stab gnomes, maim gnomes, petrify gnomes, end the bloodline of gnomes, trample gnomes, engage in constant anti-gnome rhetoric, write a manifesto persecuting gnomes and nail a copy to the doors of gnome abodes, invade gnome domiciles, incinerate gnomes, strangle gnomes, throw gnomes from tall towers, scrap gnome innards into pots and throw the pots over other gnomes. God I fucking hate gnomes.

>>97360478
Curseborne's theming problem, I think, has to do with the fact that it tries to reconcile WoD overall style and Monsterheart's way of being played and perceived, but it kind of lacks what each game has of interesting, Conspiracies, gonzo stuff like Czar Vargo's Lore, arcane international politicking, the end times, and most of the individual themes of each splat. I don't got much on Monsterhearts, but as far as I've read the corebook, it has a strong emphasis on personal interactions between PCs and NPCs, aka sex and complex relationships, and while Curseborne supports that, it has a stronger theme on being misunderstood.
By the way, it is really weird to me that nobody has compared Curseborne to Monsterhearts yet.

>>97360405
Honestly the big problem I see with uncontrollable once a moon / every now and then werewolves is it just isn't fun to play without heavily going in on scheduling. And then how are you going to cover the secret society / conspiracy angle that WoD has with angry lads that probably hate each other because they didn't want to be a furry murdermachine?

>>97360770
>>97360781
You don't have to necessarily rewrite either, but I do think that the atmosphere and the ascension war could be reframed to be a bit more gothic and include more stuff from the bible.

>>97362717
Who has played Monsterhearts? I haven't, but I'll check it out . Perhaps curseborne should try to sell itself more on being tragedy-kino the RPG with monsters instead of trying to be WoD's Pathfinder? I'm no expert, but I think it has a good foundation to be more like the dark fairy tales and greek tragedies while WoD has pretty solidly encapsulated the whole of schizo conspiracies. Except the new shit like AI and man-made bioweapons

>>97362295
Somehow nu-white wolf decided the cannibal racist tribe was for good guys while muh strength bros that were anti-fascist for a time were built to be bad guys.