>>97253973
>rapid-wo
dropped

>>97254174
15+10 is enough time to have a decent game

What the fuck is up with Benko players online? I play the Half-Accepted variation where instead of accepting the second pawn you go e3 instead. I have heard that this can be a bit annoying to Benko players - well fucking tough.

But it's like they make every move in like 1-3 seconds and end the game usually with 2 minutes on the clock.

Is it supposed to be some kind of intimidation? Is it they really hate the e3 variation? Do they just know where they want to put their pieces immediately, even though I win more than Iose against this type of person? Is it that it's a bunch of kids playing the Benko? Like what is going on?

I wish I could say I don't let it affect me but it is offputting, this feeling like there's someone on meth at the other end. First few moves obviously is fine, still in opening theory, but this relentless speed and aggressive play also, do they think they will end with 2 minutes on the clock and everyone will applaud at this magnificent player? It's just offputting. Chess is supposed to be a relaxing game. Genuinely curious if anyone knows anything about this. See a little of it in KID also.

>>97255113
They probably watched one of those clickbait videos about it.

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>>97252564
Cute chessfu bro!

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>>97251626
>Many agricultural societies would take the opposite tack, because snakes eat what's eating the stuff you grow.

Get a cat.

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>>97252313
>Modern house cats are the same as badass ancient world cats

>>97252313
>>97252324


IIRC cats depend much for hunting prowess on their mothers teaching them how to hunt.

Considering how little nowdays cats can hunt (well, at least comparing them to the absolute range-free cats of a century ago) I would assume what we're seeing is cultural degradation more than anything else. Even if a cat had a great grandmother huntress and now it can roam free, the generations that lost the arts of hunting would severely hurt its ability now.

>>97252313
Ctas generally aren't very good for killing rats. Full-grown rats are rather large, and cats prefer smaller prey like mice. Dogs are much better for killing rats, and there are breeds of dogs bred specifically for hunting rats and other pests.

>>97255317
Would *I* run anything with GURPS Lite? No. I'm an adult.
They were asking how to run a game that is famous for having extremely simple mechanics for characters which is really just all about vibe and atmosphere and grimdank survival management. Or, in other words, they are extremely inexperienced with tabletop games and they need something incredibly incredibly simple to use because anything real might be too complicated and scare them off. Lite is there for that. It's literally designed specifically to introduce noobies to tabletop gaming. Which is why I mentioned it.

Runequest/Mythras/BRP
Fits it perfectly

>>97255019
I think the primary issue with porting it over to paper and dice is specifically that you need to be able to rapidly determine which limb an attack hits, what resistance, if any, that limb has to the type of damage being dealt, and then what penalties the target takes from having that limb harmed. And you need to be able to do this dozens of times per combat, because most Kenshi fights are group v group, so you'd be keeping track of limb health, recovery rate, etc, for a large group of characters at a time.

Not impossible to do. Probably wouldn't even be hard to streamline things a bit more, but it would be a lot of bookkeeping.

>>97255463
Mythras/Runequest/BRP already have systemd that do exactly this, up to and including individual limb health and healing.

So are the board's GURPSfags just bored and so they go to other threads to recommend GURPS? Or is the system growing? Because I swear I see more GURPSfags now than I used to.

>>97255320
>Arcane Archer is a really good example of a Ranger sub-class archetype would have been viable if they were not obsessed with locking classes to single power sources. Imagine a Martial/Arcane hybrid Ranger with a few "arrow enchantment" utility spells that supported the archer ranger's normal Martial at-will and encounter powers and a few "magic arrow" encounter and daily spell powers.

Seeker was just Arcane Archer except replace the word Arcane with Primal. It was the cool magic arrow spam class except its bad and you don't get the fantasy because you are dragging down your team. The 3e and 5e version of Arcane Archer sucks dick entirely because of your proposal. I want to shoot magic arrows all day. Not have 1 or 2 and then be a worse archer. Dragon's Dogma and the Wakfu franchise are like the only thing that gets this right.

>>97235255
I miss the 4e warlord

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>>97255496
Really? I never found "give other people actions" that appealing as a class, desu. What did you like about it?

>>97254633
>the Dragon exclusive Assassin just didn't work

Is the Heroes of Shadow Assassin (Executioner) alright?

>>97255405
>Which is something they changed in Essentials with several Classes being two Sources like Hunter and Skald. And it sucked because it was just a pointless label and they didn't actually inherit any of the loose unity that the original Classes within that Power Source had.

Essentials pretty much mangled everything, including the good ideas. Essentials doing something doesn't mean that it was a bad idea, it just means that Mearls is a bad designer.

>>97255416
>The 3e and 5e version of Arcane Archer sucks dick entirely because of your proposal.

The 3e version sucks because it is limited to 3rd level spells (or 4th level if you go 8 levels in on a full caster class and only 2 levels on on a a Full BAB class), and you can't get any further spells per day or caster levels. It massively overvalued the ability to cast 3rd level spells, enchant your own ammo and the ability to inflict instant death 1/day like all early 3.X gish prestige classes.

>Not have 1 or 2 and then be a worse archer.

I wasn't thinking anything as limited as that. I was thinking things like a free action at-will utility that lets you choose the element of your shots, encounter powers that let you do things like fire arrows that explode dealing (your selected) elemental damage, and dailies that let you fire a single shot into the air and then hundreds rain down upon your target location.

>>97251249
thanks

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>>97212867
This'll have to do
I hope you like it anon

>>97255004
Not OR but looks great

to this anon
>>97172985

Can you repost your request in this thread so I know you're still around?

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>>97237055
Update. I'll have to continue this probably in the latter part of January as I'm losing access again, but this time I'll have a tablet for my potato computer at home. Enjoy the rest of your holiday.

>>97250013
Exactly, I felt like a massive idiot when I realized I was basically dooming my PCs except on boxcars since the system I'm using is stingy by nature with any sort of bonuses (even a +3 at first level would be very fortunate and would require a PC's best trained skill, their best attribute, and possibly some extra situational bonus). The real problem has been the natural urge to feel like I'm going to easy on the PCs since I'm technically controlling them too, but I'll get over it.

I'll give that article a read. I'm not sure if I want to incorporate actual mechanics or oracles, but I am angling to find what works for me in terms of balancing "the NPC says X" and actual conversation. Right now I'm very much abstracting it, and it feels a bit lazy.

>>97245958
Do want, in particular the standees.

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>>97245958
>>97252010
Free League's new starter set for The One Ring is also pretty good value for money. Standees, map of Middle-Earth, condensed rulebook, a fine set of dice and an example adventure, and I paid 26 eurobucks for it. The full rulebook (not included) is still required for Strider mode, mind you, so I'm not sure if I would recommend this only for solo play.

>>97249872
I've just heavily formalized social scenes to the point where I barely have to use an oracle.

>>97252759
Those dice look cool. Yeah, I was curious about strider mode. Never looked into it but had heard about it.

>>97221443
>warzone eternal
Ew why?

>>97245384
Planet 28 is wargaming Kino, hope you have fun anon

>>97239212
Left: Hugh Jackman Wolverine
Right: Henry Cavill Wolverine

>>97255516
Because its sadly a good game that's going to die because of lack of promotion and marketing.

>>97254643
>not mounting them on bottle caps
YOU HAD ONE JOB

>>97252127
I'm gonna do naughty things to Ceroba and nobody can stop me.

>>97254360
Based
Chujin is gonna come back from the dead to haunt you.

>>97254331
Anon, be less autistic and jump fgo to save the lostbelts/Olga/Ritsuka's memories/Sion/Romani/whatever.

>>97254331
Honestly I was half expecting FGO to pull this kinda thing. Feels like it'd be up Fates alley.

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>>97254760
Why, you can just go shut off the simulation and apparently good game enjoy your vacation in the Nasuverse. Hell with the way things worked out I don't know even how the jump works anymore. Do you just treat it like the shitty ending didn't happen and go through all the stuff that "happened" in the simulation but what happens when the simulation ends, do you effectively die. Do you move on. This is shit.

>>97251652
you are like 5 days late anon

>>97251747
Whoops!

>>97255215
Love your dudes very much, anon. Awesome work.

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>>97252068
Painted way too little this year. My aim for 2026 is to get a necromunda gang done and finalize my 80% finished gobbos. And some nice models in between. Like the pig there, unfinished, but put it there as I think I nailed the skin.

>>97254966
Finally settle on a color scheme for my GSC and actually get painting.

>>97255244
Glad I could bring you double the joy! Thanks, anon.

>>97254771
Interesting. I guess lm lucky where l live its a dry desert all the time

Speak of uninvited fucking visitors, somebody sent spying pigeons our way. City pigeons. The caern is, in fact, not in a city whatsoever.
How lovely. Whoever's doing this will get boiled, once we find them.
>>97253079
>Page of Wands - Unenthusiasm; apathy; disinterest.
This one's a reverse, btw.
To interpret this reading, one has to construct a narrative and meaning out of a whole lot of quite vague signs. I did not risk making the cards tell me the narrative; I could do that, but risking it with some sort of giant Tzimisce-thing is just outside my current paygrade.

So, I will offer one possible read, taking in account what the cards say:

The beast, perhaps, is an outgrowth of THE Tzimisce, or a Methuselah which is that big and dreamful because it needed to become that. Seemingly for its loved ones. It knowingly undertook this transformation, perhaps abandonging their unlife to protect those who made said unlife worth unliving. Maybe it's a truly ancient member of the Sabbat, or its prototypes from prehistory, with their enemy just as powerful.

But now it knows nothing and does nothing. It only will act if it is given purpose. It has none; it, perhaps, outright is simply a hollow thing, lacking in personality because growth to that scale, to that complexity rendered the person a speck in their own electrochemistry.

Its allies, kin, friends are dreaming too; maybe they're in the soil, around the lake, maybe they're the dreaming Antedeluvians and other derelicts in torpor.


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I snuck close to the door where they're interrogating the loser with the iron cross. I ain't ever heard uncle being so fucking pissed.
He's like: "AT LEAST NOW YOU'LL HAVE A VALID REASON TO HATE ME!!!" This shit is hysterical.

The quality of the servants mirrors the quality of their master.

One is an incident, two is a pattern pretending to not be, and six, counting Venus-unrelated things Tats has handled in my absence and suspects to have been related to the Venus-related ones. I suppose the calm we've achieved with the Palatine gone had to stop at some point, but such utter filth being the cause is anticlimactic and unfortunate.

>>97248929
The Prince's word is that you, or anybody else interested in eating their fellow man, are to wait until at least one Kindred of those fucking around in our city is caught, brought before the court and interrogated, or until more information comes up otherwise. A determination on appropriateness of consumption would be made once either condition is met. If it helps, currently he's quite publicly leaning towards 'anybody who dares disrupt the peace in my backyard gets their soul devoured painfully and slowly'. Especially if it isn't even the Palatine but some third party thinking the city is weakened after having to evict her. He just has no desire to rush such a decree, as to not fall for the standard Bloodhunt-a-rival scheme somebody could be pulling.

>>97254073
Any guess at the identity of their master? Somewhere between piloting and managing ghouls with bags, I had a bit of time to go through relatively obscure options. For instance, Romeo's beloved sent some reports our way, old writeups about a hunter group operating in Maine and in Canada. Big numbers but pretty poor quality, vaguely-right wing and religious, unsuccessfully trying to hunt shifters, obsessing a little with trying to use supernatural tools derived from their quarry against said quarry. They didn't often try to hunt Kindred, and dwindled down in their notable activities, a few years ago; could be that this is them but rebranded, more successful, relatively, and more radicalized.

>>97255436
And six... is a blatant provocation*. Pardon, I'm somewhat distracted by Tats and plentiful threats of excessive violence she's making, mostly aimed at me, and five other things that are somewhat on fire.

>>97239284
'Exciting' is a way to phrase it, but, frankly, I'll take this over having to deal with that monstrosity you unfortunately are near, and every unsupervised Discipline-aided public nuisance trying to do something dangerous with it.

The Prince of Bridgeport thanks you for sharing reports on your situation; while that abomination is not quite something any of us can possibly deal with, were it to suddenly start moving towards Connecticut, being aware of it is comforting, in a way. There's got to be a finite number of giant under-lake beasts, and being able to account for one of them is nice.

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What is the strongest build for Alphamon? Is it CS or Chronicles or just >RK ?

>>97255183
chronicle is kind of a meme but it got a few busted cards so so its getting closer and closer to good
and its getting more support next set.

CS alpha stuff is just kind of bad and chronicle is better than it (at i'd say so)
and yeah he gets used a decent amount in RK (always at least 1 ouryuken mode and very often just a regular alphamon)

>>97254207
>imagine a lvl 6/7 card

>>97255327
yeah I am suggesting mode changes and alternate forms might be what dual cards are with conditions to go into them
which have typically been lvl 7 cards now.

or is there something else you seemed to misunderstand?

>>97255530
How would it interract with dedigivolve?

>>97253579
>Ask yourself this. Would God see himself as a god the same way his followers do? Someone who can rape physics casually isn’t really raping physics on their end. It’s just what they do.
This is why I dislike Christians. They quite literally think God would look at himself the way Christians look at him.

This is my issue with these people. They’re projecting on to the very thing they worship. They impose upon him. They think they know what God wants, or what God would do. Do they REALLY think that God would be pleased if they (after everything we’ve learned about the earth) walked up to God (had he just showed up, let’s say) and told them they took everything in the Bible at face value? Do they REALLY think God would be impressed by this?

Christians like to assume God is retarded for some reason.

>>97250265
Magick is such a silly word. Magic IS a game of punking. Magick is just another way of saying “it’s capital-m Magic!”, lol. No different from saying “no it’s a miracle not magic!”, or “no it’s nature not magic!”, etc, as though the ancients didn’t see the two (nature and magic/religion) as these inseparable fields. The words change but the essences stay the same. The modern day wizard is just the mad scientist, doing arcane things.

>>97253579
>using God as an actual argument on a tabletop games board
>and calling another idiot while doing so
SAAAAR

>>97254514
>assuming everyone he disagrees with is Indian
Underage moron alert

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>>97255361
>using moronic arguments
>calling another anon a moron
kek