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>>97339659>>97339525You're a nogames, and I can tell. How? You've never run or played a game in your life, because if you had, you'd know that for a game to actually last you do need to have a setting for the game to happen in. Otherwise, there are no stakes, there's no threats, and there's no reason for anyone to do anything.
>>97337117Traditional games?
>>97337137>>97340342the second bigger problem is that all of those people working in agriculture have to be paid. But agriculture as a rule cannot generate much in the way of revenue because food has to be affordable for everyone. Yes there are major agricultural corporations that rake in billions in profit annually today, but they achieve that thanks to both the absurdly large scale of their holdings, and modern technology reducing the number of workers needed per acre tenfold. So going back to pre-industrial numbers, 90% of your population is (mostly) working in agriculture, a field (heh) that does not generate much revenue to begin with because food has to be affordable, but that minimal revenue is now being split up even further to pay the untold numbers of workers and farmhands involved in it. The end result is that the vast majority of your population, is very, very poor despite being fully employed. Now again, agricultural workers can and did seek alternative employment during off-seasons which would put more money in their pockets, but that pales in comparison to someone working in a higher-paying job the whole damn year.cont.
>>97337137>>97340342>>97340404Enter slavery. What if there was some way to artificially increase both the number of workers available to tend to the fields and livestock, and increase the amount of coin in your average citizen's purse so they can live better lives? The simple answer is to go capture some people outside of your lands and force them to work the fields without pay. And if that isn't an option for whatever reason, then pick the lowest members of your people's society at the current moment and force them to work the fields without pay. Now more of your non-enslaved population is free to find work outside of farming, and more money can go to the pockets of those that still need to work the fields cause what pay the slaves would have received if they weren't in chains goes to them instead. There is some overhead involved in slavery since you need people to watch the slaves and make sure they don't slack off, try to run away, or worse start conspiring to form a revolt, but as long as that ratio is more than 1:1, then slavery is a net positive at least economically. For instance, if it takes 1 person to watch every 10 slaves, that is effectively freeing 9 people to go do something else besides farming per 10 slaves owned. the downsides to slavery is that you now have a population of (rightfully) angry and hostile people living inside of your borders, and the ways that can go very badly don't need to be spelled out. There are also moral and spiritual problems with slavery, especially if a civilization decided to enslave their own peoples instead of outsiders. But if any pre-industrial people wanted to grow beyond being a largely agrarian society, there was no other choice.As for serfdom/peasantry, that was an attempt to mitigate some of the downsides of slavery (i.e. slave revolts) while keeping the benefits. It didn't work of course, peasant rebellions still happened, but at least serfs were *slightly* better off than slaves.
>>97337137>>97340342>>97340404>>97340451In conclusion, the practice of slavery in a fantasy setting being an indication of "evilness" depends on the circumstances. If this is in a setting where technology (or magic) is available and advanced enough to trivialize manual labor, then any people still practicing slavery are indeed evil, since there is not an economic need to justify their actions (i.e. dark elves). And if a group practices slavery but do not put them to much economic use, instead just using them as cannon fodder for their armies, as mere house servants and/or sexual play things, or just sacrifices to god(s), then they are undoubtedly evil (dark elves again, along with vampire counts as well as your generic barbarians or bandits). But if it's a low magic, low tech setting, and the slaves are being used for the traditional purpose of working the fields, then a race/culture that practices slavery in this setting is not automatically "evil" for doing so, and other aspects about them must be analyzed.
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>>97340269NTA, but the price of the airbrush isn't the problem, the price of moving out of the city and finding a job that'll pay me enough to commute and not live in a shitty apartment where I'd kill myself using it is. Same reason I don't have a 3d printer, can't set up good ventilation
>>97339344neato skull masks, Godspeed anon
>>97338960For you.
>>97340269As the other anon said, the issue isn't the airbrush itself but having a place of residence large enough to have room to safely use one.
I like painting epic scale minis and some people in my area do play Legions, how bad of a starter would it be to get something like the Saturnine or Combined arms battlegroup in terms of a beginner army?
What do you think of it? It's basically Fallout with furries (Kipo didn't have robots or guns).
>>97307214>>97329895If it's so easy to find, why can't you post it?
Here's the 2nd ed PDF, you whiny faggots. https://files.catbox.moe/ohzeuw.pdf
>>97337786All those old palladium dudes talk about what a great GM he was, I think he's one of those guys that is just a shit writer. Having good ideas at the table and being able to communicate those ideas via rulebook are two very different skills.
Prefer Vaults of Vaarn.
>>97340263He's a great GM the way that John Wick insists he was a great GM. Long-term palladium loyalists also tend to be the most retarded faggots imaginable. All the worst aspects of the BrOSR, but for a system that is objectively fucking terrible and a guy who is genuinely one of the worst assholes in the RPG industry.
What are some fantasy and sci-fi movies you should watch to inspire your games and players?
>>97294902an early role for Ian Mcdermid [palpatine]
>>97339125Everything about that movie feels like a fever dream. It's fun, it has a lot of A-list actors and yet I barely remember it
>>97340232It's a generally fun movie to watch. I recommend watching it again.
>>97336744NTA, but Khartoum could work imo. Haven't seen Ben Hur
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>>97339830nice
>>97337988Yeah, see, this guy looks like he dicks down maidens and they end up enjoying it
>>97340256Google's Nanobanana adds text pretty nicely and is easy to add as seen here >>97319804
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>>97339908>who the FUARK wears glasses to a high school pool?Honestly Kaoru does feel like someone who would.
>>97339923I think she'd just never take off her goggles, or rather she'd stick by the pool with her glasses on for forever before someone reminds her she's supposed to be exercising, so she awkwardly takes off her glasses and shuffles to put on some goggles as fast as possible. When anyone asks why she doesn't just swim like everyone else, Kaoru would just say she doesn't want water in her eyes, but by all means the glasses are a self-protective measure. I've outlined a couple of times in writefags that she was never short-sighted, but rather Kaoru tries to keep attention away from her eyes to hide her emotions. This goes so far that I try not to give her eyebrows in some art because that would remove the poker face. If she were in an anime, the eyebrows would pop in and out between shots depending on if emphasis was necessary or not. I know it's such a simple detail about her but it's one of the things why I don't think Kaoru's entirely a well-adjusted or good person. She's so paranoid about showing her true feelings and risking being betrayed that she'll meticulously pretend to be myopic only to be more difficult to read by most people. Much to her dismay, half the Student Council has special insights.
>>97339945This makes me think of a comparison that nobody would care about probably so I will keep it to myself. It's a neat detail to know.>Much to her dismay, half the Student Council has special insights.That's funny.
>>97339945Alyona is not showy with swimsuits, ascociating bikinis with determinate American pinup girl calendars. She can swim, but is used to holidays on the French Riviera and not a school pool. She’d find a public beach to ghastly and dirty, and the idea that you pay for an umbrella and blanket would be more proof to her of the inherent cruelty of capitalism(as she hands the owner of the stall money).
>>97339207So 2 of your crests are secondary crests and you're supposed to pick one as your primary?
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Looking for anything Necromunda and associated white dwarf/magazine. New and Old.
Looking for brambletrek and the expansionsThanks in advance
>>97340174Thank ya kindly anon.
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>>97340469I like the way the colors pop on this one
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I want to run Path to Glory, is Ravaged Coast or Blighted Wilds? Armies would be Stormcast, Cities, Maggotkin and Orruks if that's a factor
New Slaanchud here, I love painting these guys
>>97340358For all the moaning I've heard about painting hedonites, these don't look anymore complicated than your average hammers of sigmar stormcast. Not to diminish your painting of, they look great, I just thought these would be more cluttered based on the whining I've seen online
>>97340358They look really good too. Though I might give the black boots one last grey highlight since right now they look sorta like unpainted primer.
>>97340420I think the worst of it would be the slickblades or the blissbarbs since they've got that mix of skin, armor, cloth, gems, etc etc.
What is the counterculture of 2020s, that could be used as the basis for a contemporary countercultural tabletop game?Take the World of Darkness for example, which was so grounded in the the counterculture of the 90s that it comes across as dated and strange today. How would you update the World of Darkness so that it better represents the counterculture of today?Nightmare Mode: Talk about more than just politics. There's more to rebellion against the status quo and the prevailing social norm than who you vote for.
>>97322686I don't know. Maybe I'm too old now to know. This website really was the counterculture in the 2000s & 2010s, but today mainstream politicians and the media are dunking on each other with memes downstream of 4chan. Maybe the counterculture today lies in being deliberately offline.
>>97339517lol you're so fuckin mad
>>97328892Seems like there'd be data about that. Data which you could show us so we can all analyze the source for ourselves.
>>97324457Hmm... The counters about how many institutions support the "general case" actually make me think this is a good starting point. Disestablishmentarian in bent, "counter-cultural" by way of refusing the institutions no matter their supposed agreement. Odd mix of "traditional punk" (as oxymoronic as that really should be) and rugged individualism, taking things that have larger supply-chains into your own hand to work around your personal community being in the way or distaste for tangential factors of the "mainstream" suppliers.It'd mesh decently with the cyberpunk "breakthrough" tendency to have weaponized implants hocked by back-alley surgeons, and give the PCs easy distinction for going gonzo on conventionally-separated angles of improvement with varying degrees of mechanical conflict justifying them. More cost-efficacy for use at-scale than the typical focus on side-effects, to focus the critique on industrial efficiency and mass culture being a race to the bottom.Perhaps distinguish from prior "Big Business Bad" by focusing on ennui and anomie, shifting the downsides from the usual systematic issues of over-exploitation toward the personal issues of prosperity not necessarily being fulfilling. No matter how easily you could step back into a "normal" and safe life, that would reduce you to just a cog in some great machine that may have nobody in particular pulling the levers. So you things yourself, spending more for less in the process, to take some small bit of control over your life.>>97324801The issue with that is that there actually are upsides to being a Thin-Blood, mostly surrounding softening the downsides of being a Vampire. I imagine this ironically concludes in transforming into various born-as Vitae-using things (IIRC there's a Ghoul variant, Revenants, and Dhampires?) then starting near-human families of such.
If you are bombing government buildings, you are counter culture. It doesn't matter who you are, what motives you have, ect ect, as long as you are bombing whoever has the monopoly on force, you are punk.
What would be the best system for a Predator vs Na'vi game ?
>>97338561Disney Unified Media Playbook (D.U.M.P.)
What about best system for Predator Vs Three Stooges vs Anton Chigurh?
>>97338561You are never going to run this so why do you even ask?
>>97338646Is this A.I generated?
>>97339021I can't believe only one person went for it.
what are some based tg youtubers? il start!https://www.youtube.com/@DiversityDragons/videos
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>>97339450i mean a channel that runs campaigns
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>>97338656>freakshitfucking cope. only theatercucks play freakshit. you and tablerunner cucksky are more freakshit adjacent than I could ever be.
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>>97340384I'm glad you bagged two Wasps anon.
>>97340340>>97340346I quite like Gothic and, with the Abomination ForcePack supposedly en route, I am very happy with it as a thematic side project.
>>97340356They would have to make it a new unit type since the current ones have no provision for being multiple hexes in size.Wouldn't be difficult, we already have big support vehicles and mobile structures, but it would be more work than just throwing up a new set of stats.
>>97340397I do think there's neat stuff in Gothic, but I just wish more energy was spent on putting neat things into the base universe
>>97340415To me, I am more irritated in that regard by the likes of Fox Patrol than Gothic.I don’t have much of an axe to grind against Fox Patrol either. But I dislike it a lot more than Gothic precisely because it is mainline BattleTech.
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>>97338126This woman is so good with words she could sell me a spaceship ticket to the sun.
>>97338287How about another deal: you join Blue Fairy in reading this and I teach you Fortitude.
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>>97336537 what did you use to edit the image? I want to take a try.
>>97339958Google image search to find a merge of Monica Bellucci and Megan Fox's faces somebody made, there are many because they're rather similar actresses, it looked like an old PhotoShop without the use of AI.I uploaded it to Sora (ChatGPT), it's actually not a violation of ToS because the merged face isn't a real woman btw, then Remixed it (i.e. edited it) by prompting only once (better than going through many prompts, it stops looking like said actresses) for: blue-green eyes with gold flecks, longer saturated bright red hair, hair covering and hiding both ears, a black fox fur coat, and a faint smug smirk. Incidentally, the smirk made the jaw less manly.I never tried this before so I needed many attempts to figure out what I want and how to get it.Again, I only had the pic edited, not generated, also mentioning the names of real people in a prompt is a no no.Finished by editing the edit with Affinity to adjust contrast, saturation and lighting, the paid version has AI tools but I'm not paying for those.
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>>97339440yeah, they removed some of the boros cards (guide of souls, luminarch, voice of victory, gut, death-greeter) among others.
Actually tough pick here, what would you take?
>>97340035solitude
>>97340035solitude or remand
>>97340210>>97340307In my mind, the two options were karakas or nadu.I ended up going with karakas, its ceiling is lower than nadu but its floor is insanely high
