Thread #007 Countess EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>97258877Previous Thread>>97131386Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoileredTHREAD QUESTIONComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97370230Ultimately, Kindred die painful, brutal, sudden, dramatic deaths all the time, and suffer strange, horrid, painful, life-alftering incidents just as often. It's something you get used to, and have to live with, no way out of that. Some people go too far into it, turn into horrid little gremlins who just don't care about anybody else whatsoever. And some people just focus on channeling their care into productive things. That last part is the best practice, albeit I am biased a bit because I got cooked alive recently, and my darling siblings put me back together instead of shrugging and tossing me into the sunlight. Very caring of them.The bottom line is, if you care deeply for Boy Toy, the best thing you can do is to focus on ways to actually help your family help him. Freaking out, bawling, shrieking, and acting rashly won't help. Letting his predicament get to you won't help, in general. >>97370729>Don't they have Thaumaturgy for that?There's Thaumaturgy for literally everything and anything you can think of, and more. My Sire just was always supportive of redundancy and broadening his horizons, tapping into powers beyond his own. Kind of what killed him, ultimately.
>>97370832>my darling siblings put me back together instead of shrugging and tossing me into the sunlight. Very caring of them.Family values.>Freaking out, bawling, shrieking, and acting rashly won't help. Letting his predicament get to you won't help, in general. There is a tiny glimmer of hope in this world, but if we ourselves lose sight of it, how could we ever protect it?Scarlet, we're all fighting, it's just that Boy Toy is on a different battlefield, and I believe he is just as brave and selfless as always.>>97370749>I think I can play with shadows now.Oh, my precocious, prodigious cutie pie! Weren't you going to practice with Kakophoni? That doesn't matter, only results do - besides, he has a bigger fish to fry, and so do you in my modest opinion...When you feel you're properly ready, I want you to come to my bedroom, it's been a while since I had a Lasombra - or another practitioner of Obtenebration - entertain me in private, and I think we'd both be delighted to see the fruits of your labour. Aren't you curious?
>>97370904You want to... have sex with the darkness?
>>97370928But any darkness just won't do, it's your darkness Mommy wants, my love.
>>97370832To exist is to be changed. We've all suffered that more than most people will.
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>>97370009Waiting for the box and then I get everything I want/need and start kitbashing like crazy. Still questioning the sanity of delaying ranged units for an army that's supposed to focus on defensive doctrine centered around holding a wall.
>>97371277Jesus fucking christ. Dunno why i thought beastmen had armour beyond shields. Least HW+shields gives em 5+ in melee.
>>97371191Nah I just remember conversing with someone really into the HRE a couple of threads ago, figured that might be you based on the long post and the bit about holy roman centres of learning lel.Anyway, Hochland's pretty cool. Probably my favourite imperial province, though I don't know too much about them (or empire in general). Just seems like a cool place.
>>97371353You don’t understand they had to get miao ying and a £100 lantern in wave one
>>97371396I'd actually like miao ying if she wasn't fuckhuge in human form and if her dragon form didn't have armor. What's with them putting armor on all new dragon models? I waited for decades to have nice dragons, and now they all wear armor.>lanternI like it more for the wacky crew than anything, I might get one.
Douchemachine used to be the largest competition to GW. Now look at it and laugh
>>97344563>tell me I'm only knowledgeable about GW minis without saying I'm only knowledgeable about GW minis
>>97371055>sjwsGo to bed, granpa.
>>97371004>These 45 year old companies using molds from the 90s are still selling metal figures, it's not a dead market!>N-New metal models...? But new bad, old good so it doesn't matter!
>>97371315There are plenty of companies still releasing brand new metal minis althoughbeit.
>>97371315You can't just keep using molds from the 90's, retard. Problem with pewter isn't sculpting or molds, it's the price of tin shooting up periodically.
It is the year 199X. Your friends have just sent you a text message to your Nokia 3210, saying they can't make tonight's D&D game.Which of these games do you play, to single-playerly experience that classic 'dungeon crawler' feel?
>>97344461Never played the first one, but tomb raider was nice
>>97361701I'm from Finland though, my parents had a cellphone in 1998 and we were not wealthy at all
>>97367801Yes but did you have one?
>>97367904Not until I was 11 which was in 2001But we were poorfags, I'm sure middle class kids in cities already had phones
>>97344461I boot up Exile: Escape from the Pit
Necromancy Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What Trench Crusade is notTC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
https://www.trenchcrusade.com/news/trench-crusade-living-rules-policy/New rules policyOfficial rule changes limited to twice a yearErratas to be done when neededPrinted books will be done once in a while
>>97369008The previous devs of HLL left the game in a buggy unfinished state, took a cheque and left when they lost interest in the project. They could very easily abandon this project if they don't feel like continuing.
>>97368758I learned to do weapon swaps in meshmixer in a half hour and it’s quicker and easier than doing it physically, printerchads win gain.
>>97363592>>97364351Thanks for the continued advice! My notion with one pilgrim with a rifle is that it would be useful to have a guy that is useful for doing objectives so might be further away, but can still take some ranged shots while the rest of the force besides the Anchorite are more mid-to-close range. How is this? Sorry to spam the thread with warband builds, though honestly I enjoy this sort of thing:Trench Pilgrims - The Engines of His Holy Wrath - [698 Ducats]# ++ Warband ++ [698 Ducats]## ConfigurationCampaign Rules: Enabled (Learned Saint, Reroll)Warband Variant: War Pilgrimage of Saint Methodius## Elite [255 Ducats]Castigator [95 Ducats]: Zealot Strength [5 Ducats], Punt Gun [20 Ducats], Flail [5 Ducats], Standard Armour [15 Ducats]War Prophet [160 Ducats]: Sub-Machine Gun [30 Ducats], Anti-Tank Hammer [35 Ducats], Standard Armour [15 Ducats]Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97370702Looks like it would be a good row!Asking again if anyone has any idea what to use to proxy jannissaries.It is damned hard to find.
Clussy EditionPrevious thread: >>97241303Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Epic, Kill Team,Man-o-War, Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game, Mordheim,Necromunda, Shadow War: Armageddon, Titanicus, Underworlds,Warcry, Warhammer Quest, Warmaster ...... and any other GW system and board game are welcome.>Helpful resources: (feel free to suggest additions!)https://pastebin.com/qq9N8V0V>TQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97365355>torp light cruisersThey're a bundle of fun. Endeavours can use their S2 torpedo salvos to snipe enemy torpedoes and peel fighters off of airstrikes, while a couple Dauntlesses hit like a cruiser but fold quickly when they take fire (a typical cruiser lasts about 4-5 turns slugging it out with another cruiser before it's crippled; a light cruiser is more like 2-3)>Dictator over LunarI do like a Dic. They don't support the light cruisers quite as well as a Lunar -- Lances ignoring blast markers is a hell of a drug. But it is a pretty solid little ship that works well as a battleship's escort. The Mars (a Dictator with lances on top) is kind of the default support carrier and flagship for a lot of players because it's punchy and flexible, but it also costs a lot more than the Dic. The nova cannon, 60cm lances and 45cm batteries are a hell of a drug. You can get a battlecruiser in your fleet as long as you have at least two regular or light cruisers, so it's legal with what you already have. With an Admiral and the battleship it ought to be just shy of 900 points, just enough for a squadron of escorts or another Light Cruiser. If you don't want to bother with attack craft at all, then Bakka can sort of get away with not using carriers. Which is good because the only carriers they actually get are two "named character" ships and a battlecruiser carrier with broadside lances that's.. about as good as the Mars. Better fighter supporting a proper fleet, worse as a small flotilla flagship. Also it looks ugly. This is all without getting into the weeds about Reserves and allies, but really you can get by for quite a while without bothering about all that.
For the Anon in /awg/ - >>97365703>Anyone who does inq28 got any tips for sparking inspiration and then kitbashing well?Unironically go out and look at non-40k art. Especially Surrealist and plague-era medieval art, weird-ass Eastern-bloc animation, pre-Tolkien fantasy and SF. Block in shapes and write down cool ideas. Look at the actual shapes of things instead of just the textures. Buy cheap minis and hold random bits up to them to see if something calls out to you. Pic related is a serum bottle, a trashed Sentinel, a Kinder egg and some random scrap with an old knight model and a plastic dwarf nailed to them.
>>97369941>Unfortunately the list building got made worseThat really is unfortunate because I was planning to get the core book and army list with the intent of then using them to build forces in other settings as counts-as, then the new edition dropped. Serves me right for procastinating. Is it that bad?
>>97370043I found some third party tilesets, but nothing cmpatible with those old sets. Admittedly, I'm no expert in looking for 3d printed stuff. Prices are crazy like for everything warhammer related (still mad at the price for the metal ikit claw, it was available from GW until a few months ago, you can't sell it at the same prices of a metal deathmaster snikch or queek headtaker), so I have no hope of getting a box any time soon.
>>97369375You're welcome fellow fa/tg/uy.
Based uhh... *checks notes*Based Games Workshop?!
>>97358187how are their thoughts on 3D printers?or using AI to help make 3D printed designs?
>>97370258Buddy. You can literally watch the loans taken out to invest in AI be piled on with new loans to handle those loans. Too much hypothetical money has been staked on something that isn't returning nearly enough, and that won't be returning nearly enough. A bunch of businessmen who don't understand technology literally bought into the hype, and now they have nowhere to go because the hype was just an illusion.
>>97369819>ArtisansGod, even the product's name is contemptible
>>97371172Yeah, just take a word that means someone who works with their hands in a traditional manner and give it to clankers.
>>97370779Daddy government will bail them out.
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>>97371416If this actually caught on I’d tell people not to bother with the metaphors, they’re kinda retarded in an MP. Honestly you still made a pretty cool build, thanks for your efforts either way man (I know this isn’t gonna catch on)
>>97371416>byproduct isn't milk from her bouldersgaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
>>97370973Technically, since the top size class is just "over 300 meters", I could declare myself whatever size I am as long as it's above it, right? Like I could make galaxy sized Kaiju?
>>97371448Honestly size categories are the iffiest part of the CYOA for me. Personally I’d cap it at 200m at most, it’s quite rare for kaiju in movies to exceed those heights (vertically). But that might not be the best solution for people who want to actually make a 300m tall kaiju
>>97371399>Hybrid build>With the shit budgetYou can't do that, the shit budget doesn't allow for anything other than extreme specialization.>>97371429Not all the points maybe but definitely more than what the shit rules give. You can't make anything fun with that.
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>>97371420I'll leave here for a fortnight because the /v/ermin and /pol/tards will make the thread unusable
>>97371384>>97371419Not dissing your paintjob. Just the model.
What's the second gayest marine chapter after Space Wolves?
>>97371461Blood Angels probably
>>97371420Why are we theorizing this will happen?
I'm looking for duelist / flintlock-wielding girls who'd fit into a Warhammer Fantasy RPG. Sadly, it's really hard to any that don't look too anime.
>>97357802why do you own a pirate? Did you win her off a bet?
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>Medieval fantasy setting>Magic is nanomachine tech>Ancient ruin is a crashed spaceship>"The Oracle" is an AI>Gods are original humansPLEASE stop doing this.
>>97353409To be fair in Wolfe's case it was more like "it actually was clearly scifi all along and you couldn't understand it".At least I THINK so. Man, those were some good books, but not the easiest.
>>97355750The reason for the looming human extinction in Dying Earth is that the sun is at the end of its life span. CRISPR won't help.
>>97364550>There's also that manga that's basically Underwater Ray Romano but also toxic yuri.I'm curious enough to risk the brain rot. What manga is that?
>>97371300I couldn't remember the title if my life was at stake, man. It was only like 12 chapters long and honestly not that interesting. It presented itself as isekai but the TWEEST was that it was actually the far future and the MC was just revived from near-death by far future tech rather than isekai'd into animal girl yuri fantasyland
>>97356210Degenesis is built on the premise of being a post-apocalyptic earth from the very start and no one gets into it without knowing that it's a post-apocalyptic setting first and foremost.
The original Dark Erufu EditionDiscuss elves.Post elves.Love elves.All elf lore, game stories art and any else that's elfy is all appreciated.Thread question: Do you prefer your elves as fallen empire from the past or as dominant and hegemonic entity in your world? previous thread: >>97318413
>>97370734Humans of courseWith flatbread
How racist do you think this high elf wizard is?
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>>97371278Lmao fucking got him
realistically, how can I roleplay him?
>>97358589I don't remember Max fusing metal to metal at any point.
>>97360911>OutgunnedI've seen it suggested a few times, what's it like? Can it handle fast-paced combat well?
>>97358481Cyberpunk 2020 natively support Max' unique style of martial arts and substance abuse. Add a backstory about your wife and try to induce a headache before playing and you're ready.
>>97358481You're already doing well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlB_4lOOtG4
>>97358573this
Time to talk about weird monsters again.As usual, any rants about Bog will be treated as bait unless you have actual proof.
>>97370315Not that Anon but being overly sensitive on spelling dosen't make you a bit paranoid about 'that guy' presence? Not jumping on bobi the witch badwagon but I think you guy have drank a bit too much of the bogleech's stalker story, koolaidYou know not everyone are english speaker or have a perfect spelling we already saw a false flag..
>>97370853I'm pretty sure it's based on this critter from Hieronymous Bosch
>>97370883What the fuck are you even trying to say? I have never seen such ESL in my life. Are you accusing me of being the guy who hates Bog? Cause that's retarded.I was the one making the stats for the Anthropoid Abominations because I actually like the game.
>>97370883how are you still so bad at english dude
>>97279052Very hazbin coded
Thread dedicated to Sci-Fi based discussion. 40k need not apply. [\spoiler]How goes your sci-fi setting, anon? I am currently running a Traveller game in a homebrew setting, and am getting lost in the sauce of stellar physics.
>>97358565>How does that work in setting? Fluff-wise I mean?Only high level Hyperspace Physicists and Mathematicians could begin to explain it, and no matter what they tell you, extended study of the subject leaves a person noticeably less sane than when they began.According to them, in very simple explanations, Hyperspace travelling ships need a sentient mind in the same way an ocean-going ship needs a rudder. The rudder isn't aware of what it itself is doing, it doesn't need to move, it doesn't need to understand how the sails or engines or turbines function. Of course, that doesn't really make too much sense, but anything more takes a few years of university lectures or twenty hours of mind-numbing youtube videos, just to reach an initial understanding that Hyperspace is on some level, definitely psychic, but saying that right away to someone on the street makes the experts sound like quacks."Brain in a jar," stuff does weird with Hyperspace. The hyperspace drive turns on, does its stuff, the ship jumps away and... It doesn't reach the destination. Maybe it went somewhere else. Maybe it never left hyperspace. If, when, it's spat out, the ship is twisted, distorted. Or sometimes the ship is spat right back out a few seconds later, exactly where it entered, totally unharmed, except the, living "brain-in-a-jar," is totally gone, vanished, despite not being connected to anything beyond basic life support...The background psychic stuff is so that the setting has some rules to justify why 18m mecha are the most efficient ways of fighting, why mass AI drones won't take over, why super ace pilots are so valuable.The real deep lore explanation is that: Aliens from a higher dimension explored our realm for some purpose, they changed the laws of our reality to make their stuff work. Giant mecha were their form of astronaut suits. Hyperspace was their creation. Earth was part of their experiments.
>>97364984>bombarding their problems from orbit?How can you get anything from a location if it's just a smoking crater?Also meat will always be cheaper and more flexible than steel. You can throw a bunch of men at a problem and they can adapt. Robots might run into unforseen problems that could be overlooked. Meanwhile humans you know how they can act normally, what can and can't kill them and there's always more to throw into a problem. Sometimes even with an air of plausible deniability
>>97366921>Has an explanation in Laymans terms, technical terms and a deep lore reasonAbsolute King shit right there, I love it and would shake your hand if I could.
>>97352596Cepheus is more of a pre-Star Wars space opera. Stars Without Number is more of science fantasy by default (although you can easily turn it into something harder by mashing it with Cities).SWN has D&D levelling, but the math is closer to Basic D&D, so HP bloat is less of a problem.
>>97350282Haven't touched Traveller for years, since second edition, the quality of the book was fucking terrible and fell apart after barely any use, got it replaced. How are the editions since then?
