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>>97351557
Everything filled up too fucking fast

Final bump

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can anyone recommend some tanks for the human defense force in one page rules? i like the progression from infantry to walkers but i feel like the tanks don't fit

Anyone have the fan rules for Dimensional Warfare: Tactics? It's the Robotech RPG Tactics spinoff game. I want to see how they rewrote the transformation rules.

>>97358231
They should not have gotten rid of the old site. They had painted examples that weren't transferred over. They used submitted images of painted models they didn't have a 'studio paintjob' for. The forum was ancient, but it had examples of nearly every model they made, and it's all gone now. And they lost their detailed tags.

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>>97359404
Thats a decent idea, i think heresy has a system like that, a core force org, then your added leaders or warlord add extra flexibility to army construction. Could be a good way to add some variance. I've always wanted a bike character to unlock more slots for bikes. Still doesn't help me with the immediate issue of balancing wargear, model, and unit costs, but I'll highly consider adding that in.

>>97359022
I've never actually looked into Battletech's tonnage system, but I'd assume it's similar to a points cost where the size of your mech is X tons, and each big gun you strap on to them is Y tons, up to a Z limit or something like that.

>>97359718
I've got 9 factions with 10 units plus 1 named character for each as a start. Each faction has 3 Leaders, 2 Troops, 2 Vanguard, 2 Mobile, and 2 Support units, and I've attempted to make sure that each faction from the start can at least do everything everyone else can.

Some Factions are much better at certain game aspects than others are; The super shooty army isn't the best in melee, but has units that can still hold their own. I tried to make sure that each faction leans into their own theme, but multiple playstyles can emerge from each faction based on what you like to play.

With leaders possibly offering different force org combinations, that opens up even more potential for army variance, but I still need a points system. I might just have to bite the bullet and figure out some arbitrary way to give costs to things. That'll bump up playtesting time a whole lot longer, for sure.

In my playtest games, I've had both players start with an equal number of bases for each side, and it's worked out decently well for a "half-sized" game, the armies are mostly equivalent in power at that size of game, but I don't think it'll fly for a hyper-elite army or horde army playstyle. If both players get 50 "bases" worth of models, the custodes player will overrun the genestealer cults player every time.

>>97360544
Tonnage is literally just how much the total unit weighs, and is completely worthless for balance because it only indicates what the target weight for that unit was when it was being designed, not whether it used that weight for anything practical or suitable for mech vs mech combat. Some designs are better suited to fight infantry or aircraft, and other designs are just bad both in and out of universe.

>>97360544
Do not use tonnage anon, that was suppose to be a very obvious joke. Even Battletech's BV is not great or easily fucked up.
Part of a costing or force organization system that gets tricky is how accurate do you want it to be, how competitive do you want the game to be, how do you mitigate factors like terrain or asymmetrical mission types, is the balance supposed to be rough and players figure it out or built for randoms to be able to meet at a store and use a designated table?

>>97362037
*delight in their discomfort.
Note to self: reread my posts BEFORE clicking submit. Not afterwards.

>>97361966
>Changeling but could one of them be pullling a Season of the Witch-adjacent ploy?
Fae are bullshit and can do whatever you need them to. And if they can't they can make a Hobgoblin who can. And if tgey can't make a Hobgoblin they can go to a Market and hire one.
All while still being killable by mundane guns, brawn and good ol' thinkin'.

>>97361997
I kind of envision some of their divisions as a mix between Syndicate/Progenitors and Null Mysteriis working on a more global scale. I think they could gel nicely with Network Zero and Null with the characters of Network Zero doing recon and interviewing the conscious monsters, Null Mysteriis doing more direct research and having Cherion commercialize the results in a serious way.
I don't know, I think there's potential in going that flavor than pure Pentex and mad science.

>>97362017
I had a feeling it might fit but I didn't want to mix it up with Dreaming unecessarily. I did consider a Beast also but this had an air of malicious mischief to it that made me think Changelings might be a better fit.
>>97362037
The cases have largely been pretty public, even if the actual putting-down of the Slashers has been a bit more subdued, so I don't think it'd be a stretch for there to be disgusting merchandising off of it.

Could a combination of both work, with people putting out merchandise and making money off the misery, and some Fae leeching off the side of it? Or perhaps donning a mask themselves and hiding amongst teenagers and children to cause some earnest and more immediate fear?

>>97362064
That's good to hear. I don't want to push my players too far into the occult that they start having to diverge their skillset too wildly away from what they currently enjoy doing, which just so happens to involve mundane guns, brawn and a little bit of good ol' thinkin'.

>>97362089
A Changeling doesn't always need a personal reason to do stuff. Kids dressing up as real horrific monsters instead of pretend ones might be a plan to gain the favour of Autumn by keeping real monsters in the mind of mortals.
Or the fae does it because it's funny to fuck with the Hunters, bonus points if it's ment as a reward but backfires completly.

A deranged autumn courtier might even have helped create the Slashers to get more candy by trick-or-treating.
Or to hold up their end of an arcane bargain with a higher power.

As for merchandising, that is a great idea. Money is a good motivator for Changelings and Hobgoblins. Creating masks and costumes from the mind altering substances of the Hedge could even have funny side effects like random transformations or bouts of insanity.

>>97357736
Idk if yours got deleted for sure, but everytime I launch the app it gives me a connection error, so the servers might just be shitting themselves right now

I'm a new player and am trying to do this weekly sealed draft event. I don't understand how to win. I've played for two hours this morning and have not managed to win yet. Is this mode just not worth playing for new players?

>>97361272
Ok, I played for another 45 minutes and someone conceded as soon as the match started so I finally won

>>97361272
You gotta learn how to build a deck in a limited format little dawg

Why are random posts missing today

>>97361529
Like you?

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>>97361059
>TT

>>97360985
>I could update it, but I dunno which image references to put in
>If you need something just ask


Ideally as many as you have so I have a variety of starting points

But specifically I've been trying to remake the digital art/comic book styles from the Dalle days and stuff close to that would be nice.

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>>97361008
I use a lot of Abstract background/Beautiful abstract background/Abstract (cyberpunk/fantasy/architecture) background
Both in Grok and Dalle

>>97356559
Do you?

>>97331288
It's puckee, ya dingus
>>97354324

>>97331559
cool, I think it's the first time I see that take into the matter
>>97330092
as soon as they start showing signs of magical aptitude, usually around 8 years old in the case of humans, though in families with a magical tradition it might start before in preparation for the actual manifestation of powers.
Besides those, only families with a high social status might induct their children into a mage order or hire a tutor to instruct them; commoner children that manifest powers usually won't be able to develop them unless their liege lord or some patron of high standing takes an interest to them. Those usually end up as hedge wizards at best and more usually as the village's cunning woman/man
Think that magic doesn't appear in awesome powers; no kid starts spontaneously casting fireball or prismatic ray or something of that kind, not even especially useful cantrips. They cast stuff like a handicapped version of mage hand or speak with animals but affecting only their pet, and just for a few seconds every month. It's easy to miss until they're much older if people aren't actively watching them in case they do have magic

>>97357601
One of the mods deleted dozens of replies pointing out this thread is puckee slop spam
https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/97330092/#97330092

>>97330092
Pretty late, in their teens. Kids get earmarked for magical potential early on but they can't really try doing magic before ~14 or they'd more or less literally explode.

>>97354289
>>Discriminates against those afflicted with a incurable disease he also has and as such resents himself
women love this shit, cast Timothee Chalamet and they'll be flooding their panties.
Unfortunately you will also be immediately branded as "queer-coded" and people will think your magical leprosy or whatever is a metaphor for loving cock and your character is the equivalent of a self hating religious homo

>>97359193
Gonna be honest Tim ain't pulling off being a 6"6' muscular barbarian.

As for the gay coded shit. Not going to lie didn't put them into the equation of twisting what is essentially cancer of the entire body into being about faggotry

>>97353744
>PTSD riddled centaur dude
He gets a suspicious amount of fan fics and porn made by women who like broken dudes, but is otherwise ignored by the fan base as a whole

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>>97353744
>Minotaur tomboy monk girl

ONE MILLION PIECES OF FURRY PORN

>fifth puckee thread shitting up the catalog
https://old.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryAssassins/comments/10n9cf7/thief_by_istvan_straban/

>>97361746
Probably a few different things.
I like to break shit down to a three-factor analysis just to get a good spread.

In no particular order;
- Ease of play; including speed and interpretation of rules.
- An exciting theme or narrative to contextualize why the little plastic men fight
- Variation in play format; a wargame with little variation in scenario setup is a glorified boardgame

>>97361968
I liked the actor for Wellesey.
What else is he in?

>>97362043
Warhammer 40k: Fire Warrior

>>97361746

The rules of the game need to be simple enough to use in play without becoming a burden. The more lookup tables you need to reference as part of every action, the worse the game plays. The more in-between steps that need to be resolved to handle something that only might happen in some fringe case every time you take that action, the worse the game plays.
Like, look at 40k. Attack, wound, armor, invulns... thats so many steps for a basic fucking attack that you need to roll over and over and over again. Its bloat and slows the game down to a crawl, especially since unless you have the tables memorized you are probably needing to reference the book for some of those outcomes.
You want resolution mechanics that do their job well with the minimum amount of bullshit getting in the way of it.

In addition, the mechanics need to applicable enough that their outcomes are not effective pre-determined. You do not want the game to be easily 'solved' where a given meta calcifies the game, and there also needs to be room for the players to do things that feel clever. They don't necessarily need to be actually be clever, nobody at the game table is Zhuge Liang, but part of the appeal of any strategy game is to come up with your own plan and see if it wins. If the logic of the game is too simple and straightforward, you remove elements of choice. For every strong strategy in the game, there needs to be a viable counter, and ideally that counter should be tactical rather than a unit-check. "I deployed Varmitguard Charnelcarriages, if only you had brought their natural predator the Spezzorgagiban Grenadiers you might have stood a chance" isn't strategy, its pay2win designed to force you to buy more models.
Instead, you should have things were unit placement trumps unit model in terms of importance. Let squads support each other for bonuses within a certain range, creating opportunities out of combinations that, if the enemy can disrupt them, denies you an advantage.

>>97361905
Now that's gaming!

what's worse is a DM with two separate two-year long campaigns with loyal, punctual players and now im very confused and i totally forgot why or what for in the first place.

>>97361268
that's just a level 3 eldritch knight fighter

Anyone use pistols or muskets in their Campaign?

>>97361686
I always wanted to play a musket armed halfling, the idea just sounds amusing to me

>>97341233
>Where is the most disgusting place your party has been to? What about the cleanest?
The dirtiest place they've been to is probably a body-horror atrocity house that's made out of the flesh of a man the village hated, people would randomly stab at the walls to make the bones creak.
The cleanest is probably an NPC's house, she made soap so I imagine it smelled nice from all the soap she made.

>>97361089
D&D "Druids" are a weird case.
A lot of their magic spells are the sort of thing you find in Celtic myth; transforming into animals and enchantments of various sorts being the most common, and these ARE powers that are credited to powerful Druids like Mog Roith, the taboos about not using metal aren't really, and Druids are in society known more for astonomy, keeping calendars for planting and harvest time, and performing blessings and curses, as well as being the ultimate source of legal codes.

In my honest opinion, "Druid" would be better off as a subclass of Cleric, thematically.

Also, what's with the exception for Scimitars?
Sehaine shit from D&D probably.

>>97361089
Druids not being able to wield bows isn't a religious concern, it's a practical one. Druids don't lift so they never develop the strength to use one effectively. They instead just choose to transform into Bears skipping leg day at the gym.

>>97361893
Rangers used to learn a suite of Druid spells anyway.
Like the relation of Paladin to Cleric.

>>97361608
imagine thinking can't use bow balances full spell casting lol

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They can if they're elves as well.

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Imagine still caring about GW.

>>97361582
It is good to remember what once was..
How else will we recall what was taken from us?

>>97362083
>remember what once was
All GW games have always been shit. Your glasses are so rose tinted they're just actual fucking flowers.

>>97360810
I think the Primaspect Warrior approach is too deeply embedded to go away by this point but at least GW seems to be slowly reintroducing/refreshing the pre-Primaris elements of the army, I wouldn't be surprised if we see new Tactical and Devastator squads in the near-ish future. If those get updated the range will have everything you need to make an old-style Marine army with entirely new/current units.

I'm really not looking forwards to the Rhino chassis vehicles being inevitably squatted though, they look miles better than their Primaris replacements.

>>97360601
>gee, your mom let you have FOUR antennas?

>>97361215
I thought they were in the process of squatting pre-primaris marines desu.

>>97361820
They can't really do it. Primaris models are objectively ass even when compared to the HH models that are also ass but less so, but they are constant reminder that Marines can be better.
Reason why they didn't squat the terminators even though they tried

>>97361820
>>97361955
The firstborn models are getting replaced, but I think they're going to be replaced with Primaris equivalents that will likely incorporate more of the old design elements than the initial few waves of Primaris releases did. 10th edition's Primaris releases have mostly been very heavily based on older models - the flamethrower guys from the starter box are the only ones following the usual Primaris formula off the top of my head, everything else is strongly based off of or is a direct refresh of older models. The recent Ultramarine releases especially are all basically direct updates of models from 4th/5th edition.

>>97360777
That would be funny, but when 6e comes out, it'll be the times the Chuds have won.

>>97302765
I dont like when women are getting hurt so thats a positive for me.

>>97357504
>>97358051
Let me know if you ever find some sort of point you want to make.
>>97360816
That's the main idea of putting women in danger in this sort of fiction. You are eager to prevent the harm. It's a ticking clock. Think of it as "the terrorists have planted a suitcase nuke in NYC and set it to go off at midnight because they hate our freedom", but instead it's "the cultists are going to rape and eat the princess at midnight to invoke their savage demon god".

>>97360904
Let me know if you do, dumbass nigger

>>97362058
>goldfishbrain.exe
Right here, bucko >>97348939

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>>97361406
>TQ
Only other game I play is Necromunda, but thinking about getting into Blood Bowl.

Here’s a picture of my most recent Battle March game, my friend finally won with his Goblin Confederacy, I made a bit of a meme list and shoved a rune of immolation on my cannon bc he always goes straight for my artillery. Despite the loss, the explosion took out two entire full strength units, which was a very fun moment.

Post your recent games.

>>97361406
Going to stop by my lgs later today, what pots do you guys recommend for getting a nice red beard for dwarves?

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>>97361406
I play a range of things which inevitably get cycled out as people lose interest and never play them again
>ASOAIF, good rank and flank game with alternating activations and a great minigame with the politics board. Killed because Asmodee can’t distribute shit so people can’t expand their armies
>bolt action, good skirmish level WW2 and 2nd edition is my most played wargame. People utterly lost interest with 3rd edition after it overcorrected issues
>Bushido, amazing skirmish game with a great deception mechanic in combat (you hide what dice you’re using for attack and defence). Only one other guy played it regularly and lost interest
>Frostgrave, nice little narrative game but hard to get a full campaign running. Only play with my Mrs now.
>Trench crusade, still playing this one for a year now but starting to see the cracks in it. It’s fun with friends but a lot of factions aren’t fun to play a full campaign with
Everything ends up coming back to 40K and WHF though, they’re the only immortal ones

christ why did this general die so hard the past year

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>>97361936
Bloodbowl is god damned amazing fun. It's quick once you know the rules (90 mins most games), exciting and challenging. And I can't think of a valid competitor in the football aesthetic models. They are just fun to look at.

Raaroo bitches
I can't find my full chaos team pic. Just the Minotaur and cheerleaders.

>>97360898

First, did you only print that one model? If yes, your leveling and everything with burn in layers is fine. If some stuff did not get printed, try the manual level app in the printer.
This looks like it could be the anti alias bug.

The motherboard has a problem with too many grey pixels in the same line, and moving from 9k to 16k enlarged the danger of that.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bNkAoa0_l2c

Ok bois, I need advice.
Good friend of mine's birthday is coming up.

He recently got a decent resin 3d printer and he's going nuts over it, printing 24/7, his girlfriend is starting to complain about the sudden appearance of resin minia of dubious taste in the house, etc.

I was thinking of maybe gifting him something "hobby related" but I am a total ignorant noob on 3d printing (all my minia comes from China recasters) so here it comes:

What the fuck can I give him as gift that it is 3d printing related?
Is UV curing station a trap?
Is there something fancy an aficionados would love?

>>97361759
An curing station is nice, but most often not that necessary. If you go that route, watch out for what size of printer your mate has, because the best thing is if you can just take the printed plate and put it directly into the cleaner, but some plates are larger than others.

I would maybe go with more resin. Maybe some interesting colors or those fancy engineering materials. There is one that cures almost like ceramics. Or some are like wax so you can cast it in metal afterwards. Maybe using those to make something for his girlfriend will mend the problems.

>>97361759
get him a new girlfriend because the current one is obviously defective

>>97361843
Do you have any names or reference for these fancy resins?
And I guess I need to check compatibility with his printer, right?
Also many thanks for the suggestions

>>97361849
I will tell him to 3d print a new one