>>97223581
Player notes are great. Players should generally strive to take notes. If the group doesn't have at least one person with a strong memory and a note taking habit, they will be worse off for it.

There IS still a difference. When you play the game in text, literally every moment can be archived. Not just the information that you want to refer back to for practical reasons, but the scenes exactly as they happened. You can refamiliarize yourself with things that happened, sure, but you can also literally go back and appreciate them again, without just relying on your memory. You might even spot small details that wouldn't have caught your attention before, just because they're still there for you to catch again.

In my usual group, I'm not the note taker, but I remember most things well enough that I can bring up things that they might have overlooked, so we collaboratively act as the group's ability to recall details. But I also do some stuff on the side over text, and I can see clear value in just being able to go back and read. Even if you're just looking for details, being able to CTRL+F your way for specific words is a huge advantage.

>>97223329
We've been there since at LEAST the point where anons were fucking bots on c.ai

>>97223329
Locking 2hu in a vault with the latest AI model and no internet connection is probably the kindest thing for both him and the rest of us who have to deal with him, THOUGH.

>>97224317
Holy shit I didn't even realize this was Edna. What the fuck.

>>97224317
I'd rather puckee and Literary Lord be locked away, honestly. Those two are much more obnoxious, and don't even talk about games.

>>97222326
>A good Referee can make Credibility the most influential ability in the game.
A bad one can too

>>97134223
Disengage if things look bad
>>97179929
Sninoization surgery

>>97221936
Just play 2e. It isn't nearly as complicated as it seems at first glance.

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>player running low on money
>tell them they can do merc work for a corp ala edgerunners inc
>no
>its not selling your souls
>still no
>he still lament over money issues
I feel 'fight the corps' is so drilled into the heads that players never think of doing a simple alliance and leave for big money

>>97128968
Update
They got nuked by the AI

>>97223799
Sub-assembly is overall preferred when you have multiple pieces that are otherwise hard to reach and/or movable.

>>97223799
because different parts want to be painted differently. The legs and body I did with metallic paints with an airbrush, while the flat panels were hand painted with regular paints. And doing things like the gold trim are easier when I just have to rotate a mostly flat panel instead of a 4 inch model. And airbrushing inks for that heat treated metal look on the vents and meltas is easier when I don't have to block off any other parts

>>97223799
Is this bait? I can't tell anymore

>>97217917
>in other news, Columbus anon, your gift is in nebraska for some reason and I don't know why
Which is quite funny as my parcel is taken on a very interesting journey as well. By the time it gets here it's seen more states than I have (which is admittedly not that much anyway).

>>97221821
what color do you suggest?
I didn't really want it to be that garrish, my other usual go-to is tan but it'd blend in with the skin

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Which subunit/Galaxy decal should I use, if I want to paint the Scouring Sands mechs in Nicky's color?

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Is this enough terrain for an IS regiment vs a Clan cluster?

>>97224201
With at least doubled armor values and horrible hit detection on small, fast mechs, a surprisingly high number.

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>>97224296

>>97224189
>Found the problem
I know, I probably wouldn't have gotten so heated if I hadn't been in a Light and I didn't end up back seating him while he camped at the furthest possible position...

>>97224201
>Ok be honest how may er ppc cumshots could your dinky little firestarter “eat” before it got blown up?
I at least took over 200 damage, and it's not like it's hard to dodge PPCs at a click or two out...
Still, my center torso was already in the red before we started moving up, and there were still at least a lance enemy of mechs sitting there while most of the team was on the peak of the central mountains and this fucker was sitting at the furthest point east he could on the map.

>>97224299
>With at least doubled armor values and horrible hit detection on small, fast mechs, a surprisingly high number.
I mean they've supposedly fixed the hit detection when it comes to speed, but yeah...

>>97216757
looks exactly like my Guatemalan neighbor, such a weird thing to fetishize

>>97223954
Let's not pretend your Guatemalan neighbor is even 1/0th that hot.

>>97223974
anon they both look like trash

>>97224157
Nah, that's a hot gob.

>>97201682
Total Canuckian Death? In MY lifetime?! What have I done to earn such joys?

>>97224167
she has better aesthetic cohesion, more harmonious

>>97224127
>receive criticism
>immediate deflection and whataboutism
>outright refuses to deal with the criticism in a honest way
You can dish it out, but you can't take it, huh? You insecure manbabies are all the same.

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>>97224167
Of course I end up with a much better alternative as soon as I post this one
https://files.catbox.moe/9wdkw5.jpeg

>>97224205
Doesn't sound like you're dropping it

>>97224241
Hmm. Kind of nebulous "it" factor but I kinda get what you're saying. I'll try for it more

>>97224276
>Doesn't sound like you're dropping it
People don't respect hypocrites enough to obey them.

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>>97223987
Nah, that’s the mindset that eventually killed the character art threads. Some weird thread police insisting every post needs a pic.

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>>97221880
>classy but alluring
A person of culture at last!

>>97222751
Thicc elves uber alles

So, not elves.

>>97223735
Why not elves? Elves are nice

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Question about elf skills
Their ears are good. But in what way?
Do they just hear everything louder? Would suck massiv ass in an city and elves would whisper to each other in their cities.
Or is it meant in a my ears can distinguish noises very good like you can count e.g. 25 gobbos by their footsteps alone through a door?

Same for seeing. Is it just very sharp eyesight or can they see in the dark or whatever?

Also how high can elves jump considering their are basically weightless (like in lotr) and how far can they fall until the get hurt (if they get hurt at all)

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>>97221336
It would be odd for an in-universe map to show heretic powerbases closer to the authors location but not further away where it would matter less. I would suspect that those lands are subjected to chevauchee's sauntering out from the blockading forces of Alamut based in Georgia. Probably a lot of heretic Scythians (which sounds awesome), plus whatever naval raiders are in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, but have yet to take, or haven't attempt to take, a swath of territory and hold it successfully. Maybe there's a hidden Hellgate that's on the agenda, but only time will tell.

>>97220374
>Kyiv
Fucking gay

>>97221645
You mean how it was called by the people there in their language?

>>97222066
Yeah, kind of. I'm not calling turkey 'turkiye' or japan 'nihon'. I'm just gonna keep calling kiev kiev.

>>97222094
European game. If you don't like it, make your own.

>>97223626
Because your clone living on isn't the same as your consciousness continuing.

>>97223626
In addition to the continuity question >>97223655 poses which is quite difficult and generally costly to answer (which varies by edition, which is in-universe split between obtuse changes in how magic functions and versions of the spell), lichdom makes you a lot harder to put down in the first place, brings you back faster, for as many times as you can get away with for a single up-front cost, and actually "solves" aging fully.

>>97223626
IDK about 5e, but in many of the earlier editions your soul adheres to your racial lifespan. Spells can stretch your lifespan a limited amount, slowing ageing or giving you the statistically unlikely but theoretically possible best lifespan while keeping you younger than you look - like a wizard looking ~50 from the ages of 50 to 140, then dying.

But there was usually a limit in place that prevents you from attaining immortality while in possession of a mortal soul, which is why lichdom was appealing to some. You had to tap into some kind of necromantic bullshit to acquire eternal existence on the material plane, otherwise your soul would "wear out" and rejoin the cycle or whatnot.

Clone spells combined with spells that diverted your soul into them if you died unexpectedly were great for staying YOUNG and for avoiding surprise deaths, but they couldn't make you immortal, just long-lived, iirc.

>>97223626
You can clone and transfer conciousness into it, yes. That is what some do. But not all. Some prefer the even safer and more permanent version.

>>97203960
Ask me how I know you enjoy the stench of unwashed dicks, fauxgrog.

The "oldhammer" you LARP as loving existed for about four months in 1987 and was never even the intent of the people creating and publishing the game, it is purely an artifact of them being an actual small business at the time and so having to serialise the publication of their game and setting. Rick Priestly has said in numerous interviews that barring a few irrelevant details the "tidied up" version of 40K that arrived with 2nd edition was always the version they had in mind and were working towards with RT, and again barring a few irrelevant trivialities 2nd and 3rd are completely consistent as regards the setting. Orks being treated more as "sometimes amusing but an actual threat" rather than "LOLELEPEEPEEPOOPOO LE RANDUMB" - which was always to some extent an exaggeration anyway - is about the only serious "change". The rules were changed, certainly, but they'd also changed with 2nd and you groglarpers always pretend that wasn't a big deal despite it being a huge shift from pseudo-RPG combat system to genuine wargame, with 3rd being a comparitively much smaller change from bloated character focused wargame to slightly streamlined unit focused wargame.

Also first major pricehike? Lol. Lmao. Eat shit buddy, I remember actual shouting matches between customers and staff because of price rises in the mid 90's.

I don't know whether you're a pretendy-grog trying to pretend your imagined "original & pure" 40K actually existed or simply a Latehammer faggot maneuvering to try and pretend all the rancid slop you enjoyed as GW steadily ruined their IPs in the mid 2010s onward, but either way it's not gonna work bubby, some of us were actually there.

>>97196529
Among friends, you wouldn't be enough of a cunt to buy a mini knowing all your mates hated SCs then try to guilt them into letting you play it. Every club I joined and every gaming group I played with banned SCs outright all the way up until around the middle of 4th edition, and even then it took a couple of years and 5th's heavy pushing of them for army building unlocks before you weren't considered a massive twat if you tried to use them outside of prearranged narrative games where they would actually be present.

>>97218765
>I remember actual shouting matches between customers and staff because of price rises in the mid 90's.
Then you're too old to post here. Leave.

>>97195868
Go to Mutantpedia (the Warzone/Mutant Chronicles wiki). Find the issues of Chronicles From the Warzone and Chronicles magazine. You can literally watch the process happening in real time as the FAQ section progresses. It was happening at the same time (1997-1999) and roughly the same pace in 40k, Clan War, and several other games. BattleTech had the same thing start to happen a few years earlier in ~1993-1995, but a mix of brutal pushback from the rest of the community and the type of organized play events that were happening largely killed it off. Everyone agreed that tournaments were fucking cancer and consigned them to the Bloodname melees at GenCon, the other events all stayed story-related or were shits-and-giggles stuff like Masters and Minions

>>97198140
>so we can't know how ruthlessly competitive they are
Believe me, there exists some unbelievably obnoxious spergs. I've witnessed a sweatlord teaching a 10 year old kid how to play and I commented to the kid that he forgot to shoot with some of his dudes. The sweatlord went "nuh uh he already passed".

>>97222562
Is Solomon his personal hero BECAUSE he was a puppet devoid of will for all his life?

>>97222798
Plus he is the family's hero as they are descendants of one of his disciples and thus genetically engineered to be his fanboys. Not really genetically engineered, but the passing of magecraft requires the descendants to share a certain mentality as magecraft is pretty ritualistic in one way or another, so magi families are bound by ideology and traditions as much or even more than they are by blood.

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For those who took the Star Rail Jump, turns out that Stellarons are actually the creation of Xipe, not Nanook.

>>97224144
What. Is this from the new update?

Also what's up with the captcha? It's some IQ test shit now.

>>97224195
as far as i can tell there are still two difficulty levels, the normal one is trivial to solve, but the harder one actually does have legit iq test questions

>>97222008
I think it's funny he raped ypur dog.

>>97215509
8 hidden, but 103 filtered.

>>97215498
>that Advanced Wheelchair
GURPS quietly had a combat wheelchair decades before DnD kids made it a meme

>>97223563
Well, that's a TL 8 wheelchair that costs $30.000, has obvious limitations in traversing particular terrains and can be attacked, destroyed, etc... conventionally. Conversely the d&d abomination (the setting of which may range from TL 2 to 5 tops, a conventional wheelchair exists past TL6, let alone a super one) costs proportionally a ridiculous small fraction of the gurps one, enough to be affordable by 1st level characters, and cannot be toppled, destroyed, impaired by any terrain of sorts, gives you advantages to rolls and so on.

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>>97215490
If I had to custom make one?
Easy flight magic, but you can't cast it without using focus you'd need for other spells
An obviously no perfect healing/resurrection spells that make a mockery of handicap, the GM will have to find failure conditions less deadly

I'm trying to make a bondage-themed RPG, by my current rules handicapped people would have a focus buff by default. And the currency is magic stuff not immediately gatherable on death so there's a good reason to keep people alive

>>97223813
>auctions
why? if i wanna build a deck i wanna have all the cards arrive in one big package. auctions just multiply the shipping cost per unit.
>>97223994
people like you, and WotC catering to people like you, is why the game got bad. stop being alive as you currently are.

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>>97224002
>>97224043
Congrats, you have autism

>>97224109
How do I regift this present?

>>97224141
white elephant, gotta have someone steal it from you

Takaishi-anon, if you're here, I need a little input on what he wears casually (as in, out of school, the story happens on a Saturday) because date episode reasons. The writefag's pretty close to done

>>97223084
Put him in a cowboy hat, leather jacket that says 'Nippon' in english, cut up jeans, and 80s platform shoes for not being here to respond.

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>>97218224
with Chizi I would like to explore the rivalry with Ming, repair their familial relationships with Linghao and Yi, deepen the bonds with people on their age bracket like Jian/Moyu/Haoran, preferably through some Ghost Domain or Cult adventures, and eventually get involved in the current northern region politics through the elder builds.

If I have the time I'll probably try to tackle something related to the domain first.
>>97221773
Good work so far, anon! It is interesting how Chizi and Haoran are kindred souls of sorts, in the way they feel out of place in their current world, and how they deal with it by observing everyone around them. The way she protects Ming by drawing the heat toward herself is something that only makes Chizi angrier at their gemini. Ming should be the one handling the consequences of their actions, not their kind older sister whose only crime was having a foolish father.

Chizi would try to stick up for Haoran whenever they can, and invite her for their outings so she can get away from the stuffy atmosphere of the Xun compound and engage in observation together. Similar to Jian, Chizi would also let her in on their more private thoughts, though not because Haoran struggles with inhumanity, but because Chizi was privy to her moment of weakness before, so it's only natural they would want to be accepted too.

>>97220632
>>97220913
Finished about half, just have the Wendigo fight itself to do now.

>>97224107
Missed the first one because I went to sleep. Good to know, I guess I can start planning other things.
This has been a strange day for the thread.

>>97224092
what about wizard?
Are there any broken subclasses i should consider avoiding?
like I said I havent played in forever so I've never even seen some of these

>>97224168
it's gonna be a shitshow with a first time dm no matter what, your choice of class is not gonna matter

>>97224212
nah cmon he'll do great

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>>97222778
Any advice? I rolled well but I feel like the stats are a bit awkward.
I'll go with custom lineage and +2 Str to 19, then I take either Crusher (not that useful until I get Manifest Echo at 3) and +1 Str to 20 or take Sentinel (and at lvl4 vice versa).
At lvl6 I'll ASI +2 into I guess Con but then I'll end up at 17 which is kind of awkward because it doesn't push it to 18 or am I overthinking it?

>>97224242
what I mean is you cannot pick up books and have a balanced game. That shit takes experience, of both the game, your players, and a sense of how things are going and ability to adjust things on the fly. A first time dm is not gonna have that. So whether you play a busted class or not, it's not gonna matter. And that's only speaking of combat, which is just one aspect of the game.

But to answer your question, most tasha subclasses are busted