>>96452416
Because stories need to end. Tired of shit running forever, it loses meaning.

>>96454044
Endings are great for books, tv shows etc. But that is not true for CYOAs.

>>96454585
I disagree

>>96455187
Stop engaging him and give us some of the endings you like to see in the cyoas. Happy ones? Tragic ones? Maybe post an example?

>>96457456
CYOAs that give endings based on the accumulation of your choices. Tok's Princess, JRPG Traitor, Apodaimosis, etc.

>>96453126
High resolution imgchest?

>>96453139
Have we arrived at a consensus when it comes to missions?

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>>96453126
https://rentry.org/mmwqzzpm

Name: Archibald “Archie” Florence
Origin: Curmudgeon
Age:
Set 1: Numb, Computer Guy?, Gross Eater
Perks:

Tier 1:
Street-Smart
Stubborn
Forward
Bancho


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>>96458402
Not yet. Hasn't even had that much discussion, so we should probably start on that.

>>96455798
The need to find an image for both the character and idolon doubles the image searching time, and that's assuming you aren't exactly matching the artstyles.

>>96417808
>Can't win against rules
Skill issue~

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>>96424446
I'm going to compare this to other systems to help explain the 'problem' as I see it.

In something like Exalted, you get stunt dice for bothering to flavor what you are doing. Getting two additional dice in a pool is a big deal (potentially more if you really go all out) so you're probably going to go out of your way to do at least a two dice stunt every attack. Even supernatural creatures can be remarkably fragile. Makes you appreciate every risk you take and every attack. You can potentially end Exalt versus Exalt fights in ONE well-placed attack.

Where are we at in the typical game of DND? A single round of combat is rarely decisive, and for all that effort of flavoring how cool your character is you roll under 10 anyway and beef it. This is going to repeat a lot, and even your successes are generally not the deciding blow. Yeah, you're putting way too much energy into nothing.

My recommendation? Let people do nonstandard actions without need for feats or skills. On one condition. They HAVE to sell it. Sell it hard. Then they can roll to do it as part of an attack. They succeed? Enemy has an appropriate status. Be more generous the more extra they go, but they have to SELL SELL SELL. The bigger a thing they want to cause? The more they got to put into the description. Rewards effort, but use is limited by it's nature.

>>96404781
Why do chandeliers always feature in these conversations? Sia is that you?

>>96443790
smartphones literally buttfucked attention spans with dopamine farming clickbait short form content.

>>96400916
>Attack and DMG as two separated rolls
Well, you deserve it.

>>96458343
Forgot to take pictures yesterday, but I'm slowly working through building despoilers for my word bearers. 15 down, 25 to go.

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>>96458343
finishing my paladin and my pretor. Checkers very nice:thumbs up:

>>96458355
Oh, but I do have pictures of the krios i built this weekend, which is the last one I had to build. Just 1 thanatar...and 18 ursarax and 6 thallax that I'm definitely not putting off...to go

Anyone tested out how fun it is to use a kretos or one of those almost super heavy tanks based on spartans like the cerberus?

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>>96458343
A lazy militia scheme because I can't be assed to paint like 250 models for a side project to a real standard

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what compels rumormongers to become cryptic?

for fuck's sake

>>96455920
Whats the fucking point of chaos dorfs giving cannons as payment to ogors or them looting from cities of sugmar??

There was even lore that ogors loved the sound and destruction of the cannons, so what? they are now gonna use gnoblar snipers??

>>96458266
anon, that quote only refers to Age of Sigmar, not any other games.

>>96458336
Sorry anon, i turbo autism'ed myself

>>96455883
>pic
>loves bvlls
Lol I knew the Chorfs were a bunch of cucks.

>>96456694
where are the rules to this?

>>96456811
kerlin dot de/pic/w40koldhammer/nebensysteme/gothic/BattlefleetGothicInvasion dot pdf

You'll probably need the Cityfight book too.

>>96457560
thank you very much!

>>96456547
Another anon, but guard are too good, you want something more shit for them, like people who don't get proper guns even.

>>96419212
these boys are about to go fight a 2nd edition zoanthrope
forgot to quote because I'm a retard

>xe keeps necrobumping a thread even though it is clear no one is interesed in having an actual descussion going
simply ebin sis, euphoric even, keep it up, I'm sure it's going to accomplish something

I plan on painting my canoptek circle by priming it silver, then putting a green contrast over some of the spots, similar to the box art. Will that give my metal a metallic look?

>>96458196
You'll want a black or brown shade at least. Also I'd coat the green parts in light grey first, otherwise it'll look like metallic green.

>>96458196
>Will that give my metal a metallic look?
i'm pretty sure priming it silver will give your metal a metallic loook

>>96458315
I meant with the contrast paint over the metallic.
>>96458245
Aiming for it to look metallic green on some spots and just straight chrome on others

>>96452889
They're just a false front that DG or MJ12 used in the 90s to deal with the mob in New York.

or alternatively just don't use them at all because they are fucking dogshit.

>>96452889
You don't. You excise them.

>>96440028
>planning making a Delta Green-esque sandbox using silent legions.
What does this mean?

>open ended DG campaign? Any tripping hazards I should avoid?
I'd expect a bit of tension slackening if you pull too many punches, but I know from experience with other games that players actually losing characters mid-season can really damage the buy-in.

>>96450026
I considered changing ||Marlene to be a favourite grandmother of Clyde's grandchildren|| or some similar thing, with an elaborate ||binding/hospice/convalescence with regular visits thing|| going on, just to make sure there are more involved perspectives on the debate.
Never actually run it that way though ||never needed to, also grimderp||.

>>96450114
Often there isn't any more prep needed (or really possible) other than remembering relevant names and nouns, and responding to your players.
A lot of the locations and even NPCs are intended to be improvised almost completely by you, so if you're not comfy doing that you could write those descriptions ahead of time, but usually the motivations and pertinent details are included in the shotgun text.

>>96452889
Don't, eliminate all the authors' metaplot shit from your game and use only the barest skeleton of DG and the four cherry-picked cool things you like (which is The Fate for no-one).

>>96417316
minecraft?

>>96417281
>The AvP movie lore. Predators did not build pyramids on Earth.
Lame

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>>96454059
That bit was fun.

>>96438502
Pretty sure they don't have the license for AvP material (not the films and video-games anyway, maybe the comics; the Blood and Stone series seem to be in the same continuity as Covenant, which they seem to have the license for).

My main recommendations:
Don't make all human groups over-the-top evil, and especially not totally retarded. WY in expanded universe go from ruthless company to evil empire and it isn't an improvement. You need the PCs to come from a flawed but basically decent society in order to have the 'everyman hero' vibe. Nostromo crew are shocked that they were expendable, Ripley wants Burke to stand trial with some confidence he will be punished, etc. They don't live in a grimdark dystopia.
Implications for bio-tech from the alien are huge. Just being able to integrate host DNA into new form is a big deal. Concept of transhuman upgrades from Romulus was good, implementation not so much.
Alien is cosmic horror, don't be afraid to have the aliens be more than animalistic monsters. Queen is obviously smart. Hive could be the start of something more complex, like a bio-mechanical technology base (see similarity to space jockey stuff). Should be actually alien and mostly incomprehensible though. Gives another motive to mess with them beyond just medical stuff.
Independent evil AI/synthetics and creepy transhumans are good supplements to the bad-guy line up. Commies (UPP) and criminals too. Don't have corps and bugs be the only threats.

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Both O'Bannon and Geiger were big Lovecraft fans and said that Yog-Sothery was a major inspiration for Alien (incomprehensible alien monsters, uncaring universe, even details like the eggs being kind of Elder-Thing shaped).
How would you play that element up? What parts of the mythos would be a good fit?
Black goo has something of a Shoggoth (or FSoT) vibe to it (i.e. living black liquid, associated with ancient aliens, who suffered a disaster, possibly due to their creation running out of control). AI / synthetics hint at possibly 'going shoggoth' on humans a few times (most notably, David in Covenant).
Space jockey has a superficial resemblance to Rhan-Tegoth, Chaugnar Faugn, and Yag-Kosha due to the trunk (and being a huge, weird space alien).
Novelisation of Alien mentions some kind of futuristic trained dreaming. Think this is expanded a bit elsewhere with dream recordings or something. Could tie in to dreamlands, I guess?
A:E has transmission of consciousness (or at least a facsimile of personality) into new bodies. Big theme in Lovecraftian horror (Thing on the Doorstep, Shadow Out of Time).

>>96450629
>They could, instead, figure out some way for /qst/ and /tg/ to collaborate, and cross promote.
Usually, threads mentioning /qst/ get deleted promptly. I'm surprised OP hasn't been banned yet.

>>96456515
I used to contribute to the Agartha threads but had to drop out to work on getting my degree.

>>96456850
Yeah, if someone made a /qst/ advertising thread here to pitch quests, it would be shitted by someone throwing a tantrum immediately.

>>96457111
That was really cool but too much talking in circles. Also, I'm working on my degree too and I'm still working on my things. The two are not mutually exclusive (because hell man, I know you're not spending 16 hours per day on your degree).

>>96442971
Yep, that about covers it.

>>96455250
For me dragons are weapons created by the god of creation as weapons in his quest to indirectly become the singular capital G God.

>>96452154
ah, so jews basically

My campaigns rarely get to high enough level where a dragon encounter wouldn't just tpk the party.

>>96456162
We are currently after a xorvintaal black dragoness that's probably going to kick our asses.
We are all mentally and spiritually preparing ourselves for a TPK.
It'll be pretty fun to go there prepared to shit only to be met with stuff like "oh, her acid bypasses magical protections, get fucked boyo".
It's going to be so fucking fun.

>>96455493
>videos, guides
Those are not practise. Literally go and do the thing.
>realistic and fresh
Realistic can't possibly be fresh. It's explicitly directly derivative of reality.

>>96455696
I tried to imagine how stormies would look with axes and horns.

Don't get me wrong, the Reichgrenadiers looks supreme. I wish Star Wars had this kind of "drip", for some reason, each new SW thing has even aesthetically worse customs, armors, weapons, etc.

>>96455710
>>96455780
Maybe, I explained myself bad, I know I have to practise, but videos and guides could help me learning faster with some advices or techniques.

>Realistic can't possibly be fresh. It's explicitly directly derivative of reality.
Realistic in the sense of armors being made for humans, not others (ex of what I want to avoid: SM / Buzz Lightyear enormous feet).

>>96456613
>Realistic in the sense of armors being made for humans
Well that's studying anatomy, perspective and volume and getting your library to order exotic specialized literature on armour for you.

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>>96449379
Oh boy do I have a process for you that all anons will disagree with.
I call it Feyd Rauthas Shoes and it means you design your character like Frank Herbert made Feyd. Or like the French do anything.
Step 1
>take something kid you would have found cool, don’t worry about the chuuni, Ninja Dragon Rider? Four Armed laser gunslinger? Pale elf with a giant scythe? You’re set.
Step 2:
>add something sexual. This does not mean sexy, just sexual. A big codpiece, nipple piercings, if it’s a girl easy, put her in a short skirt or show off her tits
Step 3: Feyd Rauthas shoes.
>add something EMBARASSING or STUPID, clown shoes? You got it, a huge pink bow on your berserker? Polka dot neck scarf? Plateau boots? A realy stupid hairstyle? A big heart on the breastplate

The silly will allow you to double down on the edge and make it ironically less embarrassing
A bonus option is to add a very strange shape like a triangular helmet.
To give you a mini example
>pic related
Chaos warriors are scary.

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>>96455587
I mean, it is. But it's still better than WotC run that combined the CCG booster scam, abysmal sculpt and a paint job so bad that the worst possible beginner couldn't do worse.

Man, back when they were a thing I didn't believe that WEG's metal minis would be anything but a baseline of quality.

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>>96455587
as expected from AMG

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>>96456221
>a paint job so bad that the worst possible beginner couldn't do worse
a mild exaggeration

>>96421638
>do you all think the interiors of the cargo pods on the BFF-1 are accessable via interior gangways or not?
Yes. Star Wars ships should feel like interwar aircraft with lots of silly features that wouldn't appear in optimized designs (think things like passenger planes with corridors in the wings so the mechanic can reach the engines during flight). You'd still need to answer the question of whether or not the BFF-1 containers are detachable from the drive section. It seems like they should be, but I think X-Wing implied otherwise. I was always unclear about whether the BFF-1 was a properly engineered ship or something a second-tier manufacturer built from recycled parts that ended up being a big success despite that.

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Star Wars seriously misses some grim and gritty war vibe. No matter how retarded shit like Dark Empire was, imaging the sheer butchery and carnage that Legends gave us was as kino as it gets. We need more giant fucking battles and a focus on warfare and military.

>anon, thats sloppa
Yes, i know, now shut the fuck up.

>>96458251
Past Life is fairly common, but there's like only one woof that genuinely comes back as a cub somewhere within 2000 miles from the place he was killed at. The Russian one, Grayback or Grimderp, or whatever.

>>96458291
desu the whole ''you generate paradox as you age'' itself is super inconsistent and depends on the writer. There's a ton of named NPCs that are close to 1000 years old or more and yet they live on Earth without Paradox bothering them at all, for example Maimonides and Jodi Blake (though the later uses demonic investments to prolong her life).

>>96458291
>Because Legendary Alchemist don't grow on trees and even if they do, materials required to brew their longevity potions are as rare as unicorns.
>Said absolutely nowhere(mostly because the info on sorcerers changes so much that there's less reliable info on them than the reliable info on mummies)

>>96458360
>itself is super inconsistent and depends on the writer.
Depends on paradigm I think. Some paradigms cause more paradox than others.

>>96458331
I think they cosmetically retconned Past Life into Ancestor since it makes more sense in the lore of WtA, but kept the original background for Mage, Mummy and Changeling.

>>96458016
Doesn't the word actually translate to babbler. the whole thing was basically a crack at their language.

>>96458055
Yes, Greeks thought that all non-Greek languages sound like incomprehensible "bar bar" speech.

>>96457768
No idea why you've picked Uigars to typify your barbarians. But just figure out what you're asking and ask about that. You want Asian Steppe People? You want Gallic people from the beginning of the Roman Empire?

What the fuck do YOU mean when you say "Barbarian?" Because all that the word means is "Not Hellenized" and then later "Not Romanized."

The image we have of "barbarians" mostly comes from Conan and the stuff that contributed to those stories is pretty varied and includes a lot of really ugly, early twentieth century and late nineteenth century psuedo-science and psuedo-archeology.

>>96457768
>Is it there a good RPG with proper "barbarians"?
This is a useless question because it depends on the setting of your game.

>>96457768
>look up fantasy media
>wonder why it uses fantasy terminology
You're retarded. And as a non-fantasy term it's so vague as to be basically meaningless.