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Sorry I copy/pasted the previous OP which forgot the link to the old thread so I forgot to include it as well
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>>97343794
>>97343840
>One thing I always thought was cool was the ability to "analyze" an enemy for many rounds
Yep, nothing similar to that and longer than a full action aim seems to be a default option in DH-related systems.
>I also really like the many different mundane methods for characters to work together in combat
Something similar might be found in the Inquisitor's Handbook for DH1E (and maybe in OW too), but it's not likely to be as much.
>When I look through the rules, it seems like there are more ways to get bonuses to hit during combat than for bonuses to noncombat skills in peaceful situations, which feels backwards to me.
Indeed, more effort was put into disassembling combat into separate modifiers than into disassembling non-combat activities the same way (as opposed to simply giving a range of total mods and telling the GM to pick).

>>97343946
>Something similar might be found in the Inquisitor's Handbook for DH1E
Alright, I'll look into it and see if I can recommend anything to the soon-to-be GM. Thanks.

>>97337478
No. The Emperor said none of those.
The "Burn the Heretic, Kill the Mutant, Purge the Unclean" is the result of ten thousand years of setting brainrot.

The idea it's anything else, is just fan circle brainrot, supported because BL are too hack-ish to write anything not about Astartes killing bad guys, or remembering that 40k motifs weren't common in 30k.

>Alien.
Permitted if they're amicable. Issue was, Dark Forest theory answered itself in that most aliens encountered weren't amicable. The politest regularly encountered were the Craftworld Eldar, who were still used to the idea of being a galactic empire themselves, and were pirates as much as anything else.

This got flanderized down into "All aliens are ebil, and must be killed on sight or you're a sinner."

>Heretics.
Literally weren't a thing. You have some marines arbitrarily using the word (because the writers forgot what the word means), but what you had were hostile factions, or traitors.

'Heretic' would only be adopted wholesale around m36 with the official adoption of the Imperial Cult.

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>>97344527
You're arguing with someone who got all their lore from fuckin bluesky or some shit. They have bad opinions and they refuse to change them because it gives them a sense of smug moral superiority, and they probably tell their friends "oh I wish I could like 40k but it's just so full of evil people being evil" or other such faggotry. They're probably an athiest and thus dig for literally any reason to hate Big E because he vaguely resembles the abrahamic god.
In short, a retard and a troll. Don't feed 'em.

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I feel bad for the Drukhari, their codexes have taken a real beating, and they have so few units. On the plus side, so few units means I could transfer them over into the BFK Mass Combat system easily enough, only took two hours or so.

>>97345736
>What was the shitstorm about?
About a decade ago JKR wrote a very polite essay saying that while trannies are heckin beautiful and valid, for the sake of women's safety they shouldn't be allowed in women's rape shelters.

Naturally this was literal genocide so queers have spent the last decade plus flooding her with death threats and throwing any baseless slander they can possibly think of at her, including "holocaust denier," "science denier," "antisemite," "nazi," "murderer," "misogynist," "alt-right," "hated by her family," and most bizarrely, "lives in a castle full of black mold."

All this because, naturally, they know no one outside the most deranged circles will view "anti-trans" as a bad thing. As a result JKR for her part has become significantly less willing to be bullied by alleged "progressives" over the years, which has created a feedback loop which occasionally creates some really funny twatter interactions, not that it's worth going to twatter to look.

With the current state of the audience for Traditional Games™ it's probably more effort than it's worth to try and create a Harry Potter system, what with the political backlash... but looking at that recent video game, maybe not.

>>97345653
>McGonagall probably expected Hermione wouldn't abuse the Time Turner and ONLY be a swot who takes extra lessons.
The idea that a high school teacher would even be in a position to decide whether or not to give one to a 13-year-old is so absurd as to strain credulity on its own. Hell, even if you trust the kid, all it takes is Malfoy being a particularly big prick that day and shaking her upside-down until it falls out of her pocket.

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>>97346004
Honestly, I'd say it's probably more effort than it's worth to make a Harry Potter system, but not because of political reasons. More that with how loosely magic works in the HP system, you'd either have to make it insanely simple to fit the intended audience, or make it stupidly complicated to properly replicate all the magic shit. That and so many spell combos would be so beyond busted that you wouldn't need the killing curses, a specialized transfiguration specialist would basically be able to instantly win encounters by turning people into mice, and all of the loopy shit people do with stuff like prestidigitation in D&D is going to increase exponentially.

Granted, if it allowed me to play Rincewind in such a game, maybe, just maybe, I'd be interested. But more than likely I wouldn't be allowed to.

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>>97346004
Fascinating. Im glad everything could be explained as "crazy people did something pointless for no reason", the world is much simpler that way

>>97346061
uh oh someone got called out

>>97345832
Left

>>97345607
Nice! I really like how treasure tokens have amped up my hexcrawls games. Really makes encumbrance fun

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>>97345029
loving your stuff

Anyone have some numbers for how to dehydrate pine bark for basing?
I know to put it into my oven for a bit but how long and what temp?

>>97346024
1 hour, around 100°C. Your entire kitchen and nearby rooms will smell of pine forest for weeks after this every time you heat up the oven btw

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>>97345342
And you call it One Page Solo Engine, despite the fact that it's clearly three pages?

>>97345874
You got a point.
I print the 2 first pages in a single sheet of paper.
I guess the author should call it One Sheet Solo Engine.

guys i really really really fucking love kal arath/al rathak and all the supplements

literally just so perfectly open for emergent play that gives you JUST enough for your imagination to run wild and come up with fun fusions and progressions in plot and wild events

i even have a rough idea/working of a cool subsystem expansion supplement i want to write and add on... it's gonna be fuckin lit...

>>97345993
I'm going to try this one very soon!
I got me a copy of it.

>>97346043
hell yeah brother. enjoy.

>>97345493
>You also need to remember that being super special super heroes is a 5e thing (maybe 4e).
That was absolutely 3.X's big thing to begin with, the shift from rolling up disposable character sheets to it building out a full-on character.

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>tonight is session four of our "one shot" adventure with premade characters that we don't care about

>>97345790
Sounds like you should quit playing drag-ass and get your rear in gear, anon.

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>Week two of people saying they can't make the game
>We were suppose to start the game two weeks ago
>"Friends" made such big promises for new years that we'd play a game together every week

>>97345937
That sucks anon. It's not easy to organise things like this. What we do, we put a poll up listing the next month's days and everyone ticks the days they can do, we also have a rule that if one person is missing, the game still goes on, it helps muster people.

>>97345947
It was Teddy II in the Dark Age. His death was one of the big things that ramped up to the civil war that killed the Nova Cats.

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Theodore_Kurita_(32nd_c.)


>>97345958
Hyperspace travel is fucked up. Technically, the radar burst of the ship emergence often happens BEFORE you even leave the starting system. Time is fucked in hyperspace.

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>>97345958
>Isn't the time you spend inside the Hyperspace per jump few seconds or something?

>>97345979
I don't get it. Star Trek reference?

>>97345958
Usually it's pretty much instant, although it can be detected before you drop out, and sometimes the detectable burst happens before you actually leave. You can also detect traces of a jump after the fact and guesstimate the tonnage of the jumpship close enough to know if it was one of the really small ones or so big that it had to be a warship.

>>97345991
If only the Star League was so optimistic about the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGvkx5He4eA

>>97345412
I'm pretty sure that hypothesis was washed long ago, and the one currently in vogue is that the genetic combo that produces homosexuality in men increases fertility in women.

>>97345766
Haven't heard that one. Maybe you're right. I guess the bigger point is that the "gays are unnatural!" retards don't seem to understand that evolution kept it around in human beings, so as natural as opposable thumbs. And that human society and biology is incredibly more complex than anything that can be reduced to a bumper sticker and that our specializations and differences? Helpful.

>>97345816
Sure, but it's worth noting in the same context that men instinctively react to seeing two men kissing with the same revulsive affect that they react to seeing maggots crawling in meat, and that most human civilizations habitually beat male homosexuals to death when caught. So it's entirely possible that what makes the fertility adaptation valuable is that the accidental defective men it produces are simply disposed of by the rest of the population and pose no practical issue.

I'm not saying this is definitively the case, mind you. Just that it's very easy to tell yourself stories about the ancestral environment that are in line with what you already liked, and you too should be very careful about that incredible complexity.

>>97334560
>Go out of your way to write an entire book to remind people that in your made up imagination game, there can be gay people

I mean I know op posted this to be a baiting fag but come on

>>97345881
>it's worth noting in the same context that
Sure. You're right that "natural" doesn't equal good. But "it's unnatural" is a claim that straight people use to target gays. Not a justification gays use to target straights. It's the "god hates gays" people who are claiming "natural must be right!" Lots of "natural" instincts aren't.
>that most human civilizations habitually beat male homosexuals to death when caught.
That's... not historical.

>>97338861
>I think it would be cool to have an option for people that don't want to trawl through message boards for builds or have exhaustive knowledge of 20 different books to not feel like a gimp next to those people that do that stuff.
If the problem is char-op, then either prebuilt characters with their whole 1 to 20 choices pre-made, or even better in my opinion a simple very limited pool of curated options so that the person can make some choices.
You could even group it by themes or roles or whatever.

>>97338861
I really don't understand this mindset. There are pregen characters all over the source material.
Just pick a high level NPC and there is your decent build if you don't want to do it yourself.
why restrict the entire group and game instead. These games are meant to last years. An intimidated newbie today, in 3 years of playing might want to start branching out.

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>>97341172
Oh shit, you're right. No idea how I have played this game for years upon years and that never registered with me. Thanks anon

>>97345165
Its like a lot of things
>wow this build is so op, how has nobody done this?
*actually reads the rules*
>oh nevermind

>>97299931
Reading through this book, there are a lot of neat ideas to make domains individually more interesting. It's a shame they came up with some cool stuff and never thought to throw them into the pot and make bring them forward.

>>97344590
Might be thinking of the other cyborg dragon faction. Adverts do list the Cryx as joining forces with the Orgoth to fuck over the mainland.

>>97344608
Maybe it was for the Dragonfall event where Blighterghast ended up getting killed?

>>97344563
I'm pretty sure Corvus Belli is still mostly metals no?

>>97345312
They were one of the last holdouts, but have been switching to resin and plastic with mixed results for the past few years.

>>97344652
Might be. I think it's mainly from how the website selling Cryx forces describes their situation as
>"Stirred to rise from its deathly slumber through insidious bargains wrought by the Orgoth, a terrible new power stirs on the edge of the Iron Kingdoms."
Which could either mean they dug up more Orgoth tech, or like how other people are interpreting it to men they made a bargain with the Orgoth Sea Raiders to conquer the mainland together.

>>97344634
I like it but then I'm addicted to that feeling you get in drafting where you're praying to god to wheel that one other thing you want and feel ecstatic when it happens and miserable when it doesn't.

>>97345441
I don't think his post was implying he's an enjoyer

>>97345497
oh fuck you're right, didn't see the quotation marks surrounding the word "game"

what's wrong with it?

>>97345243
The only expansion you'd even want outside the big box is Abbey and Mayor. The rest are either a clusterfuck, or tacked-on and out of place.

>>97343628
That anon made the most innocuous board gaming statement this general has ever seen and you completely filled your diaper over it. I wouldn't play mumblety peg with you, freak.
>>97345713
>mfw a poor didn't have the catapult near me

>>97345793
>only one actually embodies the concept of chaos
>still just embodies it in the most stale, predictable fashion imaginable
seems pretty much not chaotic if you ask me

>>97345793
Religiously, in traditional cultures/religion, "chaos" meant "the forces outside civilization." City = order. Wilderness = chaos. So anything animalistic like rage, rampant sex, gluttony--all traditionally "chaos" in things like Greek and Mesopotamian and Laventine religion (also the ocean is chaos for some reason). Just look at Gilgamesh or the Bible for stories where the good gods slay the chaos gods: yaweh versus leviathan, gilgamesh versus hambaba. Civilization good. Destablizing civilization? Chaos. Hence Enkidu (who gets away from chaos by drinking beer, eating bread and sleeping with a prostitute). Really, tzeentch embodies chaos least of all, out of them.

Of course the real answer is just Moorcock and Anderson. That's where Warhammer and D&D both get their law/chaos dichotomy from.

>>97335340
So TW(TM) stuff is lumpy, ornate, & has a bunch if gemstones glued to it so it looks like a weird maguffin weapon for a cheap scifi/fantasy movie made in the 80's

Military TW stuff looks functional & has some gold trim, tasteful gemstones in places youd expect like chest & helm, that give it a nice look, or else they're all attached on the inside where you cant see.

There's a subset of "steam/diesel/oldschoolpunk" TWs who make restorations with alm the gemstones & stuff hidden behind panels like the military TW stuff.

Then theres all the specialty case TW stuff that is either alien or whatever

>>97334923
Yes, I think that should be easier.

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>>97335340
>>97336664
It's a bit fucked but you just need to use the gemstone-2-spell chart to get a feel for what is required for any particular TW device.

I was always fascinated by how this game seems to not just be unbalanced, but to actively reject the idea of balance between character options.

>Alright guys, let's start the campaign. Let me see those characters.
>I'm a basic bitch grunt with a rifle, a body armor and some military-related skills. I also took the Communications Technician package that trades some combat skills for techy ones like Electronic Countermeasures (Jamming) and Radio (Scramblers).
>I start with one of the most powerful suits of power armor in the game. Its starting gun is a shotgun-railgun that can fire up to 5 kilometers away and does enough damage to one-shot a Jumbo Jet 7 times over. Also the book explicitly says I'm hailed as a hero and settlements will give me free ammo and repairs.
>I'm a 12 ft tall birdman demigod. I can fly, I have superhuman stats across the board and more ISP and PPE than most dedicated caster classes, and I automatically know all physical, sensitivity and telephaty psychic powers and all fire warlock spells. Oh, I can also open rifts and self-resurrect.
>I'm a forger, I can forge fake documents with a base 20% success chance (+5% per level) but to compensate I can't take cybernetics.

>>97344438
Kevin himself said something about it being a "challenge", same with playing a character with shit like IQ 3, though, in my days, most GMs just forbid people to pick those commoner classes anyway.

>>97344326
>a Wraith splatbook about the Holocaust
It was very well done, I thought. It was tasteful, even. We had a lot of fun with it.

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>>97343420
>be clone of evil superman
>created solely to kill evil superman if he becomes a liability
>grow impatient with your life's purpose taking too long
>do lots of horrible shit (like eating a baby), photograph it, then send it to evil superman so he thinks he's tripping
>he gives up on his reputation and besieges the white house, thus finally providing an excuse to carry out your task

>>97343357
That shitty one where everything is extra horrible and all you can do is pointlessly dig as deep as possible to get away from evil sun before you die horribly.

that stupid trend of "nega dungeons"

>you didn't want to get hacked to pieces by thousands of tiny magic blades while ravenous super-maggots gnaw away at your flesh?
>well...then you shouldn't have entered a DUNGEON lol :^)

>>97343357
Isn't GURPS Banestorm supposed to be super edgy?

>>97345446
Please don't pretend you know things, it makes it embarrassing

>>97345411
>either is infinitely more difficult than anything you play
I play both Tear and Snake Eye. I'm polling for overall sentiment here compared to other YGO generals.
>>97345446
Never played either deck award.

>>97345446
>Excellent. My opponent not only whiffed on drawing into Havnis, Kelbek, and any Bystials, but they also didn't mill a single Tearlaments girl, Agido, Kelbek, Mudora, Keldo, or Neko Mane King. I can now make Abyss Dweller and auto-win the game.

>>97345754
don't forget orange light can be used to negate and send an ishizu in hand to the GY

>>97343575
You'll probably start seeing more people after the next banlist, anon. We are in a pretty stale format at the moment with how long Ryzeal, Maliss, Mitsurugi, and the JUSH decks have been around while barely hit.

...whenever that banlist arrives.