>>97314062
>LRL is one of the hardest if not the hardest faction in AoS to paint. trim everywhere, gems and little bits and details everywhere, even for your basic battle line units.
They really aren't as bad as people make them out to be. Slaanesh and IDK are worse. I'd even throw STD if painted more "cleanly" higher up than LRL, too. Especially if you add in some Marauders as Darkoath. Tons more trim, trinkets, and textures. LRL's trim is very well defined on sculpts and simple in shape and gems can be painted as easily or as difficultly as one would like.
I would say Rotswords have more detail than LRL Wardens or Sentinels if we're talking basic battleline. But LRL largely can't afford to use muck and grime as a cover for quick/sloppy painting. Now assembly? LRL are definitely a candidate for worst assembly and ease of enabling sub-assembly. Some very stupid choices there.

>>97314178
I'll warn you after Giantslayer (mind you, that's book like... 7) they swap authors from William King to Nathan Long. Kinda what I said before, it's not bad but I think Orcslayer was probably the weakest in the series for me. (Manslayer coming in close second) but the rest are pretty good.

But I hope you enjoy it anon, it's a fun series!

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>>97314184
To prove your point for Slaanesh, Blissbarbs are also built like hot ass on top of being spindly, pokey, and difficult to paint cleanly. I hate them and my buddy who just painted 2k of Drukhari hates them.

But fuck me does HoS have some of the best models in AoS.

>>97314197
I’ve only built/painted a squad of Blissbarbs, Myrmidesh, and a Lord of Hubris. I didn’t entirely hate it but I did make it miserable for myself by painting the two squads simultaneously.

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>>97314142
thanquol is the king of being a shithead, he's wonderful

>>97310265
Gay.

>>97301678
Doubt it, the red head isn't black

>>97306250
>People unironically thought it would be anything other than ultramarines

>>97311204
this just isnt true

>>97301678
I'm still holding out hope the Warhammer series will be an Eisenhorn adaption. It's the series most suited to a movie/TV series from them.

>>97313915
>>97313957
For me I just didn't like Scrapper's powerpicker.

>>97313969
It is a bit lackluster. I remember some anons wanted to make custom artifacts but were rejected at the character creation stage, we never got far enough into the plot for us to find new ones narratively. At least not usable ones.

>>97313957
>>97313969
>>97313974
Because of how it went Scrapper is one of the few cyoas I would want a full revival of, but I also know that it ended for a reason and a full revival wouldn't work. I liked the cast.

>>97312592
I thought you were talking about the mha Sandy

>>97312015
Chunin is also just more fun if you're going to run nardo for MP. Child soldiers being used in a mostly nonlethal proxy war (that ultimately becomes lethal) to maintain peace between the nations as essentially WMDs checks a lot of boxes. You get built in conflict, blood feuds, clan politics, training arcs, friends to rivals, enemies to friends, etc. And all in a central location for the anons who insist that this is a necessity.

>>97310492
>How can anyone tolerate this kind of greed? Isnt this clear that wotc doesnt see you as human, they just see you as cattle that must be milked

It's worth it because it's cube and cube is the best kind of Magic available

>>97305629
"This now leads us to the next question: How are cards split between rare and mythic rare? Or more to the point, what kind of cards are going to become mythic rares? We want the flavor of mythic rare to be something that feels very special and unique. Generally speaking we expect that to mean cards like Planeswalkers, most legends, and epic-feeling creatures and spells. They will not just be a list of each set's most powerful tournament-level cards." - Mark Rosewater

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>>97313652

Grinding out wins, watching Star Trek TNG reruns. It doesn't get any better than this

>cube is back
this game mode is worse reward wise than regular drafts since you don’t get to keep the cards you drafted or is there something i am missing?

>>97311391
It's probably because most Isekai are practically carbon copies that anything unique stands out more,

>>97311369
Hey Cautious, in Cautious Hero what are the oc companions based on?

>>97311369
>I would rather kill myself than consume enough of it to make one.
's a shame; would be nice to see a jump for that - or at least one that isn't the barebones SB one that feels like it might've been made before the series even got into endgame proper.

>>97307099
I have them work kinda like world of darkness woofs. Where you have multiple bodies and the one visible is just the one being expressed on reality.

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EARCLACKS JUMPCHAIN

https://drive.google.com/file/d/197qx3ZvTlvhQ72-M9720_kmymM9YPejK/view?usp=sharing

There's some broken shit in this one.
No I don't plan on balancing it.

>>97313073
Yet, you're unable to prove that you can read.

>>97310894
>force it
its pretty funny, fuck off, you bitter faggot, dont be a fucking elf

>>97310064
I'm so fucking tired of this cheap Baalbuddy knockoff.

>>97310064
for a start, just steal the Contacts mechanic from Shadowrun
>each PC by default knows 2-3 people who can provide helpful support, with ratings on that relationship going from 1 (professional acquaintance) to 3 (fully dedicated ally)

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>>97313495
>sexualized pomni
he's on the shitlist to

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>>97313986
I want more time to play games.
I also want a cute gf that will play Titanicus with me while wearing not very much but let's go with the realistic goal here.

>>97313986
>What do you want next?

More fast attack in plastic. Sabre Tanks, Land Speeders, Javelins, Outriders, and so on.

>>97313986
>TQ
Orfeo Cassandar with rules that let him credibly stalemate Kharn
Narik Dreygur
Cassian Dracos as a Leviathan-Cortus and Adherents

>>97314200
we already have a model for cassian dracos, no clue why people are asking for him when salamanders are missing all their real characters (Numeon and Forgefather T'kell who are missing rules and missing models)

>>97314215
Because no one cares about BL slop

>>97313952
the lando dlc for star wars outlaws had a spaceliner casino that held the highest stake sabacc games around with a very ornate droid as the captain, not nearly to the scale as your droid, but its a bit funny the similarities official media would have down the road.

>>97313984
"You've been hired by a local crime lord to kill an Imperial Moff who refuses to turn a blind eye to said crime lord's dealings"
Now the party gets to decide what sort of morality it wants. Full murder hobo killing evil Imperials, or helping the Imperials enforce their evil lawful ways by helping them get rid of a crime lord.
Or get jobs from a mysterious contact (who may or may not be a part of the Rebel Alliance) to strike and destroy Imperial infrastructure or steal money or ships from the Empire.
Or stealing rare and valuable ancient artifacts from rich asshole who supports the Empire. Or from the local crime lord.

Just spitballing here. You can take a lot of fantasy adventures and just replace things like "king" with "planetary governor" and still have cliche'd adventures rescuing a princess.
The sky's not even the limit since there's also all that space out there to explore. Like having the party fly into an asteroid field to investigate an ancient derelict spaceship for anything valuable and/ or fighting off space pirates who want the loot for themselves or are just harassing local civilian traffic.

>>97314004
Heh, I might have to check that out.
It does remind my of the many times we'd be in a public place and the party members would say "act subtle so you don't attract attention" and I'd have to remind them that "I am seven feet tall, four feet wide, and painted bright red. I do not do 'subtle'"

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>>97314035
quasi related, it's always been weird to me how droids never get to be eccentric or overly weird, hell the droid with the most personality is R2, and its just him being sassy and brash at most, or K-2S0 or HK-47 being very sarcastic. why can't we get droids who love to wear gaudy chains and furs and use blasters way over their weight tolerance and other dumb shit.

>>97313984
The traditional "you're in debt to a hutt and working under it as payment" is always fun since it lets the party start off as thugs doing low level shit, then they can eventually get drawn into a larger event that can have consequences down the line (like if they join the rebellion without paying off their debt, they have to choose between doing a blatantly evil job that pays enough money to cover their debt or pissing off their boss by fucking up the job while remaining in debt, or dealing with the increased scrutiny if they find a jedi relic and report it to the Imperials).
Also, how you frame a quest can really shape the enjoyment of it and how the players will react accordingly.
when in doubt, use high-school level plagarism skills and just blatantly copy another plot but make it fit into the star wars setting. There's a large enough variety of planets and cultures that a good chunk of popular fiction can be easily retooled to work in the setting.

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What turret is this? It's not the DF9 or the 1.4 FD

>>97309004
In the original cut, he and the surviving goblin talk about helping the Boss while he's in the climatic fight, but decided "Enh, fuck it." and run off.

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>>97290361
We already reached peak in 1984 it was all down from here.

>>97297303
his letter to the nsadp was unironically gay and cringe

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>>97292516
Is complaining about off-topic threads actually a Wilbur thing? I've been doing that for ages (I even made pic related a couple years ago). The real kicker is that I don't hate off-topic threads; /tg/ has always had cheesecake threads and BITCHES for example. I just fucking hate those inane "x in your setting?" threads that never go anywhere, never really contribute anything, and get maintained by bumpfag almost constantly. I've seen threads that have sat on the board for weeks that were "what is x like in your setting" and just always get a bumpfag post to keep them up like "tell me more anon" in response to anyone who puts a modicum of effort into a post. It makes the board more boring than it already is these days. The amateur game design thread is the best thread on the board, and ironically it's rarely around.

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How do gene stealer cults start? Do the Tyranids send a planet an approximate of what the humans/whoever find a 10/10 mate or do they just send some bug to attack and rape the first human they see? I'm trying to start a campaign about the beginning stages of an invasion but don't really know what happens before the cult starts growing. How do they get human/tyranids in the beginning before the indoctrination? Also, can tyranids interbreed with or gain biomass from daemons

>>97314101
>How do gene stealer cults start?
Alien-style, innit? A purestrain genestealer sneaks onto a planet somehow starts molestering humans who get mind-raped and implanted with tyrannid genetic material. They have mutant babies and this continues for several generations until the offspring are purestrain genestealers again. Meanwhile, the original genestealer gets ecksbawks-hueg and becomes a patriarch, controlling all its molested thralls and their offspring through psychic voodoo.

>>97314101
It starts with genestealers skulking around and infecting humans, who then form a cult. You can read about the full process by just simply googling.

>>97314101
>Also, can tyranids interbreed with or gain biomass from daemons
No. Daemons literally are not real.

>>97314101
>Also, can tyranids interbreed with or gain biomass from daemons
Daemons famously don't have biomass, they poof into nothing when "killed", returning to the warp. Mildy worrying someone who clearly seems to have not read much 40K is running a game...

>>97307625
Anon never said it was a good or bad plan, just that sending them out there was indeed the plan of the higher ups. This may shock you but governments don't always make the best plans, especially in war.

>>97314123
He just doesn't want to accept that politics is just high school but now in front of a crowd.

>>97306557
The mutilation of dead bodies is considered a warcrime

>>97314171
It is now, by Geneva definition, and it was back during the event of Iliad, but for some cultures in the interim it was considered acceptable - such as native american scalp taking. Standards change.

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>>97294582
none of my PCs are soldiers and even if they were, none of their countries have signed the Geneva Convention.

>>97290108
Play a different game. No, really. "Hates all magic" isn't a logical position in the world of Exalted because literally everything is magic. The world itself is made of magical energy, there are gods for everything, and even mundane actions can have magical consequences associated with them. This isn't like D&D where "magic" is some separate thing--it's an inherent part of the world of Creation.

Now, if you want to hate a specific *kind* of magic, or be an Exalt whose purpose is hunting other Exalted, go nuts.

>>97311138
>For the people who might have actually played it here. Do you guys know the in universe reason why high sci fi people would use swords often in Heaven's Reach?
Because laser swords are cool, and because they're pretty effective, not any less so than ranged weapons. If your question is more along the lines of, 'why do ranged weapons work as well or better than swords in my space fantasy game', the answer is because it is in fact a science fantasy, a specific niche genre that hybridizes the more broad science fiction genre with more classical fantasy adventure, occupied by media such as Star Wars and Warhammer 40k, rather than being a high-power sci-fi along the lines of Star Trek or the Culture series.

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>>97313832
>why do ranged weapons work as well or better than swords in my space fantasy game
Other way round, oops.

>>97313832
>rather than being a high-power sci-fi along the lines of Star Trek or the Culture series.
Unless you're a Klingon

>>97313956
Klingons exist to explore the idea of warrior cultures taken out of place into the speculative future of advanced science and adapted into that sphere. Klingon characters live lives of fantasy warrior adventuring even if that'd probably be the most glorious life they can imagine, because adventure isn't what the genre's about.

>>97313403
Don't even give him pity replies. See what it does to him?

>>97307995
>/osrg/ hijack thread gets insta moderated
>This thread is ignored moderation wise and trolling reports are ignored.

>>97311554
>I cannot even imagine how difficult of a task writing these books was, but I am sure that the author feels satisfied.
This is sycophantic gold.

>>97313551
>keep trolling thread
>posts keep getting deleted
The system works.

>>97313514
He was gonna do it anyway. He might have even done it less than he normally does because he briefly felt less alone, finally getting a real person to pay attention to him.

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>>97308547
stop running WotC D&D. Run some other system.

>>97308547
being an ideas guy isn't something that can be cured

>>97308547
i do research
when it comes time to commit my work to the page, that's when i discover gaps in my knowledge and understanding
actually going through the effort of organizing your thoughts and forming a story means you can't deceive yourself into thinking your idea isn't half-baked

>>97310075
Might work to start with a small part of a setting like an adventure location or town and treat it like a character. Give it stats, build it and fill in the ideas. Then do that with a different location until you have a few, then link them together.

>>97308547
Contrary to what other anons have said, vibes and aesthetics are 80% of what makes a good next session for me, since that's what I actually use to improv. That's the fun part. For the remaining 20% I try to apply the Alexandrian's smart prep principles, so stuff that
>is time-consuming to create
>requires special tools
>benefits from considered thought
>is difficult to improvise
so maps, lists of names, NPC goals, timelines & resources, etc.

>>97314058
use better metallic paint

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>>97314129
I'm already using Vallejo metal color and TTC

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>>97314058

>>97314058
i'm pretty lazy with metallics myself, but one thing you can do is edge highlight the sharp edge of the blade with a bright silver or lighter metallic color
i would also maybe add some shading on the part of the blade where it connects to the square heft of the axe, just to give it a bit more distinction

>>97314058
I don't think highlighting alone will significantly improve the end result. Metallics benefit a lot from weathering, so I'd look into that.