>>97825160
Most of what's in single player mode should've been in the core rulebook. We should have an augmented reality style city builder for block generation built in.

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>>97743613
oh my god they did it again. there are about a dozen tables like this in the solo play rules
Do they actually not know distribution? for fucks sake just roll a D12

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>>97826307
innovations in not understanding distribution... so maxtac are more common than NCPD?
also for the previous if they'd just included one less option in each table it could have been a D10. why the fuck are they like this

>>97826307
>>97826360
No one's been at the helm for a while, sailor.

>>97826360
Thing is, if Maxtac is in charge of security, it means that only key assets are protected, like energy lines. Maxtac is responsible for the whole city - if 2d10 hits them, it's likely an area without anybody claiming responsibility.

>>97826442
I have not, is it good?

>>97826446
I haven't watched the movie that just came out, but I liked the book a lot. The book doesn't have a conflict between humans and aliens but (Minor spoiler alert about the setting)
it features a race of aliens that are very alien. First of all they evolved on an ammonia planet where gravity and heat was so hight to be basically lethal to everything on earth, which however means that they can't survive in our at atmosphere the same way we can't survive in theirs. They also are completely blind because they basically live in the depths of the ocean so they have never evolved sight and instead rely on ecolocation. They have insane material science compared to us but at the same time because they lacked ways to perceive electromagnetic radiations they just discovered the existence of stars and that space is not just completely empty relatively recently, so they are for example completely ignorant of special relativity of cosmic radiations

It basically checks a lot of the points you made.

>>97823757
Avatar is an explicitly anti-human narrative, it's hardly surprising that HFY lovers wouldn't despise the Na'vi.

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>>97826746
It is extremely funny to watch people seethe about it regardless

>>97826746
Only if you consider villainous, corrupt, members of humanity as legitimate representatives of all humanity.

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>>97826375

>>97783078
the actual coherent backstory for a half-eldar is bioengineering

>>97826429
Splendor is a eurogame with its gears showing. It's what you get when you strip an engine builder to the bone. I feel like I can come up with a wacky engine and test it in Dominion. It depends on what expansions are involved in the kingdom card tableau. Or compare it to Roll for the Galaxy. You're still building an engine but there's so much going on that the illusion holds up better. Hell sometimes I even feel like I'm managing an empire. I stop seeing the wiring for a minute or two. Honestly though there's just more there. I kind of admire Splendor but it's a little too lean.

>>97826429
Oh, and let's all be honest here. One of the appeals of modern board games is that they give players excuses for why they lose so they don't feel bad. Splendor is lean enough that you get that same punch in the face abstracts give you. You can't say the dice lost it for you. Or that you were dealt a bad hand. You can't lie to yourself about it and feel comfy just making the moves.

>>97826756
>Or compare it to Roll for the Galaxy.
I don't like Roll for the Galaxy.

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>>97826756
>Splendor is a eurogame with its gears showing.
Weird, on one hand I totally agree and think it's a major symptom of nu-euros, like picrel that I played recently. There used to be a sort of discovery stage in which you stumble upon the gears and then would be impressed by how they operate in motion.
On the other, the more Knizia I play, the more I realize you don't need to hide the gears, just use them on things that aren't so mechanic (viz human psychology)
Man did Carnuta piss me off playing it, it being so inoffensively bland and I'm mad I had to remind myself whatever the actual name was again

>>97826784
The comparison was for contrast anon. I'm not trying to sell you on Roll for the Galaxy. I wouldn't buy neither Roll or Splendor if I had to start my collection all over again. It would get dull quick if I only talked about games I would keep in my collection. That's a short list these days.

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>>97826432
>>97814225
>>97816604
>be Forgemaster Ta'shawn
>i am trapped within my own mind
>the lockdown of the augmetics was only part of my horrific realization
>in my rage and haste i overwhelmed many of the systems on Hive Kong leading to the very thing i wished to stop
>rage code that had laid dorment in my system during my face with the chaos vision activated during my attempted vox communication
>i have come to a realization
>i cannot continue as i have been
>i must entirely and completely deaden my emotions as the mechanicus do
>i have locked all systems down and activated all life supports systems in my armor as my mechadentries use their smallest drills to install an emotional vault into my brain
>i will lock this corrupting rage away in my systems and return the forgemaster my company needs
>until then i can only pray to the God Emperor and Vulkan that my brothers are not in danger
>or that Archmagos Armonk disposes of me out an airlock.

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>>97826073
>>97825467
>>97823449
>>97820520
>be Sargent Packmaster "Meatshield TBD"
>that plasma weapon cut through our baracades pretty hard and as we were kissing our collective asses goodbye we finally got some air support
>space marines!
>their chapter master seems pretty pissed about something given he's using have a thunder hammer and a combi bolter to go toe to toe with enemy tanks and is winning
>i have our troops give him a wide berth since im still not sure we're in the clear for suggesting we had contacts with the angry marines when Bilby tried to trick the tau
>also he seems like he's missing some anti armor weapon backup though as we push forward to give him some support
>as we do the water seems to change from radioactive toxic to clear and pure
>most of us stop and stare in awe at the first clean drinking water any of us have ever seen in our lives
>clear mist stirs up from it that makes the tank seem sluggish
>i hesitantly breath some in
>no adverse effects

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>>97823517

>be Felinid Lt. Tom, aka "Big Daddy"
>be with the Silver Astartes and the Cadians
>we just pulled up to the warehouse that Tiny Tam was rambling about...
>well... at least I think it is...
>this place is far more run down than the rest of the buildings in this district
>and HOLY EMPEROR... does this place creep me the feth out...
>the constant creaking and other noises I keep hearing has me on edge...
>thankfully the Silver Astarte is taking point...
>If he trips a land mine or an ambush he would probably survive...
>probably
>Inside its dark as hell
>most of the lights don't work anymore
>the ones that do are either dim or flicker constantly

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>>97826740
>>97823517
>be Spencer
>huh...
>that went well
>strangely well
>so obviously im high alert
>i order shoulder lights on as we move through the dark of the warehouse
>besides the light breaking through the opening where i suppose the tanks tore out from
>this entire area is empty
>DAMN IT KID
>im about to write the whole thing off as a wild grouse chase when the kid
>no not the psyker one the other boring one
>fiddles around with something in his pack
>are those?

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>>97826708
>did you mean the Sweeper model servitors when you said seeker variants
Whoops, yes I did lol. Thanks for the catch.

>>97826913
>Harry Potter remake reveals Black Snape
>Magic's Harry Potter rip off also features a black Snape
There is NO conspiracy here whatsoever

>>97826922
Generic can be good.

>>97826931
>my bad, this is what I get for not paying enough attention to spoiler season
Don't worry anon, it was a good decision. This shit sucks, don't waste your time.

>>97826922
Sorry Maro yes Maro, I can totally see now that Opus is way more creative than Prowess. A simple stat boost is so boring and generic.

>>97826936
Wrong.

>>97825359
kek

>>97822296
>tq
Shin Megami Tensei. I think it's fairly doable already, any "near future" ruleset you could homebrew a monster summoning mechanic into would do it. But it would be cool to have models for stuff like demonica suits (slightly redesigned, because the original ones do look pretty stupid) and the classic SMT demons.

>>97825399
>>97825404
the game was basically dead on arrival

first off the scale was a hugely controversial, especially because scale75 was being super shady and not up-front about what the scale should be. their first kickstarter failed because it was 35mm scale instead of 28mm heroic, and for their second kickstarter they kept the scale but just hid it better and made people think it wasn't 35mm. unfortunate for them, because whilst in 2015 their scale was controverial, nowaday those models are much closer to primaris, plus people play conquest as well, so scale is not so controversial anymore

but the second problem was fulfillment and quality, especially quality of the rules and translations. so it was a cool box to get if you just wanted the minis, but besides that the game was just confusing and badly translated, so nobody was going to play it in the long run. at this point I suppose whoever still has those minis lying around is using them to play warsurge or opr

the final issue as far as I remember was that scale75 was good at making 75mm models, but they were not so good at making 35mm models. so they showcased a lot of 75mm models as a preview of what you'd get, but then once you got the final mini it was badly translated to 35mm and looked kinda shitty

too bad

>>97822296
>TQ: there are lots of IPs that could easily be turned into successful wargames

>zelda
>monster hunter
>pokémon
>super smash bros
>final fantasy tactics
>league of legends
>overwatch
>team fortress 2
>helldivers
>warframe
>apex legends
>cyberpunk2077

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>>97826761
>street fighter

I seen one already where it's just a flat board and like two or three fighters per side looked like

If you ever wondered what Lunars spent the entire second age doing at the edges of creation, it was basically this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czj7SyPNRto

>>97825763
Partying until burned at stakes?

>>97825763
What were they doing the entire First Age?

>>97826736
Going to designated Lunar social clubs to mutter uneasily about how unsure they are about how much agency they even have, getting caught in Wyld experiments and being forgotten about by their own Solars.

>>97826736
being riden by solars in every way you can imagine.

>>97820622
I do hate modern MtG like you wouldn't believe but aren't something like 80% of Sorcery decks water because that's the element with coolest sites and rules?

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A friend mentioned it to me a few weeks ago and I've had a waning interest in MTG for a long while now so I'm going to get into it even if it turns out to be a dead game. I bought the Gothic precons and I bought some playsets of the ordinaries (commons) of each set off of Ebay which should be showing up in about a week, probably in the next week or two I'm going to buy a booster box to crack.
I've probably played around 10 games with the precons with my friend and the game seems fun even if we are still misplaying and don't have a good head for strategy yet, not to mention it feels like the precons are kinda lopsided in powerlevel.
I don't know if I like the fact the deckbuilding meta has a lot of universal autoincludes (toolbox no matter what for sidedeck casting wincons, cores/mixes/other powerful artifacts if you can afford them) and the entire meta seemed completely dominated by Druid decks before he got nerfed via errata.
The fact that a lot of cards I've seen have misinterpretable wording that can lead to confusion about how stuff is executed also isn't great, but Curiosa.com is a solid resource that clears most things up pretty quickly even if it is irritating that I have to interrupt games several times in order to figure stuff out.
Even with those reservations the game is doing too much cool stuff for me to ignore it. Between the art and the really interesting design space they use with some cards like pic related I can see myself spending a lot of time and money on this, even though the only people I'm probably going to be playing with are 2-3 friends since the closest sanctioned event is over an hour away from where I live.

>>97821727
If you don't mind a dead game, Mage Wars Arena is pretty dope and you can usually get the complete thing for a decent price.

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>>97821717
The water decks are pretty dominant right now, but there's still a lot of competitive builds, also people are still trying to figure out what works in general. Cards like Atlantean Fate can be pretty brutal.

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Sorcery is based just for printing these two cards alone.

>>97817169
>YES YES IM A SHILL IM A SHILL THERE SEE NO ONE CARES
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>>97816651
I actually don't know. Why was that?

>>97823065
It’s the facade, it was dressed up to make the building look more impressive and ostentatious than it actually was.

Anon thought he was being “clever”

>>97818270
Nice work, I've seen this sped spouting this "RPGs are worse than ikea" horseshit before, and you took him apart much more neatly and respectfully than I was gonna, kek

>>97816639
>hey, I've seen some of this guy's videos and he has never once mentioned being paid

No, you're just blind.
Most countries have laws that require people who do any sort of reviews to disclose if they were paid for said reviews, including if they got the product for free. In fact, I'm pretty sure this is a standard part of YT's ToS.

But then again, maybe you're no blind and he does in fact not mention getting paid for reviews, in which case he's probably in violation of YT's ToS and maybe some actual laws...

>>97826649
Sure, but playing with fine tuned decks is very fun. It can be enjoyable. Kitchen table isn't very conductive to producing a truly competitive experience which is what many players want.

>>97815281
No, you only need to learn how to play the current $500 meta deck and replace it with the next $500 meta deck every 6 months

>>97826662
competitive is fun in games where you don't have to buy in. I really enjoyed legends of runeterra as someone who had like 20 EDH decks before atraxa was in print, had the blue double breaker for american duel masters, raigeki and mirrorforce and xyz dragon i think i left ygo by set 5 or 6. I liked emulation programs like cockatrice , whatever the early 00s ygo duel simulator was. Competitive games are janky BS when you have to buy in. 150 dollars for a gemini elf at frank and sons. Compete at capitalism rather than the card game.

I don't think i would want to be playing digimon in person because this game is so ruthless.

why do you want a truly competitive card game experience? When these games were new this was novel- now we have seen many large scale e-sports. starcraft and magic were early outliers. CS picked up steam. then we had melee and halo. Now we are post league of legends. People have moved away from that esports mindset and largely prefer the older formats in ygo and commander in mtg. People want every archetype to feel finely tuned and to be able to play what they want. People want complexity and fairness. Thats what true competition is, not spamming metaslop and going 8 and 1. 40k is an interesting game to look at, they are probably the main community that truly wants competition. Even then they are largely held back by budget and build/paint time.

>>97826721
>why do you want a truly competitive card game experience?
Because I enjoy it! I enjoy improving my sequencing and learning to pilot a deck. I enjoy learning counterplay to different decks, the correct plays to make, I enjoy going into game 2 having a clearer idea of what to do.
>People want every archetype to feel finely tuned and to be able to play what they want
And they're wrong. Wanting "every archetype to be good" is like playing LOL and expecting every champion to be viable. It's a ridiculous thing to want and makes no sense, and dev teams trying to pursue that goal has actually killed games. Some archetypes are training wheels. Some archetypes are high skill, and for them to be high skill they have to be better, they need to have a higher ceiling (otherwise they aren't high skill). Some archetypes are more suited for fighting others. In MtG, you will die if you try and bring a mill deck to face off against a dredge deck, because the very concepts of these decks make that happen.
>People want complexity and fairness. Thats what true competition is, not spamming metaslop and going 8 and 1
It sounds like you don't understand what a competitive environment is.

>>97815302
Pretty much this. If you don't know how to play every meta deck then you won't know how to counter every meta deck. It's like Fighting Games or the Art of War or some shit.
"Know your frame data and know your opponent's frame data or you're going to get fucking exploded" - Sun Tzu.

>>97826050
It's not so much that I seek to emulate, moreso that my years of effort have never culminated in so finely wrought miniature paintjobs. It's irksome.

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>>97826107
I know that feeling, but until you're trying to compete in physical competitions it's a feeling to be discarded.

>>97826107
I'm a person that's struggled in life and had my share of failures. But you just have to push through and never give up, keep practicing and eventually you will approve. Watch videos, read guides and try new techniques. Keep advancing forwards, without fail.

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>>97826152
Should say improve. But essentially take Ferrus Manus to heart here.

Does ANYONE here use one of those strap on magnifiers to paint, and if so, got a link to it? I am getting back into it here soon and my eye sights pretty shit to begin with plus I wear glasses, so I figure one of those will be a decent tool to help/use.

>>97825759
>>97825875
>>97825962
>>97825999
This is like one of those reddit AND THEN EVERYONE CLAPPED stories but reversed

Why would my dragon-felling god of combat retire to fuck some random farmer in fuckass nowhere? If he's getting a wife he's getting someone who is actually worthy of him.

>>97826630
Hey man Scipio Africanus and Cincinnatus ended their lives peacefully retired in the countryside.

>>97826640
And they were normal mortal humans. My fighter decidedly is not. He should not be lowering himself to some twig who will snap in half if he exerts the slightest force. If she doesn't have at least 70 hp she's not worth looking at, and if she dies to Power Word Kill she's decidedly not a keeper.

>>97826669
So an equal is what he likes? More like a Germanic or Viking?

>>97823745
Not too big on the Alchemy part.

>>97823535
It's cool, dude. You get better at it with practice. Carving space into your brain for all the bullshit Paizo stuff is something we all do and learn. It's sort of like remember all the Pokemon out there, now with a 20% additional chance of giving you an aneurysm after another stupid errata change!

>>97823616
Occultist may be a bit too combative depending on Implement, but I feel like it probably fits your idea more if you don't like the alchemy mechanics of Investigator.

>>97823792
Sleuth removes Alchemy, so does Spiritualist and Psychic detective.

>>97812953
Witch IS pathfinder's equivalent to warlock, it doesn't have eldritch blast or anything but both are arcane spellcasters who get their magic from a pact with a powerful magic entity. Although I'll give you pathfinder's patrons lean towards the more distant and mysterious rather than the kind that has a chance to breath down your neck.

>>97813494
It also makes sense that witch and warlock would get mixed up in localization considering warlock is often the term for a male witch and witch hunting people thought all magic came from pacts with the devil anyways.

>>97819021
>>97826078
Because they believe that Yu-Gi-Oh! has better archetypes than those shown in my 49-card collage

Been working on a yugioh based ttrpg on and off.
Uses cards as spells and stat blocks, relatively simple mechanics, characters can cast spells summon monsters and do a bit of fighting themselves. Mana is limited but recharges somewhat quickly. Mostly inspired by the pharaoahs memories story arc so sort of balanced up to the legacy of darkness/labyrinth of Nightmareperiod of cards.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

https://files.catbox.moe/40h9rw.PDF

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>>97826501
If only i had friends...

>>97826759
Might still work with a random dungeon format

>>97826768
Play solo i mean