>>97262215
The only victory the heroes/rebels achieve over the Empire in ESB is escaping.

>listen to ROTS Audiobook after finishing Labyrinth of Evil
>The Entire battle of Coruscant arc (from introduction to anakin's controlled crash) is 4 hours long
>after dooku's dead the Jedi Council and Palpatine immediately start plotting against each other
>The Council (namely Mace and Yoda) are somehow even more retarded than their clown wars counterparts
>"Palpatine can't be Sidious, he already rules the galaxy" is something mace himself says
>even after he spent the past week investigating the tunnels under Coruscant in LoE
>Obi-wan chats with padme, telling her he knew the whole time but didn't care because Anakin is his best friend
>Anakin acts more irrational and more unstable, to the point where Palpatine easily manipulates him into thinking that Padme is cheating on him with Obi-wan
>Palpatine himself is the smartest guy in the entire story
>grievous is willing to retreat when things get too hot for him but he's no jobber like in the clown wars
>Dooku is a human supremacist for some reason
I can see why the Novelization is considered the best the old EU had to offer, and I haven't even reached order 66 yet

>>97265208
All CWMMP novels are the best of the best of the EU. Sure the RotS novel is good but I wouldn't take it over Labyrinth of Evil or Plagueis or Dark Rendezvous. Plus it technically isn't totally canon since it has shit from older scripts
Also Council aren't retarded, they're arrogant and foolish which Palpatine points out. Too comfortable sitting on their little ivory tower to realize how the galaxy would completely support the Empire at that point in time.

>>97265208
One thing about it I found funny is that the novel kind of referenced the "what about the droids attacking the wookiees?" scene before it became a meme. The Jedi council in their infinite wisdom decided that the best way to lure the Sith Lord into revealing himself is to make the Jedi appear weak by sending some of their best members away from Coruscant, and that the CIS invasion of Kashyyyk would be a good excuse for Yoda to leave the Jedi temple. So later there's a scene where Anakin has jus come out of a council meeting and thinks how he wasn't able to concentrate on the meeting due to his internal conflicts and how at some point somebody just randomly blurted out something about droids attacking the wookiees and Yoda just said he was going to deal with it without the council even voting on who to send.

OK, that's not the only part I found kind of unintentionally funny, though the other thing is really only in retrospect due to the timeline being compressed. In the scene where Anakin and Padme first meet upon his return to Coruscant, the two embrace and she wants to tell Anakin something, and he can sense that something between them has changed and that is somehow involves another person, and immediately jumps to accusing her of cheating on him, only for Padme to reveal that she's pregnant, which Anakin is surprised but overjoyed to hear.
There's nothing inherently funny about that (aside from Anakin coming off as having some insecurities about his wife's faithfulness, which might be foreshadowing to him later think Padme is cheating on him with Obi-wan, of all people), but since the events of the movie were later canonically stated to occur within a period few weeks at most, instead of several months like the novel implies, it would mean Padme is almost 9 months pregnant at the time, and Anakin somehow completely fails to notice.

>>97266300
When and where were the events of the movie stated to happen in a few weeks? Just curious
Also Anakin being extremely insecure about Padme cheating on him from the offset makes no sense and is clearly something Lucas cut because it made Anakin look irrational from the get-go. In the actual movie, while it was cut for time, the Delegation of 2000 scene shows Palpatine slowly manipulating Anakin into believing someone may be seducing Padme into behaving against Republic interests, and he clearly knew Anakin would eventually implicate Obi-Wan. It's far more logical and it plays into Anakin falling to paranoia once the Dark Side has fully taken over him at Mustafar rather than just randomly when he was still a Jedi.

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>>97266184
You have aragorn

>>97266189
four twenty

>>97266243
Jackie Chan--damn it!

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Over the holidays I was reunited with my friend group from awhile back. We played Commander. I was glad to hang out with my friends again, but I was reminded of how poor the gameplay of Commander is. Everyone basically played solitaire and there was zero interaction or combat. Then someone had an infinite combo. The infinite combo was negatively impacted by a permanent on the field the combo player neglected to notice. There was a lot of rule-lawyering. Then we decided the game was over. I think if you asked each player "who won" they would give a different answer. It was a good reminder of why I don't like Commander.

>>97266401
I'm always grateful that the people I play EDH with all started with 60 card and draft about as often as they shuffle up their piles. Everyone knows the importance of interaction and that it's always worth squeezing in a bit of extra damage here and there if you can get away with it.

>>97262982
The last one is just a lie and at this point in human history you should realize it was just gas lighting. Like Forklift certification, they sit on their ass all day and are memed on by everyone else and so they started the meme about being a forklift driver as based despite being the opposite.

>>97262901
>>97264517

>>97264034
Sus em dashes

>>97264943
You're the gayest person in this story

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>>97254880
To answer this question, it is best to look at the situation practically and determine the general position of women in the society of the setting you're designing or playing in. Historically, the difficulties of managing a house (cooking, cleaning, laundry, making clothes, etc.) and the lack of childcare services (birthrates and deathrates were typically high) necessitated that one parent devote themselves to homemaking/housekeeping, which was almost always a married woman due to the physically intensive nature of most occupations available in an early society. This, in turn, cultivates a patriarchal tradition within the society that lasts even after jobs that require less physical intensity emerge, though it should be noted that most cultures still had unmarried (and sometimes married) women working in some capacity.

Once (societally beneficial) magic is introduced though, there are numerous factors to consider depending on the implementation:
>If both sexes have equal capacity for magic, then women would be just as capable of men of performing a highly-desirable occupation; if one sex is noticeably better at magic than the other and magic triumphs over strength, then either a patriarchal or matriarchal society will emerge
>Most likely, widespread magic would make many chores either trivial or take significantly less time, freeing up considerable amounts of time; the necessity for a dedicated homemaker/housekeeper decreases
>If healing/curing magic exists, then mortality rates drop significantly; a population boom will lead to a flooded job market, which leads to a more even mix of working men and working women

With that in mind, priesthood is typically not a very labor-intensive job, so the core duties of the clergy would differ much between the sexes. Most sex-based differences come from the religion itself, which is based on the societal conditions the religion developed in. In a typical fantasy setting, female clergy are as viable as male clergy.

>>97266292
I used Delta Green to run scenarios based on SCP.

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I finally got around to watching True Detective S1, really good shit, watched it with my pa too. Got me in a certain mood so I dug up my collection of Machen short stories and the complete John Silence stories I got for my birthday a couple years back, they scratch the itch somewhat. Getting back into X-Files too and I'm wondering if anyone has any particular favorites when it comes to that genre of occult detective and/or conspiracy thriller with horror overtones?

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>FILE N°: BX-1969-092
>AGENCY:
https://x.com/FabienPalmari/status/2005704892393103742

>>97265135
I mean there's an article where they talk about it in one of the Citadel books. It's glazing with black ink, then selective blotting and cleanup with pure white. You can see the coffee-stain circle on her thigh from a bubble they used for atristic effect

>>97266306
No worries, enjoy it. A brush that feels good to use is a treasure, and even when it can no longer hold a tip it is useful. A soft nice brush with a frayed tip is excellent for drybrushing in small areas.

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A small band of dwarves is finished and ready to reclaim Moria.

>>97266308
What you're doing there looks more like volumetric highlighting than edge highlighting, but yeah for edge highlighting you could go a little brighter. The shade on the fingers and the top of the left knee looks good though I can't tell if that's actually a different shade of blue paint or just the same one as your other highlights overlapping better with the highlights of the actual lighting.

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>>97264846
Update. I need to do the transfer next..

>>97265403
I'm not sure. But the black im going with is basically this. It's got a bit of some bluish grey midtones, but yes more iron looking I suppose.

>>97252408
Nigger, bump.

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>>97252183
Even Boorawchick likes Vangers beeb.

>>97244827
When you make a fantasy world, the only valid options are:
1- Humans are everywhere and anyone else is from some other place.
2- Due to the actions of the gods, many races exist and are expected to either share the world or kill all others, depending on whether it's a good race or a bad race.
2- One specific non-human race is in ascendancy, and humans are subject to racism at the edge of that race's dominion. No other races exist, or if they do, they are offshoots of one of the two races.

If your world is anything but one of these, it's crap. But thankfully almost all stories fit into one of these. Only (2) can serve for a setting where the players have more than a handful of race picks normally though. Oh, it's a weird bee person? Well, you were made by the bee-god, who wants you to have dominion over certain hills in certain places or something. Oh, and you can fly, how convenient. Etc.

>>97244827
MAGA (Make Aliens Great Again)

There have been many unique alien species created in sci-fi, but they've been falling into the fantasy tropes of "We're humans if humans were X". No consideration of their homeworld, the species they evolved from, or anything like that. Infinite carbon based lifeforms with 70% water composition.

Predators got a whole tribal hunter culture built around their upbringing as a carnivorous hunting species.

40k Orks are psychic créatures so stupid that they can bend reality to their will by accident and multiply like rabbits on meth.

These are two examples that I can come up with off the top of my head, but I know there are more. I'm sick of generic sci-fi turning into human politics but if it was space and also they were slug people/furries

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>>97244887
Your aliens are blue humans with rubber foreheads because you lack imagination and you are pathologically obsessed with appealing to human audiences.
We do not all suffer beneath such burdens.

>>97265685
>wixoss
>Main deck
>LRIG deck
>tn note: LRIG is girl spelled backwards
I don't think it being anime is what held it back

>>97265685
I think being put off by the Disney aesthetic and being put off by the anime aesthetic are different things, but the both may apply to someone whose idea of what a TCG should look like is MtG, and they also apply independently to groups that are fine with the other (for example I'm fine with anime but don't really like Lorcana's looks, despite actually enjoying Disney's animation too). But the success of the underlying IPs is definitely the big factor keeping TCGs alive in the west. MtG is the only self made one and even it is bending the knee more and more to crossovers (whether that's a necessity or just Hasbro's greed is another matter). Yu-Gi-Oh had a long and successful anime even if it's over now, Pokémon is the biggest franchise in the world, Disney is Disney, and I don't think it's a coincidence the biggest new game is the one based on one of the most successful anime/manga properties ever. Japan seems to have its own deep rooted enjoyment for card games by themselves that lets original ones flourish but here in the west people need a hook to get them to play one and 'here's cool cards of characters you like' is a pretty good hook.

Wtf is rollslop? I can't keep up with all these zoomer words.

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>>97265538
>nobody here even cares enough about Lorcana to call it slop
>even though one of the artists was blacklisted for making slop art
Where's my share of negative attention? I just wanna be included!

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>>97266411
Catfag likes some of the cards in your game. It doesn't get much more negative than that.

>>97266145
/tg/ - Everything But Games

>>97263412
I've never really been in a group where romance was part of the available vibes. Not that I've never wanted to try for a romance subplot, but you have to know what the people at your table are about.

>>97266410
Good thing OP didn't ask about any group.
He just asked about characters.
No group, no game.
Because he doesn't care about games.

>>97264659
Hello???

>>97263412
Why do you love spamming this shit, puckee?

>>97262948
Yeah, but that would take effort.
It's better and easier to just put a sticky note on the table that says "gm decides everything" and tell people to find a new group if they don't like it.
That way you can focus on the stories and worldbuilding a lot more.

>>97229027
This looks like shit

>>97264083
Or you could play with your friends with whom you're on the same wavelength in terms of game expectations.

>>97265510
Why wouldn't anyone want to focus on the stories and worldbuilding?

>>97229027
Ugh! Where did you find that? This looks like shit!

I'm surprised by how many people have tried to make a healing Fighter subclass before.

>>97263231
This happened a surprising amount with one of the players in our party. It's not like it was the first time she'd played a TTRPG before, though it was her first experience with 5e specifically, and a good chunk of her turns would be spent with "I move and then do nothing" because she couldn't fathom using alternative actions, magic items in her inventory, or doing anything that wasn't just attacking. Hell, half the time she'd have to be reminded to rage as a Barb or to apply her bonus Frenzy damage.

>>97263302
Healing always feels like a losing proposition because it's less efficient than just killing things most of the time. Having the ability to patch up a wound is good and Healing Word is a lovely spell to have in the party because it doesn't eat up a main action, but sources of healing almost never outstrip damage taken, so it results in players feeling like they've been caught in a backslide. Short resting usually covers healing needs as long as they fight effectively and mitigate damage as much as possible with smart engagement, so the most you can really offer are a handful of healing potions or scrolls with healing spells imprinted.

>>97263442
This. Rarely in the games I've played in do players have an opportunity to just kick back for an hour unless they're already in a safe situation where they don't need to worry about healing or resource recovery. In a dungeon? Fear of being interrupted. In the wilderness? Same. Out on the road? They're either relatively safe or they're in an urgent chase or race against time and may not have the chance to rest or otherwise could just stop and make camp, at which point healing isn't even a big deal.

>>97263442
>>97263421
In my personal experience, we never take one-hour breaks. I mean, if we can rest after several fights, it's usually a full eight-hour stretch.

>>97266155
Anon you have to tell me where you got the files, there's tons of people in the local HH community that have been asking me where to find Warmaster titan STLs.

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>>97266186
It's from Joeshobbystore on Cults, but James purged it some time ago.

>>97266203
Thank you a lot anon, now I can at least tell them who to send a message

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I think i may have over reacted with my negative thoughts about saturnine as a box

>>97266329
It's okay anon, you can like the models and still shit on 3.0

>>97264530
I meant more attitude wise than power. If you look at it as injecting someone with insane power that goes beyond the setting, who gives no fucks and has very questionable ethics. That's most jumpers to a T.

>>97264536
My Jumper landed in New York in 1994 in their first jump. I am rewriting that but yes they full intend to stop 9/11. Though not exactly sue what the fallout would be from that. I mean that brought Terrorism center stage to global geopolitics. Preventing it may lead to something far worse because before 9/11 many nations approaches to anti-terror were pretty lax.

>>97266156
Just strengthen up the WTC so it won't collapse and maybe try to get it evacuated just before. The attack still happens and the course of history should remain mostly the same but the damage is minimized.

>>97266156
It will mean America won't have an excuse to go all psychotic in the global war on terror, so that's good at least.

>>97264342
Yeah, but in this hypothetical scenario he'd still be on Earth. His Attack Pod is broken after you-know-who's outburst, so he can't exactly leave.

>>97264361
He has like 4 different reported power levels, it's kind of ridiculous how inconsistent they are. Ignoring that PL were a stupid thing to begin with.

>>97258354
>Cuirboulli is a thing.
not spelled like that it isn't

>find mercury armour from super cold ice cave
>leave cave and it melts
FUCK

>>97258355
It's not leather with studs.

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>MY FUCKING EPIC WHOLESOME REDDIT 100 FANTASY MONSTER KILLING GAME WHICH IS PART OF A LINEAGE SPROUTING FROM A GAME BASEMENT DWELLING LOSERS MADE IN THE 70S WITH A SHAKY AT BEST GRASP OF HISTORY WHICH WAS FURTHER DILUTED BY A NEED TO CREATE CLEAR AND PLAYABLE TIERS OF EQUIPMENT DOESN'T HAVE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE TERMS FOR ARMOUR GRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

>>97260086
I have missed you local-lord sama

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>>97264110
There is no plan to create anything. The kind of person who leans on the crutch of ai does not have the conviction or followthrough to actually sit down and convert that figure, let alone paint it and play a game with it. Once they've Generated their ai image the itch has been scratched, all motivation is gone, they're only posting it here to try and mop up the last dregs of dopamine they can squeeze from their facile "creation". They will have forgotten about it before the paint dries on my next figure.

>>97266179
shut it down

>>97265283
I dont know about very few, as lots of the lizardman metals are missing from the only good metal caster I know (your picrel) and no one seems to have the old necron or even much of the old or rt csm that I know of. Maybe I just need to up my searching game for others.

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I made >>97260515 out of these sprues

>>97266352
timestamp and sharpie in pooper or didn't happen

>>97265654
tell me more about your ragebait optimized setting. Considering I think.. Chakat(those are the startrek fanfiction taurs, right?)? Are sci-fi tech let's assume it's a sci-fi setting.
Ngl I kind of wanna play a parody game where you play as a human diplomat and every alien race is just a totally retarded mary sue oc race.

>>97265480
Humans, Giants, Beastfolk, Elves, Weird armorskin people.

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>>97265480
Serbs
Bosnians
Croats
Monkedonians
Slovenes

>>97265480
Humans.
Fucked up mutant humans.
Super humans.
Ays
Deep Ones.
>>97265597
This anon fucks.

>>97265527
Fuck India.