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hope she doesn't use AI to generate her covers, writers should commission real artist!

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>>97270700
Anon, she uses AI to generate her novels.
>>97270364
All I ask about is an option to use the old Sora. Do I demand too much?

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>>97270051
>they don't appreciate that some of us are just experimenting with the medium
Lol you're one of those guys who thinks prompting is a serious skill and hobby

>>97270725
>All I ask about is an option to use the old Sora. Do I demand too much?
I miss it too, but see the good aspects of it, like it's able to read multiple perspective at once

>>97270994
You seem fundamentally incapable of articulating your point and why you feel a Solar can and should be capable of just strolling around the Blessed Isles unimpeded. That's not true to the lore, not true to mechanics, and not true to how any reasonable GM would run a fucking Blessed Isles campaign.

So how the fuck would anyone "understand" a point of view that can neither justify itself nor is supported by literally anything?

>>97271003
You're going off on some weird tangent that is not at all related to the very thing I repeated in all caps. If you're not going to talk about that then I'm not going to respond to you anymore.

Guess that was too hard for him. Anyway, I think the way they have set everything up is that every splat is basically at their lowest point. They haven't always followed up on this conceptually, something I have criticized them for in the past, but I like the idea of basically every faction being at its weakest at the assumed campaign start.

>>97270945
>DRAGONBLOODED IN 200MPH AIRSHIPS ZONING IN ON YOUR LOCATION WITH A NEGATIVE RESPONSE TIME AND FUTURE SIGHT.
The airships are just straight up statted and canon, and the negative response time thanks to astrologers predicting Solars popping up is in the very first piece of Exalted narration iirc. People say 'why doesn't anybody play on the Blessed Isle, we're solars we can take it even if it's hard mode' and then just think it's going to be an easy sweep. Like, what do they expect? You're told at every opportunity that the Blessed Isle is hard for Solars, why are you surprised that it's going to give you a hard time?

>>97271092
>missing the point
I'm going to be generous and assume this is a different guy. I mocked it as the Exalted navy seal copypasta. If it doesn't make you cringe, if it doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth, then you're wasting your time trying to make some point. It's falling on deaf ears mate.

>>97267641
>Sniper Priest is an iffy sniper rifle user.
>>97266277 anon here. Could you elaborate on why a sniper rifle is a bad choice for the sniper priest? From what I'm reading the sniper priest seems like a perfectly good sniper rifle platform with a high chance of ignoring armor.
What am i missing?

>>97269550
I know the Blast Meta atm is kinda grinding me out. Am I just fucked due to being TP

>>97270833
Janissary Training is a Puchaseable Ability and so has to be bought at recruitment.
And yeah it is a sting to lose out on activations early in a campaign. But you'll need ~200 ducats headroom on your Threshold as well as the ducats themselves to be able to take a Bull later. Which can be pretty difficult to finangle mid-campaign.
There's also the consideration that you want the Bull accruing XP as fast as possible. Not only to afford protection if it gets taken OOA, but also that an Elite Bull with a skill or two is one of the best models in the game.

>>97271009
Hmm.
I may drop a base azeb then, get the Training, and leave off there.
My main opponents of going to be HL, Grail, Prussians, Trench Ghosts. Any further advice?

Fuck this rugpull

>>97264219
How does CRGE compare to Mythic GME2?

>>97266273
The chance of rolling a 14 or lower on a D20 seven times in a row is approximately 8.24%.
Here is the breakdown of the math:
* Chance per roll: Rolling a 14 or lower on a D20 is a 14/20 chance, which is 70% (0.7).
* Chance for 7 in a row: You multiply the probability by itself 7 times (0.7^7).

In other terms:
* Percentage: ~8.24%
* Odds: Roughly 1 in 12.
So while it is a streak, it is actually not statistically rare. It is about as likely as rolling a natural 1, 2, or 3 on a single d20 roll.

>>97267101
I wouldn’t call Scarlet Heroes OSR per se, there’s no real threat of instant death or high lethality

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Tried creating a campaign for Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate, and unfortunately, this one is a very bad game, despite the stellar reviews. His worst one I tried.
The structure is way too uneven, the mechanics are half-assed, there's semblance of cool ideas and powers here but a bad mix of what you're supposed to randomly generate and what is already there. To make a proper campaign of this, you'd be required to use a lot of supplementary material from other assorted system-agnostic works.
And then it has the classic problems that this guy's games all have have. The stupid natural 1 and natural 20 stuff being widely pervasive in every single element of the game doesn't make for good long-term campaigns and then there's a bunch of random tables where getting a 1 just kills you. A lot of this stuff is fun to read but worthless to actually engage with mechanically.
This guy is spreading himself too thin. I don't have much faith for his extraction shooter game.

Very disappointed.

>>97266356
Looks neat. Read some John le Carré and then try again?

>>97264811

Should have made them with two pairs of tits (the long torso could clearly accomodate that) ... would have been waaay cooler.

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In my book, any kind of alien can work, so long as their tech level is believable. While the Birrin feel like they've been designed with features that only exist for weirdness' sake, it's the natural way their biological quirkiness is presented in mundane scenarios that make them work. It's when an extremely animalistic-looking species has quirks that feel wholly unsuited for using the technology they have that starts to feel weird. Either the tech needs to feel ergonomic for them, or they need to show visible difficulty using it. Despite all this, it's pretty easy to handwave how an alien can use what it's got if it has tentacles.

The game Endless Space 2 has a lot of atypical aliens, like cephalopods forced onto land (Niris), sentient Amoeba gestalt consciousnesses and tardigrade meteorologists (Kalmat), not even mentioning the ones from other dimensions, though many are the result of meddling from another advanced civilization in their development. They might have a single text box worth of exploration into their culture for you to read as the start of a quest, and a civic project you can enact relating to integrating them into your culture. I think the biggest issue I have is the annoying number of the races (especially the major ones) with very cybernetic looking "default" features, and it makes it feel way too on the nose that they were messed with by the titular Endless. Still, I really hope we get something like Star Control for the franchise at some point to more closely explore all the novel ideas the game presents on the macro level. Been thinking to maybe add some elements from the games to a Stars Without Number campaign.

>>97269490
>UUUUULLAAAAA

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>>97265502
no. It's already perfect

>>97265180
Yeah I guess you can use 3e stuff if you aren't actually playing GURPS, the books are informative

The more I look at this thread the more true it seems that the devs and associates have a defense force here nearly at all times for this game.

Part of the reason trench crusade has a bad rep is how obnoxiously defensive the fans can be. No one around where I am even plays it since the drama just outlived the game, and the fans accused anyone with even minor criticisms of the game of being some ultra chud. It is known as the drama game with the worst, most obnoxious players.
Even the devs themselves keep shooting themselves over and over again and getting rid of any goodwill or hype they had by doing the stupidest stuff. The game as a whole fails to really play better than mordheim, albeit mordeheim has a couple of its own issues admittedly that are at least easily fixable.

>>97270866
Not sure if retarded, intellectual dishonest or ignorant of history.

Jewish owned, led and brainwashed business strategy.
If you are white you must only support anti semitic, racist, fascist creators like FlashGitz AKA FASHGitz because they don't hate you and your entire species and yearn for you to be genocided.

/TroonyGoyim/ won't ever learn this because they have terminal estrogen poisoning.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Great rugpull lmao

>>97270862
Are you sure you wanted to reply to me? You're refuting points that I haven't said.

>>97262409
That is my kind of lady

>>97262409
Thats hot. You are very kind to draw that many hot pictures!

>>97260547
Yeah, still up, doing stuff here and there. Having some fun!

>>97262213
Would love to hear whatever ideas you have, we've got plenty of spaces to fill in plenty of kingdoms after all.

>>97257861
why are you wasting your "talent" being a faggot on 4chan?

>>97262172
Isn't the Tyrant star from the core Dark Heresy Rulebook?
If so, that lore was written by the core GW office at the time, not FFG, since GW made the core rule book for DH and nothing else.

>>97255841
I dunno, ask /40kg/

>>97256804
That's almost lame and gay enough to be an official GW reveal

>>97262172
>it's whatever you want and no we won't give you any answers ever
This is objectively the right approach. The Horus Heresy was infinitely cooler when it had basically zero details and I filled it in with my imagination. Then get dub write some novels and fucked it all up.

>>97261825
>Not really. Poland and Germany are like brothers.

anon gave up trying mid post

Also fuck new captacha, makes me not wanna post if i have to jump through this retarded hoop

>>97268486
They ARE like brothers. They had a lot of exploratory midnight sex when they were younger, and now that they're grown talking is awkward.

>>97268486
>makes me not wanna post
That's the point of it, get rid of people and replace them with 4chan pass bots and idf hired indians.
Racist white guys aren't supposed to have an online lace to talk to each other, not even about their hobbies.

>>97259369
No need to bulk him up, give him a sword for the parry and get him in there, that way you can still cast as a bonus (you can cast in combat)
I think dark souls are cooler so go with them, you're not getting any mutants? Should consider them.

>>97264605
In almost every civ, if you build tall and build your economy aggressively enough you can out science and out military everyone else with the sheer weight of the almighty dollar (energy credit).
Morgan is no different.
But he's weak to early aggression, as are almost every faction that is focused on this.

>>97221448
Lal, Miriam, Roze & Domai.
Cyborg is neutral I guess.
The pirate is evil.
The rest are degrees of abominable evil.

>>97267364
I find my drone population outstripping my bases ability to provide for them about midgame.

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>>97221448
Life is about living not worrying about ideology.

>>97270143
I've always wondered what vault he was from.

>>97246919
>How do I keep track of the characters?
The same way you'd remember the characters names in your own games? With your brain.

>>97260367
>What's the difference between fucking a woman and watching porn?
about 50 bucks if you're mom is in town.

>>97250703
>It's "watch us perform" ahead of anything else.

I would be perfectly fine with that if they ditched D&D instead of houseruling it to shit in order to chase the HiGly drAMatiC feel of a more dramatic system. They even made their own storyshitter game FFS, then dropped it to die because using it was not as lucrative.

But no, let's keep milking the cash cow, fucking hypocrites

>>97264331
>you're mom
you cant make this shit up

>>97262422
>>97262440
same person btw

>>97261804
Ive played a one shot of spooktacular, which is an IP free version of the game. Enjoyed it quite a bit, it was a lot of fun. It's a very light weight game.

>>97261804
It's fun, it's simple, suitable for adults and kids.

First edition was slightly better. Not all that many real differences mechanically, added a little encumbrance rule rather than just can carry five items or whatever it was, made a rule for making weird science stuff, added a sort of wound/injury rule. They also got rid of the character and equipment cards because they cost too muc--because they were "childish". Making a character in first edition takes seconds, and a few more seconds in second. Its dice pool system is the progenitor of the d6 or D6 system like used in WEG Star Wars.

It's not something I'd probably make a long campaign of, though that is where the second edition was headed, but for a short campaign it's fun and it's never out stayed its welcome. It's easy to learn and as I said works with kids and adults. The only warning I'd give is that it's supposed to light entertainment and it's a bit less fun if you play it completely straight but don't got for slapstick. If you and the players don't take it seriously that's worse I'd say than taking a more serious game and playing that for laughs.

>>97261804
I played a Ghostbusters game, but for the life of me can't remember if it was the official rpg or some custom thing my friend made. Our characters were Ghostbusters franchisees for the city we actually live in. My character was a small time con man who didn't believe in ghosts and joined up because he thought it was just a way to scam credulous rubes. Finding new ways to rationalize the increasing levels of ghost activity was fun.

>>97261804
It's like this:
https://youtu.be/0tdyU_gW6WE?si=klJXx926eEFb5YKX

>>97268107
Popsicle stick to set the alignment plane and a pair of tweezers for fine adjustment will do the job. 3x2 independent joints that can be aligned one at a time is a hell of a lot easier than four joints that all have to be aligned at once.

>>97268107
Goddamn, even holding the miniature it would almost make more sense to scan it and print it as a whole.

Too bad (for me, good for CB) Infinity is basically either not existent or extremely well gatekept as far as scans go.

>>97264487
>whats the army with the bigger boobs?
Tohaa (Gorgos Pilot, Sukeuls, Igao)

>>97268342
Scans are even more niche than 3D printing proxies, and there aren't too many of those for Infinity.

>>97268297
>Popsicle stick to set the alignment plane and a pair of tweezers for fine adjustment will do the job.
If we're talking each of 3 pairs and not each side, it's actually a great idea.

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>>97270872
Your post was one of the classic thought terminators currently rendering the chan unusable, rendered in one of the classic forms, anon.

That's a good list.
Have you bought from any yourself, and do you have any recommendations or condemnations based on those experiences?

I tend to grab a couple of models or a pack from Black Scorpion every Salute, they are well sculpted and properly proportioned and tend to be very nice and crisply cast.

I have some stuff from Black Sun as well, their 54mm Hawk Knight, I think, and some steampunk top hat clockwork power fist guy.
Similarly good quality. Their shop looks less and less active every time I check on it.

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>>97270896
>Have you bought from any yourself
I think the only ones I've bought from are (all in 28mm too):
>Makashi's Tea House and Space Vixens From Mars (some not!Star Trek metals)
>Northstar Figures (Oathmark heavy human plastic and metal preorders)
>Perry Miniatures (plastic Agincourt Knights)
>Victrix Miniatures (plastic Norman Infantry)
>Wargames Atlantic (lots of stuff from them)
WGA is actually American, but to get around tariffs if you order from outside America they cast and ship from a British factory they opened.
>Warlord Games (plastic and metal Euro Wars of Religion)
I recommend all of them, but be warned that Warlord Game sculpts can be hit-or-miss and some of the older Victrix are a mix of multipart and multipart monopose (but they seem to be getting better with recent kits on avoiding monopose elements)

>>97270927
Is it WGA that does the regular polls for the next new kits?
Landschnekt ogres etc.?
I was planning on picking those ogres up until I saw the Desperate Dan-ass faces, way too cartoonish for my tastes. I wish more places just made ogres big ugly men, instead of bizarro caricatures.

I wish more websites would post fucking scales or sizes of their models too
>sold with a 25mm base
>base not picture to use as reference
or even better
>x model in photograph is for scale only
>x model is from their own line, impossible to accurately judge scale from
Fucking why.

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>>97270941
>Is it WGA that does the regular polls for the next new kits?
>Landschnekt ogres etc.?
Yeah, that's them.

>Desperate Dan-ass faces, way too cartoonish for my tastes
If you're not opposed to a bit of 3d printing, they have plate armour version of the ogres that are compatible with the plastic model kit. You get full face covering helmets which might mitigate your issue

>>97270983
Those do look pretty good.
I don't tend to use printed pieces out of some sort of grog contrarian feeling, but if those landed in my lap I'd be pretty happy with them.

I guess it's the unstoppable march into the future, but a high proportion of the links I clicked in >>97270872 have stores that are mostly or entirely 3D prints, STLs, or the only images of the models are of renders.
Undeniably better than
>here's a table of product codes, email me to possibly receive the catalogue PDF of grainy photos of one thick coat example models
I guess.

>le gy is le 2nd hand
Name a more reddit statement

>>97262640
Kek what a sperg, guy's in his early twenties at best and believes he's already got the entire wisdom of the world figured out jfc
>le "systematic level" of a corporate product that is a children's card game
lmao give me a break

>>97269592
There are three guys working at Konami right now.
>One made Ishizu Tear
>One made War rocks
>One made all the other tier 2-3 decks like Karakuri and a lot of the legacy support they get
Konami only cares about the first two for some reason.

>>97270615
Its a magicism not a redditsm

>>97270084
Why expose me, a new player, to something kino only to tell me I can't reasonably play it