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https://cubicle7games.com/blog/warhammer-40k
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http://www.40krpgtools.com/
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https://www.scholaprogenium.com/
>Offline Combined Armory (v6.48.161023)

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>>97245355
>RPG releases are tied to tabletop releases
For WANG sure, not for IM.
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>>97245335
>Voices in this video are AI-generated.
Impressive...
Though sometimes it is hard to understand the character dialogue when there's a lot of effects going on. The tech-marine especially.
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>tfw ALL of your prophecies revolve around the Tyrant Star

I'm posting stuff from our campaign online for attention. The GM hit my psyker with "you get insane whenever you use Divination powers" screwball because the planet we landed on is doomed to get Komus'ed. Again.
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>>97246599
Hey, at least the planet was still there for you in the end! It's not like it was fully eaten by an eldritch planet. That was traumatic.
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>>97245997
That's not what I said, either. I said there are some things I like and some things I don't.
Don't bring jank in as some kind of gotcha, because firstly it's not the sole metric by which an RPG can be measured, secondly I happen to enjoy some parts of Rogue Trader's jank, and thirdly, RAW in IM you can buy one magazine of an ammo type and just have it forever, as long as you only fire single shots. Don't go trying to tell me that ain't jank as fuck.

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OP's Special Interest Edition

>Resources:
WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwh
WM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgeba
WFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6
Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H

>TOW:
https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXS
https://www.warhammer-community.com/downloads/warhammer-the-old-world/

>Warhammer Chronicles:
https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip
>Time of Legends:

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>>97246268
How old?
Anyway its chaos you dont need to explain shit.
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>>97246331
The previous plastic ones, I have 16 of them half with flails, half with shields and I'm thinking whether to mix them up with the new ones or what do I do. I would have to rebase them too, I guess. kind of a pisser, these base size changes.
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>>97246341
>kind of a pisser, these base size changes.
Agreed, gf got me some night gobs for christmas but theyre the AoS line. On the one hand those new squig hopper sculpts will have a lot more breathing room compared to trying to squeeze them on a 20, but on the other hand blackfire pass era night gobs look goofy on 25s, theyre so spaced out from each other, so im not really sure which way I should go with them
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>>97246509
I can’t decide for you but I just decided to base everything on old sizes, I’ve got way too many armies to rebase for an edition change.
No one I play with seems to care.


Anyway iv got a game today on that note. 2k tow vampire coast(tomb kings mort cult) fight a chaos nurgle warhorst for forbidden booty.
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>>97246509
Maybe get some movement tray adapter for the infantry goblins, because yeah skull pass goblins on 25s would look really bad imho, and it's a lot of work to rebase them. I always did feel that many units towards late wfb had outgrown their base size, but between effort going into rebasing and the fact that they do kind of technically invalidate your army for older editions idk myself

It's Da PDF Share Thread!

Get ready to stuff your hard drive like Santa's Magic Sack!

STEP 0:
<----- That image is not a PDF, it's an image, at least for now. Check the 4plebs link below to find the PDF.
PLEASE READ DA FAQ BEFORE REQUESTING OR SHARING.
It will answer 99% of your questions about this thread. If you haven't read it, we will know.

STEP 1:
Please exhibit good manners. Threads start sliding off the board after a certain number of posts. More posts wasted on being rude means fewer posts available for sharing.

STEP 2:
Request, share, stay awesome!


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>>97245026
If you could send CoC Starter Set I'd be grateful
Also I'd like to ask for TheRipper93 collection if you could send it too
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>>97245870
the scan isn't as clean as breaking the spine and doing a flat scan.**
every scan i have that didnt break the spine is always a little wonky with blurred edges or missing words

**(i have never broken a spine to scan so i'm no expert)
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>>97246164
I appreciate you.
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>>97246358
Ah, gotcha. So it will be at least a year before PB with even consider a PDF of the TMNT Redux books.
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DAGGERHEART. Please, I beg one of you kind sirs, I need an Xmas miracle.

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Gets Hot edition

>Previous Thread: >>97227248

>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:
https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N

>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/
>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/
>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)
https://pastebin.com/iUqNrrA8
https://pastebin.com/8riDmnhS
>30k TACTICA & TIPS

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>>97246548
if you want that grimdark looks without the entire thing losing all color and all highlights, you need a different method that allows removing the poop-color from the highlights (a negative process using oil paint or enamel paint)

https://youtu.be/SPjUppp-bIw?t=272

This vid shows he does a wash on the whole miniature but since it's not acrylic paint, he's able to let it dry then wipe it off all the raised areas (unlike a GW wash which is entirely permanent)
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>>97246539
Why does an IW have an IF shield?
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Working on the second Dire Wolf, the little rhino with rider has magnets so it's removable.
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>>97246577
No, its the 2016 cataphracti preator.
>>97246590
I should have played DG lmfao
>>97246591
Yeah, I still need to do some highlights.
>>97246606
Thanks for this, i'm switching away from shitadel anyway.
>>97246629
My headcannon is that he killed some IF champion and how uses the shield as a insult. Idk though, if I find the original gun for the mini, I might go use that instead. The problem is that the mini was broken when I bought it, so it didn't come with it.
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>>97246635
Why does the chicken want to cross the road?

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Winter Gloom Edition

Previously on /slop/: >>97227237

▶ Thread Task: Moody and gloomy winter pictures.
And maybe characters trying to find a comfy warm corner.

▶ Generators
https://bing.com/images/create/

https://sora.chatgpt.com/

https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/

https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generator

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Where the anons that like to go on adventures?
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>>97245583
this guy gets it
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>>97246625
Avatar 3 is looking good!
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>>97246067
As you wish

Blight edition

>Bans
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025

>News
The 2025 Magic Con and Pro Tour Schedule:
https://www.magic.gg/news/the-2025-magiccon-and-pro-tour-schedule

>Metagame Mentor: The Winners and Losers from Standard's 2025 Rotation
https://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-winners-and-losers-from-standards-2025-rotation

>Spoilers
http://www.magicspoiler.com/
https://mythicspoiler.com/

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squidward plays magic?
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>>97246542
Dark ritual imp exhume akroma? Is this the fantastic gameplay that premodern shills have been trying to sell to me?
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>>97246575
Yes.
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>>97246542
looks absolutely miserable and one toned
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I almost forgot the afrofantasy plane.

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Thread 449: Ikemen Gabwelius Edition

Bushi-Navi EN: www.en.bushi-navi.com/
Deck Log:
decklog.bushiroad.com/ (JP)
decklog-en.bushiroad.com/ (EN)
Beginner guide, decklists and other info: pastebin.com/QxKQRhrQ (embed)
Up to date fanmade PC online games, 3DS/Switch emulation and Mobile games: pastebin.com/7Fj8VqA2 (embed)
Cardfight and Buddyfight matchmaking server: discord.gg/6xVFD4r
Weiss/Schwarz Resources: pastebin.com/sk2iSjW1 (embed)

BCS 2025/26 Info: https://en.bushiroad.com/events/bcs2526/

DivineZ DELUXE Finals Ep 12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mj1pSvrus
DivineZ Parallactic Clash Trailer: https://x.com/cfvanguard_PR/status/2000909190534246745

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>Akina second duel ever
>He dont know he can attack rear
>Still win agains a semi-pro
Nao is megumi 2.0 lol
Also will akina stop saying miracles every 2 seconds? its getting obnoxious already and it's only 3 episodes
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Please dont forget about premium
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>>97245121
Larping
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This is a second OSRG, seperate from the main osrg thread, where you CAN talk about 2e, retroclones, and any osr content you want.
This is different than the regular osrg as due to rampant trolling from a handful of bad actors, discussion is impossible.
PREVIOUS THREAD
>>97206318
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>>97241430
Can you explain to me, like a three-year-old, what's wrong with asks? Because to me, this system seems perfect for fantasy sandboxes, both for creating and then playing in them. Creation Band of the Falcon, organization a mafia, leading caravans to distant lands, or building your own magical tower possible any D&Dlike game, but only here are all these rules in one place, in a streamlined framework.
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>>97243764
>It's nearly identical to Moldvay Basic, especially in its first printing so if you were right that just means Moldvay is railroady.
Are you dense? I'm talking about the solo intro adventure, with Bargle the wizard, not the rules section.
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Hello, so I just recently entered the world of roleplaying (i'm a zoomer in the third world, this is very niche) and I decided to run OSE, specifically, keep on the borderlands, to a couple of friends, one which never played any ttrpg before (I just played a couple times actually).
It's all fun, I decided to start the adventure at level 3 because of the high lethality of old modules and the fact that clerics and mages without spells are a bore. It might be controversial but also I don't want my characters dying, they won't learn much by instantly dying off at the first trap. They are noobs used to fortnite, remember.
Anyways, I just wanted to say that, we are having fun roleplaying and throwing dice and I think that's the important part.
But I have a couple of questions, first off, how compatible are 2e modules to OSE? And I also wanted to get some good sandbox module recommendations, officials or not, i've checking the Isle of dread but that honestly looks boring despite the freedom it gives you, what's the bad evil guy? A couple snake men?
Also is it just me or are 2e adventure modules all linear railroads? All the sandbox modules I find are either indie or TSR classic.
Can you recommend me any ravenloft or dark sun campaign book that is full sandbox or there aren't any? I love those settings by the looks of them.
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>>97245637
they're compatible other than any missing monsters/spells and so on
most 2e adventures are linear because the culture shift towards storyfagging had already happened, hence why story xp is the default
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>>97245637
Aren't the campaign setting books basically gigantic sandbox modules?

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Christmas is over, but I still have one more Sonic gamebook to round out the year!

ATTENTION MODS - THIS IS NOT A QUEST THREAD, BUT A GAMEBOOK STORYTIME

Okay, now that that's out of the way, let's begin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC8x7s7o5AM
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>>97246355
>Straight on
OR
>Left
OR
>Right
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>>97246393
Left?
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>>97246417
>Left
OR
>Right
OR
>Straight on
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>>97246517
Left again?
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>>97246561
That just takes us back to >>97246393 I'm afraid, so

>Right
OR
>Straight on

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Welcome to Mecha Monday! Here we dedicate ourselves to mecha RPGs, wargames, and boardgames alike. Here we start games, tell campaign stories, share resources & assets, and seek advice for our games and homebrew.

Assorted Mecha Goodness:
https://pastebin.com/E2wi55AZ
Embryo Machine Translation:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r_cjOLuUp3HussVRhbQYU3G0zK6hwy1r
Lancehounds Homebrew:
M3g4 folder/eMEBUbCL#kj2FRrlqTa-02U16XpnVRg

Previous Thread:
>>97092391

Question of the Thread:
Should mecha have hands? Should the hands be humanlike? If they shouldn't have hands, what should they have? If no hands, why even have arms?


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>>97245170
Definitely check it out. It’s been one of the most dynamic campaigns I’ve run, and my players who are usually goodie-two shoes are constantly at odds with doing work for horrible people because the payout is sometimes that good, and there’s like 150+ things you can spend money on in that supplement.
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How can I build pic related in Lancer? I also accept any of the others Crossbones out there.
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>>97245764
Flavor is free, so presumably you can get something like Sherman R2 for the Andromeda and just flavor it as a giant crossbow. If you mean it to be wide, you could get Genghis 3 for plasma thrower instead, cone 7 - it can also serve double duty and do a line 10 attack too for a more precise shot.
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>>97245813
Genghis 3 for the Plasma Thrower to represent the Peacock Smasher. Swallowtail 2 for the SSC Oracle LMG-I to mount on a Core Bonus GMS integrated mount to represent the head vulcans and chest machine guns, Blackbeard 2 or Black Witch 1 for the grapple cables and then a Charge Blade for the melee weapon? I don't think there's any other melee weapon that would fit and swing harder since the Plasma Thrower is Super Heavy.
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Sad because I had to cancel tomorrow's session. Pic related is how my Christmas week has felt, with multiple calamities stacking up. Thankfully, my players were very understanding. I'll have to make it up to them next week.

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Why the FUCK is his power armor broken? The Badab War was 100 years ago. This dude leads a legion-sized band of space marine pirates and is one of the wealthiest and most powerful space marine lords in the setting, on par with chapter masters of the first founding chapters.

WHY THE FUCK WOULD SOMEONE NOT HAVE FIXED HIS POWER ARMOR. Does GW even know their own fucking setting anymore?
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>>97244553
He's got crabs or some shit in his astartes-pattern pubes.
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>>97242133
>the badab war was 100 years ago
Wasn't it M38?
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>>97244061
Abaddon is the better mini.
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>>97244061
Maybe the real chaos is the friends we made along the way.
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>>97244014
>So powerful that the traitor Primarchs bow before him.
nu-lore is so fucking gay lmao

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>Brutus' Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g

>DriveAnon's Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing

>Jumpchain IRC Chat
http://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA

>Rules
http://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn

>How to Jumpchain
http://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/view


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>>97246470
Oh whoops. I completely failed to put a restriction on that, wew
I guess just pick something that fits. Regional Pokemon, out-of-region Pokemon belonging to a trainer, whatever you want to be.
I guess the usual "don't pick a legendary" clause is in effect but honestly, legendaries are probably closer to extremely rare and more powerful than average, rather than god-powered beings. At least in this world. Just pick something you actually want instead of trying to powergame it and you should be fine.
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>>97246536
Could you put it in the jump when you have the opportunity please?
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[Pokemon Shifting Skies]

Drawback: Hard Mode (1100)

Evergreen Hollow

Drop-In

Gone Fishing (Free)
Achievement System (900)
Beyond Mastery (600)
Second Harvest (400)
Accelerated Methodology (200)
Freebies (Free)

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>>97246571
Sure. For now just pretend that origin has the same loose restriction as the companion option.
>You can choose any Pokemon you would expect to find in your starting location (fanwank it).
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>>97246376
What does that have to do with a jump about blacked porn?

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Merry Christmas edition
>Previous
>>97224887
>Pastebin
https://pastebin.com/WiCHizn0
>Mediafire
https://mediafire.com/folder/s9esc6u7ke8k5/CofD
>Mega I
https://mega.nz/folder/ePQ1BKhJ#RCosRCh59Ki2Mpb1M9H3Uw
>Mega II (also containing fanmade games)
https://mega.nz/folder/ZbQ2zLJA#DOT-3df6rS2lLet4_RmqJQ
>WoD5 Mega
https://mega.nz/folder/7rQQ1LbQ#16_AiXVGo0P3_rVOJuoZyA
>STV content folders
https://pastebin.com/9i9zhydQ

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Thin-skinned woofers are butthurt again.
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>>97246583
Good point, though it's kind of a dismissive answer over the whole thing
>Yeah it'll never happen
And Mages will never win the war against the technocracy but it's fun to speculate over. Even if the default is Hermetic chuds becoming wizard kings and enslaving humanity
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>>97246597
You're technically correct but factoring in realistic prehistoric populations for the Impergium takes all the fun out of it so I reject this
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>>97246583
The Margrave probably rules the world (And That's A Good Thing). t. Pawel Kowalski
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>Human: The Protagonist

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Another Infernals edition edition

>What is Exalted?
An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.
Start here:http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/

>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?
Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.html
It’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.

>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?
Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck

>Resources for Third Edition
>3E Core and Splats

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By being a Night Caste, a Solar can have all Excellencies at chargen and be good at literally everything.

Caste abilities: Awareness, Dodge, Stealth, Socialize, +1 choice
Favored: Archery, Performance, Presence, Sail, +1 choice

Those eight abilities need higher than 1 dot to learn a single charm, whereas you get the exellency for only one dot in each as a C/F ability. That leaves 15 abilities, and you have 18 ability dots and 15 charms left. Assign one dot to each ability and buy the 1 dot charm. Splash out with BP if you want Martial Arts excellency too.
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>>97246135
>>97246139
Both the charmset bloat and evocations problems, were also caused the the uniqueness creep.
3e original nu devs really wanted to make each player character unique, so no 2 pcs would ever have the same charms.
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>>97246135
I still dislike Supernal even years later
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>>97246306
It is weird, it was designed around to many contradictory design intentions, in one hand "get capstones easier" in another "we don't want the players getting them too easily"
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=>>97246193
>1 choice for Occult so you can punch spirits
>1 choice for Lore so you can break reality over your knee (over the course of a vague narrative length of time, during which many a Fact is Introduced)
Nightbros...we're weak to linguistics and bureaucracy, how will we ever cope...also Eclipsoids still have an eternal monopoly on Eclipse Charms even though that's much less of a big deal than it used to be, and any Solar can just learn Carnal Spirit Rending and get some temporarily after bullying a spirit to death. Maybe even the one they freshly with Ephemeral Induction Technique.

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On the spectrum of rubber forehead aliens to complete starfish aliens that are made out of silica and breathe methane, where are YOU specificially comfortable with. Does there come a point where an alien becomes too weird for you to "relate" to in order to include them in your games as playable races?

Personally I am fond of aliens that look plausibly like they could have evolved in a different world and have no distinguishable lineage to earth life, even if they share some superficial features.
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>>97240304
It's not impossible for there to be life we can barely recognize as life, even intelligent life, but at the same time we might have as much interaction with them as a deep sea submersible has with creatures from the deep. We know they exist, we've studied them, but there's just nothing for us to do with them beyond, "hi, we see you and you see us." The aliens we'd have the most dealings with would be the ones that are the most like us, since that means we'd have common understanding of the world (what would you even discuss with a sapient cloud, even if you could communicate somehow?) and we're likely to compete for the same resources. At best, certain weird species might be able to provide us with resources we have trouble getting. Creatures that can live on places like Venus probably have industry and resources we'd have a harder time getting over just trading for them.
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I have my own issues with that as I feel the vast majority of the morphs seem like things that would/should be relegated to the background.

>>97246430
I would never deny the fact that we could find "life" that is nothing at all like we may imagine, but this whole business involves them being usable as player characters. A psychic sea cucumber works in a narrative sense but not something you could pull off in a table top game.
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>>97246458
I think it is a bit dismissive to just relegate anything not a humanoid to the background, but I feel like there is the inherent issue where you make an alien-alien (or any species with a different body plan even if it's like a myrmex from DnD or such), you have to contend with how you make a framework able to account for that and how it kinda does favor having 3-4 in-depth aliens over a bunch of them. Like 3-4 playable starfish aliens with huge mechanical differences instead of 50 with minor stat differences. And then there is how you integrate that with the other mechanics of the game like weapons or armor. "only X species can use Y gun" is kinda lame to do from my experience, even if I get that different prehensile appendages are the reason for that. Biochemistry realism I dont care much for i'll admit, it is just tedium for the sake of tedium after a point. The balance between appealing to people on the novelty of the alien and being something too esoteric to bother with is a hard one to strike.

Like say imagine a game with Children of Time's uplifted cast of spiders, humans, crows and octopodes, Does it make sense to do background relegation if these are the only 4 intelligent species?
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>>97246458
>A psychic sea cucumber works in a narrative sense but not something you could pull off in a table top game.
You are not doing your best.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zgRRBK1LG5A

It all depends on the level of technology and what type of culture we're talking about. If it's like super star trek future tech and cultural exchange, surely even the psychic sea cucumber empire wants to have representation at the Big Table, meaning some of their people would do their best to adapt to the prevailing galactic culture and be able to exists alongside other species to some extent, even if purely diplomatically. If we're talking about near future tech and there's sea cucumbers on Europa or something, the best we can do is look at them through a drone camera and flash some lights at them.

And what if the homonoid body plan is the weird one out and all the major powers are weird intergalactic fart clouds and oscillating crystals, and it's us who have to adapt to them?
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>>97242244
Well yeah if I just wanted to fuck an exotic human I already have transhuman clades for that so the aliens need to bring in their A-game on tentacles, bizarre poses they can do and having a soft warm body to cuddle.


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