>>97244655
She looks smoochable.

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>>97244889
>>97244655

Cuz she is.

>>97244929
>beskad with a cortosis nanoweave
That seems like a pointless addition? A beskad should already be lightsaber-proof, and cortosis weaves aren't typically depicted as being enough of the metal to trigger the short-circuit effect.

>>97239030
Yeah I never really got it but there are an unusual amount of grown ass boomers who think small furry forest assholes are cool. I've never understood it, just seen it.

>>97234434
Is this a regular thing people do? I did because I've been watching the ot on christmas over the last three years

>>97239620
Now that’s nice. Now that I like.

fat hands

>>97239620
HE'S FAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9xlIaZQSyc

>awkward

i agree OP. it WOULD be cute, but that tube you're holding is far too skinny.

>>97239620
I have a distinct feeling that you actually like being bullied and you're only pretending to be a gigantic faggot over receiving a nice gift like this one.

>>97235374
Why do you need to?
Everyone on this board will tell you that the rules don't matter, hell, getting anyone here to talk about games at all is harder than pulling teeth.
It's all about stories and worldbuilding, so why would you be under the impression you'd need to learn anything?

>>97235374
Players only need to know
>The basic rules (what dice to roll, success and failure, etc)
>How to make a character and what their stats and skills do
>Combat procedures (initiative, number of actions, movement, attacking and damaging)
>Only the spells, feats, abilities, powers, moves, etc their character has right now and what they do

Even as the GM, you need to know
>The basic rules
>How to run combat, more or less identical to the players
>What the estimated difficulty should be for a given party's level/strength
>How to read a statblock or how to construct an antagonist
>how to roughly structure a session and then campaign

If you are reading every book cover to cover, believing you need to know every spell, every max-level abilities, every piece of equipment, every magic item, and so on, you are doing things wrong. Majority of all RPGs books operate on a type of "Need to Know" philosophy. If you're level 1, it doesn't matter what abilities you get at level 17, or what that 9th level spell does or whatever. You CAN learn those things if you're interested, but you don't NEED to know them. So if you are strictly interested in getting the game going ASAP you only read and learn the things that matter, and look up rules or make rulings when you need to.

>40 pages for average game rules
>calling it a textbook
I get what you mean. But maybe you'd have a more fun time playing videogames. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

>>97245023
>Youre the problem player
You still havent answered anyones questions as to why someone shouldn't be allowed to read the DMG.
What's wrong faggot, mad when someone other than you knows the rules and calls you out for cheating like a little bitch?

>>97235374
very easy to avoid by not playing bloated jokes of games like D&D

there's zero pictures online of my FLGS from the 2000s, which is surprising.

it was a warehouse in a village in northern England with a little shopfront. shared a big warehouse space with a shopfitting company, so the wargame crowd had access to wood-cutting equipment and other tools. middle-aged men basically lived in there like it was a pub, just making models all day.

for events, they'd lay out long rows of tables and then the younger crowd would come in for e.g. Magic: The Gathering tournaments. the place was still a mess with random scrap and tools lying everywhere (plus the owners' dogs roaming around) but it was amazing.

nowadays, the UK has moved more towards little 'gaming cafés' that are totally pristine and you all get cramped onto a small table to play D&D, usually paying by the hour. i hate it so much, bros.

My local LGS has weird opening times, open only a couple of each day at different times. I have tried to turn up when it says it will be open, but it is always locked then as well, usually with a 'gone for lunch' sign in the window. Who goes for lunch at 3.10pm? I think it might not want enyone to enter and may be the front for a cult or money laundering.

Mine had a minor controversy that got some smalltime youtubefags whining about it for a bit related to a prerelease special thing sending the store an extra box and the rules of the production company saying they could do whatever with it including selling online, which resulted in accusations of them selling people's preorders leading to the loss of a distributor and not being able to host events for things made by that company. It was for a card game I actually wanted to play too, I still got my preorder for the prerelease stuff without any issue and got it early because I wasn't one of the discordfags stirring shit. Now I have to buy my cards for the game online for worse prices instead of getting them there.

>>97238208
>nowadays, the UK has moved more towards little 'gaming cafés' that are totally pristine and you all get cramped onto a small table to play D&D, usually paying by the hour. i hate it so much, bros.
Damn are you me? A "gaming cafe" has opened up near me just in the summer, it's alright but it only has cuck sized tables, soulless 3d printed 40k terrain and charges by the hour, with a full game costing about £7.50 a person, which is frankly ridiculous. Still, when the other LGS in my town is an old pet store with exposed brick and wiring all over the walls and smells and has old pet store stuff everywhere, maybe the "gaming cafe" is the better choice. Anyway I drive into the city to play at a club in a card store where the tables work out at about £4 a game and there's great terrain.

>>97232835
They play nerd videos (Ex: Star Wars prequels voiced over comedically) and it's generally a good vibe.
Unfortunately the whole community is way into the meta and I'm paint-only and it feels like I can't hang

>>97245084
For your next campaign, I’d heavily recommend the 3rd party supplement “Blood Money”. It basically turns the campaign and missions into mercenary work with job payouts and an operation clock. It’s also noticeably harder since you only get full repairs when the clock expires, and you can potentially have 9 combats before a full repair if the party wants to get obscene rewards.

>>97245153
I'll look into it for sure, thanks. They're coming off of other systems and started the campaign as mercenaries so not having any money and mostly progressing by the default Lancer method has been a bit weird for them, especially when they try to play their characters as greedy and scummy types. I try to accommodate as necessary but players always throw curve balls at you every once in a while.

>>97238337
gila my beloved

>>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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>>97242531
>No Hrud.
Fucking DROPPED.

>>97205958
This is all real and true

>>97218754
It has treads. Bring the FW version with legs and there should be no problem.

Are goremongers a one box team or do I need to buy a second box?

>>97205958
What podcast?

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Merry Christmas!

Would anyone be willing to take a crack at my Tiny Supers character, Stretcho the Rubber-Man? If you do, a pose that demonstrates his elasticity (elongated arms, a huge fist, maybe even some minor shapeshifting) would be amazing!

>>97221426
>I already work in high fantasy,
How about Cyberpunk?

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Was drawing with my kid and something he made inspired the head of this which then became a quick take on a carrion crawler.

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Requesting this techpriest cavalier with a servitor steed. Basically the creature on the left with the aesthetics of the right. Cyborg implants rather than fleshy mutations and instead of a metal suit, robes with the same silhouette.

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Requesting this female character "Talila" in her battle armor and Fu/foo dog mask helmet.
For context: she is pulling a Mulan and hiding her real identity and the fact that she is a female elf with a baby face and pretending to be a cold masked warrior.
Any additions to her look or armor are allowed and even welcomed, so don't be afraid to get creative with her.

>>97244684
cute couple

>>97243365
It tells you before you do it, you need to choose the one with the most empty boxes. It's one of the easiest captchas. Simple issue of not reading.

damn (damn)

Those captcha suck, ngl.

>>97242564
>>97244762

Okay, thinking about it a little more after
one more read, I don’t wanna seem like I’m whining or nitpicking but if the Santa curse, the Mature Idea, was spreading through gifts, I don’t see how Kaoru’s danger sense (and for that matter, Ran’s) wouldn’t have activated. Not just that, but clothes with a microphone on them would be a gift she’d probably distrust (even if in other circumstances she’d be happy to take a gift from Madoka) because the microphone could easily be activated on you first. Not to say Kaoru would be a bitch about it or distrust Madoka to her face, since that would be a regression of her character, but she wouldn’t trust THAT kind of gift. She might be doubtful, like “where did you get that from, Madoka? Who knows if that’s already activated, it could be recording us” in a way that makes Madoka rethink the gift. I understand if you just needed an officer-like character to track down the good guys, but I don’t know if Kaoru would be the type to 1. Accept that kind of gift 2. Trust the sudden upsurge of Christmas spirit in July, and 3. Become fully brainwashed. Kaoru is a very paranoid, neurotic person that doesn’t take things at face value whatsoever, even if she’s learning to trust her friends and be honest with them.

I don’t want to be a wet blanket, anon, you clearly worked really hard on this and I don’t want you to rewrite this, but do you mind if I recontextualise Kaoru’s involvement in this story if I reference it in my future writing? Nothing that you wrote has to necessarily change, I’d just add a little twist to bring it a little more in line with something she’d actually do.

I actually liked the story otherwise. Nice job!

>>97245688
Honestly, dude, I think that you're projecting your own lack of capacity to write interesting people as a flaw of humanity, rather than a flaw in your own limited thinking. Namely how you seem to equate substituting species for depth, despite acknowledging many traits found in humans can be found in other species which does not make those other species automatically more interesting either. You should probably take a creative writing class. Or at least touch grass.

>>97245663
You don't know what a glup shitto is lol. Once upon a time, fucking Bobba Fett was a glup shitto.

>>97245722
So, it's a worthless fandom term, got it

>>97244827
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYsMjEeEg4g?t=164

>>97245688
>I'm complaining about humans being written as normal humans in a world where non-humans that are essentially Human+ exist.
40k humans are exactly this, the weakest shittiest species in the galaxy that only got far because they’re basically a swarm of rats (and because they have plot armor). But otherwise they have no specialty and are very “middle ground” in terms of ability compared to xenos. You can write them “well” its entirely dependent on the skill of the writer.

>>97245448
Which tabletop game is it?

>>97245568
D&D (Dungeons & Degeneracy)

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Church assassins are kino.

>>97245396
>Rogues are inherently sluts
Just cuz your mom was a slut doesn't mean the rest are

>>97245709
You can't even make a good your mom joke, much less a good thread. You should have gone with something like
>just because you're mom's a rogue doesn't mean they're all sluts

>>97245686
Who even fucking cares. The game fucking sucks.
You play cards, pretend your deck is working, then ask if your opponent would like to concede, and then you win if they do.

>>97242340
Very bad. Pure pandering to heckin borkin doggerino redditors, did nothing to simplify creature types when we still have Wolf, Werewolf, Jackal, Fox and probably some more random ass canids. One of the worst changes, up there with eliminating Magic's own races.

>>97245686
If Karmic Guide is in the deck, it probably involves graveyard looping

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>>97245492
>5 more years of prepaid UB slop

>>97245686
>put cards in graveyard with druid or survival
>reanimate cards with unearth, animate or guide (which you can grab with survival)
seems pretty straightforward but ive also never played a hermit druid deck or premodern so theres probably more that im missing

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>97245322
I'll make the roll.

>>97245326
>Shrine World: So you go to church every Sunday? How about living there? How about having your whole planet being one mega-Vatican, covered in shiny gothic cathedrals and temples, and living and breathing its own brand of the Imperial Cult? Naturally, these worlds are often dominated by the Ecclesiarchy, and many a true believer from around the galaxy makes pilgrimage here.
4d10+20 for tech level

>Planet 8
>Classification: Dead(Formerly Cemetery) World
>Tech Level: Advance Space
>Arbites: Token. Administrative purposes only
>Size: 22,000 km
>Axial Tilt: Moderate (16-25°)
>Seasonal Variation: ± 20°C/68°F
>Day:38 hours
>Year: 408 Terran Days, 258 Local Days
>Satellites: 1
>Standard (0.8 to 1.2 G): Normal or easily adaptable. No modifiers.
>Normal: Safe to breathe
>Average: This world has appreciable oceans, seas, lakes and rivers, and gets frequent rainfall, but also sees its fair share of inland deserts.
>Average (-10°C to +30°C/14°F to 86°F): Humans are comfortable in normal clothing and need only the most basic of shelters to survive. Honestly just walk outside, chances are it'll be within this range.
>Terrain: Forest, island, island, island

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Rolled 3, 8, 10, 9 + 20 = 50 (4d10 + 20)

>>97245456
Another one.

>>97245642
>Mid Imperial: Most of the technology of the Imperium can be found. Only the most obscure or scarcely found items of technology can’t be found on these worlds (very rare availability items cannot be purchased). The PDF is guaranteed to pack plasma weapons and other demanding ordnance for its specialists. Most Imperial worlds are at this level.
Roll 2d10, 1d10, 1d5, 1d5, 1d5, 4d10, and 1d5 for adepta presence.

Mark my words, 11th edition will continue the enshittification of the game and the hobby to a degree not seen before. You are not ready.

>>97245035
Helps to nerf*

>>97245050
Likely yes. GW has changed the game to appeal to mtg waacs. Do you know how much money those people spend? It’s insane. Unless that dries up the game will continue to be “streamlined” and designed around pre-canned “synergies” and “combos”.

>>97226097
>Was there stuff about 8th that was largely considered bad?
Horrendous balance both internal and external, spam armies (this is where rule of 3 came from), Space Marine supplements, one-wound firstborn marines, indirect fire, aircraft, no cap on to-hit modifiers, character untargetability rules, Tau shield drones, Eldar through the entire edition were obscenely overpowered, “seize the initiative” (one in six chance the person going second instead goes first)

>>97245050
Jokes on you I already checked out. Bring the sloppa forward (to subsidize the games I play now)

>>97244320
I think it was a precursor to finality counters, just something that you use to keep track of this shit while playing tabletop

>>97243437
>hold lands in hand to bluff
>opponent now must take into consideration what you could possibly be holding
>I am now upset
Many such cases

>44 Mastery
>24 days left
Already did all my weekly wins until reset. idk if I'm going to make it

^bots

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IZZET?
...or
GRIXIS??

>>97244175
No, he would require Khan to do that and he'd come in off the sides. You couldn't just come in from reserves anywhere at the time, you had to arrive from your table edge unless you were outflanking (a specific, declared rule) or you were Snikrot, who could specifically come in on the enemy's edge. This is providing this is 5th, which I believe it is since the deployment type seems to be "Dawn of War" (deploy HQ and two troops, everything else in reserve) and null deployment on Dawn of War was very common. This deployment type added to the mechanization if 5th ed armies, but that's a different topic. It meant 1/3 of the time your static firepower had to walk onto the table, so they couldn't shoot at all and couldn't run since that wasn't a thing.
I want to point out that this is a full 4x6 table, so that's an asston of kroot even fully spread at 2" coherency.

>>97244338
>>97244389
Ah I see.

I didn't understand any of your explanations, I never got within 20 meters of a tabletop game. But thanks for explaining eitherway.

>>97244573
As I vaguely understand it (and will be happy to be told otherwise by more experienced anons), units entering the battle need to start a certain distance away from the other enemy units currently on the battlefield for the sake of fairness so that you don't get a scenario where one guy watches their opponent set up their army and then just completely encircle them from all sides like an antlion pit. And while there are a few units that can get around that to a degree, bikes aren't one of them.

>>97237079
Cool game that understands the hobby

>>97244389
>providing this is 5th, which I believe it is since the deployment type
It might actually be 4th edition, since I think the other player is running the obscure Kroot Mercenaries list which was no longer supported in 5th edition. Or he might just be playing Tau but with an inordinate amount of Kroot. Kroot Mercenaries was an absolutely shit-tier list (for one, literally the only unit in the whole army with access to any kind of anti-tank weapon was your HQ unit, which could take a meltagun), making the whole thing extra funny.

>>97244646
You normally had to deploy your models within a certain distance of your own table edge, though some units had a rule where they could be held in reserve, and some scenarios had some units always start in reserve. If held in reserve, they'd be moved to the board from their owner's table edge during the movement phase (the exact mechanics depend on the edition, but IIRC at this time it was something like half the reserved units come in on turn 1, and for the rest you roll a die to see when they enter), following all normal rules of movement (i.e. they couldn't move through terrain considered impassable or through enemy units). At the time units in reserve could only enter from the player's own table-edge, barring a handful of special characters that let you enter from other table edges (from 6th edition onward a bunch of units, including bikes, were given a rule that let them enter from the sides of the table that weren't either player's deployment zone). The Kroot are one of the units with an "infiltrator" special rule that let them be placed on the board after both sides had deployed their other units, and they could be deployed anywhere that wasn't within a certain distance from enemy units. And since the bike player started the game with nothing on the board, the Kroot could be placed anywhere, including right on the opponent's table edge.