>>97221448
WILL WE MAKE GODS TO WATCH OVER US?
WE MUST DISSENT.

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>>97234185
Still has some fun quotes.

>>97221448
Planet and the fungus/worms were abominations that needed to be eradicated.
But, the age was also that of large interest in psychics and "ascending" so the good ending of the game is humanity being subsumed into a nightmarish fungus hive-mind.

Meant to post much earlier in the thread, but I suffered a Prometheus Virus outbreak and have only now rebuilt my base population to sufficient levels.

Assuming anyone is still monitoring the thread, what are the best campaign premises to use when running an SMAC game, either in GURPS or some other system? Some of my ideas have been:
>PCs are a probe team from a single faction or set of pact brothers, and the game plays out like a cyberpunk espionage thriller
>PCs are division heads for their (possibly custom) faction, and must use social influence and connections to steer their faction or faction leader in the "correct" direction while also handling their official duties
>goofy riff on the above using MAID(?!?), where PCs are vying for the affection of their faction leader
>small-scale story about a group of terraformers in the early days after Planetfall, exploring this alien world, discovering its wonders, and trying to build a comfy homestead along the Pholus Ridge

>>97228616
Share it damn it!

>>97242149
>Already statted
High Tech: Weapons Tables, Pulp Guns 1 & 2, and Adventure Guns for the bulk of them. The rest are scattered. Tactical Shooting, Loadouts: Monster Hunters, and SEALS in Vietnam have some pretty interesting stuff too.

>Cool obscure guns
Maadi Griffin, a single shot .50 BMG pistol
Pfeifer-Zeliska, a 5(?) shot .600 Nitro Express Revolver
AR57, 5.7x28mm AR15. Uses P90 mags.
.510 Beck, a round designed for suppressed AR10/SR25s. They had shit like subsonic 900gr tungsten projectile, and RDX SAP.
A Fuchs Double Bolt Action. A side by side bolt action double rifle. Usually in .375 H&H Mag, or .416 Rem Mag
Sjogren, an inertial locking semi auto shotgun, one of the earliest semi autos.
The original, 28ga Raging Judge
S&W 460, the other X-Frame Smith makes that no one talks about.



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Here are the Tiger II stats i made using Pyramid article 3 - 120.

>>97240332
Chat is this real

>>97242405
>.510 Beck, a round designed for suppressed AR10/SR25s. They had shit like subsonic 900gr tungsten projectile, and RDX SAP.
While we're at it, we don't have .458 SOCOM either, do we?

How'd you "convert" HESH to small arms caliber? I find the concept of a rifle to pistol caliber HESH round TK tickle my brain the right way in the context of a plausible, semi-realistic cyberpunk setting, so I was thinking it'd work just the same but deliver crushing instead of cutting damage as even current body armor has anti-spalling lining. After all, a plastic explosive pancake going off against your chest (or head) would definitely hurt.
Also related: is it just me, or are all the same explosive rounds for small arms in UT significantly weak? Like 1-2 damage for a 10mm rifle seems pitiful

>>97230970
>>97234145
Why is alt. history considered limiting? It should be little obstacle if kept as background fluff and not the driving force of a grand geopolitical narrative

>>97230682
>not playing Dieselborne
NGMI

>>97243348
You use an alt history setting explicitly in order to explore it. It's pointless if its just background stuff. It would be akin "generic" fantasy.m

>>97243671
What's that?

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>>97230214
By feeding in more red chips. It's always those motherfuckers.

>>97239800
>>97239862
is there any nikke card focused on asses?
I remember in the beginning of the game it was full of butts, but they stopped display them very quickly

>>97242704
It's a long story; Cousin's visiting fiance from overseas only plays EDH and enjoys opening booster packs. I hate opening boosters because nothing in them is ever worthwhile, but he asked what boosters I would like as a Christmas gift and have wanted to try F&B for a while.

>>97242712
Painful, but thank you for the honest response. I probably should've gotten into it years ago huh. I only got back into TCGs in late 2022.

>>97243596
Not sure. Some nice person sent me those cards for free.
I'd imagine there's an image db somewhere to have a look.

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Any toughts on Sorcery: Contested Realm? I haven't looked up on the playstyle, I got too distracted on the art that leans into the 90s Magic kinda way.

>>97243697
it would, much like fab, have been better as an expandable/living card game

>>97243245
>zutt cucksade

not even remotely popular and the lead french fag seething about it not being so with a powerpoint presentation will never not be funny

>>97243565
Giant cope. Conservatives who think they're Christian are all over this game, and so do antitheist libs

>>97243089
Infinity

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>>97236626
You’re underestimating the GW dominance. It doesn’t take a lot to make the top 10. Its also a perfect game alot of people are buying Flashpoint that are not tabletop gamers or buying it to paint alone or just have the box. Halo collectors are actually quite a big market especially since Star Wars died.


Its a phenomenally good game I haven’t touched it since last January but I fucking loved it and if I take a notion to play a minis game i’ll be digging it out.
If the retards had dropped a strong Covie box alongside the Spartan edition it would be huge in my area we had real traction on release but we did one tournament in January and despite it being really good it just died largely because the Elite players got smoked. Yes they’re strong in objective games but you needed two sword elites to match the Spartan meta and I for one couldn’t afford two Spartan editions to do that. The Banished box was a huge dud that didn’t sell locally or I suspect very well in general but that no dount that was 343 pressure to push infinite. It’s a great game and i’m looking forward to get back into it when theres Grunts, Jackals and Hunters.
Pic related my nail varnish drowned Chief.

>>97238770
If GC had dropped before Fleet Battles it would have done gangbusters. Instead it dropped around Halo 5 when Halo fans were dropping the series for other things and then like a year later Spartan Games was gone.

Fleet Battles was cool but it was appealing to a tiny demographic.

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new to kill team but getting routinely slaughtered. My blooded are just sliding off of my opponent's Space Wolf Scouts, and I find giving him extra activations just means he's healing twice with his medic. Blooded tokens make little impact.

Are some teams just super unbalanced? Though to be fair I also seem to suck.

>>97243562
Are you solely trying to trade kills or focusing on objectives and other ways to get VPs? You're a horde team with very few ways of punching through a Space Marine's hide. Your strength is board control and ramp up. Cause him problems on different areas of the map and force him to split his team, then pick a side you want to focus on and hammer those units there.

>>97243577

you might be onto something. Stay hidden, get close, and try to push for objectives?

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>>97241996
>Sounds like... a rag tag band of different planets forces joining up.
It was part that, part being the GM for our campaigns, and partly flat-out liking to play multiple fleet lists at semi-random. So I could be using WYSIWYG to designate which ships were technically "reserves" or "reinforcements" (which is a big thing with Imperial fleets in particular). The actual fluff on the fleets was
>blue
An obsolete fleet that had been largely puttering around guarding Tithes until shit cooked off in the 12th Crusade. Suddenly very out of their depth. My first actual fleet
>Red
SegObscuras fleet whose Lord Admiral had been killed in battle against the Orks (one of my main opponents) and were now being run by a Rogue Trader and some Marines while they waited for "reinforcements" they never actually sent a message requesting. There are quite a few Xenos ships hidden in the escort shot
>Purple
Some of the Armageddon fleet ships were really nice as backup in a standard one
>Pirates
These guys were the actual rag-tag fleet. Also used the Rogue Trader's cruiser or one of the Demiurg Bastions as the flagship. Mostly played for challenge
>Inquisition
Used as GM loaners in scenarios

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>>97243577

again sorry to be dumb, what do you mean by ramp up? Also with board control, is it really easy to split up 6 marines when kill team boards are so tiny?

>>97242741
do you do the Walmart dance Anon.

>>97239545
Does pokemon have a version of draft? How are kids supposed to make decks if people are just blocked like this?

>>97243225
I don't know what that is, but I would refuse to do it regardless.

>>97243674
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Asf9n848M

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>>97243703
Yeah, no. I've never been to any of the morning meetings that they do "cheers" for, let alone this shit. It's also legally dubious, since I doubt they got permission to use the song in an official employer capacity. Regardless, I'd sooner quit or kill myself than bring myself down to such a level. I do not engage in corporate indoctrination ceremonies or humiliation rituals. I am a human being.

>>97238443
I played 2 games but I'm too stoned and retarded to care enough to play well. I'm playing Pokemon Yellow instead.

Really there should be videos of only women with hairy forearms playing chess.

>>97173764
>FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships
press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqV1t3mIc5w

nice username! https://www.chess.com/member/lichessisbetter99

>>97243646
It just makes me vaguely sad that is legitimately the best way to do it I have ever thought of. It feels weird to explain one franchise by pointing at another. The only that's missing is Yozis/Primordials and I mean, most groups don't except the ones that get along enough to do the whacky turbo autistic homebrew mechanics to meaningfully interact with them.

>>97243595
>It's kind of funny to me how in 3e, Lore is the stat more about directly bending reality to your will while Occult is the one more about spirits and only spirits, like fuck man mix it up and give me an Occult Charm specifically for dealing with Raksha or Behemoths ffs if you're gonna make Occult the skillmonkey to Lore's "can do literally anything and everything as long as it tangentially related to knowledge"
I think it has to do with the fact that Lore is, ironically, a bit of a closed book when it comes to actual baseline effects. Like, take a look at how knowledge/lore skills are used in other TTRPGs; they'll tell you about what you're dealing with, weaknesses and vulnerabilities, past events, what to be wary of, political structures, and in games where magic is a particularly relevant knowledge-based skill, it'll likely have some side-effect related to research.

In Exalted, Occult and Lore being separated means that magical research is separated out into Occult, as it deals with, presumably, spirits, elementals, and sorcery. The fact that they made Occult into a potential combat stat as well via sorcery further gives it a niche as THE premier sorcery skill. Lore, meanwhile, gives everything you're looking for baseline when it comes to knowledge effects. Introduce Fact is baseline functionality, and rolling against difficulties to understand things about the world isn't some kind of extreme matter available only to demigods; a mortal that's studied long enough can be nearly impossible to run out of information, especially via connective ideas.

The main problem with this is what happened to Medicine in core. Solar Medicine is so spastic and unfocused that many of its effects don't actually do anything, because they were building to problems that don't actually exist.

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>>97243681
Expanding on the baseline functionality of Lore has limits too, since lore backgrounds are barely even a mechanical widget you can work with, and Introduce Fact's difficulty grades aren't particularly high in the first place.

So... you have to expand in scope. What do sages do? They tell you about how powers have affected the world in the past, which is how we get shit like Evocations being accessible via Lore effects. They know where to find resources. They know how to train you to be better.

That expanded out, made into demigodhood, just kind of turns the mess into a coherent understanding of how to improve someone's capabilities. And in Exalted, expanding capabilities is generally supernatural.

Can a sidereal exalt as an old man? I know Terrestrial have the possibility, but pretty much it's unheard of. Sidereals are the only one who are fated to though, so do they always exalt young?

>>97243716
Save for DBs, all exalts can exalt later in life; as long as they're mature enough to have strong convictions and the life experience to stand out before the divine, they can exalt. In 1e, Yurgan Kaneko - better known as the Bull of the North - actually caonically got so old that he was worried about becoming a burden to his tribe, so he wandered out onto the ice looking for a way to die, and exalted instead. I believe Chejop Kejak also exalted on his death bed from old age, but I'm less confident that I'm right about that one, as it was secondhand information and I can't recall who told me.

When someone that old exalts, while they don't physically get younger, all the frailty and ailments of old age get blasted away by the divine power of the exaltation juicing their body. They're essentially suddenly in their prime again. There's no reason this wouldn't apply for any exalt type that isn't a DB or literally made exalted at birth (Alchemicals and Liminals).

>>97178742
lol damn that takes me back

>>97150745
wholesome

>>97151090
>reddit dog
My man corgi is the royal dog of England.

>>97183498
This is incorrect. Corgis in other countries are bigger than in UK. I know since I have two. Both are 15-17kg, and vets have always give them perfect score for muscle and physique. They aren’t really any bigger than average corgi in my country, but in a meeting organized by the kennel I got mine from, the breeder had some guest over from Britain who brought his corgis and they were tiny. That is when I realized that different countries have slight variety in dog breeds. Nordic corgies are huge compared to British ones.

>>97242840
>OMG THE HECKIN QUEEN!!!
yeah, reddit dog

>>97242686
Fuck did you do this time, anon?

>>97242690
The authors seem to recommend running factions kind of like their own NPCs, where the faction itself has its own stated goals, personality, and agency. Each of the individual members of the faction fall into line with those qualities (unless the story demands otherwise). They also mentioned that they cribbed the "clock" mechanic from Blades in the Dark and apply that to all their games now, where the faction's goals are visualized as a subdivided circle (4, 6, 8, etc. subdivisions based on difficulty of achieving the goal). The faction fills in or loses a filled in part of the circle based on actions the party takes, and a full circle means the faction achieves its goal. For example, a rebel group that is trying to prop up the true heir of the recently deceased local noble would get part of its circle filled in if the party displays evidence in the court that the usurper came to his position by illicit means, or if they go and kill the usurper, but they would lose part of their circle if the usurper sends the party to attack their base of operations or if the party skips town without challenging the status quo.

>>97242738
I'm a newbie DM putting together a run of Lost Mines for four (mostly) new players of varying levels of engagement. Maybe I'm putting the cart before the horse asking if it's worth trying to get a player engaged when they don't even know their class abilities at level 1 beyond "hit the guy with my sword". Maybe asking them to examine their character motivations more will make them more engaged.

>>97242892
>I'm a newbie DM putting together a run of Lost Mines for four (mostly) new players of varying levels of engagement. Maybe I'm putting the cart before the horse asking if it's worth trying to get a player engaged when they don't even know their class abilities at level 1 beyond "hit the guy with my sword". Maybe asking them to examine their character motivations more will make them more engaged.

players are never as invested as the dm, so we are basically always one level of sophistication ahead

when your newbie players are just at rolling dice and hitting things with a sword, you're already starting to think of thematic links between encounters, playing to strengths and weaknesses, clues and red herrings

once they finally start thinking of their character motivations and what they want to accomplish, you should already be at the stage of narrative arcs, ebb and flow, managing tone and pacing, etc

>>97238923
It is clearly Master Blaster.

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This is Gwyn Oresong, a Gold Dwarf archaeologist and Netheril researcher. She is currently studying the Netherese influence in the region south of the Neverwinter Woods.
She is also Gundren Rockseeker's ex-wife.

Which of these pieces of art is the best choice?

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>>97236227
Pretty sure those came at a time when GW and co were getting into CAD. The GK Strike Cruisers from the same era were also too perfect/clean edge to not have been CAD origin.

>>97238392
If you look at the Mechanicus battleship's prow more closely you can see the little irregularities in the triangular chevrons on the red armor plate, the holes in the top of the quarter armor, and the arches on the armor, not to mention things like the panel lines on the sail behind the bridge. Battelfleet Gothic stuff was shockingly simply-sculpted. The line is almost entirely built up out of plastic strips, punched circles, and tubing. GW even did some features in White Dwarf about the sculpting process. I'll have to see if I still have the archive I put together on this computer.

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I love this old bastard

>>97235368
>Also, nobody enjoys the Holiday Special unironically.

... I mean, I like the Boba Fett cartoon.

>>97238920
>Spoiler

Right? And we're all supposed to assume that the New Republic were TOTALLY nice and TOTALLY fair and didn't screw over the people of At Attin in any way.

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>>97242301
They are supposed to come back on Q2 2026

Is it autistic to have chatgpt write little stories about my most memorable legion battles?

>>97243528
you can't write them yourself?

>>97243424
All I wanted was to honor family tradition, win a bunch of battles from behind a desk, and become part of the new ruling class of some newly conquered world! Oh God-Emperor! I was a piece of shit even back then! I totally deserve to be shot up the butt or squished like a bug! (incoherent sobbing for a while) I am pretty sure the Emperor turned-turned his backback on me ages ago anyways. (sobs) I think Slaanesh stole my-mymy soul seven years ago, and then Gork and Mork stole it from them, and then they have been playing this game for my soul ever since (more sobbing)”

>>97240610
>Be Lord Noctis Carrigen
>The world continues to burn
>Kriegers continue to burn
>Im laughing my head off as it seems the kriegers have succumb to Khorne and start fighting back harder then before
>One knocks me off my bike so I roll onto my feet
"BRING IT IMPERIAL PIG"
>We clash my Saber connecting with the Krieger's shovel
>Unfortunately for him my weapon is a chaos relic at this point
>No matter how strong he smacks he'll never break it
>I slash a few times sending him back
>I parry a overhead slash from him
>He staggers slightly as I deliver the killing blows
>Clean decapitation
>A bloody fountain spews forth from his neck stump as my sword drinks its fill

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>Be me
>Colonel Farragut of the Imperial Post
>Working on Candlemas, the one day in the year they never let us have off
>Doing my job delivering the post
>Candlemas presents
>They were supposed to arrive 2000 years ago, but someone at the depot arranged it so they're still arriving on candlemas day
>That's the administratum for you
>Already taken several swigs of Valhallan tanna and I'm pretty sure I'm over the alcohol limit for driving shuttle craft by several pints. points.
>Doesn't really matter, nobody bothers checking us, especially on candlemas day
>Today's delivery is to some backwater icehole called Nordica II
>Technically it's marked as uncontrolled but rules are rules
>The Imperial Post always delivers even when the delivery was scheduled 2000 years ago
>take another swig of tanna
>At least there aren't any valhallans on the planet
>Check the cargo manifest

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>>97240531
>Be the Hot Krampus, Lesser Daemon of Slaanesh, Disguised as the Krieger Colonel
>The Felinid Commisar walks into my office with her aid, while her guards stay outside
>Six minutes of small talk begins now
>Then I start getting telepathic messages informing me that a Chaos Warband is raiding the planet
>How the hell do people not notice a fleet approach on a planet, which usually takes at least days from the nearest Mandeville point?
>How the hell do they also miss the deployment of landing craft until just seconds before they arrive?
>The attackers seem to be Khornates, but I suspect at least one over of the Great Four is aiding them
>Good thing all the Krieger murder squads have already entered the city and are on the verge of hitting their first targets. I made it very clear to them that their missions take priority no matter what else happens on the planet, this raid from outer space will only help the planned slaughter by delaying any sort of Imperial response
>I realize I have missed the first few things Kate said, and at any moment the air raid sirens will sound
>Time to act quick
>The air raid siren goes off and Kate and her aid get up to investigate
>I use their distraction to draw my laspistol and fire it at the handle for the door, melting its components and trapping everyone inside
“Are you aware, ‘Commissar’, that internal investigations a group made up of every Commissar on the planet other than yourself and Junior Commissar Tammy have come to the conclusion that at least 10% of your regiment is tainted?”
>It is funny because the 10% part is true

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>>97241712
>Be tank lieutenant Abdul of the Tallarn 454th armored.
>Secretly be Abby but crossdressing because my regiment doesn’t allow female officers.
>3 fucking years straight on an ice world!
>No fucking response at all from the Imperium.
>Im in a bar watching some kind of weird game on TV.
>Cant even fucking tell what’s going on anymore, I think the commentators have also given up on trying to keep track of the score.
>Stumble outside for some fresh air annd maybe to puke a bit only to see a bunch of buff women wearing scrolls and ribbons in this weather hauling crates around.
HolyEmperorLookAtThoseGuns.vox
>I hold back my puke and saunter up to one to ask what they’re doing?
>They tell me they’ve got crates of hot chocolate rations for Candlemas they’re guarding and are trying to find an Astropath.
>Wait, today is Candlemas day?
>I tell them I can help them out with providing armored support.
IMayBeDrunkButICanStillDrive.coaster
>I stumbled back into the bar to find my crew and anyone else here who wants to save Candlemas.

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>>97243305
I also figured it out messing around new recruit, but here's a chart

>>97243116
So basically...30k Johnny?

>>97242785
One of my two boxes of recasts arrived for christmas.
Endryyd, DG Typhon, Traitor Champ, Daemon-summoning term librarian, Ventanus, a Vigilator sniper, 4 Golden Keshig bikers, 10 deathsworn, 10 grey slayers, 10 headhunters, 10 angel's tears, 2 contemptor conversion beamers, IF+WE helmets.

From GW would've cost $1470 with tax. $1358+$112 in tax. From china was $298.
The real gift was $0 went to those GW cocksuckers who make prices so bullshit in the first place because customers are stupid.

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>>97243522
based and recast pilled.
Everything in this pic is recast or printed, fuck the man.

>>97243651
nice, I haven't gotten around to assembling my Storm Eagle yet, need another bottle of superglue accelerator and some rubber bands first