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Some of the stuff in this thread, man.
Yeah Avatar is about its characters, they're a big part of the appeal. But it's still a martial arts show, and when people say they want an Avatar game you fucking know they're talking about wanting to be a Kyoshi warrior, a bloodbender or being a Dai Li agent shooting rock gloves, or a chi blocker. Any other game could be about being the Comic Relief or Angsty Teen. You could just rewatch the show if you want the same characters.
It's like wanting a Star Wars game and you roleplay a dysfunctional dad and siblings kissing each other, and the spaceships and lasers and aliens are an after thought.

>>96515729
This already got discussed earlier in the thread. And while not knowing for sure how many episodes they had to work with certainly didn't help, there are enough problems with some of the core premises and characters that can't be explained by that, and in some cases are more baffling when knowing that they have limited episodes.

Deciding that Korra would be a stubborn hothead but having her grow up in a sheltered monastery is an easy example. Just have her be from Republic City itself. She can learn elements at a young age because there's other kids in the neighborhood of all elements. She can be obsessed with pro-bending because she's in the city that came up with it. And she has more reason to care about the city's politics.
That's a decision that would have gotten made before they knew how many episodes they had, and so it can't be blamed on the network.

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>>96434137
I think the uncertainty about how many seasons they had is why they make her learn the same lesson to fucking chill over and over again, ending up with a retard who keeps reverting back to being a retard despite having learned not to be a retard at the end of the previous season.

>>96517171
>Just have her be from Republic City itself.
I've seen it discussed in a /co/ fanfic thread she should've been a street kid that learned on her own, she feels much more like a local.

Anyways, the original Avatar had moments where they didn't know if they were gonna get more episodes. But they kept trucking along without compromising the plot. Episode 13, The Blue Spirit, was almost the series finale. I know people hate cliffhangers, but it's preferable than fucking up the story.

The game itself gives some interesting lore. Post-war there's an issue with piracy because the Fire Nation relied on using them, so you got a bunch of guys going unpaid and just running amok. There's a module involving the plans of the first FN tank during Sozin's era, and apparently primitive Chinese style handcannons were a thing once.
I think that's neat. The creators did care about the setting and lore at least.

>>96518210
no, it's because the designers are british.

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Why is he so cool bros....

>>96518369
He's a wanker

>>96518210
I'm addressing what is or isn't easier to do when making a 3D model not what is or is not a good design. Making that design is harder than either connecting edge loops or using booleans which are the most basic ways to put a hole in something.

Whatever reason they had for doing it this way, it was not because it was the easy way to do it, which was the claim.

>>96518254
I think the tormentor is taller than people think

>>96517901
Would you really need that kind of accuracy in the context of a battlefield? If you miss one guy charging you, there's probably still pretty good odds you'll hit one of the guys beside him, or behind him. And with the kind of power that crossbows had, any kind of hit is doing something. And it's not just going to be one guy with a crossbow firing - there's a whole bunch.

If you're up on a wall shooting down between . . . I forget the name of those little gaps specifically for it . . . you're almost shooting fish in a barrel, which is even better than shooting at a mass of enemies running straight at you.

Although I suppose you could make the counter argument that a few minutes of being shown how to use a crossbow will just go completely out of my head when there's hundreds or thousands of guys running at me and shouting with pointy objects they intend to stab me with. That's a lot more dangerous than people shooting crossbows out of hunting blinds or helicopters.

>>96516951
I can answer for gurps. The good ones take a while to reload, the quick ones don’t do too much damage. This doesn’t make them bad, just niche for games focused around short range skirmish combat.
How do we make them better? Give more combat encounters at ranges where a 10 second reload isn’t the entire battle. Use a secondary weapon and treat the crossbow as an opener.

>>96518175
>Would you really need that kind of accuracy in the context of a battlefield?
Yeah because armor and shields are a thing.
>B-but muh powa
Unless you're taking a minute to shoot with a crank or a windlass, even chainmail armor is gonna prevent serious injury, if not stop it entirely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPQmXB6AmJQ

Medieval crossbowmen were often heavily trained specialists btw.

>>96517964
>The loading property unfairly relegates them to the wizard's weapon when they don't have spells
Bullshit. In Basic if your PC have Str18 you can reload a heavy crossbow every turn, because you're chad who don't need a goat's leg or a crank.
Also 3~3.5e it's not bad. Light is a move action so if you're not forced to move and in a good position you're better off than most starting archers (pre-lv9).

>>96518250
Thanks for the video. It does soundly challenge the preconceived notion I have of crossbows being a very potent anti-armour weapon which has been reinforced by constant popular depictions as such.

I'd be interested to see that kind of test repeated with the mail over a ballistic dummy like you can see guntubers like, say, Garand Thumb or Kentucky Ballistics use (I'm sure there's many more, but I'm just passingly familiar with those two).

I'm somewhat skeptical as to whether chainmail produced with period accurate material and labour would perform as well as those tested - I'm going to be honest I just watched the part where they shot at the dummies and didn't go through the section where he rated them 1 to 3 on how historically accurate the pieces were, just looked at the score card at the end where a lot of them get a 0 - and maybe I should've listened because I wonder if these pieces would represent 'premium' pieces. He probably answers both questions.

Anyway, thank for reading my blog. I concede I have a lot of misconceptions and this video helped dissuade me on them.

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yes, obviously, left looks better than right, no one is going to disagree with that. but when playing a GAME, right is obviously going to be a funner experience for BOTH sides, just look at the utter lack of balance in the left terrain set up. the near side has to traverse a river and then fight through open fields while the far side immediately gets access to most the hard cover of buildings on the map and on top of that gets the hedgerows overlooking the open fields. its blatantly not fair and poorly set up.

>but just give the attack side more units!
ok then, how do you balance that? how do you know how many points to allocate to balance out the terrain advantage? double? triple? what if thats too much and now the attacker has the distinct advantage? its way too much trouble to figure out. thats why tourney tables will always provide the better gameplay experience for BOTH sides. GAMEplay. WarGAMES. These are GAMES. A good game needs to be fun for all involved. It is not fun when one side has an inherent advantage over the other. There is a reason why 40k tournaments are by and far the most popular wargaming events and playstyle over every single alternative.

>>96514109
Maybe I need a spergier group. Is Card Ranker translated yet? Maybe I can call the YGO crowd.

>>96514142
Actually I inadvertently lied when I said there has never been any drama, but it was minor and happened so long ago I almost forgot it happened
I was still a teenager like most of the rest of us back then lmao, now mid-30s, since then, nothing.

>>96487291
The industry has completely stagnated since the normie invasion, it's just been 5e and pbta hacks for the last decade. It's like when they got into video games in the late 00s and everyone stopped making games besides multiplayer shooters and cinematic experiences because those were all the normies wanted.

>>96514116
You are playing the wrong game buddy

>>96514993
Vulgar Neo-Platonism. All reality is but a dream of the Godhead and everything in it, including the gods most worship, is a figment of that greater being's imagination. Most who realize this hidden truth fall to madness or cease to exist, but some few retain not only their self as a separate entity from God but also achieve a degree of action independent from the course laid out for them in the dream. Nothing they do ultimately matters but they choose to strive towards the creation of a world in which none suffer and all have the opportunity to attain the same enlightenment that they have.

>ooh, shiny!

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Barbo: A hopeless romantic that who believes in the power of forgiveness and righteousness but when you boil it all down, he'll say something like "it's wrong to kill people!"

Græinn: He would describe himself as an awakened psychic (in Gnostic terms) that's attempting to become pneumatic. In terms of personal philosophy, he's a radical individualist. For society, he'd say it would depend on the capabilities of the society and the niche that it finds itself in; he's seen far too many examples of different political philosophies both working and not, that it would take a better philosopher than him to truly describe it.

One character is a L11 Stalker (Judge archetype) or an alter ego of L9 Cleric, L2 Exalted. Started out human but I rolled the one number on a d100 resurrection roll to become a Kitsune.

The other character is an L4 Oracle, L4 Highlord, L5 Cerebremancer-but-homebrewed with a homebrewed bugman race. We're playing with background skills, so he has points in Artistry (Philosophy). Yes, I did use it to pen a philosophical treatise that our party handed off to a ruler to have her use a subject of refutation to justify her political rise to power and consolidation of several neighboring states.

>>96514993
>Cyberpunk Solo
Life is short, death is certain, suffering is inescapable. The world's never gonna give you a break, so you gotta get what's yours, no matter how little of it there is. If you gotta go out, go out doing what you love.

>doesn’t actually like doing bad things
>does them anyway

>>96517252
Huh, that's odd. I remember it throwing our GM off too, so much that he made his own hive world career table to enable hiver desk wallahs in the game.

>>96517130
I asked that question a while ago and anons had various ideas on why it's that way sorry anons but i forgot

>>96515783
Fool, it's not a bad idea, clearly you're built different from all the ones who failed before you, you'll get all the good shit and eventually daemon ascension, totally. You have to get that chaos champion mindset.

>>96507925
Persequitors are a neat idea and I want to add them to a dirty war on a higher-tech backwater world for my players to buy. But you didn't seem to list the total weight? Is it just the warhead weight or should I make these like a 50lb early Cold War thing lugged around like a Sagger missile?

>>96518256
Oops, I re-read it. 5kg plus the warhead. I think I'll go for the heavier weight thoughbeit, like mini analog cruise missiles for armsmen to put on mules through jungles and curse when the vacuum tubes get bumped.

>>96518038
Generally speaking if nothing gets in the way of painting something else you're better off assembling first and painting second. If something will be clearly visible in the end but a complete arse to paint once everything's been assembled then you paint that first and glue it on later. Sometimes people like keeping things like heads separate for painting even if it can be easily reached on the model. And in between there's an unending number of sorta-halfway cases that you'll just have to decide for yourself what's the easiest.

>>96514350
So just keep stacking up layers of static grass or leaf flock into little piles?

>>96514913
You can get it from Warpfire minis. I just started buying from there and it'll probably be my go-to for the foreseeable future. No vallejo, but most of the other good paint brands.

>>96518038
build first those sistsers models are a real hassle to put together. the only thing I'd recommend is not attaching the bases because getting under the cloaks and skirts is tricky with a big 32mm base in the way.

>>96518269
Yeah plus you don't sprinkle grass, you either use an applicator or grab big tufts and stick them tight onto the glue.
What I do for leaves is drop a bunch of them on the glue and gently push them flat with a small spatula.
But yeah a couple layers look way better than one.

>>96517350
Because they raped a seed of hope instead of completely destroying it? I’m not sure what you’re talking about

>>96517871
>why is the realty warping worshippers of a Cthulhu being not order
Because it’s your ends that matter not your means and their means are just as chaos as anyone so I don’t understand this feigned confusion

>>96517633
You can get there much faster if you put in some effort. Try new techniques, challenge yourself and you'll be great in no time.

>>96512520
>TQ
Depends if you count Orruk Warclans as one faction. If so then about 4k. If not, then 3.2k of Idoneth

>>96516972
Be sure to respect his pronouns.

>>96517721
Whatever irrelevant system that is

I accept your concession.

>>96515791
Dr is obviously superior, and works better when separating active and passive defenses.

Hardly.

>>96515908
Wait, wasn't that girl a bunny or am I confusing something?

>>96517023
I think they had that in Lower Decks but way smaller.

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Ticonderoga, standing by!

>>96517512
That was the Kiith class warbird, and yes!

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>>96518296
Ark Royal-class (Or Ranger-class in Beta Canon.) is one of my favorite designs.

>>96518309
Looks like a turd. Develop better taste.

>>96505631
>>96505841
>>96506244
Maybe a homebrew item like
>Lexicon: may imprint one of your tactics and use it as a consumable that refreshes each turn/showdown/event/whatever the fuck
Takes up a gear slot for the freedom to take a tactic you learned previously. Though an on demand version might cause huge problems with the AI just unable to function correctly. Agreed it's a neat idea that needs some more work.

>>96506288
>>96506799
how would you homebrew tactics?
just choose the one you want at will? then I would always use the same handful of ones.
make my own tactics? then I might as well change the entire game and redesign everything in the name of "homebrew"
>>96511219
this is just trading problems for new ones, like I said: good idea poor execution.

>>96512009
maybe you make your own decision then

Sorry, can't let you die just yet

>>96512009

Thinking on it, I think I would have it that you would draw a single tactics card when you get a knight badge. The card stays tied to that specific badge, so you always have that tactic available with that badges. More knight enemies, more knight badges, more tactics available. It's still randomized, but locked in for the campaign instead of random every single fight, and if you get a tactic that's bad for the monster you want to hunt, you just don't bring the badge.

>>96518142
>you can have a pretty great existence down there from what I understand.
Being there literally slowly kills you

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>>96518095
Only Moorcock, the rest is about adventurers.

The story that gave rise to the genre, "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save For Sacnoth" by Dunsany, is about a prince getting a dragon-sword to kill a satanic space wizard.

>>96518176
you can't kill a ghost silly. they're ghosts. There are literally undead cities and people trade in the things they're family gave them when they buried them. I'm not sure what happens when you pray and offer sacrifices for your ancestors but I bet that makes their lives easier too. I have to read that part again.

Also there is no better place to fuck a ghost then in the underworld.

>>96518222
>You will die if you go there
>But it's a good place to go and fuck a ghost
The place is inherently evil dude

>>96518299
>ghost pussy
>all the riches your ancestors give you and even more so.
>ghost pussy
>giant cities where you can have anything you want and get to chill forever so long as people worship their ancestors.
>you can fuck a ghost

if you want we can read the 3e abyssal book together and talk about all the rad and awesome shit we could have when we die or which specific ghosts we want to fuck but all this underworld is evil junk is useless.

>>96511112
You're a fucking retarded nigger who doesn't understand mutually assured destruction scales up with technological progress.

>>96513057
>actual futuristic space warfare
is not the same as
>realistic space warfare
The words "space warfare" are themselves unrealistic because realistically speaking, we will never even colonize the moon let alone Mars, let alone engage in actual combat in space except at the humanoid level at best.

>space combat
You spot the exhaust trail of a starship 3000 miles away. Given the scale of it, it's probably already spotted you as well. This doesn't match any known scheduled routes for your allies, so your ship's AI launches a constant stream of debris at near light speed in the predicted direction of the suspected enemy and start up the point-defense laser weapons. The enemy's debris stream arrives at about the same time. At some point, one of your point defense systems suffers a brief dip in power, allowing a fragment of dust to slip past and puncture a hole in the hull of your ship. The hole rips open wide as an explosive decompression takes place. This sets off a chain reaction as power is diverted to try to seal off the damaged area, causing more power dips and more of the same to happen. You are dead before you know what's happening.

>>96505680
With realistic rockets space is neither 2d nor 3d. It's 1d. Orbits are like train tracks

>>96513128
Through Struggle, the Stars by John Lumpkin is excellent. It pairs well with the Autumn Rain trilogy by David J. Williams, which is a similar setting and feel, less realistic, but based around a single planet instead of wormhole-enabled colonies.

>>96502373
Because most people like it when our toy soldiers start punching the shit out of eachother. It’s not that hard.

On the other hand, there’s games that do focus on naval combat but the group that’s souly focused on that is a very small percentage of gamers.

>>96518263
become a Disciple of Bofa

>>96518263
That depends on why you're evil.

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>>96518284
I have no idea what it means

>>96518288
There could be many reasons... though one thing that pushed me to create the thread is that I've heard that the Dead Three don't have an afterlife for their followers. They just sell their souls to the Hells for more power. I was wondering if there was a better deal.

Though on the good side it's not that much better. I think there's only the gnomish/halfling afterlife where you can profit from an eternal reward, rest and happiness... but you're also shunned if you don't decide to wageslave your afterlife away.

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Requesting GODSTRENGTH
https://rat-bastard-games.itch.io/godstrength

Hi there. Anyone got the corebooks of DnD 2024?

Requesting Lythia - Continent Module

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/pt/product/296174/lythia

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>>96518140

Looking for TEMPLA ILLUMINATUS and Codex Alchemica from Miskatonic Repository