Magical Athlete is so kino that i'm going to back Final Tian

>>96605687
Lacerda already made a Knizia-esque game called Dragon Keepers (2 games in 1 box, actually)

>>96603516
My mom loves Terraforming Mars. She's a bit of a menace when she rushes TR rating to end the game quickly.

>>96605991
I should've added "mechanically", wasn't as obvious as I initially thought

>>96603516
I can barely teach them something like Cockroach Poker, and they're not even 60. Hopefully my exposure to vidya and board games means I don't end up like that so early.

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I hope whoever at FW that signed off on this has a very unpleasant rest of their life.

>>96605765

"If more than one Allied Detachment is included in an Army, then all Allied Detachments in the army must be of a different faction than the Primary Detachment, but may be the same as other Allied Detachments" - Core, p281.

So yes, you can technically run 1500pts of nothing but Prime HQ slots in your twelve allied detachments. Hell, this benefits one of my fluffy lists a bit, but I still think this is a tiny bit wonky.

>>96606090
I have sent an email fo GW for Rhino door and they said me that I can return the item and get the money back because it's pointless to return it since all doora have 3d printed lines. I saw a friend model and after painting and varnishing the lines are not visible.

>>96606305
*Pointless to ask for a replacement

>>96606305
But the lines are so prominent, though. How can a thin couple of paint coats and some varnish even that out?

>>96603145
i think that they layout is too clean and tidy, with the river cutting through being way to straight and of equal width but that is a very typical problem in city mapmaking these days because the very programs used arent good for approximating the incredibly close and meandering architecture of medieval, renaissance and age of sail cities and the different physical features found in them like small hills, rivers etc

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>>96601553
I don't know why but the farms in the south east and what appears to be a small patch of wood attracted my attention

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>>96603670
Thank you, perfect. You got two of the spots that are supposed to draw attention.

>>96603514
Yeahhhhh it's not great. It's a commission that I'm paying for from my doodles (pic related) so I'm gonna tell the artist to actually lose the straight-line banks of the river.

In a medieval/fantasy setting, I was planning on having a nation that had an abundance of metals at their disposal, and were supposed to be higher "tech"/quality compared to the others(even though magic and stuff exists).
How effective or capable would an army be if the main weapons of their troops were crossbows instead of swords, maces, etc? I don't want them far enough along that gunpowder weaponry is the standard loadout, so just how viable *are* crossbows?
I'm trying to imagine them like a more modern military, but obviously guns, engines, and the like don't exist and its just armored men with crossbows, ballistae on wheels, deployable cover, repeating variants.

>>96605744
Crossbows (which in this case were functionally much more similar to bows than later variants) were used heavily in ancient China, but after the advent of not completely shit armor, crossbows fell out of use as a primary weapon of war in favor of bows since ranged warfare became a numbers game. There was also the repeating crossbow which was more of a personal defensive weapon analogous to a derringer since they had crap range and penetration.

Later European crossbows were used as a way to offload the cost of training soldiers onto weaponsmiths since they took less skill to use than bows at the cost of being much more resource intensive to produce and maintain and having a lower firing rate. At that point they were mainly a weapon for sieges, instead of open warfare, where you're going to be dealing with emergency forces with less training and a lot of protracted firing from cover to make up for their low firing rate and incentivize their range and accuracy advantage over bows.

Magical weaponry enhancements/magic as an alternative makes any analysis I can offer conditional, but to be frank, absent armor being behind the times or magic making them fire faster or shred armor, specializing in crossbows doesn't make much sense. Like maybe you could sell it if it's a wealthy nation especially concerned with national defense, but that would be it.

>>96606208
Yes, it was a simple one page waifu CYOA where all the girls were themed after one of the Ravnica guilds.

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>>96606281
Oh, that one.

>>96606306
Yeah. I seem to remember it having a background though.

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>>96606318
I've got two versions, but neither have a background.

>>96606306
Remember the old arguments about the duck ruining the Simic girl?

>>96599769
Which student has the best slurs for idolons or remnants or whatever we fight?

>>96605877
CLEARSKINS
FAKERS
BEDBUGS
NOSEEUMS
WANNABES
PLATOSHADOWS
CAVE ALLEGORIES
DREAMCHUCKERS

>>96602454
High-rise apt in city centre somewhere between town square n comfy district ig. Nice hood, very genteel, but ppl mostly keep to themselves. Lives w parents + elder brother. Room is still quite bare, whitewashed walls w/ some mementos from Norfolk (polaroids, a lava lamp, postcards), big windows w/ balcony, maybe a TV. desk with a toshiba desktop maybe. walk-in closet

>>96606181
You forgot the name, but I'm guessing it's the Korean.

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>>96602454
Meliaya lives alone in her mansion because her parents are away doing business most of the time. She is surrounded by other rich neighbors.

>>96605877
Big, bad monsters!
Lamedolons!
Evil Zeds!

>>96604879
A lot of anons insist that no women play /tg/ stuff and assume any story with female players is fake. Kind of weird considering my old Pathfinder group was two (straight) married couples and myself.

>>96605305
Yeah.
She made a voice chat with me, admin and her and she basically demanded my apologies "or else."
She's a streamer and it's been rumored that she really annoys anyone she doesn't like.

I apologized, because I ain't a dick (as much).
Better news are: she was very vocal about it and when her players heard about our arguing, they left her. She left the server soon after.

Honestly, biggest win by blunder.

>>96606152
That's a happy ending. Didn't exactly prove you wrong with the reaction there either.

What was the initial sign the GM was fucked in the head?

I'm so sick of this one guy in our group. His self-esteem is completely in the gutter, and whenever the dice fuck him over he starts vocally moping about how bad he is in the game. Additionally he's dumb as a sack of bricks and always has the worst understanding of the rules. Similarly if things go his way he starts gloating about how he finally got things done. When he runs games he always undertunes encounters and then mopes about the players being too powerful. And he's the kind of a player who's main interest is in combat and getting things that make his character more powerful, but he's just the worst at it.
The other people in the group (who are excellent to play with) don't have nearly as much of a problem with it as I do, and he's one of the founding members though.

I once played a neutral evil ninja in a good aligned group of demon hunters and the DM tolerated me for some reason.

>>96606119
Look at the number on the underside of the base. Sarna has a page with list of miniatures you can look it up on.

>>96605672
Better.
a HBK-4SP Hunchie with a sword, centurion shield, and somehow an extra 2 small lasers by the cockpit.

>>96606119
Icarus II
Profileration cycle

>>96606080
I'm working my way to a regiment in mydudes.

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>>96606312
Forgot pic.

>>96605934
based.

>>96605375
This is a very Elric copycat art

>>96605343
Yeah free company - they have a mix of ranged and melee weapons

>>96605789

I thought of a Cathay expeditionary force led by an old magistrate with libertine tendencies, named Goa Tse Tung. In an effort to recover his lost youth and vitality , the magistrate is on a quest to hunt and kill the most dangerous animals in both the old and new worlds. So that their genitalia might be rendered unto powders and elixirs to increase his potency.

Not sure if it's compatible with current Cathay fluff, but I think it is in the spirit of the setting.

I love 2e so much bros.

>>96604521
Previously, any race with a CHA bonus was the devs' fetish.

>>96604521
elves, usually

>>96604747
thats gay

>>96573830
Do you REALLY want gnolls to get massacred the same way minotaurs were?

>>96573830
>>2025+
>>still no official Gnoll race
Orcs of Thar is from 1988
Complete Book of Humanoids is from 1993

>>96606288
They wouldn't because none look at elf males.

>>96606297
If they didn't elves wouldn't exist.

You are all elf-haters.

>>96606300
They wouldn't exists, once elven state opens borders : >>96605836

Another proof that all you need for a somewhat good elf thread is to never mention humans.

>>96606197
something something happened to idk
khadrons lost their major port city in chamon
uh....I genuinely cant tell you if anything happened to orruks.
Hel-Smiths are probably gonna fuck up a ctiy in aqshy
I havent read the fec or night haunt battletomes so no idea whats going on there

>>96606197
>We established Lumineth get pestered by an immortal wolf and his goblin army.
>We discover Shrodmire is a 3rd Draconith prince who wished to save the species through necromancy and Krondys ended up stoping him from desacrating their fallen brothers and turning him into a dracolitch when his necromancy backfired.
>Skaven take out one of the named KO Barraks

>>96604824
Nagash draining all the oceans because he heard rumours of underwater aelves

>>96606240
>spawn a black hole that washes all of Shyish down the drain
>i totally planed this guys, we'll get rid of those aelves in no time!

>>96605540
Fantasy only really dropped 40k weapons in like, 7th. Sure, they stopped actively appearing once the brand-split between Fantasy and 40k was actively enforced, but a couple of them got one last hurrah in Fantasy via the 2001 Global Campaign, Dark Shadows.

... God, the Global Campaigns were the shit. Dark Shadows and Third Armageddon- especially the dedicated website for Armageddon with all the armies listed.

>>96605545
Thank you


On an unrelated note does anyone have a wizard edit of JD Vance for me to print and slap on my spellbook

why do americans think about NOTHING but politics?

>>96605539
>Vancian casting perplexes me to no end
As you little zoom-zooms say: Skill issue.
>Am I just supposed to load the fuck up on panic spells and fireballs and use spell substitution to cast everything as a pseudo-ritual when needed?
This has nothing to do with either Vance or Gygax. Vance had nothing to do with RPGs and Gygax left TSR fifteen years before spell substitution was a thing. Blame modern game designers being obtuse about magic-users not being able to "just win"
>How the hell am I supposed to account for this shit without having 9 mega lethals in the chamber just so I'm not the most useless babyboy in the world during any surprise combat?
Welcome to playing a magic-user circa 1973. Have the fighting-men protect you, like a normal wizard.

>>96605892
Making a low-hanging fruit joke while asking a question that has nothing to do with politics does not actually imply that the person in question thinks about nothing but politics, anon.

>>96605539
I don't understand why people have trouble understanding Gygax's implementation of Vancian magic.

I personally don't know what kind of system later editions use, but it seems perfectly normal to me that you copy the spells you want to use today into your spellbook and then if they work out, they work out. If not, the dungeon/adventure becomes more interesting.

t. 1996 zillenial

>>96606109
It's kinda funny. During the commission process we were all asked for descriptions of the characters (obviously) along with 1-2 reference images. I believe she was described as dressing "modest and refined". I mean no disrespect to the artist at all when I say this, but that's how I learned that Mexicans have very different notions of modest dress compared to Americans.

>>96606166
It did your group a favor I can tell you. The character is sexy in a way that many fan arts of VTM don't get it. Is a sweet spot hard to achieve. You believe she is a manipulator, but at the same time a social climber. The body is healthy enough to don't be a skeleton, and is attractive without showing off.

>>96606166
>very different notions of modest dress compared to Americans.
America had a similar definition back when it still had actual fashion sense. The fuck happened in the early 2000's that made everyone collectively forget how to dress themselves at the same time?

>>96606255
>The fuck happened in the early 2000's
I blame the GodMachine.

>>96606166
>>96606211
>>96606255
>>96606266
>Four dubs in a row
The God-Machine approves these messages.

>>96602503
Yeah that's not surprising. Having more orders is an advantage, there's no arguing against that, but a lot of people like to exaggerate that advantage until it's some sort of unbreakable law that Only 15-Unit Lists Are Worth Building. Actually, a lot of Infinity advice swirling around the internet is like that, inflating small factors into the only thing that matters. "Oh don't take that unit, it has -1 BS compared to a similar unit, and that small difference makes it absolutely useless." "This gun is a trap option, it has two less damage, don't even bother shooting it." "ARM 3? Made of tissue paper, dies to a stiff breeze."

Ultimately, a lot of the advice isn't exactly wrong though! Even though a lot of it gets overstated, there are kernels of good advice there: having orders is good, shooty units should shoot good, pick guns that are effective, don't rely on ARM3 units to tank shots, etc. Rather than follow such advice blindly OR discard it wholly, it can be useful to think of it like this: what are you gaining by not taking this advice, or to put it another way, is what you're gaining worth the price you're paying? If you make a 13- or 14-unit list, are you doing this because the units you get to include are worth losing an order or two and this is a conscious decision you've made, or are you just being careless with your listbuilding? Is this gunner's neat gimmick really worth the relative -1 BS to you, or did you just grab it without thinking?

>>96599832
In Caledonia i always used between 16 and 18 models, never went beyond 20, even playing 400 points

>>96602503
It's more like "if you don't know what you are doing, maximizing orders is usually a good thung to start with". Some guy might start with an action pack and wonder why his 10 guys don't win him games, and in that situation bringing more bodies and orders is the logical first step.

>>96602341
This one. F you
https://youtu.be/qWtjUM8D9c4?feature=shared

But the problem I see with "must have 15 guys" approach is how second group is still limited to 5 orders. Since it's mostly also composed of defensive units (like some remote you park at spot and let it scare off people), someone who would activate at last turn to touch objective or be entirely situational, they don't need much orders anyway. In the end, it's still about main group of 10 people.

what's the best and most complete dwarf language?

>>96606216
I made one up in highschool with the concepts of "proper letters" that could only be used at the start of a sentence, a more base tone required to speak it, and the formal language being easier to write but harder to speak and the common language being easy to speak and hard to write.
But I wrote it in a notebook and that was over a decade ago. It no longer exists.
So whatever the hell they speak in Fantasy.