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>You seem distracted, lieutenant, is something wrong?

Also, I straightened the spears under heat but they bent back again after a while. Now with primer and paint, there is nothing that could be done right?

>>96768342
its not that bad they could be really droopy but now you notice it from few angles at most
you could give her some hairdyer treatment and some overbending but i think its fine as is now

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>>96768207
I got the itch. The momentum. Keep up your motivation when you have it.

>be me with low level greenstuff skills
>this can't be too hard. I'll make it look like chaos corruption
>burned easily 5-6 hours on fixing the two heads
>how noticeable will this be, can I hide it with paint later, will this be a problem later

>>96767644
>>96767654
I feel like their general aesthetics are strictly related to the awkward tacticool, modernized design GW tried to push with their first wave of primaris, when we got all those phobos troops variants, the ridiculous dual wielding jumping gravis, the atv etc.

They all looked awful, and I think GW realized that too, as they started backtracking and the newer primaris stuff dropped that silliness and resembles more their firstborn counterparts in style, ex the newer BT, DA, SW kits

>>96767802
Thanks, curious to see how that'll look like once it's done, lot of potential for a creepy model

>>96768158
Based, now show off yours!

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>>96768644
Sure thing

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Having authored the Austrian material in it's first incarnation, and now seeing some of the playtest data and feedback from the thread generally, the following would be recommendations for revision to address some of the issues.
GENERALLY
It seems to be acceptable to lower the silver costs for the most of the follower units, rather than buffing the stats. As was raised in a previous thread, the initial proposal was largely of a military nature, and the book could axe several units that seem superfluous. Keeping in the new additions, Academic Apostate, Anomalist, Teslakanone, etc, there can be a bit of trimming in the followers. The Unterjaeger could be axed entirely, as it was initially a riff on the Subterranean Grenzer that was part of one of the original charts. The Landwehr Infanterie would also fit in this category, as it seems to share a position with the Austro-Hungarian mystery meat that, again, appeared first. The Skoda could be axed similarly, as the thread seemed to appreciate the Teslakanone as being more appropriate and sufficiently 'Agarthan'.
SPECIFICALLY
The Leyden Rifle v. Smiljan Carbine Issue.
I think the Smiljan fits better in the 'weapon matrix'. The grenades seem to be critical to a more aggressive game plan, so they could be renamed if that's a concern.
The Geballte-Ladung seems unnecessary. While it would historically accurate for the Austrians to eventually use something of this nature, we have the anomaly/Leyden grenades already available, plus vanilla dynamite.
Serbian Sapper can be cut, as there is a generic mercenary option available that could fulfill that role.
>>96695954
If a profile could be made for the Maximiliana Municipal Police, it could fit quite well.

Trimming down the book will help make list-building a bit less mind-wracking. The number of overlapping rules and complexities, insofar as the inbreeding/ethnicity charts are concerned, should remain, but possibilities for simplification can remain open.

>>96768145
ON THE MATTER OF ANY SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES
An often overlooked aspect of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, aside from the pop-history 'ethnic soup' understanding of it, is it's development of an extremely competent green-water navy between 1870 and 1918. While many know the famous Austrian victory as Lissa against the Italian fleet in the Adriatic, many overlook the k.u.k Kriegsmarine's development of coastal defense ships, torpedo boats, and destroyers. If the axing of some of the units from the Austrian book prompts the development of a hole where a unit could/should be, an appropriate figure from the navy could fill it. The Austrians never formally created a Marine infantry formation, but something could be conjured up out of the Agarthan situation. Their large colony being situated on the frontage of the Dalai on the 4th could be sufficient justification.
ON AUSTRIA AND THIS THREAD'S GREAT HUSK DEBATE
There seems to be some consternation regarding the scope and impact of the Ottoman husking and the necropolis event. It would be appropriate to limit the scope of the Entombing/Great Husk Crisis to something that could be contained without distracting from the great game of Agarthan colonization that is the true heart of the setting. Sorting out the 'mechanics and physics' of husking might resolve the issue. What might be manageable is attributing husking to a phenomenon like bacterial/viral infection. Something that would need to take hold in a body before it would be subject to 'rising again'. This prevents the giant, open-air graveyard that the hills and fields of the Balkans, filled after hundreds of years of war between European powers and the Ottomans, from becoming such an issue that other great powers would focus the entirety of their policy on containing the matter. If you want to scale up the danger/reach of the husking 'plague', attribute some kind of cordon sanitaire against the Turks by Austria/Russia/Britain/France/Italy/Ethiopia.

>>96768145
>>96768249
Such a cordon may be too close of a riff on the American PACT organization, so that sort of suggestion should be vetted by the thread.
ON THE MATTER OF A TIMELINE
It should have been done quite a long time ago. While there are those that believe keeping the timeline 'open', such that narratives can be composed without being constrained by an establishing canon, it would seem that there is a history of argument in this thread and prior threads that could have been resolved by presenting a unified timeline. The detail of this timeline need not be tremendous. The appropriate sequencing of events would be more helpful than pinning certain events to given dates. Dates for critical events should be established with greater detail and accuracy that the emergence of certain trends. Annexations of territories, establishment of colonies, development of key technologies, these sorts of things should have a more specific set of dates. Philosophical movements, population growth, more nebulous/arguable trends and forces should be left more open.

>>96768145
>If a profile could be made for the Maximiliana Municipal Police, it could fit quite well.
I'll see if I can do some edit for this.

>>96768249
A small but qualitative warfleet would work well enough. They'd probably need to work in their self-reliance within Maximiliana: the only fleet of note they could contend with is Italy, and if that happened, the first thing they'd do is to cut the Stromboli Entrance. They'd need to be able to build, supply, repair and dock it within Maximiliana.

Also, we still have to do a small writeup for each of the factions.

>THE GREAT HUSK DEBATE
The debate was much of an impact in /eadsttcoteg/ as the Second Oriental Crisis was to the setting.

>>96768340
>The timeline
I agree with this. A solid timeline is going to be needed in the long run, especially once the details of the lore grow deeper.

>>96753423
Wait until I run a Battletech game with it.

>>96756298

Right, this is the newer version. Still, it makes sense, because you risk Insight overload.

>>96745375
Name the 2 other good Cthulhu games please.

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I also like Cthulhu Deep Green, a Delta Green hack Cthulhu Dark which allows a bit more action.

>>96765136

Trail of Cthulhu and Lovecraftesque.

>>96738350
LewdKillteam.pdf
https://files.catbox.moe/4h5mcn.pdf

>>96760302
>>96761355
>>96763852
It's in Sigil, odds are the vultures are Vrocks.

>>96701512
I want to play a space trucker with a robot bimbo and an alien thief girl, what's the easiest to learn system? Maybe something with an personality Oracle for the 2 chicks

I enjoy Lewd Attack. It's a good premise, and I've had some fun times playing it. Triumphs, awkward sexual moments, and defeats. It's all there.

But also, I have critiques. I think the thing that's the biggest problem with the system is the amount of tedium that it creates. Sometimes the number of adventure segments you have to go on can be a lot. That in itself wouldn't be so bad, except that combat can really drag on. Rolling dice for the attacker and defender repeatedly means that getting into fights can last a long time, which is exacerbated by the presence of lots of mook enemies that want to gang up on you. Rolling to hit and then block/dodge/parry back and forth, then counting and comparing the successes against each other so you can do the math, just becomes a lot of stuff you have to do. Depending on how the dice fall, you can find yourself doing a lot of combat, and doing a lot of this. Especially if you're playing a character with good defenses, but not an overwhelming amount of power, you just have to repeat too many mechanical actions to determine outcomes.

Also, enemies are tempted to come at your character, and you can lean into it to try to make them easier to fight. You can fight with lewdness, effectively. That's part of the conceit of the game, but also some enemies just get harder to defeat when they're more riled up. The backfiring this causes actually rubs against that premise, which can discourage players from wanting to use that option.

>>96767185
Spot on. Hadn't considered it.

>>96768489
Volkite weapons positioned sideways is a sin against good taste and the Emperor himself, even if it makes more sense.

>>96768474

t. squealing nogames manchild

>>96768553
Too nice & I don't like the lizard fetish.

Want a brutal loyalist legion with a focus on terminators & bolter dudes

>>96768002
Because we are slowly being infiltrated by people that want nothing but to win (to a degree anyone can understand wanting to win) because they are fucking losers and have nothing else going for them in life. Same reason why people bitch and scream at GW wanting them to bend however they feel at the time. Because they are fucking losers. The spirit of the game was just that…the game. As long as the game told a story and it wasn’t about one upping your opponent and min maxing like a fucking soulless freak, then everyone wins.

>>96768481
Battery + autocannon

>>96768627
Dracula Dossier is a campaign toolbox for Nights Black Agents, it isn't a game in its own right, just a heads up.

>>96768627

Annalise

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>>96768633
Really? I was just told to check it out. Thanks for the heads up.

This is the other book I was recommended.

>>96768648
Looked it up and this sounds just like the kind of thing I'm looking for.

>>96727531
Juice seemed pretty decent, I'll test that one out for a bit, thanks

>>96761554
>Thread Question(s): At what point does solo turn into novel-writing? Is that something you enjoy, don't? What can you do to prevent/promote it?
I never write my roleplays in a novelistic style.
My logs are always more like a list of actions and effects with most of the creative stuff being held in my head.
Ironsworn systems are ofc an exception but I don't think they lead to writing that would actually be good in a novel. Too much constant fucking up, you'd end up with one of those annoying stories where a protagonist can't walk between towns without it being an ordeal.
And even there every 2nd/3rd line in my notes is stuff like "Action 3, Challenge 7 3 Burn momentum Weak Hit" so it's not exactly great reading.

>>96763316
I like those games. But as
>>96763609
says, I like to have gamified stress in horror.

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Anyone got experience with Space Aces? I've just skimmed through it a bit, but I liked the large amount of tables and such. But I think the character creation is way too bare and thin. Not sure if I want to mix it with something else. The d20+d6 didn't seem too bad

>>96761836
Yeah it should just be short descriptions of what happens in the game for later when you return to the game so you know what's going on.

I haven't messed around with any of the newer Water stuff. Is there anything among it that could work well in Gishki?

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I seriously downplayed the importance of this card for a Witchcrafter kit until I got back onto the Witchcrafter grindset. It should be no surprise that a card that gives you instant access to your main deck bosses in response to getting ash'd is good, but just being able to put Haine on the field to insulate you from stuff like Imperm and Veiler while you're setting up is pretty freaking amazing. I can probably stand to make the Witchcrafter parts of my deck a lot more compact because of this card.

>>96768229
>Glass Magic - Tears of Light
Chuunikino name

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>>96751788
>Forgot to buy the QCR blue eyes white dragon
>It has doubled in price since the last time I saw it
I should have been faster. This is nobody's fault but my own.

After playing Genesys across Duelingbook, nexus, and a few games in person since the week it dropped, I have to say that its a good idea, but if they opt to keep it competitive and not drop the ceiling its going to die like the main format has in numbers. There's too many decks playing on level with their advanced counterparts while you are at ends trying to fit handtraps in to keep them at bay. Ninjas, Gladiator beast, Lightsworn, and other odd decks got neutered while decks like D ruler get to fill in gaps easily with Armed dragons, Onomat have their newest, strongest wave untouched, and generaider put up boards of 5 cards easily when left uninterrupted.
It's a great idea, but they need to either admit that you need 15 handtraps to play still and adjust as needed or murder the past 4 years worth of archtypes with more points and forced omissions due to space.
I really hope they figure it out, as I do want Yugioh to stay around. This format brought a lot of people back to my locals casually, but its starting to wane because of obvious metas forming. That meta being the obvious haves vs have-nots.

>>96767647
fruity nut salads, or raw unsalted meat still dripping with warm blood

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>>96767127
>working at an office isn't a race albeight
I respectfully disagree. If Wood Elves can be so called after their habitat, then Office Elves can likewise be recognised by their usual dwelling place.

>>96765449
LEGZ FOR DAYZ

>>96767656
I think its funnier this way.
The news always exaggerates. She thinks that cars are blowing up in the Fujiwara ward but its really not that bada of a place.

>>96767912
Editing mishap indeed. I knew something like that was bound to happen. Let me just get on my train and I’ll do some edits while I also take the chance to write Alyona’s entry and do some other minor edits. It’s a BIG document so I might miss these things. Thanks

That said, I appreciate that you guys are so invested in the Higan Files. By all means, it’s not a writefag so I guess you guys just want to have your characters talked about?

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>>96762332
>Stillness given Motion (Itsuki, Grandmei)
https://rentry.org/k2wq3rnr
As Promised. Well, it took a while. If I mischaracterized Grandmei, feel free to scold me, Mei anon.

>>96767956
>so I guess you guys just want to have your characters talked about?
Well duh

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>>96762332
>Coward (Takaishi Kuroda, Shu Jinko, cameo of Kaoru Nagamine)
https://rentry.org/qrsxtpaa
If Shuanon isn't happy with this then he's free to disregard it as non-canon.

>>96768310
This, what most male human fighter fags don't realize is that the stereotype "fighters are boring" doesn't come from the class. It comes from years of the most boring people you know playing fighters.

I'm not even talking about a lack of backstory, because that really doesn't matter. But a total lack of attention, initiative or involvement. Mostfighterfags just exist at a table to bloat the enemy CR limit and nothing else

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With this type of playoid you have to basically prompt them for specific plot details/input which will either nudge them to get proactive or admit they're just being whiny for the sake of being disruptive.

Ask them to fill in a plot detail - eg tell the group that the ragged beggar they encounter looks familiar and then ask the player in question who he is(eg they could say the beggar is their former fencing instructor or long-lost brother or whatever). Then you're off to the races.

This is also something I do with the muh realism/anti-metagaming/lone wolf faggots. EG I'll ask the players in session one to explain how they became adventuring companions and what their first quest pre-campaign was like. This just totally heads off the people who want to whine about how their character doesn't trust the others yet.

>>96766801
Just give him his moment in the sun before letting his wings melt.
Let him pick fights in bars, then have said fight spiral into something pretty bad. For instance he just knocked out the an important man's son but when he fell, he hit his head and dies. Now the player has to deal with the consequences of his antics and maybe the party has to deal with them as well.

>>96768320
That has nothing to do with Human Fighters though.

>>96768376
Who the fuck are you playing with that this is the case?
Most players I know who play Humans of any variety are 100% better roleplayers than everyone playing any kind of freakshit race, who tyoically use their characters race as their characters personality.

>>96758574
I never said there are, but gloves and boots don't provide armor to places they don't cover

>>96762959
Find 20 minutes to lean back and listen to thematically appropriate music, and let your creative spirit refresh.

>>96763735
I always think of the rooftop scene in Die Hard when I think of player v npc guncombat. John might be arching his back and running to avoid fire, but he is not dodging, he finds an escape in his environment (the slide) and escapes them that way. This is resolved in gameplay through movement actions and LOS. 2020 already solves the issue of movement translating to defence through making shots necessitate a higher DV, and we can use that when it is relevant. >>96763847 correctly assumes I did not ban the RCP, no one ended up getting it.

It's not really a hill to die on, I just told my table I don't like opposed rolls for gun combat and if they were going to get the RCP they owe me to be able to answer me what their defence roll is within a second of me asking them. They respected that and it never came up. I find selectively enforced opposed rolls are disruptive to me resolving NPC actions, they trip people up myself included, and in the end my every understanding of firearms combat does not include "dodging" unless you are Matrix-dodging. The bullet either hit or it didn't. If the shooter missed that is entirely in their court. If people want to have an internet fight over that then be my guest, but no one I played with took an issue with it so that's where the matter ends with me.

>>96764483
You are arguing in bad faith at this point.
The reason you don’t have everyone roll dodge for bullets is obvious. It incentivizes players to actually use cover like an actual firefight instead of standing out in the open and relying on their dodge skill to protect them. The hit target values exist to give specific guns tactical advantages in different scenarios and ranges, something that is lost when you use evasion to determine DVs, as you seem aware.
From my personal experience, I can say that generalized bullet dodging overall does not add much fun to a game while coming at the cost of slowing down combat. Likewise RED, a system with only one evasion skill, is poorly suited for it.

>>96764483
My guess is because of how a non-decision it is and because it adds another roll for an attack to resolve.

>>96764483
>Why is it that people will readily accept all the other unrealistic gamey aspects of the system, but the second you want to use evasion for bullets as well the autistic screeching begins?
It upsets antagonistic GMs who think the goal of the game is to see how quickly they can kill the entire party.

>>96767461
speaking as a lurker here, that is somewhat interested in nsr systems but doesnt have much experience i am sure there are more people that lurk the general like this.
My personal experience is reading from the first post but skimming over troll posting and all the ACKS arguements.
Don't let the general buckle under the weight of the osr puritans, ACKS shilling and they will eventually tire and leave, at least if people stop engaging them

>>96768412
>greetings fellow kids
>I'm just a regular passerby but my opinion aligns with the troll by sheer coincidence

>>96768412
I don't mind random discussions about whatever, I don't think they ruin the thread. But they hide how little connection there is between the actual on topic posts. In the 3 threads we had I had small exchanges about Mothership and Black Sword Hack, and ignored posts for 4 or 5 other systems. It makes sense, no one has to run the things I like running or would like to run, but that comes from having so few actual posters that there's barely any common ground itt.

>>96768445
what opinion aligns with the troll? the fact that somebody is deadset to defend ACKS to a crowd that doesn't really care about it arguing with another troll baiting him or anons telling him that they dont care and has provided literally zero interesting discussion about it?
did i miss a single interesting post about it?
i dont even hate ACKS. i think the classes are the most interesting part of it for me and fill the greatest void i feel with the meaty osr systems. How underdeveloped non human races are and classes in general. I also dont hate the fake feats coming from 3.5 into the rpg scene, but i dont know how well they work in said system.

>>96768536
You immediately point to ACKS shilling, bypassing the entire possibility anons actually play it or like it and want to discuss it. You can't even see your own bias its so kneejerk.

It's been a while since I've written anything so I thought I'd have a go at something quick.

>>96644454
A thousand thousand halls and all in silence. All filled with books, wall to wall, floor to ceiling. In places even that vast space hadn't been enough to contain them, and they had overflowed; there were tunnels like mine-workings where - seeing that there was plenty of unused area above head height - extra shelves had been added spanning the gap, creating a new ceiling which groaned under the weight of paper so that props had to be wedged under them to stop it all collapsing. In the depths of the stacks there were even passages where - with the overspan unable to bear more weight - new bookcases had been lain flat, and gantries strung over them, so that prospective borrowers had to walk over them or even crawl, where the ceiling had got low enough.

The library of the Damascene. In some parts of the world he was called a buddha (not *the* buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, but a walker on the same path), for he had been enlightened, although sources differed on whether by meditation or divine revelation. Further east still, he was referred to as a sage, although only by a tiny sect consisting of less than a hundred people whose ancestors had, at one time, been Manichaeans. How he became part of the Manichaean corpus was unknown even to him, although given that they managed to integrate Jesus Christ into Zoroastrianism and Chinese folk religion, it should hardly have been a surprise.

The Damascene may or may not have been spiritually enlightened, but there was one thing he was lacking, and that was knowledge. He just couldn't hold onto it. Maybe it was *because* he was so in touch with the spiritual realm, but every fact he learned about anything relating to... well, reality, which is to say everything to do with anything we would recognise, flowed straight out of him.

>>96768570

Which was a shame, because he was immortal, and therefore learned rather a lot. It took him a long time to decide that this was a problem, and even longer to work out a solution. How long exactly was another of those facts that had been lost to him. But eventually, after an unspecified period of time, he built his library, and he built it in such a way that when a slippery fact escaped his mind it was caught and preserved in the pages of a book in the great and strange geometries of his library.

What the Damascene was unaware of at first was that his design for his library was a little too good. It was perfect at its appointed task - that is, capturing and storing his wayward memories - but it also began to catch other things too, like a drag net sweeping up porpoises. Any free-floating bit of information was fair game and a great many things that had nothing to do with the Damascene were sucked up by the library's bibliographic vortex.

Hence the issue of space. The Damascene had learned enough in his time - knowledge he was now able to consult his library to apply - to be able to bend the laws of physics a bit. In fact the library, while technically real, was not quite as much a part of the world we all know and love as, say, the room you're sitting in right now (if you're sitting outside, go back inside immediately. The outside is no place for a reader, much less one who reads fantasy short stories. It's dangerous out there. There are *allergens*). However, you can only bend the laws of physics so far before they break, and so he'd been forced to resort to simply cramming them in any which way he could.

>>96768583

This was far from the only, or indeed the worst problem with the library. The ever-present danger of shelf collapses, book avalanches and the like was a mere trifle compared to the existential threat of actually trying to read a book. Without precautions, at least, although even with precautions you were still taking your life in your hands. More than your life, perhaps. The library hoovered up any stray piece of information, but that wasn't limited to ordinary - for want of a better word - free-floating facts.

Sure, the full stats for the 1978 Minneapolis softball league were in there, and the secret recipe for McDonalds mayo, and the admissions Lavrenti Beria had made about his blackmail of many western politicians before his execution (don't ask, but if you know who Lavrenti Beria is you can probably guess what he was blackmailing them about). But if you opened a book at random you were equally likely to get the stray thoughts of an eldritch being older than space and time, whose very name could unhinge the human mind. Or, the plans for a machine that hasn't been built yet and can't be built in our reality *unless* you bring the plans with you when you leave and then... well, then you find out why the very idea of the machine had been excised from that other reality and cast into the void. Or the echoes of your future self warning you not to open the book you're going to open later but also, somehow, carrying the shadow of the contents of that book back with it until you have to find the book just to warn your past self not to send the warning back...

Suffice to say, the Damascene does not permit casual visitors to his library. Only scholars who have proven themselves to be as dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge as he is are even considered, and of those only a handful have ever passed his rigorous safety training.

>>96768598

For the ambitious researcher there are many hidden treasures hidden amongst the stacks. The lost drafts of Shakespeare's final play, the original notes Fermat jotted down once he ran out of space in the margin, the Rosetta stone for Linear A (which is in fact a papyrus written by an Egyptian trader by way of Cyprus). And treasure in the more literal sense, like the log books for the Spanish treasure fleet lost in the great storm of 1717, or the train timetables that list the route for the train that carried the Amber Room away from Konigsberg in 1945. Not that any researcher worthy of the Damascene's exacting standards is interested in anything so crass.

The Library of the Damascene would be considered one of the great wonders of the world if more than a handful of people knew it existed. But don't make the mistake of thinking it's the only arcane library. There are stranger beings than the Damascene in the endless halls of our multidimensional reality, and many of them have their own archives. The Damascene is unique only in that he occasionally allows more mortals access to his collection. And perhaps the most dangerous aspect of his library is that it has details of the others. How do you think I learned about them if their masters don't permit mortals? That's right; maybe I was a little careless, wandered a little too far through the stacks. Or maybe I wanted to find that catalogue that didn't belong even in the esoteric spaces of the Damascene's little pocket of reality.

>>96768607

Imagine what wonders the others contain. Or rather, don't. We humans have a fairly tenuous grip on sanity already, in the grand scheme of things. There are books out there...

No. Don't even think about it, not even to warn others. Because there are some libraries out there where you don't have to go looking for a book. The book will find you. No, better not even to think about it...

In trying not to think about it, I thought about what I wasn't supposed to think about. Which is a mouthful, but you get the idea. And now there's a book on the table in front of me. I didn't put it there, but a leather-bound book there is. And although I know that I should close my eyes, turn my back, and try my very best to forget that it's there, at the same time...

Knowledge has a weight to it. You think that library shelves creak and groan because of the mere mass of paper? No, knowledge has its own substance, and its own gravity. It draws you in, and the more knowledge there is the harder the pull. I can feel it already.

Maybe if I just looked at the cover. Just to see what it's about. Surely that couldn’t hurt...