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>>96902934
>the PCs names
>the whacky adventures
>the writing style
>the "mission accomplished" pic
S-shoggy?

Not really a made of win moment, but eh fuck it it's a story anyway

The group was trying to seize control of a ship (we had to negotiate with the AI in charge or delay it long enough for the specialist to lobotomise it) and it had ended badly with the security officer getting murdered and the rest of us nearly dying to the security systems when we pissed the AI off only for the tech guy to reboot it. At this point we were in control of the ship but there was some feuding between who was actually in charge now that we'd taken it, I was the captain who was gunning for command once the rest of the fleet got here, and the other guy was the Priest-representative (this wasn't 40k, but it's a broadly similar relationship between the navy and mechanicus when they find a space hulk) who didn't want the captain taking over (mostly because he had nearly fucked up the lobotomisation). There was also the newly promoted security officer who just wanted to do his job and did not want to get involved in a political feud outside his jurisdiction. Anyway, we're negotiating calmly in the captain's cabin, the priest is blaming me for nearly fucking up the lobotomy, I'm trying to sandbag my position for command while also trying to get rid of him because he has a point about my incompetence, and all the while the main fleet is getting closer and expects things to be ready for them to take formal control. The argument gradually escalates, and we're both trying to get the security officer onside because we both recognise that he'll give us more legitimacy if we want to arrest the other, until it boils over where the priest draws his gun on me, misses his shot, I knock the gun out of his hand and order his arrest for mutiny, which the security officer complies with. I then start gloating and plan to silence him permanently only for the security officer to arrest me for dereliction of duty, and then the orders come in saying that some random is going to be taking command of the ship.

>>96904494
I fucking wish i was shoggy lmao im just a retard with too much time on his hands

>>96909919
Same. Most of my stories are boring, they're mostly "you had to be there" moments, like how the first real game I ran started by another player character unexpectedly framing the other player characters for murder, all done by pure happenstance thanks to the rolls of a "relationship matrix" aligning.

Bump

>>96904735
Yeah, mostly the houses and I guess the genetic lineages mattering (Clans) too. There's a Finnish RPG that's basically Dune + BT + 40k + I don't even know what thrown into the same bucket and mixed

>>96902299
Read good scifi.
Dune is a great series. Stick to the ones that Frank wrote though. Also, get the Dune Encyclopedia.
Get and read the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.
Another really good source for space feudalism is the early Star Wars books up until about the mid 90s. While most of it is Empire vs New Republic, there's lots of pieces of earlier times when it was a Feudal system with peerage. The galaxy wasn't a super state but a collection of kingdoms.
There's a lot of scifi written by good authors that touch on this as well. Look into Poul Anderson and Andre Norton.
Finally, pick up and read some actual modern medieval romance. My favorite author in this genre is Howard Pyle. I would recommend Otto of the Silver Hand and Men of Iron.

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>>96902299
Are you looking for the aesthetic of medievel looking stuff in a sci-fi setting or just examples of different groups leveraging their resources and promises with each other?

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>>96906009
I was just going to recommend Poul Anderson myself! "The High Crusade" might be my favorite book, and it very much inspired my own science fiction setting. The primary alien threat are also inspired by his interpretation of Faerie from "The Broken Sword" and "Three Hearts and Three Lions," crossed with a sort of fractal extradimensional intelligence.

>>96911002
Great minds think alike. Poul Anderson, Andre Norton, and Robert A. Heinlein are my favorite scifi authors.
My scifi setting is based on Dune (more Dune: Chapterhouse actually) and Destination Void by Herbert, Citizen of the Galaxy by Heinlein, and Zero Stone and Sargasso of Space by Norton. I don't have a setting alien enemy as such but rather four other aliens that humans just don't really know how to communicate with very well. Threats are usually other factions of humans and a rogue AI that humans can't get out of their networks.

>>96911301
>Shrine World: So you go to church every Sunday? How about living there? How about having your whole planet being one mega-Vatican, covered in shiny gothic cathedrals and temples, and living and breathing its own brand of the Imperial Cult? Naturally, these worlds are often dominated by the Ecclesiarchy, and many a true believer from around the galaxy makes pilgrimage here.
Praise Him on Terra. 4d10+20 for its tech level

Rolled 3, 10, 8, 1 = 22 (4d10)

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>>96911317
>Low Imperial: The advanced technologies of the Imperium start to be seen here, but are not always available. Standard issue and common weapons and armour can be easily found, but rare, expensive or very high tech items are still unavailable most of the time (no items with rare or very rare availability can be found on these worlds), though the PDF will likely have such weapons for their specialists.
1d100 for star size

Rolled 23 (1d100)

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>>96911373
>Star Size: Medium
Next ups is adepta
>Administratum: 2d10
>Arbites: 1d10
>Astra Telepathic: 1d5
>Astronomica: 1d5
>Mechanicus: 1d5
>Ministorum: 4d10
>Inquisition: 1d5

Personally I'm just glad to see plastic kits are slowly happening, anyone melting down over it is presumably a 3djeet as far as I'm concerned

>>96910218
Making the STLs available to kickstarters is literally how Trench Crusade got so many backers. Without 3D printer kings subsidizing the rest of you assmad printerless poorfags it may never have gotten off the ground.

You’re welcome, printer-hating schizo.

>>96911110
Yeah you guys *clears throat* kickstarted it. Coining a phrase there LMAO LOL bear with me, like I'm using the metaphor of starting up a bike engine. You did that for an idea. And for your contribution you got everything you were promised. And now the people whose idea you kickstarted have a viable path forward into being a real ongoing concern that justifies itself, instead of becoming a forgotten one-and-done.

>>96905573
You forgot the first step
>kitbashed minis from historical and bitz

>>96907323
>decide to sell plastic so the vast majority can start the hobby
The whole thing was for making your own conversion from various historical to rip of Turnip you dumb proctology frog poster.

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How would you incorporate this guy into a game? Print out his document and give it to the players? sauce for the pic:
https://x.com/DoctorEdga25148/status/1985727835646931439

>>96871557
>the Burnout.
Criminal contacts (and instincts?), doesn't look like a Fed, physically capable.
Most importantly: coped with something fucking crazy happening and responded by solving the problem instead of freaking out uselessly.
That's the person DG wants to send into something unknown and probably terrible.
Doesn't hurt that he's not a 'proper' asset so if he gets shredded it's no great loss.

>>96889109
>Shotgun: how does it work
The good ones give you a paragraph to explain what could/should happen, and then enough tools to let your players work through that. There's plenty of negative space to fill, but that should all come pretty naturally because it's mostly normal life bits.

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>>96871557
>the Burnout.
Actually, just let him be a conspiracy theorist and invite his player to metagame wildly. His 'value' to his handlers is that he's already read in on all the conspiracy shit, but if he ever tells anyone he looks like a loon.
Bonus points for not using commonly-known spooky shit, or playing unconventional conspiracies or cryptids.

>>96908122
I'd probably have some really vague allusions to it, disappearances and the like, weird scrawls of some weirdly shaped thing that seemed very hastily made, etc. The players would have to avoid learning too much whilst also still trying to find a way to get rid of or entrap it.

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Finally finished reading the copy of Noctuary and Spectral Link I picked up last year. Ligotti is always dense but I was really sucked in with the final story The Small People.
I pictured them as these little mini fig people or those wooden modeling dolls but flesh but no apparently they're disgusting veiny creeps. Still, a pretty interesting concept if you just look at it surface level.
These entirely unexplainable creatures that mimic humanity and are constantly moving 'Small Country' around leaving areas no human can approach due to an inexplicable distaste for anything to do with them.

>>96911224
wow the exact same garbage style you get anytime you ask Bing for anything oil painted. Remember when you could get actual brushstrokes out of it?

>>96911274
Wut. >>96911224 is clearly GPT with its piss filter and only style it can ever manage from Bing's prompt window.

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>>96911286
It's also the only engine that can reliably do three or more characters without fucking up or switching out the details.
Pity it looks like such ass. (Although I've had some success with photo prompts.)

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>>96911286
My point was that strongly resembles the generic oil painting style you get no matter what kind of stylish touches you add.

It used to be capable of so much more. Just awful what OpenAI and assorted corporate busybodies have done to this tool

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You wouldn't believe it but after careful study... mayonnaise is an instrument

>>96911117
Casino games aren't abstract. See: >>96910865

What you mean by abstract is useless and nebulous. Virtually everything is abstract in your retarded worldview (chess, poker, monopoly, etc). What people with brains and good taste mean by abstract is the actual genre.

>>96911098
They are traditional games, not modern games, yes. But chess is abstract and poker is not.

>>96911127
>slowly shrinks and transforms into corn cob
lol
>>96911149
>Being garish is quite representative.
I know, but I have the aesthetics of someone for whom Egypt is ancient, not of an ancient Egyptian.
>The only way to lose with the advantage of being targeted is an inability to read the game state.
Nah, especially at 5 players, you can be smacked around enough that things just keep failing to come together no matter how many times you change course. There are tons of ways to react tactically, but you can still be hosed strategically by them never cohering at the right times. I still do pretty well even getting focused like that anon, but it's usually pretty apparent at the end game by how shitty my network is or how spread out my points were.
>The art is good.
Agreed. Well executed, but ugly (to me).
>>96911155
>Casino games aren't abstract. See: >>96910865
Oh, I thought the retards were done. See >>96910887.

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>>96910899
>people target me too much
>I quarterback
You're doing it wrong, explain the rules, give some basic strategy advice (try get Actions +3, don't displace people out of a fully claimed route, don't forget to actually score points), then shut the fuck up and let people play. If someone makes a bad move that's their learning experience. I've had newbies blow me away with unorthodox tactics that win them their first game. If I quarterback, I rob them of that satisfaction.

Also if you're making your moves so obvious that people can target you that's your fault. You have yet to learn how double bluff people into wasting their cubes blocking you on places you have no intention of finishing. Instead of broadcasting your intentions, just put a single cube down on a few different non-meta routes and leave them guessing.

>>96911248
>HT at 5
Though obviously the advantage of being the target can wane if you are forced to take office or Coellen and lose cubes you would otherwise be able to commit to flood positions, you should still eventually be able to get the upgrades or bonus tokens needed to force a route completion on keys or actions or to pinch key office majorities. If someone else wins and it has been feeling like coordinated musical chairs with upgrade routes perpetually filled and not completed and you don't get displaced all the time that's probably just a well played game and not really getting targeted. When I get targeted by newbies around the second or third game I find it can be fun to hit a double redeploy to the 2 man completion routes and threaten to cut those off suggesting I'm going for the largest network. It always makes for interesting behaviour and a lot of thinking about the game for them. If their play is hyper focused on you then you can scaffold their learning with your play. If one bought, played, sold then rebought the game then it suggests they really like it and it's better to consider one's own play as a means of instruction over selling it to rebuy it again later, or search for a alternative that does not exist yet. Another way to shake players out of weird play patterns is with the alternative maps.
>the art
The customer is always right in matters of taste. I generally quite like it most days, but some days it's low contrast enough to be fresh Teflon to my egg eyes.

>>96908592
That's a lot more effort than not entering the thread, not replying, and not caring at all about the topic is.

>>96909518
>pre-hack
We've not had competent moderation on this site for just over 10 years. This board lasted a little longer than most but it went to shit well before the hack.

>>96910232
We had puckee's butt buddy mod before the hack that would ban you for even mentioning his spamming.

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>>96909298
>Dude's just legitimately an autistic weirdo. You're trying to comprehend someone who is mentally defective and literally cannot think like a "real" person.
This and he hasn't been punished for it in years. Noticing residential schizoids on imageboards is meaningless because the average user can't do anything about them, especially since we don't have IDs on this board. Only a janny can force them to stop and the jannies don't give a fuck.

Even if jannies do ban them, they just switch VPNs or turn on airplane mode to continue ritual posting.

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So you all checked your spam boxes and didn't get in huh?

>>96911063
>all guard regiments are the same shitty penal legions
Vostroyan Firstborn alone are an official example of the opposite. The real question is, why would they have lobotomized sex servitors when whores are cheaper and can maintain themselves. We know the Guard allow and even help maintain brothels to keep moral up over time on planets they're pacifying, it's mentioned in more than a few novels, I remember it was a problem with some Ciaphas books.

Speaking of, that's also why we do know that sex servitors exist; Nobility have them, basically just to flex on poor people. So it's not like the concept doesn't exist.

>>96910616
>millennia of experience
>knows how to communicate with and service 500 different types of xeno species (497 of which are now extinct)
>self-cleans by generating stable plasma spark in her throat and nethers
>relegated to act as a mute clumsy sex doll
>can't even ask for a headpat

Never underestimate power of administratum incompetence.
>request training dummies for the regiment
>receive shipload of realdolls(tm)

>>96911134
>why would the imperium do [stupid thing] when [more sensible and efficient thing] exists??
New to this whole Warhammer business huh?

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>>96910585
>So… it would be even cheaper?
No man, super expensive.
You are growing attractive bodies, that's not going to come cheap.

>>96900343
I'll try solo first probably, though this is really a fetish game

>>96563345
Here’s a thought, are there any settings that would make for good Maiesta crossovers/fusions? What about AU concepts not already mentioned? Like, maybe one where the setting is virtual reality like the Matrix and gravs are a kind of program?

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>>96905238
One that I liked, though it has already been mentioned was the SMT-inspired one set on modern Earth that is invaded by demons, and some girls gain Maiesta powers to fight them.
The broodmother player had a fun concept, where the character was a gamer whose broodlings, instead of looking like small creatures or mechanical things like they're usually depicted, took the form of gasmask-wearing soldiers inspired by the Helghast or the HECU troops from Half Life, who communicated in garbled radio chatter.

>>96902576
Could just make another Maiesta thread, chuthulu time.

>>96906836
I'd be fine with that. Though should we wait a while before making a new thread?

>>96910702
He supposed to be a Rebel/quirky mix, but there is no proper mix in the cyoa rules for it so I went with Alien instead. I just like the Master powers more, or rather Assault isn't worth it unless I invest everything in it to get the same concept, so the rebellion is mostly in the attitude, I guess listing how he disregards the police wasn't enough to get that across. Good luck convincing him to follow any kind of order.

>>96910898
please anon, when you see this, fix Kaoru's mouth... I hate it when people do that thing...

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>>96911013
HURT YAYA
IMPALE NAILS OF COLDIRON INTO THE FAE CREATURE

>>96911333
No, bitch.

>>96911339
Kaoru shall forever be the girl with the weird face indent and side mouth, then.

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>>96911052
That reminds me, not even official merch support from Gamegenic, the best accessories maker arguably in the business, was enough to save Star Wars Unlimited.

>>96911087
dude looks like he's 5 feet tall

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>tfw no strongbad card game

>>96911178
They tried but the cheat for caught gambling with the the fritolays and homestar ate the master samples

>>96911010
Which rarity issues, the fact that there are 42 epics in a set of ~290 cards? Probably never. Pull rate of individual epic per box is about the same as magic, when you account for this being a larger than normal set. And the Chinese love to gamble.

I just hope they can drive the value into the chase cards to keep decks cheap, which seems to be the goal of most recently launched tcgs.

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I am making a space ship out of garbage

>>96908740
i dunno anon, you'd better be pretty hydrated to fill all that up by Christmas.

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>>96911362
Based. Let your creativity fly.

>>96908890
Great work. That spawn tongue fits perfectly.

>>96911362
are those insulin pens

>>96894458
You yearn for the corrective pegging, we can all see it.

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>>96891085
Nothing, I just include beautiful combatant women to my posts because it matches the thread theme.

>>96885464
Lmao this

>>96896947
I’m fine with that.

>>96911187
>It's so bad TCG is switching to a point-buy format
No they're not, thats an entirely different format

>>96911187
>emergency banned
only floodgates which people have been asking to be banned for years
yugioh physically has been in a great state for the last few months but it's basically unpayable outside of OCG because of jewnami refusing to print it in its actual intended price range of like $20-$50 a box with low rarities and master duel taking a literal year to only add a second t1 deck to the format

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New monk's fist variant.

Spiderman and Vivi from Final Fantasy linked up to finally kill Magic the Gathering. Need it or keep it?