>>97347088
>really great game and very well designed,
Die in a fire. There's almost no meaningful decisions to be made. At the start you can race people for the bonus cubes, between launches you sometimes have meaningful choices between the cruises you can draft, and the rest of the game is just checking boxes. Most of the boxes can be checked at 2 (or 3) different places but one of them is obviously correct for whatever else you're doing.
And if you took just the meaningful decisions and packaged them into a (much) shorter game no one would buy it because it would still be a lackluster experience. The only thing Galactic Cruise has going for it is it's production value.

>>97344091
Speaking on the current edition big box, I think it's a good package. You get expansions 1 and 2, which many basically consider part of the base game, so you would likely want to get them anyway. I never play without 1, even when testing a new expansion. 2 is also great. The minis are basically a bonus and let you add more variation in small steps as you like. Past big boxes had more regular size expansions, but I don't think this one loses out in comparison. What is a bit of a bummer is that you don't get more than six player colors. I really like purple and grey from my 2014(?) big box.

>>97346961
they're different games. CC is more of a euro with deck building, and Imperium is more of a "card game". if you prefer Imperium's theme I would just go with that, there's a ton of content you won't get tired of it any time soon

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>>97344088
Trying to find a good building synergy every run gives it some good staying power. It also has some personality to it with the theming which makes it stand out from other abstracter games. Some more buildings wouldn't hurt but alledgedly an expansion for it is in the works. If your friend would enjoy light engine building with pulpy robot murder I'd say go for it.

We were missing quite a few folks tonight and ended up playing The King is Dead a few times. I had such a great time when we got into the groove. I saw one of them going for an Invasion victory about midway through and called them out as a French spy. We had some laughs, and the French did indeed invade. Feels good to game.

>>97347467
God damn it, I was going to say "whatever you do, don't trust anyone who tells you to use Delta Green," but I thought, stupidly, "no, no one is enough of a moron to recommend DG." Well, way to go, you proved me wrong.

>>97347569
Ok?

>>97347315
Infinity 2d20 works. You'd have to adjust a bit the PCs, but even then, the PC are just as squishy as the NPCs

>>97347478
This actually reminded me of Millennium's End

>>97347496
>if I ever write a system I'm calling it that
I chose Action Movie: The Game! for mine.

>>97344686

Always assume fa/tg/uy and not ca/tg/irl. Unless they post pics of their warhams and it's Tyranids.

>>97347428
do chicks play tyranids? I always heard tau were the preferred faction

>>97345039
>>97347258
There's no problem about complaining about such things in ameta thread, and taking things up to the mods, who are the ones who could actually help your case.
The problem is the rampant harassment and shitposting in every single thread, that's what pisses people off.
First there's the arbitrary ideas of what is relevant, perfectly on topic threads are still attacked, so the internal rulings of such posters' minds are not consistent, this makes their opinion less worthy of being considered.
Then there's the accusation that such threads are made by...someone, sometimes the mods themselves, sometimes some other boogeyman, to generate traffic. Ok, could even make sense, could even be seen as a problem by some I guess, but then the answer is to...engage in such threads repeatedly to generate more traffic? What's the plan here?
We move to the next problem, the general abrasiveness towards pretty much everyone. Basically every single poster that is not bitching at the concept of the thread existing is accused of being in on the mysterious conspiracy, even the ones that are just minding their own business and discussing something. That's not winning any friends.
And we have the fact that said posters are not practicing what they preach, because for all their obsession about games being discussed, they often (always) fail to do so, or point at threads and posts that are good to show a frame of reference.

Is it really a surprise that such posters are seen as a nuisance at best? They complain about a problem they perceive, but they do nothing to solve it, and actually end up creating another problem that makes the situation worse, not better. This on topic thread was created, they didn't like it, someone assblasted created a bunch of others. Were they the same guys complaining, acting passive aggressive? How does that help? Was it someone else that saw them react like that and wanted to piss them off? If they didn't chimp out it wouldn't have happened.

>>97347559
I dunno anon, when you see 10 threads all made within an hour asking similar questions, using sentence fragments or 2-3 lines of green text at best, its pretty clear it is a single person, perhaps even 1 or 2 others working in tandem, making them. For what purpose, I wont speculate.
And then when people call those threads out for being spam, and they get the same 2-3 replies bemoaning generals and backseat modding and demanding to get on subject for a thread with no actual subject, its again clear its the same offender(s).
Basic pattern recognition is a lost art.

>>97347584
Anon, for all I know the guys spamming in these threads are the ones making them, because they moan about the thread being made to generate traffic while generating traffic themselves, no way to prove one thing or the other anyway. Something we can see with our eyes is that bitching at everyone else is not helping their case, and their actions actively go against their stated goals. If they are genuinely worried about this trend, I'd suggest they change their strategy.

>>97325907
To be fair, third world, Middle Eastern and Islamic culture and the religion itself IS actual sexual dominance and rape culture. You are especially allowed to be a sexist rapist woman hater in Islam if it means raping and or converting non Muslim women. Hence why, how come not enough porn games or "dark fantasy" that is Muslim based and Islamic themed? Almost half the shit you see in a hentai or doujin is normalized and permitted by the quran and prophet Muhammad.

Running Ventangle, and have the slightly awkward situation of having to DM a "bad end" for someone wayyyy kinkier than me. They are having a good time but it does feel like I'm not entirely kinky enough.

>>97346978
Do you know for a fact that is the case or just a feeling? You could also present options to let them go as far as they want

>>97347004
It's more of a feeling. I know they are fine with it, they said sorta in terms of how hardcore they wanted to go was like... 4 to a 8 out of ten (10 is death and 1 is knocked out and they wake up on the street) but yeah I'm not particularly hardcore.

My girl is currently crawling through the ventilation/maintenance ducts - she could head to crew quarters or to a cargo bay. Only thing is she had previously seen that that cargo bay door had been welded shut and barricaded. Is she brave (dumb) enough to check it out?

>>97345461
Now you say that but Wanted still managed to be worse than the source material. Never doubt the film industry's ability to fuck up.

>>97347519
I don't know how you interpreted my post as me making the argument from the point of view of bankers, browns and pedos.

>>97347519
If you prefer a different example (and since I'm on the shitter), look at jeets letting themselves get psyopped into not eating cattle, or medieval peasants being militarily forced to pay taxes to a bunch of nerds larping as jews (and actual jews), or whatever.
Cultural practices or taboos do not always automatically reflect what is optimal for all individuals (or even for the culture itself). Darwinian evolution and adaptation is a decent model to use for culture as well, and we can clearly see evolutionary dead ends (I'm looking at you, pandas) and remnants that offer neither any particular advantage or disadvantage (tail bones in humans, for example).
Additionally, lower caste humans (and their culture) are essentially domesticated and husbanded by technology and the higher caste humans (who are in turn parasited by bankers), which causes selection to occur which favors subservience over raw reproductive fitness.

>>97343498
NO
FUCK OFF
Jesus Christ seek help

>>97343775
This isnt Homelander newfag, this is Black Noir. Homelander didnt eat babies, Noir did bc he was a clone of Homelander made to ruin his life.

>>97345555
Think about the social standing, clothing they'd like to wear, their colors, the build and height.
You can start with very banal things, for instance, Scarlet:
- takes her nickname from the color of her hair, she is American with Irish ancestry and real name;
- has a history of liking and making heavy metal music, she often wears black;
- has lots of dots in Intimidate and has Staredown as its specialty, her eyes are a rare color;
- she is a Toreador from the Volgirre bloodline, they can fleshcraft, she was always going to look unearthly beautiful with a perfect skin despite her chainsmoking habit, and despite her metalhead origins she had her piercings and tattoos removed before the embrace;
- she has many dots her physical attributes and in Brawl, her body has little fat and she could pass as a kickboxer;
- she is kind of a nouveau riche when you think about it, going from playing in front of a small but dedicated crowd of freaks, to smoking in the face of rich gen Y paypigs

I based her looks on Monica Bellucci and Megan Fox because:
- I like them
- I think they have a mature appeal that matches "what I want from her"
- Fox in particular has a mean stare and scowl
- pronounced cheekbones are recognized as a trait dominant and/or tough people have in either sex, even if they weren't, a softer childish face couldn't fit my idea of her

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>>97345567
There's all sorts of things out there.
Even the Loup aren't mere horrors that disdain the Blood for ancient slights, if you ever dream of the wolves, make sure you get you and yours away.

Ancient dead in Egypt, more conventional ghosts, devils, angels that have a disconcerting closeness to those aforementioned devils, things that defy labels and haunt the dark. Remember meeting one nightmare in a corn field that was like... A person without a face. Standing there menacingly.

Fey, or rather, Sidhe? I only knew one person who spoke about them. Teddy, actually. Short Gangrel, frenzies left him with more fur than skin. Apparently after consuming too much blood from inebriated folk down in New Orleans during Mardi Gras he met with a band of dancing frogs who let him into one of their safe havens.

I could inquire for more details? Soon as we have our stay in Washington we'll probably just head south for Oregon where he's in hiding.

I couldn't tell you if any of that was the truth, only that when he was kicked out, he had another frenzy episode and put on even more fur and fangs.

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>>97345567
Oh, lots of things are real and out there and could eat you, not sexually. A big one is spirits, mostly living in an otherworld of sorts. Werewolves have this trick where they can go through it to jump out of a puddle of water in your haven and eat you. And they do that shit incessantly if they decide you're a problem, like good God. I nearly got my face clawed clean off by a werewolf who managed to come out of a coffee cup a ghoul forgot to put a cap on. Most spirits don't like you, but they're usually aren't super likely to cause trouble for you. Unless you're like my coterie, in which case your night will sometimes look like the attached picture. That's a were-raven, by the way, those exist. There's also full-on wizards who throw fireballs and shit, were-sharks and were-cats and were-crocodiles, fairies... You'll get a good list of somewhat-major things soon enough, people love to brag about how they've met a mummy and lived.

There is a lot of weird things out there, though. Things that either defy classification, or just are so strange that even though they're technically 'just' a fairy, it really feels like something else.

Not-men pretending to be human on highways, luring in kind strangers. Living mountains, moving only when nobody's watching, or when you irritate them by coming near nature's holiest places. Covens of witches, occultists, wild mages and practicioners of esoteric arts, who do all sorts of strange things with vitae, and see you as a threat and a source of power. Psychics, who see things even I can't see with all my power, mirthful with their knowledge. Kine possessed by something foul and rotten and new and different every time, shambling about as if their eyelids aren't peeling off or their eyes aren't maggot-ridden. Birds of prey so vast to them you aren't even worth the time to swoop down, 'Kine' that seem entirely normal, up until you realize they're making sure to always face you, because they're flat as paper...

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It's my turn to punish Boy Toy for running away with Cope when the ladies needed him the most. I asked uncle if a woman can wear a chokha too and he showed me this picture.

I immediately had the ladies of the staff wear this, called Blue Fairy, Mamma, Assoluta and Scarlet, and had the largest lesbian orgy House Venus ever had in Bridgeport.

As for Boy Toy, he was immobilized, mummified and buried under my bed with Mamma's kindred-proof gear, and held in sensory deprivation, only able to "watch" our sapphic passions with the help of Auspex, a reminder of his place in the food chain.

>>97346563
>>97347438
Does all that shit have a Masquerade too to keep the normies ignorant? Man of Florida is teaching me stuff and said the Masquerade is a "recent" invention by my clan, I really don't get why does the Sabbat settle for a poor man's version of a Masquerade in the current year.
I know there are some Sabbat vampires here, can anyone explain?
>a werewolf who managed to come out of a coffee cup a ghoul forgot to put a cap on
Huh? The fuck? Suddenly Mercury Lamp and staff putting coasters - or saucers as she and Venus call them - over the cups instead of under them is starting to make more sense.
>Covens of witches, occultists, wild mages and practicioners of esoteric arts, who do all sorts of strange things with vitae, and see you as a threat and a source of power.
Why can't we be friends when we're all hiding our asses from the normies anyway? Like I know it sounds naive and stupid as fuck to ask this, but there must be a reason and I hope it ain't stupid as fuck too.

>>97344439
Mmm you’re presenting things poorly to help push your argument. Often a lot of the fun in heists comes from before they actually begin in the recon, resource gathering, and planning stages
An in medias res cold opening removes the opportunity for that, and vastly limits the amount if approaches the players could have taken

>>97344484
>Mmm you’re presenting things poorly to help push your argument.
both of those examples are things I experienced

>>97336416
>There's people that always comes late, or doesn't read the group chat, or says they're not coming at the last minute "because they're tired" (while they work 20 hours per week and I can touch 60)...they don't have the balls to say they don't care, or they don't even realize it, for them the game night is just something that is there, if there's something else to do they deem better, they do that without a second thought.
I've had to explain this to quite a few gamers, mostly in the context of them being annoyed at not getting invited.
Our most serial flake is the kind who will bang on about 'not having the spoons' to sit through D&D, but will have a miraculous recovery when he wants to play video games ordinary something that just so happens to be less effort than a 20 minute drive.
Fuck those guys, calling your time and energy 'spoons' to garner sympathy doesnt mean it automatically gets priority over everyone else's. The 'spoons' of the four people you messed around and who's now have to make other plans are never considered, naturally.

>>97344845
>not having the spoons
Never heard of the Spoons Theory, I had to google it. The lady who made this shit up had fucking lupus, her body is under siege and she has an excuse. No person who isn’t suffering from a disability or a similar chronic illness has any business invoking this shit seriously, they’re just being lazy and self-centered. Kick them immediately.

>>97347279
>No person who isn’t suffering from a disability or a similar chronic illness has any business invoking this shit seriously
I don't think I've ever seen someone with a genuine disability invoke spoon theory, it's always lazy drama queens and lazy hypochondriacs. Even the original anecdote has a whiff of the 'and then everyone in the carriage clapped' about it.
Whole thing feels more like virtuous victimhood than a genuine attempt to be reasonable; "Oh woe is me" it seems to say "So put upon, so deserving of sympathy, how could you possibly hold such a downtrodden little person accountable for wasting your time, oh able bodied hyperborian superman?"

Our guy with severe neuralgia was more reliable than the serial flaker before the latter was uninvited.

>>97345047
unfortunately DP9 suffers from a terminal lack of ambition, but maybe that's how they've survived for so long on the periphery of scifi miniature wargaming when GW raped everyone else

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>>97345179
It's better to stay niche. Avoid all the shit that's going on outside comfy mecha game.
I'll settle with the third Heavy Gear game doing well and the minis getting updooted.

>>97345047
Heavy gear has a big problem with the metals being good but insanely expensive, the plastics being cheap and shitty, and the 3D prints being sold as regular shipped products at almost regular price.
And in all cases the shipping is fucking insane. I really hope they pull out some kind of better system than this. Or someone just makes another votomsclone. I'd happily buy a different game with the same scale and wheel legs.

Which mech RPG would you suggest for someone making their own setting?
I plan on doing something on a near-future earth, so you know, most established settings won't work.

>>97347457
Battle Century and Mekton are the most "toolkit" systems, meant to be customized. If those don't fit your needs, you may be able to refluff and modify another game that has mechanics closer to what you need.

What about your setting makes it different? For example, are the mechs more primitive because the tech level is closer to the real world? And what kind of things do you want to have in the game, what level of crunch do you want?

>>97347200
>and the orthodox don't?
Good. SHARTodox snow apes deserve nothing.

>>97347535
>maybe because the demon acting as their gods would want independent power from Hell
Arguably Beelzebub does this.
>Do you think we'll ever get European Pagans
Iirc Tuomas said he would like to add pagans who don't worship hell

>>97347547
>Arguably Beelzebub does this
I guess that's right, I would like to see the Princes of Hell fight each other eventually once the faction gets a bit more developed. It would be cool if two Dukes of hell claimed the same Kingdom and then fought each other for it. Adds reason why you'd play against other demons on the table top and lore reasons on why humanity hasn't been completely fucked yet.
>Iirc Tuomas said he would like to add pagans who don't worship hell
I think he said something like that, but isn't that just Path of the Best or some of the Irish rangers?

>>97347567
>but isn't that just Path of the Best or some of the Irish rangers
If we get pagans, it will be a subfaction. Unless some campaign book adds pagans in the far future.

>>97347539
There is an Orthodox warband in the game. It's a subfaction of Trench Pilgrims.

>>97346877
YGO matches have zero decision making in them.
They are the TCG equivalent of Snakes and Ladders.

Oh boy it's ECL draft test time!

Many games devolve into recursion loops.
Slumbering Walker, Gravesifter, Emptiness, Reaping Willow, Dawn-Blessed Pennant, Morcant's Loyalist, Dundoolin Weaver, Slumbering Walker, Meanders Guide, Grub, Storied Matriarch all do it. This isn't including all the noncreature cards that also do. And many of these recur each other, leading to a fuckton of board stall recursion loops. It's shit.

Blight appears to be completely useless and the only times I saw it was as a cost. All the useful -1/-1 counter spells are shit like Reaper King that don't even use Blight lmao.
On that note, none of the mechanics feel like they're doing anything, and when they do do something it's rarely impactful. Feels like a set full of usefless, generic fluff.

I don't like the format at all.

>>97347548
More to the point, in order to allow for Blight to be a cost without muh feel bads, they appear to have just fucking bloated the everloving shit out of everything's toughness. This also leads to pretty shit boards where 3/7s are staring at 2/4s with fuck all to do.
Then all the shit you want to do makes you Blight to do it, so you're stuck there like an idiot, unable to do anything because it would shrink your bodies to lethal combat range.

Yeah, no. Not a fan of this format at all.

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>>97345925
Half-naked women in compromising positions in every set.

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>Go check out the Atlanta coverage

>skim through videos
>Every single fucking place in the video I clip on, it's announcers talking about the size of otters or the storm count which determines the size of otters

>>97344956
>Jotun, cutter and Mkii in S
>Maghariba, O-yoroi and Sphinx in A
You disgust me

How good (quality wise) are sculpts for new Marut, Wrecker and Longwang? I assume they are all Siocast, which makes me a bit worried.

>>97347578
I know for sure the Longwang is unicool. Not sure about the Wrecker, while the Marut is siocast.
In general unicool sculpts are perfect; siocast can be a bit hit-and-miss, but I've never really heard about any complaints for those two.

I never don't as long as the player give me stuff that's halfway usable. Two of my games it's been opt-in, the other two I worked with the players to fit their characters into the adventure or build the world around the PCs.

>>97344587
>why would anyone without a tragic backstory, greedy personality, or simple neglect would ever want to become adventurer?
Some of characters at my table were
>A second son of a warlord who just didn't care for war and conquest and fucked off to travel because of wanderlust
>A student of some ninja order who was such an asshole he got kicked out to travel the world, get humbled and come back when he's ready to actually learn
>An apprentice mage who was raised by an archmage and wants to both raise money and get some worldly experience so he can later open a school
>A cleric girl who wanted to explore and document the world and it's dangers and wonders and then make it all into a series of encyclopedias as a cure to people's general ignorance
>A 'it belongs in a museum' type of rogue
I could go on. None of these are really tragic, truly edgy or very greedy in my opinion. Are they weird? Eh, maybe. But an adventurer is weird by definition, he's not a normal person who would be satisfied with normal day job.

>>97344587
Have you ever met any males between the ages of 14 and 26? Those fucktards will do anything. And once they get into something that even slightly approaches "brotherhood" they're in it for fucking life.

History and current year observation makes me say:
Also consider people joining the military.
Also consider people joining gangs.
Also consider people going into combat sports professionally.
Also consider missionaries.
Also consider explorers.
Also consider mountain climbers
Also consider motorcycle/sailboat/hot air balloon around the world fuckers

Some people are just drawn to going out there and doing god knows what. Sure, the average person is just gonna serf it out or vibe on noble status (until called to arms)... That's why there aren't 50 other adventuring parties in the inn where the campaign starts.
It's also worth mentioning that the level of danger one is used to influences how much danger they are willing to accept. In a world where goblin raids, curses, rampant banditry and dragon attacks are common you can expect those subjected to these things to have hardened to them even if there isn't a direct correlation to their personal lives.

One of my friends had a character die in like the third session doing some hero shit. He was cool with rolling up a new one and decided to play someone from the village they were in who has become the squire to another friends character, and even wanted to start at level 1 when we were doing level 3 starts. It's been a few sessions in now and thanks to a little solo adventure he's only 1 level behind the party but said he wanted it that way to keep the "dumb shit from a village who became a squire " feeling. Only time I've ever played with an unequal party level and it's worked out pretty great so far

>>97347583
>That's why there aren't 50 other adventuring parties in the inn where the campaign starts.
But there are Adventurer Guilds with ranks and receptionists!

>>97347480
Do the booster boxes come with a giant monster dildo too or something? Those things are HUGE

>>97347480
Is it for backers only or can you still buy this?

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>>97347534
Nah, there's quite a lot of empty space in the box. I think you could easily fit both boxes worth of cards (700~) in a single box while sleeved.

>>97347549
I backed it. Got it shipped through a forwarding service. General sale in March I think? No word on English release.

>>97347563
Do you speak Japanese? Do you know how to play?

>>97347592
I can't speak Japanese that good, but I can read it decently well.
I do know how to play but I have no one to play it with :(

>>97347544
I don't have interest in becoming a neet, sorry. Besides, doing house chores, cooking, buying the groceries is easy. Just doing the dishes suck.

>>97347556
The hard part is finding someone to support your lifestyle.

>>97347562
I feel uneasy thinking about getting a partner. It doesn't seem like a thing I'd like.

>>97345981
Fuck. I was not read for that. Feels bad man. KnK will pay her dues, eventually.

>>97347582
>a partner
pfffft hogga you gay

>>97343390
An AD&D 2e Paladin.

Even if I didn't end up at a table with a DM trying to make me fall, I think I'd end up doing it myself. I'm too rash and impulsive for the class, I think, to live up to the morality required of it.

Over Christmas at about 3am I suddenly had the coolest concept for a cleric of loviatar who I now desperately want to play, but I'm pretty sure any campaign would drop me the moment I said "cleric of loviatar."

Just let me be a little edgelord as a treat

>>97343390
I like the carefree brutes that just bulldoze through their problems willy-nilly. I never play one, because everything I'd want to demolish is either far out of my character's league or would create 10x more problems for the party than it would solve.

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>>97343390
I love the idea of Promethean: the Created but it sounds impossible to play with most groups: you'd need literal theater kids that also want to play as a Frankenstein, Golem, etc. on a Pinocchio becomes a real boy quest

>>97343390
Man I would love to play Night's Black Agents, but my group would be totally incapable of it. Delta Green was enough of a disaster that it's also gone in my "never again," pile.