>>97205080
>was chugging along just fine
Yeah no Man of Iron or such, all going swimmingly.

>>97205138
The start of the back to back apocalypses would have been when he began taking a more active role in getting humanity back on track, yes.

>>97204994
Post models.

>>97205138
That was just an accident, and it was really the Eldar's fault for murderfucking Slaanesh into existence.

>>97204994
Watching you fap.

>>97196423
you don't?
you just make it more than a cogflop aesthetic
lots of "steampunk" settings are pretty popular or have a positive cult following
>console games
chrono trigger incorporates time travel and advanced tech, final fantasy 6 has some lovecraftian becoming god type stuff, final fantasy is general has tons of stuff like this with the airships and low tech firearms alongside engines and swords
there's also dishonoured, arcanum as op posted, usually asian settings incorporate stuff more if I think about it, lots of anime also has a steampunk style like nausicaa

you can also sprinkle technology and have it go through advances like Edge Chronicles

>>97207230
>Does it though? The line gets blurry when you consider Frankenstein or your own examples of mesmerism and the like.
Those aren't really mystical or occult so much as they are fringe science, the monster of Frankenstein being partially inspired by real life experiments involving electricity for example.
>If it's forgotten then it ain't tradition.
And that's why you get "mediums" to contact ancient spirits of Tibetan Sages and Atlantis priest kings so they can pass "the secret teaching" to you.

>>97207260
>Those aren't really mystical or occult so much as they are fringe science
The way I see it the main difference between becoming invisible with the power of fringe science or by accessing the secrets of Xibablba is the age of the source of the knowledge. One is cutting edge and the other ancient. Both are pushing beyond the the accepted boundaries of science and tradition. Is that distinction important enough warrant a thematic struggle between the two or make them incompatible in the same setting as the original poster implied?

>>97207308
>The way I see it the main difference between becoming invisible with the power of fringe science or by accessing the secrets of Xibablba is the age of the source of the knowledge.
That makes sense. But there's also the relationship that these beliefs have with truth, one believes that you can measure and understand the whole universe, the other wants to directly experience the truth through mystical means.
>Is that distinction important enough warrant a thematic struggle between the two or make them incompatible in the same setting as the original poster implied?
Sure, it's a dispute over the fundamental nature of reality itself, as well as two distinct ways of seeing the world, that can be an interesting conflict, and I think it's important to steampunk in particular.

>>97207374
Again. I don't see that much of a difference. Both the ways you present of understanding the world(direct experience and the the scientific method, which btw are not at odds with each other) are explored in Lovecrafts works. Gaining too much, or forbidden knowledge through science or occultism lead to same results ( at least as far as Lovecraft is concerned). The existence of truth as monistic, eternal and attainable is rooted in mysticism (Parmenides poem On Nature) and has been the foundation of science from its very beginning. After all they seem to fill the same void in humanity as both occultism and the belief that science would solve every problem were popular at the same time. In WWII and even in the cold war all the major powers were really into both occultism and scientific research.

>>97206659
I can't tell if you're agreeing with me or not, but yes you've proven my point.

>>97206570
Techmarines are such a cheap investment to keep your vehicles functioning, it's only 50 points to bring one. You'd be a fool not to at that point.

>>97206902
yeah that's the flaw in the "just status tanks" school of strategy... for 240 points you can ally in a mechanicum army of a machinator array magos with 3+3 battlesmithing (3 status and 3 hull or 6 status or 6 hull) and 4 tech priests (all four have battlesmith-2). That's enough for the Magos to make your kratos or landraider basically untouchable and the 4 priests to babysit your other lesser dreadnoughts and lesser tanks and transports. Sure if the enemy deepstrikes in 300 points of stuff he can snipe a 30 point techpriest so his status will stick on a Vindicator, but then he's committed all the points of deepstrike (which are stuck off-board turn 1) and all the points for the status inflicters, and it's still a bit of a gamble.

And it doesn't help that units you might think should kill priests, like a seeker squad, have such amazingly useful guns that you don't want a seeker squad shooting a 30 point techpriest hidden behind the landraider. You want them melting terminators with breaching4+ precision kraken rounds.

They didn't do a good job with the meta-game in 3rd. Middle of the road anti-tank is pretty much 100% useless. Either you go super-ultra rapier + melta kratos + other antitank and spend half your army on anti-tank or you might as well bring zero anti-tank and simply invest the points in a sacrificial roadblock unit the cataphract are Supposed to kill jumping out of the landraider, then counter-charge with your cataphract-killing squad afterwards.

>>97206948
Seekers are actually kinda trash at melting terminators. Str 4 means they only wound termies on a 5+ and they need at least 2 wounds for a chance at killing a terminator.
Just take a castraferrum dreadnought with two gravis plasma cannons. Almost half the point cost, same chance of AP 2 wounds when you overcharge (no reason not to) but also wounds on 2+ and 2 damage means each failed save is one dead terminator No I will not shut up about plasma mortis boxnoughts

Seekers are more for sniping sergeants, nuncio vox and characters, or applying pinning.

>>97205976
>it's the imperial palace best fortress from the best planet

>>97140155
Yes. Faggot ruined rangers forever with his OC DONUT STILL.

>>97199204
The sad thing is I don't think millennials are doing it intentional. Yeah Gen X was a bunch of Ironic asshats but that's a conscious decision. I don't think anyone these days even knows what sincerity looks like and when they see it they get bored.

>>97199595
We don’t get bored so much as uncomfortable I think, we call it cringe and make jokes about them or call them weird or uncool. It’s a terribly sad state of affairs.

>>97193701
CR is serious as fuck, id even know what you retards and autists are on about lately
and it also has a shitton of combat
for gods sake they were even playing pathfinder at the start
the idea that CR is this normie zoomer queer no confrontation no game elements game is just stuff made up by people who never watched it

mercer is legit a better dm than all the no games pretend osr fags ITT
the difference is he is not autistic so he ADAPTS his game to the players

>>97205923
>CR is nordic as fuck. Prussian German ancestry

>>97191568
I'm dying for the AATDW sequel, he said he's mostly done he's just taking a break.

anyone messed with 5150 at all? I know it's usually classified as a wargame but it seems like it's got a lot of crossover, especially with more recent stuff

Has anyone here actually played Marching Order? The game seems to have been scrubbed in favor of the 2e kickstarter and I can’t find any real reviews or actual plays, only people browsing through the rules in a video
And the project was funded over a year ago and still isn’t even close to being finished? Seems incredibly sus to me. Does the game even exist?

>>97193509
If you are not against running them abstractly, check out hex flowers and make your own.

https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/hex-power-flower/

I've never successfully played a tabletop rpg solo, but game books like Buffalo Castle worked great. Putting energy into determining details on my own causes my brain to give up and deflate on me. I probably just need to practice more and get used to doing the work, but man is it hard at first.

>>97124453
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>>97129773
Okay, I think I got something for the middle result, inspired by Broken Tales' solo mode.
>Maybe. The Player can decide between the Yes or No
effect, but each time after that, they will have to choose the
option they didn’t choose on the previous occurrence.

Taking that into account, I think I got something for adjudicating weird edge cases.
>If logic dictates that there can only be binary outcomes, nudge this result to one direction.

My idea for the oracle is that it isn't just for Yes/No inquiries, but the results can also be for intensity, amount of X over Y, etc. Kinda like the ABS12 oracles or Motif, except I use 2d6 for fancy bell curve nonsense. This is still just a thought exercise.

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>>97160877
If you can trick people into cutting off their perfectly functional genitalia and tattoo demonic sigils into their skins, then it wouldn't be so hard to get some idiots to join an evil cult. Never underestimate human stupidity.

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Might as well answer this with my own evil cult:
>You are a disgraced daimyo on the verge of losing an important war; you, your family and your vassals will all be massacred
>A dark power gives you a choice: either do nothing and face your imminent doom or make a dark pact and gain the power to protect your family and regain honor in the eyes of your shogun
>You accepted the deal? Great, now you and your vassals will become the most powerful swordsmen in all the land, but your souls have been claimed by an ancient demon king.
Desperation drove my villain into making a deal with something that he didn't fully understand. The villain has gone mad from willingly dooming his clan to being possessed by skin-wearing demons.

>>97201845
>Now imagine being myopically, solipsistically evil
Nobody wants to see himself evil. There are many other reasons to join some evil cult. For example, that's what is told us by Willd Durant:

The most terrible of the gods were under the earth. In caves and clefts and like nether chambers dwelt those chthonian or earthly deities whom the Greeks worshiped not by day with loving adoration, but at night with apotropaic rites of riddance and fear. These vague nonhuman powers were the real autochthonoi of Greece, older than the Hellenes, older perhaps than the Mycenaeans, who probably transmitted them to Greece; if we could trace them to their origin we might find that they were the vengeful spirits of the animals that had been driven into the forests or under the soil by the advance and multiplication of men. The greatest of these subterranean deities was called Zeus Chthonios; but Zeus here meant merely god. Or he was called Zeus Meilichios, the Benevolent God; but here again the words were deceptive and propitiatory, for this god was a fearful snake. Brother to Zeus was Hades, lord of the underworld that took his name. To placate him the Greeks called him Pluto, the giver of abundance, for he had it in his power to bless or blight the roots of all things that grew in the soil. Still more ghostly and terrible was Hecate, an evil spirit that came up from the lower world and brought misfortune, through her evil eye, to all whom she visited. The less learned Greeks sacrificed puppies to keep her away.

>>97207018
>Nobody wants to see himself evil
Plenty of theistic satanists openly acknowledge themselves to be evil and revel in it. I've personally met some.

>>97160877
The thing about the Chaos gods is that they are supposed to embody all aspects of their particular theme not just the negatives.

Like Khorne is the god of violence and destruction but he is also the god of martial prowess and warrior's honor, heck I'm not sure if it's still canon but it used to be that his followers killing defenseless innocents would piss off Khorne because there was no glory or skill in it.

Slaanesh is the god of extreme degeneracy but he is also the god of things like romance so for example if some kindly couple in the universe falls in love and has a family he also draws strength from it despite it being an act of pure wholesomeness and him ostensibly being an "evil" god.

Nurgle is the god not just of death and disease but rebirth and the cycle of life in general.

Tzeentch is probably the least outright "bad" of the Chaos gods because he is simply the god of knowledge and wisdom and planning. Not to mention that unlike Khorne, who was born during a period of lots of wars amongst mankind, or Nurgle, who was born during the time of plague, or Slaanesh, who was born due to the Eldar having a galaxy-wide murder-orgy, Tzeentch was born during a time of great scientific advancement in human civilization which is relatively benign compared to the other three.

A huge, blasted wasteland with remote scattered tribes of unintelligible people and wandering spirits that are only somewhat humanoid. Everyone who's ever went out to cross it or find the middle or whatever disappears without a trace.

>>97207279
I mean beastmen already exist

Wouldn't it a prime target for Dark Elves due all exotic monsters there?

>>97207317
This. Beastmen and Orks, everyone in chariots. Lots of monsters.

I suggest that we use the northwards extension of the southern chaos wastes (south of Khuresh) for this.
Possibly add Lizardmen to the mix.

>>97207440
Good point, add Dark Elf big game monster hunter expedition to
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>>97205772
Jaipur is a 20 minute version of Ticket To Ride.

>>97205920
I'm unironically getting in peak condition I don't post myself shirtless simply to not be an attentiowhore, only thing that could stop me is a random stroke in my 50s like the ones that killed my dad or grandpa

>>97207058
A man desperate to escape his fate.

>>97207280
Only fate I want to escape is becoming a disgusting ball of fat which is worse than death

>>97205920
Sucks to hear, hope the rest of your group stays healthy. We're not called fa/tg/uys for no reason, but 2 people in their 30s sounds like a lot. Fortunately none of my acquaintances have started dying off from lifestyle choices, I only know one chick who got cancer at a pretty young age but that was bad luck more than anything.

There's no kind of mage or wizard class. all "Magic" or whatever it's called that players have access to are from rare single-use artifact

>>97206906
there are no fem-angels anon, keep up

>>97206922
I approve of this. Down with caster supremacy.
As for my contribution, their home planet has rings like Saturn.

Red plants are more valuable

The game world sits on the edge of a black hole, the place where the angels first came from.

Everyone is Indian.

>>97206903
ah so you are a hypocrite and lazy, got it

I have to say, having an M14 rifle style mag would actually look pretty dope. I guess you're an "ideas man" first and foremost. Which is ok, it's good to have aspirational creatives amongst the people who actually accomplish things.

>>97206903
>shits an entire thread
>gets call out
>inmediatly dies
Tale old as time.

>>97207363
>how do you do, fellow English speakers

>>97206440
>>97206486
They look good don't get me wrong and they'd mesh perfectly fine with my
>he found it in a forgotten cache and used it as is
philosophy, but how does a cultist having a rare phobos pattern bolter make more sense than a cultist having an incredibly ubiquitous imperial lasgun with the aquila still on it?

Is written fan fiction encouraged here?

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>>97206294
It looks like shovels are one-handed but they aren't a weapon, only equipment. My understanding is that you can only use it as a weapon if you're wielding it with two hands, which turns it into a Double-Handed Blunt Weapon.
It's kinda disappointing actually, shovels were used a lot in WW1 even as weapons. If I were you I would just use a shovel and have it act like a Trench Club so you can use it as a one-handed weapon

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>>97206885
>but I can't remember which lore bit it was for the life of me
Trade with the Tughlaq Sultanate, iirc, from that artbook that released I believe.

>>97206901
I don't think you'd be the first to post it here, but if it's long then either pastebin it or put it in a pdf and put it in a mega.

>>97206901
Yes, but like other anon said. If its a wall of text, share a link instead of writing it here. We had one anon write a small comedic story about pilgrimage to the hellgate.

>>97205590
They could lean hard in to Jewish Mysticism/Kabbalism; there is actually a strong magical tradition in Judaism that is mostly unknown unless you read way in to Gnosticism past the surface level stuff.

>>97199755
I would believe the assertion that Batman was somehow spiteful if didn't believe the villains could be redeemed and he killed them on purpose.

>>97196653
Being spiteful uphill is, being spiteful once you've won isn't.

>>97196653
Spite has a couple different meanings

>>97172342
>because I'm pretty good at them
Stop lying to yourself.

>>97158712
Traditional games?

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Anyone have a scan?

>>97206907

Im interested in an 'interwar period ruleset' for a project I'm mulling, but im not familiar with anything out there. Ive seen battle reports of a Very British Civil War, and Ive seen A Wotld Aflame mentioned, but that's it. Do the lads of /hwg/ have sny favorites they can suggest?

>>97206907
Yes

>>97207199
If you want a suitable answer, give us more details.

>>97207346

Right. It's meant for a series of games based in my part of Canada in an alternate history where a civil war broke out in between ww1 and ww2. That got me interested in VBCW, which seems to be a setting rather than a ruleset.

I prefer 28mm, and Im more interested in skirmish level games than large engagements. However, a game that is easily scalable would work out great.
Im picturing confusing, raggedy ass street engagements and small rural dust-ups where multiple factions weigh in.

>>97207418
>what kind of person posts on reddit using the avatar of a fat lady
Maybe a fat lady? Ad hominem won't absolve you from your no model status.

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>>97207418
What kind of person hangs out in the communities of hobbies they don't participate in?

>>97207427
>maybe a fat lady
bruh

>>97207429
sir, this is a 4chan
>total victory against seething troons once again
shitmar in shambles
all in a days work

seethe and dilate as the kids say

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>>97207423
That's even worse, mogged by a tranny Shitmar player.

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>>97207431
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>>97207438
Don't run away and post models fake grog

>>97206287
I dare not, but I'll observe from afar.

>>97204552
Even the spam replies to this reminds me of better days. Thank you, Ribbon-poster. I get even more schadenfreude out of our long-beloved banner, which they are and remain powerless to change.

>>97206376
Ribbon is a /tg/ classic.

>>97205929
Ah no answer because no games.

goblin femboys are criminally underrepresented