>>97408371
give me the QRD

>>97408371
lol
I'll try to cram six real drafts before dinner and let you know if the format is actually good.
printing out proxies of a set to do single player drafts before release is comical time-wasting

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next year wizards is going to announce the great stat inflation for more "Granularity"

All health totals multiplied by 10

all relevant stats on old cards treated as if they were ten times greater

little girl finally playable

>>97408396
None of the tribes are playable except Elves if the pool isn't split, and a few others (Goblins, Kithkin) only with absolute nut drafts.
Every game is generic. They play thing, you play thing. You remove thing, they remove thing. Someone plays the bomb they cracked and wins. The first player to secure tempo wins almost 100% of the time. There are no archetypes, every deck just devolves into goodstuff slop vs goodstuff slop but in different colors.
I did not see even a single interesting thing happen, or have to make even one difficult decision, the entire time playing,
Though most limited format succumb to that kind of gameplay to a degree, ECL is the worst case of it ever, by far.

I might have to put it in the bottom 5 worst draft formats ever, just on the merits of how boring and bland it is. That would be, from best to worst,

1. ECL
2. MKM
3. DFT
4. IKO
5. Coldsnap

>>97408424

0.1/0.1 chumpblock tokens here I come

>>97408453
Given how much of a hissy fit people on here threw over the "you will not be missed" thing, I guess so.

I thought there was supposed to be one more new unrevealed box before the sister one? Not that I'm complaining, I've been looking forward to this one

>>97361290
Update, you were right, we played two games and the kommandos completely obliterated the kasrkins. 10 to 5 et 12 to 3 VPs. I couldn't even contest the objectifs long enough to claim points from the martyr tac op.

I had to put my kasrkins in awkward positions in engage order to try and shoot some of the orks that came dangerously close in concealment, and next TP the Snipboy, Rokkitboy and Dakkaboy have a field day. But I also was really out of luck, last game the plasma gunner missed all his shots two times and I had a few really bad save rolls

>>97407626
No they confirmed shadowhunt is the final TW box

>>97403772
They have soles of unobtainium allowing them to fall through hundreds of meters of ship hull and floors

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/5s6zvean/kill-team-shadowhunt-scream-down-from-the-skies-with-the-vicious-bloodthirsty-murderwing/
>space marines that all have fly actions
I wonder what those other conditions they're not mentioning for brevity are

>>97400457
Cobalt Dragons from Dragon Magazine #356 uses it for the fluff of how its Bull Rush Breath Weapon works.

>>97401068
>>97403570
It seems perfectly legitimate to separate magic that does something vaguely related to the desired force from the actual force itself, particularly when said "relation" is doing the opposite of the usual function to things it shouldn't apply to.

>>97403632
if it doesn't have an elemental plane it's not real

>>97406529
tough tits, I just invented the hemisemidemiplane of magnetism, diametrically opposed to the hemisemidemiplane of the juggalos

I don't wish to start bullshit, but this is the place to ask:
Is it easier to make a Captain America expy (hand to hand, uses shield offensively and defensively) of at level effectiveness (ie not hyper optimized ubercharger but serviceable in a group) in 3.5, or easier in PF1e?
I am not against initiator classes, but I would rather not run to them at first, viewing them as a crutch at times.

>>97408218
I made a character in that vein in 3.5 a decade ago. Paladin/Fighter, worked decently well. Improved shield bash, shield charge, shield slam, dire charge. Weapon was a spiked shield, didn't last long enough to make it Returning so I could start throwing it.

Main issue you run into is getting feat starved, same as any character gimmick.

>>97407699
Rogue One has the feel of a slightly-forgettable 40s/50s WW2 film, like Anzio. You need to have a high enough test to enjoy mindless action for 2 hours.

>>97408052
based, give us a quick rundown of scenarios they faced in the tower?

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>>97408069
Sure thing, it was initially planned to be short but the Edge of the Empire Obligation system proved otherwise
>Initial Premise
The party has had a personal vendetta against the Pykes for a long time. A capo runs Tarlana Tower, a massive city-within-a-city in the Corporate Sector. Infiltrate the tower, cause chaos and kill the Capo. The party's corporate ally would spin it as "gang on gang violence" and use it to ban the Pykes from the CSA
>First Challenge: Gain Entry Credentials
Pyke affiliated mercenaries frequent the Nexus Nightclub, get those credentials!
<Obligation roll> Party leader has to kidnap a mysterious scientist also at this club for his separatist enclave.
Group manages to steal the keycard and kidnap the scientist, but a string of bad rolls caused a three way firefight in the club that left it in flames.
>Second Challenge: Make it to the top of the tower
The place is a total maze with four distinct "levels". The first is a massive undercity, the second a more refined middle class area, the third an industrial district, the fourth the Pyke holding. Party split up, half went to make allies with local gangsters on level 1, the second went to recon level 2.
<Obligation roll> Clone trooper's obsession with Order 66 and Republic Remnants. A rogue Jedi was spotted bombing a corporate office and fled to the tower!
The party got some gangsters on their side, but the recon team got jedi mind tricked into serving the Jedi as both enforcers and hostages (pic related). Huge inter party combat with dozens of gangsters, hired guns and Jedi cultists fighting each other. A long running party NPC dies in the combat, but the party manages to reunify. They lick their wounds and go to hunt down the jedi
>The Dark Jedi
Guy is totally nuts after Order 66 and is holding the entire tower hostage with some well placed explosives. He wants all authorities off his back. The crew wants revenge, so they placate him for a while before they defuse all the bombs.
Until...

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>>97408115
<Obligation roll> The party's politico's past crime family has returned as allies to the Pykes! The group again splits apart, the droids and force sensitive stay behind with the Jedi while the weak minded go to deal with the family. In a bizarre twist of events (and fantastic rolls) the Politico convinces the head of the family (his ex-wife) to step down and live free. The rest of the family doesn't like that and takes them both hostage. However the group convinced the Jedi to help them in exchange for the force sensitive-
<Obligation roll> The sentient droid commander has gone schizo and tries killing the Jedi immediately. Leads to a small confrontation where the group works with the Jedi to take down the commander. They manage to fix relations and get things back on track
They slaughter the family enforcers and double cross the Jedi just as enemy reinforcements arrive. It's a crazy battle and many are close to death, but they get away to once again lick their wounds.
>Third Challenge: Clear the Industrial District
Also the security hub of the tower, there are many Pykes here and the crew are low on NPC allies.
<Obligation roll> One of the sentient droids is being hunted by the ISB to maintain "Organic Security" over droid sentience. He avoids a honeypot operation and the group manage to kill the Pykes in a series of ambushes and disable the Tower's reactor.
>Final Challenge: The final floor
They ambush the disorganized Pyke resistance (which included a tank) and make their way through the absolute chaos before finding the Pyke Capo. They execute her in a classic gunline, steal her stuff and get away before Corporate Security can tie anything to them.

>>97408141
I needed a tower raid for my act one boss. Stolen almost entirely.

>>97405825
>>97405827
The plants are a nice touch and there's tons of space being used to display tons of games, which is good. Only downside is that there doesn't seem to be much space to socialize and play any games in that store. The big leather seats around a coffee table doesn't really cut it. Still nice, overall though.

>>97405827
100% the smelliest and fattest people are gonna be squatting in that break area at all times huffing and puffing and leaving fluid stains behind.

>>97408067
100%, going with that suede material was a big mistake, so many sharts and lards are going to leave a permanent double wide ass imprint

>>97407764
AI

>>97404280
oh hey thats my FLGS. We've probably crossed paths before.

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>>97408061
what is this dogshit class bro

Wow, so in trying to please all the 'tards, they bricked the Psychic. The full class, just smashed beyond belief. Made sure to put up a brick wall to Magi having anything nice to compensate for being stuck with there own shit. I don't even wanna see what they may have done with the Thaumaturge

>>97408258
Wand damage and Chalice healing got buffed.
Mirror explosion is now optional.
Paired link feats now work regardless of the distance (except for anchoring spells, that still has 30ft range).
That's it.

>>97408258
they actually gave Thaumaturge a healthy amount of buffs.

>>97408008
>>97408008
Because they are SPELLS, not psionics. They are pretty consistent that Psychics are more like Wizards or Oracles, people that dabble and investigate a particular niche in spell design. They actually do have a buff in that you don't need to speak to cast spells so being Silenced or Deafened can't hurt you. But you still are doing all the other casting requirements, including gestures.

Plus given how squishy Psychics already are, I don't really know how much removing the Manipulate tag would be a buff. Yeah, getting to hit a dragon with Imaginary Weapon for free is nice, but I rather not being in range of a dragon if I can help it...
(related note: The Professor Xavier deal of being a scrying expert, Infinite Eye, all their spells already lack the Manipulate trait AND are one action ANNND no one cares because its support not ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK)

>>97408357
If they already can circumvent one of the old components, why not the other? "It's not psionics" isn't a real argument since they already modified the spellcasting, just in a half-assed way.
It's baffling because as you pointed out it wouldn't be a substantial buff, so there's no reason NOT to enhance the class fantasy like that.

>>97408403
>Goblins stole my things, willing to pay ___ for their return"
That's just beginning adventure.
Dunno what your idea changes for the game, you're just swapping wuest-giving NPC's line from "thank the gods, I've found brave adventurers like you!", to "thank the gods someone read my post in Spell it!"

>>97408439
The idea is to have the wizard employ the characters to help them set up the system so he can get rich off of it.

>>97408403
5/7 bait.I almost wrote a response. Have a sage.

>>97407527
Magical staves and clubs. Very niche

>>97393560
>Are orcs just misunderstood and oppressed?
Setting dependent. In my setting they're basically religious fundamentalists, but are willing to join other civilizations if they see a benefit for themselves. In some settings they're unnatural or demonic, in some settings they're just native populations, and there are other answers.

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>>97407909
Counterpoint: a pulp-y self aware Author Bard who takes the concept of "players impacting the narrative of a D&D game" to a whole new level

is longbow battle master a thing

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>>97408209
Yes! In fact, depending on the version of 5e its quite good.

In 2014 5e, Ranged Weapons in general are the best weapons in the game due to the power of the Archery Fighting Style, the Sharpshooter Feat, and Extra Attack. Great damage, high range, ignoring cover (Which 99.9% of creatures cannot do), the range allows you to usually maneuver around the battlefield to take advantage of cover and hazards to trick up your opponents. Battle Masters in particular are really good for this style of play due to them having combat maneuvers like Precision Attack (Which you can use after rolling to boost your to hit roll), Menacing Attack (Long Range Frighten for movement shut down and disadvantage on their attacks), Trip Attack (To trip foes), Pushing Attack (Push foes into hazards or away from allies or off cliffs), and other nice options to go with it!

2024 5e is a little different due to Sharpshooter not giving the big damage bonus it had in 2014, but it's still solid due to Longbows having the Heavy Property allowing you to get the Great Weapon Master feat- it just requires a wider stat spread than it used to. Hypothetically, you could get Sharpshooter, Great Weapon Master, and still max out your Dexterity all by level 8 as a Fighter, which means you'll still be doing solid enough damage without the loss to accuracy that 2014 Longbow users were dealing with. Battle Masters are more or less the same, though at higher levels they get a great buff with Relentless and can be even more mobile than they were before.

>>97407425
>Budget version at R
Lmao.

>>97407585
Like anon said, it might be just in case the RR version gets hit because it goes +1 for free and is very searchable while being required for these decks to function

I've been having a very hard time finding wallpapers, specifically phone wallpapers of vanguard that aren't just characters from the anime. Been trimming trying to find one of Barv for one. Among others

>>97407290
Hmmmmm, obviously a Fantome but based off who exactly? Nao doesn't even have a sister did the mist actually create a brand new person from nothing?

>>97407412
Very well could be.

>>97407432
>>97407456
>>97407467
>>97407474
Blang got a lot more support than the anime made it look

>>97407716
I don't mind it that much, some of the guys I know are losing their minds over this but the draw in case of whiff is a relatively small upside if you want to poorfag a Fantome deck. I'd prefer this to just having a RR version like the Masque situation.

Magic is fucking dead what are you talking about.

pokemon was popular when i was a wee lad

Scalpers won. The only popular card games have speculation on pieces of cardboard. Id say only 1 in 10 actually plays the card game they buy now.

>>97408222
This. Magic and Pokemon is entirely just a cardboard stock market where the card game imaginary and the card value is made up.

>>97408222
Pokemon is barely even 1 in 1000 and they don’t pretend otherwise.

>>97402311
t. thinks gacha is the endgame of visual perfection

>>97405890
Parkinson was a god-tier artist. RIP in burger flippin

>>97402232
On the one hand I have never met Wayne Reynolds and maybe he saves puppies on the regular and is a nice man, but his art makes me want to disembowel him

D&D 24 MM art has almost only good designs and PHB had some really nice artworks.

5e was a lowpoint but the new art is qualitatively better, some fags just don't like what's being depicted and then claim the way it is depicted is also bad (inability to discern the actual craft from the content of the work)

I feel like today's artists no longer have any knowledge about color theory and can no longer depict lighting in a realistic or interesting way.

I draw a bit myself and I think Digital tools are absolutely incredible for creation but I feel that something was lost when we no longer had to mix paint ourselves. The guys that started on traditional media and later moved to digital, usually get better results then the ones who mainly grew up with a tablet in their hands.

I am also certain that before, the artists were more aware of the painters and grand masters of the past.

>>97404301
Oh man I had completely forgotten Glimmer Rats. Yeah, that was just IG dudes going into the Warp right?

>>97404301
>>97404648
Wait, Glimmer Rats was Gordon Rennie not Dan Abnett.

>>97398430
> His Moriarty/Moran short stories are my favourite Holmes fiction
Didn't know he did any Holmes stories! Thanks, anon, I'll check them out!

>>97397403
either you are fucking retarded, or simply baiting. Either way, I wish you a very unpleasant retrograde ejaculation

>>97397403
Abnett also wrote some Judge Dredd comics for AD2000 that were very obviously just 40k stories with some names changed (40k and Dredd already share a lot of DNA, but when you go from the normal Dredd plotlines to not!Space Marines fighting rebellious colonists in space it's pretty obvious the whole thing started as a rejected 40k comic plot).

>>97320501
No it didn't. Traditional medicine was entirely useless. I'm saying that as an actual doctor posted in a rural area.

>Exposure to sapients can induce a soul in objects.
>Ships gain Klabautermann due to decades or centuries of sailors.

Now scale that up for the space age....
>Space Colonies can have millions of inhabitants.
>They typically last centuries.
>They represent the hopes and dreams of an entire new human race

Yeah, Space Colonies have evolved their own spirits that can influence material reality. Best case scenario, they can actually help defend the colony from dangerous accidents and outside attack.

>>97407111
>Well, Harry Potter used them as mere animals abused to guard treasures for wizards or goblins
NTA, but they were also essentially treated like cattle, being allowed to live only in specifically designated dragon reserves where they are regularly harvested for parts.
Dragons are used for everywhere in the wizarding world like
>their heart strings are one of the most common and powerful cores for wands
>their hide is has magic resistant properties and is used for fancy clothing like jackets and boots and the like, but also for protective equipment like gloves all children are exppected to wear for potion class.
>their blood has a dozen known uses ranging from being a useful potion ingredient to being used as spot remover and oven cleaner.
>their meat is put on wounds to help treat the pain, also occasionally prepared and eaten like DragonTartare
>they produce milk that is used for cheese making
>powered dragon claw is snorted by students before exams as it supposdely helps the brain focus. Its also used in potions
>their dung is used as fertilizer for magical herbs
>their horns were also powdered and used in potions.
>their livers and eggs were used in potions too
Personally I really like this as Dragons in setting are not really any less dangerous than you expect dragons to be, but they've become the equivalent of powerful animals in the real world where we have to go out of our way to not hunt them to extinction, only difference is their parts also useful beyond just status symbol.

>>97407377
As I said, abused animals. HP is an anthrocentric setting where humans are the center of creation.

>>97405931
>The real resources aren't in planets, they're in asteroids.
It will literally never be cheaper to mine asteroids than to refine an element from resources on earth.

I don't have planet-mania. I know how much space travel costs. Even if we had theoretical megastructures that make launching and landing cheaper, it would still not be more cost effective to fetch asteroids than to refine shit on earth.

To use a comparison, it would be like harvesting icebergs for fresh water instead of using desalination. Technically possible but dumb as fuck.

It’s interesting how rape is seen as edgier than murder. Must have something to do with the humiliation factor.

>>97389444
there's no reason to believe either of those wasn't Homelander though

>>97405470
>muh racist magic armors
>muh bad simulationist rules for rape
not really

>>97408203
It wasn't always the case. Rape literally just means theft, which should tell you exactly what it used to be seem as. It's probably just because of misandrist feminism: statistically speaking, murder is a crime against men, rape is a crime against women.

>>97408290
*seen as