Why does fantasy have to follow the "Nature good, Society bad" formula?
>>98192407Furry porn.
>>98192407he goes on to suggest that the solution to industrialization is that everyone should dismantle every part of the economy and divide the entire population into small villages where regional blacksmiths are the highest form of technology. Which is not only laughable, but would be a dereliction of duty for people who are actually concerned with environmental stewardship. Like all counterculture icons, his only skill was being able to identify a problem; he has no real solution. all those people died for nothing because there wasn't any substance to his ideology.
>>98192430and if he had a more coherent point their deaths would have had meaning?
>>98171200I mean, when you remember that Thiel is a slavedriver who's employees and indeed most of his customers(few of whom are by choice) are filled with hatred for him, you can start to grasp why he empathises with the daemonic evil overlord more than the heroes that destroy him.
>>98192443Sure, why not?
Aim High
But he aimed to the middle?
>>98192176>4th panelIs Serini FINALLY going to do something? I swear, if she sits out this fight, the Order should just fucking kill her. What a piece of garbage she is.
Hey, so when did OOTS dialogue accidentally, like, become horrible? I guess Rich just doesn't know his own onions. I'm going to pop down the 2005 archives when the dialogue actually was decent.
>>98192433I remember when Haley used to be funny.
Why there isn't a single RPG that captures the FREE SPIRIT of metal? Is RPG a sanitized medium?
>>98185261Mork Borg is peak sanitized safe edgy.
>>98186433>I let youtube dictate my opinions to meOne little disclaimer required by the publisher doesn't change what is printed throughout the book.
>>98177478>Warhammerselloutcore
>>98188101Mostly art. So if by "metal" you mean "metal album covers", you're right.
>>98185261 >>98173572>played a few games of Mork Borg this monthI was skeptical but had a blast. You can drink or smoke and have great time. The light rules help the fast play; we had 5 people and the DM rolled a PC as well but a full round was done in less then a minute. There was funny deaths and a few times just took out a boss fight like we were playing Doom. Our DM understood the assignment and had Wolves in the Throne Room playing.
Realistically... can any DND beat Devil Dugu? Strongest Chinese ever...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugu_QiubaiThe Nine Swords of Dugu (獨孤九劍) are nine independent sword stances created to overpower all sorts of weapons, including swords, sabers, spears, clubs, staffs, whips, and arrows, as well as bare-handed attacks. This swordplay has nine stances, each of which is designed to counter a particular style of martial arts. The mastery of all nine forms allows the swordsman to counter a wide range of moves, including those involving the use of weapons. The first core element of the swordplay is speed. The swordsman is trained to quickly predict and identify the weaknesses in the moves executed by an opponent, and then attack those weak points. The second core element of the swordplay is its formless nature and adaptability. Unlike typical martial arts styles described in wuxia stories, the moves of the Nine Swords of Dugu do not follow any fixed sequence or pattern. As such, it is impossible for an opponent to predict and counter correspondingly. The key to mastering the swordplay is to understand the two core elements instead of rigidly memorising all the stances. Once the swordsman has grasped the essence of the swordplay, he can use it in endless forms and variations, hence the swordplay has no fixed sequence or pattern. During combat, the less the swordsman remembers, the less restricted he is by the original stances. He is thus able to customise and adapt the swordplay accordingly.The nine stances are:General Index Stance (總訣式)Sword-defeating Stance (破劍式)Saber-defeating Stance (破刀式)Spear-defeating Stance (破槍式)Whip-defeating Stance (破鞭式)Chain whip-defeating Stance (破索式)Palm-defeating Stance (破掌式)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98173965>>98174567there not being a Dragon-Defeating stance really does seem like a "superman is affected by magic" tier weakness for a fantasy swordfighter.
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>>98191643Aren't most level-based RPGs cultivationslop by definition thoughbeit
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>>98173965>Whip-defeating Stance (破鞭式)>Chain whip-defeating Stance (破索式)Retard, your AI malfunctioned. The second one is supposed to be Mace.
>Some actions are simply evil. The abuse of power, the prejudices that are used to justify the oppression and harm of people whose only “sin” in the eyes of others is that they are different or that they simply exist, the weaponization of fear and paranoia, past and present acts of colonial violence.>As a GM, avoid going into territory that has you giving every villain “their own side” of the story. Some popular narratives, for example, have chosen to redeem the heinous or harmful behavior of their antagonists by insisting that they were “only” delivering to others the same kind of harm that was inflicted upon them. The layers of evil may be complex, but there are still some irredeemable thoughts, acts, and behavior. If you spend extensive time exploring how a genocidal villain grew up with abuse, this can move the focus away from the harm they are actively causing, or worse, act to justify it.>In a perfect society, stopping crime would be a perfect way to show a hero’s goodness. Armed robbery is bad, and you shouldn’t take things that aren’t yours. Clobbering the bandits and handing them over to the authorities might seem like the only ethical course of action.>However, society isn’t perfect. A downtrodden community with no farmable land and no outside relief might result in desperate individuals robbing to feed themselves or their families. Crime may be a symptom of the problem, not the source. Or, to put it another way, morality is for the privileged.>Framing non-violent options as automatically good and violent options as bad is flawed. Instead, consider the power dynamics that have been introduced in your adventure or campaign. Violence against an oppressive force may be just what is needed.>There are also layers to what we mean when we say “violence”. A dehumanizing system that severely limits or removes a person’s agency and voice can kill as readily as murder can.Do you agree?
>>98192051>Kings that forget that they need peasants end up hanging from their castle walls.literally never happened
>>98192056I guess might makes rights DOES sound like a much better idea to someone with a complete ignorance of history. Explains a lot about you, really.
>>98192100I believed in the peasant uprising meme until I actually studied some history
>>98191935>but its their 'obligation' as the conquerors so they do it anywayso for the raised generation and after, orcs are bros, solely to confuse the remaining human kingdoms as orc sympathetic humans join them on the front lines with crazy ass weapons and actual muscle mass from a protein-based diet.unfathomably based.
>>98191935It would be funny if orcs do this because they know from experience that orc adults would never bend the knee and could never be trusted not to rebel in the future, so its never worth offering the mercy, and they apply this logic to humans as well because they assume we are the same. Tragically missing that humans bow to authority all of the same and many of the people they are slaughtering would happily be servile to spare their own lives. The orcs just can't imagine that humans would actually be that weak willed, so they assume its a trick and just kill everyone old enough to hold a weapon.
RIP in peace John Blanche the absolute legend edition.Previous Thread:>>98043484Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLnThe Rogue Trader magazine article compilation:https://mega.nz/file/C4oSnArA#sA2O_7V6OnhZCOLCf0Sba1KW_wao3pZvc6IUmlHvpsk
Hey gang, scored a set of metal chaos terminator scans, I think there's a body missing and there are some soft details on some of the pieces, but it's a pretty decent set all round. Enjoy!aHR0cHM6Ly9nb2ZpbGUuaW8vZC95OVVlaFU=
>>98191311>I think there's a body missing.God, I hate chitubox.
>>98191241Love the overdone red anon, how'd you do it?
>>98191311>>98191782Barring the couple of MASSIVE bits, they seem to be a bit underscale. Going by how much they hang ten on 25mm bases in the catalog.
>>98192061Going by the 10mm grid here, they should be ~33mm-35mm tall depending on squat amount. Which matches measurements from my Deathwing metals. Only have the RT ones otherwise which are a bit smaller . A lot of non-manifold geo and flash/vents on the bits too. I would consider this set barely printable as is, needs some love and booleans. But a nearly complete set of 0311 Chaos Terminators, and 0319 Chaos Champion, only missing 1 champ head, champ power axe, and the heavy flamer. So thanks for the share >>98191311 I'll try and fix it up a bit.
Duck and Cover!>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/They used to be split between the website and the discord, but no more. For posterity's sake, the old mega will still be kept active even if it's unlikely to need updating: https://mega.nz/folder/70QH0BBa#Eg-blxYQKkY_C02wErnFTQ>third party sources for making trenchers:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98179599Vallejo burned metal is a cheat code
>>98188621Not that anon but Vallejo's "Liquid Metal" series is a godsend for painting realistic metallics
>>98187888That’s the beauty of IP “law”, every time you say trench crusade you’re doing advertising for the faggots.It would be funny if someone released something unrelated with the tagline “trench crusade” for them to seethe over, but until then the blues will keep shudding down anything with the tagline, and everything associated with the aesthetic will be polluted in messaging by the faggots.
Tank Palanquin is gay.I will simply take a bunch of troopers.Now I just need to find a good shotgun bit.
The new Trench Wire has a obituary for John Blanche as well as a lore piece on Heretic Naval captainshttps://www.trenchcrusade.com/trench-wire/
What have you been working on/playing lately? Post your cubes. Post anything where you curate the play experience, not corporate.
I love cubes. UB is best when it is self contained. A cube of exclusively a particular UB feels like the right amount. When you start mixing them it gets fucking shit.
>>98188965I feel the need to scream at you about your lands. 550 cards, no 2-color lands and 18 colorless isn't going to make people play mono-color, it's just going to make multicolor painfully inconsistent. Consider, say, the Guildgates and Temples if you want the low end or Shocks and Fetches if you want to go wild.Anyway, judge my pile of bulk. Probably going to pull Adventuring Gear because there's really no landfall synergy, but it's nice to have something to do with all the draft chaff.https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/b432a08f-f55d-4629-b3ac-6cd8d3e0121c>>98170318Nah, fuck it. If Warhammer can have 20 generals, so can Magic. Everything that's not a general these days is bait anyway.
>>98188965This is great, did a draft myself and thought it turned out pretty well.I don't know if it was a deliberate choice to not include madness, but I would be unable to put wild mongrel in without basking rootwalla.Also I regret to inform you that abbot of keral keep was first printed in origins, post border change.And if anybody wants to weigh in, here's the last year of me not buying new cards:https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/dc95bee6-0de0-4b15-b2bd-0c65c03e5b6b
>>98188965I will harvest it for my own cube
>>98190555Definitely worth adding the mana fixing. It'll open up the cube so much.>>98190671Your cube gives me vibes of the old free introduction decks Wotc used to give out. That's fucking rad dude, the perfect cube to getting people into the game
Do we really need 3 races which entire gimmick is being short?
>>98171087Dwarves are strong and spiritual. Halflings are dexterous and sly. Gnomes don't usually have a thing, but when they do they're intelligent and crafty. Basically, dwarves make for good barbarians and paladins, halflings are good rogues and rangers, and gnomes are good wizards and artificers. Granted gnomes have only had a thing since, like, 4e, before that, they were just shitty halflings.
>>98171087>Do we really need 3 races which entire gimmick is being short?low-hanging fruit post
Gnomes aren't in competition with dwarves/ halflings for being short, they are in competition with elves for some share of the magical archetype.
>>98171784>every 5e tranny coffee shop simulator theater nigger makes a brooding crybaby tiefling warlock with H cup breasts...maybe trannies are based
>>98171087Halflings should be called something else. Half-lings should be the blanket term to all the Half-elf Half-aarsimars etc that keep flooding new D&D
Soo the 100men v Gorilla debate is still unsolved after years... global consensus is basically agreeing Gorilla winds 9/10 because 1shotting humans (there are computer simulations)...I'm thinking DND can finally solve it though! So DND has the Gorilla... but then he fights 100 Lv1 Human Warriors no armor no weapons just naked and fists...I think Gorilla still wins because he 1shots anyone, what do you think?
>>98185884These Humans have no pointy sticks only feet + fists...
>>98185893They're going to use their feet to walk around looking for sticks, and then they'll use their hands to make those sticks pointy.
>>98185900There are no sticks in the whiteroom
>>98185459>global consensus is basically agreeing Gorilla winds 9/10 because 1shotting humans
>2 regiment blocks of humans vs 1 gorillaThe 100 humans just have to form a big blob and the Gorilla is done for.
Infinity is a 28mm tabletop skirmish game produced by Corvus Belli, and includes the related games Aristeia, Defiance, TAG Raid, REM Racers, and Acheron's Fall. Corvus Belli also produces the fantasy games Warcrow and Warcrow Adventures.Ideal Table edition>Latest official update (x):https://youtu.be/LwdmIYpERS8>Rules and missions:https://infinitythewiki.com/index.phphttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/resourceshttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/infinity/its>Beginner FAQs and guides:https://pastebin.com/x06JG55U https://pastebin.com/xtQzRcq5 https://pastebin.com/xUBR7QFU Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Odd question, but - are there any fan rules for single player experience? I remember that some games do have "default behaviour" instructions to allow people to play alone against the game itself, maybe someone came up with something similar in Infinity.
>>98191059Not to my knowledge. Infinity is a pretty intricate game with a lot of moving parts, so setting up a flowchart for enemy behavior would likely be both very hard and unlikely to produce fun results.But given that Impetuous units have pretty strict rules about what they can do in their impetuous phase, I’m imagining a “zombie horde” single player mission where you run a small list against a ton of cheap impetuous WB units could work without too much homebrewing. Maybe throw in a tougher character WB or an impetuous HI as a “boss” at the end.
>>98191059>>98191332The Defiance boardgame has logic for its CA side, but it uses a different set of mechanics so it might not be too useful.
>>98182329Why is there an alien Hellboy?
>>98191390Infinity minis are full of references to comics and anime
Sci-fi is objectively superior to fantasy due to the simple fact that entire fantasy settings can exist within sci-fi settings.
>>98147018>forward thinkingFantasy is more, it depicts, on average, better societies than sci-fi, and doesn't let itself be limited by science.
>>98152688>whenever you think of NOT being gay, remember that AMERICA can bomb your village
>>98177683Pretty sure the kind of person who tries to make a high iq claim like the distinction between fantasy and scifi is arbitrary isn't the type to read books in the first place
>>98173138Are you really that stupid?>you said the same thing twice, dipshit>nuh-uh I only did one, see here's proof>and here's how easy it is to fake that proof, numb nuts
>>98146491counterargument: complicated enough scifi is indistinguishable from magic
I'm not arguing they should be canon. I'm trying to make a crossover AU with the Horus Heresy (yes, I know that's cringe, I'm bored and don't care) and keep running into the problem that there's too many fucking women in the setting. Female mortals? Obviously. Female aliens and demons? Sure, if you even count those as female. Female Custodes? I wouldn't have given a shit of it weren't for the gaslighting "they've always been there" BS, so in an AU it feels fine. Even female Primarchs work out fine. But Space Marine equivalents? It's too early for SoB, they're not niche enough for SoS, I can sweep a couple under the rug, but there's too much of an empty gap if I ignore all of them. Any of y'all have a better idea than just female Space Marines? Yes, I know I'm a faggot.
>>98181481Who cares at this point? Primaris did more damage to space marines than female marines ever could.
>>98181481If i were the heresy era emperor and i had a glut of hypercompetent and rational female combatants who i cant cycle into the astartes legions but also dont want to waste the potential of, i think i would channel them into the logistics, science, navy and aerospace fighter programs. It's not 1:1, but that dyke who's always femdoming angron is a good bit of precident
>>98181801>Yes, I know I'm a faggot.
>>98181852Nope
>>98181481>Alternatives to Female Space Marines?just make crossdressing Slaneshi Chaos Marinesin your circle they would be considered biological women
I think the best knights are from the 13th century.
>>98181136Depends on how strict you want to be about what a "knight" is. If you just use it to stand in for heavy cavalry, then no, that should be pretty widespread across all species. If it more tightly tied to a professional military class necessitated by a feudal levy system, than no, a lot of races just don't have the social structure or geographical needs for one. Orcs are a rampaging horde without a resource base to specifically train elite fighters- their elites are just brutal, scarred veterans. Dwarves live in well defended fortresses, and typically have heavy armour in abundance and minimal cavalry.
>>98188236Phone, but ill try PC after work.
>>98192090In any case, the page is "Read comic online" and the comic is "werewolf (2005)"
>"Hey DM. I want to play a cute female Tiefling"What do you do?
>>98185584Burning down a tavern that hosts thiefthings is a LG action, freakshits can have their own area in the barn.
I allowed a tiefling once and every peasant town refused to host her in their inn and ran her and the party out of town on more than one occasion, but since the player wasn't a whiny faggot she just used magic to disguise herself and it became a part of the party's story, keeping her identity hidden or exposing it when having a half-infernal was useful.Play with the right people and these "issues" stop existing.
>>98172055Damn I havent thought of that comic in fucking ages
>>98163957>redditbuddyheresy shovel blam of D&D
>>98159192rape goblins
