>>96939752
AOS Darkoath have that barbarian vibe, so do the Chaos Warriors in Fantasy

>>96939752
Why do people on this specific website think that you can only play armies that physically represent you? I have never seen this kind of insanity expressed anywhere else. It's like an evolved (devolved?) version of a young boy thinking it would be gay if he played as a female character in a video game.

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>>96947852
Darkoath are based on Conan, which is hardly a mono ethnic aesthetic

>>96939752
Oathmark.
Next question.

>>96939752
>Where is the fantasy wargame for the discerning Aryan gamer?
Have you tried not playing Warhammer?

>>96948122
The response from the Qing authorities was slow. They were reeling from the damages caused by the First Opium War, and now a series of massive floods in the Huanghe had caused a humanitarian disaster and had sparked another massive rebellion (the Nian Rebellion) in the northern provinces. Adding to that, the inefficiency of the Qing government compared to the Taiping, moving in unison in their zeal, was unable to match them in the field of battle. The government ended up recruiting many western mercenaries to train bands of soldiers of their own to push the Taiping back, with little success. Foreign generals were able to match the Taiping in the battlefield, like the american Frederick T. Ward or the british Charles George “Chinese” Gordon, but the Taiping pressed on. While the western powers despised the Taiping, as they threatened their business in China, they were not able to do much. First, the tensions between the foreigners and the Manchu government were still evident, leading to the Second Opium War (1856-1860), now with France joining the fray. This weakened the Imperial Government further, and resulted in the sacking of the Emperor's palace in Peking, another great humiliation to the Qing. And even when the british began to think of stopping the Taiping Rebellion, they were too busy in other fronts, as the disasters in Crimea, India and the Malcolmite Rebellion forced them not to confront the Heavenly Kingdom directly. What’s more, the Tsardom, seeing their chance to win the Great Game after the british began losing ground in the Sepoy Rebellion, also began influencing the northernmost provinces of China for their future expansion, weakening further the Qing’s ability to control the country. All while the cult spread across China, and further centers of rebellion sprung all around the nation, seeping the life force out of the country.

>>96948135
It would be these rebellions what would cause the undoing of the Qing dynasty. Much like in ages past, the Chinese people saw that the Manchu had lost the Mandate of Heaven, and like with the fall of the Han and the Tang, the nation began breaking up in dozens of different feuds, now aided with the help of foreign powers, hungry to carve up China between them. Even if many in China did not agree, and even despised the heretical Taiping, this was their chance to get rid of the foreign emperor and their cadre of corrupt followers, becoming now under the protection of warlords and local nobles. The Qing government, overwhelmed by problems, and being financially ruined by poor administration and the cost of past and current wars, was unable to stop the Taiping from going northwards. While the Taiping lost the First Battle of Shangai in 1861, they managed to take over the city the following year, with the consequent massacre horrifying the international press. The control of the lower Yangtze River was a crippling blow to the Qing, and a quick advance led to the collapse of the frontline. By 1864, all practical Qing resistance had been eradicated. The Battle of Beijing in 1864 represented the final victory of the Taiping, massacring almost half of the population that had survived the siege and the previous clash. The Qing emperor, however, had fled northwards, though famously, his ship sank while trying to flee to Shenyang, confirming to many the distaste of the Heavens for the Manchu.

>>96948158
The final victory of the Taiping only resulted in more fighting. After the ritualistic burning of the Imperial Palace, to cleanse China from the sins of the past, he then “ascended” in a strange ritual. During the solar eclipse of September 1864, many within the Taiping high command swore that “Tien Wang ascended to the heavens through a stairway of light carved out of a rainbow”. After the eclipse passed and Hong returned, he was somehow changed. Now a much darker and reclusive figure, he suffered multiple epileptic attacks, claiming that the visions he had seen while in Heaven were terrible in nature: colors so intense that burned his eyes and could let him blind for days, despite noone else being able to see their radiance. Shapes unimaginable, and the laughter of creatures that defy description. Now, Hong Xiuquan remains deep within the now rebuilt Forbidden City, meditating and brooding over his role within the God’s plan to bring the Heavenly Kingdom to Earth.

>>96948167
Meanwhile, the rest of the Taiping Government now struggles to make their leader’s vision come true. Hong Rengan, now the “de facto” ruler of China, has to carefully organize and secure the parts of China under his true command. While the conquest of Nanking, Shanghai and Beijing represented the takeover of the main centers of power in China, the Heavenly Kingdom is far from controlling the nation. Many areas are still ruled by local warlords, who have managed to carve their own fiefdoms with foreign aid and the fear the Taiping cause outside of their own. Many buddhist cults, claiming the banner of the old White Lotus, have arisen across the land to fight back against the Taiping, developing a guerrilla war across the nation. Foreign powers have begun to occupy, either directly or indirectly, all areas of China outside of Taiping control. The british and the french are beginning to establish a great deal of ties with rebel groups through contraband and the sale of weaponry against the Taiping. They are also greatly fortifying Hong Kong, as the Taiping have claimed multiple times their desire to “expel the barbarians from the land blessed [by God] once and for all”, though no attack has been forthcoming. Meanwhile, the Tsardom is expanding its influence across Mongolia and East Turkestan, while also wanting to move towards the Korean Peninsula. Japan took over Taiwan in 1871, and rumors abound that they intend to occupy Hainan when the opportunity arises. The western powers in general are grooming the survivor of the Qing dynasty, Prince Gong, as the next emperor, easily pliable to western demands from his position in Manchuria.

>>96948180
Within Taiping-controlled China, problems are no less serious. The need to reconstruct the nation after so many decades of bloodshed and humiliation is dire, and the complete isolation from international trade means that their ability to modernize is very limited. The civilian masses, now that they Qing are out of the picture, are much less open to conversion to Taiping Christianism, still seen as a foreign faith, making many see the Taiping as hypocrites deep down. The strict rules of life the Taiping are trying to impose on the population have been the cause of multiple rebellions, many of which have been as bloody as the battles during the revolution. To combat this, the taiping have brought to the table strange, mystical arts to rip the accused’s soul out of their body, and put into strange ceramic contraptions called the Terracota Penitents, and then sent to fight their fellow men.

The constant chaos in China has caused a great diaspora outside of China, with millions of Chinese seeking refuge anywhere in the West. The United States has received a great amount of Chinese migrants, many of them ending up in the taming of the West, as well as within the american agarthan colonies. The British Empire has also seen a great deal of Chinese migration, especially to Canada, Australia and New Wellington. Many of these groups are watched over closely, so as to avoid any possible infiltration from the Taiping. However, this is rare, as the Chinese community outside of the Heavenly Kingdom often react with rage and violence towards any Taiping they find, resulting in multiple violent incidents within Chinese districts.

>>96938699
>>96938593
mine is porcelain armor and gold smoke, I'll take a pic later

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>>96939619
>I'll take a pic later

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>>96921590
>CoD has been delayed since then, pushing it to at least wave 3.

Is this confirmed? I know it was kinda hinted at in the September update, but I assumed that just meant delaying the whole wave until CoD was completed

>>96939144
Yeah, even the twice we've "fought" him, the second time seemed overdone.

Glad I got the Black Knight though, I'll be using him in all future campaigns until another Node 3 Nemesis comes out.

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>>96948901
Vampire

>>96948901
The only winning move is to not play when it comes to WoD.

>>96948877
I can imagine the kissing?
I can mentally construct the sensations of taste and touch

Do you never eat or sleep in your head?

>>96948908
>I almost never post builds
Then why the fuck are you seething then? if you aren't going to be part of the discussion then just pipe down and let actual build posters talk.

>>96946482
NTA, but isn't that a Marvel thing?

I recently realized that if centaurs aged like horses, that opens the door to some really weird fetish material. For example, get this, horses are bred typically around 3 years old, but can start as low as 12 months

>>96941376
Wizard Heavy Industries

>>96947268
Humans in general age very, very slowly for a species our size. Animals that are like 4 times our weight age up far faster than we do. Like, a cow is fully grown when it is like one year old.

When I was working on the lore of the ogres >>96916457 for my setting, who are essentially genetically engineered hybrid offshoot species of humanity made for war, I considered making them grow up as fast as lifestock etc but eventually decided that would probably not work both from in universe and out of universe perspective. Instead I chose to give them a growth & maturation rate closer to that of a gorilla, as in being fully grown around the age of 12-15.
Still fast, but not unreasonably so.

>>96945422
>I’m going to fuck up my own timeline, invade yours, strip mine your planet for resources, then get pissy when you want equal representation in your own fucking universe
They are subhuman rats and should be exterminated.

>>96944179
We always do this to clean up the calendar of past events and add the new ones if needed you f. retard

NEW

>>96927506
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>>96927506

NEW

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>>96944272
>We

>>96944272
Zero new events were added and only two of the twelve in this OP were deleted. There was worse than zero utility in making a new thread: nothing useful was added and now /chess/ is prematurely split. Are you an Indian with a GitHub full of README updates or are you compelled by some other flavor of mental illness?

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Any opinions on this book?

>>96947500
Yes, Godot would make much of the heavy lifting in the game palatable, letting you actually enjoy the game more than once in a lifetime.

>>96947599
Frankly, anon, the "trillion checks a turn" thing is the main thing I bring up because outside of that, what exactly else is notable about the game? There's plenty of war simulator board games not nearly as intentionally clunky that afik function just fine. Cut out all the intentionally derpy rules, and what's left?

>>96947483
tbf Hex and Chit have been completely supplanted by Video games for a more complex Grand Strategy experience and Miniature-based games for more smaller combat-oriented ones

>>96947760
Unless it's something like Fading Suns then no not really. Paradox GSGs are just cookie clicker games with absolutely awful AI.

>>96947490
It can be coded.
How well it's coded depends on the skill of the programmer, how much time they have, and if it's done solo or partitioned between other coders and asset designers.

>>96945393
Frankly it feels like it's been the majority of fantasy writers for 5-6 years now. I'm currently about a fifth of the way through King Sorrow by Joe Hill. It reads a bit like a zoomer's idea of Stephen King; very impatient pacing, not as much grit. But the fact that what's going on is in any way shape or form comparable to King's more famous output gives me hope I won't regret it.

>>96944120
At this point I'm glad it hasn't. Thunderbolt Fantasy completely and utterly BTFOs 3e at being Exalted so hard I don't want it to be tainted by association.

>>96946405
>Frankly it feels like it's been the majority of fantasy writers for 5-6 years now
>very impatient pacing
I believe this is because Game of thrones and stormlight archives traumatized a generation

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What are your sincere thoughts about the dragon kings? Specially about the essence's version?

>>96947652
They're cool but undercooked. We could use more material on the non-human races of Creation.

I miss Deleters... I want them back...

How do I get into this game. What should I get.

>>96943334
Do you have a local store that sells vanguard? If want a fully functional deck right off the box then your only options are the master decksets.
If not your digital option is quite literally only Dear Days 2 and the meta in that game is like 2 years behind the psychical game, unless you buy the DLC to still end up playing a 1 year old meta. (Online is pretty dead btw)

>>96941977
gameplay wise we do have blangdmire and drajeweled in standard

sucks deleters are link joker tech choices in premium at this point

Yoi must only play with cute trans girls

There are no rules for combat or magic.

We use D&D 4e action economy.

The player must act out each action he performs in the game as autistically as possible. Failure or refusal to do so makes it an automatic 1 roll.

>>96943365
That's only entertaining to non-fatties

>>96936967
Seeing as you're already using tarot, how about four main stats based on the suits (wands/blades/cups/coins).

>>96941691
Whoever wrote this image has a serious lack of understanding about apostrophes. "X'er" should be "Xer". "Xe's" should be "Xes". Rez's should be Rezzes (or Resses). It's never right to put apostrophes just to show how to pronounce something.

>>96941328
I hate millennials so much it's unreal

>>96947608
You'll hate Zoomers more soon.

>>96940560
Nigger.

>>96945752
Correct.

Another good torrent site 1 3 3 7 x [dot]t o

>>96948862
Thanks anon, I was just chatting with Gemini and asking about settings in that era. But realized a bit later that it was a lot older than I thought it was going to be, and I probably won't ever do anything with it. So changed my mind so not to bother anyone. But, I'm downloading it now, and will probably read it, and take some inspiration for it
Thanks again and sorry for being all wishy-washy

Was that game verboten?

>>96948905
No, I just changed my mind slower than anon found and uploaded the files

Here's the dialogue if someone else is interested
>Requesting All for One: Régime Diabolique
>I don't remember where I got an Ubiquity pack but here's All for One
>d/nYtnAz

>>96948905
I don't think it's in the don't share list.
But the requester deleted the post and since I'm not sure I deleted my link as soon as possible just in case

>>96932816
Me on the right
>>96932848
And in 2 years it will be ten. My hatred only grows

>>96932816
>"We're updating the model range and changing the scale a bit."
That's all they had to say and do. They didn't have to invent all this dogshit nu-lore to go with it. It would've still sold and people would've been ok with it.

>>96932848
What part of "never forget, never forgive" you didn't understand?

>>96932848
One of those "sit down and take it" sorts I see.

>>96947071
It wouldn't have sold as much. They wanted to force people to buy their armies again. Some did.

>>96946766
>Pathfinder
it took a rules heavy complex system and made it even more heavy and complex.

>>96946754
That's fine for you to feel, but you have to remember that other people feel differently because their version of the "core OSR experience" is different than your own.
>it already did the splats upon splats upon compendiums thing 3.5 was so reviled for
As did AD&D1e. And even OD&D. Every edition of D&D was an attempt to sell as many books as possible, and Basic D&D was even made because OD&D had somehow managed to get bloated up with so many rules, well beyond its original 3-booklet form. And, Basic D&D also got bloated up into Basic/Expert, and then Basic/Expert/Companion/Masters/Immortals.
One of the big issues with AD&D 1e was that a lot of its rules were scattered around in various adventures, just tucked away in random places and with the only way to find them being to stumble upon them. Some of those 2e compendiums were just an attempt to address that and were compilations of all those scattered bits that DMs would otherwise have to sift through dozens of adventures to find.
>>96946767
This is a generalization, and not an wholly accurate one. Some 2e books were also not great. Then again, some 1e books were complete shit too.
A lot of this "edition warring" business is really just people being unfair.

>>96946958
you can find more foundational material in 2e books, in 3.5 you can find mostly a mechanics trove

>>96918704
>Prepare yourselves for 5e nostalgia. Its going to be wild.
Given how 5e is literally just 3e/d20 OGL with most of the content removed, that's likely only going to result in a resurgence of d20 OGL.

>>96917104
>the hot take is that 5e was basically that; down to the reintroduction of level by level itemized multi classing and quadratic spell scaling.
It's also just the straight-up wrong take. People played 3.5 for the customization and crunch, 5e took most of that out.
Saying 5e is the 3rd edition renaissance is like saying megablocks is a good alternative to Lego. Even a 2yo would call you retarded for saying that.

I think I've finally got a motivation for my metal born assassin character. They're an Era 1 scadrian that managed to get off world and go to silver light, where they learned about dragons, and now they're seeking a soulcaster to try to make dragonsteel with it

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>>96926489
Okay, so what about the Chandra Nalaar comparison for Dustbringer, the IRS comparison for Truthwatcher, or the Elsecaller one?

>>96945253
Jesus, just look up the Orders already and think for yourself for once.

>>96945526
Anon, I...
they obviously know, they're posting stormlight pictures, they're just baiting responses to keep the thread bumped

>>96753485
And then the quincy king will be revived after the last 9 days
>realize I'm replying to a month old post