Let's have a /traditional games/ elf thread!Rules: Only traditional games related elves allowed. No unspecified general discussion and no image dumping. All posting has to be related to one or more traditional games (see /tg/ rules for definition).Pic related is part of my future wood elf army I started printing yesterday. Immediate use will be MESBG Mirkwood, but they should be useful in other games as well.
>>94392862>elfKYS
>>94392905Cope and Seethe dorf
>>94392862Nice, good luck getting them done.
>>94392905Friendly reminder that elf hate is popular on Reddit.
a directory over all elf minis available would be really cool to have
>>94398787I just use raging heroes.
>>94399054I'd love to see how their minis look IRL when painted as opposed to the renders on their webiste
>>94394929imagine letting Reddit dictate what you like or dislike lol
>>94394929wtf based redditors?
>>94392862How do you like your elves?
>>94401630painted lol, speaking of elven cloaks are supposed to give cover so it might be interpreted as them being camouflaged. I was thinking trying to paint mine in alpenflage
or perhaps beligian jigsaw camo
>>94392905FPBP
Really hoping we get the heavy Elven infantry models for Oathmark early next year. Was really hoping we'd see them this year. Once they come out I may start a High Elf army for Age of Fantasy.
Reminder. Elfs and dorfs are friends. Only cringe reddit faggots cling to the meme.
>>94392862What are good plastic elfs? I wanted to like the Oathmark ones but they aren't efly enough, and the GW ones aren't my cup of tea (tough the LoTR ones are exellent).
>>94406238Does anyone besides GW (warhammer and MESBG, I agree that the LOTR minis look better), north star (oathmark) and raging heroes even offer plastic elves? Or at least box kits and not the odd one-off here and there?
/tg/ should be deleted from 4chan
>>94392862Neat, what stls are those?
>>94401630Slim. Graceful.
>>94400275I do too since I never trust render only previews, especially ones with rendered materials. Like this is the only example of a model I've seen painted and its a small af image. You'd think hiring a pro to painter your product would make sense for them.
>>94410420Mantic, although they could do with an upgrade. Love the core style they have going on, but the models are showing their age.
>>94410658judging from google results their space nuns seem to be the most popular line, but from what I can see the quality seems pretty good
>>94410576I had to do some research since I got everything off telegram. I can't find the source of half of the ranger minis, but they're from the same kit
>>94410658>>94411938I know a few people who use their stuff, and they all seem pretty impressed. I hear some of the models can be a tad spindly, but no major complaints for what it's worth.
Mods are asleep, post fully clothed elves
>>94420001what make are those elves?
>>94421220They look like a combination of parts. Some Oathmark, some historical, I think some of the heads might be GW?
>>94421220>>94422867Some of those heads are frostgrave lady wizards, that's all I recognize
>>94423020>>94422867Nice kitbashing, what games are they intended for?
I want my elves in my setting to be immortal but then I'd need an explanation for how they haven't overrun the entire world. Any ideas?
>>94425039They want to be left alone.
>>94425039They're eimmortal, except to drowning. They live on an island by themselves, and are too terrified to build ships for fear they may sink.Or if you want something less dumb, they simply see no purpose or value gained ruling over lesser beings. They'd rather do their own thing with their own people knowing they won't have to dumb it down for other races.
>>94421220Those guys are mostly right, bolt action soviet bodies with oathmark bits and a variety of heads. I used them as magehunters in WMH and for homebrew stuff>>94425039Living forever, they have no real drive to reproduce so their numbers don't increase quickly
>>94426530>bolt action soviet bodiesI never would have guessed, nice work blending the parts together. I hope you have one a pistol or SMG for when things get serious>WMH warmachines?
>>94427748There's some great molotov cocktail arms that I know I used a few of but not on these guys I guess. There was a period between warmachine dying and people finally deciding to sell their shit when it was actually hard to find some things for a good price, I wound up proxying a bunch of stuff for it.
>>94429286Neat, I kitbashed together some elves with guns digitally a while back and printed them, but I haven't painted them yet. It's a bit of a shame that they have a bit casual poses so it doesn't really look like most of them are in combat, but considering the availability of vaguely cold war female soldiers stl files I had to take what I could get
>>94425039Limited number of souls/females only being able to produce a small number, putting a hardcap on elven numbers. The Tolkien way.Alternatively: elves are constantly leaving/going back and forth to other worlds all the time.
>>94432408Nice, I think I saw those in awg. What are you using them for?
Full sillymode pre-errata elvish spell lore was fun. Scribes in 5e can more or less do the same thing notwithstanding that they don't have special damagetypes, right? Negative energy doesn't definitionally heal the undead either, right?
>>94401630archeage players gtfo, you don't belong on /tg/
>>94433001Nothing yet, I don't have much 28mm cold war/modern/sci-fi stuff, but I think 5 parasecs could be a very good fit for them
>>94434424They kinda remind me of the wga eisenkern, you could do some head swaps on those for different poses
>>94425039as in ruling over other races or outbreeding others?either way, making them immortals risks making them too "overpowered", unless you make them very alien, which can help against both outbreeding and ambition issues.Maybe it'd be more useful if you first decide how did those elves came to be, were they created by some god or what?
>>94394929Just another thing they stole from 4chan
>>94425039My solution? Similar to Celtic myth and Tolkien - they got bored of ruling over lands which would later be ruled by men and fucked off to their own island/underground unreachable by mortals, occasionally journeying in other lands.
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>>94400780t. Leddit
>>94433069>archeage playersThose still exist? Game seemed dead on arrival.
>>94392905Elf fans don't make a big deal about how much they hate dwarves all the time, what is dwarffags' problem?
>>94451699SURFACED.com
>>94456975Even Tolkien agreed that short people got no soul.
>>94456967It wasn't DOA, it was actually fantastic on arrival but it suffers from the same player retention issues a game like EVE online does. New players aren't encouraged to stay because they can't compete with the people who've been playing a long time and the people who've been playing a long time gradually quit either out of boredom or rage due to losing bigly against other oldfags they've been competing with. But that first year or so was probably the most exciting and dynamic MMO I've ever played
Got everything based , only need to fix the bases before priming
>>94432438>>94425039TES actually had an interesting answer to this question: most Elves live on an island in a magical anarcho-feudalist society of cooperation, oaths, pledges of loyalty, etc. More or less all of their material needs are taken care of by magic and slavery of lesser (as in "barely sentient") races and magical automata. Elves occasionally leave to provide their knowledge, longevity, and outsider perspectives to other parts of the world, but they rarely "get involved" as they're operating on timescales in the centuries and eventually (in centuries) plan on going home anyways. Thus, the only elves that go around getting into trouble are the ones that got kicked out for crimes or causing problems, and really there aren't that many of those. When they move as a group, however (ala the Dunmer, who are a society of exiles) then they do actually takeover territory pretty easily. However, cultural mores, purity taboos, and their superior magic means that they usually prefer to inhabit areas that lesser races find uninhabitable anyways. For all of their grandeur, elves are very "nesty", and are agitated by spending too long in an area not to their liking. It's much easier to just make a shithole into their nest than it is to find the ideal place for one. This is why there's so many "weird" varieties of elves, as they intentionally seek out strange places to live in.
Where's noldorfag?
Noldorfag is where we gaze at the stars and think of songs that once were.
>noldorfag can't contribute to threads about games and game-related thingsReally makes you think
All posts are by me anyway.
>>94467391please post more of your mirkwood army
I said posts, not OP.
so all posts aren't yours, like you claimed, and I was right, got it
>notice: "comfy" elf thread lacking in engagement>cue drama-routinue>search for name in database for witchhunt>boogeyman found>unleash bot-script>???>PROFIT
just don't lie about things that can easily be checked noldorfag
I'm the OP, Noldorfag is welcome here.
>>94469385>I'm the OPcan you post more of your wood elf army?
>>94469504To prove some stupid point in some internet-war?This adds nothing to the thread, why are you starting this?
>>94469523It adds wood elves to an elf thread though.
>permanently no-games>blatantly lies>tries to steal someone elses work>samefagsYikes.
>>94469575All you did was bitching about a particular anon, completely out of nowhere.Let it rest.
This was a good thread, once.
>>94469670hard to have a decent thread when the board is dead and every thread that has "elf" the in OP attracts a mentally ill no games shitposter that tries to kill it
>>94469596lmao
>elf threadwhy do you guys bother with theseyou'd think everything to talk about elves has been talked about.Picture unrelated.
>>94480730Tell me, you bumped it again from page 10 again.
>>94480761did I?
>>94480761Only on /tg/ you see this weird trend of giving a shit about what threads get bumped
>>94480761>>94480799Maybe lil bro should become a janny and patrol /tg/
>>94480761I like this thread
>>94480761oh no?
>>94480761What do you have against bumping threads anyway
>>94480730I like this image
We need more threads like this
>>94482997making threads directly and concretely related to the board subjects is a good start
>>94401630Kinda manic and pixie-like, a little scary and unpredictable, but overall Good Guys. ...shit, are there any games out there where elves are more pic-related than Tolkien-inspired?
>>94483129Just like this thread
>>94486731Indeed this is a great thread
We need more rlf threads
speaking of MESBG Mirkwood, how many rangers are a good amount for playing their legendary legion?
I'm building an important dark elf NPC in GURPS that is supposed to help the party of non-magic users get through a large castle with monsters and evil magic.There are a shitton of spells in the magic book though and I don't know which to pick.Thematically I'm thinking something of a oracle or cleric with more subtle and non-combat spell focus, enpowering the rest of the party, helping them avoid traps, helping them get back on track when lost, dealing with magic obstacles and threats and so on. I included some navigation spells already, any thoughts on how I can continue?
>>94492735Can't help you with GURPS specifically, but instead of handing the party some standard dark elfen waifu over to solve all their problems, you should give them various tools and resources to cleverly employ and make up for their lack of magic, or suffer the consequences of playing face-less male fighter fags.tl;dr DMPCs to solve party-problems is not good GMing.
>>94492888it's a gate-esque scenario with new players with the premise being WW1 soldiers accidentally ending up in a evil overlords castle. They'll be heavily armed, but also completely clueless to magic and only well-equipped for combat (albeit I've created characters with different backgrounds so before the war one was a petty thief, another a well off aristocrat, farmers, combat medic, etc.) so I think it's reasonable that they get some support on the other side.This NPC will be imprisoned in the oubliette, which is incidentally accessible from the dungeon level the characters will appear in. They'll have an opportunity to rescue her and deal with the language barrier. You're right that she shouldn't take too much of the limelight, more like hiding well behind the party and only helping when its necessary
>>94492933Thanks for the context and I hope you don't mind the slight quip at popular /tg/ shitposts.Yeah, in that case it makes sense that they'll rely on the locals, but I'd say my point still stands and it would be much more interesting and engaging for the players themselves if they have to learn how to deal with these problems by using the fantasy worlds own tools and resources.
>>94392905reminder that Legochad and Gimlel became best buddies instead of throwing autistic grudge tantrums
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