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I've been on an XCOM: The Board Game kick recently, and decided to share because why the fuck not.
One, it's good. If you don't know what it is, edumacate yourself: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163602/xcom-board-game . For the "cannot into links" crowd, XCOM:TBG is a tense cooperative game where 1-4 (yes you can play solo, I don't recommend it tho) players try to defeat the alien invaders as everyone's favorite defenders of humanity. Each person takes on a role - Squad Leader, Chief Scientist, Commander, and Central Officer - and needs to make decisions under time pressure while absorbing new information. You spend a brief timed phase in locking in your decisions as the timer ticks down mercilessly, and then a resolution phase using all of your wits and resources compensating for your poor, time-pressured decisions.
Two. So it's tense. It's pretty hard, as well. The aliens keep coming, you will fail rolls, your interceptors will get shot down, your squads will get wiped, and you'll need to suck it up and figure out how to hold on for the final push to win the game. There's been many a "that's XCOM baby" moment where a sure thing turned into a route, and we had to dig into our resources deeper or push our luck harder to stay in the game.
But three....once you've figured it out, it's kind of...figured out. My friends and I are now lean a lean, efficient, x-ray murdering machine. We have the roles down cold, our turns largely planned out ahead of time, we know how to rapidly evaluate the random elements the game throws at us. It's still pretty fun to play, and it was an absolute blast getting there, but the novelty has worn off. While the specifics vary, the patterns are pretty set. I'd love something like that initial period of mastery and discovery again, but don't really know where to look.
So...yeah. Experiences with this game? Questions? Other similar board games? Tabletops that offer a similar experience (that would be amazing)?
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>>52940610
>lean, efficient, x-ray murdering machine
BY THE NUMBERS
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>>52940610
As far as I know, XCOM is pretty unique in terms of providing an asymmetrical app-enabled coop experience.
It's a shame, because I love the design behind it. It's a really clever adaptation of the themes of the game to a tabletop format, properly making use of the advantages of board games and the social side of gaming to explore a different aspect of the XCOM universe.
I just wish they'd done an Enemy Within expansion for it. Imagine having all that alongside a traitor mechanic, someone within the group having to fulfil goals according to a secondary agenda set by EXALT. It'd be fucking amazing.
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>>52942955
They did have an expansion, but no traitor player. It'd be too easy for an enemy player to sink the group just by overspending.
I haven't played it, but from what I've read the Exalt mechanics and new base damage stuff is terrifying...but I'm not sure it mixes up the dynamic enough. On the other hand, you get MEC Minis, which is great.
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Malifaux General: Wild Edition
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>What is Malifaux?
Malifaux is a 30mm Skirmish Tabletop game, with a focus on completing several different objectives, while denying your opponent their objectives.
Books;
https://mega.nz/#F!M9dyDTrI!eNYCwqvg4iPWy_z-M0P9dw
Book 1 - Basic Rules and first wave of updated (from 1st edition of Malifaux) models
Book 2 - Second wave of updated models
Book 3 - Campaign system and new M2E models
Book 4- New Wave 4 Models
Through the Breach Fated Almanac - Basic rules for the RPG set in Malifaux
Through the Breach Fatemaster Almanac - GM stuff for the RPG
Current Gaining Grounds Tournament Rules:
http://themostexcellentandawesomeforumever-wyrd.com/topic/123837-gaining-grounds-2017/
Discord for Shitposting and other Wyrd related things.
https://discord.gg/p8sevqe
What's your favorite 5 stone model that's not in your faction?
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The game looks cool, so after reading the basic rules, I'm looking for 2 crew boxes to buy to start playing. which to would be fun and balanced to play against each other?
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>>52945692
basically all of them are. inatead choose based on the miniatures. read the faction and leadedr profiles on the official site and that will give yoau some idea on how they play and then buy the ones that look cool. that s the best way t oapproach all these games.
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>>52940589
Is that box already out? Can't find it.
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What would you think of a fantasy setting that resembles the D&D standard, except that within the past 50 years or so it's become the popular fashion for dragons to slum it among humanoids, with some minor magic to get around on two legs and fit into humanoid buildings and so on?
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>>52940307
I would start a race war to keep degenerate like you away from the dragon.
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>>52940307
What's with all the copypasta being posted today? Are you going to do japanese bird cooking spaghetti next? Or Flare?
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>>52940307
The important question is, how much money can the merchants make selling them different outfits every day?
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EDH/Commander General 2017-04-28 02:05:06 Post No.52940100
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"Where they at" Edition
Previously: >>52916094
RESOURCES
>Official Site: Contains deck building rules and the current ban list.
http://www.mtgcommander.net
>Deck List Site: You can search for decks that other people have made. Authors often have comments that explain their deck’s strategy and card choices.
http://www.tappedout.net
>Another resource for commander discussion; they have an entire forum dedicated to discussing decks. People often make primers, which go into detail about how they built and play their deck.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh
>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the the internet.
http://www.edhrec.com/
>Find out what lands you can add to your deck, sorted by category, based on a chosen Commander’s color identity.
http://manabasecrafter.com/
CARD SEARCHING
>Official search site. Current for all sets.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/
>Unofficial, but has GOAT search interface.
http://magiccards.info/
>Thread question
Where does your group meet, if not the local LGS?
alt.
What card makes you groan whenever it's played, even if it's something you can work around?
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>Where does your group meet, if not the local LGS?
Different people's houses. We rotate
>What card makes you groan whenever it's played, even if it's something you can work around?
BFZ Ulamog. That fucking exile pops my good shit every single time
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Is this thing worth a damn in colorless turbo ramp, or is it just too much work to get online?
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Would you play in this EDH game night?
Event Stucture: Each event consists of 2 90-minute rounds with multiplayer pods of 3-5 players. You'll be playing using my point system to accumulate points over 2 rounds. Point leaders will be rewarded with rewards points. The total number of points rewarded will be equal to the number of players.
Open from 5:00PM - 12:00AM!
Here is a comprehensive list of commanders which CANNOT earn rewards points! Due to their inherently powerful/degenerate nature, we shall regard these as NOVICE level commanders.
-ANIMAR, SOUL OF ELEMENTS
-DAMIA, SAGE OF STONE
-DEREVI, EMPYRIAL TACTICIAN
-GHAVE, GURU OF SPORES
-KAALIA OF THE VAST
-LEOVOLD EMISSARY OF TREST
-MAELSTROM WANDERER
-NARSET, ENLIGHTENED MASTER
-PROSSH, SKYRAIDER
-PURPHOROS, GOD OF THE FORGE
-RAFIQ OF THE MANY
-RIKU OF TWO REFLECTIONS
-SHARUUM THE HEGEMON
-URIL THE MISTSTALKER
-ZUR, THE ENCHANTER
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Chapter Master, how is it that an 8 foot tall superhuman in shiny white armor, wielding a heavy weapon, and driving a noisy jetbike is stealthy enough to scout?
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the rules of the game aren't something to be taken literally
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>>52939314
It's the Grim Darkness of the Far Future (TM), I ain't gotta explain shit.
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>>52939314
They're just that good.
Is anyone besides Matt Ward excited for Age of Guilliman?
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>>52939093
I just want more mechanicus goodies to shoot Tau with, so if that means numarines, so be it.
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>>52939093
Me
The only Guilliman fan on /tg/
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So let's say you wake up in a shallow grave and discover you're a long-dead skeleton who's revived magically, and you still have your free will and memories intact.
What would you do? How would you react?
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I am going to go back to sleep.
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>>52938837
Try to yell and fail.
Pissed off.
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I'd bust out, casually walk into town and do the robot in town square. When someone walks withing two feet of me, I collapse into a pile. Once they take a couple steps back, reform and go about my business. This would continue until I am either destroyed or they try to watch me out of curiosity. If I am not destroyed, I use the attention this attracts in order to communicate with a larger audience via television broadcasts.
Then once the whole nation is gripped in dancing skeleton mania, I hold a skeleton press conference revealing something terribly inane and boring. Like a public service announcement only more lame. Maybe I explain the mating cycle of certain species of preying mantis. Maybe I sell the brand of toothpaste that first pops into my head.
The whole point of this is to see just how much time I can waste for other people
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Are MBTI types good for character creation?
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Who? What?
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>>52937516
No
it' says nothing about how your character responds to moral dilemmas or how he apporaches an issue.
to a degree neither does alignments but this fix is 10x worse than the 9 alignment "fix".
not to mention that theres already a problem with players using their background or class as an excuse to not take part in roleplay and adding shit like ISFP is just to make that issue twice as bad
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>>52937516
As good as the classic alignment system.
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>want to run a historical game
>players don't know shit and don't want to learn
>agree to play the game and then fuck around the whole time because they aren't invested
fucking shoot me
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>>52937500
>run a game set in Colonial Montreal focused on French-British fighting and Catholocism
>the players make an Irish pirate and a Celtic pagan witch
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>>52937774
>Celtic pagan witch
They were burned within the first 2 sessions, right?
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>>52937500
I have the exact opposite problem.
>want to run a historical fantasy game
>the only people interested in history at Uni are /pol/acks
>all four of them have the same stupid fascist haircut
>they all realize they're among their own kind first session
>all four of the characters are Prussian elves with toothbrush mustaches
>it's like the Tremor Brothers from Smokin' Aces meets the Germans from Beerfest
>The game took place in Revolutionary Catalonia
I was sort of hoping for a grand struggle revolution sort of thing, instead I ended up running Accordion ISIS in Spain.
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From here on out, i'm gonna make a new thread if needed on 12PM PST, as this thread is literally the only resource for this game.
With that said, Its challenge time. This time, lets see you make your favorite Street fighter character!
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>>52933716
Woops, forgot the links!
Baseline stuff
http://www.mediafire.com/file/183vmgy8b3w1uj3/Kamigakari.rar
Expansions and errata
http://pastebin.com/u/RoyalTeaRed
Google Docs Character sheet (for if you play online)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xY5uiJleOpnlh93SGLq2_iKteOFZnlMH1X-MtEDsWsw/edit#gid=0
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>>52933716
So i'll Start us off with the big man himself!
Ryu is pretty simple. He'd probably be a marebito. Many of the talents fit ryu greatly, starting with Otherworldly combat arts, or bloodlust of the demon if you wanna go the Dark Hadou route.
For style's, God hand A easily for his main style, and Dragon carrier A for the second one. God hand A will handle most of his attacks, but Dragon carrier B is needed to emulate hadouken, Using crystal Shoot. You can use A's Crystal smasher for a larger more potent hadouken as well, but B will also give some added tankiness. This is a matter of mechanics and preference on your part.
For weapons, Arm guards, easy. At least for the moment, until the 7th book gets to KA and gets translated.
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I've returned to lurk!
Man, the threads don't last all that long, huh.
I'm hoping for some updates from the translator anon to keep the interest up, but I'll understand if he's busy.
> Street Fighter characters
By that logic, wouldn't all of them be Marebito?
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ITT: We generate a superhero from Marvel's Ultimate Powers book.
To start, I'm going to need someone to roll a d100.
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Let's do it
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>>52932682
Congrats! We're a Modified Human: Organic.
That means we started life as a regular dude, but had some or all of our organs swapped out for SUPER organs! It also means we heal fast, for some reason.
I need 7 d100 to determine our stats.
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Rollin'
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What exactly did the Silmarils DO besides be shiny and look awesome?
Yes, I know they were extremely shiny, but worst case scenario, if they had all ended up in evil hands, what harm would that have done, other than some elves being sad that they don't own the great shiny things anymore?
I'm just saying it seems like an incredibly petty and arbitrary reason for a world war that destroyed whole continents.
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>>52930857
They swore an Oath dude. What would you do if your forefather did that? You wouldn't be a pussy bitch would you?
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>>52930857
Them being in evil hands is fine. Them not being in the hands of Fëanor or his descendants was absolutely unacceptable. Remember, he withheld them from the literal gods of the elves because they were so precious to him...
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>>52930857
>Yes, I know they were extremely shiny
Um, you already said it yourself. They ALSO looked really fucking awesome.
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>PC deaths
Meant to be running a game of DnD for a load of newbies, and they're being pretty difficult.
I explained that if they die they'll have to reroll their character a level below and a different class, since that's how we do it my my 3.5 group. This caused a LOT of bickering, with one going so far as to say he'll quit if his legolas clone (elf ranger) dies because "the only class I'm interested in playing is ranger!"
I've been trying to explain that it's not a punishment if they can just reroll the same character with a new lick of paint every time, and that it wouldn't make sense from a world perspective if every time somebody died an somebody with their exact skills and combat style showed up. So far they're not having it and they keep using the "BUT MUH FUN" argument as to why I shouldn't use this rule.
What's your take on this /tg/?
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>Your job: Giving a balanced story and challenging yet balanced fight
>Their job: Not being Fucking Retarded
Tell him that if he doesn't want to reroll, then he should act with a vague sense of self-preservation like any other actual adventurer would.
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I don't like your houserules to be honest.
Just ask them to change the race or class and if you want them to keep dying, the level thing too.
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>>52930055
Trying to apply the exact same style you're used to to a new group with no adaptation or compromise rarely goes well. Roleplaying is very much a matter of preference and opinion, so it's easy to see why you're encounter conflict.
Although specifically for this, fuck you-
>I've been trying to explain that it's not a punishment
Why the fuck is character death a punishment? What sort of sense does that make? Who are you punishing, the player? Why are you punishing them, that they made a bad call or had an unlucky dice roll?
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Painting, Converting, and Sculpting - General
Are your nippers made out of the finest nipponese steel?
>Citadel Painting Guides:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/drb4mezm6792i/not_citadel_nothing_to_see_here
>Figure painter magazine issues 1-36
https://mega.nz/#F!0AIGDAxL!xOT6MK3oiGpBB1pQaNy5lg
>Paint range compatibility chart across manufacturers
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Paint_Range_Compatibility_Chart
>Painting Videos only
https://mega.nz/#F!fkcliY4L!mhdmIs2lT3mFG3VwoLO8Qw
https://mega.nz/#F!XEJSFDCL!9ZZKiLi6M_wguI1uTpyjPg
https://mega.co.nz/#F!WUsUlSLb!556OumKLhusFd9Fw5dBMdA
>DIY Lightbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxzC5kqbyw [Embed] [Embed]
>DIY Spraybooth
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/tech/pa_booth.htm
>DIY Wet Palette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96mjmqWTPfM [Embed] [Embed]
>How to Moldlines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4LZ8iCSkeU [Embed] [Embed]
>Fuckin Magnets how do they work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Tkw7ttTIo [Embed] [Embed]
http://www.miniwargaming.com/magnet-guide
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/297605-tutorial-magnetisation/
>List of mini manufacturers for converting and proxy
http://pastebin.com/p6bVhGsg
>Stripping Paint (yes, the ellipses are part of the URL!)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Dakka_Modeling_FAQ:_How_to_Strip...
>Priming With Acrylic Gesso
https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Priming_With_Acrylic_Gesso
>Green Stuff Casting
http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/11/molding-and-casting-shoulderpads.html
http://masteroftheforge.com/2012/05/21/rubber-molds-green-stuff/
http://masteroftheforge.com/2012/07/17/green-stuff-cast-shoulder-pad/
>On the consequences of insufficient ventilation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_solvent-induced_encephalopathy
http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg273.pdf
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Someone have been on /toy/ recently...
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I wanted to make a thread fast so I could talk about how my fingers hurt
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>BBEG transforms from dainty sorceress into hulking dragon when you finally confront her
Well shit, you're fucked now. How does your PC get out of this mess?
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>BBEG
How to look like a retard in 1 word.
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>>52927340
>BBEG
nice.
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>>52927340
YOU FOOL
YOU'RE ONLY MAKING ME HARDER!