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Pick the AD&D red (green?) book of the setting and go nuts.

>>55124806
(myself), only to add that the book if the Age of Heroes green book, for AD&D best edition.

Honorary mention: nWoD has this gem called "Requiem for Rome" for Vampire. If you can deal with playing Vampires, it's really good. It also contains an adaption of the nWoD combat system for Senate debates - including combat styles (logic, polemic, etc.)

>>55124699
A shard of immortality.

>>55124699
How about things symbolizing life and death? Maybe an umbilical cord and a skull, or if you're feeling edgy and hardcore, the heart of a newborn and the grinded skeleton of an ancient man or something like that. Depending on how high the fantasy is then you could also use solidified Ichor (as in the mythological ichor, not the medicinal one). You could also make him do the ritual in the middle of a great forest or a grove and make him drain the lifeforce out of it, or just open a rift somewhere and make him chuck up all of the energy inside, the possibilities are endless.

>>55125076
Oh, I really like the idea of symbolic ingredients.
It doesn't even have to be as edgy as you mentioned, it could be stuff like flowers associated with spring, or maybe chrysalises.

The ritual could also include the destruction of a memento mori, for symbolic reasons.

Also, I don't see why he wouldn't use a bit of Ichor (in the wound-liquid sense).

Maybe /x/ would know more about this.

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring

>>55124611
Cute!

>>55124611
Kind of a waste of an Elder God then, isn't it?

The Old Gods (Titans) waged a war eons ago over the shards of power that became the stars. Stars are the source of all energy, including the magical, so they each tried to hoard them for themselves. At the end, when few Titans remained, they began to grow fearful of even their close allies, and raised an army of living weapons to fight the rest of the war in their stead, which became the New Gods (Dragons). These weapons in turn blessed the mortal realm with life, by taking raw earth in their hands and breathing into them, to make them serve. Elves were wrought from gold, Humans from coal, Dwarves from iron, Gnomes from gems, halflings from clay, Orcs from bronze, etc, etc. These new creatures were given free will of their own so that the Dragons need not command them in battle, but could trust them to wage war on their own. In time, many o f the new beings were driven to extinction. When the last of the Titans were betrayed by Prometheus, who took pity on the mortal creatures who were forced to live and die for the greed of his kind, brought them fire, which inspired them to create, not destroy. Prometheus was killed by the Titans, but the mortals and Dragons revolted, slaying the last of the Titans and earning their right to choose their own paths in life.

The Dragons that remained, knowing their own power, took dominion over the Astral Sea, while the mortals settled upon Gaia. Millennia have passed, and all but the Gods themselves have forgotten the truth.

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>>55124568

The humans of the world are not the original inhabitants of the planet. The humans crashed on the planet when their ark ship encountered some kind of cosmic storm that damaged their ship and forced the AI (Arcane Intelligence) to make some difficult choices.

The ship broke into several portions and crashed onto the planet. One of the AIs who was in charge of life support used her nano-machines to try to root herself into the planet and try to terraform the planet as much as possible to make it more habitable for the humans who would be waking from status. In the process she was damaged and her processes were split from her becoming seperate entities on their own and the original AI became dorment as she attempted to repair herself.

Other AIs began to manifest in different ways either do to damage or being seperated from each other so the AI in charge of the ship's defenses split into two effectively becoming two Gods of War (similar to Ares and Athena) The crash sites would eventually either be lost in isolation or form the basis of a new civilization of humans who lacked the full understanding of their own technology causing them to be born into a quasi-techno bronze age where their worship of the various AI systems actually elevated them into Godhood.

>>55124568
Every 3rd tuesday of the month is cocksday in celebration of the penis.

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>>55124552
first for superior chapter

>>55124581
A successor chapter so successful it has its own successors.

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reposting
>Ultramarines have the best bike spam
>poor CT:fluff ratio
>best strategy is to spam jump infantry and have very few bikes

How do I flavor an army with primarily jumppack units with little bikes? Or do I just play bikes anyway because I actually like the Chapter and just play with a suboptimal list?

who here team /smug/?

I'm so fucking sick of the cosmic scale creep going on. I hate the magic spaceship crap and I can't help but roll my eyes every time someone says "WORLDS" in regards to the Legion's destruction.

I know Warcraft wasn't always traditional fantasy, but the occasional steampunk shit and pop culture references are infinitely more desirable than the clusterfuck we have now.

>>55124385
Yeah, it was neat when they were just ripping off WHF and doing their own spin, now they're trying to also be 40K and it just doesn't work.

>>55124185
Yup. The weaker ones would get culled and provide chaos fodder for further conflict, while the rest would emerge as the Empire equivalent. More or less how it happened in the WHF.

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>>55125856
So who would be the God-Emperor of Mankind? My candidates are:

>The pope
Taking the title of representative of Jesus on Earth to its extreme.

>Louis XIV
Sun King, Nec Pluribus Impar, absolutism... it writes itself.

>Charles V
Considering how close he got to uniting Europe under a universal monarchy, I think he'd be a pretty good candidate.

I guess the time frame barely excludes candidates such as Frederick and Napoleon?

>>55125960
>Charles II
Chaos doesn't mess with him because they're too busy laughing.

>>55124137
The Valhalla-like plane in my setting at one point in the unknown past crossed over with some early 20th century industrial plane, so now instead of noble warriors fighting in glorious single combat, it's basically World War I all the time forever.

The platonic mathematical plane of course.

>>55124506
That is such a cool idea. I can picture this as like an industrial Soulslike game using combos of modern and ancient weaponry, fighting an armored giant in one area, and a diesel-powered mech in the next.

>>55124040
Tfw idiots had to make orcs more "accessable" by making them just misunderstood dindus. They went from embodiments of all the worst aspects of men to essentially just misunderstood oppresses green humans.

>>55124841
>worst aspects of men
most badass aspects of men

>>55124040
Original humans ( just mundane humans ).
Common humans ( only ones who can handle artifacts ).
Telepathic humans.
Psychokinetic isolationist hermaphrodite humans.
Stargazing humans that can sense nearby stars and planets and the galactic core.

>>55124023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

>>55124023
Skitter vs Alexandria.

>>55124023
Julius Caesar Vs. The Senate.

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>Disappointing NPC deaths
Player, not GM, but boy do I have experience with this

We spent almost two irl years worth of sessions that met about once a week building up to a showdown with a mindflayer sorcerer trying to explode our realm to power a ritual that would let him get back to his realm (which was otherwise cut off fro the planes due to cosmic bullshit I won't bore you with.)

Everyone was really, really fucking hyped to have the final showdown with this guy. He'd killed NPCs we liked, taunted us, and destroyed our home city completely just a few sessions prior. The whole charge up the tower powering his ritual was the most adrenaline pumping shit I'd had in years in an rpg

And then the DM decided that, as one final "twist," he'd reveal that the mindflayer's goofy comedy relief goblin butler/manservant had murdered him while he was preparing the ritual and stole his magic staff, whereupon he revealed he was secretly also a powerful sorcerer that had hidden his power levels so he could use this ritual to destroy all the material planes in the multiverse because he was ~CRAZY~

I'm still bitter to this day. What a fucking letdown.

>>55123959
At least the death itself was cinematic and not just " stake him in his sleep"

>>55124239
Did you tell him that idea is retarded?

I often wonder if I could get a game of Necromunda going, if I setup one of these and got the right 3D scans....

>>55123504
Consumer affordable 3d printing, say machine under 5 grand, still doesn't have the level of detail to produce quality miniatures. It's entirely sufficient (if perhaps time consuming) for all sorts of terrain though.

bumping because me and my roommate have been talking about this for the past month

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>>55123258

>>55123284
>Brother Sandstone
>he died
Beautiful.

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(Another) Thog.

what are you going to use it for?

>>55123526
Some game I dunno.
To be clear I'm not asking for free art, I'm asking for artists I guess.

Are you going to pay for this?

>>55122612
A well-beaten horse corpse

>>55122612
>this shit is not only published but has two addendums

>>55122612
Decent fantasy setting with unplayable mechanics that destroy the game. Basically you wasted your money.