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>>51561555
There's no greater pride for a parent than seeing their progeny outgrow and surpass them.
But then The Emps always sucked at parenting...

>>51561555
The Emperor has perfected the powers of Biomancy as well as manipulation of human minds on a mass scale.

He can appear as whatever he likes, and if he ever had a true form, it is lost to us. How do you think he was able to be such diverse characters as Prince Siddhartha and Jesus?

We see the Emperor as he wishes to be seen. If we could see the Emperor as he is, we would see, surely, a great pillar of fire, piercing the Aether like Axis Mundi, clothing in myriad flesh.

>>51561555
No, in older versions he was 10-11 feet tall, which led to jokes on how he hid among humanity.

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>>51561379
hey kid... do you know what the definition of insanity is?

99%
Red Death
Mystery Recurs, Garden For Man, Rewind Senescence
Lesson Learned
Disregard world, become Tom Bombadil

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>>51560713

People in the developed world (the ones who spend money on RPGs) have less pop-culture knowledge of Africa than other continents, and most of what they know is "AIDS lol".

There was a d20 splat for fantasy Africa, but... d20.

>>51557857
Most of us don't know enough to write settings based on it.

Africans don't write anything either.

Quick! Name a African king who wasn't that really rich guy or one that fought against the Europeans in the 20th century.

>It's about following the rules and having fun, fuck off with the rails.

>quit railroading me,you asshole.

>Take all GMing advice with a pinch of salt, and see how it works for you rather than trusting it implicitly.

>>51555985
Grilldude

Robot Gaolman

The better of the two models for the same character.

So am I late for the shitstorm about maarek stele and Kylo ren Show you The Dark Side? Has it been added to the bingo yet?

>>51553140
What's the purpose of that, to try and thin the crit pool by one for more reliable direct hits or something?
Also when you kylo do you take the pilot card from your own deck or from the deck of the guy who'll be taking the damage?

>>51553214

some people argue that Maarek stele is able to use STDS to slip past the shield with a crit, and instead of using the face up card from STDS to use maarek stele's ability to draw 3 cards pick a crit from that and put it on the ship without spending the condition card.

As for the 2nd question the i'll show you the dark side condition is taken from the opponent's deck.

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>>51548630

"Moral relativism" is cut from the same cloth as the "shades of grey" meme.

Any backlash you see against it is against examples--real or imaginary--in games/books/TV/movies where the powers at be want the audience to sympathize with the antagonists but completely drop the ball. The way fa/tg/uys usually articulate it is declare moral relativism or shades of grey are synonymous with stories where the protagonists are assholes and the "villains" are dindus.

/tg/ likes to think this kind of storytelling is a popular trend now. Personally I don't think it is, and more than that I have no interest in the imaginary Wonder Years where genre fiction was just escapist shlock where Lawful Good heroes slew demons and dragons.

Granted,/tg/ is not a hive mind. But I've found it's not a particularly astute group overall. We tend to react only to the most extreme examples of things and pretend those extremes are the norm.

>>51548793
But morality comes from a culture's teachings, and most importantly, the nature of its people, achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves… or find themselves lacking.

>>51548630
>Does /TG/ get angry about a game

Yes.

I hope this clears up the confusion you're feeling, OP.

>>51547663

Farsight?

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>>51547663
Something happens that causes Farsight to wage a war of conquest against the Tau Empire. All of his secret followers/admirers in the empire rise up to join him and throw off the yoke of Ethereal rule.

>Honourable Aun O'Malley, I question several aspects of Greater Good.
>That is perfectly understandable, my son. No one's understanding is perfect.
>Suddenly I feel my faith restored. Thank you!
>THE END

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regal dwarf girl for comparison

Hobbit, purely for the cooking.

Hobbit, that webcomic was very convincing

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Finally getting to proper playtest Ruinations. Did a bit of a freeform hexcrawl using a loose module I'm writing and some Wasteland Garbage tables. Turned out pretty fun. For anyone interested:

‘Dead North’ session recap.

A motley crew, they were: A Wastelander with a battleaxe forged from an Old-World stop sign. An Adept thirsty for sneak attacks. An impossibly old looking, albino Sullied with a penchant for teleportation. Another Wastelander with a taste for bashing faces in with her spiked baseball bat. And a sad vampiric Sullied with translucent skin, able to blast cold energy from her hands.
Walking into the town of Curtain Falls they immediately stumble towards the shady northern bridge-district, Saints Row. After quaffing a few pints of booze (no doubt made from questionable ingredients), they found their way to an enigmatic junk vendor who gladly trades a DVD copy of Snow Dogs 2 for a few feet of chain. Asked where to find work, he directs them to the tower in the center of the market to talk to ‘Big Man’.
Built from stacked buses, trailers and a rail-cars, it was a four story sight to behold. Guarding the entrance is a hardened human guard and his Sullied partner; a mute beast of a Sullied nicknamed Grunt, with one massive, massive arm. Refusing the adventurers entry, the female Sullied reveals a bit of naked, translucent shoulder to Grunt who, for the first time in his miserable life, is utterly smitten. Wrapped around her finger, he bashes the door open to let them in; but not before drawing her a crude map to his home in crayon.
The climb to the top was largely uneventful, save for the female Wastelander trying to perform a ‘magic card trick’ on the guards inside. They were indifferent however and continued on playing a nonsensical card game and smoking.

>>51534292
Bursting through the safety-hatch to the final floor, they see a small, elderly asian woman in a room swathed in ornate rugs, sitting upon pillows drinking delicious smelling tea. She is impossibly calm to the intrusion. They demand to talk to Big Man. “And you are. Now give me one reason I shouldn’t have my men tear you apart? You have 30 seconds.” (Referee pulls out a small hourglass here.)
The adventurers fruitlessly argue or try to make demands. The two Sullied however feel brash. Blasting the tea from her hand with cold energy, the second teleports immediately behind her and catches it; all in under seconds. She cocks an eyebrow. “Perhaps you have use to me after all.”
Telling them of a beached submarine off the coast, 20 miles west, she promises them a reward and a permanent place to stay in Saints Row should they bring her back anything of great value from the sub. They agree, but not before the Adept demands aid in the trip. She provides him with a vial of fine orange crystal powder, it’s use unknown to anyone.
Trekking west, they stop in the Northern Ruins to artifact hunt. A Wastelander finds a decrepit bike which he takes an immediate shine to. Further west, they stumble upon an inorganic monolith in the middle of a swamp, it’s base glowing with writing from an impossible language. The male Sullied touches it but finds his hands fused to the object as his mind is clouded with a vision of an alien world with a dying red sun and a creature attempting to communicate, only to end the transmission in disgust. Trying to use his feet to pry himself off, he finds those fused as well. A last resort of teleporting away finds the flesh from his palms and feet ripped from his body, still stuck to the monolith. Fortunately, a Wastelander used his keen knowledge in bushcraft to find a mutated aloe-Vera plant, soothing these wounds temporarily. Onward they march, disturbed only by a long Mansquito that found itself cleaved in half by a stop sign

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>>51534301
They approach the sub and using cleverness, light 4 torches and place them around the sealed hatch to weaken the metal. A massive bash of the Sullied’s warhammer (a massive monkey-wrench) easily caves the blockade and they shimmy down into a dark tube. They find a Captain’s skeleton adorned in Old-World military uniform surrounded by various bones, ammunition, and Yerba Mate cans (one still pristine). Further brute force in opening a footlocker reveals a small, wired solar-panel and a lovely umbrella. As they collect these goods, they hear quiet rasped whispering: “0-6-1-4-1-9-8-5” over and over as three fish-belly colored hominoids emerge from the shadows. A battle ensues, wherein 2 are slain without much hurrah. The third however, has it’s skull utterly pulped from it’s body when the nail-bat wielding Wastelander scores a critical hit.
A lone console sits, flashing a flickering text input (ala MS-DOS). One adventurer types in the numbers whispered and 3 round hatches open; two empty and one containing a torpedo from the Old-World. Grabbing this incredible find and finding themselves utterly spent, they make camp in the submarine for the night. They discuss their plans: Return this to Big Man for their rewards....or threaten her power by wielding this force of destruction?

To be continued!

I actually would love to play this, for the same reasons i want to try F.A.T.A.L.

There's literally nothing funnier then political rpgs, my favorite's Racial Holy War the white supremacist rpg where white people are mechanically inferior to all other races, no wonder they lost the war.

>bellum maga
>maga
Am I really reading this right, sure this isn't a trump rpg?

Reserved for Skorne.

So I'm looking to improve my Reznik2 list. Idea is to drop him into Hordes, Ret, and Cygnar (and maybe Khador).

My list so far is:

War Room Army

Protectorate of Menoth - Reznik2 Test

Theme: No Theme Selected
42 / 75 Army


Servath Reznik, Wrath of Ages - WJ: +29
- Madelyn Corbeau, Ordic Courtesan - PC: 4
- Devout - PC: 9 (Battlegroup Points Used: 9)
- Guardian - PC: 15 (Battlegroup Points Used: 15)
- Scourge of Heresy - PC: 16 (Battlegroup Points Used: 5)

Wrack - PC: 1

Choir of Menoth - Leader & 5 Grunts: 6
Daughters of the Flame - Leader & 5 Grunts: 10
Daughters of the Flame - Leader & 5 Grunts: 10


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GENERATED : 02/01/2017 16:48:22
BUILD ID : 2034.17-01-07

What other models should I include for these matchups? I'd like more shield guards, but I also think blessed guns would help a lot.

Storytime.

>Be me, barely learned to play, just starting to git gud
>Suddenly Mk. III drops, local Warmahordes players all disappear off the face of the earth
>Fast forward 9 months, suddenly they all start showing up at the LGS again, no explanation as to why they stopped coming in other than "Life happened".
>No idea how to play Mk. III, barely remember Mk. II
>Ask people to help me learn the new rules
>Everyone says they will, nobody actually does
>This goes on for 6 weeks
>I've given up on Warmahordes completely
>Pressganger buys me a model, says I should magnetize it, etc.
>Still nobody will teach me to play
>Can't even get motivated to assemble the new model, because what's the point?

/rant

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The last thread was a lot of talk about lesbian goddesses in dom/sub relationships, so can we all agree to cut that out of this one completely?

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>>51564877
Because I am a gurofag and I would ruin the fluffy comfy vibe!

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Close to being done assembling my Chaos Termies. Pretty happy with how posing came out. Still need to figure out how to kit out Termie Lord...

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>>51557641
Good eye, the reasoning behind the plinth was to make it very cold and very dim, in order to contrast with the brightness and warmth of the model. Also I was getting tired of this project already so I wanted to pull it out fast.
I also didn't want the 2 fires to compete with the mace so I toned them down quite a bit.

Might as well repost it here.

>>51556448
then they are not knights but fucking paladins or samurai or something else that was the knight for that specific time period and place.

You can stick heavily armored riders in pretty much any setting and have it work.

>>51556448
Then use knights in Renaissance