Eks Eks Edition
Warmasters Triumvirate is an attempt at creating yet another 40k AU. The Primarchs have changed, and instead of appointing a single Warmaster upon returning to Terra, the Emperor is critically wounded on Ullanor. In order to make sure the Great Crusade continues, the Warmasters' Triumvirate is put in place. Tensions start running high and this eventually culminates in a civil war between Loyalists, Chaos Traitors and Separatists...
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>>54036165
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/54036165/
To do:
>Continue expanding legions
>Add more to the timeline, including actual dates
>Improve the color schemes and update the roster
>Add more special legion characters
>>54130764
Je'She posed an interesting question that I feel should be answered here.
On Ullanor, the campaign in split into four prongs (these are up for debate as well):
>Marduk - air cav, void combat, essentially assault specializing in space
- Soaring Host (allows for Elsu to get to know Marduk more and eventually fall to Chaos, as well as their tactics complimenting the Leviathan Host)
- Ogre Legion (someone has to be infantry)
- Forge Lords
- Loxodontii (provides heavy armour as well as a possible opportunity for the legion to further indulge in chaos under the influence of Marduk and his legion
> Je'She - Defense and focus on civilian protection
- Steel Souls (psychic specialty)
- Dusk Phantoms (reactionary warfare coupled with static defense is good)
- Pale Hounds
- Symphonious Disciples
> Frederick - fast assault
- Ussaran Liberators (could allow for the relationship between Frederick and Piter to develop)
- Iron Guard
- Death's Heads
> Emperor
- Titan Marchers (or at least some forces since Raj finds Kane with the Emperor)
- Gunslingers (for story reasons)
- Golden Mountains perhaps?
- Silver Swords (for story reasons)
Not sure where the Knights Stellaris and the Smoke Stalkers would go.
Now, the question posed by Je'She was: "What happens to the Emperor's front after his incapacitation?"
The campaign still goes on for quite a while, so something will have to be decided on. The options I see are:
1. The Emperor's front is dissolved and the other three prongs pick up the slack
2. Another Primarch is assigned temporarily
Which one sounds better? If we pick the second option, the question obviously becomes: "Who?"
>>54130764
Second for Lambach's cheeky grin. That saucy lad
>>54131001
I'm not entirely sure the Emperor's front would be able to hold together without him. Especially if the Golden Mountains are there, seeing as their immediate reaction to the Emperor's injury is to go a little crazy and start slaughtering orks. If that was the case I feel like the front would fall apart not long after, with individual legions doing what they think needs to be done until one of the warmasters (possibly Je'She) steps in and distributes them to the other fronts
Think of your favorite place in a setting, any setting.
You are now a middle class citizen in that place, how do you fare?
>>54268346
>Wilderlands of High Fantasy
Welp.
>>54268346
This is going to turn into rants about classes, economics and poverty, I'm sure.
>>54268346
>Baator
Well shit, I guess there are worse things than being an Osyluth or a Gelugon or a Cornugon.
I've been running a few games of Pathfinder with a few friends who have never played a tabletop RPG before. I chose Pathfinder because 1.) I had previous experience with it and 2.) because it's all online for free.
Our first session was completely random and I just kind of quickly created skeletons of the characters they wanted for them to play but they loved every second of it and had a blast. So the second session, I tried to get them to make their own character sheets but it was like pulling teeth and none of them seemed interested in doing the work or trying to understand the system or navigating the website - they just wanted to play.So I'm really not wanting to go through the level up proces
I've decided I want to just make them static characters with powers and not really have them level up, but rather give them artifacts and new spells or abilities every once in a while since they seem more into just roleplaying heroes and telling a story than anything else.
Anyone done something similar? Or is this just gonna be a big headache?
>>54267553
>they seem more into just roleplaying heroes and telling a story than anything else
>I chose Pathfinder
>is this just gonna be a big headache
I hope my choice of greentext makes my feelings on this matter clear, but if you're willing to do the heavy lifting of worrying about all the rules, then I'm glad everyone seems to be having fun!
>>54267637
They understand the rules and rolling and skill check s and etc., it's just like their eyes glaze over when they go to level up and look at the feats and spells and etc. It's too much info for them, I think.
>>54267678
PF is way too much crunch for beginners.
Use a simple system like Risus to get them to understand the importance of ranks and dice rolling. After a few months they may want to increase the complexity of their character and then you can slowly ease them into PF.
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What do you guys do when you wanna play a Roleplaying game but there is not a single friend available ?
>>54267133
suffer
>>54267133
Plan the gameI'll never get to run.
>>54267152
I feel you so much, i've like 4 games plan for about 6 month, never been able to play them.
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Whining about units makes them better somehow sub-edition
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Is it me or are Bloodcrushers massively buffed this edition?
Reposting cus curious
Weren't Tau like ultra savage violent warriors that made Death Korps of Krieg look like pussies until the Ethreals came along and pacified them with their mental stuff?
>>54266962
Did you just call the Imperium a paradise?
How does one go about using a Japanese fox spirit properly in a CoC campaign set in modern Japan. Also fox spirit thread, I guess.
Also, going for a horror vibe, obviously. Want to scare the hell out of them a la Higurashi.
>>54266394
>CoC
You mean Call of Cthulhu or Corruption of Champions? With the kitsunes and all it's really hard to tell.
>>54266411
>horror
That isn't clearing this up at all!
>>54266512
Call of Cthulhu. I want the investigators to show up trailing some clues about a secretive cult associated with some eldritch diety, and want to incorporate the kitsune as the BBEG for the end of the campaign. Just fishing for ideas.
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How do we stop (((Mike Mearls))), lads?
What's the best way to handle a short and aggressive settlement assault in terms of mechanics?
Essentially I built a lot of the campaign in advance (skeleton framework for building as we go). I put in a small sidequest where players would deal with an orc settlement that keeps raiding everyone, but then one of the leading players made a half-orc whose main thing is that he wants to help orcs become free and independent, so now they're defending the orcs. It's good fun.
But now the humans are going to launch an attack on the orcs to wipe them out, and the party will be involved in preparations and then defending during the siege itself. There are only about 50 orcs and the humans will have to come up a narrow cliff pass a few at a time, so it's just about plausible that I could use normal combat rules, but it could take a while and get a bit slow.
Is the Mass Combat UA worth looking at or is there a better way to do this?
Taking 1 level of Mystic just for Soul Knife so I don't have to use a Rapier as the only fucking good finesse weapon.
Should I neck myself
So I've noticed that over the past few years, most card games that come out have you taking on the role as some sort of mage (or function as a mage in general function).
>Yu-Gi-Oh has you summoning monsters, laying traps, and casting magic at your opponent.
>Pokemon has you fighting magical creatures with other magical creatures that you've basically forced into servitude.
>Mage War is a game where you construct a deck that follows a unique theme based off of different flavors of casters.
>Magic the Gathering: 'Nuff said
But the one thing I always wondered is, how come there have never been a card game where the players are martials utilizing different weapons, stances, and techniques in order to take out their opponents.
I mean, I keep hearing about how martials have all sorts of unique abilities but if that were true, why hasn't there been a TCG with the amount of strategy, depth, and complexity as a card game based off of being a caster in some flavor or another?
What do you mean by 'martials'?
>>54265452
Hearthstone.
>>54265452
>But the one thing I always wondered is, how come there have never been a card game where the players are martials utilizing different weapons, stances, and techniques in order to take out their opponents.
That vampire card game based off WoD was pretty wizardish at times, but most of the cards were about social combat, vampire abilities or just straight up bashing someone into bloody pulp with vampiric strength.
>Elven mary sues are bad
>Dwarven mary sues are ok
Explain.
>>54265416
>Manlet Power Fantasy
>Game who's primary market is insecure 14 year old guys who can't et laid, and the men they grow up into.
>>54265416
Elves are gay, Drawves are cool.
>le gay elf meme
>la wacky drunken manlet with a beard and an axe
>cool
>can't even spell the thing he defends
This has potential, keep going.
She was chaotic evil, and you can't prove otherwise.
>>54265272
Firefags are dumbasses with mental processes of a 3-years old.
There's literally no reason to use fire magic unless you're a drooling "hurrdurrBURN" lolsorandumb retardo.
>>54265272
Looking back, this game was much worse than it appeared to be
>>54265303
It's really not THAT bad and with a just a couple of mods to things like spell casting which are tiny you can improve that side of the game a lot.
Personally I agree with the OP that right from second zero she's trying to murder her classmates she is 100% chaotic stupid and I relish killing her every single time. Even when I play evil.
Which type of terrain do you associate with giant snake monsters?
Trousers
Swamp/Jungle
>>54264622
For reasons, I want to give them a bonus when on their favored terrain; i just don't know if choose the swamp or the forest (is for a homemade board game)
How would you run a sci-fi themed bloodborne type game?
>>54264297
Speaking of, I remember some time ago tg brainstorming a setting which was exactly that, soulsborne-esque sci-fi setting. Whatever came out of it?
>>54264297
I would forgo the story and just make it more of a classic dungeon crawl experience with heavily punishing and/or tactical combat with a high variety in encounters leading up to interesting boss rooms which may or may not have any connection to why the player is here.
Have the rooms and spaces be interconnected, often return back into a previous room or area and focus on small but detailed areas rather then big and spacious ones.
Instead of a multitude of NPCs I'd create a fistful of returning ones that seem to appear out of nowhere and have their own agendas in this place.
To start off the story and setting, I would most likely throw the players in some sort of capsules or escape pods and have them crash into a old abandoned testing facility's tavern after their spaceship goes to shit by unknown reasons. There they quickly notice that it is not what it seems and quickly turns into a deathmarch in search of a way to get off the planet as soon as possible.
>>54264297
That technological rapture-event happened, only that AIs were neither niggers nore human - they generally just plain don't give a fuck any more and the majority don't bother to stick around either.
So now we're dealing with a Roadside Picknick-type situation (rummaging through ascended AI trash and navigating enviroments deformed by AI doing whatever they're doing) mashed up with people trying to go cyborg for various reasons and failing in various unexpected ways.
Its story time /tg/. It all started 2 years ago when I first picked up dark heresy. Wanted to run a game and decided to do the pre written adventure in the back of the book. I had my friends roll op character sheets. Now there is one friend in my group who ill call Eric. Eric is really into cheese and power gaming but loathes role playing. And he hands me a character sheet with god tier stats. 49 WS 40 S and 43 T. His name Renaldo Moon. I check his character sheet for errors or "mistakes" and he checks out clean. So we start. The party consists of a guardsman sniper, investigator, tech priest medic, another guardsman and Renaldo Moon. They are dropped in a hive city to stop the trafficking of xenos artifacts. On the way to their temporary residence they get mugged by a couple of over enthusiastic muggers. Renaldo moon two shots one and the other flees in horror. They arrive at their new base.A shitty small apartment complex in the lower mid hive where they rest for the night. Unknown to them 4 assassins had spotted them and followed them there. The assassins climbed onto their rooftop and began descending on the sleeping party. One managed to sneak into the sleeping snipers room and stabs him. The wound is not fatal and the guardsman drew his long las and blew out his kneecap. the other had sneaked into the investigators room but was spotted and shot down by the investigator. The 3rd was face to face with Renaldo Moon. Renaldo one shot him by critting his head, severing it and covering Renaldo. The 4th assassin saw this and began running for his life. Renaldo chased him onto the rooftop.
>Okay roll your attack
>3
>Okay roll location
>Head
For the 2nd time that session Renaldo moon decapitated his foe showering him and the surrounding area in blood.
They shove the corpses in a closet and go find a doctor to patch up the sniper. They come upon a shady looking building with a neglected sign with a red cross on it. The doctor is sketchy as hell and looks like he rarely cleans his tools. And then he executed his surgery flawlessly and the sniper barely felt any pain. After that they get some info on a gang that may be selling the xenos artifacts operating out of a shitty bar called the Screaming wheel. On their way to the bar they are ambushed by members of the gangster they killed earlier. Their leader approaches Renaldo and says "Are you the one that killed one of my boys?" Renadlo replied "So what if I am." and made a sleight of hand check to pull the pin on a grenade and toss it in front of him. Then won initiative and cleaved the gang leader into pieces. They arrive at the screaming wheel to see 3 gangsters clad in gaudy armor and wearing masks extorting a manufactorum worker. He sits there on his knees begging for his life as the gangers laugh at him. As the party approaches his knee explodes from a stubber round. Renado approaches him and says "Don't kill, you're wasting the emperors resources." The gang leader replies "Waste?! Hahahahaha, this man is nothing but waste!" And shoots the worker in the head. Renaldo moon attacks the man "On account of him being an evil douche bag." The leader drew his eviscerator and parried renado moon while the other 2 gangsters engaged the rest of the party. This was a sight the bargoers knew well and they ducked under whatever cover avalible. The leader was able to hold his own VS Renaldo Moon but his friends were shot down by the sniper and investigator. The leader decided to book it and fled from the scene but Renaldo Moon was faster and tackled him.
>>54263704
You had me at Dark Heresy Storytime
They managed to steal a truck and hauled him back to their blood soaked base. They tied him up and began interrogating him. He refused to speak and spat on the investigator. Renaldo Moon was impatient and tried to cut the gang leaders cheek with his chainsword.
Roll WS
>..... 96
Okay so you then hit the investigator
Roll WS again
>..... 5
>Oh fuck.jpeg
Roll hit location
>Head
Renaldo Moons arm flinched and he lost control of his chainsword and cleaved the interrogators head off. Showering the gangster and the party in blood. Laughter and cries of "YOU TEAMKILLING FUCKTARD." filled the room. The gangster used this opportunity to slip out of his bindings and draw the investigators warhammer and struck Renaldo moon in the leg. The rest of the party flees and Renaldo cuts down the ganger with his blood stained chainsword. The rest of the party tells the interrogator who in turn calls opun the arbites to capture him if possible. Renaldo Moon, injured and soaked in his allies blood, his enemies blood and his own blood, surrenders. The interrogator interrogates him and ships him off to a penal legion as punishment
I'm going to GM a game set during the time before the Horus heresy and I'm allowing my players to be primarchs. Now, introductions are key and I'm the GM that really likes to set the mood; and I been theme songs to play for each of the primarchs that are being played. So far I have Angron, Lorgar, Roboute, and Vulkan.
Any ideas on what kind of sound track I should play for each of them while they're doing shit?
I know I could look up some death metal for angron, but I'm kind of hoping to find more forlorn shit to really capture his fucked up past.
They're each starting around the time they make planet fall on their respective worlds and the future is not set in stone. The heresy might not happen.
Lion - autistic children yelling
Fulgim - you touch my tralala
Horus - the most generic antagonist theme you can find
Khan - tengger cavalry
Russ - any shitty Viking metal
Gulliman - ultramarine chant
Konrad - edgy meme music
Sanguinius - holy diver
Ferrus - who cares
Angron - How does king crimson work?
Dorn - human music
Mort - remixed Fart fetish porn
Magnus - goblin Prince of the darkstorm galaxy
Perturabo - the shittier burzuum albums
Logar - any powerwolf song
Vulkan - alright
Corax - same as konrad
Alpharius - hit shuffle
>>54262505
This image displaying them out of order but also displaying their order triggers me. It wouldn't if their numbers were left out but the way it is now I can only stare in hate. Which is a shame because I like the art
>>54262505
i put allot of effort into these songs
Lion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwP77n_fkMQ
dark brooding poetry for a traitor
Fulgim - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLar6CG6KPo
dark, hard hitting french techno for the primarch killer
Horus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm1g5Yg0hUw
catchy betrayal song for the ultimate betrayer
Khan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86URGgqONvA
cant think of a better horse ridding song
Russ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GKFnwanS1I
the hardest viking metal song i know for the viking in space
Gulliman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA
back in black because he's back baby
Konrad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3soskkvYBgM
shit emo song for evil batman
Sanguinius - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgKAFK5djSk
sad, pop song about loss
Ferrus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5bJrqf_PMY
manowar nobody band for a nobody in the 40k universe
Angron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQBG_9oDA8
a song about feeling nothing but the want to kill, by the angriest band in the world, hell, murder in in their name
Dorn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVinwOpllQk
needs more fists
Mort - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C75pXtZ9n8c
black metal song about rotting flesh
Magnus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oe7Q8OCm5I
im being kind, this is a cool song for a complete autistic faggot
Perturabo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uctu1e353os
iron man for an iron warrior
Logar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-fyNgHdmLI
creed for the found of the imperial creed
Vulkan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGx6K90TmCI
Vulcan gonna give it to ya
Corax - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9Njr8
a good emo song for boring primarch
Alpharius - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fVE8kSM43I
the best song about duality i could find