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How wonderful commander, mind lending me some? This new body appears to have a faulty charging system.

>>53853164
Why or course, most honourable Dreadnought! Anything for a fine, Astarte's hero like yourself!

>>53852848
I need to disable those stupid speakers... doesn't he know its 0400 scale time...
>slowly gets up and stretches her arms up in the air
>she turns and knocks a lamp off the desk
Whoopsie. Can't leave those out.
>she closes her eyes and picks up the lamp before getting dressed in full kit and heading out to to the staging area

>>53852750
>two PC are deeply invested in their factions
>it quickly develops into passive aggressiveness then full blown autistic fits
As a PC, how do you solve this problem

>>53852750
>PC's visit a tavern and play darts to decide who needs to be stopped first

>>53852799
Tell them that the best resolution is a peaceful one, they've co-existed before and they can co-exist after then offer to work towards it.

If they're that invested then they shouldn't want people of their faction to die in a stalemate

How many ship building CYOAs are there? I dig those, might try my hand at making a simple "pick one" since I don't know hwo to photoshop

>>53852694

Titan, I guess, but none of those are appealing

>>53852645
Well, I thought about it. On the surface of it, it seemed pretty complex, but as I thought about it there were lots of ways to cut corners; basically it would be a divination spell, like Reading Surface Thoughts, but you'd need to go deeper than that, kind of get a pull of their recent mental activity. Retrieving the subject's memories would be pretty high level arcana, nothing I was experienced with, but I was a young man and eager to work my way up the Magic Ladder. Technically, the client just wanted a simple yes or no on the target being a jerk... so, instead of having to muck about with retrieving, collating, and translating the subject's memories, I could just run that in the background, put it through some preset parsers, and then just return a "Yes Jerk" or "Not Jerk" condition. Arcana runs pretty efficiently when you don't have to translate the results into forms that the mortal mind is capable of withstanding, so I thought I had a pretty good grip on this one.

"Sure thing," I said. "Give me two months." I figured it'd probably only take a fortnight, but I had already learned the vital magics of Padding your time.

>>53852723
Of course, no arcane project goes without tampering. After two weeks, the first of which I had spent making sure no one else had done this before, and the second which I dedicated to developing my "Hazards and Hydras" campaign, the Magus was at my door again. Just like every project since the dawn of history, it looks like my little spell had been the victim of scope creep; Now not only did the customer want to weed out jerks, but they wanted to know which of the incoming recruits would be good choices for leadership positions, ones that would stick to the book, obey orders, that sort of thing. "Shouldn't be a problem," I said, not really thinking about it, "But I'd probably need another two months." He said that sounded reasonable. Mentally, I was dancing; I figured most of the groundwork with the spell would be done with the first bit, and plugging in some different parsers would be the work of a couple days at the most, so I had just earned myself plenty of time to really get the details straight on the Labyrinth of Perpetual Motion.
Next day, he knocked on my door and told me that the Upper Council had heard about the project, and wanted a demonstration next week. He left before I could say anything.

>>53852793
That week was probably the most I worked in my entire life. Of course, the basic fundamental structure was nowhere near as easy as I had anticipated; I figured I could just copy a bunch of bits of some existing spells, but of course they didn't play well together, and absolutely nobody back then provided any commentary on how the various bits were supposed to work anyway. So, I did what any young wizard who wanted to keep their job would do; I fudged, and fudged hard. Hard embedded some arcane variables, covered up slow processes with flashy effects, came up with sophisticated sounding terminology... 'Jerk' didn't seem to be appropriate for the Upper Council, so I picked some terms that sounded much more serious... all to make it look like I hadn't spent the last 3 weeks mostly calculating dice percentages... one of my coworkers caught me doing that once, but fortunately I think I was able to convince them that I was just a gambling addict... and I prayed to whatever god would listen that the whole thing wouldn't blow up in my face, perhaps literally, when next Moonday rolled around. I spent nearly as much time dreaming up excuses for why certain parts of it weren't working as I did designing the damn thing, preparing myself for every criticism, every nitpicking flaw. I was prepared for every eventuality.

Except for what actually happened, of course.

>>53852385
Technology matters a lot. Languages change much more slowly when written or recorded examples are widely available. Obviously class plays a big role too. Uneducated people have less exposure to written/recorded examples of their own language. Look at how much vulgar Latin changed compared to the academic version.

I also want in on this.

>>53852385
Historical Linguist reporting in. What do you want to know.

>>53852196
finally someone who's not jewish made a thread

Second for autistic fem-marines poster should end himself

>>53852196
Finally, a non-reddit non-autistic tranny thread.

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>>53851957
First for remove kagh!

Are there any alternate timelines in Beta Canon where the Romulans conquer earth?

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>>53852714
Less conquest and more mutually beneficial allegiance. The romulans show up just after WW3 and give humanity a krogan uplift...
>We'll get you off your post-apocalyptic Mad Max-themed radioactive deathworld in exchange for your service as out mercenary soldiers.
...and weaponized them against the vulcans.

By TNG era, humans had gotten a lot more societal power, if only because we bred faster than once every seven years so we were beginning to outnumber the native romulans and pull off a Merkel's Mistake conquest on them.

>>53851956
Congratulations on very worthwhile thread

Looks like a Child of the Emperor. I approve

>>53851956
i guess he knows about deathwatch fall damage.
no way the guy is going to survive from that height

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>>53851845

Does the Tetrad still exist in any form?
Old player, dropped out in 5th but watched the game develop. The idea of a 4-man wrecking crew of individuals army is super appealing to me.

> Legal to play? Or closest approximation, if needing a core of troops?
> Viable?

>>53851845
Im going back to Kejoz since I droped 40k around 5th.
I miss LatD a lot. Give me mutants with sorcerors that hex other stuff in too Spawns pls GW pls....

>>53851992
I think its legal, there is formation with lots of HQ.
Viable?
Propably if you fight normal fluffy/wacky list.
If you play some WAAC-o I dont think so.

Three mountain dews later, one barscene, a lover made then lost, then rescued, and a few awkward trenchcoat partings later, he's begging to continue...

" I didn't realize this would be so much fun! Do you run a campaign or-"

"Shhhh..."Yet again I hush him. A novitiate, bled by war, by strife, by cr2 creatures felled... It was time...

I reach within my trench to pull out, the signup sheet.

" Yeah bro it'll be like every weekend at this address, bring your own snacks, manual supplied. You should totally buy this figurine it really fits your character."

Another has fallen to the collective. As he leaves clutching his Avatar I move to the soda machine to restock, eyeing the upset redhead that has just lost the magic tournament, whom I overheard has to wait 2 hours for her ride home....

I ready my trench coat... Then decide that's probably not the best opener this time, plus it's like 74 goddamned degrees in here what the heck.
this is actually a true story from several years ago. Happy to share about the redhead. Ended up dating a while. I have a ton of stories like this.

What is your NanoWrimo novel called?

>has tons of stories
>doesn't continue to tell stories
OP is more of a fag than usual today.

New rules, new edition, GW actually communicating with the customer base and attempting to balance rules. If you've been out of it since 2011, we've gone through a phase of having 1850 points in one single unit, requiring 6's to be Hit, with a 2++ re-rollable invulnerable save and a 4+ Feel no Pain and Hit and Run, but now that's over. So people are generally very optimistic about this new edition.

>>53850451
SHEEEEEEIT

>>53850451
> If you've been out of it since 2011, we've gone through a phase of having 1850 points in one single unit, requiring 6's to be Hit, with a 2++ re-rollable invulnerable save and a 4+ Feel no Pain and Hit and Run
Wait, what army was that?

this one is awake, where are you all?

>>53850101
Perhaps they have yet to wake up, or realise this session is in motion.

>>53850203
this is unacceptable. the hive will improve them all soon. this time wasting is not acceptable use of the hives time

how goes your bussnes ambassador?

>>53849612

See, the idea is that the players are technically fighting for the wrong side. Both sides are arguably bad, but their side is worse. They were the aggressors, and the monarch is under the influence of a devil that's looking to escalate the war as much as possible. To my mind, the PCs should eventually figure out that something is up, and look for a third way to bring an end to the conflict.

The thing is, the PCs just enjoy what they're doing too much. The party leader is probably the worse offender. What happened is that, at one point, they captured a group of guerillas looking to sabotage their weapon supplies (including cannons) and prepared to herd them off to imprisonment. They actually killed most of the fighters, so the reminder were obviously pissed, but an important NPC (the future resistance contact) was amid the group of fighters.

The problem is, the PCs didn't even speak to them. They just prepared to send them off to the labour camps. In an effort to put more plot into the story, I had the guerilla leader go on an exposition rant about the atrocities their side had committed, and how they were fighting for the devil himself.

So the PC leader said "Wait, I've changed my mind. We're not sending them off to the labour camps." But instead of asking exactly what the fuck she was talking about, he said "Hang them."

Anyway, I called the session for the evening. I didn't want to break kayfabee, but I told the leader's player that "Hey, maybe you should look into things. That person might've had a point."

The PC told me "Oh, I know something's probably up, but I don't really care. I'm not interested in helping them in any way, I just want to win the war." This is a problem, because the other PCs just sort of go along with whatever the leader (who is, to his credit, the one most invested and interested in the setting) wants them to do.

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>>53849618

Like, is there anything I should do to sort of get things back on track? I mean, at this rate they'll eventually win the war, but I'm not sure a gradual slaughter is the kind of campaign I can run in the long-term.

This isn't the first time it'd happened. The party has generally dealt very harshly with anyone who doesn't seem on the up-and-up. It's like they don't even want to see the possibility that there's a bigger picture.

>>53849633
Running a different game then your players are think they're playing is a bit of problem

This is sort of a 'should of' thing but did you make it clear that there was more to your setting than just mindless hacking and slashing?

If you want to try again, do something more obvious, like as obvious as it can be without being immersion breaking (at least not to the point of 4th wall breakage)

lastly if it's really gone to shit you could directly tell the party leader about whats going on (OOC of course)

bait threads get more bites at peak hours

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>>53848985
>contrarian greentext thread

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>"I have a set personality for my character in the first session."