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>>53371348
In some settings, this is stupid.
In others, this is common sense.
In any zombie apocalypse there has to be a limited number of zombies. It should be 100% feasible to clear several kilometres of countryside completely free of zombies, yet in every zombie apocalypse anything they just build big walls around their settlements and let zombies walk all the way up to the walls.
This is why I root for the zombies, humans are too stupid to live.

>>53371348
Depends on the monster

>>53371348
Define dent. If you mean perceptible (~10%) change in frequency of sightings, we're talking 2 or 3 nests in and around the district. For something genuinely meaningful (~30%), you're looking at at least 100 brutally displayed bodies or twice that for simple population reduction without terror tactics.

>>53370668
Bad GM detected.

>>53370679
You don't have to tell me, man. I already know.

>>53370668
Are your players okay with this? If no, it's perfectly fine, and hell, honestly the better option to tell this guy "No, fuck you, last session didn't happen. How dare you take advantage of my trust to do something so dumb like this, we're going to undo it and try the session again." then letting him shit all over everything.

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>>53370397
So how did the ancient aliens discover FTL?

>inb4 "Even older aliens, stupid!"

Discovered by combining two species' specific outlook on physics and technology, unavailable to either of them individually.

>>53370453
Bargain with the space satan.

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When the Black God rose, many rose up with him. Long silent clans gathered themselves and followed their god on his great march south. Praha burned. Now the fires of its ruination warm its invaders through the long winter. Still, the Black God marched south. From Borca to Balkhan, he carves a path of destruction in his wake. With him, clans driven by rage partook in violence, inflicted upon any and all that they perceived as having 'deserved it'. The march now carves through Pest. The Dushani's songs turn to cries of rage. Stability turns to chaos. The Balkhani suffer. Some have lost status, other have lost homes, and some have lost much, much more. Many fled Balkhan, moving north to Eastern Borca, with hope for a new future.

Four months ago they found a place. It was empty, but not theirs. It is called Junction, after the words on the sign that hangs over the ancient overpass. Who placed the rusted sign there, and when, is unknown. Junction was used as a place of rest for Jehammedans taking the journey to and from Osman. Now, it is a growing and bustling settlement of sheet metal shacks and tents. The refugees from Balkhan have taken this spot as their own. They've assembled their homes on the overpass and beneath it, in the underpass. Like an invasive plant, the shacks and tents spread out uncontrolled and chaotic. The only rhythm to be found in this place is in the synchronized stories of suffering from the refugees.

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They were ignored by the rest of the world for two months. Then the eyes of the Protectorate fell upon them, from the other side of the Reaper's Blow. The Chroniclers see suffering and opportunity. The Protectorate's allies, the Hellvetics, see a small, but potential danger: Junction is close to their territory in the Alps. By the time the Protectorate organized the first Hellvetic detachment to aid the settlement of Junction, it was already a culture of its own.Apocalyptics had taken the subway station as their home, and the tunnels within were their domain now. The Hellvetics give out scant food to the refugees, but it's not enough. Nothing seems enough to quell the growing discontent, the desire to blame, and the familial tensions that accompany all of Balkhani culture.

Now, the Protectorate's presence in Junction is limited. A Chronicler coordinates efforts alongside a high ranking Hellvetic. Some low ranking Hellvetic soldiers do what they can to hand out supplies and establish stability, but it is not enough. Junction must be evaluated, so the Protectorate has sent a small group to assist in the aid effort. It is the first days of Spring, and still snow covers the ground. The journey was not easy, but it was necessary. The Protectorate has sent two delegates alongside the latest Hellvetic supplies shipment from the Alps. The first is a Spitalian, who had to part ways with comrades during the Alps crossing. Most Spitalians who cross the Reaper's Blow are heading for Pollen, the front lines against the Primer. This one is going on a less glorious mission, but perhaps an equally important one. The second delegate is a lone Judge. They are a common sight in the Protectorate, but beyond those lands their power is limited. The land that awaits him may not be kind, but he has a mission.

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>>53369750
The path Rodrigo Gutierrez and Judge Payne walk on clears steadily. The snow has been cleared by the Hellvetics that move to and from this place. Ahead of them, they can see Junction, with its large sign hanging off of what makes the settlement: A large, intact bridge from the pre-eshaton days. But before that bridge is the Hellvetic outpost, serving as a 'gate' of sorts to Junction. They are awaited by what looks like a female Hellvetic officer. The privates that were transporting food with Judge Payne and Rodrigo split off from the group to deliver their cargo. The Hellvetic officer steps forward.

"Is this all the Protectorate sent?" Freja states looking over the pair.

"That it is, as much as it shames me to see it,” Doctor Gutierrez replies to her with a nod.

"Afraid so,” Payne adds curtly.

"So be it." The woman seems frustrated. She motions to the Corporal beside her. “ I'm volunteering you to assist these men. I'll not have them wandering about without a proper Hellvetic at their side."

"Do you think this will be necessary?” Rodrigo asks, “I was told it was just refugees here."

"Just refugees means a lot,” Freja asserts, “Spitalian. You haven't been given an easy assignment. Our Chronicler can fill you all in on the details. Follow me. I'm Freja of Reschen. Current Commander of the Hellvetics here. You have a problem with them, you come to me."

Payne shrugs and scratches his head underneath his hat.

Who is the most underrated author?

>>53369756
Me.

>>53369756
The most?
No clue, but that Southern Cross guy showed promise. Kinda wish he'd done more

>>53369182

As long as it's not done just for it's own sake of "I'M DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT!"

Plenty of tabletop races would be considered weird by the "non-tolkien" metric. I didn't know what the fuck a tiefling was when I started playing D&D. After like two campaigns they became a pretty standard race in my view

>>53369182
I'd like to see some goat-humans that are literally people with an impressive digestive tract and maybe some horn-like protrusions over their knuckles.

I'm fine with inspired by settings, but only as long as you add good world-building and a decent narrative.
I played a game where there were Aurox and Buffalo Minotaur people who were basically Persian~Dwarves with a heavy emphasis on castes borrowed from Indian and Berber culture.

So he took a standard race and familiar themes, and created his own thing complete with unique religious practice.

That's a lot of words.

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>>53369066
Please remember to take your autism medication, OP.

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>>53369066
Here is a delicious double whammy (You) for that shit.

>>53368882
They use space hulks as a stepping stone in world invasions. Genestealer broods have very limited space travel capabilities, so they stay on space hulks until they drift close to inhabited star systems, at which point some leave and the rest presumably hang around to wait for it to drift into another system.
Also Space hulks are planet-sized.

>>53368882
They put their own ships inside the space hulk. Basically they use it as a poorly controlled aircraft carrier.

>>53368973
But just by drifting it'd take like centuries to get from point A to point B. Does not seem that effective.
>>53369009
Oh, so an infested Space Hulk is sort of like a tyranid ship that has bio-engines and ways to drop spoores on planets? So it does not need to land on a planet, but rather go on low-orbit and start snowing out its goods on the masses below.

>>53366254
Elves for hoes.
Dwarves for bros.

always Dwarves you knife eared piece of shit!

no fucking honor, no beard

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>>53367994
These dorf brothers.

>>53362956
I've tried to get into MUDs too and it is a challenge. There's only a few MUDs with huge large populations and the smaller niche ones have the same 10 people that have been playing since the 90s and tend to be a circlejerk of OP characters and old friends.

I think I like the idea of it far more than the reality. It's an incredible historical curiosity of both video games and roleplaying games.

I have no recs for MUDs, but I'd love to try one based off an existing RPG to maybe help with learning how the fuck things work. I found one WoD MUD that wasn't dead, but that's all.

>>53363515
The only two that I know of that are relatively healthy are Aardwolf and Achaea.

Aardwolf is more active, having around 250 or so players at peak times, but honestly I just sort of dislike that game's feel.

Achaea has like 150 or so players on a good day, which really isn't a lot. This lends itself to the feeling that you the players either already know everyone or are total outsiders.

I'm not having difficulty learning the controls or how to play (There is some annoying shit related to how combat and afflictions work, but whatever.), my main problem is that the people I'm meeting just don't seem very cordial.

Even when there's 20 people online in my characters city, I just plain don't see anyone talking like normal people or anything, I'm starting to get the sense that most of the actual conversations are going on entirely in private messages and parties and I'm just sort of shit out of luck unless I can break into some kind of private circle, which poses a huge problem as I won't know whether or not the people I'm dealing with are cringey fucktards unless I can get them to open up to me.

>>53363679
Eh, 150 is still quite a bit. If you think about when these games were in their heyday back in the 80s-90s 20+ was a large number. It's just that now it's all very cliquey and that makes it hard to break in to. Everyone is best friends on smaller servers so new blood is rare.

Also as a note about numbers not all of those are active players. Look at a "who" list and you'll see a shitload that have been on for months. A lot of people just leave it open in the background constantly and use it for social reasons or it'll be just to artificially inflate the numbers.

>>53362625
Pay attention to what's going on you mong

Just whip it out, and start beating off. That'll teach 'em for killing you

>>53362625
That's actually a great question. I play online, and you can miss the sessions you are dead at with no problem, and read what happened later.

Are Character Colossal or Gargantuan likely to ever be a thing?

What are your thoughts on the changes to scenario scoring in SR2017?
Somehow I seemed to have missed all the discussion about it. To me it seems like it skews the game towards assassination victory or attrition based play

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Is the age of Infantrymachine over?

With the way the meta is now and the changes made to the game, is there any point in taking things like Cataphract Incindari or the Assault Kommandos?

A combination of high-level characters everywhere, every single bit of land and cities and plots already mapped and decided, and boring ren-faire high-magic all over the place.

There's really nothing there for your first level party to do without a whole lot of fucking around with the canon.

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>>53360899
It is very Ironic that Ed Greenwood talked about how Dragonlance setting had too much `power` in it, with heroes taking the major roles, leaving players to do scrap work, he intended Forgotten Realms to be the exact opposite, but at the end it become even a shitty hero playground than dragonlance.
Forgotten Reams was THE generic campaign setting in the 90s, It enjoyed the TSR policy of pumping novels and sourcebooks in early 90s and baldurs gate game popularity of later 90s early 00s. Wizards policy of supporting it also bolstered its popularity.

But this popularity made the setting saturated, It is nice to imho to have detailed histories and characters etc for almost all places, some disagree with this and argue for a more vague setting that leaves GM's leeway to improvise (like pathfinders Golarion) but I prefer having a rich background and lore, again this is debatable.
What is not debatable imho is the Heroes, almost every place has major players, heroes etc and due to the novels popularity, it kinda pushes the players towards `why should I do this, when elminster can come` bullshittery. This became so bad that ed greenwood talked about it in the 3rd campaign setting, pic very much related.

cont.

>>53360899
I read all the books and played it exclusively the first 3 years I played D&D. Overtime I just got burnt out on the setting. I still like it for what it is though. I just don't like playing in it anymore.

>>53360294
>8th edition
>anything but Space Marines

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>>53360348

Just cuck my shit up

>>53360294
Suspiciously enough there hasn't been a Faction Focus: Orks yet. This either means Orks are getting buffed ridiculously or swept under the rug.