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>>53323602
>The thermal cannon is utterly lethal now. Heavy D3, Strength 9, Ap -4 and D6 Damage, rolling 2D6 and taking the highest when in half range, will leave many targets as nothing more than smoking craters with a single volley. If that weren’t enough, the cannon gets D6 shots vs units with 5 or more models.

>superheavy's main weapon
>HEAVY D3

>>53323861

Is it d3 shots that do d6 damage each?

>>53323861
1 hit has a chance to do 6 wounds, im ok with that. some smart guy figure out the average wounds for d3 d6

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40k was better as a satire.

At least the Imperium is still mostly intact.

>>53326510
It never was, especially lately.

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Like this.

>>53323139
Like regular elves.
>>53323213
This

>>53323139
They'd probably been killed by Space Marines already. Or by an Imperium fleet when they tried to negotiate on behalf of one of the Exodite Worlds the Imperium just kills all population on if it wants to settle it.

>>53322373
როლლ

>>53322373
>all paladins
>super smite bros

Entire team of rogues.

Each has a particular specialty. You have a face, a safecracker, an infiltrator, and a brute. Throw in a counterfeit mage for fun.

Entire campaign is a heist movie.

>>53321531
regardibg the aesthetic i'd say that presenting the entirety of their appearance too casually would harm the theme of horror.
make it so that they will be hidden by shadows and merely give implications to their physique.
and at this point, "zombie alien blob monster" becomes a bit generic. "the thing" however cultivated the use of a single kind of horror monster with amorphous shape pretty well. if you plan on putting in different eldritch things, think about different design philosophies

>>53321531
>bbeg
Uhg.

Shitposting aside, verbage is a huge deal. Blood isn't red, it's carmine. The bone didn't break, it splintered. The flesh wasn't cut it was rent.

The more descriptive and bold your language is, the greater sense of importance you can impart upon a creature or situation. Nonvisual horror is all about letting the viewer fill in the blanks with their own worst fears, because the human mind is a scary place. Be descriptive, but not TOO descriptive. Describe sensory input, and allow the mental image to form in their mind independently. You guide them into spooking themselves

>>53321531
Well first of all, try to keep the presence of the actual abominations to a minimum. There's no need to have them on screen as the stakes should be high eough with just the abominations about.

Also, as media like Eternal Darkness, Hellboy and At The Mountains Of Madness have thought us, they can be in conflict and that will work fine but that doesn't mean they are sympathetic to the heroes. They can use them as pawns or disregard them but they should never be allies, you know? And just make sure they don't come across as human either.

Also, having the abominations affect the world/landscape/minds/laws of physics differently will make it more interesting.

>>53320958
Yes. It's also objectively the best chess opening. No hyperbole: the only reason not to play it is if you think there's a small chance that a sub-optimal opening would catch your opponent off-guard.

The best chess opening is to stand up, turn 360 degrees and walk away from that cancer game.

>Not playing modern defence in the year of our lord 2017

U wot m8

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>>53319811
In any D&D setting that allows katana.

GURPS with Bullet Parry.

>>53319811
GURPS.
Parry Missile Weapons with Enhanced Time Sense allows you to parry bullets, by default rules.

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another tower, it's available as model for 3D printers, it's ugly, though futuristic. but it's quite expensive to print, especially since you need to upscale it some.

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although now that I looked it up, designs that work without glue are nice as well. hmm. just need one with two ways.

>>53319753
Why would you 3d print a tower that literally just looks like it was made out of folded cardboard?

>>53277244
use the catalog.

>>53318358
I'm hype for Calgarmus Prime.

>>53318358
Lorewise normal marines are not "upgraded" to Primaris Marines. Primaris Marines are produced completely separately from regular marines, the details of their production is still unknown.

>>53312085
>I understand that word caps are what they are.
It's funny, because one of the first things I noticed was an entire sentence repeated.
>The maximum size of your overall SP pool is reduced by your accumulated LSP. The maximum size of your overall SP pool is reduced by your accumulated LSP.

Something I would like clarification on is this:
>When you gain LSP, you also lose SP equal to the total amount lost!
Let's use the article's example: 10 SP, lost 5, so you gain 1 LSP. Since I gained LSP, I now lose SP equal to the amount of SP I lost to gain the LSP, right? Which would be 5. And since my SP is 10, each multiple is SP/2, or 5. 5 to 0 is another multiple, so I gain another LSP, lose more SP, repeat until I'm insane? Or does it just happen once?

What would be a fair price for Unusual Background (Can train targeted attacks up to full skill)?

I feel that since the biggest penalty you get normally after TA is -5 (for chinks in non-torso armour), and since buying +5 to one skill would cost 15 points more than raising one TA technique by the same amount, 15 points would be the right price.

>>53317380
On one hand, I'm very curious as well and would like to help figure it out. On the other, that fucking map causes my potato to take ages to actually load the PDF.

I noticed the repeated sentence as well, hence my griping about better editing.

See what races your players want to play as.

>>53317095
Use cute ones.

>>53317095
May your road lead you to warm sands

I don't even consider "Ranger" as a class outside of D&D.

>>53312200
Granted it is something that appears as a quantified concept in vidya.

>>53312235
Appears more often in vidya, I mean.

>>53310764
>The imperium is apparently more on the brink in this book than at any other point in the setting’s history. The Cicatrix Maledictum has apparently thrown a huge swathe of worlds into absolute turmoil and all-out war.
All Imperial worlds are touched by war now, but on the other hand the Imperium is more strongly united than it's ever been in the post-Primarchs era, a legend has been brought back to life to lead the Imperium (and he even talked with papa emprah), the Imperium is on a general offensive for the first time since the Horus Heresy, Chads have emerged to replace obsolete manlets, there is an "uneasy" friendship with the Eldar, and papa Smurf's crusade is winning everything.
I don't know if it'll go noblebright, but it's not grim darkness by any stretch right now despite the B-B-B-BUT MUH RIP OF TERROR narrative.
It sucks.

>>53310764

If anything, it won't become much more noblebright than how things were during GC. Boost to optimism sure, but you can't forget how bad Chaos, Tyranids, Necrons and Tau are starting to knock on the door.

>>53311591
>It sucks.
It does, but you can always find people who agree with you and enjoy oldhammer. Or you can stay here on /tg/ and partake in our new board sport of flinging ad hominems for not liking what you like.

My setting is on a moon orbiting a gas giant, where a year is where it goes around its planet and it takes it thirty years to get around the sun, which results in a bunch of weird seasons and shit.

I suppose that might count.

>>53310765
That's interesting how do the season's effect the people living there? Is there any native life?

>>53310811
*Seasons