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>>53114129
Pretty boring actually.

First off, the genre's origins basically established a lot of common tropes that have become incredibly bland.

Then the latest generation is based on defying those tropes by making it all pretty and pink, but Grimdark. These in turn have established Trope-defying Tropes that have also become bland.

Also everything is lesbians. Everything.

So, in Essence, no matter what spin you put on it will feel bland and cliche, and there's a 90% chance it goes full on Magical Realm.

>>53114129

Who's the girl with the tie?

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>>53114191
>First off, the genre's origins basically established a lot of common tropes that have become incredibly bland.

Cute girls and magic being bland? How?
Even the minor tropes (familiars, transformation, special items) are all pretty interesting.

>Then the latest generation is based on defying those tropes by making it all pretty and pink, but Grimdark.

There's more to recent Mahou Shoujo than just Madoka. Even Flip-Flappers took an interesting spin by going for a drama route quite distinct from being simply grimdark.

MS has a lot of versatility, and I personally think that it's ability to combine so well with other genres is quite respectable. I'm actually curious to find out how well Mahou Shoujo+Classic RPG Adventuring might turn out.

>Magical Knight Rayearth

Without mechs this time?

Who would win in a fight between Aku and Nicol Bolas?

>>53114105
Aku is completely immune to any kind of damage not made by Jack's sword, and it took three gods to forge it

>>53114151
Yeah, but what I like is that its just the blade that's his weakness. But he has a huge hit pool, but rather lackluster attack. Even a single foolish samurai warrior can fight him one on one without worry.

He relies on mechanical minions that use his power source, but are not made of his flesh. The sacred sword is no stronger than a regular sword against them.

Aku just seems realistic even for an all powerful entity. When Jack slashes him, the power he loses is gone forever. He needs to harvest more from other sources in order to recover.

Last night I learned that 'experience' does not make the best players.
>For various reasons party has come to a magical temple of a god of illusions
>We come to a room with three glass bridges with smoke on the sides, we determine which bridge is the least likely to break, so we'll be walking across that one
>Summoner decides to fly via his Eidolon instead, agro's two Mihstus that are probably above our level
>After dealing with them, we all walk across the bridge to a giant crystal thingy.
>Summoner goes in first, gets his magic recharged, has a vision about where his character specific illusions are and gets hurt in the process
>The bard then follows suit, recovers his spells, gets his less physically painful but more emotionally scarring vision and location of where his character specific illusion is
>Summoner decides it'd be a good idea to try to use this giant crystal that's so big you have to walk into to make his spells stronger in the dungeon
>DM warns him about the evil overlord list and drops hints that it's not a good idea
>Summoner does it anyways
>Bunch of musical instruments appear and the rest of the party needs to pass a reflex save or be hit by a piano, most of us pass but one of us does take 1/3rd of his HP in damage in the process and almost fell into a spike pit
>Summoner becomes a mist drake
>DM makes it clear that it's temporary
>Summoner's player keeps bitching about how he should be able to roll spellcraft to determine the caster level of the polymorph spell, DM and group says no
>Summoner talks about how he'll quit the campaign
>We manage to turn him back, what does his 'make magic stronger' endeavor get him?
>He has some free meta-magic casts. No meta-magic feats. Can only use power to increase spell DC.

>>53113459
I fear that I am That Guy based on my characters.

>>53114038
Tell us more

Btw I am going to be running a game like this so I wanna see what /tg/ would do

Genetically engineering some babies in a tube seems like the most common first step, maybe making up some basic blueprints for different kinds of soldiers like one with especially good eyesight for super-snipers/spotters or one with overall good stats for the basic super-grunt.

If you have the funding to do so, enhancing them with specialized cybernetic augmentations is also possible and can be done even on regular soldiers if you don't have the option to grow test tube babies.

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>>53112681

>>53112622
what do you mean whatever miniature? a generic ruleset for every setting? or miniature from whatever brand?

because if the latter, i have read the rules of Ronin and i must say those seems great.

>>53112805
I meant like generic ruleset for every (almost) setting. But both can be.

SOBAH is a perfect example. Model stat system is just too easy (2 stats in overall) so I'm looking for alternatives.

Is ronin based on samurai era?

>>53113015
Yep, Ronin is samurai era, but there is a official variant called En garde (it should be basically the same, but im not sure, dont know where to find the rules) from the same autor wich takes place in the musketeers era.

in regards of generic rulesets i dont know much sorry, but like you i would like to know more.

If you want elves then why don't you use fucking elves?

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>>53112258
But I want foxes.

>>53112258
Because elves look stupid.

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First for anybody got ideas for a good IF list? Tryina encompass all the aspects and themes that make them oh-so-loveable, while still keeping a solid list overall.

Imperial Fists: Pride of the Legion
>Praetor: Terminator Armor, Paragon Blade, Storm Shield, Digital Weapons

>Templar Brethren: 7 Templars, Solarite Power Gauntlet, LR Phobos
>Templar Brethren: 7 Templars, Solarite Power Gauntlet, Rhino
>Apothecarion Detachment: 2 Medicae, Power Swords
>Legion Rapiers: 3 Laser Destroyer Arrays

>Terminator Squad: 3 Power Fists, 2 Chain Fists, Iliastus Assault Cannon, Teleportation Transponder
>Terminator Squad: 3 Power Fists, 2 Chain Fists, Iliastus Assault Cannon, Teleportation Transponder
>Veteran Tactical Squad: 7 Veterans, Combi-Weapons, Rhino
>Veteran Tactical Squad: 7 Veterans, Combi-Weapons, Rhino

>3 Javelin Landspeeders

>Deredeo Dreadnought: Plasma Cannonade
>Sicarian Battle Tank: Lascannon Sponsons, Dozer Blade
>Vindicators: Dozer Blade, Machine Spirit

So I like it a lot, my only thought/concern is that the rhino Templars might be a bit useless, maybe it'd be a little more advantageous to grab a third terminator Squad and some nuncio-voxes instead?

Also it's really disappointing Champion Consuls suck so much, 35 points for effectively nothing (especially with Fists since the power gauntlet is better and has MC base) suuuucks. At least with like UM or something you can grab one of those swanky axes.

>>53111926
>templar brethren in a rhino
Honestly, probably better not to take the squad at all if you can't afford the points for an assault vehicle for them.

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>Praevian finished
>Vorax and Castellax Achea on their way over
oh baby

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>>53111496
First for Greenskinz are the worst.

what are the best stormcast eternal paint schemes?

>>53111537
Am i doing this right?
Is all the minis i could buy.

Leaders
Cauldron Of Blood (220)
- General
Death Hag (60)
- Artefact: Phoenix Stone

Battleline

Units
10 x Doomfire Warlocks (400)
10 x Sisters Of Slaughter (160)
1 x Bloodwrack Medusae (120)

Battalions
Bloodwrack Sisterhood (40)

>>53110395
I've never actually played a proper tabletop in my life.
Ran online games for randoms? Sure, why not. Done worldbuilding? Yeah, I did. Designed homebrews? That too.
But actually sitting down and playing a game with 3 or 4 people? Never in my life.
The only reason I post on /tg/ is because it's the only more or less civil board on 4chan that encourages creativity.

>>53110395
Also....

>I don't like druids unless the player plays them as a true nature lover, and will punish that pc in 1000 little ways, or reward the pc in 1000 little ways, depending on the players style.

>>53110447
>I've never actually played a proper tabletop in my life.

Shit man.

Is that by choice? or because of conditions?

>>53107758
And an example before any fanboys call me an even bigger fanboy

>Fantasy, you had:
>Drachenfels, a dude the chaos gods were scared of
>Malal, a god who wanted to destroy the chaos gods
>Gods of Law, who were even matches/arch nemeses of the chaos gods
>Storm of Chaos, where the biggest chaos invasion ever was totally defeated

but GW retconned it into:
>Drachenfels entire backstory was gone and he was just some spirit, no chaos god intimidation
>Malal ceases to exist
>Gods of Law never mentioned again in GW works except for some prick saying they aren't real
>Storm of Chaos never happens, End Times happens instead, chaos wins easily and annihilates everyone
>GW makes both Fantasy and 40k endless cycles of chaos gods destroying reality for their own amusement and nothing can stop them ever because they're so tough and cool and evil and hey why are you leaving what do you mean we suck at writing wait no don't leave buy our books first

>>53107792
>>Drachenfels, a dude the chaos gods were scared of

Drachenfels said he was more evil, the Chaos Gods were never scared of him.

>>Malal, a god who wanted to destroy the chaos gods

The creator of Malal left and took the rights to Malal with him. Not that it matters, Malal was shitty and the Chaos Gods want to destroy each other anyway.

>>Gods of Law, who were even matches/arch nemeses of the chaos gods

This wasn't the case. Law was only considered one of the possible forms of Chaos.

>>Storm of Chaos, where the biggest chaos invasion ever was totally defeated

GW wanted to get rid of Fantasy. I'd also say the first war against Chaos was bigger.

You're just being a baby.

>>53107898
>never scared of him

He told them to give him troops or he'd fuck them up. They gave him troops.

>malal copyright

Yeah, true. It's not Workshop's fault that Malal had to go. He wasn't shitty though. He added an interesting dynamic back then.

>wasn't the case

Law and Ruin came out of the same primordial pool, forming the singular entity of Chaos/Uncertainty. Law gods fought the Ruin gods (back when the "gods of chaos" as we know them were almost always called "ruinous powers" instead)

>gw wanted to get rid of fantasy

Shame on them for it.

>just being a baby

Being a baby and getting angry at a company for constantly taking a fat steaming load over a world(s) you care about to give hardcore felatio to a single faction at the expense of all others are two different things.

>>53107249
Green cat.

>>53107249

child bearing hips

>>53107249
Death of Eldar culture

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Did anyone else feel like the Executrix seemed sorta, bent? Like the axis of the upper part didn't meet the axis of the upper layers.

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I like the look of the smaller cockpit's viewport.

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>>53107451
Wrong image, though I love that helmet guy too, unless he actually *IS* Ezra,

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of all the pics in my character art folder, this is the only one with tattoos

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>>53105542
Wait a minute, this guy looks familiar..

>>53104384

>Makes a new modern thread
>Says no kitchen table

Mcgofuck yourself

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>Playing?
Jund Shadow, Grixis; Shadow, Control, Delver Azorius Control.
>Brewing?
Sultai Delver
>Metagame thoughts?
I wouldn't mind seeing a control deck in tier 1 again.
>Bans/Unbans?
I don't see any bans or unbans happening.
Wizards realizes Blue and White are underpowered in Modern and I believe they will print pushed cards to shake things up (ex. Fatal Push).