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>>51079136

>>51079136
I think that would get you a cult following of people talking about how brilliant it is while everyone else says it's stupid.

I think it'd be enough to just include some little snippet of information about every character.

So you could have a dozen statistically identical units, but then there's a chart listing them like
>Gus: Enjoys birdwatching.
>Ann: Got embarrassing tattoo when younger.
>Samir: Always takes first dates to play mini-golf.
>Lynn: Owns full DVD collection of Golden Girls
>Jack: Recently started dying his gray hairs.

It cuts right to the point, and saves you a lot of work.

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>>51079376
OH MY FUCKING GOD GOOGLE IM TIRED OF TELLING YOU WHAT IS A STREETSIGN

>>51079052
Because D&D has a hard on for underground murdermazes that it calls 'ruins' and 'dungeons' despite them having no logical reason to exist. Having this obsession it therefore needs to put creatures int he underground places, but needs them to be bigger than a mole so it fudges the math to get it to work.

>>51079099
Don't get me wrong, I love underground stuff too. Dwarf kingdoms are my jam, but I also love world building and every time it gets to populating a mountainous region... I have trouble conceiving of reasons WHY there would be, say, kobolds in that cave network. It just seems like such a sub-optimal living environment for large communities of medium sized creatures.

Sure snakes and shit can survive because they need to each one lizard twice a month, but a whole tribe of kobolds? WHERE are they finding all the food to sustain themselves?

For that instances, how the fuck to dwarves feed their underground kingdoms? Am I supposed to believe they feed thousands of individuals with cave lichen?

>>51079052
>How to large tribes survive in caves / underground in regards to food acquisition?
Most of them are either not large tribes (12-15 people isn't large and can survive off scavenging local resources while staying on the move, much like similar surface-dwellers do) or use agriculture, same as surface-dwellers. In most fantasy settings, the underground cavern systems are similar to above-ground environments, just the details change. Instead of grain, it's moss. Instead of cows, it's oversized vermin. Etc.

>How does an underground dwelling race manage to feed all of its people?
See above. Short answer: agriculture.

>Why not move out of the caves into the surrounding countryside where food and materials would be more readily available?
Competition from other surface-dwellers. Adaptations to underground living that become unusable above ground. Potential lack of resources (if you're adapted to lick dew from stalactites/stalagmites and eat cavern moss, surface foods may not be edible to you, much like how mosses and fungus's aren't really edible to modern humans)

>Certainly if you can forge weapons, you can build a shelter.
Why bother when you're adapted for caverns and caverns are their own shelter. There's no weather in caves, no changing of the seasons, so you don't have to worry about abundance dropping off at some point. Your agriculture works year-round, which is likely not the case above-ground.

This is basically autism, yes. If you can accept that basic conditions can be different in fantasy settings, you can accept that stuff lives under ground.

So can a high rank of HSDW basically do everything magecraft can, but better?

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In the time it took for the thread to die, I finished the entire Hero tree. That just leaves Rogue for perks, then I do Magic things.

http://pastebin.com/u4hKJ6hY

Let me know how it looks.

>>51078367
Yay. I think I'll stay as a Tac/Comm.
>>51078393
I that's been stated in the past. Rune Magic overpowers it at the cost of requiring preparation though

>>51078215

His air was filtered through a chest unit, fed to him through the mask by a rubbery hose. Still, it left a bitter taste, a gritty texture on his tongue. He knew the air was likely killing him, in spite of his protective equipment.
Did he ever think about that? Did he dread the thought of flesh rotting from his bones, his internal organs liquefying?
If he did, then he might have consoled himself with another thought: that death by radiation was a slow and lingering death, and therefore one that he would almost certainly not live to experience.
They had classified this planet a ‘death world’ with good reason.
‘It has already been calculated that you cannot win this battle. That is not your objective. Your objective is to ensure that victory costs the enemy dearly.
‘The enemy’s resources far outweigh your own. For every second you stand against his guns, however, you deplete those resources. You make him weaker.
‘The price of this achievement, in return, is only that resource most abundantly available to us, most easily replenished. The price is that which is already the Emperor’s by rights. Praise be to our father, our guardian.
‘Today, you face defeat, at the small cost of your worthless lives. But die bravely, die hard, and your meagre sacrifice will help pave the way for His most glorious triumph in the future. Praise be to the Emperor!’
The stirring speech concluded with a tinny fanfare.
The young trooper could see them now. Rather, he could see a cloud of disturbed dust billowing along the horizon, presaging the enemy army’s advance. The angry growls of machine-spirits were carried to him on the ragged wind. Soon, for the first time in his short life, he would have to fight.
His first battlefield. Almost certainly his last.

>>51078249

The young trooper had been trained – more than that, he had been bred – to show no fear. Did that mean he didn’t feel it? He had been taught to ask no questions, but did that mean he didn’t wonder? Did he ponder the value of a human soul?
The city had been lost a long time ago. Millennia, in fact.
It had no worth of which the young trooper was aware, neither strategic nor mineral. He would die for it, all the same, because that was what he had been birthed to do. It was not only his duty, but his destiny.
And, after all, this city was home to him – in a way – although he had never seen the sky above it before today. For uncountable generations, his people had fought and died here for the barren soil beneath his feet. Each serving the same intangible greater good, each seeking the redemption of this God-Emperor-damned world.
The young trooper’s home world. The only world he had ever known. A death world by the name of Krieg.
Elsewhere in the ruins, something had been woken by the percussion sounds of battle. Something that had slept for many nights and many days and ought to have been long-dead by rights. Something with barely enough strength left to lift its globular head. But it lifted its head, anyway, and strained with the muscles in its six half-wasted limbs to push its belly up off the ground. Dust and debris sloughed from the creature’s back as, inexorably, it hauled itself into a standing position.It was dead. At least, as good as. Sustained only by an overwhelming biological imperative. A primordial need that wouldn’t grant the creature peace until it had been satisfied. The need to ensure the continuance of its genetic material.
The need to breed.

>>51078280

The attacking soldiers numbered in the low thousands.
They were preceded across the battlefield, and partially shielded, by lightly-armoured support vehicles. The young trooper made out six or seven of these. Not many, and from this distance they looked ancient, barely serviceable.
The vehicles’ turrets, however, were each manned and he had no reason at all to doubt that their pintle-mounted heavy stubbers were in working order.
It was the soldiers themselves, however, who presented the most fearsome sight, marching in step with backs straight and rifles shouldered, apparently heedless of the peril they were parading towards. As if they knew themselves to be invincible. Their faces were concealed by the gas masks they wore. Could it have been by chance that these lent them the appearance of hollow-eyed skulls, the symbol of death itself?
Of course, the soldiers were only men. The young trooper knew this, as well as anyone could. He had known these men, many of them, all his life. He had no way of telling, though, which ones he had grown up with, studied, trained and been drilled alongside. Like him, these soldiers had no names. And no faces any longer.
Like a force of nature – an irresistible, implacable force – the Death Korps of Krieg bore down upon the young trooper’s lonely position.
‘Wait for it,’ the general’s vox-augmented voice cautioned. ‘Hold your fire until it can have the greatest possible effect. A shot fired too soon is a shot wasted.’
The young trooper had been bred to show no fear.
But most men would have fled or at least frozen in terror by now.
‘Far better to die with your weapon fully loaded than to empty it in vain. Your weapon can always be recovered and used again.’
The young trooper crouched inside his half-demolished, brick-built turret. He held the butt of his standard M35 lasgun to his shoulder. He betrayed no weakness. He maintained his rigid, muscle-locked stance, his trigger finger poised. Waiting.

Poots senpai noticed us

>>51077871
OP fucked up with the image.

I want Pond Scum and Anon to go on a sexual misadventure.

>>51077078
Don't you fucking even, fucker.

I catan't, sorry

>>51077078

id get arbys more if you didnt have to spend alot of cash to get full

How the fuck are they good if they rampage around eating people?

I can't stand this setting

Not only are humans completely helpless against the giants but the fans are delusional about this being a good thing

Is this like one of these h-games where you are supposed to lose in order to masturbate? How many times does a player have to reroll a character?

>>51076755
It's all true at the same time depending on where you are in the galaxy.

>>51076755
Depends. Cadians are very well trained and are brought up with a Guard mindset for the most part, so mixed regiments likely work better for them than they would for a different planet's tithed guardsmen.
Plus Mira was just the most senior surviving officer on the planet, it's possible she led a female regiment until the point all her superiors were ork'd to death.

Honestly though just do what you want, it's a big galaxy and half the fluff contradicts the other half so whatever.
I mean there are limits, but mixed gender regiments aren't going to rustle any jimmies

>>51076911
So there is not much fluff on females in IG?

I saw female IG models some time ago, and I've been wondering if they are official GW stuff or some sort of third party conversions.

And as for Mira, you might be right, but at one point in the game, a guardsman has a talk with her, and it is quite clear she is not only his superior, but also a friend, which suggests they served together for quite a bit.

Then again, it might be that they bonded over the shit that is going on, and I don't think it's ever said for how long the IG held their ground on the planet.

I was also wondering if anyone have heard or read about any other notable characters like her.

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>>51075569

Being OP

>>51075502
Spears with two tips aren't exactly unusual. And fighting with two javelines is basically a "shit, I don't have a proper shield, better turn those javelines with the javelines I'm holding in my off-hand!"-type situation.

When you say twin spears do you mean a double weapon like your pic or just two spears? I guess in either case the spears would probably be better, though in the case of using two spears it's probably a closer match

>>51075064
The tent is pitched in Hades Hive, over a dark background of poverty, and no sunlight.

>>51075064
>camera pans over studio
>clapping
> Jeremy: Thank you, Thank you! Today we will be heading out of the hive into the wasteland killing some xeno scum! I feel so giddy with joy that I could pleasure a Grox
>James: There are families watching this, you know that.

>>51075535
>Jeremy: Today, we will be heading out of the Hive to purge Orks in the emperors name
>Hammond: Oh bloody hell.

>>51075004
Spazzing out in the open does not stop bullets, so not much.

>>51075004
Mine pretends to be GAR to hide his cripplingly low self-esteem, and it works except for the times when he breaks down sobbing from a minor mistake that didn't cause much trouble to the party.

>>51075004
He "died" after losing a fight with AI hell-bent on subduing minds of all of humanity but was capable of resurrecting one of his comrades before his mind was erased. (AI committed suicide a week later). Said comrade continued his work and was able to half-break necro-nazis and free the living population from their clutches. Though Reich itself and its leader are still more or less intact.

>>51074938
>sounds like something that would
sounds like you already found your solution

>>51074938
>fixed point in space
what is relativity

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>>51075676
>>51075676
Obviously not what you think it is.

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>>51074453
>GM presents a colorless, almost dead world
That is literally me and I feel very ashamed because of that

>>51074453
Persevere OP, when you finally find that rare group that is absolutely wonderful it will be all the sweeter because of the suffering you had to endure beforehand.
(Also keep the contact details for good DM's and players so if need be you can Frankenstein your own group together from the best players you've met.)

>>51074453
You don't give up on RPGs.
You become a ForeverGM.

>>51074169
>The monsters are for an encounter, which are small sub-fights you can trigger during the hunt phase. Not a new quarry.

That's even better.

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This concept art dump has some pure gold in it.

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Satan Pledge - $1666
Amy - $20
Cany/Cola - $20
Pathfinders - $60
Extra rulebook - $40
Dice x2 - $40
Base Inserts x2 - $40

That's nearly $1900 plus shipping plus $175 for the sleeves kickstarter.

If my wife finds out she will leave me.

Also, how many base inserts add on do I need to base the whole game and expansions?