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Part of this idea came from me liking the "ongoing story" potential of zombie survival. Like, you can start out with this group and just keep going until all the original members are dead. I wouldn't use zombies but I like them as a good background / cannon fodder enemy. And fuck it, it's good for attracting "normies" which I want because I think they would be most into it. They're all into the Walking Dead.
Another part of this idea came from my friend and I's huge dissatisfaction with State of Decay. I liked the premise, hell I may just rip off the starting event. Oh you come back from your camping trip to find the world in shambles. It clashes with a few of my ideas for opening scenarios but I can find a way to work it in.
My biggest problem is what I call initial infection vector. Cause Max Brooks is obviously full of shit, and I think that even a Walking-Dead-style plague where "everyone is infected lmao" is too slow. Something needs to cause a good 50% of the population to die and become zombies within, say, 72 hours. That's the only reason that (1) it will actually shock the players and give them trouble, instead of giving them months to set up a cabin in the woods before the zombies even become a problem, and (2) actually fully overwhelm the United States government and infrastructure.

So I am going with your average bloodborne bite-borne zombie virus, with a few differences. One, fuck the 24 hours turning time that Walking Dead and Max Brooks seemed to use. One of my favorite parts of the Contagion video game was that you could get hit by a zombie and start to become "infected" and your screen would grow gray and stuff owuld sound weird until you turned. This took place over the course of 3 or 4 minutes. Now, I'm not sure I want it *quite* that fast, but I want something pretty close. Basically, you get bit, you got time to say goodbye and eat a last meal, but it's going to be painful because you are feeling stranger and stranger. So getting bit means you're likely to either cap off a bunch of zombies then yourself, or lead them off with a grenade, or something else cool. I want this infection to move fast. World War Z may have been a shitty movie (I enjoyed it, personally) but I liked how tense and overwhleming the first few minutes were when zombies just took over everything in hours.

So, I can't decide if I should have waterways get infected? Or a vaccine that most people are getting? Or maybe just 50% of the population has to be immune? I am trying to think of something that would infect a good 25 to 50% of the population over a few days, but would have something in common that I could use to explain the characters being spared (hence why a camping trip start might not be a bad idea).

Whaddya think? inb4 i'm a faggot for running a zombie campaign. Gives me a chance to use pic related. And sorry for splitting into 3 posts, I was sick of getting the "field too long" error message. Thanks for any advice you may have /tg/

Alien virus from a meteor. Gives you free reign to say how it mutates because "lol its brand new"
Control the virus, control the zombies.

>>50312629
Are you time traveller? Because for the rest of the world it's either Saturday or Sunday now.

>>50312655
>literally retarded
He's burger it'll be Black Friday.
>>50312629
Talk with your local non-GW shops, everything online will maintain their prices as they're not US based companies. If you like the look of Malifaux though, Wyrd does a huge Black Friday sale

>>50312629
Possibly GW site / GW stores.

Rumor mill is saying they're planning actually good sales.

But nothing confirmed yet so

Some of us are all right, thank you very much.

>>50309591
b&ys

Usually alright and well behaved for the most part. They actually want to play the game rather than engage in group political drama.

>>50308412
If you play correspondence chess, then yes.

>>50308412
But you get 4 more Fritzes

>Paying more than AAA-price for a video game
>For a chess video game
>Chess, a "game" on the razor edge of being completely mathematically solved and which humans have given up on beating computers ever again
God, please help the children of this age. They know not what they do.

>>50308302
She is cunningly brutal.

She is brutally cunning.

>>50308302
Good taste in Assassins. Vindicare are great.

IIRC from my quick skimming after I picked up that Humble Bundle I think the players work together and create a house and the characters within that house.

I'd see how the do it. If they make lots of maesters amd nobles then it'll be mostly political stuff.
Lots of hedge knights and the like it can be more combat focused like the usual stuff.
Best bet is a combination of the two.

>>50308199
SIFRP is a little weird. Player agency is less than it normally is, since the house itself is the important part. Characters can be compelled regardless of what the player wants.
Also, the system tends to assume that characters are less competent than they really are.
And anyone interested in fighting had better invest in endurance. It's the one thing between dying instantly and being horribly wounded, and the more you have, the more times you get to say no to death.

If they are fans, be sure to throw a few curveballs to let them know their actions have impact. It is satisfying and keeps them from getting too meta.

Also, don't let them be the House Lord if they're newbies.

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>>50307317
There. I did the thing.

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shots fired

>>50307134
Reserve companies usually work as drivers/pilots/space ship officers. But well, Librarium, apothecarium and forge masters are usually off-grid in the organization. And chaplains are supernumerary within the company as are the command squads. However it is rare for a chapter to be at perfectly strength, so it compensates somehow.

It's kinda a weird - do all main companies travels with reserve companies in order to have tank drivers?

>>50307311
Chapters usually don't work as a monolithic organization. They'll make ad-hoc task forces from whatever they can afford right there. If they see they'll need to deploy a lot of fellas by rhino, they'll send some reservists to support.
Let's say they send half motorized company which has 5 rhinos and a razorback for the command squad (including also the company Chaplain). Six vehicles with 12 drivers(for example from the 6th company). Also they'll deploy from a Strike Cruiser that requires a captain and 4-5 officers (maybe from the devastator reserve company). Three thunderhawks to put everything on land means another 6 marines (let's say pilots are from the assault reserve company). Also a couple of predators (4 more marines) and a whirlwind for AA-support (2 more) Add 5 techpriests to keep everything running and a couple of apothecaries and you have a considerable strike force.

2nd company main force: 56 marines (including chaplain and two company dreads)
6th reserve support: 18 marines
7th reserve support: 5 marines
9th reserve support: 6 marines
Forge: 5 techpriests
Apothecarium: 2 marines.

Also consider that if necesary, every marine knows how to pilot and drive every vehicle. And that the support can also do more things like holding rearguard key positions.


However they do not have to send the rhinos everywhere. If they deploy from dropping pods the reserve support may be different.

Some games have people alternate phases, chopping a single turn up. Most RPGs and wargames have people roll for initiative.

>>50306786
For years in MtG the player who goes first does not draw a card on their first turn. Players are said to be "on the play" (going first) or "on the draw" (going second). Going first is still seen as a modest advantage and players winning a dice off will usually (But not always depending on deck and format) choose to go first. For "best of" series in tournament play, after the first game the loser gets choice of first or second.

>>50306786
There are games (Diplomacy off the top of my head, but there are others) that have simultaneous turns with hidden orders. Players write down orders ahead of time and then they are revealed and resolved simultaneously.

>>50306340
>>>/qst/

>>50306340
A little girl's pet has escaped and the party is tasked with retrieving it.
The girl is the wizard's daughter and the pet is a baby dragon
The city is in danger until it's retrieved.

>>50306358
That's not what that board is for, mate

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>>50306358
This isn't a quest thread in the "choose your own adventure" style per /qst/ guidelines.

This is "I would like some help with my dungeons and dragons game." Did you even read the post?

>>50306060
Think of any WH40K character.

There ya go.

>>50306177
Salty.

>>50306262
>this is LITERALLY the best 40kfaggots can do

>>50304921
Xenos fear the samurai.

>>50304921
This would be much better if there was the front of Horus Aximands face flying away.

Is that Kumadori face paint?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wcuoxs4mU

I used to from the release of the game up until lock was a thing. That's when I quit, not because lock was a thing but because I also played Yugioh and had other things going on and vanguard was the least important thing at the time. I got out right before Dauntless Drive Dragon came out. That seemed really cool. I played some games later with Link Joker Chaos Breaker. That deck was really neat.

I really miss DOTE

I think this was my list

1 Conroe
4 Genjo
4 Tahr
4 Blue Ray Dracokid
4 Gatling Claw Dragon

4 Bahr
4 Heatnail Salamander
4 Barri
2 Genjo / other (this spot swapped a lot)

4 Nehalem (the 10k vanilla)
4 Burning Horn Dragon
3 Bellicosity Dragon / Berserk Dragon (this spot also swapped a lot)

4 Dragonic Overlord
4 The End

It's pretty standard for the time but it was good and super fun. My friends played Dudley Emperor, Lawkeeper, Ezel, Duke, Tsuku, MLB, vermillion and Stern Blaukluger. Duke friend also had some granblue deck that used undead dragon skull dragon but he didn't play it too much. I eventually picked up an Ezel deck because I thought winning the die roll and being at G3 when your opponent is on G1 was fun. In my DOTE list I only had 4 gatling claw to hit opposing starters. I much preferred 12 crit but hitting their G0s was too important.

There was one game where I was at five damage, all unflipped and have just been attacking their RG for days with DOTE and he kept letting DOTE hit but I wasn't ever drawing into my second through fourth copies. I attack his vanguard and he doesn't block it, drive check crit and DOTE, stand, hit with bellicosity and unflip the damage, attack again with DOTE, drive check two more DOTES and stand again, he hits a 6th damage heal trigger and then I stand again and attack with DOTE a fourth time with crit 3.

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>online game STILL not out
>no word on it since fucking May
>allegedly it will use a hearthstone like system for packs and such
>Reverse units were never good other than Amon and Lacquer but I really dig them despite the edgelord factor
J U S T

>>50307066
Reverse units were cool. Ashlei was good (I think, I'm the dote guy from above)

Daiyusha, Dauntless, Dragonic Overlord and Chaos Breaker Dragon + Infinite Zero Dragon are cool.

When I came back for a little while I don't know what was meta but my friend was playing Narukami with the Breakride with chainsaws that makes me retire two dudes or something and I think Gauntlet Buster and the guy that stands if he doesn't hit or something. He also had a blau and Ashlei reverse deck that were fun to play. Bermuda Triangle heart prisms were just around the corner when I got out again.

The G4 Kagero before strides with 13000 seemed good but I never played enough games with my friend who had that deck to really get to know it, only like five or six games. I know it was good, what was the G3 configuration?

What is meta now? I know The End got a Legion, is that competitive?

>Online isn't out yet
is there any decent unofficial online?

Have you heard of Bart Andreioli or something? I'm from the same area as him and he and I were about even in matches. I just never went to large tournaments.

>>50304577
>$8.30 per figure

Already ordered some.

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>>50304577
>83 dollaridoos for 10 figs
Let it all burn

General /tg/ music thread too, I guess

desu, all my DnD plotlines are based on songs by Rainbow, DIO, or Dio-era Sabbath

OP needs Jesus

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