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I just had a dream of a RTS version of chess and checkers.

where do I patent it?

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In all seriousness, why are men who love traditional games more "bookish" than their sports-loving peers?

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Reminder that John Blanche is the greatest 40k artist of all time.

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Excuse me, Commissar, but I was told that all new recruits have to provide you a urine sample within three days of arriving.

...sorry, sir, but the recaff cup was the only container we had.

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Are the BETA pretty much Tyranids done right?

>invade from space
>various species
>outnumber the stars themselves
>all about eating anything and everything especially you're waifu
>regard humanity as nothing more than more shit to eat
>hax biology-based capabilities
>nearly impossible to get rid of once they establish a foothold
>psychically directed by a greater intelligence strain

How would they fare in 40K?

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Excuse me Autarch, but why do we even bother with using Farseers to predict the future. Especially with the latest debacle caused by that asshole Eldrad who nearly doomed our race, it seems to me that our 'Farseers' seem to be in fact, nearsighted. Whenever we need them most to predict the future and allow us to be forever one step ahead of the enemy- they fail us and we all die. When fighting Monkeigh gene-mutants it seems to be especially useless, with them sometimes even managing to out-psyker us.

Frankly I don't even see a point to the Path of the Seer if all it does is enact self fulfilling prophecies that always lead to our destruction. We'd be better off using our Farseers to teleport bombs onto enemy ships.

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I've played with this concept before but I want to fully generate a World based off this premise.

How could I realistically generate a low-fantasy World with the ability to stand a remote chance? Perhaps not directly militarily but with a far greater ratio of already equipped and mobilized armies.

What I've got so far is that a Post-Napoleonic pre-WW1 Serbia (not in theme but in industrial background) is approaching the European Colonial mind-set far later than in our World, they're a land-locked nation, so they have no naval-technology; thus forcing their pioneers to be trappers or company expeditions and etc..

However after decades of expanding their borders with sparse hill-forts of little over 1000 people per region (like early USA). They encounter a nation from this low-fantasy cluster, I'm not talking about native-American tier without writing or any significant tech. I'm thinking of early middle ages, mixed with pre-Meji Restoration Japan (Tokugawan/Shogunate Japan). In my mind this rationalizes a massive standing army (of each individual nation) relative to not-Serbia.

With the aforementioned massively underpopulated but claimed borderlands around not-Serbia this also rationalized vast campaigns and massive opportunity for pitched-battles. Where the fantasy armies may have the initial upper-hand at large casualties or visa-versa with a dominant power being utterly crushed, worrying the fantasy-realms at large.

Any thoughts anons?

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How would you make a generic system? What mechanics would you use? This is going to have to work as a catch-all system, and the rules must fit into 1 or 2 posts. It has to be something you actually want to play for more than one session, too.

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Alright /tg/, I have a friend doing some kind of DnD game, and the premise of the quest is that some druid or elf shitstain decided he couldn't bear being in a city away from the forest, and fucked up.

He caused a chain reaction that sprouted a 200 acre or so forest, right in the middle of the damn castle town, causing mass mayhem and crippled half the kingdom.

This was all hundred or more years ago and adventurers are still trying to find things of value, and trying to deforest the damn place just makes more grown and monsters have taken up residence.

Fucking elves, right?

Now I need a quest hook for him, and likely not the typical "find source and kill/take it", since he's the type to go complicated.

What would you do?

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what is /tg/'s favorite type of goblins?
mine is the night goblins from warhammer fantasy.

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>Halo tabletops?

Yeah based on the video games. There are 2 Halo: Fleet Battles, 1:20,000 space battles game, which is currently being reworked and is slated to comeback on January and Halo: Ground Command, a 15mm wargame, which uses the Halo: Reach models. They are made by Spartan Games

>Spartan Games? Aren't those guys that constantly move from one new game to another one?

Yeah, thankfully MS/343 has then on a 3 year contract at least for ground command, which requires then to constantly pump out ground command models, with terrain, Ghosts variants, and Warthog variants already out, Pelicans shipping this week and Phantoms shipping in 3 weeks.

Scorpion with variants as well as wraiths with variants have also been announced for next month, more Elites variants like Ultras (which were already ready but were changed at last minute to be zealots instead), Jackals, and be variants of Hunters, as well as ODSTs (with a Jetpack variant coming out first), snipers (same deal with than the Ultras) and marines should soon follow.

Furthermore by February Halo wars 2 units have already been announced (the Jackrabbit from the beta) and the Banished have been confirmed to be a new third faction, with Prometheans also hinted at.

Even further beyond, the Scarab should be coming by July, and there is also a whole bunch of other units that are coming, like the SkyHawk, which are coming and we just don't know when.

In short, they seem to have a rather pack schedule.

>But I heard there are delays?

There were delays on the initial box set because of the unprecedented demand, and the Pelican (and by extension the Phantom) suffered delays because of last minute changes by MS, but box sets have been delivered and Pelicans ship this week, with Phantoms following 3 weeks later.

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Curious about MYFAROG. Yes, yes of course it's Vargs game and is heavily influenced by his world view, racism, white nationalism, etc etc.

But have any of you played it? How was the experience? I think the iron age setting is really neat and I'm eager to get my hands on it (worst case scenario I blew 13 bucks) but was really interested in hearing other perspectives.

Inb4 /pol/

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>you and your party enter the lair of the lich lord
>see this

what do you do

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How could a resurrection quest work in a hard sci-fi setting?

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Alright, my elegan/tg/entlemen, I'd appreciate a little help.

I need mech names to fill tournament brackets. Organic automatons, junkers, and sophisticated warbots from a diverse array of worlds are included.

Thanks in advance!