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What supplement would you pitch if you could?

Good. I was going to have to make the general. No one wanted that.

>>49408073
Succubus.

I would show you the opening fiction, but this is a blue board.

What's the strangest working deck you've ever played against?

>>49419274

>inb4 that dude shitposts his own spellweaver helix deck again

>>49419274
I dont even know he called it but i played against some guy at my lgs who was playing a deck i had never seen before.
He was running full playsets of kor firewalker and blood moon, ajani elspeth and nahiri and land destruction package.
I dont know how well he did against others but his deck was basically designed to beat burn so i got stomped.
Also restore balance is a hilariously jank deck that can still win

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>>49422665
How the fuck do I map out a small city?

>>49422691
First answer, get Vornheim and alter the tables.

Second answer, don't. Map general areas in the city, and make a few random tables to work out what happens if the players go wandering in that area. Generally cities are less about the exact route, and more about knowing the place exists. You'd never find that great club wandering your city at night, but as soon as you know the address you can go right to it.

City adventures are more about who and what you know, and what the consequences are when you kick the anthill.

>>49422789
Alright, thanks

>>49419164

The mohawk custodes mini is a special custodes fag I believe.

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If the Custodies are just single pose miniatures I will be incredibly disappointed.

That will mean that buying it results in 7 models useless for anyone wanting to just buy this for expanding their legion.
>inb4 "just sell those or trade them"
no wolf fags or Sons fags in my area, and the few I know would just buy this set anyway. The HQs from Calth were perfect for converting or using in other legions, not these special character bullshit... It should have been a generic librarian and a preator or centurion...


After 2 Battle of Calth sets I already have 30 Tacticals, 20 Veterans, 2 five man Devastators and 10 terminators.

I don't see why this set would give so much of the same shit. I can only hope the MkIII will be made with new roles, like breachers and assault marines... otherwise what is the goddamn point besides just the aesthetics.

Its not even out yet and it feels already like a waste of an opportunity...

>>49419557
Supposedly a Custodes sergeant-equivalent.

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>>49414655
Then Sunday comes along and we play, and I still get no satisfaction. I've spent the entire week getting things right and ready to go, and the players all say they enjoy it, but I don't enjoy the process at all. I spend half of the session standing up so I can manipulate the map, and I'm keeping track of dozens of numbers at a single time, as well as details like appearance, personality, tools, goals...I can't catch a single break until the session is over, and then I'm just tired, like I spent a 5 hour presentation talking about my research for the week and already am starting to think about how the things the players changed will affect the next week.
Hell, I don't even know if I enjoy playing, because I got my group into the game out of a vague interest and a starter set, and I've been DMing since. The several times I've tried to play the groups have fallen apart due to bad scheduling or been unenjoyable Official League games.
But I know for a fact that I'm not currently enjoying DMing, even though I wish I could have fun and keep enabling my friends to do so, and it's adding greatly to my stress and draining my limited time.
How do you enjoy GMing?

I don't enjoy GMing. I do it because it gives our imaginative yet slow main GM a chance to plan for "long enough". I just run glorified dungeon crawls so we get it over with. I hate every other weekend being a wasted session. Not to mention when people cancel and he calls off the whole session over one person.

Fuck you, Travis.[/slow]

The answer is - you stop overpreparing. Apart from some autistic manchildren on /tg/, no one expects you to have a myriad encounters planned out and all deviations due to players' actions accounted for. There's great pleasure in improvising and letting your players go wild, with you tagging along to see how far you can take it without breaking it.

Before the session I usually have a few possible clusters of NPCs, locations and plot hooks in mind (none of it too detailed) as well as a few statblocks in case my players to ask for trouble and start some combat. And that's it - none of that overpreparing and worrying nonsense.

A good trick to know is that combat is, ironically, your best friend. Confused as to the direction in which your players are dragging the plot? Throw something to kill at them. While they are throwing dice at it, you have some time to process potential plot progression.

>I can't catch a single break until the session is over
You're the GM. All you have to say is "guys, 15 minutes break y'all, go grab a drink". The party won't go on without you.

Additionally, quantity does not necessarily equal quality. Instead of describing an NPC in detail, especially if he's unimportant, just give him one-two quirks and traits that stand out. They are much more likely to be memorable while reducing the load on you.

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>>49408033
This would be hilarious to play in sealed

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Would be perfectly happy opening this

>>49408033
Gonna retry every time I don't get an Invention.

Skirmishers and cav charges. Basically everything but a phalanx

I imagine Orcs probably have REALLY stupid tactics to work amazing due to brute forcing it. For instance, l could see them launching Goblins at settlements using Catapults in a weird, twisted suicide bombing.

Don't do barbarian orcs, that's fucking lame.

Just steal the dnd hobgoblin template, rigidly militarized and organized with heavy emphasis on squad-level tactics.

>>49418988
>He'd walk out off the ships training room. One hand clutching his side, while the other is nursing a black eye.

>>49419035
*he'd be walking along*
"Malak? Is that you? What's with the eye? And the suit?"

>>49418988
I already got shit for this in less than two minutes, so I'm going to explain this here and now.

The sole purpose of Jericho is to give the regiment it's orders and news. NOTHING ELSE!

He is in no way a character meant for anything else. He is like Central from the old threads. A background character that doesn't give orders or anything else! Just delivers the news!

>>49417801
It doesn't have anything to do with IRL barbarians.
I believe it's simply because the axe looks that much more menacing and violent, what with the chopping and all.

>>49417997
I think the axe looks like shit and your mother is a cum dumpster who fucked half of the city while her inept beta husband (whom you mistakenly believe to be your father) was working his ass off.

Barbarian is a useless descriptor for a historic people. They never existed 'in real life'. The word just comes from a slur Greek speakers used against non-Greek speakers.

Repostin'.

>>49411146
Yeah, you're right.

How many Land Raiders and/or Blast Templates is too much? I love Nuncio-vox models and pay for them anyways, even if there are no barrage or deep-striking units in my army, but I can never really find a use for them. I feel like taking a ton of Barrage weapons to make the most out of Ironfire is a dick move though, and I like playing casual games. The same goes for bringing tons of high AV/Flyers too.

>>49411295
>>49411253
>I love Nuncio-vox models and pay for them anyways, even if there are no barrage or deep-striking units in my army, but I can never really find a use for them. I feel like taking a ton of Barrage weapons to make the most out of Ironfire is a dick move though, and I like playing casual games. The same goes for bringing tons of high AV/Flyers too.
Then don't ride the Ironfire, bring the Hammer of Olympia instead.
...errr, for that you'd need Iron Havocs and Tyrants, I guess. But you'd be able to fit those Land Raiders you want.

Yo, check out my Ember Wolves list. Uses the Onslaught Force Org. 3000 points. Obviously not anything I plan on using regularly or without letting my opponents know in advance, but it could be fun for something.

Legio Audax/World Eaters
HQ: Praetor
-Jump Pack
-Artificer Armor
-Iron Halo
-Digital Lasers
-Master Craft a weapon
-Paragon Blade

Troops:
Legion Assault Squad
-20 men
-Chainaxes
-Sergeant: Meteor Hammer

Elites:
Apothecarion
-Apothecary w/ Jump Pack

The Red Butchers
-8 Terminators + Devoured
-Chainfist and Power Fist

Fast Attack
2x Javelin Attack Speeder
-Lascannon
-Multi-melta

Heavy Support
Kharybdis Assault Claw

Leviathan Siege Dreadnought
-Pod
-Cyclonic Melta Lance
-Siege Drill
-Ceramite

Lords of War:
The Primarch Angron
Warhound Titan
-2x Double-barrelled Turbo Laser Destructor

3k on the button. Low in unit count, but titan.

>>49404991
I have this issue currently, and the player slowed it down after people stop saying "Plague mask AGAIN!"

I have reason to believe they're baiting for attention, and the phase will end like a goth phase would for most teens.

>>49404991
I'm playing a plague doctor RIGHT NOW, and she's not even an alchemist. She's a light cleric.
The reason for their polarity is... Plague doctors look cool! They have this spooky, unusual costume that nobody else really used - and unlike, say, ninjas, they actually used it historically. However, despite that, plague doctors have almost minimal presence in popular culture (I can't remember them appearing in video games outside of Darkest Dungeon, for example), so they're not an overused cliche yet.

I recommend you do not try to change them. If they are thst annoying, kick them from the group. As boring as it sounds, some people can only roleplay one trope or character type. My players made the mistake if pressuring our rogue player (who has played rogues for 4 years now) into playing a cleric, and his enthusiasm and overall energy levels have plummeted. Not everyone can do every role. Let him be his eternal alchemist.

>>49399020
I wouldn't.

I wouldn't.

>>49399020
3 Cha
3 Wis
28 Int

>>49399034
Low WIS eh? I guess they autofail sense motive. But wouldn't they be decent at spot checks?

Absolutely nothing. (Uh-huh)

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Inspiring

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>>49417870
Comic relief

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>>49417004

selfbump

Mutants & Masterminds

Savage Worlds

>>49417004
There are several homebrew JoJo games.
https://i.4cdn.org/tg/1474163738882.pdf
Here's one

>>49413594

Bad writers.

>you can fit more bullets into a small area than batteries that hold enough charge for multiple shots stronger than the bullets.
I know I'll be accused of memeing, but depends on the setting. This rule is not always standard.

Furthermore, there are plenty of reasons to use ray guns in space- no chance of dangerous ricochet, precision around gravity wells (that aren't black holes), and instantaneous travel time. Being the standard in space may lead to them being the standard on the ground due to how mass production works, but again that depends on the setting.

>>49413594

Well, your efficiency argument is iffy since you're just arbitrarily declaring and defining how much charge it takes future technology to fire a lethal burst and how many of those it can fit into a battery. So, in your setting where the batteries work X way, such that they can't hold more than a gun's worth of ammo at a time, maybe it does make sense. Maybe in the future we get really good and compressing a lot of energy into small batteries necessary to fuel, say, spaceships.

But let's put it like this: space is about being inside a pressurised can whose insides are calibrated into the very narrow range of environmental conditions necessary for human life. These cans are surrounded by death and nightmares. Don't poke holes in the can. Physical projectiles pose a greater problem for the structural integrity of your shit than rayguns which mostly shoot light and heat.

Another way of looking at it is that the smaller your projectile, the easier it is to be deflected by air currents etc and so the harder it is to reliably be accurate at any meaningful range. So while you could argue that no matter how efficient laser pew pew tech becomes we could still have great guns that can fire basically forever because we're firing little needles of bullets - that's probably not great. That said, lasers would also suffer a similar problem with diffusion.

Finally, a lot of space future settings do still feature physical projectiles. Even Star Wars still has slug throwers, bows and arrows, fucking javelins. In 40K lasweapons are cheap and cost-efficient but the physical bolt throwers are the real killers.