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>wakes up clutching his head and mumbles
where am I? h-how long have I been out?

>>48108023
WHAT
WHY

>>48108023
>the constant noise of activity suddenly ceases from inside VB19. A voice cries out in joy, "'I'z done it!"

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Along the way you show them the most important features of the settlement such as the fruit bearing plants, the river Elivagar which courses through the forest nurturing the plants and the houses which the settlers built for themselves up in the trees.

"I still can't believe this is real."
Mila Rose marvels at the blue forest.

"Yeah, but I should have guessed.
Almost everyone here is male."

That caught your attention.
"I'm not going to argue that but why's that a problem?
It's true that there aren't many women around but what we have don't seem to have a problem living here."

Harribel looks at you.
"Maybe but hollows are often aggressive and savage, males even more so.
Don't you have problems with violence?"

"There's no real established law around other than us Arrancars stepping on those that start any trouble.
People mostly govern themselves and they even created several forms of "entertainment" for themselves.
The most popular of these is the fighting pit which is packed almost every day, it really helps relieve some tension.
Combine these with an abundant food source and people don't have many reasons to cause problems."

As you finish you can see the four hollows looking around and watching the denizens going about their business, they in turn also get a few odd looks but most people don't pay too much attention to them.
"How many people are here?"
Harribel asks.

"About a hundred.
It's hard to keep count of them."

"And what about your Arrancar friends?
I can't see them."
Mila Rose asks.

You shrug.
"They are probably doing their chores.
Most people help out with the maintenance of the village."

Just as you finish you hear a familiar voice calling out for you.
"Kaizar!"
You turn around and see Alex running towards you.
She screeches to a halt right next to you as she looks over the four Menos.
"You made some new friends?"

You introduce them to each other.

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The four female hollows look over Alex and give you a quizzical look.
"She's an Arrancar?
But she's so young."
Harribel wonders.

But Alex is not amused by this.
"So?
Arrancars aren't uncommon here."
She says with an annoyed look on her face.
"But wait, aren't you supposed to be a Vasto?
The only oddity around here is you!"
She asks after looking over Harribel.

She blinks a few times in surprise.
"Well, yes I am.
But..."

"But what?"

"How do you know I am one?"

She blows some raspberries as she answers.
"That's easy.
You look almost exactly like Kaizar did when he was one."

The four hollows all shift their eyes onto you.
"He was?"

You scratch the back of your head.
"Well, only for a short while."

There's an awkward pause in the conversation now.
What do you do?

>"So are you interested in moving in or not?"
>"Yeah I'll just leave you alone so you can make your decision."
>"If you are still unconvinced then join us for lunch."
>Other? (write-in)

>>48108028
>>"If you are still unconvinced then join us for lunch."
But the decision is still yours. Though once Aizen learns of you you might not have many places to go to get away from him.

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Yay it's Innocent Blood! Only more expensive!

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Library of Leng, pack your bags!

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Legendary spider? LEGENDARY SPIDER! Fire up those memedecks!

>>48101621
>Assault on Sol
Orange on the map
Civil War among the Astartes! Brother and brother fight against one another in the red road to Terra. The loyalists rush to defend their primarch, and the traitors rush to the appointed moment of the Warmaster's designs. The Astartes fight many terrible wars on many worlds across the stars as they make short warp-jumps across the Imperium. The fleets of the traitors and loyalists come to a head in space over Mars. The Traitors reach the Imperial palace first, and encircle the Custodes defending the Emperor of Mankind, beloved by all. The loyalists drop in soon after, both to reinforce the palace and to encircle the traitors themselves. The hunters became the hunted as the traitors were assaulted from within and without. Primarchs fight and kill each other, twisted daemons appear in the hives, and the Emperor takes the field. Just at the moment of sure victory, one of the Custodes takes off helm and stabs the Emperor in the back. Only a handful see it, the primarchs in the thick of the action, their honor guards, and the Custodes, but none of the soldiers. None of the people of Terra, and not most of the Astartes. Still, there are whispers. Rumors. The truth is known, even if the Primarchs will not speak of it: it was the Warmaster who killed the emperor.
Loyalist legions:
Paladins of Kor
Undying Scions
Hospitallers/Oathsworn
Fists of Mars
Warhawks
Sky Serpents
Loyalist Expedition military forces.
Traitor Legions:
All traitor legions not in the Great Hunt:
Judgement Bringers
Silver Spears
I'm still not sure what the dark mechanicus hacker legion is called.

>>48101621

>The Great Hunt
Red on the map
It's calth but with the names changed
Astartes muster on the Light Angels compliant world, Kreteia. They are to hunt down Eldar in a nearby system. However, they never make it to that world. In orbit above the planet, a series of network transmissions come on the loyalist vox. With subtle manipulation, the warmaster convinces the loyalists that the others have turned traitor. Hunter-killer viruses make the techno-server weapons target each other and fire. Seventeen hours of madness and death pass before the loyalists see the holes in the plot, and realize they have been fooled. In the meantime, traitor forces wreak havoc on the world below and sacrifice civilians to the Dark Gods. The loyalists flee to the east, and the traitors hunt them across the stars.

Loyalist legions:
The Void Lords
The Angels of Light
?????????????

Traitor Legions:
The Bloodhounds
Silver Spears
?????????????

>>48101621
Reposting a traitor legion concept from last thread:
>What's the name and heraldry
Gengrat Vannevar of the Behemoth Guard?

Raised in the Terrodyne Industrial Combine, working his way up through the works from the forge to Commandant of the entire Industrial Combine
His legion is clad in ivory plates with circuits and lightning devices, their emblem that of The Great Beast of Iron.
>Legion tactics
During the crusade, the legion made extensive use of auxiliary forces, often making use of penal battalions, prisoners of war, and servitors as cannon fodder, exhausting their enemies with an unending stream of worthless bodies before legionary boots crushed whatever remained beneath their relentless tread.
When time was short, the legion was noted for taking to the field in an array of customized heavy armor, most typically based on the Land Raider chassis, but often using less conventional vehicles, such as the Dracosan or even the Chimera.
They were among the foremost in integrating battle automata into the legion structure.
You call them in when the enemy is dug in, when a war of attrition is needed. Their wars are an excercise in controlled brutality and they leave nothing standing their wake.

>During the crusade
Gengrat was found early in the crusade, on a fog shrouded waste world bathed in the light of the Eye. The world was home to strange beasts and the people, who had regressed to an industrial stage kept them at bay with trenches, walls, and primitive armored vehicles, along with chemical weapons. The native mutation rate was high, and the worst affected were herded into massive distraction waves.

Their conquests were primarily in the galactic west, moving southwards.

The legion toppled the towers of the Horde-Masters of Kalrux Prime, matching their waves of chittering weapon-beasts with waves of servitors and the relentless pound of artillery.

To be honest, I'm a bit bummed about my campaign. Recently some of the players have started to miss many sessions, to the point where last week only 2 showed up. Somehow I still ran a session for them, completely improvised, and it was really fun, but still.

Man an Aarakora paladin would be bad ass... And no we play on fridays, and it didn't occur to me to celebrate last week.

I think the majority of D&D players are something akin to a 40 year old housewife’s sexuality. She’s been disappointed for so long that she’s convinced herself that she is satisfied as long as the goddamn Viagra works. Who cares that he’s still fat and out of shape and cannot pleasure her to save his life. She has such low standards for success, anything that isn’t total shit is looked at as a good thing.
I feel like that’s how D&D Next was greeted.
D&D fans have been so cock-starved for something that wasn’t shitty to 50% of the playerbase that they immediately deep-throated whatever Wizards put out.
A good point that another fellow on /tg/ brought up a few days back, is that the D&D designers, Mearls included, are not paid to write a good RPG; they are paid to write a new edition of D&D. Dungeons and Dragons’ identity is based on many aspects that are considered substandard. Alignment in particular is among them. Armor Class is vilified as a concept, but it cuts out a step from combat (subtracting armor from damage) that I think makes it worth it. Vancian magic is garbage outside of the context of D&D; but within the context of D&D it is a vital part of the game’s identity. This is a lot of why 4th Edition was vilified; not because it was a bad game, but because it wasn’t D&D.
Similarly, 3.0 garnered anger from AD&D players who believed it wasn’t D&D anymore. “Ability score increases? Skills? What the fuck is this?”
The game has also been schizophrenic in its tone; from the low-fantasy of AD&D to the ultra-high fantasy of 3.5 and 4e, to the sort-of middle ground of 5th edition.
That said, 5e has a lot of good aspects to it. I can’t say I like it as much as 3.5 because much of its improvements relate to simplicity. Simplicity is good but it doesn’t really help when you already know the other rules systems like the back of your hand, and they offer features that the new edition doesn’t.

>>48095872
Did you try speaking to them?

No?

You're a fucking retard, next.

>>48095885

Nah, you're a fucking retard, faggot. I'm sick of this lame-ass "talk to them" advice, if you've known these spergs you would know that these kind just like to troll and go on on long autistic arguments. They turn fucking everything into an argument because they think they are some Plato-tier debater.

No, they chose to take retarded actions, and I dealt out the consequences of those actions. That is part of the Gamemaster's job. If they can't handle, then they are the fucking queers who can find another group. What a bunch of pussy-ass babies. What I described wasn't even that disturbing and they deserved far worse for being retards and killing random people for no reason. I bet you think I should've held their hand and wanked off their shitty power trip fantasy because that's the GM's job. Fuck off, fag. The GM's job is not to suck the players' cocks. That's your mom's job.

>>48095872
>For every action, a reaction.

There you have it.

There are already different kinds. Blacksmiths, silversmiths, goldsmiths.

>>48094791
>not knowing that the 'black' referred to the type of metal being worked and how. 'black iron'.
There were tinsmiths and silversmiths.

>>48094791
It could work if there are than many different metals in a setting.

Saying Redsmith is easier than Adamantiumsmith

>>48094494
Barter in Blood is too good to see reprint in Creatures: the Tappening

>>48094523
Which is a good reason to print it as a mythic to sell more packs

13 2/2s seems kind of weak for an ultimate. Especially since the +1 is forcing a discard in a format with Madness.

>>48093964
Lawful Good is your actions and beliefs as a whole. You can be as racist as you like as long as you don't act on it, really.

>>48093964
I suppose so? A character being Lawful Good does not automatically mean that they have no flaws.

So long as you aren't murdering gnomes in the street just for being gnomes or something I don't see why not. Why the hell does it even matter what alignment your racist character is in a mechanical sense anyway?

Maille? Maille isn't too heavy if belted to your body and is easy to wear while traveling. Marchine in maille actually prevents it from rusting by keeping the links rubbing against it, and as maille is typically just one piece you can slip it on or off. No squire needed.

Plate armor is the stuff you can't wear and travel with. Because you need a squire to strap and tie it on which can take ten minutes.

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>>48091659
DM just wants an excuse to ambush you while you're unarmored. Like you said, D&D settings are pretty much designed to murder you. Whether you're on the roads, at a tavern, in a cave, there's going to be something that wants you dead. Applying realism like that to a fantasy game is just the DM being pissy that he can't mess you up as easily as he wants to. If you're going to follow that sort of nonsense, you might as well take the time to explain why medium sized spiders can't exist and casting fireball in a tight space would sap the area of most of its oxygen. The only times you shouldn't be armored is at events where it's be considered inappropriate or while you're sleeping. Unless you have that feat that lets you sleep armored, which all shitty DMs hate.

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>>48091735
Ah, thanks. I figured chain would be more comfortable, but I didn't now if it would become to heavy after a march and exhaust you quickly.

>>48091765
Actually I was the one arguing it would get too heavy after a while, but that was just my simulationist fetish gone ignorant apparently.

>>48089091
Ones that can be used out of combat, because then you still have a purpose after the war.

>>48089091
anything that produces a stun effect and the higher the speed, the better

>>48089106
Different kind of game, pal.

>>48086203
Male pal
Fem barb

Over done but way better

>>48086203
POLLANON STRIKES AGAIN
http://www.strawpoll.me/10652758

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>>48086203

I'm partial to Male Paladin/Female Barbarian. Mostly because I like the "Lawful Guy, Chaotic Girl" dichotomy. Plus, they both would theoretically represent what a person of that class and gender would want in an ideal partner.

The Paladin is a straight-laced, by-the-books kind of guy. He's not Lawful Stupid and genuinely works to make people's lives better. He's used to society girls, noblewomen, aristocrats, and he's gotten tired of what he sees as "useless" women. He's occasionally sardonic and has a decent sense of wit. Maybe even Fraiser-esque. He's unsure how he feels about the Barbarian, because even though she's everything he secretly wants--tough, headstrong, self-reliant--he's never really had time for a relationship so he kind of waffles on the whole thing.

The Barbarian is of course confrontational and violent. She's a social retard, but painfully aware she doesn't fit in and often feels uncomfortable when put in the Paladin's world. She's enamored with the Paladin, because he's one of the few "civilized" men who actually upholds her culture's tenets of STRENGTH and HONOR. He's also genuinely nice to her, which is a rare experience. Her life's been one hardship after another and here's someone who constantly adds a little warmth to it. She won't put out right away though. She can't tell if he's actually interested or not. And either way, he's really gotta earn this ass.

So has anyone had a game or an idea on how to stop the Neverborn? If so what strategies were used?

I came up with a couple ideas for fun that if the players wanted to I would allow in my games. Both are based off of the idea that Lethe is keeping the Neverborn afloat. Basically since the Primordials made Lethe to recycle souls it is attempting to recycle the Primordial's souls but it cannot.

So the first idea is an attempt to reincarnate the Neverborn. One such method would be to go and defeat each Hektonare/Dead 3rd Circle for each Neverborn and capture it's soul through various forms of Necromancy. Next you learn as much as you can about the Primordial that each Neverborn was. Find its arcane signature and style through lots of time in the Labyrinth and perhaps some insanity so you can understand the Primordial that was fully.

Then you transform a group of willing mortals who closely represent what the old 3rd Circle Souls used to be while it was alive into what would essentially be 3rd circle souls and end it with a massive grouping of 3rd Circle Solar workings culminating on a ritual during Calibration and birth a new Primordial. Using what you know about the Neverborn's soul and life you use Lethe to stick the soul into the new Primordial's body. Then you have a bunch of what used to be mortals as its control and giving it a amalgamation of their personalities.

Now due to being mortals they should not look down on humanity as much as the old Primordials did and with the threat of force against the Exalted they should be very well adjusted to the new Creation. Then you do this each time for each Neverborn. It is a long process but this was never going to be easy. It is also very humane for the most part. Although I am not sure what Yu Shan might think about you bringing back more Primordials.

>>48044634

The second idea while far simpler in process I have no idea how to accomplish and has far more devastating consequences. Basically you destroy Lethe. This would stop the reincarnation of Souls and would drop the Neverborn into the abyss along with every ghost and every soul when something dies. You could I guess reroute souls after you destroy lethe into a different process like a Heaven or something but it causes a lot of problems for soul allocation as well as souls permanently being lost to the Void.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Also what is your opinion of if the Neverborn are destroyed/reincarnated the Great Curse is removed. With their ability to cure Abyssals of the Curse they seem to have some sort of control over it to do so. If there are no more Neverborn maintaining the Curse it should simply disappear no?

>>48044634
Finding out anything concrete about the dead titans seems like a tall order, considering how much has been lost since their time, and also considering the fact that their inner workings and deepest secrets may well be something that was never known to anyone except themselves.

>>48044648
>The second idea while far simpler in process I have no idea how to accomplish and has far more devastating consequences. Basically you destroy Lethe. This would stop the reincarnation of Souls and would drop the Neverborn into the abyss along with every ghost and every soul when something dies.
I'm not sure why it would work like that. Wouldn't destroying Lethe just lead to far more ghosts lingering in the Underworld and little else?

Personally, I kind of prefer to view the Neverborn as, I dunno, gigantic corpses filled with echoes or something like that? Scars left by the deaths of Primordials more than ghosts of said Primordials? Something like that. Not really active entities, not something to stop, not a threat to Creation in themselves, but a source of power, knowledge and madness for people who spend too much time studying them.

post fetishes or "interests" you want to see made into princesses/knights.

Notable ideas from last thread include
>actual twins
>lobotomized Princess
>Princess that tastes good

>>48032976
Sister Princess.

>>48032976
Polygon Princess (bonus points if it's a shitty low-res 3D model, not a drawing)
Skinwalker Princess
Gats Princess

>>48101991
Oh look, it's another Pathfinder is the only edition of D&D thread.

>>48102163
I think OP may be implying that that is shit too desu.

>>48102163
>>48102216
Op is just digging shit out of the archives.

Some ass hat is "trolling" us.