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The rumor was that HH would become their third game. So AOS for "fantasy" and easy play, 40k for the cash-cow and supposedly easy play (with the next edition), and HH as the game for veterans and rules similar to the current or recent 40k rules (i.e. lots of rules).

>>48012182
Forge World will be taking it over.

>>48012182
Either start digging into the cooler extended lore, pull a Shadow of Morborne and just start making shit up or pull the trigger entirely.

I like the models for the LOTR stuff. It's how I first got into wargaming so it would be a shame to see it go.

>>48014176
What's HH?

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>>48011900
Character sheet:

Always good to see an open beta. And the premise sounds fun.

Okay, I've been reading through the rules. This is some fun shit I'd like to throw around with.

Mostly because I have a certain spiritual connection to schlock films.

>>48011035
If you're not satisfied with your GM, there's two things you can do. You can either step up to the plate and GM yourself, or you can bail. No real in-between option if he's not listening to feedback.

>>48011035
>I've been contemplating leaving the group, but Im afraid they'll stop playing all together if I leave
Leave and start your own campaign with the people who leave.

Let em have at least some good enjoyment out of it.

>>48011098
>>48011106

Yeah I've been contemplating making my own campaign, but I honestly think I'd make my current GM really sad, if I hijacked his thing. Remember he is a close friend of mine.

Should I do it nontheless?

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/6sar1o14399xv/SIFRP

Here's most of everything not including Dragon's Hoard(looking for that myself), Mountain Terrors(those are pretty easy to find), and Spark to Powder(also looking).

Much thanks to you! Do you know where I can find the Mountain Terrors?

Dragon's Hoard isn't out yet; it's coming out sometime this year (July I think?).

Also can you buy them if scavengers manage to break down the armor and pawn it somewhere in Tau territory I imagine?

You have to buy some superglue from the modeling supplies area.

How much faster would the average marine be without all that shit hanging off them?

>>48010221
>747 suffers massive technical fault and goes into a nosedive
>the wings tear off, it bursts into flames and then crashes with no survivors
>it actually doesn't, 20 or so people clamber out of the wreckage and dust themselves off like in the A-Team
Might be cool

I play the lottery 100 times and take out a loan

>>48010221

ok we get it, d20 is a shit system, man, chill

Bumping this, also interested

>>48010106
On a micro scale, I make heavy use of a "I loot the body" table.

The idea was lifted off some OSR site or other, not my own. Half of the results and commonly-recurring things (money in various amounts, a pocket knife, a flask of booze, a hunk of cheese, etc.) and the other half are one-time-only items that I scratch off the list as they come up. I hide potentially-plot-relevant stuff in the one-off items with the understanding that it may be a very long time before a given item actually comes up.

Check out any of Sine Nomine's products. They're all sandbox games with a shittload of tables for rolling up things like religions, corporations, societies, etc.

>>48009768
seccond. does anyone actually recommend this dungeon

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>>48009768

Obligatory pic related.

>>48009777

ToH is kind of weird. It's not a regular module, it's a "tournament" module, that was usually used as conventions. Teams of players would go in, and the team that got the farthest, or got out with the most loot, was the winner.

The module came about because a lot of people were complaining that TSR's modules were "too easy." (There were rumors that Gygax designed it specifically to kill off his good friend Rob Kuntz' character, Robilar . If so, it didn't work. Robilar lost his orc henchmen in the first hallway and then proceeded to run through the whole dungeon, all by himself.)
There was a team of dwarves who beat it by leading a massive expedition and just excavating the entire dungeon, top to bottom.

>>48009102
(Cont'd.)
>Silvertooth Tiger
>This rare, solitary magical big cat looks like an enormous tiger, growing to almost 16 feet in length, with fur ranging in color from rust red to bone white, depending on the environment, and a pair of 18-inch-long saber teeth seemingly made out of pure silver. All silvertooth cats have pupilless eyes that look like orbs of pure mercury.
>These deadly cats were supposedly made by a rival to [the creator of lycanthropes], specifically a deity whose domains included the moon and the earth, although the deity's identity changes with each telling of the tale. The deity was enraged that [the creator of lycanthropes] had dared to intrude upon his/her domain by creating monstrous creatures that were linked to his/her beautiful moon, and created the silverteeth to forever hunt these pretenders to his/her glory.
>As their name dictates, silvertooth tigers are natural predators of lycanthropes, although wereboars, werefelines of any sort, and werewolves are their favorite targets. Every single tooth in their mouth is wrought from purest silver, as are their claws, allowing the beasts to tear apart lycanthropes with ease. Its prey is not safe even while hiding in human or animal form; the tiger can tell a disguised lycanthrope from the real thing with but a sniff.
>Aside from a few druids, nobody has managed to successfully train dire tigers: the great beasts simply refuse to eat in captivity, and quickly starve to death.

>>48009239
>Branch Lurker
>Dwelling in forested regions, these intelligent reptilian predators are elf-hunters; where they came from is unknown, with theories ranging from the orc god Gruumsh to simple magically-guided evolution.
>Standing approximately five feet tall, a branch lurker has a humanoid body plan covered in mottled green scaly skin like that of a lizard. The tail is long, whiplike, and semi-prehensile, with an almost elastic quality similar to the limbs of a choker, and is strong enough to hold the creature's weight as it hangs from its tail or to strangle unlucky prey items. Its arms are almost like those of a gibbon in terms of proportion, long enough to scrape the ground, and each hand has three long fingers and a thumb, all of which are tipped with sharp hooked claws, perfect for shredding flesh and grasping branches. The hind legs, which are structured like those of a theropod dinosaur, are about three-quarters as long as they would be on a human of the same size, and have four grasping toes on each foot. The head has a short reptilian snout, jaws filled with razor-sharp blade-like teeth, and a pair of glowing yellow slit-pupiled eyes.
>Moving through the trees by brachiating like a monkey, specialized fatty pads just underneath the skin of the finger and toetips make for totally silent movement as the branch lurker runs and climbs-in the case of the latter, up vertical surfaces like a gecko if it wants to. Further enhancing its stealth capabilities is its ability to change color to match its environment like an octopus and its near total lack of a distinct smell.
>The fangs and claws of a branch lurker contain a potent paralytic agent, similar to that found in the claws of ghasts, allowing the creature to quickly sneak up to its elven prey and paralyze it before it can call out for help.
>A coal-black subspecies with larger, more acute eyes and nostrils exists in the caverns of the world, specialized for hunting drow.

>>48009102
>Leystriker Lizard
>A 3-foot-long lizard with the body, tail, tongue, and legs of a chamelon, the toe pads of a gecko, and the claws and head of a monitor lizard.
>Found along ley lines and other sites of high fey activity, these lazy, brightly-colored lizards are quite unassuming, but they become terrifying to small fey like pixies, fairies, and grigs, their natural prey.
>Attracting its curious prey with bioluminescent lights that run down its spine and sides and adorn its head, the leystriker lies in wait, staying perfectly still and changing the color of its skin to perfectly match the branch or rock it lounges on. As soon as the unforunate fey gets in range, it strikes, its long tongue lashing out and slamming into the tiny creature, its sticky tip and magic-dampening saliva holding the creature fast and preventing it from using any abilities it might have to escape, and reeling it into its gaping maw, where the fey is unceremoniously killed with a powerful bite and its remains swallowed whole. This entire process can take place in under a second, giving the lizard more than enough time to strike at any other fey in the area.
>How exactly the leystriker evolved, and why it is seemingly totally immune to the charms and spells of the fair folk, is a complete mystery: the most widely accepted theory is that they were originally creatures of this world that somehow ended up in the same primal land that all fey hail from; exempt from the strange rules that natives of the realm seem to be bound to follow, the leystriker quickly adapted to its new home by evolving to hunt fey. At least, that's the best idea that the sages have; most are content with just throwing their hands on the air and saying, "Fuck it; fey logic."

Because Ogres have BIGGER axes, and a troll will just regenerate it's partially severed head and laugh.

Orca usually have arms and defend themselves when you swing a axe at them

>>48008413
Try fucking up a Grizzly Bear.
Now give it skin tougher then a rhino and it's own axe and try to fuck it up again.

>>48007901
boorus, pixiv

peopleofwalmart (also works for monsters)

>>48007935
What boorus would you recommend?

>>48008427
grognard.booru

>>48007301
>you're
>there
>what should I do?

Stay in school

>>48007301
You make it so that losing a fight doesn't always result in death.

Getting beaten unconscious to wake up in a slaver camp or find yourself being held for ransom by bandits sets the stage for some pretty fun escape plot-arcs, especially if you've got a rogue or other crafty character (or someone with alot of charisma to convince the other prisoners to revolt).

>>48007472
I have something similar planed with a really tough enemy later in the campaign but my players have a habit of leging it when the shit hit the fan

I started with a tesseract and the number 24 and worked from there.

>>48007100
I generally use Great Wheel cosmology and do some studying on the levels of each plane to see what extraplanar creatures go where. Sometimes modification is needed to give life to levels with little information on them (Carceri for instance), and I'll occassionally homebrew big creatures to go in them, such as an Altraloth for Gehenna.

Just remember that funny names can get you far.

World Axis > Great Wheel

The "upper planes" and "lower planes" being Lawful and Chaotic respectively makes more sense than being Good and Evil.

explain

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>>48006671
>Point buy is terrible, it feels cheap and actively encourages minmaxing and powerplaying

Not unless your system/adventure blows dicks. Proper point buy should scale up costs the more someone invests in a single stat, so that you trade a lot off to max out one thing. And a good system/module overall should reward people for having multiple strengths to their character and hold some things out of reach of characters who sacrifice a lot to excel in one thing.

In short, point buy is fine, just don't play Pathfinder.

>>48006692
Well, the last I used was for a system with four abilities where the absolute minimum score in any ability for a human would be 7, 10 would be an average, 15 being pretty high and the limit for a normal human being and 20 the absolute limit for a superhuman (like the PC themselves).
I made each player roll 13d4 and sort dice by their results: the number of dice that gave 1 was the first score, the 2's would be the second score and so on. They'd add 7 to each score and then assign them as they wished.

Scores are generated randomly and yet their sum is always the same.