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>>47804931

>>47804582
A woodsman or scout I suppose.
"Ranger" is just an old-fashioned word for a woodsman that got more heavily used again because of Tolkien and later Tolkien archetypes partial association with D&D.

>>47804582
Aragorn, Drizzt.

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>>47804582

Standard pathfinder/loner/huntsman tropes you find in both real life and literature for most of recorded history.

Tolkien as far as I know was one of the first to use the term "ranger" to describe the Dunedain; a tribe of frontiersmen who lived in western Middle-Earth. Aragorn was their chief, for reasons I can't quite remember. Faramir and his company I believe were also described as rangers, but in a different context.

However, his "ranger"--as in a lower-case "r"--was just a colloquialism characters used.

When fantasy saw a resurgence in the decades following LotR, new authors made their own Rangers and started assigning much more significance to the term, and that's how it became an actual job and character class instead of just a slang term.

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the memes jack

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I mean, honestly I never knew "parents didn't love me" was a big part of Chaos fluff. Back when I was playing, the whole back story for one of the Chaos Lords was that he was a father driven by his love for his son, iirc.
Honestly, they were one of the more interesting Evil factions I've run into. Yeah, they're bad news, but like real world raiding cultures they tend to live in a harsh, shitty territory and so killing people and taking their stuff is one of the best ways to survive.
They consider themselves blessed because their gods interact with them very directly, and they feel that their lives always have meaning as a result. And hell, they actually make peace and trade with other factions from time to time, it's just that when an Archaon kind of dude shows up, well then it's time to honor the Gods and destroy the civilized world.
Despite the spikes and skulls, they always came off to me as in fact a very un-Edgy faction.

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>>47804540
>Leddit raiding /tg/ now

When will it end!?!

>>47804024
Untested semantics.

>>47804024

That's the thing about creative endeavors - you can't be satisfied with what you can do and where you are as an artist/creator/etc. You must be in the 'fuck this is awful, I need to make it better' mindset constantly, otherwise you stagnate, and your audience gets bored.

'If you meet the Buddha, you must kill him,' etc.

>>47804081
My usual mindset goes something like:
>Fuck, I hope they enjoyed that session
>"You guys enjoy the session, any criticism or complaints?"
>"Nope", "I liked it"
>"Okay."
>What if they're just saying that to keep me running because neither of them can GM/wants to.
Cue a 45-minute, self-doubt ridden drive home from the FLGS.

No, people shit on it because it's a bad game, and because there are legitimate shills who make spam threads like this one.

It's basically "gas the kikes, race war now" the RPG.

>shitty rules
>can't divorce personal opinions from game mechanics, so shitty rules intensifies
>only talked about because of creator's previous infamy
>every week OP makes the same thread pretending to have never heard of it before

The one good thing I will say about this is no more Papyrus

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>>47803035
This was my favorite Dragon cover ever. Not scary, just kind of sad, but with some story hidden in it. I ran an adventure based on this picture.

I read Dragon from the late 80's until the late 90's. I enjoyed it less and less as time went on, and pretty much stopped reading it completely by the time 3E came out (though I played and enjoyed 3E itself through most of its life).

Yamara was the shit.

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>>47803035
I've just occasionally skimmed it, but I kinda liked that Planescape comic with a drow dude and his crew of affable githyanki, mind flayers and other shit. Is that one available anywhere or do you have to torrent whole Dragon mag, with shitty image res, libraries to read it?

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While we're on the subject, what do you guys think of Toon deck? I'm thinking about getting it, but can't find any recent builds online to try it out.

Has anyone tried it out?

just built deskbots, thoughts on actual competitiveness?

>>47803068
If you post your build I can help you, but generally speaking, they're not very competitive in a tournament environment. It can be fun, but usually Monarchs, Kozmo and PK Fire shit on it pretty hard.

Because either you played "like you were supposed to" and you couldn't beat the DC's of enemies a few levels lower than you... or you played "like you could" and you beat everyone's DC automatically and you had half a dozen high level demons at your command.

>>47802780
Because it is the one class that is objectively broken, i.e. it can not possibly work the way it was intended to.

That's not the Monk.

>worst dad
>a vegetable

>>47802745
Well it's not like you know what having a father is like to begin with you fucking nigger.

>>47802684
Because GW likes to be edgy and lets chaos win everytime.

>>47802380
That looks like a total ripoff of Dark Souls.

>>47802391
Guts from Berserk in his berserk armor

new volume in two weeks anon, ARE YOU EXCITE

You're forgetting the fact that bolter rounds are explosive.

>>47802334
>In the lore it is said that an average lasgun(lets say M36) can rip an arm clean off. And thats average, not counting more powerful lasguns like the Lucius pattern of the death korps
That's lore exaggeration. Lasguns are a closer equivalent to 7.62mm rifles, just much lighter and more compact. A bolter hits its target and explodes inside them, and statistically it's able to instantly kill or maim an average human target in one or two shots.

>>47802334
Also if what ive said about the lasguns is true that means gaurdsmen are definately so poorly armed compared to other intelligent races, especially the eldar. The eldar's main infantry weapon is supoosed to be the shuriken, but since they fire microscopic projectiles, there's no way they can be as powerful compared to a lasbeam. Their main advantage however would be extremely high rate of fire. That said, eldar warriors would have a minor, not major advantage over the IG, especially if the take the IG's heavy wepons into account like hellguns, hot shot lasguns, multilases, melta and plasma guns

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>Party returns from a months-long campaign away
>A slow, uneasy tension builds the closer they get
>Perseus hasn't run out to greet them
>Eventually the cleric can't help herself, and frantically runs into town
>She asks where he is, starting to become blinded by tears
>Her breath becomes sporadic, her chest bumping like a dryer with a pair of sneakers in it
>Their favorite innkeeper comes out, explaining to them that there was an accident
>Some horses got loose and almost stampeded some children but Perseus moved them out in time
>He's breathing, but it doesn't look good.
>He keeps asking where the pretty lady is

>And there he was, he was hurt but he was still going.
>The most beautiful sound in the world to her . . . His voice
>She keeps saying how happy she is to see him
>And how sorry she was that she had been gone so long
>He asks her to read the book in her warm voice
>Trembling, she pulls it out, and reads his favorite story
>About how when the Earth split, and man and animal chose two sides, that dog chose the side man was on
>She starts crying uncontrollably, holding her face to his chest
>He tells her it's all okay
>He tells her goodbye isn't forever.

>"I knew the perfect guy all along. I just never saw it."
>"And then... Before I knew..."
>"I lost a friend I'd only just found."
>"He'd have done anything for me, right?"
>"He was in my life for such a small time . . ."
>"But I was there for most of his."
>"And that's not something I'll forget in a hurry."

did they fuck?

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>>47802290
Well, she's a rather religious woman. I don't know if she could engage in a childless relationship like that, though I suppose it's perfectly possible, given her faith.

In either case, whether they were intimate or no, she definitely did one thing. She loved him.

What WD announcement?

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>>47801815

Huh didint know about the VA short pump one at all. They had one shutter it's doors in stony point a few years ago. Look forward to seeing how this one does.

>>47800530
Yeah, we're gonna need to know what system you're using before we can suggest anything at all. If I start giving you help with D&D and you're looking for help with GURPS we're all gonna have a bad time.

>>47800551
it's for d&d

>>47800557
Which edition?

Probably not after Leto's death unless some part of him consented to it. Keep in mind that post God Emperor sandworms all carry a pearl of his awareness with them.

>>47800429
Who is to say that it wouldn't drive them mad?
Or that they'd be able to control their body without the abilities of the kwisatz haderach.

I seem to recall Leto getting force fed a truly preposterous quantity of spice, or the waters of life, or whatever it was not long before his transformation started. Quantities that no one short of a kwitsach haderach could have any hope of surviving. This was probably necessary for it to work like it did.

His twin sister might have been able to copy it, possibly Alia, but neither did. Alia of course didn't stick around for long to ponder what had happened, and his sister probably had no desire to follow Leto's path.