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>>54858388
>Anyone who never played TI3 but plans to buy TI4 to finally get in on the whole thing?
I think this is gonna be me.

>If TI is the king of ameritrash, what's the king of eurogames?
Catan?

>What other 2017 release are you looking forward to?
Can't think of anything right now.

>>54858388
>>54858468
Me too. Never had the chance to play TI3, but the hype is getting me. I was somewhat interested in it before the announcement, a new edition will likely be the tipping point

>>54858388
worst OP ever

>>54852027
It's part of the fantasy aesthetic. Probably from Conan, if not older.

What motivates them is that adventurers are rich and powerful and generally buff, good-looking people looking for a night of fun, and women like getting laid, too.

>>54852027

Most tavern maids moonlight as prostitutes, because they make more money that way. It's like the girls in an casino, they'll sleep with you for enough money. Being a tavern-wench isn't very profitable.

Let's be frank: Adventurers are basically rock stars, and throw around vast amounts of money. If someone gives a tavern wench 50GP, that's more than a year's income.

>>54852075
>Adventurers are basically rock stars, and throw around vast amounts of money. If someone gives a tavern wench 50GP, that's more than a year's income.

Basically this, even if players are bunch of awkward nerds, their characters are the turbochads Or at least should be. Many socially inept nerds make the characters their self inserts but """"better"""" which usually means more powerful yet still as awkward, creepy and cringy as IRL[/spoilers] so it doesn't take much to make a simpleton backwater wvillage girl spread her legs for them.

are there any fun hipster glass cannon combo decks?

i know protean hulk combo is one

>>54847060
Narset cannon and forest belcher

>>54847060
Turbo Narset and Grishoalbrand come to mind

>>54845199
So how is FFG working with the fluff? Are they reseting everything? Are they gonna follow the same paths? I know they changed the gender of the Crane Champion, which is a shame cause the old crane champion seemed really cool as a more androginous badass. (Sort of like Fulgrim).

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>>54845338
Reset and alterations. Some clan champs are different, some aren't, new characters and old. We don't know where the story is going to go but I think the Second Day of Thunder is a fair bet to see eventually.

> seemed really cool as a more androginous badass

Hoturi was a ladies man who basically existed to party and fuck. He was only androgynous in that he wasn't bearded or tankly. Hotaru's not being a party girl with a string of broken men behind her is a bigger divergence than her gender swap. Also she seems younger.

>>54845338
They're definitely changing some things aside from genderbending. The coup might not go down the same way.

Title some how didn't get included, but /awg/ non the less.

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Oh boy this Frostgrave game sure is fun and unique, guise!

Any mini ranges look like the original Guild wars?

>>54887218
That depends enormously on setting; especially how often Vampires need to feed, whether or not they can feed on non-humans (or non-sapient creatures in general), and how deadly feeding is to the victim.

If it's a loli vampire one person is enough.

>>54887252
This.
With no given information a proper inference on the feeding needs of a vampire cannot be made.

>>54880912
Thousand Sons. Everything is easier when you have magic that surpasses anything the setting can offer.

>>54880912
I would use a plague.

Cough on a peasant and let nature take its course. Pop a bolter at any dragon or baddie that try to fuck with you.

I've never seen anything GoT but I assume that a dragon is the worst thing he would have to kill.

>>54880912
Thats why the Andals Dominated

I think they're cool. There are a lot of different ways to make one.
You could have him be a normal knight with magic armor or weapons. These weapons could enable him to cast spells if you want him to be a spellcaster.
You could have him be a knight who knows spells and things like that and uses these as a part of his fighting style.

I think most of the time we call them spell blades. D&D 5E PHB call them eldritch knights, but I'm not really a fan of that name - even though it could be used in certain settings.
In some settings you could call them paladins - if magic and divine feats are interchangeable.
I like the idea of calling them "Rune Knights", but those would be the kind of warriors who use enchanted weapons.

>>54868932
Arcane Warriors

>>54868932
Mystic Meatsticks

Personally, I really hate the direction card art has taken with recent sets. Shit just looks so much like crappy cg, its awful. The only artists I really like that do new cards are seb mckinnon and nils hamm, the rest just use the same recycled digital garbage.

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>>54864100
Pretty much anything by Drew "I took a watery shit on the canvas" Tucker.

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>>54864100
I personally love Word of Command's art. It's the blackest black card.

> 54866019
I don't have foggiest what you mean. Drew Tucker paints absolutely photorealistic depictions of weird blob people trapped in a world of eternal mist. Are you telling me the art direction called for something else?

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>Insane Bullshit opener

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>>54823244

Shameless rip-off of Elric of Melnibone.

8 mana 8/8 At the end of your turn, add a random *Death Knight* card to your hand.

I guess the first one. You aren't really impressing me by calling your mushroom monsters elves, and it's not like you couldn't just pick a name that would actually help players to understand what they're dealing with

It's less "there is only one definition" and more...I dislike laziness. And there's a lot of laziness in this debate. Firstly there's, yes, the "Its a fungus spore monster from the moon called an elf", which like...if you've come up with a new thing, call it a new thing. Just because it's fantasy doesn't mean it has to have all the generic names. I even apply this to old things in new settings. Dinosaur riding hobbits and pirate dwarves are not hobbits and dwarves. Fantasy races are defined by their fictional context, and if you're gonna change them enough to take them entirely out of their context, change them a bit more and give them a new name. This cuts the other way too. If you say "My setting doesn't have any elves!" then you can't also say "But it does have pointy eared long lived magic guys who live in the woods and dislike outsiders. But they're called Onglar, totally different"

Between those two: camp 1.

But I'd still give a creator some leeway when it comes to naming things.

You can have tolkien elves, tiny forest fairy elves, spooky spirit elves, child eating elves, etc.

But going "My elves look like squidmonsters from space" is dumb.

>>54884427
Fantasy Craft with the appropriate Campaign Qualities.
The pitfalls you described do not apply.

>>54884427
I dunno... mini six?

>>54884427
Shadows of the Demon Lord

I didn't know it was a thing

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>>54884000
I didn't know it was out, I thought it was still in production.

>>54884000
Rules are good and the minis are great, but Spartan sucks and refuses to support their games. Best case scenario they breach contract, get bought out my MS, and used as slave labor to produce the game. Most likely scenario they breach contract and get sued into nonexistence by MS, and the game stops being a thing.

>>54883846
They're autistic enough that if you throw out a bunch of rice in front of them, they have to stop and count each and every single rice grain

>>54883846
They possess the likeness of mosquitoes and ticks, not vampires.

>>54883862
*Not bats, my bad

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>>54883750
He spends a good half of his uptime working, running an organization of this size is fucking hard. He only gets about three hours a day totally free, but even then there's a lot to occupy his attention.

When he is free, usually after work, he likes to soak in a bath and crack open a book. His career is so fast paced and loud, it's nice to just be alone and stretch out in the tub. If he doesn't feel like reading, he works on models. He's got a large collection of various skeletal remains, which he likes to excavate and reassemble piece by piece. He hopes he doesn't have to get them dirty by bringing them to life one day.

On his rare days off, he dresses down to blend in with the people. He still looks regal, because he isn't a peasant, but most people will only assume he's a noble. When he does go out, he usually invites his daughter or a friend. They might catch a show, have a picnic, or just camp out in the wilderness. Very rarely he goes out drinking, but when he does things usually get pretty crazy. He's had to hide more than a few bodies.

>>54883750

He basically murdered hundreds of corrupt politicians, but he had to kill a couple dozen civilians to do so.

He adopted the little girl of one of his accidental victims but lied to her and told her that he was a friend of her rents.

He's not evil, but he is power hungry. He want's to resurrect a demi-titan so he can controll him and open portals to other worlds and use those planets as magical batteries for a Giga Portal to the Astral Sea, To eat THAT magic, to become god, to kill a God who betrayed him. He's a good guy, but he's a little too power hungry. My players will have to choose to side with him or against him. Or with or against a resistance group of his former party members.

>>54883750
Nothing. He's not even a part of the campaign and if he ever showed up it would be a complete TPK. He has human qualities, but understands that because of what he is the social engineering required would be an immense undertaking that he wants no part in, and leaves it to his offspring and creations to shape the world as he pleases or at least implies on a whim in the event that he actually does, if ever, rarely go outside.

He's something a hobby of gaining power at any cost, because he simply gathers power for powers sake as he believes in a philosophy of 'physicality' in which he places value over the like of Extraordinary abilities, supernatural abilities and Spell-like abilities opposed to other means to power because he doesn't like to rely on others namely because he can't place any trust in them as he has a massive erroneous streak when it comes to social communication so he avoids direct contact at all costs.

His goal is to effectively become the anti-deity AKA, the absence of their kind entirely, and he's about 75% of the way there, possessing the means to grant the rudimentary Demon Lord issued clerical domains to people, Warlockery, and is in the business of using divination and various spells to foster Necromancers that head to demilichdom with fair ease who he binds to his service to serve as tools that can distribute the Black Rain, a nasty weather effect that fucks divine spellcasting up the ass. As their essential 'opposite' He greatly detests a reliance on magic as anything but a means to an end that is fundamentally cheating the rules of innovation and progress using it to what it is best for- Cheating, which is why he is so fundamentally powerful.

His current goals involve the creation of a Negative Energy Elemental, (Ravenloft's Death) to control, means to other divine domain, enhancement of his already potent innate abilities, and the eradication of spellcasters that hold the world in 'status quo'.