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Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>47468631

>>47468694
Grenadiers: Elite troops taken from veterans of a planet's existing regiments.

Grenadiers, neat!

>Training World predominant terrain d100

might drawfag for this if the rolls are neat enough

>>47468423
First

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>>47468423
Chat when talking in character and voice when out of character.

Voice, with text for "hidden" messages (to gm or other players) or dialogue that's not part of the main scene (e.g. "while he's talking to those guys, my Barbarian is learning how to ride a horse").

Playing live without voice is fucking retarded. How awful is your group if they can't handle the most interesting part of tabletop RPGs? Just find a play-by-post option.

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I am okay with this

>>47468102
>In defence of the Imperial Guard and their Balls of Steel (TM).

While I respect the Lord Admiral for both his position and his opinion, there are two points upon which his argument falls apart:

i) Orbital bombardment of planets, while undoubtedly effective, is inaccurate at best and destroys vast areas of otherwise useful land for agriculture/industry/etc. As well, the munitions required are costly and require thrones. It is better to employ the Guard who pay the cost of taking/holding worlds using the Emperor's currency.

ii) You sound like a turtling faggot. Git gud, scrub.

t. Guardsman.

>>47468799
As I said
>This is not to say that the guard is not USEFUL. It's simply the fact of the matter is that wars across the Imperium are ultimately fought and won in space and they should know that.

>>47467982
The coming of age ceremony involves defeating your mom in single combat and then raping your father

>>47467982
WHEN YOU KILL SOMEONE YOU TAKE THERE MONS. THE PLAYERS SEEK TO DEFEAT THE METAL MON MASTER, A MAN WHO BREEDS PEOPLE ONLY TO KILL THEM FOR THEIR MONS.

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>>47468003
Funnily enough, I had an idea to have the PC's parents be kind of the end boss to the ceremony.
also funnily enough, raping my dad is my fetish

Squats not having their own real distinct play style is why they were squatted, supposedly. But I'm not interested in another dwarves-are-craftsmen repetition. I'd rather they have more jump or jet infantry than most armies, and have rules that take advantage of it.

>I don't think there's any other way for squats to fit into 40k.
having them as disparate bands of survivors fits perfectly fine, without trying to retcon stuff that's remained largely unchanged since 40k first popped into being

If squats were ever to become an official thing again, the squatting should actually be referenced as an in-universe event, rather than trying to sweep the elephant under the rug at the cost of everyone else.

>>47467528
This.

>>47467322
Img related, are they the squats from Iron Sleet? Their exo-armor looks so sweet.

Btw, what is the stance of /tg/ on Demiurgs, the rock people who helps the Tau?

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At low level, whenever I'm playing a wizard (or if I have it on a magic item as a Rogue) I like to escape bad situations by jumping from high places on purpose and using Featherfall. Most of the time the enemies won't have a way to keep following unless they're willing to take massive fall damage. Admittedly it's not that original or complicated, but it's one of my most used.

Minor Image (or similar illusion spell) to make a party member with lots of health/armor look like you (the squishy caster) is pretty funny too. Especially if you wana bait enemies into melee combat with an "easy" target. Also a good way to fake your death at a distance (illusion your own head coming off or something).

Rather than using Alarm Wards to protect your own camp or whatever, use them in enemy areas (set to the mental alarm, not the audible one) to get a feel for the guard patrol routes.

-Resist Fire + Carrying bombs/Alchemist Fire of some sort. Easy to see where this one is going.

-Kind of a higher level trick, and highly dependent on what the GM allows as crafting... but self-targeted Dispel Magic or Antimagic Field on an enchanted item. Then tell your party members the activation phrase. The point of this is to give your party members a a "kyptonite" to use against you if you fall under some sort of mind-controlling magic or possession or otherwise become... compromised.

>>47467186
My character is an illusionist (OP pic related).

Think I'll take to Imaging the party Lasher as an old crone. Laughs will be had.

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>>47467248
As an illusionist in particular:

Use your illusions to make mounts throw their riders. Most animals have low Will saves, and most horses won't continue a charge if they see a tiger or some other large predator in their way. Play up your GM for bonuses since you're using something the creatures would specifically fear.

Vanish + Minor Image or some kind of Audible illusion is a good way to mislead opponents to your real position (put fake footprints on the ground or something) and make them waste attacks. I don't know about 3.5, but in Pathfinder non-damaging spells don't break invisibility. (GM may rule otherwise, so don't rely on this TOO much).

Arcane Mark, always mark your equipment and gear with this. If it's ever stolen and you have to prove it's yours, just speak the word and make the mark become visible. Also a good way to "mark" money if you need to catch thieves or follow a flow of money through the black market.

Not really a "trick" per say, but see if your GM is willing to let you consider certain non-illusion spells as part of the illusion school. For example, any spells that produce light (usually considered evocation) or something like Youthful Appearance (transmutation). If you have a lenient GM, usually you can get away with switching the schools of spells if they can be easily fluffed to be fit the role. This helps once you start getting feat bonuses to the saves of your selected school and such.

If your GM lets you use light effects as Illusions (or if you take them anyway), Dancing Lights is an EXCELLENT signal-flare. Just cast it as high in the sky as your spell range requires and it can serve as a good way to let your party members know of your position in say... a crowded city or a thick forest if you get separated or split up to perform a search of an area. Also makes a good "command tool" on the battlefield, especially if you code different colors or patterns to mean different things.

no one really?

>>47467428

Warcraft is shit now, Burning Legion included.
If you asked years ago before the lore got shat on we'd have a more interesting.

The Burning Legion fails, falls, and is forgotten before doing any significant damage.

I was on fourth or fifth grade back when LotR movies were stil kinda new thing. Decided that the minis were so cool I had to have some. Learned a bit later that there was a set of rules and started playing with friends who were also into it

>>47466870
A girl in my class liked to play D&D. She would regularly invite me and I'd chicken out because I couldn't imagine people might actually want me around for something.

A few years after losing contact with her, I got curious and started reading up. Today I still sometimes kick myself for not having taken those invitations.

>>47466870
Was working as a stagehand and when you get home at 3AM you can't exactly do much hobbywise. Since I couldn't really play guitar or videogames with other people around I picked up 40k to build and paint models since that's nice and quiet and won't wake people up.

It also helped because at work most of us were just music guys or metalheads. Getting into 40k gave me an outlet for my nerdier side since I wasn't in school anymore and most of them had moved away.

I've stuck with it because the jobs I do now still tend to be pretty physical or outdoorsy so I don't usually have anyone to talk nerd stuff with. Its nice to be somewhere where I can just chill out and just shoot the shit about whatever. I don't play 40k anymore but I have plenty of other stuff to play so its all good.

>>47466864
All of my major NPC's are based around my flaws, even the good ones. In my experience as long as you are aloof enough nobody really notices how the major villain is a shittier version of your mindset.

>>47466895
>good flaws

>>47467784
Not him, but he likely meant good NPCs are also based around his flaws. Learn into reading comprehension.

>>47466301
P.S.

Little Dudes:
Heritage Druid (Rare)

>>47466301

>Elves are going to be super broken in a limited environment.

Curiously i'd like to know a limited format that has Elves where it wasn't super strong.

>>47466301
>time to buy my allowed number of boxes, wait 3 months and sell for double the price.

A rattlesnake isn't much of a threat if you're wearing plate armor.

>>47466209
Because fantasy doesn't deal in snakes, it deals in reptiles, and between the snake-men (like nagas or yuan-ti), the gorgons, and the dragons/wywerns, the badass reptile angle is covered

>>47466572
>Because fantasy doesn't deal in snakes, it deals in reptiles
>snakes
>not reptiles

I kind of get what you're going for here anon, but come on man.

>>47466177
No, because we're playing Dark Heresy and this princess is probably a Greater Daemon of Slaanesh

OOC, yes but only because I want to roll up a different character

IC, no because on a mission from god

>>47466177
But I am the GM/DMPC, my guys will kill me

Wait, I'm getting Deja Vu, did this thread happen already?

GJ, you fucked up the OP.

>>47466377
At least we have all the links, I think.

So what directions are we taking this thread? Continue to flesh out the new groups? Go for another country? Just general superhero stuff, not necessarily Cape World?

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>>47465896
ToR is the best system I have come across for playing Tolkien

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>>47465896
I have heard a little about burning wheel, but i don't know how good it is.

>>47465896
-Dungeon World
-13th Age (d20, but good!)
-Torchbearer
-Mouse Guard
-Houses of the Blooded
-One Ring

>>47464837
Are we talking the metaphorical heart or the muscle here?

>>47464986
Muscle

they continue to do their job of moving blood from point A to point B or they die along with the rest of us