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>>47303132
The Lectio Divinitatus, but it is more of an argument for the Empra's divinity.

The Imperial Cult is more like a religion with an official doctrine, but shitloads of local intepretations founded on that doctrine.

The Leticio Divinitatus was definitely a sort of Bible-like holy book dedicated to the worship of the Emperor during the latter years of the Great Crusade and during the Horus Heresy. I'm unsure as to whether the Imperium still uses a version of this book, or if it uses a different text in M41. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that the Leticio Divinitatus is still used, but just like the Codex Astartes, it has been added to and edited throughout the years by senior members of the Ecclesiarchy and other branches of the Adeptus Terra.

>Lectio Divinitatus
They DO know Lorgar wrote that, right? It's like having the Bible written by Lucifer.

Tormentfags are the worst thing to happen to planescape.

>>47302661
Honestly, just go for a wikiwalk and learn things that way.

>>47302700
Torment is probably the only good thing to ever come out of Planescape.

>>47302661
Neither, you should find scans of the books from 2e online. Reading those will really get you a sense of Planescape.

>>47302700
>Tormentfags are the worst thing to happen to planescape.

I disagree. As much as I love Di'Terlizzi, the Sigil of Torment has a crazy amount of variety expressed in it, more like something from Guillermo Del Toro. It also doesn't demystify things, which I find is the biggest problem Planescape as a setting has.

>>47302044
But OP, even authentic faeries are not 100% harmful to humans.

>>47302044
You sound like an asshole. Why would I want to help you understand something?

>>47302072
Exactly the point.

>>47301176
Things to conserve:
>points
>detachments and formations
>strength vs toughness table
>turn order and reserves
>vehicles from regular units. vehicles should not be treated as big infantry with lots of wounds. Armour values and hull points should remain intact. The vehicle damage chart could be simplified.
>flying rules remain
>AP remains as is

There's much more, im sure. What would be ideal is a simplification that is somewhere between 40k and AoS. GW knows 40k sales are dropping, and I am betting they would want to make the game easier to get into for new players. To provide a simpler rule system that can always be added to with optional supplements, like Death from the Skies, Apocalypse, etc.

bump for 8th edition discussion/hopes/rage

>>47301176
>there are some things it did right.
Prices?

>>47300761

...go on...

>>47301148
no you

>>47300761
Gorketrix and Morkelix?

>>47299867
I don't know what you expected them to do, but clearly you were not on the same page.

>>47299867
>not selecting murderhobos out of your gaming group.

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>>47299867
>the governor allowed armed men of possibly questionable veracity into his castle
You brought it on yourself for being dumb.

>Androids can't learn
>arguably sentient
...yeah, no.

>>47300000
They can learn facts and retain information, but they don't get free skill points or bonus reaction dice like a human does. More precisely they lack ingenuity. "Can't Learn," like all other facets listed, is a very broad-strokes meta statement.

>>47300000
Quints speak truth, roundabout though it may be.

I usually go with the parts of Genesis before and immediately after the Deluge.
>Cain and Abel
>Lamech's children as the founders of civilization
>The Tower of Babel (although that's after the Deluge)
>People living for centuries and not giving a fuck
>Mosaic law hadn't been written yet, so morality and ethics were hazy
Pretty much the only time in the Bible when humans could really leave their inhibitions at the door and get some real advancement/regression done. Since there's not a whole lot in that part of the Bible aside from "X begat Y", there's plenty of room for fantasy.

I draw the line at ancient aliens though. Kind of defeats the purpose of the whole "humanity fuck yeah" of that period.

>>47299704
> Lamech fathering civilization
> When his Great Great (etc) Grandfather Cain founded the first city and his sons were the first shepherds, musicians, and metallurgists

Goy please...

>>47300620
And Lamech was a descendant of Cain. Cain built the first city, but Lamech's sons Jubal, Jabal, and Tubal-(Cain) were the first shepherd, musician, and metallurgist respectively. Cf. Genesis 4:17-24.

>>47299609
That actually makes perfect sense. Though may I ask why you have D&D attributes in a science fiction game.

>>47299609
i'd rather tie it with wisdom or intelligence, you have to know what to do

>>47299609
healing being about personal connection goes very much into the direction of magic. It depends on how much magic there is in your setting

>>47299563
Out of those two? Easily adding. Multiplying will make things way too swingy.

A roll that will succeed 50% of the time for someone with a 1 in the skill, becomes a 75% chance for someone with just a 2 in the skill, and inversely, if you set up a challenge to be moderately difficult for someone with a 2 in the skill, it becomes much much harder for someone with a 1, and these differences only get more and more exaggerated the more you broaden the "range" of potential skill levels. That means you have to either make it so everyone has like, a 1-3 in skills tops, or just accept that some people will utterly blow others away in some areas, and get utterly blown away in others.

>>47299602
if you use these values as comparison , one is of course twice as big as the other

it would make sense that has only half the chance of failure if the skill or stat is twice as high.
but i guess it would only work in a system where having 20 points in a stat literally means you have for example twice the physical strength of someone with 10 strength.

Multiplying

Because, this allow death by tousands papercuts, a thing needed to allow someone killing a way tougher guy

A cooking pan that cleans itself, a sewing needle that never runs out of thread, magic spices that prevent food from spoiling and an iron ring that works as a lighter when scratched

>>47299007
Potion of bears strength

It turns the imbiber into a bear for an hour

>>47299170
A waterskin that's never quite full, but not quite empty as well.

>>47298999
That's fucking absurd.

>>47299576
I don't think the people making this game have any idea what they're doing anymore.

>>47298829
When america stops being retarded

>>47298829
Well the U.S. is no longer the worlds largest cinema audience so expect this meme to bet replaced by one about china being the best at everything.

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>>47298829
Meanwhile in Japan
> the world is under threat
> only one thing can save the day...
> Nippon
> all the other world powers either
> 1. join the enemy
> 2. fall like dominoes
> 3. wait with bated breath for Japan to save them
> it falls to a small group of Japanese pretty boys
> (token female optional)
> (token German optional)
> to save the day!
> bonus points for when it's a 'historical' adaption of an event where Japan was not/barley involved

When will this meme die?

>>47298459
>cancer from disease
that had better be metaphorical

>1/1000
even with megacorps in control, you're going to be hard pressed to hide the fact from the other corps that want to pry... which might be exactly who hired them. megacorps only play nice together if there's profit.

As for the last stage, maybe few of them survive that long, but they gain instinctual flesh warping, but lose conscious control? Like their features and limbs flow and flop like water when they sleep but they're mostly normal when awake

>>47298459
so it doesn't actually melt flesh off your bones?

and 1/1000 is way too high, try 1/10,000

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>>47298459
google Prototype, cause you basically described it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD1hMIsi74k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6634EfsCKdQ

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>magic isn't something you can learn, but you are born with it, approximately 2% of every race has those powers
>every race has its own sphere of innate power, to the point that the word "mage" is rarely used
>the dwarfs innate power is to create things that are better than ordinary things by sheer magical bullshit
>weapons created by blessed smiths I'm working on this name are always sharp, are hard to break, don't rust
>talented blessed smiths can create blades that burn or cause wounds that never heal or shields that blind the enemy with bright light
>for this reason, every ruler wants to have one of them, they even try to kidnapp and imprison, bribe or blackmail them
>this is why you can find blessed smiths in the realms of the steppe elves
>the steppe elves treat smiths as holy men, regardless of their power, because they settle down in their holy groves and the steppe elves can't mine in their lands, so every bit of metal is precious to them
>they don't really like, but at least respect each other and the blessed smiths can live alone and in peace

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>>47297578
Ugh...
I... have managed to make my players so paranoid of foxsquirrels they'll kill them in droves on sight. They fucking HATE foxsquirrels now, so much so that they saw a little girl feeding one, simultaneously attacked her and then threw her body down the well.
> pic related, their arch-nemesis

>>47297867
Whitesmiths?

>>47297905
Are they actually dangerous?