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Warhammer 40k General 2016-05-08 12:36:54 Post No.47148769
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All rules are optional Edition
>Rules databases
https://mega.co.nz/#F!pFgm0RKR!J06C1gVYcjzNGsF8YNLsjQ
https://kat.cr/warhammer-40k-pdf-library-t9575373.html
>FAQs
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Rules-Errata
>40k 7th edition quick reference sheet(s)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4104995/Games/7edRef_V7.pdf
>Forgeworld Book index
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Forge_World_and_Apocalypse_Rules_Index
>White Dwarves
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/tx4hcy4u487pv/WD
>Novels (Working link as of 02/02/2016)
https://mega.nz/#F!wx4BiKhD!YhnAf1BqSmAB8dO6xDM56Q
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First for Aspect rangers.
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Welcome to X-Winghammer 40k.
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>>47148769
Where is Chickin?
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Mecha Space Pirate Quest 15.5 2016-05-08 08:57:08 Post No.47147361
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Mecha Space Pirate Quest 15.5
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Welcome back, to the fifteenth chapter of Mecha Space Pirate Quest!
As always, you are Admiral Roarke Susan Starwind of the Iron Kestrels space pirate fleet, master of the starship Rhinehawk, and pilot of the terrifyingly crit-prone Knuckle Kaiser.
Previous Threads: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Mecha+Space+Pirate+Quest%2C+Collective+Game%2C+mecha
Master Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/sSHs0QmF
Upgrade Menu: http://pastebin.com/QQQzkFZe
List of Moves: http://pastebin.com/HSdyCe2y
Rogues' Gallery: http://pastebin.com/E9ZcDLfG
Last time, as in a few hours ago, you destroyed a boss fight with your fists. Then, you and your dangerously weeby subordinate Oda Yoritomo melee'd a starship to death. This time...
"Aniki, that was sugoi! Absolutely sugoi! We showed them the depths of our warrior spirit! Like twin shinobi, brothers sharing the blood of Japan, we burst upon them and tore their tainted machines like cheap rice paper!" The Osano-Wo claps the Knuckle Kaiser on the shoulder as the three of you fly back towards the Rhinehawk, "I know that Ozark-sama is smiling warmly in tengoku, surrounded by waifus."
"Is this some sort of pirate slang?" Samantha Blanchett asks, her S-Betta decloaking to hug onto the Knuckle Kaiser's other arm. She probably feels left out.
You smile at her over the vidcomm, "It's a Storm Dragon thing, don't worry about it."
She frowns a little, "Oh. What's a why-foo?"
Oda opens his mouth to explain, and you cut him off, "It's like a very special girl. Like you. Or Karen."
She looks incredibly pleased with herself.
The Rhinehawk and Yamato are alright, although the Yamato has some cosmetic damage from being mauled by the cruiser's beam cannons and is completely out of missiles. Oda breaks company with you to return to his own ship and, you suspect, the adulation of his crew for striking a killing blow.
[Continued]
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>>47147361
>Oda opens his mouth to explain, and you cut him off, "It's like a very special girl. Like you. Or Karen."
Maximum smooth
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I remember a few threads ago we talked about changing the uniform for the Kestrels to 80s clothes do we still want to do that
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>>47147391
Whatever we do, garterbelts are a must!
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Renegade Chaoter Creation Thread 2016-05-07 16:19:34 Post No.47132667
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Renegade Chaoter Creation Thread
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https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Renegade_Space_Marine_Chapter_Creation_Table
A while ago, there was a thread for coming up with a creation for rogue space marines that was never given a go. So, let's do that now!
1d100 for progenitor
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Rollan
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>>47132779
Nice fucking get
>Salamanders
1d100 for when we were founded
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Rollin
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Warmachine Hordes General 2016-05-07 03:28:03 Post No.47125389
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Warmachine Hordes General
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It's my first WarmaHordes General Thread.
Feels like hot apple pie.
http://privateerpress.com/community/privateer-insider/insider-05-04-2016
Warmachine/Hordes Books, No Quarter, & IKRPG
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Steamroller Rules
http://privateerpress.com/organized-play/steamroller-tournaments
The Giant List of Podcasts and Blogs
http://privateerpressforums.com/showthread.php?76379-Warmachine-Hordes-related-blogs-websites-and-forums
Table of contents for all NQ issues
http://www.privateerpressforums.com/showthread.php?4313-Table-Of-Contents-For-All-No-Quarter-Issues
Abridged Lore
gargantuans abridged:http://pastebin.com/XPKMKYUc
Exigence abridged: http://pastebin.com/6D1fwSgv
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Lexicanum Iron Kingdoms Lore wiki:
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First for Cygnar OP in Mk3 and Skorne still being Yamcha-tier.
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Skorne is Dead edition
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>>47125389
I claim this thread for Minions.
Your mom isn't a real faction.
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Do slaves exist in your game's universe?
Could a hero have a slave in your game's universe?
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Depends on the country. The country the players originated from has a complicated system of state owned slaves, slaves can not be owned by a private party, and slave rights. A neighboring country has slavery much more akin to pre-civil war america. One across the sea acts entirely on the concept of indentured servitude.
So depends on what country you're in.
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>>47125313
First question: Yes.
Second question: I'm declining to answer because this ends up being decided by the DM anyways and this is effectively a Catch-22 question.
>Yes
>Go away /pol/
>No
>Go away Tumblr.
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>>47125313
Yes and yes. Slave terms are only 7 years, and you're encouraged to be good to them, but they're still slaves and people can still be dicks.
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Urban Oni Quest 17 2016-05-08 00:00:16 Post No.47140104
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Urban Oni Quest 17
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Your name is Amy Nakamura, a 17 year old void Oni, and right now you’re feeling a whole bunch of emotions you’d rather not be feeling at all. Your cousin, in her infinite bicthiness, decided to follow you when you escaped (ran) from home. And she was sitting in the corner of Trish’s room the entire time you were spilling your guts to Trish about her. When you realized this you kinda…. Lost control and now you’re holding her up against the wall with one hand. How the fuck do you keep getting into situations like this?
“Why?” You ask her. “Why?” She looks away, and then looks back towards you, a small stream of tears pouring down her face.
“I’m so sorry Amy, so so sorry.”
When did your eyes start feeling so wet? Why are you?
>Cut out the sappy shit.
>Fuck it, cry like a baby.
>Write-in?
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Archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Urban%20Oni%20Quest
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Rules: Votes are given a 10-15 minute voting period (This is not a hard time limit), the dice used are 3d10s and the occasional d100 both are best of three. I try to add write-ins to the post if they’re applicable to the situation, shitposting write-ins will be ignored unless they are genuinely funny and can be added.
Try to have fun!
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>>Fuck it, cry like a baby.
>Don't let go of her.
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>>47140104
>Cut out the sappy shit.
Past tears belong in the past.
Now I would be mostly just pissed off and frustrated
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Guys what would YOU do for the Emperor?
Pic related is your reward
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I'd give him tacos.
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I'd ring the dinkster to wake him from his slumber
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>>47139822
I'd give him a chance to reconsider his decisions before wiping out imperium
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Times you've shamelessly ripped ideas from /tg/ threads and put them in your games. How many times have you done this, what was the idea, how did it go? On my phone so here's a picture of my dog.
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>>47136475
nice doge
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>>47136475
post more pics of that dog and we'll talk.
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>>47136475
Your dog doesn't look very happy, when was the last time you walked it?
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>how do you tell lizardfolk's genders unless you give the females breasts?
>I choose to give them breasts because I think it makes them more engaging and relatable characters
>if you want your yuan-ti to not have to shell out for custom armor then she has to have breasts
What bizarre justifications have you come across for snake tits?
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Fucking magic.
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They're breasts, I need no justification to put them on a snake.
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>>47135258
Splicing with the human form to make pseudosnakes. The tits end up becoming toxin sacks in which a healthy female can make venomous, caustic acid, for spitting.
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Rolled 9 (1d20)
/tg/, let's play a game. My next campaign will be set in Sigil-like hub town, populated with various races and species. However, which EXACTLY races would be there would depend on you, /tg/, and on a chance.
So, how does it work? It's simple. Name a race and roll d20. If the result is over 15, the race will be in the setting. If it's less than 5, it's not in the setting. On 20, the race will be one of dominant races in the setting. On nat1, however, the race will be confirmed extinct, existing only in old legends.
Multiple people (or a single very determined determined samefag, i don't care, just don't be too much of a faggot) can vote for a single race, but only the first result with outcome will matter.
Weirdness doesn't matter, if you want to showcase your original donutsteel race, you're more than welcome.
I'll start with "generic" races to get them out
>Humans
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>no result yet
All right, now
>Elves
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>Dwarves?
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>>47131215
welp
now
>Orcs
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Have you ever seen shit get way too real at the table, particularly between two girls?
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>>47123681
Why would there ever be more than one girl at the table?
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>>47123681
why are you so desperate to get stories about women?
are you the guy that starts the """"that girl"""" threads?
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>>47124908
Why does it bother you?
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Dungeon Life Quest (DLQ 70 - You Don't Know Jack Edition 2016-05-05 19:21:09 Post No.47101036
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Dungeon Life Quest (DLQ 70 - You Don't Know Jack Edition
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ARCHIVE: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Dungeon%20Life%20Quest
PREVIOUS THREAD: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/47043814/
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You are Nathan Bookchild, and you have a demon's ghost in a jar. You're pretty sure it's actively and maliciously plotting against you, you still have no idea where your enemy is in the Warehouse, and soldiers from the Cornucopia are roaming the level, stealing and buying everything they can find.
It's gonna be a long few days.
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"Anyone have an idea on how we can find either Jack or his pixie?" you ask.
"I could find the pixie easily enough," Darshan tells you. "Fey have a distinct energy that I know the secret of tracking. The mortal..."
"I could find the mortal," Robert tells you, with a shrug. "This place is shockingly free of shades, you know. I had expected more of the unquiet dead..."
"Sultan, find the pixie," you decide. "She already likes me."
The demon bows formally and begins glowing purple while he takes a small jade pendant from his pocket, with a round hole in the center of the stone.
"This way," the demon says with confidence, and the group sets off after him.
"She talks about you a lot," Robert mentions casually to Lark.
"I'm certain she can tell me all about it when she gets back," the elf answers, tersely.
"Not curious in the least, merchant?"
"Robert, leave him alone," you growl. "I know iron hurts you."
"As you wish," the ghost answers, with a shrug.
Darshan stops, and after a moment you can tell why; marching boots. The soldiers. Around ten, if you're a judge.
> Play it cool; they don't know you've got beef
> Duck into a side room
> RUN MOTHERFUCKERS RUN
> Jump them
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And now I go AFK for about two hours. Be back to call then.
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>>47101126
> Play it cool; they don't know you've got beef
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A thread dedicated to discussion and feedback of games and homebrews made by /tg/ regarding anything from minor elements to entire systems, as well as inviting people to playtest your games online. While the thread's main focus is mechanics, you're always welcome to share tidbits about your setting.
Try to keep discussion as civilized as possible, avoid non-constructive criticism, and try not to drop your entire PDF unless you're asking for specifics, it's near completion or you're asked to.
Useful Links:
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>Online Play:
https://roll20.net/
https://www.obsidianportal.com/
>RPG Stuff:
http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/freerpgs/fulllist.html
http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/theory/
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FXquCh4NZ74xGS_AmWzyItjuvtvDEwIcyqqOy6rvGE0/edit
https://mega.nz/#!xUsyVKJD!xkH3kJT7sT5zX7WGGgDF_7Ds2hw2hHe94jaFU8cHXr0
http://www.gamesprecipice.com/category/dimensions/
>Dice Rollers
http://anydice.com/
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>Tools and Resources:
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http://topps.diku.dk/torbenm/maps.msp
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/demo.html
https://mega.nz/#!ZUMAhQ4A!IETzo0d47KrCf-AdYMrld6H6AOh0KRijx2NHpvv0qNg
>Design and Layout
http://erebaltor.se/rickard/typography/
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4qCWY8UnLrcVVVNWG5qUTUySjg&usp=sharing
http://davesmapper.com
Last thread successfully hit the bump limit, so here's to another good one for the next few days.
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>>47061768
I'm really not familiar with any games that really handle hacking as a core game mechanic in an elegant or interesting way. I'm sure there must be but I lack much of a frame of reference.
Still, separating combat hacking and puzzle hacking is definitely a good idea.
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>>47063040
The problem Im running into is every hacking system I think of is entirely independent of the rest of the system. So maybe I make it a simple mini game?
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>>47063691
One though is to maybe construct hacking as another kind of combat. Your system is d20+dX vs TN, yes? On a hit you roll for damage.
You could conceivably do something similar for hacking. Your actions in the network are against specific defenses or for the purpose of achieving specific goals. If you succeed you inflict damage against the ICE or whatever is slowing you down, or you do direct "damage" to your target in the form of procuring information/access/whatever.
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>The trifunctional hypothesis of prehistoric Proto-Indo-European society postulates a tripartite ideology ("idéologie tripartite") reflected in the existence of three classes or castes—priests, warriors, and commoners (farmers or tradesmen)—corresponding to the three functions of the sacral, the martial and the economic, respectively.
Dude. What if people who find themselves drawn to intellectually stimulating traditional games have ancestors who belonged to a priestly class, and people who gravitate towards sports have warrior ancestors?
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Well, the problem there is it totally devalues the individual ("But mooom I dont wanna be a priest of Ishtar, I wanna wear fedoras and be awful!") AND their environment. (Take a jock's baby and leave him in a library and he won't instinctively start doing push-ups on the books) Plus you're going back so many generations that people probably have ancestors from all three of those general "castes" so it becomes a meaningless distinction.
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>>47137406
If that's true you have a long line of ancestors who loved sucking dick.
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>>47137406
>people who find themselves drawn to intellectually stimulating traditional games have ancestors who belonged to a priestly class
People who love strategy games with an implicit or explicit martial dimension probably have warrior blood in them.
Similarly, people who like flavour-of-the-month zombie board-games and the like probably have dirty commoner blood flowing through their veins.
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Welcome back, to the fifteenth chapter of Mecha Space Pirate Quest!
As always, you are Admiral Roarke Susan Starwind of the Iron Kestrels space pirate fleet, master of the starship Rhinehawk, and pilot of the terrifyingly crit-prone Knuckle Kaiser.
Previous Threads: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Mecha+Space+Pirate+Quest%2C+Collective+Game%2C+mecha
Master Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/sSHs0QmF
Upgrade Menu: http://pastebin.com/QQQzkFZe
List of Moves: http://pastebin.com/HSdyCe2y
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The new pastebin contains the stats for non-Kaiser mecha you've met. It's somewhat incomplete right now, due to spending most of my focus on statting the Bluegill and (shockingly expensive) S-Betta.
Last time, you discovered the monster waiting for you on the mining asteroid of Suleiman 1, the UJCIDF prototype Tarrasque, confirmed with Samantha that something is rotten in SOUL Force, and had a conversation with Fatima that, for once, didn't leave you with a headache. You also sent the Master Harpy trio ahead with a dozen of the Iron Kestrels' Bluegills to secure the colony itself.
Today, you drive the Green Skulls off the colony completely, and straight into hell where they belong.
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Lets make sure that the team we send to clean the colony keeps a couple green skulls alive so we can find out where they stashed the mech
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A note on Bluegills. Yours, by the way, come from the Stone Soldiers, who programmed theirs to use several different weapons and armed them with the expanded thruster portfolio featured in the Bluegill Joe simgame, as a mark of their self-proclaimed elite status. UJCIDF Bluegills are slower, and almost always use a sword in place of the mace.
You may have noticed that Bluegills are both considerably sturdier and less expensive than Harpies, and might furthermore be wondering why pirates use Harpies at all. There are two main reasons.
First, the CP cost of a Harpy is what you would pay to build one from scratch. Pirates almost always convert their base Harpies from civilian Sparrows, and so pay only a fraction of that cost per Harpy as the Sparrow provides the jet transformation, thrusters, and the entire body.
Second, the Harpy has two minor defensive advantages. Firstly, it's faster in jet mode and can run away if it needs to. Second, and this is something your melee-focused main mech hasn't had to worry about, ranged attacks are not automatically called shots and instead strike a random location on the target when they hit. Bluegills have 6 locations, Harpies have 8 due to possessing wings. As a result, the damage a Harpy takes will be slightly more spread out...but in the end, a Bluegill ends up being sturdier.
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I also mildly buffed the S-Betta's electric pilebunkers from 4K to 6K, because 4K no AP is pathetic and I like the S-Betta. It's a ridiculously expensive machine, even by SOUL standards, but incredibly hard to detect when cloaked.
>>47140316
Acknowledged, Miles and Richard know to interrogate a few of them to find out about the Tarrasque...but you can't ask them to actually spare them. Once they're done, anyone who's a Green Skull is getting a bullet to the brainpan.