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>>46600009
I feel like that any time I do anything creative. The point is to work with it until it takes on an identity of its own, even if it just started as a collection of ideas from other places.

>>46600492
That's what I'm hoping to achieve. I mean, everything has been done anyway, right?

>>46600626

You just have to get it to feel cohesive in its own right, with no pieces that seem out of place.

A bad examples of this might be CthulhuTech, which uses three different systems, including poker dice, to try and run, but it just ends up like three different systems mashed together poorly.

>>46596295
Learn to sculpt. Its the only sane decision.

>>46596295
It's really not that great, you're not missing out.

Also get a job, hippie.

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>>46596325
>tfw sculpting my realm of chaos warband

It's incredibly nice to have models that are 100% and truly yours. Even if they look like lumpy balloon animals.

>>46596034
I made a writefriend thread earlier today but it died with no replies

I don't really know Tau lore too well yet, but this is what I came up with for a back story for a force I want to make

http://pastebin.com/Q3p3NSFk

it's not worded like a 40k novel, more like a young adult coming of age story

>>46591537
What is that?

Still waiting for the rules.

>>46591537
>not buying one and recasting it 99 times
full pleb

Keep tabs on how often your players forget to tell you that they brush their teeth after a meal.
If they're too lax about it over a longer period of time, roll to see which of their teeth needs to be pulled.

>>46589142
>Not making them collapse three minutes into the session because they didn't notify you each time their characters take a breath.

But seriously, I just want to have a game that \ runs smoothly, mechanically speaking, and keeps them engaged. Some of them can be very creative, so I want them to have an enjoyable first experience and hopefully have them become good players that enrich our hobby.

A good trick is to say bigger lines in front of a mirror before the game so you know how to enunciate them better and then you can see how you look as you say them.

The villain's monologue will be broodier and more tense this way, the same way the tavern keeper will look disinterested and affable more often than not.

>>46582574
There is a very fine line between a cyborg and a Skitarii.

>>46582574
Before Mechanicua was a playable army, the only Skitarii figures were from that Inquisitor game.

The lore had it that they were literal servitors with weapons tacked on. The minis were these flabby, dead-in-the-eyes servitors with industrial loading equipment and missile tubes.

Not saying they were better, just different and cool in their own way. Definitely not bad ass cyber ninjas

Is the whole thing first person? was is also filmed for VR?

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just cave and use magic-powered cannons.
Or say magic is the reason ballistas work on ships.

>>46606408
Instead of broadsiding, in a naval campaign I made I just had one mounted at the front of the deck.

Traditional naval combat was more about boarding each other and beating their soldiers.

>>46606408
>I suspect not, otherwise people would have done it in real life. But what's the real reason why ballistas are a bad idea on ships?

I'm no expert, but I imagine a Ballista would hit with enough force to actually pierce the hulls of ships, and even if they did, the damage would probably be pretty minimal and easy to patch up. A Ballista makes a "piercing" wound, a cannonball blows apart everything around it.

>>46605717
Obviously Gumshoe.

>>46605830
Too.... realistic? PS's world is so fantastical and comical that I don't think a conventional investigative system would work properly for it. Or more accurately, investigation wouldn't be the main focus of the game.

>>46605946
But wouldn't you be investigating the underpinnings of the cosmos?

Saturday morning cartoon setting, obnoxious power creep/setting book bloat, refusal to update rules, relentless shitposting about greatness, psychopathic franchise owner, HFY jingoism, being mostly made of bait, n-gage, etc.

>>46600536
Did you just have a stroke, what does half of that even mean?

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>>46600536
>>46600275

I happen to think it's a perfectly enjoyable setting...

>>46599638
Because those two are the most well known and most popular, at least in the west.

40k is really more Holy Roman Empire than proper Romans, so I feel like they get some points.

Space Ottomans would be pretty baller, anybody know of a setting with Space Ottomans?

I'm just disappointed that space Romans rarely fight their space battles with spaceships mounted with a corvus.

>>46599737

No______________

>>46599334
>How can they build something they don't have.
It's STC, Magos ain't got to explain shit.

>>46599334

Their tech patterns aren't precisely modular. They can't just rip out the anti-grav designs from servo-skulls and jam them into a jetbike. That'd be "Innovation," which is Tech-Heresy.

>>46599334
They can make anti grav stuff, they just don't understand how and so are limited to the stuff they know by rote.

“Gotta get that address changed I guess,” you mumble to no one in particular, shouldering the bathroom door open. The face that looks back at you from the mirror is far from unattractive. Hell, it could even be pretty good with some work: gentle blue-green eyes laden with bags and crust, a plump, wide mouth made for smiling with some dry white gunk at the corners, a strong jaw sporting two days of unshaved sparse stubble, thick, light brown hair smushed flat in some places and sticking out in others in a way that disguised its slight waviness. “A few pounds lighter wouldn’t hurt either,” you tell your reflection. The cold water helps wash some of the acrid oil from your skin and snaps you out of the drunk sleepy fog. A little, at least. You check your phone, fingers dragging deftly across the touchscreen while you amble back to the kitchen.

[Message from Dheeraj H.]
[Message from Liam]
[14 Facebook Notifications]
[2 Missed Calls]

Against your better judgement, you decide to check the text from Dheeraj, the guy you handed your half-baked resume to the other day. To your surprise, it reads,

{James, it’s Dheeraj from Bean City. I called but I guess you were busy? Would love for you to come in for an interview, sometime between 4 and 6 is fine. Look forward to hearing from u}

Your phone knowingly blinks 2:17pm at you.

>Mix yourself some hair of the dog.
>See what’s going on online.
>Spend some time getting prettied up.
>Go for a walk.
>Write in?

>>46599156
>Go for a walk.

>Go for a walk.

Time to start losing them pounds.

They are taking their time then...
Orks have existed for how long now? 50-60 thousand years? War in the heavens period. Much longer than humanity has. If that was their plan all along there must be some Ork who is still alive from that time to remember their plan, and that one Ork...
Dear Emperor, that Ork must be da biggest and da strongest to ever exist...

They would have done it already

What if the empire just pretends to be crumbling and inefficient while in reality they just wait for the right moment to steamroll the galaxy?

Incredibly long ones, think like, marathoning a season of a TV series.
Common themes would be about personal struggles that in the end, don't really change anything.

The Wire, would be an Elf Movie.

>>46590385
grass growing

>>46590385
Probably art films which go to great lengths to portray subtle degrees of character and story, with plot after subplot layered one on top of the other. They consider 3 hours to be a bit on the short side.

That and the occasional chick-flick or comedy that focuses on the ineptitude of everyone surrounding the main character, but those are considered low-brow popcorn flics.

And then there's their adult video scene. Humans fucking REVOLUTIONISED that area of entertainment...

>>46588980
I dont balance encouters, my player encounter what they would encounter assuming the setting was real world and their pcs were an person inside the setting

If it's a filler fight, it'll be weak things that die trivially easily. Minions, 4E called them, but I've never actually played 4E.
If it's a deadly serious battle where the players are given full opportunity to die, I typically create an anti-party of X opponents roughly parallel to the strength of the party (which itself has X units).
If it's a serious battle, but one the players are expected to win but not easily, I scale a fight that would be a lethal battle for the players, then reduce all the numbers by a third. HP, damage output, etc.

If the party did something stupid and the fight is "you've enraged the dracolich and are all going to die", well, I don't care about TPKs if they were completely avoidable and clearly indicated.

I try to at least know what the balance of my fights are. Sometimes it's okay for the players to flatten something, and sometimes the players should have to run away. But I usually want fights to be very close with the players working out winning.

For D&D 3.5, I played a campaign following the CR system to the letter but I wouldn't do it again. CR has so little accuracy that it's basically useless.

For D&D 4E, I mostly followed the CR system, though that has its warts too - my players were consistently punching above their weight, except Soldier-type monsters above your level are boring garbage.

My own homebrew had a pretty accurate CR system and I barely playtested it at all, I don't think it should be as hard as the D&D folks are making it.