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Tyranids literally cannot fall to chaos.
They're so negligible to chaos in terms of emotional sustenance that Daemons struggle to hold their corporeal forms when they're fighting against Tyranids.

Tyranids have no emotions, they have no souls, they are just barely more alive than zombies in the eyes of Chaos, there's nothing to latch onto.

>>54719952
>Tyranids have no emotions
Not necessarily true. A number of stories describe Tyranids as having an inherent, built-in hatred of all non-tyranid life as well as an intense desire to kill non-tyranid life.

>>54718101
Because winter exists.

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>>54718101
Because most lizard-folk prefer honest professions, although lizard-folk criminals do exist.

>>54718237
>most hissers prefer honest professions

Tell that to the fuckin liz that stole my bike and my girl.

Konor will not matter.

Named Guardfags worstfags? Y/N?

Second for "Will Forgeworld make models for the Other Dawn of War characters?"

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how new are you to the game?
what cards do you have to work with?
do you want to build something just for fun with friends, or tourney/FNM play?
Are you willing to spend money?
What colours do you wish to play?

>>54718760
Very new
Mainly a booster box of Hour of Devastation and a blue/black deck from drafts

Just for now something good

I am willing to spend money.

Probably blue/black

>>54718760
Not terribly new
I have a shit ton of Hour and Amonkhet cards, trying to make a deck based around the new Bolas planeswalker card i managed to pull two of. Most definitely willing to spend money.
I am torn between building an EDH deck or a Standard one

Disinfectant and antibiotics.

>>54717522
Give him basic anti-biotics and then watch him die

>>54717522
Disinfect the wound.

If necessary, prescribe antibiotics.

what do you need to get the vizier storm cannon thing up and running? i'm looking at the rajah which is pretty awesome except for the half BAB thing and wondering if you can just feat the guns into it and be good to go

What strength should a ranged Soldier have? Can I stick with 10 and ignore heavy weapons? When are weapons getting leaked?

>>54716842
You don't need the full BAB unless you want to be a full attack babby

Attacking through Vassalage gives you a huge to-hit boost

Sounds like some variant of asymmetric play were each player has control over their path to victory. I can think of plenty of games which do it (netrunner, mtg, 7 wonders). You could also look at Eurogames in general with their multiple point generating objectives. Changing how many points each objective gives assigns various weights to how valuable that objective is.

>>54716642
However, this weighting and in-the-moment selection of path is hard to encapsulate. One could very easily change their path at a certain point and be at a completely different score towards that new objective. Meaning that applying something like Minmax wouldn't work just out of the box.
Looking at Eurogame, it seems like in many cases, the winner is decided by some combined score total, since there's a lack player elimination. This would be a single-objective game.
A game which allows for player elimination bears multiple routes to that end, each valuing different actions more or less. In the end, using some average weight for these actions across all possible objectives seems like a bad decision which will poorly represent every victory route, rather than represent each fairly well.

I'm very familiar with a lot of the games you mentioned themselves, but I'm more looking for a general theory surrounding the evaluation of games at the abstract level, simply having multiple possible objectives to which actions contribute variably to each.

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>>54715233
>What are differences someone who has only played d20 in the form of 3.PF and 5e expect?
Better fighters, faster combat, less hit points, less options - which actually opens your mind and imagination into coming up with your own shit. The system actually works and isn't terrible.

>Any modules you recommend, or should I homebrew all of it?
I've always found the Village of Hommlet to be a damn near perfect introductory model. It's got a bunch of traps and secret doors that you can practice proper searching (i.e. not just perception rolls) on, a few tough fights to get around in imaginitive and tactical ways, and an instant death or two to teach the players to always look up. Have everyone roll up two characters. Can't go wrong with it.

>What's your favorite setting?
I like Wilderlands of High Fantasy, though I tend to plug up plenty of other shit on top of it.

>>54715233
I'm a 5e player and I recently read 2e books (didn't play it yet)

>What are differences someone who has only played d20 in the form of 3.PF and 5e expect?
The first thing you will notice is that classes don't have a bunch of abilities: fighters just get a bonus to hit and extra attacks, thieves get better at thieving, wizards learn and cast more spells.

THAC0 is a little confusing at first and might take a time for you to get it right.

>Are there any traps to avoid as a GM?
Take a good look at every kit before allowing them.

>What's your opinion?
It feels different from newer editions, I really want to give it a try soon

>What's your favorite setting?
Council of Wyrms (playable dragons!) and Dark Sun

>>54715233
I played the retroclone "For gold & glory" after playing one session i just want to modify a lot of things in a good way, but i really liked the feeling of the game, you know that if you change something you wont kill the balance

>>54714935
This to be desu. I use spreadsheets for balance calculations when homebrewing.
If you don't do math when homebrewing, you're doing it wrong.

Will roll20 tokens ever be posted from CoS?

>>54715202
Pretty sure roll20 tokens is what gets troves banned half the time.

Angelskin Vestments / Angelskin Undergarments

a chainmail vest made out of magical rings.

>>54714843
Water Sword +2, flows around attacks, hard to defend against, cuts through armor like a high-pressure water-jet cutter.

First for GSCB, you will never be forgotten.

Is there a video game that capture better the essence of 40k than Battlefleet Gothic ? Hot damn I'm replaying the campaign and the atmosphere is on point.

Newfag who bought too much on ebay here.

I got about 30 space marines with only a few heavy weapons included and 3 dreads. Where do I go from here in making an army that's not fundamental garbage? ideally in the 1k range

>>54714392
If the helmet is magic enough, it could change size to fit his owner. On the other hand, it might have too much self-respect to want to sit on the head of a manlet

>>54714392
Instead of trying to justify not allowing him to resize the equipment, how about trying to find a way for him to do it. A blacksmith may not be able to resize it, but maybe a magician could shrink it down for him or something.

>>54714392
>The party I'm running for keeps finding a bunch of armor. Obviously they tend to be sized for humans, but our main melee fighter is about half that size.

http://www.archivesofnethys.com/MagicWondrousDisplay.aspx?FinalName=Iron%20Lord%27s%20Transforming%20Slivers

Bam, his problem is now solved.

Rolled 7863610 (1d10000000)

Are you asking me if I feel lucky, punk?

Rolled 10 (1d20)

Check this 9.

Rolled 5 (1d20)

nope

>>54713117
I prefer to DM, myself, but I just want to play at least sometimes as a player. It just feels like two completely different things to me. DMing is fun because I like seeing my players have fun with what I've made, and I enjoy having the chance of playing dozens of NPCs and try a number of weird mechanical combinations for encounters; on the other hand, being able to focus on a single character and have fun exploring and solving mysteries/stabbing shit without already knowing everything that is going to happen and spending weeks of prep work would be neat once in a while.

Players who absolutely refuse to DM are typically worse than players who will.

Obviously there are individuals who break the mold, but refusing to ever step up is typically a sign of laziness and/or entitlement that makes for shit players.

But in general I agree with >>54713300 in that they are two very different things for me.

>let me put you all in this box
>oh ho ho how clever i am for being out of the box
Chew glass

>>54712999
Gods are fickle creatures with inscrutable and complex minds and they get bored by mortals pretty quickly.

>>54713016
Are gods childlike or are children godlike?

>>54712999
It's against the rules.