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>Red Sonja
Archetypical. Fucked Conan but didn't get emotionally involved.
>Paksenarrion
A slightly later, slightly more genre savvy Red Sonja.
>Rico's love interest from Starship Troopers
I can't remember her name. I think it started with C. But she meaningfully interacts with the political philosophy of the book and discusses it with the MC. Dizzy in the film is good too.
>Vasquez
Baddest ass marine in the whole crew. No questions. Possibly manliest marine in the whole crew.
>Ripley
'Nuff said.
>Malta
From Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders series. Great character, strong characterisation. There is a meaningful character arc, she grows and changes, and she acts in a completely rational, though self interested, manner.
>Judge Anderson
While her depictions change with writers and artists, often she is damaged but competent, with the depth of trying to overcome her past trauma. Some of the comics really deal quite strongly with her character growth.

I've got more that I can talk about if you like.

>>44863559

Elena and Linden Avery from the Covenant books.

>>44863705
>Baddest ass marine in the whole crew. No questions.
>not sarge

>>44863016
for house and dominion

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At your return to Rioja the media are waiting in force despite the usual attempts to keep them away. Fortunately there was time to prepare with your PR team and some of the diplomats, setting up a press conference where you make a statement to the press.

While you describe the entire attack on the Nasidum expeditionary fleet as a defensive action to protect the Houses of the region, you also agree that it's a major victory.

You dedicate the victory to the many smaller Houses of the region, working together to oppose Nasidum and their attempts to bully others into submission. It's also dedicated to the strength of the Run Alliance as it becomes a power in its own right.

For now you refuse to answer questions on the future of the occupied territories or the level of casualties suffered.

Roll 8d20 for casualties suffered by the army.

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>44863686
>Roll 8d20
1

This is going to take a while...

>>44862955
these feels
i cannot hold them

Our wife is about to be pissed

>>44862955
You return to the village slowly, melancholy weighing on your steps. Explaining things to Beren will not be easy, but your wife is wise. She'll understand that Sera made her choice and it was a choice not only for what she wanted, but for the best possible future.

SLAP!

Your left cheek joins your right in a stinging, embarrassing burn. You're sure Galit has left a red handprint on both sides of your face as she and Beren sob. Sera is more composed, but still cries at her sister's absence and you suspect Noh is just joining in because everyone else is sad.
"She couldn't even say goodbye?!" snarls your brother's wife. You can feel her raising her hand for another slap, before Elia suddenly steps in, grabbing her wrist and hugging her tightly. Galit breaks down into floods of tears and goes to be with Beren, who is trying to dry her eyes and bury her sadness. Elia takes your arm and pulls you up from where his woman knocked you over, hurrying you out of the tent and in the direction of the nearest fire.
"I... Had expected Beren to be distraught," you gasp, "But Galit too?"
"...Beren never mentioned how she convinced Galit to join the family, did she?" asks Elia quietly as you both sit down. He sighs and relates the story to you.

Somehow, although he had no idea how, Beren found out Galit's great secret; the reason everyone in the clan thinks that Elia is so under her thumb as to not even mate with her... Galit is barren.
"We can't have children," Elia tells you in a quiet voice. "That's why she was forever leading me and everyone else on back in the day. We've tried, believe me, we've tried..." You don't need to be told. You share the same house after all and privacy can be at a premium... "But nothing. Then Beren was pregnant and asked Galit how she's like to be an aunt. She said she could raise Sera as like her own daughter. You may not have noticed, but for years, Galit's been happy, helping Beren in every way possible."

>>44863140
"Now that's gone... At least she still has Ebba and Noh, but brother, please promise me... Promise me you'll tell no-one. I shouldn't have even told YOU. And promise me that the other two won't go anywhere. I don't want to see Galit like this again, ever..."

The first light snow soon begins to fall and the valley enters its long sleep. It is early winter. What will you do?
>Hunt the aurochs 1d10 (Strength -Blind)
>Fish in the river 1d10 (Skill +Trait -Blind)
>Explore the forest
>Explore up the valley
>Explore the hills
>Try and investigate something new (List options)
>Make something special (List options)
>See what the mood of the clan is like, talk to people and get to know them (free)
>Change your active jobs and examine your inventory (free)
>Try to summon a new god
>Make offerings to a god
>Bring more land under cultivation
>Other

>>44857199

Feed...when the new enemy appeared, you were exposed to one of their weapons and power sources. It changed you, not in the way the enemy intended, and gave you the ability to consume the supernatural agent they use to transform the innocent into monsters and negative emotions with fangs.


The brief tinge of fear when you drank of her well of negative emotions with sudden fervor and savagery.

The fear in the eyes of your friends, of you or for you?

You are alone in your room. Your clock says it's just after lunch as you sit up and pull your knees to your chest. Stomach rumbling for more physical fare, you do not feel any lingering hungers for negative emotions or darkness.

It surprises you that you might actually need the things you take to function. Especially since you had been avoiding feeding on both the darkness of the enemy and the negative emotions of others.

>Have doubt, fear what you might be becoming
>Persevere, this is just something you have to do
>Rage, why are you alone changed like this but still yourself
>You are beyond caring about what you’ve become, it is what it is
>Cry, this isn’t fair. None of this is fair
>You can’t be yourself right now, be someone else. Who?
>Write in

&

>Go back to sleep, you can’t get up yet
>Head downstairs because you need food
>Grab a shower, attempt to futz with your hair
>Go watch some TV as a distraction
>Ignore world, video games
>Secret comics? Secret comics
>Write in

Okay, thirty minute voting period after the first vote. The rest of the votes will have a 15 minute window. Trying to pick up my pace this thread.

>>44857225
>Persevere, this is just something you have to do
>Secret comics? Secret comics

>>44854370
That is the point of Grimdark.

There are no true heroes if there is no unbeatable darkness.
A hero is not the one who wins against evil, a hero is the one that fight even when there is no hope.

That's what makes 40k so epic.

>>44854461
Ollanius Pius knows his shit

>>44854370
That's the point, it's a cosmic tragedy. A lot of the plot elements are pulled from other tragedies and each factions background hinges on a tragic irony; the Imperium worships an emperor who hated religion, the eldar are the wisest yet the cause of their own destruction, the orks live for war and would lose meaning if they ever won, the tyranids are the galaxies greatest threat yet they are running from something more terrible etc.

>>44795088
Old thread.

>>44853076
What kinds of Initiation rituals would you force an Adept to go through?

What music should you play during their training montage?

>>44853510
https://youtu.be/JU9Uwhjlog8

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So guys, how's your campaigns going?
Tell me the funniest/funnest thing your players have done. Or, what's the most interesting encounter your GM has set up for you?

We haven't yet started the campaign, but soon I hope to get a RT campaign going. That said, how well does Forsaken Bounty work as an intorductory adventure?

>>44852964
My players asked me to allow this asshat to join the game, I didn't want to allow him but said I'd try him out.

Didn't go well, he was a rules lawyer and a That Guy as expected, but he's such a moany little bitch I couldn't just kick him out, so I was stuck with him for a couple more games.

He's playing a psyker and being pretty open with his abilities but the team are going pretty stealthily through the game with covers as just normal guys, bunch of traders or some shit, he wanders off on his own, and he's spouting off to strangers about his abilities, even though I'd warned him Blackships were planetside harvesting psykers for sacrifice to The Emperor.

Long story short he continues to use his powers in public, and gets abducted by the Blackship, he starts screaming about being in the Inquistion but nobody believes him and the team are so split up they aren't even around to prove that he's there on official business.

He didn't come back next game.

>>44850398
>Who /worships Luke Crane/ here?
Reporting in. If you've got a head for rules and want the system to mean something for how the game's going to play out, Burning Wheel is the single best game ever written.

I'm not sure whether to pledge for the newest BW book because I have the old Burners handy on my shelf, but I'm seriously tempted.

>>44850398
>Anyone playing/running/planning on playing/planning on running any of these games soon?
I wish, sadly don't have anything in the works at the morning

>Anyone back the Burning Wheel Codex Kickstarter?
This guy, managed to snag a signed copy.

>How do you feel about BWHQ publishing Dungeon World?
Pretty indifferent, not a big fan of DW myself but I don't really care if they work together.

>Who /worships Luke Crane/ here?
Worship might be a little much, but I do like a lot of his games.

>Anyone ever actually got a BWHQ game to the table?
Couple of times, sadly none of them lasted very long, just for typically scheduling bullshit.

>>44850643
I pledged for it because I only had the pdfs. Plus, it's gonna look cool as fuck sitting next to Gold on my shelf.

>>44850830
I feel you on the scheduling, I bought the new Mouse Guard thinking I could finally get something BW related to the table (my group is 50% board game players so they'd never actually play/read BW). Sadly, I only got to play one session which I royally fucked up because I misunderstood how the GM's turn really works. Haven't had the people together for it since. As someone that loves to just read the rules though, BWHQ stuff is great. I still really wish I got to play it though.

So uhhh.

Dead Game
Dead Thread.

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So how do I Cyriss? I like the Vectors, I've read up on strategy and such, but they still seem a bit odd to me. Any suggestions?

As an aside, I'm thinking full-on Borg for their color scheme - but then again that might seem a bit Cryxian, what with them hoarding all the black and green.

>>44849935
Just play them.

You only git gud by playing

>>44843154
I introduced a guy to board games with TS but he was a huge Cold War nerd and loved the idea. It's not an overly complex game, there are only 10 pages of neatly organized rules and then everything else is on the cards.

Reposting this for anon.

>Repostan /bgg/ discord channel for organizing tabletop sim games or what have you. Maybe add that to the pastebin or OP's in the future.

https://discord.gg/0laJMtUwLNCIyVy

>What's in the mail?
For me - nothing. Buying my friend Bruges, though. I'll probably skip buying games in February, though. Managed to play Nightfall once and still haven't played BattleCon. I'm itching to play Nightfall more.

FFG art sleeves, apparently the lightsaber ones were a limited printing so getting those for SW:Risk protection.
>What's hit your table this weekend?
1. StarCraft: BroodWar

Had a lot of fun - jewed out 4 points per round for 3 consecutive rounds and then got my shit pushed in by 3 people in two next rounds. We finished early because one guy had to split but I'd have probably lost. I had a shit to of SCVs no base, a couple of vultures and marines and surrounded by enemies. Next time I'll aim for being second and try to close in in two rounds.

2. Imperial Settlers
I think I have a special version of autism that lets me be good at this game. Won all games of this so far. Ended up the last with around 150 points.

>Any new games on your radar?
I prefer getting something tested at list a bit. The newest game I want to get right now is Sheriff of Nottingham and maybe Blood Rage. I'm still looking for a fun 4X that's not in space and complex/tactical games.

>>44822736
hype

>>44822736
Woo!

YEAHHHHHHHH

>>44776918
Linking this from last thread, it's a complication of my notes for the system(s) I've been working on. Feel free to pick apart/critique/ask questions about any part. I'm goin to try and salvage as much as possible.

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By the way, I think we should actually slap the links on a pastebin with names for the links for new threads, this is starting to get clunky and ridiculous- there's about 200 characters left for the thread topic and any new links we might need to add

And speaking of new OP links, if anyone has any resources for the people making wargames and card games, please do share them

>>44779113
By the way, here's my other notes for this system if anyone's interested, it's been worked on by me and some other fa/tg/uys on Skype: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQZzAgP8P08Pa7A2EVQfWIxVTEG1uIfeyv2yWwWQ8uA/edit?usp=sharing

>>44865929
>Any races, class features, optional rules, or story arcs?

My demands are simple...
1. A dhampyr race
2. A monster hunter tree for the ranger and fiend summoning for the warlock
3. Sanity I guess (but I could take it or leave it)
4. And a sidequest involving a ambitious scientist hiding in fear from a vengeful and cunning awakened flesh golem. No more of this clumsy moaning frankenstien's monster bullshit

I don't have my hopes up though.

Old thread

>>44845872

Whats a good spell book app for android?

I just picked up the character creator and the spell book is leaving me wanting.

>no internet
>no pool

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>>44865735

Exteriors or Interiors

>>44865553
the only person close to being a girl or woman in my group is myself, so i can't really say.

>>44865705
Do you mean you are a women or some sort of demi-trap?

>>44865553
Our token group girl is one of the more involved players. Though she is very scatter-brained and often gets distracted. But then so does the rest of our group.

All in all I think she's fun to play with.