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>>44581207
The Emperor didn't

But that because the Emperor was brilliant at wasting the potential of his underlings.

Lorgar is one of the primarchs whose talents were wasted on war.

He was a great motivator, a political reformer and a builder of societies. He was in many ways a spiritual Guilliman.

If he, Guilliman and Fulgrim had been given to Malcador and given positions in the Administratum the Imperium would have been so much better.

But then the Emperor not going Full Fedora might also have helped.

>>44581227
To be fair, Lorgar was created to be one of the greatest soldiers in the galaxy and his purpose was to lead the Emperor's armies while daddy governed and did research. The enormous expense of creating a primarch seems wasted on menial bureaucratic labor that does not actually require their massive size and power.

>>44582298
Irrelevant.

They were lost assets the moment the Emperor forgot to put warp-proofing on his doom fort.

After that all primarchs were salvage.

And also keeping the Empire is as important as conquering it.

And daddy wasn't governing it. Malcador was. Daddy E was fucking around with tings in his basements he didn't understand.

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>>44580747
Hail fellow, glad ta see you enjoyed our little chat as much as I!

I hope to hear from others aswell today: if I manage to make time, I'll post something myself perchance.

>>44580904
Good to see you too! Though I wonder what caused the thread to be wiped... Oh well.

>>44580915
Our conversation got me thinking, you know.

About paladins and how they should be the chosen champion of the god they serve: wouldn't it be natural for them to be sort of prophets aswell? Hearing the will of their god and carrying out their will.

That is, of course, if the paladin serves a god rather than an ideology in a setting.

google the size of the sun
divide it by the size of your finger nail
multiply your height by that number

my estimate is "really big"

>>44580650
>your little finger nail if you held it in the palm of your hand
this made me wince

THE POWER OF THE SUN
IN THE PALM OF MY HAND

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>>44580273
The trick isn't to make it edgy, but to make it personal. You need to pick up the player where they are, and then increase tension incrementally. You make the symbols, you don't have to be overt about it, or crude.

CoC pretty much leaves you alone with the san countdown. At best it offers ways to flavor it (Monophobia), but the inner mechanics of the game seriously lack. To amend this introduce the Madness Meter, or play with another system altogether (UA, Nemesis, DG).

Basically every Lovecraft character has some kind of unhealthy fixation. It isn't about finding clinical terms but about undercutting the shared delusion that we call sanity. The characters do not go insane, they realize that in face of the reality they have uncovered all of mankind is doomed and failing to admit it to itself. This removes them from the usual context of human interaction in polite society. But to call them insane requires a shift of perspective away from the character and back into the society they originated from. Forget all you have learned with/through the character and their actions and expectations appear dissociated from reality, but you as reader know the actual reality where these actions make sense.

To put it into game terms: Do not define the character as insane. Instead reveal the universe to their squinting eyes and define everyone else as oblivious and therefore problematic to interact with.

>>44580442
Not that anon, but thanks, that's a nice PDF, I'll use it.

I want to adapt some Delta Green adventures to Eclipse Phase. I'd ask in /epg/, but I couldn't find it. Looking for advice, especially how to deal with the fact that no one uses papers and books anymore.

>>44581508
DG relies heavily on law enforcement and alphabet soup tropes. You'd have to install those in EP first, and I don't see it working.

>loved 6, hate 7
It's the same shit. Also, tau are now ridiculously easy to break and make OP without allying

>>44580232
It's still going strong. As with any game, it just depends on whether or not your attitude about it has changed. Doesn't seem like it has, though. So for you it is probably not worth it to get back in.

>>44580232
Would a Shock Baton be basically a power maul?
Also I want a movie about Guardsmen now.
Loyal ones, not TRAITORS

>>44580205
sure, it's just not called slavery

Go home shill you're drunk.

>>44580214
>>44580205
Isn't it more like the Imperium's relationship with people is basically feudal and everyone's a serf? So they're definitely not slaves.

At one time the eldar were the biggest space fairing race.

Now it is the Humans.

Soon the tyranids, so expect looted carnifexes and bio space fist shooters to be more common place amongst the orks.

>>44580102
We're already getting some of that in the Octarius war.

I wonder if the Orks will start taunting the Tyranids in gutteral shouts and roars.

You know why

>Because it's a made up setting, that reflects >our society, or parts of it.

>Because it's cool

>Because no one want to read a codex or ork story that is unreadable because they use their own fucking growling language

>GRRUUUUU, HMPF, WRAUW, HRTHRTRHHHRRR, MLMLMLMMMMZHHGG
wauw, great fucking read that was

>>44579983
What will you put on this monitor?

>>44580062
Landscapes, gameboards, maps, portraits, etc.

Anything from a grid to a landscape, as needed.

Not having to print out grid maps, and just make them using convenient existing digital tools would be super convenient.

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I just went the classic way:

I bought $20 6x6 sheet of weather resistant placstic sideing at home depot.

It is literally white bored material. I just cut it to the shape of a table I had, added 1'" indent for easy grids if the need arrises.

All in all it took maybe 3 hours, some patience, and I basically have a huge gaming board that can take spills like a champ.

Whenever you're caught out, orcs kidnapping someone in a village is an easy out. Add some appropriately leveled enemies and call it a day.

>>44579788
Tomb of Horrors.
Do it fggt

>>44579798
honestly if they get close quarters the orcs'll fuck em up...play on children, play on

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>>44580610

Joints and Jivers

>>44579514
Gumshoe would probably work well for you, OP. It's literally designed for investigative games.

>>44579514
If you wanted to go super rules light, something like this might be up your alley: http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/241167.html

>>44578526
Golden Sky Stories

>>44578526
Our group loves playing Ghost Stories

>>44578540
This one does seem pretty fun, what with it being inherently non-violent from what I can tell.

>>44578619
I've seen this at the game store I go to. What's the rundown of it? You're protecting a village, yeah?

I'm playing 4 color rally right now

I'm gonna fit that infinite damage combo with the new eldrazi guy into the deck if it kills me

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I'm gonna bring my low-budget R/U Thopter spam deck down to my LGS later this week and give it a shot. Shame I have to take out Muzzio though since my store is pretty anal about sets, he's won me some games in casual play

>>44578119
>Playing?
Mono-red aggro
>Brewing?
Not sure yet. Waiting for more OGW spoilers
>Hating on at your LGS?
Nothing, my LGS is pretty diverse with weird brews. I'm lucky
>Hoping for from OGW to contribute to your decks?
RU spellslinging

I suppose it is late. Anyone interested in embarking on an adventure?

>>44578107
Bumping for visibility

Iku!

>>44577778

I'm actually budgeting for a new Militarum Tempestus army. Fluffwise they'll be the henchmen for a radical Inquisitor of the Ordo Astartes, who believes that the best way to oversee Space Marine chapters is through violent action.

>>44581194

A black ops unit specifically for hunting down rogue super soldiers? Hmmm where have I heard of that before.

>>44577778
I once started writing a series of short stories about an agent for the Ordo Sepulturum (zombie hunters) - I envisioned them as 50% Inquisitorial agency, 50% intergalactic doctors without borders.

I feel like that would be an interesting way to run them in Dark Heresy, not so much as kitted out 'zombie hunters' but as though they were the CDC: spending most of their time chasing rumours of new diseases, investigating each new outbreak, hoping they wont prove to be a warp-engineered viruses, and always on the lookout for the dreaded zombie plague.