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>>54658470
* Dhampirs: One of the many "times of darkness" for this setting involved a centuries-long reign by vampire aristocrats. Dhampirs, humans with vampiric lineage, are the legacy of those nobles sating their lusts with human underlings.

* Vrylokas: During the "Reign of Blood", some humans tried to magically transform themselves into beings more like their vampiric masters, becoming a race of shunned and hated "living vampires".

* Tieflings: Stealing Bael Turath from the Nentir Vale; descendants of a fallen empire that made a diabolic pact for success, but fell anyway.

* Devas: Angels that forsook the heavens to shepherd humanity in the Dawn Age. Not exactly happy with how everything's gone to shit since then. Can't break the cycle of reincarnation, though.

* Dragonborn: Dragon-like humanoids literally born as embodiments of sin.

* Haglings: The larval form of hags, or the ultimate evolution of sorcerers, depending on who you ask.

* Shifters: One "time of darkness" involved a witch-king who melded man and beast together to create rampaging monsters. When he was killed, his spell unwove... mostly. Shifters are the descendants of those weakened slave-soldiers, incapable of purging the beast from their blood.

* Goblins: Woodsy little people who use ancient traditions of alchemy and witchcraft to ward off bigger threats (aka, humans). Travel the land in nomadic caravans.

* Orcs: Proud, warlike but honorable people from the cold northern lands. Come to the "main land" as merchants, sellswords and reavers.

* Kobolds: Inventive, arrogant and cocky little dragonlings who use mad magitek "science" to compensate for being so small and puny.

>>54658470
>inspired by WHFB
>grimbright

take the races from warhammer with all the dystopia attached to them but then add a SLIVER of hope

for example:

>Lizardmen are the abandoned children fo the old ones, they attempt to enact their great plan but they do not understand it themselves, they fight amongst themselves for interpretations among them, but slowly a few of them are actually attempting to understand the plan rather than following it through, slowly becoming more like their creators

Or Empire

>A huge sprawling empire where the population is cramped into claustrophobic cities, the countryside is infested with monsters so rural folk must all be supreme balls of steel badasses just to survive. But the nobles actually take the cause of humanity serious, sure there are witch hunters and opression, but slowly humanity is reconquering the wilds and life isnt completley shitty

Or take oldschool vampire counts

>Vampires rule over uneducated peasants with an iron fist, using them as a food source as they please, but they also consider themselves noble benevolent leaders, humans do not get drafted into the army because thats what the dead are for, also they bareley pay any taxes since vampires dont need any normal food

>>54660295
I don't want to directly copy WHFB, but that is a helpful tip nonetheless - I actually do want to include Old School Chaotic Neutral Chaos as one of the "powers" in this setting.

>>54658397
Infernal bureaucracy is mostly a Miltonian idea apes by everyone.

>>54658397
>These are beings of chaos and evil, from essentially the second most mutable place in the planes except from Limbo, but they're able to be easily catagorized? How does that fit their theme at all?

If you read the pre-Planescape stuff about demons, it outright states that the labels are just a convenience invented by mortals, and there's no hard rule that a marilith is always weaker than a balor, etc.

>>54658444
Except hell and abyss, and by extension devils and demons are separate things in d&d. Infernal bureaucracy sure fits the former, but why latter?

>>54658213
Stop being a faggot and talk to your GM.

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>>54658242
>Stop being a faggot

Anon I posted a thread it's too late for me

>>54658213
Make a really good character concept that heavily involves being a moth, and then pitch it to the GM. It might only be fetishist bait, but if it's well done it won't matter.

>>54658089
https://youtu.be/DoIb62THIT0

>>54658363

Oh shit, GRR is a GURPSfag. That's nice.

>>54658089
Pendragon is 100% about all of this, man. Take a look, Pendragon 5th edition's what you need.

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>>54658013

>Chasing a Rock into Zhodani Space Edition

pic related; it's the Rock in question.

>How would interstellar celebrity work in the Third Imperium?

I'd imagine you'd have most major celebrities known on a roughly sector-wide level, with the general public beyond that having not heard of any but the biggest or most venerable yet. The exception would likely be exports from the Imperial core sector, since that's where the biggest stars and the biggest budget productions would end up, and would likely be hot items for import via the X-boat system.

If I release an album on Capital, and send it out over x-boat distribution, It'll take 15 weeks to reach Vland.

So they're 4 months behind what's happening.
If I got a J-2 tour ship, and played at each stop (and back), that tour would go for two years. (122 weeks, assuming 1 week in jump, 1 week on world. That's one sector away. That'd be the outer limit of a celeb's reach I'd think, short of people who are legendary in some way.

Personal celebrity would be limited to heads of state. By the time most artists would get noticed reaches the outer areas, they've almost certainly moved on from whatever they're doing.

For imperium-wide celebrity, it'd be more likely a franchise than anything else (Think about the popularity of Dr Who or James Bond) versus a specific person.

A grateful dead type situation, possibly with an evolving lineup, constantly touring, with followers could be interesting though.

Players are hired on a roadies for a touring group - hilarity ensues.

>>54660713
>For imperium-wide celebrity, it'd be more likely a franchise than anything else (Think about the popularity of Dr Who or James Bond) versus a specific person.

THIS. Not only franchises, but VR celebrities who exist only inside the computers of media megacorps; i.e. Gibson's Idaru.

Also, the Imperium has canonical "cultural regions" like Lancian, Sylean, Suerrat, etc. Such regions would make achieving celebrity easier within them and harder outside them. Forex: Everyone in the Sylean cultural region loves Shecky Dangerfield's comedy, but everyone not "hip" to Sylean culture doesn't get the joke.

The same effect will be at work with widespread Minor Race like the Bwap.

During the Rebellion those region of the Extents closest to the Imperium are constantly stirred to anti-Imperial actions by a device best described VR personality combined with an "iPhone" or digital assistant. (For a company rightfully accused of sticking to "retro" sci fi, GDW was really ahead of the curve here.) While the user initially enters personal preferences into the device, the device learns more about what you really like by monitoring your use of it. The device also comes with a audio/visual VR personality like Siri or Alexa, which also learns to talk, look, act, etc. more like what you prefer.

The fun part occured when the group manufacturing and/or distributing the device used it to disseminate constant low key anti-3I propaganda via the "tailored" VR personality.

It was a great idea which MT/DGP/GDW completely failed to examine.

>>Players are hired on a roadies for a touring group - hilarity ensues.

Cue John Ford's rightly famous adventure for Classic JTAS: Veedback.

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>chaos
>strong

>>54656334
First for Asavar Kul, the only cool Everchosen

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First for tight elven asses.

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>>54654216
Claiming not necessarily because she's perfect(she is), but mostly because I want to claim her so others can't.

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>>54654240
Well, fuck you.

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Unnecessary claim go!

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All right /tg/, I have an unhealthy desire to play a different deck every tournament, so I'm thinking about sleeving this pile up for Friday - give me your thoughts

>>54653055
Probably should have made the thread image a modern-playable card

>>54653055
>BGx good stuff.deck edition
Worst edition
How can we get rid of goodstuff.decs? Are they inevitable in Modern?

>Inb4 Go to Legacy if you want to play combo decks
Burn, Affinity and Tron are neither combo nor goodstuff.dec

>>54653127

>that feeling when Hunmaster of the Fells is Legacy-playable but not Modern-playable

if only Nic Fit existed in Modern

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>>54650111
Quick summary the prior threads' re-imagining of the VC bloodlines:

>Lahmians
Descendants of Nerata, a radical tech priestess who discovered an ancient artificial intelligence (possibly a shard of the Void Dragon) calling itself Mekash while investigating ruins beneath the Martian deserts. It helped her adapt Necron nanotechnology to bond to human flesh, transforming her into the first cyber-vampyre. Eventually her heresy was discovered and she was forced to flee along with her followers, settling on the hive world of Lahmia IV in the Transylv'an Sector on the fringes of Imperial space near the Halo Stars. She quickly subverted the planet's government and has used it as a base to begin spreading the influence of biomechanical undeath across the sector.

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>>54651499
>Von Carstein
Descendants of Inquisitor Vandersten, and Imperial nobleman and founding member of the Ordo Necros tasked with ridding the Imperium of the undead menace. Tempted by what he discovered in his investigations, he struck a pact with Nerata to cover up her activities in exchange for immortality. Though he lacks Nerata's expertise in cybernetic necromancy, his heresy has remained hidden thus far, allowing him and his bloodline to wield far greater political power beyond the Transylv'an sector without attracting the attention of the Inquisition.

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>>54651543
>Blood Dragons
Members of a renegade Space Marine warband, remnants of the Bloody Tears chapter who were excommunicated by the Imperium when it was discovered that their chapter was created from the tainted gene-seed of the Night Lords. Rejecting the Chaos gods, they jouneyed to the Transylv'an sector, settling on a feudal world as a sort of knightly aristocracy until being tracked down by an Imperial expeditionary force. Desperately seeking an advantage in battle, they accepted the gift of undeath offered to them by Nerata. With incomparable martial prowess and discipline, they are now the most dangerous and visible of the cyber-vampyre bloodlines.

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>>54649900
Can't find any good pictures, but scythes are just spears in my games. One of my players whined that "it should do more damage when the blade is the other way! It can focus more force"

He rapidly learned otherwise when I took him out to the barn and showed him what happens when you try to hit a target with a scythe like that

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I also like blunt weapons with a spike or hook on them. When my players are smart enough to describe their weapons with hooks or spikes I let them do piecing damage. I also let warhammers do that anyway, because who the fuck makes a warhammer that can't pierce?

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It really grinds my gears when my players draw or describe their "warhammers" like this, or say it's a one handed weapon.

Good luck swinging that more than once without getting murdered

>BBEG

ugh. how tvtropish of you.

He drives primitive pedal powered hovercraft made of wood around as a taxi service of sorts. Will drop customers of mid-air f it they are no longer willing to pay or lets them drown in the rising sea if they are not offering enough.

He mostly just wants to bring humanity into the next step in its development through his gentle guidance, by conquering most of the world and mass-upgrading humans into cyborgs.

The actual endboss is a sleeper agent working the patriots because they have her husband.

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"Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire."
—Jaya Ballard, task mage

>>54649558
>having to put up with the Diet Jaya that is Chandra
>for over a fucking decade

Just fucking kill the franchise already.

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>>54649254

That's Jinxed Idol.

shameless self-bump

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What medium are you playing on? I am also East Coast, and pic related is my collection.

>>54650426
Not OP but super jealous of your collection. I have scoured every gaming store in my metro area and have found zero 2e books

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I used to be obsessed with this armor.

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>>54648101
Dark Souls' art team has always been on point.

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Just a great helm.

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>>54647919
>GM or Player
GM & 1 maybe 2 players
>System(s)
WHFRP 2nd Edition or Zweihander Not sure yet
>Time availability
Sunday, Maybe monday (Doubt it though for monday)
>Text or Voice
Voice, english only
>Contact Information
girwasx
[email protected]
>Additional Information
Dont need to know the systems, well be fine with teaching

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Posting here in new bread

>GM or Player
GM
>System(s)
Black Crusade
>Time availability
Saturdays @ 2:30pm EDT
>Text or Voice
Text
>Contact Information
ELH#5618
>Additional Information
I'm looking to start up a text-only game of Black Crusade on Saturdays. The catch is that all of the PCs must stay unaligned due to working with a daemon(ette) of Malice. There's more details on the roll20 page. No CSMs or advanced archetypes. Apps close Thursday evening!

https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/84879/malices-black-crusade

>>54648108
i want to play, but the text only makes it a no go for me. i cant type for shit