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>>44325847
No, it's illegal.

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>>44325847
Hex maps and cardboard chits, like they did back in the 70s.

It's almost as expensive as miniatures, but at least you don't have to paint anything.

You could actually use cardboard chits and a paper map with any miniatures rule set. It'd take some small amount of jury-rigging, but it's doable.

>>44326321
>It's almost as expensive as miniatures
REALLY?! Why?

>>44325253

Look up Fimbulwinter for some mythological ideas about a snowpocalypse, OP

>is there a maximum cold?

Yes, it's 0 degrees Kelvin or -273 Celsius. The coldest recorded natural temperatures on Earth are around -90 Celsius. Liquid nitrogen is about -200 Celsius, but you have to artificially create it.

On the other end, there is no maximum temperature, or at least not one we could possibly detect anyways. The Sun's corona is between 1 and 5 million degrees Celsius.

>>44326232
They actually created a gas at negative kelvin a few years ago.

>>44325253

Around -40 degrees and up starts becoming impossible to live for humans.

Glad I get these twitter updates on my phone. So pumped!

Hell yeah, here we go.
Will this be the thread where we meet Sibella?

Aww shit I just thought about it but We've been touched by an Angel.

So, noone has any other suggestions at all?

>>44324394
The original judge dredd with stalone is necromunda with adeptus arbites

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>>44324394
Not a film but I've begun to wonder how much of an impact Babylon 5 had on 40k writers, specifically in respect to the Tau being reminiscent of the Minbari.

Worth a watch.

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Telematha was a strange world. When the planet was starting to get colonized by the first Techpriests and Magos it was decided that due to the high levels of underwater sources and the colder temperatures that were found down there only the members of the Cult Mechanicus would be allowed to stay in those cavernous locations were the living standards were slightly better; the sun scalded surfaces would only have small settlements and massive fields of spaceports, solar energy gatherers and titanic warehouses for the Merchant fleets.

Then, aeons ago the proliferation of underground forges and metropolii under the charred and barren soil of Telematha created a huge problem with the planet’s delicate ecosystem; above the ground level the temperatures were so high and the air so thin that an increase in the proportion of carbon monoxide would have turned the atmosphere completely irrespirable and transform the surface into a dead world. This didn’t bothered much to the local Mechanicus priesthood because they weren’t personally affected, but if the planet were to become an atmosphere lacking place then the merchants who wanted to transport biological or living materials couldn’t do it as those would degrade or die in such environment.

The priesthood created a Cybertollah to decide what the best resolution was for this situation. Since the stopping of all the forges was something impossible at the end two possible solutions were considered; turning all those settlements and warehouses on the surface into environmentally sealed spaces or creating the Core Needle; a titanic funneling chimney that would gather all the residual toxic smog that was created from the forges and the fabricatorium, with the aid of massive turbines all that smoke and strange gases would be sucked up until it was completely out of the planet where it would be liberated and left it to drift among the many other gas clouds that plague the galaxy.

>>44324417

Ultimately it was decided to create the Core Needle which would completely cross the planet’s crust deep down onto the nucleus of the planet and ascend towards the skies. Such project became an incredibly ambitious moment of the history of Telematha and at the end there was such a massive brainstorm of ideas and suggestions that what would at first be a simple yet gigantic chimney ended becoming much more. It was constructed on the city of Aquacadens and was also repurposed as Space Elevator and Station; across the inner walls of the chimney a series of twenty massive Elevators were built, each capable of transporting a huge amount of people or goods within, the Space Station was finally given the blessed name of “Sigarum Pharus”.

Aquacadens was a strange city. It was a small settlement at first that only mildly stood out due to its great quantity of natural waterfalls and the many hydrokinetic generatoriums that were built around them. With the construction of the Core Needle it experienced a massive boom in mercantile influx and expansionism that quickly turned it into one of the biggest cities of the planet…and all that was now gone.

on the last message I used the word Irrespirable, my bad I meant to say unbreathable

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>>44324432

Empty streets and abandoned vehicles lied as far as your augmented eyes could see. Everything was eerily empty and the few poor souls that were around were confused and scared of you. It wasn’t easy making them come with you, but at the end the human necessity of gathering together and the protection that you could give them made the scared servitors, slave citizens and members of the Cult come with you. It seemed that about 99% of the people were now gone, about sixteen million people suddenly banished into nothingness. After little more than two hours exploring and actively searching for survivors you only managed to find seven civilians, six servitors and a mix of eight Skitarii formed from Telemathan warriors and your own men. Those civilians were kids, slave workers and a couple of techpriests; the servitors were mostly designed for work and not combat and the Skitarii were mostly very disparate in the equipment they carried, some of them had heavy ordnance while other were equipped for close combat or sabotage, they weren’t a true regiment and in combat they would lack the equipment and camaraderie needed to survive.

Unable to survive with those few survivors that you found you decide to continue with your mission and descend into the deeper levels of the city, where you would meet the rest of your army and your generals. Curiously enough you had found another city under the already underground city of Aquacadens, it seemed that the city was originally a miner village with only a small fabricatorium that was used to construct toys or whatever the miners might had required. It was unknown if the mine went dry or another motive made them move away but the undercity was now empty and it looked like the best place to hide. You were terrified of the Idea of being attacked by the Necron warriors at any time, your experience with them was null but they seemed to be incredibly strong…

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>>44324333
I love meeting new people who live virtuous lives. My group are all really good people who constantly put effort into improving themselves and succeeding at life in general. Good life-affirmers all of them.
I feel like it's getting rarer to find people who genuinely love life and live it well these days. Most people seem like they'd rather be dead.
Glad you found a cool new dude, OP.

Also mirin those trips.

>>44324333

I once had a guy who had asked to join my campaign, whose schedule changed suddenly, and he actually TOLD me about it, and apologized. He emailed like a week ahead of time, and everything!
(I feel like my standards have been pushed too low by all the flaky people.)

>>44324333
>be part of local gaming community
>TTRPGs, MTG, even LARP, they do everything
>Join Achtung! Cthulhu game
>Waiting outside this pub where we're gonna play, seeing if anyone else is coming
>Guy with ponytail comes along
>Realize we're waiting for the same thing
>Introduces himself as M, really nice Hungarian guy

>First session
>Char creation
>We all make military characters
>Collectively realize we have no booksmart guy
>"Oh, that's alright, I can reroll as an antiquarian or a professor!" says M
>throughout the game always just really nice to play along side
>Offers to buy rounds of drinks for us
>Talking about mass one off day where we book out a venue and have 10+ one off games running at once
>Tell him I always wanted to try pathfinder and have friends interested too
>"Oh, I have some experience with Pathfinder! I could GM a game for you and your friends"

Most of what makes him a this guy is just his friendly demeanor so it's hard to describe, but he's a legit dude.

>>44324130
>Go hang out with Sammy

>>44324130
>Go hang out with Sammy

>>44324130
>Do some homework. Seriously, when was the last time you did homework holy fucking shit

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>>44323982
"Cherry, what are you doing in that lantern?" you ask, slowly.

"I was cold," Cherry admits, in a small voice. "Daddy said I should wait right where he left me, but I got cold, and this was warm."

"...How long ago did you daddy leave you?" you ask in a low voice.

"I dunno. Days? I can show you."

You exchange concerned looks with Amy and Nathan, and hold the lantern up. "Alright Cherry. Show me where your daddy told you to wait. You haven't done anything wrong, okay? You were a good girl."

"Yes ma'am," the little ghost says dutifully. The spectral mist within the lantern forms a thin arrow, which points deeper into the woods.

It doesn't take long for the smell to hit you, and the taste of drawn-out, miserable death.

Cherry's body is still slumped against a tree, in a plain, rough dress. The insects have already started to get to her, but she's been dead maybe a week. You don't see any food or water nearby, which means she took, at most, three days to die.

"Daddy said I was too 'spensive," the little ghost explains, wistfully. "So he took me to the forest to wait for a new mommy. He said a new mommy wouldn't care that I'd killed my old one. His face was red."

You draw in a shuddering breath. "What happened to your old mommy?"

"Daddy says I killed her when I was born."

That soulless piece of shit.

> Cherry, where did you live?
> Nathan, Amy, we should...we should bury her mortal form
> Cherry, I'm going to give you to a friend of mine. I need to walk off and express some adult feelings and you shouldn't have to see it

>>44323982
TFW I forgot the fucking thread title.

Anyway, WE BEGIN!

>>44324058
> Cherry, where did you live?

>>44323933

Gods are as follows;

>The Destroyer: Lord of slaughter, destruction and mindless carnage. Appears as a red-skinned brute howling in fury and bearing a battleaxe. Chaotic Evil.

>Lady Lament: Goddess of Misfortune and failure. Appears as a weeping, black-haired woman with a broken sword and a withered bouquet of flowers. Neutral Evil.

>The Despoiler: The goddess of decay, deceit and dishonesty. Appears as a skeletal, withered young woman with a bloody knife in her hands. Neutral Evil.

>The Leviathan: The god of natural disasters, the abyss and unburied dead. Appears as a terrible sea-beast of many eyes and mouths. Chaotic Evil.

>The Collector: The god of disease, famine and poverty. Appears as a gaunt figure riding a sickly horse with a scythe and a heavy bag full of lost souls. Lawful Evil.

>Venal: The vengeance, corruption and tyranny. Appears as a regal man clad in black with a crown of jagged iron, holding a long blade in judgment. Lawful Evil.

>The Queen of Winter: The goddess of winter and the fear of wild and unknown places. Appears as a beautiful, statuesque queen clad in white furs and surrounded by malicious, malnourished white wolves with bloody teeth and claws. Chaotic Evil.

>The Lord of Riots: The god of anarchy, evil urges and excess. Appears as a handsome man splattered in blood standing in a roaring pyre. Chaotic Evil.

>The Adversary: The god of temptation, of hasty action, criminals and prejudice. Appears as a young man beckoning to follow him. Neutral Evil.

>The Keeper: The god of forbidden knowledge, black magic and self-interest. Appears as a black raven. Neutral Evil.

>>44323933
>The Gods in the setting are pretty Greek-influenced, so they're not all just evil for the lulz, despite their alignments
Why bother with alignments at all then?

>>44324167

Because they are still evil and adhere to their alignments, but they are not evil because they are of a certain alignment, they have a certain alignment because they are evil. Y'know?

And besides alignments are a part of D&D. And if I'm going to play D&D, I'm going to use alignments as well.

Mindless cruelty and a desire to see people suffer goes a certain distance. One need only look at Yukkiri and Fluffy (god save us all) abuse fandoms to find endless material to that effect created and consumed by NEETs today. There is some primal instinct in many people to watch undeserving things suffer horribly before dying. What I'm saying is, that isn't a fantasy spontaneously developed once one reaches high-level corruption, that's something many people desire even at the lowest rungs of society. Back then we called 'em dog fights.

What distinguishes the powerful is that they have the resources to actually materialize these fantasies, and to live them by tormenting actual people.

>>44323852
Dayum. made me think.

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>>44323762
Give one of them a harem of opposit-sex clones of themself. That's like the second most hedonistic thing a wizard can do.

Discovering who made them/how they came to be.

>>44323749
Going on a world spanning trip to find the hidden lair of a world famous person containing all his earthly possessions.

First off, do they act like cursed objects in that they are notoriously hard to be rid of?

>>44323588
It was supposed to be given to the party, but it got stolen.

>>44323588
Death
Money
Fame
Love
Death

>>44323588
You were never supposed to succeed.

The Setting:
The planet is most similar to Earth during the mid-late ordovician period. Roughly 20-25 mya, the planet a cataclysmic event by a Supervolcano eruption, enveloped the planet in ash. 20% of life was wiped out, but for those that survived, flourished in the fresh new world.The aftermath of the mass volcanic activity, has left Planet Evo today with lush world of fertile seas and lagoons, as well as marshy shorelines and loamy earth, which has become home for the brave pioneers of terrestrial life.

• As life presses on ever more into land, organisms begin to adapt to the differing climates of the three larger landmasses.
• The mountainous Eastern Continent, home of the now dormant Mt. Khornus is lush with fertile grounds for plants, and mix of cold highlands, warm valleys and isolated expanses of freshwater lakes and flatlands.
• The Northwestern Continent is the most land dominated by low to sea-level lands where the grounds are always moist, while more northern regions are found to be dryer and more hilly.
• The Southern Continent is home to the great desert on its northern landmass, where precipitation is rare, while the southern region of the land is known for its welcoming, temperate climate.
• Planet Evo now has about 15% less oxygen in its Atmosphere then compared to Planet Terra of the Sol System. It also contains Nitrogen, Hydrogen, and traces of gaseous heavy metals of the past Ash Cloud.
• In some of the shallower parts of the oceans bare rock has been exposed, a potential substrate for more sessile organisms to easily settle in. These regions of the oceans while, tiny in size are comparably warmer and clearer than else where in the ocean.
• The night skies have been filled with an array of light as of recent. While likely unnoticed by the organisms of the planets, shimmering auroras and meteor showers have been flying over the skies at night. It would appear, according to my probes that a nearby Star has recently destabilized.

>>44323518
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>>43080345
Because the way you typed it made it green

Pictures of some creatures? Nobody has anything to add too. There's nothing there

>>44323481
There are literally dozens of games that employ rules that engage the players on a meta level. Almost all the narrative "indie"/"storygame" stuf do. And a lot of traditional games from the last decade or two showed an increasing number of mechanics that need decisions on part of the player that have no direct equivalent in the in-game fiction (see all the lucky rerolls, fate points and so on).
Unfortunaltely, some fucker decided that these were "dissociated mechanics" and somehow bad for the game, and that's become a meme in some very vocal fandoms.

>>44323577

That's not really what I meant. Fate or luck points aren't really different from any other powers the characters have at their disposal the way I see it.

I'm actually interested in concrete, real world objects, actions, utterances, etc. having some kind of an effect in game. See what I mean?

>>44323577
I feel the same, anon.

In the mansions of Madness boardgame there is a mechanic of opening safes and rerouting wires that the player has the pieces in front of him and can only swap/move pieces in a round equal times his character int status. I used this in my warhammer fantasy roleplay 3rd edition and worked like a charm. The players loved the "mini puzzles"

>>44323147
Lots of nice paintjobs out there, but never for Masons. Everyone seems to paint them like burn victims. Why?

So if you qualify for the big tournament they pay for your flights and accommodation?

More like nobody plays edition.