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>>44184468
>Playing
U/Rg Twin
>Building
G/W HateZoo
>Ban
Nactl

>>44184525
Why Nacatl? Seems like an odd choice

>>44183501
Reposting this >>44183512
>You are River the Southhand, and you have chosen to be tried by the dead.
I don't want her for a party member. At all. But I do want her to live.

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>>44183501
The woman who'd saved your life - Brianna la Croix, that was her name - had been so...so frank. So gentle. You remember the pain of your healing, remember wanting, so desperately, to live - and that soft, reassuring voice, treating you like a person and not an enemy.

You cry like you haven't felt anything in years. Maybe you haven't. Gods, where had it all gone so wrong?

When had you become so soulless?

You feel your ears pressed miserably against your skull, just over your hair. You'd faced death before, in battle. You'd been surrounded and woken up in medical tents; you'd felt knives in your gut, loosing your life's blood into the dirt and grass. You knew the hate and fury of the melee, when there was only vengeance and the cold, bitter promise of heavy coins on wooden counters and the booze that lulled you to forget.

You cry, and you mourn a little girl who dreamed of a grand adventure.

By the time Brianna steps back in, alone, with her hat off of her head in respect for your sorrow, you've dried your eyes, and even tried some of the coffee.

"The people I've wronged amongst the living don't know my name," you whisper. "They'll never know who took their husbands and daughters from them, who stole the bread from their mouths and the clothes from their backs. They cannot hold me accountable." You take in a deep, shuddering breath. "I will face the judgement of the dead."

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>>44183658
"You know why I've asked this of you?" Brianna asks softly.

"I know," you agree, your pained voice resolute. "I am ready."

The dark necromancer leads you outside, to the graves outside the cottage. Her compatriots are already waiting; the dark-haired girl that makes the bird noises perches watchfully on a headstone, while the handsome boy leans against a crypt.

"Ancestors, cousins," Brianna calls to the graves. "I have a family matter to discuss. Before you is a mercenary, bought with gold stolen from the dead, who has fought for the one that desecrated this Lichyard. I saved her life, when she would have died. She seeks the judgement of the dead upon her crimes."

The ghostly congregation that arises brings a lump of fear to your throat that you swallow with difficulty. Every spectral eye is upon you. Watching. Judging.

One, an old woman with a noose 'round her neck, steps forward formally. "Let the accused speak her name and her crimes, that they be known to the dead."

> Tell the tale of your life
> Focus only on your crimes in the Lichyard
> Beg for mercy

Aluminum wasn't necessarily advantageous in and of itself. It was simply extremely difficult (though not impossible) to smelt it for an extremely long time, therefore it was a sign of wealth and power to have any of it at all, let alone "waste" it in a weapon or armor as detail. It wasn't all that useful for how rare and valuable it was, it was purely a status symbol.

Fun fact: the Washington Monument was originally designed to have an aluminum cap, because it was still seen as a metal of wealth at the time of its design (or maybe it was the Capitol building? I can't remember).

>>44182484
The Washington monument does have an aluminum cap which was placed on the monument in 1884 n 1898 the Bayer process was discovered which made aluminum among the cheapest metals.

>>44182420
Anyone know the geographic and historical origin of this helmet? It's pretty cool looking.

>and then he orders you to take down your religion and embrace imperial truth

How does the Emperor not understand that appearing as a golden giant will make people believe you're a god?

>>44184462
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2P7-JcbQVY

Okay so I don't know if there's just one guy making these threads and maybe English is not his first language but they are terrible. Like straight up the worst attempt to foster a game or discussion community on /tg/ I have ever seen.

But man I downloaded these books and they are so fucking gorgeous. This is the best RPG art I have ever seen in a book, the character illustrations look incredible and every single one is insanely characterful - you could illustrate this setting to someone just by clipping out all the PC/NPC portraits into one document and giving it to them. I haven't even read all of the rules yet but I want to play this so bad.

>>44180471
FFS you burned the link!

Fucking amateurs.

>>44180590
The themes attract a crowd of pubescent wannabes. Those are quite verbose. Don't mistake the fans for the game. It's actually pretty grown up and, as you stated, very pretty!

>>44178841
Pickpocket nat 20

Same way you'd shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.

>>44178841
Roll to pin the bipod until they eject.

>>44176832
You start

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A hive-mind like commune of algae deep in the Earth; within aquifers and geysers.

These algae are the true members of their race, but occasionally they send up scouts to learn things about the world. Because they are still using the fragmentary and fossilized remains of creature from eons ago, they just slap on whatever features on these guys that make sense to them; hence they have fur, claws, horns, fangs, bladed tail, maybe poison and so on. Then, they shoot them up to the world from geysers and sinkholes, typically with a bag of special silver coins minted deep in the earth that are of great quality.

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Caterpillar people. The adults aren't sentient, so once the larva transform, they effectively die, even if their transformed, winged body is still living.

3rd and 4th gets my vote. 3rd was great flavorwise and 4th was very convinient to play.

>>44175892
3rd using just the army lists in the book

>>44175892

3rd all the way. It was such an improvement rules-wise from 2nd edition. And everything after that just seemed like an excuse to sell more books without really changing the game in any significant way.

>>44172189
>If so, what kinds of support?
Better Martial support (less "higher power" and more "additional variety" as they're kinda boring again this edition), proper psionics, addition of Paladin variants.

So guys, my setting is going to have an Orog mercenary company, and just the straight-up stats won't suffice for the current level my players are at- so I'd like to make them a 'race'.

So what'd be good for Orogs? +2 Str and Agressiveness both seem like no-brainers, but what else? +2 Con and call it a day? Or +1 Con and something like an innate proficiency in something?

I got the official 5E DM screen and i kind of want to fix the cheat sheet it got, any good images that fits for it?

If the get added they'll be added as a dlc race just like chaos warriors and probably everyone else that isnt empire, orcs, and dwarves

>>44155414
I plan on playing a lot, will probably pre-order then get a refund if it turns out terrible

Vamp Counts are gonna be the most magically focused faction until daemons show up and it will be interesting how they implement the effects of fighting undead both in terms of fear effects and the fact that undead will never rout.

Seriously I feel like undead will be the grindy faction. Assault a city lose 80% of your army destroying the walls and retreat then come back in 2 turns with an even bigger army and no loss of morale.

>>44155669
Vamps are in the core game and have always been since the focus of the game was supposed to be the empire and local threats. Chaos wasn't even supposed to be playable until the third game.

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Hey I'm thinking about using Hirstarts' gothic themed pieces of making a dark elf/vampire/dungeon bowl BB stadium, but I need some sponser ideas

Can someone give me some good warhammer-product puns?

So, I'm interesting in building a Chaos team that doesn't really bash as much, but uses mutations and skills to handle the ball.

Is this at all viable?

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>tfw you have a comfortable lead against dwarves, so you can just play keep away for the rest of the game while they take their sweet ass time to score

>>44147420
Enemey within is the pinnacle of WFRP adventures, the Ollenhander Contract is also pretty good.

Also reminder 3rd Editions re-released rulebooks makes the game playable without the fiddly bits so stop acting like it doesn't exist people.

>>44147460
But under all the fiddly bits, is it actually good?

>>44147460
>Also reminder 3rd Editions re-released rulebooks makes the game playable without the fiddly bits so stop acting like it doesn't exist people.

But is it actually without all the fiddly bits, or is it just a conversion table?

The Star Wars RPG did something similar, but it was actually fiddly as shit to work with in actual play. I ended up making custom "dies" for Roll20 but it was less than ideal.

>Enemey within is the pinnacle of WFRP adventures,
Are 1st Edition adventures compatible with 2nd Edition, or does it require loads of conversion?

>the Ollenhander Contract is also pretty good.
Tried to search for it and all I found was this thread. Where is it from?

>>44146199
Try giving the OP a topic.
Generals are an echo chamber without content.

Why would you like to talk about it?

>>44146448
Well right now I'm just working to soak in as much as possible.

The big thing eluding me right now is why all these people are running around doing shit for the Great Old Ones in the first place. Unwitting pawns I can see, but there seem to be a fair number who know what's up and still go with it.

>>44146623
There is no 'what's up'. There is a thousand smoldering fires that might flare up at any moment, and you just hope to get there in time and find a way to stop it.

Just because someone is an unwitting pawn does not mean they are harmless. Most people are unwitting pawns. We are a society structured by a concealed power hierarchy where everyone lies to himself just enough to make it work another day.

No cultist ever has a handler's perspective on the Mythos. And neither should the players. Characters act out of personal motivation and self preservation. They might have caught a glimpse of something powerful. It may have broken them, haunted them, or even given them power. But it will not explain itself, or even consciously communicate.

The Mythos consists of countless concepts which each in itself is inexplicable and vastly powerful. DG structures a few of those into a canon, gives them its own spin, but doesn't exclude any others or claim its interpretation to be correct in any way. The unreliable narrator is a central trope. So the story usually lies in the explanation humans assume when they encounter Old stuff. It could turn them into a cannibal, a ritualistic murderer, or a power magnate. It could make them start a secret cult, or make a dark prophecy. But it will not be the thing they found making them do it. It will be their own mad concept of reality.

>>44129891
>> What (if anything) is on your wish-list for the holidays?

Archipelago, Neuroshima Hex, and HoN expansions.

>> With the plethora of games hitting the market these days, how do you choose your next 'must play' or 'must have' game?

With all of the Kick Starters out there, it's hard to resist buying into a sales pitch without really knowing if the game is good or not.

>> What are you playing a lot of right now?

Sadly, nothing - but I'm itching to play Roll for the Galaxy with the new expansion.

Have you ever tried to design a board game? If so, what was it and how did it go?

I've recently been thinking about making games/variations of games. One game I've always wanted is a version of Clue where the murder knows they are the murderer and is desperately trying to not be found out. As far as I know, no game does this and I was thinking about making my own.

I also want to do a Formula D-but-with-weapons-and-stuff game after watching Redline and Speed Racer

Bit of a meta question for you guys. Do you allow other players in competitive games to adjust their turn after it has ended? Specifically if they've forgotten to roll a die that could have affected the entire game?

>>44200595

eBay

>>44200687
>>44200595

Alternatively,

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/

>not playing Farm Animal And Dinosaur Adventures