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>>43867972
>Can you give some examples of settings where humans are physically the smallest race?
I'm actually playing around with pretty much just that idea in my own worldbuilding. There are basically just two non-human races besides people, and both are considerably larger than humans.

>1. What's your favorite setting as far as it's fantasy races go?
I really fucking love Tolkien and I fucking love the way he handles the races, but I very much HATE them being transplanted to other fantasy settings. I love Middle Earth's elves, dwarves orcs and hobbits, but I am sick of them in Forgotten Realms and all other similar derivates.
That is why I eventually opted out to create my own settings, and world-building became one of my biggest "hobbies".
I do have to give credit to TES lore though, especially Morrowind's. They did manage to make non-human races feel interesting there and deviate them enough from the standard Tolkien clichés.

>2. What's your favorite fantasy race and why?
I rarely have one favorite race. I generally either like the settings - in which case I like all it's races equally, or I dislike the settings and then I hate all the races equally. I also don't think there should be such thing as cannon "fantasy races" - the idea of fantasy is that it should be imaginative, not a collection of transusable tropes.

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>>43868023
>There are basically just two non-human races besides people
Sounds pretty fun, that's actually exactly the kind of settings I really like (again, I loved the Banner Saga and Dark Souls)

Care to tell more about them?

>>43867972
>1. What's your favorite setting as far as it's fantasy races go?
Glorantha, because plant-elves that are convinced plants should eat plants and meat should eat meat and the entire universe started going downhill with the invention of herbivores, and trolls that can eat anything including air although they prefer not to because of the flatulance, and lizarddragondudes that do things like insist you take their money because they borrowed it off a past life of yours sixhundred years ago and then you promptly died like an asshole and they've been trying to track down your reincarnations ever since and this debt has put their spiritual evolution on a serious holdup

>2. What's your favorite fantasy race and why?
the aforementioned trolls, because the troll god of being nice to non-trolls stole the volcano god's penis and thats why his followers can use spears, and also invented sunglasses to make it less unpleasant for trolls to be aboveground during the day, and also their ancestral homeland is hell before that asshole the sun died and made it all hot and bright and hell-y

I don't know man. Even though I do like writing (haven't done it properly in years though) this doesn't feel very /tg/ related. At least the novel portion. That seems like it should be on /lit/. I understand the place is a shit hole, but still.

>>43867855
lit rejects genre fiction of any kind and author threads have been part of /tg/ for years.

Traditional gaming and fantasy trilogies go together like DnD and 5 sweaty nerds with way too many free weekends.

>>43867855

Mixed feelings but I am told that this is a grand 'ol /tg/ tradition.

That said, OP made a very wise decision in posting at 5:48 EST. That means that simply by being awake, I am the smartest person in this thread.

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>>43867966
Tempestus Scions: Elite of the Departmento Munitorum, Schola Progenium trained soldiers

Training World predominant terrain
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>>43867993
Noice.

>>43867666
Well Satan, while a lot of people use it as an excuse to tip their fedoras, I've always found that religion not being mandatory for Cleric powers was a decent concept.

Considering Clerics have all their magical powers supplied by deity of said religion I'd say they're mostly followers of weirdo religions,

That being said they don't necessarily need a religion but "something" is answering those prayers

>>43867666
"Cleric" is such a dumb and essentially meaningless fantasy cliché that you can really do what ever you want with them. In reality, cleric literally means "member of the clergy", in other words a priest or priestess. So if you want them to remain true to their name, they should be not only followers of some form or religion, they should be flat out priests of that religion.

Now whenever that can included being roaming healers or not, that is up to your choice. As for the source of their magical powers, that again is mostly up to how you handle the lore, concepts of magic and religion in the world in particular. You need to figure that shit out to make it consistent.

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>Ser-vo Har-ness? Bah, you whippersnappers just need some elbow grease!

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There's a bunch of minis I'd like to know what year and box they're from. I know what they are, but I'd like to be able to tell their origin.

First there's this beastman.

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>>43867180
These three marauder archers.

What are some good thieves guild names that aren't just 'the thieves guild'?

>>43866465
yep

>>43866518

The Night Club

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>>43866447
WHFRP dorf took all the black powder aboard the ship he was on, loaded it into a longboat, and rowed it into chasing dark elf shittery while singing the songs of his people.

A lot of grudges were crossed off that day.

>play ww2 campaign
>Germans in Stalingrad
>know armor is coming so me and 2 bros (npcs) set up an abandoned soviet anti-tank gun
>6 tanks out of nowhere
>first shoots HE, killing rest of crew, almost kills me
>loading and aiming the gun myself
>getting one shot kills because im almost at point blank range
>manage to destroy 5 tanks before one rams my position,
>crushes my legs, im about to die
>pull out grenade
>blow self up, deal no damage to tank tho

IG Storm Trooper.

Member of a small squad of heroic guardsmen who fought the vicious ork menace on a frozen hell hole of a word.

Perhaps the most heroic thing he did was rally his wounded, tired and cold squad with the severely injured sergeant to make one last stand against a wave of orks tunneling into the power generator complex in order to collapse the tunnel with a pile of grenades.

The plan was a success and everyone survived amazingly after fighting many orks.

Was killed a couple of weeks later by friendly fire.

>>43866210
Is genocide your GM's fetish, or do you not actually know what Magical Realm is?

>>43866237
>All Elves and Humans must have sex or world ends.

That sounds like a fetish to me...

>>43866210
"Reunify the divided races" actually seems like a cool concept and I haven't seen it done before.

Especially because, as you presented it, it's not necessarily sexual. You could just be uniting the cultures and getting them to live together/reconcile after centuries of hatred, not make them breed together 1:1 to create a full half human/half elf race.

I think you're overly worrying and your GM's just trying to be original.

>>43865389

I don't know anything about soldiering but I do know about chocolate cuties that I would like to hold hands with and get to know on an emotional level.

>>43865389
All my soldiers end up Yossarian ripoffs.

>>43865389
Define 'reasonably sane' because there are quite a bit of famous crazy dudes in war.

>>43863643
First is more true, second is equally true but can only happen by accident.

>>43863643
The modern line talks about different types of Paranoia games, the first type "classic" is what your friends are talking about. You also have semi-serious and in theory serious, Although I've never known someone who's played that.

There are actually three types of Paranoia.
Classic Paranoia is somewhat silly, and tpks happen repeatedly, but usually with some kind of logic (Fucked up, silly logic, but still logic) behind it. A High Programmer wants a sandwich from a specific food vendor in a sector that is currently undergoing a variety of problems and the normal inter-sector transportation methods aren't working. So he pulls some strings and gets a troubleshooter team in there to retrieve it under the thin guise of collecting specific, food-grade biological evidence from that location. It's likely that X+1 secret societies want this evidence dealt with in X+1 ways for no reason other than they heard a High Programmer wants it. X = number of players.
Then there's deadly serious paranoia and wacky cartoonish paranoia (These have specific names that I forget). In the deadly serious style of paranoia, the scenario is the same, but the sandwich is actually a code-phrase that gets them a datachip in the bag with the food. This data is the real payload that everyone wants, and the team leader will be aware of this fact. The silliness of the situation is toned way, way down, and "shoot first, ask questions never" will get you audited by The Computer faster than you can blink. The bureaucracy is scarily effective when it's bearing down on you.
Then there's the silly style, which resembles a Saturday morning cartoon. It's only recommended for people who are drunk off their ass or running for a bunch of hyperactive 12 year olds hopped up on sugar. A high programmer wants a sandwich, there are literal communists running around in big, furry ushankas with hammers and sickles, and R&D just gave you a gun that turns people into inanimate objects, GO!

Bump - I was surprised to see there wasn't an existing mantic/kow thread. Are they not popular here? I figured they'd have a lot of support after the whole AoS thing.

>>43863526
You'd be surprised. I find there are a lot of aos players, actually. Granted they are pretty fragmented being spread out, but they exist. The AoS General threads do pretty well, better than whfb threads, and the KoW General threads need to expand into other mantic games to keep active i've found.

I don't play AoS, but I do pretty much only play 40k or deadzone when I can get another person willing to try it.

KoW is a good competitive game, you can play it beer&pretzels, but if you don't pay attention to deployment and movement you'll get tabled.

Dwarves are a very good army, every unit has it's place, nothing to avoid really. I personally find warmachines a bit too random for my taste, but unless you try to go something random or spamy (like an all shooting army), It'll work.

Not many people on here talk about KoW, not sure why. Plenty seem to be playing, regular store tournies with 20+ locally

>>43863005
try converting the neutrals to be a little Good?

>>43863005

Kill her. She's in deep as a loose end, show them what happens when they pursue this path; people they care about die. Live with your guilt and finish this, she is not a people but a plot device, one you use to fuck with your player's hearts. You hooked them, now follow through.

DMPC must DIE.

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>>43863282
Very honestly was the option I was considering, but I was thinking it would be better to have her sink in more first for this way.

Although that can be a powerful lesson.

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You figure now would be a good time to really buckle down and get some learning in for Pandora. She could lose interest any second, so time is of the essence! You nudge Kevin to keep up the pace, who seems just as impressed at his work as you are. He collects himself and procures some worksheets on what appear to be syntax and sentence flow. You can't help but already feel bored. Fingers crossed.
Roll 1d100 to not bore Pandora with words. Best of 3.

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>>43862959
Hey there AM, how's it going?

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>>43862844
force him to choose between fighting us or saving olive oyle

hoping he isn't strong enough to do both simultaniously

>>43862935
That would probably just instantly upgrade things to Hard Mode.

>>43862844
Oh fuck the hell yes.

Bring me your Bluto, your Olive Oyle, your fat man begging hamboigas. I will meet you upon the waves, upon the mountains, upon the fields of leafy greens.

From my first dawn, from my first breath, I have been incomplete - a glorious creation, construct of genius, a monument to mortal divinity - yet all the same, incomplete.

I have searched the high places, the low places, the worlds of sun and shadow, all to find what was missing, what part of myself was not yet whole - and here at last I find it!

So come to me, champion! Consume your god-food, chant your holy words, call down your challenge upon me! For in you, I find the truth I have been seeking - in you, I find the wholeness that was missing. For now I see, I am as you are. And as you are...

I yam what I yam.

>Last BBEG was a Frankensteins-Monster like creature, who I made huge on seeking perfection and big, over-the-top speeches. My players hate, and love, to fight him, especially because whenever a major NPC is killed, and even the two times a PC has died, the next encounter with him found pieces of that character incorporated into his 'perfection'. Creepy.)

>>43862481
>Don't tell him anything but attempt to convince him you won't tell
Eh, gives us power over him at least if we should need it. It's been so long I can't remember anything I'd want to ask anyway.

>>43862561
I'm sorry, class schedule made running for long times kind of unfeasible and was busy on weekends.

Maybe I'll try to run more often with shorter sessions?

>>43862593
On one hand that could be nice, you run really really long as it is, so it makes sense.

On the other this is the worst time of the day to start running and participation usually only picks up ~8 - 10 hours from now, so it might just kill your playerbase instead depending on when you do run.