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>>55378016
Economics. Is it actually worth doing -thing- locally and for the cost of the startup?

>>55378016
It's completely feasible if the magic involved is semi-divine in nature and only available to the worshipers of the particular pantheon of that state.
Golems are based on jewish folklore that has migrated into the wider European mythology, and were traditionally only creatable and controllable by a rabbi. Thus, there is precedent for such magic being culturally limited.

Super guarding of the golem tech. It all comes from the state and no one knows how to do it aside from a few guys in the government.

The current golem count is from decades of steady growth.

That or the golems are fairly recent.

>>55377510
You can have someone use them without being an edgelord (druid/nature priest, farmer-turned-militia fighter, etc.), but they're going to invariably attract edgelords; same with any form of Oriental sword (which they'll likely all conflate as katana).

>>55377510
Could work as a symbolic weapon for a priest of a god of agriculture. Those are only rarely edgy and concerned with blood sacrifice, I think.

>>55377510
Fuck, I know they are edgy and impractical as fuck to boot, but I've got a thing for scythes, specially double ones.

>>55377491
Hazing. It's fun.

>>55377491
War

Real answer: cribbage. It's not bad and can kill a lot of time.

Modern american answer: Magic; i swear, like half of the fucking military plays.

>1) Really good deckbuilder, a bit too competitive, prone to telling people their decks are shit.
>2) Newb, no idea how things work, will occasionally cheat and claim it was an accident if caught.
>3) The Girl; plays only merfolk and fairies. Guays and Nielsens. Little bit crazy, fun player to be around.
>4) All green all the time. Ramps like crazy, literally cannot stop ramping. Plays Helix Pinnacle.
>5) "No guys I swear I didn't put a proxied Mana Drain in this :^)" Fuck this guy, but no one else cares.
>6) Flavor over function. Picks a lot of tribal decks, gets frustrated easily, shares lore which we appreciate.
>7) Me. I like infinite combos or slapping people out of the game early, I get ganged up on a lot which I appreciate.

>>55377468
>What reputation does each player in your play group have?

>The Alpha Player
Regarded as almost always winning. Usually actually puts up a fight before dying due to being automatic archenemy

>The Beta Player
Decent at lurking, usually ultimately wins after Alpha goes down, very skilled

>The Stone Wall
Never attacks, even when piloting a midrange deck. Petrified of interaction, the only exception to the lack of touching anyone is an extreme vengeful streak.

>Lolrandumb
Idles or acts in no discernable pattern. Mostly the aggro, and attacks blindly. Doesn't run Ruhan, but basically IS Ruhan

>The New Player
Likes smashing, bad at threat assessment, doesn't have a lot of experience

>The Schemer
A sometimes player, not very good at playing Magic but frightening at playing the table. Always wants to cut a deal and always backstabs them the moment it's profitable yet players other than Alpha and Beta always fall for it.

>>55377468
>No edition
So close and yet so far.

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I'll dump some.

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>>55377023
There aren't really enough Black walkers to find good alternatives. It's basically Vraska or Lili no matter what.

Personally, I would go for a team of walkers who all share a color though. Ajani, Tamiyo, Kiora, Domri, Vraska could be a good lineup.

Suddenly everyone can bond over nature, has a common interest in maintaining the status quo of planes they visit to a degree, and generally ensuring that whether they're fighting off cosmic horrors or toppling oppressive governments, everyone is going to want to make sure there's a world worth living in after.

That said, I also feel like it would be easier from a mechanical and storytelling perspective if the team was only 3 walkers. Two with two colors each, and one mono-color, possibly with an artifact focus. Go for Black paired with one of its enemy colors so the selfish aspects are balanced out by a sense of teamwork and community. I would say G/B, so you could go for U/R. That way Blue is paired with something drawn to action and impulse so that they won't sit around and solve puzzles all day. Then White can stand alone, being a defacto leader trying to bring order and morality to this whole planeswalker thing.

Then, once you have this core of 3, you aren't taking up as much room in sets where all 3 need to show up, have simpler dynamics that can be explored further since you only need to worry about 3 different relationships rather than the 10 a five color group would have. Once you have them established, then you can bring in other members more frequently, but keep them firmly as side members.

Essentially, if they're going to be doing capeshit, get a Superman/Batman/Wonderwoman core, and then worry about the rest of the league.

>>55377283
>There aren't really enough Black walkers to find good alternatives.

this

>>55377023
That's a horrible idea, because A) Venser is dead dead (bringing him back means anybody ever could and now you're REALLY in capeshit territory), and B) Kaladesh is the only artifact plane not currently wrecked by Phyrexia, wrecking it with Phyrexia means there's now zero of those and you have to make ANOTHER.

>>55375388
This is probably the most likely scenario.
>inb4 B-but muh Rountree

The colors are so dull, and bland. Could you spice this painting up and make it vivid?

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Hot opinions on this list pls?

>>55376899
All him out on his shit, and give your side of the story. Everyone is going to see you as the villain, unless you give them a reason to think otherwise.

On a more general note, congratulations on running into the fine line of "Fun vs WAAC". With something like 40k, you're always going to run into this problem. I would say your best bet would be take two or three good hard units that are efficient, and do their job well, and then take whatever else you think would be fun to try out. (Personally I always thought Kans looked like a lot of fun.)

I've mostly stopped playing table top, but when I did, the issue I would always run into when playing friends was that we just knew what army the other had. You couldn't NOT tailor against the other person, unless you played against the few people who had MULTIPLE armies, and it was agreed upon before hand not to reveal what they would bring. But then you're just at a disadvantage because he knows what you have.

The best you can do is to try to put together an all-comers list, that doesn't have too many glaring weaknesses. The only issue with that is you can start to mono list, and that isn't always fun for you.

>>55376899
Fuck him he's a sore loser and a retard

>>55376899
There's a guy at my local GW that comes in on Sunday (when the newbs and tykes are trying out 500 pt. games) and tries to bait people into fighting his DE warband. He's very unsportsmanlike, tries to use rules from previous editions but chalks it up to ignorance when called on it, flat out tells kids their paint jobs are shit, humiliates opponents when losing, angrily swearing at 12-year olds for rolls, etc.

Me and the store manager have talked to him a few times about his behavior, but he doesn't seem to improve very much. Should I kill his cat to get him to tone it down a little?

>>55376881
>no stats for most chaos marines
>What is using PC generation

>>55377013

this

>>55377013
>What is using PC generation
and how much exp do you give an NPC?
what's a good number for say the aspiring champion in a war band? what about the war band's lord himself? what about an alpha legionnaire that's been doing his own thing for some time?

You statement is not incorrect, that is indeed the best way around this, but now the question must be raised as to how much do you advance that character in order to make him be of a power-level that makes sense for his status?

>>55376720
Shut up fucko, everything has to be about BDSM to you, ya fucking faggot.

>>55376720
If you're playing a game with alignments, you're probably playing a game with word-of-god definitions of what's good an evil, where they're actually cosmic forces that are part of the very structure of the universe. Mortal politics don't apply. Stop playing DnD if that bothers you.

>>55376816
But I can say to have made Chomsky look dumb, and perhaps your greatest achievement is chronic onanism?

>>55376491
Nobody with a brain would do this

You're a gnome and have always been a gnome.

You intimidate with what you have available, like a goliath or a dragonborn.

Look up, give your widest grin, and crush a pair of eggs in your grasp.

>>55376433
What babe?

>>55376441
The babe with the power.

>>55376456
What power?

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>>55376357
If you wanted to read an excessive gorefest manga you could at least read the good one.

>>55376377
what makes you think I haven't ;)

Gonna have to be a little bit more clear about what you mean, exactly.

Tau

>>55375831
The flaw is in the writers.

For a little while, there was a race that wasn't complete cunts, so that got fixed by adding in lore that said the Tau emasculate, mutilate or otherwise oppress any client races rather than being the friendly inclusive bunch that they previously were.

>>55375833
muh good and pure race