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>>54024659
Reddit rats aren't around in 40k, which is something I am eternally grateful for.
Unless you make the Hrud connection I suppose

>>54024659
Nothing, he's not even aware the warp is a cosmic space drill Tzeentch is using to penetrate through entire realities, Black Mesa Portals style.

Malal only hangs out with the Spacess Marine equivalent of the "Horde from where no one knows where."

So I've been reading and it seems like there's a consistency of step up/step back. Has anyone found the Classic Cortex to be swingy in its dice implementation?

I've only ever played the Serenity RPG but I found it to be passable enough.

>>54023866

It's in the older style of chess writing called Descriptive Notation. These days almost everyone uses the Algebraic Notation system. It's worth learning both if you like old books, but Algebraic is better.

If you want to see the game played out step by step, and some decent commentary check the link at http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1251892

As far as an opening strategy goes, it's not great. There's a breakdown of it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gal_Trap but you can't count on your opponent making the specific mistakes necessary. The opening when the opponant doesn't make said mistake is the Giuco Piano, and it's very old, very solid, but very boring. Everyone once in a while you see someone trot it out for surprise value but it's not very popular and a lot of chess teachers think it encourages too much passive play for beginners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuoco_Piano

>>54023866
It's easy to read once you know it. Look at the back row pieces and that labels your columns. Then count the spaces toward your opponent to get your number. If the directions seem generic, only once piece is available that can legally do that move.
QR--QN--QB--Q--K--KB--KN--KR
Queen's rook, queen's knight, etc.

>Round 1
White Pawn moves forward to King 4
Black Pawn moves forward to King 4
>Round 2
White Bishop moves to Bishop 4
Black Pawn moves to Queen 3
>Round 3
White Knight moves to King Bishop 3
Black Knight moves to Queen Bishop 3
>Round 4
White Knight moves to Bishop 3
Black Bishop moves to Knight 5

>>54023537
>Masked ball
>Sending a sniper
>Not sending the literal shapeshifter designed to infiltrate such high society events

I mean, I guess a Vindicaire could if they're the only one available, but theres gonna be a lot more panic and dead guards

>>54023537

Why the fuck is a Vindicare doing that? That's a job for Callidus, Venenum or Vanus.

As I thought out the scenario, I decided that the targets had a sudden change of plans due to the death of colleague (by sniper fire).

Coupled with the fact that Vindicare's, while certainly not on a par with Callidus in terms of infiltration would probably be able to infiltrate a ball in some capacity. At the very least, by pretending to be a member of staff trying to keep everything running (bar staff or something equally "invisible") .

Besides sending another assassin might be to late for the Imperium, and avoid all out war or possibly worse.

>>54022920
A better way of writing this post would be:
Wizard Cop General thread, share the rules because I can't find it.

Also what is Wizard Cop?

>>54025272
Yeah seconding this because it sounds awesome.

Bumping for Wizard Cops. This thread needs to happen.

>>54022818
There are good players on roll20 but it takes some looking to find 'em

>>54022840
Any pointers? Will they take new players?

This is weirdly similar to my current situation so I hope you're not named Chris OP. I would be super pissed it the group started again behind my back after I got "too busy" my brother killed himself and I went back home for a couple of months.

>>54022534

>Party rides Spider to next location
>Grounded pirate ship, BBEG's lair.
>Reta hops the fence
>Evil horse appears and charges Reta
>If it worked the first time, it will work again.
>Rides the horse.
>Stabs the horse in the neck twice.
>Lights a firework
>Stuffs firework into open neck wound
>Does a sick flip off the horse
>Cool gobs don't look at explosions
>"MAKE HORSE DEEEAAAAD!!!"
>Rest of party concerned for player's mental health
>Party rocks up into BBEG's lair.
>Before GM can even finish introducing him
>Reta: "Wait. I'm going to seduce him. What do I roll?"
>Pic Related
>Player screams in joy
>Entire party laughing their gobbo nuts off.
>GM leaves Teamspeak
>Comes back 2 minutes later
>"So what happens?"
>GM: "You know what happens! He fucking crit. The session is over! He fucking seduced the big bad. That's it."
>Forever will the Gobbos tell of the story of the ugliest, insanest bitch gobbo, who fucked her way to victory, and the Rap God who tamed a fearsome beast with some hot rhymes.
>GM equally mad and impressed.

>>54022661
The moral of the story is two fold

Nat20s should not be auto successes in serious campaigns

Players like silly shit every once in a while

>>54022796
Seconded.

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The easiest way to turn a shitty campaign not-shit is to force your PCs to adopt a child.

>>54022602
>slice of life childrearing roleplay
>not shit

also:
>rollplayers not just taking the kid to the nearest orphange or killing it for the 1XP anyway

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>>54022948
>Rollplayers kill the orphan for 1 XP
>Decide to punish them by presenting them with a new orphan who's actually a silver dragon in disguise
>She kills two partymembers, but the survivors slay her and get mad EXP
>They then proceed to slaughter orphanage after orphanage because that silver dragon loli gave them much better EXP than plot-relevant enemies

>>54021727
Finally, someone else who uses the superior system.

I personally feel that the "Fear" mechanic (and it's various modified tiers) adds a whole new realism dynamic to the system.

>>54021749

Exactly! It's just way more thought out than 4e, I don't know why it gets so little hype.

>>54021822
>>54021727
>Caring about Fear
>Not using the "Mathemagic" spell class at all times

What are the OP combos even? Haven't heard about many of them aside from Scions and conscript memery

>>54020731
>After seeing the vast amount of OP combos (and obligatory conscript spam) in 8e threads, I wonder- is there any particularly good strategy for countering them, as Space Marines?

Yes, there is:

Sell all your Space Marines, collect one of the horde armies.

It will likely be shit. Whoever is in charge of making decisions for MTG's digital future has been making bad ones for decades. I see no reason they would not continue this trend.

>>54020721
Cautiously optimistic. Chris Cocks has a pretty good reputation, came from Microsoft, and is very enthusiastic about enhancing Wizards digital products. And it seems Hasbro is behind him 100%. Hopefully, good things can happen.

>>54020668
I don't have this problem, but a friend of mine does. 27 decks and counting. Most of them are garbage and he only plays about 5 of them.

Deck building can be fun, lots of people like doing it (myself included). But, at some point you have to step back and ask yourself a few things.

>Am I going to play this deck more than three times?
>How much money am I spending on this deck? Does the amount of money correlate to how much fun I'm going to have?
>Will this deck be decent to play, or will it just be terrible and unfun?

Once you can comfortably and honestly answer these questions, look at those answers. If you're still comfortable building the deck, then go for it. Although, I suggest using a deck building app or website and really take a hard look at the deck, Goldfish some hands, then make a decision.

>>54020810
I think I play about 10 of my decks frequently enough (or at least I used to). But damn. 27 is crazy.

Thanks for the solid advice. That simplifies things.

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I mainly just net-deck and play decks that seem interesting to me. I've played the following:

Vintage: Bomber Oath, Dredge, Landstill, Remora Control
Legacy: ANT, Burn, Belcher, Dredge (LED & Manaless)
Modern: Ad Nauseam, Burn, Dredge, Grixis Shadow, Esper Shadow, Esper Control

Just finished putting together Modern Storm & BreachTitan. I love unfair decks.

Although when it comes to brewing, a friend of mine brewed up a vintage deck, so I tried to brew my own. Looked at the Stasis primer, and from there tried making a stasis gifts amalgamation. It was a janky mess that won one out of probably 16 or so games. So I'm definitely not the brewing type, but love playing. For a brewer, if you can afford to continue doing what you're doing, then no harm. If you don't play paper anymore, I highly suggest you do it on MTGO, as the spread for buying/selling is extremely low, so as long as you get a few games in with each deck, it should be worth your time.

Also, cube is my most favorite format, so maybe that's my inkling of 'deck building' is using draft resources, not so much constructed.

Pic of my favorite planeswalker.

>>54020561
Root Eating- Maximum
Corpse Gnawing- Only In the Christian Edition
Eagle Rivalry- Very High
Poison- Yes
Motive- Return to Primordial Chaos

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TL:Dr
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>>54020561
strength: yes
dexterity: yes
constitution: some
intelligence: yes
wisdom: maybe?
charisma: no

Self bumping of shame

>>54020424
I'm working on a fallout RPG that has a pretty big focus on survival and weight management.

I've found that spreadsheets are criminally underrated

>>54020424
Also Interested. Preferably one that factors in supplies, carrying weight, and speed aspects.