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>>53579302
nth for chaos being pretty good

>>53579302
Reposting from last thread.

>The more I look at it the more I think Tyranids are not as strong as people were initially saying. I think nids were just so used to being shit for so long that every single buff immediately jumped out at them and looked great, but they need them just to stay afloat, it doesn't look like it's actually pushing them to the top necessarily.

>Now this is just in terms of pure fighty value. They might turn out to be sick good at the objective game or something, but I don't think nids are going to be tabling other armies in 2-3 turns like the alarmists are crying about.

>If anything, it's Ork Boyz tabling you that you need to worry about. Carnifexes aren't really gonna do shit.

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>mfw using imperial guard with one primaris lieutenant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6JK3fhYE1w

>>53578982
Planescape? I thought the new adventure was set in Forgotten Realms?

>>53579032
Wait, you can run D&D somewhere other than Forgotten Realms (tm)?

Shut the fuck up retard, this is not Planescape.

>>53578232
Is the purpose for breeding them self-serving or antagonistic towards the rest of the world in any way?

Do these intelligent beings feel negative towards you for breeding them?

Are these beings free to abandon you whenever they wish?

>>53578266
No.
Yes.
No.

Two bad out of three makes it... 66% evil?

>>53578232
>alignment thread

"Evil for a good cause" is still evil.

>>53577140
Ease of transport?

>>53577140
Why would they be bigger?

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>>53577140

1.) most books generally are much smaller than 11' so it can't be said that DnD books are really small

2.) what would be the benefit of making them larger than 11'? given that you're not talking about thickness, you're not adding content just making the already existent content larger which would be pointless.

Global warming is already a conspiracy.

>>53576941
>Another part of the reason Big Oil is feeding in to climate change is because alien lizardmen are giving them immortality as an incentive

>>53576897
Sounds good yo
They've been ere since the preindustrial, pushing zietgeist out of the middle East(where they could live) and have since spread to Europe and the world, capitalism and corporations at their heel, pushing progress and production and using man as a simple tool to the end of their plans?

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>>53576478

The size and scope that sci-fi allows and the technology. more so when you get really fantastic about it. But I think more so than anything is that sci-fi directly inspires life and that people are actively pursuing the things we write in fiction.

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Bumping with aesthetics inferior to most.

>>53576554
Its a shame Destiny's great visual design is stuck in an Activision Game.

>>53576474
Neat.

More fucking space marines?

I like spehss mehreens as much as the average GW casual fan, but fuck.

>>53576720
It's just a board game.

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This is Waz-Cutta.

He has been described as cancer, aids, and a summer fag special.

Shockingly fun to play.

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>>53576282
Lesse. He was prone to blowing himself up, was a nobmando with imperial, ork, and haemonculus augmentations.

He had various "gifts" from the chaos gods. He had claimed the sword of a mandrake imbued with a slaaneshi daemonette and a chain-axe with a blood hound in it from a world eater champion who boarded our ship and beat the shit out of the rest of the party.

He had armour taken from a nurglesh daemon entity. A giant worm 120 feet long and 30 feet wide. He fought it in a suit of orked up artificer power armour that was of huge size. It was a utility turned combat suit. That was fun. Than our Tzeentch worshipping navigator forced him to roll a mutation check vs some DM created mutation eye ray, and he ended up getting a pair of wings. That was his gift from tzeentch. Over and above that a plague champion ended up infecting him with... something. He went blow for blow with the plague champ for a good while, finally getting the upper hand when his allies showed up. Plague champ left a little of himself behind, unbeknownst to the party.

After that our magos biologis figured out how to use deldar drugs on his orkoid system (grinding up tyranid adrenaline glands apparently has quite a kick) and by the end of our two year campaign I was flying around at mach 1 flipping tanks and playing super heroes.

After the campaign he became a legendary freeboota looking for the biggest and baddest to throw down against.

He was more or less an ork warp daemon by that point.

Really silly stuff, but a lot of fun to develop.

Oh yeah, he took out a dreadnought by tying 20 kilos of explosives to a magnetic grappeling hook, and setting it to reel in automatically after he hooked the dreadnaught.

That was a fun session. DM didn't see it coming.

I'm lucky enough to have a group who are all close friends from college. The downside to that is that new philosophies on RPGs rarely-if-ever get introduced, but the upside is that we all know the others aren't That Guy (for the most part).

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>>53576001
>>ironically the 13 year old girl in the group is the most dedicated to learning the rules
Did you post about this before or are teenage girls really good at learning DnD?

>>53576142
Haven't posted about it before, but I meant most dedicated, not the quickest learner

>>53575800
>The WS and BS scores (both for NPCs and avg chargen values for BC SMs) seem low for superhuman killing machines w/ super reflexes

They scale quickly with the right talents. The Rank 3 Space Wolves Assault of one of my players can have over 100% on some tests. As for BS, you add in fulll-auto bonus and stuff like suspensors, etc. you are a walking killing machine.

>This doesn't seem right compared to the fluff's talk of superior reflexes and attack speed.
The difference is in the talents and the squad mode/solo mode capabilities.

>There's a decent chance of losing a versus strength check to 35 Str guardsman, a
True, the system has its flaws. But there is next to 0 chance that he loses a fist fight with said guardsman. Also, Unnatural Strength(x2) gives a bonus of +2 DoS on Opposed S tests. This can be buffed with Solo Mode abilites.

>How fix?
It would be too wide-ranging, you would have to do a homebrew from scratch.

>>53576009
>They scale quickly with the right talents.
>The difference is in the talents and the squad mode/solo mode capabilities.

Could you give some examples of those talents? Also, how applicable would squad/solo abilities be to a BC SM?

>>53576009
Isn't the losing a strength check thing unlikely because of unnatural strength adding some kind of bonus?

Exalted is okay.

>>53575652
You hear it's crazy complicated, and you hear correct. No matter what edition you play, the rules are much more trouble than they're worth and laid out in a way that makes them especially impenetrable. (My greatest pet peeve with the layout is how the description of every charm begins with one to three sentences of meaningless fluff amounting to "the Lawgivers are good at ability X" before telling you what the charm actually does.) Trap options are more plentiful than in any D&D game. All in all, Exalted takes a very fun-sounding premise (Dragonball Z in a wuxia setting where everyone is world-shatteringly powerful at character creation) and miraculously makes it un-fun.

Honestly, if the setting and premise appeal to you, then run it in some kind of generic system.

>>53576164
Hmm... how hard would it be, mechanically, to adapt to d20?

It's possible, and has happened.

Next.

>>53575034
examples?

>>53575327
If you look at the Rogue Trader books, particularly Navis Prima, there's actually full blown rules for the occurrences.

First for orks still suck sad, green is pain

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>>53574802

Is this the worst official SM paint scheme that isn't a 30 year old meme from Rogue Trader?

>>53574832
>Emperor's Shields
more like the emperor's jesters

>>53574300
The idea that they are going to ship either of those classes as they are.

Artificer should be half caster. Mystic just needs some stuff reworded.

>>53574510
Probably, but he was asking specifically for LG/NG. Who's to say bushido culture in their game is the same as in our world?

>>53573736
Back in the 90s I played a special snowflake drow with white skin and black hair, but her eye color wasn't the correct color for the prophesy, so she was just shunned instead of worshiped.

This will probably be the only on-topic post in this thread.

>>53573736
That's even more mary sue than drizzt, somehow
nice work OP

>>53573736
>Would you play one? Should you play one?
I couldn't think of a good concept around it. Bit snowflaky, but if you have a good idea that involves albino Drowness, why not?

>How would they be treated by their peers in the Underdark?
Aberrations. They're exiled, confined to ghettos or literally worked to death as slaves. Parents try to hide them the same way real world parents did (and many still do) with children who have some birth defect.
Naturally, harboring an albino is a crime equivalent to being one.

>How would they be treated by the surface folk?
However surface elves are treated, I don't think non-elves could tell the difference.
Surface elves would treat them like shit. Creatures so evil even Drow cast them away.

>What would be a good albino Drow nickname?
Drow call them Whites or Tainted. Surface elves would probably call them Spurious or Sneaks or something similar, as if they were trying to pass as surface elves. Other surface folk would probably just call them Knife-Ears, Daisy Eaters or Faggots, since they can't tell the difference.