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>>53539281
>How do you encourage players to pick races based off rp or appeal instead of purely mechanical benefits?

Remove stat bonuses. As long as they exist, people are going to pick races that work WITH their class, because being weak is often also boring.

>>53539341
i agree with everything except
>because being weak is often also boring.

>>53539341
Do you compensate for the loss in any way? Do races offer any stat bonuses at all, maybe modular ones like v.human or halfelf +1s?

Depends on what you mean by viable.

Stuff I've ordered from Shapeways looks fine for detail resolution but so far remains expensive for small runs even compared to most of GW's prices, and from personal experience is much harder to work with the GW's plastics. The release agent took multiple hours of simple green soaking and scrubbing to fully clean off (though I've been told this is anomalous?), and the material is far more brittle.

I wouldn't expect it to be cheaper than ebaying parts unless you're looking for someting oop, or in very high demand, and things I've sculpted/plasticarded myself are much much hardier for pushing around a table top.

The only real case I can see for this is convenience for small detailed bits that are hard to convert consistently like some of those space marine emblem pauldrons, or if you want to print up an entirely custom army that would too time consuming to convert by hand. Until the prices come down and the material properties improve anyway.

>>53538412
Some printers have also a scanner. It could be possible to replicate small bits or small miniatures a lot of times, with the right precision level

>>53538412
>This

I've ordered a few shoulder pads and it can be a little pricey.

I asked a guy to design some 40k sized weapons and he wanted like $50 just to design and submit the print to Shapeways. I'd still have to order and pay for the actual item.

>>53538005
Use GURP---I mean, SPECIAL. There's a game out there for it already.

>>53538005
GURPS.
There's even post-apoc books for it now, After the End.

>>53538005
Make sure it can be finished under 15 minutes with the right meta-knowledge.

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What is he trying to compensate for, /jc/?

>>53537675

Speaking of Autochthon...

Having read the Cities of the World jump, I've been inspired to give a Colossus/Polis option a shot. Currently it is a kind of multi-levelled capstone.

As I'm a little concerned about getting the feel and power involved right, how do people feel about this, the tentative final perk for it:

>400 - ...it is the Sum of its People [Essence 9] (requires all previous perks)
>All life within your borders is a part of yourself, just as you are a part of them.
>From merely receiving it in prayer, you now have a deeper bond to your citizens. Essence (and other energies) can be passed back and forth with minimal loss, and the deep well of the people's pride can be tapped in times of emergency - lending you their strength, speed and resilience, to directly reinforce your Charms and avatars. Those who live within your borders for a prolonged period, exposed to this fundamental interconnectedness, will also find their health and personal power being stimulated somewhat by your own - leading to a naturally higher level of personal Essence, an improved sense of community, a greater ability to engage with any aspect of Polis-culture - from its sciences to the arts - and numerous other small benefits.

>On the individual scale, this contract can be formed with any organization you are considered a meaningful or defining leader of - though in this case it requires either conscious acceptance or an honest internalisation of that organization's principles. The ability to tap attributes additionally requires prior and active agreement, and is a semi-permanent transferral - those who grant you these qualities lose them to such a degree that it threatens their life, those drained of strength left unable to even lift their heads; those drained of wits, stripped of memory. The transfer lasts for as long as they live, unless somehow disrupted or the pact is deliberately annulled - by either party.

>>53537892
Mir, read the OP edition. This is a shitposting thread. Wait for the real one.

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>Final Step: Close the Eye of Terror.

Our Necron allies are working on this part. Just need to get some more of those Cadia Pylons up and running.

Order won't win, there will be a scenario where chaos is suppose to win but get stomped and humiliated and higher ups say fuck it age of Sigmar 2.0 begins fully again.

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>>53537177
Do you desire to murder a god? I've got your man.

>>53537161
First meeting:
Emphasis the "crusader/religious" aspect by commanding them to kneel for blessing and sermon calling down your god's wrath on his/your foes. If the LARP background material has included prayers or hymns, finish with one.
Try drilling them to march in step, as that's the first stage of learning to fight as a formation. Formation should be polearms centrally, sword and board on flanks for tactical flexibility.

>>53537161
Small unit military leadership comes down to a) be better or close to as good at doing what your unit is meant to be doing b) understanding the next level of what your commander might want from you c) willingness to go the extra mile (when your unit is tired you keep going in short)

Small unit leaders still get their hands dirty - youre probably fighting next to the people but just give commands as to how to engage. Youre part of the group and their link to the bigger structure if it exists.

There are different ways people lead, everyone who has to lead develops a leader-persona. This persona is part of you but you are other things as well, which might be perceivable when youre with peers.

>apocalyptic situation
>laws matter
Pick one, anon.

>>53536964
We've had no less than three total breakdowns of society in the past and in each a legal authority was quick to solidify.

>>53536964
God that game was shit.

>>53536798
>country of 200m people
>has only 1 RPG publisher with 2 game lines

Tell us more about Tormenta's setting.

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Tormenta is a fantasy setting that started as a way to tie up most of the adventures published in the Dragão Brasil, the local RPG publication, and was initially given along the 50th edition of Dragão Brasil. Since then it escalated and now runs a modified 3.X DnD as it's own system, and is actually quite good.

When it started it had trio Tormenta as the main writers, who were basically a fantasy guy, an otaku and a rules lawyer who just created whatever they thought was cool in the setting and then spun it around to fit. The settings main villains were based around some drawings of Kamen Rider style villains the otaku had drawn, for exemple.

Then, came the new trio Tormenta that was a lot more divisive and tried to normalize the setting to a more standard fantasy. While it was good at some points, like making the main villains now some really bad nightmare fuel, it also made the setting a little boring and it seemed they didn't really get what made it fun.

And then recently the old guys cam back so we are getting a new race that is basically Genji from Overwatch in the new Jade Kingdom book.

>>53536878
There actually were other game lines and publishers, but they mostly died in the 2000's with DnD 3.5.

Even Tormenta and Dragão Brasil struggled.

Even now there are probably some more fringe settings and systems but they are not as popular.

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>>53536224
Well considering Guilliman simply cannot lose and is now Garvien Loken-tier, it'll be another Tyranids over Macragge. Lots of fighting, but in the end allies arrive because the Ultramarines are still a legion and like half of all the Imperial space marines, and you cannot defeat that many so Guilliman wins "proving himself once again the master of the all the myriad disciplines of war"™ and pulls through the day "with heavy casualties"®.
Only that they might make him actually kill Mortarion for real to make Guilliman gain face.
Which is shit, but that's GW's boy Guilliman.
Oh, they might make planet Konor explode or something, like how Tyranids ate Prandium or how Word Bearers ruined Calth's surface. You have to kill the obligatory named planet of the 500 (0.2%) to make it seem like the loyalists came out sufficiently wounded.

>>53536693
fpbp
/thread

>>53536224

My bet is that the imperium wins, or it is a stalemate that can be interpreted as a slight win for either faction.

>>53534596
It's already modestly popular among teenage edgelords.

only if a majority of people think satans teachins are worth following

assuming standard humans, it is unlikely that a majority of people will look at the 7 deadly sins as a good path to light without some serious infernal intervention

I mean, no. But if it did I imagine it would be functionally similar to the reverse, although with a larger focus on individuality and force of will rather than meekness

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>>53532869
Depends on the system

>>53532887
...

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

1300 is a fine year to see populations up to 800,000 and you're probably getting 150 people in a single hectare, given how narrow the roads are.

This is dolphin porn.

>>53532321
I'm more surprised it's not.

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>>53532321

Only the hottest

An animated, sapient trader's wagon with a coin slot. Insert one gold coin, get a random thing. Could be a magic item, could be a swarm of angry bees.

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>>53531841
Can't beat the classics.

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>53531984

>>53528983
>spawn
>hellboy
>countless animes
Depends on the setting

>>53528983
Aren't demons just fallen angels in the first place?
Wouldn't that be a risen fallen angel? Or just an angel?

>>53528983
Purifying semen

>>53527012
Ignore boss hp until you have almost killed at least one pc, then give him one or two more rounds.

I ruined an awesome deathwatch game because i couldn't figure out how to make a boss either. He died in like three rounds even having two phases.

It's all about action economy. Don't have an encounter where it's a single boss vs 4-5 players. Throw in some fairly capable adds or traps and shifting dangerous terrain. Better do both, in fact.

A giant naga composed of a writhing mass of snakes held together by a magical membrane.

It's basically a beanbag of snakes in the shape of a giant naga and when one limb is severed, the limb just extrudes from another section.

Also spike traps. Always spike traps.

And have some goblin steal some of their loot and run directly down the trapped hallway leading into the boss room.