Post dark settings that aren't 40k.
>>53077990
>forty-kay
>dark setting
lol no
>>53077990
The Monstergirl setting... if you're playing a straight female.
Your options are as follows:
1) get eaten by horny abominations.
2) get cucked by horny abominations.
3) get raped by them and then turn into one of them.
4) Join a harem with a bunch of them and fall for an irredeemably bland protagonist whose only purpose is to work as a placeholder for guys watching the show.
Would make for a good Call of Cthulhu ERP campaign, if Call of Cthulhu ERP was even remotely close to being a good idea.
>>53077990
Eberron.
>>53077990
Is that Glimmer Rats? Now that was a tour de force.
>>53078336
Yes it is.
>>53077990
Black Company
>>53078185
I dont get this pic and filename combo. 40k is very heavily inspired by 2000ad, which has a very heavy satirical, anti-authoratarian bent.
>>53078268
>3) get raped by them and then turn into one of them.
I've been playing monster girls a couple of times and can not remember this detail.
>>53078185
I dont get this pic and filename combo. 40k is very heavily inspired by 2000ad, which has a very heavily satirical, anti-authoratarian bent.
>>>53078327
Eberron is more what you make of it. It's got dark elements, but even Keith Baker stated that the setting works best when the DM uses the parts they need and gloss over or remove what they don't want.
>>53078429
http://monstergirlencyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Monsterization
Chronicles of Hate is a pretty metal setting by Adrian Smith.
>>53077990
Haven't started on the second volume, but Shakara is pretty dark.
The galaxy is ruled by slavers and the worst of the worst, Humanity is casually massacred and Earth destroyed for profit in the first few pages and the hero's sole purpose in life is revenge genocide.
Though all 2000ad settings are pretty dark.
>>53078442
>>53078422
Maybe at first, but too many cooks spoil the broth and nobody now at GW gets that it's supposed to be satirical
>>53078690
>too many cooks
>>53078690
Too many cocks spoil your mom's cunt.
>>53078713
I'd assume that pushing anon out did far worse than putting anything into it.
The Night Land is pretty dark, but it does it in a "the power of human goodness and determination" way.
>>53078713
rude
>>53078690
>too many cooks spoil the broth
Sometimes a duck is just a duck. The original group of folks at GW had their own record label and signed on a bunch death metal bands to write songs about space marines blowing shit up. Because (as a bunch of grimy metal heads) that's what they liked.
They were definitely inspired by 2000AD, but satire or social commentary was never the intention of 40k. It was always just a pastiche of stuff the various people making it found cool.
Rifts rpg by palladium can get pretty metal.
Their Chaos Earth series is the most dark and desperate.
>>53078705
>greentexting because you are somehow unaware of an extremely common phrase
>>53079545
>Being unaware of shit internet memes
Damn dude ¤Φ¤
Blame
Watchmen.
Lovecraft + everything that it inspired.
Worm.
Dark souls.
>Individual megacorps have almost as much influence as the entire government
>almost all of them put material resources above human life
>every wackjob with a science degree seems obsessed with "taming" the xenos
>it always fails
>there's a hyper addictive drug strained from the xenomorphs
>prolonged use mutates the user into an alien/human hybrid who can "hear" the voice of the queen
>there are literal ninja mercenaries running around
>Xenos land on Earth
>que the apocalypse
>Earth is now a giant alien hiveworld
The expanded Aliens franchise would suck to live in. They also continue from Aliens and pretty much ignore 3 and 4.
Monster Girl Encylopedia is pretty damn fucked up
>>53078920
Even though the Warhammer settings were never intended to be anything more than pulp silliness, they were still created by guys with a strong background in history and literature. Modern GW is staffed by guys with a strong background in... Warhammer.
Metro
No love for Mutant Chronicles? 40k with the satire still in place? Shit's lovely.
>>53080191
How the fuck could Earth fall to a bunch of cockroaches? They don't even have guns.
>>53080898
Xenomorph worshiping cultists, megacorps reluctance to kill the greatest bioweapon of all time and Xenomorphs are good at taking ground.
Scotland 40K
>>53078690
Neither most fans.
>>53077990
Cwcville.
I regret everything in general.
>>53078268
The third and fourth instances sound great to me. The second one doesn't sound bad either.
>>53077990
Kingdom Death. The world where you are VERY lucky if you just get eaten by a lion made out of gold with human hands for paws.
>>53079878
>450+ year old phrase
>"internet meme"
>>53083680
Careful bro, you'll attract the autism defence force.
But that is a horrifying setting.
>>53077990
Anima Beyond Fantasy.
If you're playing a campaign in Moth.
Angela Merkel's Germany
>>53085939
get back to /pol/ nigger
>>53085989
A lot of threads just had /pol/ shit posted on them in more or less five minutes apart.
I think this fucker might be carpet bombing bait for his daily (you) quota.
Reminder too not feed the /pol/acks.
>>53085333
I've always been super curious about that game, but I can never find the miniatures anywhere and they cost mad money. Shame too, because I adore the miniatures.
Real life
>>53077990
Criminally underrated setting, desu.
>>53080191
This. So much this.
>>53077990
Pretty nightmarish if you ask me
>>53087773
It's a nice place if you stay away from the black parts
>>53086670
It's a pretty good game, and has some great lore and worldbuilding. Such a same that the miniatures cost so much. But hey, we still have Satan.
This setting makes the Imperium look like pussies and lucky bastards.
>>53077990
World of darkness, as the name would imply
>>53085989
>>53086184
There is some messed up stuff in modern day Germany though.
>>53085392
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8
Just fucking watch it.
>>53087942
you say it's dark, but if you ask me it's pretty tweet
>>53080898
>How the fuck could Earth fall to a bunch of cockroaches
This has got to be bait.
>>53088675
In his defense, the alien and by extension engineer tech in general as it is in the old comic continuity isn't as completely bullshit as it is with the rebooted prometheus continuity. While I do agree his statement is a little baitish in presentation, I imagine it would be much harder for the aliens as they were then, more based on their Aliens iteration, to be as much a threat as they could be interpreted now. I think the only times the old continuity has come close is with that lady-synth who became a pseudo-queen, and that one alien that made people explode.
>>53077990
>Ctrl + F
>No Requiem Chevalier Vampire
When people die in the 40k universe, they don't go to heaven, hell or the warp...they go here.
>>53090285
it's too rad to be truly dark
>>53090285
>dark setting
>full of lights
Well, I bet you feel pretty dumb now.
>>53080898
How the fuck did they cut the power, man? They're animals!
The setting of The First Law trilogy is pretty dark once you reach the end of the 3rd book and find out how fucked up a conflict being fought by one of the main characters is.
>Druuna: "I came for the porn, I stayed for the lore"
Mankind lives in some kind of fucked up decadent future city where a plague that turns you into cronenberg chaos spawns who enjoy to rape and kill can only be barely stopped by vaccines controlled by techpriests. If they think you are infected, they send you to the underworld where most of the chaos spawns live.Also the world is actually just a spaceship and the plague was created by an AI that hates you all
>>53088866
People always watch Aliens then extrapolate the way the xenos act in that movie to be the exact way they must act in every situation ever, not realizing that all the ones that died in the movie were just warrior drones being sacrificed by the Queen like pawns in a chess game.
The reason they were able to take over Earth is this: Look at New York City, even in the modern day it's got upwards of 40,000 homeless, thousands of miles of sewers/maintenance tunnels/subway lines and who knows how many seldom-used building sublevels. There's even a fucking population of mole people that live in the tunnels and basically only interact with the surface to beg for money or steal shit. How many of those people would have to go missing before anyone with the means to do something about notice and give a shit? A thousand? Two thousand?
>>53088110
>what is positive freedom
>>53078030
Fuck you.
>>53077990
>40k
>dark
>>53091075
Facism apparently?
anyone up for grimdark storytime
>>53080263
Oh, absolutely. That's why the earlier stuff is so full of references. I just hate people misusing the word satire.
>>53080515
Mutant chronicles is underappreciated as fuck, but I'd say that's more due to horrible mismanagement than anything else. I think the license has traded hands three or four times now?
Can't really blame people for forgetting about it, or maybe even never hearing about it in the first place.
>>53088122
No one fucking cares about some random videos, you sperg.
anyone here?
>>53094777
Yeah, just reading.
>>53094818
>>53094812
ok need to stop for a bit here
>>53077990
Warhammer Fantasy from the 80s-2000's
Also Berserk (same thing technically)
>>53094777
glimmer rats is gud stuff
>>53094923
I always wondered what did they eat and drink. Or if they had any need for it.
Can anyone tell me where i can read glimmer rats online ?
>>53094835
and we're back
>>53095395
this is actually a very short series, only 56 pages, so i'm basically half-way through
>>53095658
also im not even sure where i even downloaded this
Nightbane/nightspawn depending on when you bought your book
>>53077990
Degenesis
>>53078705
Have you seriously never heard that phrase before?
Man, English is my third language and I've heard it.
>>53095897
What are the small texts between music symbols?
Just something to add contrast? Things that characters hear?
>>53078268
>if Call of Cthulhu ERP was even remotely close to being a good idea.
I remember alt.sex.cthulhu too
>>53095937
I think it's to represent a Glimmer Rat who's gone insane and is singing out of key as he shoots Giests.
>>53095634
Cool cheers mate
William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land.
The universe is dying.
Earth is dead.
Humankind is sheltered/trapped inside the last arcology left in the whole universe.
It is surrounded by the cosmic horrors that bullied Cthulhu back in Old One High School.
>>53093881
came here to post this
>>53096375
FIN
too bad there was no continuation honestly
>>53096388
Thanks anon, that was a good read.
>>53096388
Always a good read. tanks for the dump
>>53090760
I, too, was once 14.
>>53096388
Another reminder that the Glimmer Rats setting is the greatest nightmare reality of all.
What the fuck do they eat?
>>53096453
It's a bit cliche'd honestly
>>53096453
shit's basically Penal Guards in Space: The Warp is Overtaking Me
>>53096388
It would seem that the whole thing about the story is that its a cycle, so everything must come back right where it starts and the only changes are the actors since their backstories don't mean anything nor their will or lack of will to live.
There will always be a Gimp
There will always be a Villa
There will always be a Tannhauser
There will always be a gloryboy
And there will always be the same story; a wretched and macabre path to an exit(which only virtue is that is not the Glimmer) filled with pain and death, were one is selected by the Glimmer to try to break the cycle and one or a few destroys it, and by doing so, the pocket universe restarts and reroll again.
>>53096388
thank you
>>53096388
Thanks
>>53085692
Chris-chan has actually been kicked out of several autism awareness groups for insulting other autists. Even they hate him now.
>>53096453
I'm sure the EF regularly sends supply drops containing MREs. Of course, for some units lost in the deep Glimmer may have adopted a strategy similar to sled-dog teams.
Every 2-3 days kill the weakest member of the unit and everyone else eats him.
>>53096453
>What the fuck do they eat?
Probably nothing, have in mind that without sleep you start to hallucinate and you become less and less functional(you basically need stimulants to avoid just fading out) so they weren't in the Glimmer for days but rather hours, is just that their sense of time was distorted by the constant pump of adrenaline and stress.
If not, then it probably has something to do with people surviving operations with just a knife without getting infected or something, the glimmer won't let you die of hunger, thirst or illness, you are basically immortal and young there.
>>53078268
This sounds like a potentially fun game
"Monstergirls are stealing your men. Are you a bad enough dudette to slay the monstergirls?"
Think somewhere between Buffy and a Harem anime
>>53090760
>>53096445
The First Law series isn't even that edgy. There might be an awful lott of violence and torture, but the world itself isn't any more horrible to live in than Hyboria, for example. People only hate on it because the advertising campaign droned on about how 'edgy' and 'mature' it was.
>>53096388
And that's why you don't invade a demonworld.
>>53096388
You did good, you should feel good.
>>53096513
probably
but i'm sure it has more to do with the fact that the series was intended as a one-shot and needed to be ended by a certain issue.
>>53096388
That was great, thanks a lot!
>>53095250
why do people care so much about what they're eating?
that's like reading a 40k krieger novel and asking what type of dirt they use to build sandbags.
incidentally, that's a trick question, they dont use dirt, they use dead kriegers.
>>53078920
>signed on a bunch death metal bands
I know of Bolt Thrower but no other. Anybody know more?
>>53097321
He's asking how they get the food I think, not what kind of food it is.
Maybe they get containers of crappy food dropped through the breach from times to times?
>>53096388
Thanks
>>53087803
I didn't realize we're talking about The Division
>>53096388
Isn't there a part missing? About the whole breach growing bigger and slowly eating England and the whole resistance crew getting wasted?
>>53080515
My nigga
>>53096943
Halo's pretty optimistic for a dark setting tho, like yeah shit's rough and humanity's best chance is a Pyrrhic victory but shit at least it's got a chance
>>53077990
DOOM is pretty raw.
>>53101420
I dunno man, as raw as doom is, it seems pretty hopeful to me.
I mean, hell is afraid. AFRAID. Not just a small portion or splinter faction, but hell itself, globally is legitimately fearful of what the doomguy is capable of.
>>53080977
Heh
>>53091075
Free Gibs me dats for the lazy at the expense of the productive.
>>53086670
If you don't mind doing things digitally you can pick up Tabletop Simulator on Steam and play it on there.
If you just want the minis, check their shop page around holidays. They usually have some sales and exclusives.
Berserk, Shin Megami Tensei, Fist of the North Star, possibly Tokyo Gore Police, Mad Max, Mega Man X and onwards, especialy Mega Man Zero, Gundam (depends on which one you are watching, Zardoz, and depending on how you generate your world, Dwarf Fortress.
>>53092509
So what's this then? GIS is worthless as usual.
>>53102058
Pure horror.
>>53085333
...is that a tentacle dick-foot?
>>53102845
>>53077990
Battletech in the 3rd succession war.
Of course, the Jihad is pretty rough with everyone nuking each other, engineered plagues, and entire planets going dead, but it's not quite as grim as the feeling of the inevitable crawl back into the stone age. Only the very rich or very lucky get 'mechs, and of those, only a few can actually pilot them. Even still, life is cheap, mechs aren't.
Jihad mechs are more fun to play with, but if a dark setting is the name of the game, it's the 3rd succession wars.
>>53096388
Thanks anon
>>53101545
That's true, but keep in mind that humanity is in a constant state of shooting itself in the foot by letting demons pop out. It's hopeful only because they fucked up and made a guy way too mad
Drakengard. Just Drakengard. Shit is fucked ten ways till Sunday.
>>53104351
Completely forgot about Drakengard. Yeah, it's fucked up to say the least.
>>53104364
Yeah, things went so bad in Midgard that it couldn't be contained to their world.
>>53077990
>not fighting alongside your bros committing acts of terrorism in the middle of a war fought by deranged nigh-immortal archmages
Why even bother?
>>53102352
>anon doesn't find All Tomorrows uplifting
Did you read the end bit?
Life is much, much more absurd than we'd like it to be, but so what? We can't do anything about it, we're just along for the ride. May as well try to enjoy ourselves as much as possible while we're on it. Don't forget to love Today, and to seize All Tomorrows!
>>53080191
anyone got a link?
>>53080338
Fucking this
>>53097376
>I know of Bolt Thrower but no other. Anybody know more?
Interested in this.
>>53104351
WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN!?
Kinda amazing that nier automata is more or less a sequel.
>>53105162
It's frankly amazing that the games kept getting made, especially so for Automata.
>>53077990
>Glimmer rats
YESSSS
>>53091075
Holy fuck this is some killer bait.
Have a (you)
>>53105584
Any sensible publisher hearing about a deal between Yoko Taro, the auter-est auter who makes fascinating ideas but are seriously flawed as games, and Platinum, who mke great games with mediocre narrative/setting and need to borrow others', would be throwing money at the project. It's a great chance to make probably a shitload of money, and also bump your good-guy-publisher cred up. And maybe if the collab goes well you finally get that guy you wish was sane to have a partnership that covers his flaws.
Soul Sacrifice Delta
>any child that demonstrates magical ability is hunted down and recruited by Avalon, the leading organization in organized murder, to recruit them (and they don't take no for an answer)
>the process of becoming an Avalon sorcerer involves being paired up with another entry level sorcerer and fighting alongside them, and your final test is to fight your partner and sacrifice (read: devour) them
>Sacrificing people increases your magical might, but you also absorb their personality and memories, which changes you fundamentally the more you sacrifice
>once you become a full fledged sorcerer, Avalon sends you out on jobs to hunt monsters, many of which are people who fell victim to their passions, desires, or obsessions, and turned into huge freakish beasts
>magic spells are cast by consuming offerings harvested from the bodies of monsters, which give you the ability to cast a limited amount of spells, many of which mutilate your body in the process of casting
>there exist deadly spells known as Black Rites, which let you cast extremely powerful spells at the cost of a body part (sacrificing your skin to summon an inferno, summoning a horde of magic-casting floating eyes by gouging your own eye out, etc.)
>if the battle is going south, you can let your teammates sacrifice you to cast an even more powerful spell that will kill you painfully in the process (one of which is a spell that multiplies the amount of bones in your body, growing serrated edges along every inch, before they explode out of you in a shower of gore to spear down into the beast you were hunting)
>there exist a secret organization that poaches Avalon sorcerers that don't have the heart for murder and teaches them to spare their victims instead
>people who've turned into monsters and been spared return home to find themselves shunned by society, as they don't trust them to not transform again (which is entirely possible)
>>53106090
The Black Rites: https://youtu.be/ZP-G2mC1WUY?t=85
>there exists a mage that consumed a cursed soul sometime in the past, who is destined to be consumed by the curse and begin a genocidal crusade to sacrifice everyone in the world
>he's not even aware that he's going to be responsible for ending the world
>there's also a magical artifact known as the Chalice, which appears to those in need and offers to grant them a wish
>in typical wish-granter fashion, it often perverts your wish to give you what you asked for, just not in the way you wanted, and is directly responsible for the birth of many of the monsters in the world
>>53096453
The Glimmer likely doesn't let people die of any of the usual afflictions. They only 'die' once they get torn apart by it's antibodies, and then they are revived as a part of it in order for it claim more souls. It only keeps them alive so that it can consume, and assimilate them.
>>53106090
>>53106203
Do remember that like in Drakengard, the Gods of this setting are full blown demons, and are completely evil to the core, and are actively making the world an even worse place to live.
>>53096388
I love you. I've been wanting to read Glimmer Rats for years, but I was too much of a jew to buy it. Now I will buy it. God I love 2000 A.D.
>>53102352
All tomorrows is not dark. It's a story of life and evolution of races and societies over geological timescales. It describes horrible things happening, but ultimately has a positive, uplifting message.
Shit almost made me cry. It's in the wrong thread.
>>53080515
40k has the satire still in place. Just because the community is made up out of fucking retards doesn't stop 40k from being one massive joke based on mankind's hopes and dreams.
>>53094777
Loving it
>>53091091
And fuck your marker.
>>53096669
Castlevania with monster girls.
>>53096544
Isn't he in jail now?
>>53101839
I'd definitely love to get a hold of a mini or two, but tabletop simulator is probably the best chance I have at ever giving the game a whirl. Thanks!
>>53080338
I swear to god, by all rights I should hate this, but I fucking love metro and STALKER
FUCK singularity though
>>53078690
Too many cooks will spoil the broth, but they'll fill our hearts with so much love.
Midnight
>>53088110
>Roughly 60 people across the country are believed to have taken part in a private Facebook group in which various German laws were broken, including praising of the Nazis.
https://www.thelocal.de/20160713/german-police-launch-first-nationwide-hate-speech-raids
If the picture is to be believed, they were also part of a Facebook group called "Adolf Hitler" which is absolutely unacceptable for a German.
>>53111661
Why though? Is it unacceptable, yes? But it shouldn't be unlawful.
>>53111942
That's what the Allies expected, I guess?
As far as I know, Nazism is the only enforced taboo in German society.
>>53088110
>Germany
>Bans political parties (Nazi)
>Bans religious symbols (swastika)
>Bans religions (scientology)
>Bans dissent (holocaust denial)
>>53104658
To what? Use a torrent if you really want to read them, most of them aren't available anymore. Aliens Book 1 and 2 follow Newt's story after Aliens and lead directly into Earth War. Aliens: Rogue is also very good.
>>53104351
Nier as well, especially in the events directly following the death of the Queen Beast.
>>53096234
got that iconic pic of the pyramid?
The story takes place in a self-replicating mega structure the size of a planet. Nobody knows why the mega-structure exists. You can travel for years and never find the end. Everything wants to kill you, but especially the AI
>>53113384
Also the structure is slowly falling apart, and there's hardly any baseline humans with the appropriate genetics left to access the only system that can fix it, yes?
>>53113220
Like I said, things got so fucked in Migard it spread into our world.