Why is there a Necron cradling a human(oid) woman?

>>97640871
That's GW depicting what necrontyr look like when they still had flesh

>>97640760
>TQ
I do throw a Necron themed scenario at them every now and then, but somewhat more rarely than with most other major factions. While I do like them, especially their pre-retconn version, I feel like they have a bit less narrative potential, or at least less variety with what you can do with them

>>97641219
>especially their pre-retconn version
Ah, a Chaos Android enjoyer.

I should be able to install a sarcophagus into a knight chassis.

>>97641542
if you do that, representatives from GW corporate will break into your room and castrate you while you sleep because you did something they said wasn't allowed.

repostan'

>>97636094
>Why are you playing a post Great Rift game
good question. this game is in fact a continuation of my Only War campaign, where they had to liberate my OC donut steel feudal world, agri-focused on growing tons of flowers for beeswax harvest and resale to other realms of ultramar (for those truly high quality purity seals)
following a roughly 2 year long (both ingame and in person) campaign of liberation, this is a new campaign set 200 years later and focused on people growing up in said hive before eventually receiving through esoteric means the warrant of trade of a small but old dynasty (too many HH enjoyers so they received a nice grand cruiser Exorcist from the Unification Wars)

said time skip was needed to advance the local politics and set the new scene up, but unfortunately brought my roughly 50 years before 999.m41 campaign into the modern bullshit of the great rift. we're basically just pre the plague wars cuz i didnt read shit about the poopey wars and dont care to. but at the same time i wont timelock myself and this great voyage of theirs will advance them many decades i'm expecting so i keep time flowing

the reason, one wants to return to his homeworld (in imperium nihilus) to recruit troops and such to return to my world they previously liberated and fucking annihilate the governorship (whom had one of the players imprisoned in an inquisitorial black site for 10 years, just to save face. the player was thoroughly count of monte cristo'd basically, false charges the works)

they're not so much profit focused, as their warrant is an old one and bids them "sail into the sea of stars and apply the Emperor's Wrath to right the wrongs targeting the imperium". AKA a mandate to prosecute punitive vengeance for slights, at the captain's will. which is also why they received said warrant

>>97642118
followup

im a necron enjoyer and they're my biggest painted army so they end up featured in my campaigns quite often
the regiment tasked with liberating my feudal/agriworld in my previous Only War campaign encountered them at the end of said campaign

with the planet back under imperial control, they were marshalled back on a new imperial navy ship to be shipped back home for some RnR and casualty replenishment (we tracked casualties throughout the campaign, using risk-like map based hex take and control, the war against the Orks and the small chaos noise marine cult on world resulted in them taking, iirc, out of 3 regiments, one (theirs) made it off world with roughly 80% casualties)

on the way back, a warp anomaly took them out of travel and dumped them in a local isolated system, before being attacked by unknown assailants (they did not receive bridge briefings from the captain, too busy losing his ship against superior necron voidships)

the players went for the saviour pods and crash landed on an airless moon. with hours of oxygen left to spare they found isolated ruins, with heat and oxygen being provided shortly after their appearance.

long story short, welcome to the tomb world bitches. some exploration reveals its some isolated lab, and they inadvertently trigger some long form comms, and in beams Trazyn, looking to pillage that shit like it owes him money. stuck and desperate, they talk to the one mechanoid bot who seems even vaguely non-hostile (as in, he'd talk at all). promised an exit if they'd help find the core, they went around a bit, messed with stuff they didnt understand, released a shard of the void dragon who begins purging the entire place and they barely escape with their lives back to the teleporter room where Trazyn waits for their results.

he just pokeballs them and leaves before getting void dragon'ed. They are now part of an exhibit on Trazyn/My shelf of minis. The players fully expect them to return someday in a cameo

retoast
>>97642098
>>97642118
>didn't want to post-rift but hadda do a timeskip
so proceed into the future but all the rift shit just doesn't happen. boom, easy. gorillaman woke up? who the fuck is that? giant rip in the sky? no, I don't see one.
if you really have to pussy out, just say the calendar was wrong and your old game was actually in M39. there have been multiple inquisitorial civil wars about what the date really is.

>>97642303
Or, you can accept that playing post-rift isn't a deal to most people and barely changes most peoples' games, and you being a stubborn grog white-knighting pre-8th edition just makes you sound annoying instead of a Fair Chivalrous Defender of Oldcanon's Purity.

>>97642420
They'll never let it go. These niggas are still mad that necrons aren't metal tyranids anymore.

>>97642420
If it barely changes anything, why bother including it in the first place?
>inb4 "It's OFFICIAL, you GOTTA"
Anyone who thinks this should beat themselves with an old boxnaught in a sock.

>>97642582
Because it opens up options later. Your players may be chugging along in deathwatch just fine, but oops, a player character died. What new dynamics will bringing in a Primaris play? Or you can roll a regular Firstborn. The GM is fine with either. You harm no-one by closing off options for players.

>>97642653
Why the fuck would anyone think mixing a single primaris in with a party of firstborn is a good idea? That's only balanced if you don't bother statting a difference, in which case there's no point. You get the same outsider narrative by assigning a rookie or a blackshield, and that way you don't get anyone bitching about how their guy should be stronger for no reason, or other players bitching about how the other guy is stronger than them for no reason.

>>97642681
>Why the fuck would anyone think mixing a single primaris in with a party of firstborn is a good idea?
It's a fine idea. We know this because our GM let a new player in as a primaris into our deathwatch game four months ago. Nobody bitched and moaned because we all know each other. We actually play games, unlike you, nogames-kun. But don't worry. Keep defending the status quo, and Jervis Johnson will one day have sex with you!

>>97642732
Gametale or it didn't happen

>>97642911
What do you expect me to say? We started with a Blood Angel Assault, Star Phantom Librarian, and an Imperial Fist Breacher (GM allows homebrew). New guy is a friend of the Librarian, decided to play an Ultramarine Intercessor (using more homebrew) since Ultras are basically super easy to play. Then GM said we're going out to fight weird shit in the Veiled Regions. We've fought Tyranids, Necrons, and one session even had us fight a bunch of unknown xenos that were 40k Ur-Quan, while chasing down a rogue inquisitor who's trying to collect loads of xenotech for some reason we don't know yet. New guy even clutched a fight because he used one of his abilities to shoot twice against a fucking Carnifex the Breacher was tanking, getting righteous fury and a stun that gave the Librarian time to push his smite to finish it off. It's been a goddamn blast. Not that you'd ever know, nogames.

hey shas, thanks for the code for the planet search script, once I make the responses less friendly-sounding and add in my planets i'll give it to my players for our dh campaign

>>97642965
You gonna share whatever was brewed to make him a primaris instead of a normal-ass marine?

>>97643205
>gametale or it didn't happen
>If you didn't homebrew it different it didn't count
Are you just constantly bitter? We get it, you liked the game better fifteen years ago and think it shouldn't have changed. Surely that means you found other people who agree with you and actually play games with them right?

>>97643338
Yes, three tabletop games plus vidya. Do you have a single other argument than "you don't have friends", or can you quit projecting already?

>>97643352
I'm not the guy sharing his story, I'm just tired of you old ass grumblers shitting on everything since 8th edition happened and rarely actually contributing. It's all just "you're playing it wrong and should feel bad" that kills discussion outside of when Shas shows off a new tool or Callidia-anon sharing their stories. Shit man I'm not a fan of Only War but I don't lose my shit when people bring it up.

Do Orcs, Necrons, or Tau feed the warp gods? Orcs have Gork and Mork so I doubt they do and Necrons don't have souls at all anymore but what about the Tau? Even if they have minor souls they still have a presence in the warp.

>>97643498
Gork and Mork are warp gods, everything an ork does is in worship of them. Necrons have trapped their soul on this side of the materium, so they have no interaction with the warp. A Tau has very little psychic development, making their presence infinity less noticable than a non-psyker human.

can you recommend me some media with cool/believable/playable hive cities depiction?

>>97643808
>>97643808
Dredd's Peach Trees would be a relatively nice part of the Hive. Both Blade Runners work pretty well. Find some paintings about Kowloon Walled City - if you've any shadowrun PDFs, try the 4th edition descriptions. The live action ghost in the shell movie has moments towards the end where it'd work, as would big chunks of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, strangely, though that's definitely for the upper levels of a hive city. Wool's Silos, Wu-Jian in Exalted. Borge's Library of Babel, kinda - but mostly for its depictions of tribes.

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>>97643808
I've used Vivec City in Morrowind as the archetype for so many hive cities. I regularly call parts of a hive city the Plaza, Waistworks, Canalworks, and Underworks, and it fits quite well.

>>97642118
As much as I dislike the idea of metaplot progression and most of the nu-lore overall, I think the Great Rift is actually a pretty good plot device for most 40k RPGs, especially Rogue Trader. Half of Imperium, even the relatively stable regions far away from the galactic edges, have been cut off from Terra and major supply lines, plunged into a new dark ages and beset by invaders.Suddenly there should be lots of demand for the services of Rogue Traders where there was previously none: they can scout the planets and territories with which the contact has been lost, estabilish new warp routes, help organise new supply lines and of course profit a lot from all of the chaos and devastation. And this goes for all the other splats as well

I don't like that Dark Heresy pits members of various branches of the Adeptus Terra as complete nobodies, on the level of literally scum and social outcasts. These are people who actually have rights in the Imperium, who you can't actually murder with zero consequences. I get that just having them as generic anybodies wouldn't be great for reinforcing the setting, but being an Adept should've been something you could buy with XP or the like.

>>97646569
it's from the old times, where "you will not be missed" was taken seriously and as a nobody you were supposed to die in a ditch unknown and unmourned...until GW turned 40k into Hero Overwatch and now everyone has to be special.

>>97646573
The game really is at its best when you don't matter in the fucking slightest to the setting as a whole. It means you can do whatever the hell you want in your tiny little corner of space, whether it's a sector or just a single level of the underhive.

Now I know why the AdMech want to wipe out the Silica Animus. They're fucking creepy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHxIkEmfvNw