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>>98105123
I think the basic excuse is "tyrannid genetics shit" and leave it at that. The only times I can think of special attention for what a nid's weapon is made of is the bone sword and the crushing claws.
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>>98105279
>Ship names you've used or stood out to you?
In the Black Crusade campaign that I play in, the Slaanesh-corrupted Iconoclast-class destroyer that we travel around in is called the Parumortem. Subtle.
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>>98105279
>Ship thread
Fuck yeah.
>TQ
Transport I looted: Grand Designs (I envisioned a fleet, of which this was the second ship. I got to four.)
Mass conveyor: Alderamin (named for a once and future pole star, intended to be the lead ship for the Polaris-class megayacht)
Starting Firestorm frigate: Fist of Navaar (40kification of the name of an RPG character I once played, who liked laser weapons)
Endgame Cardinal-class heavy cruiser: Wrath of Navaar (bought it with an STC fragment. Game died before I could fly it.)
Planned ship for a discount Jack Sparrow: Ebonstar
I've always thought the name Dawson's Testament has a good sound to it, in reference to the relevant filk song.
Mass Effect has Harbinger, and it really doesn't get better than that.
Terminus Est is peak 40k.
I'd like to give a special nod to the term 'battlestar' from the media of the same name, it just has a nice punchy feel to it, and it's an interesting abbreviation of what I assume to be battle-starship.
>>98105597
'Sea Traveler' may be a bit on the nose, but it does have a good sound to it.
>>98105788
Heh.
>>98105884
>power creep is good and cool
No.
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>>98105279
Hasn't happened yet but for the Only War campaign the unit that my players are a part of will include the transport ship "His Great Purpose CLXIII" as a proper name (it was made on a industrial world with a particularly pious governorship), but informally known by the veterans as "Ration Tin" for how tightly packed it gets when they're landing on a planet/taking off.
Of course this is more a troop/vehicle transport ship than a proper battleship so it's not the same.
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>>98105279
>Ship names you've used or stood out to you?
One team named their ship the Windu's Saber because it was a BFG RT cruiser that I painted purple.
One peep in Deathwatch tried to name their ship the "Eye of Terra" and it took EVERYONE to convince him that it would be a terrible idea. They settled on "Blade of the Long Watch" with another player grumbling that every ship seems to be named after a sword or something.
One team (Necrons) didn't even bother naming their ship. They felt it would be more ominous if it was one of nameless many.
Many have learned to fear the Gloriana-class Titanship "Tiberian Sun" and the Gloriana-equivalent Tombship "Typhon Imperator", the two most powerful voidship-scale vessels in the area.
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>>98105013
All of this. People who need a "good guy" in their games should just go get into literally any other IP in the history of man, instead of ruining what makes 40k special.
>>98105123
>>i'm surprised there's no more info about genestealers.
Why would you be? When do they ever go into that much detail about a creature's natural weapons, and what does it matter? If the GM lets you make a weapon out of the claws, he does, otherwise it's moot.
Personally, I might do a Kharn the Betrayer and use its claws for the teeth of a chain weapon. Might give it razor sharp or something, although you'd think if it's that easy, this would be a super common thing to do, given how many genestealers are killed across the galaxy. I wouldn't expect the weapon to be too amazing, though, at least not without the monstrous strength of a 'stealer behind it. On the tabletop, those things are stronger than space marines.
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>>98105279
>Ship names you've used or stood out to you?
I like grandiose names. Some of my cruiser+-sized ships include:
The Magnum Opus
The Fire of His Vengeance
The Last Argument of Kings
The Manifest Destiny
The Benevolent Indifference
The Destroyer of Eternities
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>>98106434
>One peep in Deathwatch tried to name their ship the "Eye of Terra" and it took EVERYONE to convince him that it would be a terrible idea.
Reminds me of the guy who wanted to name his ship 'Horace's Revenge'.
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Do you think reducing the size of the Imperium solve any of its problems? Governing over a million worlds over such a wide area with all those cultures might be easier if they had fewer to keep track of.
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>>98106434
>another player grumbling that every ship seems to be named after a sword or something.
>I know we've got the Gladius but hear me out, what if we renamed the Hunter the Sabre and the Nova the Claymore?
>Captain of the Penetrators
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I've been reading through old necron stuff, and this is the first time I caught that Gauss weapons work via teleporting the material they hit away. Where do the Necrons send all the flesh and viscera that get flayed off in raids?
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>>98117922
Most Tyranid organisms larger than your basic gaunt will likely be able to solo most low-mid xp PC squads (especially since they're unlikely to actually be encountered on their own and will rather be accompanied by a bunch of smaller nids). Keep that in mind and reserve larger beasts for boss fights, monsters they're supposed to run away from or encounters they have to be smart to survive (for example by using the environment, some heavy weapon or vehicle lying around, or getting some assistance to actually take the thing down).
Your open battle scenarios will probably largely be massive, with huge hordes of nids and plenty of ally squads fighting alongside the PCs (make sure you check the rules for mass battles). Meanwhile scouting assignments and such will probably have to be very stealthy, because the second your characters alert a larger number of nids and get an entire swarm of them or a larger monster on their heads they're basically cooked.
Narratively speaking, you're running a campaign with an antagonist that's faceless and devoid of personality, so the allies will have to do most of the heavy lifting to make things memorable. Make sure to give them some distinctive NPCs from their regiment to bond with between missions. Portray how the soldiers react to facing an endless swarm of monstrous enemies and the horror of their bio-weapons. Portray the horror of the civilians whose home is literally being terraformed and devoured in real time. If you want to have some signature antagonists, you can introduce nids that are so infamously dangerous they've already became a legend of sorts among soldiers and hunting them down would bring plenty of glory.
Check out the Orpheus Salient sections in Jericho Reach and Achillus Assault, they have plenty of tips on how to run a campaign with nids as the main antagonist and much of it should be relevant for OW as well
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>>98117922
Nids are a horror show for IG, particularly on foot. They come in swarms unless if it is a lictor in which case someone is burning fate/dying. PCs would need a lot of backup characters or the hand of the emperor guiding everything they do. A regiment with vehicles is recommended.
On the mechanical side, there is a section in the GM chapter of the core book for porting things over from the other games.
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>>98120745
Counter-grav tech isn't rare and valuable. Counter-grav tech strong enough to lift anything of significance is rare and valuable.
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>>98117922
A single warrior would absolutely ass rape the PCs without even a courtesy finger. That's the smallest synapse creature, and you're not gonna encounter just one warrior.
You might want to break lore a bit and need the nids a bit, and use formations for more cinematic "killing tons of aliens" battles
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Hello! I'm planning on running a Rogue Trader Game for my friends soon.
I was wondering if there are any books that go into the day-to-day life of an imperial citizen (to counterpoint that with the life of a rogue trader) and if there are any books that act as dictionaries for the terms in the setting.
I have ready the 10th edition rulebook and imperial guardsmen codex for the lore pieces but I'm looking for more.
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>>98118081
>Most Tyranid organisms larger than your basic gaunt will likely be able to solo most low-mid xp PC squads
I dunno about that. A couple of long-las shots can take down just about anything, and nothing survives a half-decent heavy weapon salvo.
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Here's some of my Tabletop Simulator Map collections and Templates to use in your 40krpg games:
FFG 40krpg Templates for TTS (Includes Spray, Blast, Suppressive Fire, etc) Templates: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3621668271
Eleventh Hour Introductory Module - Only War Maps (Ongoing Map Collection): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3501065592
Dark Heresy 2e Maps (Completed Map Collection):
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3499625189
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>>98122690
We had first episode yesterday, delayed due to one peep having a flight the normal day. Team is Sky Captain, Combat Engineer, Haemonculus, Sslyth. To put it concisely...
>First Mission is a lightning raid on the capital of Old Slann power in the Solaris Expanse
>Said capital is a ringworld megastructure 30,000km in diameter
>Objective to find anything useful
>Their team is one of many, dropped on a beach by Phantomfish stealth transport
>Storm the beach, kill some skinks and saurus, establish an LZ
>Command drops Cuttlefish stealth transport support
>Team cruises around listening to taccom, decide to investigate some big tower on east edge of island
>Kill a troglodon and skink oracle guarding it, turns out tower is security node
>Capture it, disables shields around a big Old Slann Ziggurat in center of island
>Whoever raids it gets paid big money
>Ziggurat has a Conspectus Network (data archive), priority target
>Team heads in, find bodies of others who got in first...
>...ded
>Get to Conspectus Network
>Start downlinking data
>The Armigers arrive
>They start webway shunting around, hard to pin down
>Sslyth gets heavily wounded but it's okay cuz he likes it
>Get the data
>Mostly useless...
>...except for something called the "Engine of the Gods"
>Open a service access for Phantomfish exfiltration
>Accidentally activate two Old Slann Commanders who now utterly hate them
>Dip out under fire
>Get out away cleanly
>Called by the High Commander for priority reassignment...
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How does someone learn to be a tech priest? Is it though books? Interactive simulations? Hypnotic indoctrination? Do they install a hard drive in someones head and just upload info into it? How is the schooling done? I want to run a game that involves someone early on the path but I don't know how the Mechanicus schooling works.
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>>98123539
Damn, good shit anon. Thanks!
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>>98105279
I've always thought this would be way better as the starting point to representing a Gloriana-class battleship than what they went with in BFG2. It just has that pre-Imperial look to it with the curving prow and the domes on the back rather than Gothic spires.
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>>98124699
Hypno-indoctrination and being grown into the role. Cawl, for example, was part of a batch of 1,000 vatgrown children. Most of those children were assigned as menial (left door) or as servitors (right door). Cawl was the only one to pass through the middle door and become a Techpriest, because he questioned the examiner.
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Do we know anything about how Enslaver possession looks from the perspective of the victim?
Is it a total loss of consciousness for as long as they're enslaved, basically being a sleeping puppet?
Is their consciousness still on, but they watch everything from the passenger's sit, so to speak?
Or maybe they remain semi-conscious, but get brainwashed into thinking that they want to follow the Enslaver's orders?
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>>98127590
>I'd still like to know how the mental attack actually looks like for the sake of describing it to the players whose PCs are targeted by it though
An image is forced directly into their mind...
https://files.catbox.moe/pcavsf.mp4
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What is the maximum amount of ability a psyker can have an remain sane? Isn't the Emperor the only human to live at his level and still function due to his soul being formed from the best of his era?
On a related note: What amount of warp exposure is required to negativity effect a human?
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>>98129022
>On a related note: What amount of warp exposure is required to negativity effect a human?
You have to remember what the words nececssary and sufficient mean. The amount required (aka Necessary) to have a negative effect would not be that much (I think more or less any C grade or higher Psycher is going to have clear and obvious flaws due to the use of the warp even if its just having access to a 'timeless/spaceless spacetime' which will make things funky/hard to explain/look like witchcraft. This includes things like
>Knowing the impossible to know
>Having access to the inaccessable
>Attracting the attention of the undesirable
>Being targetted intelligently by invisible intangible beings with some or all three of those qualities
Not to mention the social stigma.
As for the smallest sufficient amount to fuck you up, more or less any. Any amount of a nurglish pox is more or less guaranteed death (at best), the Slannesh inspirations are almost as bad. Khorne and Tzeenchian bits are slightly more discerning (It's rare to have a warrior or psycher who doesn't choose to follow that path get targetted by them).
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A bunch of small updates to some books have been added to the Mega folder, most based on observations from players.
https://mega.nz/folder/ouxCVIJD#ZdGQx36Dg4I3GfM7-kyoYw
Fear and Loathing in the Eastern Fringe (v1.8.43)
Changelog
-Replaced erroneous reference to Shield Drones in the Dynamic Mirror Field relic entry.
-Added a...much-requested new talent to Deathmarks, improving their Nightmare Globe.
The Fringe is Yours (v1.13.10)
Changelog
-Fixed reference to "Dark Patron" in Druhkari chargen instead of Dark Muse
-Custom Drone Creation no longer refers to drone slots, instead referring to Drone Controller capacity.
-Air Caste Sky Captain issues now has Pilot (Spacecraft) +10 available at rank 2. Curiously, I noted a blank spot in the table, as if I intended to put it there but then forgot.
Colonies Full v5 (No Version marker
Changelog
-House Colonies can no longer build Order Base Facilities.
There will probably be other changes coming, like boosting Burst Cannon rate of fire, but for now only errors will be updated.
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>>98129022
>Isn't the Emperor the only human to live at his level and still function due to his soul being formed from the best of his era?
The Emperor was a megalomaniac who ruined the galaxy while attempting to "save" it by means of ruthless military domination and bureaucratic tyranny. Basically all the bad behavior you see from other psykers getting corrupted by their own power, just on a bigger scale. Also, did they really settle on making the stone age ritual suicide merged soul thing the official explanation for him? When that was introduced, I remember it being considered a heretical fairytale competing with several alternatives like the Emperor being some kind of genetic engineering experiment from a much more recent era. 40K had a nice balance of ambiguity in lore at one point. It's annoying how much that has been lost.
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Dead Man's Hand recap:
The "fight" with the Transcendent C'tan shard wasn't really a fight. But the crackolytes found out their weird blank is some spooky entity beyond their comprehension, and since everyone now has [ Fearless ] they don't run away crying from seeing through the 7 Jack illusions and noticing the spooky shapeless void being.
Galen and Cellanuss focused on the heretics while Callidia squared off with Jack. She managed to land a max damage meltagun shot on him, but he quite literally laughed it off in ancient not-egyptian speak. Jack created a gravity field around Callidia, she passed the first checks even with her pitiful ST 27 and managed to not take 1d5 crushing damage that ignores armour and soak.
Just like Cadia, she fell and the "fight" was over since she couldnt even move. Jack does his whole smug bastard speech about being her best friend, bullies her with the Arbites Ringleader Handcannon- same one she gave to him just earlier as part of recruiting him - gives her the Mysterious "Evil Ass Black" Dagger and fucks off through a green portal in a wall, after saying how the crackolytes are his funniest pawns.
Note: The crackolytes had no idea what C'tan or Necrons are, all they know is that there's now a second shapeshifter cunt messing with them. One unafilliated with the Pilgrims of Hayte, the Menagerie and that bitch Sinderfell we are killing tomorrow.
The Mysterious "Evil Ass Black" Dagger is pure black with a green sheen to it and not blackstone as far as we can tell. It says "lol lmao" to any armour, shields and force fields.
The crackolytes dust off from the heretical killing and come to the conclusion the only reason something like jack would have stuck around with them, played them like damned fiddles and even helped, is because he's after their Lord Inquisitor. Otherwise the crackolytes are nobodies. What does Jack want with Lord Inquisitor Constantine? Good question indeed.
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Callidia vox calls Fafnir, the noble asshole who was indeed right about Jack. She tells him he was right and because she rolled so good when he split from the part, he's willing to still work together. The man slipped way ahead while we were busy with Jack, so the crackolytes continue their dungeon crawl to meet with him further in.
The crackolytes run into yet another Cultist shrine thing, this time its the tombs being desecrated by the Pilgrims of Hayte. The bodies and bones removed from their sarcophagi, ashes poured to form the star of chaos. Some forbidden lore checks between Callidia and Cellanus makes them realize this ritual is torturing the spirits of the dead and causing the greasy and slimy "veil" around the place. Another proof how the Pilgrims of Hayte are the absolute worst and even the dead become their victims.
Callidia decides this ritual must be cleansed, thus she kicks the ashes to unmake the star of chaos and with Cellanus and Galen's help, sweep the ashes, bones and remains into a neat pile. After a prayer, she obliterates everything with the most cleansing tool she has: the meltagun.
The GM asks for a 1d100 roll, I roll an 08. The amount of great 8's and 88's Callidia rolls makes me think Khorne favours her, because it is funny. Still gm gets flabbergasted once again by her rolls. The result is that all the tortured spirits gather around the crackolytes in a spooky way, looking cloudy with menacing glowing red eyes. They say "thank you" and disappear, they have been freed from the torment and the ritual destroyed. The greasy evil veil and its effects have been lifted.
Immediately the crackolytes hear the cultists shouting about the ritual having been messed with, to unleash all the dybuks and kill the invaders at the shrine place. Seems like all the heretics are coming to us, making the killing easier. Callidia convinces Galen to brace and setup the heavy bolter, wait for the heretics to walk into his firing lane.
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Cellanus uses his witchery for Chameleon and Wall walk, choosing to stay much further ahead hanging from the ceiling and drop grenades on the incoming enemies. A tactic that worked well when we had the surprise on another group earlier. Now? A bit dubious.
Pilgrims of Hayte arrive, Dybuks instantly speed blitz into melee with Galen making the Heavy Bolter plan suboptimal. Galen proceeds to nodiff the first buffed dybuk with his annoynted thunderhammer, rendering it a flaming corpse.
[ "Priestkiller" ], seemingly the leader of this group notices the psyker hanging from the ceiling after frags were dropped upon him. He uses his [ Accursed Plasma Pistol ] to shoot Cellanus left arm off, the psyker goes unconcious from the shock and falls from the Ceiling, the fall damage explodes his left leg off and he has to burn a Fate Point to not die there and then. But after that he's all right.
6 heretics rush right after the dybuks in a neat little packed group, they get incinerated by Callidia's [ Footfall "Repentance" Hand Flamer ] which with has [Flames of Faith], Toxic and the addition of Mighty Shot. This makes the Hand Flamer have the same damage as a Heavy Flamer, really cool. The 6 heretics get wiped in one flamer squirt.
Fafnir shows up, controlled by the psyker's player so he has something to do this combat. And a trope of a ye olde English Hunter npc, making him instantly kino.
The remaining enemies get quickly disposed of after that with a note that Galen continues to nodif the Teemu daemonhosts like the Emperor's chosen that he is.
Callidia patches Cellanus up and cauterizes the amputations nicely so he can get good bionics later. However she has a Mengele moment and decides to try the Mysterious "Evil Ass Black" Dagger on the psyker, who technically isn't even human. After the player says "please don't" and the GM's "ARE YOU SURE?", she instead tests it on the severed leg.
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>>98136476
The results from the scientific experiment is that the dagger just ignores the skin completely while effortlessly cutting the flesh underneath. The skin is left untouched and the same results happen when stabbing the leg through the ceramite and bodysuit armour.
The dagger is as simple as it gets, no warp signature and no null effects either. Somehow it is able to identify armour and just phase through it. Most perturbatory.
However this explains how Carmilla Noventu was assassinated and how there were no visible wounds on her. 'Twas Jack all along who dunnit, the bastard. And now he gave us this super cool dagger with very tempting stats, he wants us to use it. But on who and why? The play seems to be just not using it and hand it to the Inquisition later, unless that's his real goal too, which would make the better option to toss it away or maybe have Galen try to destroy it with his thunderhammer. For now Callidia just carries it on her belt.
Cellanus meanwhile, has a nice demo of his death, becoming a shadow figure under the black sun of Komus, in this purgatory he meeds Erasmus Haarlock's former Navigator, who was abandoned by Erasmus and warns Cellanus that this is his fate. Not even the God-Emperor can save him from this agonyzing oblivion, where the psyker cant even bring his cards or gamble at all. At least it seems he will have a friend there.
The witch wakes up and decides he can just regenerate his limbs (Player bought the Regenerate power). He proceeds to disgust everyone as he slowly regrows an arm and a leg, except Callidia who becomes too distressed to pay attention, once she finds out all her amasec, lho-sticks and rashions have been spoiled by one of the many recent phenomena caused by the damneed witches and sorcerers.
It might just be over bros, can we even kill Sinderfell tomorrow like this?
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>>98131867
Hmmm
A hexmark destroyer using Hunter from Hyperspace can only attack with one pistol, since it only gets a half-action. Since it is a rank 7 ability and only once per deployment, would it not be alright to give the clone all its actions (maybe not reactions)?
Or an upgrade talent that does, at the same rank?
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>>98139392
Gameplay-wise they're basically a set of combat buffs/special abilities attached to an NPC, they don't get their own turns or stats etc.
Narrative-wise I usually just make one or two of them throw a short comment whenever some new situation happen, sometimes they can in a short dialogue with the PCs or point out something the players didn't think of. Nothing that'd steal spotlight though, just to signify they're there and give them some personality
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>>98138255
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkk maaaaannnn
Gotta go back to the hovercar to acquire alcohol and the hovercar.
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[Priestkiller] just dropped and Accursed Plasma pistol, but that is either getting destroyed or turned in as evidence later.
Accursed does +1dmg and pen based on your CP bonus, Callidia has a CP bonus of zero and the other crackolytes of 1. But morally we shall not used tainted wargear.
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>>98134250
>I will never forgive the horus heresy series for being so poorly written as to give this take the slightest bit of legitimacy
I've never read any of them. This setting isn't supposed to have actual good guys. There are just lots of ignorant, misguided, and/or delusional people who are all extremely self-righteous and violent. The actions they regard as just and necessary inevitably turn out to be monstrous and self-defeating and lead to even more conflict rather than fixing anything. This is the basic theme of the setting. The Emperor wasn't the only one causing problems, but was also not an exception and was probably the biggest single contributor.
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>>98141038
>"Risqué Venture"
Not in 40K, but in another RPG we inherited a ship called the Reckless Endeavor. We decided that the attached shuttle should have a name as well, so we called it the Poor Life Decision.
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>>98140939
A Plasma pistol seems less effective atm than Callidia's current [Scar of Faith ] and twin-linked Hecuter. However since the gm allows the alternative rule of Maximal mode, it becomes quite interesting.
I can see it being paired with the Bolt Pistol and used with Dual Shot to absolutely obliterate someone.
(Yes, we stay puritan in this game.)
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The price being losing [ Pure faith ] and almost 4.000 in xp worth of Faith Talents. Gaining corruption to use accursed weapons of the enemy is selling herself for nothing.
But maybe one day I'll play a heretic to have fun with all the cool Chaos toys.
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A twin-linked Hecuter is pretty nice, if only there was a way to make a plasma wapon in the same manner.....
Twin-linked and arm-mounted.
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>>98147551
I usually just draw a quick sketch of the situation on a dry-erase map. But occasionally when I want to run a more complex or important encounter. I make a quick battlemap by pasting together some textures and images I can find online via Gimp, pic rel are two that I used for a recent session, among a few others. I usually print them on A3 format.
It's not beautiful, but it gets the job done and can be thrown together fairly quickly if you're familiar with the software
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So, for any given game, how much do you introduce a diversity of factions to shoot at?
>Black Crusade
>basic premise is to take this system for the Warmaster
>start out fighting PDF on a prison planet to recruit the prisoners for meat shields
>next planet in the system is a training facility for sanctioned psykers, basically a shrine world heavily guarded by SoBs
>objective is to crack their fortress and start making psyker heads to pop to summon demons
>just as they're about to move on the hive world at the heart of the system, warband finds out that the Space Marines are en route
>there's no way they could have reacted to the invasion this fast
>turns out they're being chased by a huge ork wagh and fled to the nearest defensible space
>entire system turns into a blood orgy
>turns out the Eldar are here too trying to keep a Khorne Greater Daemon they've imprisoned from waking up and turning it into an even BIGGER blood orgy
>PCs either win the system fast enough to keep the daemon's bloodlust in check and become its rulers or the drag it out and let the daemon wake up and make them his bitches
Does this sound like I'm forcing too many sides to the war or nah?
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>>98148189
Sounds like Dawn of War which makes me say yeah it checks out. Only thing I'd change is don't have it be "Enslave the demon or be the slave" type of fail state. It can be that the demon is strong enough to force obedience but give them chances to slip the leash if they want, or appease and please it too if they're pushing khorne alignment instead.
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>Does this sound like I'm forcing too many sides to the war or nah?
Nah, the campaign I play in is pretty eclectic like that. I think the only things we haven't gotten to kill yet are Grey Knights, Sisters of Battle, and Tau (and I'm pretty sure we'll be killing Tau within the next few sessions).
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>>98148287
I misspoke. I what I meant they either keep it sleeping, secure whatever place they've sealed it in, and rule the system as the sole controllers of the "fuck everyone" button, or they wake it up (accidentally or otherwise) and continue being grunts. I know at least one player is 110% going to be Khorne aligned but I actually don't know what he would want when ht party learns this.
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I use Inkscape to generate a map with a rough idea of the cover and obstacles I want, and ask the AIs to embellish them and add thematic textures
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>>98148189
I like to introduce plenty of different factions over the course of the campaign, but I usually keep to only one or two per scenario/mission/planet
Sometimes I feel that making the entire campaign focused on one enemy faction only would probably make the whole thing much more focused and distinct narratively, but I'm afraid it would become too monotonous
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>>98147551
I use a bunch of things for mass combat maps, like random googled images, zoomed in planet maps from Star Wars Galaxies, images from our satellite archives, and even kludged together mspaint pictures.For space combat maps I intend to use Homeworld skyboxes.
>>98148189
I enjoy throwing in as many factions as I can, but if you're running a series about a specific enemy, then an ideal is to have them appear ~60% of the time. This gives enough them enough focus while keeping variety in.
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When describing an Adeptus Mechanics ship, or even sketching it out for players, how clean and how messy should it be? I have a few ideas on simple, geometric shapes that will form a rib- or vertebrae-like spine to which various compartments are attached, but I don't want to overly clutter it with boxes, cylinders, and raygun gothic dishes. At the same time, I don't want it to look like something out of Mass Effect.
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>>98158994
I didn't think they looked that much different from Imperial ships.
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>>98159129
My idea is that non-military ships would look distinctively different though, depending on their purposes. Or, if it's constructed by a powerful enough magos it would look custom.
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>>98158994
If you're talking interior, that could be anything from a laboratory to an industrial revolution era factory. As a general rule, the cogboys like their incense, and they can usually see in spectrums the unaugmented can't, so dim and sooty is a decent default. I'd also watch a few videos of steel plants, hydroelectric dam internals (including steam tunnels), and other large-scale industrial processes.
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Oddly specific question but do armored Space Marines use catheters? I know their bodies don't expel waste often but given how long their missions can last do they have catheters?
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>>98158994
Well, you've got a problem with AdMech ships in that there is an "official" look to them in terms of miniatures, but then the actual lore pretty much completely contradicts that.
Like, the model for the Ark Mechanicus >>98159122 just looks like an Imperial battleship with a different prow and bridge, but then we get descriptions of Cawl's Ark Mechanicus as being something many times larger, with a shipyard built into it, and a detachable prow that can carry whole armies to the surface of a planet.
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>>98160133
Begone, whizzard.
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One of the reasons why 1e of DH is better.
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Realistically they need to have some form of waste disposal system that doesn't require taking the armour off, but it's probably more akin to the solutions astronauts use than a catheter.
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When he stepped off the golden throne to deal with Horus before he arrived at terra, they needed something to fuel the throne to keep the daemon-infested webway portal beneath it closed. So they started feeding it psykers. The first victim was an eight year old girl.
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Oh, is that all in Siege of Terra? I haven't read past the first book yet.
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>>98162115
The bit about him being able to communicate somewhat for a while after the end of the HH and directing the construction of the Golden Throne is old Rogue Trader era lore. The bits about the Golden Throne being relevant before that is probably new HH crap.
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The Emperor was always going for the webway so he could sheperd mankind into a psychic species, until Magnus did nothing wrong. The HH series only clarified that it was the Golden Throne which was the portal to the webway he used, Old One tech discovered when Big E was Alexander the great, and Magnus's phone call caused daemons to flood it. Thus, it was adding a "lock/gate" function to the Golden Throne which was originally just a "life support" thing.
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>There's no time to lose Rogal! Before I die and my soul dissolves into the warp you must put me on the Golden Throne so that its ancient life support systems can sustain my consciousness! Hurry, or all will be lost!
>Life support? But father, wasn't it the machine that opens inter-dimensional gates?
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>>98162759
Yep, that is basically how it goes in End and the Death 3. Big E doesn't explicitly say it, but his corpse is pointing to the Throne tarot card nearby. Dorn is wondering why he should be put on the interdimensional gate machine, but they reason that it can preserve him (as it was meant to preserve magnus) while they figure out something better.
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We've never been closer to killing Sinderfell tonight than tonight anons...
Even if we kill her tomorrow again, we're about to walk into highborn pleasure party and kill a fuckload of people. Blood for the Emperor and skulls for the Golden Throne style.
Goddamn I'm hype for some good 'ol mass murder.
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>>98163526
There's a difference between doing something retarded and doing something retardedly.
Also, i dont have time to read every single book, loreblurb and white dwarf issue ever. I like having lore about stuff I care about condensed.
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>Crackolytes finally reach the same battlemap with sinderfell's token
>Your Host starts yapping his gay little plans
>skip dialogue by callidia casting Divine Guidance + [Scar of Faith] + didnt care + didnt ask + called shot to the head
>gm makes it an autohit as a suprise attack
>Sinderfell still succeeds a dodge and farms aura by tilting her head and avoid an inferno shell from over 80m at mach fuck you
>trash talk
>Your Host summons all the props from John Carpenter's the thing to fight us and a Chaos Spawn
>fight begins and callidia casts Hand of the Emperor + The Passion so Galen becomes a killing machine
>Galen nodiffs the chaos spawn into giblets for the golden throne
>Sinderfell says this is boring and decides to leave
>Callidia stacks The Passion + Sprint
>sandevistans across the map with 96m of movement
>teleports behind sinderfell
>dodges her evil ass dagger of sadistic torture
>gets nicked by it on the second stab
>Sinderfell dodges FOOTFALL REPENTANCE HANDFLAMER
>SINDERFELL DODGES INFERNO BOLT SHELL TO THE HEAD AT POINT BLANK
>Galen player gets very sleepy on the next turn so we are picking up next session
HOLY SHT WE ARE INDEED KILLING SINDERFELL TOMORROW
UNTIL NEXT SESSION WE EXIST IN A QUANTUM STATE OF CALLIDIA GETS DONE WORSE THAN CELLANUS BY HER, AND CALLIDIA KILLS HER FUCKING DEAD
picrel is Sinderfell's pov
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