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I'm reading my way through Ghostmaker and apparently Comissar Gaunt is 2.20 meters tall, which is about 7'3. This guy is wasted in the military, he should have joined the NBA.
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euphronius posted:Lords If silence is very good yeah . It’s kind of a marvel movie in how there is a main story focused on about 10 … sort of people but a lot of the book also moves the meta story forward and flash backs with lore important characters Yeah it owns and it's gross in a cool way
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Apr 28, 2022 21:25
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Geisladisk posted:I'm reading my way through Ghostmaker and apparently Comissar Gaunt is 2.20 meters tall, which is about 7'3.
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Apr 28, 2022 21:31
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Geisladisk posted:I'm reading my way through Ghostmaker and apparently Comissar Gaunt is 2.20 meters tall, which is about 7'3. I always thought that Dan Abnett was prone to doing what a lot of older British/American people do and assumed (at least when talking about height) that 1 metre = 3 feet. If you convert that to 2.2 yards it's 6'6" to 6'7", which is probably more or less what he meant. Or everyone's 7 foot plus, I don't know. Wouldn't be the first time scale was just wacky in a BL book.
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Apr 28, 2022 23:20
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Genghis Cohen posted:I always thought that Dan Abnett was prone to doing what a lot of older British/American people do and assumed (at least when talking about height) that 1 metre = 3 feet. If you convert that to 2.2 yards it's 6'6" to 6'7", which is probably more or less what he meant. At least that explains why the new minis are about the same height as Primaris Marines.
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Apr 28, 2022 23:37
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there are fewer than 300 men in the united states over 7 foot. 40something of them play in the nba. this distribution has a very thin tail.
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Apr 28, 2022 23:49
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Genghis Cohen posted:I always thought that Dan Abnett was prone to doing what a lot of older British/American people do and assumed (at least when talking about height) that 1 metre = 3 feet. If you convert that to 2.2 yards it's 6'6" to 6'7", which is probably more or less what he meant. A guy just showed up who is described as 2.5 meters tall so I'm pretty sure Dan Abnett just isn't good at metric
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Apr 28, 2022 23:58
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38,000 years of women selecting for men taller and taller than 6’6” and here we are. Meanwhile the Emperor is from the dawn of mankind and is like 5’2” and just psychically projects himself as fuckin’ huge.
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Apr 29, 2022 00:24
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Genghis Cohen posted:I always thought that Dan Abnett was prone to doing what a lot of older British/American people do and assumed (at least when talking about height) that 1 metre = 3 feet. If you convert that to 2.2 yards it's 6'6" to 6'7", which is probably more or less what he meant. I think this is very much what is going on. With the exception that the decimal place just denotes inches. So 2.5 meters somehow becomes 6’5” rather than 8’2”
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Apr 29, 2022 01:19
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The Godsbane novel interests me as Hysh is a cool setting. Settler's Gain has been getting some attention in the RPGs so it's nice to see a book take place there. lenoon posted:Plot progression in AoS is also easy because AoS is planar fantasy. You can do virtually anything on high magic planar fantasy, because it has no boundaries like “continents” or “planets”. It’s also why narrative stakes are difficult on planar fantasy unless it’s within a set defined area or personal stories. This is not really the case. There are many boundaries, continents, and notable locations.
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Apr 29, 2022 03:40
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Sinner Sandwich posted:Hello again, thread! You 110% want Lords of Silence. It's one of my favorite 40k books, hell favorite scifi books. They have a very unique in the setting outlook on chaos and their lives in general. It's just a really great book IMO.
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Apr 29, 2022 07:12
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That discussion on the Chaos Gods reminds me of the Godbinder description in the (amazing) DIE, by Kieron Gillen.quote:You don’t believe in gods.
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Apr 29, 2022 10:26
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Shockeh posted:That discussion on the Chaos Gods reminds me of the Godbinder description in the (amazing) DIE, by Kieron Gillen. Sounds a lot like
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Apr 29, 2022 11:20
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Well if there's a blood train then I have no trouble believing in the fabulous bike
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Apr 29, 2022 11:23
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That sounds like something loving Erebus would say.
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Apr 29, 2022 11:38
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Gillen writes good warhams. He gets the setting really well.MonsterEnvy posted:The Godsbane novel interests me as Hysh is a cool setting. Settler's Gain has been getting some attention in the RPGs so it's nice to see a book take place there.
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Arquinsiel posted:Gillen writes good warhams. He gets the setting really well. Map of Settlers Gain?
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Apr 29, 2022 13:24
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Of whatever they're calling the setting.
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Apr 29, 2022 13:32
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Arquinsiel posted:Of whatever they're calling the setting. There are multiple for every realm.
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Apr 29, 2022 13:35
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I've googled and the answer is "yes" and basically proves what lenoon said to be correct.
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Apr 29, 2022 14:03
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In some definition of correct sure. I mean you can post map of 40k galaxy every time someone asks if there is any detail.
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Apr 29, 2022 14:06
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Arquinsiel posted:I've googled and the answer is "yes" and basically proves what lenoon said to be correct. The Age of Sigmar core rulebook contains a map of every realm complete with landmarks, cities and realmgates
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Apr 29, 2022 14:10
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AnEdgelord posted:The Age of Sigmar core rulebook contains a map of every realm complete with landmarks, cities and realmgates Neat
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Apr 29, 2022 14:32
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 Here's the map they showed of the region that's central to the 3rd edition of the game.  The Soulbound RPG has been putting out some amazing maps for parts of the setting as well.
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Apr 29, 2022 15:00
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Covermeinsunshine posted:In some definition of correct sure. I mean you can post map of 40k galaxy every time someone asks if there is any detail.  ". It's also the same criticism that this very thread had about the setting being stagnant. It's part of the why these kinds of settings actually work well for player agency but make fiction either low stakes or Marvel comics summer crossover pointless.
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Shockeh posted:That discussion on the Chaos Gods reminds me of the Godbinder description in the (amazing) DIE, by Kieron Gillen. Which in turn sounds very much like a Terry Pratchett quote: Witches Abroad posted:Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.
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Cooked Auto posted:
They also show in zoomed in maps and such for more details in some stuff.
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Just started reading the new Dawn of Fire, but apparently my local Barnes and Noble didn't get the release date memo for the new Huron Blackheart novel that went on pre-order today and they are holding a copy for me I'm going to get right now. More excited for it than Dawn of Fire so I'm gonna dive into it. Might check your local stores to see if they have a copy if you want it early as well. I will say that at the start of Throne of Light the chaos dudes see a very very interesting vision of the future that implies some truly massive changes to the setting if it did come to pass...
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D-Pad posted:I will say that at the start of Throne of Light the chaos dudes see a very very interesting vision of the future that implies some truly massive changes to the setting if it did come to pass... Betteridge's Law of Fantasy Prophecies
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Ah good I was wondering why there wasn’t an order link with the update. I assume this came and went? I checked today and never saw the book come up
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The point with planar fantasy isn’t that there aren’t places, it’s that there are effectively infinite places. A city burns, a continent is wiped out, there’s another one around the corner, the realm is functionally infinite as it lacks conceptual boundaries we can latch on to. A planet is finite, the old world was finite, so it really matters when a capital P Place is destroyed. I’ve been reading AoS fiction and it isn’t bad! It’s enjoyable for what it is. It’s interesting that the Gotrek books are probably the best of them - because Gotrek is a tenuous but viable link for us to a world with recognisable characteristics.
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lenoon posted:Plot progression in AoS is also easy because AoS is planar fantasy. You can do virtually anything on high magic planar fantasy, because it has no boundaries like “continents” or “planets”. It’s also why narrative stakes are difficult on planar fantasy unless it’s within a set defined area or personal stories. My response to this is that nothing ever matters in baseline Warhammer fantasy. Oh no, chaos is invading! My favorite city, praag, is under seige! Again! And again and again and again! Boy I sure do care about praag, it would be such a shame if anything at all happened to it permanently!
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Molothecat posted:I assume this came and went? I checked today and never saw the book come up There was apparently and it's all sold out. https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/the-imperial-infantrymans-handbook-pb-2022 Like what the hell GW/BL I want to give you my money!
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sounds like they need to go make an offbrand sigil
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Ah I got wooshed.
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The Realms are not infinite and the stories told are generally in the same areas as the ones with notable maps and locations. Also I just finished the new Gotrek novel Soulslayer and am starting to expect things that will come next. Namely the revival of the Khazalid Empire (The major fallen dwarf nation in the back story)
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bob dobbs is dead posted:sounds like they need to go make an offbrand sigil The closest thing was the Allpoints the Island between Realms that connected to all of them. It’s currently held by Chaos and is the seat of power for Archaon.
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rereading eisenhorn in preparation for bequin/magos and it reminded me, is ravenor pronounced rav-enor or raven-or? also i was extremely surprised to see an r word in xenos, definitely didn't remember that 
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I call bullshit on this "to big do not care". Do people really care about places instead of people and if plot is interesting? Because the fact that it is easier to imagine Altodrf as compared to say Brightspear. gently caress do I care if Altdorf burns? I only care if Volkmar survives. Same way, I can care if Gardus Steelsoul throws evil capitalist people out of his property. Also, as mentioned above empire had the endless number of expendable villages and towns to be destroyed by beastmen so eh.
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moonmazed posted:rereading eisenhorn in preparation for bequin/magos and it reminded me, is ravenor pronounced rav-enor or raven-or? Sorry, what's an r word in this context?
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