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Zaphod42 posted:I would think the ideal Eisenhorn game would be a reskin of KOTOR. Have your full retinue with you which have different abilities you can command, have multiple planets you can hop between so you get that galactic campaign feeling of hunting dirty xenos and hereticus across planet after planet, some cool dialogue options and stuff like that. dont stop im close
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Actually eisenhorn strikes me more as an isometric rpg Ala baldur's gate. Or that new one obsidian is working on called tyranny. In that one you are part of the clean up crew after evil defeats good in the final battle and you're a high ranking lieutenant who helped win the war.
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Mar 31, 2016 23:11
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I'd kill for a CRPG using the Dark Heresy system. It's a dumb awful game system but I love it.
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Zaphod42 posted:That's good to hear, all the steam reviews were brutal so I held off on trying it.
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Apr 1, 2016 06:55
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Pistol_Pete posted:"Hey, you! Looking for work? There's a cave full of heretics been giving us trouble recently: all the townsfolk are sick of it. There'll be 100 Thrones in it for you if you clear them out for us!" I can already see it and upon returning "Iiii took care of those heretics for you..."
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Apr 1, 2016 12:48
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Klaus88 posted:Morality systems are always poo poo. Forget Morality, make it a Radical vs Orthodox system.
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Apr 1, 2016 13:29
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Agentdark posted:Thankyou. I had never read all of these and I really liked the way it ended. Glad you enjoyed! If you have any specific comments on anything, I'd be happy to hear them. Last Night On Call was actually written pretty early in the sequence, I think it was between #3 and #4, but there's still room for any number of stories before that point. And sometimes I think about setting a story after Last Night On Call, but it would be tricky to write, and it would disrupt the closure that the storyline currently has.
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Apr 1, 2016 16:42
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Just picked up "Notes from a Colored Girl" by Karsonya Wise Whitehead, I'll report back next week
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Klaus88 posted:Morality systems are always poo poo. The Witcher did it pretty well. You could be the nice guy, and do poo poo for free, but hunting stuff is your job, so you shouldn't really work for free.
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A warhammer game chastising you for breaking to much poo poo just seems out of theme for Warhammer, honestly.  A warhammer game noticing how much poo poo you break, and adjusting the world according, seems more appropriate.
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Apr 1, 2016 22:20
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Arcsquad12 posted:Are there any stories about exceptionally young space marines? Like scouts that are still in their teens? They run with idea a lot, actually. Off the top of my head, there's "Sons of Dorn" and "Space Wolf" which both start with teenagers getting recruited, turned into baby marines, and their first adventure as a Scout/Blood Claw.
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Thanks for the Titan-related recommendations, I'll look into them. Something I'm after in particular is a look at the internal hierarchy, workings etc. of the Collegia Titanica (especially the Military Orders), but from what I've read on various wikis it doesn't look like that stuff has ever been fleshed out to any major degree.jadebullet posted:Hmm, just in time for the new Eisenhorn adventure game to come out, which looks pretty awesome graphically.  I had no idea this was coming out. I hope it'll be decent at least, though with the devs apparently only having one other, iOS game to their name, who knows. The gameplay teaser does make it look a little janky, but they might still nail the fluff/story/characters, right?…right? 
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Apr 2, 2016 02:55
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Alternatively, just get the Ultimate Apocalypse mod for dawn of war and blow everything up with giant robots.
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Kylaer posted:Glad you enjoyed! If you have any specific comments on anything, I'd be happy to hear them. Last Night On Call was actually written pretty early in the sequence, I think it was between #3 and #4, but there's still room for any number of stories before that point. You could always set it from the viewpoint of some new guy entering the Inquisition squad and making a brief note about the Xeno-looking dude who always keeps to himself.
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Apr 2, 2016 05:37
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Neo Doc Eldar is a woman. I would like more stories about different xeno docs if possible. The ork one was pretty drat funny.
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Klaus88 posted:A warhammer game chastising you for breaking to much poo poo just seems out of theme for Warhammer, honestly. Ancient and respected families turning in their deviant children so you don't break the antiques.
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If there were voice acting for an Eisenhorn game, I demand that Cherubael be voiced by Andy Dick. I don't know why, but I can just hear it.
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Olanphonia posted:If there were voice acting for an Eisenhorn game, I demand that Cherubael be voiced by Andy Dick. I don't know why, but I can just hear it. 
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Eisenhorn voiced by Mark Strong. Ravenor by Stephen Hawkings
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Pureauthor posted:You could always set it from the viewpoint of some new guy entering the Inquisition squad and making a brief note about the Xeno-looking dude who always keeps to himself. Yes, that's one of the ways I've thought about doing it - taking the perspective of, most likely, the ex-Guard medic who is introduced as the listener at the end of Last Night On Call. The other way would be keeping the perspective of the former orderly, and if I did that, I could potentially get into some really interesting material, if the orderly ends up inheriting some of Doc Eldar's memories. Having flashbacks of actually being Doc Eldar could give lots of material to write about, but I'm not sure I really want to take the story that way. Maybe it's better never seeing things from his perspective? I really don't know, I've been thinking about it ever since I wrote that piece, and that was a couple years ago now. Still haven't made any conclusions, so until then I'll just keep writing "normal" Doc Eldar stories. Azubah posted:Neo Doc Eldar is a woman. Indeed she is, and writing stories 8, 9, and 10 without mentioning the gender of the narrator required some careful word choices, especially once there were more speaking characters. But it is an interesting challenge. I had originally thought of the narrator as a man, and then somewhere around the second or third story I realized I'd never defined them one way or another, and decided to make them a woman but not reveal it until the very end of the final piece. I'm glad you liked the Ork piece, I thought it was one of my weaker ones so I'm happy to hear it was enjoyed. Doing a compare-and-contrast of Doc Eldar against other xenos is definitely possible, I could definitely do one with a Tau doctor, say (which would mostly involve the Tau being in a constant state of  )Right now I'm working on the next piece, which is going to be a short one and is focused mostly on world-building. Writing about daily life in the grim dark future is surprisingly fun.
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Kylaer posted:Yes, that's one of the ways I've thought about doing it - taking the perspective of, most likely, the ex-Guard medic who is introduced as the listener at the end of Last Night On Call. The other way would be keeping the perspective of the former orderly, and if I did that, I could potentially get into some really interesting material, if the orderly ends up inheriting some of Doc Eldar's memories. Having flashbacks of actually being Doc Eldar could give lots of material to write about, but I'm not sure I really want to take the story that way. Maybe it's better never seeing things from his perspective? I really don't know, I've been thinking about it ever since I wrote that piece, and that was a couple years ago now. Still haven't made any conclusions, so until then I'll just keep writing "normal" Doc Eldar stories. You say that like can tell elven genders apart. 
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Has everyone has seen this official black library list pic, And aside from the placing a johnny come lately as their second slot to shll the newest novel series, and all the other gripes about their favorite being left out....they put in Alpharius. I doubt they mean the primarch but even still it is not a list of chaos marines. My best guess is they mean the one from the new eisenhorn novel,
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Sorry, I am a bit out of the loop on BL novels, but who the gently caress is Slaughter?
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^^ Slaughter is the new Imperial Fist character for the big Beast Arises book series they're doing now set in M32. He turns out to be pretty important because he's the last of the Imperial Fists at the time, and pulls a bunch of the IF Successor Chapters in the Phall system back into a sort of temporary Legion again.Alfredo Pangea posted:Has everyone has seen this official black library list pic, And aside from the placing a johnny come lately as their second slot to shll the newest novel series, and all the other gripes about their favorite being left out....they put in Alpharius. I doubt they mean the primarch but even still it is not a list of chaos marines. My best guess is they mean the one from the new eisenhorn novel, Alpharius on a list of top 30 SMs is legit as hell, because any SM could be him. PantsOptional fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Apr 5, 2016 |
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Hmm, so that's interesting. Alpharius is on there, but not Calgar. Illuminati conspiracy confirmed.
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PantsOptional posted:^^ Slaughter is the new Imperial Fist character for the big Beast Arises book series they're doing now set in M32. jadebullet posted:Hmm, so that's interesting. Alpharius is on there, but not Calgar. Illuminati conspiracy confirmed.
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SRM posted:His name is actually Slaughter? Is he a Decepticon? I thought I Am Slaughter was more of a poetic statement and not the dude's actual name. Slaughter is his nickname, he's got some dumb real name. Uriel is #3 on that chart right after Super Special Snowflake the new Imperial Fist.
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PantsOptional posted:Slaughter is his nickname, he's got some dumb real name. Derp, I retract my statement. I guess I was looking for older artwork of him. Still dumb.
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Is I am Slaughter worth it Is any of that series worth it I need a BL fix
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So there's actually been a flurry of releases recently like the last 2months or so. The emperor expects and the last wall in the beast arises series, and Pharos, the eye of terra, and war without end in the horus heresy series. Pharos is an actual continuation the other two are novella collections. I've yet to read the HH novels but am nearly done with the last wall the orks do reach terra .Waroduce posted:Is I am Slaughter worth it I think so personally, the segments set in the imperial palace and the council of terra isn't something they've not really shed any light on before. It has a few "oh poo poo" moments in the series so far too. rocket_Magnet fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Apr 5, 2016 |
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jadebullet posted:Sorry, I am a bit out of the loop on BL novels, but who the gently caress is Slaughter? 
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There's like 2 characters on the list who are actual BL characters, what's even the point.
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Helicon One posted:Eye of Terror has the same bonkers crazy awesome feel as Ian Watson's trilogy and everyone should read it (this is a recurring theme that - shockingly - the 40k novels written by people with a track record in other sci-fi settings are much more interesting than the bolter porn churned out by in-house writers). I've just read this and can't decide whether the best bit is the failed Rogue Trader and his Red Dwarfesque mess of a ship or the chaos space marine who lives in a giant tree in a magical forest on a demon world shaped like a rose. Also: quote:Rugulo glanced up guiltily. The proctor had risen to his feet. He strode haughtily across the room to Rugulo's table. In his skullcap and stiff black uniform he made a sinister figure as he leaned towards the pair with an angry expression on his face. "You two have been talking together in this coffee house for twenty minutes", he thundered, "and in that time I have not once heard you praise the Emperor!"
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Fellblade posted:There's like 2 characters on the list who are actual BL characters, what's even the point. What are your criteria for "actual BL characters" here? Almost every character there has been in a BL publication of some kind, if not all of them.
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PantsOptional posted:What are your criteria for "actual BL characters" here? Almost every character there has been in a BL publication of some kind, if not all of them. Created by or among the main characters in a BL book.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've just read this and can't decide whether the best bit is the failed Rogue Trader and his Red Dwarfesque mess of a ship or the chaos space marine who lives in a giant tree in a magical forest on a demon world shaped like a rose. God I wish I hadn't given that book to a charity shop. I never realised how much I'd miss humour in 40k.
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I hear you on that. I wish I still had my old copy of Chaos Child by Ian Watson. I never read the other two books in the series, as I didn't have them, but it was definitely an enjoyable read, even with all of the odd things likethe Imperial Fist getting captured by the Thousand Sons, turned into a Thousand Sons Space Marine, but breaking the spell at the last second because of the power of friendship. (He lost his entire squad before this and carved each of their names onto his arm bone. These names end up speaking to him and break the spell) Also, there is a Squat character, which I always thought was odd as I had no idea what a squat was (started playing in 05) so I thought he was a midget.
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Only FFG could take something at stupid as the "Space Sharks" and make them absolutely terrifying Also, Pawn of Chaos is very good, but I can tell it comes from a different era of 40k.
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Klaus88 posted:Also, Pawn of Chaos is very good, but I can tell it comes from a different era of 40k. Yeah; just finished this one. It does a great job of exploring the perspective of a partially-colonized medieval world's inhabitants' view of the Imperium and Chaos, which is something not really seen elsewhere.
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Waroduce posted:Is I am Slaughter worth it I read the first three and felt that I had absolutely wasted my time.
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