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there's a less-hosed side of the galaxy, at any rate this is great, I was already thinking to make the first ripping of the Great Rift the sudden warp storm that crashes the player characters' fleet. wrath & glory keeps recommending itself
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zeal posted:there's a less-hosed side of the galaxy, at any rate Right? I’m starting to plan the setup of a campaign and I was going to try to make all sorts of connections to try to justify a weird mixed party of Imperial factions and maybe some Astartes initiates or maybe even xenos, but now it’s all much easier.
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PantsOptional posted:Right? I’m starting to plan the setup of a campaign and I was going to try to make all sorts of connections to try to justify a weird mixed party of Imperial factions and maybe some Astartes initiates or maybe even xenos, but now it’s all much easier. And they’re trying to get back to Terra but they have to go through all sorts of other groups of weird chaos freaks to get there. “Astaaaaartes. Come out to pla-ay!”
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Mar 9, 2018 02:46
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I wonder if space marines will be able to choose embiggening as one of their Ascension options
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wiegieman posted:Yeah, Gulliman is fixing everything on the Terra side. You're not on that side. Hey man, Dante’s got things handled on the super hosed side of the galaxy
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Mar 9, 2018 03:48
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Pendent posted:Hey man, Dante’s got things handled on the super hosed side of the galaxy As Handled as his arms reach is. It's hard to travel around in the Imperium Nihilus because the Astronomicon can't be seen there.
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LGD posted:I wonder if space marines will be able to choose embiggening as one of their Ascension options The Primarus Marines are the size of regular Marines, it's just that previously the TT Marines were smaller than they are in canon. Right?
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Relevant Tangent posted:The Primarus Marines are the size of regular Marines, it's just that previously the TT Marines were smaller than they are in canon. Right? No they are stated in universe that they are larger. But the TT Maries are also supposed to be larger.
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Mar 9, 2018 05:03
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OG Marines are obviously and inhumanly large, Primaris are obviously bigger than normal Marines.
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Jesus. They must be pushing 15 feet. Normal marines are 10.
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Mar 9, 2018 05:49
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Relevant Tangent posted:Jesus. They must be pushing 15 feet. Normal marines are 10. I think they are supposed to be a full head taller. Normal Marines averaged 7 to 8 feet tall.
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Mar 9, 2018 05:50
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I guess that makes more sense. Still, those are some big boys.
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Mar 9, 2018 05:52
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There are only two legitimate embigenings a Marine should aspire to: 1. Dreadnaught (via near martyrdom) 2. Statue (via actual martyrdom)
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Mar 9, 2018 05:52
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JcDent posted:There are only two legitimate embigenings a Marine should aspire to: Please do not disrespect the humble Space Marines desire to get more and more of that sweet gene seed.
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Mar 9, 2018 17:44
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JcDent posted:There are only two legitimate embigenings a Marine should aspire to: Spoken like a pleb marine without access to the glorious (and dumb looking) Dreadknight.
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Mar 9, 2018 18:58
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Ugh, dreadnights are Grey Knight only, and I don't think they get Primarines.
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JcDent posted:Ugh, dreadnights are Grey Knight only, and I don't think they get Primarines. Yet.
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JcDent posted:Ugh, dreadnights are Grey Knight only, and I don't think they get Primarines. Weren't Grey Knights already extra big?
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Mar 9, 2018 20:14
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Werix posted:Spoken like a pleb marine without access to the glorious (and dumb looking) Dreadknight. Seems as good as time as any to post this again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6m2kGtbDOc
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Mar 9, 2018 21:09
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LeSquide posted:Weren't Grey Knights already extra big? Slightly shorter than custodians according to Emperor's Legion. Not sure how normal space marines compare I don't remember
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Slightly shorter than custodians iirc. edit - I don't remember the Grey Knights being especially huge, but they could be. There's meant to be variation in the average size of the different chapters anyway.
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Mar 9, 2018 22:37
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Well the whole chapter is already kitted out in terminator armor anyway, so they'd appear taller anyway. Plus size is always relative. Alpha Legion have been described as near man sized for infiltration purposes.
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Mar 9, 2018 22:41
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The height (and competence) of space marines is in a continuous state of flux depending on how much paint the writer huffed that day and which faction he liked best.
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Mar 10, 2018 01:11
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Everyone should just be playing games about the Fall of the Eldar with the Houses of the Blooded rules.
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Mar 10, 2018 01:15
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Grey Knights are Marine sized, since they're just Psyker bros. I can't wait for a fluff piece that will get me excited about Primarines, 'cos now I'm just meh.
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Oh fluffmasters of the 40k RPG thread: in terms of actual official fluff (40k, Black Library, FFG) do we know about broadcast media in 40k? I mean, there's got to be something, even if it's just "Regimental Standard TV"-level truthy "Would You Like To Know More?" type stuff, right?
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i expect on a lot of planets nothing of the kind exists outside of huge public display screens through which recordings of the local ministorum bishop exhorts the populace at set intervals hours of their work shifts. widely available consumer electronics capable of taking in broadcast media, and a whole industry of content-production to put programs on the airwaves, certainly exist somewhere in the imperium but on a lot of worlds that sort of thing would be viewed as a criminal and heretical waste of resources that could be better spent producing more materiel for the forever war if there's anything resembling Hollywood on an imperial world, that's a fair sign of Slaaneshi corruption e: the Eisenhorn and Ravenor books have the most coverage of daily life in the Imperium afaik, and from my dim recollections of those the main forms of public entertainment in even advanced hive worlds were in-person events, bloody combat circuses and the like. where an Imperial entertainment industry exits they seem to put on a lot of Running Man-style events 1994 Toyota Celica fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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If you consider the Ciaphas Cain books canon (and you should), I believe it mentions wildly exaggerated versions of his exploits being turned into popular propaganda films. So I'd say that movie theaters or something like them exist, but naturally it's all skewed towards feeding the Imperial war machine.
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Dachshundofdoom posted:If you consider the Ciaphas Cain books canon (and you should), I believe it mentions wildly exaggerated versions of his exploits being turned into popular propaganda films. So I'd say that movie theaters or something like them exist, but naturally it's all aimed at the appropriate veneration of the immortal God-Emperor of man and the fighting forces of the Imperium through which His will is manifested and achieved.  FTFY. Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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Schadenboner posted:Oh fluffmasters of the 40k RPG thread: in terms of actual official fluff (40k, Black Library, FFG) do we know about broadcast media in 40k? I mean, there's got to be something, even if it's just "Regimental Standard TV"-level truthy "Would You Like To Know More?" type stuff, right? I recall in one of the Gaunts Ghosts novels (maybe Necropolis?) there was a rival Commissar that was making himself famous by having a news crew constantly following him for distribution among the population via a TV analog. That said, it's reasonable to assume that these types of things vary wildly from planet to planet. Deathworlds probably aren't big on videos, while I'm sure Hiveworlds have dozens of Uber popular soap opera-daytime shows to keep the masses pacified.
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susan posted:I recall in one of the Gaunts Ghosts novels (maybe Necropolis?) there was a rival Commissar that was making himself famous by having a news crew constantly following him for distribution among the population via a TV analog. I just really want to have a reason to paint up a TV crew.
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Schadenboner posted:I just really want to have a reason to paint up a TV crew. the imperium is big enough that everything exists there somewhere including a world where flat-top anchormen with skull lapel pins and grinning newswomen with adepta sororitas haircuts exist
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zeal posted:the imperium is big enough that everything exists there somewhere Please don't post my fanfic. 
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The more built up worlds that are away from any of the fronts (and there are plenty of those because the Imperium is so big) look a lot like ours. The technology base among the general public varies, but it's usually a little higher than the real world even outside the AdMech. We just don't see them that much because exciting things don't happen on them - no invasions, and decent living conditions mean that few cults can gain a foothold.
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I guess the lack of internet is the premier way of stopping cults from manifesting!
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Werix posted:Spoken like a pleb marine without access to the glorious (and dumb looking) Dreadknight. Or Centurion suits. Or high heeled power boots, or feeling chuffed on the numerous taken skulls of your enemies  Marines are just less honest orks, if they get into positions of power they seem to mysteriously swell. JcDent posted:I guess the lack of internet is the premier way of stopping cults from manifesting! 
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JcDent posted:I guess the lack of internet is the premier way of stopping cults from manifesting! In the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium, Mankind has finally realized the truth: The Internet was a Mistake. Though many of the books focused on the Cogboys make mention of the "Nosphere" which really just reads like personal wi-fi networks that machine lovers have.
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susan posted:I recall in one of the Gaunts Ghosts novels (maybe Necropolis?) there was a rival Commissar that was making himself famous by having a news crew constantly following him for distribution among the population via a TV analog. One of the Ciaphas Cain books also makes mention, mostly via Amberley's foot notes, of a popular holo-drama about a squadron of Navy fighter pilots during the Gothic War, so there's absolutely precedent.
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JcDent posted:I guess the lack of internet is the premier way of stopping cults from manifesting! in the extremely ancient Inquisition War trilogy there's an Imperial planet in the throes of a Slaaneshi uprising that grew corrupted because its government implemented a lot of genuinely humanitarian social programs like pleasant public housing, food and medical assistance, more humane work hours and conditions. all these left people so happy and content that it was a natural vector for the Dark Prince's libertinism. to some extent the imperium is kept deliberately terrible for most of the people alive within it, because if they live too well the warp-sensitives among them will have sufficiently lifted spirits to call out to the daemons unconsciously
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This makes Slaanesh less prince of excess and more like Duke of Enough. That, or he/she/nesh is stretching the definition of excess to grift worship.
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