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Rockopolis posted:Going at it from the wrong angle - 40K is totalitarian enough that he can order people to admire his finery on pain of excruciation. A bit like the Emperor's New Clothes, though the 40K version would be wearing a force field and a bunch of strategically placed digital weapons to display the glory of the human form But that just opens the question of why he's even bothering to wear clothes if he's just going to make people say he's the best dressed in the galaxy.
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Cythereal posted:They're about the same as they ever were, but they have more weapon options now and ion weapons, now a widespread weapon type available to infantry and battlesuits alike, include an overcharge setting for more damage at the risk of frying their user. Ion weapons from checking are mainly only in the hands of Big battle suits and ships from looking through the codex. (They are also less lethal then Plasma Weapons, dealing a mortal wound on a 1 rather then just killing the operator.) As a result of them mainly just being equipped on big things that can take multiple hits it's less risky.
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Apr 27, 2018 16:44
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MonsterEnvy posted:Ion weapons from checking are mainly only in the hands of Big battle suits and ships from looking through the codex. (They are also less lethal then Plasma Weapons, dealing a mortal wound on a 1 rather then just killing the operator.) As a result of them mainly just being equipped on big things that can take multiple hits it's less risky. Pathfinders get ion rifles, too, and they distinctly can't take multiple hits.
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Apr 27, 2018 16:55
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Cythereal posted:Pathfinders get ion rifles, too, and they distinctly can't take multiple hits. there really is nothing like taking a tau hunter cadre's eyes with a volley of storm bolters
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Apr 27, 2018 16:58
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Cythereal posted:Pathfinders get ion rifles, too, and they distinctly can't take multiple hits. Yeah that seems to just be a those guys are willing to risk it thing. Though only 3 of them are willing to use those weapons.
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Apr 27, 2018 17:04
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I appreciate the answers. I'm not doing Tau (hopefully) but I've been running the Thyrrus as a hivemind that only acknowledges drama and that's been a blast. They have a Greek chorus and explicit roles that they assign and the utter incomprehension of individuals as opposed to roles has been good. One demonstrated their suicide belt as a way to attain Remembrance and it was fun. "What happens if we defeat you?" "This one has a suicide belt." "Suicide be-?" *Thoompth, there is alien squid parts everywhere*
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Relevant Tangent posted:Idiot doesn't even have any digiweapons, not going to last long. He just had it installed in his belt buckle skull.
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Apr 27, 2018 19:55
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Maybe he's having a quiet night home alone and this is basically the equivalent of sweatpants and an old stretched out t-shirt for a Rogue Trader.
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Apr 27, 2018 22:01
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His smart-casual pyjamas.
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Apr 27, 2018 23:01
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The true secret to relaxation is putting all your remaining energy into picking out your bedtime outfit
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Apr 27, 2018 23:05
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Maybe someone just messed up with an Arch Militant picture
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Apr 27, 2018 23:08
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Nah, he's not geared out enough for a proper AM. Tooled up seneschal possibly, extremely fancy duelling sword, serious business pistol, parchments of great import on his hip, clothes with authority but close enough to normal looking that he can just wonder into places looking too important for the plebs to stop him and not important enough for the nobs to pay attention.
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:I'm going to have to agree that that dude is terribly underdressed for a guy important enough to be using an Eldar sword. Yeah, this.
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Apr 28, 2018 00:01
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After reading about the Newcromunda Venator Gangs, remembering the cobra effect from school and re-reading the wiki article, I now want to do a DH campaign where the PCs start a psyker-breeding program to farm the bounties.
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Apr 28, 2018 00:09
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Schadenboner posted:After reading about the Newcromunda Venator Gangs, remembering the cobra effect from school and re-reading the wiki article, I now want to do a DH campaign where the PCs start a psyker-breeding program to farm the bounties. You could do a borderline Dark Heresy/Black Crusade campaign where the PCs are heretics posing as Inquisitorial acolytes; one of the antagonists could be the Inquisitor the PCs used to work for (or the one who employed the acolytes whose identities were stolen).
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Apr 29, 2018 21:58
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Well, the Tempestus art isn't great and they hosed up the lasgun on the Guardslady, but it's not like FFG art is faultless, just dirtier. The Eldar all look good, though, especially the Ranger lady. That Crusader helmet is still wtf.
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JcDent posted:Well, the Tempestus art isn't great and they hosed up the lasgun on the Guardslady, but it's not like FFG art is faultless, just dirtier. The Eldar all look good, though, especially the Ranger lady. Mind posting a link?
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Pendent posted:Mind posting a link? I'm sure there was one upthread, but I can try! Yeah, it was Monster Envy. https://www.facebook.com/pg/WrathandGlory/photos/?ref=page_internal For some reason, about half of them are in mobile uploads.
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Apr 30, 2018 16:28
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Honestly I'm just really happy to get 40k RPG that doesn't use that godawful percentile system. I loved it until I started seeing it's warts.
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Apr 30, 2018 16:28
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I'm still really leery of xenos and marines baked into the core rules and I'm not sure how well the power level thing is going to range it all.
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Yeah, same. Dunno anything specific about the design team myself, did they also work on any of the companies other successful products? I don't know too much about their other games other than Torg seems to be popular enough.
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Apr 30, 2018 16:35
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Do like Ars Magicka troupe playstyle, and have players make a roster of characters so they can rotate between their Astartes or Xenos characters and their wave after wave of Guardsmen.
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40k and Warhammer RPGs have never been "League of Super Friends" (I guess the closest it came would be Deathwatch or maybe Black Crusade?) and I'm not eager to see that change and having xenos and astares at the base-level seems to invite Mary Suery. Dunno, I'm still optimistic for the release held at GenCon: Avignon. Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Apr 30, 2018 |
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Apr 30, 2018 16:40
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Maybe easier to see it less as "League of Super Friends" and more like Operation Paperclip. The Inquisition is kinda like the CIA turned up to eleven, after all.
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Apr 30, 2018 17:02
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Inquisition Suicide Squad could be good
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I would infinitely rather have an RPG system that lets me play a variety of characters with one book than four loving different gamelines all containing minor variations on the same system that makes trying to do any crossover work just enough of a hassle not to bother with
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Blockhouse posted:I would infinitely rather have an RPG system that lets me play a variety of characters with one book than four loving different gamelines all containing minor variations on the same system that makes trying to do any crossover work just enough of a hassle not to bother with What this guy said.
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Apr 30, 2018 17:20
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Here comes Slipknot, the Heretic Who Can Climb Anything!
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Rockopolis posted:Maybe easier to see it less as "League of Super Friends" and more like Operation Paperclip. The Inquisition is kinda like the CIA turned up to eleven, after all. that does a tremendous disservice to the Inquisition, which does not exist solely to traffic drugs and assassinate third world labor activists
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To be fair, just because xenos are there, it doesn't mean you have to allow players to play then. If you're saying "I'm running a Dark Heresy type game, anyone wants to draw up some Acolytes?," the dude who keeps insisting on running an ork or an Eldar is an rear end.
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Is there any actual reason given for the Taus being in the Koronus Expanse (Tau Character Guide) in or was it a planned Deathwatch tie-in that never really went anywhere and we're just meant to assume they snuck through from the Jericho Reach?
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Schadenboner posted:Is there any actual reason given for the Taus
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Ok, fair. But my friend is Tau-curious and my plastic mans (more theoretical than real at this point  ) are Calixis-based and I'd rather not put them through the warp gate and subject them to the insane dickery of that rear end in a top hat Ebongrave.E: I tried the easy stuff that would let me put my guys into the Spinward front (explaining to him him that Taus are neither cool nor good, showing him that Orks exist, showing him that Chaos exists, showing him that Drew Careys exist) but all for naught. Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Apr 30, 2018 |
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Schadenboner posted:Is there any actual reason given for the Taus being in the Koronus Expanse (Tau Character Guide) in or was it a planned Deathwatch tie-in that never really went anywhere and we're just meant to assume they snuck through from the Jericho Reach? Yeah, the gate/rift/whatever that leads to Jericho. Maybe there's another, who knows.
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zeal posted:that does a tremendous disservice to the Inquisition, which does not exist solely to traffic drugs and assassinate third world labor activists  JcDent posted:To be fair, just because xenos are there, it doesn't mean you have to allow players to play then. If you're saying "I'm running a Dark Heresy type game, anyone wants to draw up some Acolytes?," the dude who keeps insisting on running an ork or an Eldar is an rear end.
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Schadenboner posted:Is there any actual reason given for the Taus being in the Koronus Expanse (Tau Character Guide) in or was it a planned Deathwatch tie-in that never really went anywhere and we're just meant to assume they snuck through from the Jericho Reach? I believe there was a RT adventure (called Twilight Crusade I believe) where an Inquisitor brought the Tau to the Expanse through the Jericho Gate because the Evil Chaos Bad Guy of the week got an Ethereal somehow and the Inquisitor thought bringing the Tau would help even the odds against the Chaos guy. I believe any Tau were assumed to have come from that adventure and are the ones that choose to stay behind.
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Like a wormhole opened between Tau land and the rpg setting I think
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Pharmaskittle posted:Like a wormhole opened between Tau land and the rpg setting I think I mean, that’s literally what they did in Deathwatch: theres a Warp Gate that connects the Koronus Expanse with the Jericho Reach across the goddamn galaxy. Not exactly the most inspired storytelling but you had to get Tyranids and Taus into the Deathwatch setting somehow and they’re all the way in the Ultima Segmentum.
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40k being entirely derivative and shallow is one of it's strongest points. You could literally come up with any reason for something to happen and it could still be less ridiculous than the established canon.
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Ditto. MizPiz posted:40k being entirely derivative and shallow is one of it's strongest points. You could literally come up with any reason for something to happen and it could still be less ridiculous than the established canon. "New FTL engine trials make a wormhole" is the 8e explanation for 5th Sphere expansion. If the Tau ever get anywhere interesting, it's always about wormhole and not their lovely, sub-warp FTL drives. Schadenboner posted:showing him that Orks exist Your friend is truly lost and damned, and a possible weeb.
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