Mr.Misfit posted:

I´d say the gun is just as cursed. Anyone who you can kill with it was at the end of their lifespan, so no time is ever added to your clock. All it does is lead to a mass spree of killing without you ever getting any time added to your own. It´s a trick to get the owner to kill. If people have as would be required, a pre-determined amount of lifetime, then anyone you´d kill with it always would have been at the end of theirs, because you´d be unable to choose freely in such a universe. So, congrats on choosing the trick trap option, I guess?

The watch is worse though, because it doesn´t say that it stops your own time. So you just age twice as fast as everyone else does...

1337JiveTurkey posted:

The wallet is more of a sloth item. It's not enough to actually sate someone who's truly greedy but it's enough to live a very comfortable lifestyle without having to do any work ever again.

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Ring all the way. Gives you the skills to adapt.

oriongates posted:

The watch and the gun are way unbalanced compared to the rest. I mean, come on, that wallet is tier 1 at best but it costs just as many souls as the time-stop watch and the immortality gun, both tier 3 or 4 in the right hands? Pfft. This system is totally broken.

That Old Tree posted:

Oh absolutely it was a tremendous mess, particularly after the Dawn Fix or whatever it was called when the number of new widgets and resource pools ballooned, and extremely long Charms started to become more common. For my home games I had print-outs of everything with fully integrated errata and house rules, but I just did that sort of poo poo all the time anyway. After the huge rewrites started rolling out, I can't imagine the proportion of people who actually used the errata was all that significant even if you discount the probable majority who weren't aware it existed in the first place.

Wrestlepig posted:

My only question is whether it’s ever worth not picking Witcher or Mage.

Libluini posted:

The tiniest and weakest army ever

after spending so much time in doors with no interaction with anything else, these "soldiers" probably can be killed by a stern look

Halloween Jack posted:

you are the real Nazi for criticizing him because the Nazis were socialist and blah blah blah.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Does anyone have any impressions on Zweihander? The exposure it’s gotten after the Ennis wins has me intrigued.

Is it basically setting agnostic WFRPG?

Plutonis posted:

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Does anyone have any impressions on Zweihander? The exposure it’s gotten after the Ennis wins has me intrigued.

Is it basically setting agnostic WFRPG?

Hostile V posted:

And then he made a Legally Not 40k conversion guide that was just 32 pages and hilariously poorly considered because it's more or less the occupation of Jerusalem in the Crusades but in space and you're playing Christian Templars who have relocated all of mankind to Jerusalem to make a final stand.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Does anyone have any impressions on Zweihander? The exposure it’s gotten after the Ennis wins has me intrigued.

Is it basically setting agnostic WFRPG?

That Old Tree posted:

Dark Astral Ad Blurb posted:

In the grim future of Dark Astral, there is only war.

The solar system is spread apart into warring fiefdoms, technology has gone by the wayside and become an extreme luxury, education is fleeting and knowledge is reserved for the powerful – meaning science and medicine lag behind. Religion and superstition reign. This is a campaign setting that’s deeply entrenched in superstition and subverted ideals, despite the staggering height of technology.

Dark Astral is the Renaissance era transplanted into the theater of the Vault of Night: foolhardy Shadowbrokers (Hostile V's note: Rogue Traders), corrupted Klergists (HV: Techpriests), insane Psykonauts (HV: hazard a guess), hedonistic Technokrats (HV: Imperial scribes and magistrates), sanguine Manhunters (HV: Bounty Hunters/Scum) and ravaged Astrotemplars (HV: theoretically Space Marines but really just like Imperial Guardsmen and you're told they're really cool superhumans) all have their niche, even if their sailing ships are replaced by space arks and bows with laser rifles. In Dark Astral, don’t use traditional science fiction terms: aliens are called The Other, gravity is called Ætherea, planets are called Dominions, spaceships are called Arks, stars are called Mirrors and space itself is called the Vault of Night. In the uncharted territories in the Vault of Night, there are not galaxies, but Wytch-spirals. Instead of black holes, there are the starless wells called Dark Astral.

Dark Astral Intro Text posted:

It is the far future, but in a not-so-distant past of the one we recognize as the Renaissance. Following the desecration of the garden world of Eden, the people fled in a massive diaspora through the Vault of Night, under the auspices of an immortal Technokrat named Sol Invictus. In the grim darkness, a new Jerusalem was erected, a pinnacle of humanity’s greatness. As time progressed, the memory of Eden was lost to a new dawn, regarded barely as a faint echo in Sol Invictus’ convocations. As humanity’s faith and culture spread to new dominion worlds, so did the threats of an unknown universe unfold.

An unforeseen enemy emerged from the vastness of the Dark Astral - an uncharted sector in the Vault of Night. Civilization was threatened by what was simply called “The Other”. Not even the godhead could protect the people from the horrors to come. Unable to cope with the wrath of The Other’s legions, survivors of New Jerusalem congregated in the Last Cathedral, pleading to a dying Sol Invictus for answers. The Astrotemplars of the godhead interpreted the grim omens. Humanity was tasked with a holy quest, commanded to make pilgrimage back to Eden. Gathering the best and brightest, a massive ark known as Outremer (pronounced Oh-trey-mere) was built in the few short years to follow. Housing nearly ten million souls and two of every beast, it raised anchor, departing New Jerusalem shortly before it was destroyed by The Other’s infernal weaponry. It took nearly three generations for the ark’s survivors to find the path back to Eden. But it was not the Eden spoken of in the sermons.

An aurora of shimmering pink light surrounded Eden, an emerald jewel encircled by a haze of dark Magick. Passing through the whorl of chaos, Outremer nearly disintegrated as it hurdled towards Eden. Nearly broken, remnants of the ark and a mere fraction of humanity survived the impact. They had escaped The Other, yes but the Hospitaliers’ prayers to Sol Invictus were left unanswered following their arrival. Had they ventured too far beyond? Was this the Eden prophesied of? Left with no choice, the Outremer followed protocols given to them by the godhead. Eden became their new home.

Now, nearly three generations later, the massive city known as Outremer stands as a bastion against the Hinterlands. Beset on all sides by Mutants, the survivors try to eek out a desperate existence, devoid of Sol Invictus’s divine voice. The ruler of Outremer, the Elector-Prelate, hides behind his guard of Astrotemplars. His supplicant Hospitalier Klergists send countless adventurers on ‘Crusades’ into the surrounding wilderness for the glory of Outremer. This world is not safe and it is not kind, but it is the only one they know.

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In the grim future of Dark Astral, there is only war.

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It is the far future, but in a not-so-distant past of the one we recognize as the Renaissance.

That Old Tree posted:

Oh my god just gently caress this guy.

Hostile V posted:

Hostile V posted:

And again it never stops being funny to me that Zweihander is a 700 page book but the Dark Astral conversion chapbook is 32 pages long.

Kai Tave posted:

How is it fuckin 700 pages? Isn't it a Warhammer Fantasy 1E retroclone? How big was the actual game it's "homaging?"

Kai Tave posted:

How is it fuckin 700 pages? Isn't it a Warhammer Fantasy 1E retroclone? How big was the actual game it's "homaging?"