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I believe that there exists a kind of person who deliberately goes out of their way to make all the picture frames hanging off the wall crocked. They go and riffle through your things and nudge them out of place—shuffling your DVD and Blu-ray collection, slipping the discs into the wrong sleeves and jewel cases. They are essentially sabotaging civilisation with all the delays they create in your day-to-day life. Where some of your time is wasted to procrastination, the rest of your time is wasted because of these saboteurs, who are set on destroying humanity from within. All of the issues plaguing NASA over the years can be owed almost exclusively to these kinds of people having infiltrated their way into the higher echelons of power.

The world is being shattered by the underhanded deviousness of the unassuming incompetent, the most cunning of all guises. None would ever suspect such a threat without being casually discredited as being overly paranoid. This is clearly the work of some inhuman influence. Your very mind is trying to alert you of it: the sensation of sheer wrongness, the nausea and disorientation caused by seeing things moved out of place, it's the characteristic sign of their passing. Your mind is crying out desperately to articulate a threat that the tongue itself fails to name. Alerting you of a threat that passes from conscious thought too easily, so evasive is the threat that it escapes active notice.

There is something wrong in the world. You can feel it, but you cannot think to put a name to it. But you know it, you know its face every time you feel something is out of place. You feel it when it has passed by and left the world broken in its wake.

Look around you.

Look around.

Can you see something out of place?

>>225987

>Not enough possibilities for TITAN's/Promethean origins or goals

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

>>228538

>those pics

I blame fags like Neil deGrasse Tyson want everyone to be educated in a STEM-field. Nevermind the fact that a) not everyone is smart enough for it and b) not everyone can or should dedicate his life to it. We have historians, lawyers, philosophers, artists and a ton of other professions, and you can't expect those to also be educated in scientific fields. Yet this is what Tyson expects. He has challenged the notion that the natural sciences are inaccessible to most people for decades. If he had a sense of responsibility, he would've told the people that if you're a layman, you should just stay away from scientific topics, let the experts do the talking and not feel bad about this, because you'll be good at something else :^)

Like philosophy, for example, which Tyson decries because he's a fag. Oh well.

>>228551

I love Peter Watts! Still my favorite sci-fi author, along with John Scalzi.

>>228552

We don't need two guesses to see that we've found the American in the room.

>>228553

We don't need two guesses to see that we've found the… the, err…, hmm… mhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmIdon'tknowwwww.

>>224450

> it seems to me like it's the least original and innovative genre out there, yet it gets much more attention than any other genre I know.

You got it backwards. It gets much more attention than any other genre => it's the least original and innovative genre.

The moment it's recognized as a bandwagon, it gets overloaded with trash. Sturgeon's law kicks in.

>>224450

I don't mind high fantasy as "backdrop" for certain other genres - mystery, comedy, horror, slice of life etc, but when paired with the typical "save the world" plotline I lose interest really quickly.

>>224450

The genre can be innovative, but it seems to attract uninnovative writers.

I remember when I was ten I wanted to write a story about an elf fighting along humans against an evil army.

Somehow we have gotten it in our collective minds that that is a genre unto itself, rather than a single setting with some variations. It lowers the barrier immensely because half your story is already written just by choosing the 'genre'.

I think ten-year-old me could have written that story if I had had the discipline to sit down and dedicate myself to something for more than a day or two and it would have fit in perfectly with the sea of uninspired schlock that crowds the young adult fantasy isle in my local bookstore. Okay, maybe it would have been slightly below average.

>>228305

>That is some very strange autism right there, though. I doubt you ever figured out what the fuck he was going on about, did you?

My original thought was that the accent I was putting on made it sound like I said arms instead of aunt, but any attempt to ask the guy results in the same answer.

"HIS ARMS BUT HES GOT TWO RIGHT THERE"

>>228506

>Homestuck

>Some one who has actual autism

Who would have thought

I got a couple more with this guy about 6 months after

>Getting more comfortable DMing

>Decide to spice things up

>Allowing people to use home brew races if they want as long as they dont break the following rules

>They must be able to die

>The race may not be one that causes others to be immediately hostile to them

>They must need to breath, eat, drink etc

>No demons, devils, angels or other godly beings

>going over stuff before we start

>So far we got a bird man, weird furry midget thing, devious rat man and and "that guy" as an ent.

>Ask him how hes going to deal with eating, breathing, drinking

>"my roots can suck up fluids and i can bathe in sunlight for food and drink, and I need to breath carbon dioxide"

>sure, sounds fine

>First session

>Heading towards area that the players believe is a bandit lair

>Ent man thinks now is the best time to eat

>drags the corpses into the pile

>STARTS SMASHING THE CORPSES WITH HIS FEET INTO A FINE PASTE

>Realize this is what he meant by his roots can suck up liquids

>Every one else is trying stop him

>He starts pissed

>He says OOC "Guys this is just what my character does why are you doing this"

>Rat man somehow manages to push him off the corpses.

>Ent man stops feeding and outright attacks Rat man

>Rat man is a shit ton faster and just runs away TOWARDS the rest of the camp

>Bird man and Furry midget decide fuck this i'm not getting involved

>Rat man has by this point figured out they aren't bandits

>Rat man being a devious bastard runs screaming an Ent murdered the lookout and is coming for the rest of them

>The militia from the main camp hear and come rushing to the rescue

>All they see is a giant rat being chased by an Ent covered in blood and whats left of their comrades pummeled into the ground

>Militia attacks with flaming arrows, the Ent man, being a tree is half dead from burning

>Ent man still thinks their bandits and begs for his life to the militia

>The militia along with Rat man move in slowly and surround him

>Ent man is super pissed

>Rat man is laughing his ass off

>The other two have finally realized that they aren't bandits and what just happened and start running up

>Ent decides now is the best time to get even and tries to pickpocket Rat man

>He fails and everyone sees him do so

>As i say this Ent man leaves the teamspeak

After this we invited him to another game, where hePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>215459

>Do you become corrupted by the meat? Do you develop tough scales and become unreasonably aggressive?

It is if you're a Kroot

>>214756

>not finding it even more arousing

>>214828

>I would recommend using those little pink faggots because they are powerful psykers and I know a good trick for catching them.

I see a little problem here.

Daemons got inherent Warp Instability - they are more there than here.

Thus either

A) You didn't choke the blasted thing's connection to Warp enough to guarantee it won't cause troubles, or

B) You did, and now it's banished (or maybe banished and splattered, if you used a Pariah).

>>214568

>Would you be able to produce farseers from human/eldar hybrids?

Probably not, but since they got to be more psyker-y than a pureblood humans, sacrifice-wise it's an improvement anyway.

So here's our plot: the number of psykers' naturally fluctuates randomly with distinct negative selection pressures (both natural and artificial) keeping them down. The observed rise is caused by an influx of Eldar blood.

The Most Holy Inquisition looks the other way, because the competent ones are less afraid of teh Foul Xenos and more of one day not having enough of those resources to keep the Astronomicon bright and Gate of Terra reliably closed.

>Wanting the emperor to be a halfling.

This is another whole level of heresy.

http://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/31636/the-2-armed-ice-feast-1st-place-undefeated-mead-hall-store

Everybody has been running this whizard deck and I have no idea how to counter it. I tried my usual hand at stupid traps bullshit, but it was just to aggressive to care before I could bash their head in for being stupid. Anybody know how to play or build against this?

>>222696

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Putting Howard on the MWL would pretty much destroy every corp deck that isn't Near Earth Hub or SYNC.

Hopefully the Mumbad Cycle gives us decent Howard alternatives.

>>222863

I'm not going to lie, this deck is strong as shit, but you have options.

Spiderweb, Hive, Swordsman, Turing on a central and any multi-subroutine non-sentry ICE with power lower than 5 absolutely destroys this deck (and any other Faust-based runner, for that matter). Also, Checkpoint is absolutely hilarious.

Post MWL, Faust has become the meta. You need to pack answers for it.

>>222969

Did our Winter kit finally, was getting pysched for whizard and just ran Black Tree due to nobody in our meta knowing how to play around it. Not a single one of those decks were there and my only loss all day was to an Adam player running Blackmail with the new current and a few other stupid tools.

So I've been out of the loop since right about a little before the NBN box dropped, has the India cycle dropped since then?

Music for all your server runs

>>200051

>Daniel Bryan

It still hurts.

>>228344

>Implying most cards printed at mythic aren't trash

>>228478

The captain will probably see some play, judgement might, visions might, and Goldnight Castigator will find a home in only one place: The Trash Can

It's a shame that Evan Erwin does not make videos about other games. Because when he's inspired, dude makes magic with pictures and a white background.

Also, MILF planeswalker for the win

>>222294

That's nice to hear, at least

Hey anons

I was one the furry page, and noticed this

>Antipathy toward furries on /tg/ and 4chan in general already runs high and is rooted partly in the idea of human superiority and cultural conservatism,

I'm not sure what's going on but there seems to be someone editing this stuff, not sure if it's cause for autism alarm and wanted to get your consensus.

Also again i noticed this on /tg/'s page and it seems to have been changed from in gist, furfags got furry Friday and tried to take over Wednesday and /tg/ eventually came out of that struggle

>>228532

> idea of human superiority and cultural conservatism

What

the

fuck

I think we all know why, but to restate common lore, furfags were bronies before bronies. We here might hate them because humanity stronk, but halfchan's gripe was because they literally could not stop yiffing. /b/tards have no concept of paladins, they have boners or anti-boners.

The word conservatism has no place outside of /pol/, it implies politics were involved in the mindset of the anons involved. It wasn't.

>>228532

I say edit that shit, that can't beg the question more if it was on Jeopardy.

>>228541

>>228537

>>228532

alright I did two edits on it, one removed that whole chunk and the other was a small grammar change, make sure no autist or butthurt feminazi changes it bak

>>228468

"Starting with you, each player looks at the top card of his or her library and says its name. Each other player may then guess that card's converted mana cost. When all players have guessed, the card's owner reveals it. All players who correctly guessed the card's converted mana cost may draw a card."

I think this achieves the same functionality. Keep in mind that while better, this wording might not be perfect.

The cost in mana is fair, but I feel like the cost in time is not. This card's ability will take a while to resolve and you'll be dropping this every time it's your turn - Possibly more if you built your deck to abuse it.

I would personally word it as something closer to "1, T: Each player reveals the top card of his or her library. Any player whos revealed card's converted mana cost is equal to yours draws a card. (This includes you)". It's quick, it's easy and it's also kind of group hug but giving you a slight advantage since you always draw a card.

I like the idea, though. It's kind of like a voluntary howling mine.

>>228483

That works, though it is longer.

The idea was to actually be a quiz (which fits Olmec at the steps of knowledge) and reward knowledge of Magic.

>>227805

You can't morph from the command zone

>>228505

I don't see why not. Sure, you can't pay 3 to play Mokou from the command zone as a 2/2 but her on-death ability looks sound. Basically means that her mana cost remains the same no matter how many times she dies, which fits someone who's literally immortal.

Please don't double post

>>227310

>>227324

>not playing a fully converted space pirate ork army

>with 3 "improved" riptides

>desperate allies just means the boyz dont like being near the meks wotsit

>>228382

Even better, 30k Mechanicus.

Mekbosses counting as Magi, jetpack Tinboyz counting as Ferrox Thallaxi, Grots as Adsecularis, Kans as Castellax, Deffdreads as Domitars, Megadreads as Thanatars, etc.

Both crazy Dakka AND lots of pretty good melee options.

>>227523

They still get along better than the Chaos factions.

>>227220

I asked my local store Games Workshop what was going on with this event. Essentially, it's going to be a weekend of nonspecific activities, where you can buy a limited edition figure (While stocks last).

I got the impression that each store is going to have the freedom to run what games they want to for this.

Has anyone run an Orky tabletop RPG?

Seems like it'd be a lot of fun.

>>220884

>>221178

Thanks to a helpful player, we've increased note taking. Plus, I went ahead and decided to just roll with it more when player memory fails. Some seem bound and determined to operate on certain assumptions and mental biases - if not just plain forgetting things - and fine, those mental foibles might as well be part of the characters. They're mostly playing fantasy hero versions of themselves anyway.

However, recently party cohesion has gotten… pretty bad. It was never great, but it's just about past the limits of suspension of disbelief. And fuzziness regarding "who exactly did what to who and when" has become an extra huge problem in terms of figuring out who killed the PC's trust and friendship first. However, no sense retreading the same questions about notes at this point.

So here's my new question: Is party cohesion normally so difficult? Was I just lucky when it was going smoothly in my previous experience? Coming up with plot scenarios to get the party in the same place with interdependent goals is easy enough, but the players seem to want to play personalities that just will not work together. I'd really, truly rather not, but is it unreasonable to ask them to just tweak the personalities to coexist better?

Alternately, the self-proclaimed party leader is absolutely terrible at unification and reconciliation, is it reasonable to expect him to bear the burden of the peace maker as long as he wants to be the benefits of being the leader? The player isn't a bad person at all, but I think his lack of people skills is about half the problem here. And even when I tell him what his character would need to do to smooth things over, simple stuff like apologizing without additional qualifications or treating party members more like equals than subordinates who must justify their presence via utility, he refuses. Not angrily or anything, he just doesn't think the character would admit he was wrong. Especially because the character clearly has never done any wrong at all, why isn't everyone instincPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Is it good form to usually have your players read the rulebooks before playing a new system?

>>228518

Yes. If they don't want to read the whole thing, tell them specific ranges of pages you need them to read (like character creation and how to play the game), and then you can go over the rest ingame.

Chances are they'll probably read the rest of it.

>>227188

Nah, 8 man group with a high elf wizard who throws catapults around like his name was zeppeli, an aasimar exavier (ravenloft 1 guy) and a few other ecclectic types. and this one fucking guy who i swear to god is the most annoying and non roleplayer ever.

>>227189

its out now, i got it day 1 and bought the last thing in the shop along with a map.

>>226462

No, it's there as an option. I want 1 to both to be the ONLY option to pretend people just maxing out a stat and slamming their head on the stat ceiling.

>>226127

Eh, sorry. I consider those all garbage compared to DW. They just do nothing for me compared to it. Yeah yeah whatever shit taste. I'd hoped you'd point me in the direction of something I hadn't seen before.

>>227204

Christ that sounds great.

>>227667

Well anon.

You actually might be right, considering that snakes have that one ritual coiling practice in matign that's violent as fuck and prevents cucoldery.

I have a feeling that stump will grow into a medusa-llike collective of snakes or come back reptilian at a later date, or you become a werebeast like Dr. Conners from Spiderman.

>>228278

Done, let's see if it worked>>227658 (You)

>Tetsuo

Manages to assassinate (pre-walker) Bolas w/ the help of other guys.

>Bolas manages to get a spark because of this.

Botched!

>Kills Xira Arien, a 1/2 Fairy

>All in all, an ok character

>plus that historically accurate art!

>Toshiro

>Ronin, Kanji, and Con artist

>Carries a Jitte banned in almost all formats/

>gets help from the most powerful Ogre to ever exist in MtG.

>literally Planeswalks without a spark.

Toshiro is the more badass of the two.

>>228445

what the fuck hotwheels>>227658 (You)

>Tetsuo

Manages to assassinate (pre-walker) Bolas w/ the help of other guys.

>Bolas manages to get a spark because of this.

Botched!

>Kills Xira Arien, a 1/2 Fairy

>All in all, an ok character

>plus that historically accurate art!

>Toshiro

>Ronin, Kanji, and Con artist

>Carries a Jitte banned in almost all formats/

>gets help from the most powerful Ogre to ever exist in MtG.

>literally Planeswalks without a spark.

Toshiro is the more badass of the two.

>>228446

>>228445

>>228445

What the fuck is going on?

>>228457

I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA

>>227658 (You)

>Tetsuo

Manages to assassinate (pre-walker) Bolas w/ the help of other guys.

>Bolas manages to get a spark because of this.

Botched!

>Kills Xira Arien, a 1/2 Fairy

>All in all, an ok character

>plus that historically accurate art!

>Toshiro

>Ronin, Kanji, and Con artist

>Carries a Jitte banned in almost all formats/

>gets help from the most powerful Ogre to ever exist in MtG.

>literally Planeswalks without a spark.

Toshiro is the more badass of the two.

>>228526

If this isn't happening in other threads

Then stop posting.