psycojester
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Every race in warhammer 40K is its own unique shade of shit, and now that GW are off on another exciting purge of the canon the Necron ARE THE DARKEST MOST ORIGINAL SHIT OF THEM ALL!
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A Warhammer 40k rpg?
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Quigs said:
Yes, it is shades of grey, with the Empire, while it's racist and totalitarian, still being the best defense from Chaos there is. And one of the main RPG books (that was now cancelled) was to focus mostly on rogue traders, somewhat akin to Firefly/Serenity.
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Not really, they project that image but theres a lot of shady stuff in their background concerning how the Etheraels control the rest of the Tau, the sterilization of humans who join their empire and what happens to peaceful races they encounter that won't join the 'greater good'
kingcomrade
Kingcomrade
With the advent of the Internet, half of the stuff you might want to find is on Rapidshare. Someone on /tg/ on 4chan finally scanned Xenology a while ago, and right now it is constant demands for Dark Heresy. Several people have promised to get it up, so we'll see. What's on rapidsearch right now is not the real thing, it's a Touhou gag.
Speaking of such a thing, someone posed as a D&D 4E beta tester, and it was masterfully done. He built up tons of anticipation and put several files onto rapidshare. They looked authentic enough, until you got to the last one and it segued seamlessly into the Fresh Prince of Bel Air lyrics. I laughed.
Back when I actually played tabletop I used coins. Funny how it's cheaper that way, to just use money instead of the actual figures. I live in a little town though so I was just playing with friends, so it hardly mattered.
Well, sort of. That's how they come off, because GW fails at fluff. They are portrayed, ironically enough, probably more accurately in Dawn of War than they are in their own stupid Codex. In Dawn of War it's hinted that they are very much a 1984 style government and race, they're just as totalitarian and xenophobic as the Imperium, they are just less honest about it.
kingcomrade
Kingcomrade
You've read some of the books? Are any any good? I've already heard about CS Goto, but a lot of people say the Ciaphas Cain ones are actually worth reading. True/false?
kingcomrade
Kingcomrade
kingcomrade
Kingcomrade
I don't like Tau. The only cool thing about them is the gun drones; their entire visual scthick doesn't fit with the 'heavy metal' or whatever you want to call it theme to 40k.
Necrons are another race Dawn of War did better than their own Codex. I always thought they were shit, with a couple good models like Flayed Ones and Wraiths, but otherwise stupid backstory (and I've heard that they are really boring on tabletop, there is only one type of viable army for them, and it is so viable that playing against them is no fun). In Dawn of War they look awesome, the visuals fit them perfectly, the Flayed Ones and Wraiths look even cooler, etc.
Necrons are another race Dawn of War did better than their own Codex. I always thought they were shit, with a couple good models like Flayed Ones and Wraiths, but otherwise stupid backstory (and I've heard that they are really boring on tabletop, there is only one type of viable army for them, and it is so viable that playing against them is no fun). In Dawn of War they look awesome, the visuals fit them perfectly, the Flayed Ones and Wraiths look even cooler, etc.
kingcomrade said:http://rapidshare.com/files/86123029/the_fighter.doc.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/86130403/fi ... e.doc.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/86131491/ta ... r.doc.html
kingcomrade
Kingcomrade
Hahaha
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5e77e9ee-ce0e ... 07658.html
The guy who runs GW is used as an example of managerial incompetence. Should remind all of us about someone who used to run Interplay...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5e77e9ee-ce0e ... 07658.html
The guy who runs GW is used as an example of managerial incompetence. Should remind all of us about someone who used to run Interplay...
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kingcomrade said:
Quite a lot of the warhammer novels are shit thats true enough, but the Gaunts Ghosts books and the Eisenhorn trilogy i can definitely recommend. Personally i think the Eisenhorn books should be required reading for anybody planning on running a Dark Heresy campaign, its pretty much the perfect snap-shot of life for an Inquisitor and his retinue.
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Space Wolf books are decent also..
Gaunt's ghosts were enjoyable
Gaunt's ghosts were enjoyable
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kingcomrade said:
Scrolling through a pdf is a poor substitute for picking the actual book up off a shelf. I don't have the money to grab all the source books I'd like, but filling in the few black library books and the Fading Suns I don't have is towards the top of my list.
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BTW, I overheard a group of nuns on a bus speaking about someone they know who reported that a friend of his caught a glimpse of The Lost and the Damned and Slaves of Darkness on eMule. Yes, the great books which (used) cost about $500 last time I saw them.
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I still have both of the original Realms of Chaos sourcebooks.
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realm_of_Chaos_(Warhammer)" (bbCode doesn't like the url)
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realm_of_Chaos_(Warhammer)" (bbCode doesn't like the url)
Legacy of an era indeed, one where GW catered for adults rather than exclusively for pre-pubescent munchkins.
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Rofl, nuns love the old school chaos.
kingcomrade
Kingcomrade
A little bird told me that it's out on a torrent, now. I might be downloading touhou futa, though.
kingcomrade
Kingcomrade
lol
psycojester
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Well i'm downloading it now, if its not a futa manga anybody else interested in trying a PbP game on the codex?
kingcomrade
Kingcomrade
Sure why not.
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