- Location
- Aotearoa
Dammit, Cython, it was just a thought experiment!!
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
- Location
- Greece
300 years from now, someone will make bank in college favour by cataloguing all Mathildesongs of the Dawi.
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Look, this is just selection bias. If you get all worked up whenever you roll a six, you're going to remember all the sixes you've rolled but forget all the other times you rolled a six instead. If you objectively look at all the d6 dice rolls you've done, you'll realize that on average you roll a six 16.666% of the time, and the same holds true for instead rolling a six, six, six, six, or a six. Ok? It's all in your mind. You roll other numbers just as often as you roll a six. It's a six-sided die with a '6' on each of its six faces, just like ever other die you'd ever held in your fingers. You do not have some kind of magical dice rolling curse. Just selection bias.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
It's said that the deepest level of Buddhist Hell is so horrible that you start to experience the suffering it will inflict upon you before you actually get there. Not as in you receive spiritual candy grams reminding you that tomorrow's the day, but as in the torment is so terrible that it travels backwards in time.
The spiritual corruption greater daemons inflict upon the world is of an equivalent magnitude, at least according to the Tome of Corruption. Artists and Poets become divinely inspired, and then demonically so; omens of its impending evil manifest across the land; animals act erratically, at turns scared and furious; and even physical matter alters and warps, the world subtly changing shape and color in accordance with the being's preferences; in this case, objects become smoother and softer, and tend towards pinkish and purpling hues, but anything with an edge instead becomes much sharper. All emotions flare, and people gain a taste for bloodlust.
Before a Greater Daemon enters the world, the world first becomes a place that can conceive of its all-encompassing evil.
Or, at least, that's the cool interpretation.
I think we'd have noticed before if we were using the reality warping version, so these probably aren't going to be anything like that. In terms of narrative impact, my fake internet points are on something more along the lines of 'a daemonette, but two or three stories tall, and also it has the Lore of Slaanesh'. A combat danger (and the Chaos Lores are really strong), but not the closest thing Chaos ever gets to delivering on the otherwise unearned cosmic horror hype it insists it has.
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- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
What makes their trebs better than normal?
Only if the players are actual Slaaneshi. Then again, Borek!Quest and Belegar!Quest has been portrayed several times with players judging stuff like a Dwarf would, so who knows.
English isn't my first language. Does this in practice mean that he's standing around, telling obvious stuff to working people and generally being kind of in the way? Well, there drops my opinion of him again. Lots of jojoing in general when it comes to my opinion of him.
World-building wise sure. But if a human QM decides to run a Slaanesh quest and then internet dwellers self-select themselves for participation and all of this happens in a forum that doesn't by default completely ban a significant aspect of the focus religion's portfolio (gratuitous sexual displays) then how nuanced and maturely portrayed (let alone chaste) do you think the main character will be and what kinds of memes do you expect the player base to develop?
Just have your cake and eat it too by emphasizing the holy number of Slaanesh!
Please don't actually do that.
Interesting that there was no straight "No Return" though. Or maybe it was just how very much not interesting that would have been.
Anyway, I hope that ??? requires another roll which can still include bad stuff, because there's just too many cool options that wouldn't fit otherwise. Or maybe ??? has nothing to do with the actual population content and more with some fuckery going on with the transition into the Materium itself.
At the very least we definitely didn't fail the clogging action itself.
I meant fantasy Bismark based more on his historic actions and less on his fluff and looks.
Hours would have sufficed for that.
And another drop in my confidence in him. That dude...
What kinds of social events don't they use ale (or beer) for?
Wasn't that more of a player theory?
Those are magic items. Mathilde's magic items aren't Grey either.
It's hard for a quest narrating backwards causality when the rolls for whether it happens or not haven't been rolled yet.It's said that the deepest level of Buddhist Hell is so horrible that you start to experience the suffering it will inflict upon you before you actually get there. Not as in you receive spiritual candy grams reminding you that tomorrow's the day, but as in the torment is so terrible that it travels backwards in time.
The spiritual corruption greater daemons inflict upon the world is of an equivalent magnitude, at least according to the Tome of Corruption. Artists and Poets become divinely inspired, and then demonically so; omens of its impending evil manifest across the land; animals act erratically, at turns scared and furious; and even physical matter alters and warps, the world subtly changing shape and color in accordance with the being's preferences; in this case, objects become smoother and softer, and tend towards pinkish and purpling hues, but anything with an edge instead becomes much sharper. All emotions flare, and people gain a taste for bloodlust.
Before a Greater Daemon enters the world, the world first becomes a place that can conceive of its all-encompassing evil.
Or, at least, that's the cool interpretation.
I think we'd have noticed before if we were using the reality warping version, so these probably aren't going to be anything like that. In terms of narrative impact, my fake internet points are on something more along the lines of 'a daemonette, but two or three stories tall, and also it has the Lore of Slaanesh'. A combat danger (and the Chaos Lores are really strong), but not the closest thing Chaos ever gets to delivering on its otherwise unearned hype of cosmic horror.
- Location
- USA
I don't know the tabletop and lore that well. How well does Arsanil and/or cannons stand up against a greater daemon? Good match up, fairly even, or suicide?
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
Fretting is more of an active state of worrying. Pacing back and forth, rubbing hands together, etc. Fretting doesn't imply that he is getting in the way or micromanaging.
Mostly glowering at the horizon, rather than making a nuisance of himself.
He's got a point. There's no realistic possibility of resupply until the Steppes, and even that's going to be tricky unless the Dolgan stick to their end of the deal. Every day spent fortifying here is one day less of wriggle-room for the rest of the Expedition.
- Location
- Brazil
Asarnil? Badly. Asarnil atop Deathfang? Pretty well.
Same for cannons. Cannons be bitching hecking good. At least right up to the point the enemy closes, of course.
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Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
Sure, but unlike our items Narya at least is sorta semi-sentient and can only be properly used by someone it chooses. At least that was my understanding, and it prefers Bright type people.
- Location
- Canada
We're not that far from Kislev right? If we know we're likely goint to be sitting here a few days we could send back for a resupply wagon train. Would keep the expeditions stores closer to where they would be without the stop.
There were months to prepare the wagons that the Expedition received previously. At this point in the year there's not likely to be a surplus of wholesome food anywhere in northern Kislev.
Ranald really came through for us, huh? *brofist*
Voikirium
SV's Estalia Guy
- Location
- Ruritania Illinois
- Pronouns
- He/Him
They can be blessed to not cause friendly. In TWW at least, unfortunately GW was shit at actually updating the book but it's an obvious move forward to help buff them.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Alright, this is for our own good.
We're all gonna die horribly in the next update, Ranald will get eaten by Slaanesh, and there will have been survivors but our finicking will open up ways for daemons to get through to the last Dwarves of Vlag and kill them all.
There, that's a bit of counterbalance.
We're all gonna die horribly in the next update, Ranald will get eaten by Slaanesh, and there will have been survivors but our finicking will open up ways for daemons to get through to the last Dwarves of Vlag and kill them all.
There, that's a bit of counterbalance.
- Location
- Greece
I honestly wonder whether chaos has anything in its sleeve greater than greater daemons, but keeps it hidden to give its opponents a sporting chance.
I mean, the Old Ones were more powerful than any Slann, and Kroak, the most powerful Slann, killed thousands of bloodthirsters before getting killed. Why would the Old Ones flee if that was the full extent of chaos's power? It makes sense for humans, dawi, elves, even draggons to fear them, but to the guys that can produce Slann that are a caliber greater than Greater Daemons, chaos should be a joke.
I mean, the Old Ones were more powerful than any Slann, and Kroak, the most powerful Slann, killed thousands of bloodthirsters before getting killed. Why would the Old Ones flee if that was the full extent of chaos's power? It makes sense for humans, dawi, elves, even draggons to fear them, but to the guys that can produce Slann that are a caliber greater than Greater Daemons, chaos should be a joke.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You're assigning fact to a lot of undetermined variables. We don't know how many Greater Daemons Kroak killed before 12 of them destroyed his mortal form. We don't know how strong the Old Ones were. We don't know if they fled. And finally, there's more to making an enemy flee than power.
Exalted Greater Daemons.
There comes a time when it's best to just learn the skill of being able to scroll past pages of people building castles in the clouds. Constantly being a downer is a cure worse than the disease. The character of the thread is not going to be changed at this point.
- Location
- Mexico
I'm put in mind of the old tale about the farmer that ran afoul of a boggart, the malicious being playing various tricks on him and his family, spooking the animals, making various noises and moving things around, sick of it, the farmer finally decided to pack up and move, on the road he was spotted by his neighbour, who asked "Neighbour, you moving?", only for a voice to reply from the back of the cart "aye neighbour, we are moving".
Could you please maybe chill?
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- Location
- Greece
... Oh, I misread the wiki synopsis, my bad.
Fair.
ConfusedCanuck
Where did it all go wrong?
- Location
- Neverland
Alright so I just got back from some stuff and the first thing I see is us rolling two 6's again which naturally made me laugh aloud and smile. Because now I know this next update is going to be amazing!
Also Ranald is with us!
Now back to me reading all the other post's!
Also Ranald is with us!
Now back to me reading all the other post's!
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- Location
- Greece
Aaaaand, I must tap out. Unable to wait for the update ny more, must sleep, see you guys tommorrow.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
I mean, I wouldn't call people being excited about two clearly good rolls followed by QM exasperation as "building castles in the clouds". Something really good happened, the only question is what exactly it was.
- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
They're trebs. RL trebs used outside of tabletop rules specifically designed for turn based army combat aren't really used in ways where friendly fire is a major concern in the first place. So to me that seems more like a minor benefit for niche strategies than actual HAX.
I'm imagining Greater Daemons running on Exalted rules. High level Exalted rules.