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So this online friend starts talking to me about Warhammer 40K

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  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    So we're in agreement that it's current incarnation (the only one I'm familiar with) is a confusing mess?
  • MoerinMoerin
    If you want to be kind, yes.
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    Maybe you misunderstand me. Don't play the wargame. The video games and FFG's P&PRPGs are where it's at.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    That's what they've been saying from the beginning, you silly Vampire bastard.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    Honestly, there isn't more to it than that in terms of calculations.

    For instance, a ranged attack goes like this:

    - Measure to see if you're in distance.
    - Roll to hit.
    - Roll to wound.
    - Defender rolls armour saves.
    - Defender removes killed soldiers.

    You often roll many dice at once when the same soldiers with the same weapons are using them at once. This just speeds up the game.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    edited 2011-10-04 19:26:03
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    ^^^But the video games are all of genres that disinterest me and don't really do anything to make them stand out to me. I know of no one running the PPRPG either.

    ^^Is it? I thought at the beginning they were defending the setting, then we moved to system.

    ^I know I can't prove you wrong besides talking about the hour-long turns some players have had and that's not hard proof so I'm just going to say the books really don't make it easy for me to learn.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    The system has been awesome in the past, but is now a mess.

    Warhammer Fantasy remains awesome, however.
  • MoerinMoerin
    Just say screw it and pick up Blood Bowl instead, then.  It's like the demented lovechild of rugby and gridiron football run through a meat grinder, blasted with dark magic and fed to zombies.  It is awesome.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    ^^Is it? I thought at the beginning they were defending the setting, then we moved to system.

    Well, not the beginning beginning, anyway.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    ^^
    Do it on Steam, then we could have an IJBM league.
    *dreams*
  • CrimsonCrimson
    edited 2011-10-04 19:29:44
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    Hour long turns shouldn't be happening outside of super large Apocalypse games.

    Also, I'm thinking that I shouldn't have passed up Blood Bowl when it was on sale a couple weeks ago..
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I'll admit Blood Bowl looks pretty cool, but I can't emotionally attach it to warhammer. Like, you could set it in WoW and it would actually make more sense to me there.
  • MoerinMoerin
    edited 2011-10-04 19:31:48
    A turn should really take about ten minutes max.  At least, it used to. >.>

    Also, seconding the BB league, because that sounds too awesome to pass up. b^_^d

    ^If it helps, BB is kinda sorta an alternate universe to regular Warhammer, branching off when they discovered the Temple of Nuffle.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    So the best Warhammer 40K game...

    technically isn't actually a warhammer 40K game...


  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    The only table top I've ever played is Maid RPG.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    This is unsurprising.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Guys you should all go buy Blood Bowl on steam, think of the league, the glory, the etc!
  • MoerinMoerin
    Blood Bowl is in Fantasy, actually, not 40k.  But yeah, it's, um, weird like that.

    Maid is pretty fun, although it's difficult to run a long lasting campaign of it.  It's good for one-shots, though.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Maid is pretty much "Hey we're all horny nerds with an afternoon free! Let's be speculative fiction fetish lesbians!"

    Please note that I am not saying that is not awesome.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    >Joker reaction image

    how come that is not in my image macro collection?
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    It's $40 though. I can't throw that much money around for a game that I might not be able to run. >_>

    I'll wait for the inevitable sale.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    ^
    Time travel back to the most recent weekend where for you yanks it was $8.
    (Also my pc can run it on minimum with 1gb ram on Vista and a rubbish video card, I'm sure yours can.)
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    edited 2011-10-04 19:43:23
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    You know, for all Whitewolf's narrative base, it really lacked in strong novels. The only ones I read that I liked were the Setite clan novel and The Life and Times of Penny Dreadful, the latter of which was so candy goth it practically gave you bat-shaped lollipops.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    I'm tempted to run a Maid RPG game here.
  • MoerinMoerin
    I would be up for some Maiding, no doubt. >.>  It is a fun system, after all.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    So long as we all have to do randomly generated characters. It's more fun that way....

    errrrm... I mean.... you guys are totally pervs for wanting to play that... yeah...
  • MoerinMoerin
    Never said I wasn't! :P

    And yes, random gen!  Although I'm sure as hell not using a character generator program thingy.  Hand rolled dice all the way, baby~
  • ViviVivi
    edited 2011-10-04 19:47:59
    $80+ per session
    Yes, it would be randomly generated/rolled....Hmmm

    I do believe I shall do this. After I think up a quick plot.

    I have the book right here.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    >Starts out as a thread bitching about 40K
    >Turns into planning for Maid


  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    So, where do we want to do it? What genre?

    Space? Fantasy Land? Urban? Cyberpunk? Steampunk? What?
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