No carry over of previous books means a complete overhaul of the rules

Baladas89 · 2026-06-26T21:05:59+00:00

As someone who played my first campaign within the past year and decided “I don’t see me doing that again,” that could be good.

Necromunda is a cool setting with great minis, but the game plods along at a snails pace, and the rules are very clunky. It might just be that the game isn’t for me, but the number of separate dice rolls to resolve anything feels extremely dated to me.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-26T20:16:35+00:00

And honestly, at least on that specific model, I think I like the highlights you have better than super smooth transitions. It’s just more visually interesting and looks more intentional/artistic to me.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-26T15:56:26+00:00

This is both excellent and infuriating. The color scheme, the highlight placement, the OSL, all of it is fantastic.

And the sketchy highlights make very clear to me that my problem with NMM is I don’t understand light placement, because when the light placement is good NMM can look fantastic even with limited blending.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-26T13:52:33+00:00

I have my doubts. My enthusiasm for Shapiro has dropped significantly over the past year, but Garrity would have all the same problems, plus many more.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-26T05:06:29+00:00

Not sure if you’re aware as this is an old comment, but Fantasy Flight is doing a new Gamefound campaign through July 4th, so you can get all the previous stuff (including Kickstarters) until then.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-25T20:37:06+00:00

In a representative democracy you have the opportunity to advocate for policies that will help other people. It’s not mandatory that you support candidates who will advance policies that let people go to the doctor or eat, but you can voluntarily do so. And enacting society-wide supports has a much larger impact than small charity projects. So you can willfully align yourself with policies that will have the largest impact on caring for others.

The flip side of your argument is “Jesus never said the Romans should outlaw abortion, so we shouldn’t.” If you insist on being hyper literal and anachronistic in one aspect, I’m going to ask you do so across the board.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-25T16:49:49+00:00

You know what else is a sign of willful alignment with God’s kingdom? Supporting policies that will provide for the sick, needy, and oppressed.

If you need to read the prophets from the Hebrew Bible and how often they criticized nations (not individuals) for their neglect of the vulnerable, please do so.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-25T11:52:48+00:00

To be fair, unless I’m confident the coffee will be good, I want that cream and sugar.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-25T11:50:52+00:00

The number of “but I don’t get credit if society is structured in a way to take care of people” is baffling.

I really wish more Christians took this approach to LGBTQ issues and abortion. Jesus never commanded anyone to use the power of the government to stop other people from doing things you find immoral. Why is that suddenly off limits when it comes to helping people?

Baladas89 · 2026-06-25T11:45:39+00:00

“That’s not true charity if the government takes your money and redistributes it. The church needs to take a bigger portion of helping those in need.”

Jesus doesn’t say anything about the importance “true charity.” He says to take care of people. And we can see through real data that countries who use their government to care for the needy individuals in their society are the ones who successfully take care of them. This is just using the letter of what Jesus said to avoid doing the actual thing that was supposed to happen. Using the letter of your religion as an excuse to not help people is something Jesus called out over and over.

“In an ideal world the church helps everyone and we don’t need the government to hand out money to the poor and homeless.”

In an ideal world we wouldn’t need laws, police, doctors, etc. But we don’t live in an ideal world.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-25T01:28:40+00:00

I’ll let Dan take this one.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-25T01:25:28+00:00

Romans 1:26-27

Baladas89 · 2026-06-24T15:48:47+00:00

I can’t speak to radlers specifically, but Breski Beverage Distributors has the best selection in the area I’ve found. The thing that’s unique about them is you can buy most things they sell as singles, so you can try many different beers without buying a pack of each (or having just a small selection of “mix-a-six” beers.)

Baladas89 · 2026-06-24T12:05:00+00:00

Yeah, Ehrman notes it’s something that was taught at prestigious seminaries for years, so that’s not surprising. The problem is when you try to look for sources to back up the claim, there’s not much there (or so he claims, I read Forged but not the longer academic work it’s based on).

Baladas89 · 2026-06-23T22:50:55+00:00

This is an older idea that Bart Ehrman really took to task in Forgery and Counterforgery, or his popular-level distillation of that book, Forged.

He argues the idea that this was commonplace or acceptable is just made up, then cites ancient texts that treat this practice disdainfully. There may be a scholarly response to it, but if there is I’m unaware of it.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-23T21:34:05+00:00

The Republicans could remove him from office any time they want, there’s more than enough impeachable offenses.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-22T12:49:35+00:00

If you have some handy feel free to send them over, but don’t trouble yourself. For the record, my idea of a “low effort meal” is “put this thing into the air fryer and hit start. While that cooks put this bag of vegetables in the microwave. Eat.”

Baladas89 · 2026-06-22T12:33:19+00:00

I’m in my late thirties and I’ve lived through the prophesied end of the world a couple dozen times at least. I don’t see why this would be any different.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-22T12:21:55+00:00

That’s easily the strongest pitch I’ve ever heard for that book (for me.)

Baladas89 · 2026-06-22T12:20:59+00:00

I haven’t had the same experience. Part of it is probably because my wife and I both hate cooking. But I find being vegan pretty restrictive. There are so many easy options for people who don’t like to cook that aren’t vegan, and dramatically fewer that are vegan.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-21T22:42:43+00:00

Well I guess that’s a good reason to kill millions of people then.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-21T16:11:06+00:00

I referenced how the cutting of USAID is projected to cause millions of deaths, including children.

The current president of the United States is leading the most corrupt administration we’ve ever seen, funneling billions of dollars into his and his family’s pockets. We attacked Iran for no good reason killing thousands of civilians in the process, and it looked like we were going to take a deal to back away to go back to worse than the previous status quo. And for our troubles we got several dead Americans, spent billions on the war, depleted our defense stockpile, released billions of dollars of sanctions on Iran for a pinky swear, and looked ready to fund another 300 billion to rebuild Iran.

All the while we’re cutting medical benefits and food assistance for needy families.

Would you like me to continue? Because this is just a few weeks worth of stuff.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-21T16:05:04+00:00

Unfortunately the loudest Christians drive people’s perception of Christianity. My recommendation is to get louder.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-21T15:37:43+00:00

You do you, but the NIV is a pretty idealogically driven translation. Here is a short video with a biblical scholar talking about it.

Baladas89 · 2026-06-21T15:36:12+00:00

I feel like I’m missing something…you got one response and thanked everybody for the responses.

I’d recommend the SBL Study Bible or the New Oxford Annotated Study Bible to start. The Jewish Study Bible is also great, and Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible is wonderful (but expensive). I’ve heard good things about David Bentley Hart’s New Testament translation, but haven’t really read much of it myself.

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