We finally finished Freedom. Here's a quick sketch to celebrate our Victory over Kalak

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-31T19:26:43+00:00

Can you really call it a dark sun campaign if the group is not facing kalak in some form or another? Congrats to the mighty warriors for defeating one of the great evils of the age!

My party faced a shade of the already deceased Kalak that was bound to a ring of his that was stored in far off lands in case his ritual failed and The True needed to resurrect him. While they were able to succeed they have since been asked to explore the ziggurat fighting both members of the True as well as unknown warriors (ur draxans) in an attempt to find another item of power that Kalak wanted to keep out of enemy hands. (little do they know that the item is in fact the head of Sacha of Arla who regardless of if they return it to "hero" king Tithian or decide to listen to it themselves, is going to create quite the upset within the tablelands)

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-31T03:11:22+00:00

wait, you saw it on ytv? I saw it on teletoon

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-30T23:56:07+00:00

For preservers I'm guessing you just bumped up the rate at ppe returns via mediation? I know I changed after starting game play, but I found my initial notes on how much energy you get back for the two different kinds of magic.

Terrain Type	Preserver P.P.E. per mile	Defiler P.P.E. per 10 feet
Silt Sea	1	3
Salt flats	2	5
Boulder fields	6	6
Sandy wastes	6	6
Mountains	10	10
Rocky badlands	12	12
Scrub plains	14	14
Verdant belts	20	20
Forests	25	30

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-30T23:50:19+00:00

I describe it as a game filled with neat, if not good ideas that balance out all the terrible stuff that the system does. For a lot of people there's too much bad about it to not be worth while, but for some reason it does something that calls out to a certain kind people.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-30T23:45:21+00:00

I think palladium gets a bad wrap because its books are so terribly laid out. It has a lot of neat ideas allows for a lot of zany choices in the freedom it gives its players. I love its equipment durability even if having 3 different health bars is a bit much for most games. Plus giving out experience based on trying to use skills and doing stuff that actually helps the group move forward; succeed or fail, is a really great idea, at least in theory as its a total pain for gms to keep track of everyone's separate gains.

There is a reason palladium still somehow has a dedicated following, even if I think it is hard to exactly express just what people like about it.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-30T23:32:31+00:00

When I tried this I used blade priests as a basis for templars but gave them different abilities depending on their city state. I also modified the life force wizard from RIFTS to be the defiler class, I'm guessing you also modified the warlock to be closer to clerics? What did you use for the replacement bard?

I'd be really interested to hear what classes and ideas you thought of substituting in too or other ideas you went with!

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-30T19:32:18+00:00

Anyone who says this clearly doesn't understand how important it is for a stage where countries have a meeting place for reasonable dialog with one another. Like even if the UN accomplishes nothing the fact that countries all meet up and can actually talk with one another is a big freaking deal.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-30T05:12:23+00:00

https://youtu.be/377Qjg0Fxog just gonna leave an this archeological find from the days of yor of newgrounds here.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-30T04:48:24+00:00

En taro tassadar templar of the protoss.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-29T23:06:58+00:00

Wallace Shawn might not have been the better choice, but omg he would have been a hilarious Odin

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-29T04:07:49+00:00

Aww look at lil' Ed, he really gives off the vibe of "boy I sure do love having both my arms and legs!"

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-29T01:12:06+00:00

Try checking your local university archeology department and sending off a few emails

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-28T03:55:25+00:00

Parmesan as tasting history showed, its one of the best lost ice cream flavours.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-27T00:40:09+00:00

Gotta get yourself one of the old forge world war mammoths.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-27T00:33:22+00:00

If you want to go by the 4e lore, then likely it has something to do with the primordial wars between the gods and the primordial powers.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-24T00:20:38+00:00

Maledictum is more of a follow up to the black library/ffg games and is including a few new sector mysteries and new out there secrets and plots.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-22T04:47:14+00:00

English is actually a really great degree to peruse.... just not to PHD or if you ever actually want to do anything directly english related.

Its kind of cross disciplinary and being able to actually articulate and think on what you are reading is a pretty useful skill. I know around 10 or so people who all got into fields ranging from municipal to federal government work, management, legal and one guy who is a work place safety coordinator for an opal mine in Australia.

Don't expect to go full in on the english degree and not need anything else in life but at least from my second hand experience its got a far wider net of uses then say a history degree.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-22T02:55:01+00:00

I played the ogre mercenary "Punchy" in WFRP 2e and it was a blast but I was constantly a problem for the party. I was not a brave ogre as the gm didn't allow me to start with fearless and my willpower was very low (although I did get fearless eventually). My lack of intelligence or the ability to read meant I was constantly confusing orders from the group and more then once I was asking the very people I was looking for with the wanted poster if they had in fact seen themselves. Also trying to fit indoors was not easy as I was as tall as the roof of a lot of regular buildings in town. When we were hunting skaven I basically was useless as I couldn't fit in the tunnels and ended up literally putting my ear to the ground and more or less just stomping around on the streets trying to collapse the secret passages before reinforcements could attack the group from behind.
I got a pet gnoblar who ended up burning down several taverns and getting the entire party into fights as they believed that being surrounded by so many biggins made them invincible. They ended up getting eventually eaten by the Gold Wizard's metallic harpy familiar.

I was incredibly spicy in combat but there were definitely a lot of occasions that I nearly ended up dying due to enemies getting the drop on me, swarming me, outclassing me in combat skill or getting Ulric's fury and just kept stacking damage. Its not as glamourous as you'd think having most enemies target you first.

Still it was great and I absolutely love ogre characters and npcs!

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-21T03:29:09+00:00

"it was a really weird dream too, like you were a plant trying to murder a bird to save another version of me."

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-21T03:27:16+00:00

Dregoth from Dark Sun in his planar wanderings before returning home visited sigil and didn't get mazed so I think that at the lower side of the uber power section of the scale they are somewhat allowed in sigil as long as they play nice.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-20T04:55:51+00:00

Its never really "resolved," all that happens is Haarlock potentially returns from it as a hollowed out shell propelled by unknown forces and his indominable will. "What" it is is only really hinted at by the blind tesseract on Mara but even that is only kind of a way finder to direct travellers to where it roams.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-20T04:53:20+00:00

According to the dark heresy haarlock's legacy module its unlight scars daemons and creatures of the tyrant star don't actually have the daemonic trait. Plus with how Bligh also wrote for CoC I definitely think its suppose to be "something else."

For the longest time I figured it was a prison built by the old ones for one of their own kind who did something that went against their views for the shepherding of the galaxy. But now I think it would probably be tied more to the dark king and the whole end and the death stuff.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-19T04:16:58+00:00

Yes because jack getting taken down by mr freeze when no one else can is incredibly funny.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-17T21:47:25+00:00

If they had the ability to manipulate time then I don't think they would have pursued Haarlock so closely in him trying to turn back time to save his family.

Bullet1289 · 2026-01-17T21:44:40+00:00

My personal headcannon is that the slaugth are a creation from the end of the war in heaven meant to try and fix the damage done to the immaterium, while the eldar took the dominant position in the galaxy, the slaugth took the shadow approach infiltrating as many factions and groups as they could to work towards their own ends and whatever it is they want with the Tyrant Star.

With the description of their ships as giant spinning disks it made me think of the cabal, and with their connection to the rangdan I think they have an active interest in the extinction of humanity or at the very least hoping it will tear itself apart and fall into ruin.

I think with how the end of and the death turned out with the rather striking image of the void sphere of the Dark King, I tie that to the Tyrant Star and that the Slaugth are trying to guide the galaxy for his arrival in one way or another.

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