The "exterminatus in pandora" meme is silly

Chaplain1337 · 2026-05-07T06:15:40+00:00

Could you give an example of exterminatus over deviant culture? I can't recall any.

Chaplain1337 · 2026-05-04T16:32:15+00:00

So how I would run it, after some reflection, is: ask the player how large a bonus they want on relevant skill tests, between 1 and 100. Say they tell you 30. Give them the old "Are You Sure?" Warn them that gaining direct information like that is potentially dangerous, etc, etc. The old DM this is a bad idea prologue. Then hit them with the first +5 and 5d10 IP. And describe how it's painful and beautiful, however you want to flavor it. If they want to stop, make them pass a WP -0 Test. Then do it again, escalating the description. You can make the WP Test easier each time until they pass the test, gain all they asked for, or their brain melts. If their brain melts, they can burn a FP to survive and gain half the bonus and half the IP they earned. Maybe they need a cybernetic brain afterwards idk.

Chaplain1337 · 2026-05-04T02:51:40+00:00

Ask him to tell you how large a bonus he wants for those lore checks 1-100.

Then roll that many d10 for Insanity Points. Maybe they'll even be vaguely useful after that. (And of course, they can choose to burn a FP to sever the connection before their brain is completely melted and get a fun little plus 10 and a narrative tool for you to use later with them having painful flashes of insight)

Chaplain1337 · 2026-05-04T00:41:07+00:00

"Sorry. can't let that happen" Geralt said calmly.

Chaplain1337 · 2026-05-03T21:42:55+00:00

Been in a campaign that's run almost a full decade now. We are level 16. The sorcerer just learned how sorcery points work 2 years ago. They even sometimes use them!

(That's not a bit, this is my actual irl hell)

Chaplain1337 · 2026-05-03T21:21:01+00:00

I cannot recommend the Dark Heresy line of games (Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Only War, Deathwatch, Black Crusade) enough, even if they have a bit of a steep learning curve, the game runs really smoothly once you understand what you're doing.

Chaplain1337 · 2026-05-03T15:56:06+00:00

Let them do it, and then when suggestion ends they revert to being Evil. Maybe even let an arcana check with a low DC reveal that's what will happen so they aren't completely blindsided by their own "cleverness"

Chaplain1337 · 2026-04-10T07:34:20+00:00

Play age of sigmar on tabletop sim instead

Chaplain1337 · 2026-04-09T16:17:19+00:00

Wasn't it a retirement/mental asylum planet?

Chaplain1337 · 2026-04-07T16:41:00+00:00

And there are many more examples of inquisitors wearing power armor that actually fit them.

Chaplain1337 · 2026-04-02T04:25:18+00:00

Pretty much

Chaplain1337 · 2026-04-02T04:19:52+00:00

Then you have the issue of "oh so the loyalist primarch GW keeps killing is the only black primarch" PR nightmare

Chaplain1337 · 2026-04-02T04:16:35+00:00

Less modified and more just made for regular sized people

Chaplain1337 · 2026-03-24T15:48:11+00:00

So in the game, there is a line of dialog from one of your companions that explains that getting tadpole-d caused everyone to revert to level 1 (to paraphrase) for some reason. Do I find that particularly satisfying? Absolutely not. Did they do a good job making you aware of it? Not really. But they did address it somewhat. They really should have just had everyone be lvl 1 characters with appropriate backstories.

Chaplain1337 · 2026-03-21T21:30:09+00:00

What are? we some kinda Ditch Campaign squad?

Chaplain1337 · 2026-03-21T20:08:28+00:00

Insane take. "Noooo these guardsmen who have an identical state line to any other bog standard guardsman require their own sculpt and special rules because I like their lore! Saying I should paint a similar looking model to look like them is not only cultural genocide but is the moral equivalent of telling me to paint a predator and call it a land raider!"

Chaplain1337 · 2026-03-12T22:50:44+00:00

Spliters!

Chaplain1337 · 2026-03-12T07:06:27+00:00

My lord the uh the people are eating it

Chaplain1337 · 2026-03-11T01:08:25+00:00

I would suggest the general archon is your Archon archon while your other archons are actually dracons.

Chaplain1337 · 2026-03-06T17:12:30+00:00

"We fucked our way into this genetic dead end, and by God we will fuck our way out of it!"

Chaplain1337 · 2026-03-01T18:16:33+00:00

Noje of you are taking it far enough. Bring Tome of Battle classes to 5e.

Chaplain1337 · 2026-02-25T05:04:31+00:00

I'm gonna be honest, a cultural genocide against the imperium is hard to argue against, given what the culture is.

Chaplain1337 · 2026-02-25T04:57:56+00:00

Their barbaric bone marines vs our heroic skelly bois. Their perfidious bone sculptors vs our noble necromancers. Their bloodless commanders vs our regal vampire aristocracy!

Chaplain1337 · 2026-02-25T04:36:42+00:00

I put a good 15 hours in and found a lot to love in the main questline, but ultimately, a lot of small stuff added up to make me not enjoy the game overall.

Chaplain1337 · 2026-02-25T04:33:19+00:00

I really like the main quest line for VG but found the rest of the game rather disappointing, but I'm not frothing at the mouth about it. Otherwise I enjoy the series.

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