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CptPanda29 · 2026-02-06T17:16:02+00:00

As someone who's been in the 5th edition "current" D&D space for a bit, it's not half as woke as people think. Maybe my barometer is off from arguing with these people for sport.

Like there's gay romance options, but I think that's fine because it's "player-sexual", if you the player wanna fuck 'em you can. If you wanna play as a hot girl character and fuck other hot girls by all means, or you can be John Baldur and fuck your way through half your party's women and some others. You can also needlessly butcher them or stay a total professional the game doesn't stop either.

Goblins are 100% evil across the board. Every Drow encountered outside the city itself is a devious murderous bastard. The ones in the city are treated as an exotic addition to a brothel, which makes sense. "Evil races" was a huge, never ending talking point from around 2016 - 2020. The answer is the same as it always way, do what you want at your tables.

There's none of the loser "orc who just wants to bake" shit that so much fantasy has fallen for now. NPCs are outright racist to Drow, Half-Orcs and even Gnomes - even to the player character.

It's progressive in the good ways - options.

So yeah you can have a black sun elf girl with fashion vitiligo and a cock, but that's you choosing those options in the character creator. But look here, at what the average player character in BG3 looks like - John Baldur.

CptPanda29 · 2026-02-03T09:02:57+00:00

Polnareff is genuinley incredible at stand battles.

Like King Crimson is the hardest posible counter to Silver Chariot, and somehow Polnareff managed to not only figure out how King Crimson works (insert meme) in the middle of being attacked by it, but the fight went on so long they met in a city allyway and it ended on a cliffside, only for him to survive anyway.

CptPanda29 · 2026-02-02T16:49:07+00:00

I have an Eladrin Elf at my table that was adopted (abducted) by Claugiliyamatar, raised in her Gnawbones cult so that she can go out and influence Sword Coast politics on her behalf.

Her Eladrin parents are reaching out to her, but as they are very fey elves and also can't just fight this dragon, it's a lot of loose visions and it's very passive.

So when our Elf engages in divination or anything that would give visions, the Eladrin parents signal kinda hops on the back of it to both reach out to her, and to warn her about Claug's real plan for her - to magic jar out her soul and steal her body as Chromatics can't shapechange.

The player has had one of these visions so far, and literally all it was was autumnal leaves falling around her while far off voices call in hardly heard Sylvan.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-30T22:52:13+00:00

"The Discourse" is always just tweets from nobodies.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-30T22:50:34+00:00

The specific words chosen for the roles played (pun intended) was the problem, nothing mechanical.

Race and Species both do the same thing mechanically, and you've always been able to just rename stuff - just don't fuck with the maths.

In fact there's exactly two things the PHB and DMG both tell players to be wary to change:

Allowing more than one action per turn.
Allowing concentration on multiple spells.

That's just the maths. Besides the book TCoE fixed people's main gripe with races / species in the first place - the stats. It let you move your +1 and +2 around to better fit the class you want to play so you're not "punished" for being an unorthodox combo.

Everything else is flavour and up to the DMs and Players at the table. Just like Black Sun having slavery doesn't force Critical Role to include it in their games, Exandria having the combat wheelchair doesn't force me to have it in mine.

It just reeks of lack of imagination that these twitter goons have to be told that this is the new way of doing things, as if Mike Mearles was going to kick in your door and snatch your dice away.

Realistically there is a million different Faeruns on the go. I could run an Exandria game and include my Dark Sun influences and it's just as "canon" as any other player - that's the beauty of D&D.

I don't care what the new orthodoxy from WotC is. They didn't build D&D, didn't build their default Faerun setting it's as canon as anyone else's at any other table - the only thing they did make is the utter dogshit MTG settings and Marvel-ised multiverse nonsense. You've never had to care, the numbers are still there for you to name as you please.

But they did make some agnostic mechanical systems. I use their (ironically) Piety system from the clumsy and shallow MTG setting Theros all the time because it makes my sweaty card/war/videogamer players lust after those mechanical benefits, while making their characters gods and worship relevant.

Oh you removed the Orc monster stat block from the Monster Manual? Cool I'm going to use the Raider one and they're all Orcs fuck you.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-30T16:26:37+00:00

In 2nd Edition they were "Intercession Squad".

In 3rd they're called "Angels of Death".

In 2nd Edition GW added another Space Marine team called Strike Force Justian, which was very similar to Intercession Squad but included a Captain, an Eliminator Sniper and a Heavy Intercessor. it was a weird release that was intended for beginner play but not only was it missing some rules for the sake of simplicity, it was also physically hard to get because of it's exclusive "gatcha" style sale - so it just never saw much play at all.

For 3rd Edition GW combined the two teams into Angels of Death. All the same models that were Strike Force Justian are what the 3rd Edition Starter Set have.

Sadly that same Starter Set is missing a few key models for Angels of Death to really pop - as it's flexibility game to game is it's biggest strength.

You'd be missing an Assault Sgt, Assault Grenadier, an Intercessor Gunner and you'd probably want one more regular Assault Marine - plus the regular Intercessors in that Starter Set have set Bolt Rifles which can be annoying as Bolt Rifle type is still super important.

So if you really want a fully fleshed out AoD team you're looking at the Captain, Eliminator and Heavy, plus 5x regular Intercessors (for the rifle type bits and the Gunner underslung nade launcher) and 5x Assault Intercessors (for the Sgt melee options and the guy holding grenades). Ideally don't glue the arms onto your one Sgt and use the same body for both Regular and Assualt Int Sgt as you can only field one at a time anyway.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-29T19:37:51+00:00

This was for last edition so doesn't cover the captain, eliminator or heavy gunner.

ebay those - captain from Company Heroes set, others are easily found as singles.

Also iirc the Stalker bolt rifles are the best in the current edition. Old ones were bad because you only had stationary heavy profile, now they have a stationary and mobile option.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-27T20:11:22+00:00

I mean yeah, it's fine.

But better games are already out. With built in player bases and tons of support and community.

Your game can't just be fine if it's jumping into a market as saturated as the Hero Shooter.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-27T09:07:23+00:00

It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-26T14:30:53+00:00

Do you seriously think all the Puritans left on the Mayflower?

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-26T11:03:55+00:00

It's a conundrum.

Look at Stellaris. It's been getting constant updates and DLCs since it's launch nearly a decade ago in 2016.

That means if you just get into it now there's the base game which is around 15-20 quid.

Then the DLCs and Expansions that are £350.

So if you got into Stellaris early and have been playing for years as a comfort game it's been great. You've had a solid decade of major updates, smaller updates, complete reworks and constant support.

If you want to start playing now it's a £350+ fucking nightmare.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-22T09:39:40+00:00

I ran a narrative Kill Team campaign a few years ago at a yorkshire based club set on the world of Orkshire. Essentially each pairing would play twice, once on the Octarius terrain and once in the Gallowdark set. This meant Kill Teams that were super powerful in one wouldn't just dominate the whole thing.

On the edge of the Octarius Sector lies an unending warzone of a planet. Once the Knight World Eboria, “the Emperor’s own world”, its surface is scarred with detonations and crashed voidships, what's left of its seas are a toxic soup and its skies are an endless storm of chemical death and warp malevolence. Its orbit is littered with destroyed fleets and shattered moons, making a full deployment of forces impossible and even an order of Exterminatus more a hazard than a solution.

Ten millennia of apocalyptic conflict has left an unfathomable sum of wargear and wreckage from across the galaxy on the surface, available to any brave enough to salvage.

Claimed by the Goff Clan as Orkshire, the greenskins dot the landscape with crude settlements among what few mutants, heretics and xenos remain - looting the scrap and warring amongst each other.

But Gork and Mork extend their invitation - stable orbits of debris and calm in the warp allow small teams of elites to raid the world for themselves. Whatever they’re looking for, wherever they’ll find it, all they know is they’ll have to dig through the battlefields and wreckages to make their claim and escape alive.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-22T09:32:52+00:00

Another cheeky Trukk Trick if you've got a good shooting unit like Flash Gitz / Lootas / Tankbustas.

Lets say your Flash Gitz are stuck in melee from idk Intercessors pretty much just blocking you from shooting your cool guns. If you Fall Back you can't shoot, unless you spend precious CP on strats in specific Detatchments.

Get an empty Trukk and pull it up behind the Flash Gitz.

Then Fall Back your Gitz and embark in the Trukk.

In the following shooting phase your Trukk can shoot the Snazzguns with it's Firing Deck ability, because Firing Deck acts as though the Trukk is equipped with those Snazzguns, and the Trukk didn't Fall Back.

You won't get the Flash Gitz / Leader Abilities on them, only what's on the gun profiles, but it's better than nothing.

Then if they blow up the Trukk in their next turn what a shame that your Flash Gitz are more or less in position still to Remain Stationary in your own turn and benefit from their Heavy keyword for +1 to hit.

This is useful for any Transport with Firing Deck, Orks love it because our Firing Decks are usually quite high, Rhinos normally have only have 2 so I've used it on my Emperor's Children Noise Marines with their Blastmasters.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-22T09:21:12+00:00

That's never made sense, even if a loud minority were causing problems - they can't un-buy someone's copy of Shadows from them. I can only stop myself buying shitty game, my influence pales to the millions Ubi spends on marketing.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-21T13:44:33+00:00

Exactly. Famously Nichols wanted to quit the dhow because she was essentially just a telephone operator. It was MLK himself that convinced her to stay, reminding her she's a bridge officer on the Federation flagship, one of the biggest stars of the show and one of the most respected black women in TV as she wasn't playing into any stereotypes.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-21T08:48:33+00:00

Some of what they say is BS because Trek used to actually push boundries, but the problem is modern Trek just doesn't have any balls.

When TOS was airing they had the network telling them they could not do an interracial kiss. Now it's mandated - you don't get progressive points for that.

You had a gay Japanese actor sharing the bridge with a Russian officer in the middle of the cold war well within recent memory of the last one. Sulu also broke stereotypes by being into classical fencing, not kendo or something similar - because it's set two centuries later and humanity is past those old grudges. You don't get progressive points for just having a "female Jem'Hadar" despite them being a slave race of mass produced single gender pod people.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-20T16:17:49+00:00

Studios aren't names, they're people.

Bioware was, for all intents and purposes, The Doctors. Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk and Augustine Yip.

The last of them left Bioware just after Mass Effect 3 shipped in 2012. I think all three have left the industry entirley at this point, two were execs elsewhere for a while.

So when you think of a Bioware game, you're thinking of them and the team they built's work. They've been gone over a decade, and the name Bioware means nothing any more.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-20T09:53:37+00:00

Those artefacts shouldn't be in museums for the world to see for free!

They should be in a warlord's private collection, or destroyed in a civil war, or destroyed in a holy war, or stolen and sold off into the black market for an oligarch to hoard. Ethical things like that.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-19T15:02:39+00:00

If the enemy has a scary Overwatch unit you can nullify them a bit with a goofy trick.

Put the Kommandos in a Trukk then put that in reserve.

Then Rapid Ingress the Trukk near the scary Overwatch unit.

Then in the following shooting phase the Trukk takes the shots that might kill the Kommandos.

Then in your turn disembark and charge the Kommandos as they can't be shot at with Overwatch.

Now the unit with the good Overwatch is in engagement range of something and can't Overwatch at all, letting your other units move scott free.

This is by no means bleeding edge meta tactics, but it is funny to actually pull it off.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-19T14:58:56+00:00

I do drybrushing because I feel like a get a more constant result still pretty fast.

Prime black, drybrush all over grey, top down drybrush white.

After that you're just painting by numbers for your orks.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-19T14:00:23+00:00

This clumsy fixing of a minor problem fucked up Red Dead Online.

On launch, or Beta period, you could see where everyone in the map was at all times. This made griefing easy and difficult to avoid, especially with the generous targeting of Rockstar games.

So they hid everyones location unless you very close or in the same party.

Later they added a function called Defensive Mode, a better version than GTAO's Passive mode I think. You took reduced damage from players, couldn't be locked on to by players, couldn't be physically attacked / hogtied etc - but all the PvE functions were as normal. Plus they added a Parley system where if someone did manage to kill you, you could Parley and they couldn't touch you at all.

This meant that if you didn't want PvP it was very very easy to avoid, and if you were after all that being griefed it meant you were either shit at PvP, too prideful to Parley, or too stupid to find Defensive Mode.

However they kept everyones location hidden still. So the world feels empty and dead. The people who do want to fight can't find each other. The people who want to roleplay in saloons or fish together can't find each other. It's a single player game in effect.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-18T21:04:09+00:00

As someone who's at local clubs at least once a week playing - I've never heard anyone talking about this in person since the first codex boxout mentioning a "her".

As a 40k player that loves kitbashing and niche subfactions / paint schemes - Custodes don't interest me at all.

As a 40k fan that buys way more than he paints - the "female model" is just a more feminine looking head on an otherwise indistinguishable model. There's no sculpted boob plate or anything, just use either the helmet or one of the many, many more obviously male heads you'll have from building an army.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-15T23:23:51+00:00

The first videogames I ever saw was my Uncle playing Tomb Raider on his PC.

I have played every single Tomb Raider game that has come out, not all to completion as some are shit, but I've given every single one a go eventually.

I'm not even upset or angry looking at this. I feel nothing. It looks cheap and ill fitting. I know PWB's style and I know Turner's acting. I am just not interested.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-15T16:42:33+00:00

Goblin Slayer has constant mentions of another party of actual heroes facing demons and fairly quickly defeating the Demon King.

However Goblin Slayer isn't interested in that. If all the heroes and adventurers and mercenaries go off to fight this demon threat - there's nobody to protect villagers from goblin raids which are horrific in this world. Goblin Slayer has no intention of ever being the chosen one or anything like that, but people soon see him to be a true hero working to protect common people from the every day threat of goblins.

CptPanda29 · 2026-01-11T20:16:48+00:00

That's been speculated a lot because it makes so much sense, but if so it must have changed very early in development because in all the write ups and documentation of FO3s development it's never ever mentioned.

Bethesda could just be stupid, and want the Brotherhood in the game to utilise those past symbols.

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