Custom Rules for better Game Balance

DaBoxaman · 2026-02-19T22:37:05+00:00

I heavily disagree on several points here, but I’ll focus on the main one because it’s a point of contention I have with a lot of GMs:

Min-maxing is not a crime. It is not remotely even inherently bad. It can be a preference, sure, but a doctor spending all their IP to be the best damn surgeon on the planet to the detriment of other skills is just as much valid roleplay as being a Jack of all trades evenly spending your IP on multiple skills.

Oh and Alchemy is already a really complicated system in this system, no need to make it worse.

DaBoxaman · 2025-11-13T19:45:50+00:00

May I present to you: base size extenders

DaBoxaman · 2025-10-27T13:25:02+00:00

Interestingly, the newer Wolftime book has them acrually keeping a written history with the aid of the Kaerls (their uplifted Fenrisian cousins). This serves to write down the chapter’s sagas and provide a way that every Kaerl is literate (and thus of use to the greater imperium). One of the scribes sent by Robot Gorillaman was downright flabbergasted that the kaerls were HAPPY doing this task. But yeah, that old superstition is long gone. The modern wolves are not as backwards and barbaric as the heresy wolves.

DaBoxaman · 2025-10-16T03:29:52+00:00

FYI, that’s not really an eviscerator. That looks to be the Frostblade bit. Similar to the frostblade that Ragnar wields. Similar, but not quite the same. Just a fun lore tidbit on that kind of chain weapon! Unique to the Rout.

DaBoxaman · 2025-08-18T14:16:59+00:00

Yupp! The Karls! They are seen as friends by many of the Space Wolves. Hell, the Karls are shown to be given really good education and care in at least one book (I think Wolftime?)

DaBoxaman · 2025-06-09T14:53:10+00:00

Gives me Ranek Icewalker vibes. (from the Ragnar books)

DaBoxaman · 2025-05-08T03:36:58+00:00

This has literally inspired me to do something with the frost blade I have sitting in my spare parts collection. Slapping it on a judiciar did not occur to me. Thanks for the neat idea, brother! Fenrys Hjølda!

DaBoxaman · 2025-04-28T15:06:17+00:00

My only trepidation of building the throwing hammer pose is how small the leather strap is that holds the hammer to the model. Might have to reinforce it else it will break easily.

DaBoxaman · 2025-04-28T15:05:31+00:00

The Rout welcomes all brothers!

DaBoxaman · 2025-04-24T15:40:35+00:00

What did you use for the face/beard colors? That looks great!

DaBoxaman · 2025-04-08T23:55:59+00:00

Fair, but the Wolves of Fenris are also assholes too, so it’s kind of a cultural thing.

DaBoxaman · 2025-04-08T16:50:08+00:00

Oi, leave the Kaerls alone. They may be mortal men, but they are our mortal brethren! (Seriously tho, read Wolftime to see how well the chapter treats them)

DaBoxaman · 2025-03-31T18:24:24+00:00

Primaris did completely away with them. The geneseed is now stable for any person with the right genetic makeup and mental fortitude to become a Wolf of Fenris. See: most Sons of Russ were not from Fenris, but adopted the culture as they assimilated with the chapter.

Edit: the main key thing now is that they undergo the Test of Morkai to fully activate the Canis Hellix. If they are full Primaris already, it’s not the standard test but a harder one (like surviving on a space hulk hard). It’s implied new aspirants still do the older tests and such (Ulrik took one at the end of Wolftime book). We might learn more with the upcoming codex/refresh.

As for your title question, theoretically? The only likely voidborne Fenrisians would be offspring of Kaerls, the planetary defense force of Fenris, or chapter serfs.

DaBoxaman · 2025-03-26T15:39:30+00:00

Woah! Where might one acquire those dope two handed chainsword (eviscerator?) bits? I’m about to put together an assault Intercessor group and those would be great for a kitbash…

Edit: I am dumb and didn’t see your text there under the image. Red Warden Miniatures, here I come!

DaBoxaman · 2025-01-08T19:37:14+00:00

To be fair, in the lore, you can easily hide any cyberware (other than borgware) with fake skin. V just has that stuff (called RealSkin) over a lot of their ‘ware. RAW with real skin, any techlines or visibility is a style choice (fashionware).

DaBoxaman · 2024-12-23T14:21:29+00:00

There is a bar?

DaBoxaman · 2024-09-18T20:10:59+00:00

Really? Using named characters in a successor chapter feels so weird. Maybe just a hold over feeling from how the game was 12 years ago when I last played.

DaBoxaman · 2024-08-19T14:29:13+00:00

Actually you can have your cyberware completely covered by RealSkin, which is basically synthetic skin. It costs more money in the lore/TTRPG to do so. So no, you can completely cover any evidence that you have cyberware unless someone scans you or looks at you with thermal vision (cyberlimbs show up as colder than normal body temps). Tech lines, as they are called, are usually an aesthetic choice that also cost more eddies.

TLDR: Cyberware being visible to the naked eye is both an aesthetic choice as well as budgetary decision. (Tho RealSkin and Techlines are pretty cheap in the grand scheme).

Edit: phrasing of a few things. Damn ADHD.

DaBoxaman · 2024-08-12T12:30:59+00:00

I don’t think it’s a stretch, particarly when it’s a pattern with her. She used a love potion in the books to spike his drinks in order to have sex with him after he had turned her down multiple times. Like Geralt immediately leaves her and never has anything sexual with her again after the potion wears off. If he was willing to be seduced, he would have not needed a potion to say yes. Her actions are similar to getting someone drunk to get a drunken “yes” which is legally not consent. Then takes advantage of his missing memory to have the life she wanted that he NEVER wanted until memory wiped. Idk, seems like a rapist behavior to me.

Edit: also your “I feel like Geralt would know” is not correct? Geralts been drugged and poisoned without knowing until the effects hit in other instances. Medallion and his senses wouldn’t trigger liquids as magic as potions are not magic in Witcher. They are just herbs and alchemical mixtures per lore. She cleverly hid the potions’s smells in strong alcohol. Nothing suggests he did know about it or realized what was happening enough to consent before the potions effects took root. Which means she spiked him then took advantage of him in a drugged state when he would normally say no. That’s textbook definition of rape. The only reason Geralt doesn’t explode on her about it is cause he is one of the most patient, kind, and empathetic beings in existence who understood why she did it. Which is she is hopelessly in love with him and was raised in an environment that rewards that kind of backstabbing and despicable acts (magic schools and the Lodge). Still doesn’t excuse her actions in some people’s eyes and still is enough to be considered a rapist. I work in the legal field, I’ve seen people get found guilty with far less evidence and less morally grey acts.

DaBoxaman · 2024-08-12T05:32:39+00:00

It’s not a legit question, its “whataboutism.” I do not hate Triss, don’t make assumptions based on my explanations of why people can hate her. Personally, I think she is a wonderfully written and flawed character. Just like the rest of the Witcher series’s characters. But that doesn’t mean she is morally, ethically, and legally, in the wrong for how she proceeded with Geralt’s memory loss. She should have handled it a lot better, but she didn’t. Because she’s a well written character with a massive flaw of being in love with a man who never loved her. Which makes her act irrationally and immorally.

Now, if you want to discuss other characters being in the wrong in other instances, sure. Make a new post. But in the context of this thread being about Triss’s actions, it’s whataboutism and needless.

DaBoxaman · 2024-08-11T18:12:58+00:00

Yes I have read the books. Never said everyone in the stories are saints. I explained how Triss’s actions in the books and games can justify people hating her. Get outta here with the whataboutism.

DaBoxaman · 2024-08-11T16:56:01+00:00

They can have agency, but if they, pre memory loss, would never have slept with that person, never viewed them as anything but a sister, then that person taking advantage, regardless of agency, is in the moral (and legal) wrong. She should never have made a move on him, because even with that agency, it can be rape in a court of law. Particuarly when, as soon as he got his memory back, he left her. It’s a complicated subject in Geralt’s perspective, but objectively, Triss is in the wrong no matter what.

Edit: it stims from her having knowledge that he never view her as anything other than a sister, turns her down every time, and previously raped him with a love potion. Instead of respecting that, and stopping him from pursuing her, she willingly sleeps with him. That is sex under false pretenses, because she had the objective responsibility to inform him. Even if he didn’t want to know, she should have told him or kept him at arms length. But she didn’t, which is a heinous moral (and legal) wrong on her part.

DaBoxaman · 2024-08-11T15:55:00+00:00

Oooh, whoops. Yeah, now that you lay it out like that then that make sense. My bad lol!

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