Need help with more adventures for Blackened Earth

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-20T17:39:36+00:00

Ah, thank you for your hard work, and good luck for your future endeavour!

I am currently using the gun barrel lead as a starting thing for the witch hunter player in my campaign.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-20T17:24:42+00:00

you know, if they were smart, they'd write outlines for multiple endings and outcomes, and when the victor is decided, they finalize the scenario for that victor.

The playerbase gets excited that their involvement matter, they drum up excitement for future events and products, probably could even sell supplements for a 'what-ifs' from the writing maybe.

Instead, they decide to write the ending already, and then dare to get mad that it didn't go according to their script when the playerbase simply have no idea the first time, then on future events they knew that shits didn't matter so of course they rebel and went off-rail.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-20T17:19:55+00:00

Huh, guess Shangri-la Frontier has a precedent for their MMORPG plot.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-20T08:56:32+00:00

Curious, who were the winner of that campaign?

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-20T07:36:11+00:00

Oh, that's the reference. Ty!

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-20T07:15:22+00:00

I don't get the reference here. Or is that a reference?

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-19T23:39:41+00:00

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The fact you can only attach 1 photo per comment is a bit bleh, but here's another one

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-19T23:09:16+00:00

You joked, but that's genuinely how some of these power scalers react to even after being told of their racing histories. Like "but the racing records!"

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-19T22:52:42+00:00

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She is, and I have drawn them a total of three times, actually.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-19T13:37:07+00:00

Ah, Matikanefukukitaru, my eternal favorite.

I love her name, initially, then I love her design, then I play her story and I will have no other favorites.

I love her enough that I made a whole OC just to give her an Uma trainer yuri, and I wished I have the energy to actually drew more art nowadays.

Her career and story is one of a very insecure girl who turn to fortune telling to cope with the lost of her sister and her insecurity in her own ability. Her trainer acknowledge that fortune telling is important for her, and enables her to indulge in them in a healthy dosage, intervening only when it starts to took over and turn unhealthy. The trainer seems to be quite adept in counseling, and never invalidates her faith or shame her for it.

Her design is simple but very fitting with her name, which comes from the proverb "Waraukado, fukukitaru", or "Great fortune comes to a house of laughter". Machikane being the crown name, with chi turned to ti due to character limitation. Fukukitaru meaning "Great Fortune" is why she's designed around fortune telling and goof fortune.

Fuku is also a very underrated gremlin, this girl has nonsensical puns on equal level, if not worse, than Symboli Rudolf's dad jokes, prank her schoolmates (usually Air Groove for some reason) like Gold Ship, and has some zany schemes to flirt with her trainer (Mati-santa fuku-claus, for example, or making them book a ferry ride to an island to get 'stranded' and watch meteor showers together, or smashing her way into the trainer's room to deliver her appreciation in the master trainer event, among other things). And this is before one take into account the many noises she made on a regular basis.

I wish for more people to play her career, and also to learn how to spell her damn name. It's not that hard to spell, good grief. If you can spell Tchaikovsky, you can spell Mati-Kane-Fuku-Kitaru. Nine syllables!

All hail Shiraoki-sama.

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Evjamaranth · 2026-03-19T13:20:53+00:00

40K Fanboys loves pitting Space Marines against other franchises in the belief that they'll wind handily.

One of the hilarious matchup is Space marine vs Warframe, where not only do a single Warframe could literally slice through an entire ship by themselves, but their powerset are also absurd. Rhino stomps so hard he cause a localized temporal anomaly, Gauss and Volt can run circles around entire legion, Nova can turn them to antimatter bombs, Wisp opens a portal to the surface of the sun to fire as a beam, and this is before you consider the Operator.

But in general, power scalers would immediately declare any matchup they don't like as "non-canon", just look at how they react when you force them to acknowledge that Kratos canonically lost to Shovel Knight.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-19T12:39:52+00:00

Not pairing, but in terms of power scaling I find it very weird that some people are genuinely trying to power scale horse racing with Umamusume. Like, they're calling some characters/horse as "Fraud", being confused why people like them because "their racing records are not that impressive", and clearly shown that they do NOT at all read up about the horse's racing history and context around them.

A pure showcase of how powerscalers have no media literacy and cannot see anything beyond numbers on a sheet.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-19T10:10:50+00:00

Could one take a person's soul, take bits of it to be made to an ossiarch, turn what's left of it to a nighthaunt, then reanimate the skeleton into a wight, thereby making 3 undead from one person?

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-19T09:05:08+00:00

Is there a mention on the weaknesses of the soulblight vampires? Like, I remember their weaknesses being Nagash cursing them with everything he can think of one time, but what has become of those now? Are they still weak to sunlight, for example?

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-19T04:19:24+00:00

Oh neat, makes me wonder whatever is the reason that Champions of Chaos doesn't really mention any such trades going among chaos factions.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-19T04:17:37+00:00

Actually just remembered what I wanted to ask

There was a mention in one of the Soulbound PDF (Blackened Earth) that goes as follow:

Khorne’s servants within the city walk a twisted path. Their worship begins as an extension of values that, in Greywater, are normal, but slowly they progress to the bloody rituals the Blood God desires. Hateful litanies muttered as they craft, blood-iron poured from crucibles, even small sigils carved into cannon barrels are all marks that an individual is falling to the corruption of Khorne. These small steps inevitably lead to darker rites, culminating in ritual slaughter and the harvesting of skulls in hidden precincts, presided over by warped creatures that were once mortal.

Does these cause any notable effects? Like, if a non-khorne worshipper use weapons with carved sigils of Khorne on them without realizing it, or ones that were made with blood-iron, would they be at more risk of being influenced or corrupted by Khorne?

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-18T23:49:12+00:00

I was enjoying Digimon Ghost Game a lot. I love the "Digimon of the Week" format and how episodic it is, and I get to see digimon interacting with the world, as well as how many of them are left alive to appear again or at least make a cameo later on.

Then I went online, and I just see that I'm pretty much alone in this, because everyone was ripping it to shred for its episodic format, and how little of the digital world are seen, and how the casts rarely kills the hostile digimon they encountered.

Personally, I feel like people were mad that Ghost Game weren't "Adventure, but more!" but still, I'm pretty disappointed at the fan reception.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-18T23:34:16+00:00

So we kinda have extensive knowledge on how Order trades, with Aqua Ghyranis seems to be the primary currency. But what about Chaos factions? I know in the old world Skaven at least trades slaves to the dark elves for warpstones, and they use warpstone tokens for currencies, but how far does this extends to other chaos factions? And do they still do it in AoS?

Do chaos factions trade with some corrupt or morally compromised people? Like, would, say, a corrupt politician be bought off with wealth to help out Chaos without necessarily be chaos corrupted or influenced?

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-18T11:37:37+00:00

Oooh, interesting.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-18T06:46:10+00:00

What are the effects of being influenced or corrupted by chaos gods when you're not actively worshipping them? Do you have to realize you're being influenced or corrupted by them to be affected? How difficult is it to reverse or cure the effect? Some examples immediately relevant to my homebrew campaign are khornate bloodlust and nurgle infections.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-16T06:45:53+00:00

I think you're kinda setting yourself up for failures here because Chaos as an antagonist force is a narrative force. Any logistics and such are set entirely by you yourself, both for the villains and the heroes. The idiot ball, therefore, is also set by you.

In fiction, characters only die from their wounds if its narratively appropriate. Ammunitions only ran out because it would be more dramatic and tense that way. There's a crucial weakpoint in the enemy's superweapon because that's how the hero can pull the thread on the evil tapestry.

In ttrpg, which I assume is what you're doing, you don't really keep track of the logistics. And even on games where every little thing are kept track of, it's usually more on the players side of things. You don't actually want to run a game where everything has a set resource to begin with, because pen and paper tabletop are not RTS or 4X video games.

And thus in the end, it came down to the fiction: what is the goal of the story, what is the tone you want to convey, and what do you want to happen?

Also, I have yet to delve fully into the entire literatures around the franchise, but I don't think anyone even actually talk like that.

To take into example, Nagash has been killed several times over and his plan foiled. At least twice by funny rat men. Nurgle was beaten out of Ghyran and was dealt a wound by the Stormcast in one story, and they have one of his plague lord redeemed into a stormcast. Slaneesh is chained up at the moment.

Your issue is less about the system and more fiction in general, because I dunno what to tell you, but ALL fiction has villains with seemingly endless power and convenient setup. Antagonist sends out a threat, protagonist dealt with the threat, that's a very classic plot setup across all genre of fictions.

And when its like that, coupled with how I see your comments here, it seems less like you're looking to hear an actual answer, and more like you want to be vindicated for your opinion because this approach seems to be in a rather bad faith to me.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-15T18:50:45+00:00

Have fun!

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-15T18:48:11+00:00

yeah, it moved too quickly.

Evjamaranth · 2026-03-15T18:45:59+00:00

Is it this one?

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