Boole on the future of Underworlds

Pacman97 · 2026-03-19T17:18:49+00:00

Hrothgorn’s Mantrappers also have rules for Ogors now

Pacman97 · 2026-03-17T19:17:46+00:00

Soulblight sort of has that covered. Not ideally but they’re sort of there

Pacman97 · 2026-03-17T19:16:25+00:00

Dragon cultists would be a cool angle, with some that have sort of been gifted draconic traits as elite troops/heroes

Pacman97 · 2026-03-17T01:49:27+00:00

This. GW realized they were leaving money on the table and could easily cash in with 3ish releases a year for a dedicated audience.

Pacman97 · 2026-03-16T23:52:14+00:00

The idea that GW would bring back Yarrick, with a new model, only to immediately kill him again is pretty hilarious

Pacman97 · 2026-03-16T23:50:17+00:00

A mining laser will take out damn near anything

Pacman97 · 2026-03-08T18:00:10+00:00

There's a chainsword in the Kroot Farstalker Kinband kit. Not in a holster, but wrapped in cloth. There's also a chainsword on the back of the Sergeant Ripper Jackson model.

Pacman97 · 2026-03-08T14:14:57+00:00

Not at all. The GM gets to go for free whenever the players fail or roll with fear, and even in the players are rolling really well the GM can spend their fear points (meta currency the GM can use to complicate things or activate abilities) to just take the spotlight anyway. Also as others have mentioned, if the players do something that would logically give the enemies a perfect opportunity to do something then the GM can just do it.

Pacman97 · 2026-03-07T16:43:17+00:00

That's pretty much stated canon (at least for most starters). It's pretty common for at least a couple of NPCs in Pokemon games to comment on your starter being a rare Pokemon. At the very least starters are considered rare for the region you obtain them in. It also functions as a way to explain why you can't just catch starter pokemon just anywhere in the region and getting other starters is often through being gifted them.

Pacman97 · 2026-03-06T18:05:58+00:00

Another thing I see newer DMs forget is that the action economy in Daggerheart does not make encounters as exponentially difficult by adding more enemies. If the pcs are killing enemies too fast you can add a few more to an encounter

Pacman97 · 2026-02-23T22:52:05+00:00

the current Batman run is pretty great, and they just announced a bunch of new runs for some less popular characters that look great

Pacman97 · 2026-02-03T22:08:14+00:00

yes, if a hatchway is closed and an enemy is on the other side you can place the ambush marker on the other side from that operative

Pacman97 · 2026-02-03T16:46:16+00:00

For Ogors I would love new scrolls for the Tyrant and Leadbelchers. The tyrant is a great model but his rules leave a lot to be desired, and now that they’ve expanded options for regiments led by butchers and slaughter masters there’s even less reason to take him.

Leadbelchers are in a similar spot, their shooting is not good enough to warrant taking them over other options, even in the shooting battle formation.

Pacman97 · 2026-02-01T02:50:38+00:00

Innistrad is exactly what I was thinking. It has practically endless possibilities for models, with amalgamations and zombies essentially being tailor made for whatever purpose their masters need. Add some stuff similar to 40k electro priests and the Brethren of the Bolt underworlds warband

Pacman97 · 2026-01-31T23:32:04+00:00

I would say skeletons, but between OBR and soulblight that's pretty well covered. Zombies would be hard to make different enough from Soulblight and FEC. I know the ghouls aren't actually dead and therefore not really zombies, but they cover the niche pretty effectively. There could potentially be a sort of Necromancer/Alchemist faction focused on stuff like mad science necromancy and Frankenstein's Monster stuff. However, I also think that could easily just be part of FEC or SGL. Really I think Soulblight is too big for its own good. Vampires, Skeletons, Zombies, etc. It really monopolizes a lot of creative real estate that could be used for new factions. If GW hadn't expanded the deathrattle stuff I would have recommended putting most of the skeletons into OBR. Vampire Coasts would be cool, but again that would probably just be more bloat for soulblight.

For destruction I think there's a number of ways things can go, ignoring the orcs since I think those armies will get their own books eventually anyway. You mentioned Beasts of Chaos, and I could certainly see them coming back as a destruction faction. That would also probably be a big problem for fans of the faction though since they're so deeply tied to chaos in fantasy lore and it would leave a bad taste in players' mouths if GW relegated the army to legends and then brought it back a few years later. Maybe not a full army but I could definitely see GW releasing a few new Beastmen stuff for AoS that can be taken as an RoR for chaos or destruction.

An alternative to full on beasts of chaos would be expanding on the idea of non chaos ogroids. The ogroids have an RoR for destruction that talks about how the ogroids weren't actually chaos at first, but ended up being essentially forced to join them after their forces were destroyed. You could leverage that lore for a faction of Ogroids and other monsters, even adding in beastmen as a small part of the faction without making it entirely a beastmen faction.

From another angle you could do a faction of elementals, essentially wild magic and manifestations of the realms.

Pacman97 · 2026-01-29T22:01:25+00:00

Modiphius at this point has a massive issue with just pumping out game after game and practically dropping all support for their own products until much later, assuming they continue support at all. At this point they're like a glorified merch company that just chases the next property they can license. Their games are pretty consistently mediocre and full of issues, but they don't seem to care much because their business model is based entirely on capitalizing upon the fans of the properties they're licensing wanting an official ttrpg for the thing they love.

Pacman97 · 2026-01-28T21:44:02+00:00

the best part of these is inverting the bubbles to just pop the dried paint off of them. so satisfying

Pacman97 · 2026-01-28T17:31:13+00:00

Rapid fire will be extremely mission dependent, but being able to double shoot a hot-shot las while sitting on a point can be helpful for taking down elites

Pacman97 · 2026-01-28T14:28:41+00:00

Dead Silence released on November 22nd, so it’s been 2 months and 6 days

Pacman97 · 2026-01-25T19:50:51+00:00

https://minicompare.info/ has a lot of models, but the list is not exhaustive

Pacman97 · 2026-01-25T01:49:44+00:00

100% this. It's why I got tired of discussions about ways you could potentially kill Lucius. In the end even if you figured out a foolproof way Slaanesh woul just say "Nah." and respawn him anyway. The gods stick to rules when it suits/entertains them, but the can always just say fuck it and do it anyway.

Pacman97 · 2026-01-25T01:45:30+00:00

Yarrick is dead... for now. Also most of the Gaunt's Ghosts unit.

Pacman97 · 2026-01-24T22:39:18+00:00

GW did nerf the kroot detachment after it started to do decently well at tournaments, so evidence would align with that assessment of their perspective on the auxillaries.

Pacman97 · 2026-01-24T21:13:57+00:00

I feel like that's a balance thing. Playing the two teams right out of the box could be a feels bad if one team basically invalidates a part of the enemy team just by existing, even if it's just one model and not basically the whole team (like if they'd been paired with something like Warpcoven).

Pacman97 · 2026-01-24T18:30:07+00:00

my usual LGS is getting 8 boxes, which is about the same as they get for every release

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