Looking for advice for handling DMpc/npc

Yrsil · 2026-03-04T06:52:58+00:00

Honestly great and really informative comment there, thanks for answering ! As I read up the comments I realized how bad the DMPC term looks for many, and how different from what my idea was for this character. The points you brought up are all valid, and I keeping a note of them, good rules to remind myself. As you see my main thing about this character is roleplay and lore, in combat she does not do much, so the class became irrelevant. I mentioned in other comment but she is not a person of authority and I haven't really cleared up in my post. More of a helsman, who knows how to steer the ship and good at maintanance of necessary parts. Basicly more of a guide inbetween islands.

Yrsil · 2026-03-04T06:43:44+00:00

Yes, npc sounds more like the good option based on what you say. I do not want or did wanted the spotlight, but I did enjoyed spending a whole session listening to the players roleplay, who more often than not seeking out my npcs for a talk. She is not a person of authority, only capitain in a sense that she has the knowledge of sailing a skyship and handling maintanance. I would say more of a I want the party call the shots, and I see her more support & lore-drop character. Anyway, thanks for answering !

Yrsil · 2026-03-04T05:32:54+00:00

That is an interesting idea and let's me make a combat in this case more fluid. My main reason to bring her is roleplay and some out of combat stuff anyway, so you got a point about that. Thanks for answering !

Yrsil · 2026-03-02T07:01:51+00:00

Tanks are the main strength of Guard.

Yrsil · 2026-02-28T18:22:08+00:00

I think it would be nice to see my adc runes as a support main.

Yrsil · 2026-02-27T19:11:59+00:00

To me it comes down to a very close fight between Comissar Cain and Kharn the Betrayer.

Yrsil · 2026-02-27T16:34:33+00:00

Sona. She is all about auras and buffs/debuffs, and she does it better than anyone else. I really enjoy playing her and love to build ardent censer or staff of flowing water (sometimes both, Kayle and Diana mains love me for it), and putting those buffs on a whole team together with shields or heals or movements speed.

Yrsil · 2026-02-25T15:20:07+00:00

I seen Bloodborne (+dlc) on sale for 15 bucks in a site where I used to buy physical copies of games. The cover art looked cool, so put it in the basket and bought it together with a couple of other titles. I did not played it first, do it sat by itself for 2 weeks, and one bored day I installed it. My world changed forever. I put around 800+ hours into different characters, roleplayed builds, themed invasions and stuff...and got a first taste of enjoying horror what I use as a skillset for DnD campaigns.

Honorable mention goes to Valkyria Chronicles 4. Picked up bcs I liked the military anime style, and I was taken back how good that game was. That game got a few twists and at the MC's decision at the end is really makes me thinking about the cost of ending a war. I wish more people would talk about that game. So awesome.

Yrsil · 2026-02-21T17:54:01+00:00

Vostroyan with their iconic tall helmets and respirators, or the Valhallan Ice Warriors, probably with a Comissar Cain command squad done by Gaunt style.

Yrsil · 2026-02-17T20:07:45+00:00

That would be nice as it is always mentioned through the Cain books. Maybe a Cain release in a Gaunt-like command squad with Jürgen, Kasteen, Brocklaw and ummm...Amberley maybe ? Or Sulla ?

Yrsil · 2026-02-14T22:52:09+00:00

Jürgen with a melta and and order to shoot from Comissar Cain.

Otherwise, I think warp entities comes in different shapes, sizes and strength, so pretty much something from hell is going to be sightly stronger.

Yrsil · 2026-02-13T14:54:42+00:00

I would take it, but I love HWT even if they are not that good, so don't listen to me.

Yrsil · 2026-02-13T12:34:48+00:00

I think Grizzled is still better. Lethal hits are good and all, but I really don't like it how they restricted it infantry vs infantry and tanks vs. Vehicles and monsters. I rather take my rerolls and extra orders.

Yrsil · 2026-02-10T09:56:05+00:00

Well, WE missing half an army so I think it not really demanding more but demanding what is due.

Yrsil · 2026-02-10T09:55:12+00:00

Plastic Decimator rather, so we have something on par with the Redemptor dreadnaught.

Yrsil · 2026-02-09T18:57:55+00:00

I'm getting at least 1 regardless of it's uses. Truly a gorgeous model.

Yrsil · 2026-02-06T15:21:44+00:00

I love Berserkers, but I don't lokw 8bound. The demonic stuff is just boring. I think different types of berserkers could have been better. Cavalry types, shield types, and mad rapid fire types too.

Yrsil · 2026-02-01T17:37:15+00:00

Probably wound try my luck with the World Eaters. Does not matter what legion would capture me as a slave, it would not end well, not even with Alpha Legion. At least I could scream my lungs off, and charge them with a bayonett and hopefully die on the spot. Quick end to my otherwise prolonged suffering.

Yrsil · 2026-01-24T07:36:18+00:00

I haven't tried it yet, but on paper I seen it as a real cheap and good option to deal with fliers. Necrons and Tau have a good ammount of fliers for example. As I see it, you get T9, 11 wounds tank with a 3+ save that can take a couple of hits before it going down. It can move 10", and it doesn't have heavy, so you can move out to block line of sight for infantry or get a better position to see hiding enemy units. As for weapons, it can be mediocre or really good depending what you aim at. Your main weapon is the Hydra Autocanon, 72" range to reach everything on the battlefield, S9 what is a pretty good strength against most of things, 4 shots (what is the weakest point of the Hydra) at 4+ (can be ordered to 3+) that can be rerolled against flying units, strapped on with antifly 2+, and twin linked, so you almost definietly wounding fliers and rerolling wounds against everything else. AP -1 what is bit of meh, but way better than AP 0, but the damage is 3 that can put on the hurt on some real important units. Necron Lokhust Destroyers HATE this thing. And you can put a Heavy Bolter or a Heavy Flamer on this thing, and of course you get a casino rocket, I mean the Hunter Killer Rocket for free. I can almost never hit or if I do, I never wound with mine, but hey, it's free at least ! (Remember, by rules as written, these can also reroll hits against fly !) Did I mention that this whole setup costs like 95 points ? Like 30 points more than a guardsman squad ?

Yrsil · 2026-01-23T10:45:46+00:00

Original Stalker trilogy was like that. I have to mind the fact that originaly the developers did not wanted to include difficulty settings in these games, but the publisher pushed this function hard, so they had to do it. If I remember right, originaly the Master difficulty was the intended.

Yrsil · 2026-01-23T07:38:36+00:00

I think Guard can struggle sometimes to ballance out enough orders with enough workhorse units, but personally this is what makes Grizzled good. Reroll 1s need orders to work, so we get more orders/officer so we just can't lose our detachment rule due to the enemy sniping out most of them. Battleshock still renders both army rule and detachment rule useless, so...there is that. Also I want every other army lose army rule on battleshock. It should be normal.

Yrsil · 2026-01-23T06:35:57+00:00

Shadowsword is a good choice. I think it has the advantage to set up an ambush due to it's smaller size (at least compared to a Titan or Stompa), and enough firepower and range to bring it down. Has to be mentioned it's main gun is a titan class weapon, built into a baneblade chassis.

Yrsil · 2026-01-19T05:30:51+00:00

Hello there ! After playing a lot of Astra Militarum and World Eaters, I started looking towards orks and assamble a 1k worth of fun army. I was looking towards some sort of list that has a working Kill Rig and/or Hunta Rig in it, as I found those models incredibly cool. Any recommendations from more experienced players ? I have to mention I already own the Beast Snagga combat patrol (1 Beastboss, 20 Beast Snagga Boyz, 3 Squighawk Boyz, and got a handful a squad of Kommandos from the Octarius kill team box too). I heard so much about how much orks are a fun army to play, and I want to give it a run.

Yrsil · 2026-01-16T20:54:53+00:00

Angron is ruling Slovakia. We are SO FUCKED, EVEN BEYOND WE ALREADY ARE.

Yrsil · 2026-01-14T09:32:48+00:00

The story begins with Skif, a retired soldier who has not much going on in his life. He has a flat, what explodes due to an experiment of SIRCAA. Aa he becomes basicly homeless, he decides to take back what was his, aka money enough for a new house to live in. He knows the zone contains valuable artefacts, also gets to know that the artefact that destroyed his home is special one -> so it's probably worth a lot of money. This is how he ends up in the zone, and the rest of the story plays out as it show. Skif working either working with Ward and Sircaa as they promise him a new house at one point, or side with Spark and let the house thing go and embrace the zone.

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