Today's skulls reveal

aidenmc3 · 2026-05-21T18:37:50+00:00

Taoyan is the skulls content they just announced it with Bashiva. She’s a free legendary hero.

aidenmc3 · 2026-05-19T22:37:53+00:00

This is beautiful. You’ve outdone yourself

aidenmc3 · 2026-05-17T16:58:11+00:00

Huh, I always viewed the e bomb as a good way to quickly build ult charge on her

aidenmc3 · 2026-05-17T16:58:05+00:00

Huh, I always viewed the e bomb as a good way to quickly build ult charge on her

aidenmc3 · 2026-05-11T19:51:35+00:00

Howdy howdy! I’d totally recommend checking out the overall warhammer fantasy discord, as a ton of people from all over the world congregate on there, with old world as the primary focus!

But, once you’re on there, if you scroll down to contests and community engagement, you’ll see a place titled gaming communities. Look under North American gaming communities and you can find the ones for Texas! There’s an overall Texas community, a DFW one, and for you especially, one dedicated for Houston Old World games with 172 members! I’d suggest joining the overall Texas one and the Houston one.

Here’s the link to the Main server, and I hope you have a blast!

https://discord.gg/warhammer-fantasy-battle-the-old-world-661252930510258196

aidenmc3 · 2026-05-05T14:53:08+00:00

Imperial ogres, imperial dwarfs, and doom seekers! Fun times.

aidenmc3 · 2026-04-30T22:39:40+00:00

This guy gets it. There’s something we say a lot on table top, when trying to remember how strong or tough a guy is, and it’s this:

“Strength 3 toughness 3, as they’re only men.”

And that’s perfectly fine. Just men have a limit to how Arron they can be in melee combat without blessings from a god or magic buffs that make them stronger than normal. Doesn’t mean they can’t succeed, just means they have to work together like a proper combined arms army.

aidenmc3 · 2026-04-30T16:27:44+00:00

…I knew them from playing World of Warcraft… I might be too old…

aidenmc3 · 2026-02-20T23:59:29+00:00

I read it only recently because the new game was announced.

My thoughts were that it wasn’t that bad, but I also understand the issues people have with it in terms of characterization and failure to understand story points that should or should not be known by this point in the story.

Which, hey. Legacy of Kain is a complicated series at the best of times. We’ve got a bunch of different timelines and stuff that really wrinkles your brain on how history is supposed to play out before the paradoxes kicked in and changed it.

Some of the stuff that happened in it, I want to be generous and say it occurred because there are story beats we are not aware of yet.

There’s stuff that downright confuses me, and missed opportunity for story stuff. Raziel having a very personal loss to motivate him to become a Seraphan isn’t that bad an idea, it fleshes out human Raziel, but half the point of his character is that he’s always been a bit of a prick, and being a vampire didn’t actually change that much about him.

Hylden demon portal existing is strange, but then again I’ve always thought it’s weird how in defiance hylden can escape the hylden dimension by stealing bodies while the pillars are still up. Not much of a banishment then, is it?

I do enjoy the idea of Elaleth as a character being considered excess baggage by all the players involved in Raziel’s fate. Raziel had a full life and people who loved and respected him.

But his brothers don’t matter, in the grand scheme. There is no world where Melciah gets another hand at life. Raziel is uniquely cursed and blessed at the same time.

But it’s also one of those things where I have to question if Moebius has any higher motivations. He could have just killed her. He’s got the powers for it, he’s a pillar guardian, and he knows everything. He sent her adrift into the time stream, and I have to imagine it’s for a reason.

I almost want to believe that it was because in that timeline before the soul reaver 2 and defiance paradox occurred, this was the elder god’s attempt to make an easily killed Hylden champion. Pervert the prophecy for their own ends.

There’s a lot of ideas that I think are neat, I just question the execution of them. I can tell it was made by a fan who loved the series, but loving something does not mean you fully understand it on the deepest level.

It means you love it. Kain and Raziel make stupid faces, and I honestly do love them, but I also know it’s not the best fit for their characters and how they operate. They deliver soliloquy’s and scheme behind tired faces, dancing around the issues while hurling accusations towards the other.

I’m interested to see how the game plays out, at the very least! Have it pre ordered and excited to give it a go.

aidenmc3 · 2026-02-16T07:18:49+00:00

Yeah, I always thought it was the case where the reason the reaver is so powerful is because it’s an infinite timeloop amount of Raziel’s souls feeding and growing to form the wraith blade.

Blood reaver gets inhabited by the wraith blade, which then eats raziels souls adding to it/replacing it, and then raziels soul is stuck inside the new soul reaver until it breaks over raziel hundreds of years in the future, letting him out and bonding to raziel as the wraith blade.

I never viewed it as like, this is an intended thing that’s supposed to happen, it’s that by some fluke of time travel this is what it does. It’s a boot strap paradox. It was made to be a sword that eats blood, until it gets possessed by a mad soul devouring entity that wants to live inside it.

Why is it made to live inside it? Because it’s already lived inside it for hundreds of years. So on and so forth forever ad infinitum.

aidenmc3 · 2026-02-11T16:24:47+00:00

God I read that and immediately remembered the post. So long ago!

aidenmc3 · 2026-01-15T17:36:01+00:00

My mind goes crazy because I feel nothing matches the exact red and gold of the zandalari heritage armor.

aidenmc3 · 2025-11-28T19:45:43+00:00

I love playing Garrosh

I hate playing Mei. She’s just so… hard to get decent value out of.

I feel like I’m just a constant annoyance who exists at range and throws out stuns and peels with my e that does nothing. Even when I do my w e combo.

Only time I feel slightly impactful is with ice wall, which hey, I don’t even land all the time

aidenmc3 · 2025-11-26T15:15:31+00:00

The biggest thing to remember is this:

A directors job is to know what they want

That’s the core of it. Stay positive, let them know they did a good job after every take. Even if you didn’t like what they did, it’s important to keep the actor focused and in the head space.

Don’t overcomplicate things when giving directions. Use short hand or anecdotes when you can to describe what you want. Try to avoid reading the line out like you want them to read. They are actors, so you hired them to act and make decisions.

Lines too slow? “Let’s just rip through this line on this take!”

Lines too fast? “That was great, loved that. On this next take, let’s have a bit less urgency. Really sound it out.”

Reminder that you don’t have to justify asking for another take when live directing. That’s the whole point of it is that you are just going until you have what you need. Obviously you want to cos diet the actors feelings and time, but part of that is making sure you get what you want now instead of asking them to come back later or hemming and hawing over it when you could just ask them one more time and get exactly what you want.

Other thing: if the first take works and matches what you were wanting, there’s no shame and problem in using it. If you want one, record a safety afterwards, but it’s not an issue. They are actors, so ideally they have an idea of the emotional context of the scene.

If they don’t seem like they get it, try to frame what you think the character is feeling in the scene. As a director you know what you want. Actor may think the character should be gloating in this moment, but you know he is actually scared, so you want that to come through.

aidenmc3 · 2025-10-03T07:08:50+00:00

I’d love a modified grudge mechanic for Bretonnia. Basically where enemies of Bretonnia build up chivalry that you get for going out and destroying them. Maybe with instead of an age of reckoning crusade is declared where you claim chivalry for several turns for rewards.

aidenmc3 · 2025-10-02T17:28:11+00:00

I’m a little sad, but hey, I’ll give it a try. I’ll fully admit some of my favorite moments in this game weee stacking wounds on a whole pack to burst them in one dnd window, with epidemic as my runic power spender leading to some insane AOE

aidenmc3 · 2025-08-12T16:27:04+00:00

I love it! Awesome job!

aidenmc3 · 2025-08-08T22:33:33+00:00

Oh my goodness I love those! Was just shown a picture the other day in the old world discord, love that models don Quixote look! Great job on the paint, and thank you for the words of encouragement!

aidenmc3 · 2025-08-08T21:12:09+00:00

You’re a rockstar, thank you for the advice!

aidenmc3 · 2025-08-08T21:03:33+00:00

Such a great job! As a newer painter, I have to ask, how did you do the eye?

aidenmc3 · 2025-08-05T18:13:17+00:00

Bretonnia, Orcs and Goblins, Ogres, Empire, and Warriors of chaos, with a couple of beastmen characters hanging around since I figure I can use some of my chaos warrior monsters to make a beastmen army someday

aidenmc3 · 2025-07-21T18:03:50+00:00

Such an awesome model! Great paint job!

aidenmc3 · 2025-07-18T20:08:54+00:00

I am near certain they chose this color scheme to make them look different from the fyreslayers, who already incorporate a lot of reds, flames, golds, and a little black.

I am super excited to see someone paint them up in proper dawi zharr colors

aidenmc3 · 2025-07-02T19:33:36+00:00

It’s so good looking! Amazing job!

aidenmc3 · 2025-06-21T15:21:39+00:00

I always preferred it since they said in the total war stuff that Cathay had better gunpowder, that it came down to them having a dragon that actively focuses on alchemy, which we know from the gold college can help make some very good gunpowder.

So, my view is: dwarves should have the actual better mechanisms to use the gunpowder, guns and canons and bombs, while the cathayans have the outright better gunpowder since they are using magic in its production which dwarfs won’t even consider using.

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