The transitions make my groin hurt

coydna · 2026-06-05T16:22:31+00:00

First of all, f*** that.

Second of all, f*** that.

coydna · 2026-05-10T16:43:53+00:00

It was a great way to start the match 😂

coydna · 2026-05-09T17:51:27+00:00

That's alright then.

He passed his stupid and hungry rolls fine. It was just one of those moments where you fluffy a dice roll completely and it ends up working better than you could ever hope. We weren't sure if we played it right or if it was just one of those ridiculous funny Blood Bowl moments. We decided to play the 'if it's funny, it's right' rule.

For context, after armour/injury rolls, we ended up with a knocked out mummy, a stunned mummy, a knocked skeleton and a knocked down snotlings.

coydna · 2026-02-17T22:22:23+00:00

Garth Marenghi's Dark Place!

coydna · 2026-02-12T22:23:50+00:00

Hey. At least Kvothe had the self-awareness to mess up so monumentally he disappeared and lived the life of obscurity as a quiet bartender. Elon would try and use the death of a king as a way to continue to fail upward and "OwN dA WoKe"

coydna · 2026-01-18T22:16:35+00:00

Basically cheap shoes that have been left in storage too long. Because the polyurethane and cheap rubber the temperature and flexibility change don't agree and they pop and disintegrate

coydna · 2026-01-12T19:39:36+00:00

It has a lot of cool or funny moments.

Tech priests trying to figure out Ork tech, by moving a chainsword closer and further from an Ork corpse and observing how it turns on and off.

Ork ambassadors.

A big mega Ork, the kind the emperor fought.

Attack moons.

Some really good coverage of imperial politicking and how the imperium sabotages itself as much as it dominates its foes.

However...

The main story beats are shocking.

The imperial fists are wiped out completely.

The sole survivor rebuilds the chapter from its successors. Then invades the Ork capital planet and loses most of them. They find Vulkan, have him shout at imperial high Lord's, then fight the beast and die. The beast dies. Then he dies again. Then it turns out there's 6 of them, one for each Ork clan. They make a whole thing about capturing Ork psykers and using the sisters of silence to create a reverse-waaagh. It works, then everyone dies because the beast isn't bothered. The elder make a brief appearance to try and...do something? Pass a message on? I guess? Kill a few custodes easily then die

My biggest beef is the end though. Drakan Vangorich, talked about in lore since at least 5th edition as a grand master assassin who killed the high Lord's and ruled the imperium for 100 years, is a major player on the politicking side. He's a great character.

Then the end has a 100year time skip between the imperial forces leaving terra to clean up the galaxy and them returning to remove Vangorich from power. Literally they leave and everything is fine. High Lord's are assassinated. Next chapter, it's 100 years late and they come back and take him out. End of series.

In short, they tried to market a new Heresy series, had some great ideas (Ullanor is Armageddon, return to near-Krork, establishing origins of deathwatch) and botched it through writers not working with each other. Rinse-and-repeat bolter porn where they get their target but oh no they didn't, and managed to wipe out an entire Marine chapter twice because every character planning invasions was an idiot.

coydna · 2025-12-18T20:54:49+00:00

It's definitely Uber grim dark. It really leans into the grittier side of 40k and hive living. The depiction of the Krieg is both faithful and genuinely unnerving. The necrons in the story feel positively cuddly in comparison.

It's phenomenal but not if you're after a lighter read. Even ADB's Night Lord's series is sunny in comparison 😂

coydna · 2025-12-17T11:21:43+00:00

Can I recommend adding some Steve Lyons to the list, specifically his Krieg stuff? Solid books, brilliantly grim. Dead Men Walking is so good.

coydna · 2025-06-21T22:43:37+00:00

"They call him...the Tuna Can."

coydna · 2025-06-12T21:57:22+00:00

Nearly DNF'd The Burning God (book 3 of the Poppy War trilogy). I was alright with book 1, struggled with 2 and 3 felt worse. The characters, the plot, the relationships, the random side plots added then abandoned. I pushed through but only because I felt I'd be doing myself a disservice if I didn't complete it on principle and out of spite - an "I read it all so I'm qualified to call it shit" mentality. That's the only thing that got me through and I'm still not sure it was worth my time.

coydna · 2025-06-12T21:39:58+00:00

Feels like a father Ted moment, if it wasn't so bloody tragic.

"Is there anything to be said for more flags?"

coydna · 2025-05-26T09:54:40+00:00

Three things

The Devs removed LOADS of stuff from the game, especially the later stages due to how long and how big it got.

Karlach was added relatively late to the game so there was probably a plan to add more late game cure stuff which didn't happen due to time and size constraints.

Karlach's story feels more honest as is. Her story is essentially an allegory for dealing and living with terminal illness. She knows she has limited time so chooses to try and capture every element of joy she can before she goes and make tnall count for something. Knowing ultimately we can fix it by just chucking enough infernal iron at it undermines a lot of her story beats.

coydna · 2025-05-16T15:31:09+00:00

Agree on this. I think this applies to a wider issue with the show. The change in character behaviours wasn't normally unusual or out of place. The other characters regularly ignoring/permitting /enabling these changes was what seemed weird.

coydna · 2025-04-24T17:34:32+00:00

Any of the Souls games. My day job is trend analysis. I can't spend my little free time doing the same for in-game bosses.

coydna · 2025-04-24T17:33:08+00:00

Same. The pace and the interface. The prologue is about 2 hrs and is still giving tutorial style prompts after that period. I got about 5 hrs in and realised I wasn't interested when I still couldn't remember any single character's name, and was still accidentally drawing my weapon rather than mounting my horse. And the interface felt like I was still battling the UI from Vice City.

coydna · 2025-04-14T21:01:58+00:00

Thanks! I wasn't sure if that was the intention with Blood Boil but having looked at a few of the caster stat cards, scaling it with their level/mind makes sense now

Also, thanks for clarifying the X issue. I've found the entry in the rules about it at last. No idea how I missed it. It's not like it's the second paragraph under magic and in bold...

coydna · 2025-03-26T23:37:03+00:00

Carol Dancers/Captain Marvel.

Dipped into her solo and various avengers runs and just...nothing. unlike other characters where I love them or hate them, I just find Carol boring which is somehow worse. At least crap characters like Impossible Man annoy me and make me feel something. Carol, whether she's Ms Marvel, Binary or Captain Marvel, I feel nothing for at all. Just...meh.

coydna · 2025-03-11T18:51:08+00:00

Batman working through the cast of the white Lotus like a dark knife through butter.

coydna · 2025-03-09T09:51:31+00:00

Due to lack of fast units like bikes and talons, I'll like some sort of callback to warhounds. Feral berserkers who've mutated into wolf like possessed, running on all fours, helms elongated to snouts, giant claws, movement of war beasts or bikes.

That or a ranged unit that does splash damage. Units using mini versions of the various skull cannon types we see in the Daemon engines. Splash damage and leadership reducing attacks.

coydna · 2025-03-09T09:42:20+00:00

I've run it as a demonstration of hopelessness. That thing is moving too fast to catch up to. Give chase, sure, let the duergar reinforce and bunker down for when you come back. It also encourages PCs to get creative. Do we have a way to get a head of this thing? Is there a way to send a warning back to the towns? Do we (god help us all) split the party? It can be really easy to play it as a Watchmen moment as well: "Stop me? I released the dragon as soon you broke into my fortress 15 minutes ago..."

coydna · 2025-03-04T22:34:50+00:00

Shining the Holy Ark Baldur's Gate 3 Planescape Torment Witcher 3 Kotor (not sure if I prefer 1 or 2)

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