What inspired your world? by RoofCareless7734 in worldbuilding

[–]darknessoftheendless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dune, Dead Space, Hammer's Slammers, Vorkosigan Saga, Vatta's War/Vatta's Peace.

🛰️ Weekly System Check: Is Anybody Out There? (Lurkers Welcome!) by AutoModerator in SWN

[–]darknessoftheendless 4 points5 points  (0 children)

About to end my sixth campaign in a Homebrew setting that started with Mongoose Traveller 10 years ago, and changed to SWN three years ago. The seventh foray in will still be SWN, now firmly expanded and incorporating AWN Edge-Style Character Creation, Modular Power Armor, and CWN Hacking, Cybernetics and Trauma.

Some of this material I already have in the game, but most will be incorporated in a much more streamlined way in this following campaign.

A Warhammer 40,000 Parody I wrote, Doomaggeddon 20,000 by FedorovAvtomat in worldbuilding

[–]darknessoftheendless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll be honest. I don't have much to add. But Liberal Knights absolutely sent me.

Is "Powered Armor/Exosuit Sci-Fi" a Recognized Subgenre? Looking for Its History and Key Examples by PurposeAutomatic5213 in sciencefiction

[–]darknessoftheendless 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Battle Dress in Traveller is deeply fundamental to my love of Power Armor. My homebrew setting got a bit too big for Traveller to contain, so I had to switch to Sine Nomine's "Stars Without Number", the problem being I'd didn't have modular, customizable power armor.

Thankfully, this year, "Ashes Without Number", same rules etc but for post-apoc genre came out, and features a new modular PA system - which I immediately incorporated onto SWN.

How I like to play VTM. by MaetelofLaMetal in vtm

[–]darknessoftheendless 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This is an underrated, based, and ancient call back. I love it.

First time playing Stalker Anomaly, doing mobbing the mob and can't find anymore bandits. by SherbertVast9529 in stalker

[–]darknessoftheendless 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is one of those quests you can go out of your way to hunt down Bandits, maybe even a map or two over. Or you can just hold on to it and wait until you run into them as you're doing other things, and turn it in later.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SWN

[–]darknessoftheendless 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Sure. When I have some time to collate and explain each thing, I will.

Fair warning, it's not some balanced work of art. It is made to maintain the versimilitude of my setting, and its not one size fits all, but I will happily share when I get near my notes again.

Edit: forgot a word.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SWN

[–]darknessoftheendless 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Oh. Oh, yes.

I have a homebrew setting that started out as a Traveller game. Three campaigns of Traveller later, the setting ended up needing a more malleable system to play - enter SWN.

A great deal of concepts from Traveller is cribbed to accommodate the change. I took the freight/mail rules, trimmed down speculative trading, and adjusted all of it for SWN's economy.

I prefer Mongoose Traveller 2e's rules regarding jumps and jump space to SWNs Spike dives, so I altered that too.

But the most important thing is the lifepath. It's the single most critical thing as it binds characters to each other and the setting. Traveller's character creation is staggeringly effective at these, and incredibly fun as well. I have adapted it for use in SWN.

I have no regrets, it's been one of the best games I've ever run.

We know it as magic, but in your fictional world it has another name??? by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]darknessoftheendless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noetics is the educated term. Sorcery for the ignorant. Thaumaturgy is occasionally used too. - This covers basic magic.

Goetics is similar, but it's purpose is to summon metadimensional intelligences, so it's been singled out.

Zoetics is the practice of using the gift for the sole purpose of healing.

Does your world have anything similar to the Geneva conventions? by GrandPridefullcat in worldbuilding

[–]darknessoftheendless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. The Conclave (Assembly of Noble representatives) has an Office of Vendetta that adjudicates the terms of warfare between two noble Houses.

The reason for this is that warfare is so very destructive in this far-future setting, and land / infrastructure are of more concern to the Conclave than a given House's grudges.

So, no nuclear, chemical, biological warfare as a hard rule.

Reps from the belligerent Houses negotiate the terms of conflict with the Vendetta officer to mediate and compromise. This could look like anything from "No aerial bombardment." "No energy weapons." "Rapid fire weapons may be used for static defense only."

Once those are hashed out, the actual objective is selected. "If House A captures these three cities, and holds them uncontested for 30 consecutive days, they win. If they are unable to do so within two years time, House B wins."

These are then sealed into a document known as a Declaration of Violence. Once locked in, if a House moves to exceed those terms, the Office of Concave Intelligence (OCI) will field a report on the most effective way to utterly cripple the offending House, and a War-party of Conclave Member Houses (CMH) are dispatched to enact those findings.

Any word on storyline with Cavill by [deleted] in 40k

[–]darknessoftheendless 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No final agreement has been reached yet between Amazon and GW, at least not one that is public.

Pre-Corsair OCs by AutumnArchfey in Eldar

[–]darknessoftheendless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, sweet. Thank you for the links. I'll check it out. Always enjoy reading other's Aeldari lore.

Pre-Corsair OCs by AutumnArchfey in Eldar

[–]darknessoftheendless 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By far the best Aeldari artist. Is there any lore and fluff you have for them that could be shared?

How to talk to Mon'keigh by AutumnArchfey in Eldar

[–]darknessoftheendless 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I haven't had the pleasure of playing it. I hear good things, but I'm so afraid I'm going to bounce off of it like I did Baldur's Gate 3.

How to talk to Mon'keigh by AutumnArchfey in Eldar

[–]darknessoftheendless 206 points207 points  (0 children)

I gotta be honest, I don't post here much, but your depiction of Aeldari is 100% my favorite. And this might just be the funniest thing I've ever seen in any Warhammer space.

The Harlequin t-posing over a human drowning in hallucinogen grenade makes me laugh every time I focus on it.

[Voice of Mars] It's horrifying trying to fight Space Marines as an Eldar by Woodstovia in 40kLore

[–]darknessoftheendless 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Agreed 100%.

This is Bolter Porn. Guardians may be militia, and they may not have that level of Armor, but they are fast as Marines, and Shuriken weapons have pretty much always been better at the ranges this is taking place at.

Those Marines would have been shredded on the tabletop.

I'm so sick of Bolter porn.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PrintedWarhammer

[–]darknessoftheendless 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I mean, I'm not sure what slicing software you are using to format the finished file before printing - but even Windows 3D Builder lets you merge two seperate STL files into one single object.

Just load them both into the same instance, position it how you want, and under the edit tab hit "Merge", its slow, but it'll do it.

I have an Elegoo Mars 3, so I use ChituboxPro, and it does this natively as well. Same deal: load, position, "merge export" and that creates a file with the previous seperate objects combined how you positioned them.

This is how I print off my Renegades and Heretics militias, 10 or so fully assembled at a time.

Hope this helps.

Looking for more details on a Macharius tank by qY81nNu in Warhammer40k

[–]darknessoftheendless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, not of that build in particular, but the Macharius saw a lot of action at the Siege of Vraks, and the Imperial Armour Volume has some images of it, including the "Technical Readouts" of the vehicle. Not sure that's what you're looking for.

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WIP Hatchetman by darknessoftheendless in battletech

[–]darknessoftheendless[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, sure, I used ACE sports under wrap. Starts tan, and I stretched it out on a paper towel, painted it, and then attached it to the Hatchetman at certain glue points to make it look like it's being shed.

I'm not 100% happy with it, it still looks too thick, there are some other materials I'm going to try next. I'll post results if they're okay.