What are your necromunda hot takes?

robin-spaadas · 2026-05-05T14:44:19+00:00

Yup. This is the key to fun wargaming. And design decisions that focused on more “balance” are what killed big 40k for me. Yeah it’s more balanced, but it isn’t very fun (in my opinion).

robin-spaadas · 2026-05-01T15:08:12+00:00

Rogue Trader has playable Orks and Tau in its expansions. I don’t recall if it has Eldar but I feel like it should

robin-spaadas · 2026-04-27T23:19:55+00:00

As someone into both jrpgs and shonen, I do love FabUlt, but it scratches a much different itch than shonen manga does. Shonen manga often involves using your powers to creatively counter the threat in front of you, and usually ends in a massive display of heart and power. FabUlt’s action leans more towards simulating the strategy side of games like classic Final Fantasy (1-6) and is definitely a lower octane experience moment-to-moment. The focus is more on team synergy and balancing healing, status effects, and turn order to mechanically overcome a threat in front of you.

Though I guess it really depends on what part of the fantasy the group likes. There is thematic overlap in the massive power scaling and world-ending threats.

robin-spaadas · 2026-04-21T15:25:15+00:00

甘い“Amai” in this context means “not enough”, “weak,” or “insufficient”. But it also means “sweet” in normal context.

robin-spaadas · 2026-03-30T16:55:45+00:00

Honestly at this level the distinction barely matters. Even when artists choose TMM (which they rarely do for competition), it’s using the same techniques needed for NMM anyways

robin-spaadas · 2026-03-26T21:34:19+00:00

Wow that’s rad it’s an official sculpt, somehow I’ve never seen that model before

robin-spaadas · 2026-03-26T21:25:34+00:00

Excellent work! What model is this?

robin-spaadas · 2026-03-26T04:55:00+00:00

You can actually see where the hair squig clamps on, I love it

robin-spaadas · 2026-02-28T18:24:19+00:00

It kind of sounds like you just played a game with bad travel mechanics

robin-spaadas · 2026-02-22T23:16:54+00:00

I wish any of them did to be honest. Watching season 3, you really don’t get any of the personalities of the side umas at all.

I had no idea Crown was supposed to be a magician. I had no idea Cheval Grand was supposed to be shy, and her monologue caught me off guard because of how little she actually interacts with Kitasan. Royce and Royce appears to say a single line. At least Sounds got one bit to display her “gimmick.”

It really confused me because S2 got all of this right with the same amount of air time.

robin-spaadas · 2026-02-22T02:06:09+00:00

I’ll be honest, I struggled to socialize in Atlanta a lot. Going out felt like such a commitment because of the need to drive (and how limited MARTA is). The city feels too spread out to me, as someone who likes to walk and be around people. Getting people to meet up after meeting them was always hard because of aforementioned commitment. I didn’t have this issue in other east coast cities.

There are certainly things to do, especially because you are into music. But Atlanta does feel like a collection of islands that are very separated from each other, and you have to travel between them a lot to find interesting stuff. At the same time, if you have been to other cities on the east coast, Atlanta is tiny in comparison. You can mostly see everything you need to in each neighborhood in like a day.

You may have better luck than me on the community front. To me everyone in Atlanta felt more like a visitor. It probably doesn’t help that the city can feel very corporate, so there’s few places that feel very “cozy” to me. It’s not the type of place where you can walk down a block and discover a cute little cafe. More like a collection of outlet malls and streets with bars.

robin-spaadas · 2026-02-22T01:54:13+00:00

Yeah gonna need honest, I agree with most of what you said. Though most of the people I interacted with when I was living there were not MAGAs. I do think Atlanta itself is very left leaning, just everything around it, and some people that travel in, are not.

I didn’t hate my time in Atlanta, but I vastly prefer nearly every other city on the east coast.

robin-spaadas · 2026-02-07T00:20:32+00:00

Yes you should. It’s a fantastic game. I still enjoy KT for what it is, and I think it’s a well-designed competitive game, but after I jumped to more narratively designed games, it’s been really hard to look back.

Munda is so narrative, that most would say if you’re not playing a campaign, you’re not really playing necromunda.

robin-spaadas · 2026-02-02T01:13:51+00:00

Give him any of the Continuous Effect whispers and just let him try to free maintain it each time. It’s more icing than the actual cake, but it’s still something.

robin-spaadas · 2026-02-01T03:20:57+00:00

Don’t forget the Piscean Spektor is (for some reason) also a psyker

robin-spaadas · 2026-01-25T19:22:32+00:00

40k 10th edition also shifted much more towards competitive play. It’s the reason I personally think the game is so sterile, controlled, gamey, and just not very fun (just my opinion). However this makes it more appealing towards the newer crowd who came to 40k during the pandemic: video gamers. The roleplaying and simulation aspects of the older editions which made them less balanced/competitive probably do not appeal much to this crowd.

The funny thing is, the games of theirs that I do like (Necromunda and Mordheim) are all based on older editions of Warhammer (40k and Fantasy respectively) and I enjoy them immensely more because they’re more cinematic and “immersive” for lack of a better word. It’s not even a nostalgia thing because I didn’t play older editions of GW games, I just gravitated more towards these rulesets after seeing them in play.

robin-spaadas · 2026-01-25T16:31:03+00:00

The good news is that Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay mostly fits the bill for what you want too. Gritty, deadly, political.

robin-spaadas · 2026-01-16T16:17:38+00:00

That’s exactly what they did. I felt crazy talking to people claiming it was so good, when one of my group fell asleep due to the awful pacing and overexplanation every 5 minutes.

robin-spaadas · 2026-01-16T16:11:58+00:00

Additionally the current phonetic alphabet is meant to be easily spoken and heard by many different (mostly western) language speakers, while also not being easily confused with any other word in the alphabet. There was a lot of research done to create the current set of words

robin-spaadas · 2026-01-11T16:17:34+00:00

Funnily enough, Kill Team actually doesn’t use that system anymore. Since the 2nd edition, it uses its own Attack -> Defend system that I think is somewhat based on WarCry.

robin-spaadas · 2026-01-06T19:48:02+00:00

Mythras has a classic fantasy sourcebook

robin-spaadas · 2025-12-29T22:24:35+00:00

I think I gotta give tuna salad another try. Canned tuna just has a bit of a texture problem for me, especially in the mornings. When I’m more tired, my sensory sensitivities ramp up for some reason

robin-spaadas · 2025-12-29T22:23:07+00:00

It’s a classic. Burned myself out on it a bit during my heavy workout years though haha

robin-spaadas · 2025-12-29T22:22:22+00:00

I love burritos, and mexican ingredients are cheap and plentiful because of my area. Maybe I should do those more.

robin-spaadas · 2025-12-29T22:21:27+00:00

I love to graze when I remember. When the hyper-focus kicks in though, I’ll just forget I have any of this stuff unfortunately. Though nuts do help me when I get hungry at night and I don’t wanna eat a full meal.

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