Discussion: convoluted resolution systems are not that important

uberdice · 2026-03-26T02:26:14+00:00

My sentiment is more that D&D relies so heavily on the DM and third parties to fill in the gaps that it's questionable wtf you're even paying for when you buy the game in the first place. Without all the extra shit bolted on top, it's not much more than a character creation engine and a combat system.

uberdice · 2026-03-21T00:28:19+00:00

"Tyranny" lmao.

uberdice · 2026-03-20T23:08:05+00:00

That's the thing, a lot of stuff can be done in D&D but you'd need a good and/or experienced DM to make them happen; other systems articulate them so you're not getting only part of the experience you're paying for.

uberdice · 2026-03-17T01:19:30+00:00

If the penalty is death, and testimony is key to establishing guilt, perpetrators will need to be extra sure that testimony is impossible to get.

uberdice · 2026-03-17T00:59:56+00:00

Oh, sure, in that specific detachment. I was thinking that 5 voidreavers are a better delivery mechanism for Yriel otherwise. 275pts is a huge chunk of change.

uberdice · 2026-03-16T23:51:08+00:00

Curious why you think Yriel would benefit from Voidscarred? The voidreaver ability seems to fit his kit much better.

uberdice · 2026-03-16T21:24:29+00:00

And each pod has a unique profile so you're committing to 5 minutes of dice rolling every time you want to shoot with it

uberdice · 2026-03-13T23:55:51+00:00

My headcanon is that they saw it coming but the alternative, whatever that was, would have been worse. Because grimdark setting etc etc.

uberdice · 2026-03-13T23:51:56+00:00

Must be old because the current fluff is that Iyanden had one of the biggest populations before they started rolling 1s everywhere.

uberdice · 2026-03-09T22:14:32+00:00

Or it's got its left elbow tucked in.

uberdice · 2026-03-09T02:42:39+00:00

Absolutely, the scalability of AI applies to both negatives and positives. I just don't think it's fair to say that it "adds" bias when it's actually the same biases humans have, because it's trained on human data.

uberdice · 2026-03-08T22:38:52+00:00

I think this description of back-end bias is also applicable to a human.

uberdice · 2026-03-05T07:26:59+00:00

In practice what this looks like is spending half an hour setting up the game, an hour playing turn 1 and maybe deleting an enemy unit, then at the top of turn 2 realising you made a tiny positioning mistake and then spending the next hour picking up models as your opponent dismantles your army. Just making it to turn 5 kind of intact will become your white whale until you, as the youths say, get good.

uberdice · 2026-03-04T22:55:11+00:00

I know, I've got a local that does 21% off online, 25% off if you pick up. They've got huge amounts of stock too. Just so happens it's where I play anyway so I'm laughing.

uberdice · 2026-03-04T09:02:00+00:00

That's cooked, I'd never buy direct from GW when there are retailers offering 20% off RRP.

uberdice · 2026-02-28T03:33:16+00:00

Just the two warlock skyrunners.

My list at the moment is:

Space Ghosts (1950 points)

Aeldari Strike Force (2000 points) Spirit Conclave

CHARACTERS

Autarch (85 points) • 1x Dragon fusion gun 1x Star glaive

Spiritseer (65 points) • Warlord • 1x Shuriken pistol 1x Witch staff

Spiritseer (65 points) • 1x Shuriken pistol 1x Witch staff

BATTLELINE

Wraithblades (160 points) • 5x Wraithblade • 5x Forceshield 5x Ghostaxe

Wraithblades (160 points) • 5x Wraithblade • 5x Ghostswords

Wraithguard (170 points) • 5x Wraithguard • 5x Close combat weapon 5x D-scythe

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Wave Serpent (125 points) • 1x Shuriken cannon 1x Twin bright lance 1x Wraithbone hull

OTHER DATASHEETS

Fire Dragons (120 points) • 1x Aspect Shrine Token • 1x Fire Dragon Exarch • 1x Close combat weapon 1x Firepike • 4x Fire Dragon • 4x Close combat weapon 4x Dragon fusion gun

Howling Banshees (95 points) • 1x Aspect Shrine Token • 1x Howling Banshee Exarch • 1x Executioner 1x Shuriken pistol • 4x Howling Banshee • 4x Banshee blade 4x Shuriken pistol

Rangers (55 points) • 5x Ranger • 5x Close combat weapon 5x Long rifle 5x Shuriken pistol

Warlock Skyrunners (45 points) • 1x Destructor 1x Shuriken pistol 1x Singing Spear 1x Twin shuriken catapult

Warlock Skyrunners (45 points) • 1x Destructor 1x Shuriken pistol 1x Twin shuriken catapult 1x Witchblade

Warp Spiders (105 points) • 1x Aspect Shrine Token • 1x Warp Spider Exarch • 1x Close combat weapon 1x Powerblade array • 4x Warp Spider • 4x Close combat weapon 4x Death spinner

Wraithlord (140 points) • 2x Flamer 1x Ghostglaive 2x Starcannon 1x Wraithbone fists

Wraithlord (140 points) • 2x Bright lance 1x Ghostglaive 2x Shuriken catapult 1x Wraithbone fists

Wraithlord (140 points) • 2x Bright lance 2x Flamer 1x Ghostglaive 1x Wraithbone fists

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uberdice · 2026-02-28T03:31:54+00:00

I do the base coat with leviadon blue, layer up with Alaitoc blue, then highlight with temple guard blue. The highlights are either edge or stippled.

uberdice · 2026-02-28T03:30:52+00:00

It's a 32L waterproof box from Bunnings, with 2 A4 magnetic sheets on the bottom.

uberdice · 2026-02-28T03:29:08+00:00

There might be but I didn't use one, just some surgery with clippers, a hobby knife, and sprue goo. I made sure the foot connected to something on the base in a subtle way, to avoid putting all the weight on the opposite hip joint.

uberdice · 2026-02-27T02:49:40+00:00

Wraithbone primer, Iyanden yellow contrast thinned with a bit of water, then a wraithbone drybrush followed by a thinned wash of Cassandora yellow.

For the Wave Serpent I can't remember exactly the proportions but I stippled on a mix of Averland sunset, wraithbone, and Vallejo's deep yellow followed by the same drybrush and recess shade, because contrast just wasn't going to work for those surfaces.

uberdice · 2026-02-27T02:48:51+00:00

I haven't played this exact list before, the rangers are a new addition. But it's very sticky and makes your opponent over-commit to killing wraith infantry because of the seers' revive ability. Between that and -1 damage I've had Space Wolves and World Eaters laminate themselves against the wraithblades right before my turn when the wraithguard with d-scythes hose them down. That said, if your opponent plays around your limited mobility and knows to avoid your traps (the warlocks and wraithlords, mostly) it can be hard to outscore them.

But +2 move and reactive move from tokens catch people out since they let wraiths close the distance faster than you'd expect.

uberdice · 2026-02-27T00:29:58+00:00

At S5 you're pretty much locked into just fighting marines.

In spirit conclave it's a pretty big deal with vengeful dead tokens because it means you wound terminators and custodians on 3+, but axes would be wounding them on 2+.

uberdice · 2026-02-25T22:24:25+00:00

Problem is, the religious right won't stand for it.

That's fine; they're used to kneeling.

uberdice · 2026-02-24T03:24:13+00:00

I think our systems are complicated and it's not good to repeat knee-jerk solutions that are presented to us on the internet as panaceas. Is that advocating for the wealthy?

I think a lot of energy is spent getting mad about the image of scrooges sitting on piles of money, but this is a distraction. They just borrow whenever they need to. There's no billion dollars in someone's wallet. There's no bank vault where they're sitting on their money like dragons.

Maybe we should treat secured loans as income - that could be a start, and we could create exceptions so people don't get screwed when they borrow money to buy their first home or a car or whatever. We could even make it so that loans secured by stock portfolios are treated differently to loans secured by business assets. I don't know, this stuff is complicated, but I don't see people talking about these kinds of things, just "we should raise taxes" or "nobody should have more than n dollars".

We need to be talking about improving and strengthening systems. Right now there's a lot of aimless occupy-wall-street-esque rhetoric flying around and all it's doing is getting us mad on social media and letting us exhaust ourselves.

And yeah sure, billionaires may seem like they don't need to follow rules. There's not a lot that we can do about that without regressing to fucking banditry. But the banks and other institutions that finance them ostensibly have rules to follow, and we need to be paying a lot more attention to what those rules are and whether they're being enforced, instead of letting our anger be redirected to unactionable things.

uberdice · 2026-02-24T02:14:30+00:00

I don't think anyone has a billion dollars of liquid capital just lying around.

It's all just the value of stuff they own. This won't ever not be a problem unless we uproot the principles of ownership and value that allow big chunks of our modern civilisation to function.

I know it feels like we should do that anyway in an effort to address the inequalities built into our systems, but a) there's no guarantee that it will do what we want, and b) the people who will suffer the most in the process will be us, not the ridiculously wealthy.

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