In less good Warhammer news, the Stormcast army I've been struggling to find games for lo these past several years got a big hit and most of my models will be illegal soon. So I guess that puts the nail in the coffin for me and Age of Sigmar. I gave it a go, but I guess it's not for me. Retired to the display shelf, one nicely painted but now illegal Hallowed Knights army.
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Now that I feel fairly confident that we are not, in fact, being fucked with or misled by some sort of delayed April Fool's prank, and custodes have in fact been retconned to include women from their inception in m29 or 30, I can honestly say- neat! Hopefully this makes the hobby a little more welcoming to women and people who appreciate the faintest whiff of diversity, and drives away some of the fash.
Now somebody please (it doesn't have to be GW though that would be nice) make lady heads in the correct scale so they're not suffering from eeny weeny pinhead syndrome like so many space marines are in even official art. And before anyone mentions statuesque 'techno-roider' heads, I love those, I have those, there are only 6 faces and I want more, damn it. Also maybe the occasional better haircut.
Better hair? Sounds suspiciously like you want your lady custodes and/or space marines to be pretty. Know this: of course I do. I also want my dude marines to have better looking heads than the squinty bald fugly default and pick up 3rd party for them, too. At the very least my 'officer corps' of Command slot characters should be ready for their Hollywood movie, with the only thing holding them back being my own painting [god save my minis from wonky eyes].
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Yet more BG3! Altanin shenanigans:
1.) A slaver, eh? [shove to his doom]
2.) Good ominous lighting for the boy
3.) Peak barbarian core
4.) TOO. ANGRY. TO LAUGH. AT. AMULET.
5.) Looming out of the killing shadows
6.) Hug the Karlach
7.) "They probably aren't, but you've seen me in action twice now and you know they probably should be."
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Fingers crossed the lady custodes leak thing gets confirmed. I'd love to drink loser tears over that one. Holding back on allowing myself to feel any emotions about it for now, though.
But hey, if it turns out to be true, just give them the line we've gotten from the more tolerant 'it's the LORE' types- well, they're your dudes, so you can do whatever you want with them. None of your custodes have to be women, after all.
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Although BG3 uses 5e rules (mostly), it has an old-school 2nd and 3rd edition feel at low levels when you're like one bad die roll away from a grisly death. Now that my party is level 6 (soon to be 7) there are very few fights that go that badly, that quickly. Usually I have leeway to soak up a bad surprise round and bounce back, or at least see the writing on the wall and mentally prepare to load up an older save once things end badly 3 rounds later.
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since hes dead now i wanna know what yall think
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Most Punchable Job Trainer (Tank)
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Things have been mostly okay- continuing to work at my d&d campaign while also playing BG3 has occupied most of my free time.
Picked up Frisbee's ashes yesterday, exactly a week since he died. Still deeply, deeply sad about the whole thing but better to have the ashes and think about him than the alternative. If movies have taught me nothing else, you can't run from your grief lest its spectre manifest in a creepy children's book and force you to confront it in a much more traumatic way. Frisbee loved me maybe almost as much as I loved him; he wouldn't want me to get Babadook'd.
See? I'm making jokes. I'm coping reasonably well all things considered.
Trying to remember him as a great happy chubster, before cancer had him fading away. Pictures help. I mean they also hurt a bit to look at, but they help me remember him at his peak Frisbee self- just the sweetest laziest cuddliest most demanding little adorable floof prince who occasionally got the sole orange cat braincell and used it for mischief.
Man, I miss him, though.
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There are people who play BG3 without reloading saves for anything short of a TPK and while, yes, I guess, that makes it more like an irl d&d game, irl d&d games have dungeon masters willing and able to warn you about doing stupid shit and fudge die rolls. I guess if you want a brutal Gygaxian experience, you do you, but as a kid I always stuck my fingers in the Choose Your Own Adventure books to mark major decisions in case I needed to undo something and I still don't see anything wrong about that.
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The further adventures of BG3! Altanin:
1.) Altanin: "Sure, both of us dumped INT, but I found a hat of Smart on a well-spoken ogre! We can figure this out!"
Wyll: "I like your energy, bro, but I dumped STR."
2.) DOG!
3 & 4.) Wine date! It's no airag, but it'll do.
5.) Altanin's 'guardian' is designed after his canonical (in real-life d&d) ex-fiancee from his tribe of steppe nomads
6.) Just a good screenshot of a buff boy in his casual camp barbarian outfit
7.) "Yes she's shady as fuck and serves a goddess of evil but have you considered that she's a cute goth elf and I can fix her?"
Not shown: People practically lining up to throw themselves at him after the goblin camp. Altanin had an unexpectedly flattering yet mildly alarming conversation with like 4/6 companions and I'm pretty sure the only reason Karlach didn't express interest is the whole 'literally on fire' thing.
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The boy looks pretty dang good with the Bear-themed piercings tbh.
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Finally started playing BG3 in earnest despite having bought it early access and had it sitting on my computer largely unplayed in like 3 years since before they even added barbarian. But today Ash mentioned you can play with the large bodytype, and I was like, 'well, it's time to roll up the boy'.
So here's BG3! Altanin, waking up with a worm in his head, falling to what everyone would assume to be his doom but walking away unharmed like he at least is used to, making new friends in strange pods and freeing them by literally ripping the thing open like a steroidal gorilla, opening arcane locked ancient books of dead gods with a good solid punch, getting absolutely drenched in other people's blood while inflicting gratuitous barbarian violence upon evildoers while remaining otherwise a really sweet and friendly guy (please ignore the blood).
He's almost certainly gonna romance Shadowheart- he has a type, and historically that type has been ambiguously evil goth elf ladies. He wants to fix them- "by all means LOOK evil, Stormfather knows people take one look at my horns and BURNING EYES and make assumptions, but do not DO evil, please."
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My last d&d campaign finale featured the players fighting off eldritch Tiamat during a persistent eclipse that lasted for an undisclosed period of time due to cosmic horror spacetime warping, and after seeing an actual total solar eclipse, hot damn, that WOULD be epic as shit.
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So today's eclipse road trip was mostly good- we made decent time heading down there, but ran into unholy traffic on the way back that turned an hour and a half drive into a four hour drive.
On the way down, we stopped at this little dairy/deli type place and I was hungry, so I picked up some cheese curds and some pepperettes. And also a Tim Hortons version of a sbux Frappuccino.
Bear in mind that I am:
Diabetic
On meds for diabetes and blood pressure that have some. Side effects. Pertaining to digestion.
Lactose intolerant.
So by the time we got TO the place to see the eclipse, my guts were a bit rumbly. By the time the eclipse was over, they were clear: find a bathroom, broseph. Soon. But all the bathrooms were closed, or out of order.
So we got back into the car. And drove. And got stuck in the aforementioned traffic.
For
Four
Hours
I made it, I'm alive and unsoiled, but it required attaining enlightenment and transcending the needs of the body for a while. Do not recommend doing that again.
My wife is sympathetic about the traffic, but not the "oh jeez I gotta hold it" misadventure. Which, fair.
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Didn't get a lot of good pictures, was too busy being an excitable ape. There was a lot of cloud cover specifically during totality as nature's big middle finger to us in particular, but even then the whole thing was visible for parts of totality. I got to stare at a blackened orb surrounded by an eerie green (through welding glass) halo while the skies above darkened to midnight blue as the entire horizon lit up orange and red. It was badass, and I am very glad to have seen it.
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More exciting than creeping slightly further along the scale of middle-age toward outright old is the eclipse today, which we are taking a short road trip to get into a better spot. Where we're at isn't too far outside the zone of totality so a car ride to get 3 mins of BLACK SUN is very worthwhile. Hopefully the weather stays clear, otherwise it'll be a bust. Which at this point has even odds of being wryly amusing in its disappointment and the last straw that pushes me over the edge into full-blown grief-madness like an early Victorian widow, hurling myself onto a fainting couch and laughing maniacally through unceasing tears.
Here's hoping the weather holds!
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