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[fafnir-rann]

Game 1 of ACT of Heresy V saw my 30k Fists led by (not quite Fafnir) up against Sons of Horus, it was a great learning experience as my second ever game of 30k and even managed to walk away with a 3-0 win!

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@askanidog replied to your post “so I got the new edition fo the L5R rpg.  There is indeed a little...”

FFG were told throughout the Beta that character generation wasn’t ideal and needed simplifying. Then again the beta was pretty lacking and seemed more about hearing how good they were than actually making the product better

Personally, I find the actual mechanics of FFG’s character Generation to be fairly simple. It’s on par with L5R 4E, if a little simpler because FFG decided to not use a point buy system and dropped the distinct traits within the Rings, and certainly is far simpler than Shadowrun. 

However, where FFG screwed up was in the presentation of the chargen mechanics and in the presentation of the advancement rules. With the rules hiding within the “20 Questions” game, it gets tangled with that’s the actual rules, and what’s extra to help a player to think of their character. 

As they are quite wedded to the “20 Questions”, a different way to arrange it may have been presenting the questions first, with parentheticals attached with different questions that relate to what Players would need to pick, then arrange the information so that everything is sorted by Clan and easy to find together. Then the character advancement rules could have been written a bit clearer, as they gave us the charts with each school of what you need to buy to fulfill a certain rank, but then say that you don’t have to follow the rank charts for a penalty to your rate of advancement. They give no reward for those who might not decide to follow the rank charts (ie. making some variation of School Paths, where a portion of the rank chart is replaced by a different list that apply, say, to the Scorpion’s Tail School, or the Phoenix’s Acolytes of Snow school), and no apparent incentive to improve Ring scores as they have no bearing on Rank improvement. 

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@vegan-wargamer reblogged this from kryzto and added:

Really like these,nice job! Love the ghoul nice hands marauder :’)

Thanks! I was so thankful I still had some ghoul parts sitting around from WAAAAAY back when I was playing Mordheim. They made for some great conversion opportunities while making these guys.

kryzto reblogged this from sara-paints and added:

always so good loving the kit bash

There's like 6 different kits that went into these guys. Marauders, zombies, marauder horsemen, ghouls, tyranids, and flagellants. There's even a few Beastmen parts on one or two of the guys, but I think I only used 1 shield from them on the 10 I chose as my Forsaken. There were 23 of them when I created them to be my marauders... then Marauders took an arrow to the knee got nerfed hard in the 8th ed book.

askanidog reblogged this from sara-paints and added:

Wonderfully disgusting and disturbing! Fantastic work!

Thank you! "Disgusting and disturbing" is an amazing compliment when painting up Nurgle! And to think, these photos only show one angle of them, and it's not a really great one either... I'll snap more later.