The Next Hang Out: <insert nintendo here>

[Sprung]

A friend of mine who's really into board games told me about this one time he was playing World of Warcraft's board game version. He actually rolled with 20+ dice at once if I remember correctly.

You have no idea how much I approve of your new sig and avatar

[Gare]

Yes. And it's because that's actually on his character sheet.

Unless you're throwing a goddamn army on it, you're probably not even going to live long enough to tickle him a little.

Your best option is to throw whatever you can at it, run, and hope his ADD kicks in before too many turns pass.

Oh, I'm not surprised. I haven't played the game myself, but I've read most of Lovecraft's works, from which one can conclude that being in the vicinity of and elder god does not equal happy fun times. Even if you do survive by some kind of miracle, you're still pretty much fucked.

[Gare]

You have no idea how much I approve of your new sig and avatar

It's even made Elin blush heavily. Just as planned.

Anyway, time to hit the sack.

[Slacker Magician]

You have no idea how much I approve of your new sig and avatar

[Slacker Magician]

It's even made Elin blush heavily. Just as planned.

Anyway, time to hit the sack.

[Beelzebub]

There were also races of short lived space dwarves (which were later sorta cannibalized to form the Tau). The Space Marines are basically just Paladins (although there's a bit of swing there with some of the other classes). The Necrons are just undead, and the Tyranids are goblins on crack.

Forgot about the Squats (dwarves), although they stopped making them around 2nd edition. Tau were created for 4th edition, and are way more like space "samurai" or something.

Yeah, I guess you could call the Space Marines "paladins", although they don't fit the mold considering they are far too selfish. The great majority lacking any compassion towards non-humans even if they are peaceful. They would rather destroy Xenos solely for Human "progress".

I do agree that Necrons are pretty much parallel with the Undead. As far as the Tyranids are concerned though, how can you draw parallels with Goblins? Especially since they already have Gobbo's in the form of Gretchin.

[Sprung]

[Slacker Magician]

[Slacker Magician]

[Sprung]

it appears I need to start watching anime...

[Inferno.]

it appears I need to start watching anime...

[Slacker Magician]

it appears I need to start watching anime...

That's pretty much the whole show .

[Milady]

You should point him to one of the numerous PC programs for dice rolling .

Bu--but, that kills the fun of shopping for lovely dice sets.

I don't even play tabletops, and I still find myself wanting to buy pretty dice from time to time.

[Milady]

And having cleared an entire dungeon level in record time and without a single casualty, I'm a little bit scared to go onto the next.

I just know they've planted an arch demon at the foot of the stairs or something, just waiting to munch my party after lulling them into a false sense of security.

Okay, probably not an arch demon. But something mean.

Especially since I found about four messages on the walls, and heard a strange voice saying, "They're going to eat you too..."

[Raype]

Oh, I'm not surprised. I haven't played the game myself, but I've read most of Lovecraft's works, from which one can conclude that being in the vicinity of and elder god does not equal happy fun times. Even if you do survive by some kind of miracle, you're still pretty much fucked.

Note how the best way to deal with an the appearance of Cthulhu is effectively a direct quote of how a certain protagonist did so.

Oh, but those sanity points you lose? Those don't come back.

Fighting Cthulhu can best be described as like fighting one of those really tough hidden superbosses in a JRPG. Except the boss constantly uses the strongest healing spell in the game on itself. Also, it has an unavoidable unblockable instant kill which it sometimes uses multiple times per turn. Also, you're poisoned and this game has a good poison spell that is able to be stacked.

Forgot about the Squats (dwarves), although they stopped making them around 2nd edition. Tau were created for 4th edition, and are way more like space "samurai" or something.

Yeah, I guess you could call the Space Marines "paladins", although they don't fit the mold considering they are far too selfish. The great majority lacking any compassion towards non-humans even if they are peaceful. They would rather destroy Xenos solely for Human "progress".

I do agree that Necrons are pretty much parallel with the Undead. As far as the Tyranids are concerned though, how can you draw parallels with Goblins? Especially since they already have Gobbo's in the form of Gretchin.

From a gameplay perspective, the Tau are just a compromise between dwarf and wood elf.

Yes, but paladins are frequently assholes in fantasy settings anyway. Moreso when things get dark and they want to eliminate the best possible example of a generic "good guy".

They're a large, hungry, somewhat mindless army that seems to love throwing shitloads of troops at the enemy (Zerg rush much?). I figured the parallel was pretty clear. Just because it has another more obvious Goblin idea doesn't mean there can't be another one. D&D has a billion different goblins and goblin like entities. And then there's the evil elves...

Also, Warhammer. 40K is just Warhammer IN SPACE. Warhammer is effectively just a darker version of generic fantasy. Ergo, WH40K is just generic fantasy IN SPACE.