Tabletop Community Watch

[Dammit Mandrake!]

It's frequented by a lot of take-no-prisoners Something Awful hangers on who are absolutely insane when it comes to purity checking the usual list of left-wing grievances like racism, sexism, transphobia, and the newest kid at the table: anything remotely associated with AI.

I mentioned this in the other thread but you should have seen the bitching when BGG interview Sandy Petersen back a bit ago.

In short, I applaud you starting extraordinary slap fights in the finest Troll manner possible that will hasten BGG's impending doom.

BGG is totally off the rails. Designers are taking a risk by using their services.

I got banned once for simply being nice and telling someone that we disagree but that our disagreement isn't a huge deal.

That was categorized under "disruptive".

You can really get these people raging for very little upfront cost.

 

[MazonLabs Recruitment Rep]

Not even then. Here's DG by Blanche and then GUO's done by Blanche and England
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Bright, colorful, lots of contrast, rust, corrosion, flies, sores, gore, etc. and yes the two demons behind the DG are brown but this isn't just everything covered in shit. Yeah, they're dirty. But it isn't what people do as "grimdark art" these days for shit like TC or painting TC minis.

Good point, and I should have known better since my current painting goal is making better displays of skin diseases/lesions, ect...on my various creatures.

 

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https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.trenchcrusade.com/product/prussian-yeomen/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAcGRvZgVicmlkETFBQWFVNjhnT1p4cHpEQXlPc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoJ2oLPSXAe0r0_oLpCHE5KSc6tdOS7rl1bU7l8HBRIBIHeAixi6Vrcf3VzS_aem_BF_hQDAtixhFwlRDQ87H4Q&h=AUAo_JAj3nxkPJa3ZL5eKv_GbqzH3eIjaQKpdNNljTl6Q6Z4DvHDFojlhUFRPSesfiK7Gw_BPDMFqxj5UJ2SmvyURUEVy6MbE6bv3tzcSvkBrPs3p_NqDkPCceElPexfljS3sA3BgAGWGhnmWUcdZMwvoYET_MQ6&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AUABALwP-EiRRAWFwnFSiaTNA0iCL5a9GZLYV3ZPD0O-rU7Wt2Gr1bIUBowNjzQp_rFgCrFLMaPwm6S7ynS4JqLD0xZWCcAwc4X1z_H73xBX4zSJKOa6CuiKMN78M_4-yLQ7y_LpESnGZsFxW4iKMkCEcYBsWcRe5nULCkPoFlWj8F7R3JWHrDqZasfvuGyoxkg5gqNOwORkTm7A8olR1VrfZ836Ww New Trench Crusade Yeoman models in bound (as if anyone gives a shit).
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I don't understand what's even the point of having normal soldiers in the settings when 99% of the art is the crazy things. The Imperial Guard worked because they were normal humans, but there are more unique normal human models in the art.

It's an art project claiming to be inspired by people like John Blanche... all while forgetting that Blanche actually still made things clean and colorful. Similarly, people forget who the fuck Jes Goodwin is, and while most of his stuff is grayscale drawings that he never colored in, it's still big bold punchy, not covered in fucking filth and grime, etc. Karl Kopinski, same thing a lot of big bold details, but shit is still on the cleaner side of things and when he does color things in there's bright bold color schemes involved. Adrian Smith, Wayne England, Neil Roberts, and so on all defined what the grimdark art is over the years but most people including a lot of artists haven't actually really looked at any of their shit.

It's like they took the meme of "40K is grimdark satire" seriously. Like yeah the background itself is overly edgy, but in the end the people making it wanted it to be cool and fun to the point of trying to make a rock label with it, rather than make it a treatise about the folly of humanity. Space King is more similar to 40K than this shit.

 

[Professor Donger]

 

[PopularMediaToaster]

BGG is totally off the rails. Designers are taking a risk by using their services.

I got banned once for simply being nice and telling someone that we disagree but that our disagreement isn't a huge deal.

That was categorized under "disruptive".

You can really get these people raging for very little upfront cost.

The website is fucking horrible, and I mean the actual design of it. 1998 bullshit. It's so hard to have any discussions or share files, and tons of games are just utterly and completely dead. It's rating system is totally useless as everything rounds out at around 7-8.

It's only useful IMO for seeing what the top 20 games are, the rankings are neat to check. That's it.

 

[Ghostse]

The pay isn't much even with a full house, but yes, they did. Also comp'd me a couple cans of matte lacquer when they learned it was a bust.

Sounds like you came out ahead then.

 

[MazonLabs Recruitment Rep]

Sounds like you came out ahead then.

Monetarily, sure, but it was still a letdown to not actually get some people into the game.

 

[Miragestallio]

So, just around a week after I painted my first dinosaur, Buer games has announced that they'll have new updates coming on the 28th.



And as the dinosaur autist I am, I'll tell you guys if it's cool or not. I hope they bring some interesting taxa, maybe a carcharodontosaur like carcharodontosaurus or giganotosaurus. Maybe an abelisaur like carnotaurus or titanovenator. Ceratosaurus would be sick as well and I wouldn't mind a megaraptoran either. Even non-dinosaur predators could make for interesting inclusions, such as deinosuchus or hatzegopteryx. But what I would really dream of would be a marine gamemode for giant prehistoric sea monsters like mosasaurs, pliosaurs, whales and even megalodon. Maybe even a smaller scale game for paleozoic and cenozoic land predators. The last two are really unlikely, though.

Welp, that's enough autism for this post. Until then

 

[MazonLabs Recruitment Rep]

I don't understand what's even the point of having normal soldiers in the settings when 99% of the art is the crazy things. The Imperial Guard worked because they were normal humans, but there are more unique normal human models in the art.

Well, that and the Imperial Guard's frequent pattern of effectively mashing up style influences from real world and occasionally cinematic trope militaries.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

I don't understand what's even the point of having normal soldiers in the settings when 99% of the art is the crazy things. The Imperial Guard worked because they were normal humans, but there are more unique normal human models in the art.

a part of me thinks that they're lightly regretting having the pilgrims be so visually disgusting and extreme be the "face" of the game so they are expediting the "normal" human faction to be the 2nd fiddle of the setting more than either them or the hellspawn, They even clothed up the lithe berserker battle nun and made the dead stare but still regular looking priest into one of the con faces of the game, in spite of the Trench Pilgrim's cone helmet being one of the first icons of the setting

 

[drDOE]

Hey everyone. Remember that dinosaur game I was shilling for a while?

Welp, here are my first minis, a pair of allosaurus:
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This is partly in honor of my buddy @dcss who suggested I painted them as well.

I wanted to do a snowy dune, but I didn't really like the texture so I just covered everything in snow.

0/10. Needs more gay dinos in drag bound to a wheelchair!