Orc warlocks are basically their thing, that's how they got the green skin. Undead and Blood Elves being Horde make sense because the Horde is all the races that the Human-led Alliance rejected or drove away. The undead are literally cursed, and the Blood (formerly High) Elves were driven out by their Night Elf brethren and then further castigated by Garithos.
My old long term group from 40 years ago played a ton of GURPS 3rd edition. Great system.
One of the main enemies of Reign of Chaos that builds its structures on blighted ground and a sinisterish race addicted to magic didn't vibe with Thrall's new and improved, tree hugging, noble savage Horde lore wise. I'll die on this hill. I also remember reading somewhere that the Blood Elves were chosen to become a Horde race to have a conventionally attractive race.
Any time he starts to talk about Tranch Poosade, intrupt and ask him if he has any pictures of his painted army.
That makes sense. Interest rates are sort of crazy right now, he's better off waiting to see if they come down before he takes out a loan against his home to buy a 40K army.
GURPS 3rd is good stuff, though every single group I rolled it with greatly simplified the combat system house rules wise. What splats did you primarily use?
I thought what it was was GW commissioned Blizzard to make a Warhammer game and it was scrapped so Blizzard took what they had and finished it as Warcraft.
We had different people GM. We did all genres. For fantasy it was the fantasy setting and magic book. Supers was just that book. I forgot what we used for sci fi, but the person that ran sci fi let us use the magic book.
I have a strong preference for getting players who've never played before, precisely because they've acquired no bad habits or artificial beliefs. That's especially true for games that are more realistic which tend to be my preference. "Gamers" have all sorts of weird beliefs and they also tend not to be very creative. They expect level-appropriate adventures, they expect conflicts to go according to some standard combat. Non-gamers get behave realistically. They get inventive. I like that.
Tell that nigger that if he wants to give war gaming a try, Warlord Games has miniature-agnostic rule sets and you can just have a go with popsicle sticks and coins.
Not the one you asked, but get the core book and Compendoum I and you'll never seen another rpg manual your whole life. That said:
At this point i it comes up, just state the obvious truth about the situation "you keep talking about this, but since you never put any armies together to at least run a demo game, we've all moved on. Want to play some <insert other game here> instead? I've got an army you can try it with"
Even if it's not necrons like they seem to be interested in, do you have a 2nd kill team you can actually demo a game with them using? That way they can see some mechanics, roll some dice, push some models around, and actually try the gaming part?
It doesn't have to be Kill Team. Like I said <insert other game here> works just as well, and there's plenty of them(especially skirmish games). And if you don't have any kill teams either, then I can see why this person may not have bothered to buy one even though they seem to have an interest.
My guess is for you guys to cover the costs so he can mooch off and borrow the minis to play it. It's really dumb to do given if he really WANTS to play a minis game he COULD just do Battletech. Yeah, it's a wee bit spergy, but that shit thrives off of using proxies since they don't give a shit. Just add terrain and dice.
I don't know if I'd say the whole pile of hobbies sucks, but it sounds like you've got a "friend" who wants to get people into their mess of a basement, talk about tranch crusade, and isn't actually interested in doing anything to get their supposed intended goals accomplished.We meet in a store that has 6x8 wargaming tables. He has offered to let us play in his basement on multiple occasions, and you will be shocked to learn that whenever the current DM and I ask about it, he says that the basement hasn't been cleaned yet and he hasn't built or bought a table appropriate for gaming. Also yes, he only has one set of dice.
Man, this whole complex of hobbies sucks.
