u/altmcfile

I swear it's like every day they find a way to message me over ever possible interface asking if I want to go turfing. They'll send texts to my phone, they'll @ me in Shello servers. Shell, yesterday they sent me a message on the Seas of Conquest launcher. NOT a message in game, THE ACTUAL LAUNCHER ITSELF, WHY IS THAT EVEN A FEATURE!?!?

And it's always somewhere so far away! "Let's go to hammerhead bridge! There's a game there!"

"We have a round set up in the Mako mart across town and we could really use you, it starts in 15 minutes."

"Hey you should come turfing over in scortch gorge, you know? That place in the middle of the desert, in the middle of the freaking splatlands"

"You should join in on this tower control game tomorrow AT THE TOP OF A FREAKING SKY SCRAPER"

Like- No! I don't want to! Thats insane!! I swear one of the guys in the friend group tried to put together a game ON THE HIGHWAY like ON it, where the cars go! I don't care if we have respawners I don't want to get hit by a semi truck!?!?

And don't even get me started on the splatfests! "Oh you HAVE to come to this ramen place thats like a 3 hour train ride away from your place, we need you to fight for the honor of popcorn in the war agaisnt pretzels and waffles!!" OH MY COD I DONT CARE!!!! Like don't get me wrong some of the splatfests are about something that actually matters but half the time they're over the most benign things and they're always on raid nights!! Like- hello? Me and my guild have been planning this dungeon raid for weeks, I'm not just gonna ditch last second leaving them down a healer just so I can watch Ben drink so much soda he pukes and we have to call it two and a half hours early!!

Sorry for venting there I just got frustrated. How can I get my friends to leave me alone about this? Telling them bluntly that I just don't like turf wars has not worked.

(And before you suggest it these people are good people who are nice to me and I care about I'm not gonna ditch em over this.)

Okay so I like admech a lot (don't we all?) And I really like ttrpgs! I want to run a game in the 40k universe where all the players are a part of the machine cult, getting all up in stuff they should not be getting up in! It's a very loose idea right now since I'm still deciding on a system, I've heard Dark Heresy has a tech priest class that is modular enough that you could have a full party of tech priests and not have everyone feel too same-y but at the same time I want to offer the players the ability to be skits or sicarians and other parts of the machine cult (I also know nothing on how the system works)

I've also though maybe using one of the cyberpunks but I also know nothing on how THOSE systems work, but I'm willing to run and learn just about system. I promise I'm an experienced gm I just have most my hours in dnd 5e and Lancer with some dabbling into the street fighter ttrpg, everything else I've only been able to read rule books for.

But at my table fluff is free so if that means being a dark heresy tech Priest while actually being a skit, that's fine. If that means using dnd and reworking the fluff of every spell and ability to match the mechanicus so be it.

If you'd be interested in this kind of game or have any suggestions for systems or hell even little plot ideas if'n you wanted to share em please let me know! I'm leaning towards dark heresy from what little unfortunately I've gathered so far but it'll still be a long way out before I'm actually ready to run this. But yeah, who here thinks that would be neat?

I find myself, as a big fan of admech in all forms and settings, I really want to run a game focused around them completely! With a party of players playing as various skitarii, sciarians, datasmiths, low level techpriests, etc.

I am an experienced gm at this point with many many games in dnd 5e and Lancer primarily but also a fan of the street fighter ttrpg. I haven't gotten to play many more but I've read through a lot of other books!

Now at my table fluff is free. So in fine using any system, I feel 5e can be pretty well adapted to any setting but I want to know if there are any good systems that need little adaptation. I will say despite being mechs and robots I feel lancer is a bad pick because it's a very Gundam "do everything at once" type of game and admech is not that quick. Despite it being my favorite ttrpg!

Are there any good ttrpgs for being in the machine cult?

EDIT: SOLVED!!!! No longer an issue. A very kind inkling was able to help me out

Okay so I know this is a kinda dumb idea to be posting where you love on the internet but I don't really know anyone and I'd prefer to not die.

I can't open my door to leave my apartment! I think there's like a box or something in front of the door and it's too heavy for me to push it away with the door.

And before anyone asks, yes the door is unlocked. Yes, I called the front office, no one ever picks up. The windows don't open and I'd lose my security deposit if I broke one. And no I am not going through any drains.

So yeah that's where I'm at. If anyone could like... go to the fourth floor of the apartment complex about 2 blocks away from Arowana Mall and see if there's like any obstacle in front of someone's door... and also remove it, I'd greatly appreciate it an can buy you lunch.

(I'm not saying the apartment complex's name or my exact room number so that this post doesn't just have my address on it for forever.)

Okay like seriously. I've been playing RZC since 10th came out (I mean it was our only detachment before the codex came out) and it is legitimately so good and my favorite detachment to run in the whole game (I also play Salamanders and Knights).

Like gang seriously. What are yall doing? I understand the affinity a lot of yall have for using sicarians in Skitarii Hunter Cohort and if people aren't playing SHC they're playing haloscreed which- yeah sure is our most versatile detachment or whatever but like- what is the counterplay to RZC and the Cancer Zone™? Like if you throw on the extra 6" of cancer on a manipulus with kataphrons you aren't gonna lose it. It applies massive pressure that the only way to avoid is to rush headlong out of cover into my guns which shoot harder, not even to mention the starting damage and dominus parlor trick to get an anti-dev 2+.

Running face first at me does not work, I just shoot you as I am a shooting army. Hiding in the cancer zone doesn't work because it's surprising lethal for only being a 5+ and only dealing 1 wound. Like only vehicles stand a chance in cancer town and even then! Neutron laser! Solves all your problems.

Like seriously, apparently one of my friends made a specfic "anti-RZC" list that I have to play agaisnt but am very excited to but like- why aren't we all running this 24/7? Why is there only talk on SHC and maaaaaaybe haloscreed. This shit is the bomb dot com

And that's not even counting the nearly free battleshock for the full round you get on round 1 if they take cover! Which they can still get completely blown up about!! Like is the intended solution "just deepstrike everything" because even then! I get to set myself up! So much!!

Me and my play group have not found a proper weakness to this and either I'm blind or we need to ALL get on this!

Like- I can imagine to some degree what every unit can do in their off time, closest thing to a pure weapon that is thinking are kataphrons but they're not really thinking since they are technically, legally, servitors, they probably are just put in a shed somewhere or used as a transport cart.

But like- that's the Hastarii's full lower arm replaced by a gun. I mean the Alphas still have two actual hands but like dostandard rank and file hastarii just live their lives with a nuetron fusil for a hand? And what's more is its their right arm! That's typically the dominant hand in most cases!

I've seen a lot of people say that the hastarii are bad in terms of being a potent unit in table top? And I want a further breakdown please because I AM going to get these guys simply because they are so cool.

But seriously what's the fuss with them? I thought they were supposed to be a mildly weaker but cheaper option instead of kataphrons. I mean they obviously aren't as tanky and I can see the eradicators falling short if they get pushed up against anything too tanky but like...

Idk this might just be coming from my artillery pilled onager dunecralwer maxing brain but the fusiliers seem really good? I mean the range is a little short but 5 mini nuetron lasers? With re-rolls thanks to a Marshall? D6+1 damage each? 12 strength? -3 AP? Like just seems so free for me to add to any list! They are a little slow but only 145 points? Is that the issue?

Do they just not work well in SHC or Haloscreed or something? Those are the main detachments I see people using here and I main Radzone corps to which my artillery thrives.

I just want a further breakdown here. These guys seem like a perfectly cromulent unit.

(Also I just want to add that since the alpha of the unit still has the big arm replacing gun AND a power weapon and it looks like the kit has the alpha with a power weapon and one regular, empty hand, I say that all those kitbashes where they put the power weapon as a bayonet on the hastarii arm gun are canon)

I've been playing with my brother and suddenly his game has gotten like really really baggy when flying in space specfically. Like the second were in an atmosphere it goes back to normal but the second were out he gets a slide show and I, in his corvette, get moved forward some before jumping back repeatedly like a frog hopping the opposite direction on a treadmill. We can't find any fixes for this on our own and the game was running just fine 2 days ago do I don't know what's up.