#WarHammer 40000

[cratastica]

are you a space marine in disguise?

imagine how much more fucked up the history of the world would be if eating someone's brains reliably conferred on you their memory and knowledge

[menaslg]

spess muhreen

[magicalduck21]

[sjax001]

Your cat maid will do anything for you. Including orbital bombardment and genocidal war crimes.

[grimthenerd]

I fucking love this.

Big Annie, the Ogryn Sister of Battle

- Annie, do you wish to help us fight? - Yes! Annie smash! Annie help! Canoness looked at the frowning ogryn with a softened, almost gentle expression. - Then you shall join us in the battle to come. You shall redeem the sin of your perversion of the human nature by purging the enemies of Mankind; and once we are finished, the Emperor will smile at you as He smiles at each of His loyal daughters. You are my sister from now on, Annie. Come.

A non-existing quote from a non-existing fanfic/book

[wh40kartwork]

White Scar

by Frost Llamzon

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

[mr-groovyart]

[almaignismare]

Regarding the community: the *overall* global community seems to be much better (at least in the spheres *I've* seen). But any single local community has a higher-than-average chance of weird nazis, compared to other hobbies I've participated in. I assume it's some weird combination of how solitary the hobby is at times, and the setting being extremely awful if read straight that attracts this sort of people.

The setting itself is (was? It's hard to tell with how GW writes its stories sometimes) meant to be a parody and criticism of fascism. It's shown clearly on every step that all the hatred and abuse and overzealousness is not necessary, it's not helping, and maybe it's making things actively worse. Everything is hell, life is considered worthless, and the only happy people are sociopathic sentient mushrooms.

Under the thin layer of bolter porn, there's brainwashed child soldiers, work conditions that make China look charitable, paranoia, fear, regressionism... I'm fairly certain nobody in their right mind would like a future that looks like this. 40k is the sort of thing the Ghost of Christmas Future should be showing to the fascist bigots.

Or at least that's how I read it anyway. Like I said, GW is really muddling the water by making Space Marines more and more like the "good guys", because it makes them look bad to have their poster boys be fanatical brainwashed bigots that murder everything that isn't like them brutally and indiscriminately.

W/r/t "batman guy", while obviously that is a reasonable take I feel like there can be a sort of elitism presented by certain people in the space who have developed this sort of calvinist stance that The Popular Thing (5e) is inherently Bad, and thus they do tend to view people who (usually through no fault of their own as a player) end up playing mostly/exclusively D&D and/or Pathfinder.

Moreover, while obviously there are a lot of systems that support an ongoing campaign (Blades, VtM, or what have you) I would bet that very few people have run a Monsterhearts game that meets every week for years. Certain systems are just better at supporting an ongoing campaign, and those tend to be the more popular ones for a reason.

As someone who enjoys both D&D and other games I have very little sympathy for any argument that relies on evoking the specter of the nasty elitist indie RPG player: D&D is the most popular game there is, there is a huge community of people playing it and producing content around it; the self-consciousness about a diet of just D&D resulting in a myopic view of RPGs as a medium to me seems to arise out of a desire to get validated like one has a deep knowledge of the medium while just having a surface level knowledge of it.

Also, I feel the idea that D&D is popular because it supports longer campaigns has it all backwards. It is very easy to see that D&D's current popularity has very little to do with the game itself, because the way you'd hear people describe the appeal of the game it's either things that apply to all RPGs at large or things that can only be true if one has a very shallow understanding of the medium (i.e. "D&D can do anything"). D&D is the most popular simply due to economic realities, and very little of it has to do with what's inside the books.

And finally, games that support extended campaigns are a majority of games on the market. Like, games that support long campaigns are very much the norm. And I feel bringing up Monsterhearts here has the same energy as those "I'd rather watch a Marvel movie than a black and white art film from a country that's Slavic enough to sound weird but European enough for people not to call me racist for it" posts.

[candragloomblade]

Daemonette - O-Face

For the glory of Slaanesh)

[plasmometer]

asuryani princess from a fallen craftworld begs you to help transfer the spirit stones of her ancestors to a safe place! please bring your most valuable transport❤️

[shirleymiller1]

Heavy Infantry of New Antioch—this ironclad is getting a full video tutorial. It took some time to film, but I believe it will turn out great!\n- Marko Miladinović\n#craftworldstudio #craftworldians #trenchcrusade #painting #newantioch #tutorial #warhammer #eraofprovidence

[mael-radec]

[autumn-archfey-artwork]

Eldar, and a range of humans.

I like emphasising how alien Eldar look, but how 'human' humans look in 40k can also vary quite a bit.

[barpsy-abaub]

"What a wonderful protectorate, Iconoclast Von Valancius! I can only imagine how you managed to keep it safe all this time; great job!" - Roboute, probably.

Or, "When your kid visits you at work".