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[askmalal]

On The Primarchs: The Primarchs on their Father.

1. The Lion

“My father is the savior of humanity, in a secular sense. Why he chose to reveal himself when he did I’ve no idea. That he is the key to our future I have no doubt. I would die for him a thousand times over. And when you meet him, you will understand why.”

2. [REDACTED]

“He keeps a garden, you know. A garden. The most powerful human being, perhaps the most powerful human being in history, keeps a garden of his own. Oft have I had the privilege to walk it.”

3. Fulgrim

“Art, there is your beauty. Beauty, there is your art. A thousand things might I endure, but never lose my love for him.”

4. Perturabo

“Warfare perfected. Administration perfected. An icon.”

5. The Khan

“I like him. I like him very much. He has a most astounding laugh. It cools the soul like a rainstorm after a lifetime in a khamsin. It gives one the unfettered joy of a schoolchild once again, and reminds one of the brightest, happiest places in existence.”

6. Leman Russ

“Drank me under the table, once. [REDACTED] came close. Only my father did so. I saw him halt a parade to lift up a child and hear its questions. Speak to him, hear him say a few words. And then accuse me again of mindlessly following him.””

7. Rogal Dorn

“A broader appreciation for and knowledge of literature I have never seen. All the more impressive to discuss, say, Faust, with a man who knew its author!”

8. Kurze

“The Night Haunter fears him. The Night Haunter obeys him. But for me… he makes the nightmares go away.”

9. Sanguinius

“I am no angel. There stands the closest thing one might find to exemplified divinity.”

10. Ferrus Manus

“I have rarely felt love for anyone or anything. He is a rare exception.”

11. [REDACTED]

“Understand that he is what each who sees, hears, feels him needs him to be. He is not as cold, but neither is he as idealistic, as others might say. And the way he presents himself to me will (I grant) be very different from the way he presents himself to you.”

12. Angron

“…Obedience and love do not equate to understanding or forgetfulness.”

13. Roboute Guilliman

“Have you spoken to Caesar Augustus? Have you listened to John the Baptist laugh? Have you seen Napoleon explain his vision for Europe to a group of historians thirty thousand years after Waterloo? I have.”

14. Mortarion

“He is a being of absolute Reason. None of us can truly claim to know him entirely. Divine from that what you will. “

15. Magnus the Red

“I dreamed of a hero during my childhood. I met that hero when I became a man.”

16. Horus Lupercal

“He is… everything.”

17. Lorgar

“The Divine rarely reveals itself without consequence.”

18. Vulkan

“His is the compassion of a thousand burning suns, a million souls. Countless lifetimes. I do not claim to understand every act. But I am without doubt that all are calculated for the greater good.”

19. Corvus Corax

“He did not question my appearance. Did not judge me. He merely asked after my wellness, and embraced me without question. That is a father. That is -my- father.”

20. Alpharius

“Think of me what you will, but when asked about my father I am often at a loss for words. How can I well articulate to another what I have experienced with my father except to say that you would not believe it any mouth? How I can show you what even the most enlightened eyes struggle to see? Personal experience is not empirical. But it is all I have.”

[prokopetz]

"Yeah, no, you do need high testosterone for geneseed implantation to take, but the geneseed doesn't care where the T comes from. Actually, loyalist chapters tend to preferentially select candidates with XX karotypes because the redundant X chromosome confers greater resistance to Chaos mutations, so statistically most Space Marines are transmasc. What? Of course it's canon – would I lie to you?"

[i-am-rano]

I believe this might have been already said by someone at some point, but I feel like what I have to say is tangentially related to the recent trends in online ttrpg spaces and so I'm going to say it anyway.

When writing a TTRPG YOU CAN EXPLAIN WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF A CERTAIN MECHANIC. It's legal. You won't go to jail for that. It's so helpful. Please do it.

I'm running early beta tests of my own ttrpg and all of my testers find it so surprisingly useful. The fact that the little explanation next to your rule has a little "this is to facilitate X amongst the players" or something like that at the end is of great help to the players and of even greater help to the GM, and I can't stress this enough.

[vintagerpg]

Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned (1990) is the second, much delayed companion to Slaves to Darkness. It takes the same overstuffed, gruesomely illustrated approach to the two remaining ruinous powers of Chaos: Nurgle and Tzeentch. That thoroughly horrific cover is by Les Edwards, because of course it is. You might think the roster of interior artists slightly diminished thanks to the lack of work by Russ Nicholson and Ian Miller. That is not the case. While I do miss their distinctive styles and what they could have lent to the book, I think this volume is more visually impressive on the whole, a really overwhelmingly grim achievement.

A couple things of interest here beyond the awesome art and the details on the two more interesting Powers (if you didn’t know, this is the definitive, objective ranking: the best is Tzeentch, followed by Nurgle, then Slaanesh, then that ding-dong edgelord Khorn). First is in-universe. I think it is actually no longer the case, but at this point in time, the ruinous powers were thought constructs assembled out of the residual desires of human souls that pass through Chaos; this lends them a surprising complexity. They are entities made up of extremes, dominated by negative impulses, but with positives shining through occasionally, like the way Nurgle comes off as caring, or Khorne honorable, or Tzeentch inquisitive. It makes the allure of Chaos, so often characterized by horror and mutation, somewhat more understandable.

Second, these are recent reprints of the books, available only at Warhammer World in Nottingham. I had originals at one point, but honestly the binding are so fragile (and they command such steep prices) that it made much more sense to have a friend in Nottingham pick up a set and mail them to me (many thanks, Ruth!). If you want these books, I highly suggest making your own Nottingham friends.

[bigsquig]

Once upon a time, I drew a silly comic about Red Gobbo and a snotty sapper. This little guy showed up in a recent roleplay my friend hosted for our company in honor of orctober. I decided to preserve a moment of shared delight in this sketch.

[dungeonmapster]

Midwinter Celebration, 25x30

Between the straw-thatched, snow-covered rooves friends and neighbors gather around a large pine tree decorated with baubles, and surrounded by wrapped gifts. Warm pies, kegs of cider, and hot stew keep the bustling participants warm and cheeks rosy, even amid the Midwinter chill in the air, the laughter and sound of children caroling along with the Christmas Treant inviting all to share a seat, take a rest, and enjoy the spirit of the season.

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[probablybadrpgideas]

Oh no! Your Warhammer minis and your opponent's Warhammer minis have joined forces to rebel against the humans who send them to their deaths for fun!

[sallllltywater]

Portrait commissioned by arch-warlock himself

[aylameridiandrawsstuff]

My OC Navigator Seraphina meets Cassia. I think they'd get along.

[goatmoy]

I was thinking about a post where someone said that D&D fans will trick out the game to the point of running Dark Souls on Skyrim through mods levels of changes way before touching another system that is literally a much better, easier, and more accessible version of a game either because of Sunk-cost or being stuck in a place where anything outside of D&D has to be imported in where the PHB/DMG is available at Walmart. So I ask the greater Tumblr community of TTRPGs:

[knightlightminiatures]

Dipping my toes into Egyptian styled miniatures.

[askmalal]

“Give me a bit of time with him. I’ll convince him to be open minded.”

“You discount the ability to change his mind?”

“I deny its existence.”

- Conversation with Lorgar regarding Perturabo

“You deny these things exist because it is convenient. To unchain ourselves from evil we must first acknowledge that it exists.”

- to Mortarion

“You spared the little ones. Proving once again that you are no slave to those implants of yours. You should know that I am proud of you. You should know that -he- is proud of you.”

- to Angron

“Exquisite. How can the flesh be weak when it produces this?”

- to Ferrus Manus

Excerpts from “On the Primarchs, “ Volume II (Excised)

[prokopetz]

The fundamental tragedy of Warhammer 40K is that it asks "what if Catholicism was fucked up and in space?", then consistently fails to make the theology of Fucked Up Space Catholicism more fucked up than actual Catholicism.

[dabigmek]

[vintagerpg]

In 1988, Games Workshop released Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness, the first of two exhaustive sourcebooks on Chaos. It’s an all-purpose sourcebook for two of the four ruinous powers: Khorne and Slaanesh. There are army lists for Warhammer Fantasy Battles and information one demons that is useful for GMs of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this book is that it serves as the introduction of Chaos into the 40,000 universe, revealing that warpspace, the dimension used for fast interstellar travel, is in fact, the Realm of Chaos — the same hostile reality the Empire of the Old World struggled to banish from our own in 40K is regularly exploited as a highway system.

In the worlds of the Warhammer universe, Chaos is the ultimate opponent. In Warhammer Fantasy, I feel like Chaos represents the human impulses that undermine civil society (the veneer of which in Old World is incredibly thin). Whatever the faults of the Empire, it is preferable to the violent dissolution of Chaos, which takes the role of a Dark Power pretty typical of fantasy lit. In 40k, though, things aren’t so simple. The Empire is a fascist monolith and Chaos, repugnant though it may seem, is the antidote for that oppressively ordered “civilization.” Sort of. This conception of the late ’80s is way more interesting and complex than I ever really gave Warhammer credit for (and I think has been consistently eroded away in the name of uncomplicated commerce in the years since).

Anyway, what amazing books. Just jammed with stuff. Lists, mutation rules, all the traitor legions associated with Slaanesh and Khorne. Above all, though, the art. So much, so gnarly, by a GW murder’s row: Ian Miller, Tony Ackland, Gary Chalk, Martin McKenna, John Blanche, Russ Nicholson and like a dozen more, with John Sibbick on the cover. If there was a fever-pitched height of GW aesthetic, its Realm of Chaos. (Also, bonus: the gargoyle from HeroQuest makes quite a few appearances!).

[andysuriano]

Hey everyone!! I think its obvious by now that I’ve been working hard on @lostcompanyofficial for a couple years, which is coming to fruition—and I would love it if you could all give it a chance and some love!!, so if we get 100 new followers and likes over the weekend then I will post some extra RISE goodies!