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otcs wrote:
Christ this is gonna turn into a freakshow circus.


Welcome to Necromunda, enjoy your stay. Also don't forget to visit the Redemptionists for your daily scourge and purging.
   
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Not fellating everything GW does is "Trolling"? lmao wtf?
   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I really hope this becomes quite the anarchic slice of Imperial life.

So much enthuse!


This is what I am most excited about with Necromunda. Warhammer 40k doesn't make for the best place to showcase the eccentricities of humanity in the 41st millennium, which is an area I've always been particularly interested in. I'm hoping that GW really goes whole hog with this and releases a larger range of characters that would not be possible at the large skirmish games.
   
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I hope it turns into the freakiest of freakshows. This is the underhive we are talking about here, home to the lowest of the low and bizarre creatures that defy description. Necromunda has always been a mashup of western posses, B-Movie sci-fi and advanced urban decay, taking heavy inspiration from Judge Dredd and Mega City One. There are all sorts of weird and wonderful characters that could make somewhere so remote and dangerous home.
   
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otcs wrote:
Not fellating everything GW does is "Trolling"? lmao wtf?


Repeatedly adding nothing to a conversation is trolling.

   
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So merely being positive is adding to the conversation, yet being negative is not? Just so we're clear.


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Ruin_In_The_Dark wrote:
I hope it turns into the freakiest of freakshows. This is the underhive we are talking about here, home to the lowest of the low and bizarre creatures that defy description. Necromunda has always been a mashup of western posses, B-Movie sci-fi and advanced urban decay, taking heavy inspiration from Judge Dredd and Mega City One. There are all sorts of weird and wonderful characters that could make somewhere so remote and dangerous home.

This is exactly what I hope it doesn't become. Necromunda was about exploring the humans of the Imperium, not shoving every freak in the 40k lore in there.

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otcs wrote:
So merely being positive is adding to the conversation, yet being negative is not? Just so we're clear.


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Ruin_In_The_Dark wrote:
I hope it turns into the freakiest of freakshows. This is the underhive we are talking about here, home to the lowest of the low and bizarre creatures that defy description. Necromunda has always been a mashup of western posses, B-Movie sci-fi and advanced urban decay, taking heavy inspiration from Judge Dredd and Mega City One. There are all sorts of weird and wonderful characters that could make somewhere so remote and dangerous home.

This is exactly what I hope it doesn't become. Necromunda was about exploring the humans of the Imperium, not shoving every freak in the 40k lore in there.


And they will be exploring at least one Beastman ab-human.

Sounds great to me
   
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For me Necro is about options. You want bionic pitfighters with drill arms? got it. Flaming hat wearing chainsaw priests? Done. Mutant freak-beasts with tentacle eyes and 3 arms that would be shot on sight anywhere else? Necro has you covered. Want a straight up gun fight between dock working chem smugglers? Its all good. The more options the better in my book.
   
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Ruin_In_The_Dark wrote:
I hope it turns into the freakiest of freakshows. This is the underhive we are talking about here, home to the lowest of the low and bizarre creatures that defy description. Necromunda has always been a mashup of western posses, B-Movie sci-fi and advanced urban decay, taking heavy inspiration from Judge Dredd and Mega City One. There are all sorts of weird and wonderful characters that could make somewhere so remote and dangerous home.


I am also very keen on the scenario Critter Hunt. Several gangs don´t fight each other but try to kill a lot of random critters (giant rats, giant spiders, ripper jacks (flying face huggers) & giant worms (look like D&D carrion eaters) to earn bounty. It is perfect to teach the game to beginners without roflstomping them into the ground. Sadly we will probably see those critters after the main houses have been published.

Taking inspiration from Judge Dredd the following scenario could be played: Tags all over the place
The juve gang "Tag Kings" try to ridicule Governor Helmawr by applying mocking tags on a statue or propaganda poster of him. The Arbites must naturally try to stop them before their heinous crime is completed.
   
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Those scenery bases are in the boxed game as well - via B&C

   
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Ruin_In_The_Dark wrote:
For me Necro is about options. You want bionic pitfighters with drill arms? got it. Flaming hat wearing chainsaw priests? Done. Mutant freak-beasts with tentacle eyes and 3 arms that would be shot on sight anywhere else? Necro has you covered. Want a straight up gun fight between dock working chem smugglers? Its all good. The more options the better in my book.


And the plague zombies! Don't forget the plague zombies!

I do hope it becomes anarchic. I remember an article from White Dwarf back in the day "It came from the sump" where it talked about seeking inspiration from B-Movies to come up with entertaining scenarios and events.

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Being me your freaks and your weirdos. Your Xenos and your Mutant.

All have their place in the Sump and the Underhive!

   
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Warwickscire

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Being me your freaks and your weirdos. Your Xenos and your Mutant.


Usually caused by the sump and the toxic sludge


Gimmie some of these straight from Rogue Trader:


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I imagine people paying AUD must be happy. I can't believe anyone could act like the campaign stuff should be DLC or is in anyway optional. It'd be like playing XCOM, but only the ground battles. It'd be half a game, regardless of how much you like that half of the game. Fans of the Geoscape would be rightfully angry.

Especially considering how popular that campaign format has become again(or remained). You think they'd put their best foot forward on this one.

   
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The more and the mankier the merrier!

Wonder if we might see lesser known Xenos breeds? I can imagine something Skavenesque (NOT HRUD WHO ARE NO LONGER SPACE SKAVEN. So there *Deep breath, and relax*) lurking quite happily amongst the goo and the pollution, with delusions of military adequacy.

Potent enough to threaten Gangs, laughable enough to never dare assaulting the upper levels.

That'd be cool.

   
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Yeah might as well throw in tyranids and eldar and orks and ...
   
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RVA

Existing GS Cultists need gang rules!

   
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I'm sure the little birds (the ones that come complete with large bags of salt. You know the ones) suggested we might see those in expansions that include other Spires?

   
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"Yeah might as well throw in tyranids and eldar and orks and ..." - Yeah and you can choose not to use them. Problem solved.
   
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Pop him on ignore, or report his flamebait, or both.

Either way, it doesn't do to feed the Trolls

   
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Fair point, it just seemed like an obvious answer to what seems to be a non-issue really. Plus I am sure the Inq28 people would love to have all those factions represented at some point.
   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I'm sure the little birds (the ones that come complete with large bags of salt. You know the ones) suggested we might see those in expansions that include other Spires?


Pretty sure that was the team itself talking about an alternative hive expansion book.

Hive Secundus? That's fallen on to its side and is infested by stealer cult.

Seems pretty nailed on the be the one after gang war
   
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Definitely want to see Mutants.

As I've maintained for a while now, Chaos and the wider Galaxy (AoS and Warhammer included) have for too long had a distinct lack of gribbly body horror.

We're told mutants are a fact of life, but rarely if ever see any beyond Librarians and other human Psykers.

I mean, I get the really way out designs are tricky when it comes to designing models (when your torso is your head, how much variety can your sculptor include, whilst also making you stand out amongst your mutie mates?)

Thoughts return to the old metal Chaos Spawn model, and indeed the current plastic one. Something like that could work for Mutants. Give us lots and lots of limbs with 'universal' plug/attachments. Have the hands separate, feet separate. Make the whole kit a smorgasbord of manky stuff waiting for us to put them together....

   
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Warwickscire

See this unreleased farseer:



Twas sculpted for Necromunda along with two Firedragons. My memory is a little hazy, but I remember a scenario that appeared in an old citadel journal about the Eldar making an appearance through an ancient webway gate and getting involved in mercenary work with gangers to recover an artifact. Don't forget the appearance of Genestealers happened in other scenarios as well...

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We'll find out soon enough eh.

Ruin_In_The_Dark wrote:
Fair point, it just seemed like an obvious answer to what seems to be a non-issue really. Plus I am sure the Inq28 people would love to have all those factions represented at some point.


Honestly? Not really. Necromunda is a broad setting and could get broader for sure, but it should stay its own thing to some degree. GSC are fine because we already know there are GSC on the planet from the existing fluff, but I'd prefer it didn't eventually turn into "Kill Team but also with gangs" - a single Aspect Warrior or Space Marine would wade through most Necromunda denizens like they were balloons full of jam, most of the broader 40K universe should be kept well away IMO.

I'd welcome it if they decided to do additional settings using the same basic rules engine(GorkaMorka, for a start), but they should all remain distinct by default and if players want to mash them up they can do it themselves with house rules.

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Regardless of format, I just want the possibility to be there really, even if it is in another book/setting/location/whatever. I don't expect or even want it to be main-game material but having the choice to add some weird and wacky would be nice.
   
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See, this is where I think the Gang War book approach could seriously win out. And I'd like to explain why.

As well as being a TTG nerd, a MTG nerd and a LARP nerd, I'm also a P&PRPG nerd. And it's the model of the last where I think Necromunda could work best.

In short, the rule book is your main source book. The Gang War books as they come out are the optional books. Stuff like expanded Magic Spells, a Bestiary for That Continent Over There, The Bard's Super Special Cookbook etc. Book which add to the game, but are by no means compulsory.

Gang War needs to be that. One might deal with Religions/Sects of gangs. That could introduce Chaos Cults amongst the House Gangs as well. But because it's a singularly contained bolt-on, no need to include it if your group don't wanna roll that way.

Let the main rulebook be the trunk of things - and everything optional leafy, branchy goodness.

   
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So pumped for civilians and weird random bounty hunters! That little blurb has got me more excited for Necromunda's return than anything else

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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Being me your freaks and your weirdos. Your Xenos and your Mutant.

All have their place in the Sump and the Underhive!



Please remember to bring along your Spartacus-inspired pit fighter slave rebels, inbred moonshine-brewing hillbilly snake hunters, traveling merchants dealing with bone reliquaries and general assortment of giant rats-riding native Sumpians. Oh, and zombies. Lots and lots of plague zombies.

Looking for a Skaven Doomwheel banner to repair my Nurgle knights.  
   
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