Some of you may remember the original worldbuilding threads that fell apart due to me losing interest. Well guess what? It's back.

Use this thread as a place to discuss the previous world building and what you want to include again. In the next thread later today or sometime tomorrow I will post in with the new map.

!ttrpg

OFFICIAL LORE

In the last world, the subterranean dwelling chud race broke through the hard rock separating them from the surface world. The vast underground tunnels of the Chud civilization allowed them to take every nation by complete surprise and their vast pasty numbers completely overwhelmed all defending forces. The continent of dramaminia fell first with the new capital of chud civilization being set in the cold wastes of hyperborea. Soon one by one all nations on terra fell as well, being literally eaten to nothing by the enraged chud hordes. Very few species were able to survive this complete conquest in great numbers. The Frozen due to their remote habitat, the cave trolls due to their isolation, and Merbog and Carp were some of the few to survive into the reign of the chuds. With the destruction of civilization as it was known the Carp race came together at the admin pillar and used their divine psychic senses to sacrifice themselves and the admin pillar. The breaking of the admin pillar meant the destruction of all prophecies, the Gods and divine spirits lost their connection to the physical world and everything was plunged into a thousand years of darkness. The ocean levels rose, the continents shifted, and volcanic activity flourished changing the very landscape of terra. Somehow light shines again in this new world and civilization has started to prosper. This world may be similar to the old one or different. It is up to you to decide.

Artifacts from all pre chud conquest terra civilizations are rare so assume nobody has the knowledge of what has transpired completely, so all civilizations may be very different. You may bring back species from before just say which ones, those that are retuning have survived due to sheer will or divine intervention it's up to you to decide what.

Access the previous bestiary here

Since Warhammer 40,000's 10th edition was released last year, each of the wargame's factions has been getting the traditional rules refresh in the form of a new Codex book. The latest deals with the Adeptus Custodes, genetically engineered bodyguards of the Emperor so gigantic they make space marines look weedy. (They also happen to be Henry Cavill's army of choice). There are 10,000 of them and in the past they've only ever been depicted as men. In this latest iteration, shock horror, at least two of the Custodes are women.

Most players seem to have responded to this by shrugging and getting back to arguing about the new rules, but there's always a vocal minority who go on a tear. The Mail Online ran a typically subtle and understated headline that declared "It's Wokehammer!" and the meme community Grimdank has declared posts about "Femstodes" will only be allowed for one week before they join "Female Space Marine posts" as a banned topic. Games Workshop's official response is a tweet that says, "In regards to female Custodians, there have always been female Custodians, since the first of the Ten Thousand were created."

Is this a retcon? Yep, and it won't be the last. Warhammer 40,000 has had fluid "lore" right from the start. The original Custodian Guards were depicted as shirtless hunks who never leave Earth---a long way from the heavily armored galaxy-spanning golden gods they became---to say nothing of tweaks to the 40K canon like ditching half-eldar space marines and rewriting the Horus Heresy from a short story a handful of pages long into a series of 60+ novels.

The Adeptus Custodes aren't 40K's only genetically engineered supersoldiers, of course. The setting's flagship faction are the space marines, who are created differently---where Custodes are enhanced via a unique process begun when they're infants, space marines begin being grafted with a "gene-seed" when they're on the verge of puberty. And while the explanation that space marine gene-seeds are "keyed to male hormones and tissue types" goes back a way, it's not the real reason Games Workshop made a whole army of dudes who are men.

As GW's former head of IP Alan Merrett once explained on Facebook, "The reason there aren't female Space Marines has nothing to do with lore, or background or character of Marines. It's to do with [the] simple logistics of making miniatures and selling miniatures." In the 1980s GW sold miniatures in sets called blister packs, and as Merrett explained "the intention was that upwards of 25% of all models would be female." That didn't last because "retailers kept complaining to us that customers weren't buying the female models and could we not include any in their restocks." By the time Warhammer 40,000 was designed, GW made sure its poster boys were, well, boys to ensure they'd sell. As Merrett put it, "All the background fluff about why there are only male Marines is there to justify a commercial logistics issue."

And the same was true of the Adeptus Custodes, until it wasn't. Though the customers at the average Warhammer shop are mostly men, these days there are usually one or two women as well. And the men are a lot less likely to throw a hissy-fit about having women in their armies than g*mers in the 1980s, despite what Reddit and Twitter might suggest. All of 40K's lore and storytelling exists to provide context for selling toy soldiers to people, and as the customer base changes so too will that lore.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1c8dmub/the_call_was_coming_from_inside_the_palace/?sort=controversial

Mörk Borg is my favorite RPG of the last few years for its very elaborate aesthetic and great setting.

Mörk Borg is a setting where the world is prophesied to end and everyone knows it.

https://www.morkborg.com/

The thing about this game is that they've adapted a 3rd Party Liscense for anyone to make homebrew content for the game and be able to sell it. Already there are 1000s of custom campaigns and characters

https://exlibrisrpg.com/

The core game is based off Old School Essentials with the lethality of Warhammer Fantasy and Lamentations of the Flame Princess. A more "rules-light" approach where the GM is meant to reflect the cruel and capricious nature of the doomed setting.

https://anyflip.com/crvdx/aiob/basic (pdf of core book )

Cy-Borg is a sci-fi twist on Mörk Borg where the world is again doomed to apocalypse. They will allow you to take whatever from Mörk Borg over too as the world seems trapped in a cycle of suffering.

Basically like the /r/Polandball joke life preserve, because much of the front page is now spammed by colonizers who basically spam memes

The Emperor has always had foid bussyguards, chud!

In regards to female Custodians, there have always been female Custodians, since the first of the Ten Thousand were created.

only topic on /r/grimdank now lol

edit: here's Valrak soying out in case the youchube algorithm hasn't forced him on (you) yet.

As spotted by ComicBook.com, on Saturday a woman quote-tweeted the original story and claimed she was the one who left early. According to a Twitter translation, she said she left halfway through the tourney because she “couldn't stand the smell” and added: “It's not like I lost or was sad.”

When another user replied that her story was “funny,” she responded and said it “smelled so bad it was no laughing matter.”

Another user replied to her viral tweet, posting that the horrible odor was likely the reason the number of “female duelists” in Yu-Gi-Oh wasn't increasing. In response, the woman clarified that there are some “stinky female duelists” but claimed the smelly men at card game events are often “in a class of their own.”

While some players and users argued that smelly duelists at events were a stereotype and the problem was being overblown, others agreed with the woman's viral tweet and suggested that they have also left tourneys due to bad body odor.

In fact, things got so bad that in 2019, Konami—the company behind Yu-Gi-Oh—actually updated its official rules to address bad odor and body hygiene. It specifically warned that players wearing dirty clothing or who weren't clean could be penalized. It seems that hasn't stopped stinky players from still attending events smelling bad.

: Why does this affect the game so much?

Also the Imperium is being carved up by smaller alien empires and billions are defecting to them because they realize that the Slaves of Grand Maw Sssshhõōøœóòìįīíïîioôöò(don't bother trying to pronounce it. Just call me Grand Maw) get to eat every day and aren't ground up into fertilizer When they get injured because “a corpse cannot labour and none shall go hungry withing Grand Maw's sight”. As a captured space marine once said “Please Grand Maw don't feed me anymore”.

The vampire known as El Diablo Verde is a participant in the Extreme Wrestling Warfare, a violent and bloody variant of professional wrestling with a high death toll. The fighters come from all walks of life and some are even supernatural in nature. El Diablo Verde is among the mightiest combatants of the ring and the hidden master of the games.

In his life, he was a Mexican wrestler that was formidable even then. After he had won the Mexican heavyweight title, a pack of Sabbat vampires came and embraced him, but they had to flee from another group of Cainites before El Diablo could undergo the Creation Rites. Always wearing his mask to hide his blood-borne deformities, he cares for neither Sabbat or Camarilla and lives only for the sport. He has attracted quite a fandom that acts as his herd in these nights, and even merchandise is published with his name.

The ways of the Jyhad are shrouded in subtlety, as cloaking and ephemeral as ancient Night itself. And yet, there is one arena in which the freakish denizens of the dark can flaunt their nature freely, in which Masquerades fall to tatters and the Delirium only exacerbates the onlookers' blood-mad frenzy. This is the circus of carnage known to Classic World of Darkness sports aficionados as Extreme Wrestling Warfare. The barbaric spectacle, which is televised worldwide and garners enormous pay-per-view revenues, is wildly popular among mortal and Awakened beings alike.

In EWW, the jaded fans are accustomed to crazed combat maneuvers and bizarre characters, so even the most monstrous of the night-breed is but another costumed legend, to be revered or reviled as the fans see fit. Although the majority of EWW's competitors are human (if only nominally so), a fair number of supernaturals compete in the federation, both to hone their combat skills and to wallow in the luxury of indulging their powers in public.” The Pentex Corporation runs a training camp from which many “steroid”-twisted combatants emerge.

EWW's current cruiserweight champion, lucha daredevil Huitzil Kolibri, is whispered to be a jaguar-warrior of the elusive Bastet. While International Champion “Diamond” Duncan Dunsirn's violent appetites and blood-red kilt inspire gruesome speculation from persons knowledgeable in the ways of the fae. The tag team division is dominated by two of New York's meanest, Assamite antitribu terror-twins Sucka T. and Farouk Mustafa (“Skorpio”); these 23-time champs are collectively known as the 2Hot Nation of Harlem Ghetto Posse Gangsta Experience.

A formidable and motley crew, indeed. But the true lord and ruler of EWW. Indeed, the mightiest combatant ever to lace up a pair of boots is unquestionably the masked sensation, the Tijuana Terror, the Heavyweight Champion of the World, the Toughest S.O.B. in EWW, the Mexican Nightmare El Diablo Verde

!besties

Kino

TL;DR: Beastmen players get fukt again, 3 decades of suffering.

GW has just announced that a slew of models are getting nixed for AOS 4th ed. The three notable groups getting dropped is a wizard Stormcast thing (IDGAF about sigmarines, look it up yourself), savage orcs, and Beasts of Chaos. BoC getting dropped like this is particularly brutal, as this army has been the whipping boy for 30+ years both in fluff and in the rules. The writing has been on the wall for a while as despite 3rd edition being about the age of the beast, they got next to nothing.

Most are decrying the removal of several factions from the game as obviously scummy, but there are those who disagree. Using such arguments as "Guys, it's hard to write rules for an army so they had no choice" , "GW didn't make any new models, there was nothing else they could do" , and "LMAO beastcucks go play The Old World" .

Needless to say, plenty of bickering in the warhammer subreddits. Some foolishly believe they can convince GW this is an r-slured move and are encouraging redditors to email GW about how disappointed they are. I encourage all BoC players to get started on rebasing. Should have done that already considering ToW and Fantasy (any edition) are better games. Probably shouldn't have even left square bases to begin with.

Notable threads:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Warhammer/comments/1bvleo1/whats_leaving_the_aos_range_gw_confirms_boc_bone/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/1bvldw5/whats_leaving_the_aos_range_gw_confirms_boc_bone/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/1bvovfw/gw_removing_boc_one_year_after_releasing_a/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1bvmsnq/my_condolences_to_the_seven_beasts_of_chaos/?sort=controversial

Comments:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/1bvovfw/gw_removing_boc_one_year_after_releasing_a/ky0qvv8/?context=8&sort=controversial

They aren't getting removed.

Your models will still have rules for years.

You don't have to start over. Those models don't disappear or stop working.

The only thing to be disappointed about is that there's not going to be anything new for them in terms of Age of Sigmar.

They're doing the right thing by telling you now that they won't be fully supported after 2025

They aren't getting removed.

They literally are getting removed as a faction.

Your models will still have rules for years.

You mean year.

You don't have to start over. Those models don't disappear or stop working.

You do if BoC is your only or main faction.

The only thing to be disappointed about is that there's not going to be anything new for them in terms of Age of Sigmar.

No. This is disingenuous. New PDF rules tend to be watered down and not as exciting. The army is as good as dead for fourth unless you want to play a bare-bones faction that probably won't be any fun.

They're doing the right thing by telling you now that they won't be fully supported after 2025

They are only doing the right thing in the context that they are squatting the army anyway. They aren't doing the right thing by squatting the army in the first place.

Side note: if you're argument is "well they are still used in Old World blah blah blah" this is an AoS and that's not relevant to most of the player base here.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/1bvovfw/gw_removing_boc_one_year_after_releasing_a/ky0ua2z/?context=8&sort=controversial

I lost 3/4 of my army, but if it make the game better I'm good with it. Stop crying.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/1bvovfw/gw_removing_boc_one_year_after_releasing_a/ky0r0gv/?context=8&sort=controversial

They are going to have legends rules for the time being.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/1bvldw5/whats_leaving_the_aos_range_gw_confirms_boc_bone/ky04jpv/?context=8&sort=controversial

Friendly games can still have them .... I dont get the backlash , maybe its cause i have very few units ( that i dont even play ) affected

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1bvmsnq/my_condolences_to_the_seven_beasts_of_chaos/ky0ocpy/?context=8&sort=controversial

oh boo-fricking-hoo to all you Stormcast, you've still almost twice as many options in just Footlords alone. so what you get a well deserved culling of your overbloated roster, you got plenty of other shiny golden butt Einherjar lookalikes that no one can tell apart from each other anyway, it's nothing compared to the Beast Players losing their ENTIRE GODDARN CODEX!

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1bvqpwp/warhammer_is_a_expensive_hobby_thoughts_leaving/ky1vupu/?context=8&sort=controversial

Everyone is acting like those armies are forbidden from being played now. They are supported through legends, rules that are allowed everywhere but competitive tournaments. With the stats from a little while ago, that not even 10% of the playerbase attend any tournament through their hobby lifetime, let alone one that ban legends content this all seems like a crazy overreaction.

So if the community could just stop being babies about all this and put out actually interesting posts, I would really appreciate it.

w-what's gonna happen to the guy in that jar?

40k is always good for some Empruh says transrights low effort drama posts.

Though I kinda want the hole neglector badge if this place dies...

MTG tournament tips
- don't use sexy bikini anime girl card sleeves in a public setting
- when a woman is displeased that her opponent was using aforementioned sleeves and tweets about it, don't go looking through her tweet history for photos to be like "well what about THIS??"

— Maxtortion (@maxtortion) March 18, 2024

Americans' fear of the even the slightest hint of sexuality is so insane to me. The fact that the left is more off putting than the right to the point you want the opponent disqualified is just otherworldly to me.

>Americans are... LE BAD