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ZeusJupitar
Jul 7, 2009
All that the player participation in Storm of Chaos did was push a percentage win/loss bar on the GW website backwards and forwards. It went a bit wrong in that the results were pretty consistently 60/40 in favor of the defenders, but people are fantasizing if they think it had any effect on the fluff that got published. There was definitely no mechanism that would let player results dictate which characters lived and which died.

ZeusJupitar fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Sep 16, 2017

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ZeusJupitar
Jul 7, 2009

Kaza42 posted:

He really should have been Melchior Gelt. Traditionally, Melchior is the wise man who brought gold as a gift for Jesus.

They already blew 'Melchior' on one of the interchangeable Necrarch lords if if I recall correctly.

ZeusJupitar
Jul 7, 2009

MonsterEnvy posted:

Don't think this is true. Thorgrim the Slayer King wears armor. (He is not the King of Slayers, just a King who is a Slayer.)

Ungrim (Thorgrim is the high king) is trapped between the Slayer Oath and the King's Oath. He wears armor because not doing so would be a dereliction of the king's duty to survive and keep leading.

ZeusJupitar
Jul 7, 2009

Mors Rattus posted:

E: Also, there have only ever been four generations of Slann. All of the first generation, who actually personally spoke with the Old Ones frequently, are dead. Lord Kroak was the last one of them. The Second and Third Generation are fading; of these, Mazdamundi is I believe Third Generation but as powerful as a Second, which is why he's respected and obeyed despite being a lunatic rear end in a top hat. These two generations at least saw the Old Ones but largely received instruction from the First Generation. Fourth Generation Slann never met the Old Ones personally, are the most common, and are the weakest, which is to say they're about on par with an Elven Archmaster.

Five generations, with Mazdamundi being the only one of the five remaining second gens who can tear himself away from posting on Something Amphibian long enough to matter.

The lizard's shtick is their paralysing, society wide crisis of leadership. The Slann spend the vast majority of their effort trying to work out what the Old Ones wanted done, while the other Lizards wait for instructions from the Slann. Their two main protagonists are Mazdamundi, who decided to kill chaos first, worry about getting the plan back on track later, and Tehenhauin, the Skink Prophet of Sotek who took the fightback again Clan Pestiliens in to his own hands while his cities' Slann were succumbing to the plague.

ZeusJupitar
Jul 7, 2009

Night10194 posted:

I can't imagine the planet being moved into a new orbit was particularly good for a species that adapted to living on an ice-ball.

This is clarified in, and I believe only in, the original setting gazetteer in the Fantasy Battle 3rd edition core book. When the Old Ones found the world, it was a lush jungle planet in the process of spiralling away from its sun. The Old Ones stopped the drift and pushed it back in to the optimum orbit. All subsequent telling of the story mention them warming the planet and that the original races were all reptiles, but miss the key point.

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