You can delay your death by a hefty ammount of time by having him read all the fucking books supplement codex errata before being able to play on top of the models stuff

I`m interested.

But - you should be able to tell that about me :)

I think Sir Terry would say "That`ll do"

to this.

If you know, you know.

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Well done sir!

Kary is a lazy literature student who has bad marks and risks redoing the school year.

In order to improve her grades she begged her teacher for a redeeming assignment.

He had only one topic left: '' To do an expose on women's challenging life in the second world war.''

To be able to write a genuine expose, her teacher advised her to visit the oldest nursing home resident in the country: a woman born in 1922 and still very much alive and energetic despite her ''very '' old age. There's only one problem, the granny is very grumpy and Kary is a scaredy lazy cat.

But, she practically asked for it, and she doesn't have another choice but to dive into the life of the last living surviver of the WWII, if granny accepted to do the interview.

Have me terry pratchett feels. I enjoyed this.

Acctualy, that happend in one of my sesions, I was Cleric but we didn't have components to revive our paladin after he fell into trap, sliced in cubes, Cube/Saw style. Roge sugested this more like a joke but we went with it.

Best sesion ever in my book.

Like the guy who convinced death to join him in a game of DnD.

It's definitely complex, only made more so by the fact that shape shifting - and for that matter, dragons in general - are magic, and magic doesn't care much for the laws that the non-magical parts of reality operate by. 'It's magic' is absolutely a plausible explanation for just about anything in their universe. Magic makes the impossible possible. Thermodynamics, conservation of mass - these are things that most proper college-educated wizards acknowledge as real while simultaneously violating the shit out of them for party tricks.

Physically, a dragon's strength and speed aren't really diminished by transforming. Halcida could still very much toss Dura's squad around for a bit, until she wound up eating hot magical death from Ven's rifle, or with Dura's sword in her. Their senses aren't diminished either; they still have an aerial predator's visual acuity, and a sense of smell much better than any human, elf, or orc.

The notion of being weaker comes from the other gross physical changes - not having their scales makes them more fragile, not having wings makes them unable to fly without an outside option (a spell or device), and the glands that generate their breath attacks are physically smaller and not capable of generating the same level of raw power behind the attack. They do give things up by transforming, and many will take steps to make up for those losses; some wear armor, or carry a big honkin' weapon, because they feel vulnerable at human scale.

However, they gain other things in exchange. Primarily, hands built for the same scale and level of dexterity the rest of the world operates on. Dragon claws aren't great at manipulating objects built on human scale. They gain the ability to interact with the rest of a very cosmopolitan world on a level that doesn't frighten the average person. Plus, fast cars and jewelry and plush furniture, among other things - the 'treasures' of a modernized world - are easier to really enjoy and make use of when you're not too big for them.

Plus, the dragons of this particular point in the setting are a millennium and a half into the world-spanning rule of a spellcaster who absolutely has the means - personally, politically, militarily, economically - to wreck them if they don't play nice. The ones that didn't choose to do so didn't make it to this era of their world. A dragon the age of Halcida (a mere two hundred years old, equivalent to roughly a 20-year-old human) is a more 'tame' version of the grand, prideful beasts of old. Still powerful, still frightening on a visceral level to smaller creatures, but cognizant of the fact that if they get along they can be movie stars and business tycoons and enjoy wealth and power just like Great-Grandma used to.

Ultimately, transforming has benefits and drawbacks; it's also just respectful when dealing with smaller people that you don't particularly feel like terrifying the piss out of, or if said smaller people can make your life miserable by dint of being an agent of an authority they know they should be wary of.

Sorry I replied a novel at you! I just like engaging with people about my work. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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TWILIGHT

“40 isn’t that old,” said the princess.

“Old enough to reject you as a reason,” the knight replied.

“But you are still handsome,” she insisted, “I wish I can keep a shape like you in my 40s.”

“It’s not easy. You have to workout five times a week.”

“That’s why I refer to it as a ‘wish’.”

“I can’t believe you just stay in the tower doing nothing. Look at your face, you are as pale as a vampire.”

“I don’t have a tanning spray.”

“It’s not about tanning spray. Why not go out for a walk…”

“Like a date with you?”

“To get some sunshine.”

“You expect me to shine like a diamond under the sunlight, huh?”

“NO MORE twilight reference. Where do you get all these old YA contents? Don’t you have some real book to read in the tower?”

“It’s a tower. Call it a fortune to have an IKEA instruction manual to read.”

“It’s certainly a fortune that you are not one of my kids.”

“So, tell me more about your wife. What’s she like? Is she nice to you? How’re things going with her and the kids?”

“Wow, slow down a bit, this is way too personal. I’m your firefighter, not your potential boyfriend.”

“Yeah, I know. Because you are 40 and I’m only 26.”

“You are at most 16.”

“15, actually.”

“How rare for you to say something real. Now go, don’t make me regret liberating you.”

“To where I should go? Into this forest? There is danger everywhere. Look at that flower, it biting… that cat?”

“You’ll get used to it. There is just a slight difference between here and the earth.”

“You call this slight difference? We are floating in the air.”

“You will get used to it. You must.”

“Sure I will. But have you? You can never get used to all these, right?”

“I will. I can have my new life begin here. You have no idea how many sacrifices we have to make to get this Dyson Sphere done.”

“There, there. I’m here with you.”

“Go, go into the forest. And I will know you’ll always be there somewhere.”

“Are there any other towers for you to open?”

“You are the last one.”

“I’m sorry your family is not here.”

“I’m sorry I am not your father.”

“He told me he would let me out when the Sphere is set. He promised me that everything would be just fine. But only a few people survived, isn’t it?”

“Shush… look now, right there, can you see the twilight.”

“It’s… as beautiful as it on earth.”

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Want to know where they are, check the short video: Dyson Sphere MetaVerse

Wow, that is bleak. Well done!

Absolutely not.

This guy is getting his extension on life whether he wins or loses.

Actually, I would think that shrinking the body down would only make the dragon more powerful. Because of the fact that matter can neither be destroyed nor created, only converted into or from energy. Reducing the total mass? Charging and compressing a tightly wound spring, that thing might backhand someone into next year. By accident. Think Ant-Man. Shrinking himself down didn’t make him any weaker, he still had the mass of a full grown man.

Why would a species as proud as a dragon even consider learning how to shrink themselves and put themselves at a disadvantage at the same time?

This also could play into the issue of overall size, dragons come in many different sizes, maybe the shapeshifters are at the maximum possible size to power ratio that keeps them competent. A towering dragon is terrifying… but the question is, can it stand up on its own four (or more or less) limbs? Too big, and it’s a WACKY WAVING ARM FLAILING INFLATABLE TUBE DRAGON, minus the wacky and waving parts. In other words, a ragdoll. The size of a Kaiju. Too tiny, and it literally becomes a Giant Space Flea From Nowhere. Like I said, backhanding someone so hard that they literally travel fast enough to bend time and space and wind up in… sometime next year. I mean logically there would have to be a limit before there was falloff or potential gravitational anomalies, so that could explain larger dragons being more powerful simply because they grew so much that this is their small version.

Or, we could just say it wasn’t in our universe, where these rules apply. That works too I guess.

Do try Army Painter's speedpaints or Citadel contrast paints, they did help a ton when I was in a hurry and it helps to get an idea of what it looks like when doing the highlights and inking yourself :)

Ah yes footnotes.

GNU Pterry

More, please! Love the Pratchett vibe

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The Surprise

Walking up the steps, my cane clacks against the marble.

“Sir you can’t be up there!” One of those orderly’s yell at me from down. I shake my head and approach the throne, basking in its grandeur. Cast from gold and adorned with every kind of gem.

“I remember when the pope sat right here, Timmy.” I pat the back of the throne. Then I hear that blasted whirring again. “Are you even listening or are you to busy playing with your ‘rone.”

“It isn’t a rone grampa it’s a drone.” He corrected, rolling his eyes as the drone flies closer to me. I wave it away.

“Whatever…you kids and your electricity…I swear, when I was a kid, the only electricity we had was from eels and we liked it that way.” Timmy looks up at me and raises an eyebrow as I sit down in the throne.

“When we got here you said that you would give me a surprise.” I scoff at Timmy’s response and my eyes catch the chromatic lights dancing down from the stained glass. I point up at them. Two gargantuan marble pillars stand on either side of the entrance, framing a stained-glass mural.

“Sir, you can’t sit there.” The guard rounds the corner and gasps quickly bowing to me. “I didn’t realize it was you, my liege.”

“That mural is our history, the bloodshed to the creation of this wonder; my cathedral D’amore.”

“You built this?” He asked. I smile softly as I gently take the phone from his hands.

“What I want to give you, is everything I never had, as well as everything I ever built.” I hug him tight, and a tear slides down my cheek. One unlucky complication robbed me my future.

“I love you, Timmy.”

It won’t take his.

"Star Spotting Inc here, how may I help you?" Claire tried her best to sound cheerful and helpful over the phone.

"Hi, I'm Karen Howard. So, I made a wish on a wishing star I spotted when I signed up for your tour package, and now I'm stuck in some slice-of-life with some plain Joe who wouldn't stop mowing his lawns. I want a refund and a teleport back to where I was!"

"Ms Howard, according to our database, the wishing star has successfully fulfilled your wish. We do not offer refunds for successful wishes, only wishes that failed. You are in the world of your favourite anime, Saiunkoku Monogatari, as you wished."

"I didn't ask for a modern version of Saiunkoku! I didn't ask to see Jake, I wanted to hang out with the hot guys like Seiran and Shuuei! I want to speak with your manager! NOW!" Karen was getting frustrated over the phone.

"Our manager is currently busy at the moment, perhaps you could wish upon a wishing star if you see one. It would really help if you could be much more specific about your wishes, most of our genies are still relatively new at the job and do not fully comprehend human desires."

"Then you grant my wish to get back home this instant or I am going to downvote your app in Google Play!" Karen retorted.

"Ms Howard, I do not have the power to grant wishes. What I can do..." Claire didn't get to finish speaking when Karen slammed down the phone on her.

Claire hastily dialed an extension of her colleague. "Shemhuresh, I noticed that you granted the wish of a Ms Karen Howard when she wished upon a wishing star. Could you explain why her wish turned out the way it did? I would like to write her an email to provide an explanation."

"Yo Claire, I swear I did muh homework before granting that wish, but lemme tell ya, that Karen ain't gonna last one day if I dropped her into medieval China what with all the scheming and assassination attempts in the Imperial Court of Shi Ryuuki. I just made some adjustments to ensure I fulfilled her wish in a safe manner without her dying or getting embroiled in complex politics.

It would really suck ass if a customer got badly injured or died, don't ya agree? Better to be downvoted than sued to oblivion, yo."

Please do! I want to know what happens when Death decides he's addicted.

"Two thin coats."

I'm building my first army and thinning my paints is difficult for me. I'm so impatient! But it's worth it.

I saw Mandy Patinkin but I like yours better

Holy shit. This is soo good!

As a fan of both Discworld and Warhammer 40k, color me interested, I loved it!