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Agreed! I liked the look of Lynch before, but now I don't know if I can stop myself from picking him up.

I haven't played Hamelin myself yet, but from what I've seen the biggest thing with him is to avoid the rat engine trap. It's not as effective as it once was, so you're better off using the rats to block charge lanes, provide cheap activations, and get eaten to heal your other models.

As for Parker, yeah, he's really good at counter scheming, and any strat where you need to spread out. He doesn't really care where his models are, so they can cover the whole board pretty easily.

Daw likes to create a big ol' misery stew and pull enemy models into it. He doesn't have a very widespread board presence, but where he, Montresor, Lady Ligeia, and one or two other models are gathered, the enemy will get nothing done. You might not kill much, so avoid him for Reckoning, but anyone stuck near him will be pretty useless. He's countered by anyone who can break up that bubble (I've had success with Tara burying his important models and un-burying them way off in a corner).

Holy Motherforking Shirtballs, this is my favorite nightmare crew ever. Ever! Picking this up immediately, like the second the sale starts. There go my plans to start Neverborn for 3e, looks like I'm running Ressers!

It specifies "a Close Combat weapon and any armor with a total value of up to 25 scrip". Pretty much any time a Pursuit lets you choose starting equipment, it limits it to 25 scrip. Otherwise I could start as a Guard with one of those rocket-gatling guns from Above The Law. It'd be fun, but soooooper broken.

I've always read it as being as much armor as they want, as long as it doesn't exceed the total cost allowed. Thus, you could have a meh weapon and more armor, or meh armor and a better weapon.

It is! It's as much about control as it is about keeping models buried. Hit a beater with it, and boom! Now they're stuck back behind that cowardly support model. It's also good for opening up Los if you brought someone like Hans. 

That is a really cool sounding campaign, and I love when someone gets so excited by an idea that they switch their character focus entirely. That flexibility is part of why I love TtB!

For the immortal artist, have you considered throwing a Living Portrait in somewhere? It seems like the sort of thing he might have figured out how to do, and it's very thematically appropriate. For inspiration, look to the movie Velvet Buzzsaw. Art comes to life and kills people. I didn't particularly like its execution, but the idea was SO COOL.

Hey, that's me! Thanks for the shout-out, @Kimberly, my wife will be tickled pink (as will her new character, a drunken gremlin with a gun made of mining tools).

As for my favorite Penny Dreadful, it's gotta be The Ferryman. It's so creepy and atmospheric, and it brings in a piece of Malifaux we rarely see (ie, the river). I've never had a chance to run it, sadly, but I can't wait to throw it at my players someday.

Well, looks like it's time for me to paint my MASSIVE backlog of models, and I'm in need of motivation! I'm going to shoot for getting Aionus and 1 Prospector painted up for June. Grand total of 16 stones. Wish me luck!

Wow, that's really awesome. Once I improve my sculpting skills, I might just make my own model based on this if the official one doesn't satisfy.

My FLGS was affected by the flooded warehouse and didn't get my pre-order in today, but I understand this is out of everyone's control. I just wanted to share that when it happened all I could think was "I can't be mad, it's Malifaux. Bad Things Happen."

I got started with RPGs playing Call of Cthulhu many years ago, and was instantly hooked. As soon as I discovered Malifaux, I started thinking about how to bring it to an RPG, then found out it already had one!

The moment I fell in love with the system, though, was when my wife and I sat down to create her first character: a doctor who refused to accept that death meant her job was over. It worked so dang well, and the character was so much fun, that it's still the one we use to describe how great a TtB character can be to new players. Like they say, "a necromancer is just a really late healer."

I think I’ll be able to stop by and play a game! If plans change I’ll let you know. I’ll probably be there between 5:30 and 6.

I suppose I'm seeing it as more of a "bring it on I'll fight you" pose, but hey, it's all a matter of taste, right? 

Wow, I really love this art. I was a big fan of m2e Levi, and this just feels like an update/upgrade of that. Alice's pose feels so much more in character than her previous incarnation (BOOM! Headshot!), and Levi looks older and more decrepit, in keeping with his recent problems. Ohhh, I can't wait to pick these up.

Oh, and @yool1981, I think the middle scavvie looks like he's crouching over some loot and trying to intimidate someone/thing else to back off. Dunno if it'll work, given his stats, but still. If you've ever seen a cornered animal with its hackles raised, it reminds me a lot of that. More important to show off your weapons than to actually use them.

Love the updated Torakage, they look great! Can't wait to see the renders. I don't even play TT, but dang. 

We don’t really know Titania’s relationship with the Grave Spirit, aside from the fact that she made a pact with it to gain the power to defeat the Tyrants. I’d say it’s perfectly plausible, so go ahead!

Love it, this guy is really characterful and fun. I think he brings a lot to a Nellie crew, both aesthetically and rules-wise.

5 hours ago, Hagisman said:

I want Van Pelt from Jumanji.

YES! 

I'm really excited about this new faction! I'm hoping for lots of muttonchops and moustachios. 

They did confirm earlier that the mono-wheel thingies from mccabe's nightmare box will be in the new faction, so they'll definitely have some kind of mounted models.

I wouldn't be at all sad to have someone like Ashe from Overwatch. An aristocrat out being rowdy with her giant robot butler/killamajig. 

Love it! It's like a cross between Pan's Labyrinth and Lovecraft. 

Oh man, anything would be great, but yeah, my Fated are always so drawn to the Neverborn. They really set Malifaux apart from other settings, and all of my campaigns tend to come back to them, whether I plan it that way or not. When I ran Night of the Carver, they followed it up by heading off into the wilds to investigate Neverborn crypts, and it turned into a Malifaux version of Indiana Jones from there.

34 minutes ago, Steamtastic Vagabond said:

In the book Under Quarantine, there are some details about how people become nephilim (with some mechanics) but it hasn’t been outlined very much.

Look in the diseases section. Basically, if you touch a Nephilim's black blood, you slowly turn into a half-breed. The last stage makes you loyal to the Nephilim, but if it gets cured before then, you still retain all the physical changes. My wife has mentioned playing a corrupted character who files her horns down, Hellboy-style.

As for how the other Neverborn see half-breeds, they're usually second-class citizens, but not always as reviled as they are Lilith and her followers. With Titania's return, I'd imagine more and more Neverborn are adopting more "progressive" attitudes. I mean, Nekima's new henchman in M3E uses necromancy, for pete's sake! If you set your game closer to the current Malifaux time, your Neverborn player should have a much easier time in their adopted society.

The other option, of course, is to play as a Zoraida-like character. Someone who came through a little breach on their own, and has been in Malifaux so long that they've been accepted, both by the land and the people. Mechanically, they'd be the same as any other Fated, so it's up to the flavor and backstory to set them apart. Their manifested powers would feel more natural and in tune with the natural order of Malifaux, that sort of thing.

Love the new student, and Big Jake was always great, but wow, Taelor. Not my favourite version, let's say. Face is really ugly. Not that it's badly sculpted, it's just ugly, and not in a fun way.

Taelor in the lore has always been portrayed as something of a fun, rowdy drunk. This one looks like she's ready to take her issues out on someone who can't defend themselves. I hope her lore doesn't change to match this new look.

That is a really fantastic redesign! See, this is why I end up owning a few things from every faction. Can’t wait to paint her up, even if I never use her in a game. 😁